Are you freaked out by the mere thought of a bird winking at you? Or do you panic when you hear an unexplained gurgling sound? Well, listen to this. On Saturday, March 8, at 7:12 p.m., Trey Hamburger heard a second hand account of a teleporting Hot Pocket and started wiggin' out bad. So he and his amigo Mike Stevens basically went into combat mode and ended up encountering some of the most seriously messed-up shit ever. And they're STILL FREAKED OUT ABOUT IT. Now, even though these guys aren't SCIENTISTS, it's pretty for sure that they might have extrapolated something HUGE, which will have the intellectual community going nuts for weeks. This is their story. Ghost/Aliens is probably the first time ever a regular person has investigated this sort of thing. So now the people of planet Earth will finally know the truth about all those levitating towels and dead grandpas popping up all over the place.
Are you freaked out by the mere thought of a bird winking at you? Or do you panic when you hear an unexplained gurgling sound? Well, listen to this. On Saturday, March 8, at 7:12 p.m., Trey Hamburger heard a second hand account of a teleporting Hot Pocket and started wiggin' out bad. So he and his amigo Mike Stevens basically went into combat mode and ended up encountering some of the most seriously messed-up shit ever. And they're STILL FREAKED OUT ABOUT IT. Now, even though these guys aren't SCIENTISTS, it's pretty for sure that they might have extrapolated something HUGE, which will have the intellectual community going nuts for weeks. This is their story. Ghost/Aliens is probably the first time ever a regular person has investigated this sort of thing. So now the people of planet Earth will finally know the truth about all those levitating towels and dead grandpas popping up all over the place.
Join Geralt of Rivia on his adventures throughout The Continent as you learn to cook 50 delicious and totally unofficial recipes inspired by the hit fantasy books, video games, and show The Witcher. Andrzej Sapkowski’s epic fantasy saga of the witcher Geralt has captivated pop culture for nearly 30 years. Through books, graphic novels, TV shows, and video games, the witcher’s adventures have brought audiences face-to-face with monsters, sorceresses, kings, and destiny. Now, you can have your very own taste of the legendary adventures of a witcher. The Unofficial Witcher Cookbook is filled with 50 recipes ranging from humble meals and tavern stews to bountiful feasts fit for a king, including: Prized Potato Soup Blacksmith Dumplings Feast of Ham and Nightshade House Specialty Soup Honey Cakes for a Coin And more! This cookbook is perfect for die-hard fans of The Witcher, as well as those who just can’t get enough epic fantasy in their life.
Summary Solr in Action is a comprehensive guide to implementing scalable search using Apache Solr. This clearly written book walks you through well-documented examples ranging from basic keyword searching to scaling a system for billions of documents and queries. It will give you a deep understanding of how to implement core Solr capabilities. About the Book Whether you're handling big (or small) data, managing documents, or building a website, it is important to be able to quickly search through your content and discover meaning in it. Apache Solr is your tool: a ready-to-deploy, Lucene-based, open source, full-text search engine. Solr can scale across many servers to enable real-time queries and data analytics across billions of documents. Solr in Action teaches you to implement scalable search using Apache Solr. This easy-to-read guide balances conceptual discussions with practical examples to show you how to implement all of Solr's core capabilities. You'll master topics like text analysis, faceted search, hit highlighting, result grouping, query suggestions, multilingual search, advanced geospatial and data operations, and relevancy tuning. This book assumes basic knowledge of Java and standard database technology. No prior knowledge of Solr or Lucene is required. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. What's Inside How to scale Solr for big data Rich real-world examples Solr as a NoSQL data store Advanced multilingual, data, and relevancy tricks Coverage of versions through Solr 4.7 About the Authors Trey Grainger is a director of engineering at CareerBuilder. Timothy Potter is a senior member of the engineering team at LucidWorks. The authors work on the scalability and reliability of Solr, as well as on recommendation engine and big data analytics technologies. Table of Contents PART 1 MEET SOLR Introduction to Solr Getting to know Solr Key Solr concepts Configuring Solr Indexing Text analysis PART 2 CORE SOLR CAPABILITIES Performing queries and handling results Faceted search Hit highlighting Query suggestions Result grouping/field collapsing Taking Solr to production PART 3 TAKING SOLR TO THE NEXT LEVEL SolrCloud Multilingual search Complex query operations Mastering relevancy
The study of baseball history and culture shows the national pastime to be a forum of debate where issues of sport, labor, race, character and the ethics of work and play are decided. An understanding of baseball calls for consideration of different perspectives. This very readable textbook offers insights into baseball history as a subject worthy of scholarly attention. Each chapter introduces a specific disciplinary approach--history, economics, media, law and fiction--and poses representative questions scholars from these fields would consider. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
New York Times Bestseller In a divided country desperate for unity, two sons of South Carolina show how different races, life experiences, and pathways can lead to a deep friendship--even in a state that was rocked to its core by the 2015 Charleston church shooting. Tim Scott, an African-American US senator, and Trey Gowdy, a white US congressman, won't allow racial lines to divide them. They work together, eat meals together, campaign together, and make decisions together. Yet in the fall of 2010--as two brand-new members of the US House of Representatives--they did not even know each other. Their story as politicians and friends began the moment they met and is a model for others seeking true reconciliation. In Unified, Senator Scott and Congressman Gowdy, through honesty and vulnerability, inspire others to evaluate their own stories, clean the slate, and extend a hand of friendship that can change your churches, communities, and the world.
As Rick grows up during 1960s America, he is certain of one thing: he is an oddball kid who views life differently than others his age. The fourth of nine children raised by a moody and sometimes mysterious, alcoholic father and a devoutly Catholic mother, Rick is focused on nurturing his love of music, carrying out boyhood pranks, and working hard to be a good boy so he can become a priest one day. But as Rick is about to discover, sometimes the realities of life get in the way of dreams. After a tough old teacher changes his mind about serving God, Rick transfers to a public high school, where he begins running with the wrong crowd. As he continues to work on his music and turns sixteen, everything changes when his girlfriend, Elise, announces she is pregnant. After Rick decides to marry Elise, his life moves in a new direction filled with work, night classes and training, and more children. But as Rick forges ahead, he has no idea that life will ultimately lead him to learn a valuable lesson about loyalty, forgiveness, and the power of unconditional love. The Day the Dream Changed shares the captivating tale of a boys coming-of-age journey as he matures into manhood and discovers the secret to true happiness.
An American Book Award-winning novelist and screenwriter shares his experience of returning to the dating scene while raising two young children, an effort marked by his relationships with a series of women and his confrontation with the less-than-glamorous but rewarding realities of parenting.
One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze). With five essays by experts on Bouchardon's sculpture and graphic arts, more than 140 catalogue entries, and a detailed chronology, this book aims to demonstrate the originality of Bouchardon's art within the cultural and social context of the period, while suggesting the subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman. This lavishly illustrated publication represents an unprecedented and thorough survey on this major and unique artist from the Age of Enlightenment, offering indepth scholarship based on unpublished material.
She's drop dead gorgeous, she's selfish, and she's determined to own the world. Or at the very least, be loved by a man who's capable of owning the world. Her father is an iron-fisted, ex-ganster with a colorful past, and he'll do anything to keep her safe. Even if it means compromising his own principles. April thinks that her father is just out to rain on her parade, but little does she know about the dangers of the lifestyle that she's fallen in love with. Soon she finds herself in the middle of a love triangle. April is being pulled in two different directions, and her heart is being ripped in half by the two most important men in her life... The man she loves desperately, and the man who so desperately loves her. Life is all about choices, and love is all about loyalty... So what happens when your loyalty leads you to make the wrong choice? ...It rains
Almost every story in this remarkable collection deals with someone on the run. They're running away from or they're running back to, but no one is standing still. Make no mistake, there's nothing static about these stories. The pacing is breakneck, the tension sometimes unbearable, the action swift and decisive. The settings are sleazy bars and two-bit flops and alleys that smell of puke and piss. The characters are not the kind of people most of us would admit to knowing. They long ago forfeited their souls. They're haunted'some quite literally'by the past, by deeds done or left undone, by lovers lost, by dreams stillborn.
One of the biggest concerns on the minds of people today is health care. In a society where the well being of individuals has become a hot button issue, more and more people are yearning to get healthy and stay that way. In his holistic look at personal health, author Trey Boyer explains the personal mindset required to achieve true mastery in your life. You will be shown how to lead a balanced life with techniques that will focus on mental, spiritual and physical health. Trey presents a true blueprint for success that is enjoyable, easy to grasp, and produces extraordinary results. In his aptly named Genesis Program, Trey explains his revolutionary nutrition and physical fitness program. The Genesis Program has been compiled over the last two decades by incorporating the most recent medical and scientific breakthroughs. The results-oriented program has been designed around the principles of time efficiency and having the knowledge to achieve a healthy lifestyle. With these useful tips and tactics at your disposal, the only question left is What Are You Waiting For?
Every moment of a year spent living with chemotherapy. Author Trey R. Barker shares his compelling, comic and often emotional blogs begun shortly after his diagnosis with malignant melanoma and continued through a year of treatment.
This novel is rich with interesting characters and situations. The real-life cultural and geographical references add to this books charm. The Challenges of family life and personal challenges, even death threats, are met and discoveries are made. Gradually Rick begins to understand more about who his father really is. The feeling that both Rick and his father share is loneliness. Despite being surrounded by people who love them both, they are both somehow united because of a sense or feeling of loneliness. It becomes more of a bond between them instead of a barrier. This book takes off where The Day the Dream Changed ended, and Ricks mysterious father takes on the role of protector of Ricks family. The mystery of just who Ricks father really is takes on new and serious importance as the past begins to catch up with both Rick and his father, Fred Leshea. Ricks father trains the family to be observant and they refuse to be victims of someone who is trying scare them and even worse, kill them. In the middle of all that, Aunty Angela finds true love. Life is truly what happens while they are all making plans.
With a murder indictment hanging over his head, an angry cop on his tail, and an unknown woman who just dove through his car window during a shootout at the Carson City sewage plant, Halford Turnbull has just one goal. To prove his innocence. Not to the prosecutors, not to the cops. To his brother. But brother Hanford is halfway across the country and between Carson City, Nevada and Huntsville, Texas is a pile of trouble that Hal simply can't seem to avoid. From stealing $20,000 to buy a DVD of a murder, to a low-rent casino in Vegas where a sadistic security guard is killed and a church filled with self-flagellant priests in Valentine, Texas, where a second shoot-out leaves a riot of bodies, Hal simply can't catch a break. And during it all, Hal wavers. He wants to prove to his brother-the good brother-that he isn't a killer. But as situations begin to pile up, Hal thinks less of his brother than his girlfriend and a safe, new life in Mexico. It is a 2000 mile journey that could lead to redemption and could just get him killed, and yet there is no way Hal Turnbull can avoid driving those miles. Regardless of the venue-short stories, short novels, journalism, stage plays, even a poem or two-Trey R. Barker has always been fascinated with the darker aspects of humanity. He has published more than 70 stories and hundreds of articles in everything from newspapers to program guides to Chief of Police and Cemetery Dance magazines, and DiscoverBellyDance.com. A native Texan, he has worked as a journalist, a theater technical designer, and a karaoke system salesman. Currently, he is a deputy with the Bureau County Sheriff's Office in Illinois.
Mac Chauvin, a hard luck kid from New Orleans, faces the daunting task of starting his life over after his second parent passes away from cancer. His savior comes in two unlikely forms: the New Orleans mafia and poker's, Texas Hold'em. This budding poker star ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time; one time too often. Dominated by a life of poker and organized crime, Mac is forced to either play the cards he's been dealt or fold his hand and fade away into relative obscurity. Playing the Board is a thrilling suspenseful fictional novel. Based primarily in the city of New Orleans, this novel covers, in depth, the world of orgainzed crime and intense poker training. With twist and turns at every corner, Playing the Board is guaranteed to be the closest thing a reader will come to a sure thing.
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