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Naiamara dos Santos (left) helps her daughter, Pamela Oliveira Cordeleiro, 2, off the family's motorboat to visit doctors aboard the John Wesley medical boat that has pulled ashore in the Jacaré indigenous community near Autazes, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
A child waits her turn to see a doctor during a free medical clinic in Murutinga, Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
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A boy turns a back flip along the banks of the Amazon River near Murutinga, Brazil. The boat in the background is for carrying livestock. Brazil. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
Sunrise along the Javari river in the Amazon region in Peru, near the Brazil/Colombia border.
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The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poem of Frederic Mistral.
Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology. The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poetry of Frederic Mistral. Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology.
Mireille is also an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio. Gounod was charmed by the originality of the work, the story being much less contrived than many of those on the operatic stage at the time. During the course of composition Gounod spent much time in Provence (12 March to the end of May 1863), visiting the sites of the action in the poem/opera, and met Mistral on several occasions at his home in Maillane. Gounod stayed at the Hôtel de la Ville Vert in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and was treated to a banquet by the townspeople on May 26. Presenting class differences in a rural setting was not usual at the time, and as Huebner comments "some early reviewers had difficulty accepting that a 'mere' country girl could sing a heroic aria such as "En marche". It has been argued that "what matters in this extended lyric poem is not the story but the rich tapestry or Provençal traditions, beliefs and customs"
The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poem of Frederic Mistral.
Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology. The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poetry of Frederic Mistral. Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology.
Mireille is also an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio. Gounod was charmed by the originality of the work, the story being much less contrived than many of those on the operatic stage at the time. During the course of composition Gounod spent much time in Provence (12 March to the end of May 1863), visiting the sites of the action in the poem/opera, and met Mistral on several occasions at his home in Maillane. Gounod stayed at the Hôtel de la Ville Vert in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and was treated to a banquet by the townspeople on May 26. Presenting class differences in a rural setting was not usual at the time, and as Huebner comments "some early reviewers had difficulty accepting that a 'mere' country girl could sing a heroic aria such as "En marche". It has been argued that "what matters in this extended lyric poem is not the story but the rich tapestry or Provençal traditions, beliefs and customs"
Our Amazonian mestizo guide Frederico partaking in the catching of piranhas in the Amazon Rainforest on the Rio Negro .
Wow: simply look at it, you don't need statistics or studies. This is about 4500 sq mi of Amazon rainforest from 1975 through 2008, destroyed. Google Earth will let you zoom in and pan around to see even more. This just makes me sad!
Thanks to Google (http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/03/look-back-in-time.html) for pointing it out.
The amazons captured a man slave!
L to R back row - Ember Farina, Zia Devoix, Keres Bitkin
Front - Sabastian Westland
(Isn't amazing what friends will do when we get together?)
May '08
The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poem of Frederic Mistral.
Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology. The "Amazones de la Confrérie des Gardians" perform a carousel in the Roman Arena of Arles, France. This is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mireille, the famous poetry of Frederic Mistral. Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830?March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. He was a key figure in the literary félibrige movement. He shared the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 for his contributions in literature and philology.
Mireille is also an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Michel Carré after Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio. Gounod was charmed by the originality of the work, the story being much less contrived than many of those on the operatic stage at the time. During the course of composition Gounod spent much time in Provence (12 March to the end of May 1863), visiting the sites of the action in the poem/opera, and met Mistral on several occasions at his home in Maillane. Gounod stayed at the Hôtel de la Ville Vert in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and was treated to a banquet by the townspeople on May 26. Presenting class differences in a rural setting was not usual at the time, and as Huebner comments "some early reviewers had difficulty accepting that a 'mere' country girl could sing a heroic aria such as "En marche". It has been argued that "what matters in this extended lyric poem is not the story but the rich tapestry or Provençal traditions, beliefs and customs"
Friends walk arm in arm through Murutinga, Brazil, after visiting a medical clinic offered by the Methodist Church of Brazil and the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church. The team was based on the John Wesley medical boat and traveled the Amazon and its tributaries to provide care in indigenous communities. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS.
Me, my family and some friends went to Amazon and some other parts of Brasil for 2 weeks. We visited a tribe in the Amazon and I drew this plant they grew there, they smashed the seeds inside and made ink to paint their bodies.
A burned and fragmented forest in the Brazilian Amazon. A collaboration led by an Oregon State University College of Forestry researcher has used very-high-resolution satellite imagery to develop a machine learning model that aims to improve climate scientists’ ability to estimate carbon stocks in the Amazon. The new VHR-based model considers forest degradation caused by fire and selective logging as well as the degradation’s effect on carbon storage.
Amazon plans to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as Thursday, according to several people briefed on its plans.
The new feature, which has been rumored in the music industry for months, will give subscribers to Amazon’s Prime service access to thousands of songs free and without interruptions from advertising. But it will omit most new releases, and will not include the catalog of the Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Amazon, already one of the biggest retailers of music downloads, is adding the streaming feature as a sweetener for its Prime customers, whose annual subscription fee was recently raised to $99 from $79. Prime subscribers get free shipping on orders and other perks like free access to some movies and television shows. The new music feature will offer a wide but limited selection of titles, and for the most part will not include current hits.
An Amazon spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief of Amazon, which has some 20 million Prime subscribers who would get the new music service. Credit Victoria Bonn-Meuser/European Pressphoto Agency
Licensing negotiations with record labels and music publishers began about six months ago, but were slowed by disagreements over financial terms that many music companies considered low.
Amazon told most small labels that in exchange for one-year licensing agreements they would be offered shares of a $5 million royalty pool, to be divided by a market-share formula of Amazon’s choosing, said two people who were involved in the negotiations. Bigger labels and distributors were offered larger one-time payments for a year of access to certain titles. Amazon initially offered a total of about $25 million in these fees, but it was unclear whether the figure changed in negotiations.
Sony and Warner Music, two of the three major labels, have signed such deals. But Universal, whose catalog includes stars like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Kanye West, did not reach an agreement with Amazon.
After Amazon’s proposed contracts for songwriting rights were rejected by many music publishers, the company used an outside firm to obtain “compulsory” licenses through federal copyright provisions. That process is common, but implies that Amazon may make more limited use of songs than it had originally contemplated.
With a relatively small catalog, Amazon’s service is not seen as a major threat to companies like Spotify, Rhapsody and Beats, which offer millions of songs. But Amazon’s sheer size gives it a big advantage. The company recently announced that it had 244 million active customer accounts, and it is estimated to have more than 20 million Prime subscribers.
Amazon’s scale may help it reach the millions of casual music consumers who have remained hesitant to sign up for any streaming service. Those consumers are a big concern for the music industry as the streaming market matures and gradually replaces CDs and downloads as the way most people listen to music.
Reference URL: www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/business/media/amazon-said-to-...
Amazon Rainforest, Peru
The Canopy Walkway is at a height of over 35 meters (115 feet) and extends for 500 meters (one-third of a mile) and provides a view of the rainforest from within the treetops. The suspended walkway is spread between 14 platforms attached to the area's largest rainforest trees and is one of the longest canopy walkways in the world.