Daytrips and Getaway Weekends in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts (Daytrips & Getaway Weekends)

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This guide has detailed, practical, and interesting information for planning daytrips and weekend getaways to Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

Heavenly Weekends: Travel Without A Car: 52 Daytrips, Overnight and Weekend Getaways Near NY (City and Company)

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Some good ideas if you can take the writing
I planned and left for a trip in less than 2 hours
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Heavenly Weekends: Travel Without A Car: 52 Daytrips, Overnight and Weekend Getaways Near NY (City and Company)
Susan Clemett , and Gena Vandestienne
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ASIN: 0789308584
Release Date: 2003-08-16

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Even the most devoted Gothamite needs to get away from it all sometimes. But most New York natives think they need a car to do it. Heavenly Weekends reveals fifty-two fabulous nearby escapes--one for every weekend of the year--all accessible by public transportation! Completely revised and updated for this all-new second edition, Heavenly Weekends features a unique organization by distance from New York City, allowing travelers to pick trips based on how far they want to travel, from One Hour or Less to Three to Four Hours. With a welcome range of escapes to suit every interest and pocketbook, from a meditative weekend of yoga (only a bus ride away) to a day of antiquing (one hour on the train), Heavenly Weekends is a delightful addition to every New Yorker's shelf.

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Some good ideas if you can take the writing.......2006-06-30

It's not that this book doesn't offer some decent ideas for where to go for a weekend away. There are some. But what the book lacks is variety of type of escape and colorful, insider-info writing. Written by two moms who met on a park bench while their kids were playing in the sandbox, all of the trips tend to take on a girls-weekend-away feel, combined with soft, gushy writing about delightful places to have lunch, quaint towns, and cute places to stay. I was turned off by several places that just seemed too precious and longed for more variety in the types of places to visit.

I planned and left for a trip in less than 2 hours.......2005-04-03

When I first saw this book I fell in love with it. First of all, it has a very lovely cover and I love the fact that you don't need a car for any of the trips listed in this book. Because of a personal dilemma I had, I felt a need to leave the city and I needed to leave right away, but I didn't know where to go. I grabbed this book and breezed through it to find the right place for me to go. I went online to check the bus schedule, packed my bags in 20 minutes and left! I felt the urge to leave the city quickly; this was my most spontaneous trip and this book helped me to do that. I enjoyed my weekend trip (arrived there friday evening and left sunday afternoon) and felt refreshed, with a renewed outlook on life.

A Vacation from Driving.......2004-10-21

This is a very helpful book for people wanting to take a day or overnight trip from New York City without a car. I find that for a short trip, taking a car adds many hassles. Just driving out of NYC can be so time consuming not to mention aggravating. Here is the perfect book for people who want to concentrate on looking out the bus or train window on the way, and using their legs a bit when they get there. I've used this book to plan trips to Southbury, CT (wonderful place!), Red Bank, NJ (great antique browsing and/or collecting), Rhinebeck, NY (fantastic inn), and Sag Harbor, Long Island NY (beautiful town) to mention a few.

Very Resourceful!.......2000-03-01

I picked up this book not too long ago. I loved it I have already begun planning my travels. I want to start with the firt place mentioned. I would recommend it to anyone!

Don't leave NYC without it!.......1998-10-14

This is the most enjoyable travel book I've read to date! I enjoyed just reading it & can't wait to plan some of the trips! As a resident of New York City, my access to a car is limited. I love the idea of not having to worry about getting a rental car, paying for it, or having to return it! Not to mention, being able to start my vacation immediately rather than waste time sitting in traffic! To the authors: Keep up the good work! I'm waiting for a follow up!

Daytrips and Getaway Weekends in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine (Daytrips & Getaway Weekends)

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Daytrips and Getaway Weekends in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine (Daytrips & Getaway Weekends)
Robert Foulke , and Patricia Foulke
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
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ASIN: 0762710632

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This guide has detailed, practical, and interesting infomation for planning daytrips and weekend getaways to Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Daytrips and budget vacations in New England (Daytrips & Getaway Weekends in Connecticut, Rhode Island, & Massachusetts)

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Daytrips and budget vacations in New England (Daytrips & Getaway Weekends in Connecticut, Rhode Island, & Massachusetts)
Patricia Foulke
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ASIN: 0871069784

Daytrips and Getaway Weekends in New England

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Daytrips and Getaway Weekends in New England
Robert Foulke , and Patricia Foulke
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ASIN: 0762704551

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Here's everything you need to plan all kinds of travel experiences throughout New England, from quick daytrips to weekend jaunts. Whether you are traveling solo or with a family in tow, Patricia and Robert Foulke will guide you to the best the region has to offer.

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Here's everything you need to plan all kinds of travel experiences throughout the Mid-Atlantic states, from quick daytrips to weekend jaunts. Whether you are traveling solo or with a family in tow, Patricia and Robert Foulke will guide you to the best the region has to offer. Itineraries include:

The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, where you can dine on international cuisine prepared by students enrolled in the culinary arts program; Fallingwater, a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright home built above a rushing waterfall in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania or Cape May State Park, which offers a bird conservatory, nature trails, picnicking, fishing, and a natural history museum in Cape May, New Jersey; the national Archives, which houses the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, and twenty-one floors of precious documents in Washington, D.C.

This newly revised and updated edition offers eleven complete itineraries through New York (including Long Island), Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia.

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Uneven coverage, unrealistic "itineraries".......2005-03-01

Despite the title, "daytrips and getaway weekends," this reads like a poorly organized standard travel guide. Most "itineraries" contain at least a weeks' worth of activities (would anyone consider "New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson River Valley" to be a manageable daytrip, or even weekend trip?). Some itineraries list literally hundreds of different sites and activities, while others would entail 24 hours of driving (this is not what I think of when I think "daytrip"!).

My 2nd gripe is that half the book is devoted to New York. Pennsylvania gets a big chunk of the rest, while coverage of Maryland, Virginia, DC, etc. is thin.

Finally, the maps are completely inadequate.

Daytrips, getaway weekends, and vacations in New England

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Daytrips, getaway weekends, and vacations in New England
Patricia Foulke
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ASIN: 087106734X

Daytrips, Getaway Weekends & Vacations in New England

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Daytrips, Getaway Weekends & Vacations in New England
Foulke Patricia & Robert
Manufacturer: The Globe Pequot Press
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ASIN: B000LCZ7X2

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Daytrips, Getaway Weekends, and Vacations in New England

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ASIN: 1564404145

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Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.

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Brilliant...but not for everyone.......2007-01-30

I agree with previous reviewers that this book will likely be lost on young children, and likewise on adults and young adults who like their books obvious and don't want to invest the time in re-reading. Alan Garner is the writer's writer. His work invites and rewards study.

For me, this is one of the best books I've ever read, and it's had a profound influence on me as an author. Garner takes ideas and compresses them so tightly, the book reads like poetry. There isn't a single wasted word here; there's no "filler", no unnecessary stage directions. The dialogue is outstanding. Unfortunately, this results in a reading experience that's confusing the first time around. The second time through, things become clearer. What's amazing about this book is that I've read it about a dozen times, and every time I read it, I discover something new, hidden in the text.

There are moments in the book that have haunted me for years: the moment when Gwyn goes up into the attic and picks up the plate, and everything changes. The scene where Roger and his father look through the photos Roger took on the riverbank is one of the eeriest things I've read.

What I found really interesting is that recently I picked up a copy of Ysabel by Guy Kay (a best-selling author in his own right), which also features a love triangle lived out in the modern day, and what struck me was that Garner's economy with words and his technical ability to convey feelings and atmosphere is vastly superior to Kay's. Kay hits you over the head with *how important everything is*. Garner lets the events speak for themselves.

The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was because of the ending. I agree with other reviewers that this was the weakest part of the book for me. I always feel with Garner's books that they must be missing a page or two from the very end, and I wish he'd left them in.

Worst book I ever read.......2006-04-17

The only reason I finished this book was because I had to review it. The writing is horrible. I have no idea how this book was ever published.

Intriguing but ultimately dissatisfying.......2005-11-07

I agree with the reviewer who said this book needed a few more chapters. I really enjoyed it and it kept me intrigued all the way through but at the end I felt 'was that it?' - I felt I must have missed something and reread the entire book through again. Sure I did pick up a lot of subtext that I missed first time but I still was not satisfied with how it turned out. The themes of class and sexual envy were interesting but perhaps not entirely suitable for a children's novel - albeit one for big teenagers - and the relationship between the three main characters is a little ambigious. I like the way the class differences between the characters intensify as the novel progresses though you're quite sure how far this is the result of finding the dinner plates, or how far it reflects the characters real natures.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the story is how it uses old welsh myths as a background - it interested me enough to start looking up some of this stuff on the web - amazing I wasn't aware of its existence before.

I think all in all its more a book for adults than kids - though I was a fairly precocious reader I don't think I would have made much of this when I was a teenager. A better choice for kids would be 'The Dark is Rising' series by Susan Cooper which explores very similar themes.

HATED IT!!!!.......2005-03-19

This was the worst, least discriptive, most boring, confusing, unloveable book I have ever, ever, ever read!!! This book has no detail whatsoever! If you read the plot discription, half the things it says DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN!!!!
I recomend this book to anyone that doesn't have common sense!
If they gave you a choice not to give this book any stars, i would have chose it!!!

Beware of the plates.......2005-01-20

One thing that could never be said about "Owl Service" is that it is like every other fantasy book. Because it's not. Alan Garner skillfully weaves Welsh mythology with a suspenseful, almost horrifying story about ancient power reaching to the modern day.

Something is scratching through Alison's ceiling, when she is sick with a stomachache. She and the cook's son Gwyn venture up into the loft, and there find a heap of strangely patterned plates. At first glance, the pattern appears to be an abstract floral; upon closer examination, Alison finds that when she traces around the pattern on pieces of paper, that they form tiny paper owls. Alison's brother Roger is inclined to be dismissive, but Gwyn isn't so sure.

For some reason, discovery sends Gwyn's mother into a near-crazed frenzy, and attracts the attention of the old handyman, Huw. Huw tells Gwyn a tragic old story -- one that is connected to Alison's strange behavior. When their mothers forbid them to speak to one another, Huw reveals his true nature. To save Alison from repeating the cycle, Gwyn learns that he must discover things about his own past...

Like the previous two children's books by Alan Garner, this is about modern-day children swept up in mythical forces, but while the creatures and people of "Weirdstone" and "Moon" were solid and easily-defined, here everything is misted and ghostly. So much so that the climax, while exquisitely written, is very hard to decipher, and which will leave readers feeling deeply unsatisfied. Just what happened?

Garner takes a relatively obscure myth and spins up a strange tale around it. The writing matches that. Garner's is an exquisitely atmospheric style: the scenes of magic are otherworldly, as is any scene where Alison cuts out the owls, which becomes more sinister as the reason why becomes clear. There are a few scenes where the atmosphere is wholly human, such as the scene where Gwyn's mother leaves him win the rain without caring what happens to him.

Gwyn is our Charlie Brown hero -- he's the boy next door, an ordinary kid with an embittered mother. Alison's personality is a little less defined, since she spends the story being possessed by the magic. We don't get to see much of the real Alison. And it's not clear Roger is in the story, since he contributes nothing except a series of obnoxious comments and insinuations. Huw is clearly a mystery from the beginning, that is slowly unravelled to reveal his tragic ancestry and past.

While flawed by some useless characters, "The Owl Service" is a beautifully written book. If only Garner had thought up a climax to match the exquisite buildup.

Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes (Semantic Web and Beyond: Computing for Human Experience)

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Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes (Semantic Web and Beyond: Computing for Human Experience)
Cardoso J.
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ASIN: 0387302395

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Semantics, Web services, and Web processes promise better re-use, universal interoperability and integration. Semantics has been recognized as the primary tool to address the challenges of a broad spectrum of heterogeneity and for improving automation through machine understandable descriptions.

Semantic Web Services, Processes and Applications brings contributions from researchers who study, explore and understand the semantic enabling of all phases of semantic Web processes. This encompasses design, annotation, discovery, choreography and composition. Also this book presents fundamental capabilities and techniques associated with ontological modeling or services, annotation, matching and mapping, and reasoning. This is complemented by discussion of applications in e-Government and bioinformatics.

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Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology

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Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology
Dieter Fensel , Holger Lausen , Axel Polleres , Jos de Bruijn , Michael Stollberg , Dumitru Roman , and John Domingue
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Service-oriented computing has become one of the predominant factors in current IT research and development. Web services seem to be the middleware solution of the future for highly interoperable distributed software solutions. In parallel, research on the Semantic Web provides the results required to exploit distributed machine-processable data. To combine these two research lines into industrial-strength applications, a number of research projects have been set up by organizations like W3C and the EU.

Dieter Fensel and his coauthors deliver a profound introduction into one of the most promising approaches – the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO). After a brief presentation of the underlying basic technologies and standards of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web, and Web Services, they detail all the elements of WSMO from basic concepts to possible applications in e-commerce, e-government and e-banking, and they also describe its relation to other approaches like OWL-S or WSDL-S.

While many of the related technologies and standards are still under development, this book already offers both a broad conceptual introduction and lots of pointers to future application scenarios for researchers in academia and industry as well as for developers of distributed Web applications.

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Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition: First International Workshop, SWSWPC 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, July 6, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition, SWSWPC 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in July 2004.

The 9 revised full papers presented together with an introduction by the volume editors, a panel summary and the extended abstract of an invited talk were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement.

Web services and Web processes promise to ease several current Web infrastructure challenges, such as the integration of data, applications and processes. Web services are truly platform independent and allow the development of distributed loosely coupled applications, a key characteristic for the success of dynamic processes.

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition and Management: Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2006, Guilin, China, August 7-8, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 3540689559

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 2006 Pacific Rim Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, PKAW 2006, held in Guilin, China in August 2006 as part of 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2006.

The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontology and knowledge acquisition, algorithm approaches to knowledge acquisition, incremental knowledge acquisition and RDR, knowledge acquisition and applications, as well as machine learning and data mining.

Appendices Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Managing california spotted owl habitat in the sierra nevada national forests of California an ecosystem approach)

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Appendices Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Managing california spotted owl habitat in the sierra nevada national forests of California an ecosystem approach)

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Cascades - "The Owl Service" (Collins Cascades)

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Cascades - "The Owl Service" (Collins Cascades)
Alan Garner , and Geoff Fox
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Watch the plates.......2005-01-16

Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks: 15th International Conference, EKAW 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 6-10, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks: 15th International Conference, EKAW 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 6-10, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 3540463631

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2006, held in Podebrady, Czech Republic in October 2006.

The 17 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge acquisition, ontology engineering, ontology learning, ontology mapping and evolution, semantic search, user interfaces, knowledge discovery, semantics from networks and crowds, and applications.

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