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Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Vine Zinfandel (2015)
October 25, 2019 by Tristan Lowery 2 Comments
In our times, it seems foolish to be fearful of birds. It's an hopeful point of view, perhaps, but I like to think that these days, most people are enlightened enough to consider even the most foreboding flock of vultures circling overhead, or an owl giving a momentarily unnerving call in the dark woods at night, as nothing more than the wonderful living creatures they are, simply going about their natural lives in the wild.*
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But our ancestors weren't always so lucky to appreciate birds the way we do. With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest. With Halloween just around the corner, there's some harmless fun to be had in in indulging in a bit of playful superstition about some of our feathered friends, who – it bears repeating – are generally benign and not the least bit menacing.
The raven plays many parts in folklore from all over the world, and for the most part, we've reserved many of the most unpleasant roles in these stories for this bird. With its shadowy, sable plumage, disquietingly human-like voice, cunning mind, and taste for carrion, the world's largest songbird invariably makes its appearance in our collective consciousness in an array of disagreeable guises: a crafty trickster, an ill omen, a sinister emissary from beyond the grave, an unasked for presence at the gallows and in cemeteries, and a devourer of the dead. In short, an unwelcome memento mori dressed in black feathers.
The stately raven gets a bad rap in our poems and stories – forever more.
A 19th-century illustration by John Tenniel from an edition of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
In keeping with this unpleasant precedent, a supernatural creature is found in the folklore of Denmark called the valravn, an unearthly, macabre being that traditionally takes the form of a raven. The name means "raven of the slain" in Danish, and according to the traditional stories and songs of that country, valravne gather on battlefields to feast upon the dead. The name "valravn" also resembles – as you may have already guessed – "valkyrie", the maidens of Norse mythology charged with choosing who lives and who dies in war (the Old Norse valkyrja literally means "chooser of the slain").
"Something's rotten in the state of Denmark" – and this raven looks hungry: a raven – possibly looking to become a valravn – consorts with a Valkyrie in this 19th-century image by Frederick Sandys illustrating the 9th-century Old Norse poem Hrafnsmál("Raven song"). (Wood engraving by Joseph Swain after the Sandys original.)
Valravne are said to gain their malevolent supernatural powers from this cadaverous repast, including acquiring the human knowledge that once belonged to the bodies they consume. Some valravne even become shapeshifters, and they're generally counted as wicked creatures, fond of all manner of mischief, from waylaying travelers to terrorizing children – or worse.
The name of this supernatural raven from Denmark makes an unlikely name for a California vintner, but Valravn Wines has been making wines in the heart of the Sonoma County wine country since 2014. The project is a small production venture from the people behind Banshee Wines, another supernaturally inspired label. California is a long way from Denmark, but the cosmopolitan Common Raven (Corvus corax) finds a home in both places, as it does throughout most of the northern part of the world. And – if one believes in such things – it stands to reason that were there are ravens, there are valravne.
An unlikely scene in California. Though on second thought, perhaps not.
The vineyards of Valravn are certainly home to another old legend – old vine Zinfandel grapes. Though it boasts a long, pre-Prohibition history in California winemaking, the standing of the Zinfandel grape has fallen on hard times of late because of "white Zin", the popular but much-maligned, saccharine blush wine. Valravn Wines seeks to repair that reputation with robust red wines like this old vine Zinfandel, made from hand-harvested grapes grown on bush-pruned vines up to 120 years old.
The 2015 Valravn Old Vine Zinfandel is a dark, blood-red wine showing incarnadine flashes in the glass. There's a slight citrus touch to the nose, with a dose of cedar, pepper, and anise, all underpinned by the strong aroma of stewed berries. Blackcurrant and pomegranate flavors are standouts among a blend of fruits that comprise its fresh and zesty palate. Sweetish hints of licorice and cocoa enliven the long and dry finish, which makes this 14.7% alcohol by volume Valravn Zinfandel dangerously drinkable.
If all that's not enough to recommend a bottle of Valravn wine as a perfect grown-up treat for Halloween, remember that Zinfandel is commonly cited as one of the few wines that goes well with chocolate.
Good birding and happy drinking – and happy Halloween!
*Of course, when I write about frightening birds, I mean spooky birds at night in cemeteries – I'm not referring to genuine ornithophobia. If you suffer from this condition, 10,000 Birds is probably the last place on the Internet you should be visiting.
Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015)
Four out of five feathers (Excellent).
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Written by Tristan Lowery
Tristan Lowery's busy homebrewing schedule took a hit in 2010 when he discovered birding and found that scanning the waterfowl at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on a frigid midwinter morning could be just as much fun as standing over a steaming mash tun in a sweltering Queens apartment in August. While his growing commitment to birding has undeniably diminished his brewing output of ales - fine and otherwise - Tristan finds that birding still affords him plenty of excuses to at least keep drinking beer, especially when celebrating life birds, lamenting unsuccessful chases, and capping off an exhausting Big Day or Christmas Bird Count. After leaving behind a hectic cooking career in New York City's fine-dining scene, Tristan moved inland to the New York's Capital District, where the relative abundance of Pileated Woodpeckers almost makes up for the fact that he's only seen a single Sanderling in Albany County ever. When he isn't birding his local patches in urban Albany, Tristan works in energy regulation for the State of New York.
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Thomas P Brown October 26, 2019 at 12:56 am
My fondness for Old Vine Zin's has gotten to the point that it is just about the only reds I drink any more…now I have a new one to go look for! Thank you very much!
Tristan Lowery November 1, 2019 at 7:42 am
Thanks, Thomas – best of luck finding this one! Cheers!
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Chairman Filner: Time to Expand Care for Agent Orange Exposure for Vietnam War Veterans – Seeks to Reverse Blue Water Navy Decision
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July 24, 2008 – The House Veterans' Affairs Committee chairman vowed Wednesday to push for the restoration of Agent Orange-related benefits and health care for Vietnam War veterans who served in the air and water of Vietnam but never set foot on land.
Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., said a bill he is sponsoring, HR 6562, would provide justice for sailors and airmen who have been denied Agent Orange claims because of a Department of Veterans Affairs policy that applies a so-called "boots-on-the-ground" rule for determining eligibility.
"If you were there, we should care," Filner said at a press conference, where he was surrounded by Vietnam veterans.
The bill, introduced Tuesday, was referred to Filner's committee. Filner said he intends to move the bill through the committee in September.
Filner said the bill would provide justice for the thousands of Vietnam veterans who are suffering from illnesses or disease known to be related to exposure to the herbicide used to defoliate the Vietnamese jungles. It also would send a message to younger veterans, he said. "If we don't treat our Vietnam veterans right, then our active-duty people know that," Filner said.
The bill, called the Agent Orange Equity Act, would accept service in the waters surrounding or the air over Vietnam as making a veteran eligible for benefits and health care if they have one of a long list of diseases presumed by the VA to be caused by exposure to toxin.
Sea service had made someone eligible until the VA changed the rules in 2002. The restriction was appealed through the courts, with the VA's boots-on-the-ground policy prevailing.
William Davis, who served off the coast of Vietnam aboard the destroyer Fiske in 1966, said people who served on as many as 600 Navy ships would be helped by the legislation, although it is not clear how many might have illnesses or disease that would lead to their being covered.
Richard Weidman of Vietnam Veterans of America said the Bush administration appears to have lost interest in Vietnam veterans and Agent Orange because there are no research projects or studies under way to try to learn more about exposure to the toxin and its health effects.
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What You Probably Forgot about the Clinton Impeachment
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton faced impeachment after a tangle of scandals revealed that he'd lied under oath. If you don't quite recall all of the details, this brief recounting of events will help.
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It's only happened once before in United States history: a sitting president undergoes an impeachment trial in the Senate. The first time Andrew Johnson was tried in 1868 over his dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton; although he was impeached by the House, he was spared by a single vote in the Senate. A similar pattern played out in 1998, when President Bill Clinton faced two charges that emerged in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones.
Paula Jones interview from ABC's Primetime Live in 1994.
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Jones filed her lawsuit in 1994, two years after Clinton took office for his first term. The suit alleged sexual harassment on the part of Clinton during a hotel room meeting between the two in 1991. While building their case, lawyers representing Jones investigated rumors surrounding Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. These lines of inquiry occurred concurrent with the Whitewater real estate investigation into Clinton's business dealings that was being headed by special counsel Kenneth Starr.
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When Clinton gave his statement for his deposition for the Jones case in January of 1998, he was questioned about his relationship with Lewinsky. Clinton stated under oath that he had no relationship with Lewinsky outside of professional contact, going so far as to state that he was never even alone with her. This statement was contradicted by Lewinsky's own personal account of events; in phone conversations with co-worker Linda Tripp, Lewinsky offered many details about her relationship with Clinton, including gifts and sexual encounters. Unknown to Lewinsky, Tripp regularly recorded those phone conversations and eventually turned the recordings over to Starr. Furthermore, the conversations provided information that Clinton had asked Lewinsky to conceal the relationship, and that Lewinsky, in turn, had asked Tripp to deny her knowledge of the relationship if called to testify.
Starr decided that Clinton's actions constituted perjury, and he backed this up with other collected evidence, including Lewinsky's hard drive and emails. Starr compiled his findings in the document that became popularly known as the "Starr Report." The report was sent to Congress and posted online.
Shortly after the November 1998 election, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives entered impeachment proceedings against Clinton. In House Resolution 611, Clinton was impeached on one count of perjury and another of obstruction of justice; both counts stemmed from the Jones deposition. A second article of perjury and one of abuse of power failed to receive majority votes in the House.
William Rehnquist served on the Supreme Court for 33 years.
The Senate trial began on January 7, 1999. Then-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, presided over the trial; what was functionally the prosecution side of the case was handled by 13 House Republicans, including current Arkansas governor Asa Hutchison and current South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham. Clinton was defended by lawyer Cheryl Mills and a team that included future Obama White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig. The proceedings ran until closed-door deliberations began on February 9th.
Ending deliberations on February 12th, the Senate put it to a vote. With 67 votes required to convict the president and remove him from office, the Senate voted to acquit. The totals came in at 45-55 on the perjury charge, and 50-50 on obstruction. Every one of the 45 Senate Democrats voted not guilty on both charges. Clinton remained in office, serving out the rest of his second term. In April of 1999, he was cited for contempt of court for lying in the Jones deposition; the president ultimately agreed to having his license to practice law in his home state of Arkansas suspended for five years. As for the civil suit brought by Paula Jones, Clinton settled in November of 1998, prior to the impeachment proceedings, for $850,000.
Though impeachment has been an increasingly common topic of discussion of late, it's definitely not a speedy process. It's complicated, and it should be, as it's not something that the nation wants to enter lightly. That said, Congress has historically wielded that power wisely, and it's likely that the men and women of both houses are fully aware of the import that initiating such a process carries for the country.
Feature Image credit: White House photograph of President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. (White House photo)
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La Societat Econòmica Mallorquina d'Amics del País (SEMAP) va ser una institució cultural i econòmica creada a Palma el setembre de 1778, per recomanació del rei Carles III. Va sorgir en el context de l'anomenat reformisme borbònic i fou impulsada per les autoritats de Mallorca, sobretot per la Reial Audiència.

Objectius i composició
Va estar integrada per nobles, militars, alts funcionaris, clergues i professionals liberals. El seu objectiu era promoure l'agricultura, la indústria i el comerç. Segons els seus estatuts (1778), tenia un director -que presidia les juntes-, un zelador -encarregat de vetlar per l'observança dels estatuts-, un secretari de correspondència, un secretari d'actes, un comptador i un tresorer.

Els projectes reformistes (1778-1808)
Fins a la Guerra del Francès la SEMAP va ser l'associació mallorquina més dinàmica. En el camp de la indústria creà una escola per ensenyar a filar (1781), estudià la possible creació de fàbriques de flassades i de formatge (1782), introduí noves màquines per filar i teixir (1785), protegí la creació de fàbriques de vidre i la indústria del moble (1785). Devers 1791 va rebre l'encàrrec de reformar les ordenances gremials. Amb aquesta finalitat va dur a termes diverses enquestes sobre el nombre de gremis, treballadors i fàbriques existents i sobre la seva situació econòmica. Però la reforma de les ordenances mai no es va arribar a dur a terme.

El 1798 estudià la possibilitat de crear una fàbrica de terrissa fina i establí diversos premis per millorar aquesta indústria. El 1800 intentà crear una fàbrica de perfums a Sóller. En el camp agrari va fer estudis per fomentar el conreu de la figuera, del lli i del cànem (1782). Introduí elements mecànics; creà vivers d'ametlers; atorgà premis als pagesos que introduïssin a les seves terres el conreu de l'anís, anyil i altres plantes exòtiques; repartí gra i fomentà l'arbrat (1784). Impulsà el conreu del cotó, estudià la dessecació del Prat de Sant Jordi (1785) afavorí la plantació de vinya (1798) i del blat de les índies (1801) i projectà una escola d'agricultura.

En el camp dels intercanvis comercials, el 1781, obtengué autorització per exportar seda al continent sense pagar cap dret. El 1783 elaborà un projecte per comerciar amb el País Basc. L'any següent sol·licità crear la Companyia Mallorquina de Comerç per mercadejar amb Amèrica, el llevant Mediterrani i el nord d'Europa. El projecte, però, no es va dur a terme per manca del capital necessari. El 1785 es demanà autorització perquè un vaixell comercialitzàs directament amb el port de Caracas.

Impuls a l'ensenyament i a la castellanització
En el camp de l'ensenyament, devers 1779, creà dues escoles de primeres lletres a Palma. El 1800 en posà en marxa una tercera. La voluntat de la SEMAP, en funció de l'ideal modernitzador i l'acompliment de la voluntat borbònica, era de castellanitzar el país. Per això l'ensenyament havia de ser en espanyol i es feren gestions (1802) per fer venir a Mallorca dos mestres titulats pel Suprem Consell de Castella. Edità unes beceroles per a l'ensenyament en aquesta llengua. També projectà, en dues ocsions (1797 i 1835), la redacció d'un diccionari català-castellà i d'una gramàtica castellana per estendre l'ús d'aquesta llengua, forastera aleshores per complet en l'ús habitual a l'illa. El 1835 especificà que aquestes obres (diccionari i gramàtica) havien de servir per fer desaparèixer el català de Mallorca, si més no entre la gent culta.

La SEMAP no tengué èxit en els seus intents de crear un Seminari de Nobles. La formació dels artesans va ser atesa, des del desembre de 1778, per una Escola de Dibuix, que incorporà sales d'escultura (1796) i arquitectura (1797), i per una Escola de Matemàtiques (1779). Aquestes escoles formaren l'Acadèmia de Nobles Arts, que deixà de funcionar el 1808.

El 1801 creà una Acadèmia d'Economia Política, que es dotà d'uns estatuts, adquirí bibliografia sobre qüestions econòmiques i organitzà sessions d'estudis a partir del llibre d'Antonio Genovesi Lecciones de Economía Civil. Les seves escoles patiren greus dificultats per manca de diners i de professors i, sobretot les de primeres lletres, foren criticades per la baixa qualitat del seu ensenyament.

Redactà estudis sobre les mines de carbó mallorquines, prengué mesures per evitar l'extensió d'una epidèmia de pigota (1784) i elaborà estudis per fomentar la pesca i la ramaderia. El 1788 obtengué permís de Carles IV per a la creació d'una Acadèmia Mèdico-Pràctica de Mallorca i, el 1800, amb altres institucions, obtengué la fundació del Consolat de Mar i Terra. A partir de 1782 i fins a 1863, convocà uns premis d'agricultura, arts i comerç que generaren un conjunt de memòries i estudis. En aquesta època publicà el Semanario Económico que fou el primer periòdic mallorquí i una Guia de Forasteros (1787-1863).

Les persones de la SEMAP
A les seves juntes hi predominaren els representants de la noblesa mallorquina. En foren directors Llorenç Despuig, Antoni Maria Dameto, marquès de Bellpuig i Jaume Ballester de Togores, comte d'Aiamans. Altres impulsors destacats foren Bernat Contestí, marquès de la Fontsanta, Tomàs de Verí i Joan Peretó de Vidal.

La implantació del reformisme (1808-1835)
La Guerra del Francès (1808-1814) afectà molt aquesta societat i les seves activitats minvaren de manera considerable. El 1812 establí cuines econòmiques per mitigar els efectes de la misèria que patia Mallorca. Aquell mateix any les autoritats confiscaren provisionalment els seus locals per atendre necessitats militars. El 1828 les tres escoles de primeres lletres es fusionaren en una. El 1829, treballava, d'acord amb l'Ajuntament de Palma, en la redacció d'unes noves ordenances per al càrrec de mostassaf. El 1835 continuava mantenint l'Escola de Dibuix amb rendes del Bisbat de Mallorca. Aquell mateix any elaborà un pla d'estudis per estendre l'ensenyament públic per tot Mallorca i elaborà un inventari dels convents suprimits.

En aquells anys en foren directors, entre altres, Josep de Togores i Sanglada, comte d'Aiamans i Ramon Despuig Safortesa, comte de Montenegro.

Pèrdua progressiva de protagonisme (1836-1941)
El 1836 el govern limità les seves atribucions. Aquell mateix anys les escoles de primeres lletres passaren a l'Ajuntament i, a partir de llavors, les seves activitats foren reduïdes. Impulsà la creació d'una junta per a la construcció de camins (1836), defensà el patrimoni artístic amb motiu de la desamortització (1836) i fomentà el conreu de la vinya (1842 i 1851). El 1847 aprovà uns nous estatuts.

Durant la segona meitat del  promogué la construcció del ferrocarril (1859-1862), treballà per introduir el conreu del cotó (1863-1864) i redactà informes sobre el dret foral mallorquí (1890 i 1891). En els anys noranta havia decaigut tant que els socis gairebé no es reunien. En el decenni de 1910 es revitalitzà una mica. Fomentà l'assistència a l'Exposició de Turisme de Londres (1913) i va fer estudis per solucionar la crisi de treball que patia Palma (1915), elaborà treballs sobre el dret foral (1916), contribuí a l'esforç perquè el port de Palma fos declarat zona franca (1918) i va fer gestions per impedir que el Museu de Raixa sortís de Mallorca. A partir de 1922 quasi cessaren del tot les seves activitats. El desembre de 1936 se'n renovà la junta directiva, però la decadència continuà i el 1948 es canvià per darrera vegada la junta. Gaspar Reynés ocupà el càrrec de director fins als anys setanta. L'arxiu de l'entitat es troba dipositat a l'Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca.

Vegeu també
 Reial Societat Econòmica d'Amics del País de València
 Societat Econòmica Barcelonesa d'Amics del País

Referències

Entitats de Mallorca desaparegudes
Organitzacions econòmiques desaparegudes
Segle XVIII a Mallorca

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Lumber trade war slaughtering US construction industry
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Tariffs on Canadian lumber weighing on US home builders
National Association of Home Builders' Jerry Howard on the impact of tariffs on home builders and housing prices.
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) is not happy with President Donald Trump's steep tariffs on Canadian lumber which are killing the construction industry, according to NAHB CEO Jerry Howard.
"It's ludicrous that a neighboring country like Canada is not being able to import into our country," Howard told FOX Business' Stuart Varney on "Varney & Co." on Monday. "We are importing lumber from Russia to build our American homes – it just doesn't make sense."
The Trump administration announced tariffs on Canadian lumber last April, which has caused the price of lumber to increase 25% from a year ago and 60% from two years ago, according to Howard.
"It's very, very difficult for our builders absorb that kind of an increase," he said.
The construction industry is still in recovery mode from the recession and while demand is up, the industry still has a ways to go.
"We are still only at about 66% capacity," Howard said.
The tariffs have also created availability issues.
"Because of these tariffs lumber coming across the border from Canada is coming at a slower pace and it's really holding up the construction process, which also adds to the cost," Howard said.


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Tropical storm Nicholas's lumbering pace is why Houston is getting soaked
By Josh Saul / Bloomberg
The storm is moving so slowly that a typical jogger could outrun it. Its lumbering pace of about six miles per hour is combining with the tremendous amount of moisture in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico to produce the deluge, said Charles Roeseler, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the Houston/Galveston office.
The weather system is basically stuck over the Houston area as it drops almost 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain and swells the bayou that flows through the city by more than 11 feet. The torrential downpour could drag on for days in the Gulf Coast region, knocking out power and unleashing floods.
Meanwhile, winds out of the east are increasing water levels in the city.
"With an east wind you get elevated tide levels," he said. "The water that's trying to exit the area through rivers and bayous can't flow as quickly."
Another factor that led to the heavy rainfall for the Houston area was that the storm initially developed over a large part of the Gulf Coast on Sunday and then consolidated over a smaller area, according to Randy Adkins, a senior meteorologist at Accuweather. If that consolidation hadn't happened, Nicholas would have instead dropped 2 to 4 inches over a larger portion of Texas.
Adkins added that the storm is now drenching Louisiana with 4 to 8 inches expected across that state, Alabama and Mississippi. "Unfortunately, some of these areas that were hit by Hurricane Ida are going to see renewed flooding again," he said.
Reporting by Josh Saul from Bloomberg.


Change is happening. As a woman, I can feel it. In public discourse, it's everywhere. There is an unspoken history of sexual violence which is now at the forefront, and victims are choosing fight rather than flight. As we become more aware of this truth through the stories being told we cannot help but want to make change in strides and not steps. But how do we stay focused on what exactly we are fighting for when mainstream media convolute the message?
As a survivor of sexual violence, I feel obligated and inclined to restore the power imbalances and injustices that I know so well. It took me 15 years to tell my story, fight my internal demons, and confront and make peace with the past. I choose not to share the details of my story here and now in fear of triggering or re-traumatizing others… or maybe I'm just not "there" yet. And we must remember that that's ok too. I believe that the MeToo campaign has the potential to help create the culture, platforms and dialog needed to combat the shame and self-blame that trap victims in silence for far too long. I am also conscious not to become hyper-focus on where the onus lies as it jeopardizes the "movement" into becoming simply a passing moment. What I have learned by being more open and candid with my experiences is that the details or circumstances of my story is not a rarity. This is not to downplay anyone's experiences or trauma but sometimes such details can sensationalize a situation which can distract from the intention of sharing in the first place. For victims of sexual violence, the "shock-factor" serves no purpose. I see this in Hollywood as others are also finding the courage to come forward and tell their stories. This should all be liberating and empowering, but I can't help but feel somewhat detached and disconnected from it all when conversations circle around the Harvey Weinsteins and Trumps of the world. I'd like elevate the conversation beyond seeking justice, redemption and/or revenge because this movement cannot center on placing blame or perpetuating fear. By sharing our experiences, I hope that future generations can have open discussions surrounding sexual violence. Sexual violence and abuse is a pandemic; it is not industry specific, bound by gender lines, or restricted by age. We must be careful to not lose sight of the underlining social norms and inequalities that have perpetuated this pandemic. I believe the MeToo movement is about survivors supporting survivors through knowledge, awareness and encouragement with the end goal of prevention. This is me reclaiming my story.


The NASA Valkyrie is one of the most advanced humanoid robots in the world. The robot was constructed by NASA-JSC in 2015 and delivered to the University of Edinburgh in Spring 2016. Weighing 125 kg and standing 1.8m tall, Valkyrie will enable breakthroughs in humanoid control, motion planning and perception. PhD Students and researchers from Edinburgh Centre for Robotics will carry out research using the robot.
Our group is part of the School of Informatics and the centre is a joint initiative with Heriot-Watt University.
Jan 2016: Upcoming paper: S. Nobili, R. Scona, M. Caravagna and M. Fallon, Automatic ICP-Tuning for Robust Localization of a Humanoid Robot. ICRA 2017 in Singapore. Demonstration video.
November 2016: Upcoming paper: Scaling Sampling–based Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots at ROBIO 2016, Qingdao, China.
November 2016: Upcoming paper iDRM: Humanoid Motion Planning with Real–Time End–Pose Selection in Complex Environments, Humanoids 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.
Mar 2016: The project was featured in the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics newsletter.
Mar 2016: The robot was delivered to Edinburgh by Kris Verdeyen (NASA project lead) and his team of engineers.
Feb 2016: We have open sourced our entire codebase for the Valkyrie and Atlas robots in collaboration with the MIT Robot Locomotion Group. This codebase represents all the work from the MIT DRC team during the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
Jan 2016: A team of 6 of Edinburgh researchers including PhD students Wolfgang Merkt and Marco Caravagna have been training with the robot at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Some photos are here. The robot will come to Edinburgh in early Spring 2016.
Nov 2015: We hosted a get-to-gether with 3 groups of researchers as part of our on-going research with Valkyrie. More details here.
Sept 2015: Two new PhD students joined the project: Simona Nobili and Raluca Scona. Welcome!
Aug 2015: We would like to invite applications from UK robotics research groups to participate in a collaboration using the NASA Valkyrie humanoid robot. More details here. Deadline is 30 September 2015.
10 fully funded Ph.D. studentships are available as part of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, in partnership with Heriot-Watt University.


South Korea, a newly industrialized, influential country with an important emerging market, has been held up as a living specimen of success that gives pride in the potential energy of capitalist development. However, the gravitational shock of an economic crisis emanating from Thailand into East Asia at the end of 1997 hit Korean society particularly hard. At this crucial moment, the IMF shifted its focus from short term politics to long term control of society, in exchange for concessions such as the prolongation of debt expiration and the offering of additional loans. 50 years after the end of the American trusteeship lasting from 1945 to 1948, a new form of entrustment emerged.
Four years after the onset of the economic crisis, the Korean Government announced, on August 23, 2001, that South Korea had repaid all IMF loans and had graduated from the IMF's guidance 32 months earlier than the initial target date. Indeed, economic indicators point to the success of the IMF's policies. By 2002 South Korea had risen to the 4th largest foreign-exchange-holder-country; its stable-growth economy has recovered vigor, while stabilization in employment and price indices continues. Aside from this economic success, however, the IMF's trusteeship has unleashed significant, rapid changes in the social structure, class relations, and modes of thought dominating Korean society.
It is clear that the South Korean society of today as compared with the pre-1997 formation has experienced thorough-going change. This essay will both question how South Korean society has changed and explore the forces that sustained the changes. The Korean Government wants, of course, to insist that South Korean society changed from a bad state to a good state. In order to make this argument, however, the Government has, we must notice, reduced South Korean society into a unified organism completely identical with a single national economy. From this perspective, the Governement argued that the power behind this favorable turn was due to 'the national opinion wanting the supersession of crisis and the strong political leadership based on that opinion' (from the IMF's South Korean official in charge).
In contrast to the government's top-down viewpoint, I am going to observe the social changes in South Korea formed over last 5 years from a responsible perspective that sees how the struggles of labor and the proletariat, i.e., struggles from the bottom-up, are the main motors of social change. To that end, I shall employ the concept of class composition to refer the self-organization process of this central force-that is, the ceaseless self-organizational process of the constituent power of the proletariat. Through this concept, we will see a reduction in the leadership of state power, asserted by government, to the subordinate and passive variables in the process of class composition. In addition, this perspective also provides a vantage point from which it may be possible to define the actual limits of the major left-wing currents in South Korea, which have largely argued that the economic crisis in Korea could have been superseded by compromise with capital. In this argument, which takes the form of social-corporatism, they consider the crisis as a product of the co mpetitive movement of individual capital; hence, the working class struggle, in their analysis, was considered irrelevant to economic crisis.
Capitalist development in South Korea during the pre-1997 period was heavily dependent on the induction of foreign capital from transnational banking organizations, such as IMF or the World Bank. This foreign capital was part of the transnational financial capital that sought a profitable place of investment that could avert the insubordinate power manifested by the working class in Western Europe during the revolutionary processes of 1968. The total amount of transnational financial capital invested in the South Korea from 1990 to 1997 reached 60 billion dollars, of which 43 billion dollars were withdrawn in one action at the end of 1997. The economic crisis that exploded in November of that year was largely catalyzed by that sudden withdrawal.
We will want to know what is the reason that caused transnational financial capital to be withdrawn from South Korea in 1997? The answer to this question, without a doubt, can be found in precisely the same principle that had previously attracted inward flow of transnational financial capital in the first place. In brief, the withdrawal movement was due to the radical decrease in the rate of capital profitability in South Korea. The resistance of the militant proletariat in South Korea since 1987 meant that high interest rates could no be secured. Profit rate in all industries reached 49% in 1986, but began to fall incrementally thereafter, hitting a low of 18.6% in 1997. This level was far lower than the profit rate (29.7%) during the economic crisis of 1980 that brought the collapse of the Park Jeong Hui government. In the uneasy situation, transnational loan capital refused to defer the expiration date of loans, and thus began the exodus of capital searching for stable interest rates in a different country. The sudden economic crisis in South Korea that ensued is well known.
The South Korean economic crisis of 1997 was brought about by the global movement of transnational financial capital, i.e., the institution of neoliberalism at a global level. It is further significant to observe that although capital composition at a global level could be termed neoliberal, the corresponding Korean capital composition was not. Capital composition in Korea had to pass through several stages until it accomplished neoliberalization commensurate with the global level.
Until 1979, the year in which the Park Jeong Hui government collapsed, it was the state-form of military and authoritarian fascism which contained the resistance of the working class and promoted accumulation in conspiracy with transnational financial capital. This state-form forced laborers to accept low-wage/long-hour working conditions by introducing the exceptional state of martial law and special law. As Korean mass workers, increasing in number, gradually chipped away at this state-form by cooperating with students and religious circles. Since the beginng of the 1970s, the Park Jeong Hui government began to introduce a new phase of heavy-chemical industrialization designed to induce restructuring that could neutralize the bastion of resistance that labor power had formed in the light industrial sectors.
After cracking down on the 'spring of Seoul' movement in May 1980, the government of Jeon Du Hwan assumed state power and began to try to solve the economic crisis by abandoning the objective of an independent economy and by inviting transnational financial capital flow into Korea on a scale of unprecedented proportions and renumerative terms. This policy was made possible by suppressing the people's armed resistance that had spread over Kwangju to other regions since May 18, 1980. The Jeon Du Hwan government violently imposed order based on the authority of exceptional measures such as the National Security Law, the Law of Social Safety, and so on. However, this oppressive authoritarian order ran against both the people's political aspirations and the exigencies of the neoliberal movement of transnational capital. Hence, the Korean government could not but adopt the flexible policies beginning 1984 that enabled the level of profit to recover the high rate of 1979. Korean mass workers toook this opportunity to unleash a series of struggles against the authoritarian regime of Jeon Du Hwan.
The struggles of 1987 seemed to draw to a close with the post-authoritarian reforms of direct presidential elections. But the changes that they brought to South Korean society were, in fact, much more profound than first appeared. On the one hand these struggles demonstrated the growth of the militant power of the Korean mass workers. On the other hand they also showed the new subjectivity emerging outside the factory. The No Tae Uoo government which took over state power in 1988, and the Kim Yeong Sam government which succeeded it in 1993 through a coalition of the Min Jeong (Democratic-Justice), the Min Ju (Democratic), and the Kong Hwa (Republic) Parties had to overcome the economic crisis that began to coalesce at the end of the 1986~1988 boom. Nothing less than the invention of a new sovereign form of government distinct from the fatally damaged authoritarian system was needed. These successive administrations took action on a twofold scale. First, the government consciously tethered the economy to transnational financial capital in order to obtain wider freedom of movement and to help the domestic monopolistic capital escape the resistance of the Korean working class by relocating to overseas markets such as Southeast Asia, Russia, China and so on. Secondly, in order to control bottom-up demands for power, theses successive administrations attempted to co-opt the democratic trade union movement that had emerged as a distinct social power during the struggles of the 1980s and to make it an accomplice in capitalist development. Mutual agreements between FKTU (Federation of Korean Trade Unions) and ANB (Association of National Businessmen) in 1993, as well as the Committee for Reform of the Employer-Employee Relation in April 1996, were all parts of the attempt to construct a social consensus apparatus.
To achieve this goal, capital attempted to induce the working class organization which had been constructed around a shop floor into a centralized structure that would enable upper echelon negotiations between labor and capital. Capital intervened at a juridical level, using the demands of the working class for a revision of the Trade Union Act as the pretext for a neoliberal revision. The Kim Yeong Sam government rushed the revised neoliberal Trade Union Act through the National Assembly by surprise in December, 1996. Against this action, the working class of Korea launched a general strike.
Nevertheless, the general strike that spanned more than 3 months from December 1996 to March 1997 did not interdict the neoliberal reform of capital. A revision of the Trade Union Act arrived at through mutual agreement between the ruling coalition and the opposition party still contained various measures that supported the neoliberal reform of capital: flex-time, work-sharing, No-Wage-for-No-Labor, and the restrictions on legal sites for strike demonstrations were all designed to make the labor market more flexible and amenable to neoliberal capital.
Although the revised Trade Union Act contained such articles of neoliberal reform, it also contained the articles that concretized a consensus around the politicalization of the working class (e.g., the recognition of multiple trade unions and their legitimate forms of political activity). Clearly, the revised Trade Union Act was the result of compromise between labor and capital. Actually, in early 1997, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) chose the path of compromise with government, a line characterized as a 'labor movement moving in step with the people.' From this perspective, 1997 can be seen as a turning point that generated within the main current of democratic trade union movements a switch to a line based on social mutual agreement.
But the consensus could not be actualized immediately because of the resistance of shop floor workers. The revision of Trade Union Act lowered the wage rate increase to 7% for the first time since 1987 and heightened the attack of capital. In response, the opposition of workers became violent and the gathering of shop floor organizations began to appear. It was in this transitional situation that an economic crisis, the first signs of which had been seen in the bankruptcy of Hanbo steel Corporation in January 1997, struck all of South Korea.
Elected in December, 1997, the Kim Dae Jung government inherited a crisis-ridden national economy. Upon the withdrawal in one single action of 43 billion dollars in loan capital, the South Korea economy fell into liquidity crisis and the ensuing bankruptcy of enterprises. This shock was followed by a rise in interest, a dramatic, unexpected rise in the exchange rate, and a sudden fall in the price of real estate. The government of Kim Dae Jung utilized this crisis as an opportunity to deepen the neoliberal reform that had been deferred by both a rigid authoritarian residue and the resistance of the working class. A series of reform acts were to concretize the 'neoliberal reform on the base of social consensus' which was defined by the general strike in 1996~7 into the all areas of investment, possession, administration, banking, finance, administration, labor and so on.
First, the government of Kim Dae Jung, upon securing an additional loan of 55 billion dollars from the IMF, duly promised a program of neoliberal restructuring that would be propelled by IMF's the leadership. This proposal of restructuring targeted two areas for change. The first one aimed to reorganize domestic corporations, banking, administration, finance, technology, and education in order to be more in line with the free movement of transnational financial capital (in short, the recomposition of capital). The second one aimed to displace the democratic trade unions that had been weakened by the revision of the trade union acts in 1997 (in effect, the decomposition of working class).
Let us examine first the changes which were made at the level of capital recomposition.
What must be initially taken into account is the reform of financial markets. This reform was designed to remove all obstacles to the free movement of transnational financial capital. Reform of the banking sector, based on the Basel principle (that is, the unified international standard for the regulation of equity capital), included the extension of the limit of foreign investment in stocks, a wider range of M&A allowed to foreigners, the opening of short term financing and company bond markets, and the liberalization of foreign borrowing by corporations. Together, these measures spelled the maximum extension of the market opening that had been underway since 1980, and the removal of national limitations imposed upon it.
The second important change was the dissolution of the Jaebeol (large conglomerate cooperations characteristic of the South Korean economy). The five principles that the government of Kim Dae Jung forced the Jaebeol to accept were: 1) enhancing corporate transparency; 2) dissolution of mutual payment guarantees; 3) epoch-making improvement of financial structure; 4) establishment of a core sector and the reinforcement of its relation to smaller enterprises; and 5) strengthening of the responsibility accorded to large stockholders and management. The three tasks to supplement these principles were: 1) the interception of banking control over industrial capital; 2) the restraint placed upon circulation investment and the injustice of inside trading; 3) prevention of irregular inheritance. These acts were propelled by wide support from people who had been exploited by the Jaebeol and those who had been oppressed by previous authoritarian governments. However, in this process, many corporations owned by Jaebeol fell under the control of transnational capital.
The third change came in the form of the privatization of public enterprise. The main goal of privatization was to implement manpower reduction and thereby enhance the transition to profitable capitalist operations. Its secondary goal was to secure the financial income needed both for the exchange of the IMF loan and for the neoliberal reform of South Korea. According to this plan, the government: completed the privatization of 6 public enterprises, including Pohang Iron & Steel, KHIC, etcÅc; sold off to foreign corporations the state interests in Korea Telecom, the tobacco-ginseng monopoly, the public gas corporation, and the government-authorized textbook industry, etcÅc; and propelled the privatization of energy field corporations connected with regional heating, the public industrial complex, public energy administration, electricians, and electric power technology. Accordingly, the government reduced the number of public servants sharply, resulting in a decline in the quality of public services, dismissals of laborers in the public sector, and the growth and consolidation of the control power accruing to transnational financial capital.
The most salient point was the offensive against labor conducted under the pretext of 'labor market flexibility'. While a grand number of lay-offs had already been witnessed in the process of the privatization of the public sector, the dismissal of workers in the private sector was considerably more bloody than that. Within the space of a single year, from the end of 1997 to 1998, capital de-manned 23% of the employees in the financial sector. General corporations de-manned 10% of their employees. Then in 1999, about 4,500,000 persons, 19% of the total working population, fell into unemployment.
As the forms of employment were transformed into the °ßflexibility°® of the irregular, we can assume that the number of unstable workers such as part time workers, temporary workers, contract and subcontract workers has surpassed that of full-time workers. This situation can be expected to be further exacerbated by the induction of 'the system of controlling employment by reason of management' that prescribes the possibility of dismissal through the negotiation with the trade union or its representative.
It is, significantly, not only the relationship of employment that became unstable. The neoliberal reform was accompanied by a conversion of wage relations from the seniority wage system to the annual pay system. This conversion had the effect of aggravating the competition among laborers much more than before.
This flexiblization of the employment relationship and the wage relationship was to be promoted by the 'law of special economic zone', jointly passed on November 5th, 2002, by agreement between the ruling and opposition parties. The regulations regarding the establishment of such special zones were quite relaxed and they could be established anywhere in Korea. Within the confines of the zone, businessmen could use despatched workers without any restriction. The monthly leave system was abolished and salaries need not be paid for weekly holidays. This law represented the most important effect of neoliberal reforms that had been gradually deepening over the past 5 years such that most of the working class power constructed in the shop-floor level through the struggles since the mid-1980s has been utterly neutralized.
The flexiblization of the labor market mitigated the burden upon capital through the reduction or irregularization of employed workers. Also, it seriously dissolved the political composition of mass workers, that is, the militant trade unionism which had been constructed since the 1980s. The current feeling of defeat located deep in the heart of working class is the psychological aftermath of such class decomposition. How could the working class in Korea come to be so severely decomposed in spite of the power accruing to it since 1985 in struggles that shook the stability of capital accumulation?
The government of Kim Dae Jung arranged to make the democratic trade union movement a sub-partner of the neoliberal reforms by granting negotiation rights to the upper levels of the trade union leadership. To achieve this goal, the dissolution of militant power constructed in the shop-floor was necessary. This is the background of the establishment of the committee of Labor-Employer-Government. It is ironic that this committee was established as a form of accommodation by government of the KCTU's proposal.
The KCTU (and FKTU) came to an agreement with the government and employers concerning ninety items in the first committee held on Jan. 15th 1998. Among those ninety, however, only the ones unfavorable to working class interests, such as the lay-off law and despatched workers law, were legalized. The items favorable to the working class, such as the guarantee of fundamental labor rights of public servants and teachers and the expansion of social security, were delayed. In response to this development, the shop-floor workers within the KCTU raised sharp objections. This split led to the general resignation of the KCTU leadership and its substitution by a committee formed by extraordinary measure. However, after the general strike was withdrawn for reasons of national opinion and the intrinsic capacity of the struggle, the second leadership of the KCTU, elected on April 1st 1998, proclaimed a refusal to recognize the committee, and turned instead to the 'tactic of direct negotiation with government on the base of mass struggle'.
On June 3rd, 1998, the second session of the committee was opened by the government to promote favorable conditions for foreign capital. At first, the KCTU did not participate in it. Within a few days, however, the KCTU caved in to worries about the unilateral restructuring of capital. In this process, the government promised the KCTU to protect unions against neoliberal reforms and take measures to substantialize the social consensus between labor and capital. But, in contradiction to such promises, the unilateral restructuring of capital was enforced all the same. After announcing its refusal to participate in the committee, the KCTU began the second general strike over 14th ~ 16th July. Ahead of the third general strike planned for 23th July, some agreements were reached about economic reform, employment, labor-capital relations, social security, etcÅc. But while the enforced lay-offs by capital were continued, the legalization of the agreed items was delayed. The KCTU left the committee on February, 1999 in protest of the situation.
The third session began in September 1999 without the KCTU. Because of a conflict about the wages of trade union predecessors, finally even the FKTU left the committee in December 1999. As a result, the committee has essentially become defunct.
In spite of having experienced this process, the KCTU (and FKTU) are still trying to construct substantial conditions for a mutual consensus between labor and capital. For this end, while they endeavor to reconstruct the trade unions industrially, they are trying to politicalize their power through party action. For example, the KCTU-supported Democratic Labor Party obtained 960,000 (3.9%) votes in the last president election.
While the main stream of the labor movement is pursuing social consensus and social democracy in this way, the remnants of the militant tendency are endeavoring to preserve, reconstruct, and extend the field power of shop-floors. They are pursuing the traditional object of constructing a socialist society by the industrial working class. Recently, some of them have been criticizing the limits of the trade union movement inasmuch as it depends too much on leadership, and we can now observe a tendency toward the council movement in which mass workers themselves have responsibility for their determination.
Up to this point we have been investigating class composition since 1987 around the industrial labor class. However, our research must also take into account the sprouts of new subjectivity that cannot be reduced to the industrial labor class. These are the so-called 'citizens' composed of women, students, artists, intellectuals, technicians, scientists, and so on. Based on them, a different movement called the 'citizen's movement' has been developing rapidly since the 1990s. The movement has proposed new agendas continually over economic justice, social democratization, environmental protection, gender equality, human rights etc..
Significantly, the citizen's movement is having difficulty to define the concept of a 'citizen'. Recently the main current tends to define the citizen as a non-class subject. In contrast, I propose that the 'citizen' needs to be defined in the context of recomposition of working class accomplished by the industrial restructuring of capital since the 1980s. The industrial restructuration centered upon high-tech and informational industries since the 1980s have figured a different form of labor power. This different form of labor power has acquired a more scientific-technological character and, as a result of it, the school, home, and society have all been transformed into factories of reproduction. We should consider the weakening of the traditional labor movement as the effect of this process. The relative ratio of industrial laborers has been reduced as a result of the diversification of the working class. Therefore, 'citizen' is but an old label to which have been attached new labor subjects composed of plural and heterogeneous multitudes.
Unfortunately these new subjects have not been able to connect themselves to the struggles of the traditional labor movement. While the labor movement attacks the neoliberal reforms, these new subjects tend to attack the remnants of authoritarian rule. Because of this split, neoliberal reformism has had a field day in Korea. But little by little, the structure of the problem is being recognized and a solution to it is being groped after. Some activists of the citizen movement are trying to actively oppose positions that allow the anti-authoritarian struggles to be appropriated by the interests of transnational capital.
Bureaucratization is the key problem of the citizen movement. At a moment when the No Mu Hyun government has begun to co-opt the citizen movement, in spite of the fact that it won the December 2002 election because of strong support from it, the crucial problem remains: how should the multitudes connect the traditional labor movement and the new citizen movement into a network of anti-neoliberal struggle? Innumerable communities acting through internet and the council movements in shop-floors are suggesting the way. They are now pouring over the street holding candles in their hands and protesting the brutality of the American Army (which murdered two young students under a tank), crying 'don't attack Iraq'; by the same token, they are now also criticizing the result of the neoliberal reforms of last 5 years, focusing on the suicide of Bae Dal Ho, a laborer who protested against the oppressive neoliberal measure that allows for provisional impounding of wage and property as a punishment for strike actions.


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Our world is going through massive changes at an unprecedented rate. You know everything is going topsy-turvy when you hear that there's a new currency in town conjured out of thin air. You must have heard of Bitcoin and if you haven't it's a cryptocurrency founded to eliminate the problems of the existing financial system.
This is the story of Bitcoin and the future.
It all started in October 2008 when a person under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakomoto published an article in one of the most popular Cryptography blogs in the world. This person spoke about the dawn of a new currency, a digital currency, a currency for the Internet. He termed it Bitcoin.
Bitcoin in a simple sense was created to counter the excessive transactional costs of other mediums of exchange like Paypal and intermediaries like Visa. So whenever you transfer money to another person or you swipe a card, there's a 2 to 3 % transaction fee that is levied.
Why do companies like Paypal and Visa levy this charge?
They do because, they are the gatekeepers of the ledger. They establish the proof that a person has paid another person. With Bitcoin, this ledger is public. Anybody transacting with Bitcoin can see who has paid who and how much has been transferred. So how does one verify whether a transaction has actually happened.
Through a concept called Blockchain. The Weforum post has a perfect image depicting the Blockchain process. This almost is a crowd-funded approach to currency.
Why will it be the future of currency?
It eliminates the middleman. It is high time, people have control of their own finances. Getting charged unnecessarily of your own precious cash to make a transaction that is so seamless already is criminal.
It gives lesser power to Financial Banks and other companies like VISA who can freeze your account at will. Your money should be under your control and this is what Bitcoin is aiming at.
There is no concept of a Bank Holiday in Bitcoin, so you can transfer the amount whenever you want. Your personal information is kept hidden, this helps from identity theft and other problems that come with revealing your identity. As the ledger is open, anybody can verify the transactions that has happened in the Bitcoin network.
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ADM forms new committee with focus on sustainability, corporate responsibility
Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced it has created a new board committee on sustainability and corporate responsibility. The new committee formally will launch in May and will be chaired by Suzan F. Harrison.
The new committee will set strategic objectives, goals and strategies for the company's sustainability and corporate citizenship efforts, ADM said.
Ms. Harrison joined ADM's board of directors in May 2017 and has been a member of the board's compensation/succession committee. She has held a variety of leadership positions at Colgate-Palmolive Co., where she currently is president of global oral care. Earlier, she was president of Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc. North America. Before that, she was vice-president of marketing for Colgate U.S. and vice-president and general manager of Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, North America and Europe.
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Daniel Shih, who has served as an ADM director since 2012, has informed the board that he will not seek re-election at the annual stockholders' meeting.
"Lei Schlitz's tremendous knowledge, experience and leadership at a global manufacturing company will make her a strong addition to our board," Mr. Luciano said. "Lei offers significant expertise in technology innovation, financial discipline, strategy development, and manufacturing excellence — all key elements as we continue to advance our strategy and growth efforts around the globe. On behalf of the board and our entire company, I'd like to thank Daniel for his service to ADM. We are a better company today thanks to his leadership."


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