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title: Amazon (company)

text: are in stock when the opposite is true. As Amazon increases their dominance in the marketplace these drop shippers have become more and more commonplace in recent years. In November 2015, Amazon opened a physical Amazon Books store in University Village in Seattle. The store is 5,500 square feet and prices for all products match those on its website. Amazon will open its tenth physical book store in 2017; media speculation suggests Amazon plans to eventually roll out 300 to 400 bookstores around the country. Amazon plans to open brick and mortar bookstores in Germany. Amazon.com is primarily a retail

title: Amazon Publishing

text: otherwise had disallowed Amazon imprints in its stores. Barnes & Noble however later announced it would not stock any Amazon imprints, including New Harvest, a move mirrored by other book stores which have also banned Amazon imprints from their stores. One of the inaugural titles published by New Harvest was "Jeff, One Lonely Guy", by Jeff Ragsdale, released on March 20, 2012. In June 2012, Amazon purchased Avalon Books, a small 62-year-old publisher that specializes in romance and mysteries with a back-list of around 3,000 titles. The books will be published under Amazon’s imprints based in Seattle. In November, it

title: Charging Out Amazon

text: film was shot in Sanya, Hainan. Charging Out Amazon Charging Out Amazon is a 2002 Chinese action film directed by Song Yeming and written by Zhao Junfang and Wang Gehong, the film stars Hou Yong, Mu Lixin, and Tom Butler. The film was produced by August First Film Studio and CCTV-6. It was released in China on July 1, 2002. "Charging Out Amazon" received mixed to positive reviews and was a box office success. The film won Best Ornamental Effect Award from Beijing College Student Film Festival, four awards from Huabiao Awards, and three awards from Golden Rooster Awards and

title: Charging Out Amazon

text: Charging Out Amazon Charging Out Amazon is a 2002 Chinese action film directed by Song Yeming and written by Zhao Junfang and Wang Gehong, the film stars Hou Yong, Mu Lixin, and Tom Butler. The film was produced by August First Film Studio and CCTV-6. It was released in China on July 1, 2002. "Charging Out Amazon" received mixed to positive reviews and was a box office success. The film won Best Ornamental Effect Award from Beijing College Student Film Festival, four awards from Huabiao Awards, and three awards from Golden Rooster Awards and was nominated for Best Recording. This

title: Amazon Air

text: Amazon Air Amazon Air, formerly known as Amazon Prime Air, is a cargo airline brand name for Amazon's freight delivery service based in Hebron, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Amazon operates the delivery service using its own branded aircraft operated by Air Transport International, ABX Air, and Atlas Air. Its primary hub is located at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. In late 2015, Amazon began trial cargo runs out of Wilmington Air Park under the code name Project Aerosmith. In December 2015, Amazon announced that it would begin its own cargo airline in order to expand shipping capabilities. In March 2016,

title: Amazon: Guardians of Eden

text: the game 5 out of 5 stars. Amazon: Guardians of Eden Amazon: Guardians of Eden is a point-and-click adventure video game for MS-DOS from Access Software. It is one of the first games to feature super VGA graphics, digitized voice-overs, and an online (in game) hint system. Amazon is a movie adventure game about a 1957 expedition into the heart of the Amazon basin: "a desperate, crazed message sends [the player] on a perilous search through a land where legends come to life, danger hides behind every corner, and incredible treasures wait to be discovered." "Computer Gaming World" wrote that

title: Guadeloupe amazon

text: to "A." cf. "violacea" (which implies the classification is uncertain). In 2004, Patricia Ottens-Wainright and colleagues pointed out that the early descriptions of the Guadeloupe amazon did not clearly determine whether it was a unique species or the same species as the imperial amazon. Ornithologists Storrs Olson and Edgar Maíz, writing in 2008, felt that the Guadeloupe amazon was probably the same as the imperial amazon. In contrast the English ornithologist Julian P. Hume wrote in 2012 that though the amazon species of Guadeloupe and Martinique were based on accounts rather than physical remains, he found it likely they once

title: Amazon Underground

text: in-app purchases. It has also been praised for helping all developers make money right off the bat in direct proportion to usage, compared to the in-app purchase model that only some kinds of apps could make significant money off of. Commentators have compared it to the Kindle Unlimited plan where Amazon allows readers to read books for free from a diverse collection of authors and then pays authors based on the fraction of their books read. A report by IHS Technology highlighted the following key challenges for Amazon Underground: Amazon Underground Amazon Underground is an Android app offered by Amazon

title: Amazon Silk

text: Amazon Silk Amazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon. It was launched in November 2011 for Kindle Fire and Fire Phone, and a Fire TV version was launched in November 2017. The addition of Silk to the Echo Show was announced at an Amazon event in September 2018. The browser uses a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on Amazon's servers to improve webpage loading performance. It is based on the open source Chromium project that uses the Blink engine. For each webpage, Silk decides which browser subsystems (networking, HTML or page rendering) to run

title: Out of the Blue Enterprises

text: The Fred Rogers Company, and 9 Story Media Group, also produces a spin-off of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", entitled "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood", which debuted on PBS Kids affiliates on September 3, 2012. It also produces "Wishenpoof!" with DHX Media and Amazon Studios for Amazon Video, and "Creative Galaxy" with 9 Story Media Group and Amazon Studios for Amazon Video. On January 12, 2018, 9 Story Media Group acquired Out of the Blue Enterprises. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary Out of the Blue Enterprises 9 Story USA (formerly Out of the Blue Enterprises) is an American children's television company based

title: Amazon tax

text: collection schemes were adopted, Amazon would be compelled to end its advertising relationships with well over 10,000 California-based participants in the Amazon 'Associates Program,'" wrote Paul Misener, Amazon's Vice President for Global Public Policy. Responding to Amazon, Nancy Skinner said, "This is really about e-fairness. It's really to be fair and show our California Businesses that we're not hanging them out to dry." According to the American Independent Business Alliance, the corporation has operations in at least seven California cities and should be forced to collect sales tax regardless of its threats. In July 2011, Amazon made good on its

title: Every Where Is Some Where

text: assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 67, based on 5 reviews. The album received two nominations for the 2018 Grammy Awards, for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical and for Best Rock Song ("Blood in the Cut"). Credits taken from Qobuz. Every Where Is Some Where Every Where Is Some Where is the second and major label debut studio album by American alternative hip hop recording artist K.Flay. The album was released on April 4, 2017 by Interscope Records and Dan Reynolds' imprint Night Street Records, being the first artist

title: Amazon Glacier

text: private e-mail, Glacier runs on "inexpensive commodity hardware components". In 2012, ZDNet quoted a former Amazon employee as saying that Glacier is based on custom low-RPM hard drives attached to custom logic boards where only a percentage of a rack's drives can be spun at full speed at any one time. (Similar technology is also used by Facebook.) There is some belief among users that the underlying hardware used for Glacier storage is tape-based, owing to the fact that Amazon has positioned Glacier as a direct competitor to tape backup services (both on-premises and cloud-based). This confusion is exacerbated by

title: Where Is Kyra?

text: on April 6, 2018. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 47 reviews and an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Where Is Kyra?" rests on Michelle Pfeiffer's magnetically raw performance — and lives up to it with a trenchant, hard-hitting story." On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 72 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Where Is Kyra? Where Is Kyra? is a 2017 American drama film directed by Andrew Dosunmu with a screenplay by Darci Picoult and a story by Dosunmu and

title: Amazon Robotics

text: Amazon Robotics Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems, is a Massachusetts-based company that manufactures mobile robotic fulfillment systems. It is a subsidiary company of Amazon.com and its automated storage and retrieval systems were previously used by companies including: The Gap, Walgreens, Staples, Gilt Groupe, Office Depot, Crate & Barrel, and Saks 5th Avenue. After those contracts ran out, Amazon did not renew them and Kiva's assets now work only for Amazon's warehouses. After working on the business process team at Webvan, a failed online grocery delivery business, Mick Mountz concluded that the company’s downfall was due to the inflexibility of existing

title: Amazon tax

text: was signed, Amazon filed a complaint in the New York Supreme Court objecting to the law. The complaint wasn't based on whether in-state customers should pay tax, but upon the long-standing practice of it being the responsibility of the customer to report the sales tax (known as use tax in this case) and not that of the out-of-state businesses. The lawsuit was tossed out of court in January 2009, when New York State Supreme Court Justice Eileen Bransten stated "there is no basis upon which Amazon can prevail." As of 2011 Overstock.com is suing New York state to prevent being

title: Yellow-crowned amazon

text: dangerous for them. The nest is in a hollow in a tree, palm or termitarium, where they lay two to three eggs. The incubation time is about 26 days and the chicks leave the nest about 60 days from hatching. The "Amazona ochrocephala" complex, which has been described as "a taxonomic headache", is considered a single species by some authorities and split into three species, "A. ochrocephala" (yellow-crowned amazon), "A. auropalliata" (yellow-naped amazon) and "A. oratrix" (yellow-headed amazon), by others. The split is mainly based on the amount of yellow in the plumage, the color of the legs and bill,

title: Amazon Underground

text: Amazon Underground Amazon Underground is an Android app offered by Amazon through which people can freely download and obtain in-app items that they would otherwise have to pay money to purchase. Amazon has used the catchphrase "Actually Free" to describe the policy, and affirmed that Amazon Underground is not a one-time or temporary offer but is here to stay. Participation by app developers in the program is voluntary. Amazon compensates app developers based on the time that users spend within the app, at a flat rate of $0.002 per user minute. Amazon announced on April 28, 2017 that the program

title: Amazon tax

text: the corporation wields an anti-competitive advantage over storefront businesses forced to collect sales tax.<ref name="Bloomberg/BusinessWeek"></ref> Tax opponents respond to this argument by pointing out that individual states could make storefront businesses more competitive by lowering or entirely eliminating sales tax. Amazon is under increasing legal and political pressure from state governments, traditional retailers and other groups because of its refusal to collect sales tax in 41 of the 45 states with a statewide sales tax (as of March 2017). Those states include several where Amazon has a clear physical presence via distribution centers and wholly owned subsidiaries. Amazon says it

title: Amazon Underground

text: only premium feature is being ad-free. Amazon pays app creators based on the total time spent by users in the app, at a rate of $0.002/minute. In order to monetize Amazon Underground, Amazon shows ads when a user first downloads an app, and occasionally on each subsequent opening of the app. Amazon Underground launched on August 26, 2015, and Amazon simultaneously retired its daily free app program. In March 2016, Amazon reported some statistics on the growth of Amazon Underground, leading to renewed media coverage of Amazon Underground. In April 2017, Amazon announced the program would close to new apps

title: Amazon tax

text: nexus in Arizona. In 2011, Arkansas passed a bill requiring Amazon to collect sales tax. The bill took advantage of Amazon's use of affiliates based in Arkansas to establish the necessary physical nexus. Amazon responded by terminating the contracts of its Arkansas-based affiliates effective July 24, 2011. As of March 1, 2017, Amazon will be charging Arkansas residents sales tax after legislation was being moved to collect sales taxes from online retailers. Whether Amazon collects local sales taxes is unclear. Arkansas is currently considering two bills that would require online retailers to collect sales tax (SB 140) or notify Arkansas

title: Birds of the Amazon

text: Birds of the Amazon An immense number of bird species live in the Amazon rainforest and river basin (an area which is nominally home to one out of every ten known species of animal). Over 1,300 of these species are types of birds, which accounts for one-third of all bird species in the world. The diets of rainforest birds greatly differ between species, although, nuts, fruits and leaves are a common food for many birds in the Amazon. Birds migrate to the Amazon rainforest from the North or South. Amazon birds are threatened by deforestation since they primarily reside in

title: Imperial amazon

text: Guadeloupe amazon ("A. violacea") may be the same bird as the imperial amazon, if not a close relative. Based on old descriptions alone, the information on the Gaudeloupe amazon, pairs well with what is observed about the imperial amazon. A bone found on Marie-Galante (between Dominica and Guadeloupe) has been assigned to "A. violacea" and suggests that "A. imperialis" either inhabited, or was traded between, all three islands in prehistoric times. Imperial amazon The imperial amazon ("Amazona imperialis") or Dominican amazon, also known as the sisserou, is a parrot found only on the Caribbean island of Dominica. It has been

title: Out from Out Where

text: indicated sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe. Out from Out Where Out From Out Where is the fourth release by Amon Tobin on Ninja Tune. Many of the tracks segue together creating an ongoing feel to the album. Video clips were made for "Verbal" and "Proper Hoodidge", directed by Alex Rutterford and Corine Stübi respectively. The CD contains enhanced content of the "Verbal" video. The track "Mighty Micro People" is used in Need for Speed: Undercover Soundtrack, the film "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" (2004) and the iOS game "Eliminate Pro". In 2010 it was awarded a

title: Out from Out Where

text: Out from Out Where Out From Out Where is the fourth release by Amon Tobin on Ninja Tune. Many of the tracks segue together creating an ongoing feel to the album. Video clips were made for "Verbal" and "Proper Hoodidge", directed by Alex Rutterford and Corine Stübi respectively. The CD contains enhanced content of the "Verbal" video. The track "Mighty Micro People" is used in Need for Speed: Undercover Soundtrack, the film "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" (2004) and the iOS game "Eliminate Pro". In 2010 it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which

title: Amazon Trail 3rd Edition

text: Amazon Trail 3rd Edition Amazon Trail 3rd Edition: Rainforest Adventures is a 1998 game based on the video game "The Oregon Trail". It is not a true sequel to the franchise, but is rather largely the same game as "Amazon Trail II," only with updated graphics and interfaces and fixing major bugs that caused problems in the second game. The game is published by The Learning Company. "Challenges of Teaching with Technology Across the Curriculum" describes the gameplay as follows: "Journey into uncharted rainforests, where intrigue lurks everywhere in the Rainforest. Along the way, students travel back through time, meeting

title: Amazon Air

text: announced its rebranding as Amazon Air to avoid confusion with Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service. As of June 2018, Amazon has 20 of its 33 cargo planes based at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, with the rest operating point to point routes across the United States. Amazon Air will move into office space at the former Comair headquarters by March 2018. Phase one of the CVG sort facility, encompassing 440 acres is scheduled for completion in 2020, while the remaining 479 acres will be developed by 2025-2027 during phase two. Amazon eventually plans to have over 100 aircraft based

title: Amazon Publishing

text: and fight complacency: "This is still Day 1." In March, 2014, Amazon Publishing opened a German-language department based in Munich under the direction of publisher Sarah Tomashek. According to Amazon, the "European Amazon Publishing team will acquire German-language fiction for publication in Kindle and print editions available on Amazon websites." In November, 2017, Amazon Publishing announced a new imprint Amazon Original Stories for works of fiction and non-fiction that can be read in a single sitting ranging from 5,000 to 20,000 words. In February 2018, Amazon Publishing announced a new imprint TOPPLE Books focused on revolutionary feminist voices with Jill

title: Amazon Air

text: at CVG with over 200 daily flights and 15,000 employees. Amazon Air flies scheduled flights to the following destinations: The airlines operating for Amazon Air use Boeing 767 aircraft, all operated by Atlas Air and Air Transport Services Group. Amazon Air Amazon Air, formerly known as Amazon Prime Air, is a cargo airline brand name for Amazon's freight delivery service based in Hebron, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Amazon operates the delivery service using its own branded aircraft operated by Air Transport International, ABX Air, and Atlas Air. Its primary hub is located at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. In late

title: USS Amazon (1861)

text: the Yankee whalers at Savannah had already been carried out—albeit by Confederate forces -- "Amazon" and her sister ships moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where they were sunk across Charleston's main channel on 19 and 20 December 1861. USS Amazon (1861) USS "Amazon" (1858) was a wooden-hulled bark of 318 tons that had previously sailed as a whaler out of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. During the beginning of the American Civil War, she was one of the older vessels and hulks chosen by the Union Navy to be sunk in selected waterways and harbors of the Confederate States of America in order

title: Amazon: Guardians of Eden

text: Amazon: Guardians of Eden Amazon: Guardians of Eden is a point-and-click adventure video game for MS-DOS from Access Software. It is one of the first games to feature super VGA graphics, digitized voice-overs, and an online (in game) hint system. Amazon is a movie adventure game about a 1957 expedition into the heart of the Amazon basin: "a desperate, crazed message sends [the player] on a perilous search through a land where legends come to life, danger hides behind every corner, and incredible treasures wait to be discovered." "Computer Gaming World" wrote that beyond "masterful" graphics and sound, "Access has

title: Amazon Standard Identification Number

text: Amazon Standard Identification Number An Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a 10-character alphanumeric unique identifier assigned by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within the Amazon organization. ASINs were once unique worldwide, but global marketing has changed so that ASINs are only guaranteed unique within particular marketplaces. Accordingly, the same product may have several ASINs though, and different national sites may use a different ASIN for the same product. In general, ASINs are unlikely to be different between the country sites specially if they are for a class of product where the ASIN is based on an externally

title: Save the Amazon Rainforest Organisation

text: dwellers to promote sustainable income sources such as beekeeping, nut gathering and other activities. There is only 2% of the Rain forest left worldwide. At first the people who created STARO wanted to make a charity to save gorillas but that didn't work out so decided to change it to rainforests instead. Save the Amazon Rainforest Organisation Save the Amazon Rainforest Organization (STARO) was a charity that aimed to save the Amazon rainforest from destruction, and was based in London in the United Kingdom. STARO stands for Save The Amazon Rainforest Organization and was created by Jessica Hatfield and Dieter

title: Amazon tax

text: promises to terminate California affiliates. According to the Performance Marketing Association, there were 25,000 Amazon affiliates based in California. However, on Amazon's website, under "United States Subsidiaries," listed are four California locations for A2Z Development Center Inc. - "an innovative customer-centric software development company" - including in San Francisco and Cupertino, where the Kindle was designed; a search engine company called A9.com in Palo Alto; and, in San Francisco, Alexa Internet, another Amazon search company. Due to its opposition to rules that would require the company to collect sales tax, Amazon.com is facing a boycott from a coalition of California

title: Amazon Redshift

text: Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is an Internet hosting service and data warehouse product which forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquired by Actian), to handle large scale data sets and database migrations. Redshift differs from Amazon's other hosted database offering, Amazon RDS, in its ability to handle analytic workloads on big data data sets stored by a column-oriented DBMS principle. Amazon Redshift is based on an older version of PostgreSQL 8.0.2, and Redshift has made changes to that

title: Amazon Redshift

title: Amazon Pay

text: a security advisory regarding a security flaw in its Amazon Payments SDKs. This flaw allows a malicious shopper to shop for free in web stores using those SDKs. Amazon mandated all web stores to upgrade to its new SDKs before Nov. 1, 2010. Amazon acknowledged security researcher Rui Wang for finding this bug. The detail of the flaw is documented in the paper "How to Shop for Free Online - Security Analysis of Cashier-as-a-Service Based Web Stores" by Rui Wang, Shuo Chen, XiaoFeng Wang, and Shaz Qadeer. Amazon Pay Amazon Pay is an online payments processing service that is owned

title: Amazon (company)

text: websites by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML service. A new affiliate product, aStore, allows Associates to embed a subset of Amazon products within another website, or linked to another website. In June 2010, Amazon Seller Product Suggestions was launched (rumored to be internally called "Project Genesis") to provide more transparency to sellers by recommending specific products to third-party sellers to sell on Amazon. Products suggested are based on customers' browsing history. The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. It is a relative indicator of popularity that

title: Amazon Echo

text: voice recognition capability is based on Amazon Web Services and the voice platform Amazon acquired from Yap, Evi, and IVONA (a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies used in the Kindle Fire). The smart speakers perform well with a "good" (low-latency) Internet connection, which minimizes processing time due to minimal communication round trips, streaming responses and geo-distributed service endpoints. While the application is free, an Amazon account is required, and setup is not possible without one. Echo devices offer weather from AccuWeather and news from a variety of sources, including local radio stations, BBC, NPR, and ESPN from TuneIn. Echo can

title: Amazon Alexa

text: mall-based pop-ups throughout the United States. A companion app is available from the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore. The app can be used by owners of Alexa-enabled devices to install skills, control music, manage alarms, and view shopping lists. It also allows users to review the recognized text on the app screen and to send feedback to Amazon concerning whether the recognition was good or bad. A web interface is also available to set up compatible devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, Amazon Dot, Amazon Echo Show). Alexa offers weather reports provided by AccuWeather and news provided by TuneIn

title: Amazon (company)

text: such employees from finding other work. Even short-term temporary workers have to sign contracts that prohibit them from working at any company where they would "directly or indirectly" support any good or service that competes with those they helped support at Amazon, for 18 months after leaving Amazon, even if they are fired or made redundant. A 2015 front-page article in "The New York Times" profiled several former Amazon employees who together described a "bruising" workplace culture in which workers with illness or other personal crises were pushed out or unfairly evaluated. Bezos responded by writing a Sunday memo to

title: Amazon Bookstore Cooperative

text: Cartoonist and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel was inspired to create the fictional Madwimmin Books in "Dykes to Watch Out For" based on experiences at the store. Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was a feminist bookstore located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operated from 1970 to 2012. It was the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. The shop was named after the Amazons, a mythological tribe of fierce and independent women. After decades in business, it sold its name to Amazon.com. In 1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full-fledged

title: Amazon S3

text: Amazon S3 Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a "simple storage service" offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its global e-commerce network. Amazon S3 can be employed to store any type of object which allows for uses like storage for Internet applications, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data archives, data lakes for analytics, and hybrid cloud storage. In its service-level agreement, Amazon S3 guarantees 99.9% monthly uptime, which works out to less than 43 minutes of

title: Amazon Glacier

text: Amazon Glacier Amazon Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup. Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval latency times of 3 to 5 hours are acceptable. Storage costs are a consistent $0.004 per gigabyte per month, which is substantially cheaper than Amazon's own Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon hopes this new service will move businesses from on-premises tape backup drives to cloud-based backup storage. ZDNet says, that according to

title: Amazon Watch

text: recover. It says that in the last 30 years, 20 percent of the Amazon has been deforested and another 20 percent degraded – all fueled by clearing land for agriculture and large-scale industrial projects such as oil and gas pipelines, dams and roads. In September 2016 Amazon Watch released a report which concludes that imports of crude oil by the US are driving rainforest destruction in the Amazon and releasing significant greenhouse gases. Amazon Watch Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization Founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of

title: Amazon rainforest

text: °C would kill some 75% of the Amazon. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest region have negative impact on local climate.It was one of the main reason that cause the severe Drought of 2014-2015 in Brazil This is because the moisture from the forests is important to the rainfall in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. Half of the rainfall in the Amazon area is produced by the forests. The use of remotely sensed data is dramatically improving conservationists' knowledge of the Amazon basin. Given the objectivity and lowered costs of satellite-based land cover analysis, it appears likely that remote sensing technology will be

title: Amazon Robotics

text: company continues to hire in the engineering and manufacturing departments. Industry observers speculate that Amazon is focusing on internal operations and is not interested in sharing the technology with competitors. In August 2015, the company officially changed its name from Kiva Systems LLC to Amazon Robotics LLC. Amazon Robotics Amazon Robotics, formerly Kiva Systems, is a Massachusetts-based company that manufactures mobile robotic fulfillment systems. It is a subsidiary company of Amazon.com and its automated storage and retrieval systems were previously used by companies including: The Gap, Walgreens, Staples, Gilt Groupe, Office Depot, Crate & Barrel, and Saks 5th Avenue. After

title: Amazon HQ2

text: bidding too generously to win the Amazon bid. He points to examples where companies have gone bankrupt and/or not followed up on expansion plans and notes that it is possible cities could over pay (the so-called "winner's curse") by providing an overly generous incentive package that turns out to be a money-losing proposition for the municipality if all the promised jobs don't materialize. Conservative and liberal advocacy groups voiced their opposition to various tax breaks promised by cities in hopes of luring Amazon. In early 2018, New York University Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway predicted that HQ2 would

title: Amazon tax

text: eventually would have required it to collect the state's use tax. Indianapolis based Simon Property Group sued the state in 2011 to force it to collect sales tax from Amazon in an attempt to level the playing field. In a settlement deal brokered by Gov. Mitch Daniels in January 2012, Amazon agreed to collect sales tax from Indiana residents beginning January 1, 2014. Amazon owns four distribution centers in Indiana, which satisfies the physical requirement. On January 1, 2017, Amazon began collecting 6% sales tax in Iowa. As Amazon has no physical presence in Iowa, it is not compelled by

title: Birds of the Amazon

text: roads and logging deters birds and other animals from living in those sections of the forest. It can be observed that there is a lot less bird movement near areas with roads and lodging than those without. Understory species are especially vulnerable to effects of road clearing. Even roads that are narrow with less traffic can have a significant impact on the movements of insectivorous birds in the Amazon. Birds of the Amazon An immense number of bird species live in the Amazon rainforest and river basin (an area which is nominally home to one out of every ten known

title: Amazon Alexa

text: In April 2018, Amazon launched Blueprints, a tool for individuals to build skills for their personal use. Amazon allows device manufacturers to integrate Alexa voice capabilities into their own connected products by using the Alexa Voice Service (AVS), a cloud-based service that provides APIs to interface with Alexa. Products built using AVS have access to Alexa's growing list of capabilities including all of the Alexa Skills. AVS provides cloud-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU). There are no fees for companies looking to integrate Alexa into their products by using AVS. The voice of Amazon Alexa is

title: Amazon Lumberyard

text: Amazon Lumberyard Amazon Lumberyard is a free cross-platform triple-A game engine developed by Amazon and based on the architecture of CryEngine, which was licensed from Crytek in 2015. The engine features integration with Amazon Web Services to allow developers to build or host their games on Amazon's servers, as well as support for livestreaming via Twitch. Additionally, the engine includes Twitch ChatPlay, allowing viewers of the Twitch stream to influence the game through the associated chat, a method of play inspired by the "Twitch Plays Pokémon" phenomenon. The source code is available to end users with limitations: Users may not

title: Amazon DynamoDB

text: from other Amazon services by allowing developers to purchase a service based on throughput, rather than storage. If Auto Scaling is enabled, then the database will scale automatically. Additionally, administrators can request throughput changes and DynamoDB will spread the data and traffic over a number of servers using solid-state drives, allowing predictable performance. It offers integration with Hadoop via Elastic MapReduce. In September 2013, Amazon made available a local development version of DynamoDB so developers can test DynamoDB-backed applications locally. Amazon DynamoDB is "built on the principles of Amazon Dynamo storage technology", an internal storage system used initially for the

title: Amazon Underground

text: choose to participate in the Amazon Underground program. The app creator receives payment based on the time spent by users in the app after downloading it, at a flat rate of $0.002 per user minute in the app. Amazon has listed the following eligibility requirements for participating apps: Amazon Underground is a good fit for freemium or premium apps, but Amazon advises against using it for the following apps: In addition, Underground is not recommended for modified versions of an app that have removed in-app purchases, or that have modified their gameplay by removing in-game currency, or premium apps whose

title: Amazon leaffish

text: Amazon leaffish The Amazon leaffish (Monocirrhus polyacanthus), or South American leaffish, is a species of fish belonging to the Polycentridae family. It is found in the Amazon basin in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, where it inhabits edges of rivers and lakes, and streams. It is generally a low-density species that lives in slow-moving or essentially stagnant waters in areas with plant debris. Amazon leaffish are sometimes kept in aquariums, but they require acidic water, low light and live prey. The Amazon leaffish reaches a maximum standard length of , and a total length of . As suggested by

title: Amazon Prime Air

text: automated object detection, GPS surveillance, gigapixel cameras, and enhanced image resolution. Autonomous vehicles also fall under the Prime Air division's responsibility. There is little news about this potential direction, which would seem to make great sense for Amazon, since the last mile of delivery is the most expensive, and human drivers are the primary cost, but there is little news about this since an article about an Amazon patent for reversible lanes. Amazon Prime Air Amazon Prime Air is a conceptual drone-based delivery system currently in development by Amazon. On December 1, 2013, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for

title: This Is Where I Leave You

text: out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray December 16, 2014. This Is Where I Leave You This Is Where I Leave You is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Shawn Levy. It is based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Tropper, who also wrote the film's screenplay. The film is a funeral comedy and was released on September 19, 2014. Judd Altman (Jason Bateman) finds out his wife Quinn (Abigail Spencer) has been having an affair with his boss Wade (Dax Shepard) for

title: Amazon ElastiCache

text: Redis To Go, IBM Compose, Oracle Application Container Cloud Service, openredis, Redis4You, RedisGreen and Rackspace ObjectRocket. Amazon ElastiCache Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory caching engines: Memcached and Redis (also called “ElastiCache for Redis”). As a web service running in the computing cloud, Amazon ElastiCache is designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of memcached and Redis deployments. Complex administration

title: Amazon ElastiCache

text: Amazon ElastiCache Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. ElastiCache supports two open-source in-memory caching engines: Memcached and Redis (also called “ElastiCache for Redis”). As a web service running in the computing cloud, Amazon ElastiCache is designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of memcached and Redis deployments. Complex administration processes like patching software, backing up and restoring data sets and dynamically adding or removing capabilities

title: Amazon (company)

text: bookstore" was false because it "...isn't a bookstore at all. It's a book broker." The suit was later settled out of court and Amazon continued to make the same claim. Walmart sued Amazon on October 16, 1998, alleging that Amazon had stolen Walmart's trade secrets by hiring former Walmart executives. Although this suit was also settled out of court, it caused Amazon to implement internal restrictions and the reassignment of the former Walmart executives. In 1999, Amazon first attempted to enter the publishing business by buying a defunct imprint, "Weathervane", and publishing some books "selected with no apparent thought", according

title: Amazon Echo

text: that only one device answers the request. , the Echo Dot maintained a 78% score on GearCaliber, based on 23 reviews. On August 18, 2017, an Amazon promotion allowed Amazon Prime customers to receive a 100% price reduction on the Echo Dot (from $49.99 to $0.00). Amazon never commented on the promotion or gave any indication of how many Dots were given away. In September 2018, an updated Echo Dot was unveiled with a fabric covering, similar to the second-generation Echo. The Amazon Tap is a smaller portable version of the Echo. The Tap can do the same things as

title: Amazon (company)

text: lead to an increase in sales. For competitive reasons, Amazon does not release actual sales figures to the public. However, Amazon has now begun to release point of sale data via the Nielsen BookScan service to verified authors. While the ASR has been the source of much speculation by publishers, manufacturers, and marketers, Amazon itself does not release the details of its sales rank calculation algorithm. Some companies have analyzed Amazon sales data to generate sales estimates based on the ASR, though Amazon states: Amazon runs data centers for its online services and owns generators or purchases electricity corresponding to

title: Amazon Go

text: If a customer places an item back on the shelf, it is "taken out" of the virtual cart. In its report on the opening, "The Wall Street Journal" reported that this first location was one of at least three that Amazon planned to open, each of which was in a different format. In October 2016, the "Business Insider" reported they had seen internal Amazon documents that described Amazon opening up as many as 2,000 stores, over the next ten years. Amazon spokesmen refuted the reports of 2,000 stores, insisting they were still learning. The "Business Insider" predicted that Amazon was

title: Amazon Prime Air

text: Amazon Prime Air Amazon Prime Air is a conceptual drone-based delivery system currently in development by Amazon. On December 1, 2013, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for Amazon Prime Air in an interview on "60 Minutes". Amazon Prime Air is planned to use multirotor miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (miniature UAV) technology to autonomously fly individual packages to customers within 30 minutes of ordering. To qualify for 30-minute delivery, the order must be less than 5 pounds (2.25 kg), must be small enough to fit in the cargo box that the craft will carry, and must have a delivery location

title: Amazon rainforest

text: drought had three epicenters where vegetation died off, whereas in 2005, the drought was focused on the southwestern part. The findings were published in the journal Science. In a typical year, the Amazon absorbs 1.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide; during 2005 instead 5 gigatons were released and in 2010 8 gigatons were released. Additional severe droughts occurred in 2010, 2015, and 2016. Amazon rainforest The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: ' or '; , ' or usually '; ; ), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon biome that covers most

title: Amazon Dash

text: Amazon Dash Amazon Dash is a consumer goods ordering service which uses a proprietary device for ordering goods over the Internet. Amazon Dash consists of multiple components, which include: The Amazon Dash Wand was announced in April 2014, a Wi-Fi connected device that allows users to build a shopping list by scanning bar codes and saying product names out loud. It connects directly with AmazonFresh, the company's online grocery delivery service. The website for Amazon Dash highlights benefits such as "never forget an item again" and suggests users keep the device on the kitchen counter or refrigerator so that every

title: Amazon (company)

text: Audible has also become the world's largest producer of downloadable audiobooks. On January 31, 2008, Amazon announced it would buy Audible for about $300 million. The deal closed in March 2008 and Audible became a subsidiary of Amazon. Beijing Century Joyo Courier Services is a subsidiary of Amazon and it applied for a freight forwarding license with the US Maritime Commission. Amazon is also building out its logistics in trucking and air freight to potentially compete with UPS and FedEx. Brilliance Audio is an audiobook publisher founded in 1984 by Michael Snodgrass in Grand Haven, Michigan. The company produced its

title: Where the River Runs Black

text: Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" enjoyed the film and rated it 3 stars out of his 4 star rating system and had praise for Cain's direction: Where the River Runs Black Where the River Runs Black is a 1986 film directed by Christopher Cain. The screenplay was written by Neal Jimenez and Peter Silverman, based on the novel "Lazaro" by David Kendall. The film was entirely shot in Brazil, mostly in Belém and Rio Negro, Manaus. Father Mahoney (Peter Horton) is a missionary priest in the Amazon, and on occasion reports to his superior, Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning), who disapproves

title: Amazon Kindle

text: system uses the Linux kernel with a Java app for reading e-books. Amazon offers an email-based service called "Send-to-Kindle" that allows the user to send HTML pages, Microsoft Word documents, GIF, PNG, and BMP graphics directly to the user's Kindle library at Amazon. Sending the file is free if downloaded using Wi-Fi or $0.15 per MB when using a Kindle's 3G service. When Amazon receives the file, it converts the file to Kindle format and stores it in the user's online library (called "Your Content" by Amazon). In addition to the document types mentioned above, this service can be used

title: Amazon Publishing

text: also have to have judgment, discernment."); and Amazon's culture of machines, algorithms and mass products which don't fit well with the publishing world's emphasis on human networking and reputation. Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing (simply APub) is Amazon.com's book publishing unit launched in 2009. It is composed of 15 imprints including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, 47North, TOPPLE Books. Amazon publishes e-books via its Kindle Direct Publishing subsidiary. In May 2009, Amazon launched AmazonEncore, the inaugural flagship general imprint. It publishes titles that have gone out-of-print or self-published books with sales potential. The first book published under this imprint

title: Amazon Publishing

text: Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing (simply APub) is Amazon.com's book publishing unit launched in 2009. It is composed of 15 imprints including AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, 47North, TOPPLE Books. Amazon publishes e-books via its Kindle Direct Publishing subsidiary. In May 2009, Amazon launched AmazonEncore, the inaugural flagship general imprint. It publishes titles that have gone out-of-print or self-published books with sales potential. The first book published under this imprint was Cayla Kluver's "Legacy" in August 2009. Other early books published by AmazonEncore include "Mercury Falls" by Robert Kroese, "Shaken" by J.A. Konrath, "The Grove" by John Rector and

title: Amazon Echo

text: where/wear/ware. Amazon Echo Amazon Echo (shortened as "Echo", and known colloquially as "Alexa") is a brand of smart speakers developed by Amazon. Echo devices connect to the voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa, which responds to the names "Alexa", "Echo", or "Computer". Users may change this "wake word" to "Amazon", "Echo" or "Computer". The device supports voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices acting as a home automation hub. According to confirmed reports, Amazon started developing Echo devices inside

title: Amazon Reef

text: region, with an environmental baseline based on "sparse museum specimens". Twenty of these blocks are already producing oil. The Amazon Reef is at risk of coral bleaching, an issue prevalent with other reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef located off the coast of Australia. Amazon Reef The Amazon Reef, or Amazonian Reef, is an extensive coral and sponge reef system, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French Guiana and northern Brazil. It is one of the largest known reef systems in the world, with scientists estimating its length at over , and its area as over

title: Amazon HQ2

text: city of Stonecrest, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, voted to de-annex of land for Amazon to establish its own city named "Amazon" around its headquarters. Sly James, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, purchased 1,000 products from Amazon, which he donated to charity. James wrote 5-star reviews for each one of them, in which every review mentioned positive attributes of Kansas City. Primanti Brothers, a chain of sandwich shops based in Pittsburgh, offered free sandwiches to Amazon employees if they chose the city as their second headquarters. The city of Birmingham, Alabama erected several giant Amazon boxes and dash buttons around

title: Amazon Kindle

text: twice as much paid content as its nearest competitor, Barnes & Noble. Public libraries that offer books via OverDrive, Inc. also loan titles for the Kindle and Kindle reading apps in the USA. Books are checked out from the library's own site, which forwards to Amazon for the completion of the checkout process. Amazon then delivers the title to the Kindle for the duration of the loan, though some titles may require transfer via a USB connection to a computer. If the book is later checked out again or purchased, annotations and bookmarks are preserved. Amazon released the "Kindle for

title: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

text: added the Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems to the list of available operating systems. In March 2011, NetBSD AMIs became available. In November 2012, Windows Server 2012 support was added. Since 2006, Colin Percival, a FreeBSD developer and Security Officer, solicited Amazon to add FreeBSD. In November 2012, Amazon officially supported running FreeBSD in EC2. The FreeBSD/EC2 platform is maintained by Percival who also developed the secure deduplicating Amazon S3-cloud based backup service Tarsnap. Amazon has their own Linux distribution based on the Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a low cost offering known as

title: Amazon Reef

text: reef. Once they believed they had located the reef they dredged the bottom to confirm that this was its location. The process of finding the reef took about three years before an official announcement was made about its discovery. The Amazon River is home to about 20 percent of the world's fresh water supply, placing the Amazon Reef at the mouth of the largest river in the world, where every day one fifth of the world's water flows into the ocean from the Amazon River. Because of this, the Amazon Reef is less biologically diverse compared to other reefs of

title: Amazon Video

text: thereafter for Prime members. In February 2014, Amazon announced that the streaming service of its UK subsidiary LoveFilm would be folded into the Instant Video service on February 26, 2014. In January 2015, "Transparent" became the first show produced by Amazon Studios to win a major award and the first series from a streaming video service to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. In 2015, Amazon launched the Streaming Partners Program (now known as Amazon Channels), a platform allowing subscription-based third-party channels and streaming services to be offered to Amazon Prime subscribers through

title: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

text: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon Curucu, Beast of the Amazon is a 1956 American adventure/monster film, directed and written by Curt Siodmak and starring John Bromfield, Beverly Garland and Tom Payne. The title creature is pronounced "Koo-Ruh-SOO" (). The film was distributed in the United States as a double feature with "The Mole People". Plantation owner Rock Dean (Bromfield) travels up the Amazon River to investigate why the workers have left in panic. Dean's guide, Tupanico (Payne) warns him of Curucu, a birdlike monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been. Accompanying

title: Amazon River

text: in the 1940s set out to develop the interior, away from the seaboard where foreigners owned large tracts of land. The original architect of this expansion was president Getúlio Vargas, with the demand for rubber from the Allied forces in World War II providing funding for the drive. In the 1960s, economic exploitation of the Amazon basin was seen as a way to fuel the "economic miracle" occurring at the time. This resulted in the development of "Operation Amazon", an economic development project that brought large-scale agriculture and ranching to Amazonia. This was done through a combination of credit and

title: Amazon tax

text: wasn't required to collect sales taxes in California. In the company's financial report for the quarter ending September 30, 2009, the company stated that the imposition of sales-tax collection by more states or Congress could "decrease our future sales." Amazon tax Amazon tax collection policy has changed over the years. In the U.S., state and local sales taxes are levied by state and local governments, not at the federal level. In most countries where Amazon operates, a sales tax or value added tax is uniform throughout the country, and Amazon is obliged to collect it from all customers. Many U.S.

title: Amazon tax

text: Amazon tax Amazon tax collection policy has changed over the years. In the U.S., state and local sales taxes are levied by state and local governments, not at the federal level. In most countries where Amazon operates, a sales tax or value added tax is uniform throughout the country, and Amazon is obliged to collect it from all customers. Many U.S. states have passed online shopping sales tax laws designed to compel Amazon.com and other e-commerce retailers to collect state and local sales taxes from its customers. Amazon.com originally collected sales tax only from five states as of 2011, but

title: The Amazon Trail

text: The Amazon Trail The Amazon Trail is an educational computer game created by MECC. It was inspired by the popularity of "The Oregon Trail", featuring the areas surrounding the Amazon River and some of its tributaries. In this 2-D adventure, the player is asked to set out on a journey up the Amazon, hoping to make it to the lost Inca village of Vilcabamba. Along the way, the player learns about the people who live on and use the river for their survival. "The Amazon Trail" is known for being significantly more difficult than its predecessors in the franchise, such

title: Amazon Light

text: cart where they could then be purchased. Amazon Light originally used a layout which resembled the main page of the Google search engine. In July 2002, Google's lawyers told it to cease and desist. Amazon Light 4.0 won the "Technical Achievement award" at the South by Southwest Web Awards in 2005. In July 2009, Alan Taylor announced on his blog that "Amazon Light (all four versions) will shut down." Amazon Light Amazon Light was an alternate user interface to Amazon.com built on the Amazon Web Services API. The site was developed by Alan Taylor, a former Amazon programmer, while he

title: Amazon parrot

text: Amazonian jungles. The taxonomy of the yellow-crowned amazon ("Amazona ochrocephala" complex) is disputed, with some authorities only listing a single species ("A. ochrocephala"), while others split it into as many as three species ("A. ochrocephala", "A. auropalliata" and "A. oratrix"). The split is primarily based on differences related to extension of yellow to the plumage and the colour of bill and legs. Phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA do not support the traditional split. The taxonomic status of the blue-winged amazon ("Amazona gomezgarzai") has also been questioned. The yellow-faced parrot ("Alipiopsitta xanthops") was traditionally placed within this genus of amazon parrots, but

title: Amazon Lumberyard

text: update to Lumberyard was released on March 14, 2016 and included support for certain mobile devices, such as A8-powered iOS devices and Nvidia Shield, an FBX importer and integration with Allegorithmic's texturing software Substance. On August 16, 2017 the source code of the engine was made freely available under proprietary license terms via GitHub. Recently in Version 1.16, a new Memory Management system was released, which is designed to allow developers to check memory usage, meaning developers can improve the performance of their games. Amazon Lumberyard Amazon Lumberyard is a free cross-platform triple-A game engine developed by Amazon and based

title: Amazon Elastic Block Store

text: primarily on MB/s). The following table shows use cases and performance characteristics of current generation EBS volumes: <nowiki>*</nowiki>Default volume type <nowiki>**</nowiki>io1/gp2 based on 16K I/O size, st1/sc1 based on 1 MB I/O size Amazon Elastic Block Store Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). These block devices can then be used like any raw block device. In a typical use case, this would include formatting the device with a filesystem and mounting said filesystem. In addition EBS supports a number of

title: Amazon Dash

text: than 100 brands. The most popular Dash Buttons are the Tide, Bounty, and Cottonelle buttons. In May 2016, Consumers' Research pointed out that Amazon Dash may be reprogrammed to use for other purposes such as ordering pizza, tracking time, and controlling lights and outlets in households configured to respond to such commands. In response, Amazon introduced a programmer-friendly, but more expensive button in the form of an "Internet of Things Dash Button" which allows programmers to make programming modifications to the device. Amazon Dash Amazon Dash is a consumer goods ordering service which uses a proprietary device for ordering goods

title: Amazon Game Circle

text: games using its GameCircle service produced 38 per cent higher conversion rates and 33 per cent more in-app purchases per paying customer than titles which did not". As of 9/19/2017 Amazon has started the process of disbanding GameCircle. It is rolling out updates to its devices such as the Amazon Fire tablet to disable the GameCircle features. No reason for this action has been announced by Amazon. Amazon Game Circle Amazon Game Circle is an online multiplayer social gaming network released by Amazon.com. It allows players to track their achievements and compares their high scores on a leader board. It

title: Amazon Music

text: from more than 180,000 artists and over 20,000 labels, including EMI Music and Universal Music Group", to customers located in the United States only. In December 2007 Warner Music announced that it would offer its catalog on Amazon MP3 and in January 2008, Sony BMG followed suit. The current catalog is 29.1 million songs. In January 2008, Amazon announced plans to roll Amazon MP3 out "internationally". Amazon limits international access by checking users' credit card issued country. The first international version was launched December 3, 2008 in the United Kingdom. German, Austrian, French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Canadian, and Indian versions

title: Amazon Alexa

text: make a purchase during the first seven months of 2018 and of those who made an initial purchase, 90 percent did not make a second purchase. Alexa supports a multitude of subscription-based and free streaming services on Amazon devices. These streaming services include: Prime Music, Amazon Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple Music (coming before the end of 2018), TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Audible, Pandora, and Spotify Premium. However, some of these music services are not available on other Alexa-enabled products that are manufactured by companies external of its services. This unavailability also includes Amazon's own Fire TV devices or tablets. Alexa is

title: Amazon Watch

text: Amazon Watch Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization Founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with indigenous and environmental organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems. In 1964, the Texaco Petroleum Company, in partnership with Gulf Oil, started exploring for oil in Northeast Ecuador. In 1974, the Government of the Republic of Ecuador, acting through the state-owned oil agency Petroecuador, obtained a 25% interest. Two

title: Amazon S3

text: console provides tools for managing and uploading files but it is not capable of managing large buckets or editing files. Third-party websites like S3edit.com or software like Cloudberry Explorer and ForkLift have the capability to edit files on Amazon S3. Amazon S3 offers four different storage classes that offer different levels of durability, availability, and performance requirements. The broad adoption of Amazon S3 and related tooling has given rise to competing services based on the S3 API. These services use the standard programming interface; however, they are differentiated by their underlying technologies and supporting business models. A cloud storage standard

title: Amazon Aurora

text: only compatible with one version of MySQL (5.6), and supports only InnoDB as a storage engine. Amazon claims fivefold performance improvements on benchmarking tests over MySQL on the same hardware, due to "tightly integrating the database engine with an SSD-based virtualized storage layer purpose-built for database workloads, reducing writes to the storage system, minimizing lock contention and eliminating delays created by database process threads". Other independent tests have shown that Aurora performs better than competing technologies on some, but not all, combinations of workload and instance type. Amazon Aurora Amazon Aurora is a hosted relational database service developed and offered

title: Dreams of the Amazon

text: his help. In three of them he is sitting in a restaurant, eating alone, when this happens. The fourth, Dreams of Bali does begin with a strange dream concerning food, but starts after Jack has already accepted the invitation and been flown out. These are the only stories in which Jack asks that his expenses be paid. Dreams of the Amazon Dreams of the Amazon is a radio drama, produced by the ZBS Foundation. It is the sixth of the Jack Flanders adventure series and the first of the Travels with Jack sub-series. It combines elements of Americana and Old-time

title: Amazon (company)

text: acts as an intermediary to facilitate transactions. The company lets anyone sell nearly anything using its platform. In addition to an affiliate program that lets anyone post-Amazon links and earn a commission on click-through sales, there is now a program which lets those affiliates build entire websites based on Amazon's platform. Some other large e-commerce sellers use Amazon to sell their products in addition to selling them through their own websites. The sales are processed through Amazon.com and end up at individual sellers for processing and order fulfillment and Amazon leases space for these retailers. Small sellers of used and

title: Blue-winged amazon

text: and Yucatan amazon. They live in groups up to a dozen individuals. Couples and their adult offspring tend to remain together as a group. Genetic analyzes based on mitochondrial DNA indicate close affinity with the white-fronted amazon and suggests that Blue-winged Amazon could be a subspecies of it. However, this may be due to the introgression of mitochondrial DNA or too little variation in the loci examined. It is possible that the new species has evolved relatively recently (about 120,000 years ago) within one of the white-fronted amazon populations. The species was purportedly 'discovered' in 2014 by veterinarian Miguel Gómez

title: Upper Amazon Arawakan

text: Upper Amazon Arawakan The Upper Amazon Maipurean languages, a.k.a. North Amazonian or Inland Northern Maipuran, are Arawakan languages of the northern Amazon in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil. Upper Amazon Arawakan is surveyed comprehensively by Henri Ramirez (2001), which includes a historical reconstruction as well. Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown (Aikhenvald's names of branches in parentheses): He leaves the following Upper Amazon languages unclassified: In 1999 Aikhenvald classified a couple languages Kaufman left out (Shiriana, Yabaâna), but leaves several of the Western Nawiki languages and branches unclassified. Several languages — Maipure, Resígaro, Cawishana, Mandahuaca, and Guarequena — are moved.

title: Amazon tax

text: counterproductive. It was supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside Connecticut, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue," Amazon said in a letter to its affiliates. Amazon has agreed to collect state sales tax of 6.35% in CT starting November 1, 2013. Amazon has also agreed to invest $50 million in Connecticut and to create hundreds of new full-time jobs in the state. Amazon began collecting DC's 5.75% sales tax on October 1, 2016.

title: Amazon Vine

text: use of non-professional reviewers while others cited this as a benefit. The Vine program operates independently on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, and Amazon.ca. Vine members (known as "Vine Voices") are selected from the Amazon reviewer base with the site stating that the selection criteria are "based on the trust [the members] earned in the Amazon community for writing accurate and insightful reviews". As of October 2017, Amazon has ended all customer online discussion boards, including the ones that previously existed for Amazon Vine program members. Previously there were two Vine newsletters every month. The first newsletter appeared on the third