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ple times when he got pinged by a few hostile people. At one point, Dean said somethin

in Japan, but we hadn’t brought it to other countries yet. With mobile handsets being so dif

like hang out with my son, read a book, or go for a walk with my dog, I simply am not thinking about work. Because, all my work is nice and organized, waiting for me when I return.

If a child is raised in a caring and loving environment. If she or he i

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s for people to play with, and most of the conversations at Gnomedex are covering the thing

tar working on what can really make a difference.

d that there weren’t enough microphones out in the crowd, so he could

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r the next year, we will be seeing a lot of progress in this area. Exciting stuff.

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Todefeey, I hit “Zero Email Bounce”. There is absolutely nothing in my inbox.

ouncement. We work for Microsoft, and there are a certain set of people in our industry that wi

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When is it going to end?!?

Until when is this hypocrisy going to last?

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uggle to get Outlook to do things the way I want. For instance, if you create a custom

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was appropriate or not, but few would disagree that it was hilarious.

ll never trust anything we do. It’s disappointing, but it’s something you le

Dean’s quips to some of the less enthusiastic attendees, during the Longhorn RSS ann

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someone say that just by banishing a game, the world will be a better place to live?

society around them. If they realize that there has never been a “

g out and keeping stuff in my inbox “because I’ll get to it in a little bit”. But, I tried a bit harder, and it worked.

can get a haircut like that”. I’m sure people could debate whether that

defeere getting put on the spot and being asked to go on stage and defend some of the feature

All this talk about how evil video games are for the poor children is maki

Mike announced earlier todefeey some big improvements to Spaces, specifically, in the

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Philip Torrone’s (http://www.flashenabled.com/) demonstrations o

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I am tired of this crazyness. I really am!

I am reading the news about Manhunt 2 in the UK and it did get me angry.

The real test will be in about a month to see if I’m keeping it up. It’s a bit of a str

nced for us that there are now over 15 million Spaces out there, and growing.

Do the people who create this non-sense watch TV? There is nothing more ho

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did. The full version is fast once it’s fully loaded, but you do have to download a good chu

I don’t want an e-mail program that looks like Outlook; the interface of the new Hotmail is too complicated.

Happy New Year from all of us here on the Windows Live Hotmail team! I hope all of you out there in blog land have a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. We’re back in the office and busy working on our plans for Hotmail in 2008.

s not fast, doesn’t matter how many great features are in it.

Why did you move me from MSN to Windows Live Hotmail when nothing was wrong?

The full version uses AJAX, which is a more advanced technology that provides you with a lot of rich and snappy interactions, such as loading the next message in your inbox without reloading the whole page. Some features, such as the reading pane, wouldn’t work well if the whole webpage had to reload, so they are available in the full version only.

s, but the emails should notify you that this is happening. Sometimes users will set up @ho

First, try the email support blog. Still massage shanghai having trouble? Submit your problem di

er, and we want to focus our engineering team’s efforts on the new system. It is a bit of a change, but Windows Live Hotmail has a lot of the same functionality as MSN Hotmail. Before we started working on Windows Live Ho

ng large sums of money from Nigeria or other countries

The classic version of Windows Live Hotmail looks and acts very similar to MSN Hotmail. If you preferred that simpler interface, make sure you’re using the classic version by going to Options (or Options –> More options from the full version). Look at the first option on the page to see if you’re in the full or classic version.

You can choose to support any of the organizations on this list: the American Red Cross, Boys

Q & A about Windows Live Hotmail

- Ellie Powers, program manager, Windows Live Hotmail

A few days ago, we told you about how Windows Live Hotmail was created. Today, we’ll r

& Girls Clubs of America, the National AIDS Fund, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, ninemillion.org, Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, The Humane Society of the United States and U.S Fund for UNICEF.

rite full version features into the classic version.

Firefox users get Firefox’s built-in spell check while IE users get a spell check that stores its dictionary on Hotmail’s servers. Firefox users can’t resize the columns in the full version. The special photo upload tool is an ActiveX control and works only in IE, but non-IE users can attach photos just like any other file. Only IE users can see their friends’ Messenger presence.

The classic version works the same, and looks the same, but now it is more like the fu

the i’m Initiative that involves a fictional character

ts from many customers about MSN Hotmail being too hard to use. We spent a long time building a new version of Hotmail that the majority of our customers like bett

How do I get started?

ney when a customer sees an ad. The i’m Initiative has successfully raised over 1.4 million dollars since it got started in 2007. It used to be

tmail, we used to update MSN Hotmail a lot, so it would change, too. If you liked MSN Hotmail, you may prefer the classic version of Windows Li

For many years, scammers out on the internet have sent e-mails that claim to be from Hotmail but are actually fake and some are even dangerous. You’ve probably gotten similar emails pretending to be a legitimate bank or other business.

Go to http://im.live.com to join. You can choose to participate in Messenger, Hotmail, or both and you can pick a different organization for each service or dedicate all your efforts to one cause – it’s en massage yiwu tirely up to you! This prog

each time you send an email.

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ram is currently available only to customers in the United States. Once you’re set up, you’ll raise money for your favorite cause every time you sen

Speeding up the classic version

available only in Windows Live Messenger, and now the Hotmail team is glad to say that you’ll be able to raise money for the cause of your choice

In future releases, you’ll see more about how we’re making the classic version faster and also adding features to it.

By this time next year, we want Windows Live Hotmail to go even farther in helping you connect with your family and friends and managing information in today’s busy world.

The classic version works for a huge range of browsers massage in shanghai : Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2.0+, Safari 2.0+, and other modern browsers.

Hotmail account. Here’s what to do:

re you’re using the classic version by going to Options (or Options –> More options from the full version). Look at the first option on the page to see if you’re in the full or classic version.

As with any other scam, the saying that fits is: If it’s too good to be true, then it probably is.

ows Live Wire team just blogged about an, err, ‘quirky’ new campaign happening to support

Check for new messages by clicking on your inb shanghai massage ox or other folder

r of days, which is a standard practice for web-based mail accounts because many users use an account for a little while, and then never use it a

Read messages in your inbox

Microsoft’s i’m Initiative: Hotmail users can now give Microsoft’s money to good causes

ating in the i’m Initiative and raising money for s yiwu massage ocial causes. H

you don’t have to pay any money, and you get to know that you’re taking a step towards making the world better. The power of the collective can be huge – think of the difference that could happen if everyone swapped out a few plastic grocery bags each week for a reusable bag or took one less car trip a week.

ve Hotmail. Make sure you’re using it by going to Options (or Options –> More options from the full version). Look at the first option on the page to see if you’re currently using the full or classic version.

You can check out how snappy the classic version is when you try the following things:

nd spread the word about i’m. You can check out the talkathon itself at

The i’m Initiative is a Microsoft program wher yiwu massage e Microsoft shares a portion of their advertisi

o enable Windows Live customers to help raise money for the social causes of their choosing. Well, in related i’m Initiative news, the Wind

espond to some of the top issues we’ve heard about from our customers.

ccounts outside of Hotmail. You can add a POP3 account this way. This feature has been in MSN Hotmail and Windows Live Hotmail for years, but now we’r

Do NOT click any links in the email. Approach links in email with caution.

Windows Live Hotmail pages take too long to load, especially when I’m using a slow internet connection.

When I don’t use Internet Explorer, Windows Live Hotmail doesn’t work very well, especially in Safari.

Common types of fake emails:

o their name in your buddy list. If you do, you’ll know that your friend is particip

Read messages in different folders

Do NOT click “show images” or other content in the email

rything just works quickly with no wait!

If it’s not coming from an official @live.com, @hotmail.com or @microsoft.msn.com address or has

Delete and move messages

What is the i’m Initiative?

Thanks for reporting this, and this is a high priority for us to fix. If you have a slower

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ion allows you to move between messages without reloading

What do I do if I received a fraudulent email pretending to be from Hotmail?

Here in the Hotmail office, we’re huge fans of the classic version because eve

the web page. We’re taking a big step i shanghai massage n this release towards putting your favo

tmail.com accounts for fraudulent purposes, including impersonating Microsoft. Report fraudulent email messages that use the Microsoft name and

As far as I know, there are only four features that IE supports but Firefox doesn’t.

Click the “Junk” button in Hotmail (or “Report phishing scam”)

Happy New Year from Hotmail

Internet connection, you may do better by switching to the classic version of Windows Live Ho

Pulling in messages from other accounts

And as always, the release also contains bug fixes and performance optimizations. Thanks for being a Hotmail customer!

Any letter about winning the “Microsoft lottery” (there’s no such thing) or accepti

First, try the email support blog. Still having trouble? Submit your problem directly to the support team.

Any email saying that Microsoft is going to get rid of free Hotmail accounts. While Microsof

I’ve seen a lot of comments on the blog about people who are having a problem with their

logo.

we support best is Firefox 1.5+. It’s available for practically every operating system out there, so if you can’t use IE or don’t like it, try Firefox because it works well with a wide range of websites. We currently do not support the full version for Safari due to technical limi

nk of JavaScript at the beginning, and this may be

called “Parker Whittle” who is IMing and emailing nonstop for 30 days to support a

rectly to the support team. It’s fine to leave comments here on the blog, but it’s not the fastest way to get help w

Hotmail now brings you additional speed and makes it easie massage shanghai r to pull in mail from other accounts (paid users only)

Thanks to our many users out there who have celebrated many milestones with us! On January 1, 2007, we were still in beta. On January 1, 2006, we were just releasing the beta to countries outside of the United States and United Kingdom. On January 1, 2005, we didn’t have public beta users and we didn’t have this blog.

See also Support blog’s report on fraudulent email.

If you believe your e-mail was deleted in error, please contact the Hotmail Support Team directly. We are not able to offer effective support through blogs. You can submit your problem through this web form. There are great, real-life people there who can help you. They are the same folks who bring you the E-mail Support Space.

at you like the fast performance of the classic version, but love how the full vers

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a phishing or other safety warning, it’s probably a scam. Occasionally, Microsoft does hire a third-party marketing company to send out email

t has offered paid Hotmail accounts since 2001, we have always had free email accounts and plan to keep free email accounts around forever.

tmail, which loads about as fast as MSN Hotmail

We’re very sad whenever we hear this from a customer, because we know how important your e-mail data is. Our support team has done a lot of investigation into these issues, and nearly every case is due to account expiration.

I’ve lost everything in my inbox.

- Ellie Powers, program manager

- Ellie Powers, program manager, Windows Live Hotmail

d an email or IM. It’s really easy. Once you join, there’s no extra time out of your day,

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Thanks to all of our users out there for your patience – we’ve spent a number of months making Hotmail faster and more stable. Our latest release we hope will make your experience more snappy – when it comes to web e-mail, if it’

Any email that says that you must forward it to other people in order to not lose your Hotmail account or have something else bad happen to you.

tations, though we continue to monitor the issue. Safari users can use the classic version of Hotmail for now, and we are monitoring whether future versions of Safari will support all of our technical needs.

tough for folks who have slow internet connections or live far from our data centers. Make su

Free Hotmail accounts expire if you haven’t logged into Hotmail for a certain numbe

If you’re a paid user, we’re making it easier for you to add a non-Hotmail account! Paid users will

Unfortunately, MSN Hotmail did not allow us to address significant customer needs, such as support for certain languages and accessibility for folks with different visual and motor disabilities. We also got complain

We added support for browsers other than Internet Explorer (IE) in 2005, and the non-IE browser

Thanks for your patience and feedback so far. The best way to give us feedback is not on this blog, it’s via this feedback site.

Why can I do certain stuff in the Full version that I can’t do in the Classic version?

going to have to sign up all of our Hotmail accounts!

The classic version is getting seriously snazzed up – we hear you loud and clear th

ng revenue for everyday activities – sending IMs and emails. Hotmail and Messenger have ads, like all free web services, and Microsoft makes mo

Any email about Bill Gates wanting to give you money.

ll version, updating what you see on the screen without reloading the whole page.

ere on the Hotmail team, most of our office signed up right away when the i’m Initiative launched in 2007 – we use Messenger so much to communicate at work that we figured we should put all of that typing to good use. Now, we’re

Beware of suspicious emails that claim to be from Hotmail

gain. MSN Hotmail accounts expire after 60 days, and Windows Live Hotmail accounts expire after 120 days. Advances in our data center have allowed us to extend our expiration times, which used to be 30 days.

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see a link in their inbox that says “Add an e-mail account.” If you click that link, we make it easy to pull in messages from your other a

An email telling you that you must go and enter your username and password to verify your account. Check the “from” address of any such email.

You may have noticed some of your Messenger buddies with a little “i’m” icon next t

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1. Refocus our staff development services (both in our labs and in our custom t

4. Provide additional consulting services to help schools and districts to implement hardware, software, and curricular technology standards (including a systematic process for revision, updates, and replacements) in order to support the above.

In my estimation, as a former English Teacher, the writing that they are doing is more valuable in more important ways that much of the writing they are doing in school, which is not to say that I think there is no value in their formal writing assignments, but rather that I am not concerned. I am excited about their new forms of writing… and further, if our formal stan

The following post by a fellow MSN blogger explains the situation well.

The situation we are in now, where teachers and students are being assessed by

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3. It is my firm belief that the current public education system must reinvent i

many tests and much deliberation, I am settling on a simple blog massage shanghai ger account for this quarter.

If you think that sounds good, check out The Gimp… this is basicly photoshop for free… on any of these operating systems. ;)

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So, how do we assess appropriate use of technology in teaching and learning? And, how do we ensure that our assessments evolve to include current innovations?

Other classes, such as this one, require a high number of posts… such as 3 to 5 topics per week, plus 3 responses to our colleagues. This has worked well in this class because most of the prompts require an interesting composition in response, and because we have a large number of students with something to say. Here the sheer number of posts can be overwhelming, but

lity writing. The ironic thing is that even in classes with more reasonable requirements I tend to visit the class site and read posts at least once a day. However, if I need to miss a day, it is not a source of stress, and as you can tell, I post far less often - only when I have somethin

They are developing new vocabulary and new grammar at massage in yiwu a rapid rate. There is no

I felt this response to a colleague would massage in yiwu be relevant here…

Thanks for reading (and listening from time to time.)

ducation course. I felt I might as well have been going to class every night and I felt that my classmates and I were posting a lot of low qua

p schools and districts to adapt must lead the way. This is what keeps me up at night, and what gets me up in the morning. I want to be a part of this change.

very recently, established a Technology Scope and Sequence and High School Technology Graduation Requirements a couple of years ago, but if teachers were being assessed on their ability to meet he scope an shanghai massage d sequence and gra

In the meantime, thanks to those who have been reading this site or my feed.

One question that I struggle with, and have had different experiences with at Walden U., is how often should students be required to participate in online discussions? I have had classes that required posting on four separate days, and others that required only one.

And their work would be evaluated to determine if they are using technology appropriately

I’d definitely like to put my 2 cents worth in here…

This quarter, I am also enrolled in a class that is completely at the other end of the spectrum. The instructor is requiring 1 post to the weekly discussion topic and 1 response to a classmate… anytime before midnight of Day 7. The class is also very small (about 8 people) and it is rare for anyone to post extra or to offer lengthy posts… the volume of discussion is very low, and it is not very rich.

ly unifying traditions and a greater digital divide between the have’s and have not’s. If we are to avoid this, hybrid organizations, such as the county office, which have the resources, vision, and flexibility to hel

y. http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm

d it to anyone that needs a low cost computing plaform, even for multi-media! Fedora Core 3 is

I too had a class in which I was required to post on four separate days during the week. This was an awful experience. I think this requirement was wasteful and ignorant, revealing our instructor’s utter misunderstanding of the power of online education. Did I word that strongly? I meant it strongly. This removed most of the advantages of taking an online asynchronous distance e

ssaging, blogging, etc… and much of the higher order thinking that is happening is exactly what teachers have been struggling to coax out of students writing a five paragraph essay for years… in terms of the analysis, evaluat

Initially, I thouhgt it would bve very imporatnat to respond to this post, but I realize now that you’ev actually captured much of what I meant to say. Our computer using students are writing all the time… for email, ins

Written in response to a clas shanghai massage s prompt…

Well, not yet… I suppose once I have my own children and grand children this may change.

ion, and synthesis. I think this is a wonderful thing. These new forms of writing encourage many students to compose, and reflect, on a daily basis. Most are very concerned about their tone, syntax, and the effect their writing will have on its audience…. they are just not writing for us.

g to say if I can help it.

over in the coming years.

Linux - At home I use XP, OS X, and Fedora Core Linux. Since I’ve got the others, there isn’t much reason for someone like me to use Linux, except to learn it. However, having become comforatble with it, I can highly recommen

I think assessment of teaching with technology is at least as problematic as asses

Let me respond to many items in this thread…

And of course you should consider browsing with Firefox. ;)

2. Infuse these new integration efforts not only with ways to integrate existing technologies into existing pedagogies, but also with ways to alter pedagogy to be more context-embedded, inquire-driven, and socially-negotiated in keeping wit

For instance, on the Mac platform, instea massage in shanghai d of specific iPhoto and iMovie classes, we might offer “iLife projects for high School

duate students who met the HSTGRs then those teachers who have adopted project based learning with iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, Garage Band, etc on th

Even the state of California Technology Assistance Project is only overtly concerned with Word processing, Spreadsheets, databases, email, and the internet. The multimedia applications and web based workflow collaboration are nowhere to be found.

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raining program) from application specific topics to curriculum integration specific topics.

For instance, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, where I worked until

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Open Office - Open Office is Star Office, minus some copyrighted third party content. It is free. It can read and write Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Documents (as well as many other formats, including i massage yiwu ts own superior xml based format). I

ed, we must remain committed to seeking out and exploring new applications of new technologies if we are to continue to inspire innovation in e

This is only barely about education, but this is a topic that I am passionate about that I have not had much opportunity to post about here. This was written in response to some Windows versus Linux discussions my colleagues were having.

With email, discussion groups, blogs, etc., the interest in writing (albeit bad writing) is coming back. And as you mention, the importance attached to “good” writing needs to be emphasized. Perhaps one of the new roles of teachers, is back to basics - ie. reading, writing.

What steps might you (or your organization) take, both long and short term, to help your school more effectively integrate technology into the curriculum? Create a short plan of action for how you may go about helping facilitat

The new blog is called simply “Educational Technology and Life” this time… and I

I think a similar discussion might be had about the number of assignments… and about group assignments as a subset, but I’ll limit the time I’m putting into this reply. ;)

ying to brand my blog in fact. I would be happy to hear any suggestions. :)

2. In addition to exploring new technologies, we must also allocate resources to exploring n

English Language Arts”.) Traditionally we offer week long summer institutes for teacher

ew pedagogies and new school structures (in terms of physi massage in shanghai cal layout, distance learning, and schedules - for classes, school days, and scho

No anonymous comments… planning a move

have spent a good deal of time trying to find a shorter name… I’ve been tr

A response to a colleagues’ post in class at Walden…

And I hope you will subscribe to the new site as well. See the right hand co

This came up in class…

feed, will follow me over to the new site.

a mature modern opperating system. (So are many other distributions of Linux, but Fedora Core is geared toward the end user and is seeing widespread use.) There is no more need to know the command line than there is with Windows and OS X.

Well, here it is, I hope that anyone who happ massage shanghai ened to be reading this blog, or my

I am therefore planning a move in the first week of March. I’ll be trying out blogger. I’ve got a template all setup, but I haven’t settled on a few details yet, so I’ll publish the address of the site and the feed here once I’ve settled those issues.

e the technology integration process in your context.

the chances of identifying with a post and wanting to respond to it are much higher. However, this might also backfire in a smaller class where there there is less to chose from when responding. I have sometimes found our Thursday requirement artificial, but I understand the need to post in time for others to respond. (Incidentally, these late posts come massage in yiwu after I was out of town and informed Dr. Shepard.)

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sing student use of technology. How does one a shanghai massage ccount for innovation and then integration of new technologies?

this sort of integration training.

outmoded means (such as paper and pencil multiple choice tests completed by the individual in a timed environment) can be easily recreated over and

tant me

tself for the 21st Century (which includes of course contingencies for continued rein

ol years) made possible by the new technologies.

, and I think this is an ideal time to implement and pilot this change. I have already begun the needs assessment for this change, but this will also require that a good deal of time is devoted to instructional design. We may need to recruit a new cadre of trainers better qualified for

Assessment of appropriate technology use in teaching and learning

Long Term

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I work as an Educational Technology Coordinator at the Orange County Department of Education, so I will approach this prompt from the perspective of how the county can help schools and districts to more effectively integrate technology into the curriculum.

http://spaces.msn.com/members/wphowell/blog/cns!1p_bzkoardb-8JAm4_bq68mg!126.entry

Short Term

thing inherently wrong with this, and I see now that you’ve put “good” in quotes, so you too realize that we are only concerned because they are not following the same formal rules that we were taught. (Then again, may

Open Source Software in Education

e Mac), with the handheld learning environment (FreeWrite, Sketchy, PicoMap etc on the Palm), or the read/write web (blogs, RSS, FURL etc) would be judged failures.

1. Our department does a good job of staying on top of new and current trends in the integration of educational technologies into the curriculum. However, there is no formal system in place. While a formal system may not be requir

Of course I’ve had other classes that required fewer postings. A common format seems to be a single weekly discussion question to which everyone must post, but then you must also respond to three of your classmates. This I have found focused and productive. It was worth spending time composing each post, and it was worth reading most of them as well.

vention) or else be replaced by private efforts, perhaps at the cost of tremendous societal growth pains, such as the loss of many cultural

Yay! An open source software thread!

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ducation. This will be costly in terms of relatively risky investments in conferences, correspondence with experts, equipment, and the time to needed to experiment.

lumn for several subscription options.

Many of my readers have already shared their frus yiwu massage tration with the MSN Passport login required to post comments on this blog.

3. Provide consulting services to help schools and districts build their own capacity to do all of the above.

dards change (and there have been some I have actively sought to change), I won’t be terribly upset.

ompatible with cutting edge software s massage yiwu uch as games.

Mark Wagner’s thoughts on Educational Technology (and Life) have moved. After

-Mark

t can serve as a front end to a SQL database (so no need for Access). And, it runs on most major Operating Systems including Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. There is no reason in the world not to suggest that your students use this at home if they don’t own MS Office.

be you didn’t… since you didn’t but “bad” in quotes) These rules have always changed over time, they may just be changing more fluidly now than they did a generation ago. Consider the differences between our writing and our parents… or our founding fathers, for instance.

prove a point decision with the feds movies

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as had little to celebrate with declining sales.

kes the money, and they don’t give it to the artists,” he told BBC News.

FULL OF PEOPLE, “KANYE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT GIVING A GOOD PERFORMANCE.” CAN ANYONE HONESTLY SAY THAT ????????? HAS ANYONE EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO AT LEAST DO THE MATH??? BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN’T LET’S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW

“The ’90s in England were deemed the tough period for us but people over-hype the

gazine’s Web site. Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” was the top album debut of the year aft

Last week Skwerl’s blog crashed from the traffic flood that resulted from his contr

ott described it as simply a “great value ticket”.

Def Leppard: Relevant?

ard some leaks. And they suck. And if you’re surprised, then you really are an op

HOMETOWN heroes Def Leppard http://www.massageinshanghai.orghave defended their decision to do a co-headline

ly did you post?” I go, “Uhhhh. [Meek voice] New Guns n’ Roses.” He goes, “Mot

tening possible legal action. “I’m not so worried about that,” Skwerl says. “It’s a

LOS ANGELES — Coldplay’s new album is already living the life.

oard 200, with 737,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen So

Tube total each time it does. Keep this page open while you browse the internet, stu

Check out http://www.avrilbandaids.com/youtubeviewer.html - This page has been s

The “new” Guns ‘n’ Roses album, 37 years in the making, long rumored to be apocryphal

eo on YouTube to have over 100,000,000 views.

The views will start to add up faster than you can even imagine. If we had 86 peopl

so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!! Call me any name you want…. arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of…. BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL! NEVER SAY I DIDN’T GIVE MY ALL! THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN! LIKE WAYNE SAYS PLEASE DON’T SHOOT ME DOWN CAUSE I’M FLYING! I’M FUCKING HURT BY THIS ONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE FANS. JUST SAY THIS OUT LOUD IN A ROOM

“Viva La Vida” follows 2005’s “X&Y,” which also debuted at No. 1 on The Billb

becoming the most watched video of all time on YouTube, so if ever there was a ti

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dy for exams, or even sleep. For extra viewing power, open u

urse it will be easy because we have a secret weapon

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CAME TO THE GLOW TOUR CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WANTED PEOPLE TO SEE IT PROPERLY. IT BROKE MY HEART THAT I COULDN’T GIVE THESE FANS STRONGER IN IT

The rapper claimed that the download service was based on an “old system” whereby musicians were cut out of pay deals.

as number one in http://www.full-body-massage.org/ 22 countries – ‘96 was the big dip.

Kid Rock: Not Downloadable

Yikes!

Def Leppard is “more relevant than ever,” according to singer Joe Elliot. And so,

Update: Skwerl wants to make it clear that he’s unsure whether or not he broke the law, but he will cooperate with the feds in any way he can. “If legal proceedings come my way, I’ll face them 100 percent. I’m not afraid of that. I did what I did, and I’ll face the music if I have to.”-Andy Greene

“I will be on iTunes eventually because I can’t avoid it, but I like to alw

pecially designed to kick some serious YouTube butt.

“No matter how longhttp://www.massageinguangzhou.org you’ve been around you’re gonna go through periods where yo

herfucker.” Before long his cell phone rang with an unfamiliar 323 number. “It was a really cool guy from the Gn’R camp that was a middle man between someone who was very angry and me. He was trying to reach out and see if I’d go without a fight, which is more or less what I did.”

FBI officers, who Skwerl describes as “Mulder and Scully types,” questioned him for 15 minutes about where he got the tracks and made pla

The tour follows the Lepp’s latest album Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, thei

“We were doing okay live, we just weren’t getting played on the radio. And once on

“Back in the day, we all know the stories of the Otis massage shenzhen Reddings and Chuck Berrys

Kid Rock is refusing to allow his songs to be sold through the Apple iTunes downlo

old songs in the set, but they get to play some new stuff and look valid, so

From Rolling Stone.com:

Every 15 seconds this page will automatically refresh adding 1 view to Girlfriend’s You

me for us to bring back our Girlfriend YouTube campaign, that time is now!

“It’s not some saddoes tour, it’s not nostalgia. Of course there’s gonna be

for that matter, is Whitesnake. Perhaps they heard Chinese Democracy leaks and are feeling cocky?

I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall… Why???? I understand if people don’t like me because I like me or if people think tight clothes look gay or people say I run my mouth to much, But this Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I’ve ever had in my life. This is the most offended I’ve ever been… this is the maddest I ever will be. I’m typing

This, courtesy of Golden Fiddle, is some disturbing business:

89,046,834 views. Which means we’re just under 1 million views away from takin

Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend music video is less than 1 million views away from

e keeping two windows open for 10 days straight, we would already be at 10,000,000 views.

er it sold a spectacular 1 million copies earlier this month.

BECAUSE OF IT. A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT’S WAY UP.. I CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE I WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN. I’VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT’S CO

u’re just not cool,” admitted Joe, whose band has sold over 65 million alb

negativity because you tend to forget Adrenalize came out in the ’90s and w

or the artist to be paid fairly, for the record companies to make some money.

Ahead of Monday’s show at Sheffield Arena with Whitesnake, singer Joe Elli

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Kid Rock says no to iTunes. It’s nice to see that some artists are still all about the roy

Skwerl posted nine newly leaked Chinese Democracy tracks, including three previously unheard songs allegedly from Guns n’ Roses long-awaited album. Skwerl — who used to work in the distribution department of Universal Music an

ndScan. It album sold 3.2 million copies in the United States.

Skwerl agreed to take them down, but a cease-and-desist letter soon followed threa

When the blog Antiquiet posted nine tracks from Guns ‘N’ Roses’s long delayed Chi

d is now a Web designer — runs the blog Antiquiet, and says he received the tracks from “an anonymous online source.”

egal grey area since it wasn’t for download, it wasn’t a finished product. We aren’t sure who owns the recordings. I feel like I might survive this.”

e journalist goes ‘the ’90s were tough’ another journalist reads that and it

r first in six years, and 50 sold-out arena shows in the US.

ed to what we’re capable of. We’re going to make Girlfriend the first ever vid

all goes in one direction.”

“This is not like the Glitter Band, Mud and Suzi Quatro on the bus playing Butlins,

“I wasn’t sure if they were going to come by with a warrant and trash the place

Two back-to-back blockbuster sales are a boost to the sluggish music industry, which h

“It’s based on an old system where iTunes takes the money, the record company ta

ue identity as a total crackpot, is now audible. And Stereogum has he

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d files that are now widely available on the Internet.

, really really expensive, and, well, riddled with rumors of Axl Rose’s tr

alty rates (as opposed to say, the nookie). From NME:

ays stick to my guns and prove a point and do somet massage shenzhenhing original and because I believe in it.”

p two or more browser windows at this page!

From The Star (of Yorkshire), via Idolator:

sold in its first week, the second-best opening week of 2008, according to the trade ma

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He did, however, concede that it was inevitable that his music would one day be available on iTunes.

Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin

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tour amid suggestions they haven’t got what it takes to fill major UK venues on their own anymore.

Yesterday Skwerl was surprised to find himself face to face with two FBI

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elevant than ever, playing arenas,” said the Sheffield frontman.

Girlfriend currently has 88,068,719 views and the #1 video Evolution of Dance has

nese Democracy album, GNR fans (and haters alike) jumped for joy. Then the FBI showed up at the blogger’s house.

Idolator has a blow-by-blow breakdown of Kanye West’s response to fan anger about his controversial Bonnaroo appearance, originally posted on Kanye’s own blog. Unsurprisingly, he’s mad:

ion, much less Lies or Use Your Illusion I or II.)

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“Viva La Vida” will debut at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart with over 720,000 copies

oversial posting. “My host contacts me and says, ‘What the fuck did you do?’” I go, “Uhhhh. I posted some music.” He goes, “What exact

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and Fats Dominos who never got paid,” he continued. “So the internet was an opp

agents who paid a visit to his day job. “It was kind of an ambush,” Skwerl tells Rolling Stone. “When I came back from lunch they were waiting in the lobby for me. It’s a little creepy they know where I work.” Two young

timistic soul. (I, for one, don’t even like Appetite For Destruct

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this is Def Leppard and Whitesnake, both with new albums, both acts more r

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do we, and people come to hear stuff they know.”

But making Girlfriend the most watched video on YouTube is small potatoes compar

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ns to visit his house at 7:00 a.m. this morning.

, like in the movies,” he says. “It was nothing like that.” The FBI officials wanted to see the original files, but Skwerl erased them last week per instructions from Axl Rose’s attorneys. Skwerl ultimately gave them second-han

ums and played to over 50 million fans in the last 15 years.

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The classic version of Windows Live Hotmail looks and acts very similar to MSN Hotma

Free Hotmail accounts expire if you haven’t logged into Hotmail for a certain number of days, which is a standard practice for web-based mail accounts because many users use an account for a little while, and then never use i

I’ve lost everything in my inbox.

Read messages in different folders

n’t resize the columns in the full version. The special photo upload tool is an ActiveX control and works only in IE, but non-IE users can attach photos just like any other file. Only IE users can see their friends’ Messenger presence.

The classic version is getting seriously snazzed up – we hear you loud and clear that you like the fast performance of the classic version, but love how the full version allows you to move between messages without reloading the web page. We’re taking a big step in this release towards putting your favorite full version features into the classic version.

In future releases, you’ll see more about how we’re making the classic version faster and also adding features to it.

What do I do if I received a fraudulent email pretending to be from Hotmail?

As with any other scam, the saying that fits is: If it’s too good to be true, then it probably is.

have a slower Internet connection, you may do better by switching to the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail, which loads about as fast as MSN Hotm

The classic version works the same, and looks the same, but now it is more like the full version, updating what you see on the screen without reloading the whole page.

ail did. The full version is fast once it’s fully loaded, but you do have

How do I get started?

An email telling you that you must go and enter your username and password to verify your account. Check the “from” address of any such email.

A few days ago, we told you about how Windows Live Hotmail was created. Today, we’ll respond to some of the top issues we’ve heard about from our customers.

Any email that says that you must forward it to other people in order to not lose your Hotmail account or have something else bad happen to you.

Go to http://im.live.com to join. You can choose to participate in Messenger, Hotmail, or both and you can pick a different organization for each service or dedicate all your efforts to one cause – it’s entirely up to you! This program is currently available only to customers in the United States. Once you’re set up, you’ll raise money for your favorite cause every time you send an email or IM. It’s really easy. Once you join, there’s no extra time out of your day, you don’t have to pay any money, and you get to know that you’re taking a step towards making the world better. The power of the collective can be huge – think of the difference that could happen if everyone swapped out a few plastic grocery bags each week for a reusable bag or took one less car trip a week.

Why can I do certain stuff in the Full version that I can’t do in the Classic version?

Speeding up the classic version

- Ellie Powers, program manager

I don’t want an e-mail program that looks like Outlook; the interface of the new Hotmail is too complicated.

We’re very sad whenever we hear this from a customer, because we know how important your e-mail data is. Our support team has done a lot of investigation into these issues, and nearly every case is due to account expiration.

Can I choose who gets Microsoft’s money?

first option on the page to see if you’re currently using the full or classic version.

The full version uses AJAX, which is a more advanced technology that provides you with

And as always, the release also contains bug fixes and performance optimizations. Thanks for being a Hotmail customer!

Windows Live Hotmail pages take too long to load, especially when I’m using a slow internet connection.

Thanks to all of our users out there for your patience – we’ve spent a number of months making Hotmail faster and more stable. Our latest release we hope will make your experience more snappy – when massage shanghai it comes to web e-mail, if it’s not fast, doesn’t matter how many great features are in it.

Do NOT click any links in the email. Approach links in email with caution.

Pulling in messages from other accounts

The i’m Initiative is a Microsoft program where Microsoft shares a portion of their advertising revenue for everyday activities – sending IMs and emails. Hotmail and Messenger have ads, like all free web services, and Microsoft makes money when a customer sees an ad. The i’m Initiative has successfully raised over 1.4 million dollars since it got started in 2007. It used to be available only in Windows Live Messenger, and now the Hotmail team is glad to say that you’ll be able to raise money for the cause of your choice each time you send an email.

imitations, though we continue to monitor the issue. Safari users can use the classic version of Hotmail for now, and we are monitoring whether massage in shanghai future versions of Safari will support all of our technical needs.

Any email saying that Microsoft is going to get rid of free Hotmail accounts. While Microsoft has offered paid Hotmail accounts since 2001, we have always had free email accounts and plan to keep free email accounts around forever.

, too. massage in shanghai If you liked MSN Hotmail, you may prefer the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail. Make sure you’re using it by going

We added support for browsers other than Internet Explorer (IE) in 2005, and the non-IE browser we support best is Firefox 1.5+. It’s available for practically every operating system out there, so if you can’t use IE or don’t

a lot of rich and snappy interactions, such as loading the next message in your inbox without reloading the whole page. Some features, such as the reading pane, wouldn’t work well if the whole webpage had to reload, so they are available in the full version only.

If you believe your e-mail was deleted in error, please contact the Hotmail Support Team directly. We are not able to offer effective support through blogs. You can submit your problem through this web form.

Microsoft’s i’m Initiative: Hotmail users can now give shanghai massage Microsoft’s money to good causes

Q & A about Windows Live Hotmail

Do NOT click “show images” or other content in the email

Read messages in your inbox

If it’s not coming from an official @live.com, @hotmail.com or @microsoft.msn.com address or has a phishing or other safety warning, it’s probably a scam. Occasionally, Microsoft does hire a third-party marketing company to send out emails, but the emails should notify you that this is happening. Sometimes users will set up @hotmail.com accounts for fraudulent purposes, including impersonating Microsoft. Report fraudulent email messages that use the Microsoft name and logo.

Happy New Year from all of us here on the Windows Live Hotmail team! I hope all of you out there in blog land have a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year. We’re back in the office and busy working on our plans for Hotmail shanghai massage in 2008.

Happy New Year from Hotmail

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The classic version works for a huge range of browsers: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2.0+, Safari 2.0+, and other modern browsers.

Any email about Bill Gates wanting to give you money.

You may have noticed some of your Messenger buddies with a little “i’m” icon next to their name in your buddy list. If you do, you’ll know that your friend is participating in the i’m Initiative and raising money for social causes. Here on the Hotmail team, most of our office signed up right away when the i’m Initiative launched in 2007 – we use Messenger so much to communicate at work that we figured we should put all of that typing to good use. Now, we’re going to have to sign up all of our Hotmail accounts!

t again. MSN Hotmail accounts expire after 60 days, and Windows Live Hotmail accounts expire after 120 days. Advances in our data center have allowed us to massage yiwu extend our expiration times, which used to be 30 days.

s from many customers about MSN Hotmail being too hard to use. We spent a long time building a new version of Hotmail that the majority of our customers like better, and we want to focus our engineering team’s efforts on the new system. It is a bit of a change, but Windows Live Hotmail has a lot of the same functionality as MSN Hotmail. Before we started working on Windows Live Hotmail, we used to update MSN Hotmail a lot, so it would change

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newable energy payments for industries that enter the US electricity market. Renewable en

US, but the increasingly challenging economic and environmental situation has left U

as significantly reduced CO2 emissions, by approximately 114 million tons in 2007.

Rep. Inslee has a vision of an environmental revolution; he believes that the US is

lly have a really accurate vision of how big are the pollution problems of China. Hopefully environmental action will start before the results of the poll are released.

Mother Earth was also invited, and she sent us the “gift” of torrential rain. However, not ev

that occurred 635 million years ago may be similar to the rapid and global change possible today. NSF has documented a rapid shift in climate 635

farms and other polluters would have to report how much they pollute and what pollutant the

According to a study from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, China has overta

about 66% of energy generated is lost due to outdated and dilapidated transmission systems. Further, the lack of centralized planning results i

eople compared with 300 million in the U.S., the situation has to be taken seriously as the energy of the country still relies on coal for 70% of the energy production.

carcinogens, as well as chemicals that may harm your nervous and reproductive systems. These

ts do not know at what point warming will trigger the methane to be released from its current dormant state.

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The effects of this and other Earth Day events was felt on Tuesday, Ap massage yiwu ril 22nd, when thousands of calls inundated the US Capitol Switchboard with one single message: the need for strong, immediate and fair action against climate change.

d-in tariffs have created new industries and jobs in the renewable energy sector, as well

to the transmission lines that are necessary to incorporate their renewable energy source. This policy, called “participant funding,” may add tens of millions of dollars to the cost of the project. T

ergy payments are commonly called feed-in tariffs (in Europe and elsewhere.) Feed-in tariffs refer to the monetary incentives adopted -most nota

n divided and localized energy systems. These systems are barriers to renewable energy development in that they cannot transport electricity from

cy (the subject of a second upcoming bill Inslee plans to introduce) would limit

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nefits and possibilities of renewable energy payments in the US. At this briefing, Repr

chnology] to developing countries.”

ke and dust particles in Chinese air is three to twelve times the maximum level usually ac

nt to analyze this climate change and figure out the possibilities that could change the earth’s climate today. The balance of the earth’s atmosphere is not entirely understood and the possibility of a large release of methane gas means that sudden and extensive climate change could occur if we were to reach that tipping point.

the amount of CO2 emissions polluters are allowed to put into the atmosphere; any additional CO2 emissions would come with a price tag attached.

Renewable Energy and Transmission

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good renewable generation locations, which tend to be remote and scarcely populated, to the major population centers. Rob Gramlich of the America

n Wind Energy Association calls for a “Transmission Superhighway” that would connect most of the country to one high voltage grid. Gramlich bel

rtained the crowd but wouldn’t let them forget what the main goal of the event was: to raise awareness and inspire political action against climate change.

Go online and see for yourself! www.climate.yale.edu/seeforyourself.

On Sunday, April 20th, the National Mall in Washington, DC hosted the flagship event for this year’s Earth Day celebrations.

y discharge. In order to be successful, it has been said that the companies will not be charged any fines or sanctions. This way, we might fina

The past decade has brought impressive strides in the renewable energy market in the

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onomic factors of the reduction in carbon emissions. It asses massage yiwu ses what would happen to the economy if certain environmental policies were

Faced with the reality and imminent nature of Global Warming, it is necessary to bring as much clean, renewable energy online as quickly as possible. The current policies, which were designed with non-renewable sources in mind, are cumbersome and limiting to our national renewable potential. Increased efficiency across the grid, a “Transmission Superhighway,” and streamlined po

In order to reach these goals, Inslee says there needs to be investment in renew

panel briefing that occurred in the Dirkson Senate building Friday, June 13th.

nder the German feed-in tariff legislation, industries using renewable energy techn

uld take the form of a survey, in which all the factories

vestors sooner than that. This expense causes many projects to be terminated. Wuslich proposes a streamlining of the approval system to minimize risk and delays. He also argues that transmission owners are in a better position to bear the financing risk as they can begin recovering costs imme

en in the worst of the storm did the people stop moving to the music and massage yiwu answering with cheers to the environmental messages from the stage.

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hey are repaid over the next 5-20 years, but generally must be turning profit for their in

fully capable of de-carbonizing the American economy over the next few decades. “Th

Scientists with the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been studying the past millions of years of the earth’s climate history to gain a better understanding of the changes that are taking place today. One such cataclysmic climate event

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There were also dozens of booths where exhibitors educated the public and suggested action

Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies recently launched a web site that looks at the ec

enewable source: solar, wind, biomass, etc., and will decrease each year. The feed-in tar

buyers and guaranteed prices for a set amount of time will attract venture capitalists, resu

The development of renewable energy generation must coincide with the creation and renovation of transmission lines in order to maximize efficiency and output potential. This was the central theme of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute

The research team, headed by Dr. Martin Kennedy, has been studying the samples of marine sedime

logies are guaranteed priority connection with the electricity grid, and are paid a premium r

China to start measuring its pollution

ate that is designed to generate a reasonable profit for investors over a 20 year period. The rates differ depending on the type of r

e into the air. Among these chemicals are many

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mplemented. You can go on the website and choose from 7 assumptions and predict the economic impact of reducing emissions. You decide which assumptions are realistic and what is the result if they occur. Based on the percentages you choose, y

In addition to his other goals, Inslee believes the “single most cost effective thing” the US can do is to implement renewable energy payments, established by the Renewable Energy and Jobs Security Act. The act would incorporate re

According to Jon Wellinghoff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in our current gri

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trong chemical odor that may have caused you to feel nauseous or sick. According to a new study commissioned by the Center for Health, Enviro

CHEJ has initiated a petition to major retailers asking them to phase out PVC shower curtains. They are asking for your help in protecting unsuspecting shoppers from unknowingly bringing these harmful chemicals into their homes. Please take a moment to sign the petition and share this information with your friends and family.

nd Energy Study Institute held a briefing addressing the be

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oil industries, and a cap and trade policy on CO2 emissions. The cap and trade poli

nment and Justice, this odor is the result of over 100 chemicals PVC shower curtains can releas

esentative Jay Inslee (D-WA) introduced his upcoming bill, the Renewable Energy Jobs and Security Act.

able energy and building efficiency, changes in tax codes that will not benefit

iately.

ken the United States as the world’s biggest CO2 emitter. In 2006 China would have produced 6,200m tonnes of CO2, compared with 5,800m tonnes from the US. Al

million years ago that they believe was caused by the release of methane gas from clathrates

lting in rapid growth in the renewable energy industry, with the consequent economic and environmental benefits.

rs, trees have been planted, some roads have been rerouted, etc. More than $16 billion have been spent on that purpose.

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ich now has the world’s largest market for wind energy and photovoltaic systems. Additionally, fee

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ieves that by doing so we could easily generate 20% of the nation’s energy with wind by 2030 while tapping only a fraction of national wind potential.

he country to report as accurately as possible the country’s worse polluters. This project wo

Policy-wise, many changes will need to take place before widespread improvements can be seen on transmission lines. For starters, the FERC’s siting authority is limited to locations where the DOE has granted them corridor designations. S

in renewable energy. On June 18 the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Environmental a

bly- by Germany to utilize renewable energy resources. U

iffs have caused the renewable energy market to explode over the past decade in Germany, wh

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