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WHY DID MUSEVENI DECLINE TO SIGN THE GMO BILL?
President Museveni
"On the subject of GMOs, let us all move as a block and all decisions should be based on sound science," the president said. That was on the 27th. Sept. 2017 in an article by no other than the GMO supporter, Mark Lynas, titled "Ugandan president backs GMOs, condemns "misinformation" on biotechnology."
On October 4, 2017 the parliament passed the GMO bill, on the same day, Isaac Ongu, agricultural journalist, stated that, "The President, who has on several occasions endorsed biotechnology and expressed frustration over the delay of the bill's passage, is expected to sign the law, which will become operational immediately."
So what could have happened to the apostle of GMO on the road to Damascus? It was not a sudden light from heaven that shone around the president for sure, nor was it anyone from anti-GMO confusing him as pro-GMO agents would like us to believe.
The president took time to analyze the GMO bill and then provided sound reasons stated clearly, item by item, as to why he rejected signing the GMO bill. He has done his home work, he knows those promoting GMOs haven't told the whole story.
In August, 2003, as president Museveni presided over the launch of a biotech lab at the Kawanda Research Institute, he told the audience that George Bush, the US president, had urged him to take on GMOs during his visit. He got applauses from the staff of the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO).
But he warned against abuse of biotechnology, saying the Government was against GMOs becoming a problem. It is the very same message he is now sending out. Except this time, NARO's stuff is not ready to hear that warning.
GMO WEMA a Hoax?:
Drip Irrigated WEMA
Item #2. The president is wondering and asking whether irrigation of WEMA is a hoax. The evidence is right here Mr. president in the picture, as the saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. Black tubes on the ground are drip irrigation system that drips water at the roots of the plant.
Check out second photo:
"During the tour of a maize garden where technology is employed, the visiting lawmakers appreciated that genetically-modified crops are resistant to pests and diseases – compared to natural varieties – but insisted there is an information gap."
Of the itemized 11 reasons the president gave, one that upsets the pro-GMO agents the most is the one about "Accountability," item #10, which calls for protecting the consumer and holding the GMO developers "Accountable for the damages they cause."
As I listened to Prof. Latigo's frustration, I can understand why he would rather talk of genes in monkeys and humans, instead of item #10, which deals with "Accountability." Since Prof. Latigo believes in the safety of GMOs, then it shouldn't be an issue going along with the president's demand to hold GMO developers accountable when their innovation creates a problem.
As Prof. Latigo goes into details of how Uganda has some of the best Scientists with NARO, he forgets that the president knows about Dr. Pusztai who was awarded a $3 million grant by the UK government to design the system for safety-testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs), in late 1990s. And then what happened to him after his team of highly qualified scientists he headed found out troubling facts about GMO biotechnology!
Here we are talking of Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, is it any wonder that the UK Houses of Parliament ordered GMO food off their menu!, could it be by coincidence or something to do with Dr. Pusztai's research findings and warning!
Ridicule:
For Dr. Ambrose Agona to insinuate that the president's decisions were based on ignorance therefore the solution is for Scientists to simplify GMO information to him, is a total ridiculous diversionary tactic, just because the president called for protecting the consumer and holding the GMO developers "Accountable for the damages they cause."
The Agonas and Latigos want to convince the public that the president declined to sign the GMO bill because of his ignorance about Biotechnology, yet we have equally if not more qualified specialists on Genetically Modified Organisms/seeds (GMOs) like Dr Daniel Maingi in the same boat with the president.
Monsanto's GMO agr. biotechnology destroyed pollinators and wiped out 90% of monarch butterflies within just 20 years, the US tax payers were left to pay for the damages while Monsanto laughed all the way to the bank. This is the kind that the president doesn't want to happen to Ugandans.
Accountability is making one whole, it has nothing to do with being an expert or even understanding basics of Biotechnology. The president's position is that Responsibility & Accountability must go hand in hand, to protect the consumer.
GMO agricultural Failures (Problems):
Government was and still is against GMOs becoming a problem, that is the clear message of president. He was told that we should emulate Burkina Faso because it was reaping the benefits for accepting GMO Cotton. Now, "Burkina Faso's cotton association is seeking 48.3 billion CFA francs ($83.91 million) in compensation from U.S. seed company Monsanto."
South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.
In 2013- Africa bullied to grow defective Bt Maize: the failure of Monsanto's MON810 maize in South Africa',
Sudan: The Sudanese Ministry of Agriculture's acknowledgement of the failure of genetically modified cotton is a late attempt to contain the farmers' anger about the government's disastrous policies, according to El Gezira and El Managil Farmers Association.
Late last year, President Al Bashir described the Scheme as not feasible and a burden on the country's budget.
Promises of GMO agr. controlling pests, has instead created more vicious ones called Super-bugs , e.g.. new evolved Fall Army-worm type which pesticides on the market can't kill, is a creation of GMO agriculture. That is the one devastating agriculture across Africa.
African countries are being pushed to adopt a failed technology
The same Fall armyworm pest resistant to GM Bt corn in Brazil.
GMO proponents are pushing GM Bt corn in Africa as a solution to the fall armyworm pest, which has been rapidly spreading across the continent.But a new study from Brazil shows that this GM technology is already redundant.
Desperate GMO S.Afr. Farmer
The president was assured that the solution to Fall armyworm is GMO agriculture, just like South Africa. But he has now found out that all that is a hoax, since South African GMO maize farmers like Jacques Prinsloo are equally devastated, but even worse since they paid high prices for the GMO maize seeds with promises of resistance to pests.
GMO agr. Skyrockets agrochemicals use.
Studies have shown that, contrary to often-repeated claims that today's genetically-engineered crops have, and are reducing pesticide use, the spread of glyphosate-resistant weeds in herbicide-resistant weed management systems has brought about substantial increases in the number and volume of herbicides applied.
Over 99% of GMO acreage is engineered by chemical companies to tolerate heavy herbicide (glyphosate) use and/or produce insecticide (Bt) in every cell of every plant over the entire growing season. The result is massive selection pressure that has rapidly created pest resistance—the opposite of integrated pest management where judicious use of chemical controls is applied only as necessary.
Predictably, just like overuse of antibiotics in confined factory farms has created resistant "supergerms" leading to animals being overdosed with ever more powerful antibiotics, we now have huge swaths of the country infested with "superweeds" and "superbugs" resistant to glyphosate and Bt, meaning more volume of more toxic pesticides are being applied.
Precautionary Principle:
Ugandans should appreciate the precautionary approach the president is taking, after all, that is what the The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety demands. And as you can see in examples given above, those are some of the problems the president is concerned about. GMO agr. is risky and involves losses, hence the reason for precaution and accountability.
Monarch caterpillars on a milkweed leaf dusted with pollen
Had the US taken that precautionary approach in 1999 when it was warned as follows: "Monarchs are considered to be a flagship species for conservation.
This is a warning bell," said Rayor, after the research study concluded that pollen from GM corn kill monarch butterflies, the government wouldn't be talking of monarch butterflies as one of the endangered species. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Banned GMOs and Neonicotinoid Insecticides, after a lot of damage had been done, the president is trying to make sure that Uganda don't repeat the same mistakes of the US.Uganda.
Economy, Foreign Exchange Revenue:
Ugandan Farmers harvesting Coffee
Item #3 and #4, are indirectly to protect the national economy. Agriculture is the major contributor to GDP as well as an important source of foreign exchange revenue.
Item #3, in addition to protecting our food crops, it also protects cash crops such as Coffee. Contaminated Coffee with GMOs would destroy all the Coffee export, just like what happened to Wheat export in the US when a few GMO Wheat stalks were discovered in some field.
But even worse, conflicts over cross contamination can lead to loss of lives. Hence the law must take into account of that possibility ahead of time.
Vacuum packing technology
The president fought hard and invested a lot to get Uganda matooke on the world market. Why destroy this good market now after it has taken off so well? The very pride of Uganda. "The bananas have got a big demand at restaurants and supermarkets in areas where Ugandans in the diaspora reside. Dr. Byarugaba says Karibu restaurant in Boston one of the top importers."
Remembering these words, "Instead of letting bananas ripen and go to waste, he peels them and packages them for export.," it is mind boggling why this will not happen with GMO bananas since they can't be exported to any Western country.
Have the NARO scientists forgotten Iowa State University going Bananas over GMOs?
As of item #4, Uganda's Organic Food agriculture needs to be protected. The future of Foreign Exchange Revenue is in Organic foods , that is where Uganda government should be investing, not in GMOs. In fact there is no such a thing as getting license to export GMO crops to any Western country, except as Animal Feed, and even then, not all of the Western countries do it.
Spin doctors:
Item #7, is to deal with Monsanto's pro-GMO agents who have expertise in functioning as Spin doctors. The president started off by pointing out this issue when he stated that the naming of the Law was not clear. Why name it "Bio-Safety Law", when it is "Genetic Engineering?" By not separating the difference between Plant from Animal genetic engineering, we then get Prof. Latigo attacking the president's rejection of signing the bill as a sign of being ill informed because as he puts it, Uganda has already used and benefited from Biotechnology such as in Vaccines and HIV/AIDS drugs.
We see these pro-Monsanto spin doctors exposed all the time, but they keep coming, telling us that Glyphosate is a general purpose insecticide that is basically less poisonous to man than a strong drink of caffeine of coffee!
EU has rejected renewing Roundup/Glyphosate for usual 15 year term, and agreed to only maximum of 5 years before banning it. France plans to ban it within 3 years. In the US – More than 295 lawsuits are pending against Monsanto Co. in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, filed by people alleging that exposure to Roundup herbicide caused them or their loved ones to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and that Monsanto covered up the risks. GMO agriculture very heavily depends on Glyphosate/Roundup and other toxic agrochemicals, check out Hawaii, GMO experimental ground zero.
The president has demonstrated to the Monsanto's Agents his ability of understanding the Precautionary principle per the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, way better than they had anticipated just because he supports GMO biotechnology.
It is unfortunate that the same people criticizing the President for excising precautionary principle and refusing to sign on to the GMO Bill he believes is not in the best interests of the public, are the same individuals who invited an academic as one of the main speakers at the Continental Science and Tech. conference in Uganda, just before passage of the GMO Bill, had told Monsanto that, "I'm glad to sign on to whatever you like, or write anything you like"
Note: There is one of the reasons to be on guard: Monsanto Fined $1.5 Million for Bribing Over 140 Indonesian Officials
But even more important are these: The World According to Monsanto


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is a former professor of computational chemistry, noted for his prediction of the C60 molecule in 1970.

Osawa received his Master's of Engineering in chemistry from Kyoto University's Department of Industrial Chemistry and then became an engineer at Teijin Co., Ltd. In 1964, he returned to Kyoto University and earned a Doctorate of Engineering in chemistry under Professor Yoshida. After three years of postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin, Princeton University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in 1970 he became an assistant professor at Hokkaido University. In 1990, Osawa became a full professor at Toyahashi University of Technology, where he retired in 2001. Upon his retirement, assisted by Futaba, Co., Ltd., headquartered in Chiba, Osawa started the research and development company Nano-Carbon Research Institute, Ltd.

C60 molecule prediction

The icosahedral C60H60 cage was mentioned in 1965 as a possible topological structure. Eiji Osawa predicted the existence of C60 in 1970. He noticed that the structure of a corannulene molecule was a subset of a football shape, and he hypothesised that a full ball shape could also exist. Japanese scientific journals reported  his idea, but it did not reach Europe or the Americas.

In 1996, Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their roles in the discovery of this class of molecules. C60 and other fullerenes were later noticed occurring outside the laboratory.

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Emily Potter-Ndiaye will join the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where she will take up the post of head of education and curator of academic programs on August 20. Potter-Ndiaye has been the director of education at the Brooklyn Historical Society since 2013, and she is also on the board of the Museum Education Roundtable.
In her new role, Potter-Ndiaye will be in charge of initiatives to get students and faculty to engage with the museum's collections, with a particular emphasis on research. She will also supervise the museum's education team and oversee student employees, interns, and volunteers.
At the Brooklyn Historical Society, Potter-Ndiaye oversaw the organization's programming, which serves over 15,000 students and teachers annually and includes workshops for teachers. The museum's Teen Innovators program won a National Arts and Humanities Youth Programs Award in 2017.


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FERRO ALLOYS – FERRO MANGANESE, SILICO MANGANESE, FERRO SILICON BASED ON ALUMINOTHERMIC PROCESS - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery
The ferro alloys are classified as bulk ferro alloys & noble ferro alloys. Bulk ferro alloys include ferro chrome/charge chrome ferro manganese, ferro silicon, etc. while niobium, nickel, titanium, tantalum, tungsten, and vanadium form noble ferroalloys. Two or more of these elements can be associated with any one ferroalloy in known proportions for metallurgical uses. Depending on affinity for oxygen compared to iron, copper, molybdenum and nickel can be added with the charge or during melting and are fully recovered chromia and manganese elements are easily oxidized, and hence, need to be added late during melting or in ladle. Al, Ti, V & Zr easily oxides and are added in ladle only to minimize oxidation losses. The demand for ferro alloys has been increasing with that of alloy and special steels. There are six leading players and over 30 small producers. The industry has tied up with companies in Europe for technology inputs. The major users of alloy steel are: auto industry, railways, forgings, tubes, springs and other engineering industries. The leading players are Alloy Steel (SAIL), Mukand (Advanced Design Materials Corp., USA), Mahindra Ugine, Sunflag Irons & Steel, Vishveshvarya Steel, Kalyani Steel, Panchmahal, Indian Seamless, Shah Alloy Kalyani Carpenter, and Garg Furnace. Ferro manganese along with Fe-Si, Fe-Cr, is a bulk ferro-alloy; Manganese is also added in steels in the form of silico manganese. It dissolves in iron in all proportions, Iron for Farm implements uses upto 1.75% Mn and also in automobile parts. Ship construction industry uses steels with even higher content; riffle barrels and heat treated forgings necessarily use ferro manganese as an alloying additive. Ferro manganese is a principle alloying agent used in steel production steel/iron casting etc, where it also acts as a strengthener and deoxidizer. It imparts corrosion resistance to the products. There is an increased demand of the Indian silico-manganese in the European market. This has strengthened the position of Indian manufacturers for its sale to other countries. The mood of the ferro alloys manufacturers in the International market is very positive. There is a good scope to venture into this field for new entrepreneurs. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Acme Ferro Alloys Pvt. Ltd. Alok Ferro Alloys Ltd. Andhra Ferro Alloys Ltd. Anjaney Ferro Alloys Ltd. Baheti Metal & Ferro Alloys Ltd. Balasore Alloys Ltd. Baroda Ferro Alloys & Inds. Ltd. Bhaskar Shrachi Alloys Ltd. Bhupco Alloys Ltd. Castron Technologies Ltd. Corporate Ispat Alloys Ltd. Cronimet Alloys India Ltd. Dandeli Ferro Pvt. Ltd. Facor Alloys Ltd. Ferro Alloys Corpn. Ltd. Hi-Tech Electrothermics & Hydro Power Ltd. Hindustan Ferro & Inds. Ltd. Hira Ferro Alloys Ltd. Impex Ferro Tech Ltd. Indian Metals & Alloys Ltd. Indian Metals & Carbide Ltd. Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd. Indsil Hydro Power & Manganese Ltd. Jagat Alloys Pvt. Ltd. Karthik Alloys Ltd. Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd. Maithan Alloys Ltd. Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd. Muskan Ferro Silicons Ltd. Nagpur Power & Inds. Ltd. Quality Steels & Forgings Ltd. R G Foundry Forge Ltd. Sarda Energy & Minerals Ltd. Sharp Ferro Alloys Ltd. Shri Ganesh Ferro Alloys Ltd. Shri Girija Smelters Ltd. Shyam Ferro Alloys Ltd. Silcal Metallurgic Ltd. Snam Alloys Ltd. Sova Ispat Alloys Ltd. Srinivasa Ferro Alloys Ltd. Standard Chrome Ltd. Star Metallics & Power Pvt. Ltd. Universal Ferro & Allied Chemicals Ltd. V B C Ferro Alloys Ltd. V B C Industries Ltd.
Plant capacity: 1800 MT/Annum Ferro Manganese, 900 MT/Annum Silico Manganese, 900 MT/Annum Ferro Silicon Plant & machinery: 87 Lakhs
PACKAGED DRINKING WATER, SODA WATER AND PET BOTTLES - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Feasibility Study, Cost of Project
Bottled Water means water intended for human consumption and which is sealed in bottles and other containers with no added ingredients except that it may occasionally contain safe anti-microbial agent. Now-a-days safe and pure drinking water is major necessity for human being. Bottled water industry, colloquially called, the mineral water industry, is a symbol of new life style emerging in India. While a large segment of the population is struggling to get access to potable water supply, a new generation - especially in the urban areas is getting accustomed to bottled water paying handsome prices. Soda water is water which is carbonated and thus made bubbling by the addition of carbon dioxide gas under pressure. Soda water is sometimes used to dilute strong alcoholic drinks, e.g. cocktails such as a whisky and soda, or Campari and soda. It can also be drunk on its own. Soda water gets its name from the sodium salts it contains, said 'salty' compounds adding a distinct and pleasurable quality to many beverages of the alcoholic and non-alcoholic type. PET is the most extensively recycled plastic of the present time. Bottled water is available in differently sized packaging from 200 ml (popular on flights) to 500 ml (a huge hit among the youth) to 1 liter and 2 liter. Despite the large number of small producers, this industry is dominated by the big players – Parle, Bisleri, Coca-cola, Pepsico, Parle Agro, Mohan Meakins, SKN Breweries bottled water in the country when it introduced Bisleri in India 25 years ago. Apart from domestic and commercial use of packaged water, the Indian Railways is a huge potential market. According to officials at Cheerio, the railway ordered 10,000 cases (of 12 bottles each) a day. In coming years the demand of packaged drinking water will be increased very rapidly, so there is a huge scope for new entrepreneurs to venture into this project. The bottled water market is growing at a rapid rate of around 20% a year (down from 50 to 60%). At this growth rate, the Rs 7000 million per year market is estimated to overtake the soft drinks market soon. Multinationals, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and others are trying to grab a significant share of the market. There are more than 180 brands in the unorganized sector. The small players account for nearly 19% of the total market. The government decided towards end of the year 2000 to bring about stringent guidelines for packaged water. All companies were made to sell their products only under the BIS (Bureau of Industrial Standards) certification mark. The BIS certification was made mandatory for the segment from April 1, 2001. The bottled water is to be classified as "food" and has been brought under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. They would have to adhere to rules pertaining to colour, odour, taste, turbidity, total dissolved solids and aerobic microbial count. There is a good scope and good market potential for new entrepreneurs to venture into this field. Cost Estimation:
Plant capacity: Drinking Water – 17280000 Nos. Bottles (1 Ltr.)/Annum,Soda Water – 1008000 Nos. Bottles (600 Ml)/Annum,Drinking Water Jar – 720000 Nos. Jar (20 Ltr.)/Annum Plant & machinery: 403 Lakhs
COPPER WIRE DRAWING (From Higher Size To Very Thin Size Used In Electrical Cables) - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials
Copper wire is an essential material for electrical cables and motor and transformer winding. Copper wire is available in different gauges (42 gauges to 18 gauges). The gauge of the copper wire depends upon the winding required for the specific motor or transformer. There is a heavy market for copper wire in motor and transformer manufacture and the copper is also used in rewinding of motors and transformers. Whatever the motor may be the winding of copper wire is done. On the basis of high conductivity, strength and ductility, copper wires are adopted as the best known economical material for such purposes. Copper is used mainly in the electrical industry for manufacturing parts of electrical apparatus, bus bars, wire etc. Copper is not very ductile at temperature from 250 to 6000C and cannot be forged or stamped at temperatures above 8000C, due to its high brittleness. Pure copper is very seldom forged or stamped and usually only its alloys bronze and brass are subjected to forging and pressing. Wire is made by cold drawing hot-rolled wire/rod through one or more dies, to decrease its size and increase the physical properties. The wire rod about 7/32" (6mm) in diameter is rolled from a single billet and cleaned in an acid bath to remove scale rust and coating. The coating is applied to prevent oxidation, neutralize any remaining acid and to act as a lubricant or a coasting to which a later applied lubricant may cling. There is a very good scope for this product and new entrepreneurs should venture into this field. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Metal Aids India, Mumbai Nissan Copper Limited Samitan Electropowers (P) Limited S. M. Enterprises, New Delhi Niki Cables Industries Bharat Insulation Company (India) Ltd Elecon Conductors Limited Saru Concast Alloys Pvt. Ltd. GTB Indo Exports Shree Nursingsahay Mudungopal Engineers Private Limited Metro Steel Corporation Optiflex Industries Nana Udyog Saru Copper Alloy Semis (P) Ltd. Manhar Metal Supply Corporation Harness Techniques(i) Pvt Ltd National Wire Industries Metal Aids India Indo German Wire Screen Co. A. P. S. Enterprises Oasis Electronics Max Engineering and Marketing Company KMA Electricals (P) Ltd. Sharpwire Industries (India) Private Limited Kawa Machine Tools Sdn Bhd Dali Electronics Vijay Trading Corporation
Working capital: - T.C.I: 167 Lakhs
PACKAGED DRINKING WATER WITH PET BOTTLES - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Feasibility Study, Investment Opportunities
Bottled Water means water intended for human consumption and which is sealed in bottles and other containers with no added ingredients except that it may occasionally contain safe anti-microbial agent. Now-a-days safe and pure drinking water is major necessity for human being. Bottled water industry, colloquially called, the mineral water industry, is a symbol of new life style emerging in India. While a large segment of the population is struggling to get access to potable water supply, a new generation - especially in the urban areas is getting accustomed to bottled water paying handsome prices. PET is the most extensively recycled plastic of the present time. Bottled water is available in differently sized packaging from 200 ml (popular on flights) to 500 ml (a huge hit among the youth) to 1 liter and 2 liter. Despite the large number of small producers, this industry is dominated by the big players – Parle, Bisleri, Coca-cola, Pepsico, Parle Agro, Mohan Meakins, SKN Breweries bottled water in the country when it introduced Bisleri in India 25 years ago. Apart from domestic and commercial use of packaged water, the Indian Railways is a huge potential market. According to officials at Cheerio, the railway ordered 10,000 cases (of 12 bottles each) a day. In coming years the demand of packaged drinking water will be increased very rapidly, so there is a huge scope for new entrepreneurs to venture into this project. The bottled water market is growing at a rapid rate of around 20% a year (down from 50 to 60%). At this growth rate, the Rs 7000 million per year market is estimated to overtake the soft drinks market soon. Multinationals, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and others are trying to grab a significant share of the market. There are more than 180 brands in the unorganized sector. The small players account for nearly 19% of the total market. The government decided towards end of the year 2000 to bring about stringent guidelines for packaged water. All companies were made to sell their products only under the BIS (Bureau of Industrial Standards) certification mark. The BIS certification was made mandatory for the segment from April 1, 2001. The bottled water is to be classified as food and has been brought under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. They would have to adhere to rules pertaining to colour, odour, taste, turbidity, total dissolved solids and aerobic microbial count. There is a good scope and good market potential for new entrepreneurs to venture into this field. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Atco Corporation Ltd. Bikaji Marketing Ltd. Bio Green Inds. Ltd. Dharampal Satyapal Ltd. Golden Anchor Pvt. Ltd. Keventer Agro Ltd. Manchanda International Ltd. Mount Everest Mineral Water Ltd. N E P C Agro Foods Ltd. Nuway Organic Naturals India Ltd. Orient Beverages Ltd. Pondicherry Agro Service & Inds. Corpn. Ltd. Sparkle Foods Ltd. Sri Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd. Surat Beverages Ltd. Vijay Shanthi Builders Ltd.
Plant capacity: 60000000 Nos. Bottles/Annum Plant & machinery: 217 Lakhs
MANGANESE OXIDE (FERRITE GRADE)
Manganese (Mn), is a chemical element, one of the silvery-white, hard, brittle metals of Group VII b of the periodic table. It was recognized as an element (1774) by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele while working with the mineral pyrolusite and was isolated the same year by his associate, Johan Gottlieb Gahn. Although it is rarely used in pure form, manganese is essential to steelmaking. Manganese Oxide is derived from manganese, a brittle metal element. It is widely distributed in the earths crust, and is essential in steel-making. The element is needed for plant growth and in the physical development of higher animals. Manganese is involved in reducing the levels of nitrates in green plants. Lack of manganese causes testicular atrophy in animals. However, too much in either plants or animals is toxic. Manganese oxide is one of the major sources of manganese used in the dry feeds for cattle, pigs, & poultry. It helps to prevent breeding complications in cattle and ensures optimum growth for the pigs. In poultry it aids in hatchability and improves shell quality. Manganese oxide is the most important manganese compound. Pyrolusite is the chief source of manganese and all its compounds, when derived from ores. Pyrolusite is widely used as a chemical oxidant in organic synthesis. Manganese oxide is also used as the cathode material in electric dry cells. Synthetic manganese oxide is prepared by decomposition of manganese nitrate; by reaction of manganese sulfate, oxygen and sodium hydroxide; or by electrolysis of an aqueous solution of manganese sulfate. The ferrite grade manganese oxide (MnO) is not easily available in local market so sometimes manganese dioxide is reduced to manganese oxide for the ferrite grade. Ferrites are extensively used in the high-frequency magnetic cores of televisions, radios and other communications equipment such as magnetic heads, transformers and CRT deflection yokes. Ferrite may also be used as an ingredient of paints for the prevention of radio wave interference. Ferrite products currently applied in 42% of high-tech fields, such as home appliances (microwave ovens, air conditioners, and electrical home appliances), office supplies (copiers, fax machines) cars, motorcycles, high-fidelity audio, and instrument sensor parts. Middle and low areas of the application of traditional products accounted for 58%, such as speakers, adsorption magnets, toys, electrical, magnetic separation device. The growing convergence of information, communication, & entertainment is bringing a new momentum to the consumer electronics Industry in India. CE is one of the largest segments of the electronics market in India. With a market size of $5 billion in 2009 & significantly low penetration, the consumer electronics Industry in India promises huge potential in the years to come. It is estimated that the industry will grow to $11.8 billion by 2014. This growth will be aided by various factors such as increasing household incomes, local manufacturing & expanding distribution networks. The electronics industry as we know it today could not exist without the widespread use of ferrites. There is a very good scope for this product and new entrepreneurs should venture into this field.
Plant capacity: 1200 MT/Annum Plant & machinery: 123 Lakhs
SILICO MANGANESE - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Feasibility Study, Investment Opportunities, Cost and Revenue, Plant Layout
Manganese and silicon are crucial constituents in steelmaking, as deoxidants, desulphurizers and alloying elements. Silicon is the primary deoxidizer. Manganese is a milder deoxidizer than silicon but enhances the effectiveness due to the formation of stable manganese silicates and aluminates. It also serves as desulphurizer. Manganese is used as an alloying element in almost all types of steel. Of particular interest is its modifying effect on the iron-carbon system by increasing the hardenability of the steel. Thus both silicon and manganese have an important influence on the properties of steel, depending on the amount added and the combined effect with other alloying elements. About 93 % of all manganese produced is in the form of manganese ferroalloys. The FeMn grades are high carbon (HC), medium carbon (MC), low-carbon (LC) and very low carbon (VLC), whereas the SiMn grades are medium carbon (MC) and low carbon (LC). The steel industry is the only consumer of these alloys. Silico manganese (SiMn), a ferroalloy with high contents of manganese and silicon, is made by heating a mixture of the oxides manganese oxide (MnO2), silicon dioxide (SiO2), and iron oxide (Fe2O3), with carbon in a furnace. They undergo a thermal decomposition reaction. It is used as a deoxidizer and an alloying element in steel. The standard grade silico manganese contains 14 to 16% of silicon, 65 to 68% of manganese and 2% of carbon. The low carbon grade SiMn has carbon levels from 0.05 to 0.10%. Demand for steel has been rising due to ongoing economic boom leading to rapid growth in various industries in the world's two largest populous countries in Asia-Pacific, China and India, with simultaneous increase in production leading to wide fluctuations is steel prices. Other countries in Asia-Pacific such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America have witnessed an increase in steel consumption. A changing lifestyle, increasing disposable income, changing consumer thinking, rising consumption, and various other factors; demand for steel witnessed an increase leading to an increase in manganese demand. This trend is expected to continue for another five years after which demand is expected to stabilize. There is a very good scope in this field and new entrepreneurs should venture in such projects. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Aarti Steels Ltd. Adhunik Metaliks Ltd. Alok Ferro Alloys Ltd. Bhaskar Shrachi Alloys Ltd. Bihar Foundry & Castings Ltd. Bishwanath Ferro Alloys Ltd. Castron Technologies Ltd. Century Plyboards (India) Ltd. Cronimet Alloys India Ltd. Ductile Castings Ltd. Garg Industries Ltd. (Duplicate Name, Punjab) Indsil Hydro Power & Manganese Ltd. Jalan Ispat Castings Ltd. Karthik Alloys Ltd. Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd. Nagpur Power & Inds. Ltd. Natural Sugar & Allied Inds. Ltd. Nav Chrome Ltd. [Merged] Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd. Quality Steels & Forgings Ltd. Shri Girija Smelters Ltd. Shyam Century Ferrous Ltd. Shyam Ferro Alloys Ltd. Silcal Metallurgic Ltd. Sova Ispat Alloys (Mega Projects) Ltd. Sova Ispat Alloys Ltd. Srinivasa Ferro Alloys Ltd. Star Metallics & Power Pvt. Ltd. Super Steel Casting Ltd. V B C Ferro Alloys Ltd.
Plant capacity: 14400 MT/Annum Plant & machinery: 897 Lakhs
Working capital: - T.C.I: Cost of Project : 1861 Lakhs
PACKAGED DRINKING WATER - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Feasibility Study, Investment Opportunities, Cost and Revenue
Bottled Water means water intended for human consumption and which is sealed in bottles and other containers with no added ingredients except that it may occasionally contain safe anti-microbial agent. Now a days safe and pure drinking water is major necessity for human being. Bottled water industry, colloquially called, the mineral water industry, is a symbol of new life style emerging in India. While a large segment of the population is struggling to get access to potable water supply, a new generation especially in the urban areas is getting accustomed to bottled water paying handsome prices. PET is the most extensively recycled plastic of the present time. Bottled water is available in differently sized packaging from 200 ml (popular on flights) to 500 ml (a huge hit among the youth) to 1 liter and 2 liter. Despite the large number of small producers, this industry is dominated by the big players Parle, Bisleri, Coca-cola, Pepsico, Parle Agro, Mohan Meakins, SKN Breweries bottled water in the country when it introduced Bisleri in India 25 years ago. Apart from domestic and commercial use of packaged water, the Indian Railways is a huge potential market. According to officials at Cheerio, the railway ordered 10,000 cases (of 12 bottles each) a day. In coming years the demand of packaged drinking water will be increased very rapidly, so there is a huge scope for new entrepreneurs to venture into this project. The bottled water market is growing at a rapid rate of around 20% a year (down from 50 to 60%). At this growth rate, the Rs 7000 million per year market is estimated to overtake the soft drinks market soon. Multinationals, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and others are trying to grab a significant share of the market. There are more than 180 brands in the unorganized sector. The small players account for nearly 19% of the total market. The government decided towards end of the year 2000 to bring about stringent guidelines for packaged water. All companies were made to sell their products only under the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) certification mark. The BIS certification was made mandatory for the segment from April 1, 2001. The bottled water is to be classified as "food" and has been brought under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. They would have to adhere to rules pertaining to colour, odour, taste, turbidity, total dissolved solids and aerobic microbial count. There is a good scope and good market potential for new entrepreneurs to venture into this field. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Atco Corporation Ltd. Bikaji Marketing Ltd. Bio Green Inds. Ltd. Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd. Dharampal Satyapal Ltd. Golden Anchor Pvt. Ltd. Keventer Agro Ltd. Manchanda International Ltd. Mohan Meakin Ltd. Mount Everest Mineral Water Ltd. N E P C Agro Foods Ltd. Nuway Organic Naturals India Ltd. Orient Beverages Ltd. Parle International Pvt. Ltd. Pepsico India Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Pondicherry Agro Service & Inds. Corpn. Ltd. Sparkle Foods Ltd. Sri Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd. Surat Beverages Ltd. Vijay Shanthi Builders Ltd.
Plant capacity: 3000000 Bottles/Annum Plant & machinery: 39 Lakhs
Bottled Water means water intended for human consumption and which is sealed in bottles and other containers with no added ingredients except that it may occasionally contain safe anti-microbial agent. Now a days safe and pure drinking water is major necessity for human being. Bottled water industry, colloquially called, the mineral water industry, is a symbol of new life style emerging in India. While a large segment of the population is struggling to get access to potable water supply, a new generation especially in the urban areas is getting accustomed to bottled water paying handsome prices. PET is the most extensively recycled plastic of the present time. Bottled water is available in differently sized packaging from 200 ml (popular on flights) to 500 ml (a huge hit among the youth) to 1 liter and 2 liter. Despite the large number of small producers, this industry is dominated by the big players Parle, Bisleri, Coca-cola, Pepsico, Parle Agro, Mohan Meakins, SKN Breweries bottled water in the country when it introduced besleri in India 25 years ago. Apart from domestic and commercial use of packaged water, the Indian Railways is a huge potential market. According to officials at cherio, the railway ordered 10,000 cases (of 12 bottles each) a day. In coming years the demand of packaged drinking water will be increased very rapidly, so there is a huge scope for new entrepreneurs to venture into this project. The bottled water market is growing at a rapid rate of around 20% a year (down from 50 to 60%). At this growth rate, the Rs 7000 million per year market is estimated to overtake the soft drinks market soon. Multinationals, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nestle and others are trying to grab a significant share of the market. There are more than 180 brands in the unorganized sector. The small players account for nearly 19% of the total market. The government decided towards end of the year 2000 to bring about stringent guidelines for packaged water. All companies were made to sell their products only under the BIS (Bureau of Industrial Standards) certification mark. The BIS certification was made mandatory for the segment from April 1, 2001. The bottled water is to be classified as food and has been brought under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. They would have to adhere to rules pertaining to colour, odour, taste, turbidity, total dissolved solids and aerobic microbial count. Leading Brands Bailley, Bisleri, Peppy Minerelli, Trupthi, Kristal, Oasis, Yes, Penguin, Golden Eagle, Stream, Kingfisher, Jaldhara, Pondicherry, Himalayan, Golden Valley Stream, Evion, Aquafina, Perrier, Kinley, Pure Life, Ferra, Relle. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Bikaji Marketing Ltd. Bisil Plast Ltd. Bisleri (India) Pvt. Ltd. Haldiram Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Keventer Agro Ltd. Kothari Products Ltd. Mohan Meakin Ltd. Mount Everest Mineral Water Ltd. N E P C Agro Foods Ltd. Orient Beverages Ltd. Parle International Pvt. Ltd. Pepsico India Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Pondicherry Agro Service & Inds. Corpn. Ltd. S & S Industries & Enterprises Ltd. Southern Agrifurane Inds. Ltd. Sparkle Foods Ltd. Sri Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd. Surat Beverages Ltd. New capacity creation can be thought of for packaged drinking water as there is ample space for new entrepreneurs to venture into this field. Cost Estimation: Capacity : 12000000 Ltrs/Annum Packed in Pouches 250 ml size 18000 Ltrs/Day and Packed in Jars 20 Ltrs Size 22000 Ltrs./Day
TYRES AND TUBES FOR BICYCLE AND RICKSHAW - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Feasibility Study, Investment Opportunities
Tyres and Tubes are the backbone of the bicycle and rickshaw. Bicycle and rickshaw continues to be the principal mode of transport for the low and middle income families. This is because the bicycle is both environment and people friendly. India is largest producer of bicycle next to only china. The future of the bicycle industry is bright. However, for survival the companies have to successfully restructure and modernize to achieve global competitiveness in terms of quality, cost and distribution system. The tyre & tube industry is a major consumer of the domestic rubber production. Cycle rickshaw is a local means of finance and also known as pedicarb, cycle or rickshaw in different parts of the world. Cycle rickshaws are human powered i.e. pulled by a person by foot. There is very good domestic as well as export demand of bicycle and rickshaw tyres and tubes. The entrepreneurs venture in to this project will be successful. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Govind Rubber Ltd. Krypton Industries Ltd. Pavan Tyres Ltd. Poddar Tyres Ltd. Ralson (India) Ltd. Ralson Industries Ltd.
Plant capacity: 300000 Nos. Tyres & 300000 Nos. Tubes Plant & machinery: 158 Lakhs
COPPER ROD CASTING, WIRE DRAWING AND ENAMELLING - Manufacturing Plant, Detailed Project Report, Profile, Business Plan, Industry Trends, Market Research, Survey, Manufacturing Process, Machinery, Raw Materials, Feasibility Study, Investment Opportunities
Copper wire is an essential material for electrical cables, motors and transformer winding. Copper wire is available in different gauges. The gauge of the copper wire depends upon the winding required for the specific motor or transformer. There is huge demand of copper wire in electrical industry such as in motor and transformer manufacturing and rewinding. On the basis of high conductivity, strength and ductility copper wire are adopted as the best known economical material for such applications. As a result of increasing demand and wide applications number of new units have been established and existing units have undergone expansions and for increasing productions in order to cater the ever growing demand. However, the demand of copper conductor wire is so high in India that despite a fair increase in installed capacity and actual productions of units, import is continuing. Thus, there is a good potential for new entrepreneurs. Few Indian Major Players are as under: Bhagyanagar Metals Ltd. Bharat Insulation Co. (India) Ltd. C M I Ltd. Dharmadeep Powerdive Inds. Ltd. G K Winding Wires Ltd. Ganga Electrocast Ltd. Globus Corpooration Ltd. Hindustan Transmission Products Ltd. Indo American Electricals Ltd. M P Telelinks Ltd. Mardia Samyoung Capillary Tubes Co. Ltd. Paramount Communications Ltd. Patron Industries Pvt. Ltd. Powerflow Ltd. Precision Wires India Ltd. Ram Ratna Wires Ltd. Robot Systems Pvt. Ltd. Salzer Electronics Ltd. Shakti Insulated Wires Pvt. Ltd. Shalimar Wires Industries Ltd. Supreme Conductors Ltd. Translam Ltd. Vardhaman Wires & Polymers Ltd. Versatile Wires Ltd. Vidarbha Winding Wires Ltd.

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es una película kaiju animada por computadora de 2018 dirigida por Kōbun Shizuno y Hiroyuki Seshita, escrita por Gen Urobuchi y producida y animada por Toho Animation y Polygon Pictures, en asociación con Netflix.

Es la película número 34 de la franquicia Godzilla, la película número 32 de Godzilla producida por Toho, la película final en la trilogía de anime de la franquicia y la cuarta película en el período Reiwa de la franquicia.

Godzilla: el devorador de planetas concluye la narrativa de la trilogía de anime, y tiene lugar después de los eventos de Godzilla: Planeta de monstruos y Godzilla: Ciudad al filo de la batalla. La película sigue la lucha de la humanidad, sus aliados extraterrestres y Godzilla mientras luchan por sobrevivir contra King Ghidorah. Godzilla: el devorador de planetas se estrenó en Japón el 9 de noviembre de 2018 y se lanzó en todo el mundo en Netflix el 9 de enero de 2019.

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Takayuki Hattori volvió a componer la banda sonora, marcándo su quinta banda sonora de Godzilla. XAI también regresó para interpretar el tema de la película Live and Die.

En mayo de 2018, un póster reveló el título de la película, la fecha de lanzamiento y la posible aparición de King Ghidorah. En julio de 2018, se lanzó el primer avance de la película. En septiembre de 2018, se lanzó el póster teatral de la película. En octubre de 2018, se lanzó el avance completo.

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Godzilla: el devorador de planetas se estrenó como la película de clausura en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Tokio el 3 de noviembre de 2018, y se estrenó en Japón el 9 de noviembre de 2018. La película se estrenó en todo el mundo en Netflix el 9 de enero de 2019.

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Evidence Aaron Wan-Bissaka does actually do flustered surfaced at a little after 2pm on Tuesday. The novice full-back who had confronted and contained Christian Eriksen, Alexis Sánchez and Eden Hazard on his first three senior outings and has established himself as the most prolific and cleanest tackler across Europe's elite five leagues, was backstage at his old school, Good Shepherd, when his name was announced inside the assembly hall.
These days the kids tend to spot his car on his visits home, before camping outside the Wan-Bissakas' house, taking turns to ring the doorbell and pester for an autograph. Up at the community centre in nearby Fieldway, where the Palace for Life Foundation teams up with Croydon council and the Metropolitan Police to run coaching courses aimed at tackling youth violence, he is the poster boy. Those in attendance at Good Shepherd included a local publican seeking a signature on a pair of boots, and Father Boyle, brandishing the player's baptism certificate, from the neighbouring church. Wan-Bissaka is the local lad, from one of the borough's poorest wards, made spectacularly good.
Most remarkable is the ease with which he has taken to the Premier League. At 14 there had been a debate at Palace as to whether Wan-Bissaka, a quiet, gangly kid, should be retained. By early 2017 the boyhood Arsenal supporter was still essentially striving to make his mark at a club brimming with wingers. Twelve months ago, as an unused fourth-choice right-back, he had pushed for a move to League Two. On Saturday he confronts West Ham as the best one-on-one defender in the division this season having mustered more successful tackles (66 of 91) than anyone in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue Un or Primera Liga.
He is the only player in England to boast 40 or more tackles, completed take-ons (40) and interceptions (57), and only seven opponents have successfully wriggled beyond him. And all this from a player – his nickname is "Spider" – who has never received any formal coaching on how to tackle. "No, none. Never. I have no idea where I get it from, and I'm just as confused when I see all the stats. I'd never tackle on Walton Green. I was too busy doing the tricks, and I just didn't like defending. I'd intercept the ball because I was quick, but I only probably started tackling in the under-23s.
The then first-team coach, Kevin Keen, had hauled him from the academy to make up the numbers and was impressed with the way he succeeded in nullifying Wilfried Zaha. Yet it was the under-23 coaches, Richard Shaw and Dave Reddington, who took the plunge by employing the tearaway winger at right-back in a 2-2 draw at Charlton. The rookie was exposed at times.
"I really didn't enjoy it," said Wan-Bissaka. "I couldn't express myself going forward, the defending was all new, and I came away thinking: 'This isn't me.' I never said anything, but Redders and Shawsy knew. They started working with me, doing second sessions, practising defensive drills. That's when it started.
"Training up against Wilf and Yannick Bolasie toughened me up. When I was younger my playing style was like Wilf's, so that sort of gave me a heads-up, but he's still a tricky one. As an ex-winger, you get a sense of what they're trying to do: which way they might go, how they're thinking. You can anticipate things easier. When Roy Hodgson changed my timetable to full-time with the first team, I knew I was making progress even if I still never played.
"Last January there was interest from League Two in a loan but towards the end of the window nothing had happened and I was panicking. I asked Brighty [Mark Bright, the club's director of under-23s' development] to put the question in, and he came back saying the manager wanted to see me. I went in on my day off, just before the first team were training.
It would take an injury crisis four weeks later to offer an opportunity to become the first academy graduate to make his debut for the senior side for 2,148 days. "On the day before the game with Tottenham Hotspur I'd counted up there were 19 of us training, including two other under‑23s, so I was sure I'd make the bench. We all piled into the analysis meeting where they put the lineup up on the whiteboard. I'd always scan the bench first, at the bottom, because I'm realistic. But I wasn't on it. I was gutted. I don't know who tapped me on the shoulder first, but that made me look at the top of the list and there I was, second down, at right-back.
Wan-Bissaka's form has been a revelation to such an extent that, when he gave the ball away at the end of last weekend's victory over Fulham, Hodgson admitted to being "relieved because I was starting to think he might be a robot". Nothing has fazed Wan-Bissaka, other than possibly the plaudits. He has the episodes of Match of the Day when Alan Shearer gushed over his performance Sky-plussed back home.
First, though, Wan-Bissaka has progress at Palace to occupy his mind. The pupils at Good Shepherd, with whom Palace for Life hopes to work as it extends the project which has seen coaches placed in 35 primary schools, had mobbed their hero at the end of the assembly, the full-back swamped by a pile of adoring fans. Typically, he emerged unscathed: utterly unflappable after all.
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CINCINNATI - Ohio Gov. John Kasich touted the state's focus on community policing and race relations at the NAACP convention in Cincinnati on Sunday, adding that Ohio's efforts should be a cause for optimism and might serve as a model across the country.
CINCINNATI � Ohio Gov. John Kasich touted the state�s focus on community policing and race relations at the NAACP convention in Cincinnati tonight, adding Ohio�s efforts should be a cause for optimism and could serve as a model across the country.
The governor spoke specifically of the work he and other state leaders have done to create a task force and advisory board to develop ways to improve policing and rebuilding trust between officers and the communities they serve. He pointed to Ohio�s first statewide policy on the use of deadly force and models for hiring and recruiting officers to reflect more diversity.
All that was created after controversial police shootings in Ohio and across the country, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black boy shot and killed by Cleveland police. Kasich's speech came on the same day as three officers were shot and killed in Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police there.
Kasich said he�s invited NAACP leaders to sit down with state officials to talk about Ohio�s efforts.
Kasich�s remarks echoed comments he made during his presidential campaign, when he often spoke of the need to assist African-Americans in escaping poverty and entering the workforce. He also pointed to Ohio's efforts to channel state business to minority-owned companies.
�We want to encourage entrepreneurship in every community, but particularly in the minority community, where people can have an opportunity to go from being a minority member to a majority member and build big businesses throughout this country," he said. "And we�re doing it."
Kasich also spoke of his decision to expand Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act, which extended health coverage to about 677,000 low-income Ohioans.
Kasich�s speech preludes presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who is scheduled to address the civil-rights group Monday morning.
�The contrast between the two parties this week could not be more clear. While the Republican Party will spend four days highlighting Donald Trump's divisive candidacy, Hillary Clinton will continue to make the case that we're stronger together and announce campaign-wide effort to mobilize millions of voters who will help us win in November,� according to a statement from a Clinton campaign aide.
Clinton is expected to attend a second event in Cincinnati after her speech focusing registering voters.
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump declined an invitation to speak at the event.
Kasich promised that Ohio will continue to its efforts.
�We�re not done with what we�ve been doing in Ohio," he said. "We�re going to make sure that we do everything we can to give every single human being a sense that they matter, that they count, that they can be hopeful and that justice will be done."
Kasich was scheduled to return to Cleveland Sunday for the Republican National Convention. The event officially opens on Monday, but Kasich will not speak as part of the official convention lineup, and he may not attend the events inside Quicken Loans Arena.


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"Lou" means "sweetheart" in the south. It seems to come from the Scottish word "Loo" which means love.
There is a game that goes with this song. The people playing the game choose which verses they sing, or they can make up new ones. The game instructions are below the song.
Circle Game
Skip, skip, skip to my Lou,
Skip to my Lou, my darling.
Lost my partner, what'll I do?
I'll get another one, prettier than you,
Little red wagon painted blue,
Can't get a red bird, jay bird'll do,
Fly's in the buttermilk, shoo, fly, shoo,
Fly's in the sugar bowl, shoo, shoo, shoo,
Cow's in the barnyard, moo, moo, moo,
Cat's in the cream jar, ooh, ooh, ooh,
Off to Texas, two by two,
Alternate chorus for Skip to My Lou:
Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou,
Couples choose their partners and stand in a circle. One boy should have no partner and go in the center of the circle. He starts the game by skipping around the inside of the circle and stealing someone's partner. The new couple then skip around the circle, while the one whose partner was stolen skips after them. If he catches them by the time they reach the spot he was in with his partner originally, he can take his partner back. If he doesn't catch them in time, he has to stand in the middle of the circle.
The boy on the next round who has no partner then steals another girl. The person without the partner is the one who chooses which verse everyone will sing on his turn.
Thanks to Corrina D. for singing this for us!
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Thank you all for posting on this site. This is such a powerful resource in addition to therapy. While reading the thread posted by bevdee I could not believe how my mother fit 90% of the narcissistic profile. It left me thinking about how I relate to people alternately switching from a power position to a subordinate position randomly. Im either feel that people are lucky to have me in their life, falsely believing I am the greatest member of their life, too the extreme opposite where I am in fear that Im not good enough, and must perform extraordinary feats in order to secure their attention. I'll call these two roles abuser and victim. I originally typed master and slave, but master would indicate some special talent or gift that does not belong on here. In the abuser role certainly in relationships either at work, or with women, I build myself up into a primary source of help, success or attention. Then I start demanding changes in their lifestlye, organization or whatever, claiming that the are wasting their natural gifts or wasting the gifts that I have bestowed upon them, what a delusional head trip I have been living under. I often turn their focus to the "evil or confused" people in their families or organizations that they should be leary of. Then I wait days or years sometimes even a decade for something bad to happen to them and say aha I was right all along, and good thing I left you when I did. Then depending upon my mood or events in my life I take on the victim mode. I dont know which one is worse, As the victim I am constantly begging for peoples attention but my pride wont let me see it that way. I see it as staying extra late at work, taking on someone else financial burdens, dazzling a client with a mountain of information often unnecessary at times. Biting off more than I can chew, making grandiose statements to moderate their feelings. It is so desperate and self serving, it turns my stomach to write it. All I want his just to have a typical day, befriending nice people, coping with the normal ups and downs of life, while having strong boundaries with abusers or their victims that stay in the cycle.
Thank you for writing and sharing your experience here. I can totally relate on both sides. These days, even when I get sick, I have to check twice with myself just to make sure I'm not seeking attention or trying to control someone by inducing their sympathy. It's certainly a great deal of work but so worth it!


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Sterile neutrino dark matter: A tale of weak interactions in the strong coupling epoch
Venumadhav, Tejaswi and Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan and Abazajian, Kevork N. and Hirata, Christopher M. (2016) Sterile neutrino dark matter: A tale of weak interactions in the strong coupling epoch. Physical Review D, 94 (4). Art. No. 043515. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043515. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150812-092132765
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We perform a detailed study of the weak interactions of standard model neutrinos with the primordial plasma and their effect on the resonant production of sterile neutrino dark matter. Motivated by issues in cosmological structure formation on small scales, and reported X-ray signals that could be due to sterile neutrino decay, we consider 7 keV-scale sterile neutrinos. Oscillation-driven production of such sterile neutrinos occurs at temperatures T ≳ 100 MeV, where we study two significant effects of weakly charged species in the primordial plasma: (1) the redistribution of an input lepton asymmetry; (2) the opacity for active neutrinos. We calculate the redistribution analytically above and below the quark-hadron transition, and match with lattice QCD calculations through the transition. We estimate opacities due to tree level processes involving leptons and quarks above the quark-hadron transition, and the most important mesons below the transition. We report final sterile neutrino dark matter phase space densities that are significantly influenced by these effects, and yet relatively robust to remaining uncertainties in the nature of the quark-hadron transition. We also provide transfer functions for cosmological density fluctuations with cutoffs at k ≃ 10 h Mpc^(−1), that are relevant to galactic structure formation.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043515 DOI Article
http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043515 Publisher Article
http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06655 arXiv Discussion Paper
Venumadhav, Tejaswi 0000-0002-1661-2138
Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan 0000-0002-7939-2988
Abazajian, Kevork N. 0000-0001-9919-6362
Hirata, Christopher M. 0000-0002-2951-4932
© 2016 American Physical Society. Received 14 August 2015; published 15 August 2016. We thank Olivier Doré and Roland de Putter for fruitful discussions. We are grateful to Mikko Laine for providing us the data for the plasma's equation of state. T.V. and C.M.H. are supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The work of F.-Y. C.-R. was performed in part at the California Institute of Technology for the Keck Institute for Space Studies, which is funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation. Part of the research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). K.N.A. is partially supported by NSF CAREER Grant No. PHY-1159224 and NSF Grant No. PHY-1316792. K.N.A. acknowledges support from the Institute for Nuclear Theory program "Neutrino Astrophysics and Fundamental Properties" 15-2a where part of this work was done.
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PACS: 95.35.+d,14.60.Pq,14.60.St,98.65.-r
Sterile neutrino dark matter: Weak interactions in the strong coupling epoch Tejaswi Venumadhav, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Kevork N. Abazajian, and Christopher M. Hirata Phys. Rev. D 94, 043515 (2016)


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The arena, which probably succeeded an earlier wooden structure is slightly larger and later than the one at Nimes and by the same architect. It measures 446 x 351 ft. and could seat some 26,000 spectators. The seating is supported on two rows of sixty arches, the lower framed with Doric half columns and the upper with Corintian. The attic storey has disappeared as have most of the internal stairways and galleries, but the remaining galleries are roofed in Greek style with flat stone slabs.
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Another Week Ends: Greenblatt's Eden, Fidget-Spinning, Fake News Biases, Mandatory Euphoria, and A Horse Named Grace
by Ethan Richardson on Jun 16, 2017 • 4:16 pm 1 Comment
1. Well, you just can't make this up. An urban cowboy riding through the gang-ridden streets of Fresno, California, preaching the gospel of Jesus? On a horse named Grace? Aeon covered the story here, with a video. This below is not the full video, but you'll get the picture. Totally cool.
2. Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt is working on a new book project about the legacy of Adam and Eve, which led to his New Yorker piece this week on Augustine, a less-than-judicious reading of the man he claims "invented sex" (and sex as sin) to the literary world. Greenblatt argues that Augustine's understanding of original sin was tainted with the guilt of his lusty past, and that this long-treasured orthodoxy of the church has created centuries of guilt-mongers and moral pessimists. Greenblatt, perhaps predictably, favors instead the school of Augustine's contemporary, Pelagius, the known "moral optimists."
They believed that human beings were born innocent. Infants do not enter the world with a special endowment of virtue, but neither do they carry the innate stain of vice. True, we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, and we live in a world rife with the consequences of their primordial act of disobedience. But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness. How could it?
Elizabeth Bruenig wrote a really powerful response as to how—and why—Augustine's understanding of human sin has less to do with religious shame/moralizing, and more to do with a greater emphasis on the mercy of God, and its perpetual need in the lives of the "ordinary Christian." In doing so, she says this also means that the idea of original sin is a far more liberating understanding of humankind, and the God who created them.
Dostoevsky was able to sense what Augustine did: That fallenness isn't as much a historical phenomenon as a spiritual one, and that the fallen state has its own beauty, in that God loves those more who need it more. It's a paradox, but it's the source of the compassion that permeates Augustine's work, and it's the reason he was willing to pour his heart into writing for a church of not-altogether-good people: Because God loves them all the more, offers his grace that much more freely the more we, twilight persons rendered incomplete by sin, need his grace. In my view, this is the far more optimistic vision, and the far more realistic one.
Alan Jacobs, too, jumped in on the conversation, referring back to his own book on the subject. He points out the exhausting intensity of a Pelagian understanding of oneself, and, on the contrary, the relief that comes in simply being a sinner. I'm quoting in full because it's so good:
No doubt the spiritual and moral standards for the Christian life had relaxed quite a bit since the days of persecution, when even the hint of Christian faith could cost a person his or her life; no doubt some restored tension, some call for a renewal of holiness, was surely needed. But Pelagianism, like many zealous movements of moral and spiritual reform, writes a recipe for profound anxiety. Its original word of encouragement (You can do it!) immediately yields to the self-doubting question: "But am I doing it?" It makes a rigorous asceticism the only true Christian life — as [Peter] Brown points out, "Pelagius wanted every Christian to be a monk" — and condemns even the most determined ascetic to constant self-scrutiny, a kind of self-scrutiny that can never yield a clear acquittal. You might have missed something; and in any case you could sin in the next five minutes and watch your whole house of cards crash down.
Humbling: 25 years sober and being such a hot mess I have to get a sponsor and do step work again. #Damnit #yuck also, #thankyouGod
— Nadia Bolz-Weber (@Sarcasticluther) June 15, 2017
By contrast, Augustine's emphasis on the universal depravity of human nature — seen by so many then and now as an insult to human dignity — is curiously liberating. I once heard a preacher encourage his listeners to begin a prayer with the following words: "Lord, I am the failure that you always knew I would be." It is the true Augustinian note. Pelagianism is a creed for heroes; but Augustine's emphasis on original sin, and the consequent absolute dependence of every one of us on the grace of God, gives hope to the waverer, the backslider, the slacker, the putz, the schlemiel. We're all in the same boat as Mister Holier-than-Thou over there, saved only by the grace that comes to us in Holy Baptism. Peter Brown once more: "Paradoxically, therefore, it is Augustine, with his harsh emphasis on baptism as the only way to salvation, who appears as the advocate of moral tolerance: for within the exclusive fold of the Catholic church he could find room for a whole spectrum of human failings."
3. A provocative piece the New York Times put out this past weekend about the shifting cultural tide of American angst over the past 30 years. From the depressive age of slacker rock, coffee, and Prozac in the 80s and 90s, we're now fully enmeshed in the fidget-spinning, wired-and-tired age of anxiety, the age of Xanax. Anxiety, Alex Williams writes, is now our cultural identification card—it's the way we have come to describe our plight. And while Williams perhaps places too much of this anxiety pattern upon the Twitter-happy President, the point about the "always-on" nature of life is right on.
"In our always-on culture, checking your phone is the last thing you do before you go to sleep, and the first thing you do if you wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom," Mr. Harris said. "Just today, I got an alert on my phone about the collapsing Arctic ice shelf. That's scary as hell."
And speaking of the anxious-making demands, Quartz just posted one the other day about mandatory euphoria. And while this is not new turf for us, the social psychology piling up behind the claim continues to confirm it.
Bastian proposes that in a clinical setting, psychologists can make their patients aware of this societal pressure to be happy so that they can better choose how to react to it. When scrolling past all the smiling faces on Instagram, they can remind themselves that others are also trying to present themselves in a positive light. On a societal level, Bastian would like to see education programs that de-stigmatize feelings of sadness and anxiety and challenge people's prejudice towards mood disorders.
4. Awesome, from The Bee: "Report: Anything That Challenges Your Worldview Is Fake News"
"If a news piece causes you to have even a brief moment of reflection on whether or not your worldview can accommodate the information being presented, it's definitely fake news," the head of the groundbreaking research study told reporters Thursday. "By way of contrast, real news will make you feel good about what you already believe and reaffirm your ideas, no matter how incorrect they are."
And while we're on the subject of cognitive biases, and our ridiculous brains, Aeon published a piece about Plato's inner-social scientist, and the intellectual humility of the Ancient Greeks.
Similarly, the cultivation of intellectual humility is, in part, the cultivation of an ethical virtue. Many of the early Socratic dialogues end in uncertainty: the characters are reduced to what in ancient Greek was called aporia, and is often rendered in English as 'perplexity', 'bafflement', or 'confusion'. Socrates' interlocutors search for a satisfying answer to some question only to find that every proposed answer fails to satisfy tests of logical consistency. Characters react in different ways to this process – some become flustered, some threaten violence, some run away, and a few recognise that they have been improved, and express gratitude to Socrates. Their false steps in the arguments dramatise errors in reasoning, but their emotional reactions are the stuff of literature: they reveal hubris and arrogance, modesty and generosity, and the dynamic struggles between these opposed impulses – what the novelist William Faulkner in 1950 called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.
5. The Economist reported this week on an art installation taking place in a Wittenberg prison, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The city got some big names (Ai Weiwei, Marzia Migliora) to produce an installation within one of the jail cells, making something that represented a modern translation of the Lutheran legacy. More than one sounds very Martin Luther:
Other works examine the power of images and their potential for viral dissemination (Luther himself exploited new media to "go viral" in his own time). In "Casting Jesus", a video installation from 2011 by Christian Jankowski, 13 actors perform various scenes as Jesus Christ in front of a Vatican jury, with individuals eliminated in each round. By using the language and format of television game shows, Mr Jankowski questions the media's addiction to spectacle.
6. Finally, Father Freeman over at his blog. The guy's got some gospel to share, people, and doubly so this week. The first one is his take on the age-old grace-v.-works shenanigans. Freeman, who is Eastern Orthodox, does not sound like one at all, if I'm being honest. He seems to planting his flag very much on a Protestant, "grace-heavy" side of the equation. And while "synergy" is not necessarily a word I use every day when talking about the Holy Spirit, "work" is nothing more than "grateful thanksgiving," a definition of sanctification I can certainly resonate with.
There is a highly moralized version of synergy, in which God is seen to give us grace, but we must do something in our lives to make it effective. In this model we are always judging the "results" of our "cooperation" with grace, and assuming that the lousy outcomes we see are simply our fault. This experience becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure and remorse. It is a distortion of grace-filled synergy.
I have written (and been criticized for it) about the "unmoral Christian." My intention has been to unmask and disarm a false notion of synergy. We indeed are not saved through the "works" that Protestants tend to criticize. The "work" we do is largely a state of heart from which all subsequent grace-empowered actions flow. That state of heart is best described as "grateful thanksgiving"…
And then there's this one, from yesterday: "Weak, Sick, Poor, Tired: A Story for Losers".
And our weakness can be found in places where our brokenness most resides: weak, sick, poor, tired, handicapped, dysfunctional, awkward, incompetent, inadequate – these all describe the place where Christ intends to meet us. The good news is that despite the popularity of the American Dream, even those who find it most successfully remain weak. Their success can make them blind to their weakness, or can be so alluring that their weakness remains unacknowledged. But the very best of the successful remain broken enough to be capable of salvation.
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1) Dylan's Nobel Speech, definitely worth listening to the audio. Like the best three book reports you ever heard. The Odyssey section, especially.
2) Eco-friendly, life-affirming, death-denying funeral urns.
3) If you didn't get enough Wendell Berry this week, and you're interested in his Christian convictions, here.
4) Didn't come to us this week, but it was the first I heard of it: sologamy? Seriously?
Tags: Alan Jacobs, Elizabeth Bruenig, Father Freeman, Happiness, Luther, Plato, Sologamy, Stephen Greenblatt, Wendell Berry
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