Having obtained his basic school-leaving qualification and having practised the bakery trade,  Joseph Ferdinand
Cheval is officially named ” Facteur Cheval” mailman in the post offices  in 1867.  Allocated to Hauterives,  he has
on responsibility the ‘ tour of Tersanne ‘,  hike the daily 33 kilometers of which he kills by dreaming. Absent person of  hang by earthing up on a stone during a trip of 1879,  he slides this last one in his pocket to study it  later then, noticing the presence of more singular pebbles even the next day,  decides to act himself as sculptor to dash
into the construction of  a ‘ Ideal Palace ‘.  Choosing the most beautiful stones every day,  he  fills pockets,
baskets, wheelbarrows while working of long hours on the light of a kerosene lamp.  After thirty years of patience, construction by means of  lime,  mortar and cement,  the palace,  finished in 1912,  is a leader of
work of Biblical and Indian inspirations.  Showing the desire to be buried within this one in his in its
death,  the mailman  Horse sees its wish slowed down by the nervousness of a French law not allowing this
kind  of practices without preliminary incineration.

From then on obliged to comply with the legal constraints, the artist agrees to withdraw in the Municipal
Cemetery provided that we leave him  the choice of its grave.  The accepted requirement, the mailman spends
then eight new years marked by the stone:  transporting its material up to the cemetery of Hauterives,
the mailman Horse finishes in 1922 the ‘ Grave of the silence and the unlimited rest ‘ and is interred
there two years later.

THE WORK OF A SINGLE MAN !

(1879 – 1912) – 10 000 days,  93 000  working
hours,  33 years of endurance and test….
More obstinate than me put itself  in the work !

The winter as the summer, night and day I wolked, I crossed
the plain and the hillside, as well as the brook to bring the stone lasts
chiselled by the nature.  It is my back which paid the
share, I defied everything even the death..

It was once the Motocross..

EARLY MOTOCROSS BIKES

The first motorcycle dates to 1885 , when German inventors pretty much put an engine on a bicycle.  By
the late 1800s,  motorcycles were available to the general public,  and in the early 1900s,  they began to take on characteristics that were more distinct from a regular motorcycle. The earliest motocross bikes in the era
before World War II (1939-1945)  were essentially regular motorcycles.

BRITISH  SCRAMBLING

The key development  in the evolution of Motocross came when British riders in the 1920s decided to skip the observation portion Trials and focus squarely on completions the cours the fastest. The result was the first recognized motocross race, the Southern Scott Scramble, in 1924.

British messengers sped through the countrysides of Europe during
World War I, using motocycles to get the job done fast .

EUROPEAN ROOTS

The Motocross did not begin in the United States ,  in fact,   it came here from Europe,  where its roots date to 1920s, and where it became immensly popular long before it caught on with more than a small segment of sports fans in the United States .. The Word “Motocross” comes from France.  It is a combination of  “moto” for motorcycle and “cross” for cross-country.  But don’t let that fool you into thinking that the French invented the sport!  We now know that motocross actually started in Great Britain as  “scrambling” before it was exported to the rest of the World and became “motocross” , don’t forget your helmet !

In the 1990s the World Wide Web, an application designed to ride on top of TCP/IP, accelerated expansion of the Internet to avalanche speed. Conceived by Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist working at the CERN nuclear research facility near Geneva, it was the product, he said, of his “growing realization that there was a power in arranging ideas in an unconstrained, weblike way.” He adopted a venerable computer sciences idea called hypertext—a scheme for establishing nonlinear links between pieces of information—and came up with an architectural scheme for the Internet era. His World Wide Web allowed users to find and get text or graphics files—and later video and audio as well—that were stored on computers called servers. All the files had to be formatted in what he termed hypertext markup language (HTML), and all storage sites required a standardized address designation called a uniform resource locator (URL). Delivery of the files was guided by a set of rules known as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and the system enabled files to be given built-in links to other files, creating multiple information paths for exploration.

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science — the birthplace of the Internet– hosted a special forum commemorating the 35th Anniversary of the Internet.

In 1969, the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s laboratory at UCLA, ushering in a new method of global communications that forever changed the course of business, politics, entertainment, education, law and social interaction.

To celebrate this historic event, a special day-long forum took place on Friday, October 29, 2004 at UCLA’s Northwest Campus Auditorium. Some of the Internet’s early pioneers, as well as many of its rising stars took a closer look at how the Internet came to be what it is today, and what it will be like tomorrow.
The cabinet of studies Forrester has just published its forecasts on the growth of the Internet manners by 2013 for the whole planet. Among the most considerable, let us quote the fact that in less than five years, there will be more Internet users in China than in the United States.

In 2013, the number of Internet users in the world will pass in 2,2 billions against 1,5 today, is an increase of 45 %. Counting a quarter of the world Internet users, Europe is classified on the second place behind Asia. Today near an European on two lives in one of the following 5 countries: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The penetration of Internet and the growth rates vary there considerably, passing of 69 % in the United Kingdom in 2008 in 49 % in Italy. In 2013, the Internet users in the United Kingdom will be 48,7 millions (that is a rate of 81 % penetration) against 41,3 millions (69 %) today. In Germany, this number will cross(spend) 56,2 (68 %) in 62,5 millions (76 %) and in France of 37,2 (60 %) in 45,9 millions (73 %).

Asia will remain the main engine of this growth. 43 % of the connected world population will live there in 2013, among which 17 % in China where the growth rate of the number of Internet users will be 11 % on average a year. As a result of which, there will be, in 2013, more Internet users than in the United States. The number of Internet users in India will be respectively upper to that of Japan, Germany and Brazil.

52 million active Internet users in India!

The number of active users of Internet in September, 2009 amounts to 52 millions; he(it) amounted to 42 millions in September, 2008 is a 19 % increase in one year. 36 % of these users arise from medium-sized(of medium height) cities such as Kolhâpur ( 500.000 inhabitants), Thrissur and Panipat. The privileged modes of connection are first of all cybercafes, comes then the internet access to the work. A quarter of the worn connect from their home and 2 million Indians use their motive(mobile) to browse the Web.

This increase of the number of users explains by the growth of the network and the distribution of the manners in the less easy  sectors of society. A big part(party) of these Internet users are students in university and in school, an important imbalance exists between the proportion of men(people) and women reaching internet. The consumption evolved too, so we are crossed of 9. 3 hours(am) by weeks at 15.7 am a week. This more important consumption explains by the appearance of innovative contents and the entertaining consumption of Internet understanding
the download, the access to the social networks and to the sites of blogging microcomputing.

An effort must be however made to facilitate the access of the Internet users to contents in vernacular language Subho Ray announced the president of the IAMAI, it is that Google  already strives moreover to make.

Report: Rural India overtakes Urbanites !  http://t.co/wJZpz2p via @trakin

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The number of Chinese Internet users will be in a half-billion..

Internet users’ Chinese community does not stop increasing every year even if the country is already in the first world rank concerning the number of Internet users. Qian Xiaoqian, Vice Minister of the Office  of the information of the advice of the affairs of state has just announced yesterday in March 25th which ” the Web Chinese, the most numerous community to the world, should reach the half-billion Internet users before two or three years.

This Chinese senior official considers that the number of Chinese Internet users is going to be more enlarged thanks to the newcomers of the rural zones. According to him, ” three quarters of the newcomers will be native of rural zones “. it is to note that at the moment, the number of Chinese Internet users exceeds 380 millions in spite of the various censorships in the country. On this subject, it is to know that Google has just raised the censorship in China, the giant search engine decided on Monday evening to redirect the Chinese Internet users towards Hong-Kong, its servers will be based there.

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The plastic speech builds itself through mixed techniques (emulsions, coulures, drawings, writings,
stickings, objects of rubbish on painting cloth or on paper..

About A.Roger Painting  Style, description made by himself :

Fortuitous reversals sometimes reveal us unsuspected perspectives. The repentirs uncountable, occasions, restorations , rehabilitations and the other supperpositions, operated these last years, update an incredible constant. If my plastic erring ways gave a good place to the body through multiple mediums, the graphic speculations which accompanied them allowed me to deepen  and to develop the notion of glyphe sexual. The repository symbolism already in germ in my first compositions emphasized the track, the mark , the stigma without giving him  however scoop. Nevertheless, it is necessary to agree there, the combinatorial logic of the sign seems to get the upper hand: the imaginary alphabet, where every line , every height, every chink belongs to consonnance male or feminine, invades the space of the picture . The man, the biped in the silhouette  singular surprise,
is not more than an imprint, a profile, a shade..    © A. Roger

Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings fascinate, partly due to a range of subtle optical effects that blur outlines, soften transitions and blend shadows like smoke. Known as “sfumato”, this technique is not only the result of the genius of the artist but also of technical innovations at the beginning of the 16th century. Minute observations, optical measurements and reconstitutions have already described the sfumato, but new analysis can confirm the procedure of this technique, especially related to how the gradation is done.

For the first time, Philippe Walter (LC2RMF) and his team, in collaboration with the ESRF and the Louvre Museum, have brought new insight on the sfumato thanks to a quantitative chemical study of the different painted layers. Seven paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci have been analysed without extraction, directly in the rooms of the Louvre Museum (Virgin of the Rocks, Mona Lisa, Saint John the Baptist, Annunciation, Bacchus, Belle Ferronnière, Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child). The scientists concentrated on the study of the faces because they have the characteristics of the sfumato. They used a technique called
X-ray fluorescence⁽²⁾ to determine the composition and thickness of each layer in nine faces (including Mona Lisa’s) painted by Da Vinci throughout 40 years of career.

Photo taken during the measurements on the Mona Lisa: X-ray fluorescence spectrometry was done directly on the paintings in the Louvre Museum. © V.A. Solé/ESRF

Representation of the superposition of layers in paintings in the face of Mona Lisa, on one light zone near the nose and the darker shadow of the hair. After treating the data, the thickness and concentration of pigments in the different layers. © C2RMF

Isolating the light of the biggest stars is a difficult and tedious process. Massive stars are rare, distant, short-lived and crammed inside dense clusters that are shrouded in dust. In the past, reports of stars up to 2,000 times the size of the sun all turned out to be clusters of stars, not single, massive objects.”People have been trying to find the most massive star and to determine the upper mass limit of stars, but it’s like prospecting for gold. You have to sift through a whole lot of junk and there’s also a lot of fool’s gold,” said Rochester Institute of Technology astronomer Donald Figer.

Armed with new high-resolution imagery, an international team of astronomers is throwing down the gauntlet again with studies on NGC 3603, a very young star cluster located about 22,000 light-years away in the Milky Way’s Carina spiral arm, and RMC 136a, which resides in the Tarantula Nebula, located 165,000 light-years away in our neighbor galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. In addition to chemical analysis and precision position measurements, astronomers checked they weren’t seeing binary pairs by scanning for telltale X-rays that would come from the clash of solar winds. They didn’t find any, leading the team to conclude that they had, in fact, uncovered several stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster which began their lives between 165 and 320 times the mass of the sun. Among their findings, the star R136a1, found in the R136 cluster, is the most massive star ever found, with a mass of about 265 solar masses and with a birthweight of as much as 320 times that of the sun.
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