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Jack Uldrich, Global Futurist and Best-Selling Author, to Present Keynote Address at United Ag

Posted: January 29, 2014 at 7:40 am

Palm Springs, CA. (PRWEB) January 29, 2014

Following seven other national presentations this month, global futurist Jack Uldrich will address this years United Ag Conference, as their keynote speaker on January 30th. He will be discussing the future trends in technology and their impact on agriculture. Uldrich has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio and has delivered presentations to such notable clients as PepsiCo, Bausch and Lomb, United Healthcare and most recently MosaicAg College and the Ohio Educational Technology Conference. His writings include The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business and Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clarks Daring Westward Expedition, among others.

United Ags conference theme of Change, Challenge, and Opportunity signals the unprecedented number of changes faced by the agricultural community in the last few years, and will encourage attendees to look at these challenges as opportunities for new growth. Uldrichs keynote, in particular, will address these monumental changes that the Ag community is facing. (A preview of his thoughts on the future of agriculture can be viewed here. He will specifically target how business owners in the industry can address the challenges by embracing cutting edge technology, implementing the latest global trends and exploring innovative ways to run their businesses. (Another sample of some of Uldrichs ideas on the future of agriculture can be found in this chapter from his latest book, Foresight 2020, or in this recent Forbes article, 10 Game-Changing Technological Trends Transforming Tomorrow.)

Uldrichs engaging presentation is intended to stimulate conversations and help business owners, as well as HR personnel, walk away with new tools and solutions to the issues they face. He will share insights from his books Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future and the Bellwether Award winning Foresight 2020: A Futurist Explores the Trends Transforming Tomorrow. Uldrich will also expound on opportunities arising from the globalization of agricultural markets and innovations in science and technology. The ultimate goal of the presentation is to help attendees identify opportunities that will escalate their businesses onwards and upwards.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website jumpthecurve.net. Media wishing to know more about his upcoming events or interviewing Jack may contact Catherine Glynn.

Uldrich is a renowned global futurist, best-selling author; editor of the monthly newsletter, The Exponential Executive, and host of the award-winning website, http://www.jumpthecurve.net.

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UFO Sighting At International Space Station – Video

Posted: January 28, 2014 at 3:44 am


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The Universe: Just How Big, How Far and How Fast – Documentary HD 720p – Video

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DADvsMINECRAFT: Family Fun With Galacticraft #6 W/ BeardlessKid and SilencedApple6 – Video

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Russian astronauts reinstall cameras on space station, run into glitch

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Russian astronautsOlegKotovand Sergey Ryazanskiy ventured outside the International Space Station to install an HD camera.

Two Russian space station astronauts took a spacewalk Monday to complete a camera job left undone last month, but ran into new trouble.

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OlegKotovand Sergey Ryazanskiy successfully installed one of two commercially provided cameras for Earth observations, a task requiring multiple power connections outside the International Space Station. Everything checked out well with this high-definition camera, unlike the post-Christmas spacewalk where there was no data stream.

But the second, medium-resolution camera did not provide good data to ground controllers after Monday's hookup.

Ryazanskiy redid the electrical connections to no avail. He spotted no damage.

"I put everything in place as it used to be, maybe even better," Ryazanskiy radioed. "I think it's much better."

But still, the data link was flawed.

"Sergey, don't overdo it there," Russian Mission Control said, warning him not to damage the connectors.

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Astronauts repeat spacewalk to complete camera job

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Two Russian space station astronauts took a spacewalk Monday to complete a camera job left undone last month, but ran into new trouble.

Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy successfully installed one of two commercially provided cameras for Earth observations, a task requiring multiple power connections outside the International Space Station. Everything checked out well with this high-definition camera, unlike the post-Christmas spacewalk where there was no data stream.

But the second, medium-resolution camera did not provide good data to ground controllers after Monday's hookup.

Ryazanskiy redid the electrical connections to no avail. He spotted no damage.

"I put everything in place as it used to be, maybe even better," Ryazanskiy radioed. "I think it's much better."

But still, the data link was flawed.

"Sergey, don't overdo it there," Russian Mission Control said, warning him not to damage the connectors.

The spacewalkers worked so hard determined to accomplish the job this time that Russian Mission Control outside Moscow urged them early in the spacewalk to "get your breath."

"We'll force ourselves to rest," one of the spacewalkers replied in Russian.

The astronauts had hooked up both Earth-observing cameras during a spacewalk right after Christmas. But ground controllers received no data from either camera, and the spacewalkers had to haul everything back in.

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January 27, 2014

The International Space Station orbits 350km above Earth. - Nasa pic, January 27, 2014.It may be 350 kilometres above Earth and a place that only a privileged few will ever visit, but the International Space Station is crucial to advances in science, health and technology, experts say.

Earlier this month, NASA said the life of the $100 billion (RM 333.4 billion) ISS would be extended by four years, or until at least 2024, allowing for more global research and scientific collaboration.

John Holdren, a senior White House adviser on science and technology, hailed the space station - mainly built with US money - as "a unique facility that offers enormous scientific and societal benefits.

"The Obama administration's decision to extend its life until at least 2024 will allow us to maximize its potential, deliver critical benefits to our nation and the world and maintain American leadership in space," he said.

The orbiting outpost, which was launched to fanfare in 1998, has more living space than a six-bedroom house and comes complete with Internet access, a gym, two bathrooms and a 360-degree bay window offering spectacular views of Earth.

Its entire structure is made up of various working and sleeping modules, and extends the length of a football field (about 100 metre), making it four times bigger than the Russian space station Mir and about five times as large as the US Skylab.

The aging structure requires regular maintenance, which is done by astronauts who don spacesuits and venture outside the lab.

One such repair was completed on Christmas Eve when two Americans stepped out to replace a failed ammonia pump that served to cool equipment at the ISS.

Julie Robinson, an ISS scientist at NASA, insisted that the space station, which has a mass of 924,739 pounds (420,000 kg) but is near-weightless in space, is worth the trouble and expense.

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Vancouver-based UrtheCast has big plans for cameras on space station

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TORONTO If youre planning on getting married outdoors, you will soon be able to have it pictured from space.

This could happen thanks to the Vancouver-based company Urthecast (pronounced Earth-cast) that had two of its cameras installed on the International Space Station (ISS) by two Russian cosmonauts Monday morning.

The companys cameras a still camera and a high-resolution video camera are set to make the unique view of Earth accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

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The camera that was made by Vancouver-based UrtheCast, was mounted on the space station on Jan. 27, by two Russian cosmonauts. It will begin to transmit images of Earth in near real-time.

The video camera has a one-metre resolution that can be swivelled around and pointed at particular locations.

Scott Larson, CEO of UrtheCast said that the still camera can be used for wide-area coverage. Organizations can use it for a variety of tools, including agricultural monitoring, urban planning or mapping.

People take pictures of the coffee farms in South America to determine if itll be a good year for coffee or bad; is the price of coffee going to go up or down? Theyll take pictures of Walmarts parking lot to count cars in the parking lot to be able to determine same-store sales, based on how many cars are in each parking lot. So theres lots of business intelligence, lots of government-agency stuff, ministry of forestry, farming, agriculture, resource-management mapping and so forth.

But the video camera can be moved around and pointed at something else with an incredible resolution of just one metre.

If you imagine the space stations going over Hamilton, and one camera is pointed directly down, taking a picture of the suburbsthe other camera, we decide we want to point over downtown Toronto, Larson told Global News. Well take a 90-second video at what we call a 1-metre resolution So, cars, buses, boats, planes, groups of people youll never see the guy mowing the lawn in the backyard, but you can see a golf cart. And well take 150 of those videos, full colour, every day.

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Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa – Book Review

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Jan 27 2014 / 10:13 pm

Review by Edward S. Herman

(Maximilian Forte Slouching Towards Sirte: NATOs War on Libya and AfricaBaraka. Books: Montreal CA 2012, 341 pp.)

Maximilian Fortes book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte, is another powerful (and hence marginalized) study of the imperial powers in violent action, and with painful results, but supported by the UN, media, NGOs and a significant body of liberals and leftists who had persuaded themselves that this was a humanitarian enterprise. Forte shows compellingly that it wasnt the least little bit humanitarian, either in the intent of its principals (the United States, France, and Great Britain) or in its results. As in the earlier cases of humanitarian intervention the Libyan program rested intellectually and ideologically on a set of supposedly justifying events and threats that were fabricated, selective, and/or otherwise misleading, but which were quickly institutionalized within the Western propaganda system. (For the deceptive model applied in the war on Yugoslavia, see Herman and Peterson, The Dismantling of Yugoslavia, Monthly Review, October 2007; for the propaganda model applied to Rwanda, see Herman, Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, Z Magazine, Jan. 2014)

The key elements in the war-on-Libya model were the alleged acute threat that Gaddafi was about to massacre large numbers of civilians (in early 2011), his supposed use of mercenaries imported from the south (black Africans!) to do his dirty work, and his dictatorial rule. The first provided the core and urgent rationale for Security Council Resolution 1973 [R-1973], passed on March 17, 2011, which authorized member states to take all necessary measuresto protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahirija, including Benghazi , while excluding a foreign occupation force in any form Its fraudulently benign and limited character was shown by this exclusion of an occupation force, as presumably any actions under this resolution would be limited to aircraft and missile operations protecting civilians. Its deep bias is shown by its attributing the threat to civilians solely to Libyan government forces, not to the rebels as well, who turned out to greatly surpass the government forces as civilian killers, and with a racist twist.

As Forte spells out in detail, the imperial powers violated R-1973 from day 1 and clearly never intended to abide by its words. That resolution called for the immediate establishment of a cease-fire and a complete end to violence, and the need to intensify efforts to find a solution to the crisis and to facilitate a dialogue to lead to the political reforms necessary to find a peaceful and sustainable solution. Both Gaddafi and the African Union called for a cease fire and dialogue, but the rebels and imperial powers were not interested, and the bombing to protect civilians began within two days of the war-sanctioning resolution, without the slightest move toward obtaining a cease fire or starting negotiations.

Forte also shows that it was clear from the start that the imperial-power-warriors were using civilian protection as a figleaf cover for their real objectiveregime change and the removal of Gaddafi (with substantial evidence that his death was part of the program and carried out with U.S. participation). The war that followed was one in which the imperial powers worked in close collaboration with the rebel forces, serving as their air arm, but also providing them with arms, training and propaganda support. The imperial powers, and Dubai, also had hundreds of operatives on the ground in Libya, training the rebels and giving them intelligence and other support, hence violating R-1973s prohibition of an occupation force in any form.

Forte shows that the factual base for Gaddafis alleged threat to civilians, his treatment of protesters in mid-February 2011, was more than dubious. The claimed striking at protesters by aerial attacks, and the Viagra-based rape surge, were straightforward disinformation, and the number killed was small24 protesters in the three days, February 15-17, according to Human Rights Watchfewer than the number of alleged black mercenaries executed by the rebels in Derna in mid-February (50), and fewer than the early protester deaths in Tunis or Egypt that elicited no Security Council effort to protect civilians. There were claims of several thousand killed in February 2011, but Forte shows that this also was disinformation supplied by the rebels and their allies, but swallowed by many Western officials, media and other gullibles. That the actual evidence would induce the urgent and massive response by the NATO powers is implausible, and the rush to arms demands a different rationale than protecting civilians in a small North African state. Forte provides it, compellinglyObama and company were seizing the window of opportunity for regime change.

Forte demonstrates throughout his book that from the beginning of the regime-change-war the bombing powers were not confining themselves to protecting civilians, but were very often targeting civilians. He shows that, as in Pakistan, they used double-tapping, with lagged bombings that were sure civilian killers. They were also bombing military vehicles, troops and living quarters that were not attacking or threatening civilians. They also bombed ferociously anywhere their intelligence sources indicated that Gaddafi might be present. Forte also shows that the rebels were merciless in brutalizing and slaughtering people viewed as Gaddafi supporters, and in the substantial parts of the country where Gaddafi was supported, the rebels air-force (i.e., NATO) was regularly called upon to bomb, and it did so, ruthlessly.

Fortes book title, Slouching Towards Sirte, and his front cover which shows devastated civilian apartment buildings in that city, focus attention on the essence of the NATO-rebel war. Sirte was Gaddafis headquarters, and its populace and army remnants resisted the rebel advance for months, so it was eventually bombed into submission with a large number of civilians killed and injured. Forte notes that when NATO finally caught up with Gaddafi and bombed and decimated the small entourage that was with him on the outskirts of Sirte, this was justified by NATO because this group could still threaten civilians! This was a town that had to be destroyed to save itfor the rebels, who Forte shows (citing Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and UN and other observers) executed substantial numbers of captured Gaddafi supporters. This was a major war crimes scene. The civilians in Sirte needed protection, from NATO and the rebels.

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