KGM is readily dissolved in water and it can absorb 100-fold as much as water in volume. Its water solution is a pseudo-plastic liquid, characterized by shear thinning. One particle of konjac powder consists of extremely long thread-like macromolecules tangled together.
Perhaps, the biggest winners of Citizens United are Charles and David Koch, owners of the second-largest privately run business in America Koch Industries. Among other things, the Koch brothers own oil refineries in Texas, Alaska, and Minnesota and control some 4,000 miles of pipeline. According to Forbes Magazine, the Koch brothers are now worth $80 billion, and have increased their wealth by $12 billion since last year alone. For the Koch brothers, $80 billion in wealth, apparently, is not good enough. Owning the second largest private company in America is, apparently, not good enough. For the Koch brothers, $80 billion in wealth, apparently, is not good enough.
In March 2012, the Kochs, who together controlled half of the Cato Institute through two of the organization's four quarter-share shareholder seats, sued the Cato Institute to gain control of a third seat that had been held by a shareholder who died, which would have allowed the Kochs to further influence policy and management decisions within the organization.