#77 maple street

[cora626]

New Pleasantview: 77 Maple Street WIP

77 Maple Street. This was where Goth Sr. lived. Still need to finish the inside but this is the exterior. Exterior Might be finessed a little more, or maybe not depends on what else I might think it needs.

#newpleasantview

[sims1database]

77 Maple Street, The Goth Sr Family, 34x30

The Sims Unleashed, Old Town

#sims 1 house #unleashed

[saintastaeroth]

The Sims: 77 Maple Street

Unlike the Goth home where Mortimer, Bella, and Cassandra live, this house features a television and the exterior walls are not Gothic or shabby, but instead built in a period New Orleans-style that is uniform to the other buildings around Old Town.

There are about twelve tombstones in the graveyard, though it is unknown who is buried here. The house costs around §162,000.

It is unknown what became of the house in The Sims 2, though it is possible that the property was destroyed in the fire that killed Gunther Goth.

#the sims 4 #the sims #the sims 2 #the sims 3 #the sims goth family #goth family #the sims gameplay #the sims lore #the sims unleashed

[thesims1master]

Some parts of recreated Goth Sr. Manor from TS1 to TS2

#ts1 #ts2 #ts1tots2 #1t2 #sims #the sims #the sims 1 #the sims 2 #goth #goth sr #77 maple street #the sims unleashed #goth house

[voodoorhythmrecords]

please Welcome to the Festival that don’t take place in a location that disappeared, this is the idea of the bookers of the Ghost Festival in Switzerland, involved are around 300 Swiss bands that mainly make a living from their music (Switzerland is expensive country, the bands they mostly poor), the problem is that most of them are their own Boss of their own company and cant get any money support  from the government .. so are the bookers (the sound guys and stage etc they are not included in that project) anyway its a great idea.. it shows there is nothing going on .. please don’t let that infrastructure Die what we build up for such a long time .. culture grows, you can’t click it on or off.. https://www.ghost-festival.ch/index.php

the Line up.. alphabetically :) hahahah insane....

11Ä 7 DOLLAR TAXI 77 BOMBAY STREET ABU ACID AMAZONIANS ADRIAN STERN AL PRIDE ALENKO ALICE ALINA AMURI ALOIS AMAMI ANIMADIVAS ANIMOR ANNA AARON ANNA ROSSINELLI ANNIE TAYLOR ARISTIDE ARTHUR HENRY ARTURO Y SU AZUCARIBE ASBEST AUDIODOPE BASCHI BAZE & SQUISHY BOYZ BIANDAPID BIBI VAPLAN BIG ZIS / BIGENERIC BILLIE BIRD BLACK SEA DAHU BLACKTIGER BLIND BUTCHER BONAPARTE BOYS ON PILLS BRANDY BUTLER BUBI EIFACH BUDS / CALI P CAROLINE ALVES CAROLINE CHEVIN CARROUSEL CASANORA CÉGIU CELLO INFERNO CHAMITO CHAOSPHONIE CHAOSTRUPPE CHEIBE BALAGAN CHIARA / CHLYKLASS CHORALE COLIQUE CINNAY CLAUDE WAVE COBEE COMPANY OF MEN CONVULSIF COOKIE THE HERBALIST CRÈME SOLAIRE CRUISE SHIP MISERY CYRIL CYRIL DA CRUZ DABU FANTASTIC DACHS DAGOBERT DANA DANASE & STERNEIS DAWILL DELILAHS DEMGEN DENNERCLAN DEWOLPHE DIOSMOS DIRTY SOUND MAGNET DODO DODO HUG / DOMI CHANSORN DON‘T KILL THE BEAST DR SCHNUU & SINI TIERLI DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL E-L-R EAZ EFFE / EFTN EL RITSCHI ÉLECTROGÈNE ELIANA BURKI ELIAS BERTINI / ELLAS ELMO4 EMANUEL REITER ENSEMBLE BATIDA ES BRENNT - WAS TUN? ESKIMO EVA LEANDRA FAI BABA FALLAN FAMARA FIJI FREDA GOODLETT BAND FRUTTI DI MARE FUSION SQUARE GARDEN GIANT SLEEP GIGI MOTO / GIMMA GRAND MOTHERS FUNK GUSTAV & THE SHINING GIRLS FROM PHREEBÖRG HALUNKE HAMP GOES WILD HARVEY RUSHMORE & THE OCTOPUS HECHT HEIDI HAPPY HELENKA HOT LIKE SUSHI HOT RUNNING BLOOD HOWLONG WOLF IKAN HYU ILL EAGLES INEZ INSIDE THE BAXTER BUILDING IRA MAY JAËL JAMES GRUNTZ JAN OLIVER JAR / JASMIN ALBASH JEANS FOR JESUS JESSIQUOI JOE SCHWACH JOE VOLK & NAIARE JOHNNY TROUBLE JPTR JUKI P2 JULI LEE JULIAN VON FLÜE JULIE CAMPICHE QUARTET KAOS PROTOKOLL KAUFMANN / KIMBO KING PEPE & THE QUEENS KINGS ELLIOTT KLISCHÉE KNACKEBOUL KOKHLIAS И LOULAN KT GORIQUE KUMMERBUBEN KUNZ KUSH K L‘ORAGE LA NEFERA LANDRO LARALBA LAURENT C. LEECH LEGENDARY LIGHTNESS LÉLIA LORTIK LES LEGROUP LIA SELLS FISH LINA BUTTON LINX & LECHZ LISA ORIBASI LO&LEDUC LONG TALL JEFFERSON LORD KESSELI LOS VACÍOS DE CHARLY LUCA HÄNNI LUUK MAHADEV COMETO MAKALA MAKE PLAIN MAPLE TREE CIRCUS MARCO MARCHI & THE MOJO WORKER MEIMUNA MELKER M’GHADI MICH GERBER MICHAEL VON DER HEIDE MIGO&BUZZ MISS C-LINE MISTER MILANO MÖCHTEGANG MOES ANTHILL MONTE MAI MONUMENTAL MEN MURPHY / NAMAKA NATE NATIV NEWKILLAZ» NICKLESS NICOLE BERNEGGER NIRVANAZ NOAN NONE OF THEM NOT NEMO NOTI WUMIÉ O.U.M.P.H. ODD BEHOLDER OESTETIK OMNI SELASSI OPEN SEASON PABLO NOUVELLE PARADISCO PASCAL GAMBONI & REES CORAY PATENT OCHSNER PENKOSWKY PETER KERNEL PHOAM / PIER PIPPO POLLINA PUTS MARIE PVP PYRO QL RAY DRMA RAY WILKO REVEREND BEAT-MAN RIO WOLTA RITA ROOF ROLI FREI & THE SOULFUL DESERT SAITÜN SPRÜNG SAM GRUBER BAND SAPIN MAGIQUE SCHOEDO SEMORO SOUHARCE ET EFFRACTION VACANCES SEX ORGANS SHEM THOMAS SILBERBÜX SILENT TALK SINA SISMA SKICLUB TOGGENBURG SKOR / SLAM & HOWIE SLIMKA SOUKEY SPUTNIK SUSHI STAHLBERGER STEFANIE HEINZMANN STEFF LA CHEFFE STEPHAN EICHER STILLER HAS STUDEYEAH SUSPENDERS TEXTER THE CAVERS THE CRUMPETS THE FAILURES THE HIGH HORSE THE HOODOO SINNERS THE JACKETS THE MAGIC 5 THE MONOFONES THE MONSTERS THE NEXT MOVEMENT THE PEACOCKS THE PEARLBREAKERS THE SHEIKS THE SOULS THE SPARKLETTES THE YELINS TIM & PUMA MIMI TIM FREITAG TIMMERMAHN TO ATHENA TOBIAS CARSHEY TOMAZOBI TOMMY VERCETTI & DEZMOND DEZ TONGUE TIED TWIN TONI VESCOLI TOUT BLEU TRAKTORKESTAR / TRIO DE POCHE TRIO FROM HELL TROUBAS KATER TRUE TRUWVE TSCHUGGR TURBO FANTÔME URBAN JUNIOR URSINA VERA KAA VERONICA FUSARO VERONIKA’S NDIIGO VERSO SUELTO VOGULYSSENE VOLCA MASSAKER ORCHESTER WABJIE WHAT‘S WRONG WITH US? WILLIAM WHITE WOLFMAN XEN YVONNE MOORE & MAT CALLAHAN ZAREK SILBERSCHMIDT ZHZ ZÜRI WEST

[anotherplumbob]

hey! First of all, I love all of your builds and especially your gameplay! So, I've decided that I want to remake Pleasantview on my own using your wonderful builds. Unfortunately, I have a problem with the 77 Maple Street lot :( Everytime I try to exit the lot my game crashes :( Am I the only one having this issue?

Hi!! Thank you so much!! :)

I’m not sure what the problem is but you’re definitely not the only one experiencing it because @sandybruty also reported it recently. I’ve tested it several times  and it also crashes for me (also tried deleting the furniture etc to no avail). I really don’t know why because it worked OK when I first uploaded it!! :S I’ve seen other people have this problem with that particular lot in Willow Creek (e.g. @peachandherpan; see below )….so I’m not sure if it’s a problem with that particular lot in the game :S

I’m so sorry :(

#thingswe-lost-in-the-fire

[takingitonesimdayatatime]

The Sims: Unleashed: 77 Maple Street

The Goth Sr Family

Net Worth: $137,289

Gunther Bio: Gunther brought his family from the old country when his son, Mortimer, was just a lad. Having amassed quite a fortune, he is founding father of the neighborhood.

Gunther Personality: Neat 10, Outgoing 5, Active 3, Playful 1, Nice 6

Gunther Skills: College Dean, Cooking 1, Charisma 6, Logic 9, Creativity 9

Cornelia Bio: Cornelia is the founder of the Sim City Bridge Society and enjoys high tea and phrenology. She is thankful to have her granddaughter, Cassandra, so nearby.

Cornelia Personality: Neat 8, Outgoing 4, Active 5, Playful 2, Nice 6

Cornelia Skills: None

Hecuba Bio: Hecuba thinks herself very important and thinks her twin brother is not as cute as she is.

Hecuba Personality: Quiet 1, Friendly 3, Playful 9, Smart 6, Loyal 1

Hecuba Skills: Hunting 1

Menelaus Bio: Menelaus has alot on his mind, but doesn’t feel like explaining it right now.

Menelaus Personality: Quiet 8, Friendly 0, Playful 3, Smart 9, Loyal 3

Menelaus Skills: Hunting 3

#the sims #the sims: unleashed #unleashed #Gunther Goth #Cornelia Goth #Hecuba Goth #Menelaus Goth

[bayoubashsims]

Agnes pays her sister Cornelia a visit over at 77 Maple Street while Gunther is off at work. These days, having a sister is such a comfort, even if your sister is the Old Prude of Pleasantview.

#the sims #the sims 1 #The Sims Hot Date #the sims unleashed #the sims 2 #cornelia goth #agnes crumplebottom #gunther goth #crumplebottom family #goth family

[braincoins]

I doubt any of my followers are in/near Ottawa County, Michigan, but just in case:

Warming Centers:

Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Avenue Hours: Monday- Friday; 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Hope Church, 77 W 11th Street, Holland Hours: Monday- Friday; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Calvary Church, 400 Beeline Road, Holland Hours: Monday- Friday; 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

Maple Avenue Ministry,  427 Maple Avenue, Holland Hours: Monday- Friday; 9:00 pm – 9:00 am (overnight)

Holland Rescue Mission, 166 South River Avenue AND 356 Fairbanks Avenue Hours: 24/7

Love In Action, 326 N Ferry Street, Grand Haven Hours: Monday- Friday; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Christ Memorial Church, 595 Graafschap Road, Holland 10:00 am - 9:00 pm; Thursday overnight available for women & children.

For additional locations of warming centers, call the Emergency Operations Center at 616-738-4665. If you know of a shelter, please call 616-738-4665 to add to our list.

#warming centers #polar vortex #did I mention Michigan declared state of emergency? whee

[charlieconwayy]

Wondering how you’re going to survive this h(ell)iatus? Wonder no more! I present to you 100 Days of Stranger Things, a fan run online event created to celebrate the show we love so much as we go into season 3. The event starts whenever you want and ends whenever you want. It is created so that you don’t have to make something every day so that it can stretch until July 3, the night of the premiere. Anyone and everyone is welcome to participate! Gif makers, fanfiction writers, fan artists, people who make content, people who don’t make content, it doesn’t matter! Post it in the tag #100daysofST that we will be tracking! 

Below is the calendar of events:

day 1 - favorite character

day 2 - favorite season

day 3 - favorite episode

day 4 - favorite quote overall

day 5 - favorite season one quotes

day 6 - favorite season two quotes

day 7 - favorite season one scene

day 8 - favorite season two scene

day 9 - favorite location

day 10 - favorite song from the soundtrack

day 11 - favorite romantic pairing

day 12 - favorite friendship

day 13 - favorite underrated friendship

day 14 - favorite family

day 15 - favorite rarepair

day 16 - favorite plot twist

day 17 - favorite fight

day 18 - the demogorgan or the mind flayer

day 19 - favorite character development

day 20 - favorite recurring gag

day 21 - favorite season tagline (”it only gets stranger” vs “one summer can change everything”)

day 22 - favorite weapon

day 23 - favorite vehicle

day 24 - favorite premiere (1x01 or 2x01)

day 25 - favorite finale

day 26 - favorite trope(s)

day 27 - most excited for in s3

day 28 - favorite funny moment

day 29 - favorite romantic moment

day 30 - favorite supernatural moment

day 31 - favorite friendship moment

day 32 - favorite family moment

day 33 - favorite badass moment

day 34 - favorite kid moment

day 35 - favorite teen moment

day 36 - favorite adult moment

day 37 - favorite traumatic moment

day 38 - favorite tearjerking moment

day 39 - favorite party moment

day 40 - favorite minor character

day 41 - favorite comedic character

day 42 - favorite group friendship

day 43 - favorite fallen character

day 44 - favorite underrated character

day 45 - character who deserves better

day 46 - favorite sexy scene

day 47 - favorite wheeler

day 48 - favorite byers

day 49 - favorite mileven moment

day 50 - favorite mike moment(s)

day 51 - favorite el moment(s)

day 52 - favorite lucas moment(s)

day 53 - favorite dustin moment(s)

day 54 - favorite will moment(s)

day 55 - favorite joyce moment(s)

day 56 - favorite hopper moment(s)

day 57 - favorite nancy moment(s)

day 58 - favorite jonathan moment(s)

day 59 - favorite steve moment(s)

day 60 - favorite max moment(s)

day 61 - favorite will drawing

day 62 - favorite score

day 63 - favorite mike outfits

day 64 - favorite el outfits

day 65 - favorite lucas outfits

day 66 - favorite dustin outfits

day 67 - favorite will outfits

day 68 - favorite joyce outfits

day 69 - favorite hopper outfits

day 70 - favorite nancy outfits

day 71 - favorite jonathan outfits

day 72 - favorite steve outfits

day 73 - favorite max outfits

day 74 - favorite el hair

day 75 - favorite nancy hair

day 76 - favorite joyce hair

day 77 - favorite steve hair

day 78 - favorite actor

day 79 - favorite actress

day 80 - favorite cast friendship

day 81 - favorite cast interview

day 82 - favorite cast member’s instagram

day 83 - favorite wheeler family moment

day 84 - favorite byers family moment

day 85 - favorite hopper family moment

day 86 - the vanishing of will byers or madmax

day 87 - the weirdo on maple street or trick or treat, freak

day 88 - holly, jolly or the pollywog

day 89 - the body or will the wise

day 90 - the flea and the acrobat or dig dug

day 91 - the monster or the spy

day 92 - the bathtub or the mind flayer

day 93 - the upside down or the gate

day 94 - favorite parallels

day 95 - favorite kiss

day 96 - favorite teaser poster

day 97 - favorite final poster

day 98 - favorite iconic/famous moment

day 99 - favorite awards show

day 100 - favorite photos from the s3 premiere

#strangerthingsedit #useradie #userkate #mikesmom #dailystrangerthings #stranger things #100DaysofST

[cora626]

Oldtown Progress

All the properties are now finished. All I have to do is set everything up and have it looked at by the Expert 😉 PT ❤️. I will then have one of my awesome play testers test it out. and then I will roll it out! So excited. Here is the breakdown on the property changes to make it look like before the Pleasantview renovations took place.

7 Sim Lane is back on here as this is the version I had before the Pleansantview renovation. A lot is the same, but the landscape is a little different.

All I did on 55 Ingleside Drive was change the roof.

Completely changed 57 Ingleside Drive. This one came out cute.

Another version of Custer's Market. I think I like this one better. Shhh...

I made Pet Paradise look like it used to. I used a version of this property as a template. I copied the layout onto a larger lot I maintained most of their ideas. It's a property from TSR. I am only including the link to give this artist credit for their hard work that I copy catted.

Lot from Simsdownload 12

The only thing that changed here were the exterior cosmetics.

I wanted the original looking McArthur Square, so I found Broomhilda's version. I tweaked it some. I just didn't want to re-invent the wheel. Broomhilda's McArthur Square.

I rebuilt The Gothic Quarter to try to make it the community lot it was. This is not a hotel like in the New Pleasantview version but just as cool on the inside.

All I did was change the roofing and paint on this beautiful property by @plumbtales Only to make it look more like the classic version from Sims 1. Everything else is as Plumbtales designed it.

This version of 77 Maple Street is only partially mine. An MTS artist did an awesome job on this lot. I have sent them a message letting them know I was going to use in my version of Old Town. Check out the original, it's so much cooler and if you like that version better exchange it that one :D.

Seba569003's 77 Maple Street.

Here's is another beautiful property @plumbtales made for the New Pleasantview. All I did here was repaint and remove some landscaping. Not much to change. Plumbtales work is always impeccable!

That's all folks. After this I will focus on scripted events for New Pleasantview. And this project will be complete. Then back to remodeling college lots and game play :).

Thank you all so much for the awesome comments and reblogs of New Pleasantview. Also, I will also be uploading all the properties I have made for New Pleasantview separately just in case there are people who just want certain properties for their game.

#oldtown #oldtownremake #sims 2 #ts2 #ts2 lots #ts2 cc free #cc free

[bountyofbeads]

The $56 Million Mansion at 9 East 71st Street Where Epstein Allegedly Abused Girls https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-nyc-mansion.html

Inside Epstein’s $56 Million Mansion: Photos of Bill Clinton, Woody Allen and Saudi Crown Prince

The townhouse where the financier Jeffrey Epstein is accused of abusing girls is one of the largest private homes in Manhattan.

By Matthew Haag | Published July 8, 2019 | New York Times | Posted July 8, 2019 |

The townhouse where the financier Jeffrey Epstein is accused of engaging in sex acts with underage girls is one of the largest private homes in Manhattan, a short walk from Central Park.

The seven-story residence at 9 East 71st Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, sprawls across 21,000-square feet and has five bathrooms, a two-story reception room and many bedrooms, including three three-room suites on the fourth floor.

It also has a heated sidewalk in front to melt the snow during the winter months. On the second floor, Mr. Epstein hung a mural he had commissioned in recent years: A photorealistic prison scene that included barbed wire, corrections officers and a guard station, with Mr. Epstein portrayed in the middle.

“He said, ‘That’s me, and I had this painted because there is always the possibility that could be me again,’” said R. Couri Hay, a public relations specialist invited by Mr. Epstein to a meeting at his home and to view the mural three months ago.

A person who visited the townhouse last year remembered Mr. Epstein doing work at the mansion while seated at a large dining table in the rear of the house that fit 20 people, with multiple computer monitors and a phone alongside.

Mr. Epstein answered calls while hosting visitors, according to that person and another visitor last year who saw similar behavior. Behind him was a table covered with framed photographs of celebrities and dignitaries, including a signed photograph of former President Bill Clinton.

The visitors each said they were greeted by a tall woman who spoke with an Eastern European accent, who led guests up a marble staircase to a study on another floor. At the base of the stairwell, one of the visitors said, Mr. Epstein had placed a chess board with custom figurines dressed in underwear — each piece, he noted, was modeled after one of his staffers.

He decorated the home with other oddities, like a life-size female doll in a wedding dress hanging from a chandelier, and had arranged a small dining room to resemble a beach scene.

A wall of the study was covered with photographs of famous people, including Woody Allen, and another that Mr. Epstein pointed out was of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Epstein, 66, is accused of engaging in sex acts with young girls from 2002 to 2005 during naked massage sessions and paying them hundreds of dollars in cash, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday.

During the search of his townhouse on Saturday, investigators seized nude photographs of underage girls, federal prosecutors said. “The alleged behavior shocks the conscience,” Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said on Monday.

Prosecutors said they were moving to seize Mr. Epstein’s townhouse.

Mr. Epstein, however, was not even supposed to become the owner of the opulent stone house on the Upper East Side.

In 1989, Mr. Epstein’s mentor, Leslie H. Wexner, the founder and chairman of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, bought the seven-story Beaux-Arts home for $13.2 million. At the time, it was the highest recorded sale price for a townhouse in Manhattan.

Mr. Wexner then spent at least that much on artwork — including multiple works by Picasso — Art Deco furnishings, Russian antiques, rosewood tables and doors and a gut renovation of the home. Security devices, including a network of cameras, were installed. A cellar was divided into separate spaces, one for red wines and another for white. The renovation was featured on the cover of the December 1995 issue of Architectural Digest.

The townhouse had been a longtime private school and Mr. Wexner spent years converting it into a lavish estate.

Mr. Wexner, however, never moved in; he decided to stay in Columbus, Ohio, where L Brands has its headquarters.

But another person did move in: Mr. Epstein. “Les never spent more than two months there,” Mr. Epstein told The New York Times in 1996.

The home has a history of going unoccupied by its owner. Herbert N. Straus, an heir to the Macy’s fortune, commissioned the 40-room mansion in the early 1930s and hired the prominent architect Horace Trumbauer to design it. But Mr. Straus died in 1933, leaving the property unfinished and unoccupied.

The Straus family gave the residence to a hospital in 1944. In 1962, the private school, Birch Wathen School, bought it and converted it into a schoolhouse. The school, which was started in 1921 with an emphasis on the arts, relocated after Mr. Wexner bought the house. (It later merged with another private school to start the Birch Wathen Lenox School.)

Mr. Epstein said in the 1996 interview that the mansion was now his, though the transaction has never appeared in New York City records online. In 2011, he transferred ownership of the property from a trust connected to Mr. Epstein and Mr. Wexner to Maple Inc., a United States Virgin Islands-based entity under Mr. Epstein’s control, according to records.

The transfer document, from Nine East 71st Street Corporation to Maple Inc, did not list a purchase price, indicating that it did not involve any exchange of money.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Wexner said that he “severed ties” with Mr. Epstein about a decade ago. Erika Kellerhals, a lawyer in the Virgin Islands who handled the 2011 transfer for Mr. Epstein, did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Prosecutors say the home is valued at $77 million, but the city’s Department of Finance estimated earlier this year that the mansion was valued closer to $56 million. The 2019 property taxes for the home, which are based on a much lower assessed value, were an estimated $347,000. (The property’s tax bill in 2008 was the fourth highest-taxed single-family home in New York City.)

Mr. Epstein also owns a home in Palm Beach, Fla., a 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico and an apartment in Paris. He also owns Little St. James Island, a private island in the Caribbean, and at least 15 cars.

A spokesman for Mr. Clinton, whose photograph was on display in Mr. Epstein’s mansion, said that the former president “made one brief visit” around 2002 to the New York home with a staff member and security officials. Mr. Clinton has not talked to Mr. Epstein in more than a decade and has not visited his properties in the Caribbean, Florida or New Mexico, the statement said.

From the street, Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan mansion has features that make it a commanding presence on the block: a 15-foot-tall oak front door (which the police pried open with a crow bar on Saturday during a search of the property), large arched windows on the ground floor and a balcony on the second floor. Mr. Epstein’s initials are on a brass plaque near the front door.

While Mr. Epstein has tried to maintain a private life, he did allow a reporter for Vanity Fair magazine to visit the mansion for a 2003 profile, “The Talented Mr. Epstein.”

The article describes a main hallway that was covered with rows of artificial eyeballs from England that had been made for wounded soldiers.

The room connected to the hallway was a marble foyer adorned with a painting that resembled works by the French artist Jean Dubuffet. “The host coyly refuses to tell visitors who painted it,” the reporter, Vicky Ward, wrote.

The article was published around the same time that he started to recruit underage girls to the mansion, according to the indictment unsealed on Monday.

Nellie Bowles, Matthew Goldstein and Sarah Maslin Nir contributed reporting.

#u.s. news #politics #sex crimes #sex trafficking #jeffrey epstein #world news #international news

[popshinee-blog]

More than 60 Percent of Those Tavern on'Kitchen Nightmares' Are Currently Closed

In the long run, Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares went outside with a dreadful blog article, maybe not with a bang, and in any event the chef's farewell statement before this week marks the conclusion of an expletive-filled age and slaying comments such as,"Chimichangas? Chimi-chuck it from the bin" There have been a couple lawsuits across the way and assorted claims from proprietors the series wrecked their companies , but whatsoever, although some areas have scintillating Yelp! Reviews today, Kitchen Nightmares saved less than half of its featured restaurants, plus some even shut before their episodes . Grub did not delve into the history of Ramsay's first U.K. series of the exact same title, but we looked at anywhere Ramsay went from the neighboring United States: following is a breakdown of all of the restaurants which bounced straight back from the edge of collapse, along with others which weren't so blessed.

Amount of participating restaurants at seven seasons: 77 Number nevertheless available: 30 (38.86 percentage ) Amount which have closed: 47 (61.84 percentage ) Approximate amount of restaurants closed within a year of (or earlier ) the event air dates: 23 (29.87 percentage ) Season 1 (2007) Closed (December, 2008) Episode two: Dillon's, New York, New York. (Renamed Purnima throughout the series.) Closed (2007, five weeks later filming.) Closed (From the end of the episode) Episode 9: Campania, Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Sold (2010) subsequently closed (January, 2011) Episode 10: The Secret Garden, Moorpark, California. Open

Get unlimited access to Grub Street and what else New York LEARN MORE" Season 2 (2008-2009) Sold (2010) subsequently Closed (2011) Episode two: Giuseppe's, Macomb Township, Michigan. Closed (2008, four days after the incident aired.) Closed (2011) Episode two: Flamangos, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. (Renamed The Junction throughout the series.) Closed (Between 2010-2011) Episode 4: Mojito, Brooklyn, New York. Open Episode 5: Lido di Manhattan, Manhattan Beach, California. Open Episode 6: Le Bistro, Lighthouse Point, Florida. Open Episode 7: Casa Roma, Lancaster, California. Open Episode 8: Mama Rita's, Newbury Park, California. Closed (2011) Episode 9: Anna Vicenzo's, Boca Raton, Florida. Closed (Between 2010-2011) Episode 10: Fleming, Miami, Florida. Closed (October, 2010) Episode 11: Sushi-Ko, Thousand Oaks, California. Closed (August, 2009, until the episode aired.)

Season 4 (2011) Episode 1: Spanish Pavillion, Harrison, New Jersey. Open Episode 2: Classic American, West Babylon, New York. Closed (2013) Episode 3: PJ's Steakhouse, Queens, New York. Closed (May, 2009, a couple of weeks after filming.) Episode 4: Grasshopper Additionally, Carlstadt, New Jersey. Closed (October, 2012) Episode 5: Davide, Boston, Massachusetts. Closed (January, 2014) Episode 6: Down City, Providence, Rhode Island. Closed (December, 2011) Episode 7 Tavolini, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Closed (December, 2011, a couple weeks after filming.) Episode 8: Kingston Café, Pasadena, California. Open Episode 9: La Frite, Sherman Oaks, California. Open Episode 10: Capri, Eagle Rock, California. Open Episode 11: Zeke's, Metairie, Louisiana. Closed (October, 2012) Episode 12: Ocean, New Orleans, Louisiana. Open

Season Five (2011 to 2012) Episode 1: Blackberry's, Plainfield, New Jersey. Closed (March, 2013) Episode two: Leone's, Montclair, New Jersey. Open Episode 3: Mike & Nellie's, Oakhurst, New Jersey. Closed (January, 2012) Episode 4: Luigi's D'Italia, Anaheim, California. Open Episodes 5 and 6: Burger Kitchen, Los Angeles, California. Closed (February, 2012) Episode 7: The Greek at the Harbor, Ventura, California. Open Episode 8: Michon's, College Park, Georgia. Closed (August, 2013) Episode 9: El Greco, Austin, Texas. Closed (December, 2011) Episode 10: Park's Edge, Atlanta, Georgia. Closed (July, 2013) Episode 11: Spin A Yarn Steakhouse, Fremont, California. Open Episode 12: Charlie's, La Verne, California. Closed (2012) Episode 13: Café Hon, Baltimore, Maryland. Open Episode 14: Chiarella's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Open Episode 15: Zocalo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Closed (December, 2012, until the episode aired.)

Season 6 (2012 to 2013) Episodes 1 and 2: La Galleria, Boston, Massachusetts. Open Episode 3: Mama Maria's, Brooklyn, New York. Open Episode 4: Ms. Jean's Southern Cuisine, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Open Episode 5: Barefoot Bob's, Hull, Massachusetts. Open Episode 6: Olde Hitching Post Restaurant & Tavern, Hanson, Massachusetts. Open Episode 7: Levanti's Italian Restaurant, Beaver, Pennsylvania. (Renamed Levanti's American Bistro throughout the series ) Closed (November, 2013) Episode 8: Sam's Mediterranean Kabob Room, Monrovia, California. Closed (January, 2014) Episode 9: Nino's Italian Restaurant, Long Beach, California. Open Episodes 10 and 11: Mill Street Bistro, Norwalk, Ohio. (Renamed Maple City Tavern at December 2013) Open Episode 12: Yanni's, Seattle, Washington. Open Episode 13: Prohibition Grille, Everett, Washington. Open Episode 14: Chappy's, Nashville, Tennessee. Closed (June, 2013) Episode 15 and Season 7, Episode 1: Amy's Baking Company, Scottsdale, Arizona. Open

Season 2 (2014) Episode 2: Pantaleone's, Denver, Colorado. Open Episode 3: Old Neighborhood Restaurant, Arvada, Colorado. Open Episode 4: Kati Allo, Queens, New York. Open Episodes 5 and 6: Mangia Mangia, Woodland Park, Colorado. Open Episode 8 and 7: Zayna Flaming Grill, Redondo Beach, California. Open Episode 9: Bella Luna, Easton, Pennsylvania. Closed (November, 2013. Three-and-a-half months later filming)

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Jungkook Fanfiction- BTS Mafia AU

Heyya :))

@atricksterwithwings requested a beautiful BTS mafia au, and I loved writing this for her. I’ve split it into three parts. Scroll down for the first and for the link to the latter. 

A/N: I’ve mentioned Zhang Yixing in this fanfiction aside from the other BTS members. Its totally okay if you dont know who he is...although you probably do, he’s like such a popular sheep ;) Find information about him here . 

Tell me your thoughts on this fanfic, Id love to receive any sort of feedback on my work and I totally think that likes and reblogs are recognition too :) Have fun reading, I know I really enjoyed writing this :) Its like 12 pages long on a word doc...idek anymore xP Jungkook is gorgeous. :) 

Also...there is cursing in this, mention of the mafia from different nationalities and part two and three are rated M (its smutty xP) Reader discretion is advised if any of these things bother you. 

Lots of love :) <3 - Enjoy :)  

PART 2

PART 3 (final)

1.

Jeon Jungkook stood at the 77th floor of Euphoria, the headquarters to the largest crime syndicate east of the Pacific Ocean. The height was dizzying for most, but not for him.

Jungkook had no fears; or so was assumed.

The man himself, was built at an impressive 6 feet and constituted of raw muscle, protein and a rather cynical approach towards life. Outwardly, the leader of the most legal crime syndicate was cold, intimidating and the type to burn you to ashes with a glare from his heated eyes.

Inwardly, he was exactly the same.

He was well aware of the effect he had on his employees, men and women who knew exactly of his affiliation with the Japanese Yazuka and the Italian Camorra yet pined to work under Jeon, the sheer power of his company bringing everyone to their knees with respect.

Euphoria was a giant.

It had dealings with government run telemarketing firms, banks, real estate agencies, alongside finance and technology markets. An easy way to convert money earned through extortion, gambling and trafficking to its pure and pristine form. The corrupt politicians whose elections he had funded didn’t complain. No one cared where the money came from and no one dared to ask otherwise. The cause of the founder’s formidable aura wasn’t a secret. Everyone knew how he had been tortured by his father, abandoned on the streets by a mother who seemed to love Heroin more than her own son. The story had been plastered all over the internet, and Jungkook would never deny reading through its many exaggerated versions. They were entertaining and did well to remind himself about how important money and power were, without those weapons, he too would be sitting in a room, writing about a life that belonged to someone else.

Materialism was reality and wealth- it’s currency.

~~~~~~~~~~~

‘’Sir, your coffee…’’ you said, walking through the office doors, a skip in your stride. There was no knock. No hint of awkwardness, no aspect of fear in the way she spoke. If anything there was the undertone of coercion, almost coaxing the man to leave his billion dollar thoughts in the gutter and focus solely on the warm drink.

Your playful extortion had worked, he was focused. Just not on the coffee.

Three months ago, Euphoria had issued an internal opportunity- PA to Jeon Jungkook. The post received 3 applications from his 20,000 employees. Min Yoongi, his chief of finance and operations took to appointing the least qualified of the bunch, a woman- aged a mere 22 years. The pitch to his ever frightening boss had been simple. ‘’You’ve let down 30 men in the last 6 months. I am done handling my job as well your shit. Those Harvard lunatics are too busy tending to their stupid resumes and I don’t have time for the garbage they throw at me when you fire their sorry arses. You’re settling with the woman, she’s got sick parents to feed- she won’t give a damn for ego as long as you pay her on time.’’

Jungkook could only snarl at the curses, the audacity of the man to speak in the way he did. Anyone else and they’d be lying in a pool of their own blood within seconds of the first word spoken against him. But Min Yoongi couldn’t be touched and this was a fact.

Jeon Jungkook was putty in the hands of his elder brother.

Today, he sent thanks to his sibling, for his aggressive outburst and daunting approach. You were priceless and the best decision ever- professionally of course.

He gave no reply to your request, not even a glance spared in your direction as your placed the drink onto his desk. There were just a series of footsteps, the man walking over to his maple work table, ready to do as he was told.

You had no idea of the prerogatives you held, and at that point, neither did him. The slight tease in your voice had mellowed down completely- replaced with the air of innocence and obeisance. Jungkook groaned at the sight. 

‘’So I was thinking…it’s Christmas Eve tomorrow…and well…’’ you said... Shuffling your buckled black heels.

‘’You aren’t leaving early.’’

His abrupt command had no thought behind it. Other than the fact he couldn’t let you out of his sight for more than a few hours, often paging you unnecessarily just to make you think of him.

He doubted you ever would if he didn’t.

‘’I am not…my parents are flying in tomorrow…it’s a small get together at my place with a few colleagues. I figured since you didn’t have anything planned…you could join us?’’  

Your apprehensive feet clicked across the hardwood with anticipation, the weightlessness behind your request holding the air in a trance.

‘’You’re my personal assistant, not event manager. You do not handle my private affairs so don’t think for a second that I care about your stupid Christmas dinner or the family I saved from crumbling.’’

It wasn’t what he had intended to say. Rather, his mind had flourished a thought he needed to keep locked away. He wanted to tell you that he’d love to join your family, share potato salad and amusing anecdotes across the table... All the while pressing his hand into your thigh- a subtle promise of sinful satisfaction later that night. But he wouldn’t dare to voice his feelings. You didn’t need to get involved with his shit, the scars that graced his back or the life full of gluttony and gambles he had chosen to lead. It was compulsion, to remind you every second of every day that the apartment which he bestowed upon you just 3 floors below his office- was a gracious boon, a gift given to improve your petty life. You had to be reminded of your father and how had been released from Jail after almost overdosing on the crack he had envisioned to peddle. Jeon Jungkook had to remind you of how ugly your tear stained face looked as you begged on your knees- begged for him to save your family.

There was simply no other way.

If you weren’t reminded, you’d crawl your way into his heart and sit there- encasing it completely.

He was just a damned moth to your flame.

‘’I know…and I am trying…I am trying to repay you. Please. Come over. I won’t waste your time.’’ You said. The words articulated with a purpose, were laced with meaningful sorrow but you couldn’t help the small smile that graced your lips.

He hadn’t declined.

Jungkook noticed how your full lips turned upwards, noticed how you had bent your head downwards, trying to hide your amusement. He knew he hadn’t said no, he knew inside the pits of his soul that was going to attend. Your reaction publicised his private notions completely.

It wasn’t hard to hate you.

Rather, it was the easiest thing in the world. His life had been built upon layers of lies, fear, judgement and mistrust. You tore everything apart with one look. He despised the hold you had over him, envied your purity and tried his best to tarnish it with his own two hands. Even if it meant burning your entire persona to ashes. He was well aware of the impact his audacious remarks on your large heart, knew just how much you wished to throw your small fists at his chest in rebuttal- he could see it in your eyes. But he knew you’d never break.

‘’Get out. I don’t have time for you.’’

Fuck.

Why couldn’t he just say no?

Probably because the thought of abjuration had never once crossed his mind.

~~~~~~~~~~~

11 pm saw him standing at your door, a bouquet of Lilly’s in his hand. The flowers had almost wilted away. What the hell was he doing? Why was he even here? There was no noise from behind the oakwood and why would there be?

Your offer had been for dinner, not a midnight snack.

He wasn’t going to come, prove you wrong and act smug about the ordeal. However he had shown up, at 7 pm, flowers fresh and suit prim. Ready to tap onto the door and shimmy himself into you…your apartment. But his confidence dropped as he heard your laughter, it was beautiful, natural and something he had never experienced before.

Jeon Jungkook had never made you laugh, but had every thought of hearing you scream.

It wouldn’t have mattered to him if you were any other woman, but the lack of knowledge frightened him, made him think there would be another man who would have the pleasure of witnessing both sounds.

Every. Single. Day.

His heart beat erratically, edging him into a state of worry and insanity. What the fuck was wrong with him? It would be a complete lie if he said he hadn’t just stood in front of your door for 3 hours, praying he didn’t hear sounds of men. The silence at 11 pm provided comfort and he walked away, only after dropping the Lilly’s inside the vase at your desk.

You had been pleasantly surprised the next day, and you knew exactly who they were from. The flowers- drained from their pretty colour -were beautiful nonetheless and you couldn’t help but run your hands over their soft petals.

They were perfect- just like him.

 ~~~~~~~~~~

2.

‘’See that guy over there…he’s checking you out hon.’’ Lisa, the American-Chinese intern, stirred her tea at an exceedingly sluggish pace. Her eyes were glued onto the 27 year old accountant who stood in the corner of the room, photocopying his work and humming to himself. She’d been a temporary employee at Euphoria Inc. for a bare 3 weeks but had done well to pair 4 couples with her self-praised matchmaking skills.

3 of said relationships had broken up within 24 hours. And thus, It was only natural that her impeccable track record attracted many an employee to her small cubicle, ready for her to set them up with dates and one night stands.

It seemed that you were her next target.

You sighed and turned to look at Jamie. He was tall, considerably well-built and had this collegiate boyish charm to his appeal, his long-slightly raven locks sat faultlessly over his glasses.

The image was so immaculate it made you uncomfortable.

I

However in your opinion, the man on the 77th floor was nothing short of perfection. His ruffled hair didn’t need to be waxed and placed as it were; it fell naturally and it made you want to run your hands through it. His rugged and damaged personality sheltered his otherwise kind heart and you saw right through the vile facade. You didn’t hope for him to change. Didn’t hope for him to suddenly become a goofy cheeky soul; the kind who would sit and chat with his workers.

You loved the man as he was. A little broken but a hell of a lot confident.

‘’Lisa…I don’t really want to date him…’’ You mumbled, eagerly emptying coffee beans into the machine.

She laughed at your reply and peeled her eyes away from the man. ‘’Who said anything about dating love? I just said he was checking you out.’’

It was hard not to grimace at her words but as crude as they were you had to smile politely. Offices were run on brutal honesty and cut throat depositions. There was no room for pleasantries or hospitality and any that appeared were a courteous formality. You hurried in your steps and brewed the concoction with ease. It was 8 am and he required his morning fix, even though he never actually asked you to prepare it. You had just finished placing his black on the tray and had turned around to deliver it when a firm body crashed into yours, spilling the brew all over your clothes and the floor. The heat burned through your blouse and scorched your skin, it had been hard to not curse at the pain but you dealt through it, eyes shut tight in response.

‘’Oh my gosh! I am so sorry!’’ said the voice. It was a man, sharply handsome, his cheekbones were protruding and you were sure his skin glowed. It didn’t take long to recognise him.

Kim Taehyung.

He had been a prospective fiancé, from a year ago.

From a time when you had no viable job, no future and the money the Kim Family offered in exchange for your hand in matrimony, had been a welcome surprise to your household. They were staunchly against same sex marriages and Park Jimin had been banned from their home with immediate effect. The marijuana had inflected your otherwise gentle father and he had agreed in seconds to the proposal, not once considering your opinion. You had declined Taehyung in private, and he had hugged you in thanks. The man was humble and docile in more ways than one, and his heart had been taken years ago- by none other, than his childhood piano teacher. There was no way Taehyung would’ve agreed.  

‘’Tae!’’ You screamed, surprised yet elated at the discovery.

‘’Hey there fiancé. Glad to know you remember me…but really, why do we always meet in the worst of situations.’’ He walked over to the counter as he spoke, grabbing up as many napkins as he could find. His gentle hands took to patting at your chest, handing you the tissues while doing so and it didn’t take long for to dry up your blouse.

‘’I thought you’d be more respectful than that. Letting your fiancé walk into my building and displaying yourself open for the man. Tch Tch…I guess a lowlife is always a low life no matter what her circumstance.’’ Jeon Jungkook stood against the door, leaning onto it with a posture that screamed indifference. But in all reality, Jungkook was seething.

The small Glock tucked into his suit was ready to fire and destroy Kim Taehyung and maybe even leave a flesh wound inside Jamie the accountant.

However in that minute, his primal desire had been to destroy you. How dare you hide the news of your engagement? How dare you wear that damned pastel pink blouse to work, and let another man touch you so unabashedly? How dare you smile when you saw your betrothed? He hated you for everything.

And he hated himself for falling for you.

‘’And who the hell is this Joker?’’ Taehyung turned around to look at Jeon, the tissues in his hand soiled from the spillage. He had been invited to the corporation by Min Yoongi, a dear friend who had promised him help with TaeMin Designs, an upcoming entrepreneurial, founded by his beautiful husband. It didn’t occur to him that he’d meet you, but he was pleased that he had.

You were wonderful.

If it hadn’t been for your confidence, he would have never proposed to Jimin, never left his awful family and never been as happy as he was now. He owed you his life and his prosperity.

‘’Tae…he’s my boss. I’ll talk to you later. Please. I’ll call you hmm?’’ you tried your best to nip the fight in the bud. Taehyung was cool headed but an agitated version of the man could lead to the emergence of fists and blood. You were lucky he understood your pleas, and he grunted towards Jungkook while exiting the room, the daggers leaving his eyes were filled with venom and anger.

‘’I’d like you to pay attention to your job. Not to every single man out there. Why don’t you just do as you’re told? I don’t care what you do and who you do it with when you’re out of here.’’ Jungkook straightened himself against the wall and pocketed his hands. He told himself he enjoyed watching your eyes brim, told himself that his anger was justified. But god knows how much he wanted to cradle you and whisper apologies until you were forced to believe them.

‘’Let’s keep your sluttish acts away from the office hmm?’’

It was a harsh blow, enough to cause the first tear to slip from their confines. Why did he have to behave like that?

Why did you have to love him regardless of the way he did? 

~~~~~~~

3.  

‘’How long is it going to take you leave? It’s pretty simple. Take the bag to KM Constructions, drop it there and leave. What’s so hard? '' Jungkook’s anger had sky rocketed ever since the incidence in the cafeteria and he didn’t even understand why he was asking you to be a bag drop. Never once in a career spanning 6 years had he ever made a woman a part of a deal. But it seemed that you were an exception with everything.

‘’I am just leaving Sir.’’ You said, buttoning up the grey pea coat.

He noticed how inappropriately dressed you were, how feminine and vulnerable. He knew how lecherous men could be, knew it wasn’t safe. But annoyance clouded his senses and he threw the thoughts away. It was simple enough, no interactions. You’d be fine.

If only he knew.

Part 2

Part 3 

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town (NYT) In late February, Microsoft opened four floors of new office space near the top of a 50-story glass tower in downtown Toronto, a block from Scotiabank Arena, home of the Maple Leafs and the Raptors. Apple and Amazon were already in towers just down the street, and Google was about to open a new building around the corner. Meta, formerly Facebook, did not yet have an office downtown, but many Toronto start-ups complained that the social media company was driving tech salaries to Silicon Valley levels as it recruited top engineers across the city. During the pandemic, it was hiring anyone willing to work from home. A few blocks north, construction workers in yellow vests and hard hats were finishing three floors of new office space for another social media company: Pinterest. Stripe, an American payments company, was opening an office near City Hall, where Klarna, a Scandinavian payments company, had just announced its arrival with a flashy photo op alongside Mayor John Tory. As the tech industry continues to expand and communities all over the world compete for tech jobs outside Silicon Valley, many executives, investors and entrepreneurs are promoting warm climes like Austin and Miami as the next big tech hubs. But they are tiny tech communities compared with the new hub growing in the cool air along the shore of Lake Ontario. Thanks to years of investment from local universities, government agencies and business leaders and Canada’s liberal immigration policies, Toronto is now the third-largest tech hub in North America. It is home to more tech workers than Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington, D.C., trailing only New York and Silicon Valley, according to CBRE, a real estate company that tracks tech hiring.

U.S. imports little from Ukraine and Russia, but food and farming costs are expected to rise (Washington Post) Richard Guebert is getting ready to plant corn, wheat and soybeans in southern Illinois, about 50 miles south of St. Louis. But for reasons connected to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, he and his fellow farmers are concerned about how their upcoming growing season will go. Even though only a fraction of the food eaten in the United States is imported, with much of that coming from Mexico and Canada, the ripple effects of the conflict in Ukraine will conspire to further drive up food prices and keep them high into next year, analysts say. And because Russia is a main producer of fertilizer and other agricultural chemicals, the conflict is likely to have an impact what is grown this year on American soil. Guebert has seen the effects firsthand. His fertilizer cost was $510 a ton last year, he said. This year, it’s $1,508. He has no choice but to pay it to meet his target crop yields, he said, and while the price he is paid for his grain will rise, too, “prices will reach a point where no one can afford to purchase them.”

After War, the Journey Home Takes a Lifetime (Epoch Times) Sailor Lawrence Markworth was eager to jump in the whaleboat to help search for a downed American pilot in the ocean near Vietnam in 1964. The war was in full swing. “We spotted a helmet bobbing in the water, and it looked like he was alive. We were all excited: ‘We’re going to rescue a pilot. This is so cool,’” he recalled. “We get up to him … but he was dead. I remember everybody hoisting him aboard, and the ship was just silent. It was … I don’t know, these things are still difficult to talk about.” Now 77, he has spent decades battling addictions and his deeper wounds of moral injury and feeling betrayed by his country. He also battled the Veterans Administration (VA) for years over his exposure to Agent Orange and the illnesses he subsequently developed. “It’s more difficult to return than sometimes it is to go to war,” he said. “The day I got out of the military, I was so happy. And yet, I didn’t realize that it was going to be some of the darkest times of my life.” Psychotherapist Ed Tick, who has worked with veterans for 45 years, said the VA’s treatment of veterans in the United States is “woefully inadequate and mostly dependent on medications—which the veterans don’t want.” “Military service and warfare are such extraordinarily penetrating and transformational experiences that they do live in the veterans’ minds and hearts as about the most important and intense thing they ever experienced. So for the rest of us, well, the war’s over. But for them, no, it’s never over,” Tick said.

Russia Broadens Mariupol Assault as Signs of Stalemate Take Shape (NYT) Firing rockets and bombs from the land, air and—probably for the first time—from warships in the Sea of Azov, Russian forces broadened their bombardment of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday and have forcibly deported thousands of residents, according to city officials and witnesses. Among the freshly devastated was an art school, where about 400 residents were hiding, according to city officials who claimed it had been bombed by Russian forces targeting civilians. The number of casualties was not known. Into the fourth week of the Russian assault on the country, the coastal city—a strategic port that would give Russia control over much of Ukraine’s southern coast—has increasingly become a grim symbol of Russian frustration that its superior manpower and weaponry have not forced the quick capitulation of the country. And it has come to symbolize Russia’s brutality, with its forces increasingly targeting civilian sites with long-range missiles to crush the public’s spirit and break the Ukrainian military resistance. The city has been without food, water, electricity or gas since the early days after the Feb. 24 invasion. But its situation deteriorated even more over the weekend, with reports of raging street battles and Russian forces successfully conquering three neighborhoods.

Russia’s bombs and bullets not the only things killing Ukrainians. Stress is, too. (NBC News) Russia’s bombs and bullets did not kill Liubov Hrudiy—the stress of war did. Following a perilous journey from eastern Ukraine with her grandson, Hrudiy, 73, died minutes after arriving in the western city of Lviv last week. Now her grandson, Vladyslav, 17, has to live with the nonphysical scars of that trauma. He’s not alone. The more than 3.1 million Ukrainians who have fled their country since Russia invaded it on Feb. 24 will all carry invisible scars with them long after they reach safety. Zarlasht Halaimzai, CEO and co-founder of the Refugee Trauma Initiative, said that the stress of the experience can manifest itself physically—through body aches and lack of sleep. And it can have profound impacts on children, affecting their ability to learn, form healthy relationships and even walk. To [one doctor], the antidote to the helplessness and hopelessness many refugees experience is a return to normalcy and restoring a sense of community.

Russia Is Losing Tens of Thousands of Outward-Looking Young Professionals (NYT) At the Lumen cafe in the Armenian capital, Russians arrive as soon as the doors open, ordering specialty coffees, opening up their sleek Apple laptops and trying to navigate a dwindling array of options for starting their lives over. This is a different kind of exodus—tens of thousands of young, urban, multilingual professionals who are able to work remotely from almost anywhere, many of them in information technology or freelancers in creative industries. Russia is hemorrhaging outward-looking young professionals who were part of a global economy that has largely cut off their country. Before the war broke out, only about 3,000 to 4,000 Russians were registered as workers in Armenia, according to officials. But in the two weeks following the invasion, at least an equal number arrived almost every day in this small country. While thousands have moved on to other destinations, government officials said late last week that about 20,000 remained. Tens of thousands more are looking to start new lives in other countries. The speed and scale of the exodus are evidence of a seismic shift that the invasion set off inside Russia. Though President Vladimir V. Putin repressed dissent, Russia until last month remained a place where people could travel relatively unfettered overseas, with a mostly uncensored internet that gave a platform to independent media, a thriving tech industry and a world-class arts scene. Life was good, the émigrés said.

Driven to extremes (Guardian) Days before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, President Ashraf Ghani took a helicopter to the United Arab Emirates, allegedly carrying with him $169 million from the country’s treasury. Ghani’s former finance minister, Khalid Payenda, also left Afghanistan, headed to the U.S. Six months later, Payenda is driving an Uber in Washington D.C. and barely making ends meet. “If I complete 50 trips in the next two days I receive a $95 bonus,” he said from behind the wheel of a Honda Accord. The 40-year-old once oversaw a U.S.- supported $6 billion budget. Payenda is grateful for the opportunity to support his family but feels as though he doesn’t have a place he really belongs. He became finance minister in late 2020, after his mother died of Covid-19 in an impoverished Kabul hospital. He now wishes he hadn’t taken the job. “I saw a lot of ugliness, and we failed. I was part of the failure. It’s difficult when you look at the misery of the people and you feel responsible,” he said.

US to declare Rohingya repression in Myanmar a ‘genocide’ (AP) The Biden administration intends to declare that Myanmar’s years-long repression of the Rohingya Muslim population is a “genocide,” U.S. officials said Sunday. The designation does not in and of itself portend drastic new measures against Myanmar’s military-led government, which has already been hit with multiple layers of U.S. sanctions since the campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority began in the country’s western Rakhine state in 2017. But it could lead to additional international pressure on the government, which is already facing accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Human rights groups and lawmakers have been pressing both the Trump and Biden administrations to make the designation.

Shanghai Disneyland closes as virus rises, Shenzhen reopens (AP) Shanghai Disneyland closed Monday as China’s most populous city tried to contain its biggest coronavirus flareup in two years, while the southern business center of Shenzhen allowed shops and offices to reopen after a weeklong closure. Meanwhile, the cities of Changchun and Jilin in the northeast began another round of citywide virus testing following a surge in infections. Jilin tightened anti-disease curbs, ordering its 2 million residents to stay home. China’s case numbers in its latest infection wave are low compared with other major countries, but authorities are enforcing a “zero tolerance” strategy that has suspended access to some major cities.

China Eastern Airlines Boeing with 132 on board crashes in China (WSJ) A Boeing 737 operated by China Eastern Airlines carrying 132 people slammed into the mountains of southern China. Flight 5735 crashed in the Guangxi region while flying from the southwestern city of Kunming to the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. The aircraft was a 737-800, according to the Aviation Safety Network database, and not a Boeing 737 MAX, which has been under scrutiny since two separate crashes led to a protracted grounding. If all aboard are confirmed dead, this would be China’s deadliest crash in nearly 30 years.

Reaching out to a stranger (Washington Post) Over the weekend, the Washington Post brought us the delightful, if slightly disturbing, story of Shoji Morimoto, or Rental-san as he is known in his native Japan, the man his clients hire to do nothing. Morimoto has built a business and viral fame on the promise that he will show up when required and simply be: His jobs have included waiting at the end of a marathon so a runner could see a familiar face, to silently accompanying a recently divorced woman to lunch, to sitting nearby to prevent a student from slacking off from their studies. Morimoto feels he fills a niche as a social pressure release valve. “I think when people are feeling vulnerable or are in their intimate moments, they become more sensitive toward people that are close to them, like how they will be perceived, or the kind of actions they will take for them,” he said. “So I think they want to just reach out to a stranger without any strings attached.”

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