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dan since you dropped todo em superdimesao i've been looping menina mulher da pele preta nonstop. any recommendations for songs that sound kind of similar?

hi kinnn 🫶🏼 the song you liked is by jorge ben jor so obviously id rec the full album ‘tabua de esmeralda’ and ‘samba esquema novo’ too. jorge ben is very quirky musically and he mixes a bunch of stuff like jazz/rock/bossa nova as well as samba subgenres. always very hearty and funny stuff very happy sounding. but im assuming u mean by other artists so here are some that i think match it rhythm/theme wise:

esse crioulo por voce se fez poeta - bebeto

desafinado - joao gilberto

flor do cerrado - gal costa

samba e amor - chico buarque

also some that dont sound exactly like it but i think if u liked that u would like these:

disfarça e chora - cartola

esperanças perdidas - originais do samba

16 toneladas - noriel vilela

pago pra ver - roberta sá e zeca pagodinho

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Discovering the Charms of Cuenca: A Guide to Ecuador Tours and Cuenca Tour Packages

Introduction:

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Steve Hely, writer for The Office and American Dad , and recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, presents a travel book about his journey through Central and South America. Part travel book, part pop history, part comic memoir, Hely's writing will make readers want to reach for their backpack and hiking boots. The Wonder Trail is the story of a trip from Los Angeles to the bottom of South America, presented in 102 short chapters. From Mexico City to Oaxaca; into ancient Mayan ruins; the jungles, coffee plantations, and remote beaches of Central America; across the Panama Canal; by sea to Colombia; to the wild Easter celebration of Popay n; to the Amazon rainforest; the Inca sites of Cuzco and Machu Picchu; to the Gal pagos Islands; the Atacama Desert of Chile; and down to wind-worn Patagonia at the bottom of the Western Hemisphere; Steve traveled collecting stories, adventures, oddities, marvels, bits of history and biography, tales of weirdos, fun facts, and anything else interesting or illuminating. Steve's plan was to discover the unusual, wonderful, and absurd in Central and South America, to seek and find the incredible, delightful people and experiences that came his way. And the book that resulted is just as fun. A blend of travel writing, history, and comic memoir, The Wonder Trail will inspire, inform, and delight.

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A deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Gal?pagos?days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It's all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana's dream vacation goes awry. The whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely

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Fim da falácia: 10 esquemas de corrupção durante a ditadura militar

Por mais que muitos acreditem que não houve corrupção durante o regime, é sabido que o período foi caracterizado por propinas e desvios de verba.

1. Contrabando na Polícia do Exército

Na década de 1970, a baixa patente do 2º Batalhão da Polícia do Exército – ou seja, cabos, capitães e sargentos do Rio de Janeiro – se envolveram no contrabando carioca. Produtos como roupas de luxo, perfumes e bebidas eram roubadas, inclusive de outros contrabandistas, e revendidos na cidade. Nomes relevantes do combate à guerrilha, como Aílton Guimarães Jorge, estavam envolvidos com o esquema.

Ao mesmo tempo, os policiais controlavam e tiravam proveito das relações de troca ilegais pela cidade, intermediando negócios ocultos. Com o tempo, esse esquema foi descoberto pela SNI, que os prendeu e os torturou, mesmo que no final eles fossem inocentados. Muitos largaram o exército e foram para outras áreas, como o capitão Guimarães, que se tornou o maior articulador do Jogo do Bicho no Rio de Janeiro.

2. Governadores biônicos

No governo Médici, uma avaliação feita pela SNI determinou os indicados do presidente para os governos dos estados. Ou seja, eram conhecidas as características e o passado desses pol��ticos. Porém, muitos deles roubaram dinheiro público com o conhecimento do Governo Federal.

É o caso de Antônio Carlos Magalhães, na Bahia, que foi acusado em 1972 de ter beneficiado uma empresa do qual ele era acionista. No Paraná, Haroldo Leon Peres extorquiu um empreiteiro em mais de 1 milhão de dólares.

3. Sergio Paranhos Fleury

O delegado de São Paulo é um dos maiores torturadores e nomes da repressão policial da Ditadura. Porém, segundo o Ministério Público Federal, o policial também esteve envolvido com tráfico de drogas e grupos de extermínio, além de liderar o Esquadrão da Morte e servir como protetor do traficante José Iglesias.

Em 1968, por exemplo, ele fuzilou o traficante rival de Juca, Domiciano Antunes Filho (Luciano). Nessa operação, foi encontrada uma caderneta com anotações referentes a propinas que ocorriam entre policiais, detetives, políticos e traficantes.

Dentro da estrutura política da repressão, casos de tortura e pressão política fizeram com que depoimentos e denúncias fossem retirados, além da própria interrupção de investigação do caso Fleury pelo MP. “Esqueçam tudo, não se metam em mais nada. Existem olheiros em toda parte, nos fiscalizando. Nossos telefones estão censurados” alertou, em 1973, o procurador-geral Oscar Xavier.

Fleury morreu antes de encerradas as investigações, mas já vinha sendo agraciado com mudanças arbitrárias no Código Penal, que foi reescrito em favor dos réus primários como o delegado. De qualquer forma, era sabido que Fleury era corrupto: uma vez, o gal. Golbery do Couto e Silva colocou “Esse é um bandido. Agora, prestou serviços e sabe muita coisa”.

4. Caso Lutfalla

Desde cedo, Paulo Maluf esteve envolvido em esquemas de corrupção. Antes mesmo de assumir o estado, já fora acusado no caso da empresa Lutfalla, pertencente a sua esposa, que recebeu dinheiro ilegalmente do Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento. O caso envolveu um ministro do governo (Reis Velloso, da pasta do Planeamento), mas ninguém foi punido.

5. Mordomias com dinheiro público

Durante o processo de abertura, os jornais brasileiros começaram a pressionar o regime com suas maiores liberdades, mesmo com o advento da censura. Um desses casos é o da reportagem de Ricardo Kotscho, que denunciou o mau uso do dinheiro público pelo governo, que oferecia mordomias e luxos para ministros e secretários enquanto o povo passava fome. Havia casos de piscinas financiadas por dinheiro do contribuinte, assim como grandes banquetes.

Ao mesmo tempo, os governantes possuíam exclusividades antirrepublicanas: filmes proibidos eram exibidos nas casas dos servidores, aviões das Forças Armadas faziam translados oficiais, ministros possuíam casas de campo onde passavam mais tempo que no próprio gabinete.

Os generais de exército (quatro estrelas) possuíam dois carros, três empregados e casa decorada. As regalias eram diversas. E, pior, militares de baixa patente eram foçados a prestar servidores domésticos para seus superiores.

6. Camargo Corrêa

Um dos nomes mais denunciados por corrupção durante a ditadura foi o Ministro Delfim Netto, que participou da maioria dos governos do período. A primeira denúncia contra o economista ocorreu em 1974, quando foi acusado por Figueiredo, do SNI, de beneficiar a Camargo Corrêa – que já estava na estrada naquela época – na licitação para a construção da hidrelétrica de Água Vermelha, Minas Gerais.

Como embaixador na França, foi acusado por Jacques de la Broissia de ter prejudicado ilegalmente o banco Crédit Commercial de France. Isso porque haveria uma intriga com a instituição, que se recusou a pagar 60 milhões de dólares para contribuir com a construção da hidrelétrica de Tucuruí pela Camargo Corrêa.

7. General Electric

Em um processo do Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica, em 1976, o presidente da General Electric no Brasil, Gerald Thomas Smilley declarou ter pago comissões para funcionários públicos durante a venda de trens para a Rede Ferroviária Federal. O caso foi reportado pela Folha de São Paulo.

Segundo a investigação, a Junta Militar que assumiu com a morte de Costa e Silva aprovara um decreto que destinava fundos especiais para a empresa, na compra de 180 locomotivas, e que a direção da empresa incluía o irmão do presidente.

8. Dossiê Baumgarten

Em 1982, o jornalista da SNI Alexandre von Baumgarten denunciou o general Newton Cruz, que estaria planejando sua morte por ordens da própria instituição. Pouco tempo depois, o jornalista foi encontrado morto. Segundo o dossiê, Baumgarten era alvo por seu conhecimento em relação a um esquema de corrupção existente entre o gal. Cruz e a Agropecuarista Capemi, uma empresa de proprietários militares.

A empresa teria sido contratada para comercializar a madeira daquela que seria a barragem de Tucuruí e as negociações teriam envolvido um desvio de verba de pelo menos 10 milhões de dólares, em benefício dos agentes da SNI. Newton Cruz foi inocentado.

9. Caso Coroa-Brastel

A terceira acusação contra Delfim Netto envolve um esquema de corrupção envolvendo o Ministério do Planejamento e o da Fazenda durante governo Figueiredo. Segundo a denúncia do procurador José Paulo Sepúlveda Pertence, houve desvio de verba pública no processo de empréstimo da Caixa Econômica Federal a Assis Paim, proprietário do grupo Coroa-Brastel. O ministro Ernane Galvêas foi inocentado e Delfim sequer foi investigado.

10. Grupo Delfin

Em 1982, a Folha de São Paulo denunciou o Grupo de crédito imobiliário Delfin, que teria sido beneficiado pelo Banco Nacional de Habitação ao receber 70 bilhões de cruzeiros para abater parte da dívida que a empresa tinha com o banco público. Isso teria envolvido um lucro ilícito de mais de 60 bilhões. A empresa entrou em falência pouco tempo depois, pois ficou descreditada pelos clientes.

Saiba mais sobre o Regime Militar por essas obras:

1964: História do Regime Militar Brasileiro, de Marcos Napolitano

 Ditadura Envergonhada, de Elio Gaspari.

A ditadura militar e a longa noite dos generais: 1970-1985, de Carlos Chagas.

Tanques e togas: O STF e a ditadura militar, de Felipe Recondo. 

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Moon Gal?pagos Islands - Lisa Cho

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Lonesome George, a Pinta giant tortoise, and the last of his kind at the Charles Darwin Research Station in Santa Cruz, Galapagos on Feb. 28, 2009.Melanie Stetson Freeman / The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images file

Excerpt from this story from NBC News:

Famed Galápagos tortoise Lonesome George’s subspecies might not be extinct after all — researchers are calling the discovery of a surviving female relative “a story of hope” that the giant creature’s legacy lives on.

When Lonesome George, the last known specimen of his kind who was estimated to be more than 100 years old, died in 2012, it marked the extinction of his Chelonoidis abingdonii subspecies.

But now, conservationists working on Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands have discovered a young female tortoise that is partially related to Lonesome George.

Researchers at the Galapagos Conservancy Inc., a nonprofit organization headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, announced that the female tortoise is a direct descendant of the same species from Pinta Island as Lonesome George. The female specimen was found during a recent 10-day expedition to Wolf Volcano, a 5,600 foot tall peak on Isabela Island.

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Noticias sobre las recientes corruptelas (17/8/2020)

Caso Covid19

Andalucía somete su gestión del covid a una auditoría externa para enfrentar el otoño

Cientos de personas se manifiestan en Colón contra el uso de mascarilla: "Este virus no existe"

Correos gasta otros 7 millones en EPIs pero evita dar explicaciones al PP

Delegación del Gobierno en Madrid investigará la manifestación negacionista

Los empresarios alertan al Gobierno: "No se ha hecho nada para protegernos de esta segunda ola"

RadarCOVID ya está lista pero la burocracia le impide arrancar cuando más falta hace

Sanidad sufre una avalancha de dudas sobre su concurso de 2.131 millones en material

Sanidad toma las riendas sin oposición ante el miedo al colapso en septiembre y la disparidad de medidas autonómicas

"Ya estamos peor que a principios de marzo": la presión crece en varios hospitales de Madrid que temen un septiembre crítico

Caso Memoria histórica

La Audiencia de Barcelona archiva la querella contra el juez que sentenció a Puig Antich

Caso GAL

El Gobierno se niega a considerar los crímenes del GAL como terrorismo de Estado

Caso Podemos

Calvente, al juez, sobre las cuentas de Podemos: "Son comentarios y rumorología a nivel de militancia"

Calvente declara que el exgerente de Podemos le alertó de los contratos "falsos"

Calvente incluyó en su denuncia documentos que revelan la simulación de un contrato

Calvente insiste en la corrupción de Podemos: "No estamos ante Gürtel o Filesa. Mucho peor"

De la 'caja B' a las obras de la sede: la defensa de Podemos prepara sus pruebas

El abogado Calvente denuncia que Podemos firmó "contratos ficticios" con un "testaferro"

El juez de la caja B de Podemos investiga a Monedero por un presunto cobro de comisiones

El juez investiga si Mayoral ordenó un pago de 50.000 euros a cargo de la caja B

El juez rastrea los contratos de Podemos con la cooperativa fundada por Rafael Mayoral

La reforma de la sede de Podemos, también investigada

Los 40 documentos aportados por Calvente para apoyar su denuncia contra Podemos

Podemos 'cabalga contradicciones': de la ley de protección al denunciante a pedir cárcel para Calvente

Podemos infló hasta un 315% la reforma de su sede y simuló la licitación de las obras

Podemos pide la nulidad de la declaración que prestó su exabogado y de las imputaciones de tres de sus dirigentes

Un experto fiscal es el único administrador de Neurona, la consultora clave de la investigación a Podemos

Caso Pujol

Los Pujol niegan el delito de organización criminal y piden el archivo de la causa

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Two-faced Woman

Although one image of Joan Crawford has persisted in the cultural memory—a hard woman on the edge of hysteria, with caterpillar eyebrows, big shoulders, and burning eyes—in fact she remade her image many times, perhaps more times than any other star. At MGM in the late 1920s, she was photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise in a dazzling array of personas, almost as though she were auditioning to be a female Lon Chaney—the woman of a thousand faces. It was with George Hurrell, Louise’s successor as chief MGM photographer,that Crawford would define her archetypal look of bold, hard-edged glamour. In the earlier pictures, she hasn’t settled on an identity, and she’s so young there’s still baby fat in her cheeks. In some portraits, with her fresh face and short bob and sporty clothes, she is the twenties’ ideal of the boyish woman. Modeling fur coats, she is a shop girl on the make, eyes uplifted in hungry aspiration. In a black wig, with a handkerchief to her mouth, she tries out the tearful appeal of a wronged maiden. Swathed in a bizarre gold-lamé cowl, with her lips lacquered and her huge, luminous eyes fixed on the camera, she’s an exotic temptress. Gazing up lovingly at Robert Montgomery in a still for Untamed (1929), she’s the girl next door. She did cheesecake photos, but she also appeared as Hamlet in a pose and costume imitating John Barrymore. It’s an extraordinary picture, gorgeous and glowering and—if you look too long at her fierce, dark-rimmed eyes—rather alarming. There’s no Hamlet-like doubt or introspection in them, only implacable will.

This burning drive was always at the heart of Crawford’s screen presence; but throughout her career, the peculiar instability of her identity remained as well. If Barbara Stanwyck was driven by the determination, as she said, to “be the best of all,” Crawford’s drive seems more like a dogged, unappeasable need for approval and acceptance. She could play tough and hard, but it always feels like a brittle shell, as mannered as the refined hauteur she wears in other roles. Underneath is a strange blend of fiendish energy and quivering need. Even in her later roles, when her looks have become harsh, her face can open up in a soft, glowing plea, so naked it’s uncomfortable to watch.

One of the earliest and most interesting demonstrations of Crawford’s duality comes in Rain (1932). (In the silent flapper roles that made her a star, Crawford is radiantly confident and spontaneous in a way she would never quite be again.) This was the second of three Hollywood adaptations of Somerset Maugham’s play, which is also memorably alluded to in Scarface, when Tony Camonte takes his boys to improve their minds at the theater. The play is a scathing attack on missionaries, whose prudishness, sanctimony, and hypocrisy are contrasted with the natural sensuality of life on the tropical island of Pago Pago, and with the compassionate tolerance of disreputable Americans like Sadie Thompson (Crawford), her marine sergeant beau O’Hara (William Gargan), and the philosophical store-keeper Mr. Horn (Guy Kibbee). There is nothing fundamentally implausible about the play’s premise, in which the domineering missionary Alfred Davidson converts Sadie, a loose woman with a shady past, and then succumbs to his own lust for her. But as written, and more importantly as played in the 1932 film, the story comes across as something much stranger and more disturbing.

The problem is that Davidson, as played by Walter Huston, is so hateful, so gratingly smug, spiteful, and bullying, that it’s impossible to believe he could convert anyone. Every one of the sympathetic characters sees through him immediately and despises him. He mercilessly persecutes Sadie, coercing the local governor into deporting her back to San Francisco, where she is wanted for a crime she says she did not commit. Sadie lashes out at him furiously—and then abruptly, as though her brain has just snapped, she falls under his spell, reciting the Lord’s Prayer in a robotic, hypnotized voice. Crawford plays the converted Sadie as brainwashed, doped, pathetically clinging to the man who insists that she must be punished, even unjustly, in order to be saved. When she gazes upward with blurry eyes and intones, “I must be punished,” it becomes shockingly clear that this relationship has nothing to with religion; Crawford is playing Sadie as a masochist who gains a sense of worth through submission to a man who breaks her spirit, then grants her fulsome praise and loving approval once she is his slave. This is not a case of spiritual fervor as a substitute for sex; on the contrary. Sadie is a sometime prostitute for whom sex is just a fact of life; she is emotionally enslaved to Davidson because she believes he is a “holy man” who can cleanse her of sin, whose love for her is pure, and this bondage is only broken when he reveals himself to be just like other men. (It’s never clear in the film what exactly happens when Davidson comes to Sadie’s room—whether he rapes her or only attempts to.) By this daring move, Crawford makes some sense of a script that is otherwise unconvincing and overly schematic.

She is much more successful in this radical transformation than she is in playing Sadie Thompson as she first appears—a vulgar, earthy, good-hearted good-time gal. It’s a part Joan Blondell could have played with perfect ease and natural sympathy, while conveying the kind of secret shame and regret that might lead a woman like Sadie to be vulnerable to a soul-saver. Crawford is anything but easy in the role; her slangy, red-hot-mama act is as caricatured as her look, with so much makeup caked on her face that it’s almost a clown mask. The artificiality is not entirely wrong, since Sadie has clearly developed this persona as her way of getting by, and her forced gaiety and defiant brassiness are put on like her cheap bangles and black fishnets. She’s all nervous energy, constantly fidgeting and fiddling with her clothes and fretting about the constant pounding rain.

Director Lewis Milestone combats the staginess of a filmed play with lyrical, scene-setting shots of raindrops falling on sand and palm fronds and water; and with fluid camera movements that circle around the characters. But it is Crawford’s performance of Sadie’s conversion that makes the movie more than just an artfully crafted but flawed and heavy-handed message drama. Her transcendent and pitiful submission would reappear in future films like Possessed (1947), Sudden Fear (1952), Female on the Beach (1955), and Mildred Pierce (1945), which represents the apotheosis of her double nature: a strong and self-reliant woman martyred by abject, obsessive love.

by Imogen Sara Smith