It is an expedition that aims to preserve the biodiversity of a small island of Cape Verde, just help by contributing.

The campaign aims to raise the amount to cover travel costs and logistics involved in the production of a documentary in nature, focusing on the biodiversity of the Cape Verde archipelago and in particular, the Raso lark. The aim is to show the documentary at film festivals and possibly on television and the internet as a way to alert the preservation of biodiversity of this small island, enhance the beauty of this archipelago and the importance of conservation work that is being carried out here. The field is being developed by a local ONG, Biosphere 1, in collaboration with the Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to study the factors of the limitations of the population and the better way to remove cats from Santa Luzia. This will allow the return of the Raso lark, significantly increasing the chances of survival of this species as rare and localized.

Cape Verde is a country located in the Atlantic at 570 kilometers from the African coast consists of 10 islands and 5 islets. Of the 36 bird species that breed here, 14 are endemic. Of course, while oceanic archipelago, home to several important seabird colonies which explain in part why here were classified 12 areas of international importance for bird conservation. However, the focus of this project is a single bird, the Raso lark, so named because currently only exist in the islet of the same name.

The island of Raso despite the fact that only about half the area this of small, Barren Island of 7km 2 provide suitable habitat, this is currently the only refuge of the Raso lark. As a restricted distribution area so carries a high risk of extinction, researchers are turning to the possibility of reintroducing these birds on the neighboring island of Santa Luzia and thus increase the chances of survival of this species. To contribute simply access the site here below.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/film-expedition-to-cabo-verde?c=home

Is the new political commentator of RTP1.

I already addressed here this issue of the news commentators on Portuguese television, but for those who do not know, it always caused confusion that the persons chosen for that job by the TV stations, in primetime, are precisely politicians, though they all never get tire of repeating and re-emphasizing that they are out of the political scene. Only believes that's who likes sand to their eyes. I do not, sorry. All in a simulated way or not, with more or less book covers to show for, do politics and those commentators are absolutely nothing credible, or exempt. José Socrates hiring is double the bizarre! How can we understand that the news management of a public channel hires someone who tried on more than one occasion control the media, with particular emphasis on news that put on check the government's image that he led at the time? Not to mention the famous interview with Judith Sousa that enraged him to the point he confronted the journalist, because he thought a question was inappropriate. And as if that were not enough, he passed laws that limited the free exercise of journalism in our country. I made a point of not seeing the lamentable performance of the "future prime minister of Portugal," which I no longer doubt he will be re-elected, given that after two years of self impose luxurious exile, he returns as the prodigal son and was forgiven. From whom I do not know, but I regret that happend in our country. Again.

It is a project written in several hands inspired by the images of Pedro Costa.

It is the first time I talk about an e-book for a good reason, the quality of its writing and the magnificent pictures. "Parallels" is a project of Alberto Silva as he stresses on the preface that just come and who's only common thread for the four writers emerged from the photographs of Pedro Costa. Since then the first image the black and white this book had a dramatic impact on me, I could not take my eyes off this arid landscape of humanity, but full of natural force, throbbing, intense and wild. Some of the texts are seductive; address various stages of death, several places of the soul in the form of poetry, prose, or just phrases. It is a publication that escapes the conventional, but is not difficult to read, gives much food for thought. Even without the touch of the turn of the page, it is a small and simple work with texture, how? I leave that to your discretion. I hope you are surprised, like I was, think it is not a pretentious book and I've read things with much less quality that only served to waste paper, which is not the case. Find out for yourselves. Good reading.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7o7a7x5gd4vm6gq/Paralelos.pdf

Sarah Linhares is a young singer who bets on new musical dialectics that reflect modern universes of sound. A rout that this young Canadian descendant of Madeirans, faces with joviality and confidence in the future, just like her music.

Your first album "Pure Life" emerged from a trip to Venezuela. Why this country?
Sarah Linhares: I went to Venezuela, because I worked with my old boyfriend. I always liked the South American music, Latin rhythms, samba and had this opportunity to work with musicians from that country.

The album only emerged at that time or you had this idea before departing from Canada?
SL: I worked in a Venezuelan music record, which was recorded there and which I left because there were many artistic differences. From this experience came "pura vida" which is a single track, because at first I did not know how I could work in musical terms. In this joint project I had at my disposal a number of musicians and when then the relationship ended and I did not know how to do new songs. I began to look for other people who I enjoyed working and asked them if we could make music together and the result is "messages from the future."

So what could you draw from that experience was essential to create this first album?
SL: Yes, it has some influence, but this work is more urban.

You call this style of future soul, why?
SL: Yes, because I think it has sounds from the space and like the concept of the future associated with soul music and although is not my style of music, because it is an older sound. I thought of devising new sounds from the electronic and mixed r & b. I think it's different.

Another film of Vicente Alves do Ó about women and their idiosyncrasies.

The director Vicente Alves do Ó likes women, likes actresses, likes creating complex personalities with various layers that are being peeled plan by plan, scene by scene and in my opinion there is nothing wrong with that. These "15 points in the soul" made me want more, more pictures, I didn't got tired of looking at the stylized beauty of Rita Loureiro, how the light fell on her pale face, the cinematography of Luis Barquinho, the careful and wonderful wardrobe, as never seen in on other Portuguese films, suffice to say that this work could only have been done by Paulo Gomes. It is a visual delirium, a silhouette that reminds me immediately Kim Novak, the cold goddess. The script well managed the silences. Almost dispensed dialogues. The decor was simply a luxury, a space that really surprised me was the chameleon loft, if I didn't know better I would never say it been inhabited by a man, it is eclectic almost minimal at the same attractive and with lots of personality. The soundtrack of Pedro Janela in my view grasped the nature of the enigmatic character of Simone and her escape from reality, the dream that never was. If you haven't seen it, go see it and taste it like a fine wine. Good movie!

The imperfect arose spontaneously one day and became a phenomenon of popularity. Dolls that gain the characteristics of people who own them, an innovation from the studio Inelo of two young Portuguese designers who bet on the difference allied with a certain craftsmanship.

How inelo started? It is the joint of your names.
Ines Freitas: We are a couple and designers. He works in a studio and I in another. But we decided to join in one.

You joined because you had very similar ideas and concepts is that it?
IF: Yes.
Gonçalo Martins: In terms of graphic design we had an identical taste.

You met in college?
GM: No, we still have a small age difference.
IF: I was still studying when I met him. He was already a designer. It is through photography that we know each other, by liking each other's work.
GM: We had both a mini gallery on the site "looks" and started to review the images of each other and decided to finally meet personally. (Laughs)
IF: We enjoyed the same kind of photos, one day I had to work after hours and he helped me and then we reached the conclusion that the two of us were an excellent team. Functioned quite well.

So how come the imperfect?
IF: It was from projects that we invented, it was not to anyone in particular. Emerged as a joke. I've always enjoyed sewing. And once Gonçalo draw a graphic doll and I remembered passing it to the real thing, then we realize that the result was funny and people started commenting, why not sell it?
GM: At first it was just an idea we were brainstorming at home and then we started to face it from a business perspective. It was never to create a business around it.
IF: After people started asking for a doll and there was a step to customization, because making an equal for all you can buy in a store. We wanted to do something more original and unusual and what we started to do is that when we received an order we customize the image f the person.

A website was created with the aim to help in the detection and classification of invasive species in our forests.

In Portugal there is a large number of invasive species, and "despite the positive aspects that have justified sometimes the introduction of these plants, they are responsible for many adverse effects, often difficult and expensive resolution and in some cases irreversible ". According to data provided by the page "invasive" currently there are about 678 species that have been introduced by man casually or not in the national territory. The Azores and Madeira have also impressive numbers, respectively 1000 and 430 vascular plants that are present in farmland, gardens and in local forests. "Invasive" is intended to be an online platform to help you learn the "full profiles of the now considered invasive species in the country, and provides tools and information that is useful for those who wish to deal with this problem, managers with problem with invasion areas, community members of the scientific community or others interested in the subject." In the page we can also submit records of sightings, i.e. files with information on invasive plants existing or new species found by people who consult the page it is a personal and collective mapping which may be useful both to scientists also to private. This project appears in the "sequence of tasks and dissemination of projects Invader Invader II, pioneers on the problem of invasive plants in Portugal, and the project Live Science" Disclosure on Invasive Plant Species in Portugal "and also had the invaluable help of" Researchers from the School of Agriculture of Coimbra and the Centre for Functional Ecology, of the University of Coimbra, which develop research in biological invasions. "
* (Invasive Plants Not Identified)

http://invasoras.uc.pt/

The Parish of Machico is currently one of the emblematic places but for the knowledge of the expansion of archeology in Portugal, for its wealth of historical patrimony that has now been made public, the discovery of the bones of one of the first people who lived in the island. A finding of great importance in terms of biological anthropology, explained to us, by the biologist with the Center for Studies beyond the Sea, Rafael Nunes. So who was this woman, nicknamed Ana D'Arfet

What is the significance of this finding?
Rafael Nunes: It is very important because we believe are the oldest human remains of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The archaeological data of these findings date the fifteenth century, who together with traces also found in Carreira street in Funchal, makes this the oldest, i.e., date back to the discoverers of the island. It can be the first indication of a settlement from the mainland, the first generation.
Doesn't confirm the legend of Machin and Anna D'Arfet?
RN: No, the legend appears in the imaginary Madeira and it is intrinsic in the minds of the people of Machico, but is just that, a legend. No one can speculate that this is a finding confirms this story for two reasons, allegedly Ana D'Arfet was buried in Machico and these bones were not and supposedly the young lovers came to the island in the twelfth century and these are vestiges of the fifteenth century. This is just an analogy with the lady who first arrives to this island.

What was your contribution?
RN: After an archaeological excavation where data both animal and human was found, I have prepared and studied the remains are now on display. Mostly doing comparative anatomy, the bones relate to the anatomical model and study the fragments that are there, the tarsals, the metatarsals and phalanges.

And the jaw?
RN: Yes, the maxillary and the mandible remains are the most important, because from such small fragment we could remove the most information possible. Namely, we can determine the sex by their morphology we could unfold it was female; we determined the age, the wear of the tooth, approximately 35 years old. We also determine some diseases, the most relevant is the dental hypoplasia is a condition that occurs due to a lack nutrient during tooth development, and these data may help to understand her social background. A person who has this type of dental disorder usually comes from a lower socioeconomic group, poorer.

The concert will take place on the16th of this month, at 22 hours at the headquarters of the musical group Miragaia.

"After a few years in which each side collaborated on various projects in music, theater, ballet performance", "vain bone" is the latest meeting of two musicians: Alexandre Soares who was the guitar teacher in the initial formation of GNR and Ana Deus, which gave body and soul to the famous "three sad tigers"
The first album of this pair, "Animal", was considered one of the best of 2011 in terms of Portuguese music, a minimalist and essential work, done with one voice and guitar with electronic arrangements.
The songs of this album went through several stages before being written as so do the themes of the new album, yet to launch, by looking in the public the skill and the way that will make them more "grown up". They continue to "give voice to the nerves "and to the poets like Ernesto Melo e Castro, Valter Hugo Mae, Alberto Pimenta and Regina Guimarães, but as they say their music is," good Portuguese spoken-sung-shouted and improbable guitars present bone with vanity."

It is a work that results of scientific and archaeological survey of the fortification carried out between 2005-2006. It is a study of the findings of that brings together a set of texts of the researchers Élvio Sousa, Rafael Nunes and Brian Philp.

This book is based on the findings of the fort of St. Joseph. What conclusions you reached?
Élvio Sousa: The fort was built in the eighteenth century and not before as was alleged, between the fifteenth and sixteenth century was a rock, could be a landing zone, but that was it. Its construction began during the second half of the fifteenth century, hence it appears that the name of the king that was in power, Dom Joseph was at the time of the Marquis of Pombal. It was built to help in the defense of Funchal and also shows how important were the English influence. It was a British headquarters during the occupation of the island and we found extraordinary things, from metal objects used by the English fleet, swords, muskets bullets, components of Brown Bess, a weapon used in the Napoleonic wars. Many objects of seventeenth-century pottery, a bone workshop, manufacturing buttons with this material. It is a study that seeks to understand the occupation of space in the period from 1750 until the present day.

What other elations you could withdraw from this study?
ES: The Fort St. Joseph is the only fortification of Funchal that has been excavated so far. And also shows the importance of archeology to the knowledge of the everyday life, in this case until the nineteenth century. The artifacts are very curious.

On the question of whether it is an independent territory?
ES: It's a complicated legal issue. That was an isle that belonged to the territory of the archipelago; however, it is a controversial topic.

You found also traces of bones?
ES: There were animal bones and Rafael Nunes studied the cutting techniques. Brian Philp focused on the raising of the structure.

For how long was the occupation of the island by the British?
ES: I do not know the exact date, but I think it was until 1820.