#Manuel Almeida

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My great-grandfather Manuel Simões de Almeida posing next to a sculpture of himself done by his father José Simões de Almeida (Sobrinho), Portugal, 1920s.

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Pousada de Picote, Miranda do Douro. João Archer de Carvalho, Manuel Nunes de Almeida, 1954-1957

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 2 | A Surprise Cup Final

#WonderkidFactory Part 2: A Surprise Cup Final. More big transfers are followed by an influx of Ibero-American youngsters at @valenciacf. And they enjoy a strong #LaLiga showing before reaching the #EuropaLeague Final. Read here:

A promising first season in Valencia saw Roberto Lazaró secure European qualification despite form dramatically tailing off in the last few matches. Lazaró’s success convinced owner Peter Lim – who a few months later handed the reigns over to new chairperson Or Shachar – to agree to youth recruitment and facilities improvements over the summer. However, the summer proved tricky as Lazaró’s…

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Lima 1 Ch QF: Juan Manuel Cerundolo [1] def. Matheus Pucinelli de Almeida 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-3 Match Stats

📸 ATP official website

Despite a slow start to the match, as well as the clash between a more peaking version of M. Pucinelli de Almeida in this match, Juanma still stayed solid while trying to maintain his balance from his passes and net games. This way, even though the unseeded Brazilian had a similar capability as evident in the second set, it all came down to the important points on their return, where their shot winners also played significant parts of the match and how they closed things out. As such, even though both players broke thrice throughout the match, Juanma generated more break points than M. Pucinelli de Almeida (14 to 6) thanks to his more attacking play.

Apparently, there was a tiny difference between both players on their service games. While both Juanma and M. Pucinelli de Almeida scored 2 aces, the latter had a slight edge from his first serves by 4% with a 69% winning percentage, which helped him to raise his game starting the second set. However, Juanma's second serves appeared more reliable as he won 5% more of his second serve points, mainly due to M. Pucinelli de Almeida's 5 double faults that highlighted the vulnerability of his second serves.

In the semifinals, Juanma will face Juan Bautista Torres, who just defeated Facundo Mena 6-3, 7-6(4) in the quarterfinals. This could potentially be another classic at their best, depending on who appeared more offensive and balanced in general, as their aggression will be pitted against each other in this clash. While Juanma might have needed a while to recover from 2 separate 3-hour clashes, there is a possibility that this match could bring more confidence to steadily regain his form.

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Manuel Faria de Almeida, Para um Album de Lisboa, 1966 http://www.cinemateca.pt/Cinemateca-Digital/Ficha.aspx?obraid=2744&type=Video

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O Ministério Público e a corrupção

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VOX despliega una lona de grandes dimensiones en el centro de Madrid donde identifica la Agenda del consenso progre

VOX ha desplegado en el centro de Madrid, concretamente en el cruce de la calle Alcalá con la calle O’donnell, una lona de gran longitud donde se denuncia la Agenda 2030, a la que se han adherido todos los partidos, salvo VOX, y sus sindicatos de clase, salvo Solidaridad. En la imagen se puede ver al presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, junto a su vicepresidente Yolanda Díaz en un acto de…

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Exposición “Réquiem”, Colectiva

Exposición Réquiem Colectiva 12.01.2023 Arco de Belén Es la pérdida, en su sentido más general, lo que viene a unir en esta muestra las piezas de 17 artistas de las más disímiles manifestaciones y discursos artísticos. Sus curadoras reconocen que ellos, como el resto de los mortales, han pasado en algún momento de la vida por ese proceso de duelo, ya sea por pérdidas relacionales,…

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Sugestões de livros

Fica aqui para que parem de me mandar ask. Notem que isto não é só coisas que eu li, são também sugestões de colegas e amigos que confio muito.

Reis e rainhas:

Toda a coleção da Temas e Debates de biografias de reis e rainhas

Rainhas Medievais de Portugal de Ana Rodrigues de Oliveira

As Avis, Joana Bouza Serrano

História de Portugal Geral

História de Portugal tanto do Rui Ramos como do José Mattoso, sendo o segundo da Círculo de Leitores portanto só se consulta em biblioteca e sao livros de cabeceira

Grandes Mistérios da História de Portugal, Fátima Mariano

História, Arte e Literatura, Diogo Ramada Curto

História Global de Portugal (autores Vários)

Portugal na Idade Média, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

História da Vida Privada em Portugal, José Mattoso (vários volumes por épocas, só estou familiarizada com a Idade Medieval)

Breve História de Portugal / Brevíssima História de Portugal (são 2 livros distintos) A. H. de Oliveira Marques

Al-Andalus

Fath Al-Andalus, Marcos Santos

Lisboa Árabe, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

Portugal na Espanha Árabe, António Borges Coelho

Cristãos Contra Muçulmanos na Idade Média Peninsular, Carlos de Ayala e Isabel Cristina F. Fernandes (Coord.)

História Judaica e Inquisição

História dos Judeus Portugueses, Carsten L. Wilke

Judeus Portugueses, Esther Mucznik

A Perseguição Aos Judeus e Muçulmanos de Portugal - D. Manuel e o Fim da Tolerância Religiosa (1496-1497), François Soyer

Lisboa Judaica, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

Inquisição e Cristãos Novos, António José Saraiva

História da Inquisição Portuguesa, Giuseppe Marcocci e José Pedro Paiva

História de Lisboa

Rainha dos Mares (Queen of the Sea em inglês), Barry Hatton

Lisboa Desconhecida e Insólita, Anísio Franco

História Gastronómica de Lisboa, Manuel Paquete

Lisboa em 10 Histórias, Joke Langens

Lisboa Revolucionária, Fernando Rosas

Lisboa no Liberalismo, Victor de Sá

Lisboa Manuelina, Helder Carita

Caminhar por Lisboa, Anísio Franco

Segredos de Lisboa, Inês Ribeiro e Raquel Plicarpo

Diário de um Viajante a Lisboa, Henry Fielding

Era das Luzes

O Marquês de Pombal e a sua Época, J. Lúcio de Azevedo

Século XIX

1808, Laurentino Gomes

A Republicanização da Monarquia, Maria de Fátima Bonifácio

Século XX

O Século XX Português (Vários autores)

Portugal Entre a Paz e a Guerra, 1939 - 1945, Fernando Rosas

Curiosidades, assuntos específicos e tópicos nicho:

Portugal Insólito, Joaquim Fernandes

História Global da Alimentação (Vários autores)

Quinas e Castelos, Miguel Metelo de Seixas

They Went to Portugal, Rose Macaulay

Heroinas Portuguesas, Fina d'Armada

O Pequeno Livro do Grande Terramoto, Rui Tavares

(Des)colonização e raça:

Roteiro Histórico de uma Lisboa Africana, Isabel Castro Henriques

Portugal e o Século XX: Estado-Império e a Descolonização, Fernando Tavares Pimenta

Lisboa Africana, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

Um Mar da Cor na Terra, Miguel Vale de Almeida

Ecos Coloniais: Histórias, Patrimónios e Memórias, de Ana Guardião, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo e Paulo Peixoto

Caderno de Memórias Coloniais, Isabel Figueiredo

Escravidão, Laurentino Gomes

"Modo Português de Estar no Mundo": O luso-tropicalismo e a ideologia colonial portuguesa (1933-1961), Cláudia Castelo

Outras cidades:

Porto Insólito e Desconhecido, Germano da Silva

Cascais, Raquel Henriques da Silva

Qualquer livro da Scala sobre qualquer palácio público, inclusive os da Parques Sintra (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Palácio da Pena, Palácio da Vila, Mosteiro de Alcobaça que eu tenha)

vou atualizando à medida que vou descobrindo livros por aí

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Luis Manuel Gaspar, ilustração para «Vinte e Cinco Versos e Reversos» de Almeida Faria, 𝘖 𝘋𝘪𝘢 𝘐𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭, Câmara Municipal de Grândola, Abril de 2024.

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Gwent: The Witcher Card Game | The cards that could've been 3/?

Mastercrafted Spear (Lorenzo Mastroianni), ?? (??), Rivian Broadsword (Lorenzo Mastroianni)

Bloody Flail, Lyrian Banner (Bogna Gawrońska), Angreni Sword (Diego de Almeida)

War Hammer (Manuel Castañón), Ornamental Sword, Sihil (Anna Podedworna)

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AU MASTERPOST

Since I'm finally posting more content about my AUs, I figured I may as well make a little masterpost of what characters are in it and what they're all about!

Information under the cut because this is a lot longer than expected! Also, both AUs will be written in different colors for ease of finding the information on each of them.

MEMENTO MORI!

Animatronic names

Glamrock Freddy - Glam

Glamrock Bonnie - Gloss

Glamrock Chica - Gala

Roxanne Wolf

Montgomery Gator

Moondrop - Luna

Sunnydrop - Sol

(Possible) Eclipse - Chroma

OC - Melody

Major human characters

Gregory Stand-In - Vivianne Whitaker

Vanny - Ivanna Harland, Vanna

Vanessa - Vanessa Coella, Anne

Side characters

Vivianne's younger sister - Olive Whitaker

Marketing - Luis Cabrera

Daycare assistant - Jenna Rusk

Roxanne's designer, makeup artist and hair stylist - Manuel Almeida

Sol and Luna's creator and general engineer and technician - Drew Vesper

Melody's creator and cabinet technician - Liv Rivera

Missing kid - Renata Gonzáles

Missing kid - Elliot Gonzáles

Missing kid - Cassie Arison

Higher-up - Beatrice Dara

Higher-up - Robert Buckingham

CEO - Dominic Arison

Symbolic characters

PRINCESS QUEST

Princess (later Queen) Ivie, Harewolf, The Corpse - Vanna

Princess (later King) Nessie, Lighthouse, The Exiled - Anne

The Duke - Glam

The Guildmaster (?) - Gloss

The Baker - Gala

The Baroness - Roxanne

The Knight - Montgomery

The Magician - Luna

The Jester - Sol

The Librarian - Melody

LET'S PLAY WITH ECLIPSE (BALLOON WORLD)

"Eclipse", Umbra - Vanna?

Eclipse, Saros - Luna?

Lullaby - Melody

More characters may come...

WHAT IS MEMENTO MORI ABOUT?

Memento Mori goes into themes of neurodivergency, loneliness, and the intersection between them as a major thing and arguably the most important underlying plot line underneath your typical FNAF SB plot. At the very least it's important to me.

It takes place in the year 2031, with the PizzaPlex having opened in 2025, two years after a canon-divergent FFPS. It's connected to my currently very under construction humanized FNAF1-FFPS AU, All Those Nights.

It starts off when Vanna, a woman who is tired of being nobody and determined to be remembered, sets her sights on the PizzaPlex to try and cause some loud, flashy tragedy that will make her stick in people's memory. With the help of her girlfriend, Anne, who she's known since she was a child and reunited with as an adult, since Vanna faked her death in her teenage years. Anne has a hatred for people and a disillusionment with the world around her, but also holds a sense of morality she tries to bury.

Vanna could have had some morals, but thanks to her past with street violence, she is very desensitized to her own horrible actions and much more ready to go through with this. She has a playful, friendly demeanor that hides horrendous anger issues caused by emotional dysregulation, buried self-hatred, and a sort of spite towards a world where she never fit in.

So, the PizzaPlex.

Through the course of six months, Vanna and Anne hack the Glamrocks one by one, and kill several people to try and fulfill Vanna's goal.

The events of FNAF SB proper follow primarily Glam as the protagonist, with Vivianne as a sort of second POV, as they try to survive, figure out what's happening, and save everyone, while also trying to find Vivianne's sister, who got stuck here with her.

There's also some side plots! Such as...

-Gala, Monty and Roxy slowly coming to realize that what's going on here isn't what they're being led to believe, only to be fully stripped of their free will to ensure they stay in line, something that happened to Melody a while before the events of the plot.

-Sol's initial attempts to get back to safety when they know everything's dangerous, from which they shift focus upon running into Melody, realizing something's wrong, and trying to find a way to help him.

-Luna being a looming presence through most of these plot lines, being just... different. In reality, it's Vanna keeping things in check, while Luna's stuck in the back of his own body, spectating.

-And Vanna and Anne's attempts to get everything back on track as Vanna starts to lose her temper and speed towards her own doom.

There's some doodle comics about Memento Mori floating around my blog, I may link those later.

SECURITY IS IN PLACE!

Animatronic names

Glamrock Freddy - Astrifer

Glamrock Bonnie - Noctifer

Montgomery Gator - Stellifer

Glamrock Chica - Sally

Roxanne Wolf - Rox

Moondrop - Tsuki

Sunnydrop - Taiyo

Major human characters

Protagonist - Bernadette Murray, Berry, Dettie

Vanessa - Vanessa Monroe, Nessa

Vanny - Valentine Lovett, Heartache

Side characters

CEO - Steve Raglan, previously Sammy Emily

Higher-up - John Burrows

Edwin Murray - Edwin Murray

Gregory - Gregory Ledger

Cassie - Cassie Burrows, possibly

More human characters may be borrowed from Memento Mori or concepted up

WHAT IS SECURITY IS IN PLACE ABOUT?

So this AU started as a "yes, and..." bit with a mutual about a FNAF SB dating sim. It's not actually super romance focused but I'm telling you this because the way the story is set up and stuff like the theming surrounding this AU's Vanny makes more sense in that context.

So, the year is 2005, owing to the timeskip between FNAF1 and FNAF3 being cut some.

The PizzaPlex, opened in 2003, has moved on from the horrors of the past. Or most people think that, anyways. Raglan, a king of coping healthily with grief, pulled a small funny move, and designed nearly all the Glamrocks after people from the past.

Astrifer is designed after Henry Emily.

Noctifer is designed after William Afton.

Taiyo and Tsuki are designed after the Puppet, and, in turn, Charlie Emily.

Sally is designed after Susie Beck.

Rox is designed after the Mangle.

Stellifer is exempt from this and an outlier in that. He probably was just bought from a different location and redesigned a bit.

Most people don't notice, or don't care enough to think too hard about it.

Valentine Lovett, the now adult younger sister of Susie Beck, isn't most people.

Valentine is a very sweet and cheerful woman who keeps up such a sickeningly pretty, lovely appearance. In actuality, she is a very disturbed individual whose life was ruined by her sister's death, as her parents couldn't cope with it and traumatized her even further by projecting Susie on her.

Valentine is someone incredibly obsessive and who struggles to come to terms with reality, and she sees the Glamrocks as a revival of people who should have stayed dead. So she's decided she's gonna be the one to make them truly gone. She's also a terrifyingly skilled stalker.

The story is divided into several "routes", with highly differing story lines. However, each character has their route jointed with another, and while the character you pick will mostly be the focus, the events will follow a roughly similar progression for both of those characters.

So, routes:

NIGHT GUARD: Astrifer - Nessa (Hacked: Noctifer, Tsuki)

STAGE CREW: Noctifer - Stellifer (Hacked: The opposite of who you pick. If you pick Noctifer, Stellifer will get hacked, and viceversa)

KITCHEN: Sally - Rox (Hacked: Rox)

DAYCARE: Tsuki - Taiyo (Hacked: Tsuki)

HEARTBREAKER: Valentine (Hacked: Noctifer, Tsuki, Rox, Stellifer, Sally)

ABOUT THE HEARTBREAKER ROUTE...

It is possible to choose Valentine within the story of SiiP. A sort of New Game+ possibility where Bernadette has the chance to meet Valentine early and bond with her first.

This isn't an "I can fix her" story path, however, it's a "She will make you worse" one.

Bernadette is someone who would very much do anything for a person they care about. At the beginning here, when they heard of Valentine's motivations, they thought she had a bit of a point.

So, they decided to help her.

I typically dub this story path's Bernadette either Darling or Heartbreaker, and the story follows their plunge into a full-on corruption arc that lands them as a true, full villain by the end of it, perhaps to an even greater degree than Valentine.

They carefully work their way into ensuring they don't get attached to anyone other than Valentine, manipulate the characters they normally would have bonded with and make them believe they're their friend, ready, at any time needed, to betray each and every one of them for their own gain.

Darling started out not as certain of this, but slowly came to realize they enjoy the thrill of being in control, and started to become a cruel, malicious and silver-tongued person. They still love Valentine deeply, but it's hard for them to truly extend that care to anyone else.

They become the closest SiiP has to a Mimic variant, and this story path leads to SiiP's own version of Security Breach within lore, which would be a lot more focused on mind games and the fear of not knowing who or what you can trust.

There's a Ruin DLC side AU spanning off of it too, but that's in the works.

Check out 1 2 3 for some in-universe information on Heartbreaker FNAF SB!

If you got this far, thanks for reading!

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Leopoldo de Almeida (foto Manuel de San Payo)

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Reading list 2023

Crossposted from pillowfort.

Happy New Year! I read fewer books than usual this year, and didn't enjoy a lot of them. Hopefully next year brings happier reading. The books I liked the best were Dead Souls by Nicolai Gogol, which was a fascinating satire and Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, which was just so much fun from start to finish.

At the other end of the scale The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy was probably the most disappointing, given how well it started and how much I had been looking forward to reading it. It's a bit sad his final works are so dull and unfocused. I still intend to read more of his earlier works sometime. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver actually made me kind of angry on Dickens's behalf. Whatever you think of the man, he prioritised his readers' enjoyment, and that's how he reached people and managed to effect real social change. Demon Copperhead was a grim slog.

Full list behind cut.

Orientalism – Edward Said

The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper

Shirley – Charlotte Bronte

Robertson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Sons and Lovers – D H Lawrence

Spring Snow – Yukio Mishima

Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver

Silverview – John le Carre

The Passenger – Cormac McCarthy

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

The Bounty Hunters – Elmore Leonard

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enríquez

Whale – Cheon Myeong-kwan

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Southern Seas – Manuel Vaquez Montalban

Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Man Who Spoke Snakish – Andrus Kivirahk

Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff

Foe – J M Coetzee

All That I Am – Anna Funder

Women in Love – D H Lawrence

Piercing – Ryu Murakami