#Rio de Janeiro 2019

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Pamela Esteves by Wiissa

- Rio de Janeiro, 2019

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Bloom from the Earth’s soil Woman in the poetic territory of Mother Earth. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2019

Photo: Maria Daniel Balcazar

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Lover music video, 2019

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Rio de Janeiro, 2019.

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The arrest was ordered by Reinaldo Leal, an investigator for the Niteroi police homicide department. Leal is a career detective, as well as the lead singer of a heavy-metal band and has dabbled in acting, with a cameo in a 2017 telenovela based on his team's pursuit of a Rio drug boss.

After attempting to poison her husband with cyanide didn't work, she allegedly put her kids up to the murder plan.

Jacarezinho - Little Crocodile - is a favela on the Guanabara shoreline with a fearsome reputation.

On how she met her husband, she said, "He came to know me because of the evangelism I did in the favelas." He was one of the first kids she took in - an efficient, ambitious boy of about sixteen, who left his family to join hers. It remains unclear when their intimate relationship began, but Flordelis insists it wasn't until he was eighteen. She would have been thirty-four at the time. An interesting thing to note - he was also her daughter's ex boyfriend.

The couple went on to found a church together - the Ministry of Flordelis - and became famous. Thousands of people frequented the empire of nine churches where Flordelis sang, and she appeared on television as an example of a devoted mother.

But behind closed doors, her adopted children said she practiced the occult. Flordelis's mother was said to have been herself a witch.

One of Flordelis's adopted sons recalled that prayer sessions began with a lit candle, and them praying together for seven days. He added, "If you wanted to have control over someone, we put melon, honey, and crystal sugar in a pot, then left your name in the honey with the name of the person, with an engagement ring. If anyone asked why those rituals weren't in the Bible, she would say that they had been professed by Christ in the past but been lost to history."

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.

But for the time being, Flordelis couldn't be prosecuted; Brazilian lawmakers are granted immunity to criminal charges. She was stripped of her parliamentary immunity in June 2021, paving the way for her trial.

Her life story had been an archetypal Brazilian redemption tale, and had even been made into a movie, with some of the biggest actors in Brazil. The movie didn't make much money, but it changed her life. Brazil's biggest gospel label, MK, signed her to a recording contract.

Carly Machado, an anthropologist, weighed in on Flordelis's fall from grace.

"Evangelicals don't expect their leaders to be saints," she said. The Bible, she noted, is filled with stories of God's followers falling prey to the Devil's work. "God is there, waiting for the return of the lost sheep," she said. "It doesn't mean that each person will follow and believe the pastor, specifically Flordelis, again. But the final judgment is in God's hands."

Many had abandoned Flordelis, but few had abandoned Pentecostalism altogether.

Machado had followed along as prominent evangelicals endured a succession of scandals. In 2013, Marcos Pereira, the head of the Assembly of God of the Latter-Day, was convicted of serially raping women in his congregation in Rio. Pereira's method was to tell his victims, some as young as fourteen, that they were possessed by Satan and could only be exorcised through sex with a holy man.

To Machado, Pereira represented "the masculine face" of Pentecostalism in Brazil. Flordelis had attracted her "because she was a woman, and because her emphasis was on family and the youth. Machado said that Flordelis's ministry appealed to Brazilians who didn't feel represented by the traditionally rural Assembly of God or by the increasingly middle-class Universal Life Church. Something else seemed to be happening, too. At Flordelis's events, Machado noticed the presence of Marcos Feliciano, a Sao Paulo pastor who had become an influential congressman. She also saw Arolde de Oliveira, the czar of Brazil's gospel-music business - an evangelical money machine. She realized that she was witnessing a fusion of politics, religion, and entertainment that was reshaping Brazil.

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Nuns, Rio de Janeiro, 1955 - by Ormond Gigli (1925 - 2019), American

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'Children Are Not Mothers': What is at stake with Brazil bill that equates abortion after 22 weeks of pregnancy to homicide

A bill signed by 32 deputies intends to equate any abortion performed in Brazil after 22 weeks of pregnancy with the crime of homicide.

The rule would even apply to cases in which the procedure is authorized by Brazilian legislation, such as pregnancy resulting from rape.

Bill 1904/2024, whose first author is congressman Sóstenes Cavalcante (Liberal Party - Rio de Janeiro), adds a few paragraphs to four articles of the Brazilian Penal Code, which was established in 1940.

Article 124 of the Civil Code, for example, already establishes as a crime "causing oneself to have an abortion or allowing someone else to do so."

But, according to the new proposal being discussed in the Chamber of Deputies, "when there is fetal viability, presumed in pregnancies over 22 weeks, the penalties will be applied in accordance with the crime of simple homicide."

On Wednesday night (June 12th, 2024), Brazil's Chamber of Deputies approved the urgency regime for processing the project, which was requested by congressman Eli Borges (LIberal Party - Tocantins) — who also signed the document.

This means that the proposal can be voted directly by the plenary of the Chamber, without the need for debates and opinions in thematic committees of Congress.

With this, the Plenary can vote on the project in the coming days. The urgent request was included on the agenda by the President of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (Progressive Party - Aladoas).

Victims of violence

Bill 1904/2024 intends to change some articles of the Penal Code, with the aim of preventing any abortion from occurring when the pregnancy exceeds 22 weeks.

Currently, Brazilian law allows abortion in three situations:

When the pregnancy is the result of rape;

If the pregnancy poses a risk to the woman’s life;

If the fetus is anencephalic, a condition characterized by the absence of the brain and skullcap.

In an article published on the website of the Brazilian Center for Health Studies (Cebes), doctor Ana Costa, executive director of the institution, classifies the bill as "a reissue of the 'Rapist Statute', which obliges women to become pregnant as a result of rape under penalty of imprisonment".

Cebes also highlights that late access to legal abortion "reflects inequality and inequity in health care, particularly impacting children (10-14 years old), poor women, black women, and those living in rural areas."

A group of 18 entities in the sector came together to create the "Children Are Not Mothers" campaign, which characterizes the changes proposed in the law as the "Child Pregnancy Bill".

According to the creators of the movement, the change in legislation will mainly harm children under 14 years of age, who represent the largest group that needs abortion services after the third trimester.

According to them, in this age group — in which any pregnancy is the result of presumed rape — it takes longer to discover or even identify a pregnancy.

Furthermore, in two thirds of cases, the perpetrator of the rape is from the girl's own family — which inhibits the victim from seeking health services or reporting the crime to authorities in the first weeks of pregnancy.

The campaign also highlights that the eventual change in the law will mean that those involved in abortion could be convicted of the crime of simple homicide, with a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

Meanwhile, the legislation establishes a sentence of around 10 years — or half the time — for the crime of rape.

According to the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, 74,930 people were raped in Brazil in 2022. Of these, 88.7% of the victims were female and around 60% were at most 13 years old.

DataSUS reports that, in 2019, around 70 pregnancies were legally terminated in Brazilian children and adolescents under the age of 14.

The campaign warns that, if approved, the project "will force girls who are victims of violence to continue their pregnancy" and this will mean a setback "to the sexual and reproductive rights guaranteed by law since 1940."

What supporters of the bill say

The project being discussed in the Chamber argues that the Penal Code, established in 1940, does not establish this limit of 22 weeks because "a last-trimester abortion was an unthinkable reality [at that time] and, if it were possible, no one would call it an abortion, but homicide or infanticide".

The text of the project also argues that "to grant women the right to terminate pregnancy, regardless of gestational age, and whatever the weight of the unborn child, it was necessary to subvert the basic principles of the Rule of Law, the same ones that gave rise to to American Independence and modern democracy."

According to the deputies' proposal, people involved in an abortion after 22 weeks of gestation — such as the woman and the health professional — can be convicted of the crime of simple homicide.

Currently, sentences for simple homicide in Brazil range from 6 to 20 years in prison.

On social media, congressman Sóstenes Cavalcante wrote that Bill 1904 "aims to consider late-term abortion as homicide, reinforcing the protection of life from conception."

The project was filed on May 17th. That same day, the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, had suspended a resolution from the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) that prohibited the so-called fetal asystole.

This procedure, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the stages of abortion resulting from rape in the last trimester of pregnancy, uses medications to stop the fetal heartbeat before it is removed from the uterus.

According to Moraes, the CFM resolution exceeded the regulatory competence of the council and imposed "both on the medical professional and the pregnant victim of rape a restriction of rights not provided for by law capable of creating concrete and significantly worrying embarrassments for women's health" .

The STF minister also recalled that Brazilian legislation does not stipulate any "circumstantial, procedural, or temporal" limitations for carrying out the abortion provided for by law.

Moraes's decision was preliminary and will be discussed in the future in the Supreme Court plenary. The CFM also appealed the minister's opinion.

Source, translated by the blogger.

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"There are now more golden lion tamarins bounding between branches in the Brazilian rainforest than at any time since efforts to save the species started in the 1970s, a new survey reveals.

Once on the brink of extinction, with only about 200 animals in the wild, the population has rebounded to around 4,800, according to a study released Tuesday by the Brazilian science and conservation nonprofit Golden Lion Tamarin Association.

“We are celebrating, but always keeping one eye on other threats, because life’s not easy,” said the nonprofit’s president, Luís Paulo Ferraz.

Golden lion tamarins are small monkeys with long tails and copper-colored fur that live in family groups led by a mated pair. Usually, they give birth annually to twins, which all family members help to raise by bringing them food and carrying them on their backs.

The monkeys, which live only in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, are still considered endangered.

The population survey was conducted over roughly a year. Researchers went to specific locations and checked whether monkeys responded to recordings of the tamarins’ long call, which basically means “I’m here. Are you there?” said James Dietz, a biologist and vice president of the U.S.-based nonprofit Save the Golden Lion Tamarin.

The new population figures are notable because the species had experienced a sharp decline from a yellow fever outbreak. In 2019, there were 2,500 monkeys, down from 3,700 in a 2014 survey.

Scientists intervened by vaccinating more than 370 monkeys against yellow fever, using shots adapted from a formula for humans — a fairly novel approach for conservation.

Scientists “cannot pinpoint a single exact cause for the recovery,” but believe several factors may be at play, said Carlos R. Ruiz-Miranda, a State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro biologist who advised on the population study.

Firstly, the yellow fever outbreak has subsided, perhaps due to a combination of the virus’ natural cycle and the vaccination campaign.

The animals may also be benefiting from an increase in forest habitat, said Dietz, who is also a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s Conservation Biology Institute. Between 2014 and 2022, the amount of connected forest habitat increased 16%, mostly through forests regrown on converted cattle pasture, he said.

Currently about three dozen farmers and ranchers in the Atlantic Forest region participate in such reforestation programs.

“It makes me so happy to see the tamarins playing free on my farm. They don’t only live in protected areas,” said Ayrton Violento, a farmer and entrepreneur in the small city of Silva Jardim. His family’s Fazenda dos Cordeiros has planted native fruit trees and also manages a tree nursery for native Atlantic Forest seedlings to plant on other farms.

“Recently, every year I see more tamarin families, more frequently,” he said."

-via AP News, August 1, 2023

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Pookies beloveds do you jnow that cats the musical is the best thing ever created and all the songs are so good and the entire point of the musical is that they are a community and despite it being really weird and having a cat orgy it also has amazing set design, even if it all just happens in the same place and in that one scene when Alonzo kicks a ball and it hits Mr Mistoffeles it was actually an accident and he was meant to catch it and in the 2015 brazilian adaptation in Rio de Janeiro, Rum Tum Tugger holds Mr Mistoffeles' jacket for him so he can dance and also the guy who plays him does a little voice crack while singing and sometimes i repeat it to stim and also do you know that the guy who plays Old Deuteronomy voices that one guy in the Nightmare before Christmas and i headcannon that Victoria is deaf because she is a white cat with blue eyes and its really common for them to be deaf and also i dressed up as Mr Mistoffeles to go to school when i was like 14 and also i think that the 2019 version was really bad not only because of the cgi but because they fundamentally misunderstood the enture story because it makes absolutely no sense that Victoria is the protagonist, the whole point of the thing is that there is no protagonist and that all of them have i am songs instead of i want songs and also the decision to remove Jemima and Demeter and Cassandra and Jellilorum and Etcetera and Electra and leaving only Bombalurina was a horrible idea and making her evil is just fucking up her character, she just think that Macavity is hot she doenst agree with him and also having him sing his own song was so fucking stupid and he was there all the time wich makes no sense because they say in the song that tahy can never find Macavity and he is a ginger cat so why the fuck is he brown, the only person who did a good job was the guy who played Skimbleshanks and thats because he is a trained dancer and not a random celebrity, also they made fun of Bustoffer Jones wich is stupid because in the musical all the cats respect him because he eats everyday and having all the cats singing their own songs was horrible, it took away all of the meaning of all of them being a group, also them making Mr Mistoffeles sing and be all shy was the worts thing ever, Rum Tum Tugger singing his song was to show that he cared about him and trusted him to bring Old Deuteronomy back safely and also he decends from the sky in a sparkling jacket and shoots lightning from his hands, that was a discervice to his characther and dont even talk aboyt beautiful ghosts because this song took away the entire meaning off memory, Grizabella wants to go back to the past so bad that she is willing to do anything for it wich is why she is the chosen for the Jellicle choice and gets to be reborn , the important thing wasnt that it was Victoria who held her hand, the important thing was that no one stopped her, meaning that she had been accepted back in, wich is why in the movie her charactherisation is shit because she would never back away from touch, touch is all she wants, touch means that she is loved and is part of the Jellicles. Also there is way too little dance in the movie. Cats is a ballet. You cant take this out of it. What the fuck do you mean the Mr Mistoffeles song is 1 minute long and he doenst even dance. Where are the piruettes you cunt. Also all the male cats having crushes on Victoria is incredibly out of characther. And they took away my girl Demeter. She had fucking PTSD and it made the viewer understand how evil Macavity trully was and also she sang beautifully and erasing her interactions with Munkustrap was a crime. They fucking had Gus sing his own song instead of Jellilorum wich is stupid because it showed that they cared about him even when he is too old to dance. And Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser didnt even had their dance routine.

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How local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart

Photographs taken years apart show how reforestation has transformed Morro Do Urubu, an area in the north of Rio de Janeiro: left, virtually treeless in 1990; right, abundant tree cover in 2019. Composite: Angela Meurer & Plinio Senna

A restoration project to revitalise the Atlantic forest is making the city a much more liveable place in the face of increasingly frequent heatwaves

Rio de Janeiro’s striking blend of urban infrastructure and tropical jungle, cradled between granite peaks and the sea, earned the city Unesco world heritage status in 2012. Yet few people realise that the verdant forests cloaking Rio’s dramatic hills are largely the result of human intervention.

“None of this was here before. Nothing, zero trees,” says Santos, motioning towards the woods surrounding Tavares Bastos, a small favela clinging to a hill that overlooks Guanabara Bay. The 40-year-old, who uses the name Leleco, planted some of those trees himself as part of a pioneering reforestation project run by the municipal government.

Leleco initially got involved with the project because he needed a job. Twenty years on, he leads three small teams to maintain and enrich restored forests at Tavares Bastos and two other sites. It’s challenging work that involves toiling away in the heat, scrambling up steep slopes with delicate seedlings and constantly weeding invasive non-native species such as bamboo. Still, Leleco couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

“I feel responsible when I look at all this, how it was before and how it is now. I see birds that weren’t here before, animals that have come back into the forest, and I think, boy, I’m a part of all this,” he says, with a hint of pride.

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julianna hughes

Julianna Rae Hughes

Year: Senior

Height: 5”6

Hometown: Orlando, Florida

Team: US National Team

School: University of Michigan

Olympics

Gold, 2016 Rio de Janeiro- Team

Gold, 2016 Rio de Janeiro- All Around

Gold, 2016 Rio de Janeiro- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2020 Tokyo- All Around

Gold, 2020 Tokyo- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2020 Tokyo- Floor

Gold, 2020 Tokyo- Vault

Silver, 2016 Rio de Janeiro- Vault

Silver, 2016 Rio de Janeiro- Floor

Silver, 2016 Rio de Janeiro- Balance Beam

Silver, 2020 Tokyo- Team

Silver, 2020 Tokyo- Balance Beam

World Championships

Gold, 2015 Glasgow- Team

Gold, 2015 Glasgow- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2017 Montreal- Team

Gold, 2017 Montreal- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2017 Montreal- Vault

Gold, 2017 Montreal- All Around

Gold, 2017 Montreal- Floor

Gold, 2017 Montreal- Balance Beam

Gold, 2018 Doha- Team

Gold, 2018 Doha- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2018 Doha- All Around

Gold, 2019 Stuttgart- Team

Gold, 2019 Stuttgart- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2019 Stuttgart- Team

Gold, 2019 Stuttgart- Floor

Gold, 2019 Stuttgart- All Around

Gold, 2021 Japan- Team

Gold, 2021 Japan- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2021 Japan- Team

Gold, 2021 Japan- Floor

Gold, 2021 Japan- All Around

Gold, 2021 Japan- Vault

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- Team

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- Team

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- Floor

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- All Around

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- Vault

Gold, 2022 Liverpool- Balance Beam

Gold, 2023 Antwerp- Team

Gold, 2023 Antwerp- Uneven Bars

Gold, 2023 Antwerp- Team

Gold, 2023 Antwerp- Floor

Gold, 2023 Antwerp- All Around

Silver, 2015 Glasgow- Floor

Silver, 2015 Glasgow- Team

Silver, 2015 Glasgow- Vault

Silver, 2015 Glasgow- Balance Beam

Silver, 2018 Doha- Vault

Silver, 2018 Doha- Floor

Silver, 2018 Doha- Balance Beam

Silver, 2019 Stuttgart- Balance Beam

Silver, 2019 Stuttgart- Vault

Gold, 2021 Japan- Balance Beam

Silver, 2023 Antwerp- Vault

Silver, 2023 Antwerp- Balance Beam

Pacific Rim Championships

Gold, 2016 Everett- Team

Gold, 2016 Everett- All Around

Gold, 2016 Everett- Uneven Bars

Silver, 2016 Everett- Floor

Silver, 2016 Everett- Vault

Silver, 2016 Everett- Balance Beam

NCAA

Senior (2023-2024)

University Of Michigan

Team Captain.

Received a 40.00 Score, the first time since 1996 and the first time for a Wolverine.

Competed in all Events.

Big Ten Individual Champion (uneven bars)

Big Ten Individual Champion (All around)

Big Ten Individual Champion (Floor)

Big Ten Individual Champion (Balance)

Big Ten Individual Champion (Vault)

Scored Eight 10 on the uneven bars in her Senior year.

Scored Five 10 on the floor in her Senior year.

Scored Two 10 on the balance beam in her Senior year.

Scored Two 10 on the Vault in her Senior year.

Junior (2022-2023)

University of Michigan

Team Captain.

Competed in all Events.

Big Ten Champions.

Big Ten Regular Season Champions.

Big Ten Individual Champion (uneven bars)

Big Ten Individual Champion (All around)

Big Ten Individual Champion (Floor)

Big Ten Individual Champion (Balance)

First Team All-Big Ten.

Academic All-Big Ten.

WCGA Academic All-America.

Scored Seven 10 on the uneven bars in her Junior year.

Scored four 10 on the floor in her Junior year.

Scored one 10 on the balance beam in her Junior year.

Scored one 10 on the Vault in her Junior year.

Sophomore (2021-2022)

University of Michigan

Competed in all Events.

Big Ten Champions.

Big Ten regular season Champions.

Big Ten Individual Champion (uneven bars)

Big Ten Individual Champion (All around)

Big Ten Individual Champion (Floor)

Academic All-Big Ten.

First Team All-Big Ten.

Scored Six 10 on the uneven bars in her Sophomore year.

Scored three 10 on the floor in her Sophomore year.

Scored one 10 on the balance beam in her sophomore year.

Freshman (2020-2021)

University of Michigan

Competed in all Events.

National Championships.

Big Ten Individual Champion (uneven bars)

Big Ten Individual Champion (All around)

Scored four 10 on the uneven bars in her freshman year.

Scored two 10 on the floor in her freshman year.

First Team All-Big Ten.

Notched a 9.925 on the beam in the leadoff spot in back-to-back meets in which the Wolverines surpassed the 198.000 mark for the first time in school history.

Personal

• Born May 14, 2001

• Daughter of Jim and Ellen.

• Has three brothers Quinn, Jack and Luke.

• Getting a degree in Sport Medicine.

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Pamela Esteves by Wiissa

- Rio de Janeiro, 2019

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Balsa portuária "Itacoatiara" com o Aeroporto Santos Dumont à distância, porto do Rio de Janeiro, 2019.

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Alex Turner - Jeunesse Arena Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

April 2019

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Sonia Braga , Rio de Janeiro (2019, ph. Bruna Prado)