American kingpin silk road5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone-not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers-could buy and sell contraband detection-free. ![]() ![]() In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything-drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons-free of the government’s watchful eye. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom-and almost got away with it. ![]()
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The great mrs elias a novel5/30/2023 ![]() Elias finds herself alone, ensnared in a scandalous trial, and accused of stealing her fortune from whites. Hounded by the salacious press, the very private Mrs. When the truth of her identity is uncovered, thousands of protestors gather in front of her stately home. The unsolved murder turns Hannah’s world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she’s built. Finally attaining the life she’s always dreamed, she buys a mansion on the Upper West Side and decorates it in gold and first-rate décor, inspired by her idol Cleopatra. ![]() ![]() As the money pours in, Hannah hides her millions across 29 banks. Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall.īorn in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she’s not proud of to survive. ![]() The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.Ī murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. ![]() Showdown by david corn5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Both days were filled with different experiences from the new miniature golf course at the Ravine to the live music on Saturday by the Deja-Vu Band, and DJ Manuel Medina with Medina Light Show & Designs. ![]() A total of 160 participants played this year between both venues and a ton of fun for the spectators. This year, the two-day tournament kicked off at the Ravine Waterpark in Paso Robles on Friday with sixteen teams and the main tournament in the Sunken Gardens in Atascadero on Saturday with 64 teams. –On Friday and Saturday, the City of Atascadero sponsored the 5th Annual Showdown Cornhole Tournament presented by Knights of Columbus and Kiwanis Club of Atascadero. Approximately $6,000 in proceeds from the tournament will benefit local kids ![]() Just One Night, Vol. 1 by Kim Black5/30/2023 ![]() It appears that Kim is, perhaps subconsciously, following everyday signs to inform her actions, such as this lie to Jimmy. The shot shows the clock at an angle, encouraging the time to be looked at from a different perspective, and when viewed upsidedown, 3:17 also reads LIE. Related: Better Call Saul: Why Lalo Is Investigating Werner & His Wifeīefore she decides to keep the truth from Jimmy, Kim is awake in the middle of the night, and when she looks at her digital clock, the time is 3:17. Kim's decision to not tell Jimmy about Lalo is for Jimmy's own good, but it might not be for the good of their relationship. With her eyes constantly looking over her shoulder, she became aware of Mike's (Jonathan Banks) men tailing her, and in her first meeting with Mike, she was informed that Lalo is still alive and that Mike believes she is made of "sterner stuff" than Jimmy. While Gus Fring has looked more vulnerable than ever, so does Kim. ![]() Due to Jimmy's involvement with Lalo and the cartel in Better Call Saul season 5, danger could be around any corner for Kim, especially since Lalo survived Gus' (Giancarlo Esposito) assassination attempt and may strike back at any moment, putting many of Better Call Saul's characters on edge throughout season 6. ![]() Unknown pleasures peter hook5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Ian Curtis, whom Sumner and Hook already knew, applied and, without having to audition, was taken on. Forming a band with their friend Terry Mason on drums, Sumner on guitar and Hook on bass, they advertised for a singer. ![]() Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4 June 1976 and both embraced that band's simplicity, speed and aggression. Joy Division formed in Salford in 1976 during the first wave of punk rock. It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin. It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.įactory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures, and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group's non-album debut single " Transmission". The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar. The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. ![]() Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979 by Factory Records. ![]() Wade in the water poems5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The anchoring poems in the collection are rooted in history. It’s a book that is contemplating compassion. Smith recently spoke with Newsday by telephone the conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Her latest collection, “Wade in the Water” (Graywolf, 83 pp., $24), is a salient addition to the national debate about race in America. She has just been appointed to her second term as poet laureate of the United States. Her last collection, “Life on Mars,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard and Columbia universities, she teaches at Princeton University. Smith is one of the essential voices in contemporary American literature. ![]() Book lost on a mountain in maine5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() as of 16:42:19 PDT and /or other sources. The viewer should independently verify the listed data prior to making any decisions based on such information by personal inspection and/or contacting a real estate professional.īased on information from California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. All listing data, including but not limited to square footage and lot size is believed to be accurate, but the listing Agent, listing Broker and CRMLS and its affiliates do not warrant or guarantee such accuracy. ![]() ![]() Information provided is for viewer's personal, non-commercial use and may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties the viewer may be interested in purchasing. ("CRMLS") and is protected by all applicable copyright laws. The multiple listing data appearing on this website, or contained in reports produced therefrom, is owned and copyrighted by California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. © 2023 First Multiple Listing Service, Inc. If you believe any FMLS listing contains material that infringes your copyrighted work please () to review our DMCA policy and learn how to submit a takedown request. Information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed. The listing brokerage is identified in any listing details. Listings identified with the FMLS IDX logo come from FMLS and are held by brokerage firms other than the owner of this website. ![]() Akata witch series order5/30/2023 ![]() Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. There seems to be no place where she fits in. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. Her features are West African, but she's albino. ![]() ![]() Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Her characters take your heart and squeeze it her worlds open your mind to new things." - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American GodsĪffectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. ![]() "Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. ![]() There will come soft rains short story5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Zarelli's Soft Rains is the 6th installment from Seriés Aphōnos, a music library which focuses on left-of-centre innovation, soundtracks, and strange treasures from hidden corners. 70 years later, it is perhaps a good time to remind ourselves what post-Hiroshima fantasy writers like the humanist Ray Bradbury tried to bring home – (SPOILER ALERT!) that total annihilation is all too easy.īut whatever the future may bring - in the hands of Zarelli, the apocalypse has never sounded better! Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains is the science fiction writer’s most widely anthologized short story. With his Farfisa Pro 110 Organ, Roland SH1000 and Juno 106 synthesizers, Rhodes Electric Piano, Suzuki Omnichord, Apple iPad and acoustic guitars to hand, Zarelli has taken the 1975 vocal recording of Leonard Nimoy reading Ray Bradbury's unsettling but vital short story There Will Come Soft Rains (taken from The Martian Chronicles, 1950), and amped up the sensations with an original composed soundtrack that is (like the story) beautiful, fiery, tragic and tense. IN THE LIVING ROOM, the voice-clock sang, tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock As if it were afraid nobody would. ![]() This project, Soft Rains, is an altogether different prospect. Zarelli is the alter-ego of Carwyn Ellis – a much-coveted tour de force producer/multi-instrumentalist who has earned plaudits as the man behind the music for the 2014 award-winning documentary about Edwyn Collins, The Possibilities Are Endless, spearheaded the lauded Rio 18 project which is the first Brazilian record sung in Welsh, and frontman of Colorama. ![]() Natsume soseki goodreads5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Head-spinning proof of Sōseki’s stature in Japan - and the country’s hyperbolic esteem for its writers - comes in the form of a “robotic replica” of the author, which was unveiled yesterday at Tokyo’s Nishogakusha University. ![]() ![]() Natsume Sōseki didn’t live to complete his final (and longest) novel, Light and Dark, which he was publishing in daily installments for his employer (since 1907), the Asahi newspaper. If that’s correct, then maybe finally we’re reaching the Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.”Ī hundred years ago today one of the major writers of the 20th century, a giant of Japanese literature, died from stomach cancer at the age of 49. “Natsume Sōseki once wrote a letter of encouragement to a younger writer, telling him that the true value of a literary work isn’t known until a hundred years have passed. ![]() |