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Karolina Saluk – aka Karolina Shiino or Caroline Shiino – made news recently when she won the ‘Miss Nippon 2024’/’Miss Japan 2024’ contest as the first ethnically non-Japanese person to win said contest. (1) To quote Zeba Khan at WION: ‘Carolina is a 26-year-old model who was born in Ukraine. She moved to Japan at the age of five and was raised in Nagoya. She is the first naturalised Japanese citizen to win the pageant.

A couple of days ago, Sony brought us Madame Web, their latest installment in their very own Sony-Verse of Spider-Man movies that don’t actually contain Spider-Man. There have been successes; the Venom and Spider-Verse movies have been well received. There have been failures; Morbius was not well received. And there are movies yet to arrive; the third Venom film and Kraven the Hunter film both arrive later this year. In many ways, Madame Web stands apart from the other Sony-Verse non-Spider-Man movies.

Matt Walsh claims to be a “Christian.” Theoretically, that is supposed to mean someone who seeks to model their life after Jesus Christ and/ or follow his teachings. Yet, Jesus himself said that many people would try and claim to be his disciples, but were in fact what he called “false prophets” or “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

The election of Michael Johnson as speaker of the US Congress ended the - let’s call it - clown show of US Republicans trying to elect a speaker. Johnson is of course a conservative Christian, a Southern Baptist, who takes the Bible very seriously. He professes adherence to a biblical worldview, holds to a literal six-day creation, and affirms a traditional view of marriage and family. Accordingly, there’s been a lot of concern about Mike Johnson as the epitome of Christian Nationalism a view which might now be second in line to the US presidency.

My relationship with my husband has been like a slow boil, getting steadily and progressively worse over many years. Early in our relationship, he was so kind and loving. Everything was perfect. We never even argued. But now, he’s mean to me, speaks negatively about my family, insults my body, and becomes threatening and aggressive when angry, but has never hit me. I’ve been trying to convince him to go to couples therapy, but he so far refuses.

There was a surprise new contender for Prince George’s secondary school destination this month, in the form of Oundle public school. This co-ed boarding school dates back to the 16th century and sits in the middle of Oundle, a market town in Northamptonshire. Whether the prince goes there or not, the spotlight will help put Oundle on the map. It’s somewhere I know very well, as like my previous travel story on nearby Stamford, Lincolnshire, Oundle is close to where I grew up and somewhere my family used to visit often, to go boating along the River Nene, from Oundle Marina.

Get 60 day free trial By now I assume the wise readers of “Words for the Wise” will be aware that comedian and actor Russell Brand has been accused by four women of rape, sexual assault, and related abuses. The allegations were reported after an investigation by The Sunday Times, Times of London, and Channel 4 Dispatches. These publications tend to be behind paywalls, but the details have been repeated by a number of other outlets, including The Guardian, The Independent, and the New York Post.

There’s something about the way the footage of this match drops you into the brief moment before Sangre Chicana makes his entrance. MS-1, hair perfectly coifed, meets Arena Mexico’s fevered chants of “CHICANA! CHICANA!” defiantly, beating his chest and talking shit the whole time. He and Chicana have been at this for awhile now, spilling each other’s blood over the course of several months, pushing the limits of acceptable brutality within an EMLL ring, never coming close to figuring out who the better man was.

Scooter Braun’s first crack at becoming a billionaire came nearly two decades ago. Working as a twentysomething party promoter in Atlanta, he happened upon a promising social network and emailed the founder about investing. Mark Zuckerberg apparently expressed some interest, but decided Facebook didn’t need the extra cash, and moved forward without a ch… ncG1vNJzZmiyn5yvrbvGZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZLa0edKcpqislad6o77ArqVmmV2Xtq24yKilmqGimg%3D%3D