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- Start time:
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Day 1
This tour departs every Thursday (During British Summer Months)
In a little over an hours time our journey to the University city of Oxford will be complete. Heading west over the Chiltern Hills we descend down to the Thames valley to this 'city of dreaming spires' and take a walking tour amongst the cloisters and quadrangles of Britain's oldest University, founded in 1167. Ivy clad medieval college buildings compete for space with Georgian shops and ancient churches around busy streets which both 'Town and Gown' call home. Our guided walking tour will take you into the heart of this land of hallowed academia, to the Bodleian Library, to the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian Theatre and selected colleges.
After a break we head out to the nearby Cotswold hills. Here we can find the little back roads taking us away from the busy highways. We meander down country lanes, through villages of honey coloured stone, to Burford and Bourton-on-the-Water and to the charming twins of Upper and Lower Slaughter. A stop for a leisurely lunch is made in one of these places then we set off to Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.
Known the world over as the birthplace of the great poet William Shakespeare we, quite rightly, take you to the house where he was born and to Holy Trinity church where he was both baptised and buried. Many other centuries-old houses survive, some of these have associations with the writer. After a guided tour of the town and some free time we continue for a photo stop at Anne Hathaway's cottage, a beautiful timber-framed thatched farmhouse that was Shakespeare's wife's childhood home before we finally continue on our journey south to London.
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On this tour you will be travelling with no more than 15 other people - guaranteed! Our purpose-built minibuses have large windows, good air circulation and clear PA systems so that your professional guide can escort you comfortably through our wonderful country. Our itineraries are carefullly planned (with many years of experience) so that you discover as much as possible, without spending too much time on the road.
As we travel in smaller vehicles, we normally use the most scenic routes, where large coach are prohibited from travelling. Additionally, as our group sizes are smaller we are able to more time out of the vehicle. We also employ a seperate driver and not a driver/guide, on our midweek tours. This means that your guide's time is totally dedicated to ensuring that you see and learn as much as possible.
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Carol Bove and Janine Lariviere: Plants & Mammals b/w Mushrooms
Horticultural Society of New York, April 15-September 10, 2009
A two-tiered event at the Horticultural Society of New York recently thrilled me for its reframing of plant and fungi science into a stylized art project. As an artist/writer who is also an amateur mycologist, I felt someone had snuck into my head and stolen my dream: a botanical library-slash-indoor garden in which artists riff on green themes, and mycologists commingle with stoners while mushroom movies roll. To introduce film into this mixed media installation, curator Jody Jacobson hosted a screening called Mushrooms in conjunction with Carol Bove and Janine Lariviere's exhibition, Plants & Mammals. A description of the physical exhibition will contextualize the films Jacobson selected for this hour of mind-blowing celluloid psychedelia.
Carol Bove, a sculptor and assemblage artist who incorporates printed matter and other mixed media into her works that have a charmed, sometimes mystical formalism, installed a suite of sculptures including bent, rusted metal hammered onto a pedestal, driftwood and netting suspended from the ceiling with rope, and two peacock feathers dangling from a pole. On the longest wall, opposite the Society's excellent library of gardening books, hung Bove's series of text/image collages. Bove, known for her installations as well as the printed ephemera that accompanies them, collaborated with Lariviere to make an artist book, concurrently titled Plants & Mammals, which felt like the raison d'etre for the exhibition and cinematic event. Lariviere's half of the print project, a tidy yet expansive, 10-foot long accordion book, Twentieth Century Narcissus, expanded on display like freshly unfurled narcissus petals to detail a history of daffodils through image and minimal text. When compact, Twentieth Century Narcissus is encased in a brick red sleeve, along with a photograph of Bove's Zen-like installation, and a fold-out poster of one of Bove's wall pieces: a black-and-white, diamond-shaped cut-out of an antique animal woodcut and a William Blake illustration interrupted by an experimental poem bidding Marilyn Monroe good wishes in the afterlife. Themes of fleeting tranquility, metaphysical mash-up, feminine mystery, and human connection with wilderness created a ripe setting for April 30th's film screening.
Half of the event's excitement was in guessing what sort of audience a mushroom film screening would attract. Seats were occupied by artists, members of the New York Mycological Society, and certain fitting bearded guests, like Arik Roper, whose brand new book, Mushroom Magick: A Visionary Field Guide, treats mushrooms as rock stars in glitzy, rainbow gouache portraits. I felt myself getting abnormally excited to see Harry Smith's Early Abstractions—again—as I just can't get enough of his alchemically potent art spells, especially screened in conversation with fairly austere, Minimalist contemporary art. Jacobson opened with the only film literally depicting mushroom foragers: Jud Yalkut's John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point (1973), a sweet, seven-minute, summertime stroll through the woods upstate with Cage and friends filling baskets with fungi and retreating to his forest abode, a glass house that would suit any director of the NYMS. (John Cage was an avid mushroom hunter and used to head up the mycological society.) As I watched footage of a smiling Cage, gray-bearded and casual in jeans, stooping over plants to dig under and through shrubbery to stranger undergrowth, my hectic city day evaporated. The remainder of the program was about further transport.
Harry Smith's Early Abstractions, scored with Beatles' tunes, were astonishingly Modernist viewed in light of the clean lines in Bove's work. Watching batiked geometric shapes floating on the screen reminded me that he started making these in 1939, under the influence of the early Modernists and Bauhaus members. Film #5, in fact, was an homage to Oscar Fischinger. #10 was the gem, however, "an exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballa in the form of a collage," as the filmmaker described it. With it's swirling mandalas, Tibetan dragons attempting yogic poses, and one nearly subliminal appearance of an Amanita muscaria, the red-and-white spotted, fairy tale fly agaric, #10 predicted beat and hippie culture. This was the most complex animation, and the last in Smith's series, made in 1956. Jonas Mekas's Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) was saggy and pretentious following the enlightened Smith set. Warhol and his jaded clan stood around passing produce, as if they were the first people who ever found a picnic in a fruit bowl.
Bruce Conner's Looking for Mushrooms (1996), a revision of his 1965 film that now includes Terry Riley's haunting score, "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band," ended the night on a woozy note. Blurry shots of rural Mexico's people and landscape captured what Conner and pal, Timothy Leary, must have seen while visiting this psychedelic capital following R. Gordon Wasson's trip south to discover the region's shamanic employment of entheogenic psyilocybes. The film itself had the blue-stained hue of a shroom. Taken together, the films, installation, and book art allowed for a refreshingly holistic and abstract meditation on occult subject matter. More specifically, the exhibit reminded one of possibility—of sharing experience with found, natural objects and non-human, living organisms from the natural world.

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Nazis, Soviets, Poles, Jews
The Third Reich at War
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
The Nazi foreign minister had lost his patience with the Poles. "You are stubborn on these maritime questions," he told Polish diplomats in January 1939. "The Black Sea is also a sea!"1 Joachim von Ribbentrop had been trying for years to induce Poland to join Germany in a war against the Soviet Union. Germany would annex from Poland districts by the Baltic Sea; the two countries would invade the USSR; and Poland would be compensated with conquered Soviet territory on the Black Sea.
Ribbentrop's master Adolf Hitler wanted a deal so that he could begin a war. For the Nazis, the Soviet Union was the main enemy, and its agriculture and oil the prize. But between Germany and the USSR lay Poland, and the Poles expressed no interest in being the junior partner in the adventure. Why should Poland trade Baltic territories for the chance to fight for a Black Sea coastline? Why would German troops, once they entered Poland, ever leave? The Polish foreign minister declared that Poland would concede no territory and would fight to preserve its sovereignty. France and Britain, having seen Germany annex Austria and destroy Czechoslovakia, now offered guarantees to Poland, and sought to bring the Soviet Union into an alliance.
Josef Stalin doubted that the British or the French would be much use if Germany attacked, and he knew that Poland would not permit Soviet troops to cross Polish territory to attack Germany. Stalin waited for a better offer, and got one—from Hitler. On August 23, 1939, Ribbentrop flew to Moscow, where he and his Soviet counterpart Vyacheslav Molotov concluded a nonaggression pact. The agreement included a secret protocol whereby the two powers endorsed each other's spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, dividing between themselves the lands between the Baltic and the Black Seas.
Having failed to draw the Poles into a war against the Soviet Union, Ribbentrop succeeded in enticing the Soviets to join in an invasion of Poland. On September 1, 1939, the Wehrmacht attacked Poland from the west and south; on September 17, the Red Army entered from the east. The two armies met in the middle of Poland, marked their new common border, and organized a joint victory parade. Stalin had concluded, understandably, that it was better to fight the Germans later rather than sooner. Convinced that Hitler would wait to begin a second eastern offensive, he was surprised by the German invasion of June 22, 1941. Three years later, the Red Army drove the Germans from the Soviet Union. So the USSR began World War II as an ally of Germany, but ended it as an enemy of Germany. The Nazis, too, sacrificed ideological consistency for strategic prudence. Because Poland announced its decision to fight, Hitler decided to make an alliance with the Soviets in order to start the war in 1939. Because Poland indeed fought, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Hitler had wanted a simple death struggle with the Soviet Union. He got his war with the Soviet Union, but it was anything but simple.
Richard Evans chronicles this complex war in enviable prose. Hitler had little desire to engage the British; his Luftwaffe could not control the skies, and the idea of a marine invasion of a naval power posed problems from the start. The quick German victory over France in spring 1940, on the other hand, made Hitler look like a genius. It convinced Germans of the possibility of a Blitzsieg, or "lightning victory," against the main enemy, the Soviet Union. The Red Army was thought to be inferior to the French armed forces; Hitler thought that defeating the Soviet Union would be child's play. But the "lightning victory" in the Soviet Union was a will-o'-the-wisp. By December 1941 the Red Army was mounting counterattacks, and Japan had brought the United States into the war by bombing Pearl Harbor. Hitler welcomed Tokyo's distraction, believing that the Japanese would keep the Americans penned in the Pacific. But in 1942, after a spring offensive, the Germans failed again to defeat the Soviet Union. They then found themselves facing the assembled power of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
Evans's account of the German experience of war is exceptionally accessible. Rather than the conventional "Führer," he calls Hitler the "Leader," in one deft gesture making the German experience less alien. He places much emphasis on individual choices, particularly of those who wished to resist Hitler. He keeps in view strategic circumstances and technical achievements, with sketches, for example, of the importance of aircraft carriers and long-range fighters. His account of Nazi atrocities within Germany is overwhelming in its painful detail. There is no better summary of the "euthanasia" program, in which German doctors and nurses gassed 80,000 mentally and physically handicapped people by the summer of 1941. At one of the extermination facilities, the staff celebrated the ten-thousandth cremation, as Evans relates, by bedecking a corpse with flowers.
Evans faces controversial issues squarely and makes balanced judgments. The Allied bombing of German cities was, he concludes, both murderous and effective. It killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians. But it also reduced morale, diverted dual-use cannons from the eastern front, and slowed the development of new weapons. He provides a clear account of the rise and fall of the members of Hitler's clique. He describes the decline of Hermann Göring, "the second man of the Reich," who was originally charged with the creation of a vast exterminatory German colony in the conquered Soviet Union. As the war continued Heinrich Himmler took charge of the extermination, and Albert Speer made the most of the limited resources of Germany's ever-shrinking empire. Unlike some historians of the war, Evans does not simply allow Jews to disappear from the scene to destinations with ominous names. He follows the trains to the death factories and the people to the gas chambers, preventing the reader from seeing industrial killing as somehow quick and clean.
In this, as in the previous two volumes of his imposing history of Nazi Germany, Evans deploys a sort of vertical method. Uniting his youthful training in social history with later interests in political history, he weaves together the experiences of people and the workings of the institutions of power. Heretofore the combination has served him very well. The problem with the period between 1939 and 1945, however, is that Nazi power ceased to be vertical, as German soldiers, policemen, and bureaucrats spread themselves thin over much of the European continent, and the lines of power no longer flowed downward from Berlin to German society, but began to flow outward from Germany to the empire. Even Germany itself became a highly multinational state. Annexations of Polish territory from the Baltic Sea southward added fifteen times more Poles than Germans to the Reich. Some eight million foreign laborers came to live in Germany. Evans realizes that he must concentrate his attention on the German empire in the East, where the war was lost. His attempts to do so, however, bring rather mixed results.
Germany, in Evans's presentation, was a complex society, defined by Christian morality, in which the majority was opposed to the persecution of Jews. Poles, on the other hand, had, in Evans's account, no educated classes (these, he thinks, were eliminated by the Germans), and can be reduced to the stereotype of nationalism. Evans writes with tedious consistency of the "Polish nationalist resistance." The word "nationalist" appears every time the anti-Nazi Polish opposition is mentioned—a lonely exception being the page where Poles rescue Emanuel Ringelblum, the chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto, from a camp. (Ringelblum, along with another group of Polish rescuers, was later killed.)2
The group that Evans has in mind, which took the name "Home Army," was established by men and women of the political center and left. Its founder, Michał Tokarzewski-Karasiewicz, was a feminist theosophist from a nationally mixed family: hardly a nationalist. Some of the Home Army's soldiers and officers were Jews, and were killed by Germans as such. Not a "nationalist organization," the Home Army was part of the regular armed forces and was subordinate to the exile government of Poland. Having misclassified the Home Army, Evans ignores the other Polish armed forces: the army under General Władysław Anders that fought in the West, and the air force. Polish pilots made 12 percent of the kills of Luftwaffe fighters in the Battle of Britain—one wonders if Evans thinks that these men were "nationalists."
Evans claims that the Polish government in exile never "took a clear stance" against the murder of Polish Jews. This is false; he contradicts himself later in the book, writing that on September 17, 1942, the Polish government in exile approved a "public protest against the crimes the Germans were committing against the Jews." He goes on to say—inaccurately—that it "took no concrete action." Polish authorities, no doubt, should have done more to publicize the plight of their three million Jewish citizens. As Evans fails to note, however, Polish leaders were in a position similar to that of the American, British, and Soviet governments: all had a war to win against Germany, but felt they could not allow their rather anti-Semitic societies to believe that they were fighting for Jews.
Hitler's propaganda accused them of doing so, and London, Washington, and Moscow reacted much the same way as the Polish government: they emphasized the suffering of nations but not of Jews. But it was, as Evans notes, the Poles who told the British and the Americans about the Holocaust, not the other way around. The Polish army courier Jan Karski informed American and British statesmen and intellectuals about the mass killing. Evans does not mention Zegota, a department of the Polish government whose sole purpose was to rescue Jews. Thousands of Jews survived thanks to Zegota; thousands of others were sheltered by individual Poles. On the other hand, some Poles killed Jews, and some Poles served the Germans as policemen, while others turned in Jews to the Germans. Many profited from the Holocaust by taking Jewish property. The history of Polish–Jewish relations would be better served by a more sensitive account than the one Evans provides.3
Evans is naturally sympathetic to the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto who chose to fight in April 1943 rather than to submit to the Germans. Unfortunately, according to Evans, the "Polish nationalist resistance rejected their call for help." One might wish that Poles had done more to help the Warsaw Jews, but easy condemnations are no substitute for research. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was fought by two different Jewish groups, the Jewish Military Union and the Jewish Combat Organization. The Communist Polish People's Guard helped the Jews of the Jewish Combat Organization, a coalition of mostly left-wing political parties founded in the ghetto by people without military experience.
Hans Roos, Polen und Europa: Studien zur polnischen Außenpolitik (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1957), p. 396.↩
See Samuel D. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto (Vintage, 2009).↩
A study that takes a critical view of the Polish government is David Engel, Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943–1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). See also his exchange with Dariusz Stola in Polin, Vol. 8 (1994). A statistical reckoning of Jewish rescue is Gunnar S. Paulsson, Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945 (Yale University Press, 2002). No book conveys the high culture of Polish-Jewish Warsaw better than Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism (Yale University Press, 2006).↩
Hans Roos, Polen und Europa: Studien zur polnischen Außenpolitik (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1957), p. 396.↩
See Samuel D. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto (Vintage, 2009).↩
A study that takes a critical view of the Polish government is David Engel, Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943–1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993). See also his exchange with Dariusz Stola in Polin, Vol. 8 (1994). A statistical reckoning of Jewish rescue is Gunnar S. Paulsson, Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945 (Yale University Press, 2002). No book conveys the high culture of Polish-Jewish Warsaw better than Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism (Yale University Press, 2006).↩


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In the Green AV context, control systems programming emerges as the fusion of many of the approaches that guide environmental responsibility across the audiovisual industry. Like lifecycle awareness, total environmental profile and integrated building technology, programming takes a holistic view of AV and applies solutions for energy efficiency, cost savings, and lifecycle and performance considerations to create a high performance, low environmental impact system experience.
In one of our earliest Project Green AV Voices pieces ("Green AV through Control Systems Programming"), Steve Greenblatt, President of Control Concepts, shared his thoughts on programming as a fundamental Green AV activity and a clear-cut way to improve the environmental impact of systems of all types. In his post for Project Green AV, Steve explains that "any integrated AV system can become 'Green-er' by applying the appropriate control system programming solutions."
As Steve and other control systems programmers understand, system features and product design create the opportunity for AV programming to improve environmental performance and user experience without reducing user expectations or adding burdens to user responsibility. At its most basic, Green AV programming works with room sensors, power settings and performance settings. Taken to the next level, AV programming is optimized for energy management; programmers are able to monitor and manage energy across multiple systems inside a room and throughout a building to increase cost savings and decrease energy consumption, never at the expense of performance.
The new InfoComm Audiovisual System Energy Management Standard, released this spring, "defines and prescribes processes and requirements for ongoing power-consumption management of the audiovisual (AV) system," according to InfoComm. Christopher Maione, President of Christopher Maione Associates and a Project Green AV Voices Contributor and Our Community Member, sat on the InfoComm Energy Management Standard Committee. Christopher will share his insight on the standard and what it means for programmers, other Green AV professionals and their clients, in the upcoming PGAV Green AV University Webinar: Structure Sustainable AV: How Guidelines, Standards and Programs Empower AV Pros, on August 21.
In the space of energy management, lifecycle, and total environmental profile, AV programming is an essential component of environmentally responsible AV and a leading example of how advances in technology lead to improvements in environmental impact and performance.
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By Mark Hodson, Sunday Times Travel Writer and Editor of 101 Holidays
May is one of the best months of the year to go on holiday – you'll find sensational weather in many of the world's best destinations, and mouth-watering bargains.
In the Mediterranean, most tour operators start their summer flight programmes in May, but the crowds have yet to arrive, so prices are set low. Long days of warm sunshine are all but guaranteed, yet it's rarely too hot to wander into town or do some sightseeing.
May is also one of the best months to fly long haul. Prices in the Caribbean plummet after the Easter holidays, yet the weather is all but perfect with several months to go before the start of the hurricane season. It's also a great time to visit the USA. Here's our guide to where to go on holiday in May.
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Mediterranean beach holidays in May
The welcome in May is unusually warm – it's too early in the season for waiters and taxi drivers to start feeling jaded, and everyone is pleased to see the start of a new tourist season. The weather will be amazing, the sea is warming up and the countryside is still dotted with spring flowers. Best of all, prices are low so you can pick up some great cheap holidays in May.
Where should you go on holiday in May? In the Med, almost anywhere. In Spain, we recommend the unspoilt beaches Costa de la Luz and the beautiful coastline of Catalonia. On the islands of Mallorca and Ibiza you'll find some first-class villas. Explore more destinations in Spain.
Greece is magical for May holidays. Head to the quite island of Paxos to chill out, or explore fascinating Crete where you'll find stylish houses to rent and the stylish contemporary Daios Cove hotel. On the mainland, we recommend the Sani Resort.
We love the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, home to two of the Med's great hotels, Forte Village Resort in Sardinia and the Verdura Golf & Spa Resort in Sicily. On mainland Italy we recommend the beautiful Amalfi Coast and the gorgeous region of Puglia in the "heel of the boot". Find more Italy holiday ideas.
The Aegean coast of Turkey has some great boutique hotels while Turkish-speaking North Cyprus is a great destination in May with some fascinating historical sights, remote beaches and remarkably low prices. We particularly like the Pia Bella Hotel near the charming port town of Kyrenia.
Other wonderful destinations include fascinating Gozo and the charming French island of Corsica where you'll find a great selection of villas with pools, apartments and hotels.
Although classic destination for May – although not in the Med – is the Italian Lakes. Perfect for boat trips, walks along the shores, eating in charming local restaurants.
If you're feeling flush, you could rent a luxury staffed villa with Scott Dunn in the Mediterranean, complete with a private pool and the services of a private chef, villa host and fully-qualified nanny.
If you're on a budget, try a self-catering apartment at a holiday village in France or Spain.
Long haul beaches and adventures
Low season rates in the Caribbean mean that previously unaffordable destinations become genuine bargains. You can push the boat out in Barbados or live it up in style at Sandals Royal Plantation, Ocho Rios in Jamaica.
We like the small islands for their low-key, no-rush, friendly style, including Tobago and Grenada where we like the Calabash Hotel. Or chill out on the beautiful beaches of the Cayman Islands.
A nice alternative to staying in a hotel is to rent a luxury Caribbean villa which comes fully staffed. Book with CV Travel. If you travel with friends the price is surprisingly affordable. See our pick of the best Caribbean holidays.
Bermuda is closer than the Caribbean – it's in the Atlantic, and not so inviting in winter. But by May the weather has really cheered up and you can enjoy stunning pink sand beaches, immaculate gardens and golf courses and excellent hotels including Cambridge Beaches and the budget-friendly Grotto Bay Resort. Find detailed information on weather in the Caribbean in May.
May is one of the best months to visit Peru – a once in a lifetime destination where you can visit the Lost City of Machu Picchu, explore colonial towns, Andean mountain villages and the Amazon rainforest. Find more Peru holiday ideas.
In Asia you need to pick and choose your destination – some are arguably too hot in May. This is a good time to explore the beaches and jungles of Borneo including visits to see the Orang-utans. If you just want to relax in some perfect sunshine we recommend the Tanjong Jara Resort in Malaysia and the Thai island of Koh Samui.
In Africa you need to pick and choose your destination. This is an excellent time for a safari holiday in Botswana or a tour of Namibia where the weather is dry but not too hot.
The Indian Ocean is perfect for beach holidays in May, particularly the Maldives, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
May is the perfect time to visit Japan. The temperature in Tokyo is mild, the gardens are in full bloom and the mountains are green. Kenrokuen gardens in Kanazawa are considered amongst the most beautiful in Japan. Find more holiday ideas in Japan.
UK holiday ideas in May
Long days of sunshine and warm temperatures can the UK one of the best holiday destinations in May. Both Devon and Cornwall offer the prospect of good weather, ideal for family holidays in May half term. Find more half term holiday ideas.
The Isle of Wight offers an ideal combination of beaches, countryside and indoor attractions, while the Scilly Isles often experience exceptional weather in May.
If you love the idea of camping but aren't so crazy about the idea of soggy canvas, take a look at Trevella Park on the coast of Cornwall, and Feather Down Farms, which has luxury tents (wooden floors, proper beds and a wood-fired stove) set on working farms across the UK.
A boating holiday on a river cruiser or narrowboat is great value and a wonderfully relaxing way to explore the British countryside at this time of year. Options include the Norfolk Broads where you can explore 250 miles of waterways, motoring gently through reed marshes, meadows and woodland. There are plenty of riverside pubs and restaurants where you can moor up. Real Enid Blyton stuff.
If you want a weekend break in the countryside, try Gilpin Lodge in the Lake District, or the stately Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa near Bath. On the Suffolk coast, The Wentworth Hotel is a gorgeous bolthole overlooking the beach at Aldeburgh, one of Britain's prettiest seaside towns.
To really get away from it all, head to Pen-y-Dyffryn, a cosy Georgian country house hotel set in rolling hills on the Shropshire-Wales border. It has an excellent restaurant.
From London it is an easy journey to Maison Talbooth, a charming, family-run hotel on the Essex-Suffolk border.
Often overlooked by holidaymakers tearing down to Devon and Cornwall, the delightful county of Dorset has lovely countryside and a dramatic coastline. We recommend renting one of these cottages.
On the island of Jersey, The Atlantic Hotel is a modern bolthole with excellent facilities and gorgeous ocean views. Check out its special offers.
Join a tour of the Great Houses of England or choose from a wide selection of small-group cultural tours of the UK led by an expert in art, music or architecture.
If you're looking for somewhere to stay with a large group of family or friends, why not rent a large house. We recommend The Big Domain which has a great collection of properties in the UK and abroad that all sleep 12 or more.
We've discovered a wonderful collection of short breaks in Scotland including a steam train journey on the West Highland Line and self-drive tours in classic cars. You can take a whisky tour of Islay and spot Minke Whales on Mull.
For more ideas, see our sister site, 101 Short Breaks. See our full selection of UK holiday ideas.
Activity holidays in May
With the heat of the summer yet to descend, May is a great month for an activity holiday – whether you want to push your body to the limits or just enjoy some leisurely exercise in beautiful surroundings.
We particularly like these hotel-to-hotel walking holidays in Europe with Inntravel, and these cycling holidays in France. Other interesting options include these cultural walking tours.
Northern Spain offers rolling hills, empty beaches and dramatic mountains – great for hiking, biking and white-water rafting. It's great value and the food is excellent. Find out more from Casas Cantabricas.
May is a great month for cycling in the UK. We recommend Saddle Skedaddle which has a range of escorted and independent trips exploring the best of the British countryside, including both road cycling and mountain bike weekends. They are aimed at all levels and you don't even need your own bike. Try the Lake District, Wales, the Scottish Highlands or the Cotswolds.
We also recommend Martin Randall which specialises in expert-led cultural tours in some of Europe's most fascinating destinations. Travelling in a small group, each tour is themed around art, architecture, gastronomy, music or history. See the website for details.
If you crave adventure, how about a check out Star Clippers which runs tall ship cruises on a traditional sailing boat. Peter Sommer Travels also runs gulet cruises in Turkey, Italy and Greece accompanied by an expert guide to show you around cultural sites.
Indulge your mind and body at a luxury spa retreat in the South of France or Andalucia. If you want to stretch yourself, how about a fitness holiday in the Italian Dolomites or a dedicated yoga holiday with healthy food and expert yoga teachers in a choice of beautiful destinations including Crete and Italy. Details from Destination Yoga.
Combine exercise with culture on an exciting trekking holiday in Morocco. This is perfect time to explore the Atlas Mountains with an expert local guide.
If you're a golfer, try a golfing holiday at a self-catering holiday village in France, which works out much cheaper than staying at a hotel.
In Northern Spain you'll find some wonderful rail journeys on luxury state-owned trains including the Transcantábrico and La Robla. A great way to visit some elegant cities and see magnificent countryside.
Venture north
Head to Norway in May as midsummer approaches and you'll see some of the world's most spectacular wonders bathed in long hours of sunshine. Take an independent tour of fjords, lakes and mountains or a coastal voyage on a ship used by locals. You can spot whales in the Lofoten Islands or take a short break to Tromso, the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Iceland is one of the world's most dramatically beautiful countries – with mountains, glaciers, volcanoes and geysers. We've picked some great group tours and fly-drive holidays. View the latest special offers.
May is a perfect time to head to Eastern Europe for a city break. We recommend the historic capitals of Prague and Budapest.
Check out our complete guide to the best city breaks in spring.
In Northern France, we recommend the atmospheric Auberge de l'Abbaye, which is surrounded by apple orchards and half-timbered farms and offers superb food and wine just a few miles from the ferry port in Calais. You could take a city break in Germany, exploring the fascinating capital Berlin or historic Cologne.
Or paint the town red in Barcelona, or Madrid where you'll find art galleries, pavement cafes, tapas bars and grand architecture.
Got some cash to splash? Celebrate a big birthday or anniversary by booking a private jet holiday to France with Jet Escapes. If you travel with a few friends or family, a day trip or short break can cost less than £1,000 per person.
Holidays in America in May
Spring is the perfect time to visit the Eastern US cities of New York and Boston. You can expect fabulous sunny weather on a fly-drive around New England or, for a really stylish entrance, how about arriving in the Big Apple by transatlantic cruise, perhaps on Cunard's Queen Mary 2.
Rent a car and you can explore the highways and byways of America at your own pace. You could take a fascinating and emotional journey along the Civil War route, or discover the beauty of the Great Lakes. Take the Grand Circle route through Nevada, Utah and Arizona, or motor south from Miami to the Florida Keys (where we recommend the gorgeous Little Palm Island).
If you don't fancy driving, how about a luxury coach tour - options include a trip around the Icons of the American Heartland from Chicago to Tennessee. We've also found some great foodie tours of America, such as this San Francisco and Wine Country Delights trip.
It's a great time to explore the South before the heat of summer descends. Drive the 250-mile Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina or stay in gorgeous plantation houses on the route from New Orleans to Charleston. If you want somebody else behind the wheel, try one of these escorted coach tours of the Deep South. If you love music, head to the New Orleans Jazz Fest in May.
Way out West, you could stay on a working cowboy ranch, party in Las Vegas and stay at the Grand Canyon Ranch or try this fabulous Grand Canyon Rafting trip.
California is sunshine all the way. Take it easy at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, on Redondo Beach or in glamorous Palm Springs. There are plenty of great fly-drive options including the Pacific Coast Highway, one of the world's most scenic drives. Why not do it in a convertible!
More ideas? How about a house rental in Orlando, a river cruise on the Mississippi or through the states of Washington and Oregon, or a tour of the locations used by TV shows including Sex & The City and The Sopranos. You can even get married in the US.
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filename: app/model/user.rb ... # Authenticate a user's Yubikey ID. # # Example: # @user.authenticate_yubikey(this_blog, 'thcrefhcvijl', # 'thcrefhcvijldvlfugbhrghkibjigdbunhjlfnbtvfbc') # def authenticate_yubikey(this_blog, yubikey_id = '', yubikey_otp = '') if (yubikey_id.empty? || yubikey_otp.empty? || !yubikey_otp[0, 12].eql?(yubikey_id)) return false else begin yk = Yubico.new(this_blog.yubikey_api_id, this_blog.yubikey_api_key) return yk.verify(yubikey_otp).eql?('OK') rescue return false end end end ...
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You might want to consider a few variations when implementing Yubikey authentication. First, you can choose to omit the user name, because the Yubikey token already includes a public ID that can be used to link to the user's account. This scheme works as long as you are not allowing users to associate a single Yubikey with multiple accounts.
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On its Web site, Yubico maintains a growing list of applications and services that take advantage of the Yubikey. There is a plugin for WordPress, SSH integration, phpBB forum access and Windows login (commercial beta). As the above example of integrating the Yubikey into the Typo blog software's authentication routine shows, the process is fairly straightforward. Hopefully, this article inspires you to use this as a starting point to make your favorite piece of open-source software more secure by adding Yubikey authentication.
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http://yubico.com/applications/software/ is the correct one
Hi Dirk,
If you are interested in authentication you should also have a look on the swekey.
It is a totally different approach than the Yubikey.
If you want a free sample for evaluation I'll be happy to send you one...
2 step authentication
What is to prevent the attacker from simulating the response to the first step? More than a simple challenge to the user will be too much of a burden to the user, while a simple challenge will likely be easy to work-around.
I would suggest using the Yubikey device with HTTP Digest Authentication. Of course, the Yubikey OTP will have to be entered in the User Name field, not the password.
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I am kind of having a hard time weaning her off her bottle and going back to breastfeeding her and giving her baby food only….
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When I get back from my honeymoon…I plan on using the rest of the formula and then start back on breastfeeding!!!
She is on formula half of the time now..I breast feeding her twice in the mornings. Once around 8:00am and then again at about 11:00am. I wanna go feed now…But, she might now be hungry I gave her a bottle…But, my boobs feel like they are going to explode at any moment..they are so full..anyway…I am going to go back to bed now and watch tv or something….
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The new Derby king
In a Derby billed in this corner and everywhere else as one of the most unpredictable in memory, it should be no surprise that the victorious Animal Kingdom came home at odds of 21-1.
Team Valor International's colt rallied from the middle of the pack and rolled to an emphatic 2 3/4-length victory over Nehro, Mucho Macho Man and the front-running Shackleford. He was clearly the best horse on Derby Day and could turn out to be the best of his generation. But it will be a while before that is determined.
Here are the things that Animal Kingdom accomplished with his Derby victory:
- Provide the first Kentucky Derby victory for English-born trainer Graham Motion, a soft-spoken Briton who has quietly become one of the most respected members of his craft in the United States. His skill has been validated by a Kentucky Derby victory in a week in which he also experienced the disappointment of an injury to Wood Memorial winner Toby's Corner, which knocked that major contender out of the Run for the Roses.
- A first Kentucky Derby win for John Velazquez, who was without a Derby mount when 2-year-old champion Uncle Mo was a late scratch. But an injury to jockey Robby Albarado resulted in Velazquez ending up in the saddle aboard Animal Kingdom, one of the more unlikely turnabouts in Derby history.
- Provided a victory in America's greatest race to Team Valor International, one of the most successful of the racing partnerships headed by former horse industry journalist Barry Irwin. The partnership also bred the winner. Team Valor just missed winning the Derby in 1997 when Captain Bodgit ran second to Silver Charm.
- Became the first Derby winner to take the roses without having previously raced on dirt. His four races, including a win in Turfway Park's Vinery Racing Spiral, had come on either turf or synthetic surfaces.
- Was a rare Kentucky Derby winner to take the race off just four career races and a six-week rest.
Animal Kingdom's Kentucky Derby victory was notable on many levels. His acceleration in the upper stretch was impressive, and he simply blew past a strong group of rivals in Nehro, Mucho Macho Man and Shackleford. Their efforts just weren't good enough on Derby Day to hold off this impressive new star.
Animal Kingdom is now the only member of this crop who has the chance to end America's Triple Crown drought, which now stands at 33 years since Affirmed edge rival Alydar to complete the rare three-race sweep with a narrow victory in the 1978 Belmont Stakes.
His pedigree – he's by the Brazilian stallion Leroidesanimaux out of the German mare Dalicia – is heavy on distance and stamina and makes him a strong candidate for success in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes, the jewel's final crown. The impressive turn of foot displayed in his wins in the 1 1/8-mile Vinery Racing Spiral and the Derby's mile and a quarter seem to make him suitable for the Preakness, the shortest of the Triple Crown races at 1 3/16 miles – a half-furlong shorter than the Derby – at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, May 21.
But there will be new and fresh shooters awaiting him in Baltimore – at the time of this writing there were at least 18 possible contenders for the 14 spots in the Preakness starting gate – and some Derby 137 foes that will be awaiting another crack at the Derby king. That group includes Mucho Macho Man, Shackleford and beaten favorite Dialed In, who lost all chance when he walked out of the starting gate and found himself far behind a moderate pace. The Nick Zito-trained Dialed In finished eighth at Churchill Downs, but you can look for better in Baltimore if the pace is honest.
There was much to love in Animal Kingdom's Derby win, but a couple of questions now must be answered:
- Will he handle other dirt surfaces as well as he skipped over the Churchill Downs footing? I've always believed the Churchill dirt is kinder to horses with turf pedigree than most other natural dirt surfaces. It's a minor concern with Animal Kingdom, but still a question.
- Will the Derby winner be effective on two week's rest after having four well-spaced races coming into the Derby? Again, it's not a huge concern, but it's still a dangling question.
Animal Kingdom's victory in the Kentucky Derby was not a fluke on any level. It's unusual for a new star to be introduced in the Kentucky Derby, but this Derby, with its wide-open field and string of big-odds upsets in major preps coming into the race, was tailor-made for the emergence of a horse like Animal Kingdom.
He left Churchill Downs early Tuesday and will train before only a handful of eyeballs for Motion at Maryland's bucolic Fair Hill training center. It's unlikely that Animal Kingdom will ship to Pimlico any earlier than the day before the race, so he will still be somewhat of a mystery horse when, and if, he slides into the starting gate for the Preakness.
The Derby winner has much yet to prove, but his wonderful run also holds much promise and the prospect of still-untapped potential. Team Valor's colt has as much potential as any Derby winner in recent years to take additional strides forward in the weeks that remain in the Triple Crown series.
Who knows? In a year of seemingly endless Derby outcomes, we could end up with a major player for what seemed least likely: a Derby winner with a legitimate shot to end the Triple Crown drought.
photos by JACOB ZIMMER | chief photographer
Category: Cover Stories, Sports


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Toyota Reports October Sales
1/01/2005 Torrance, CA
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today reported best-ever October sales of 173,086 vehicles, an increase of 5.2 percent over last October. Calendar-year-to-date (CYTD) sales total 1,887,352, up 10.7 percent over the same period last year.
"Market conditions show promise," said Jim Press, TMS president and COO. "Inventories are being replenished, the incentive-induced daze is lifting and the hurricane season is coming to a close."


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Back in the late 1970s, a young man from Hastings, Minn., joined the on-air staff at the local radio station I managed. He had wanted to work with us a year earlier, but his former boss in Marshfield threatened him with legal action if he violated a non-compete agreement with the station.
So he got a job elsewhere and joined us a year later.
Judges often threw out such cases – especially in small markets like Stevens Point and Marshfield. In many of the cases, the agreements were one-sided – benefitting the station but not the DJ, even though management claimed they were mutually beneficial – a requirement for non-competes.
We were fortunate to have the young man on our staff. He was a clean-cut, ambitious fellow, and little did we know at the time that he was on a fast track to success in the broadcast world. The ladies in the office swooned over him.
I speak of Jeff Rowe, who used the on-air name "Dallas Cole." We all called him "Dallas" and to this day, I have trouble addressing him as "Jeff."
Jeff was (and still is) a perpetual motion machine. I can't visualize him sitting still. But his talent, respect for others and pleasant demeanor made him a joy to have on our staff. He was the kind of young man you'd be proud to have as a son. I give him credit for a good part of success the radio station enjoyed in those glory days.
During his time with us, Jeff was looking to the future, developing plans and ideas that would serve him well. His drive and foresight helped propel him into several coveted positions.
When he left us, he programmed and managed WKTI in Milwaukee and then WLS in Chicago. The door to television opened for him and he became head of programming at VH1 in New York. There he reshaped the programming and music, and among other things, hired Rosie O'Donnell. While at VH1, the network's cable subscriber base doubled to 36 million, and sales increased seven-fold. (VH1 is now part of the MTV networks.)
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Support Vector Machines for Classification and Regression (provided by HU Berlin)
ImageSVM is an IDL based tool for the support vector machine (SVM) classification and regression analysis of remote sensing image data. Its workflow allows a flexible and transparent use of the support vector concept for both simple and advanced classification/regression approaches. The goal of imageSVM is to advance the use of the support vector concept in the field of remote sensing image analysis.
Random Forests for Classification and Regression (provided by Uni Bonn and HU Berlin)
imageRF is an IDL based tool for the supervised classification and regression analysis of remote sensing image data. It implements the machine learning approach of Random Forests™ (RF) (Breiman, L & Cutler, A, 2011) that uses multiple self-learning decision trees to parameterize models and use them for estimating categorical or continuous variables.
Waske et al. 2012: imageRF – A user oriented implementation for remote sensing image analysis with Random Forests
Partial Least Squares Regression (provided by Uni Bonn)
The aim of the autoPLSR is to provide a software tool with automatic feature and latent variable selection for the Partial Least Squares Regression (PLSR: Wold et al. (2001)), a multivariate regression method that is widely used in chemometrics, hyperspectral remote sensing, bioinformatics and other fields.
Spectral Index Data Mining Tool (provided by Uni Trier)
SpInMine (Spectral Index Data Mining Tool) is a tool for finding the optimal index of two narrow bands for a regression problem.
Advanced Statistical Evaluator (ASE) (provided by LMU München)
The objective of the ASE is to provide for remote sensing practitioners (i.e., non-statisticians) guidance for model evaluation. An optimal set of statistical measures is proposed for the quantitative assessment of model performance in the context of vegetation biophysical variable retrieval from Earth observation (EO) data.
Analyze Spectral Integral (provided by LMU München)
The Analyze Spectral Integral (ASI) is based on the concept of continuum removal, an approach commonly applied in the chemical sciences for the determination of mixture component concentrations. This approach has been developed as an alternative to simple Vegetation Indices.
Agricultural Vegetation Indices (AVI) (provided by LMU München)
The module AVI is a collection of 66 Vegetation Indices (VI) selected from an extensive literature survey.
imageMath (provided by HU Berlin)
Calculator for spatial and spectral image processing functionality with look-and-feel of a common hand-held calculator.
Linear Mixtures of Spectral Libraries (provided by HU Berlin)
The libMix Application provides a simple way to generate synthetically and binary mixtures of spectral profiles. Its aim is to simulate the spectral mixing gradients, e.g. to estimate fractional content of specific land cover classes.
Maximum Entropy Analysis (provided by Uni Bonn)
The MaxEnt-Wrapper is an IDL based wrapper for the Java based program MaxEnt written by Steven Phillips, Miro Dudik and Rob Schapire for the maximum entropy analysis of remote sensing image data. The MaxEnt-Wrapper provides users of the EnMap-Box/ENVI to use remote sensing data within MaxEnt without converting the data itself.
Automatic Detection and Delineation of Surface Water Bodies (provided by GFZ Potsdam)
Import Vector Machines for Classification (provided by Uni Bonn)
imageIVM is a tool for the import vector machine (IVM) classification of remote sensing image data. IVM is a sparse realization of kernel logistic regression and was originally proposed by Zhu and Hastie in 2003. The algorithm was modified by Roscher et al. in 2012.
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Phytobenthos Index (provided by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht)
The Phytobenthos Index is a modified version of the NDVI. It is specifically designed for benthic diatoms, a dominant species on estuarine intertidal flats. The index uses the reflectance at 635 nm associated with chlorophyll c, a diagnostic absorption feature for this pigment.
Spectral Mixture Analysis (provided by Uni Trier)
The iterativeSMA algorithm is based on the principle that endmember abundances predicted by linear spectral mixture analysis are most accurate when only those endmembers are used which are actually needed to describe the spectral properties of a pixel. Large abundance errors may occur when either too few or too many endmembers are used. iterativeSVM aims to remove unnecessary endmembers.


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