1985. Mary was alone. She is raped at home the last redoubt of her loneliness. Her sanctuary is now her ordeal. A runaway car while crossing the street can be the solution ... This is premise of a short film , whose screenplay was written by Jaime Monsanto in partnership with Nuno Campos Monteiro, who is in full crowdfundig until the month of June with the aim of raise funds to finance the remaining production and editing of this project which addresses the issue of abortion .

What can you tell about this movie ?
Jaime Monsanto : We tried to address an issue in a more universal way. And in the limit there is always a person with a decision, only she lives with this resolution whether we like it or not and its consequences.

But why just this issue of abortion ?
JM : For various reasons, one is the referendum, and this new law seems to me however that the issue fell into oblivion . The truth is that this legal framework does not solve anything, it raises a new requirement in terms of responsibility and civility, the law gives me somehow the right to choose, which is demanding in itself in terms of awareness, a person has to decide and the why it decides, ie , it is a decision about life. The person requires attention, openness, support and training, requires a whole set, the law itself is a very little, is also needed an education, a path that leads a person to make that decision. That was one of my concerns not to have a slope on one direction or another, want to go towards the importance, the relief and difficulty that a woman has to go thru when making a decision like that.

Yes, but it was your personal choice does not meet the fact that the law somehow ignore the opinion of men in this area ? Potential parents, because deep down it is always women who decide?
JM : You know, maybe I am a freak of a man, I claim a role, participation in such a decision, yes. Truth be told , if I had a partner, girlfriend, or wife and we had to take such a decision and she wants an abortion, I can demand for my convictions, not to. Now, if she has to get pregnant, endure pregnancy for nine months, must have the child, take the role of being a mother and she has to decide it all over her body and the opposite also occurs. I say: I do not want you to do it and she has to decide for my external imposition and look at her body this particular way, with all that entails in physical and emotional terms.

You transported all these issues for the female character? Do not think that is a contradiction, given that you are a man and for obvious reasons you cannot put yourself in the place of a woman .
JM : That's right and we're both writers, but this is the essence of this law, is a demand, it is not a certainty that is a woman's question. As an individual participant in this decision, which was posted to the society, I have to participate in the search and I'm personally in a search , I'm not in certainty, absolutely no .

Looking for financial backups you created a trailer that looks more like a short documentary ...
JM : It's a trailer for a documentary .

Nuno Moreira began a solo career through a project in its own name, the NM studio in 2007 , which specializes in Art Direction, Photography and Book / CD Design . His visual references are diverse and come from different areas of personal interest, such as film, music, painting or architecture.
His photographic work focuses on detail and texture, bringing a special atmosphere and a visual narrative for each project . Currently resides in Tokyo, Japan, where he promotes his works around the Asian countries and plan future projects and exhibitions.

What are you looking in a picture ?
Nuno Moreira : I do not make my life photography. It's a form of expression, rather than trying to please someone or have a defined purpose, has to do with each project, but end up being intertwined. So it is a form of self and individual expression in which I can seek refuge to search some issues that interest me.

So what distinguishes your regard from other photographers you know ?
NM : I do not know if I should answer that because I obviously see photo, but it is not something that compare with my work, probably I care more exploring something not so much to do with photography, but it has more to do with emotional and internal states that something intrinsic of us as humans, I do not know if it has much to do with fotogradfia itself , or if I have a lot to do with this issue to be compared, what distinguishes my work from other photographers. It is a search for something visual, from the inside. This last work I did has to do with states, to look at the other people , the movement while traveling, raising questions first because I like to observe others, I am a born observer and like to understand not only what I'm thinking, but others think it is obvious that they are mere possibilities about what is happening to people. But that's what led me by example to my last work, although already thinking about another, but always a searching for something .

Thankfully you already focus about your last work , are states of mind that symbolize reflection, how you though about these different cultures , which was the common thread for all those pictures ?
NM : First it was surprising to find that these images have followed me for so long. It was something that was not conscious, I went looking for pictures, they were appearing while traveling for different reasons, either personal or in professional terms because I work as a graphic artist, I was always taking photographs, I use this means for foundation of other issues, but this project has advanced only after coming to live in Japan and have organized my files, I realized that there was a kind of a pattern, a visual line that had to do with individual people in a given city environment, urban, or people who crossed my way, some known, others unknown and had always do with this moment of time, an interval, lost in thought or daydreaming when you 're alone and it is more propitious to happen because we are not interrupted . And I had noticed that in many of my images that somehow I was attracted to because I clicked, looked on. It was something that I had not realized , but that only has to do with it, this individual moment .

Do not you think this happens because you insert yourself in this type of situation ? You have lived in several countries and now you are in Japan , in a completely different culture from the European, feels like you're alone and isolated within a crowd that does not understand you .
NM : In some ways yes, but mostly not as a matter of misunderstanding, but I like to travel alone, of been a moment that I take for me to question and resolve in personal or work terms, to deep clean the head, certainly, I'm more likely to look around me and see these mirrors in other people and different situations.

The red squirrel returned to our country after centuries of absence.

A long time ago there was a small cone pine eater rodent, expert climber of trees, dusky color, inhabiting the forests of Portugal . One day however arrived large groups of loggers who cut almost all the trees of the kingdom to build caravels would sail towards the unknown worlds Our little shaggy friend who knew nothing of such human follies, was forced to " migrate " to other places in search of shelter and food. Until one day ... five centuries later, the red squirrel was again sighted in the no longer reign, but the now Portuguese Republic, for the great joy of a biologist, Rita Rocha Gomes, researcher at the University of Aveiro (UA), which created a project for this purpose called " red squirrel in Portugal". The study drevies from her Postdoctoral , which " the main goal is to understand the expantion of this specimen in the national territory, which factors influence this enlargement and their patterns of behavior."
Develop with help of the Wildlife Unit of the Department of Biology at UA, this scientific project also wants to "do the genetic characterization of the species so that the final set of results, one realizes what is the future of the squirrel in Portugal and its expansion will continue, or conversely, be reversed . " To achieve data on this species in our territory, unable to be permanently present in the forest areas north and south of the country, the biologist appreciates the contribution of all the squirrels sighting or evidence of their presence by sending the records through a survey online, or the facebook page of the project. "
And let there be no doubt when you see some , the researcher describes the animal as "a friendly rodent with a very fluffy tail and that can be seen in forests , mainly in the treetops . Despite its name red the squirrel staining varies greatly, from brown to completely black , so it is normal to have some confusion when it comes to red squirrel . "
However , it is not intended only to collect sightings of this elusive squirrel, another objective of the study is to map a series of observations that indicate their existence in a particular place , namely " chewed pine cones that have a peculiar pattern, because these animals leave the scales the top forming has a small tuft , and are fairly easy to recognize on the floor of the forest. Unfortunately, because this species is affected by the road network , " one can also witness the dead animals found on roads " says Rita Gomes Rocha.
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It is the monthly featured for a full summer of color.

One of the fashion trends for this spring-summer 2014 are the graphics printed, inspired by contemporary art, which will delight the most avant-garde women in terms of wardrobe. Indeed, it was one of the strongest bets of Portuguese fashion designers on the catwalks of Lisbon Fashion, as is the case of Luis Carvalho and Ricardo Dourado.

Were formed in November 2002 and has never stopped since. They are a rock band that bet on a different sound that has evolved over its 10 years of existence. Now , are toasting fans with a new musical work entitled "a ceiling like us", but want more .

Define the sound of the " bad man " , although you consider yourselfs an alternative band.
Claudio Alves: We make music above all taking into account what are our influences and what we heard throughout our lives. While band, which is ten years old , our sound has undergone some changes over time and that are defined in the evolution that happened while growing as people who are fans of music and different things that learn to listen over the years . What then is our sound ? It is characterized mainly by the instruments we chose the bass, the drums and the fact that we only have a guitar has influence on the songs, individuallizes it. I think our sound is a bit raw, what concern ourselves above all is to make something true, show our expertise and not to demonstrate a great post production , although I find it difficult for those who make a real living thing to define what is their sound, the best way to show it is asking people to do a search , to listen, because that is the best way to know us.

But would you say is a rock band?
CA : Now in the end we finally say we're rock . Nowadays the lexical field of music is so huge that I cannot understand, or know then all, I define the band as rock , is what we played, we learned from an early age .

Let's talk about the first album from the "inside out ", of 2007 , claim that this record work was your birth and that came after several years on tour, the songs were chosen depending on the taste of the public, or the alignment of the themes was just your responsibility ?
CA : I think it was a little of both hypotheses. Why? Over time we were playing the songs that have been growing with the interaction of people as we got together, what the public was saying and what we felt was the live music, but were thought only after the alignmen , we decided together what we thought it would sound good and better build a speech and not just a collection of songs scattered without content.

You wrote most of the lyrics and I know they are very personal, what inspires you to write songs ?
AC : I've been told several times that are very personal lyrics, the fact is that we all have different life experiences, mine has nothing special , it's super common , but the truth is that we have to think of something to help write songs and build them. I base myself in the moment, above all on things that happen around us, events that I want to talk . Some ideas to build themes appear without realizing they arise, for example , at a bus stop by the simple fact of being alone made me want to write a lyric, which is part of the last album and maybe later will be understood differently by people who are listening , they think I'm saying something different , however , was an idea that will not be understood by all the same way, but words have that .

Jorge Baptista de Figueiredo isthe heteronym of José António Santos, musician, teacher and writer. While musician won the Portuguese musical youth prize and also the award for young musicians. Throughout his career he recorded albums with Dulce Pontes and Ala dos namorados, but the music is not his only artistic facet, writing also holds a firm place in his life, as is the case of this book of poetry .

Why choose a heteronym ?
Jorge Baptista de Figueiredo : To be an extension of who we are, our identity, a sort of upgrade and must be a heteronym that has to do with us . The history of this name is not taboo, because Jorge is the name of my younger brother, who obviously love , Baptista comes from a Judeo- Christian tradition , if you will, is someone who tells the truth and Figueiredo because I was on a site in Brazil called Figueira for three weeks at the beginning of the nineties, which struck me very positively .

The fact that you have chosen a heteronym also comes from the fact that you are a great admirer of Fernando Pessoa?
JBF : He is the master of poetry , it is impossible to remain indifferent in such a way with the appearance of Perssoa because poetry has never been the same . He operated an unprecedented revolution in this literary style , made it lighter, more accessible and deeper simultaneously. When I read it I was completely infected, electrocuted , the way he writes, the depth he addresses in his books definitely contributed to the way this book was written.

What was the line of thought that you followed for the selection of poems that are part of Opus 1 ?
JBF : There was clearance of poems, there was a whole set of poems that was selected, chosen and then formatted to fit inside the book. My poetry is very sentimental, autobiographical, very intimate and had to be adapted to be included in this book .

Adapted in what sense ?
JBF : Poems that were dedicated to third parties in order not to be too obvious from the inner point of view, and so had to be formatted and adapted so that it had the consistency of a book and could pass the message of poetry. Then there was the framework, much more than the miter is the substance basically the book includes sonnets, two blocks of 4 rhymes and two triplets, which is par excellence the system used . I have 70 % of sonnets and then 2 pentaptych, two sets of 5 poems and a hexaptych which are six, that speak of the stations of the year and senses therefore was to create a general consistency in terms of content.

Eugene Sequeira is an agronomist and has been linked to several Portuguese universities as a teacher . Twice he held the presidency of the League for the Protection of Nature ( LPN ), between 1996 to1999 and also between 2005 and 2009 . Gave impetus to flagship pilot projects of the LPN, such as compatibility of agriculture with protection of birds in Castro Verde, commonly touted as a success story. It had also among other positions, Coordinator of the Working Group Agriculture / Environment of the National Agricultural Research Institute, participated in the preparation of the meeting of Rio de Janeiro ( Agenda 21 ) and in the drafting of the Convention to Combat Desertification , currently being representative of Portuguese Environment NGOs in the National Commission on the Environment and Sustainable Development ( NCESD ) .

How much is it worth nature in Portugal ?
Eugene Sequeira: The survival of man. Our future and our children .

As a member of NCESD noted that there are many studies on soils in Portugal which were not taken into consideration by the laws regarding arrangement of the national territory.
ES : The law on spatial planning is only valid for urbanism and has nothing to do with the land, we attempted to resolve this problem in the cities, but about safeguarding this item there is not a single word about the land use by dams that are good for nothing, it will not have water. The best lands are under water, and when it is build a dam as Aguieira the population only had a solution all emigrate to Switzerland. Another problem is that the good land for cattle, like goats or cows, has only one economic solution eucalyptus. The planning is vital, but it's not just where they put the houses , it is also the site for agriculture and forest . And if we want to save I'm not saying it's over with eucalyptus, but before plant it is necessary to organize first, because in case of fire a zone of oaks and s open area is necessary to slow the fire, or if there is a streams there must be lined with ash trees. At the top, on the slope, or ridge has to be an area of grass with some isolated trees and on one side and the other has to be oaks before planting eucalyptus again, why? If the fire comes from the bottom up, gets up there and is lost before reaching the trees, because it has the open space, functioning as counterfire not burning anything more. If the fire comes from above towards the valley reaches only eucalyptus and it is over, and for that one has to rule the territory. To make this work there has to be people for agriculture to keep livestock in open areas , there must be schools and work to keep young people so they do not go away and only stayed the old who can barely keep these lands clean.

Then the reports of the National Commission of the environment have no effect with the political forces ?
ES : No, because we do not have strength, I was part of the committee and was unable to save any square meter of land for an ecological network . But the low interest is not only by the political hierarchy is everyone's. Note, 30 % of PIB came from construction, is all over now but there are empty houses , more or less 1 million and 200 thousand dwellings and do you know how much Portuguese banks owe from those granted loans to construction companies? 180 billion and the question is who is going to pay? And do you think it stopped the speculation ? I am a witness in two cases in court because you have to stop this madness.

But in this time of crisis there is already a return to agriculture, through private initiatives or public orchards.
ES : Yes, but where is the rock pear, or strawberries as ours ? The cheeses, the meats like black pork, or a mirandesa steak, almost there is none. Why is it that Sintra that had the saloio cheese and a wonderful strawberries, has nothing? When I asked farmers to return to these traditions they almost beat me to death because they wanted to sell the land to make buildings for the tourists. I was told that the land was too much work. I spent a lifetime digging holes and I know it's hard , working in clay, and if they worked like that same people would not have so many diseases .

A short film by André Dias and Joana Silva .

It is a good start for a small production like catvision films, " forgive me " has a simple and exciting plot, but what I really enjoyed was the photography and montage. I appreciated the fact that they filmed it in the historic center of Oporto by night, and if I did not know the invictus so well could say that this story about redemption would take place in any portuguese city. I could call it an urban myth, if was not pure fiction, a Christmas tale if you will, of how a chance encounter can generate a moment of forgiveness. This short film has another asset which is his main actor , Agostinho Magalhaes and also the young actress , Karina May that " haunts " our homeless through the city streets in order to retrieve an object that is precious to her. Another fact that must be stressed is the soundtrack by Yann Tiersen and Sigur Ross , which gives the necessary strength to this delightful script, which, incidentally , was awarded in the contest of short films of Canelas. And yes , it is a film of 2012, but Christmas is whenever man wants and I feel like that this week. Good movie.

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Duarte Belo has done thousands of kilometers in order to capture Portugal. It is a photographer who has a portfolio of more than one million images, from the deepest Minho, to the most overlooked Alentejo to the mid-Atlantic islands, which aims to show what is yet to discover of the most extraordinary in our country .

How would you define your photography?
Duarte Belo: My photography is mostly of landscapes and architecture. There's one more documentary than artistic aspect, although the image is nonetheless an interpretation.

Is photography a mystery or not ?
DB : I think yes, it will always be because it is the mystery of life itself that photography tells us, shows us.

The choice of topics that you photographed falls mainly on landscapes and arquictetura is it because of your background in architecture ? And I speak not only photographies of monuments in on your images there is a search for the lines and by the forms.
DB : It is no doubt. I was already doing photography before arquitecture and after with it delved much to my sensitivity to the issue of forms and landscape .

An accident help the preservation of a Portuguese endemic plant.

The Leuzea Longifolia is an endemic plant of Portugal, very rare, in danger of extinction. Are known in only a few cores geographically distant in our country, and therefore biologically isolated, consisting of a very small number of individuals, which, added to the isolation and disruption by man 's hand, contributes significantly to their vulnerability ecological terms, so that the chance discovery of a significant population of this plant in Leiria, has rise to the rapid intervention of Quercus and the authorities, including the Office for the Protection of Nature of GNR, Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry (ICNF) and the County of Leiria .

This whole adventure began, by mere chance, when some responsable of the environmental organization passed along a terrain in Pouzos, which was being prepared in terms of soil for the planting of eucalyptus, after verified the existence of a substantial core of this small flower Quercus immediately before the permanent loss of this heritage of rare flora mobilized to the acquisition of the 10,500 square meters of land and established a microreserve that ensured the survival of nearly a thousand specimens presumed to exist at the site. This process led to the creation of a site of Community importance of Azabuxo - Leiria , in the district of Leiria and their subsequent integration into the natura network.

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