Rhemaxos was an ancient king who ruled to the north of Danube around 200 BC and who was the protector of the Greek colonies in Dobruja, receiving a tribute from them in exchange of protection against outside attacks. It appears that the links with the Greek cities lasted a rather long time, as several treaties have been found.

Some historians have suggested that he was the chieftain of a Dacian tribal union on the Romanian Plain. Others said he was a Scythian king.

His son Phradmon allocated 600 horsemen to defend the city of Histria at the request of Agathocles, son of Antiphilos.

References

Dicţionar de istorie veche a României ("Dictionary of ancient Romanian history") (1976) Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, pp. 504

History of Dobruja
Dacian kings
Scythian kings
3rd-century BC monarchs in Europe

Rhemaxos


"And He'd Say, 'Oo-La-La! Wee-Wee!'" is a World War I era song released in 1919. Lyrics and music were written by George Jessel and Harry Ruby. William Baker arranged the song. It was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. of New York, New York. The song was written for voice and piano.

There are two versions of the sheet music cover. The first was designed by Albert Wilfred Barbelle. It features a soldier speaking to a woman with a parasol. The later edition was designed by Weatherly. This version shows a man and woman speaking under an arched doorway.

On August 12, 1919, Billy Murray recorded the song with conductor Rosario Bourdon. It was released under the Victor record label.  It was in the top 20 songs from October 1919 to January 1920.

The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

Analysis
The song is about Willie Earl who falls in love with a French girl. The humor of the song lies in the fact that Willie only knows two words in French, "oo-la-la" and "wee-wee," which he repeats throughout the song. Despite the fact that Willie cannot speak French, the girl continues to try to communicate with him. The two choruses are as follows:

References

Bibliography

Vogel, Frederick G. World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1995.

External links
  Listen to the MP3 and see the sheet music

1919 songs
Songs of World War I
Songs with music by Harry Ruby

And He'd Say, "Oo-La-La! Wee-Wee!"


The Fast Mail was a train operated by Amtrak from Washington, D.C. to Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, numbered #12 (northbound) and 13 (southbound). Train 12 carried both passengers and mail while train 13 carried mail and freight only.

At New Haven a separate train ran to and from Springfield (412/413). Train 12 departed Washington daily at 3:00am while 13 departed Springfield/Boston in the early morning. In 2002, train 13 was canceled and 12 became 190, without mail and express service.

On November 23, 1996, the northbound Fast Mail derailed on Portal Bridge near New York City, sideswiping the southbound  and causing 43 injuries.

References

Former Amtrak routes
Railway services discontinued in 2002

Fast Mail (Amtrak train)


Greg Travis (born July 31, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian and actor.

Based in the U.S. he created the comedy character David Sleaze, The Punk Magician, in which he wore a punk rock-style wig and does a variety of bad magic tricks using audience participation.  This routine appeared on Rodney Dangerfield's HBO specials.

Early life
Travis was born July 31, 1958, in Dallas, Texas, the son of Gerald Travis and Elaine Dennehy-Travis, with one younger sister; actress Stacey Travis. At the age of twelve, Travis began performing as a magician and winning many school talent shows.  In High school, he won the talent competition in the school talent shows and also won best comedy magician at the Texas Association of Magicians convention.  In his senior year in high school, Travis became vice president of the Thespian Drama Club and made a feature-length film entitled "Joe Dynomite".  Also he appeared in many of the school's play productions.  After obtaining an Associate Arts degree at Richland College, Travis headed for Hollywood, where he attended Sherwood Oaks Film School.

Career

Comedy
While attending film school Greg began performing stand up comedy at The Improv and Comedy Store. Six months later he appeared on "America's Search For Tomorrow's Stars".  This led to regular spots at "Bud Friedman"s Improvisation".  He began appearing as a regular guest on the talk show circuit, Dinah Shore, The Merv Griffin Show, a Steve Allen Special and Evening at the Improv. The William Morris Agency signed Greg as his representation. He began landing small acting roles in film and TV, while developing a strong stand-up act, headlining at all the major comedy clubs across the country. In 1986 he worked for Saturday Night Live making short comedy films, appearing regularly on Evening at the Improv he was also the opening act for stars like James Brown, Tom Jones and Dolly Parton. In 1990 Greg appeared on a Rodney Dangerfield HBO Special, which made his routine The Punk Magician famous. This led to him being the opening act for Cher on a long East Coast tour.

Greg has performed comedy on television shows such as: Surprise Surprise, Thicke of the Night, Sunday Funnies, Showtime Comedy Night, Comedy Club Network, Comic Strip Live, Evening at the Improv, Into the Night, The Tonight Show, Comedy Central, and Lewis Black's Root of all Evil.

Acting
Travis was cast in the co-starring role of Phil Newkirk in the film Showgirls.  Showgirls was followed by such films as Lost Highway, Starship Troopers, Poodle Springs and Man on the Moon.

Travis also produced and starred in a theatrical production called "America the Bizarre" where he played seven different characters in full make-up and costume, ending with a dead on impression of Lord Buckley. He also received positive reviews for his portrayal of Andy Warhol in the stage play Girl of the Year. Travis has appeared in several television shows, including CSI Miami, Strong Medicine, and Cold Case.

Travis has worked with such directors as David Lynch, Paul Verhoeven, Bob Rafelson, and Miloš Forman. His recent roles include Rob Zombie's Halloween II, Zack Snyder's Watchmen as Andy Warhol, Night of the Living Dead 3D, and Sex & Death 101.

Filmmaking

After film school Greg began making short comedy videos with his New York City based friend David Daniel.  Together they made "Last Tango in Poland",  "Carlos the Artist",  "1984 Now",  "Double Exposure", "Complainer Vs. Complainer",  "Who's Afraid Now",  "Hildegard" and  "The Fine Line of Charlie James".  In 1984 Greg partnered with Steve Bishart and they co-wrote, co-produced with Greg Directing a 16mm feature-length black-and-white film noir "DARK SEDUCTION", starring Tyler Horn as detective Dic Jones and Victoria Hughie as Vera The Vampiress.
Greg continued to make short videos with fellow Texan and filmmaker Louis Roth such as "Dreamdate", "The Last Date", "Home Life", "Ultra Dopes on Punk" and "Kaptain Komack on The Planet of Death".

In 1986 Greg was hired to make short films for "Saturday Night Live" entitled "Andy Warhols 15 Second Workout" and a Nick Nolte spoof "Never Get Out Of Bed".  Later Greg directed two music videos which aired on MTV called "Immune System Breakdown" and "The Art of Noise". In  89/90 Greg directed two Independent pilots "GT Ink" for CBS and "The Decadants" for Playboy Cable.

As a screenwriter Greg has written twenty feature film screen plays. Three of which were for Paramount, Disney and HBO. In 2003 Greg wrote, directed a feature-length psychological thriller entitled "Night Creep".  Recently Greg wrote and directed a web series entitled Drama Kings www.dramakings.net. He continues to make short films, like "Eat The Rich", "Super Spy Love" and "Hot Soup". He is currently developing two feature-length films for production, "Bofugly" and "The Sinner".

Selected filmography
 1980 Humanoids from the Deep as Mike Michaels, Radio Announcer
 1987 Million Dollar Mystery as Actor
 1991 True Identity as Orlando, Ticket Agent
 1991 Paradise as Earl McCoy
 1991 Shakes the Clown as Randi, The Rodeo Clown
 1995 Showgirls as Phil Newkirk
 1997 Starship Troopers as Network Correspondent
 1997 Lost Highway as Tail Gate Driver
 1998 Poodle Springs as Leonard
 1998 Letters from a Killer as State Trooper
 1999 Blood Type as Donnie
 1999 Man on the Moon as ABC Executive
 2000 Bar Hopping as Agent
 2002 Landspeed as Clayton Winfree
 2002 Paper Soldiers as Travis
 2003 Night Creep as Lee Howard, also Director
 2004 Toolbox Murders as Byron McLieb
 2005 Mortuary as Eliot Cook
 2005 Star Party as Booker
 2006 The Last Stand as Buddy Linnow
 2006 Edmond (short) as Edmond
 2006 Night of the Living Dead 3D as Henry Cooper
 2007 Sex & Death 101 as Magazine Stand Man
 2007 A Talent for Trouble as Frank Steiner
 2007 Hot Baby as 'Tex'
 2007 Sin-Jin Smyth
 2009 Halloween II as Deputy Neale
 2009 Watchmen as Andy Warhol
 2009 Tender as Hellfire as Mr. Deegan
 2009 World Full of Nothing as TV Preacher
 2010 Atlantis Down as Pete Hendrix
 2010 The Boondocks as Jimmy Rebel
 2010 Making of Sequestered as Casting Director
 2010 The Trouble with Cali as Tom Wilcox
 2011 Satin as Jimmi Crete
 2011 Affecter as Mystery Man
 2011 Dug Up as Sherriff Yates
 2011 White T as Stage Manager
 2011 The Bride of Frank (short) as Frank
 2011 Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven as Phil
 2011 Nobody Loses All the Time (short) as Warren Oates
 2014 Midlife as David Stanton

References

External links

American male film actors
American stand-up comedians
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Dallas
1958 births
20th-century American comedians
21st-century American comedians
Richland College alumni

Greg Travis


Chemical lace (sometimes referred to as Schiffli lace) is a form of machine-made lace. This method of lace-making is done by embroidering a pattern on a sacrificial fabric that has been chemically treated so as to disintegrate after the pattern has been created. Schiffli machines came into use in the late 19th century. Before that, embroidery machines called Swiss hand machine were used to make chemical lace as well as embroideries.

This embroidery is nowadays typically done on a multi-head or multi-needle Schiffli machine or loom that has a very large, continuous and overlapping embroidery field. The lace pattern is designed such that the embroidery thread creates an interlocking series of threads that will, in essence, become a "stand-alone" piece of lace.

After the embroidery is completed the embroidered fabric is immersed in a solution that will not harm the embroidery thread but completely dissolves the sacrificial fabric leaving just the lace.

Utilizing these large machines and this technique, a single piece of lace could be, using today's state-of-the-art machines, over 60 inches wide by 15 yards long.  In practice, this system is used to produce many smaller items with one setup.

The original composition of the disintegrating "bath" was not very friendly to the environment and has all but ceased to exist in developed countries. However, the practice is still being used to create laces in third world countries. Since the original development of chemical lace, other methods have been developed beyond the chemical washing method described above. These include the use of base fabrics that are water-soluble or that disintegrate under heat. These methods are generally too expensive or impractical for large-scale production. These are typically used by smaller embroidery facilities specializing in targeted markets, home-based businesses, or hobbyists.

Chemical lace can be distinguished from needle lace by a slight fuzziness in the threads.

References

External links

 Schiffli Lace and Embroidery Manufacturers Association
 Schiffli Machine Embroidery Guide

Machine-made lace
Embroidery

Chemical lace


Audio Video Bridging (AVB) is a common name for the set of technical standards which provide improved synchronization, low-latency, and reliability for switched Ethernet networks. AVB embodies the following technologies and standards:
 IEEE 802.1AS-2011: Timing and Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications (gPTP);
 IEEE 802.1Qav-2009: Forwarding and Queuing for Time-Sensitive Streams (FQTSS);
 IEEE 802.1Qat-2010: Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP);
 IEEE 802.1BA-2011: Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Systems;
 IEEE 1722-2011 Layer 2 Transport Protocol for Time-Sensitive Applications (AV Transport Protocol, AVTP); and
 IEEE 1722.1-2013 Device Discovery, Enumeration, Connection Management and Control Protocol (AVDECC).

IEEE 802.1Qat and 802.1Qav amendments have been incorporated to the base IEEE 802.1Q-2011 document, which specifies the operation of Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks.

AVB was initially developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Audio Video Bridging task group of the IEEE 802.1 standards committee. In November 2012, Audio Video Bridging task group was renamed to Time-Sensitive Networking task group to reflect the expanded scope of its work, which is to "provide the specifications that will allow time-synchronized low latency streaming services through IEEE 802 networks". Further standardization efforts are ongoing in IEEE 802.1 TSN task group.

To help ensure interoperability between devices that implement the AVB and TSN standards, the AVnu Alliance develops device certification for the automotive, consumer, and professional audio and video markets.

Background
Analog audio video (AV) equipment historically used one-way, single-purpose, point-to-point connections. Even digital AV standards, such as S/PDIF for audio and the serial digital interface (SDI) for video, retain these properties. This connection model results in large masses of cables, especially in professional applications and high-end audio.

Attempts to solve these problems were based on multi-point network topologies, such as IEEE 1394 (FireWire), and included adaptation of standard switched computer network technologies such as Audio over Ethernet and Audio over IP. Professional, home, and automotive AV solutions came to use specialized protocols that do not interoperate between each other or standard IT protocols, while standard computer networks did not provide tight quality of service with strict timing and predictable or bounded latency.

To overcome these limitations, Audio Video Bridging networks transmit multiple audiovisual streams through standard Ethernet switches (i.e. MAC bridges) connected in a hierarchical tree topology. AVB includes layer 2 protocols to reserve connection bandwidth and prioritise network traffic, which  guarantee precise sync clock and low transmission latency for each stream.

Tight sync between multiple AV streams is needed for lip sync between video and related audio streams, to keep multiple digitally connected speakers in phase in a professional environment (which requires 1 μs precision), and to prevent audio or video packets from arriving late to the endpoint, resulting in a dropped frame of video and unwanted audio glitches such as a pop or silence. Worst-case delay, including source and destination buffering, is required to be low and deterministic: the user-interface delay shall be around 50 ms, so that the pressing of a button and the resulting action are perceived as happening instantly, and 2 ms for live performance or studio work.

Summary

Audio Video Bridging is implemented as a switched Ethernet network which works by reserving a fraction of the available Ethernet for AV traffic. There are three primary differences introduced by the AVB architecture:

 Precise synchronization using Generalized Precision Time Protocol (gPTP) profile (IEEE 802.1AS),
 Traffic shaping for AV streams using frame priorities (IEEE 802.1Qav) and VLAN tags (IEEE 802.1Q), and
 Admission controls with Stream Reservation Protocol (IEEE 802.1Qat).

The IEEE 802.1BA is an umbrella standard for these three principal technologies, which defines application-specific configurations and operation procedures for devices in switched audio video networks.

The new layer-2 configuration protocols work with backward-compatible extensions to the Ethernet 802.1 frame format; such minimal changes allow AVB devices to coexist and communicate in standard IT networks, however, only AVB-capable switches and endpoint can reserve network resources with admission control and synchronize local time to a master clock, which is required for low latency time-sensitive traffic.

AVB traffic is replicated in a multicast manner, with one talker (stream initiator) and multiple listeners. AVB packets are sent at regular intervals in the allocated time slots, preventing collisions for AV traffic.
AVB guarantees a latency of 2 ms for Class A traffic and 50 ms for Class B traffic over a maximum of 7 hops, with a transmission period of 125 μs for Class A and 250 μs for Class B traffic.

An IEEE 802.1AS network timing domain includes all devices that communicate using the gPTP protocol. The grandmaster is a device chosen as the reference clock; the 802.1BA specification requires every talker and network bridge to be grandmaster capable.

802.3 link management and 802.1AS link delay measurement protocols calculate the round-trip delay to the AVB endpoint; this needs to be better than worst-case wire delay from the 802.1AS peer delay algorithm.

Higher-level protocols may use 802.1AS clock information to set the exact presentation time for each AV stream.

AV transport and configuration

IEEE 1722 AVTP

IEEE Std 1722-2011 for a Layer 2 Audio Video Transport Protocol (AVTP) defines details for transmitting IEEE 1394/IEC 61883 streams and other AV formats, setting the presentation time for each AV stream, and manage latencies from worst case delay calculated by the gPTP protocol.

IEEE 1722.1 AVDECC
IEEE Std 1722.1-2013 is a standard which allows AVB Discovery, Enumeration, Connection management and Control (AVDECC) of devices using IEEE Std 1722-2011. AVDECC defines operations to discover device addition and removal, retrieve device entity model, connect and disconnect streams, manage device and connection status, and remote control devices.

Interoperability
Higher layer services can improve synchronisation and latency of media transmission by mapping the AVB Stream ID to internal stream identifiers to and basing internal timestamps on gPTP master clock.

IEEE 1733
IEEE Std 1733-2011 defines a Layer 3 protocol profile for Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) applications with a RTCP payload format, which assigns the Stream ID from SRP to the RTP's Synchronization source identifier (SSRC), and correlates RTP timestamps for presentation time with 802.1AS gPTP master clock.

AES67
AES67 is based on standard RTP over UDP/IP and IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTPv2) for timing; interoperability with AVB/TSN can be achieved by linking IEEE 802.1AS timing information to AES67 PTPv2 payload data.

AES67 implementation with AVB interoperability has been demoed at InfoComm 2016.

Milan
In 2018, the Avnu Alliance announced the Milan initiative to promote interoperability of AVB devices and provide product certification and testing.

The specification requires media clocking based on the AVTP CRF (Clock Reference Format) and sample rate of 48 kHz (optionally 96 and 192 kHz); audio stream format is based on AVTP IEC 61883-6 32-bit Standard AAF Audio Format with 1 to 8 audio channels per stream (optionally, 24- and 32-bit High Capacity Format with 56 and 64 channels). Redundancy is provided with two independent logical networks for every endpoint and a seamless switchover mechanism.

DetNet

The IETF Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Working Group is working to define deterministic data paths with bounds on latency, loss, and packet delay variation (jitter), and high reliability. DetNet shall operate over both Layer 2 bridged segments and Layer 3 routed segments, relying on interoperability with AVB/TSN switches when possible.

One of the possible application of DetNet is professional audio/video, such as music and film production, broadcast, cinema, live sound, and large venue (stadiums, halls, conference centers, theme parks, airports, train terminals, etc.) systems for public addressing, media streaming and emergency announcement. The stated goal is to enable geographically distributed, campus- or enterprise-wide Intranet for content delivery with bounded low latency (10-15 ms). A single network shall handle both A/V and IT traffic, with Layer 3 routing on top of AVB QoS networks to enable sharing content between Layer 2 AVB segments, and provide IntServ and DiffServ integration with AVB where possible. Unused reserved bandwidth shall be released for best-effort traffic. The protocol stack shall have Plug-and-play capabilities from top to bottom to reduce manual setup and administration, allow quick changes of network devices and network topology.

Large-scale AVB networks, like those employed by ESPN SportsCenter "Digital Center 2" broadcast facility which hosts multiple individual studios, are laid with a thousand miles of fiber and have ten Tbps of bandwidth for a hundred thousand signals transmitted simultaneously; in the absence of standards-based solution to interconnect individual AVB segments, a custom software-defined networking router is required.

Standardization
The work on A/V streaming started at the IEEE 802.3re 'Residential Ethernet' study group in July 2004. In November 2005, it was moved to the IEEE 802.1 committee responsible for cross-network bridging standards.

References

External links
  Time-Sensitive Networking task group
  802.1 Audio/Video Bridging task group (Archived)
 IEEE 1722 Layer 2 transport protocol working group for time-sensitive streams
 IEEE 1722.1 working group for Device Discovery, Enumeration, Connection Management and Control Protocol for P1722 based devices
 IEEE 1733 AVB layer 3 transport working group
 Networking and interoperability in AVB-capable devices, by William Gravelle, UNH-IOL
 AV Bridging and Ethernet AV – AVB overview presentation
 Forum for discussion about AVB

IEEE standards
IEEE 802
Multimedia
Ethernet
Audio network protocols
Ethernet standards

Audio Video Bridging


Rewired is the only Belgian annual demoparty, which is organised since 2008. Typical competitions include PC demos and intros, hand-made and ray traced graphics, "wild", music and "oldskool" competitions.

The first three editions took place in Maaseik, Belgium. The party is organized in JC Fuego, not far from downtown Maaseik.

In 2011, the party went on a break but returned in 2012, moving the party to Godsheide near Hasselt, Belgium.

Previous editions
 Rewired 2008: "Real party is outside Germany"
 Rewired 2009: "Summer is here"
 Rewired 2010: "Next Christmas arrives next Summer"
 Rewired 2012
 Rewired 2013: "The Garden Edition"
 Rewired 2014: "The Second Garden Edition"

Upcoming editions
Currently there are no further events planned.

External links
 Rewired demoparties results, reports and productions download on Pouët
 Rewired homepage
 Rewired on Demozoo

Demo parties
Competitions in Belgium

Rewired (demoparty)


Mantaly is a town and commune () in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambilobe, which is a part of Diana Region. According to 2001 commune census the population of Mantaly was 14,420.

Mantaly is served by a local airport. Primary and junior level secondary education are available in town. The majority 95% of the population are farmers, while an additional 4.5% receives their livelihood from raising livestock. The most important crop is rice, while other important products are banana, coffee and sugarcane.  Services provide employment for 0.5% of the population.

References and notes

Populated places in Diana Region

Mantaly


The 2nd alpine Artillery Regiment ) is an inactive field artillery regiment of the Italian Army, specializing in mountain combat. Since their formation the Mountain Artillery Regiments have served alongside the Alpini, the mountain infantry speciality of the Italian Army, which distinguished itself in combat during World War I and World War II. Besides their close history, the Alpini and Mountain Artillery regiments share the distinctive Cappello Alpino. The regiment was disbanded in 2013 and its FH-70 towed howitzers were transferred to the re-raised 185th Parachute Artillery Regiment Folgore of the Folgore Parachute Brigade in Bracciano.

History
The unit was raised as the 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment in the city of Bergamo on 15 February 1915. On the same date, it received the Mountain Artillery Group Oneglia from the 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Group Bergamo from the 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment. To bring the regiment to full strength on the same date the mountain artillery groups Genova and Como were raised. The regiment was tasked to provide artillery support to the 1st and 5th Alpini regiments and recruited in Liguria and Lombardy.

World War 1

During the war the regiment's depots raised and trained the commands of one mountain artillery grouping (Raggruppamento Artiglieria Montagna), the commands of 17 mountain artillery groups (Gruppo Artiglieria Montagna), and 44 mountain artillery batteries, which were each equipped with four 65/17 mod. 13 cannons. Furthermore, two commands of siege groups (Gruppo d'Assedio), and 19 siege batteries were raised and trained by the regiment.

 The regiment raised the following mountain artillery grouping: 7°.
 The regiment raised the following mountain artillery groups: XVII (72nd, 73rd, 74th bty.), XVIII (75th, 76th, 77th bty.), XXIV (56th, 60th, 62nd bty.), XXVII (88th, 89th, 90th bty.), XXXI (97th, 98th, 99th bty.), XXXII, XL, XLV, XLVI, XLVII, XLVIII, LV, LVI, LVII, LIX, LX, and LXVI.

Note 3: The Genova group's 60th Mountain Artillery Battery and the Como group's 62nd Mountain Artillery Battery were not raised until November 1916 for lack of available 65/17 mod. 13 cannons.

Interwar Years - New Numbering
Traditionally Alpini units had been numbered from West to East with the 1st Alpini Regiment being the most westward and the 8th Alpini Regiment being the most eastward. However, as the 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment had been raised last it found itself now in the middle between the 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment in the West and the 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment in the East. To rectify this on 11 March 1926 the 2nd and 3rd mountain artillery regiments swapped numbers.

Current Structure
The regiment was part of the Army's Artillery Command and was equipped with FH-70 towed howitzers.

 Regimental Command
  Command and Logistic Support Battery
  21st Target Acquisition and Surveillance Battery
  Artillery Group Vicenza
  19th Howitzer Battery
  20th Howitzer Battery
  41st Technical Support Battery

References

External links
 Official website

Alpini
Regiments of Italy in World War I
Regiments of Italy in World War II
Artillery regiments of Italy

2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment (Italy)


H. C. S. Motor Car Company was a short-lived Indianapolis, Indiana, automobile manufacturer. It may have built as many as 3,000 cars between the summer of 1920 and 1926, when its doors were closed by its creditors.

Incorporation

H. C. S. Motor Car Company was incorporated with $1,000,000 in capital in late 1919 by Harry C. Stutz, founder and former president of the Stutz Motor Car Company, with his friend Harry Campbell as treasurer and Samuel T Murdock as vice-president.
Stutz served as president and managing director. He also was the majority stockholder and chairman of the board of directors.

Early models
A prototype was displayed at the end of 1919. The press noted the hand embossed leather upholstery was on very low seats, the cushions sat directly on the floor. Others reported the center of gravity was very low and the top of the windshield was less than the height of the average man. Demonstrators did not go to dealers until May 1920 because the new factory building was not progressing as it should and production was restricted by difficult conditions in the busy factory of the Stutz Fire Engine Company.

Production
The first production cars were roadsters and touring cars. A coupe was added in late 1920 and a 4-door sedan was added to the catalogue in July 1921. The body height of the sedan was "low with a European look" but "ample head room" remained.

Prices
The economic climate of the early 1920s was unstable, with very damaging short sharp booms and busts. Production was cut back from the planned ten cars per day to only five and prices were cut by $200 on all models as of August 1. 1921. Rolls-Royce had announced a $1250 cut in their chassis price two weeks earlier. Further price cuts were announced with effect from March 4, 1922. It was noted they were an approximate reduction of $500 to $600 from the prices at August 1. The new prices were:

Series 4
A new series 4 model was announced in August 1922 with enlarged cylinder bores giving more horsepower with improved gas consumption. Pistons had been lightened and an automatic spark advance and a new exhaust muffler fitted. There was a larger steering wheel and changes had been made to the springs. A taller radiator and a new design of wire wheels were fitted.

H. C. S. Cab Manufacturing Co
The struggle continued. Stutz left his Stutz Fire Apparatus Company and took control at H. C. S. In mid-1924, H. C. S. announced its engineers had designed a new taxicab that was lighter than competitors' cars and easier to maintain. A feature of all the H. C. S. cars was the easy accessibility of major components. Design allowed each engine accessory to be serviced without removing or dismantling any other accessories. The press was shown the taxi prototype and photographs were published in December 1924.

Closure
Stutz retreated to Orlando, Florida, in 1925, leaving his car and fire engine businesses to flounder. The next year H. C. S. Motor Car Company was placed in a trust for creditors under the management of Harry's one-time assistant (1920-1925), Charles Merz, an engineer and former race driver.

The company was liquidated in 1927.

References

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Indiana
Manufacturing companies based in Indianapolis
Defunct companies based in Indianapolis
1919 establishments in Indiana
1929 disestablishments in Indiana
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1919
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1929
1920s cars
Vintage vehicles

H. C. S. Motor Car Company


CloneDVD is a proprietary DVD cloning software, developed by Elaborate Bytes, that can be used to make backup copies of any DVD movie not  copy-protected. The program is able to transcode a dual layer DVD movie to fit it onto a DVD-R,  DVD+R or DVD+R DL (Double Layer) disc. Users also have the choice to strip audio streams, subtitles and chapters. This is called customize. For example, users can edit and delete certain parts of a DVD that they don't want burned, such as the main menu, bonus features, commentary, or certain scenes from the actual DVD. By moving a quality bar (or by selecting a standard optical disc format) the user can make the DVD fit its target medium.

Another feature of this software is its ability to save the contents of the disc as an ISO image, or as individual DVD files (i.e. in a VIDEO_TS directory). Conversely, CloneDVD can write a DVD from an ISO image and from a directory of individual DVD files. Consequently, CloneDVD can process a folder of DVD files (i.e. on another storage medium) and convert it into an ISO image. It cannot, however, convert an ISO image directly into a directory of DVD files, but this is possible to do by first mounting the image into a virtual drive using a disk image emulator, such as Virtual CloneDrive. CloneDVD supports DVD recording speeds of up to 18x.

See also
SlySoft
AnyDVD
CloneCD
HandBrake
DVD Shrink
DVD Decrypter
K9Copy
DVD ripper software with similar features

References

External links
Elaborate Bytes (software developer)
Another CloneDVD guide
CloneDVD FAQ

Optical disc authoring software
DVD rippers
Windows-only shareware

CloneDVD


The Muga is a river in Catalonia, Spain, that rises in the Alberes mountains of the eastern Pyrenees and enters the Mediterranean Sea at the Gulf of Roses.

The river is  long. Its source is below the summit of Montnegre, elevation .  The river passes through the village of Pont de Molins and passes through the Boadella Reservoir, where the river is dammed.

The Muga Valley was entrusted to the  County of Empúries by Ramon Berenguer III after being in the County of Besalú.  The local population suffered in both the Peninsular War and Spanish Civil War.

See also
 List of rivers of Spain

References

Rivers of Spain
Rivers of Catalonia

Muga (river)


Asad Ali Khan (1 December 1937 – 14 June 2011) was an Indian musician who played the plucked string instrument rudra veena. Khan performed in the style dhrupad and was described as the best living rudra veena player in India by The Hindu. He was awarded the Indian civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008.

Life and career
Khan was born 1937 in Alwar in the seventh generation of rudra veena players in his family. His ancestors were royal musicians in the courts of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, and Jaipur, Rajasthan in the 18th century. His great-grandfather Rajab Ali Khan was head of the court musicians in Jaipur and owned a village land holding. His grandfather Musharraf Khan (died 1909) was court musician in Alwar, and performed in London in 1886. Khan's father Sadiq Ali Khan worked as a musician for the Alwar court and for the Nawab of Rampur for 35 years. Khan grew up in a musical surrounding and was taught the Beenkar gharana (stylistic school of rudra veena playing) of Jaipur and vocals for fifteen years.

Khan was one of a few active musicians who played the rudra veena and the last surviving master of one of the four schools of dhrupad, the Khandar school. He performed in many countries, including Australia, the United States, Afghanistan, and Italy and several other European countries, and conducted music courses in the United States. Khan worked at All India Radio, taught the sitar in the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts at the University of Delhi for 17 years, and continued to train students privately after his retirement. Students of Khan who perform include his son Zaki Haidar, Carsten Wicke, Bikramjeet Das of Kolkata, Jyoti Hegde, and the vocalist, Madhumita Ray. Dr. Keshav Sharma from Shimla, India was also his disciple for many years who learnt Sitar and Dhrupad. Khan criticized the lack of willingness among Indians to study the rudra veena and had more foreign than Indian students. He was involved in preserving the playing of the instrument, which he believed to be created by the deity Shiva, and performed for SPIC MACAY, promoting Indian classical music to young Indians. Khan was a Shi'a Muslim.

Khan received several national awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1977 and the civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008, which was awarded by Indian President Pratibha Patil. He was described as the best living rudra veena player in India by The Hindu and lived in Delhi.

Death
Khan died on 14 June 2011 in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.

References

External links

 Ustad Asad Ali Khan performances at Youtube

1937 births
2011 deaths
Hindustani instrumentalists
Indian Shia Muslims
People from Alwar
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Rudra veena players
20th-century Indian musicians

Asad Ali Khan


The Governing Senate was the highest legislative, judicial, and executive body subordinate to the Russian emperors, instituted by Peter the Great to replace the Boyar Duma and lasted until the very end of the Russian Empire. It was chaired by the Procurator General, who served as the link between the sovereign and the Senate; he acted, in the emperor's own words, as "the sovereign's eye".

Description
Originally established only for the time of Peter's absence, it became a permanent body after his return. The number of senators was first set at nine and, in 1712, increased to ten. Any disagreements between the Chief Procurator and the Senate were to be settled by the monarch. Certain other officials and a chancellery were also attached to the Senate. While it underwent many subsequent changes, it became one of the most important institutions of imperial Russia, especially for administration and law.

The State Council, created by Alexander I, was supposed to inherit the executive power of the Senate. An envisioned parliament was to inherit legislative power, but that never happened.

In the 19th century, the Senate evolved into the highest judicial body in Russia. As such, it exercised control over all legal institutions and officials throughout the country.

The Senate was composed of several departments, two of which were Courts of Cassation (one for criminal cases, one for civil cases). It also included a Department of Heraldry, which managed matters relating to the rights of the nobles and honorary citizens.

First nine senators
Count Ivan Musin-Pushkin, Boyar Tikhon Streshnev, Prince Petr Golitsyn, Prince Mikhail Dolgorukov, Grigoriy Plemiannikov, Prince Grigoriy Volkonskiy, General Mikhail Samarin, Quartermaster general Vasiliy Apukhtin и Nazariy Melnitskiy. As an ober-secretary was appointed Anisim Schukin.

Procurator Generals

Procurator Generals and Ministers of Justice

See also
 Pruth River Campaign (1710—1711)

Sources and references

References

Government of the Russian Empire
1711 establishments in Russia
1917 disestablishments in Russia
Organizations established in the 1710s

Governing Senate


Gbubemi Fregene, better known as Chef Fregz, is a Nigerian chef.

Early life and education
Gbubemi Fregene was born in Abeokuta. He grew up in Benin City. He studied Industrial relations and human resource management at Covenant University and cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute, France.

Career
Gbubemi started his culinary internships at Oakwood Park and Protea Hotel in 2004 and continued at Oleander Lodge in 2007, while studying. In 2009, he started his own catering service called DVARD Catering Service. Fregene left Nigeria in early 2010 to study at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute in  Paris, France, earning a Diploma in Cuisine. At the institute, he learned classical French cooking techniques while also experiencing diverse cultural influences from different countries. After completing his studies at Le Cordon Bleu, he worked as an intern at the Market Restaurant, Paris from November 2010 till February 2011. Fregene was retained in the restaurant after the internship period.

Gbubemi returned to Nigeria and built his brand focusing on attracting Nigerian youths by appealing to their passion for new and creative cooking. In order to meet the need for young chefs to communicate and connect with the upwardly mobile crowd which he serviced, he promoted his brand by hosting regularly summer style cookouts called Chef Fregz™ Special.
Gbubemi has also been a judge in cooking competitions in Nigeria, including Knorr Taste Quest.

Personal life
He married Kemi Lala Akindoju in September 2018 and had a son in February 2021.

References

Living people
20th-century births
Nigerian chefs
Businesspeople from Abeokuta
21st-century Nigerian businesspeople
Covenant University alumni
Alumni of Le Cordon Bleu
Nigerian television chefs
Year of birth missing (living people)
Male chefs

Chef Fregz