YOU may not dare to admit it, but you probably have a weird and wonderful fascination for the Eurovision Song Contest. Well, it is now high time to come out, be proud and truly celebrate the United Kingdom's golden jubilee association with this annual musical phenomenon. And, at the same time, join in a little contemplation - where does the UK in Eurovision go from here? Flying The Flag affectionately captures the essence of a song fest which exudes a rare and not easily-defined appeal. The book is a light-touch examination of the UK's 50-year participation and spotlights the nation's successes and failures and also the countries that have lined up against us. It includes interviews with some of the major UK Eurovision acts over the years, features the contest likes and dislikes from fans near and far and debates the 21st century challenges facing this great institution with the offices of the European Broadcasting Union and the British Broadcasting Corporation. It's time to Fly The Flag for the good old Royaume-Uni

This title presents a clever introduction to careers. Spot the mail carrier's uniform, the artist's brushes, or the chef's apron, and then turn the page to reveal the professional wearing and using the featured items.

Soup up your busy processes with tried and tested state of the art AI services from Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services that will drive efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the customer experience for your organization. Key Features Building a chat bot in an Azure enabled website. Understand Language Understanding and Natural Language Processing with Cognitive Services Using the LUIS service for the chat bot for natural language processing Book DescriptionAzure Cognitive Services is a set of pre-built AI solution APIs that can be deployed within applications allowing customers to take advantage of Microsoft's award-winning Vision, Speech, Text, and Decision-Making AI capabilities. Developers working with Azure Cognitive Services will be able to get to grips with this practical guide and deploy AI solutions. The book provides industry specific examples of implementations to get you to production in no time. You'll begin with an overview of how the Azure Cognitive Services that are categorized and benefits of embracing AI solutions for practical business applications. Next, dive into Ocean Smart, a technically advanced Seafood Distributor, that has adopted all of the benefits the Azure Platform has to offer by using Cognitive Services to attain operational efficiencies and predictive capabilities. Later, you'll learn how they implemented the Vision capabilities for Quality Control, Forms Recognizer to streamline supply chain blockers. Language Understanding for improving their customer service, Cognitive Search for a next generation knowledge mining solution and more. By the end of this book you will be able to implement various Cognitive Services solutions that will help you to drive efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the customer experience at your organization. What you will learn Learn how to be cost conscious when deploying Azure Cognitive Services Provide proven solutions from an architecture and development standpoint Gain understanding of how Azure Cognitive services are deployed and can be customized Understand various implementations of Cognitive Services with various mediums. How to disseminate Azure costs for Cognitive Services workloads Deploy next-generation Knowledge Mining solutions with Azure Cognitive Search Implementing the Anomaly Detector service to use Anomaly Detector algorithms with your data. Who This Book Is ForThe audience for this book are Data Scientists and Software Engineers looking to implement Azure Cognitive Services with sample use cases derived from success stories. Experience with Python will be required as well as an overall understanding of the Azure Portal with related services such as Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Key Vault is needed to get the best from this book.

This is a gentle ramble through Northamptonshire cricket, through the fields of maroon and gold. There are plenty of signposts along the way, pointing at the big players and stopping off at some of the big matches that, between 1974 and 2013, have been part of Northamptonshire's cricketing map. From the author's first introduction to life at Wantage Road, right through to the Twenty20 coronation at Edgbaston - only the fourth major trophy in Northamptonshire's history. The book is intended to be a ramble, pottering here and there but by no means covering all the ground. It reflects upon how some of world cricket's biggest names contributed to the county game with Northamptonshire and touches on what life was like covering the fortunes of the county cricket club as a reporter before professionalism took a stranglehold. In particular, it tells the story of one local boy who did very good - David Capel, who spent 33 years at Wantage Road as a boy and a man, a player and a coach, and in-between time fitting in an England career as an all-rounder. Former chief executive Steve Coverdale and several former players - Capel himself, David Steele, Geoff Cook, Dennis Lillee, Rob Bailey, Nigel Felton, Winston Davis, Andrew Hall and David Ripley - provide an overview of a diverse and colourful cricket club. While short of trophies, Northamptonshire's cricketers have never fallen short in their determination to attack and entertain over the years. Welcome to Wantage Road. Keep on attacking

Stamford Jennings is on the trail of a madman known only as the hodmedod. A ruthless killer that seems to have a link with pagen culture.

YOU may not dare to admit it, but you probably have a weird and wonderful fascination for the Eurovision Song Contest. Well, it is now high time to come out, be proud and truly celebrate the United Kingdom's golden jubilee association with this annual musical phenomenon. And, at the same time, join in a little contemplation - where does the UK in Eurovision go from here? Flying The Flag affectionately captures the essence of a song fest which exudes a rare and not easily-defined appeal. The book is a light-touch examination of the UK's 50-year participation and spotlights the nation's successes and failures and also the countries that have lined up against us. It includes interviews with some of the major UK Eurovision acts over the years, features the contest likes and dislikes from fans near and far and debates the 21st century challenges facing this great institution with the offices of the European Broadcasting Union and the British Broadcasting Corporation. It's time to Fly The Flag for the good old Royaume-Uni

In 1958 Gavin Gibbons wrote a children's science-fiction novel By Space Ship to the Moon,which featured a UFO landing on Moel Sych in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales. Sixteen years later, in a surreal case of life imitating art, those very same mountains would again be the focus for a story involving a downed UFO. But this time, some said, the story was for real.

An anthology of writings from one of Britain's most respected Fortean authors, covering everything from UFOs, to the Rolling Stones, and from psychedelic drugs to ancient fertility symbols, the Incredible String Band, and government cover-ups.

Of all Britains mystery beasts, the alien big cats are the most renowned. In recent years the notoriety of these uncatchable, out-of-place predators have eclipsed even the Loch Ness Monster. They slink from the shadows to terrorise a community, and then, as often as not, vanish like ghosts. But now film, photographs, livestock kills, and paw prints show that we can no longer deny the existence of these once-legendary beasts. Here then is a case-study, a true lost classic of Fortean research by one of the country's most respected researchers; Andy Roberts. Cat Flaps is the product of many years of research and field work in the 1970s and 80s, an odyssey through the phantom felids of the North East of England. Follow Andy on his flat cap safari as he trails such creatures as the 'Whitby lynx', the 'Harrogate panther', and the 'Durham puma'. Written with humour, intelligence, and a healthy dose of scepticism, Cat Flaps is a book that deserves a place on the bookshelf of every cryptozoologist.

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT THE X-FILES WAS ONLY FICTION, THINK AGAIN!

For as long as extraterrestrial and paranormal phenomena have been investigated, the official government response to any events deemed "otherworldly" or unexplainable has been well documented: DENIAL. Not because they aren't interested in UFOs, monsters, and psychic abilities -- but because they have their own secret agendas for using this knowledge.

In this thoroughly researched compendium of conspiracies and cover-ups, the remarkable findings that have been documented (and supposedly debunked) by the governments of the United States, Great Britain, and the former Soviet Union are finally revealed, including

• Attempts by the U.S. Air Force to build a fleet of nuclear-powered flying saucers...
  
• The British military's files on the Loch Ness monster and other mysterious beasts...
  
• The Cold War race between the CIA and the KGB to create the perfect psychic spy/assassin...
  
• The real story behind the enigmatic "Men in Black," who terrify UFO witnesses into silence...
  

For anyone who wants to know the truth -- or the truth behind the truth -- Strange Secrets is the ultimate resource to understanding exactly what the government doesn't want us to know -- and why they want to keep us in the dark.

A biography of a key figure in psychedelic history: the man who turned Timothy Leary on to LSD. Of all the figures associated with the history of LSD there is none more enigmatic than Michael Hollingshead. Appearing as if from nowhere, he turned Timothy Leary on to LSD in 1962, and was influential in Leary's years at Harvard, Millbrook, and beyond. A Zelig-like character, Hollingshead was a key player in London's early LSD scene. In 1965 he went to London to establish a cultural beachhead for Leary's LSD philosophy at the World Psychedelic Centre in Chelsea. Following a spell in prison, where he dosed KGB spy George Blake, he continued to pursue adventures with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, established a psychedelic commune, created the first electronic I Ching installation, published an underground magazine, and spent time in Nepal, before dying a mysterious death in Bolivia in the 1980s. Psychedelic trickster guru, or conman and charlatan? Exactly who Hollingshead was and what his motives were remain unclear. Some believed he was working for the secret services, others that he was just a Leary wannabe, his aspirations destroyed by his deviant personality and addiction to alcohol and opiates. Divine Rascal is the first reliable biography of one of psychedelia's key figures, without whom the trajectory of LSD in the world would have been radically different.