A few hours between fauna and flora...

SALON DE L'AGRICULTURE


Short summary, in pictures :









An evening strongly tinged with sadness that emanates from the eyes of animals
- except from the poultry, maybe, in an environment that is, after all, hostile for
them all : people watching them only in a steak-and-roastbeef perspective.



Traditionally, at the Salon de l'Agriculture, people use to linger to taste regional
specialties - wine included, we are in France, right ?







After a four-hour tour and some regional snaks here
and there, my dinner theme revolved around vegetables
only.
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What's new about huge spiders ?

The Cerbalus aravensis has been found by a team of scientists from
the Department of Biology in the University of Haifa-Oranim in the giant
dune of Sands of Samar/southern Arava region of Israel, (Jan 2010).
But the Samar sands' site is desapparing : if once it covered as many
as 2.7 square miles, lately it's reduced to approximately 1 square mile.
Should this trend continues, the Cerbalus aravensis wouldn't survive.


(It's funny how, by enlarging Yael Olek's photo, an elderly person with white hair
and beard appears).


(Pictures Yael Olek and Roy Talbi)

This spider's leg-span can reach up to 14 cm., which makes it the largest
spider of its type in the Middle East. Even though details are still lacking to
enable a full analysis of its biology and of its population in the sands, the
scientists know that this is a nocturnal spider, mostly active in the hottest
months of the year, and that it constructs an underground den which is
closed with a "lifting door" made of sand particles that are glued together
to camouflage the den.
(more...)
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Shibari on 'arte', and here we are, again !

A regular score of about 60 visits on Monday 1st, around midnight...

then, at 2am, on Tuesday, the big rush : over 70 visits - in 2 hours,
mostly French.

... and the Xavier Brillat's film will be aired again by Arte on March 10th
and 19th !
OK, I know, I'm ready now.
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Happy and well bonded to Le Mur...

... and there he will be until March 13th !


# 66 - Jef Aérosol - February 26/2010


* Jef's Site & Jef's [My]Space
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Let's spend some time in good company...

In my mixed bag today, a gem from Igor's music...

The "Soldier's Tale" is a 1918 theatrical work "to be read, played and danced"
[lu, joué et dansé] set to music by Igor Stravinsky.
L "Histoire du Soldat" was originally written for small ensemble to compensate
for the lack of players due to World War I.
The work was premiered in Lausanne on 28 September 1918, conducted by
Ernest Ansermet.




[mccumella]
A Rare look inside the creative process of rehearsals and recording of "Soldier's Tale" in a 1955 film
presented by Columbia records.

* "A Soldier's Tale" lyrics.
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