26 October 2011
By Carolina Matos, Editor — A team of educators from the United States visited private and public schools on São Miguel island to set up a pilot project to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to the development of pedagogy and materials to teach Portuguese as a second language anywhere in the world. The […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, São Miguel
26 October 2011
Lisbon-based Banco Espírito Santo (BES) has agreed to pay $6.9 million to settle U.S. civil charges that it sold thousands of investments that weren’t registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Associated Press reported Monday. According to the source, most of the customers who bought mutual funds and other investments from BES were […]
25 October 2011
By John Howard Wolf — Not a hard-and-fast rule, but worth repeating in this particular case study of Portugal. There is another proverb that reads thus: those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. As I said in Part I of this study, it is absolutely necessary to become familiar with the past in […]
Posted in Heritage
24 October 2011
American entertainer Britney Spears will perform in Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, at the Atlantic Pavilion on her last performance of her world tour. She performed in Portugal in 2004, at the Rock in Rio Lisbon festival, to a full house of disappointed fans for her alleged “playback” performance. She is now retuning to launch her […]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, People
23 October 2011
Faial Island is hosting its 7th Azores Cinema Festival, the “Faial Film Fest 2011” to be held in Horta, from October 30 to November 5. The festival will feature 33 short-films and 9 feature-films in the categories of fiction, documentary, animation and experimental. More than 200 short-films and over 30 feature-film productions were submitted. Film […]
22 October 2011
The Ambassador of Portugal in Washington DC, Nuno Brito, is scheduled to visit the East Coast October 24. According to the program for the visit, Ambassador Brito will meet with Massachusetts state dignitaries, including the Office of Governor Deval Patrick, Portuguese American legislators at the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Honorable Phillip Rapoza Chief […]
