Bøger af Michael Andrews

In the mountain town of Redemption, Wyoming, retired Sheriff John Becket, once renowned as the "Killingest lawman in the Wyoming territory, ' is content to spend his remaining days reading books he's never read before, drinking whiskey in a hammock and courting numerous town widows at once. And then Jamie, a 12-year-old grandson Becket did not know he had, knocks on his door. In Jamie, the hard-tack former sheriff sees some hope to redeem himself for his failure as a father and gradually the ornery old sheriff and the hard-headed boy begin to build trust and affection for one another.What Becket does not know is that Jamie's father, Becket's errant son is a Texas outlaw who ran away from home as a teenager, and has sent Jamie to stay with him for safekeeping after having robbed his partners, the murderous Bill and Frank Blue gang, of the money they stole from a North Texas Bank. Believing that Jamie is the key to finding the stolen money, Bill and Frank Blue hit the trail to find the boy intent to force him to take them to it, triggering what will be a violent and bloody confrontation between the murderous outlaws from Texas and the killingest lawman in Wyoming. But Sheriff Becket has a secret of his own, a recently discovered heart condition that just might just kill him before the outlaws can.

This book describes the first application at CMS of deep learning algorithms trained directly on low-level, ¿raw¿ detector data, or so-called end-to-end physics reconstruction. Growing interest in searches for exotic new physics in the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has highlighted the need for a new generation of particle reconstruction algorithms. For many exotic physics searches, sensitivity is constrained not by the ability to extract information from particle-level data but by inefficiencies in the reconstruction of the particle-level quantities themselves. The technique achieves a breakthrough in the reconstruction of highly merged photon pairs that are completely unresolved in the CMS detector. This newfound ability is used to perform the first direct search for exotic Higgs boson decays to a pair of hypothetical light scalar particles H¿aa, each subsequently decaying to a pair of highly merged photons äyy, an analysis once thought impossible to perform. The book concludes with an outlook on potential new exotic searches made accessible by this new reconstruction paradigm.

People love telling stories. Surely, everyone has made up a story at some time to entertain their children, friends and family, haven't they? The difficult part is finding the courage to get it down on paper and letting a wider audience read it. 'Words Are Sixy' continues the writing journey of three friends, as they encourage each other to fulfil their dreams of becoming published authors. Each month, they meet to discuss their own individual projects and produce a piece of flash fiction based on a theme. This is read aloud and then critiqued by the others. This book contains the next twelve assignments that follow on from the group's previous anthology, 'Words Don't Frive', and charts the continuing growth of each of the authors. It also contains reflective comments at the start of each chapter as they look back over the pieces that they have written over the past twelve months. They hope these will provide insight into the group as authors, and act as inspiration for others to pick up their own pens to write. Maybe, like them, you will find that Words Are Sixy, but discover that with support of others, writing can be a rewarding and enjoyable experience.

A must-read book for the Black and Brown communities! Financial Literacy & Ownership, from conception this book was meant to facilitate delivery of a singular, but a broad message. My message is that of Financial Literacy and Ownership; ownership of assets, real property, commodities, businesses, and intellectual property. I wish to convey to the Black community an urgency regarding this message to say that Financial Literacy and Ownership are surely lacking in the Black community and this fact is, has been, and shall continue to stymie the growth and the evolution of the Black community until we infuse a paradigm shift in our communal thinking. Accept that as Black Americans we do not live in a world of our own making, but we can now more than ever, be the designers of our own true Legacy. We may not have made the world we live in, but we are certainly of the world we live in.Being of a world which we did not construct limits us as a people. It confines us to the limitations, borders, and restrictions set for us, not by us. Why would a determined people limit themselves? I believe they would not. White society, the dominant society has never limited itself as a whole. Think about the glass ceilings Blacks have had to burst through throughout history. Blacks have been bursting through the constraint of such barriers and limitations for centuries now. In the last sixty years in America others who have come before you have laid much broken glass at the feet of Black America. Yet, who placed the barriers; who at first constrained us in the boxes with the glass ceilings? Certainly it was not us. We live in a world not of our own making.I want so very much for my Black community, but not that which can be given, nor granted. No, what I want mostly for my Black community must be taken, it must be acquired through express and diligent intent. It can only be birthed through aggressive and intelligent design; whereas, you must commit your life-time to craft it, to engineer your acquisition and construction of it. You must want it with the utmost zeal, and once acquired you must value it as your most prized possession. What I want most for my Black community is true Legacy.

It's been a peaceful two months in Blackpool since the battle at the Church of the Merciful Heart and the destruction of the vampire pack, but when human remains are discovered on Marton Mere, the police try to play it off as a wild animal attack.Teenage vampire Alex Hayden is not so easily convinced and soon reveals a cover up of the murders. However, he discovers that the truth is worse than he feared.A pack of Lycans have made their home in Blackpool and with the full moon just days away, it's up to Alex, detective Harry Shepherd and their friends to stop the werewolves before they kill again.

After years of relentless bullying, teenager Joseph Harris is close to despair. When he is assaulted at school on his sixteenth birthday, both his teachers and parents ignore his pleas for help. Seeing no other choice, he takes his own life to end his misery. Expecting to be damned to Purgatory, Joe awakens in Limbo where he is offered the chance of redemption. He is tasked to save the soul of an innocent child, one at the centre of a battle between God and the Devil. At stake, the souls of all the Lost Youth, the bullied children who have taken their own lives and are damned to Hell.As the child grows, the Forces of Hell send their top General to torment the boy, to drive him to follow Joe's fate, while Joe combats the threat with his own growing power and understanding of the Ethereal World. Finding allies and enemies in unusual forms, Joe struggles to keep the child, Adam, from falling into the hands of Satan and his Demon host as they seek to capture the Soul Key, which is blocking their entry back into Heaven. As Angels, Fallen Ones and Demons gather, the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy lead the celestial forces to battle "For The Lost Soul."

Gary R. Black Sr. has had many chapters in his life, chapters that include law enforcement and finding himself on the wrong side of the law, putting folks in prison and being imprisoned, helping others overcome obstacles and facing down his own mental and emotional demons. His lifelong ambition, however, was to live a life that his mentor, his Great-Uncle Mac, could be proud of.

Thousand year old teenage vampire Alex Hayden is back!Still mourning the death of Eirwen, Alex begins to look into her work to discover a counter curse, which is rumoured to turn a vampire back into a mortal being. His investigations are disrupted with the appearance of Craglar, a bramble pixie, who serves the witch, Evangelina, and Debbie Lovegrove, a new detective in Harry Shepherd's department, who recognises Alex for what he is.To discover the truth behind the disappearance of Debbie's husband and the activities of the troublesome pixie, Alex has to face the darkness of his past and confront the witch who almost killed him. Previously hidden revelations about his past lead Alex to a confrontation with powers even stronger than his own.

A collection of emotive poetry based on the subject of bullying. Featuring poems told from the viewpoints of victims, family, friends and bystanders, each verse tells a sometimes harsh and stark story of the pain and suffering that bullying can cause, and the efforts that we should take to put an end to hate crime.With information and web links to the UK charity Beatbullying.org, people affected by bullying have the resources to find out what support there is for them, or how they can help others.

This book describes the first application at CMS of deep learning algorithms trained directly on low-level, ¿raw¿ detector data, or so-called end-to-end physics reconstruction. Growing interest in searches for exotic new physics in the CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has highlighted the need for a new generation of particle reconstruction algorithms. For many exotic physics searches, sensitivity is constrained not by the ability to extract information from particle-level data but by inefficiencies in the reconstruction of the particle-level quantities themselves. The technique achieves a breakthrough in the reconstruction of highly merged photon pairs that are completely unresolved in the CMS detector. This newfound ability is used to perform the first direct search for exotic Higgs boson decays to a pair of hypothetical light scalar particles H¿aa, each subsequently decaying to a pair of highly merged photons äyy, an analysis once thought impossible to perform. The book concludes with an outlook on potential new exotic searches made accessible by this new reconstruction paradigm.

Imagine a world where the only rule book is in a language you do not understand. You do not understand why you are different. You try with great effort to fit in, be normal, but you still find yourself sat in a crowded room at a conference, sat on your own watching people talking to each other, busy chatting away, ignoring you as if you are invisible, like you are watching through a television screen from a remote place.Why was I the target of bullies at school? Why was I always the last one to be picked for team sports? Others were often keen to point out that I was different. Why? I have been searching for that answer most of my life until in my mid-twenties, I gave up trying. I was searching for a label that defined me. An identity. I wanted to know who I was. I gave up. It was over twenty years later at the age of 47 and totally out of the blue that my life was turned upside down. The news that I had longed for came thundering through like a juggernaut had blasted through the walls of my living room. This book recalls the events leading up to that juggernaut crash and I recall going over my past and the missed clues.

The books examines the financial and business structures of the counterfeiting business and considers how the internet and e-commerce present financial opportunities for counterfeiters. It explores `organised crime' and criminal markets, digital technologies and cultural values and practices.