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<title><![CDATA[Alberto Angela, Lucarelli e Licia Colò ci fanno un baffo. O anche due. Punti di vista.]]></title>
<link>http://aureolina.wordpress.com/?p=393</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aureolina</dc:creator>
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Questa puntinosissima esserina luminosa è una medusina australiana.
Una delle più pericolose al m]]></description>
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<p>Questa puntinosissima esserina luminosa è una medusina australiana.</p>
<p>Una delle più pericolose al mondo, dicono.</p>
<p>A vederla così, fa anche un po' tenerezza,</p>
<p>ma, si sa, dopo "Arsenico e vecchi merletti" è meglio non fidarsi delle vetuste tenenerine..</p>
<p>Comunque, tutto ciò per dire che sono stata all'Acquario di Genova,</p>
<p>tra meduse, stelle di mare, foche baffute e mante carezzevoli (sono pelosine!!!)</p>
<p><a href="http://aureolina.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/p1000943.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-396" title="p1000943" src="http://aureolina.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/p1000943.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a><a href="http://aureolina.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/p1000892.jpg"></a></p>
<p>Ah, sì, c'era anche il tartarugòn indispettito da un pesciolino nero che, oltre a fare un doveroso peeling alle rugose zampone, si divertiva a sbeffeggiare il musone della tartaruga con la pinna caudale..ecco il perchè di quell'espressione lì..</p>
<p>Ma, ma..non sono stata solo a Genova, ho trascorso due giorni bellissimi a Torino.</p>
<p>Città signorile, ma non austera e sopratutto molto ospitale.</p>
<p>A chiunque io e il Figlio Unico chiedessimo informazioni veniva spontaneo rispondere con un sorriso e con tanta gentilezza: e scusate se è poco.</p>
<p>Al museo egizio, più che le mummie di epoca faraonica, mi hanno colpito i resti di epoca più antica,</p>
<p>preistorica per esattezza, mummificati ma non ancora con l'uso di deposizione in sarcofago:</p>
<p><a href="http://aureolina.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/p1000673.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-397" title="p1000673" src="http://aureolina.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/p1000673.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>posizione fetale e viso rivolto verso il sole, con l'augurio di una nuova nascita nel mondo di là..</p>
<p>Ovviamente, lo sguardo femminile non poteva non posarsi sugli accessori, ritrovati intatti in alcune tombe, guardate questi sandali:</p>
<p><a href="http://aureolina.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/p1000719.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-398" title="p1000719" src="http://aureolina.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/p1000719.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>la parte rialzata all'insù serviva ad attraversare meglio le zone con tanta sabbia, come un deserto, e le parti laterali servivano ad evitare che il sandalo si riempisse troppo di sabbia.</p>
<p>Questa foto è per i meno sensibili, lo ammetto:</p>
<p><a href="http://aureolina.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/p1000712.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-399" title="p1000712" src="http://aureolina.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/p1000712.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>come si può notare, il Figlio Unico scruta con attenzione da anatomo-patologo le incisioni laterali sotto le costole fatte per privare il corpo degli organi, mummificati a parte e conservati nei vasi detti Canopi.</p>
<p>Oh, ecco. Poi non dite che nel mio blog si parla solo di tristezza ermetica, a volte faccio anche reportage.</p>
<p>Ma ecco non stavo aggiungendo al racconto la cosa più importante:</p>
<p>ho finalmente incontrato un amico, Stefano,</p>
<p>ed ho avuto la possiblità di guardarlo forte forte negli occhi.</p>
<p>Abbiamo avuto conferme in due,</p>
<p>siamo stati bene in quattro,</p>
<p>(ma eravamo in sei contando due cuccioli al seguito)</p>
<p>e abbiamo capito che davvero, come tempo fa gli avevo scritto,</p>
<p>l'umanità non è poi così distante.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Isola d'Elba]]></title>
<link>http://pisopiso.wordpress.com/?p=114</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ziovite</dc:creator>
<guid>http://pisopiso.it.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/isola-delba/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ogni curva una bestemmia&#8230;

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<title><![CDATA[Dix baigneurs brulés par les méduses dans les Landes]]></title>
<link>http://mneaquitaine.wordpress.com/?p=1331</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pascalbourgois2</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mneaquitaine.it.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/dix-baigneurs-brules-par-les-meduses-dans-les-landes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sud-Ouest, le 29 août 2008, Aude Ferbos, Thomas Cholet et Jean-François Renaut
CÔTE SUD. - Après]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>CÔTE SUD. - Après les attaques massives de physalies lundi sur le nord, hier une dizaine de baigneurs a été brûlée à Capbreton, Messanges et Seignosse</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Le retour des méduses </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Ce n'est pas l'invasion massive du début de semaine sur la plage de Biscarrosse, où une vingtaine de baigneurs avaient été brûlés. Brûlures qui avaient nécessité l'hospitalisation de huit d'entre eux, et la fermeture de la plage. Les heures suivantes, la grosse frayeur avait vite cédé le pas à quelques jours d'accalmie sur le littoral.</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Un répit de courte durée cependant : hier les méduses, <strong>toujours des physalies</strong>, ont à nouveau sévi sur les plages de la côte sud où les ont portées des courants marins orientés Nord-Sud.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Que faire ? Selon la préfecture, trois personnes en ont été victimes à Seignosse, cinq à Messanges et deux autres encore à Capbreton, sans cependant être hospitalisées. Pour autant, <strong>tout contact avec des physalies, reconnaissables à leur couleur bleutée et à leurs filaments pouvant atteindre plusieurs mètres, occasionne des lésions cutanées très douloureuses et peut également provoquer sensation de malaise, accélération du rythme cardiaque et de la pression artérielle, vertiges et douleurs abdominales.</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Pratique, la préfecture explique qu'il faut éviter de toucher ces méduses <!--more-->même échouées et, en cas de découverte, prévenir sans délai les postes de secours. Elle préconise également de se baigner en zone surveillée.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Rien d'alarmant. Sur la plage des Savanes de Capbreton, où deux baigneurs se sont plaints de piqûres de physalies bleutées, le scooter des mers était de sortie. Le brigadier-chef Campana et le gardien Labille ont sillonné toutes les plages de Capbreton, signalant ça et là quelques physalies isolées. « Elles sont facilement repérables avec leur poche d'air flottante. On les suit jusqu'à la plage et on les jette directement. Mais il n'y a vraiment rien d'alarmant », explique Dominique Campana.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Dans la zone de baignade surveillée, où de nombreux estivants profitent de leurs dernières vagues, personne ici ne parle de physalies. « Si on nous signalait des méduses, nous n'irions pas à l'eau. Nous sommes là depuis le début de l'après-midi, et je n'en ai pas vu une seule », témoigne Mariane, dont les trois enfants plongent en toute liberté dans les vagues. « On fait confiance aux MNS. Tant qu'il n'y a pas drapeau rouge, on se baigne tranquillement », ajoute Pierrick, le papa.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Rien à signaler à l'horizon. Le scooter tourne depuis une heure et demie pour prévenir un éventuel arrivage massif de méduses, comme ce fut le cas à Biscarrosse lundi. Mais à l'horizon, rien de nouveau. Sur la plage des Estagnots, à Seignosse, où trois baigneurs ont été brûlés, les méduses sont passées presque inaperçues. Gérard, un habitué de la côte landaise, y va de son petit commentaire : « J'étais à Bisca quand les méduses ont débarqué. Ce jour-là, il y avait des raisons d'avoir peur. Aujourd'hui, c'est un jour comme un autre ».</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Comme chaque année. Pas d'affolement non plus du côté des « locaux ». Les pharmaciens de Seignosse et Capbreton ont en effet accueilli des victimes de la physalies. « Mais pas plus que d'habitude », modère-t-on à la pharmacie Moreaux de Capbreton. « Il y a toujours eu des méduses sur notre littoral, c'est une affection que l'on connaît depuis des années. Alors oui peut-être que cet été, elles étaient plus nombreuses, poursuit-il. Sur le coup c'est vrai que la douleur est vive, mais passagère : ça fait vraiment l'effet d'un coup de fouet, avec une traînée rouge sur la peau. »</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Même discours à Seignosse, à l'officine du Penon, où l'on a accueilli des victimes de la physalie « tout l'été ». Aujourd'hui, cinq baigneurs tout de même se sont présentés à la porte de la pharmacie, suite à un malheureux contact avec une méduse. Si la cause est la même, le traitement en revanche diffère selon les patients et les manifestations présentés par chacun. À la pharmacie Moutron, toujours à Seignosse, aucun cas n'a été signalé aujourd'hui, en revanche « plusieurs victimes se sont présentées il y a deux ou trois jours. »</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Bref, la physalie sur les plages landaises, ce n'est pas nouveau mais ça fait toujours aussi mal et peut-être plus souvent que les autres étés. Et quand on a choisi l'Atlantique pour éviter les attaques de requins, oursins et autres murènes des latitudes tropicales plus inhospitalières, on préférerait que les méduses aillent promener leurs filaments ailleurs.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Méduses sur le littoral girondin : appel à la vigilance ]]></title>
<link>http://mneaquitaine.wordpress.com/?p=1080</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pascalbourgois2</dc:creator>
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AFP Bordeaux le 26 août 2008
Méduses sur le littoral girondin : appel à la vigilance de la pré]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">AFP Bordeaux le 26 août 2008</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;">Méduses sur le littoral girondin : appel à la vigilance de la préfecture</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Cette mesure fait suite "à l'hospitalisation, lundi au centre hospitalier d'Arcachon, de huit baigneurs victimes de brûlures cutanées et de malaises résultant d'un contact avec des méduses", a indiqué la préfecture, dans un communiqué.</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Ces vacanciers, dont deux ont été touchés à La Teste (Gironde) et six à Biscarrosse (Landes), en limite des plages girondines, ont pu ressortir après quelques heures de surveillance, a-t-on ajouté de même source.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">L'Ifremer d'Arcachon a pour sa part identifié l'espèce repérée lundi comme étant la "Physalia Physalis" et confirmé son "caractère dangereux", <!--more-->selon la préfecture. Il ne s'agit pas de la même espèce que celle arrivée cet été sur plusieurs plages de la Côte d'Azur, qui sont des "Pelagia Noctiluca".</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong>La préfecture de Gironde a lancé mardi un appel à la vigilance en raison de la présence de méduses potentiellement dangereuses sur le littoral girondin.</strong></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Ces méduses, reconnaissables à leur couleur bleutée lorsqu'elles sont immergées, sont dotées de très longs filaments pouvant atteindre plusieurs mètres. Le contact avec ces animaux provoque des lésions cutanées très douloureuses de type brûlure ou urticaire.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Des symptômes plus généraux sont possibles: sensation de malaise, accélération du rythme cardiaque et de la pression artérielle, vertiges, douleurs abdominales, a rappelé la préfecture, en précisant que pour l'heure, aucune interdiction de baignade n'a été prise sur les plages girondines.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Une reconnaissance aérienne effectuée mardi matin par un hélicoptère de la gendarmerie a confirmé la présence en grappes d'une trentaine de spécimen, à 500 m de la côte à hauteur de Soulac, Hourtin, Carcans, du sémaphore du Cap Ferret et des passes sud du bassin d'Arcachon. Cinq à dix spécimen ont par ailleurs été aperçus à l'intérieur du bassin.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[A l l i g a t o r i a ]]></title>
<link>http://rapida.wordpress.com/?p=1396</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[il "morso" delle meduse rosse...]]></title>
<link>http://ilgattodischroedinger.wordpress.com/?p=61</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stelu</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ilgattodischroedinger.it.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/il-morso-delle-meduse-rosse/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Le vacanze stanno per concludersi, tuttavia molti di voi sicuramente non rinunciano ad andare al mar]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Le vacanze stanno per concludersi, tuttavia molti di voi sicuramente non rinunciano ad andare al mare questi ultimi giorni di Agosto...e come darvi torto?!</p>
<p>Oggio vorrei proporvi un articolo su dei piccoli animaletti marini che però ci fanno soffrire un bel pò quando le incontriamo in acqua, parliamo della pelagia noctiluca, o più semplicemente della medusa rossa.</p>
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<p>Già da Aprile i media hanno parlato di meduse "rosse" che invadevano le nostre acque, un esempio è stata la vera e propria invasione a Portofino. Queste meduse sono abbondanti nei nostri mari, generalmente vivono lontane dalla spiaggia ma, soprattutto, nei periodi autunnale e primaverile si avvicinano alla costa.</p>
<p>Sono molto temute dai bagnanti nel periodo estivo a causa del loro "morso" che causa irritazioni molto dolorose. Ho segnato la parola morso tra virgolette perchè in effetti non si tratta di "morso", le meduse NON mordono affatto; venendo a contatto con il nostro corpo rilasciano una sostanza irritante che provoca irritazione e dolore più o meno accentutato a seconda del tipo di pelle.</p>
<p>Questa sostanza è di per se' basica, per cercare di arrecare sollievo basta utilizzare del semplice aceto! insomma.  ammoniaca o soluzioni ammoniacali non servono a nulla.</p>
<p>Oltre a questo metodo per così dire "fatto in casa", si possono usare tubetti di gel astringente al cloruro di alluminio (es. quello della MOST). Questo gel viene utilizzato anche per le punture di zanzare e va applicato più volte sulla zona irritata fino a scomparsa della lesione. La particolarità di questo gel e che blocca il prurito e la diffusione delle tossine presenti nella sostanza rilasciata dalla medusa sulla pelle.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Quante meduse (slurp)!]]></title>
<link>http://atlantix.wordpress.com/?p=546</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>atlantis1962</dc:creator>
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Si mangiano. Le meduse si mangiano. Ne è certa Marie-Dominique Arrighi che sul suo blog regala ]]></description>
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<p>Si mangiano. Le meduse si mangiano. Ne è certa Marie-Dominique Arrighi che sul suo blog regala anche una bella <a href="http://consottisier.blogs.liberation.fr/marie_dominique_arrighi/2008/08/les-mduses-a-se.html">ricetta</a>.</p>
<p>Dopo la bollitura, infatti, le sostanze urticanti restano neutralizzate. Si sciacqua la polpa e la si condisce con limone e pepe (l'olio no). Poche calorie, proteine purissime. Buon appetito!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[MEDUSE, RAFFICHE DI USTIONATI IN MARE]]></title>
<link>http://laetitiatassinari.wordpress.com/?p=2909</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>laetitiatassinari</dc:creator>
<guid>http://laetitiatassinari.it.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/meduse-raffiche-di-ustionati-in-mare/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Strage di ustioni da medusa. Molte le richieste al 118. Nella giornata di ieri sono stati tanti i tu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-style:normal;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:medium;">Strage di ustioni da medusa. Molte le richieste al 118. Nella giornata di ieri sono stati tanti i turisti in vacanza a Viareggio ad aver avuto necessità di richiedere l'intervento di un'ambulanza per le punture di medusa. Ad essere “colpiti” molti bambini. Come ogni anno, soprattutto nel periodo più caldo, ritorna il problema meduse. Dovuto anche alla tropicalizzazione delle acque del mare Tirreno. Ieri al Pronto Soccorso, soprattutto a quello pediatrico, sono stati in tanti a presentarsi con i propri mezzi o trasportati dalle ambulanze del 118, con sintomi di orticaria provocata da ustione da medusa. “ In caso di contatto, che può provocare sulla pelle una reazione locale, conviene applicare garze imbevute di acqua tiepida e aceto al 50% - questo il consiglio medico. “Può essere utile sciacquare la parte dolente con acqua salata tiepida, mentre è da  evitare  l'acqua dolce, il ghiaccio e le frizioni di sabbia”. Vietato ovviamente grattarsi perché così si stimola l'attività muscolare e si mette in circolo più velocemente il "veleno". “Il trattamento locale deve essere continuato per alcuni giorni con pomate al cortisone  e antistaminici”. In caso di vere e proprie ustioni il trattamento può essere diverso e deve essere valutato dal medico.</span></p>
<p style="font-style:normal;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:medium;">Letizia Tassinari </span><a href="http://laetitiatassinari.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/corriere-della-versilia-corriere-di-lucca1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2830" src="http://laetitiatassinari.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/corriere-della-versilia-corriere-di-lucca1.jpg?w=128" alt="" width="128" height="45" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[le meduse invadono il mare e le spiagge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ormai da diversi anni, con l&#8217;arrivo dell&#8217;estate arrivano le meduse. Fare il bagno divent]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://titolando.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/meduse300g.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-317" src="http://titolando.wordpress.com/files/2008/08/meduse300g.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Ormai da diversi anni, con l'arrivo dell'estate arrivano le meduse. Fare il bagno diventa pericoloso. Nel 2006 la notizia veniva data dal <a href="http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/cronaca/articoli/articolo322314.shtml"><strong>tgcom.<br />
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Quest'anno il fenomeno sembra avere valenza eccezionale, sia per il numero di meduse, sia per la sua estensione geografica.</p>
<p>Sempre <a href="http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/cronaca/articoli/articolo423371.shtml"><strong>tgcom</strong></a> racconta come le coste italiane siano letteralmente invase. Sono milioni gli esemplari di tutte le dimensioni e di ogni colore. Si muovono spostate dalle correnti e rischiano di arrivare fino alle spiagge.</p>
<p>L'allarme è stato lanciato  dall'<a href="http://www.minambiente.it/"><strong>Istituto di ricerca per la protezione ambientale del ministero dell'Ambiente</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Al momento arrivano segnalazioni frammentarie da pescatori o ricercatori impegnati in altre missioni.Ma è alquanto evidente come il fenomeni riguardi tutti i paesi che si affacciano sul mediterraneo.</p>
<p>Le segnalazioni indicano una grande presenza al largo del <a href="http://maps.google.it/maps?client=firefox-a&#38;rls=org.mozilla:it:official&#38;hl=it&#38;tab=wl&#38;q=mar%20tirreno"><strong>Tirreno</strong></a>, davanti alla <a href="http://maps.google.it/maps?client=firefox-a&#38;rls=org.mozilla:it:official&#38;hl=it&#38;tab=wl&#38;q=mar%20tirreno"><strong>Liguria</strong></a> e più in generale nei mari intorno all'Italia. Al momento quelle spiaggiate (passate il termine) sono poche, ma se le correnti dovessero farle avvicinare troppo alla costa fare il bagno diventerebbe troppo pericoloso per i turisti.</p>
<p>Il fenomeno non è solo "di casa nostra", pensate che anche il prestigioso <a href="http://www.iht.com/"><strong>Herald Tribune</strong></a> ha dedicato un articolo al fenomeno intervistando una esterta di meduse dell'Istituto di Scienze Marine di Barcellone.</p>
<p>La dottoressa spiega come il problema sia legato ai cambiamenti in atto nei nostri mari. Questi ultimi sono frutto dei cambiamenti climatici, dell'inquinamento delle acque costiere e della diminuzione di pesci che mangiano le meduse, <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunnus"><strong>tonni</strong></a> e <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesce_spada"><strong>pesci spada</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Il problema, tuttavia, non è per l'uomo (in fondo basta non entrare in acqua per non incappare in fastidiose irritazioni), quanto per gli altri pesci che potrebbero morire per sofficamento a causa dell'eccessivo numero di meduse. Ovviamente la pensano diversamente i pescatori italiani che, ad ogni battuta, raccolgono circa 400 kili di meduse e quindi altrettanti in meno di pesci. E se in altri paesi esistono piani d'intervento con barriere, come in costa azzurra e spagna, in Italia non ci sono soldi, quindi è probabile che arrivino tra i turisti a pochi metri dalla spiaggia.</p>
<p>Questo è un video fatto un anno fa a Trieste:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/T-C139RyjnM'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/T-C139RyjnM&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Ma quali sono le meduse chiamate in causa? In parte ce lo dice il <a href="http://www.corriere.it/cronache/08_agosto_05/meduse_barriera_c2a9f99e-62af-11dd-8825-00144f02aabc.shtml"><strong>correre.it</strong></a>: la <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagia_noctiluca"><strong>Pelagia noctiluca</strong></a> e la <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizostoma_pulmo"><strong>Rhizostoma pulmo</strong></a>. Entrambe sono urticanti. A queste due specie si aggiunge la <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella_velella"><strong>Velella</strong></a> che appare come una moneta da due euro trasparente.</p>
<p>Bisogna precisare che le meduse in questione non sono tossiche, ma semplicemente urticanti. Quindi il rischio per l'uomo è limitato ad un leggero fastidio e qualche arrossatura. L’unica specie lievemente tossica è la <a href="http://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/Chrysaorahysoscella.htm"><strong>Chrysaora hysoscella</strong></a>, ma i problemi sono comunque legati a livello di epidermide, e sono assenti elementi di tossicità sistemica, come in altre specie.</p>
<p>Le più pericolose vivono in Giappone e in Australia e sono: la <strong><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chironex_fleckeri">Chironex fleckeri</a></strong>, le cui punture, dolorosissime, introducono un veleno neurotossico che può portare rapidamente alla morte, e la <a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/C_barnesi.html"><strong>Carukia barnesi</strong></a>, presente nella barriera corallina del <a href="http://maps.google.it/maps?client=firefox-a&#38;rls=org.mozilla:it:official&#38;channel=s&#38;hl=it&#38;q=Queensland%20australia&#38;um=1&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;sa=N&#38;tab=wl"><strong>Queensland</strong></a>, a nord-est dell’Australia.</p>
<p>Detta anche ’vespa di mare', è tra le più velenose del mondo: la ’strisciata' può causare il collasso nel giro di pochi minuti e il suo veleno provocare un improvviso e fortissimo aumento della pressione arteriosa, oltre a emorragie cerebrali.</p>
<p>Completano il quadro delle meduse pericolose la <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalia_physalis"><strong>Physalia phisalis</strong></a>, detta Caravella portoghese, che è presente nei mari tropicali. La tossicità dei suoi tentacoli, lunghi sino a 40 metri, pare sia paragonabile a quella di un serpente cobra. Quanto a dimensioni, la medusa gigante <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomura%27s_jellyfish"><strong>Echizem Kurage</strong></a>, inquilina nei mari giapponesi, può arrivare a pesare fino a 200 kg (fonte: <a href="http://www.lastampa.it"><strong>la stampa</strong></a>).</p>
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<link>http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/?p=232</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ogni anno, appena il clima si riscalda, e la stagione balneare viene aperta, con essa parte la caccia alle meduse. Un pericolo per il bagnante e per i gestori degli stabilimenti balneari, ma, proprio come per lo squalo, chi attacca le meduse additandole come pericolo pubblico da eliminare, commette un errore, e questo errore si perpetra di anno in anno a causa della disinformazione.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-237" src="http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/1162324860286jellyfish.jpg" alt="" width="373" height="280" /></p>
<p><strong>Cos'è una medusa</strong></p>
<p>Quello di medusa è uno dei due stadi della vita degli cnidari (l'altro è quello di polipo), i quali possono essere sessili (vivono aderenti al fondo/substrato), nectonici (nuotano) oppure possono avere entrambi i cicli vitali.</p>
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<p>La medusa è un invertebrato acquatico, prevalentemente marino, a simmetria raggiata, così fatto: ha un ombrello, all'interno del quale si trova il manubrio, e i tentacoli.<br />
La medusa si muove spinta dalle correnti oppure sfruttando l'idrogetto, ovvero espellendo l'acqua che si trova all'interno dell'ombrello, ottenendo così quel famigerato movimento pulsatorio che tutti conosciamo.<br />
Ma tutti conoscono molto bene i tentacoli della medusa, le sua armi di predazione, le sue "forchette" per il pranzo di plancton (oppure in certi casi di pesci), insomma di tutto ciò che si appiglia e che possa essere condotto verso la bocca (che è sita nel manubrio) da parte della medusa. I tanto temibili tentacoli contengono gli cnidociti, cellule che, grazie allo cnidociglio, a contatto con la preda (o il preicolo) rilasciano le cnidae, ovvero dei filamenti estroflessibili (nematocisti o spirocisti) che possiedono una tossina (all'interno dello cnidoblasto), per lo più urticante, ma a volte paralizzante (dipende anche dalle dimensioni della vittima).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-235" src="http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/jellyfish.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="334" /></p>
<p><strong>Come ragiona una medusa?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Beh la nostra brava medusa non ragiona, e questo non perchè sia sciocca e non voglia soffermarsi a riflettere, ma perchè non ha un sistema nervoso centrale, essa ha almeno tre anelli nervosi concentrici, collegati fra loro in modo di formare una sorta di rete. Quando l'ombrello della medusa viene toccato od urtato, il segnale si propaga nella rete in modo controllato e fa reagire opportumanete la medusa, la quale, il più delle volte, scarica i suoi cnidociti e se ne va nella direzione opposta a quella dell'urto.<br />
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-239" src="http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/scyphozoa-horcut.jpg" alt="rete nervosa" width="466" height="238" /><br />
La medusa inoltre mantiene il proprio equilibrio grazie a un sistema di "pietruzze" (statocisti contenuti nei ropalii) che, toccando l'interno della medusa, sono in grado di fornire alla stessa dati in merito alla sua inclinazione. Ed è in grado di sapere dove si trova la luce grazie a dei fotorecettori.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusioni</strong></p>
<p>Ora, ci sarebbero da dire decine di cose sulle meduse, ma il punto resta che esse si fanno trasportare dalle correnti, non hanno un cervello, percui non possono decidere se siete un pericolo/una preda/un ostacolo, hanno un numero limitato di risposte comportamentali e sono i primi animali con una rete nervosa.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-238" src="http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/cassiopeia-cassiopea-andr.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="330" /></p>
<p>Possono sembrare fastidiose, forse non vi farebbe piacere riceverle in faccia o altrove, ma sono indiscutibilmente nel loro ambiente, e sono soprattutto indice di pulizia delle acque. Esse ospitano organismi simbionti che producono ossigeno in cambio del trasporto gratuito che fornisce la medusa, sono un pericolo o un fastidio solo se noi le cerchiamo o le impattiamo per sbaglio.</p>
<p><strong>Rimedi&#38;Consigli</strong></p>
<p>Senz'altro il mio consiglio è di evitare il bagno se sapete che in quel momento loro sono presenti, se invece non lo sapete, tenete nella borsa apposite pomate, esse sono in grado di neutralizzare le tossine delle meduse, se addirittura temete chock anafilattici portatevi queste pomate con voi in acqua.</p>
<p>Rispettate le meduse, e imparate a conoscerle, sanno essere simpatiche e interessanti, la loro vasta gamma (in assenza di sistema nervoso centrale sembrano davvero "intelligenti") di comportamenti è affascinante e a volte divertente (come vedere die polipi di cnidari saltellare giù per gli scogli per fuggire dal predatore).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-236" src="http://gianfrancotaormina.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/250px-mediterranean-jellyfish-af.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="166" /></p>
<p>Insomma il mare affascina, piace, ma nasconde misteri, conosciamoli prima di metterli alla gogna e mietere vittime, creeremmo dei danni impressionanti all'ambiente, danni evitabili solo usando il cervello per studiare.</p>
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<link>http://reporterre.wordpress.com/?p=200</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>élodie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Pile dans les temps, après le 14 juillet, elles ont attrapé la deuxième vague des départs en vac]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pile dans les temps, après le 14 juillet, elles ont attrapé la deuxième vague des départs en vacances. Des invitées urticantes – quand même, ne pas avoir de cœur ni de cerveau, mais venir gratouiller les jambes des baigneurs, elles sont bien vicieuses : les pompiers seraient intervenus <a href="http://fr.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080716/tfr-mer-meduses-animaux-vacances-tourism-f56f567.html" target="_blank">plus de 500 fois</a>, mardi.</p>
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<p>Le phénomène pourrait paraître bien anodin s'il n'était aussi récurrent. Jusqu’ici, en se basant sur deux siècles de relevés, on avait pu établir des <a href="//lemonde.fr/sciences-et-environnement/article/2008/07/17/faute-de-predateur-les-meduses-pullulent-en-mediterranee_1074384_3244.html?xtor=RSS-3244" target="_blank">cycles d'environ douze ans</a> : la méduse apparaissait pendant une période de deux à sept ans, puis disparaissait cinq ans. Mais, cet été, la demoiselle revient en huitième année. <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagia_noctiluca" target="_blank"><em>Pelagia noctiluca</em></a> a le mauvais goût de faire fi des statistiques. Gabriel Gorsky, chercheur du CNRS à l'Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche-sur-mer, rappelle <a href="http://www.laradiodelamer.com/podcast/environnement/ecoutez-les-meduses-1058.html" target="_blank">ici</a> que ce sont des organismes qui se déplacent en bancs énormes, de façon aléatoire au gré des vents et des courants.</p>
<p>Alors, la faute à qui si on se retrouve avec une indélicate entre les jambes lorsqu'on se baigne ? « <em>À l'homme</em>, répond sans hésiter Gabriel Gorsky. <em>Quand vous prélevez des compétiteurs ou des prédateurs, les méduses envahissent le milieu. Quand vous augmentez la température, c'est favorable aux méduses.</em> » Certaines tortues ingurgitent jusqu'à 100 kg de méduses par jour, mais dérangées par les activités humaines, elles se sont faites bien rares. D'autres invoquent la raréfaction du thon rouge. Mais pour Patrick Lelong, biologiste à l’Institut océanographique Paul Ricard aux Embiez (Var), cela ne tient pas la route : « <em>Personne n’a jamais retrouvé une méduse dans l’estomac d’un thon</em> », déclare-t-il dans <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/339715.FR.php" target="_blank">Libération</a>. <a href="http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/sinformer/actualites/news/t/oceanographie-1/d/les-meduses-sinvitent-de-nouveau-sur-la-cote-dazur_16192/" target="_blank">Les polluants chimiques</a>, auxquels la méduse serait particulièrement résistante, alors que certains font proliférer le phytoplancton, et donc son casse-croûte, sont aussi pointés du doigt. « <em>Ce sont des organismes très opportunistes</em>, conclut Gabriel Gorsky. <em>Ils sont là depuis 600 millions d'années et sont très bien adaptés au milieu.</em> »</p>
<p>Une idée : et si on faisait des sushis aux méduses, en lieu et place du thon rouge ?</p>
<p>[edit : ça fait une jolie chute, mais évitez l'association "trop de sushis, plus de thon rouge, des marées de méduses", c'est un poil plus compliqué...]</p>
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<link>http://viaginnastica.wordpress.com/?p=122</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marinasem</dc:creator>
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It could easily have been the role model for the terrifying creature in t]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">From <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/08/eajelly108.xml">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></p>
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<p class="story2" style="text-align:left;">It could easily have been the role model for the terrifying creature in the film 'Alien'.</p>
<p class="story2" style="text-align:left;">A perfect toxin-loaded killing machine, there is no creature on earth that can  dispatch a human being so easily or so quickly.The box jellyfish is so packed with venom that the briefest of touches can bring agonising death within 180 seconds.</p>
<p class="story2" style="text-align:left;">And if comes under sustained attack it responds by sending its compatriots into a super-breeding frenzy in which millions of replacements are created.</p>
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<h3>Video - Jellyfish invasion - National Geographic - Nature Shock</h3>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3092/Overview"><img class="alignnone size-small wp-image-124" style="vertical-align:baseline;" src="http://viaginnastica.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/clipboard011.jpg?w=300" alt="Video - Jellydish Invasion - channel.nationalgeographic.com" width="201" height="185" /></a></p>
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<p class="story2">The jellyfish have a formidable array of genetic equipment to help them survive:</p>
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<li>Four brains that operate competitively in the search for food.</li>
<li>A highly complex sensory capacity and the ability to distinguish colour.</li>
<li>The ability to live in inhospitable waters at a depth of up to 10,900 metres.</li>
<li>A total of 24 eyes with moveable pupils giving them 360-degree visibility.</li>
<li>Box jellyfish have 6-8ft long tentacles. Just 5-6ft across the body is enough to kill a human in 180 seconds.</li>
<li>Venom is released on contact - even after it is dead - and each creature has 4000,000,000 venomous fibres.</li>
<li>Humans who have been stung and survived have needed 30-40 milligrams of morphine. A broken leg requires between 5-10 milligrams.</li>
<li>Despite decades of study scientists have been unable to unravel the mysteries of its complex venom but it is known to contain 20 different proteins.</li>
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<p>The swarms of jellyfish are multiplying in the Western extent of the Pacific ocean and threatening 20,000 miles of coastline off Japan, Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea and Australia.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Marina Semiglia</em></p>
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<link>http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/?p=722</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Yop!</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mooloozone.it.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/du-troisieme-au-neuvieme-art/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ce matin j&#8217;ai dessiné pour préparer un atelier didactique BD sur le hiatus intericonique, ce]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ce matin j'ai dessiné pour préparer un atelier didactique BD sur le <strong>hiatus intericonique</strong>, ce fameux mécanisme de la narration qui fait qu'une planche de BD n'est pas qu'une suite d'images : c'est une suite d'images cohérentes, logiquement enchaînées, créant ensemble une dynamique, racontant une histoire, une action, faisant s'écouler le temps, etc...</p>
<p><img src="http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/mona-lisa-yop.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="577" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-723" /></p>
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<p>Bref, il fallait aborder ça sous un angle ludique. Et les grands maîtres (De Vinci, Van Gogh et Géricault) vont m'y aider ! A leurs dépends !</p>
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--EDIT DU LENDEMAIN: Voilà où j'en suis ! Il me reste un dessin grand format à finir !<br />
<a href="http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/dessins-hiatus.jpg"><img src="http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/dessins-hiatus-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-728" /></a></p>
<p>Et les nouvelles pages des modules didactiques Bédéastes Imageurs !!<br />
<a href="http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/dessins-modules-hiatus.jpg"><img src="http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/dessins-modules-hiatus-thumb.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-730" /></a></p>
<p>Ca fait pas mal de dessins, en fait, mais bon... j'avais envie de (me) faire plaisir avec cet atelier, qui se déroulera à Vannes, au Collège Montaigne (où deux élèves ont été primés au concours BD de Perros-Guirec !).--</p>
<p><strong>Suuurpriiiiiise !</strong> :D<br />
Je me lance dans l'animation ! La vraie ! (naan, je déconne !)</p>
<p>Toujours pour ce même atelier, j'explique que la BD est <strong>l'art de suggérer sans tout dessiner</strong>. Une série de Cow (notre meilleur pédagogue) et d'une peau de banane vient illustrer le propos.<br />
Montée en gif, elle fait un petit dessin animé que voilà !</p>
<p><img src="http://mooloozone.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/animation-cow-et-la-banane.gif" alt="" width="300" height="357" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-726" /></p>
<p>C'est con, c'est pas calé, mais ça me fait marrer !</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lo psiconauta visivo Personale di Aleksandar Zograf]]></title>
<link>http://associazionemirada.wordpress.com/?p=134</link>
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<dc:creator>gianlucacostantini</dc:creator>
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A cura di Stamboulis°Costantini
Un evento del Festival Meditaeuropa
3 maggio – 5 luglio 2008
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<p>A cura di <a href="http://www.stamboulis.eu" target="_blank">Stamboulis</a>°<a href="http://www.gianlucacostantini.com" target="_blank">Costantini</a><br />
Un evento del <a href="http://www.meditaeuropa.eu" target="_blank">Festival Meditaeuropa</a><br />
3 maggio – 5 luglio 2008<br />
Galleria Mirada – Libreria Interno 4<br />
Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna<br />
Sabato 3 maggio ore 19.30 inaugurazione con l’autore</p>
<p>Nell’ambito del Festival Meditaeuropa, giunto alla sua seconda edizione, Galleria Mirada è lieta di ospitare la mostra personale del disegnatore serbo Zograf, che è sicuramente uno degli autori con cui l’associazione ravennate ha intessuto un rapporto creativo importante e continuo negli ultimi sette anni.<br />
Lo psiconauta visivo è una mostra che presenta in galleria una ventina di tavole originali e mumerosi disegni a ricamo realizzati da Gordana Basta, moglie e autrice di diverse sceneggiature di Zograf.<br />
Zograf, conosciuto non solo dal pubblico del fumetto, ma anche da coloro che hanno seguito con attenzione le vicende del Paese oltre Adriatico, rappresenta uno dei migliori esempi di come fumetto, storia contemporanea e reportage ad immagini, possono essere correlati. Il lavoro artistico di questo giornalista - disegnatore è centrato sulla rappresentazione della realtà, letta dagli occhi onirici di un disegnatore che vuole autorappresentarsi come occhio ingenuo di osservazione. L'aspetto onirico e di ricerca dei processi di elaborazione del sogno e dei meccanismi a questo sottesi costituiscono una delle tematiche trasversali al suo lavoro (come testimonia anche il libro Psiconauta, pubblicato anche in italiano). Il titolo della mostra rimanda proprio a questa cifra stilistica del lavoro di Zograf, che costituisce uno strumento di lettura del suo lavoro e del suo modo di guardare e raccontare un reale che a volte facilmente si tinge dei colori del sogno.<br />
Zograf e Gordana Basta saranno ospiti del Festival e incontreranno il pubblico durante l’inaugurazione festosa di sabato 3 maggio. Inoltre Zograf realizzerà un seminario / workshop con gli studenti del corso di fumetto del Liceo Artistico della città e presenterà il suo ultimo libro lunedì 5 maggio alle 18 nella piazzetta di S. Domenico.<br />
Le tavole a fumetti e i ricami saranno disponibili alla vendita e alla visione fino al 5 luglio 2008.</p>
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<p>Nota biografica<br />
Aleksandar Zograf, nome d’arte di Sasa Rakesic, è nato nel 1963 in Serbia. Nel 1986 ha iniziato a pubblicare i suoi fumetti su diverse riviste serbe. Dall'inizio degli anni '90, gran parte del suo lavoro e' stato pubblicato su riviste di vario genere. PUBBLICAZIONI. "Life Under Sanctions", "Psychonaut 1-3", "Flock of Dreamers" (USA), "Dream Watcher" (GB), Diario, "Psiconauta" (Italia), "Psychonaut" (Germania). I suoi lavori sono stati esposti a mostre e incontri sul fumetto di diversi paesi, tra cui: "Expocomics", Bari; "Nuvole a Cremona", Cremona; "Lucca Comics", Lucca; "Caption", Oxford; "Comics Festival in Athens", Atene; "Angoulême 2000", Angoulême. MOSTRE PERSONALI. Pancevo, Belgrado, Seattle. PREMI. 1999: "Hector Oesterheld Award", Roma ; "Scommesse sul futuro", Napoli. 1998: "Lucca Comics - Premio speciale", Lucca; 1997: "Author of the year", Zajecar, Jugoslavia. Bordana Basta collabora con Sasa Rakezic per i testi dei suoi fumetti. Sue storie sono state pubblicate in numerose riviste come "Rare Bit Fiends", "Cow" (USA), "Mano" (Italia), "Patagonija", (Serbia), "Stripburger" (Slovenia). I suoi testi sono presenti negli albi di Alexandar Zograf: "Psychonaut" (USA), "Psiconauta" (Italia) e nelle sue serie settimanali intitolate "Saluti dalla Serbia". Ha partecipato a numerose manifestazioni sul fumetto dove erano presenti i lavori di Zograf.<br />
L'autore è stato pubblicato negli USA, in Inghilterra, Germania, Italia, Francia, Portogallo, Bulgaria, Grecia e Spagna.</p>
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<p>Per info:</p>
<p>Galleria MIRADA – Libreria Interno 4<br />
Via Mazzini 83 Ravenna<br />
Tel +39 0544 217359<br />
<a href="mailto:info@mirada.it">info@mirada.it</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mirada.it">www.mirada.it</a></p>
<p>Orari di apertura Galleria Mirada:<br />
dal lunedì al sabato dalle 10 alle 13 e dalle 16 alle 20 chiuso il giovedì pomeriggio e la domenica.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.meditaeuropa.eu" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-137" src="http://associazionemirada.wordpress.com/files/2008/04/meditaeuropa468x60.gif" alt="" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
<p>PROGRAMMA Festival Meditaeuropa:</p>
<p><strong>VENERDÌ 2 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Inaugurazione mostra fotografica<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 18.30<br />
MODEST - Donne in Medio Oriente<br />
di Alexandra Boulat<br />
Un viaggio nelle vite di donne che si confrontano con Islam, fondamentalismo,<br />
guerra, violenza domestica, educazione e gioventù con l’intento<br />
di svelare la loro forza di carattere e di condividere un momento del loro<br />
destino.<br />
in collaborazione con Agenzia Grazia Neri / Milano<br />
2-17 maggio<br />
martedì - venerdì 10-13/16-19<br />
sabato e domenica 10-19</p>
<p>Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
Lontano<br />
di Andrè Techinè - Francia/Spagna - 2000</p>
<p><strong>SABATO 3 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Un libro, una terra - Italia<br />
Biblioteca Casa Oriani - ore 15.30<br />
Nell’ambito di “Memorie del Mediterraneo”<br />
presentazione del libro “La vita degli altri”<br />
Fotografie di Luca Gambi, a cura di Maurizio Masotti e Sokol Palushaj</p>
<p>Dialogo<br />
Biblioteca Casa Oriani - ore 16.30<br />
Nell’ambito di “Memorie del Mediterraneo”<br />
Quando i colonialisti eravamo noi:<br />
eredità di un passato da non dimenticare<br />
Gabriella Ghermandi (scrittrice) e Erminia Dell’Oro (scrittrice)<br />
Dialogo<br />
Teatro Rasi - ore 18.00<br />
Il teatro in bilico<br />
Tradizione e innovazione nelle esperienze di Mohamed Driss (Direttore<br />
Teatro Nazionale di Tunisi) e Tahar Lamri (autore e narratore)</p>
<p>Inaugurazione mostra fumetti<br />
Galleria Mirada - Libreria Interno 4 - ore 19.30<br />
Lo psiconauta visivo<br />
Personale di Aleksandar Zograf. Una ventina di tavole originali e alcuni<br />
disegni a ricamo realizzati da Gordana Basta, moglie e autrice di diverse<br />
sceneggiature di Zograf.<br />
3 maggio - 3 giugno 2008<br />
lunedì - sabato 10-13/16-20, chiuso giovedì e domenica</p>
<p>Concerto<br />
Teatro Alighieri - ore 21.00<br />
Mare Nostrum<br />
Paolo Fresu (tromba, flicorno, effetti), Richard Galliano (fisarmonica),<br />
Jan Lundgren (pianoforte)<br />
Crossroads 2008, prevendite: 0544.249244</p>
<p>Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
Terra Promessa<br />
di Amos Gitai - Israele/Francia - 2004</p>
<p><strong>DOMENICA 4 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
Tutta colpa di Voltaire<br />
di Abdel Kechiche - Francia - 2000</p>
<p>Spettacolo<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 21.00<br />
Mediterranea<br />
Compagnia del Teatro Stabile di Mordano<br />
testi di Jean-Claude Izzo</p>
<p><strong>LUNEDÌ 5 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Lezione<br />
Biblioteca Classense - ore 11.00<br />
Oriente, orientalismo e il perchè del fascino virale<br />
Federico Squarcini (Università La Sapienza-Roma)</p>
<p>Conversazione<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 15.00<br />
Deriva cartografica da Ravenna al Mediterraneo<br />
Con Roberto Paci Dalò (regista), Daniele De Paz (architetto), Vittorio<br />
D’Augusta (artista), Massimo Casavecchia (direttore della Scuola Superiore<br />
di Studi sulla Città e il Territorio)</p>
<p>Un libro, una terra - Serbia<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 18.00<br />
Aleksandar Zograf (fumettista)</p>
<p>Inaugurazione mostra fotografica<br />
Centro Universitario CIRSA - Ex Asili - ore 19.30<br />
Tracciati Urbani Adriatici<br />
Concorso fotografico<br />
5-16 maggio<br />
ore 10,00 - 19.00</p>
<p>Cena Letteraria<br />
Ristorante Alexander - ore 21.00<br />
Sulle ali del leone. A vela da Venezia a Corfù lungo le rotte della Serenissima<br />
Presentazione di Maurizio Crema, giornalista e viaggiatore</p>
<p>Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
La vita è un miracolo<br />
di Emir Kusturica - Serbia e Montenegro/Francia - 2004<br />
<strong><br />
MARTEDÌ 6 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Lezione<br />
Biblioteca Classense - ore 11.00<br />
Israele e Palestina sessanta anni dopo: la prospettiva archeologico-territoriale<br />
Marcella Simoni (Università di Venezia)</p>
<p>Dialogo<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 18.00<br />
I diritti negati, le occasioni perdute<br />
Valentina Loiero (giornalista) e Paolo Pobbiati (Presidente Amnesty International<br />
- Sezione Italiana)</p>
<p>Spettacolo<br />
Arteficierie Almagià - ore 21.00<br />
Cristiani di Allah<br />
Storie di pirati e corsari, di città e coste, di cristiani e musulmani che si incrociano tra guerre e traffici. Con Massimo Carlotto (voce narrante), Maurizio Camardi (sassofoni, duduk, flauti etnici), Mauro Palmas (liuto cantabile)</p>
<p>Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
Meduse<br />
di Etgar Keret e Shira Geffen - Israele/Francia - 2007</p>
<p><strong><br />
MERCOLEDÌ 7 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Lezione<br />
Biblioteca Classense - ore 11.00<br />
L’archeologia europea nel Mediterraneo. Viaggi, incontri, scambi nel lungo ottocento<br />
Simona Troilo (Università di Padova)</p>
<p>Un libro, una terra - Libano<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore18.00<br />
Alexandre Najjar (scrittore)</p>
<p>Spettacolo<br />
Arteficierie Almagià - ore 21.00<br />
Techno-Sufi<br />
Viaggio, percorso narrativo, all’inseguimento delle peregrinazioni di un derviscio. Con Michele Di Mauro (voce narrante), Fabrizio Vespa (dj), Giovanni De Zorzi (flauto ney)<br />
Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
Lettere al vento<br />
di Edmond Budina - Italia - 2002</p>
<p><strong>GIOVEDÌ 8 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Lezione<br />
Biblioteca Classense - ore 11.00<br />
Turchia e Mediterraneo<br />
Erhan Dogan (Marmara University - Turchia)</p>
<p>Dialogo<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 18.00<br />
Tradizione e contemporaneità nella letteratura mediterranea<br />
Siegmund Ginzberg (giornalista) e Gian Mario Anselmi (Università di Bologna)</p>
<p>Concerto<br />
Arteficierie Almagià - ore 21.00<br />
Sedjanki - Canti attorno al fuoco<br />
Musica Officinalis. Musica dai Balcani e dal vicino Oriente</p>
<p>Cinema<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - ore 21.00<br />
Crossing the bridge<br />
di Fatih Akin - Germania - 2005<br />
<strong><br />
VENERDÌ 9 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Lezione<br />
Biblioteca Classense - ore 11.00<br />
Europa e affinità mediterranee: mito e modello<br />
Scipione Guarracino (Università di Firenze)<br />
Un libro, una terra - Grecia<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - ore 18.00<br />
Takis Theodoropoulos (scrittore)</p>
<p>Spettacoli e concerti<br />
Arteficierie Almagià - ore 21.00<br />
L’Essenza della presenza<br />
Festival delle Culture organizzato da Comune di Ravenna - Assessorato all’immigrazione,<br />
Rappresentanza dei cittadini Extra-UE, in collaborazione con le associazioni di immigrati</p>
<p><strong>SABATO 10 MAGGIO</strong><br />
Dialogo<br />
Complesso San Nicolò - ore 11.00<br />
I beni culturali per il dialogo tra civiltà<br />
Giuliana Calcani (Università Roma Tre) e Cinzia Dal Maso (giornalista)</p>
<p>Un libro, una terra - Marocco<br />
Arteficierie Almagià - ore 18.00<br />
Layla Chaouni (direttrice casa editrice Le Fennec-Casablanca)</p>
<p>Spettacoli e concerti<br />
Arteficierie Almagià - ore 21.00<br />
L’Essenza della presenza<br />
Festival delle Culture organizzato da Comune di Ravenna - Assessorato all’immigrazione,<br />
Rappresentanza dei cittadini Extra-UE, in collaborazione con le associazioni di immigrati</p>
<p>Luoghi di Ravenna:<br />
Artificierie Almagià - Via Magazzini Posteriori<br />
Biblioteca Classense - Via Baccarini, 3<br />
Biblioteca Casa di Oriani - Via Corrado Ricci, 26<br />
Centro Universitario Cirsa-Ex Asili - Via Tombesi dall’Ova, 55<br />
Cinema Jolly.doc - Via Renato Serra, 33<br />
Complesso San Nicolò - Via Rondinelli, 6<br />
Galleria Mirada - Libreria Interno 4 - Via Mazzini, 83<br />
Ristorante Cinema Alexander - Via Bassa del Pignataro, 8<br />
Teatro Alighieri - Via Mariani, 2<br />
Teatro Rasi - Via di Roma, 39<br />
Urban Center - ex Chiesa di San Domenico - Via Cavour, 1</p>
<p>In collaborazione con :<br />
Amnesty International; Artificierie Almagià; Associazione Adrionauti; Associazione Cantieri; Associazione Mirada; Centro per gli Studi Costituzionali, le Culture, i Diritti e le Democrazie - Europa, Eurasia, Mediterraneo; Cinema Jolly.doc; Cooperativa Libra, Corso di laurea specialistica in cooperazione internazionale, regolazione e tutela dei diritti e dei beni etno culturali; Do - Laboratorio culturale - Faenza;<br />
Ex-Serigrafia; Fondazione Casa di Oriani; Fondazione RavennAntica; Jazz Network - Croassroads; Koko Mosaico; Moto di Idee - Faenza; Rappresentanza dei cittadini extra-UE e apolidi; Ravenna Festival; Teatro delle Albe - Ravenna Teatro; Università di Bologna - Sede di Ravenna</p>
<p>Info:<br />
Cell. 339 42 92 679<br />
<a href="mailto:info@meditaeuropa.eu">info@meditaeuropa.eu</a> - <a href="http://www.meditaeuropa.eu">www.meditaeuropa.eu</a></p>
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<description><![CDATA[In una grande stanza completamente buia, solo macchie fluorescenti e sospese a mezz&#8217;aria. Mera]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In una grande stanza completamente buia, solo macchie fluorescenti e sospese a mezz'aria. Meraviglia della natura che sicuramente si puo godere non solo ad <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/ocean-park-hong-kong-1">Ocean Park </a>di Hong Kong!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Trasparenze]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[L'île d'Yeu 2/2]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nous descendons en vélo jusqu&#8217;au port de La Meule - une bien belle descente d&#8217;ailleurs]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nous descendons en vélo jusqu'au port de La Meule - une bien belle descente d'ailleurs... dommage que ce soit un cul de sac, ça promet pour la remontée !<br />
A propos de cul, je vous laisse lire l'écriteau d'un pêcheur facétieux :</p>
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<p>Il y a pas mal de monde dans ce petit port, sans doute à cause de la présence d'un café et sa terrasse... la chaleur donne soif !</p>
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<p>Certains sont équipés pour la plongée sous-marine, et... il n'y a pas que des bouteilles d'air dans leur parage. J'espère que c'était "après", sinon le baptême promet d'être mouvementé !</p>
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<p>Dans l'entrée du port, on s'amuse avec de jeunes goélands qui piaillent. On croise leurs parents un peu plus haut... </p>
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<p>Il y a un peu trop d'agitation à notre goût, il faut presque faire la file pour accéder au promontoire rocheux.</p>
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<p>On repart vers la "pierre tremblante"... Je crois que c'est sur ce chemin qu'on croisera un grand domaine interdit d'accès, de loin on aurait dit une ancienne carrière à ciel ouvert ?! </p>
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<p>On se dirige vers la pointe de la Tranche, le point le plus austral de l'île d'Yeu. Les grandes plages commencent à faire leur apparition dès le village de La Croix...</p>
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<p>Nous n'aurons pas le courage d'aller jusqu'à la pointe des Corbeaux, il fait trop étouffant et le soleil commence à me taper sérieusement sur le crâne.<br />
Certaines plages ont des noms vraiment étranges... la plage des ovaires par exemple ! ^^</p>
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<p>L'eau est froide mais pas glaciale comme on aurait pu s'y attendre... AàG ira faire quelques brasses pour se rafraîchir et accessoirement gagner une photo de mes pieds - oui il est fou, je sais.</p>
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<p>Une belle méduse - on n'a pas tous les jours l'occasion d'en voir de si près...</p>
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<p>On s'offrira une longue pause à chercher des coquillages dans le sable, mais la chaleur finira par nous chasser.</p>
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<p>On enfourche nos vélos et on repart vers le nord.</p>
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<p>Mes fesses commencent à être douloureuses avec cette selle de m****, les vélos homme ont l'air mieux conçu de ce point de vue (non mais quelle injustice, franchement).</p>
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<p>On ne s'arrêtera quasi plus jusqu'à Port Joinville. On voudrait avoir le temps de visiter la ville et de manger avant l'heure du bateau.</p>
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<p>Le tour du port est assez vite fait, ainsi que la visite des quelques ruelles piétonnes.</p>
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<p>Bien sûr, je garde mes manies photographiques habituelles ;-)</p>
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<p>Une mauvaise surprise nous attend : les restaurants de l'île n'ouvrent qu'à partir de 19h (18h30 pour les plus précoces) ! Nous qui espérions manger tôt car notre bateau part à 19h... On trouvera par chance un café qui offre des croque-monsieurs à cette heure. Ca ne remplit pas une dent creuse mais c'est mieux que rien.</p>
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<p>Du coup nous voilà avec un long temps d'attente imprévu avant l'heure du départ... on l'utilisera à une étude sociologique hautement intéressante, mais je ne peux pas vous en dire plus, c'est top secret ;-p</p>
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<title><![CDATA[30X30X30 La bande Vidéo]]></title>
<link>http://artweb.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/30x30x30-la-bande-video-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mypha</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[  Collectif vidéographique soulignant les 30 ans de La Bande Vidéo Du 2 novembre au 16 décembre 2]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://junkskool.no-ip.org/mypha/ext/30X30X30.preview.jpg" align="left" height="480" width="361" />  Collectif vidéographique soulignant les 30 ans de La Bande Vidéo Du 2 novembre au 16 décembre 2007 Vernissage le vendredi 2 novembre à 17 h ESPACE D’EXPOSITION de LA BANDE VIDÉO 620, Côte d’Abraham, Québec</p>
<p>Geneviève ALLARD - Jocelyne ALLOUCHERIE - Jason ARSENAULT - Mélanie BÉDARD - Myriam BESSETTE - Myriam BIZIER - BOBAN - Nicolas BOLDUC - Vincent BOULET - Martin BUREAU - Henri-Louis CHALEM - Eugénie CLICHE - Benoit CÔTÉ - Jean-François CÔTÉ - Manon DE PAUW - France DUBOIS - Jean-François DUGAS - Robin DUPUIS - Daniel FAUBERT - Boris FIRQUET - Charles FLEURIE - Fannie GIGUÈRE - Branka KOPECKI - Isabelle LAPIERRE - Jérôme MINIÈRE - Francis MONTILLAUD - Allison MOORE - Sandrine MURATET - Boran RICHARD - Mélissa TREMBLAY - (Étienne DIONNE / Cindy LABRECQUE - Pierre-Olivier FRÉCHETTE-MARTIN)</p>
<p>Afin de souligner son trentième anniversaire, La Bande Vidéo propose une exposition collective regroupant les oeuvres produites par 30 vidéastes. D’une durée de 30 secondes chacunes, les oeuvres seront compilées sur un DVD en vente au coût de 30 $.</p>
<p>L’équation est simple et s’énonce comme suit : <em>30 X 30 X 30</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.meduse.org/labandevideo" target="_blank">www.meduse.org/labandevideo</a></p>
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<link>http://saulclaes.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/lecon-de-patois-moselle/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Dj Töfel vient de Sarreguemines, Moselle, et nous apprend gentiment quelques rudiments de platt, ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Dj Töfel vient de Sarreguemines, Moselle, et nous apprend gentiment quelques rudiments de platt, patois de la Moselle Est, qui vient directement du francique, parlé des deux côtés de la frontière franco-allemande.</p>
<p>La France, pays de culture, voit ses citoyens mosellans s'échanger les nouvelles du jour dans ce langage auquel il faudra penser pour des codes de guerre si nous en venons à nous quereller avec quelques extraterrestres médusés (ressemblant un peu au niveau de la tête à une méduse).</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/I983pjQ5zm0'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/I983pjQ5zm0&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>A recommander.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Answers to The Six Degrees of Paul Allen Anniversary Contest]]></title>
<link>http://within6degrees.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/answers-to-the-six-degrees-of-paul-allen-anniversary-contest/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>within6degrees</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Answers to The Six Degrees of Paul Allen Anniversary Contest 
 So the prizes didn’t jazz you, eh]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Answers to The Six Degrees of Paul Allen Anniversary Contest</strong></font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>So the prizes didn’t jazz you, eh? C’mon, how many people do you know who have a Darth Vader Jump Drive? </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Oh well, I had to choose between giving out a Star Wars USB Drive or a new Xbox 360 Elite, and I knew that <strong><em>no one</em></strong> would want one of those, so….:-)</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(But seriously, you might want to check out Dynamism’s site.<span>  </span>There are a few really cool items for sale including some sharp-looking futuristic sunglasses that double as a 50-inch plasma screen T.V. when connected to your video Ipod---well, something that <em>feels</em> like a 50-inch screen T.V., anyway---the "I-Theater" sunglasses are actually small enough to fold up and put in your pocket!   Or you could check out the<span>  </span>iTech Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard –why lug around a real keyboard when you can flash a virtual lighted keyboard and type on just about  anything? (see… </font><a href="http://www.dynamism.com/i-theater/main.shtml"><font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman">http://www.dynamism.com/i-theater/main.shtml</font></a><font face="Times New Roman"> and </font><a href="http://www.dynamism.com/virtual-keyboard/main.shtml"><font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman">http://www.dynamism.com/virtual-keyboard/main.shtml</font></a><font face="Times New Roman"><span>   </span>). Pretty cutting edge stuff, you know? </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;">But anyway---let’s get back to the contest ….. I know you’re just dying to know the answers, so here they are! </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><em>Question:</em></strong></font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(1) MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) of Albuquerque, N.M. announced “The World’s First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models,” the Altair 8800 PC, on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. Shortly afterwards, a couple of guys called MITS’ owner Ed Roberts and told him that they had a BASIC interpreter for his computer, the Altair.  One of them later went out to meet with Roberts, discovering on the plane that he and his partners had forgotten to write the loader for the program! He hastily finished writing the loader as he flew in to New Mexico and demonstrated the completed program, BASIC, at MITS headquarters to Ed Roberts and his staff. Fortunately the program worked, and Robert hired him as MITS Director of Software Development.  <strong>Who was he? </strong></font></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Answer:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://startupgallery.org/gallery/printPage.php?ii=20"><font color="#800080">http://startupgallery.org/gallery/printPage.php?ii=20</font></a>  </span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/sept00/09-0525bookff75.mspx"><font face="Times New Roman">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/sept00/09-0525bookff75.mspx</font></a>  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Also— See Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews’ biography, “Gates; How Microsoft’s Mogul Reinvented an Industry---and Made Himself the Richest Man in America” pp.68—76.</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">The story goes something like this…. </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Paul Allen and Bill Gates were friends who had worked with computers since high school. They had been following the development of microprocessors, and knew that they had tremendous potential.  One day Allen was walking across Harvard Square when he saw the headline of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics---“World’s First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models”—with a photo of an Altair computer on the cover.  </font></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_top" href="http://www.vintage-computer.com/1975.shtml"><span><font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman">www.vintage-computer.com/1975.shtml</font></span></a>   </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">He knew that this was what he and Bill Gates, then a Harvard student,  were waiting for. The Altair was a computer with limited capabilities and no software---yet at the time it was a breakthrough machine----other mainframe computers of the day were huge, expensive refrigerator-like contraptions---and here hobbyists had the exciting opportunity to own their own, affordable PC!<span>  </span>For 1975 it was like something out of a science fiction novel.  </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Allen and Gates had never seen an Altair, but had designed a simulator for another business they had started together called Trafodata.<span>  </span>They knew it was possible, then, to design a software program for the Altair on a large PDP-10 computer.  Harvard just happened to have one of those, and Paul Allen took on the task of designing a simulator for the program they would be writing for the Altair. Bill Gates then started designing the Basic programming language itself. A third friend from Harvard, Monte Davidoff, worked on the math routines for the program.</font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Tall and bearded, Allen was the oldest-looking person in the group, so he was chosen to meet with MITS Director,  Ed Roberts to demonstrate the program the guys had invented. When Allen arrived at the Albuquerque airport, he expected to meet a professional in a business suit. But MITS director Ed Roberts was instead an earthy-looking guy who arrived in a pickup truck. Roberts’ company, MITS, was located in a dusty strip mall that also housed an office supply shop and a massage parlor. It was not exactly the Ritz. But Allen was not the only one who was surprised. Roberts was equally disconcerted when the software professional who was listed on Trafodata letterhead as<span>  </span>“President” of the company could not even afford the cost of an overnight stay at a local hotel!  </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Nonetheless, the next day, when the Altair had passed all of its memory tests and was ready for Allen’s program, the software that Allen and Gates wrote for the computer actually worked!</font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Paul Allen returned home to greet his friend Bill Gates with a brand new Altair computer provided by MITS and a new title, “Vice President and Director of Software at MITS.”</font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(2) The Rose Garden Arena, located at One Center Court in Portland, Oregon, opened its doors on October 12, 1995. The stadium, which is often used for concerts and other events, is the home of Portland’s professional basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers. The guy who originally footed most of the $262 bill for the stadium also currently owns the Portland Trail Blazers. <strong>What is his name? </strong></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen.<span>  </span>Allen purchased the Portland Trailblazers from Larry Weinberg in 1988 for $70 million dollars. The team was his first major purchase since Microsoft went public in 1986, and his first purchase of a professional sports team (though it wouldn’t be the last).<span>  </span>The team is still a favorite with Allen, who recently spent millions of dollars on new players this year in order to give the Blazers a winning edge in the upcoming season.</font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">(3)<span>  </span>Seven tug boat crew members were plucked from icy seas off Port Alfred a couple of days ago in a dramatic sea rescue involving the luxury super yacht, the 414ft. Octopus.</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"> <em>The maritime drama started at around 2pm on 8/23/07 when the tug boat, called Douala Tide, mysteriously sank 31 nautical miles off Port Alfred in heavy seas. The Octopus was one of the first ships on the scene and managed to rescue seven crew members of the tug. </em><strong><em>Who owns the Octopus?</em></strong>  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/08/24/Easterncape/abdrama.html"><em><span style="color:purple;">http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/08/24/Easterncape/abdrama.html</span></em></a> </span></font><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"></span></em><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Answer:</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;"> Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen.  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Allen owns the megayacht Octopus, which was at one time the largest privately owned yacht in the world. Allen was reportedly not on board at the time of the rescue<span> </span>but the crew members of his ship were the heroes of the day when they saved the lives of seven people during a violent storm near Port Alfred, South Africa. The 414 ft yacht crew responded to a distress call that was sent out to whomever was nearby, and Allen's ship was large enough to withstand seas so heavy that rescue teams could not come close to the area  for several hours. </span></em></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"></span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(4) The Seattle Seahawks football team was purchased in 1988 by real estate developer Ken Behring.  Eight years later, when Behring decided that he wanted to move the team to Los Angeles— much to the chagrin of Seahawks fans—another guy stepped in and eventually bought the team, thereby keeping it in Seattle. (For fun, check out this article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer written in 1996: “SOS: Seahawks Mess Not About You” by Laura Vecsey. (</font><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1996/9604030018.asp"><font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1996/9604030018.asp</font></a><font face="Times New Roman"> )  In 2002 the new owner helped build a new stadium in Seattle for the team called Qwest Field. In 2006, this same owner took the Seahawks to SuperBowl XL. <strong>Who was he? </strong></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen.<span>  </span></font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">If you have a chance, read Laura Vecsey’s editorial (above), written at a time when saving the Seahawks and keeping them in Seattle was a Quixotic dream held by a few<span>  </span>diehard fans. In 1996, SOS—the Save Our Seahawks group  who showed up to meet the players on their expectedly brief return to Seattle---were thought of as the “poor betrayed fans, who go down fighting like Don Quixote against the windmill.”    Enter Seattle’s Clark Kent, Paul Allen.   </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Although Allen’s father played football, Allen bought the team before he became an avid football fan, more than anything else as a favor to his hometown. The postscript for this story is that Allen purchased the Seahawks and then helped to build a stadium, eventually taking the team to the Superbowl. Check out this video of Allen raising the 12<sup>th</sup> Man flag at the NFC championship game the year the Seahawks went to the Superbowl. As Paul Allen appeared before a packed stadium crowd at that game, the marquee flashed “He Saved Our Seahawks” and the fans cheered so loudly that it shook Qwest Field Arena.<span>  </span>What a moment! </font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhRaYj8sTc"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhRaYj8sTc</font></span></a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(5)<span>  </span>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. The Foundation was established in the year 2000 and is dedicated to “bringing innovations in health and learning to the global community.”   <strong>Who founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? </strong></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;">Answer: Bill and Melinda Gates.<span>  </span></span></strong></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span></span>See.. </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1186811,00.html"><font color="#800080">http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1186811,00.html</font></a>   </span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm">http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm</a></font></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">What the Gates’ are doing is truly heroic. See this excerpt from Time Magazine:   </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">“Every year malaria kills 1 million people—most of them African children under age 5. When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, 50, and his wife Melinda, 41, were looking for ways to give away their prodigious wealth, they assumed that such monumental problems were being worked on. Instead, Melinda says, they found a "vacuum that does need to be stepped into." </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Step they did: the Gates Foundation now provides more than a third of the world's entire malaria-research funding, and it's paying off. The most effective drug to treat the disease, naturally occurring artemisinin, is in devastatingly short supply. But last month Gates-funded scientists announced that they had created the technology to manufacture artemisinic acid synthetically. Within five years, the cost of a lifesaving supply is expected to drop from $2.40 to 25 cents. Lead researcher Jay Keasling says it would not have been possible without a $43 million Gates grant. "I had companies call me and say, 'This is great, but we can't give you any money. We can't make a profit on this,'" he says. </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">But even if millions are saved from malaria, there will be more diseases and more death. The Gateses' most profound influence has been to change expectations. Their belief that every life should have equal value, backed by their $29 billion endowment in the foundation, has injected hope not only into global health but also into their other priorities: public education, public libraries and at-risk families. The couple demands from grantees the same relentless focus on results expected of Microsoft employees and takes away the classic excuse for failure: not enough money. They have inspired others—from medical students, who are entering global-health fields in unprecedented numbers, to governments, which are putting billions into Gates initiatives. Says Jimmy Carter: "This is the most important foundation in the world.”</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(6) This famous photo, taken in 1978, depicts the early Microsoft crew. </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">See… </font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-staff-1978-jpg"><strong><span style="color:purple;"><font face="Times New Roman">www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-staff-1978-jpg </font></span></strong></a><font face="Times New Roman"> One of the co-founders, a young looking guy with blonde hair is seated on the far lower left of the photo. His co-founder is seated on the far lower right sporting a beard and long hair.  <strong>Who is the co-founder seated on the right in this picture?  </strong></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen.   </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Often this photo is depicted with the caption: “Would you have invested?” These 11 early Microsoft employees look more like they belonged in a commune than as a part of one of the most successful companies of all time.  But behind the long hair and beards were the people who laid the foundation for the founders' vision of  a "computer on every desk and in every home all running Microsoft software."   </font></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(7) Vulcan Productions (</font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.clearblueskyfilms.com/"><span style="color:purple;"><font face="Times New Roman">www.clearblueskyfilms.com</font></span></a><font face="Times New Roman">),  an independent film company, has produced a number of movies since it was founded including the Emmy winning documentary, PBS’ “Rx For Survival” and the Peabody Award winning “Black Sky,” a documentary about SpaceShipOne, the spaceship that won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004. <strong>Who is the Chairman of Vulcan Productions?</strong> </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen (are you beginning to see a pattern here :-)???</font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;">See<span>  </span></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16619">http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16619</a></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;">   <a target="_blank" href="http://www.clearblueskyfilms.com/TemplateHome.aspx?contentid=1"><font face="Times New Roman">http://www.clearblueskyfilms.com/TemplateHome.aspx?contentid=1</font></a>   </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.clearblueskyfilms.com/TemplateDocumentaries.aspx?contentId=66"><font face="Times New Roman">http://www.clearblueskyfilms.com/TemplateDocumentaries.aspx?contentId=66</font></a></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(8)<span>  </span>This computer mogul is also a rock musician who has performed with numerous musicians including Dave Stewart, Dan Aykroyd, Carlos Santana, Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mick Jagger and Peter Gabriel.  In 1999 he cut an album with his rock band, Grown Men.  On the album, special thanks were given to Dave Stewart, Peter Gabriel, Dan Aykroyd and the crews of the Meduse and the Charade,  two megayachts that this guy owned at the time.  He most recently performed with Spinal Tap at former Vice President Al Gore’s Live Earth Concert at Wembley Stadium in London. <strong>Who is he? </strong></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen. </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">See.. </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Paul on guitar</font></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://soe.stanford.edu/about/pop_allen.html"><font face="Times New Roman">http://soe.stanford.edu/about/pop_allen.html</font></a>  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/archives/2006/03/"><font face="Times New Roman">http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/archives/2006/03/</font></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Paul Performing at the Recent Live Earth Concert</strong>:  </font></span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;">Scroll sideways to video #58 Spinal Tap’s “Big Bottom” (You’ll have to wait a moment for the menu to appear—there’s a commercial that appears first. The menu is on the left…..”play clip” segment 57-63.)  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><a target="_blank" href="http://entimg.msn.com/i/ExperienceData/p1-7/us/x.htm?sh=LiveEarth&#38;ep=le_london"><font face="Times New Roman">http://entimg.msn.com/i/ExperienceData/p1-7/us/x.htm?sh=LiveEarth&#38;ep=le_london</font></a> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;">and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><a target="_blank" href="http://within6degrees.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/being-paul-allen/"><font face="Times New Roman">http://within6degrees.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/being-paul-allen/</font></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Paul’s “Grown Men” Rock Band Site:</strong></font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">  </font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.grownmen.com/interior.asp?section=who"><font face="Times New Roman">http://www.grownmen.com/interior.asp?section=who</font></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(9) This tech wizard is connected within six degrees to a number of famous people including Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Princess Grace Kelly, photographer Annie Leibovitz, writers Truman Capote, Ian Fleming, John Steinbeck and Mark Twain, President Franklin Pierce, artists Georgia O’Keefe and Pablo Picasso, statesman Nelson Mandela and his Council of Elders, Former President Bill Clinton, scientists Carl Sagan and James Watson, musician Paul McCartney, director Martin Scorsese and actors Tom Hanks, Eric Idle and Scarlett Johansson—of The Perfect Score.  <strong>What is his name?</strong> (Hint: he wrote PC BASIC). </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen. </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(See previous posts of this blog)</font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(10) In 1999, Seattle P-I’s movie critic William Arnold wrote this article about the revival of a nearly demolished theater in Seattle called the Cinerama. Fill in the name of the person he’s talking about at the end of the quote–( <strong>eg. Who saved the Cinerama?):</strong></font></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span></font></span></strong></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;">“It may sound like shameless hype, but there’s no other way to say this: the survival and restoration of Seattle’s Cinerama Theater in the late 1990s is simply one of the greatest success stories in the whole checkered history of movie theater preservation in America. When the theater’s 35-year lease ran out in March 1997, no exhibitor was even vaguely interested in the once-luxurious movie showcase at Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street. The Seattle media wrote its obituary, and no sane observer gave the naive, grass-roots “Save-the- Cinerama” campaign the slightest chance of success. But two years later, the Cinerama is not only still standing, it’s undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation, and will reopen April 23 as the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art cinema, not just in Seattle and the Northwest, but arguably on the entire planet.</span></em><strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;">  </span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">A year ago, in what was supposed to be the Cinerama’s final week, I took a last, sad tour of the long-neglected facility — cringing at the water-damaged walls, crumbling screen, broken seats and dilapidated fixtures that seemed almost beyond repair. Late last month, I wandered through the same space and found it had been not just lovingly restored to its full 1963 glory, but transformed into a kind of nirvana for movie lovers — a theater so chock-full of extras and innovations that it’s hard to list them all</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">……….”   See… </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><a target="_blank" href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/cine08.shtml">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com</a></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Answer: Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">The story of the Cinerama goes like this:</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">(Excerpt from… </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">“Eight Ways to Save a Cinema” by </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Lisa Gray, </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Houston Chronicle)</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman">”In the late '90s, Paul Allen was renting a video when he saw a petition<br />
to save Seattle's Cinerama Theatre from being razed to make way for<br />
downtown development. The Microsoft mogul remembered the theater from its 1960s<br />
heyday, and he loved its giant screen. He signed the petition.</font><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman">And then -- you see where this is going -- he bought that whole block<br />
of Seattle, including the theater. Through his holding company, he spent<br />
millions of dollars to restore the Cinerama to its groovy glory, complete<br />
with retro mohair seats. At the same time, he updated the<br />
single-screen, 808-seat theater for the digital age, making it one of the highest-tech<br />
movie theaters in the world.</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman">Allen hooked up with AMC Theatres, and the Cinerama now operates as a<br />
first-run movie house, the kind of place where people line up to see<br />
Snakes on a Plane. Seattle Weekly readers regularly vote it the city's best<br />
theater.    </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman">Does Allen think he'll make his money back? Jason Hunke, Allen's<br />
spokesman, says the theater operates at a profit and the mogul may develop an<br />
empty parking lot next door. But Allen's investment was about saving the<br />
theater, not about wringing the maximum return on his money.  The Cinerama, Hunke<br />
says, "is his gift to the city."<span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"></span></font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Seattle’s Clark Kent strikes again!!!</font></span></strong></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong></font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">________________________________________________________________________</font></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">So those are the answers to the Six Degrees of Paul Allen Anniversary Quiz!<span>  </span>When it all comes down to it, this was not such a hard test after all, was it? :-)   </font></span></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#550055;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> Now to start on this next year’s Six Degrees links to Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen, including Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, architect Frank Gehry, the Antikythera Mechanism and The Earl of Sandwich…..Stay Tuned!</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">   (</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">In the meantime, “Darth” and I will be going…..:-) </font></span></font></span></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen is one of those guys who gets more interesting the more you read about him.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">The guy is involved in everything you can imagine, in every area you can imagine with everyone whom you can think of.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">I was thinking about this sometime last year when I told a friend that I thought that everything in the world could be linked to Paul Allen within 6 degrees.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">You've heard of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, right? Well, ironically, a few days after I said that to my friend, I read that Paul Allen and Kevin Bacon were performing together on stage aboard one of Paul Allen's yachts during the 2005 Cannes Film Festival! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Six degrees of Separation</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> is basically the idea that anyone can be connected to anyone else through a chain of acquaintances with no more than 5 intermediaries.   O</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">ne day I was playing around with my laptop and thought it would be fun to invent a new game based on that theory called "Six Degrees of Paul Allen." The point of the game is to try to link Microsoft Co-founder, Paul Allen with anyone or even anything---within 6 degrees. And that's how this blog was born. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">On September 4th, this blog will have been around for a year.  And I have to tell you, it's been a blast! I’ve spent last year trying to find new links between Paul Allen and remote celebrities and even historical figures from a 100+ years ago and that task has been easier than I thought it would be—which leads me to believe that the Six Degrees -- "Small World" theory might actually be true, especially when it comes to people like Allen, who really get out there. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Before I do anything else, I want to thank you guys for reading my blog---you have no idea how much you make my day by stopping by!  Serious kudos also go out to Matt Mullenweg (<a href="http://photomatt.net/about/">http://photomatt.net/about/</a>)  and the Awesome Wordpress Blog Masters, primary enablers of my Blog Stat addiction (almost 14,000 site views and counting!!!:-) -- you guys rock!!!  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">And Google ---- it's such a thrill to see my blog translated into Portugese, etc.--- it is so cool! Really, thank you, you guys, for giving me a chance :-)! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Since this is an Anniversary issue, I thought it might be fun to do something out of the ordinary---so here is the "official" Six Degrees of Paul Allen Anniversary Contest.  Unlike the used salad shooter and the video tape rewinder in the shape of a sports car, there is actually a <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">real</span></strong> prize for this contest---a 1 Gigabyte USB Drive (see below). So I'm thinking that someone might actually <strong>want</strong> to enter the contest, and if not, I'll send the prize to myself and be the first person on my block with an R2D2 Jump Drive!  Anyway, see if you can be the <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">first</span></strong> to answer the questions below in the comment section, and if you're the first to answer all 10 questions correctly by 9/4/07 at midnight, I'll send you the prize. No, really, I will.....:-)***</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">So here goes.....</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">1) MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) of Albuquerque, N.M. announced "The World's First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models," the Altair 8800 PC on the cover of the January 1st 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. Shortly afterwards, a couple of guys called MITS' owner Ed Roberts and told him that they had a BASIC interpreter for his computer, the Altair.  One of them later went out to meet with Roberts, discovering on the plane that he and his partners had forgotten to write the loader for the program! He hastily finished writing the loader as he flew in to New Mexico and demonstrated the completed program, BASIC, at MITS headquarters to Ed Roberts and his staff. Fortunately the program worked, and Robert hired him as MITS Director of Software Development.  <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Who was he? </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">2) The Rose Garden Arena, located at One Center Court in Portland, Oregon, opened its doors on October 12, 1995. The stadium, which is often used for concerts and other events, is the home of Portland's professional basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers. The guy who originally footed most of the $262 bill for the stadium also currently owns the Portland Trail Blazers. <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">What is his name? </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">3) <em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">Seven tug boat crew members were plucked from icy seas off Port Alfred a couple of days ago in a dramatic sea rescue involving the luxury super yacht, the 414ft. Octopus.</span></em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> </span><em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">The maritime drama started at around 2pm on 8/23/07 when the tug boat, called Douala Tide, mysteriously sank 31 nautical miles off Port Alfred in heavy seas. </span></em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span><em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">The Octopus was one of the first ships on the scene and managed to rescue seven crew members of the tug. </span></em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span><em><strong><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">Who owns the Octopus?</span></strong></em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/08/24/Easterncape/abdrama.html"><em><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><font color="#800080">http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/08/24/Easterncape/abdrama.html</font></span></em></a> </span><br />
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">4) The Seattle Seahawks football team was purchased in 1988 by real estate developer Ken Behring.  Eight years later, when Behring decided that he wanted to move the team to Los Angeles--- much to the chagrin of Seahawks fans---another guy stepped in and eventually bought the team, thereby keeping it in Seattle. (For fun, check out this article from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer written in 1996: "SOS: Seahawks Mess Not About You" by Laura Vecsey. ( <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1996/9604030018.asp">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/archives/1996/9604030018.asp</a> ) In 2002 the new owner helped build a new stadium in Seattle for the team called Qwest Field. In 2006, this same owner took the Seahawks to SuperBowl XL. <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Who was he? </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">5) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. The Foundation was established in the year 2000 and is dedicated to "bringing innovations in health and learning to the global community."   <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Who founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">6) This famous photo, taken in 1978, depicts the early Microsoft crew. See...</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-staff-1978-jpg"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font color="#800080">www.answers.com/topic/microsoft-staff-1978-jpg </font></span></strong></a> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">One of the co-founders, a young looking guy with blonde hair is seated on the far lower left of the photo. His co-founder is seated on the far lower right sporting a beard and long hair.  <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Who is the co-founder seated on the right in this picture? </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">7) Vulcan Productions (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.clearblueskyfilms.com/"><font color="#800080">www.clearblueskyfilms.com</font></a>),  an independent film company, has produced a number of movies since it was founded including the Emmy winning documentary, PBS' "Rx For Survival" and the Peabody Award winning "Black Sky," a documentary about SpaceShipOne, the spaceship that won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004. <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Who is the Chairman of Vulcan Productions?</span></strong> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">8.) This computer mogul is also a rock musician who has performed with numerous musicians including Dave Stewart, Dan Aykroyd, Carlos Santana, Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mick Jagger and Peter Gabriel.  In 1999 he cut an album with his rock band, Grown Men.  On the album, special thanks were given to Dave Stewart, Peter Gabriel, Dan Aykroyd and the crews of the Meduse and the Charade,  two megayachts that this guy owned at the time.  He most recently performed with Spinal Tap at former Vice President Al Gore's Live Earth Concert at Wembley Stadium in London. <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Who is he? </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">9) This tech wizard is connected within six degrees to a number of famous people including Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Princess Grace Kelly, photographer Annie Leibovitz, writers Truman Capote, Ian Fleming, John Steinbeck and Mark Twain, President Franklin Pierce, artists Georgia O'Keefe and Pablo Picasso, statesman Nelson Mandela and his Council of Elders, Former President Bill Clinton, scientists Carl Sagan and James Watson, musician Paul McCartney, director Martin Scorsese and actors Tom Hanks, Eric Idle and Scarlett Johansson---of The Perfect Score.  <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">What is his name?</span></strong> (Hint: he wrote PC BASIC). </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">10) In 1999, Seattle P-I's movie critic William Arnold wrote this article about the revival of a nearly demolished theater in Seattle called the Cinerama. Fill in the name of the person he's talking about at the end of the quote--( <strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">eg. Who saved the Cinerama?): </span></strong></span></p>
<p><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><em>"It may sound like shameless hype, but there's no other way to say this: the survival and restoration of Seattle's Cinerama Theater in the late 1990s is simply one of the greatest success stories in the whole checkered history of movie theater preservation in America. </em></span><em><span>When the theater's 35-year lease ran out in March 1997, no exhibitor was even vaguely interested in the once-luxurious movie showcase at Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street. The Seattle media wrote its obituary, and no sane observer gave the naive, grass-roots "Save-the- Cinerama" campaign the slightest chance of success. </span><span>But two years later, the Cinerama is not only still standing, it's undergone a multimillion-dollar renovation, and will reopen April 23 as the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art cinema, not just in Seattle and the Northwest, but arguably on the entire planet.<strong>  </strong></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">A year ago, in what was supposed to be the Cinerama's final week, I took a last, sad tour of the long-neglected facility -- cringing at the water-damaged walls, crumbling screen, broken seats and dilapidated fixtures that seemed almost beyond repair. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></em><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><em>Late last month, I wandered through the same space and found it had been not just lovingly restored to its full 1963 glory, but transformed into a kind of nirvana for movie lovers -- a theater so chock-full of extras and innovations that it's hard to list them all</em>.........."   See... <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><a target="_blank" href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/cine08.shtml">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/cine08.shtml</a></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">OK--</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">The first person to answer all 10 questions correctly and write the answers on the comment section below by Sept. 4, 2007 at midnight EST will receive a 1 Gigabyte Star Wars Mimoco USB Drive from Dynamism, the company that sells Paul Allen's mini-pc, the Flipstart. See... <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dynamism.com/usb-star-wars/main.shtml"><font color="#800080">http://www.dynamism.com/usb-star-wars/main.shtml</font></a> ***</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;">Good luck, guys!!!</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;">------------------------------------------------------------ </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;">*** </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Wingdings;"><span>J</span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;"><br />
I'm not sure I really have to do this, but just in case someone thinks<br />
his or her answers should have shown up first and he/she should have<br />
won, I don't want to spend my life savings buying Star Wars themed<br />
USB drives for everybody, you know? :-)<br />
So.....<br />
By entering the contest you agree that your answers are not "consideration" and that I don't owe you anything; contest is void where prohibited, subject to availability, and good only where Dynamism ships and as long as the shipping fee costs less than the item itself. (Note--Dynamism is not affiliated with the contest nor this blog--the company just has a lot of fun stuff, including cool-looking jumpdrives...:-)<br />
Don't enter if.....you're even remotely connected to spam, if you’re coming from a site that's not 'G' rated, if the Wordpress Akismet thinks you're spam, or you send emails to a lot of people who don't know you on a regular basis. And if you think you should have been first, but your answers don't show up first below, I'll give you sympathy but not another USB Drive---basically this is just for fun, guys !!!! </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;"></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial;">Good Luck!!!</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"></span></p>
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