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This morning, Politico's Ken Vogel and Tarini Parti reported that KentuckySenator Rand Paul had underperformed at the past week's Koch brothers showcase. (More officially, it was a gathering of the donors who supported the Koch network of pressure groups, and who finally saw returns in 2014.) Many, including Bloomberg Politics' Michael Bender and Julie Bykowicz, had reported that Florida Senator Marco Rubio did himself the most good. Vogel and Parti reported on a "straw poll" that determined the extent of Paul's problem, conducted by Frank Luntz in a breakout session.

"Kentucky Sen. Rand Paulwho received the least enthusiastic response from donors during a Sunday nightforum of prospective candidatesthat also featured Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruzfinished last in Luntzs poll," they reported.

That was how a source recalled it, but Luntz disagreed.

Anybody who thinks they're loyal, faithful Republicans have not talked to them for more than three minutes.

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"It wasn't a poll," wrote Luntz over e-mail. "It was a random question. It doesn't deserve any attention. It was only to a few people."

Luntz just asked some donors who showed up to his session who'd impressed them most. Yet the "few" apparently amounted to more than 100 people; in the wake of the event, not many people are following Luntz's distinction between an actual focus group and a quick read of the room. It doesn't change the basic truth that Paul did not blow away the donors, despite a steady campaign to portray himself as the natural choice of libertarians.

Should he be? Like Paul, the Kochs are forever surprising political observers who don't know how to classify libertarians."Anybody who thinks they're loyal, faithful Republicans have not talked to them for more than three minutes," said Joe Scarborough of the Kochs after speaking at the conference. "They have no use for these people who want to go out and have these bloody battles on social issues...they don't want the federal government in your pocketbook. They also don't want them in your bedroom. I think they're like most Americans."

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That's exactly the way Paul presents himself. If he failed to impress the Koch summit, there are two reasons. One is that he didn't chew into the questions the way that Rubio or Cruz did. On foreign policy, Paul made a defense of free trade, saying that"opening up China made us less likely to go to war," and that opening up Cuba worked because "we tried isolationism for 50 years." He got into a long dialogue about taxes that was unlikely to excite anybody. He made a pitch for his idea of blocking big government contractors from lobbying, which, according to people like Scarborough, sounded like a hit against the "crony capitalism" the Kochs opposed.

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Libertarians are known more for their provocative ideas than their ability to get those ideas enacted into law.

A new Washington-based think tank is trying to change that. The Niskanen Center was launched last year with the aim of influencing policy fights, not just authoring headline-grabbing proposals that go nowhere in Congress.

Our metric for success is that we have indeed been able to move legislation, said Jerry Taylor, president of the Niskanen Center who previously worked at the Cato Institute, another libertarian think tank.

The group comes online at a fascinating time for the libertarian movement. Debates over marijuana legalization, government surveillance and stricter oversight of the Federal Reserve all draw heavily on the libertarian ethos of personal freedom and minimal government intrusion in daily life.

These small-government, free-market absolutists have high hopes for Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, if the Republican launches an expected presidential bid later this year, given his stance on the Fed, surveillance and personal freedoms.

That said, candidates who run as libertarians tend to fair poorly in most high-profile campaigns. Libertarian Senate candidates averagedjust 2.5% of the vote in 2014, according to a study by the University of Minnesotas Humphrey School of Public Affairs. The high-water mark was 4.3%, set by a candidate in the wildly unpredictable Kansas Senate race.

Mr. Taylor, acknowledging those limitations, isnt setting out with the goal of eliminating multiple federal agencies or the Fed. Instead, the group wants to add its voice to the push to ease the countrys immigration laws and push lawmakers to cut weapons systems and other Pentagon programs it judges as outdated.

Down the road, Mr. Taylor said the Niskanen Center will cultivate ideas for reforming the countrys entitlement programs and beefing up civil-liberties protections in the Patriot Act.

One of the groups most provocative proposals centers on an issue rarely viewed as a Republican priority: climate change. The Niskanen Center advocates a tax on carbon emissions that would replace existing environmental regulations.Prominent conservatives have long advocated a carbon tax as a way to let the market determine the cost of burning fossil fuels, but using it as a bargaining chip to limit environmental regulators is relatively new.Mr. Taylor admits this proposal faces little prospect of becoming law in the next Congress, but he said it will help set the stage for the environmental debate in the 2016 presidential race.

The Center was named after the lateBill Niskanen, a former Cato chairman who served in the Reagan administration and once left Ford Motor Co. to protest its support of trade protection. Mr. Taylor said they picked the name because Mr. Niskanen was both principled and pragmatic.

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Rand Paul's libertarian foreign policy has GOP rivals comparing him to Obama

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When Republicans still gleeful over their November election wins accused President Obama of waging an unauthorized war against the Islamic State, Sen. Rand Paul marched to a different beat and introduced legislation to give congressional consent to the latest front in the war on terrorism.

When Mr. Obama surprised the world over the holidays by warming relations with the Castro regime, most Republicans howled about communist appeasement. But Mr. Paul declared that he supported normalizing relations with Cuba.

When the Democratic president gave a defiant State of the Union address last week filled with veto threats and unilateral policy actions, Republican congressional leaders accused Mr. Obama of conducting an imperial presidency. But Mr. Paul said he wanted to find ways to work with Mr. Obama.

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And when Mr. Paul found himself on a California stage a few days ago with several Republican presidential rivals advocating for additional sanctions on Iran, the Kentucky Republican argued against slamming Tehran to the ground and for giving the president more time to persuade Iran to put the brakes on its nuclear enrichment program in return for relief from sanctions that have crippled its economy.

I think diplomacy is better than war, and we should give diplomacy a chance, the senator declared.

To Mr. Paul, son of former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and a favorite of the Republican Partys libertarian and anti-war factions, his positions seemed perfectly consistent with his view that political conflict and military intervention too often have been first solutions when they should be last resorts.

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His rivals for the presidential nomination see things differently and say Mr. Paul sounds like an Obama apologist.

I am a little cautious, I would say, perhaps skeptical about negotiating with someone who has openly said he wants to force all of us to either be like him or die, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said of Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, snapping back at Mr. Pauls position Sunday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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China's man-made islands in disputed waters raise worries

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China is rapidly building five man-made islands from tiny reefs and shoals in the South China Sea, U.S. officials say, sparking concern that Beijing is growing more assertive in the disputed waters even as the United States boosts its own forces in the western Pacific.

Dredging around Fiery Cross Reef, a former outcropping in the Spratly Islands, over the last year has created a new island nearly 2 miles long and several hundred yards wide.

U.S. officials say it is large enough for China to build its first airstrip in the remote archipelago, one long enough for most of its combat and support aircraft. Satellite photos also reveal a small port under construction.

U.S. officials worry that the buildup indicates a Chinese push to establish de facto control over the resource-rich waters and islets also claimed by the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei and Vietnam.

Except for Brunei, those nations all maintain small airstrips or symbolic military outposts in the Spratlys, but the Chinese military dwarfs others in the region and could undermine the tense status quo. Confrontations have broken out over fishing, oil and gas drilling and military maneuvers in recent years.

India is the latest country to express alarm about Beijing's growing military clout, partly because the Chinese navy has sent nuclear submarines into the Indian Ocean, rattling New Delhi's defense community.

During a three-day visit to New Delhi that ended Tuesday, President Obama signed a joint statement with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling for "safeguarding maritime security and ensuring freedom of navigation and overflight throughout the region, especially in the South China Sea." They urged all parties "to avoid the threat or use of force."

White House aides portrayed Obama's trip as a way to emphasize his attempt to focus more military and other resources on Asia and the western Pacific, a pivot intended in part to offset China's influence. The Pentagon has sent more warships and troops to the region and has forged closer military ties with several of China's neighbors.

A military-grade airstrip and dredged harbor on Fiery Cross Reef, which lies on the western edge of the Spratly archipelago, clearly would expand China's ability to operate in an area considered a potential tinderbox. Land reclamation is also underway at Johnson South Reef, Johnson North Reef, Cuarteron Reef and Gaven Reef.

"China appears to be expanding and upgrading military and civilian infrastructure including radars, satellite communication equipment, antiaircraft and naval guns, helipads and docks on some of the man-made islands," according to a report last month by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which was set up by Congress.

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Bank Negara urged to act on 1MDB funds in Cayman Islands

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The existence of 1MDBs RM7 billion in the Cayman Islands and its return to Malaysia must be verified.

KUALA LUMPUR: Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli urged Bank Negara Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, in a statement on Wednesday, to invoke the Anti Money Laundering Act and ensure that a reported RM7 billion kept in the Cayman Islands by 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) had indeed returned to Malaysia as claimed by the sovereign wealth fund and entered the local financial system.

The Governor should probe which financial institutions are holding the reported RM7 billion, said Rafizi in the statement which also called on the Governor to give some time to the Opposition MPs to hear their views on the issue. She should also ensure that 1MDB has sufficient funds to repay the RM2 billion owing to Maybank and RHB Bank, since the repayment has been twice postponed.

He warned that if Bank Negara is unable to issue the all clear signal on the RM7 billion, it will further fuel public speculation and lead many to conclude that the RM7 billion, if it exists, did not return to Malaysia.

He noted that 1MDB has sought a further postponement of its repayment of the RM2 billion and expressed the hope that this will not affect the countrys credit rating and the local banking and financial industry and system.

The consensus is that if 1MDB really has RM7 billion parked in the Cayman islands and it has since returned to Malaysia, the company would not seek a further postponement in repaying the RM2 billion due to the two local banks.

The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea, is a major world offshore financial centre.

The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica. The Cayman Islands are considered to be part of the geographical Western Caribbean Zone as well as the Greater Antilles.

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More than 9m spent on unused Inishbofin airstrips

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The airstrips at Inishbofin and Cleggan, Co Galway, were developed over five years and were completed in about 2009. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times

More than 9 million of public money was spent on landing strips to improve access to Inishbofin Island, but air services never got underway, it has emerged.

The airstrips at Inishbofin and Cleggan, Co Galway, were developed over five years and completed in about 2009. Arrangements are now being made to transfer them to the coast guard, according the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Secretary general of the department Joe Hamill told the Dil Public Accounts Committee the only use to which the landing strips may have had was to aid the coast guard on occasion, and perhaps by unauthorised private aircraft.

But as far as facilitating small aircraft access to the islands as they were intended, the air strips had not been officially used he said.

Mr Hamill said further proposals to provide a landing strip at Tory Island had not gone beyond the planning process.

Maintenance costs of Inishbofin and Cleggan airstrips were included in costs for the three working airstrips on on the Aran Islands, which currently amount to about 300,000 per year, Mr Hamill said.

He told Labour TD Joe Costello the strips were made of tarmac and sufficient to land a small aircraft. They had been fenced since 2009. No terminal buildings were ever built.

Mr Hamill told Gabrielle McFadden TD the airstrips were a product of a time when the departments annual budget for the islands was about 40 million. The budget was now about 600,000, he said.

He said the project had to be seen as part of broader attempts to improve air access for islanders and tourists, and included in the National Development Plan in 2003. He said there was some proposals at the time that the air service to the Aran Islands could be extended to serve Inishbofin and Cleggan.

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The airstrips at Inishbofin and Cleggan, Co Galway, were developed over five years and were completed in about 2009. Photograph: Frank Miller/The Irish Times

More than 9 million of public money was spent on landing strips to improve access to Inishbofin Island, but air services never got underway, it has emerged.

The airstrips at Inishbofin and Cleggan, Co Galway, were developed over five years and completed in about 2009. Arrangements are now being made to transfer them to the coast guard, according the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Secretary general of the department Joe Hamill told the Dil Public Accounts Committee the only use to which the landing strips may have had was to aid the coast guard on occasion, and perhaps by unauthorised private aircraft.

But as far as facilitating small aircraft access to the islands as they were intended, the air strips had not been officially used he said.

Mr Hamill said further proposals to provide a landing strip at Tory Island had not gone beyond the planning process.

Maintenance costs of Inishbofin and Cleggan airstrips were included in costs for the three working airstrips on on the Aran Islands, which currently amount to about 300,000 per year, Mr Hamill said.

He told Labour TD Joe Costello the strips were made of tarmac and sufficient to land a small aircraft. They had been fenced since 2009. No terminal buildings were ever built.

Mr Hamill told Gabrielle McFadden TD the airstrips were a product of a time when the departments annual budget for the islands was about 40 million. The budget was now about 600,000, he said.

He said the project had to be seen as part of broader attempts to improve air access for islanders and tourists, and included in the National Development Plan in 2003. He said there was some proposals at the time that the air service to the Aran Islands could be extended to serve Inishbofin and Cleggan.

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Fringe Focus: Context, Grit and Islands

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Caroline Horton in Islands at the Bush Theatre. Photo: Tristram Kenton

Caroline Hortons Islands at the Bush Theatre has well and truly put the cat among the pigeons.

Most of the critics have had their claws out, slating it as self indulgent and toothless. A few, though, have raised their voices in defence, arguing eloquently that the bloated, grotesque nature of the piece is a powerful statement in itself. As Stewart Pringle writes, Meeting obscenity, Horton matches it with the obscene.

Andrew Haydon meanwhile neatly argues that its all about context. A very French form of satire one that is ugly, scatological and messy inspires Hortons bouffon show. It is directly opposite to what the English appreciate as satirical tidy, cerebral, whimsical.

Having interviewed Horton about the project, I think Pringle and Haydon are bang on. They have met it on its own terms. The others appear to have marked it against criteria it wasnt attempting to meet.

Speaking to a colleague about this, he argued it was partly to do with the marketing of Islands: much has been made of Hortons links with John Christensen from the Tax Justice Network and his role as advisor, so in the context of this factual, no nonsense, public service background, her opaque response is doubly shocking.

I think this is partly true people went along expecting an issue drama and were faced with something much more violently visceral but it was also there for anyone who wanted to dig a little deeper.

As Horton told the Independent:

There are some brilliant books about tax havens that are accessible so what is it that this show might do that those dont I think its about something grotesque and visceral that can potential horrify but will also make us feel something, something about this issue, an issue that is deliberately designed to put us off thinking about it.

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The precision medicine initiative proposed by President Barack Obama last week would center on a huge new biobank containing medical records and genetic information for perhaps a million Americans. It would not be created from scratch by enrolling new volunteers, however, but would instead pull together existing studies into one giant database.

Thats according to several scientists familiar with the broad outlines of the project who spoke on background with ScienceInsider. The biobank would be used for studies ranging from finding new disease-gene associations to working out how to use genomic and other molecular information in routine medical care. On Friday, the White House is expected to reveal details of the initiative, which will reportedly cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Such a national biobank would put the United States in line with other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Iceland, and Japan, which have built large population databases for research and medical care. A similar U.S. biobank has long been on the wish list of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, who led the effort to sequence the human genome as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

The term precision medicine, however, is relatively new. It comes from a 2011 report from the National Academies National Research Council (NRC) that called for combining medical records and genetic and other molecular data for large groups of people into a single knowledge network that would be used for understanding diseases and tailoring treatments.

Keith Yamamoto, a member of the NRC panel and vice chancellor for research at the University of California, San Francisco, insists that precision medicine is not just a new buzzword for personalized medicine. Instead, it is a much broader endeavor, because it would integrate a huge range of biological data, for example on model organisms. Both basic researchers and clinicians could draw on the network, he says. Its a giant integration mill from which stuff would fall out from the bottom as new knowledge, says Yamamoto, who has conferred witht the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on the topic.

As a pilot project, NRC suggested building a large research database with medical and genetic data on 1 million adults. That appears to be reflected in the precision medicine initiative. The plan is to link up existing NIH-sponsored cohort studies and large biobanks created by health care providers. They may range from the famed 67-year-old Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to research databases being built by the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin and Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco that are linking genetic data with health records.

Some have questioned whether it is feasible to combine medical records from different sources for researchdata are often missing or collected in different ways. Theres a lot of fuzziness, says cardiac disease researcher Dan Roden, who leads Vanderbilt Universitys BioVU biobank in Nashville. But an NIH-funded project called eMERGE that combines medical records from Vanderbilt and eight other medical centers has shown that it can be done, Roden says.

One matter to be worked out for a megabiobank is which cohorts to include, says human geneticist David Goldstein of Columbia University, a member of the 2011 NRC panel. For example, you absolutely must have recontactability, or permission from patients to be called and asked to come into a clinic for further exams and tests. Some biobanks, such as Vanderbilts, do not have that consent from participants, Roden notes.

Assembling a cohort that represents the diversity of the U.S. population will also be important. For that reason, one of the largest planned U.S. biobanksthe Department of Veterans Affairs Million Veteran Programwould not be enough, because its mostly men.

Another question is whether to sequence the whole genomes of participants, or just the 1% that codes for proteins, which would be cheaper. Researchers will also need to work out ways to share genomic data securely, perhaps drawing on existing efforts to develop standards.

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Friedmann wins Japan Prize for gene therapy

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Dr. Theodore Friedmann is a longtime faculty member at UC San Diego and a pioneer in gene therapy. / photo by Nelvin C. Cepeda * U-T San Diego

Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a pioneer in the booming field of gene therapy, has been named a 2015 winner of the prestigious Japan Prize.

A pediatrician-turned-researcher at UC San Diego, Friedmann is renowned for demonstrating in the lab that it is possible to correct a genetic defect by adding a functional gene to defective cells, a feat he and colleagues accomplished in 1968. Since then, Friedmann has been guiding the young science through controversies, ethical challenges and setbacks.

Friedmann shares the prize in "medical science and medicinal science" with Dr. Alain Fischer of the Necker Hospital in Paris, France. Fischer helped demonstrate gene therapy's clinical ability to treat a genetic immune deficiency that makes patients extremely vulnerable to infections.

Along with the recognition, Friedmann and Fischer will split a $416,600 award, a certificate and gold medal. There's also the prospect of future recognition: several Japan Prize winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.

Friedmann is known not only as a scientist who demonstrated gene therapy is possible, but as a thinker who has dampened the waves of excessive exuberance and despondency that often accompanies the passage of research discoveries into therapies. He has also cautioned his fellow scientists to approach gene therapy with great caution.

In 1972, Friedmann co-authored an influential article in the journal Science, "Gene therapy for human genetic disease?" proposing a program of research advancement and safety precautions with an eye to eventual therapy. In February, 2010, he coauthored an article in Science about the potential use of performance-enhancing "gene doping" in sports.

Those who didn't heed Friedmann's warnings ran into trouble. For example, in 1999 gene therapy patient Jesse Gelsinger, 18, died due to an immune reaction. Gelsinger had a mild form of a genetically caused liver disease, controlled with drugs and diet. He was enrolled to test a treatment to be used in babies with a fatal form of the disease. But Gelsinger himself had little to gain.

A mountain of bad publicity threatened to sink the field. The New York Times wrote about "The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger." As a consequence, other new forms of therapy, such as stem cell treatments, have progressed more slowly to avoid a repeat.

The Gelsinger disaster has receded into the background, as safer forms of gene therapy edge closer to becoming an accepted part of medicine. Forms of gene therapy are now being tested in clinical trials to treat such different diseases as cancer, sickle cell anemia and HIV, with impressive results.

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Newswise Theodore Friedmann, MD, professor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine was named today one of three recipients of the 2015 Japan Prize, a prestigious international award honoring laureates whose original and outstanding achievements in science and technology have advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind.

Friedmann is being recognized for his pioneering research and contributions to the development of gene therapy, a new field of medicine which in significant ways originated at UC San Diego. The sponsoring Japan Prize Foundation describes Friedmann as the father of gene therapy.

Sharing the 2015 Japan Prize in the field of medical science and medicinal science with Friedman is Alain Fischer, MD, PhD, director of immunology at the Necker Hospital in Paris, France. Fischer is credited with demonstrating the clinical efficacy of gene therapy by successfully treating children suffering from a severe genetic disorder that renders them extremely vulnerable to infections.

The third 2015 Japan Prize laureate is Yutaka Takahasi, PhD, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, who is being honored in the field of resources, energy and social infrastructure for his contributions to river basin management and reducing water-related disasters.

Each laureate will receive a certificate of recognition and commemorative gold medal. A cash award of approximately $416,600 will also be given to each prize field. Since its inception in 1985, 83 laureates from 13 countries have received the Japan Prize in a variety of fields and disciplines. Several have subsequently become Nobel Prize laureates as well.

In 1972, Friedmann, then a visiting scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, and Richard Roblin, also at the Salk Institute, published a foundational article in the field, a paper in the journal Science under the heading Gene therapy for human genetic disease?

The idea of gene therapy, which quickly captured the public imagination, was fueled by its appealingly straightforward approach and what Friedmann has described as its obvious correctness: Disarm a potentially pathogenic virus to make it benign. Stuff these viral particles with normal DNA. Then inject them into patients carrying abnormal genes where they will deliver their therapeutic cargoes inside the defective target cells. In theory, the good DNA replaces or corrects the abnormal function of the defective genes, rendering previously impaired cells whole, normal and healthy. End of disease.

Its not quite that simple, of course, something Friedmann and Roblin cautioned in their 1972 paper. Despite progress in the understanding of cellular functions, the roles of DNA and a series of experimental and clinical advances, the history of gene therapy has been marked by distinct highs and lows.

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Global Business Trends in Cleaning "For Better Living"

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) January 29, 2015

Cleaning products play an essential role in our daily lives, and over the years technological advances have revolutionized the industry. Cleaning crosses into our homes and businesses, and out onto our streets. Cleaning products and services have become essential in the everyday life of the modern consumer. And the market continues to grow year after year - global sales of household cleaning products alone are predicted to reach $147 billion in 2017. Enter futurist Jack Uldrich.

On January 30th the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) is gathering for their Annual Meeting & Industry Convention in Orlando with futurist and business trend expert Jack Uldrich as one of their keynote speakers.

Uldrich, who annually predicts the global trends for each coming year, speaks all over the world to a vast array of audiences from large telecommunications firms like Verizon to his most recent keynote delivered to the Independent Bike Dealers (IBD) in Arizona. Uldrich paints vivid pictures of what the world may look like in just a few short years. He provides an in-depth exploration of how the Internet of Things, Big Data, social media, robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and collaborative consumption will change everyday life for all of us in the very near future.

Uldrich's passion for nanotechnology spurs him to deliver potent insights on the trends toward environmental awareness in the cleaning industry, as well as shine insights on how technology will affect things like fragrance, and aesthetics in the industry. And his knowledge of manufacturing trends will hone in on how the packaging of cleaning products will shift in the years to come. Uldrich's goal is to help members of ACI future-proof their businesses so that they can leverage the tides of change to their advantage.

Following his keynote address for ACI Uldrich will be speaking to Professional Insurance Marketing Association, the Wisconsin Bankers Association, the Farm Credit Bank of Texas and at the Outsourcing World Summit.

Parties interested in learning more about him, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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