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Office 2013 KMS Activator 2017
Office 2013 KMS Activator is the latest update to the KMS tools that is used to activate Microsoft Office 2013 permanently or as trial based on the generic key. It is very easy to use and has no difficulty in activation of Office. The interface of the tool is very simple and user friendly. It does not contain any virus or Trojan for the PC infection. The activation done by Office 2013 KMS Activator 2017 may be a trial or on a permanent basis. It depends upon the generic keys used by the activator. Office 2013 KMS Activator ultimate has many advanced options. It includes the activation removal in case of any problem or other things.
Office 2013 KMS Activator Free Download is a very reliable tool. You can see the activation time and for how time activation will remain. Its keys and servers are updated on daily bases which make it best tool out there for activation of Microsoft Office 2013. Backup can be made and the file history of activation can also be removed if required by this tool. KMS Activator Full Version can detect the verion of office 2013 installed on the PC. It also searches for the new keys when it is connected to the Internet for better and long time activation.
Office 2013 KMS Activator Ultimate Free download requires the internet for the update of the key lists and also for newer version activation for the server update. Overall the activation is easy and satisfactory. It is free from any virus and is safe to work with and operate.
- Office 2013 KMS Activator update the database of the key which is used for the activation on daily basis. This ensures best and long time activation.
- It has included two way activation. One is the temporary or trial activation and other is permanent activation. Depending upon the key database this is done.
- The server of the KMS is updated regularly ensuring reliable and long time activation.
- It has included the feature of cleaning of activation history which prevents from many conflicts and is needed in many cases.
- It makes the backup of the activation. This is required if the activation is to be removed later on.
- It can detect the version of Office you installed on the PC. In this way, the activation becomes easy and is done automatically by the Office 2013 KMS Activator.
- The key being used currently can be viewed and seen in the tool.
System Requirements:
- It requires Office 2013 of any version or bit to be installed on the PC where the activation is to be done with the help of Activator for Office 2013.
- It requires the .Net Framework of 2.0 or any version higher than it to open and functioning properly.
- It requires the internet for the updating the key database from the server. But software can run perfectly without the internet.
Direct Download Links:
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Activation Method:
- Download Office 2013 KMS Activator setup from the links provided.
- Open it for the installation and go through the installation procedure.
- Run it giving "Administrative Rights" and allow it.
- If your Office 2013 was activated before. First of all remove all the previous activation history by clicking on "Remove Past Activation History".
- "Update the Mak Key" which is to be used for the permanent activation.
- Select any key available there and "Update the KMS Server".
- After this click on the 'Activate Button" to let it activate.
- Enjoy.
- If you face any problem regarding download links or the activation of Office 2013 KMS Activator Ultimate. feel free to comment below in the comment section provided at the end of the page.


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Flags across New Jersey will be lowered Monday in honor of James Gandolfini, the late "Sopranos" star who was born and raised in the Garden State.
Gandolfini died Wednesday in Italy of a heart attack.
"Sopranos" Star James Gandolfini Dead at 51
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Gov. Chris Christie ordered flags to fly at half-staff "to recognize the achievements and contributions" of Gandolfini, his office said in a statement.
"James Gandolfini was an iconic actor and will be remembered for the timeless impact he left upon television and film in the state of New Jersey and across our nation," the governor's office said.
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The government has closed most schools.
So, more parents are teaching kids at home.
That upsets the government school monopoly.
Education "experts" say parents lack the expertise to teach their kids.
Without state schooling, "learning losses ... could well be catastrophic," says The New York Times. Home schooling "will set back a generation of children," according to a Washington Post column. Harvard Magazine's "Risks of Homeschooling" article quotes a professor who calls for a "presumptive ban."
The professional education establishment actually tried to ban it 98 years ago. Then, they tried to ban private schools, too! But the Supreme Court stopped them, writing, "a child is not the mere creature of the state."
I wish the state would remember that.
Anyway, the educator's complaints about home schooling "setting back a generation" are bunk.
Eleven of 14 peer-reviewed studies found home schooling has positive effects on achievement.
In my new video, education researcher Corey DeAngelis explains, "Children who are home-schooled get much better academic and social results than kids in government schools."
Even though they are more likely to be poor, "Home-schoolers score 30% higher on SAT tests." They also do better in college, and they are less likely to drink or do drugs.
"Mass home schooling during this pandemic," says DeAngelis, "may actually be a blessing."
Debbie Dabin, a mom in Utah, is one of many parents who started home schooling this spring and now is "definitely considering home schooling" next year.
Dabin bought teaching materials over the internet from a company called "The Good and the Beautiful." Her son likes the lessons better than what he got in school. "It's great," Dabin says. "He likes the activities; he wants to do them."
Before the pandemic, he'd told his mom he hated school.
I hated school, too. Classes were boring. Listening to lectures is a poor way to learn, and unnecessary today.
In addition to home-school teaching programs, there are also free internet games that teach things like math, reading and writing, while customizing the speed of lessons to each learner's needs.
Sites like Education.com teach math by letting kids adjust pizza toppings.
For older kids, YouTube channels like TED-Ed and Khan Academy offer "free educational videos from the world's foremost experts on civics, history, mathematics," adds DeAngelis.
"Not good enough!" say "experts."
Michael Rebell, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University, worries that if parents home-school, "There's no guarantee that kids are learning democratic values, civic knowledge."
"Were they learning that in their regular schools?" I asked.
"Well ... it's in the curriculum," he responded.
So what? The Nation's Report Card, the government's biggest nationwide test, reveals that government-school students don't know much about history or civics.
One question asked fourth graders, "Which country was the leading communist nation during the Cold War?" Only 21% answered the Soviet Union. More said France or Germany. American students did worse than if they had guessed randomly.
Another question: "America fought Hitler and Germany in which war?" More picked the Civil War than World War II.
Nevertheless, said Rebell, home schooling is still worse because "there's no effective regulation to know what's going on."
"You sound like you think — because there's regulation, that makes something happen," I said.
"I do," he replied. "Where there's no regulation, that's a worse situation."
But "no regulation" is the wrong way to think about it. There is plenty of regulation. It just comes from legislators and families instead of education bureaucrats.
If this pandemic steers more parents away from state schools, that's probably a good thing.
Philosopher John Stuart Mill warned: "State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ... which pleases the predominant power in the government (and) establishes a despotism over the mind."
A silver lining to this pandemic is that now more parents are learning about their options outside the government system.
John Stossel is author of "Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media." For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.
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Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens of billions of tax dollars into little-used mass transit rail projects? In a digital age with increasingly popular and affordable door-to-door ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, universal use of cars by all income groups and the revolution of smart driverless vehicles around the corner, subway systems and light rail are as old-fashioned as the rotary phone. The federal government and urban planners in at least 25 cities are frantically spending money to lay down tracks that, in 10 or 20 years, they will have to rip right out of the ground.View
I have never been one to understand it, to be honest. People are fond of saying, "we get an extra hour of daylight!" Or "we are losing an hour of daylight!" My question is: how many hours a day do you sleep? Are you awake at all in the morning or evening? Because there really is not that much difference in the amount of daylight we get that next day. It is adjusted — with time being a construct of humanity to keep things orderly.View
The recent decision by Oneida County circuit judge Michael Bloom to dismiss the walking quorum complaint against Rhinelander mayor Chris Frederickson and four city aldermen is a case study demonstrating both how good-old-boy politics still dominates in Oneida County and how the state's activist judges are, case by case, rewriting the state's open meetings and open records laws.View
First, a confession: I really like presidential debates. Why, you ask? Because these debates give us voters the chance to watch and evaluate the candidates while they stand shoulder-to-shoulder and have to answer the same questions. Away from their carefully orchestrated campaign events, without their teleprompters or an audience of planted, friendly supporters, candidates in a debate are under pressure and facing criticism from both opponents and moderators.View
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The power of the president to grant pardons as stated in the Constitution is unconditional, as President Donald Trump has observed. But as he prepares to bestow that favor on Roger Stone and perhaps other felons who have protected him, someone should advise him that a corrupt pardon is nevertheless a crime that can be prosecuted, if not overturned.View
There's an old saying about baseball and life that no one ever had a 1.000 batting average. It turns out that's not exactly true. At least when it comes to the Trump economy, anti-Trumpers defied the near-impossible statistical odds and somehow have batted 1.000 on their predictions. They managed to get it wrong every time.View
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At a recent county public hearing to consider a hotel project planned for Hwy. 51 where once stood the Bay View Inn and a laundromat, the project's developer, Glenn Schiffmann, who was obviously exasperated, said what many in the room must have been thinking: There's just too much government. We agree with Mr. Schiffmann and we are just as exasperated.View
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As on the Republican side, the Democratic primary for the seventh congressional district this coming Tuesday — the winners will face each other in May to determine who replaces Republican Sean Duffy as our representative in Congress — offers a clear choice. That choice is Tricia Zunker, the president of the Wausau school board and an associate justice on the Ho-Chunk Nation Supreme Court.View
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In a story in last Friday's edition, Minocqua town chairman Mark Hartzheim was quoted as saying he could not remember roads being in as poor a shape as they are right now. He's not alone. Everyone knows it. Everyone talks and complains about it. The problem is, no one is doing much about it.View
President Donald Trump rightly touts the economy-wide savings from his deregulation initiatives. But one federal agency didn't get the memo. Some members of the Surface Transportation Board, which has oversight over the nation's network of freight railroads, wants to resurrect price controls on the industry.View
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After President Trump finished his triumphant State of the Union speech Tuesday night, House speaker Nancy Pelosi did something no one was anticipating: She stood up and ripped apart the printed copy of the speech, calling it a manifesto of untruths.View
It's a rough start to the year 2020. Politically, the nation, at least its major media, seems to be consumed by ongoing attempts to remove President Trump from office, and, in general, political polarization has reached ever new heights around the world, from Brexit in Britain to Hong Kong protests.View
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, President Donald Trump again talked positively about negative interest rates. That's not a very good idea considering negative interest rates are a warning signal of deflation, which can be as bad for an economy as runaway inflation.View
For those who wanted Oneida County to borrow up to $2 million from the state Board of Commissioners of Public Lands (BCPL) to fund some pretty important capital improvement projects, Tuesday was a bitter blow to their big-government dreams.View
Almost all of us know (because President Trump boasts of it in nearly every speech) that our 3.5% unemployment rate has reached a 50-year low. But this official decline in joblessness doesn't tell the entire story of the improvement in the job market in the United States. And it doesn't fully capture the change in direction between what happened under President Barack Obama and Trump.View
We have reached that time in every presidential nominating year when distinguished, national opinion leaders beat up on Iowa and that admirable state's influential role in determining the two major parties' eventual presidential nominees and, therefore, the next president.View
Over the holidays, I read Elton John's biography, "Me." He writes about his friendship with Freddie Mercury, the ultratalented lead singer of the rock group Queen. Mercury tragically died of AIDS at the age of 45 in 1991. Mercury was one of the last people to die of the disease in Britain during the epidemic years.View
People who want to work should be allowed to work. That includes people who once went to jail. With President Donald Trump's support, Congress spends your money giving ex-cons "employment assistance."View
It was a sweet and important win for the average person and for accountability when, as we report in today's edition, cable giant CNN agreed last week to settle a defamation suit filed by Kentucky high school student Nick Sandmann, who counterpunched against the network for painting him as a racist.View
What President Donald Trump said to the nation about the prospect of war with Iran impressed many listeners far less than the way he said it — or slurred it. Unlike the manipulated video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that made her appear drunk, Trump delivered a live speech that made him sound impaired.View
Is anyone here old enough to remember the urgent warning issued in a speech to the National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in August 2002 by an American vice president who had artfully avoided the military draft during wartime?View
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This past month we have been awash in various studies abut the efficacy of industrial clusters — those focused government efforts to provide tax breaks and other financial incentives sufficient to boost a particular industry in a particular place — so it's time to weigh in about the potential effects of these clusters on northern Wisconsin.View
If there is any lesson we have learned about the Federal Reserve system in the last few years, it is that the supposed oracles who run our central bank are anything but infallible.View
The spirit of goodwill can take us by surprise this season, without respect to religion (or even politics). And while such a moment may not quite become an epiphany, it can still make us think again about our lives and times. Which is what happened to me over the weekend before Christmas.View
Although I qualify for the senior discount at the movies, even I'm not old enough to have met Heraclitus, the wise Greek who lived some 25 centuries ago and whom we can thank for the timeless wisdom "Character is destiny." Here in Washington, one elected national leader commands the affection and the respect of her constituents.View
Actually, it's always the season for liberal folly, but these cheerless folks have given us a bounty during this holiday, for their single issue — impeachment — is a gift to conservatives that likely will keep on giving right through next November.View
Our sources are telling us that President Trump is nearing a decision on how to revive the all-but-dormant American uranium industry. This proposed plan would create a reserve of domestically mined uranium stored in a "Federal Uranium Security Stockpile." One option on the table is for the Department of Defense to purchase uranium through the 1950 Defense Production Act.View
When President Donald Trump's defenders aren't simply lying about the House impeachment inquiry — it all happened in a Capitol Hill basement with no Republicans present, as one of his lawyers told National Public Radio — they complain about the lack of firsthand witnesses to presidential abuse. They assume nobody will notice that Trump himself forbid any testimony by those with the most direct knowledge of his attempts to extort Ukraine.View
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The Hague Transavia Grand Slam | 15 - 20 juillet 2014
The Hague, The Netherlands, July 15, 2014 - With the 2014 Transavia Grand Slam being used as a "prelude†to the 2015 FIVB World Championships to be staged next summer in The Netherlands, the first two days of Main Draw pool play will be held at three sites - Scheveningen in The Hague, the Apeldoorn city court at Marktplein and the Amsterdam city court at Gustav Mahlerplein.
Of the 96 pool play matches to be played for both men and women Wednesday and Thursday, a total of 12 will be held in Apeldoorn (men's group A and women's group G) and 12 will be staged in Amsterdam (men's group C and women's group B). The remaining 72 will be played on the four courts at Scheveningen featuring the 3,000-seat The Hague Beach Stadium.
Olympic medal winners and pairs from host The Netherlands will be playing in both Apeldoorn and Amsterdam where competition will feature six games each day at both sites. Wednesday's matches will start at 11:15 a.m. at Apeldoorn and 11:45 a.m. in Amsterdam. The Scheveningen matches will begin at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The featured players at Apeldoorn will be American Phil Dalhausser, the Beijing 2008 Olympic gold medalist, and Dutch Olympian Reinder Nummerdor. Dalhausser will be paired with Sean Rosenthal as the USA pair has won the last two FIVB World Tour events in Norway and Switzerland. Nummerdor is playing with Steven van de Velde as the Dutch will challenge the top-seeded Dalhausser and Rosenthal at 5 p.m. Wednesday on the Amsterdam court.
Sanne Keizer and Sophie van Gestel will be the host country team in Amsterdam. The Dutch's opening pool play match Wednesday will be against second-seeded Kerri Walsh and April Ross of the United States. Walsh is a three-time Olympic and three-time world champion. Ross claimed the gold medal at the 2009 FIVB World Championships with Jen Kessy in Stavanger, Norway. At the London 2012 Olympic Games, Walsh and Misty May-Treanor defeated Ross and Kessy for the gold medal.
After two days of pool play, the final three days of the competition at the US$1-million Transavia Grand Slam will be held at the Scheveningen courts where the medal matches will be played Sunday. The final two teams in both gender's competition with be competing for the gold medals and a share of the $70,000 first-place prize for each winning team.
Following this week's event, the FIVB World Tour returns to the United States for the second-straight year as Long Beach in southern California hosts another $1-million event. The international circuit returns to Europe in August for stops in Austria (Klagenfurt, July 29-August 3) and Poland (Stare Jablonki, August 19-24).
Match, Date, Time, Team A, Team B, Gender, Pool
4, 16-Jul, 11:45, Bawden-Clancy AUS [15], Bansley-Pavan CAN [18], women, b
3, 16-Jul, 13:00, Walsh-Ross USA [2], Keizer-van Gestel NED [31], women, b
5, 16-Jul, 15:45, Alison-Bruno BRA [3], Spijkers-van Dorsten NED [30], men, c
6, 16-Jul, 17:00, Kadziola-Szalankiewicz POL [14], Sidorenko-Dyachenko KAZ [19], men, c
19, 16-Jul, 18:45, Walsh-Ross USA [2], Bansley-Pavan CAN [18], women, b
20, 16-Jul, 20:00, Bawden-Clancy AUS [15], Keizer-van Gestel NED [31], women, b
Match, Date, Time, Team A, Team B, Gender, Pool
13, 16-Jul, 11:15, Agatha-Seixas BRA [7], Goricanec-Hüberli SUI [26], women, g
14, 16-Jul, 12:30, Ludwig-Sude GER [10], Moiseeva-Syrtseva RUS [23], women, g
2, 16-Jul, 15:45, Walkenhorst-Windscheif GER [16], Schalk-Saxton CAN [17], men, a
1, 16-Jul, 17:00, Rosenthal-Dalhausser USA [1], Nummerdor-van de Velde NED [32], men, a
29, 16-Jul, 19:00, Agatha-Seixas BRA [7], Moiseeva-Syrtseva RUS [23], women, g
30, 16-Jul, 20:15, Ludwig-Sude GER [10], Goricanec-Hüberli SUI [26], women, g
Match, Date, Time, Team A, Team B, Gender, Pool
22, 17-Jul, 10:00, Kadziola-Szalankiewicz POL [14], Spijkers-van Dorsten NED [30], men, c
21, 17-Jul, 11:15, Alison-Bruno BRA [3], Sidorenko-Dyachenko KAZ [19], men, c
35, 17-Jul, 12:30, Walsh-Ross USA [2], Bawden-Clancy AUS [15], women, b
36, 17-Jul, 13:45, Bansley-Pavan CAN [18], Keizer-van Gestel NED [31], women, b
38, 17-Jul, 17:00, Sidorenko-Dyachenko KAZ [19], Spijkers-van Dorsten NED [30], men, c
37, 17-Jul, 18:15, Alison-Bruno BRA [3], Kadziola-Szalankiewicz POL [14], men, c
Match, Date, Time, Team A, Team B, Gender, Pool
17, 17-Jul, 9:30, Rosenthal-Dalhausser USA [1], Schalk-Saxton CAN [17], men, a
18, 17-Jul, 10:45, Walkenhorst-Windscheif GER [16], Nummerdor-van de Velde NED [32], men, a
45, 17-Jul, 12:00, Agatha-Seixas BRA [7], Ludwig-Sude GER [10], women, g
46, 17-Jul, 13:15, Moiseeva-Syrtseva RUS [23], Goricanec-Hüberli SUI [26], women, g
33, 17-Jul, 16:30, Rosenthal-Dalhausser USA [1], Walkenhorst-Windscheif GER [16], men, a
34, 17-Jul, 17:45, Schalk-Saxton CAN [17], Nummerdor-van de Velde NED [32], men, a
20.07.2014 17:00:12
Fijalek & Prudel Net Poland's First FIVB World Tour Gold Medal
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American Olympic Medalists Led Transavia Grand Slam Pool Winners
17.07.2014 18:35:39
Travelling Aussies happy on the road
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Dalhausser and Rosenthal on the hunt for a 'turkey' in The Hague
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Beach volleyball gives Apeldoorn a big buzz
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FIVB World Champions Seek Transavia Grand Slam Success
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US and Australian pairs unbeaten in Amsterdam
16.07.2014 22:02:07
Swiss Tanja's pool winners after only one day in Apeldoorn
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Upsets Highlight Transavia Grand Slam Men's Pool Play Matches
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Sand suits Canadian Pavan
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Nummerdor: next year's World Championships are going to surpass everything
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Double or nothing for Bruno
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Germany's Ludwig and Sude making the most of a temporary partnership
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Transavia Grand Slam is the Wimbledon of beach volleyball
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Life is good, but…
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Just like old times
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Record US$1,000,000 purse for FIVB The Hague Transavia Grand Slam
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These days, the "North" is talked about more as a bank account full of easy money than as a beautiful and biologically diverse part of Canadian geography that should be cherished and protected.
The challenge is to make it both.
No question, the riches are there. A recent report from the Conference Board of Canada touts how mining in the North is expected to nearly double by 2020, both in terms of the value of minerals and metals we retrieve and the number of jobs created.
Mining in the North is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.5 per cent, compared to an average of just 2.2 per cent annually for the Canadian economy as a whole.
But Scott Vaughan, federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, is worried about what will be sacrificed in the rush to make withdrawals. Environmental oversight is sorely lacking, he concluded in a report tabled this week to Parliament. There are also big information and infrastructure gaps.
"We know that there's a boom in natural resources," he said. "I think what we need now, given the gaps, given the problems we found, is a boom in environmental protection."
In the North, real mining gross domestic product (2002 dollars) was $4.4 billion in 2011, and is expected to grow to $8.5 billion by 2020, according to the conference board.
It's an impressive figure, but like all values attached to GDP, it's also misleading. It accounts only for the one-way flow of minerals out of the ground and into marketplace. It ignores any of the health or environmental costs incurred over the next seven years, or the long-term economic implications of emptying yet another resource-filled bank account.
As Natural Capitalism author Paul Hawken said during a speech this week in Toronto, "Our current economic system steals from the future, sells it in the present, and calls it GDP."
Many of Canada's major mining companies are, to be fair, making an effort to reduce their environmental footprints. They've seen the writing on the wall for more than a decade. With social media acting as a kind of global watchdog, ducking responsibility is becoming riskier business.
Organizations and programs have sprouted up to support efforts, including the Mining Association of Canada's Toward Sustainable Mining initiative, which established principles for environmental performance, and the Green Mining Initiative, which has a similar mandate but is led by Natural Resources Canada.
Then there's the relatively new Clean Mining Alliance, which was founded to promote and share information about new clean technologies that can help mining companies operate more efficiently, make less of a mess, and more effectively clean up the messes they do make.
"Notoriously conservative mining companies and their shareholders are starting to realize that the capital expenses of new clean technologies can be offset by reduced operating costs and the potential for new revenues," according to Dallas Kachan, managing partner of Kachan & Co. and executive director of the alliance.
In his start-of-year outlook for 2013, Kachan predicted there would be a much higher adoption of clean technologies in the mining sector, particularly in areas such as water purification, remediation of tailings, advanced mineral separation and products that reduce the use of water and power.
Of course, simply using renewable energy such as geothermal or storage-backed wind can help lower pollution and carbon emissions at mining sites, which are often so remote that renewables become a more cost-effective option than, say, running dirty diesel generators. It helps, and we need much more of it, but it's not nearly enough.
What's also needed, Hawken said during his talk, is a "whole different pallet" of technologies that don't just reduce the impacts of industrial operations, but fundamentally change how industries operate.
He pointed to the amazing advancements taking place in a new discipline known as biological mining. The idea here is that there are molecules and bacteria found in nature – including the human body – that are designed to selectively grab specific minerals, heavy metals and other toxins.
Hawken described a time when we'll use these molecules and bacteria to "mine" and concentrate the residual but highly demanded minerals from, for example, the tailing ponds of old mining sites. Instead of digging up new stuff, we can find it in the pollution we've already left behind.
The approach offers remediation and revenue-generation at the same time. Toronto-based BacTech Environmental is an example of a company playing in this emerging space.
"We can now run the industrial age backwards by doing what nature does," said Hawken, adding later, "The breakthroughs are ubiquitous and they're coming at us fast."
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Can they reach us fast enough, and at a cost low enough to motivate? Will the federal government and mining sector – which prefers to stay clear of risk – wake up and realize that leadership on this front is becoming an issue of long-term survival?
We may be on the path to doubling mining GDP in the North. But we're also emptying the bank account, and incurring charges we don't yet recognize but, sooner or later, will have to pay.
Tyler Hamilton, author of Mad Like Tesla, writes weekly about green energy and clean technologies.


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Furniture Design Focus: Pylon Traffic Cone
A Good Furniture design example, the Pylon is a creative Traffic Cone design. Pylon was designed in 2009, and here is a how it is described by its designer: Pylons do not need to be ugly looking bulky items, here is a luxurious one. Perfectly reflective and beautiful.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After passing the 100 days benchmark, President Obama pushes on with a daunting task ahead of him: Tackling foreign and domestic issues while dealing with a Republican Party opposed to nearly all his major economic initiatives.
President Obama faces daunting foreign and domestic policy challenges in the next 100 days.
The second 100 days will be a critical test of Obama's power in getting key legislative priorities -- such as economic recovery, health care, energy and immigration -- passed.
With recent polls showing the American public giving him a job approval rating in the mid-60s, he already starts off on the right footing.
But a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. Poll out Monday suggests that Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The poll showed that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when the respondents were asked if they agree with the president on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. Read more on the poll
For Republicans, the support is more than lackluster: Only 28 percent say Obama is doing a good job.
And with the GOP opposing nearly all of Obama's major initiatives in the first 100 days -- especially the economic stimulus and FY 2010 budget plan -- it will be bipartisanship that will be a task for the president. Can he bridge the divide on major issues?
At his press conference on Wednesday night, the president once again seemed to extend the proverbial olive branch to the GOP.
"To my Republican friends, I want them to realize that me reaching out to them has been genuine," Obama said at a prime time news conference capping his 100th day in office. "I can't sort of define bipartisanship as simply being willing to accept certain theories of theirs that we tried for eight years and didn't work and the American people voted to change."
And Republicans may be realizing the scenario before them: Democratic control of the Executive and Legislative branches. Getting GOP legislation passed without bipartisan support will be next to impossible.
Just this week, veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania announced that he was leaving the GOP and joining the Democratic Party. It was a seismic shift in Washington and could be a major boon for Obama. With Specter's switch and Democrat Al Franken's likely victory in the Minnesota Senate race, Democrats are poised to have a 60-seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate.
In other words, Democrats will set the agenda. Watch more on the Democrats' control of Congress »
But Obama is not taking any chances, saying he's under no illusions that he'll have a "rubber-stamp Senate" now that Specter has switched parties.
Nonetheless, the Republican leadership is looking ahead -- and signs of bipartisanship may beginning to slowly show.
"Obviously, the country's got terrific challenges before it. ... I think bipartisanship can work. If there is a commitment on both sides, obviously, to try and work towards solutions in these very difficult issue areas," House Minority Whip Eric Cantor told CNN Wednesday. "But look, there's no question. We need to both be open to try to work together." Watch more of Cantor's take on bipartisanship »
But not so fast, says one GOP aide.
Sen. John McCain's spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan said Thursday that the Arizona Repubican believes the president and Democrats don't really want to compromise on big, controversial issues. "Reaching out and bringing ideas to the table with a real interest in compromise are two different things," Buchanan said.
The next 100 days will also be a critical test for Republicans looking to improve their brand. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll showed only 21 percent of those surveyed identified themselves as Republican, which down from 25 percent in a late March poll.
The poll, on the other hand, showed that 35 percent identified themselves as Democrats; and 38 percent called themselves independents.
Besides the major task of handling the country's recession, two major domestic policy issues are sure to come up, and Obama's popularity and outreach to Congress will be critical.
Health care reform, for one, was one of Obama's early 2008 campaign pledges -- and is sure to come up.
And it could likely pass this year because of a special legislative process, known as budget reconciliation, which won't allow Republicans to filibuster the legislation. Democrats, who control 59 seats in the Senate, will be able to pass it with a simple majority vote instead of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
Another issue near and dear to Obama is energy. Can Obama put forth an energy plan that both parties can agree on?
Obama has signaled in his first 100 days that finding alternative energy sources -- such as wind, hydropower, solar -- will be vital in ending the country's dependence on foreign oil. For Obama, it's not just an energy dependence issue, but one of national security.
On the foreign policy front, Obama will continue to pursue his strategy for combating increasing violence in Afghanistan and Iraq -- and Taliban encroachments in Pakistan.
While the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inherited from the Bush administration, his strategy going forward -- adding additional troops to Afghanistan and a withdrawal timeline in Iraq -- will prove critical to his legacy.
CNN political analyst David Gergen, who has a long history working for both Democratic and Republican presidents, says what has impressed him about Obama is his strategic vision for the war-torn area.
"On Afghanistan, they really did sit down and try to do their homework, and try to figure out how is this going to work out over time," he said.
Gergen says Obama's next 100 days will show that he is a "pragmatic liberal" -- legislating from left-of-center.
But CNN's Fareed Zakaria disagrees, pointing out that Obama's foreign policy is one Republican hawks "would be very comfortable with."
"I think right now the truth of the matter is, he's put forward a kind of beautiful overture, by which I mean he's reached out to Iran; he's reached out to Syria; he's put forward stuff for the Middle East peace process," Zakaria said.
But it's also relations with historically Anti-American countries like Cuba and Venezuela that will put to the test Obama's campaign promise to open up a dialogue -- much to the chagrin of Republicans. Obama has signaled he wants to work with both countries, and has already eased restrictions on travel to Cuba.
Will a lifting of the nearly 50-year trade embargo with the Caribbean nation be next?
The president's second 100 days will, for all intents and purposes, will likely be another "Hallmark holiday" style benchmark. But a lot can happen in 100 days -- and Obama's leadership on key issues will be put under the microscope -- issues that could set the tone for America's relations abroad for decades to come.
CNN's Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash contributed to this report.
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When Dish released its ad-skipping Hopper DVR last year, Fox and other broadcasters brought out the big guns: copyright lawyers. Last week, the conflict escalated—Fox says the 2013 version of the device, which allows users to move recorded content to iPads, also violates copyright law and must be blocked. The judge Fox is arguing to has already refused to block an earlier version of the Hopper from the market.
Now all four major broadcasting networks are refusing to air ads for Dish services. Regardless, the satellite TV company is pursuing some creative ways to get its name in front of potential customers, including sponsoring a car in yesterday's Daytona 500 NASCAR race.
Dish pumped up the sponsorship on Saturday, with company CEO Joe Clayton chiming in with plenty of automotive references. "The Hopper is in the pole position as the fastest in the consumer technology race," said Clayton. "FOX is trying to hold up traffic. You can't stop the future."
He continued: "Everybody skips commercials, and if FOX, CBS, ABC, and NBC think that's illegal, well I guess that makes us a nation of outlaws. We might as well make the No. 95 car the DISH fans' getaway car in what is sure to be an exciting race on Sunday!"
The car, owned by Leavine Family Racing and piloted by "up-and-coming" driver Scott Speed, finished 23rd.
The Daytona 500 race drew 10 percent of the national US television audience, according to early viewing statistics published by USA Today. In some Southern markets, where NASCAR viewership is strongest, the event grabbed more than 20 percent.


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Ross organizes and executes the communications and media relations strategy for The Public Interest Network. Previously, Ross helped launch the Voices for 100% Renewable Energy project website, and was a regular author on the Environment America blog on Medium. Ross lives in Denver, Colo., where he enjoys exploring the outdoors, talking politics and rooting for Boston sports.


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