+module Sunspot
+  # monkey patch for Sunspot v 1.1.1 to add support for solr "start" query parameter
+  # we can now optionally add a :start number to offset search results
+  # in this scenario, we want the first 3 results for the carousel, and then 5 more
+  # the code as is requires the start to be set to 3 and the per_page to 8 for this to work
+  # a better solution would be to modify the per_page= method but I was unable to do this
+  # with alias_method_chain, BF 12/6
+  module Query
+    class Pagination
+
+      def start_offset=(offset)
+        @start_offset = offset
+      end
+
+      def start_offset
+        @start_offset || 0
+      end
+
+      private
+
+      def start_with_start_offset
+        start_offset + start_without_start_offset
+      end
+
+      alias_method_chain(:start,:start_offset)
+    end
+  end
+
+  module DSL
+    module Paginatable
+      def paginate(options = {})
+        page = options.delete(:page)
+        per_page = options.delete(:per_page)
+        offset = options.delete(:start_offset) # remove term so we don't throw an error when an offset passed in
+        raise ArgumentError, "unknown argument #{options.keys.first.inspect} passed to paginate" unless options.empty?
+        @query.paginate(page, per_page)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+end
+
+
+