#Portugal Confidential

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Can I Bring My Pet to Portugal? Yes, you can bring your pets to Portugal. But first, it’s important to familiarize yourself with the rules and regulations to ensure a smooth transition for you and your dog and cat. In this guide, we’ll outline the essential information you need to know before bringing your furry friends to Portugal.  Keep a calendar handy, as many requirements have time limitations.  First Things to Know… Please keep in mind that: Dog breeds banned from entering the country: Pets Arriving into […] The post Can I Bring My Pet to Portugal? appeared first on Portugal Confidential. https://portugalconfidential.com/can-i-bring-my-pet-to-portugal-dog-cat/

[traveljiffy]

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⋆✮↪ ReIntroduction

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The crime scene

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Note: I am on holidays, therefore I won't be that active till the 26th July

Confidential Information

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Modus Operandi

✏ WIP: The Apocryphal Truth

Set in the late 1890s-early 1900s, this novel is about a young doctor who doesn't believe in God, just to realise that he is part of what he doesn't believe in.

⇒ Gnostic, cosmic and psychological horror, sci-fi (steampunk and biopunk), historical fiction (speculative history) ⇒ 1st draft - longest WIP till date ⇒ 3rd person POV, likely unreliable narrator

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✏ WIP: The Immortal Emperor's Regicide

Inspired by the tabletop roleplaying game "Blades in the Dark", by John Harper, this WIP started as a collaborative creative writing project, being now a personal WIP. The steampunk city of Doskvol hides away all sorts of scoundrels, aristocracy and insane cults to Eldritch gods. While some criminals don't have any other choice besides a life of crime, some of them have higher ambitions, and the highest of them all is to finish the reign of terror of The Immortal Emperor.

⇒ Horror in general, sci-fi (steampunk, biopunk), mystery, thriller ⇒ 1st draft - adapting the lore and worldbuilding created for the collaborative writing project ⇒ 3rd person omniscient narrator.

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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

- Fernando Pessoa

This Introduction post is also a WIP. Soon to be added:

Spotify playlist addressing all my favourite music genres.

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The links to important/personal tags.

Links to an info page about my OCs

[thelonesomequeen]

seriously doubt they searched EVERY SINGLE record in MA 🧜🏻‍♀️ // or California where you can have a confidential marriage license, or Portugal where I remember reading somewhere that they’re private records as well 🙈

And their fallback “TMZ NEVER FOUND IT!!!” Babes. I have some news for you. TMZ *never* finds them. People SEND IT to them lol 🧜🏻‍♀️

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u speak a romance language but not a lot

True yeah. I'm half decent at Portuguese since that's my mother's first langauge and generally a lot of people on her side are either conversational in it or it's their main langauge. I'm not..great at it. Certainly better than what little French and German I know, but I wouldn't say I can confidentially go to Portugal (or Brazil ig)(but even then speaking mainland Portuguese in Brazil is. not ideal) and have a conversation with a local. Still, it's fun

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[j-august]

A most rigorous etiquette confining the Infants of Portugal within their palaces, they are seldom known to mix even incognito with the crowds; so that their flattering smiles or confidential yawns are not lavished upon common observers. This sort of embalming princes alive, after all, is no bad policy; it keeps them sacred; it concentrates their royal essence, too apt, alas! to evaporate by exposure.

William Beckford, Vathek and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

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2024: media in review

A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain 

A Venn diagram of my taste in television and my dad’s would look like two circles straining at the seams to get away from each other. The items that keep the two pinned firmly together are two programs: FX’s The Bear and Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown.

The last time I was home for Christmas, we sat on the couch in a post-dinner haze and watched as Bourdain explored the Lower East Side, finding and commenting on the best of what every street corner in the city has to offer. Neither my dad or I are particularly discerning eaters, but we were entranced: my dad in that funny way that New Yorkers get when they see their city represented on TV, belonging to themselves as much as it seems to belong to everyone else, and myself by the way that Bourdain seemed determined to fill out his life at every corner, expanding and contracting to fit the space he’s in, and consume enthusiastically in a way that I would describe as high-octane and not excessive, a fine, fine line to draw.

A Cook’s Tour is a detailed account of the behind-the-scenes of filming for Parts Unknown, where Bourdain sheds his television personality to take up a writing one which prides itself on being more candid, honest, and critical while maintaining the same dynamic, intensely focused way of experiencing the world. The book is sequenced in bits and pieces, following Bourdain’s original proposal for the show following the success of Kitchen Confidential to vignettes in Portugal, Russia, Japan, and more. While much of the novel follows the by-line of ‘extreme’ cuisines, the shiny parts of his story are when Bourdain looks at other facets of foreign foodways: concepts of luxury, moral approaches to meat-eating, and family. In Vietnam, he eats his way through a floating market and emphasizes the fresh ingredients and the foodways required to get them; in Portugal he kills a pig and notices the way that the life he takes feeds the entire community for several days and beyond. Along the way, he takes aim at fast food conglomerates, celebrity chefs who are more celebrity than chef, and the American empire that shaped the food politics of many of the locales he visits. Bourdain writes about food, certainly, but much of the beauty of his prose comes not from long-winded descriptors of flavors or textures, but the sense of place surrounding each meal he enjoys. In fact, much of his eating seems to do less evocation of taste and more of sensory experience, beyond the five senses to catalog humor, affect, generosity, place. He escapes his corporate overlords in this way – forcing the reader to pay attention to context, despite jumping around the world in vignettes. Every bite is in the direct shadow of the bite that came before it. Every open seat at a table inviting you to sit down is the result of generations and generations of community, an impossibly complex web of foodways, and importantly, chance. Not only is it one of the best ways to do food media, I’ll argue it’s the only way to write about it. Bourdain does a lot with words that much food communication struggles to do with pictures, videos, and audio. 

Not everything in A Cook’s Tour is perfect; I think the reason that his writing is considered edgy is for the same reasons I often found it grating. I cringe when he advocates for blindly running as far away from tourists as possible without a particular thought of what exactly one is running into. Much of the travel and eating advice sprinkled throughout his work is astonishingly male, including the suggestion to go into salaryman’s bars and just start drinking in order to experience Japanese culture. A particularly tense portion of his novel takes place in Cambodia, where he tramples over cultural and political custom to try to make his way to the heart of Khmer Rogue territory to film and eat, then cracks a joke about a ‘cowardly’ cab driver who his team forces to drive into dangerous terrain. This made my skin crawl; I know the feeling of wearing Americanness in Southeast Asia like armor and it’s disgusting, not empowering. It’s also unsurprising that Bourdain’s takes on much of Asia lack nuance and read as terribly outdated; in No Reservations he claims to have been bewitched by his travel in Asia, “even [falling in love with] not-so-pretty Taiwan and Korea”. Who are we kidding? No Reservations was written in 2007 – SNSD was already performing Into the New World. It takes a forgiving eye to read beyond Bourdain’s less-than-discerning writing for the middle American reader to his leftist takes on Kissenger in Cambodia, loser white dudes in Vietnam, and migrant workers in professional kitchens. Some of his descriptions of adventurous food feel just a hair on the wrong side of politically correct, but I’m not eager to take up the job of explaining exactly why they feel this way, given that I’ve never eaten half as adventurously as he has. 

Bourdain’s approach to living seems to be on an upwards trend right now, six years after his death. I feel like I understand deeply why, although I don’t agree entirely with everything he writes. Perhaps his words echo strongly with young people doing their best to live a life of slow richness (in the sense of food, not money), savoring every bite in a culture of excess, the type to order seconds but never takeout. Bourdain’s aspirations to connect deeply to where things come from and why feels like a valuable ethos for right now, but raise questions about how to do so when the fact of the gaze always remains. For Bourdain, his viewer has a name, which is a team of television producers and cameras that follow him and document his every interaction with his surroundings, making his gaze not just a handful of people in a room but hundreds of thousands across the English-speaking world. Can we all slow down? Can we all connect to new places and locales the way Bourdain does, or does that make those places tourist joints, too? 

I chewed through A Cook’s Life in a park in Seoul, at my desk in Yokkaichi, lying down in the forest in Naeba. He ate tete de veau in France while I chugged down vinegary cold noodles, he sipped at bird’s nest soup as I ordered the best vegan ice cream I’ve ever had twice in a row. Bourdain’s world is just as wide as mine, but traveling while reading travel writing feels like reading fantasy. Bourdain writes about his travels in a way that I find myself jealous of; not for the fact that he eats and drinks for a living, but the fact that he’s able to write so brazenly, without hesitation, full of conviction in what he says and feels, humility without fear. At time of writing, I’ve become slightly obsessed with Bourdain. I’m working on his other books, too, and the only thing stopping me from delving into his cookbooks is my disdain for French cooking. My dad and I watch Parts Unknown to unwind, but I would never wish a book like A Cook’s Tour on anyone looking to relax. Bourdain is the traveler’s travel writer for a reason. 

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, R.F. Kuang

I’ll start with what I enjoyed: I thought the function of the magical realist elements were delightful. In Babel, magic is woven into the real world of 1830s England through match-pairs, or pairings of words between English and other languages inscribed onto bricks of silver. The silver is able to capture what is ‘lost in translation’, which in turn creates magical outcomes based on the difference in nuance between the two words, like making ships go faster, food stay fresher, buildings last longer. The main character, Robin Swift, is a native Cantonese and Mandarin speaker who learns English from a young age through being partially raised by an English maid in Canton, making him a prime candidate for the fictional Babel School of Translation at the nonfictional Oxford University. The book came at a good time for me. At time of writing I’m about ten months into a twenty-four month period in Japan, and am hitting (what I perceive to be) a critical point in my language acquisition where things are actually starting to make a lot of sense while still being wildly confusing, so the themes of embodied language and the politics of fluency overlaid onto a magical setting struck close to home. The role of magic and the translation school in the larger setting of colonial Britain sets Kuang up for strong commentary on a number of different thematic elements of empire, including the invisible hand of academia, wasians, and the frenetic potential in being able to speak a second or third language so easily it comes like breathing. A few weeks ago, I met someone who is a native speaker of Mandarin, Japanese, and English, and I’ll tell you, it’s easy to imagine what she can do as magic. 

I spent a few days after finishing Babel wallowing in self pity that I would never be a native speaker of another language, despite my best efforts. The world constructed in the novel is just so textually rich and layered with the power of language and openings for meaning; truly, while reading I felt a deep melancholy that I would never have the depth of intimacy with another language that Kuang portrays as so powerful and out of the reach of many that it constitutes magic. I couldn’t even find it in me to blame my parents, who are equally the victims of language (in)access as I am, despite my mom’s ridiculous talent for five or so Chinese dialects. Robin’s half-brother Griffin at one point admits that he was a failed project of true bilingualism because his dreams – that ultimate, truth-telling space – weren’t in Chinese. Griffin yearns to be a truly native Chinese speaker, but his subconscious space remains just out of reach. I closed Babel with a sort of forlorn determination in my journey of language acquisition. 

Onto my critiques: Babel makes its goals clear. The long-winded title informs the reader of not only its overarching plot, but also the tortuously simple political messaging being swung at. Kuang insists on a similar level of hand-holding throughout, from the comically racist white British colonizers, the pages-long dialogues of spirited academic debates where Kuang is so painfully literal she could stand to cite her sources, to the core set of archetypal characters that make up the Oxford cohort the story follows. If you’ve read Yellowface, you’ll know all about Kuang, projecting, and absolutely rinsing white women, which is tee’d up so obviously for such an unforgivable smackdown in both pieces I almost want to ask for mercy. In Yellowface, the white woman narrator hates Chinese food while pretending to be Asian online, in Babel, the British professor fathers Robin with a Chinese woman while looking down on their intellect and civility; in both cases I think Kuang forgets that the most insidious white person is the one who genuinely believes that they love ethnic cultures while looking down on them. 

I want to be clear; I do not think that RF Kuang is a good writer, but I knew generally what to forgive given the limitations of the YA genre. The majority of my issues with Babel come at the last quarter of the book. Much potential for nuance is lost as the novel descends into a cartoonish parody of rebellion, complete with the barricading of a building at Oxford, betrayal from the white woman intelligentsia, and an embarrassingly brazen allyship with a group of working class white men. Babel is not for anyone looking for high level commentary or a truly built-out portrayal of revolution in a magical world. Ursula K Le Guin suggests (speaking on science fiction but applicable to this magical realist historical fiction) that a successful piece in the genre is not one that extrapolates from a logical extreme to inevitably end in massive destruction, but is rather one that uses extrapolation as one tool of many to reflect a present reality. “[...] let’s say this or that is such and so, and see what happens…  In a story so conceived, thought and intuition can move freely within bounds set only by the terms of the experiment, which may be very large indeed.” Taking this analytic, where Babel fails is in its overcommitment to “the necessity of violence” as a singular political message, so such exaggerated that the goal of the novel at some points seems to be impressing upon the reader that political message rather than actually portraying it in the text, the other commentary on community building and revolutionary sacrifice taking the form of stray bullets. Kuang spends the first four hundred pages of the book building out a colossal magical world with movement between the Global North and South, a cast of characters from across the world brought to Oxford under suspicious circumstances, and a colonial power capable of incredible cruelty in the real world, now armed with a magically enhanced abilities. The bounds of Kuang’s experiment are nonexistent, but its one-track minded focus on Oxford as an institution leads to a particularly cringeworthy climax where Robin literally climbs on a table in a library to soapbox to the workers. In this way, I felt as if the internal intuition of the world of Babel is forgone for an attempt to impress the relevance of its main commentary to the modern world. It draws a sharp contrast to other similarly YA-targeted novels about dystopian rebellion, such as The Hunger Games, where commentary about disenfranchisement and power is both genre-appropriate and nuanced. 

All things considered, I wouldn’t have made a particular note of Babel if I hadn’t been moved by the novel overall despite its many flaws. Perhaps my experience would be further enhanced if I delved deeper into this literary subgenre about books about/through/upon language and language acquisition. I welcome recommendations. 

Thank you, C, for this recommendation. Eat shit, Half Price Books! 

Big Ideas (2024), Remi Wolf 

Remi was scheduled to appear at Fuji Rock Festival, at which I was also scheduled to appear, but on the shinkansen to Tokyo I took a nap and woke up to the news of her cancellation. The night before, I had danced around my apartment packing, doing odds and ends of laundry, and folding things at random, blasting Big Ideas on repeat, giddy with excitement. I put my head down on the tray table, tried to ignore my friends cooing over me in pity, and let myself be super bummed for about ten minutes. Then I picked myself up, accepted a canned beer, and got ready to enjoy myself. 

Fuji Rock was a blast, although it did have a tender Remi-shaped hole. I’m still obsessed with this album in the way that I think a lot of people felt about The Rise and Fall of Midwest Princess. There’s not a single low point, each track showing off a different element of artistry from gritty vocals to funky instrumentals. My favorite song is Frog Rock, who’s instrumental chorus of ribbits is familiar to a few weeks in late spring when the tiny green Japanese tree frogs sing unceasingly in the rice paddies. I enjoy how slightly nauseating the lyrics are, poking at that weird line between the ick and an amphibian. A few weeks ago, a Japanese tree frog spent a summer sabbatical living on my monstera on my balcony, and he was christened (for a few precious days) Wolf. 

On the last day of Fuji Rock, I bought a Remi Wolf T-shirt despite not seeing her. It was a consolation prize. I didn’t see a single person wearing the same one until Summer Sonic, where I was reeling from PinkPantheress’s cancellation instead. Save our girls! 

AAA Tour in Tokyo, Hyukoh and Sunset Rollercoaster 

If you know me, you already know how annoying I’ve been about this show. I like Hyukoh but I love Sunset Rollercoaster, and I was eager to see them again after catching the Infinity Sunset tour at the Howard Theater in 2022. I also fell hard for Hyukoh’s guitarist after seeing his other project band Bongjeingan as rookie guests at Fuji Rock. 

Through the course of the two and a half hour show, both bands run through the hits from their own discographies, covering each other’s parts and ad-libbing where necessary. It was a riot knowing what beats to expect but not exactly where, or in what style. They also play the entirety of the six track collaboration EP, including the dreamscapey Aaaaaannnnteeeennnnaaaa, mixed live. I found the visuals and stage setting to carry a sense of humor, a lot like the EP itself, while still being serious about the music. They’re all wearing these stupid hats that aren’t mentioned or acknowledged once, including a crocheted beard for the bassist, a brain beanie for Hyunjae, and a hat from the merch stand with added devil horns made from fake hair on Hyuk. Throughout the show, no one talks to the audience except for a handful of sentences and one or two odd jokes, which often have to be cued through the teleprompter. Kuokuo asks us to buy merch so that he has more money to spend at Matsuya. (I was in Taiwan this summer – I’m like 95% sure they have Matsuya there). After the encore, Haoting Facetimes Inwoo, Hyukoh’s drummer who doesn’t tour abroad for health reasons. He yells into the phone in English over the crowd. Kuokuo picks up an acoustic and starts playing Wonderwall. 

The first night, two extremely drunk girls behind me catcall Haoting, the saxophonist, all night. A white lady standing next to me studying East Asian history at Sophia University (lol) tries to strike up a conversation with me – she cracks a weird joke about mainland China within the first five minutes of our interaction. The second night, a woman next to me covers her face with the AAA vinyl or her hand the entire time, blushes hard whenever any of the members approach us, then records Hyuk with shaking hands during the encore. The moment I leave the venue, it stinks like menthols. In addition, the calling from the crowd to the stage covers just about every language base that I can manage: the bands speak in English, the songs are in Mandarin and Korean, the crowd yells in a mix of all three plus Japanese. I feel bizarrely attached to each word that I can pick up. You dropped this! I want to yell. But I got it! 

As of October, this EP is easily my favorite music project of the year. Long live Taiwan! 

Look Back (2024), Fujimoto Tatsuki 

 I watched Look Back in decidedly strange circumstances. I don’t usually find narratives about writers writing about writing to be compelling, but I walked away from Look Back certain this is his best work. 

Look Back is short, sweet, and emotionally demanding. It asks a lot of its audience in its runtime of just under an hour, and commands attunement to everything packed into its narrow frame, from the middle Japan setting, the familiar yet foreign school life vignettes, and the boisterous insistence of adolescent pride. Blink, and you’ll miss a moment rich in text and subtext, all pulling desperately towards the final cut of Fujino at her desk, pen tapping away at her illustration tablet. Despite the tragedy of the story, she's not more renewed, focused, or desperate than she was, at least not in a way that we can see. What is there to do after a fundamental shift in the world but to continue on? 

Look Back is titled in katakana, meaning that it doesn’t have a native Japanese title and takes English loanwords instead. I thought this was interesting to consider from a Japanese speaker’s perspective: while ‘look back’ in English conjures a distinct image of a person with their head turned to view what’s behind them, several scenes and themes of the film also reference ‘look back’ in a more linguistically roundabout way. In one of Kyomoto’s later four-panel mangas, she draws the scene in which Fujino, in superhero caricature, defeats the axe murderer at her college by crashing into him with a swift kick. The punchline arrives when she turns around, and the axe is sticking out of her back. We are again invited to ‘look (at her) back’, an interpretation allowed by the looser grammatical rules of Japanglish. It’s where the humor in tragedy is, twentytwenty in hindsight, what we can attain when we look back. In montage scenes of Fujino and Kyomoto running in the snow or parading around town, the former constantly looks back at the latter to symbolize their power dynamic and build to the eventual climatic argument, but again, a different interpretation of the title also invites us to put ourselves in Kyomoto’s shoes: she is look(ing) (at) Fujino’s back, always. Her ambition is not stunted by being a follower, it’s also provoked by being allowed to support someone whose work she admires. We again meet this emphasis on Kyomoto’s role as a lesser but not inferior match to Fujino’s artistry: she draws the backgrounds for every manga they publish, and goes to art school with the goal of improving her ability to do exactly that. Kyomoto only ever has the intention of supporting Fujino’s work: (a) look (at the) back(ground). 

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about look back (grammar rules ignored)  as a way of relating to others. The circular narrative laid out in Look Back seems to urge us to this conclusion despite its interruption, and asks us to hang our hopes on Fujino and Kyomoto reunited as more mature, fully realized adults in a partnership that may never be equal but will be mutual. For some, the rays of their partner are enough to eclipse personal ambition; the blessing of drifting in their orbit is a life well lived. This feels fundamentally incongruent to who I am as a person, but I have to ask if there is a world out there where I meet someone for whom it becomes possible for me to take a very, very happy passenger seat to their life. Am I looking for a partner who I can watch from the edges of the party? Or am I looking for someone who might join me there? 

(I swear I’m not intentionally trying to bring up Hadestown in a year-end review for the third year in a row, but it does fit nicely. Can we be assured that when we look back, what we are leading will still be there? Do I have the strength to be faithful that whatever I have turned away from will remain?) 

Even more, what do we do lieu of all these questions and uncertainties? I think we keep drawing. 

Honorable mentions (some media, some not, all very Textual to me) 

Taiwanese streetwear brand Goopi.co 

Working out twice in one day 

The salt melonpan from Pea Green Bakery 

The Acolyte Season 1  

Mugicha 

Meal consisting of canned corn, fried Spam, rice with furikake, and two sunny side up eggs 

Spiritfarer (2020) 

Costco membership

Mark - 200 

Password manager Chrome extension 

Conclusion

This year, I wrote about my 'best of' as they came to me throughout the year instead of waiting until writing this recap. I think this produced a list based much more on an emotional response to media than an assessment of their quality or artistic merit, which I may have (self-consciously) done in past years when selecting at time of writing. In this way, this year's recap feels a lot more genuine and a lot more vulnerable, despite containing some of my more unintentional or quick reads. I did consume a lot of excellent media this year which might be considered to have 'high' artistic value and I also had an emotional response to, but the thing about high art is that I'll always be scraping at the heels of someone smarter than myself. I feel like I can tell when an idea is present but escaping me. Perhaps that emotional response is my failure to put an idea into words, but to allow myself to process it in other ways.

Postscript: 2024 music recap

Festivals: 4

Concerts: 25

Best live set: AAA tour, never young beach 

Worst live set: Noname

2025 want to see: tofubeats, mass of the fermenting dregs, poison girlfriend, helsinki lambda club, pink pantheress, remi wolf, wave to earth, se so neon, deca joins, kendrick & sza, weyes blood, chappell roan, khruangbin

[biglisbonnews]

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10 Compelling Reasons Why You Need regal rose

™Melanie Slade is the female friend of Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott and the latest addition to the precise Footballers Wives reliable. She first met the England squad member external the store where she labored at West Quay shopping mall in Southampton. Melanie turned into outdoor with a basket in her hand while Walcott’s buddy introduced “the basket is for phone numbers”.

Cheeky Theo scribbled his mobile range on a scrap of paper and tossed it into Mels basket and his pal did the equal. The romance had begun and Melanie Slade and Theo Walcott have been an object ever for the reason that.

Walcott pointed out they're now not an ordinary “footballer couple” and may no longer enable the media consciousness influence them. He referred to: “We haven’t been to any footballer events in any respect. We’re now not individuals who prefer to celebration.”

Walcott has instructed the media he and Melanie made a guess as to who ought to go their using try first and Melanie gained, as Theo failed his first verify and Melanie passed hers at the primary time of asking.

There had been no laborious feelings on wasting the bet and Theo spent 20,000 on a white VW Beetle for Melanie, affectionately universal by way of as the ‘Love Bug’. Theo even registered the confidential quantity plate T4M symbolising ‘Theo for Melanie’ for his girlfriend.

Melanie shot into the media limelight while 17-12 months-vintage boyfriend Theo become a shock resolution for Englands 2006 FIFA World Cup squad however he had no longer featured in membership Arsenals Premiership crusade and supervisor Sven Goran-Eriksson hadnt visible him play.

Melanie has on account that turn into a organization tabloid commonplace and there was little surprise when in May, a main UK tabloid newspaper reportedly introduced her 160,000 for a topless image shoot. She approved the supply and regarded topless inside the newspaper regardless that she did keep her modesty by means of covering up along with her arms.

She is the usage of her new came upon repute to fortify the 2006 Race for Life event organised through Cancer Research UK but has additionally requested for privacy at the same time she revises for her tests.

Melanie is additionally the daughter of a now regionally noted man. Her father, John Slade, lately changed into the 784th mayor of Southampton at a ceremony on the metropolis’s Guild Hall.However, she missed the ceremony as she had jetted off to Portugal to enroll in Theos World Cup what to use instead of flower foam arrangements.

Melanie has spoke of she can not make any further judgements approximately the different media gives you she has obtained unless after the World Cup, even supposing she is likely to be a everlasting fixture in print and on display over the following twelve months.

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The Third Secret of Fatima: Prophecy, Faith, and Revelation

The Third Secret of Fatima has been a subject of intense curiosity and speculation within the Catholic Church and beyond. According to the accounts, the Virgin Mary imparted three secrets to three young shepherds in Fatima, Portugal, during a series of apparitions in 1917. The first two revelations were promptly disclosed, but the third one remained shrouded in mystery for several decades. This secrecy surrounding the third prophecy has fuelled numerous interpretations and theories, adding to the enduring fascination with this enigmatic piece of history. Many have sought to unravel the implications and significance of this undisclosed secret, contributing to an enduring legacy of interest and debate that continues to captivate the imagination of believers and non-believers alike. Many believers and scholars speculate about the contents of the third secret, with some claiming it predicted the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981. Others believe it contains warnings about the future of the Catholic Church and the world. The mysterious nature of the third secret has sparked numerous theories and discussions within the religious and academic communities. Some individuals suggest that the secret holds prophecies about significant global events, while others argue that it may offer insights into the spiritual challenges faced by the Church in modern times. The Vatican's decision to keep the secret confidential for many years has only added to the intrigue surrounding this enigmatic piece of history. The revelation of the third secret by the Vatican in 2000 marked a significant moment in the history of the Catholic Church. The secretive nature of the prophecy had sparked intense speculation and debate for decades, with numerous theories and interpretations circulating among both the clergy and the laity. The vision itself, depicting a bishop dressed in white accompanied by fellow clergy and laypeople, embarking on a harrowing journey through a war-torn city to a hill where they met a tragic end at the hands of soldiers, sent shockwaves through the Church and the world at large. The haunting and ominous nature of the vision prompted fervent discussions and raised profound questions about its potential significance and the implications it held for the future. This unprecedented revelation served as a catalyst for further analysis and reflection within the Church, igniting a renewed interest in the intricate relationship between prophecy, faith, and the tumultuous events of the world. The Third Secret of Fatima, entrusted to the three shepherd children in 1917, continues to be a source of fascination and debate among the faithful and scholars alike. This mysterious revelation, sealed by the Catholic Church for many years, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation. It has been interpreted in various ways, with some seeing it as a stark warning about the future and the potential consequences of humanity's actions, while others view it as a call to prayer, penance, and a renewal of faith. The enduring enigma surrounding the Third Secret has led to a wide range of opinions and theories, adding to its mystique and significance in the Catholic community and beyond. Regardless of one's interpretation, the Third Secret of Fatima serves as a reminder of the power of prophecy and the importance of faith in turbulent times. It is a call to heed the messages of the past and strive for a better future for all. Read the full article

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WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: DAVEY & JONESIE'S LOCKER (Amazon Prime Canada) DREAM SCENARIO (Paramount+ Canada) YOU'LL NEVER FIND ME (Shudder)

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CURLING (TSN) 1:00pm: BKT Tires World Women's Curling Championship: Canada vs. Scotland (TSN) 6:00pm: BKT Tires World Women's Curling Championship: Canada vs. South Korea

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 7:00pm: Hurricanes vs. Capitals (TSN3) 8:00pm: Ducks vs. Jets (SN) 10:00pm: Kraken vs. Coyotes

NBA BASKETBALL (SN1) 7:00pm: Thunder vs. Raptors (SN Now) 8:00pm: Cavaliers vs. Timberwolves (TSN4/TSN5) 7:30pm: Magic vs. Raptors (SN1) 10:00pm: Pacers vs. Warriors

FIGURE SKATING (CBC) 8:00pm

MILLION DOLLAR ISLAND (Discovery Canada) 8:00pm/9:30pm (SEASON FINALE): The wheel winner has to choose whether to play it safe or risk it all; one player faces making the ultimate sacrifice to save their friend from elimination. In Episode Two, 100 players started, only 7 remain. A last brutal challenge stands between the players and the dramatic Million Dollar endgame before the island delivers a grand final twist no-one was expecting.

THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF CHESHIRE (Slice) 8:00pm: The ladies land in Lisbon, Portugal, with their favorite girl, Tanya, but when one housewife cancels at the last minute, tensions build as the group speculates who's to blame.

RESTORING GALVESTON: THE INN (Magnolia Canada) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Michael and Ashley start construction on their 1912 inn, focusing on the exterior of the building to get it watertight and restored to its former glory; renovations include new paint, a custom front door and an awning wrapped in copper.

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT (Crave) 9:00pm: Two cops fall under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent when one involves an informant in a deadly scheme.

KING OF KILLERS (Crave) 10:30pm: Offered $10 million to eliminate the world's greatest assassin, a hit man travels to Tokyo to meet the client but soon discovers other professional killers have been invited as well.

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