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How Do We Prepare Our Children for What's Next?
When most of us were deciding what to major in at college, the word Google was not a verb. It wasn't anywhere close to being conceived at all. Neither was Wikipedia or the iPhone or YouTube. We made decisions about our future employment based on what we knew existed at the time. We would become educators, journalists, lawyers, marketing reps, engineers.
Fast forward a couple of decades (or more) and we see that the career landscape has changed so drastically that jobs need new definitions. Social media strategist, app developer, mobile web engineer?
Some of us could ask ourselves if we would have embarked upon our current careers had we predicted how the Internet would revolutionize every part of our lives? It's hard to say, but when it comes to preparing our kids for what's ahead, Cathy Davidson has a few ideas. The author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking), who's also a professor at Duke University, believes that, in light of the fact that "65 percent of today's grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn't been invented yet," we should cast aside our fear of technology, and prepare our school-aged kids with important skills, both in technical ways and other less tangible ways.
"We are right on time to give up techno-phobia and to tackle the problems and opportunities of the digital world with good sense, pragmatics, realism, and purpose," Davidson said. "Once we absorb the realization that we've already changed, and that we're actually doing pretty well despite major realignments in our lives, then we can think about how we want to take this amazing new tool [the Internet] and use it in a way that better serves our lives. It's time to survey our lives and figure out what works, what doesn't, and how we can make real and practical improvements in our schools, our workplace, our every day lives."
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Davidson offers three can-do suggestions for parents:
- EXPERIMENT WITH SCRATCH. It's a brilliant and fun multimedia programming language that allows inventive media mixing almost immediately, without any background. It is creative and fun. Even if your child has no interest in being a programmer when they grow up, familiarity with the building blocks of a programming language will give them some skills and expertise at producing the kind of content they are already consuming. [See "5 Tools to Introduce Programming to Kids."]
- EMBARK ON A MEANINGFUL PROJECT.Help your child (at any age, really) by being willing to help out—but emphatically not to lead or rescue—in an extended, risky project that has real impact in the child's community—school, neighborhood, church, synagogue, community center. But stay out of the way. Let the kids shape the project. Kids should find a project that will probably not succeed in all the ways they hope. Dreaming big, taking risks, and scaling back if and when you have to are fantastic skills. These skills are hardly ever taught in the school room which seems to be organized (as is much American society these days) as if some litigious personal injury lawyer is there ready to pounce at any moment.
- LEARN HOW TO BE A RESPONSIBLE DIGITAL CITIZEN. Learn how to give and take feedback in a public and responsible way. There are different software tools that can help you set up a system where each student has an online identity, for privacy. Give each student 10 stars to award over the course of, let's say, a 10-week project. Each week, every student is required to award one star to a member of the team whom s/he deems to have done the most to move the project forward. Before students award their stars, they need to put in writing, on the class website, the reasons for the choice. They shouldn't waste good energy on negative criticism. Critique is the easy way out, as anyone who has read the trollish comments on the Internet knows. Negative comments are a drain on everyone's energy and negativity is not the same as high standards. If each star is awarded with a well thought out assessment of why merit has been earned, that is a far better way to train judgment than trashing. What special contribution did a classmate make that made you want to give him or her a star? Everyone will learn from the answer (and the accumulating stars). Sound easy? It's not. But if you can learn judgment--not silly bubble test grading, not sarcasm or bullying but clear-eyed judgment on the way to the group's success at attaining its goals—then you are building up a repertoire of successful skills and methods that you can call upon later, in any circumstance.
Davidson believes the culture of fear that has dominated the public discussion around the Internet and kids is damaging at best, ruinous at worst.
"Sadly, it's a fearful time in American culture, with news focusing excessively on everything tragic, horrifying, and threatening in the world," she said. "There is no evidence of an increase in such crime, just an increase in reporting."
And the notion that the Internet is ruining our brain, our attention and memory is flase, she says. "Everything new changes our habits, makes new patterns, and there is certainly a learning curve whenever we face new challenges. But the fact is we're doing amazingly well. Let's have some perspective here!" she says.
Davidson also believes the archaic education system -- especially when it comes to graded exams -- will inevitably change because it has to. The discrepancy between how kids learn inside the formal school environment -- complete with bell schedules and drills -- and the free-form and social nature of informal learning will invariably have to be addressed.
In my interview with Davidson, I ask her to enumerate practical steps schools can take to prepare students for the future, and what she considers to be the ideal school day.
Here's the full transcript of my interview with Davidson. I recommend reading it -- and Davidson's book -- in full. It's well worth the time.
Q. It seems that so much of the apprehension about bringing technology into schools is about fear. Fear of losing control of information, fear of harming children's attention spans, their learning brain. How do you think we can address or overcome these fears?
A. Sadly, it's a fearful time in American culture, with news focusing excessively on everything tragic, horrifying, and threatening in the world, especially sexual crimes against children. There is no evidence of an increase in such crime, just an increase in reporting. And an exponential increase, for middle-class American parents, in limiting our children's mobility. We know from research that a child's world has shrunk in the last 200 years in the West from being allowed, as preteens, to wander to the next village or to roam over one's city until now, where even "play" has to be monitored by an adult-arranged and supervised "play date."
We are also fearful about ourselves—the Internet is ruining our brain, our attention, our memory. Well, it isn't. Everything new changes our habits, makes new patterns, and there is certainly a learning curve whenever we face new challenges. But the fact is we're doing amazingly well. Let's have some perspective here!
Historian Robert Darnton says there have been four great Information Ages in all human history, where a new technology has transformed how we communicate and interact—and he goes back to 4000 BC Mesopotamia for the first of these, the invention of writing. Then comes movable type, then mass steam-powered printing of the Industrial Age that makes books available to the masses for the first time in history, and now, our own Information Age where anyone can "Broadcast Yourself." We're 15 years into something so paradigm-changing that we have not yet adjusted our institutions of learning, work, social life, and economic life to account for the massive change. Fifteen years in is when people tend to start thinking about technological change in less fearful and more practical ways. They give up their nostalgia for the "before" and then start to focus on now, on how we can make the tools and resources available to them as productive as possible.
In other words, we are right on time to give up techno-phobia and to tackle the problems and opportunities of the digital world with good sense, pragmatics, realism, and purpose. Once we absorb the realization that we've already changed, and that we're actually doing pretty well despite major realignments in our lives, then we can think about how we want to take this amazing new tool and use it in a way that better serves our lives. Being afraid is never useful. It's time to survey our lives and figure out what works, what doesn't, and how we can make real and practical improvements in our schools, our workplace, our every day lives.
Q. What do you predict could happen if the education system continues to resist the change?
A. I predict the education system will change. It has to. There were enormous changes to all forms of education in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In fact, most of what we think of as "school" was developed and institutionalized about 120 years ago to teach kids regulation and efficiency, the bywords of industrialization. Farm kids and immigrant kids were streaming into the cities. To make an industrial labor force required the school bell (in literal and metaphoric terms) and lots of regimentation.
We have a mismatch between the inventive ways kids learn at home online and in their game play and with their friends on social networks and the industrial age structure, division of subject matter, and ways of assessment in school. It will change—because everyone (parents, teachers, kids, principals, policy makers) know our schools are out of date. I think we are on the verge of seeing a major change in educational policy and in how we test (the first step—get rid of those End of Grade exams!), how we measure, and how we teach and learn. It will happen because it has to.
Q. What do you think that ideal school day could look like?
A. Remember Ichabod Crane, that parody of the tiresome schoolmaster in Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleep Hollow" (published in 1820). If you plunked him down in a contemporary school room, he wouldn't have a clue what electricity was, he'd be baffled by computers, but he would know exactly where to stand and he'd know exactly where he stood: front of the class, in charge, teaching to the test!
In my ideal school, there would be no one school day because every day would be different. And it wouldn't be a school of the future: the future is now! In researching Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, I spent time with incredible teachers who, in ways large and small, inspire their students to learn. My future school would bring them together, take lessons from them. They give us heart and will because they already exist. We can learn from these three, one who taught decades ago in a rural one room school house, one senior scholar-teacher in a Manhattan school, one brand-new twenty-four year old teacher in a small urban city (in Durham, N.C.).
- From Inez Davidson: Mrs. Davidson is a "back to the future" teacher whose Friday "challenge days" can be incorporated into any school today, right now. She taught back in the 1950s to 1980s, in a three-room school house in rural Mountain View, Alberta, Canada. She turned teaching third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders into an asset instead of a deficit, having kids teach one another what they had learned the year before. And every Friday, the third- and fourth-grade kids would be pitted against the fifth graders in a learning challenge that the kids themselves would dream up—spelling bees, math quizzes, geography tests, language tests, grammar tests, poetry and rhyming competitions. Or project challenge: Who can build the highest tower out of Popsicle sticks without glue? And then she set year-long challenges as well. My personal favorite was challenging the kids to find pen pals in as many Mountain Views as they could find anywhere in the world, researching the places where they lived, becoming pen pals, and then interviewing the pen pals for a final research paper on Mountain Views in China or New Zealand. Decades before the Internet, she made learning connect kids around the world, expanding horizons, teaching geography and languages and politics and history in a way that mattered intensely to the kids.
- From Katie Salen: I would take the idea of the Boss Level Challenge, a building block of the game mechanics that power Quest2Learn, a public school in Manhattan. Katie Salen is a professor at Parsons School of Design who was part of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Initiative that I've also been working with for several years, helping to run the annual Digital Media and Learning Competitions. Katie proposed working with the New York city school board, with teachers and parents, to create a revolutionary school within all the existing rules. Q2L works with the teachers' unions, with the city's lottery system of accepting pupils, with end-of-great testing, with college prep aspirations, with all of the supposed restrictions that limit teachers everywhere. I couldn't believe she would succeed, but Katie is a gamer and she met the challenge. Q2L exists and she's now working in Chicago to start similar schools. The specific assignment that I loved at Q2L took kids who had spent a semester building new levels for the popular digital learning game LittleBigPlanet (LBP) and challenged them to rebuild their video game level in the real world. They switched off the screens and had to calculate and plan, with blueprints and research and scissors and glue, paper and wood and paint. Brilliant! Kids need to understand the relays back and forth between real and virtual worlds and need the skills to navigate both.
- From Duncan Germain: Duncan was a 24-year old first-year teacher when I spent time in his sixth grade class at Voyager Academy, a public charter school in Durham, North Carolina, where I live. He taught something called Creative Productions which was intended to take all the things kids were learning in other classes and give them real world application. I was there for the bridge building challenge where students self-organized into groups ranging in size from one (some kids preferred to work alone) to five. I talk about all the really remarkable skills his students were learning on the way to build the best model bridge but what most impressed me was the long sheet about collaboration that each student had to fill out, describing such things as how to "justify" the project they were doing and their methods relative to their other school studies, the habits of mind the project was instilling, and the relationship of the project to the real world. Sounds tough? They were doing it. When I asked Mr. Germain where he got the idea, he said from his father. These sixth graders were using a project-plan form that his father used as a management consultant helping businesses adjust to new global, distributed economies of work and labor.
These are just three examples. I think it's important for all of us to know that future school already exists, it is working. These great teachers and others I profile in Now You See It inspired me and I hope they inspire other out there too.
Q. If you could suggest five practical applications to apply to every school in the country, what would they be?
- End standardized EOG tests--they demotivate learning and good teaching. Instead test in challenging ways, using tough game mechanics with real-time feedback on results so kids can learn from the test---not be taught to scam the test!
- Make all learning real, relevant, tied to communities, with real application in the kids' lives outside of the classroom. Example: Ban research papers—unless they are published online and have an informative, persuasive, or other real purpose for others. Learning should have an impact beyond getting an "A" on the assignment.
- Teach kids to think through, with, about, for--and create--new, interactive digital global communication. I don't mean this as an add on. I mean rethinking all the subjects we now teach in view of the possibilities (what techies call "affordances") of the digital age. That means getting rid of the "two cultures" binary. STEM subjects are impoverished without creativity, analysis, critical thinking. The Information Age is about putting back together the knowledge that the Industrial Age subdivided. A simpler way is to say have them all learn Scratch multimedia programming and think about the possibilities.
- Restore arts, music, shop, P.E., dance: Kids need the soul-stirring learning that lets them move, make, sing, create, dream.
- Eliminate the "college prep" and AP distinctions, and stop making college the implicit standard for all education, back to preschool. Many worthy careers don't need higher ed. Many careers that don't need higher ed still need a liberal arts education in creative, applied, cross-disciplinary thinking, all of which are as necessary to run your whole hair salon or motorcycle repair shop as they are to get a law degree. Conversely, make college free and open to everyone, at any age. Now, that would be a game changer!
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Matt Gilgenbach is the kind of forward thinker who makes a video game to propose to his girlfriend, fakes his way onto an MTV reality show (or so he told me), and creates a video game like Retro/Grade that is played entirely in reverse.
Gilgenbach's game has come a long way since I tried it a couple of years ago as part of the Independent Games Festival. Its graphics have improved a lot. But its core concepts remain as wild as they ever were. Gilgenback explains them well in the video we shot together at the Penny Arcade Expo last weekend, but in case you can't watch it:
This is a side-scrolling space-ship shooter that plays in a state of rewinding time. You un-shoot enemy ships into existence and re-dodge lasers that your past self already dodged. If you are hit by them before they had ever been fired, you would cause a paradox (that's bad). The game is controlled with a Rock Band or Guitar Hero controller, since you do all this dodging and un-shooting to a rhythm.
Watch the video. It'll make sense. Retro/Grade is set to come out next year as a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3 and for other platforms, Gilgenbach hopes.

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In his Daily Standard column, Paul finds a common thread in Prsident Bush's approach to significant public policy issues: "The pledge." From Bush' perspective, as Paul sees it, the thread seems to be the pragmatism that underlies Bush's "compassionate conservatism."
Paul's conclusion perfectly anticipates this morning's announcement that President Bush is nominating Third Circuit Judge Samuel Alito, a judge with a 15-year track record on the court, to the Supreme Court:
[W]e know that [President Bush] is mostly sound [on judicial appointments], having nominated many conservatives to the appeals courts and one to the Supreme Court. Bush said he would nominate Justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, and Bush is a man of his word. But Bush is not immune from error in identifying potential justices in that mold. Not just because he's a non-lawyer, but also because when it comes to public policy he's not conservative enough by inclination automatically to prefer practitioners of judicial restraint to judicial pragmatists. Accordingly, when Bush makes his next selection, "trust but verify" should remain the operative maxim for conservatives.
Paul's take on Bush's adaptation of conservative principles to welfare state liberalism parallels Charles Kesler's take on "Bush's philosphy," to which we linked last week. Kesler writes:
Compassionate conservatism is the President's self-proclaimed philosophy. This term proves the old admonition that the adjective is the enemy of the noun. Conservatism defends "liberty and justice for all," meaning that there are limits to what government can do to, and for, us. But a compassionate government cannot be a limited one. Its swelling sympathy will overwhelm the levees of individualism and consent ("I feel your pain," whether you want me to or not); and its pity implies that for some unfortunate people, justice is not enough. This inherent indiscipline is why compassion used to be regarded as needing reason's regulation, and why in any event it was thought better suited to private, not public, life. Compassionate conservatism, therefore, means big government conservatism. And big government conservatism is no conservatism at all.
Yet President Bush thinks of himself as a conservative, and there is something about him that fits the bill, intermittently. He has cut taxes, defended the nation against its enemies, and appointed good judges to the federal courts. More than that, he has championed bold policies like health savings accounts and Social Security reform. He's willing to gamble on big ideas that aim at reformation, especially of individual character (the goal of the "ownership society"). He is not so comfortable with ideas in the sense of principles or theories, especially if these interfere with compassionate action. If people are hurting, he thinks government has to "move."


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On (not) being Jane Goodall
A writer wonders what it would be like to study the coati, a Southwestern cousin of the raccoon.
I have always wanted to be Jane Goodall, who left her home in England –– not even going to college first –– and went to live in the forests of Tanzania, studying chimpanzees, watching and listening, her back against a tree, her toes rotting with fungus, desiring and finding and then opening "a window" into the mind of the Other. A glimpse into the mind of another species: The idea is profoundly thrilling. Sometimes in the middle of the street, in the middle of my life as a teacher and wife and mother, I stop to wonder: Why didn't I do that? My heart feels pierced. Where is my window into the Other? And why am I inside so much of the day?
I have always wanted to be Jane Goodall. But I want to study coatis, not chimps. In the United States, the white-nosed coati (Nasua narica) is mainly found in the southeastern and southwestern corners of Arizona and New Mexico, and in parts of Texas. Relatives of the raccoon, the size of a big housecat, coatis have long tails, long noses and faces masked in white and black. They live in matriarchal bands of up to 40 animals and speak a language of grunts, chitters and churrs. Coatis project tough love (the females kick out the bachelor males every spring) and a "tough nuts-to-you" attitude, with their muscular shoulders and thick pelts in shades of brown; I most often see them glaring down at me from the treetops.
If I lived with the coatis, I'd have to quit my teaching job in Silver City, N.M., travel from hackberry forest to cottonwood bosque, and burrow vertically into knowledge. Vertical would be a new direction for me since my understanding of the world is almost completely horizontal. I know a little bit about a lot. I don't go deep. If I lived with the coatis, I'd have to tunnel down into one thing – seasonal patterns, parasite loads, kinship bonds.
As it is, though, every year I see a few coatis and learn incrementally. Last summer, in the higher elevations of the Gila National Forest, a movement in a pine tree became the white nose and dark eyes of a coati about 30 feet away. Typically, a lone coati is most likely to be male, but in early June, pregnant females also leave the group to bear their young. Until late summer, a mother will leave her kits in a nest while she forages omnivorously – eating roots, fruits, grubs, tarantulas. After she rejoins her troop, the babies also nurse from other females, growing up coddled and indulged by the clan for as long as three years. At that point, the males take up a separate existence.
This coati now climbed purposefully upward and then returned holding a kit by the scruff of the neck. Not hurrying much, she went down the tree, deposited the kit behind a bush, and then back up the tree to get a second kit, who was crying piteously. In some areas – in tropical Guatemala, for example – coatis make nests in trees and the mothers move their babies whenever they feel a nest has become unsafe. Perhaps that is what was happening now, the kits older and more rambunctious. And perhaps the mother had no choice but to do this in front of me. Or perhaps my presence simply didn't disturb her. Coatis often have that kind of insouciance.
I have always wanted to be Jane Goodall, but I would settle for being Bil Gilbert, who in 1970 spent a year watching two bands of coatis in southern Arizona. From a cabin in the Huachuca Mountains, he and his teenage assistants logged 8,500 observation hours, making 5,000 recorded sightings, some brief, some lasting for long afternoons. In hindsight, they made serious mistakes, feeding the coatis dog food and marshmallows to encourage them to linger nearby. Even so, these men had intimate glimpses into the life of this animal, as described in Gilbert's Chulo: A Year Among the Coatis (University of Arizona Press, 1973). They marveled at the ritualistic grooming ("a sensuous, luxurious experience … at times it seems a grooming pair has entered a trancelike state") and the complex relationships among females (the two leaders of one band, dubbed Queenie and Witch, were fast friends, while Witch and Calamity bickered and fought with each other). They learned some of this species' sounds and came closer than any human being to becoming an adopted member of a coati tribe.
Envy is one of Christianity's seven deadly sins and rightfully abhorred. Still, scientists believe that "benign envy" as opposed to "malicious envy" can sometimes serve as an important motivator. In one experiment, subjects who were revved up to be envious (by being asked to write down their most envious moments) significantly boosted their performance on tests of memory and intelligence.
To spend a year with the coatis … to become an adopted member … perhaps even to learn their language of grunts and churrs. …
I feel the power of benign envy. If I lived with the coatis – I tell myself – I'd burrow deep into knowledge. I'd see the face of the Other.
If I lived with the coatis, I'd build a tree house and sleep under the stars every night.
More on Sharman Apt Russell's latest book project, Diary of a Citizen Scientist, can be found on her Facebook page and at www.sharmanaptrussell.com.


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The Clarkson University School of Business provides a valuable and interesting array of educational opportunities for students interested in careers that are aligned with the challenges and opportunities that face the business leaders of today. Managing innovation, the supply chain, customers, and flows of information and financial capital across global boundaries requires a set of knowledge and skills that become ingrained in our students. The proof is in the employment statistics of our graduates, who enjoy placement rates, starting salaries, and career mobility and flexibility that are among the best in the nation.
The mission of the Clarkson University School of Business is "to prepare the next generation of leaders through premier business education programs that span disciplinary boundaries and are focused on innovation and global supply chain management. These programs anticipate and respond to the need of our current and potential employers, students, alumni, the global economy and society as a whole. Our learning community creates and disseminates knowledge through high quality academic research and teaching focusing on building and sustaining globally responsible enterprises."
In an effort to achieve this mission, the School of Business has built a world-class faculty, and created a curriculum that requires hands-on learning, ample opportunities to develop leadership skills and build professional networks inside and outside the classroom. The School of Business has fostered an innovative and supportive culture where students and faculty enjoy working hard and seeing results.
We focus our resources on two areas that span the traditional functional boundaries: Global Supply Chain Management and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Our curriculum has room for you to develop expertise in all of the traditional business disciplines: finance, accounting, marketing, management, operations and information systems, but we also allow you to clearly see how those business functions fit together in the real world, and help you create a balance of functional expertise with an understanding of the "big picture"; that is how the functional parts of organizations must work together to create value and wealth. This combination of detail-oriented expertise with a broad system-wide perspective is something that our employers helped us create. Our approach has proven to be effective and beneficial to employers and has helped us to earn national rankings in both supply chain management and entrepreneurship.
Our secret to implementing all of these ideas is simple to explain, but difficult for most schools to imitate. We offer an innovative first-year program for undergraduates where students innovate and then plan and run a real business; we offer multiple opportunities for hands-on learning; we help you build a professional network; we offer an integrated, technology-infused curriculum; and we start all of this early, at the beginning of your Clarkson experience. The result is a connected, knowledgeable graduate prepared for success in the business world and in the community. We can do this, and do it well, because of a combination of our size, our faculty, our alumni, our location and our heritage.
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1765 people found this review helpful
We have been to Cuba 3 times and this was our best experience. We decided not to stay at a 4 or 5 star as we had not been happy with the hotels in cuba, food etc. We decided to stay at Herradura and find our own restaurants, etc, and had the best trip. The staff were excellent. Our maid was very friendly, we made sure we left a tip for her each day and the day before we left I went to our room after she had left and there was the most beautiful huge long stem rose in a vase waiting for us in our room.
We look forward to going back to this hotel this winter. Remember it is not the Hilton but if you are budget minded it is fantastic!!
"Unforgettable holidays"
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Torbjoern Anvik on Apr 21, 2007 >
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Visited on: Apr, 2007
2395 people found this review helpful
The nice holidays that I spent at Herradura hotel are unforgettable, with the group of workers like the bartenders David, Dimitri, that be the way are very good in billiard although they lost against me, the group of the restaurant is very good to name some of them Tomás, Juanita, etc.
At the reception the best treat came from the beautiful ladies and from the chief + the mister from public relations very kind.... the animation staff I must say that Tito and Elba Rosa were the best I have met, very kind in everything, nice and above all quite sincere in their work, it's a pitty that they are not there anymore. But although I'll come back to this wonderful hotel.
Original Review
"Lovely hotel !"
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Jean-Raoul Fournier on Dec 19, 2008 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Dec, 2008
603 people found this review helpful
I will simply say that in my humble opinion this Hotel Herradura is one of the best in Varadero ! The closest to the sea ! Very clean ! People there are very friendly ! Rooms have a view on the sea, well, almost all of them. An ideal place to relax and blend with the green sea ! I do recommend this hotel ! Jean-Raoul
"well worth it!"
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Mss. Nicole on Nov 29, 2009 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Nov, 2009
558 people found this review helpful
Loved the hotel! Good people. Cheap beer. gave tons of tips because everything was pretty cheap. The go out of there way to please you. The beach was nice. View was amazing and captivating. Was scared because we arived there at night and it looked a little run down but once you see cuba you understand you have way way more than the locals do and it was so cheap. Saw the really nice hotels but I sure wouldn't want to pay $100 per night for them. Keep in mind everthing is a little run down in the area. Loved this hotel because it was cheap fun and relaxing. Was also close to everyhting. VERY SAFE for single women.
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Sr. gabriel suarez on Jan 17, 2010 >
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Visited on: Jan, 1998
677 people found this review helpful
The Hotel Herradura was great, really good service from the staff. An affordable and comfortable hotel with top service, I recommend this hotel to everyone who is thinking of going to Varadero
"Pleasant enough"
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Schuda Alice on Feb 24, 2011 >
3 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Feb, 2011 | Leisure | Family and Kids
254 people found this review helpful
Great location with balconies overlooking beach. Friendly staff. We really enjoyed the breakfast buffet and restaurant. Whole place is a bit worn in places but pleasant enough if you aren't looking for luxury.
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Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Very eager activities director who offered lots of options.
"I will definitely return to that 2 star hotel which should be a 3 and enjoyed my stay."
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Diane G. Lanctot on Mar 8, 2011 >
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Visited on: Mar, 2011 | Leisure | Solo
249 people found this review helpful
This was my first visit to Herradura Hotel. All other times I have been to Arenas Doradas, a 4 star hotel, with lots of staff and people who ask and talk to you all the time. Herradura is a 2 star hotel with breakfast included and the staff was courteous, like a small family, and you could really feel you are on vacation. I will not go back to an all inclusive because I don't eat 3 meals a day and at Herradura, I found it was really nice to be close to Varadero and try different places to eat. The room was clean and I had an ocean view, very quiet which made my vacation wonderful. The meals at lunch and dinner are around $3. to $5. and the fish was extremely good at the hotel, as well as the chicken. They are currently working on renovating some of the rooms, but the lobby is cozy and everything is accessible. They even have a shop near the hotel if you need to buy munchies and not very expensive. I would definitely recommend this hotel for people who are watching their budgets. It is worth the money.
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I arrived January 30 and left February 26 because I decided to stay another week, which made it a total of 1 month at Herradura.
Restaurants and Bars:
The restaurant and bar are very clean and the staff is very courteous.
The beach was beautiful but there is not swimming pool.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
There are activities all day at the resort and some shows at night.
"Varadero Beach Experience on a Budget"
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Leslie Papp on Mar 12, 2011 >
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Visited on: Mar, 2011 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
259 people found this review helpful
We spent 3 months in Cuba - flying into Varadero in December 2010 and flying out in March 2011. On our arrival in Cuba, we spent 5 days at the Herradura and 5 more before we flew out. The hotel was perfect for our requirements. It is a budget hotel and the accommodations are basic but very clean. A buffet breakfast is included in the price and one would be hard pressed to find better value in the area. It fronts on to an excellent beach and is in walking distance to stores and restaurants. We found the staff to be very friendly and many of them recognized us and greeted us warmly on our return in March. Although it isn't the 'Ritz', we would highly recommend Hotel Herradura to anyone looking for an inexpensive time in the fun and sun of Cuba.
Leslie & Chris
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We booked on line for both stays and everything went very smoothly. We arrived at noon and were ushered to our room immediately - even though check-in was listed as 3 PM.
Very clean. The maid service on both of our stays was excellent.
Restaurants and Bars:
Very nice. Staff are very friendly.
The hotel fronts on to an awesome beach
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Stores, banks, bus, restaurants are all within a few blocks.
"Not the best hotel but good enough for the price"
Posted by: Abhay Shah
on Mar 30, 2011 >
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Visited on: Mar, 2011 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
271 people found this review helpful
My wife and I stayed for a week. I was very nervous beforehand about staying after the mixed reviews on Trip Advisor. But you get what you pay for. The room was clean. We were bitten by mosquitos on first night and found a cockroach in the bathroom the next day. But that is the nature of Cuba. The location is excellent, it is easy to meet other people there and the bar is a good area for social gatherings. Staff were friendly for the most part. It's a shame that more work isn't put into renovating the hotel as it has huge potential.
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My wife was arriving before me but the booking was under my name. It was difficult to get through to the hotel by telephone and when we eventually did, they said that my wife could not check in without me. I complained to the booking agent, who resolved the situation immediately. Check in was straightforward but you have to pay 2 CUC's per day to use the room safe.
A bit on the small side but was good enough for the price. Room was cleaned every day and bed sheets changed daily. It's a shame the bathroom window didn't close correctly to stop mosquitos entering.
Restaurants and Bars:
Bar was a fun place to congregrate and is open 24 hours! The bar staff are helpful with tips for good Paladar's. The breakfast buffet was ok. I didn't have lunch or dinner at the hotel but heard it was ok.
The beach almost comes into the hotel couldn't be a better location! Sunbeds are free. No pool.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Tour operator is located inside the hotel.
Other Comments:
The hotel is in an excellent location, on the beach and in downtown. With some minor renovation it has real potential.
"No toilet seat or flush button!"
Posted by: Linda Laycock
on Apr 8, 2011 >
3 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Mar, 2011 | Leisure | With friend
552 people found this review helpful
I stayed here during my bday and was extremely disappointed that our toilet not only did not have a toilet seat but was missing the flush button. It was rigged up with rusted wire to flush but was not overly successful. Though I booked a room for 2 (a couple) we were given 2 single beds. This was really dissapointing. The staff seem to think of the simplest requests as asking the world if them and nothing gets done in a hurry if at all. However they do supply a great breakfast that I can't complain about. We also had previously booked an extra night here before we flew outgoing the next day and we were given a much larger room with functioning everything, this would have been nice on my birthday!!!! The location is perfect, right on the beach, wouldn't stay here again though. Avoid room 321.
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321 & 522
Restaurants and Bars:
Decent buffet breakfast included, dinner offered is cheap but not overly tasty, outdoor bar does tasty chicken and rice for very cheap prices!


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Thoughtful Design Versus Reaction
by Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator, US EPA, Director of the Office of Research and Development
From: US EPA Science Matters
Seldom in all my years at EPA have I been more impressed by the raw effort and dedication of the people of EPA, and of course here in the Office of Research and Development, in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Day in and day out I've been in the Emergency Operations Center where people come together to solve some of the most challenging questions the Agency has ever faced, and work to prevent a tragedy from becoming a catastrophe.
As I look around the table, I see scientists and engineers sitting down and intensely engaging with economists, attorneys, communication specialists, and community outreach experts. It is a truly integrated trans-disciplinary endeavor. It has made it even more clear to me than it had been before the importance of integrated trans-disciplinary systems thinking.
When we are faced by the type of emergency such as the tragedy in the Gulf, we recognize that it takes all talents to come together and focus like a laser.
What is also clearer to me than ever before is that it is the lack of this kind of integrated trans-disciplinary systems thinking up-front that often leads us as a society into these types of environmental crisis situations. Thoughtful sustainable design has the potential to minimize both the potential for these types of situations to occur and to minimize the consequences when accidents do happen. It is a classic example of invest a little now versus having to pay tremendously later.
How will our response to the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico change how we approach EPA research, now and into the future? By incorporating integrated trans-disciplinary design into our scientific and technical support actions, our research products will be useful and informative to those seeking to make the products, processes, and systems of the future more sustainable and to those who are reacting to the next foreseeable yet unforeseen crisis.
Our colleagues are contributing to dealing with the situation in the Gulf — spending days, nights, and weekends. How I wish it were unnecessary for them to be working on such a terrible event. The hope remains that as we spend our efforts on thoughtful trans-disciplinary design through our research that there will be fewer of these tragedies in the future.
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Speaking in Tech: The worst PR in the tech industry
Huawei gets hammered by Congress – why is no one defending it?
It's another one of El Reg's enterprise tech casts, where we get into the nitty-gritty of everything that went down in the past few days in the world of electronics, mobile, services and more. This week your hosts are Greg Knieriemen and Sarah Vela as Ed Saipetch is playing hookie. The pair discuss the Congressional smackdown, the worst PR in the tech industry, cultural differences in the tech industry, the iPad Mini and Google's 10-inch screen.
This week we cover:
- Eddie's connectivity
- Sarah's Birthday
- Huawei getting hammered in the US
- No one is defending Huawei
- The worst PR in the tech industry
- Cultural gaps
- The iPad Mini is for real
- Bad apps and web browsing on tablets
- Google takes the opposite tack with a 10-inch screen
- Tablet photography
- Next week, Eddie records from Amsterdam.
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|Plot: The murder of high-school student Lilly Kane shook the seaside town of Neptune, California to the core. For once popular girl Veronica Mars, it meant the loss of her best friend and being ousted from the affluent crowd that she once thought were her friends. Her father, Sheriff Keith Mars, found himself voted out of his job after making some unpopular accusations about the murdered girl's family. In response, Keith opened his own private detective agency. Now, Veronica, with her sardonic wit and a few new friends, works as his assistant while also navigating life as a high school (and later college) student.
Rating: 8.4/10 (56902 votes)
Director: N/A
Writer: Rob Thomas
Stars: Kristen Bell, Percy Daggs III, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra
Runtime: 44 min
Rated: TV-14
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Anna, as her first gift, got what looks like Maracas (rattle-instruments). I think it's cute. I've been trying to get her another gift, like Boo got 2 before, but all I've had so far are flowers and cake. I'll keep trying. I want her to have more gifts.
Boo is nearing mating time. I hope he goes with Anna!
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Last Post11 Nov 2004
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Oooh! I'll have to try to get another tarakotchi! That sounds adorable. Hans has only gotten the ball, the skateboard, and the boots. Maybe his son will become a tarakotchi..
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tarakotchi gets boots and a skateboard
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As with its predecessors, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a story-driven game, with seasoned hero Solid Snake drafted for one final mission. Set across stages including the Middle East and South America, the now aged Snake has been asked to assassinate his old adversary, Liquid Ocelot. To do this, however, he must make his way through a series of battlefields, using his legendary stealth abilities and all-new OctoCamo suit to avoid detection and to reach his target. With series favourites such as Meryl Silverburgh, Raiden, Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich, and Roy Campbell returning, and with all new gameplay features including a remote-controlled 'Metal Gear Mk. II' droid and enhanced CQC (Close Quarters Combat) system, MGS4 will round of the Metal Gear saga with a fittingly cinematic and gripping final outing.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is the final chapter in the saga of Solid Snake which sends him around the world in pursuit of his arch nemesis, Liquid Ocelot. Armed with new gadgets and abilities, Solid Snake must shift the tides of war into his favor, using the chaos of the battlefield to infiltrate deep into enemy territory. In his globetrotting final mission, Snake must sneak deep into enemy locations in the Middle East, South America, and other corners of the Earth to foil Liquid Ocelot's plans for total world domination.
Metal Gear Online Starter Pack
It was also confirmed today that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will launch with the Metal Gear Online "Starter Pack" supporting online gameplay. In addition to the single player experience, gamers will also be able to take the action online with up to 16 players and battle it out using the latest weapons and stealth techniques.
Pre-Sell Program
Beginning April 2008, consumers that pre-order Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will receive the Metal Gear Saga 2.0 DVD, containing a Prologue that recaps the Metal Gear franchise, a 20th Anniversary retrospective, character bios for Big Boss, Liquid Snake, Solidus Snake, and Solid Snake, plus a collection of international trailers of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. This pre-order package also contains an insert with a download code and special instructions for accessing the Metal Gear Online beta test when it goes live in late April. This special pre-order package will only be available while supplies last.
The Metal Gear Solid series has enjoyed a reputation for its unique 'Boss' creatures, and MGS4 takes this one step further with fully-rounded enemies with their own motives and manias.
The characters – Laughing Octopus, Raging Raven, Crying Wolf, and Screaming Mantis – are empowered with special, supernatural abilities and have individual back stories that outline how they have become the beings they are. All were initially good people who, for various reasons linked to events in the Metal Gear Solid series and events they have seen in countless wars, are now altered beyond all recognition both physically and mentally – and are perfect examples of the 'Beauties and the Beasts' themes that run throughout MGS4.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is currently scheduled for a worldwide release on June 12, 2008.
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There is no place which no people never visited than Gili Trawangan, because it's likely a journey towards heaven. The landscape of Gili Trawangan, either undersea or surface, is very beautiful.
The local inhabitants take care the originality of the island lying at west of Lombok. Therefore motorcycles are prohibited in this area. Along the sandy pathway shifted the resident area to the beach, we only see footsteps, bicycle wheel, or delman.
Restaurant, shop souvenir, diving facilities, ten of cheap relative inn are spread over alongside this pathway. Afterwards, you may try to see the natural beauty of undersea landscape, and also two smaller other islands around Gili Trawangan, that is Gili Air and Gili Meno, which blue cobble that cannot be compared to Caribean sea and only be find in these places. In these places many of turtles can swim anywhere and without fear of divers.


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- From the south (Salinas, Morgan Hill) -
1. Take US-101 N to 280 N.
2. Take 87 Guadalupe Parkway North.
3. Exit on Santa Clara exit Make a right
4. Make a left on Third Street
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1. Take 280 S.
1. Take the Guadalupe Parkway exit.
2. Take the Coleman Ave ramp towards Market St, and turn left onto Coleman Ave.
3. Turn slight right onto N Market St.
4. Turn left onto W Santa Clara St.
5. Turn left onto N 3rd St.
There is 2-hour metered street parking (and they do ticket). There is also pay parking available directly across from the San Jose Office on Third Street. Please note: the EEOC does not validate parking.


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BUCHANAN, N.Y. - Indian Point nuclear power plants' current operations are "likely to adversely affect" but not "jeopardize the continued existence" of two endangered species of Hudson River sturgeon, according to federal environmental regulators.
Entergy officials lauded the study with spokesman Jim Steets saying "people ought to be encouraged that the impacts from Indian Point are relatively small."
Environmental group Riverkeeper pointed out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which requested the opinion, likely would have to request another study in the near future depending on the results of administrative law hearings involving Entergy and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
"The bigger issue is that the process itself is irrelevant. Since the DEC denied Indian Point's water permit the entire review was really a waste of time," said Tina Posterli, spokeswoman for Riverkeeper. Riverkeeper is one of several parties involved in litigation against the plants' 20-year license extension.
Officially, the study is a "biological opinion" produced by the National Marine Fisheries Service on the effects of Indian Points' dual reactors on two distinct species of endangered Hudson River sturgeon populations.
Atlantic sturgeon are prehistoric in appearance with spiny plates running down their sides. The fish can grow up to 14 feet long, weigh up to 800 pounds and live up to 40 years. Their smaller relatives, shortnose sturgeon, grow up to about 3 1/2 feet, weigh about 14 pounds and also live for decades.
The protracted legal hearings began in 2010, when the state Department of Environmental Conservation denied Entergy a license necessary to operate. Entergy needs the state-issued "water quality certificate" to use Hudson River water. Currently, about 2.5 billion gallons of Hudson River water pass through Indian Point's cooling system daily.
The hearing will determine which proposal is acceptable to mitigate environmental impacts -- a demand by the state that Entergy install a closed cycle cooling system or a proposal from Entergy to install cylindrical wedge-wire screens on the floor of the Hudson River.
The reactors at Indian Point would be the largest power plants in the nation to utilize the wedge-wire screen technology if Entergy's proposal moves forward. The screens -- essentially large, high-tech strainers on the water intake -- virtually would eliminate fish entrapment by about 75 percent, according to the state, less than its desired target of 90 percent.
The closed cycle cooling systems also would reduce Hudson River water use by between 90-95 percent, according to environmental regulators. That also would minimize the environmental impact on the marine life population, they say.
If Indian Point were to extend its license period and continue operating as it does today, the report found more than an estimated 800 shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon would be caught against the screens used at the plants' intakes.
How many of these fish die after being stuck against intake screens or trash bars is a question unto itself. Death rate estimates cited in the study ranged from 60 to 100 percent. Regulators said "mortality is likely to be high," since Indian Point hasn't had a monitoring program in place since 1990 and has no plans to initiate one in the future.
Much of the fish population data used in the study also is from the 1990s and before.
"The lack of recent monitoring data makes predictions… more difficult," the study's authors wrote.
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Human Resources Consulting Services for Managers and Supervisors
Management and supervisory consulting is available through our Human Resources Consulting Service (HRCS). All managers and supervisors have access to one on one consulting from Mines' Human Resources professionals. HRCS is intended in partnership to assist supervisors and managers with a wide range of human resources matters, providing forward-thinking support and advice. We can work with you on difficult personnel issues, ideas you might be considering to implement for your department, general human resources concepts, performance planning, employee relations, and more. For a more complete list of subject areas and descriptions, just click on the buttons below.
Request services by sending an email describing your questions or assistance needed to email@example.com. The emails are monitored each business day. When you request assistance, you will receive a reply no later than the following business day. Once the subject and scope of your request is assessed within Human Resources, it will be assigned to the Human Resources professional who can best assist you.
General questions about this service and about Human Resources forms may also be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
Broadly inclusive subjects or topics include:
- Performance planning and management - assistance with concepts that underpin performance management, developing performance plans, establishing goals and targets, assistance with performance conversations, and other related considerations.
- Employee relations and coaching – supervising and communicating effectively within a work group, handling and approaching a variety of topics and conversations, dealing with conflicts, etc.
- Job descriptions – help with building a job description, administrative faculty or Classified, creating responsibility statements, matching qualifications statements to responsibilities, describing decisions and job scope, and so forth.
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This can be found at http://www.digitalzen.org/tutorials/basic-html.html as of 11-29-03
- Tutorial: Basic HTML
This is a tutorial that will teach the typical newbie the basics of web design. First we will cover some of the basic tags that are used in HTML. Something to remember about HTML tags is that they all have opening and closing tags. Some do not require a closing tag, but most do. A closing tag can be identified by the / that it has in front of the word.
These tags surround everything in a web page.
These tags surround the header of the document. The header is the area where the meta tags, title, some scripts, and anything that you wish to preload are placed. Most of what is placed in the header will not be seen by those who view the page.
This is where the main content of a web page is placed. This section defines the majority of the visual appearance of the page. This tag has modifiers that can be used within it to change the general color scheme of the page. The basic modifiers that it can use are bgcolor (background color), text (text color), link (link color), vlink (visited link color), and alink (active link color).

As demonstrated, all of the modifiers are included in the opening tag. Using those colors, all of the above would be black. We will discuss colors later in this tutorial.
The text contained by these tags will be the title of the page, and will be displayed in the title bar of the browser (usually this is the very top bar for the browser window).
<title>This is a test page</title>
The above will print This is a test page in the title bar of the browser. This tag belongs within the  tags.
This is a meta tag. Meta tags are descriptive tags that help classify websites for search engines. Good meta tags are essential to any page that you wish to be found by others on the web. The meta tag has no closing tag. This tutorial will not cover them in their entirety, but will give a general overview of their basics.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
This tag defines the language a browser should attempt to print the page as.
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2, etc >
This tag defines the keywords for a search engine to use when cataloging your site. It is not usually a good idea to repeat words as many search engines blacklist sites that do that.
<meta name="description" content="A generic description here.>
This tag defines the description that will appear in a search engines results.
Those are the only three meta tags that are to be covered in this tutorial. All <meta> tags belong within the  of the html document.

These tags will define the position on the page of the objects they surround.

The above will center the word Text on the horizontal (X) axis of the page. The modifiers that the div tag can use are center, left, right.
A carriage return. This does not require a closing tag in basic HTML.
This is a test.

This is a new line single spaced.
A new section. This is essentially the same as a dual carriage return.
This is a test

This is a new line double spaced.

This is an image tag. It does not have a closing tag.

/image.jpg is the path to the image file. If the image file is in the same directory as the page that uses it, it does not need to identify the full path, however if they are in different directories, the full path must be defined. The above demonstrates a square image. Note that if you do not wish to resize the image (leave it at its default height/width) then you do not need to use the width and height modifiers. The same applies for the border modifier.

These tags enclose a link.
Test
The above will turn the word Test into a link to www.test.com. This can be used with either images or text.
These tags will create a table. They have modifiers that must be used which define the height, width, border, cell spacing (distance between cells in the table), and cell padding (distance from text to the cell wall).

This is a two by two celled table. There are four cells total. The width of the table can be defined as pixels (as above) or as a percent of the total page (will resize with the page). This is done using
, which will make a table that spans the width of the page. Also, as demonstrated, there is more than one format that can be used. I prefer to use the first format, as I find it easier to read. However it all boils down to personal preference. This is common in HTML.

or, to link to an external CSS file:
<link rel=StyleSheet href="stylesheet.css" title="Stylesheet">
These tags are used to enclose a stylesheet. Stylesheets will be covered in another tutorial at a later time. Note that a stylesheet can be used in the  of the document to cause the stylesheet to affect the entire document, or it can be used in the  to only affect certain areas of the document. This will not be covered in this tutorial.

These tags are used to enclose a javascript. As with stylesheets, javascripts will not be covered in this tutorial.
This section will teach you how to select colors for your web page. I will use black as my first example, as it was used earlier in this tutorial.
Black is represented by the number #000000.
Each color is represented in three pieces. 00-00-00.
The first 00 defines the amount of red that the color contains.
The second 00 defines the amount of green that the color contains.
The third 00 defines the amount of blue that the color contains.
The numbers are ascending, with 0 being the lowest and 255 being the highest. However the numbers are represented in hex, which means that 255 is actually represented as FF. Here is a brief breakdown of how hex differs from normal numbers:
Normal numbers go 0 thru 9. Hex numbers go 0 thru F as follows:
Basically, hex has 14 possible variables where normal numbers have only 10.
So, knowing that, we can tell that black, which is #000000 has no red, green, or blue. Thus it has no color, and is black. Here are a few examples of RGB colors. Pay attention to what is being altered.
#FF0000 This is red. Note that the red placeholder is the only one modified, and it is at its highest possible value.
#00FF00 This is green. Again, note the values and their locations.
#0000FF This is blue. Getting the idea?
Now, following the present course, we know that black is the absence of color. That means that white is the presence of all colors, or #FFFFFF. Make sense?
Also, note that most browsers will recognize colors by names as well as by their values. That is to say that #000000 and the word black will present the same result. However its still good to understand how the colors work, as it gives you more freedom to create the perfect shade.
An Example Web Page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2, etc >
<meta name="description" content="A generic description here.>
<title>This is a test page.</title>
<link rel=StyleSheet href="stylesheet.css" title="Stylesheet">

This is my example website.

Well thats the basic jest of it. I hope this helped, and remember that theres a lot more to web design than I have shown here. This is literally just the tip of the iceberg.
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Sphinx ligustri
Sphinx ligustri, known as the Privet Hawk Moth, is a species of moth found in most of the Palearctic ecozone.
It has a 12 centimetres (4.7 in) wingspan, and is found in urban areas, forests and woodlands.
The male Privet Hawk-moth can make a hissing sound, if disturbed, by rubbing together a set of scales and spines at the end of its abdomen.
As its name describes, the caterpillars feed on privets, as well as ash trees, lilacs, jasmine, and a number of other plants.
- ^ "CATE Creating a Taxonomic eScience - Sphingidae". Cate-sphingidae.org. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
- Pittaway, Tony, Sphingidae of the Western Palaearctic, retrieved 2009-08-02
- http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=401 - The entry for this species on UKMoths
- http://australianmuseum.net.au/Privet-Hawk-Moth - The entry for this species on Australian Museum
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It was successful night for Vancouver Whitecaps FC Residency teams in the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) against Cal Odyssey at Simon Fraser University on Thursday night, as the U-18 team earned a 5-0 win, while the U-16 squad captured a 3-0 victory.
The U-18 Residency team continued their winning ways with a 5-0 win against Cal Odyssey U-17/18 on Thursday.
The 'Caps came out on fire, as striker Caleb Clarke was sent in alone and ripped a shot past the Odyssey 'keeper less than a minute into the game. Carlos Marquez had a superb evening, as he earned a penalty in the eighth minute after a hard tackle from the Odyssey defender in the visitors' box. Marquez stepped to his mark and made no mistake to make it 2-0 'Caps less than 10 minutes into the match. Midfielder Yassin Essa would then get in on the scoring, as he capitalized on his two scoring chances, netting himself two goals at 20 minutes and 35 minutes. Clarke would round out the scoring to give the Blue and White a 5-0 lead going into halftime.
With the outcome pretty well in hand, the 'Caps employed a defensive posture to help goalkeeper Sean Melvin earn his clean sheet, and keep the visitors from Fresno, California, scoreless.
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Migrating from RAID to AHCI, Win 7
The conclusions are :
- The raid field cannot be migrated from RAID mode to AHCI mode directly; needs to be recreated
- AHCI mode decreased the booting time by 20s
- EasyBCD is not almighty; if it's not working, try Visual BCD Editor
- there are still nice people out there willing to help
Current setup: 2x HDD in raid 0 (stripping, 4TB ) and 1 SSD (system, 120GB) ; The RAID mode is selected in BIOS. Mainboard Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H. Windows 7 Ultimate 64, NTFS
It was built 2 years ago with the system installed over the two disks in raid 0. Recently I bought a SSD and migrated Windows onto it. I have read that Gigabyte with AMD controllers have performance issues in RAID mode and that it's recommended to use the AHCI mode.
Is it possible to migrate to AHCI mode without loosing the data (for my setup)? Is it worth it? My guess is that since Windows are on one disk it should be possible to boot them and run the two disks in a (software?) RAID.
In addition the BCD was not transferred correctly to the SSD (it is still on the raid disks) and when I change the mode to AHCI I get the 'missing system' message. There is some problem with it to be migrated to the SSD (seems like access rights) and before I play with it more, I would like to know if it's worth it. At the moment, the system is working
Thanks for any advice
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|18 Jul 2012
Please post back a screenshot of your maximized Disk Management drive map and listings:
1. Type Disk Management in Start Search box.
2. Open Disk Mgmt. window and maximize it.
3. Type Snipping Tool in Start Search box.
4. Open Snipping Tool, choose Rectangular Snip, draw a box around full map and all listings.
5, Save Snip, attach using paper clip in Reply Box.
Tell us what is on each partition.
Check also the BIOS settings to see if you have a RAID controller pop-up when you first boot the computer which must be disabled in additon to the setting change to AHCI.
You'll likely have to move your data off the RAID first to unRAID it.
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|18 Jul 2012
Thanks for the quick response.
Basically there are three disk. Disk 1 and 2 are a raid field (2 physical disks, raid 0).
Disk 1 - 235GB:
100MB system reserved, hidden partition,
200GB previous Win 7 partition, now hidden and there are no issues with the SSD will be deleted
35GB - Secondary/emergency windows installation; I guess this one will be inaccessible in AHCI mode
Disk 2 - 3.6TB, GPT:
115MB - system created
3.5TB - data
172GB - data
Disk 3 - 120GB, SSD
100MB - system reserved
104GB - System disk - Win 7 64
10GB - reserved for additional OS
I have attached a sceenshot
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|18 Jul 2012
The reason I asked to see a Disk Mgmt screenshot is that other managers show the System Active boot labels differently. Judging by the screenshot of whatever manager you posted SSD is booting from C and SysReserved isn't even Active on it. But it could be inaccurate and needs to be seen from Disk Mgmt.
If you're saying that when you disconnect the RAID the SSD won't boot then you need to back up data from RAID to do that, mark System Reserved on SSD Active, then run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times to write the System Boot files to System Reserved, until it boots and shows the System Active flags on it, with Boot flag on C as seen from Disk Mgmt. Partition - Mark as Active
I would offload the files from the RAID, unRAID it in RAID controller if necessary, change to AHCI mode to test SSD performance, move SSD to DISK0 to avoid future problems (keeping it set to boot first in BIOS setup) then plug in the other HD's to use for data, wipe them if they interfere with Diskpart Clean Command to partiton and use for data and image storage.
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|18 Jul 2012
screenshot from disk management.
Yes, I had difficulties in moving the BCD to the 100MB partition (using Easy BCD). When running CMD commands, I had some strange 'access denied' messages - I think this might be that as the BCD was created (or tempered) from 3 independent windows installation, the user ID will be different...
Would you expect a benefit (probably speed) from changing to AHCI mode? I will repair the bcd as suggested, once I get the time.
I have no storage to unload the data from the raid, so I try to connect the RAID disks onAce the system is up and running from the SSD in HCI mode and see if the data are recognised. If not, I will have to revert to raid mode. Anyway this should deal with the BCD mystery
thank you for your time
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|18 Jul 2012
Moving the boot files with EasyBCD does not complete the job since the WINRe link is not rewritten to F8 Advanced Boot options, so running the three Repairs is more comprehensive and tests many other functions at the same time.
If the performance of the SSD is not compromised by RAID then I wouldn't change it if you don't have a way to offload the files - athough files should always be backed up anyway.
When you get an external or other backup method such as Skydrive which offer 7gb free with each Windows Live ID, then you can experiment to see the difference. I would not use RAID0 which offers no redundancy if one drive fails losing both, another important reason to always run backed up.
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|19 Jul 2012
hi gregrocker, to put is simply - you were right
the problems with the booting were:
a) active partition on the raid field (fixed)
b) the F8 Advanced recovery options are not working (to be fixed)
The system is now entirely booting from the SSD, however, the recovery option is not working. I tried to rebuild it, but it did not fix the problem. Any ideas for a simple solution?
Performance - after the switch to AHCI, the booting time decrease by 20s (!). It changed from 60s to 40s (according to event viewer) - the HDD light was flashing nearly all the time (unlike in the RAID mode, where it stops frequently to take a breath). (I personally would blame the AMD driver implementation...and I get the feeling that AMD are getting worse and worse with driver support ( the graphic cards, mainboard, controllers), but this is a different story)
However, it was not possible to import the raid field into the system, therefore, I am stuck with the raid mode until I get more space to migrate the disks. Windows can strip data between multiple disks (raid 0). I have still to find out whether such a raid field can be accessed from other OS (eg. linux)
A strange thing was that when I removed the raid field and booted into Windows (nothing changed in bios, still in raid mode), Windows loaded a new driver for the SSD and required a reboot. This is strange as I have rebooted the PC 100 times since the SSD install and the RAID field is said to have no influence on a single SSD disk. Obviously it has!
many thanks for your time and input
|My System Specs
|19 Jul 2012
A little bit of RTFW and Visual BCD Editor and it's now working and booting.
Thanks gregrocker for your help
|My System Specs
|19 Jul 2012
Did you run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times with only the SSD plugged in and marked Active?
This should have repaired the link to F8 System Recovery Options.
|My System Specs
|19 Jul 2012
Yes I did run it three times - the first time it took minutes to complete but the second and third time I got a message that nothing was found (with restarts in between). I discovered that the recovery PE file was tempered by Windows 8 preview, that I once tried. Nothing is ever straightforward, is it? :-D
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