Portugal/Chine - Ces Chinois qui font leur cinéma

L’octroi de permis de résidence dans le cadre du programme portugais des “visas dorés” concernait initialement les étrangers qui investissaient plus de 500 000 euros dans de l’immobilier. Depuis l’altération de la loi le 30 juin dernier, ces visas regardent également les investissements de 350 000 euros dans des activités scientifiques ou de 250 000 euros dans la production artistique locale.

Ainsi, alors que 2 465 “visas dorés” ont déjà été octroyés depuis leur création, 50 résidents chinois désirent utiliser le programme afin de tourner des films à Lisbonne ou à Porto. Ces candidats devront engager au minimum 250 000 euros dans la production de films de fiction. Un investissement non négligeable pour l’Etat portugais, qui a créé pour l’occasion la Portuguese Film Commission, afin de centraliser ces demandes spécifiques.

Courrier International - France 

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 18 - A Plutonian Landscape

A Plutonian Landscape 
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institue

Explanation: This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon of a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14. The dramatic, low-angle, near-twilight scene follows rugged mountains still popularly known as Norgay Montes from foreground left, and Hillary Montes along the horizon, giving way to smooth Sputnik Planum at right. Layers of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere are also revealed in the backlit view. With a strangely familiar appearance, the frigid terrain likely includes ices of nitrogen and carbon monoxide with water-ice mountains rising up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet). That's comparable in height to the majestic mountains of planet Earth. This Plutonian landscape is 380 kilometers (230 miles) across.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 17 - Pickering's Triangle in the Veil

Pickering's Triangle in the Veil 
Image Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsävainio (Astro Anarchy)

Explanation: Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus, as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. Blasted out in the cataclysmic event, the interstellar shock waves plow through space sweeping up and exciting interstellar material. The glowing filaments are really more like long ripples in a sheet seen almost edge on, remarkably well separated into the glow of ionized hydrogen and sulfur atoms shown in red and green, and oxygen in blue hues. Also known as the Cygnus Loop, the Veil Nebula now spans nearly 3 degrees or about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. While that translates to over 70 light-years at its estimated distance of 1,500 light-years, this field of view spans less than one third that distance. Identified as Pickering's Triangle for a director of Harvard College Observatory and cataloged as NGC 6979, the complex of filaments might be more appropriately known as Williamina Fleming's Triangular Wisp.

UEFA Benfica continua em 6º e FC Porto é 11º classificado

Benfica e FC Porto não ganharam posições, mas também não desceram no ranking da UEFA, que foi atualizado após os primeiros jogos da fase de grupos da Liga dos Campeões.

O Benfica continua em sexto lugar, numa lista em que o Arsenal desceu para nono e foi ultrapassado pela Juventus Paris Saint-Germain.

O FC Porto mantém-se no 11.º lugar, atrás do Dortmund.

Portugal mantém o quinto posto no ranking, atrás da Itália e à frente da França.

Classificação:

1. Real Madrid (Esp) 145.228 pontos

2. Bayern (Ale) 137.521

3. Barcelona (Esp) 134.228

4. Chelsea (Ing) 122.056

5. Atlético Madrid (Esp) 118.228

6. Benfica (Por) 99.016

7. Juventus (Ita) 93.221

8. Paris Saint-Germain (Fra) 92.983

9. Arsenal (Ing) 92.056

10. Dortmund (Ale) 90.521

11. FC Porto (Por) 85.016

...

37. Sporting (Por) 43.016

70. SC Braga (Por) 26.516

102. Estoril (Por) 16.016

104. V. Guimarães (Por) 15.516

113. Marítimo (Por) 14.016

122. Académica (Por) 13.016

127. Rio Ave (Por) 12.016

128. Nacional (Por) 12.016

129. Paços de Ferreira (Por) 12.016

165. Belenenses (Por) 9.016

O Jogo - Portugal

Conhece todos os miradouros em Lisboa?... São Vicente de Fora

Very few people are aware of the fantastic city views from the rooftop of this monument. The domed National Pantheon stands right below it, and you may look out over Alfama to 25 de Abril Bridge.

Muitos desconhecem que do topo deste mosteiro tem-se uma vista fantástica de Lisboa. O Panteão Nacional encontra-se logo ao lado, e pode-se admirar também todo o bairro de Alfama e a Ponte 25 de Abril.

Imagenes del Mundo - Incendios en California

Un equipo de bomberos trabaja en un incendio forestal en Middletown, California (Estados Unidos). Al menos una persona ha muerto y más de 400 viviendas y negocios han sido destruidos hasta el momento por el rápido avances de las llamas.

ELAINE THOMPSON (AP)

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 16 - Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio

Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio 
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.

Explanation: New high resolution images of Pluto are starting to arrive from the outer Solar System. The robotic New Horizons spacecraft, which zoomed by Pluto in July, has finished sending back some needed engineering data and is now transmitting selections from its tremendous storehouse of images of Pluto and its moons. The featured image, a digital composite, details a surprising terrain filled with craters, plains, landscape of unknown character, and landforms that resemble something on Earth but are quite unexpected on Pluto. The light area sprawling across the upper right has been dubbed Sputnik Planum and is being studied for its unusual smoothness, while the dark cratered area just under the spacecraft is known as Cthulhu Regio. So far, New Horizons has only shared a few percent of the images and data it took during its Pluto flyby, but will continue to send back new views of the dwarf planet even as it glides outward toward even more distant explorations.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 15 - A Spiral Aurora over Iceland

A Spiral Aurora over Iceland 
Image Credit & Copyright: Davide Necchi

Explanation: What's happened to the sky? Aurora! Captured late last month, this aurora was noted by Icelanders for its great brightness and quick development. The aurora resulted from a solar storm, with high energy particles bursting out from the Sun and through a crack in Earth's protective magnetosphere a few days later. Although a spiral pattern can be discerned, creative humans might imagine the complex glow as an atmospheric apparition of any number of common icons. In the foreground of the featured image is the Ölfusá River, while the lights illuminate a bridge in Selfoss City. Just beyond the low clouds is a nearly full Moon. The liveliness of the Sun -- and the resulting auroras on Earth -- is slowly diminishing as the Sun emerges from a Solar maximum of surface activity and evolves towards a historically more quite period in its 11-year cycle. In fact, solar astronomers are waiting to see if the coming Solar minimum will be as unusually quiet as the last one, where sometimes months would go by with no discernible sunspots or other active solar phenomena.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 13 - A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas

A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas 
Image Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College) & Linda Westlake

Explanation: It was a typical Texas sunset except that most of the Sun was missing. The location of the missing piece of the Sun was not a mystery -- it was behind the Moon. Featured here is one of the more interesting images taken of a partial solar eclipse that occurred in 2012, capturing a temporarily crescent Sun setting in a reddened sky behind brush and a windmill. The image was taken about 20 miles west of Sundown, Texas, USA, just after the ring of fireeffect was broken by the Moon moving away from the center of the Sun. Today a new partial solar eclipse of the Sun will be visible from Earth. Unfortunately for people who live in Texas, today's eclipse can only be seen from southern Africa and Antarctica.

Foto - "Finalmente apaixonado" - 11-09-2015

"Finalmente apaixonado"

Tarnos, 07-09-2015

JoanMira