But-but... think of the children.
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Quote:Former Brazilian congresswoman guilty of ordering husband’s murder
Celebrity gospel singer Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, famous for her 55 children, given 50-year jail sentence

'A former Brazilian congresswoman has been found guilty of ordering the murder of her preacher husband and sentenced
to 50 years and 28 days in prison, bringing an end to one of the most sensational crimes in recent Brazilian history.

The celebrity gospel singer Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, known as Flordelis, was also found guilty on Sunday of associated
crimes, including unsuccessfully attempting to poison Anderson do Carmo with cyanide at least six times before giving up and arranging his killing.


Flordelis dos Santos de Souza will now sing like a jailbird.

Do Carmo, 42, was shot multiple times in June 2019 as he returned to the gated home they shared with their dozens of children –both biological and adopted – just outside Rio de Janeiro.

Flordelis’s son Flávio was sentenced to 33 years in jail last year for pulling the trigger and his adopted brother Lucas Cezar
received seven years for helping buy the murder weapon, a sentence reduced because he collaborated with police. Four others, including one biological son and another adopted son, were given prison sentences earlier this year in a case that
–with its mix of religion, celebrity and politics –made headlines around the world.

In last week’s trial, Flordelis’s lawyers argued she had no knowledge of the crime carried out by people who wanted to protect her from alleged sexual and physical abuse perpetrated by the evangelical preacher. A judge rejected those arguments and said she was the intellectual author of the crime made to look like a robbery gone wrong.

Flordelis ordered the killing “because the victim kept a strict control of the family finances and administered conflicts rigidly, refusing to give preferential treatment to the ex-lawmaker’s closest [friends] in detriment to other members of the family,” the court said. Flordelis’s co-defendant, her daughter Simone Rodrigues, was sentenced to 31 years, four months and 20 days for her part in the attempted murders of Do Carmo. Two of Flordelis’s other children and a granddaughter were acquitted of murder and attempted
murder.

Flordelis, 61, was born and raised in Jacarezinho, a sprawling Rio favela where she began her singing career in the 1990s and met Do Carmo, who was 16 years her junior, when he was in his early teens. The couple went on to found a church together –the Ministry of Flordelis –and became famous for their huge family with 55 children, most of them adopted.

Thousands of people frequented the empire of nine churches where Flordelis sang, and she appeared on television as an example of a devoted mother. She parlayed that fame into a congressional seat in 2018, winning more votes than any other candidate in Rio and joining the new government of the then far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. But investigators said that soon after taking her seat she began plotting Do Carmo’s removal. She was stripped of her parliamentary immunity in June 2021, paving the way for her trial...'

To post full size images or gifs without having to use the attachments, you might want to use a third party image server.

This is what I do to post images and gifs in threads or posts. I use IMGUR but they now ask for a phone number when you register and some peeps aren't at ease with that request.

As an alternative, I've installed a link at the very bottom of the index/home page for a third party image hosting server:





Freeimage is free, easy to register to and here is a little tutorial on how it works with our MyBB platform:

1 - Save your image or gif to your desktop so that it's easy to find.

2 - Then you can either drag and drop your image or gif OR you can click on the start uploading button.

3 - Now that you can see your image or gif, just click upload:





Your picture has now been uploaded and this is what you should see now:





In the Embed codes dropdown menu, select BBCode full, as shown here:





Now when you hover over the box underneath BBCode full, a copy button will appear:





Click on the copy button and you are now ready to paste that image in a thread or a post.

I use ( ctrl v ) Or Control V to paste it. Now you image shows up, like this:






Same goes for a gif, like this:




Once you get used to it, it's very repetitive in action so it becomes quick and easy.


Try it... use this thread as a test thread. 

It's fun to see full images or gifs instead of little attachments.

Enjoy !!

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Can someone, please, accurately post the steps required to effect a password change on this site?


Edit to add: Procedure below...

Hey fellow Rogues,

When you see this banner on top:



It means that I've switched the theme to our Dummy Theme - which is a theme where I test lines of codes and changes before applying them on the Volare theme. It's a safe net, of sorts.
 
The site works just as well under the Dummy theme so you can continue on what you were doing while I'm playing   I mean screwing things up I mean fixing things in the background...

Sol.

Testing 1-2-3!
Waaaaaasuuuuupppp???

New site flows smooth as light thus far.





Youtube test

Hey there,

Here are a few tips on finding stuff - and this place is filled with stuff - but I'll show you the main ones for now..

1 - When you click on your username on the top right corner, you will get this:



This is where you get to your UserCP, or directly change your avatar (maximum dimensions are 150px X 150px), change your signature, see if you have alerts (white means no, red means yes and then clicking on it will get a window to pop up) and finally, one of the places where you can log out.

2 - Home



This is where you will find the Shoutbox and Recent Threads.

3 - Portal



The Portal is where - on your right hand side - you will find New Posts, Today's Posts and if you got any PMs but trust me, if you get a PM, you won't miss it LOL

New Posts - Today's Posts and PMs:



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If you are on mobile (cell phone or tablet) and are getting an authorization code mismatch while trying to log in..

Go to the Portal - on Cell & Tablets, that would be the second icon from the left, beside the Home icon.

Logging in there will let you in.

This isn't a site issue, it's a platform issue which will be resolved in the next upgrade.

RN Management.

This is in case you have questions and can't log in..

Or if you want to inquire about something without logging in..

Or if you want to have an idea of what the Forum looks like..

RN Management.

It's funny how I discover stuff by mistake, meaning I'm not actually looking for that but then I go "Hey...now, that's cool !!!"

Exactly how I found THIS feature.

To see ALL threads, hover over the Recent Threads on the index page, like this:




It says 'Show More Threads'... now click on   ~ Recent Threads ~


BAM !!!!


What do I have a feeling that there is a LOT of thingies like this that we're not even aware of...

Marc.