Remembering the great Astrud Gilberto who was born this week in 1940. One of the most important figures of the bossa nova movement, she entered show business in 1963 through her husband at the time, guitarist and composer João Gilberto. They worked with Antonio Carlos Jobim on developing bossa nova, a musical style that combined Brazilian samba rhythms and jazz.
The sound interested American jazz musician Stan Getz, who invited the two men to record with him. One of the tracks, “The Girl from Ipanema,” required a vocalist who could sing in English. Astrud, musically inexperienced but conversant in Portuguese and English, tried the lyrics, and her soft, even voice and low-key style fit the song. “The Girl From Ipanema” earned a 1964 Grammy Award as record of the year, and Getz/Gilberto was honored as best album.
Here, she is performing “The Girl From Ipanema” with the Stan Getz Quartet live in 1964.
China is going from door-to-door to install QR codes on citizens' homes. So everyone can instantly check the homeowners' social credit score by scanning this QR code.
This is dangerous — it encourages people to treat their neighbors with low social credit scores as sub-human.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. That is an idiom commonly used and is now proven by the residents of Woodsville, in Hanover eastern, a deep-rural community that also falls in the Hopewell division in the Hanover Municipal Corporation.
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@_Vxlentino__ There’s a reason for those white lines with the bumps running across the road. Ochi hgwy is a blessing, not the roads fault some ppl drive while sitting on their brains.
The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association is urging Jamaicans to stop eating parrot fish, arguing that an abstention would help in saving the environment and prevent flooding.
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Breaking News: Japan bans mRNA Covid shots
Japan has just banned Covid mRNA shots for public use and called on other nations to follow suit after an official government study tied the injections to the nation’s soaring sudden deaths.
Like many other countries around the world, Japan has been battling a crisis of skyrocketing sudden and unexpected deaths since 2021.
The issue has become so dire in Japan that the country is now facing population collapse as more citizens are dying than are being born.
New studies in Japan have now linked the soaring deaths to Covid injections.
Many governments including Canada, the United States and the UK have all tried to censor and avoid discussion of the growing Excess Deaths and reported vaccine injuries but leaders like British PM Rishi Sunak have refused to investigate and insisted that the vaccines are safe and effective.
Of course Mr Sunak invested $500 million dollars of his personal fortune into Moderna and also awarded them 1 billion of taxpayers money to set up further interests in the UK thereby using his position as Prime Minister to enrich himself.
However their dam of lies is starting to break.
Lets hope criminal prosecutions follow.
#Sunak #Moderna
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🇷🇺 From RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan
💬 "We already know the names of the perpetrators. We have seen their faces and know what they are saying during interrogations. (We are not publishing to avoid disrupting the investigation.)
And immediately it becomes clear why yesterday American media were shouting in unison that it was ISIS.
Because it's not ISIS. The perpetrators are simply chosen to convince the gullible global public that it is ISIS.
It's a simple sleight of hand. The level of a street corner shell game.
So here's the thing. It's not ISIS at all. It's Ukrainians. And the fact that even before the arrests, before the perpetrators' faces and names were known, Western intelligence agencies began to persuade the population that it was ISIS—that's what ignited the fire under this thief's hat.
It's not ISIS.
It's a well-coordinated team from several other, also widely known, abbreviations."