Jonathan Davis (born 17 February 1954) is a British author, editor and journalist specialising in finance.

Educated at Winchester College and Cambridge University where he gained a master's degree in history, he became a senior business journalist at The Sunday Telegraph, The Times and The Economist before taking a master's degree in management at the MIT Sloan School of Management where, in preparation for his thesis, he met and studied the methods of investor Warren Buffett.

From 1995 to 2007 he wrote a weekly column in The Independent and. from 2006 to 2009. wrote a fortnightly column in the Financial Times.

As of 2009' he writes a blog at Independent Investor, which he founded, and is investment director of Agrifirma, a specialist investment management company headed by investor Jim Slater, and since 2002 is chairman of the Savile Club in London.

Bibliography
Investing with Anthony Bolton
What Warren Buffett Thinks 2006
What Warren Buffett Thinks 2005
Money Makers

References

External links
The Spectator - Jonathan Davis
The Financial Times - FTfm - Last Word

1954 births
British writers
British male journalists
Living people
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni


The Wake Forest University School of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of Wake Forest University.  Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Wake Forest University School of Law is a private American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).  The school was established in 1894. The current dean is Andrew R. Klein.

As of 2021, Wake Forest University School of Law has 44 Resident Faculty Members, 43 Extended Faculty Members, 8 Law Librarians, and 20 School Administrators.

The school is known for emphasizing small classes, and the entering class in 2022 had 159 students, divided amongst four sections of approximately 40 students each.  The entering class had a median LSAT score of 165 and media GPA of 3.72.

According to Wake Forest's official ABA-required disclosures, 96.5% of the Class of 2021 obtained full-time, long-term, Bar-required or JD Advantage employment within 10 months after graduation.  Of those graduates, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Florida accounted for the most popular employment locations.

The bar passage rate in North Carolina for the Class of 2021 was 95.7% and the overall bar passage rate was 94.27%.

Class Profile
For the 2022-2023 academic year, Wake Forest University School of Law enrolled 159 first-year students out of 1,808 total applicants.  The incoming class came from 100 different undergraduate colleges and universities from 32 different states, with 67% of students being classified as "out-of-state residents".

The incoming class was featured a high level of diversity with 52% of the class identifying as female and 48% identifying as male.  Additionally, 20% of the incoming class identified themselves as being LGBTQ+ and 19% of the class identified as being an minoritized ethnicity.  54% of the incoming class also reported having at least 1 year of post-undergraduate experience prior to matriculating.

Numerically, the incoming class was also very accomplished with the 75th percentile LSAT score being 166, the median being 165, and the 25th percentile being 159.  The 75th percentile undergraduate GPA was 3.85, the median was 3.72, and the 25th percentile was 3.46.

Publications
The school has three student-run law journals.  The school's flagship journal is the Wake Forest Law Review.  The school also publishes two specialized journals, the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy and the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law.

Journal membership is determined primarily through a writing competition that is administered at the end of the first-year.  Wake Forest Law Review also extends invitations for membership based on GPA to the top 10% of the first-year class, regardless of performance in the writing competition.  By joining a journal, students are eligible to earn two (2) credit hours per year, in the Spring semester, by serving on the Editorial Board or by writing an original piece of scholarship (i.e. a Note or Comment).

Rankings
The Wake Forest University School of Law is ranked 22nd in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report ranking.

Student organizations
 Student Bar Association
 Phi Alpha Delta
 Black Law Students Association
 North Carolina Student Bar Association
 American Constitution Society
 Federalist Society
 Christian Legal Society
 Moot Court Board
 Trial Bar
 Transactional Law Competition
 Public Interest Law Organization
 Wake Forest Law Review
 Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy
 Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law
 Texas Young Lawyer Association National Trial Team
 AAJ Student Trial Advocacy Competition Trial Team
 OUTLaw

Student opportunities
 Metropolitan Externship in Washington, D.C. - Students spend approximately 35 hours per week interning in a government agency or non-governmental organization. In addition to this practice component, students attend a weekly class session, which explores issues common to the interns.
 Summer Study Abroad Programs in London, Venice, and Vienna.
 Inns of Court
 Guardian Ad Litem
 Pro bono Project

Clinics

The law school offers seven legal clinics, or programs that allow students to attain practical legal experience through providing legal services to real clients.
 Appellate Advocacy Clinic - Students represent clients in a variety of appellate courts, including the Fourth Circuit and the Seventh Circuit.  Students handle an actual appeal from start to finish, with advice and assistance from their professor, who is counsel of record.  Students also travel to Washington, D.C., to observe arguments at the United States Supreme Court.
 Child Advocacy Clinic - Students represent children in custody disputes, domestic violence situations, and in issues involving the public school system.
 Community Law and Business Clinic - A new program, this clinic provides law and graduate business students with an opportunity to develop skills needed to practice in the increasingly complex legal and regulatory environment they will encounter as professionals.

 Innocence and Justice Clinic - This clinic has its origins in the Innocence Project in which Wake Forest students review and investigate claims of innocence to determine whether DNA evidence existed that could exonerate inmates.
 Civil & Criminal Externship Clinic - Formerly referred to as the Litigation Clinic, students have the opportunity to receive real world practice experience by working with local attorneys. During the semester, all students receive civil placements with local firms, in-house counsel offices, and the Office of the United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. Students also spend half of their semester working in a criminal placement. These placements have included private firms as well as prosecutors' and public defenders' offices.
Veterans Legal Clinic - Students work with former military services members to upgrade their discharge statuses. The lengthy process involves submitting briefs to the pertinent military discharge review board.

Employment
According to Wake Forest's official ABA-required disclosures, 84.8% of the Class of 2016 obtained full-time, long-term, Bar-required or JD Advantage employment within 10 months after graduation.

Cost of Attendance
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at Wake Forest University School of Law for the 2022-2023 academic year is $78,744.  Though Wake Forest University School of Law does not provide any "need-based" scholarships (i.e. scholarship based on income and/or family contribution), most students qualify for and receive some form of "merit based" scholarship (i.e. scholarship based on prior academic performance).

For all students in attendance between 2020-2021, out of 465 students, 443 students received some form of merit scholarship (95% of total students).  Of those students, 122 (26% of total students) received scholarships for an amount less than half the cost of tuition.  Another 288 (62% of total students) received scholarships for amounts between half and full tuition.  And 31 (7% of total students) received scholarships for amounts greater than the cost of tuition.  Of the scholarships provided: the 75th percentile was valued at $42,000 per year, the median was valued at $36,000 per year, and the 25 percentile was valued at $22,250 per year.

Outside of traditional scholarship opportunities, Wake Forest students frequently receive Grad PLUS Loans through Federal Student Aid Programs or participate in various approved Federal Work-Study program opportunities throughout the law school.

Notable alumni
Kenneth D. Bell (J.D. 1983), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Joseph Branch, Former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
 Fanny Yarborough Bickett (J.D.), First Lady of North Carolina and first female president of the North Carolina Railroad
Rhoda Billings (J.D., 1966), Former Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Mary P. Easley (J.D. 1975), Former First Lady of North Carolina
William Earl Britt (LL.B. 1958), Former federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Sidney S. Eagles Jr. (J.D. 1964), Former Justice of the North Carolina Court of Appeals
James P. Cain (J.D. 1984), Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark
Elizabeth Kay Dillon (J.D. 1986), Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Robert L. Ehrlich (J.D., 1982), Former Governor of and Congressman for the state of Maryland
Rocky Fitzsimmons, member of the West Virginia Senate
Jerome B. Friedman (J.D., 1969), Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Kay Hagan (JD, 1978), Former U.S. Senator for the state of North Carolina (2009-2015)
Johnson Jay Hayes (LL.B. 1909), Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Malcolm Jones Howard, (J.D. 1970), Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Samuel Johnson Howard (J.D. 1976), 8th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida
Woodrow Wilson Jones (LL.B. 1937), Federal judge for the Western District of North Carolina
Cheslie Kryst (J.D. 2017), Miss USA 2019 and television presenter
I. Beverly Lake Jr. (J.D. 1960), Former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
John C. Martin (J.D. 1967), Former Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals
Warren McGraw (J.D. 1963), Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and West Virginia Senate President
Robert Burren Morgan (J.D.), Former U.S. Senator for the state of North Carolina (1975–1981)
Anuraag Singhal (J.D. 1989), Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Emory M. Sneeden (LL.B. 1953), Former Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Edwin Monroe Stanley (LL.B., 1931), Former federal judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Charles H. Taylor (J.D., 1966) Former U.S. Representative for the state of North Carolina (1991–2007)
Norwood Tilley (J.D. 1969), Federal judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Don Vaughan (J.D., 1979) Former member of the North Carolina State Senate from Greensboro
Hiram Hamilton Ward (LL.B., 1950) Former federal judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Samuel Grayson Wilson (J.D. 1974) Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Christopher R. Barron (J.D.), Co-Founder of GOProud.
Greg Habeeb (J.D., 2001) Member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Creigh Deeds (J.D., 1984) Member of the Virginia State Senate.
Suzanne Reynolds (J.D., 1977) Dean Emerita and Professor of Law at Wake Forest School of Law.

References

External links

Law schools in North Carolina
Wake Forest University


The sexual abuse scandal in Miami archdiocese is part of the Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States and Ireland. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is the largest non-governmental provider of social services and operates the largest non-governmental school and hospital system in South Florida.

Amount of money and abusers
Since 1966, the Archdiocese of Miami insurance programs have paid $26.1 million in settlement, legal and counseling costs associated with sexual misconduct allegations made by minors involving non-clergy employees and volunteers, religious brothers and sisters and priests. In the past 50 years, a total of 4,433 priests have worked in the archdiocese. Forty-nine of them have been accused of some sort of sexual misconduct, not all of it dealing with minors.

Number of lawsuits
There were six lawsuits pending as of 2007.

Doherty affair
Archbishop  John Favalora has been deposed in a lawsuit filed against retired Broward priest Neil Doherty; at least four lawsuits alleged the Archdiocese knew Doherty was a child sexual abuser and covered up allegations. Doherty was removed from ministry in 2002 by Archbishop Favalora. Three years later, in 2005, he was first publicly accused of sexual abuse. Favalora claims in his published deposition that he removed Doherty after going through approximately 400 priest personal files and found old allegations of abuse against Doherty that took place under the administration of the previous and now deceased archbishop.

Two of these Doherty cases were settled together with four others in July 2006 for $750,000.

Mercieca affair
In October 2006, U.S. congressman Mark Foley revealed that he was molested as a 16-year-old by Fr. Anthony Mercieca who acknowledged the molestation.  Although Foley never filed suit, another man came forward shortly thereafter and filed a lawsuit anonymously claiming similar abuse. That lawsuit was settled in July 2007.  Fr. Mercieca denied any abuse of the second man.

2007 lawsuits
In July 2007, Miami lawyer Jeffrey Herman announced new lawsuits against the Archdiocese, alleging sexual abuse by six previously accused priests, including Neil Doherty. One of the lawsuits is for an allegation that was previously investigated by the State Attorney's office and was deemed not credible.  The investigation was dropped and the priest remains active in ministry. The Archdiocese has stated it will defend him vigorously. Jeffrey Herman's license to practice law was suspended for two years for ethics violations.

Charter rules
In 1997, soon after becoming archbishop, John Favalora responded to these scandals by adopting the Charter for the Protection of Young People. This charter, which was adopted by all U.S. bishops several years later in response to similar abuse in other dioceses, requires all priests, employees, and volunteers of the archdiocese to be fingerprinted and have a background check.

All allegations of sexual abuse are required to be reported to the police. Suspected offenders are suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. If the allegations are deemed by investigators to be credible, the suspected offender is relieved of duties and prosecuted. Counseling is offered for victims.

Extensive media coverage
Some commentators have argued that media coverage of the issue has been excessive, given that the same problems plague other institutions, such as the US public school system, with much greater frequency. Notwithstanding, Archbishop John Favalora responded to these scandals by being the first US bishop to implement background checks and fingerprinting rules for all volunteers and employees working with children and vulnerable adults, a rule subsequently adopted by all US bishops.

See also

Abuse
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Essential Norms
National Review Board
Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors
Religious abuse
Sexual abuse
Sexual misconduct
Spiritual abuse

References

External links
Audits, Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Charter For The Protection Of Children And Young People; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
National Review Board,  Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Safe Environment, Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Victim Assistance, Child And Youth Protection; US Conference of Catholic Bishops

Incidents of violence against boys
Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in the United States
Violence against children


Fako is a division of Southwest Region in Cameroon. The division covers an area of 2,093 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 466,412. The capital of the department lies at Limbe.

Subdivisions
The division is divided administratively into 6 communes and in turn into sub-districts and villages. The Ambas Bay district is further divided into 3 sub-districts; Limbe I (Victoria), Limbe II (Botaland), Limbe III (Isubuland).

Communes
 Buea
 Ambas Bay (Limbe)
 Muyuka
 Tiko
 West Coast (Idenau)
 Dibombari

See also
Communes of Cameroon

References

Departments of Cameroon
Southwest Region (Cameroon)


William Belshaw (20 February 1914 – 6 December 1975) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Liverpool Stanley, Warrington and Wigan (World War II guest), as a goal-kicking , or .

Playing career

Club career
At club level, Belshaw played for Liverpool Stanley until 1937, when he was signed by Warrington for a record fee of £1,450, (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £233,900 in 2015). He went on to make 132 appearances for Warrington. He also appeared for Wigan as a World War II guest player.

International honours
Billy Belshaw, won caps for England while at Liverpool Stanley in 1935 against Wales, in 1936 against Wales, in 1937 against France, while at Warrington in 1938 against France, and Wales, in 1939 against France, and Wales, in 1940 against Wales, in 1941 against Wales, in 1943 against Wales, in 1945 against Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Liverpool Stanley in 1936 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (2 matches), in 1937 against Australia, while at Warrington, and in 1937 against Australia (2 matches).

County honours
Billy Belshaw played , and scored 2-goals in Lancashire's 7-5 victory over Australia in the 1937–38 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France match at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Wednesday 29 September 1937, in front of a crowd of 16,250.

Championship final appearances
Billy Belshaw played right- and scored a goal in Wigan's 13-9 victory over Dewsbury in the Championship Final first-leg during the 1943–44 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 13 May 1944, and played right- in the 12-5 victory over Dewsbury in the Championship Final second-leg during the 1943–44 season at Crown Flatt, Dewsbury on Saturday 20 May 1944.

Other notable matches
Billy Belshaw played  and was captain for a Rugby League XIII against Northern Command XIII at Thrum Hall, Halifax on Saturday 21 March 1942.

References

External links
Statistics at wigan.rlfans.com

1914 births
1975 deaths
England national rugby league team captains
England national rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Liverpool City (rugby league) players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league fullbacks
Rugby league players from Wigan
Warrington Wolves players
Wigan Warriors wartime guest players


Jani Haapamäki (born 15 May 1982 in Kauhajoki) is a Finnish wrestler (Greco-Roman). He won a gold medal at the 2009 European Wrestling Championships in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 55 kg event. Haapamäki represents the Kauhajoen Karhu (Eng. Kauhajoki Bears) sportsclub and is coached by wrestler Juha Virtanen.

Career
Haapamäki has been wrestling since 1987. In his junior years, he was coached by Hannu Vuorenmaa and Reijo Haaparanta. In 2004 Haapamäki started internationally as a senior. The bantamweight failed twice to qualify for the Olympic Games in Athens. At the European Championships in Haparanda in the same year, he unexpectedly finished fifth. In the following tournaments, however, he always occupied a place in the lower rankings. It was not until 2008 that he was able to get back into the top ten at the European Championships in Tampere with 5th place. However, he again failed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

At the 2009 European Wrestling Championships in Vilnius, he made it to the finals after defeating Bekchan Mankijew from Russia, where he defeated the Poles Mariusz Łoś on points. In the following time he could no longer call this performance up to this extent. He finished eighth at the 2009 World Cup in Herning, and seventh a year later in Moscow.

Haapamäki has been wrestling for the German Bundesliga club SV Germania Weingarten since 2010. Before that he was for SV Siegfried Hallbergmoos.

Achievements and results
 2004, 5th place, EM in Haparanda, GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Sergei Skrypka, Germany and Tibor Olah, Hungary and a defeat against Artiom Kiouregkian, Greece
 2005, 25th place, World Championships in Budapest, GR, up to 55 kg, after a defeat against Anders Nyblom, Denmark
 2006, 15th place, EM in Moscow, GR, up to 55 kg, after a defeat against Artiom Kiourengian
 2006, 21st place, World Championships in Guangzhou, GR, up to 55 kg, after a defeat against Jerbol Konyratow, Kyrgyzstan
 2008, 5th place, EM in Tampere, GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Huseyin Ayguen, Turkey and Iwan Gusow and defeats against Rövşən Bayramov, Azerbaijan and Peter Modos, Hungary
 2009, 1st place, EM in Vilnius, GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Roberto Pira, Italy, Lascha Gogitadze, Georgia, Maxim Katscharski, Belarus, Bekchan Mankijew, Russia and Mariusz Łoś, Poland
 2009, 8th place, World Championships in Herning, GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Godertsi Dawitadse, Georgia and Anders Rønningen, Norway and a defeat against Choi Gyu-jin, South Korea
 2010, 7th place, World Championships in Moscow, GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Federico Manea, Italy, Ferhat Tekin, Turkey and Lascha Gogitadze and defeats against Hamid Soryan, Iran and Wenelin Wenkow, Bulgaria
 2011, 25th place, World Championships in Istanbul, GR, up to 55 kg, after a defeat against Yun Won-chol, North Korea
 2013, 24th place, World Championships in Budapest, GR, up to 55 kg

Finnish championships
 2001, 6th place, FS, up to 60 kg, u. a. behind Marko Kaarto and Jouni Rosenlöf
 2002, 4th place, GR, up to 60 kg, behind Marko Isokoski, Janne Kinnunen and Terho Kettunen
 2004, 1st place, GR, up to 55 kg, ahead of Petri Isokoski and Teemu Mattila
 2005, 1st place, FS, up to 60 kg, ahead of Jukka Hyytiäinen and Jarmo Hyytiäinen
 2007, 3rd place, GR, up to 55 kg, behind Ville Käki and Teemu Mattila
 2008, 1st place, GR, up to 55 kg, ahead of Fazel Ahmadi and Ville Käki
 2009, 1st place, GR, up to 55 kg, ahead of Niko Ohukainen and Fatos Durmishi

References

1982 births
Living people
Finnish male sport wrestlers
European Games competitors for Finland
Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games
People from Kauhajoki
Sportspeople from South Ostrobothnia
20th-century Finnish people
21st-century Finnish people


Newedge Group is a global multi-asset brokerage that was formed in 2008 from the merger of Fimat and Calyon Financial, the brokerage arms of French financial companies Société Générale and Credit Agricole, respectively. It offers execution, clearing, and prime brokerage services.  Newedge is one of the world's largest futures commission merchants (FCM) and has locations in 14 countries.  Newedge, which primarily serves institutional clients, provides access to more than 85 exchanges and employs approximately 2,400 associates.

Background

Calyon Financial history
Carr Futures was established in Chicago, Paris and Singapore in 1987.  Three years later, it acquired the Drexel brokerage teams.  In the early 1990s, the company opened offices in London, Madrid, New York City, and Tokyo.  Crédit Agricole acquired Carr in 1996.  The following year, the company acquired the institutional futures division of Dean Witter, and diversified into commodities and foreign exchange markets.  In the early 2000s, Carr added offices in Houston and Montreal, and changed its name to Calyon Financial in 2004.

Fimat history
Fimat was established in 1986, following the creation of the French futures and options exchange in February of that year.  Fimat Futures USA, Inc was formed in Chicago on January 3, 1989. In 1991, Fimat started its USA DPG desk, in New York, with value added execution of futures.  The company opened an office in Canada in 1994.  The following year, it acquired Brody White and diversified into commodities.  The Global FX product line launched in 1999.  Fimat began cross-margining with its Fimatrix project in 2001.  It acquired the assets of Preferred Trade in the United States in 2005, Cube Financial the next year, and Japanese commodity broker Himawari the year after that.

Products and services
The new combined company, Newedge Group, formed in 2008, and primarily serves institutional clients, offering products involved in global asset execution, global asset clearing, prime brokerage solutions, global asset financing and market research.  The firm is also versed in navigating money market instruments, bonds, currencies, equities, and commodities on the OTC market. In addition to these products, Newedge offers an electronic platform for trading and order routing, cross margining, and the processing and centralized reporting of client portfolios. Newedge's market coverage includes ETFs (exchange traded funds), cash markets and OTC derivatives pertaining to fixed income, interest rates, commodities, Forex (foreign exchange), metals, equities and indexes, and energy and emissions.

References

External links
Official Website

Crédit Agricole joint ventures
Financial services companies of France
Société Générale


Murtoa is a disused railway station on the Serviceton railway line. Although the station is no longer used as a passenger stop, it is however still an important location for Pacific National as it is where the Hopetoun line junctioned off of the mainline.

Much of the station was extensively altered in the 1980s, following the introduction of CTC between Ararat and Serviceton. The signal box was abolished, the number of roads in the yard was reduced and the local signal panel was only switched in if needed, with the former staff depot closing by the end of 1988. Also during 1988, the former turntable was moved to Dimboola.

The station used to have a dock platform for the Hopetoun branch. People in Murtoa have called on The Overland, the interstate rail journey that runs from Adelaide to Melbourne, to make Murtoa an additional stop for the train service.

References

External links

Disused railway stations in Victoria (state)


GV Management Company, L.L.C. is a venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc., founded by Bill Maris, that provides seed, venture, and growth stage funding to technology companies. Founded as Google Ventures in 2010, the firm has operated independently of Google, Alphabet's search and advertising behemoth, since 2015. GV invests in startup companies in a variety of fields ranging from the Internet, software, and hardware to life science, healthcare, artificial intelligence, transportation, cyber security and agriculture. It has helped finance more than 300 companies that include Uber, Nest, Slack, and Flatiron Health.

History

The group was founded on March 31, 2010, with a $100 million capital commitment, by Bill Maris who also became GV's first CEO. In 2012, that commitment was raised to $300 million annually, and the fund has $2 billion under management. In 2014, the group announced $125 million to invest in promising European startups. By 2014, it had invested in companies such as Shape Security. In December 2015, the company was renamed GV and introduced a new logo.

As of 2016, GV has been less active as a seed investor, instead shifting its attention to more mature companies. There is also a focus on startups in the healthcare markets. It created the biotech company Calico and has invested in Foundation Medicine, Genomics Medicine Ireland, Editas Midicine, and Flatiron Health, among others. In 2020, GV hired Candice Morgan as the firm's first Diversity & Inclusion Partner and promoted Terri Burns from principal to the firm’s first Black female partner.

Structure
In 2013, GV developed an intensive, five-day design process, called a Design Sprint, which helps startups solve problems quickly. It is based on key ideas of agile development and design thinking. In addition, GV provides portfolio companies with access to operational help after making a financial investment. Full-time partners at GV work with portfolio companies on design and product management, marketing, engineering, and recruiting.

See also
 List of venture capital firms
 CapitalG

References

External links

Financial services companies established in 2009
Venture capital firms of the United States

Private equity firms of the United States
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. subsidiaries


Koupé-Manengouba is a division of the Southwest Region in Cameroon. The division covers an area of 3,404 km and in 2005 had a total population of 105,579. The capital of the division is Bangem.

Subdivisions
The Koupé-Manengouba Division is divided administratively into 4 subdivisions and in turn into sub-districts and villages.

Subdivisions
 Bangem
 Tombel
 Nguti
 Mbemboland:
Melong
 Santchou
 Kékem

References

Departments of Cameroon
Southwest Region (Cameroon)


Ivan Viktorovich Zavaliy (; born 18 September 1984) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2004 for FC Rubin Kazan.

References

1984 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
FC SKA Rostov-on-Don players
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Tom Tomsk players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
FC KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny players
FC Zvezda Irkutsk players
Russian Premier League players
FC Sodovik Sterlitamak players
Men's association football forwards
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players


Buena Vista Wildlife Area is a state wildlife area in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.

Geography
Buena Vista Wildlife Area is located on fragmented lands south of the Village of Plover and the Wisconsin River, east of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, and Kellner, north of State Road 73, Adams County, and Waushara County, and west of Bancroft and Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51. The Buena Vista Marsh has various parcels of land in many sizes and shapes located in the towns of Grant, Buena Vista, Pine Grove, and Town of Plover.

Management
The Buena Vista Marsh is managed in cooperation of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the Wildlife Society at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. The Buena Vista Marsh is often managed toward prairie chicken. The Buena Vista Marsh is noted by tourists in the spring who flock to see the mating rituals of the prairie chicken.

Notes

State Wildlife Areas of Wisconsin
Protected areas of Portage County, Wisconsin


Lebialem is a department of Southwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 617 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 113,736. The capital of the department lies at Menji. Lebialem got its name from the Lebialem Falls, a twin water fall, which means ' a hill from which water drops '. The county is dominated by two ethnic groups, the Mundani to the north and the Bangwa to the south (ba meaning people of), though other ethnic groups exists, the makeup a minority, example the  Mbo, Banyangi and Bamiléké.

Since the outbreak of the Anglophone Crisis in 2017, much of Lebialem has come under the control of the Red Dragon militia, which were led by Lekeaka Oliver until he was shot dead on July 12, 2022. In October 2019, after forcing traditional rulers to flee, Oliver declared himself "Paramount Ruler of Lebialem". As of May 2020, much of Lebialem district is under the control of Oliver and his Red Dragon militia.

Subdivisions
The department is divided administratively into 3 districts and in turn into 17 villages or Fundons.

Communes
 Alou
 Fontem (Menji)
  Mundaniland

References

Departments of Cameroon
Southwest Region (Cameroon)


Chit Chan Gunn,  is the founder and president of The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain () in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, a not-for-profit information centre for Gunn Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS). Dr. Gunn developed a process called Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS) to treat neuropathic pain. In 2001 Dr Gunn was inducted into the Order of British Columbia and in 2002 into the Order of Canada for his contributions in the field of pain study. He is a clinical professor at the University of Washington.

Dr. Gunn has been invited to lecture internationally on his approaches to pain therapy. His winning paper "Prespondylosis" and Some Pain Syndromes Following Denervation Supersensitivity" receiving special recognition at the 1979 Volvo Competition in Goteborg, Sweden.

The Gunn Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Intramuscular Stimulation for Myofascial Pain of Radiculopathic Origin "red book" has been translated into many languages. His indexed published works continue to show international reach, multi-disciplinary medical scope.

Gunn IMS teaching program has run continuously since 1994. Since 2013, the Gunn IMS training program has been part of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Medicine and is located in the Chan Gunn Pavilion on the UBC Vancouver campus. The course is coordinated by the UBC Division of Sport & Exercise Medicine in the Department of Family Practice and is held across Canada.

He is also the founding director and past president of the Canadian Society of Asian Arts

IMS
Intramuscular Stimulation, or 'dry needling', is a diagnostic and treatment model for myofascial pain of neuropathic origin. It works by stimulating spinal reflexes that reverse muscle contractures (shortened muscles) through the use of fine flexible acupuncture style needles. Although shortened muscles are impossible to see in MRI or X-ray images, trained IMS practitioners are able to feel tense muscles and target irritated nerves.

What is IMS? patient information translation is available in over 100 languages.

Trigger Point Dry Needling An Evidence and Clinical-Based Approach (Chapter 15 E-book) Chapter 14 by authors Steven R. Goodman MD, Cory B. Choma PT provides description of the Gunn IMS modality of treatment.

Awards

2015 - Chinese Canadian Legend Award

2001 - Order of Canada

2001 - Order of British Columbia

1997 - Honorary Fellow Peterhouse

Acknowledgements

References

External links
 The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain - Legacy website iSTOP.org - 600+ backlinks
 The Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain - New website CGIMS International Directory Gunn IMS Practitioners iSTOP.wildapricot.org
 University of British Columbia Gunn Intramuscular Stimulation (CGIMS) - Profile
 University of Washington Medicine Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Courtesy Faculty - Biographical Summary
 Published works - PubMed - Gunn CC
 Published works - "Red Book" Translations
 Published works - Google Scholar - CC Gunn - Citations Index
 2001 Award recipient - Order of Canada - citation
 2001 Award recipient - Order of British Columbia - citation
 Chinese Canadian Legend Award (CCLA) Asian Business Network Association Chinese Web Chinese PDF
Author: The Gunn approach to the treatment of chronic pain : intramuscular stimulation for myofascial pain of radiculopathic origin -  - WorldCat
Contributing Author: Oxford Textbook of Musculoskeletal Medicine, 2nd Edition, Part 4: Management Strategies, Chapter 58 - Soft Tissue Pain: Treatment with Stimulation-Produced Analgesia, Oxford University Press -   Table of Contents Preview Chapter 58
A new home for sports medicine, with help from a pioneering physician - UBC Medicine Magazine Summer 2015
Pioneering pain management Dec 1, 2011 - by Brian Kladko UBC News

What is IMS? A New Understanding of Chronic Pain - ISSUU 4 page brochure
Peterhouse Profile: An Interview with Dr. Chan Gunn - Q&A
Pain relief pioneer donates $5 million for new UBC sport and exercise medicine centre - Media Release | March 4, 2015
UBC Campus and Community Planning, Projects Under Construction, Chan Gunn Sports Medicine Pavilion - Development Permit DP15034
UBC Faculty of Medicine, Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, Department of Family Practice - A PROGRESSIVE FACILITY FOR A GROWING FIELD
Celebration Book: Chinese Canadian Legacies in British Columbia -  - PDF
Interviews with Dr. Gunn, Gunn IMS lectures, IMS treatment demos - YouTube

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David Blyth Magleby (born October 20, 1949) is an American political scientist and distinguished professor of political science at Brigham Young University (BYU) and formerly the dean of the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at that institution.  He is an expert on direct democracy and campaign finance.

Magleby is the author of several books.  His first, Direct Legislation, is considered the seminal work on initiatives and referendums. Along with the other works Magleby has written, he is the lead editor of a series on presidential election finance, including Financing the 2008 Election.  He has also written several works on issues related to soft money in campaigns.  In 1990, he served on a bipartisan Senate task force on campaign finance reform and his book on the subject, The Money Chase, was published by the Brookings Institution.  In addition, Magleby authors a best-selling American government textbook, Government by the People, which, as of late 2012, was in its 25th edition.

Prior to joining the faculty of BYU, Magleby was a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Virginia.  Magleby received his bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

At BYU, Magleby has served as dean, department chair, and founding director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy (CSED).  He also established the KBYU/Utah Colleges exit poll.  Every election year, the poll mobilizes several hundred college students from Utah college campuses to gather data about Utah voters and elections.  BYU students design the survey and sample.  On Election Night, Magleby hosts a television program where students present the results of the poll.

Magleby served as president of political science honors society Pi Sigma Alpha from 1994 to 1996. He was twice awarded the Pi Sigma Alpha Distinguished Faculty Award in Political Science. Other political science organizations he has joined include the American Political Science Association, the International Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, and the Western Political Science Association.

Magleby is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).  As such, his comments have been sought on Mormon political issues, such as gay marriage and Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.  He has also contributed articles on politics to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism and the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History.  Despite the Republican image of his LDS faith and home state of Utah, Magleby is a Democrat.  Magleby is known for a profile he developed of the ideal Mormon Democrat, in what has been called the "Magleby profile."

David Magleby is married to Linda Waters Magleby, and they have four children.  He resides in Provo, Utah.

Notes

Sources
listing of Google Books connected to Magleby
bio of Magleby

External links
Magleby's vita
Magleby's profile at BYU's Center for Study of Elections and Democracy

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Latter Day Saints from Virginia
Latter Day Saints from California
Latter Day Saints from Utah
American political scientists
Brigham Young University faculty
Living people
People from Provo, Utah
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
University of Utah alumni
University of Virginia School of Law faculty
Utah Democrats


Josip Filipović, Freiherr (Baron) von Philippsberg, also Josef von Philippovich or Joseph Philippovich (28 April 1819 – 6 August 1889), was an Austrian-Hungarian general (Feldzeugmeister).

Life and career
Filipović was born in the Military Frontier town of Gospić, then in Austrian Empire. He joined the Austrian Army in 1836 and became major in 1848. He fought under Josip Jelačić in Hungary, helping to quell the 1848 Revolutions.

He became colonel and commander of the 5th border regiment in 1857, and scored victories at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and in the Austro-Prussian War in 1866. At one point He was commander of a Viennese division and for a short time was promoted from general to colonel general.

In 1859 he became major general and fought with the 6th corps in Italy, for which he was rewarded with the hereditary title of Freiherr. In 1866 he fought in Bohemia campaign with the 2nd corps.

Filipović moved further up through the ranks, stationed in Vienna, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Brno, where he was made Feldzeugmeister in January 1874. In June 1874, he became the commander of the army in Bohemia, a position he would hold until his death.

In July 1878 he commanded the troops invading Bosnia and Herzegovina. After three months of battle his troops captured Sarajevo on 19 August, which then became the capital. The occupation of Herzegovina was assigned to his subordinate Feldmarschalleutnant Stjepan Jovanović. He returned to Vienna in 1880 and to Prague in 1882.

Filipović died in Prague (at the time Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Czech Republic). For his merits he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Maria Theresa in 1879.

See also
 List of Military Order of Maria Theresa recipients of Croatian descent
 List of Croatian soldiers
 Croatian nobility

References

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 Biography

1818 births
1889 deaths
Croatian military personnel in Austrian armies
Austro-Hungarian Army officers
Barons of Croatia
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19th-century Croatian people
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Governors of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Manyu is a division of the Southwest Region in Cameroon. The division covers an area of 9,565 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 181,039. The capital of the division is Mamfe.

History & Etymology
ORIGIN, MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT OF THE MANYU PEOPLE

The indigenous population of the Manyu Division who today constitute the tribes like the Banyang, Keakaas, Anyangs and Bokis all originated eastward from Ekoi in South Eastern Nigeria. The real factors responsible for their movements remain clouded because it is based on speculation. However, Ejagham and Banyang oral traditions hold that inter-tribal wars, the escape from slave raiders and the desire by some Efik fishermen to do fishing at the Manyu River were the three fundamental factors responsible for the people’s migration.
In their Southward movement from Nigeria, the people were led by a hunter, Akwen who took them through the forests, crossing rivers and streams, and trekking upon hills and valleys. They subsequently arrived the Ekok border and eventually settled at the forested area today known as Eyumodjock from where internal dissension led to a split within the group. This was due to the fact that the leader of the group Akwen, began raiding some of his able men and sold them out of the group as slaves, to Nigerian slave traders who wandered across the length and breadth of the border in search for escaped slaves.
Those who separated from Akwen’s group later settled elsewhere and opened up new sites for their settlement. It is believed that the villages of Kembong, Ndepaya and Mbakem came into existence as a consequence of the separation and majority of the Ejagham speakers traced their origin from this historic movement.
On the contrary, Banyang oral traditions traced the origin and migration of the indigenes of Mamfe, from the waterside areas, and not from Ekok borders. Sources here explained clearly that Efik fishermen have for long carried out fishing activities in Nigerian Cross River and during one of their downward fishing sessions they came back into contact with the famous River Manyu. Realising that their fishing activities were more fruitful in the Virgin River, they saw no need going back to Nigeria where there were a lot of fishing competition. Having got this revelation, they began erecting permanent structures for settlement. With time, as other fishermen migrated downward towards the River Manyu, their number increased and new sites were cleared for settlement. Most of the Banyang, Anyang and Boki speakers traced their history from this migratory trend.
Nevertheless, in spite of this controversy about the origin of migration and settlement of the indigenous population of the Banyang people, a large majority of the informants held tied to the fact that the history of the people generally came from two migratory routes. According to chief Esim therefore, while some indigenes came through the border of Ekok because of slave raids, others who were involved in fishing activities came through the water side, hence both sources are quite substantial in explaining the people‘s history.
Worth noting is that those who came through the borders (Keaka speakers) later on trekked to join their brothers (Banyang, Anyang and Boki) who had settled along the banks of the river and carried out fishing. Hence in spite of this double trend migration, population concentration was around the River Manyu where the trade in smoked fish had developed, and Egbekaw village was the first village that developed.This history of migration and settlement necessitated the practice of the parallel trade as the people of the Manyu Division of Cameroon and those of the Eastern Region of Nigeria considered as having the same historical background. Even after the erection of the national and international boundaries between the two states of Cameroon and Nigeria, the people of the Manyu Region of Cameroon and those in the Eastern Region of Nigeria still found reasons to commune with one another.

POLITICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ORGANISATION

Before the imposition of the European colonial rule, the people were not united as one. They were scattered throughout the forest in many small separate settlements with larger recognised political groupings unlikely to have exceeded more than 2000 people and in many cases much fewer. The Manyu communities were having dotted hamlets until Alfred Mansfield, the first German explorer who came into the area and these hamlets were transformed into organised communities which are reflecting present day communities. What was really common with these communities was the characteristic qualities and attribute of the languages they spoke and their culture, which united and distinguished them from other tribes in the area.
The Manyu society was a stateless society with a system of democratic government at the village level. The villages consisted of several lineages, which were represented, in the informal village council by lineage head. There also existed clans with clan councils, which were made up of the various village heads in the clan. It was by virtue of these that the Manyu (during and after the colonial period) were administered as different tribes with various villages and clans well mapped out.
Manyu Division is made up of about two hundred and thirty-three villages divided as follows: Mamfe Central having 11 villages, Upper Bayang having 80 villages, Eyumodjock having 63 villages and Akwaya having 99 villages.
The society was ‘sedimentary’ or ‘headless’ with loose hierarchical structures. The Manyu people thus had no paramount chief exceeding control over large areas. With this system the chiefs could do nothing without the representatives of the principal lineages. Manyu villages were also independent from one another, which has made it difficult for one to proudly trace the origin of the different Manyu tribes.
Linguistically, the Manyu people have been classified by various schools of thought as the Bantus, Semi-Bantu and Bantoid.  According to D. W. Crabb, the Banyang and Ejagham are linguistically grouped under the Bantu speaking stock and fall specifically under the Niger-Benue linguistic family. P.A Talbot on his part classifies the Banyang and Ejagham of the Ekok main group under the Semi-Bantu stock, the two being considered as separate sub-language groups.
The Banyang and Ejagham like the Anyang and the Assumbo groups are in some consideration linguistically the same group, especially as they have common identical cultural forms as well as socio-political organisation with the Banyang and Ejagham. The people have two main dialects: - The Banyang dialect (Kenyang) and the Ejagham dialect (Keaka). The slight variations in their tongues help producing the different contacts with their different Western, Eastern and Southern neighbours.
A number of sub-dialects have been produced within each of the main dialect groups. Thus, in the Banyang speaking aea, there is a distinction between Upper Banyang (Kenyang Nfai) and Lower Banyang (Kenyang Ntan) sub-dialects. The description generally follows the topography of the area. The Upper Banyang land is located on a more elevated altitude and follows the orientation of the flow of the major rivers which waters the area, while the Lower Banyang land is located around the lower course of the Manyu River. The Lower Banyang is closer to the Central Ejagham (Keaka), their immediate western neighbours.
The above description corresponds with the slight variation in culture and certain words and expressions in the Kenyang dialect. The Upper Banyangs acquired some of their cultural values from which they also borrowed and derived some of their cultural institutions. The Lower Banyangs who are closer to the Keaka with whom they have long been inter-marrying, borrowed most of their institutions from them. Thus it has become difficult to establish a demarcation line between areas of pure Banyang and Keaka cultures in this zone. Here the people understand both the Kenyang and Keaka dialects, and some villages like Mbinjong, Mfuni, Ndekwai, Ossing and Talangaye are purely bilingual. Since the Upper Banyang and the Lower Banyang speak the Kenyang dialect as people of the same ethnic group, the linguistic variation is only slightly.
The Ejagham have a common dialect, which is also known as Ejagham. Despite this, the same linguistic variation is exhibited among its speakers. The slight variation in their tongues has produced three different sub-dialects – The Ekwe (Ejagham), the Keaka (Keaka) and the Obang (Obang). Within the Ejagham dialect group, only theEkwe speak the pure Ejagham dialect. This can be explained by the fact that the people of Ekwe have close contacts with their Southern neighbours, the Ejagham of the Obang district of South- Eastern Nigeria who speaks the Ejagham dialect.
The Keaka, because of their close contact with their immediate Eastern neighbours, have developed a sub-dialect of their own – Keaka. This dialectical distinction and some differences in their social organisation with their immediate Western neighbours, the Obang as well as their closest kinsmen of Ekwe, are all elements that bring the Keaka people nearest to the Bayang. The Keaka therefore speak Keaka, which is slightly different from the pure Ejagham dialect but is understood by the Ekwe, Obang and the Lower Banyang.
A less marked bilingualism and cultural inter-penetration occur also along the northern and southern borders of Banyang territory. Both Denya (the Anyang language) and Kenyang are spoken in the villages of Nyang and Mukonyong. In general, the seemingly cultural similarities among the Banyang, Ejagham Anyang and Ekwe people in Manyu Division has been the result of contact and process of interaction and of spread.
Socially, polygamy was widely practised and a means through which social status and wealth in the society was determined partly by the number of women and children he had. It was not strange for the chof to have about twenty-five wives. In the field of religion, the indigenes worshipped ancestral spirits and other deities. Although the ancestors were worshipped, the people believed that the ancestors were merely accomplices in whateve good or evil should befall them. This notwithstanding, the people still believed in one Supreme Being. It was alleged that chief who was regarded as a demi-god drew inspiration from ngbe. In spite of this, each family has its own god, which could punish or reward the family according to the deeds of the family towards it. Succession in the chiefdom was patrilineal where a son succeeds the father and inherits his wealth. The successor to the chief was certainly the chief’s eldest son who assumed in totality all the powers and functions of his late father.

Sub-divisions

The division is divided administratively into 4 sub-divisions and in every sud-division there are villages or wards.
 Akwaya:
 Kesham
 Kajifu
 Bache
 Obonyi
 Ngale-Akwaya
 Ossatu
 Takamanda
 Eyumojock
 Upper Bayang
  Mamfe Central

References

Southwest Region (Cameroon)
Departments of Cameroon


Reverse computation is a software application of the concept of reversible computing.

Because it offers a possible solution to the heat problem faced by chip manufacturers, reversible computing has been extensively studied in the area of computer architecture.  The promise of reversible computing is that the amount of heat loss for reversible architectures would be minimal for significantly large numbers of transistors.  Rather than creating entropy (and thus heat) through destructive operations, a reversible architecture conserves the energy by performing other operations that preserve the system state.

The concept of reverse computation is somewhat simpler than reversible computing in that reverse computation is only required to restore the equivalent state of a software application, rather than support the reversibility of the set of all possible instructions.  Reversible computing concepts have been successfully applied as reverse computation in software application areas such as database design, checkpointing and debugging, and code differentiation.

Reverse Computation for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

Based on the successful application of Reverse Computation concepts in other software domains, Chris Carothers, Kalyan Perumalla and Richard Fujimoto suggest the application of reverse computation to reduce state saving overheads
in parallel discrete event simulation (PDES). They define an approach based on reverse event codes (which can be automatically generated), and
demonstrate performance advantages of this approach over traditional state saving for fine-grained applications (those with a small amount of computation per event).
The key property that reverse computation exploits is that a majority of the operations that modify the state variables are “constructive” in nature. That is, the undo operation for such operations requires no history. Only the most current values of the variables are required to undo the operation. For example, operators such as ++, ––, +=, -=, *= and /= belong to this category. Note, that the *= and /= operators require special treatment in the case of multiply or divide
by zero, and overflow / underflow conditions. More complex operations such as circular shift (swap being a special case), and certain classes of random number generation also belong here.

Operations of the form a = b, modulo and bitwise computations that result in the loss of data, are termed to be destructive. Typically these operations can only be restored using conventional state-saving techniques. However, we observe that many of these destructive operations are a consequence of the arrival of data contained within the event being processed. For example, in the work of Yaun, Carothers, et al., with large-scale TCP simulation, the last-sent time records the time stamp of the last packet forwarded on a router logical process. The swap operation makes this operation reversible.

History of Reverse Computation as applied to Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

In 1985 Jefferson introduced the optimistic synchronization protocol, which was utilized in parallel discrete event simulations, known as Time Warp.  To date, the technique known as Reverse Computation has only been applied in software for optimistically synchronized, parallel discrete event simulation.

In December 1999, Michael Frank graduated from the University of Florida.  His doctoral thesis focused on reverse computation at the hardware level, but included descriptions of both an instruction set architecture and a high level programming language (R) for a processor based on reverse computation.

In 1998 Carothers and Perumalla published a paper for the Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation workshop as part of their graduate studies under Richard Fujimoto, introducing technique of Reverse Computation as an alternative rollback mechanism in optimistically synchronized parallel discrete event simulations (Time Warp).  In 1998, Carothers became an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.   Working with graduate students David Bauer and Shawn Pearce, Carothers integrated the Georgia Tech Time Warp design into Rensselaer’s Optimistic Simulation System (ROSS), which supported only reverse computation as the rollback mechanism.   Carothers also constructed RC models for BitTorrent at General Electric, as well as numerous network protocols with students (BGP4, TCP Tahoe, Multicast).  Carothers created a course on Parallel and Distributed Simulation in which students were required to construct RC models in ROSS.

Around the same time, Perumalla graduated from Georgia Tech and went to work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).  There he built the uSik simulator, which was a combined optimistic / conservative protocol PDES.  The system was capable of dynamically determining the best protocol for LPs and remapping them during execution in response to model dynamics.  In 2007 Perumalla tested uSik on Blue Gene/L and found that, while scalability is limited to 8K processors for pure Time Warp implementation, the conservative implementation scales to 16K available processors.  Note that benchmarking was performed using PHOLD with a constrained remote event rate of 10%, where the timestamp of events was determined by an exponential distribution with a mean of 1.0, and an additional lookahead of 1.0 added to each event.  This was the first implementation of PDES on Blue Gene using reverse computation.

From 1998 to 2005 Bauer performed graduate work at RPI under Carothers, focusing solely on reverse computation.  He developed the first PDES system solely based on reverse computation, called Rensselaer’s Optimistic Simulation System (ROSS). for combined shared and distributed memory systems.  From 2006 to 2009 Bauer worked under E.H. Page at Mitre Corporation, and in collaboration with Carothers and Pearce pushed the ROSS simulator to the 131,072 processor Blue Gene/P (Intrepid). This implementation was stable for remote event rates of 100% (every event sent over the network).  During his time at RPI and MITRE, Bauer developed the network simulation system ROSS.Net that supports semi-automated experiment design for black-box optimization of network protocol models executing in ROSS. A primary goal of the system was to optimize multiple network protocol models for execution in ROSS. For example, creating an LP layering structure to eliminate events being passed between network protocol LPs on the same simulated machine optimizes simulation of TCP/IP network nodes by eliminating zero-offset timestamps between TCP and IP protocols. Bauer also constructed RC agent-based models for social contact networks to study the effects of infectious diseases, in particular pandemic influenza, that scale to hundreds of millions of agents; as well as RC models for Mobile ad-hoc networks implementing functionality of mobility (proximity detection) and highly accurate physical layer electromagnetic wave propagation (Transmission Line Matrix model).

There has also been a recent push by the PDES community into the realm of continuous simulation.  For example, Fujimoto and Perumalla, working with Tang et al. have implemented an RC model of particle-in-cell and demonstrated excellent speedup over continuous simulation for models of light as a particle.  Bauer and Page demonstrated excellent speedup for an RC Transmission Line Matrix model (P.B. Johns, 1971), modeling light as a wave at microwave frequencies.  Bauer also created an RC variant of SEIR that generates enormous improvement over continuous models in the area of infectious disease spread.  In addition, the RC SEIR model is capable of modeling multiple diseases efficiently, whereas the continuous model explodes exponentially with respect to the number of combinations of diseases possible throughout the population.

Events
 RC ’05 – 1st Int’l Workshop on Reversible Computing

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Ndian is a department of Southwest Region in Cameroon. It is located in the humid tropical rainforest zone about  southeast of Yaoundé, the capital.

History
Ndian division was formed in 1975 from parts of Kumba and Victoria divisions and is one of six administrative units that constitute the Southwest Region. Its headquarters is in Mundemba and other major towns include Ekondo Titi, Bamusso, Isangele, Toko, Bekora and Dikome Balue. A total of nine municipalities (Bamusso, Dikome Balue, Ekondo Titi, Idabato, Isangele, Kumbo Abedimo, Kumbo Itindi, Mundemba and Toko) make up the division and spread across an estimated surface area of about  (25% of the region). The division is linked to other major towns of Cameroon (such as Kumba in the Meme) by the national road N16 and which passes through Ekondo Titi onwards to Mundemba and Isangele.

Geography
The division borders the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the west, Fako division to the south, Manyu division to the north and Meme and Kupe Muanenguba divisions to the east. A mangroves and creeks dominated estuary forms a very low and indented point of contact with the sea in the Rio del Rey estuary. This is in the easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea known as the Bight of Biafra and which makes up over 35% of Ndian division. This estuary also forms the delta zone of the Ndian River with enormous ongoing marine erosion due to offshore oil drilling. Apart from this amphibious area which is dominated by mangroves and creeks, over 25% of the land surface is flat while about 40%, rests on the Rumpi Highlands.

Population
From a 2005 population survey and future projections, the population of Ndian division is estimated at 362201 of which 17% are semi-urban and 83% rural. The average population density is  which drops to an estimated  in the Rumpi hills and maritime areas. Meanwhile, around the semi-urban centers of Ekondo Titi and Mundemba, the population density increases to about .

Climate
The area has two seasons which are, a dry season from November to April and a rainy season from May to October. Annual rainfall ranges from , with the heaviest rainfalls usually in July and August. Temperature varies little throughout the year with mean monthly maximum temperatures in the dry season being  and in the rainy season .

The relative humidity is high during most of the year with minimum monthly values ranging between 60% and 98% in Dikome Balue (east) and Toko (north) areas and between 50% and 84% in Mundemba (west) and Ekondo Titi (south) areas. Here also, wind velocities and magnitudes have a generally mild and low nature often varying from . Nevertheless, high velocities and magnitudes sometimes occur especially during the passage of squall lines associated with large rainy seasons or regular thunderstorms. These winds usually blow from a southwest to west direction.

The People
Predominantly Oroko people such as Balue, Ngolo, Bima, Isangele, Balondo, Batanga,  and the Efik tribe , and who speak similar Bantu languages populate this area. The Balue, Ngolo, Bima and Batanga people inhabit the mountainous forest areas where shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are important activities for the local villagers.

Meanwhile, the Isangele, Balondo and Efik are found in the low-lying and maritime areas where they are mostly involved in various agricultural, petty trading and fishing activities. Christianity is the major form of religious worship in Ndian division though many people adhere to their animist beliefs.

Ecology
The mountainous areas of Ndian division () above sea level are covered by sub-montane forests characterized by low but irregular canopy  tall. These trees may often attain a height of  with a canopy and foliage cover ranging from 60% to 90%. Meanwhile, the shrub layer is about  and which often replaces the tree layer as canopy ranges from closed to very open. Here, the herb layer is closed and may often attain heights above . The canopy is usually full of climbers and the cloud forests appearance is as a result of the ever present epiphytes. These broad-leaved evergreen and deciduous trees are branched at low heights with irregular stem shapes. These sub-montane forests are not of great interest for commercial timber exploitation due to very steep slopes hence inaccessibility and the few timber species have very irregular stem structure.

In the easily accessible lowland forests, artisanal logging has occurred over the past decades and has led to regrowth fields and monocrop plantations. Almost all these areas were first used for shifting cultivation by the local farming population for subsistence purposes before being abandoned or converted into monocrop plantations. These farmed areas which may vary from  are usually located within a few kilometers from the village and along main roads or bush paths.

Here, shifting cultivation and agroforestry farming have created fields, weed infested thickets and secondary forest vegetation mostly along the main roads and around villages. These combined reverts to dense and secondary forests have given rise to a mosaic forested landscape with bushes of devil weed or achakasara (Chromolaena odorata) and umbrella tree (Musanga cecropioides).

In this system of shifting cultivation, the farmer clears small plots (up to about  of secondary or sometimes dense rain forest depending on his labour and economic potentials. It is followed by burning of the slash at the end of the dry season (February/March) and planting at the onset of the rainy season (April/May). This practice involves the planting of a variety and a combination of crops at the same time and on the same piece of land. These are primary and staple food crops such as cassava, cocoyam, banana and plantain, peanuts, maize and yams.

Traditionally, cocoa (Theobroma cacao) has been the most important cash crop although oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and coffee (Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora) have usually been cultivated. But recently, large expanses of commercial plantations of oil palm and rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) have been established in the area.

Subdivisions

The department is divided administratively into 9 communes and in turn into villages.

Communes:

 Bamusso
 Dikome-Balue
 Ekondo-Titi
 Idabato
 Isanguele
 Kombo-Abedimo
 Kombo-Itindi
 Mundemba
 Toko

References

Sources

Departments of Cameroon
Southwest Region (Cameroon)


Josiah "Joe" Henson (24 February 1922 – 4 April 2012) was an American freestyle wrestler and a career U.S. Navy officer. In 1952 he won the AAU wrestling championships without losing a single point and was named the tournament's outstanding wrestler. The same year he won an Olympic  bronze medal. Henson attended every Summer Olympics from 1952 to 2000 in various capacities, as a competitor, referee, member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and acting president of the World Taekwondo Federation. He served a four-year term as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Committee and later became the AAU president. In 2006, he was named a distinguished member of the U.S. National Wrestling Hall of Fame, joining his elder brother and former Naval Academy Assistant Wrestling Coach Dr. Stanley W. Henson. He was elected to the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2012.

Biography
Henson was born to Stanley Willard Henson and Irene Hopkins Henson. On 7 June 1944 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy and then had a long career as a military officer. He saw action in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, but shortly after the end of World War II was detached from ship-related duties and began his flight training. He then served in Panama and Guantanamo Bay, eventually becoming Captain (1965) and Commanding Officer of VS-31 at NAS Quonset Point. In the 1940s–60s he flew every major type of Navy plane and conducted more than 300 carrier landings. He also served as a gunnery and aviation instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy and as the Navy's aviation and missile officer with the Military Assistance Advisory Group operating out of the American Embassy in Paris, France.

After retiring from the Navy, he founded the Henson Company in Virginia, which specialized in producing wrestling equipment and in distributing Adidas wrestling equipment in North America. In 1967 he earned a master's degree in international relations from George Washington University.

Henson was a long-term resident of Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia, where he arrived while on duty with U.S. Navy in 1963. He died aged 90, following a stroke and a heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Gloria, a daughter, and two sons.

References

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2012 deaths
Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
American male sport wrestlers
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in wrestling
People from Bristow, Oklahoma
Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
United States Naval Academy alumni
United States Navy officers
United States Navy personnel of World War II
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics


Rudolph Edward Kos (born April 29, 1945) is a former Roman Catholic priest who was found guilty of sex crimes in the Diocese of Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas. In 1998, Kos was convicted of three counts of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison.

In April, 1992, a therapist had told officials of the diocese that Kos was a "classic textbook pedophile".
 However, Bishop Charles Victor Grahmann acknowledged he did not read this record, and allowed Kos to have access to children for almost one full year more.  The last documented incident of abuse was 11 months later.

In 1997 a jury awarded $120 million to victims in a sex abuse case against the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas in a lawsuit implicating Kos. On July 10, 1998 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas settled their appeal of that verdict and agreed to pay $23.4 million to eight former altar boys and the relatives of a ninth who had claimed they were sexually abused by Kos. Bishop Grahmann issued a written apology when this settlement was announced, saying, "To the victims and their families, I once again want to apologize on behalf of the diocese. Based on what we know now, the decisions made concerning Rudy Kos were errors in human judgment. I regret very much what happened, and I am deeply sorry for your pain."

References

External links
 Texas Department of Criminal Justice -- Offender Details

1945 births
Living people
American Roman Catholic priests
Catholic priests convicted of child sexual abuse
Laicized Roman Catholic priests
Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in the United States
American members of the clergy convicted of crimes
Violence against men in North America

Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Texas


Sergey Alexandrovich Korovushkin (; born 26 January 1979) is a former professional association football player from Russia.

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 1997 for PFC CSKA Moscow.

Honours
Russian Premier League runner-up: 1999
Russian Second Division Zone West top scorer: 2003 (25 goals)

References

1979 births
Living people
People from Konakovsky District
Russian men's footballers
PFC CSKA Moscow players
FC Moscow players
FC Torpedo Moscow players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
FC Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod players
Russian Premier League players
FC Nizhny Novgorod (2007) players
FC Arsenal Tula players
Men's association football forwards
FC Avangard Kursk players
FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
Sportspeople from Tver Oblast
FC Tver players


Meme is a department of Southwest Region in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 3,105 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 326,734. The capital of the department lies at Kumba.

Subdivisions
The department is divided administratively into 3 districts and in turn into sub-districts and villages. Central Kumba is further divided into 3 sub-districts; Kumba I, Kumba II and Kumba III.

Communes
 Konye
 Central Kumba
 Kumba I
 Kumba II
 Kumba III
 Mbonge

References

Departments of Cameroon
Southwest Region (Cameroon)


Suttner may refer to:

12799 von Suttner, an asteroid
Andreas Suttner (1876–1953), Austrian fencer
Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Austrian novelist and pacifist
Kurt Suttner (born 1936), German choral conductor
Markus Suttner, Austrian footballer
Raymond Suttner

See also
Sutter (disambiguation)


Sergei Yurievich Yursky (, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf (1968)

Biography
Yursky was born in Leningrad, USSR, on 16 March 1935 in the family of Yuri Sergeyevich Yursky. He studied at the Faculty of Law of Zhdanov Leningrad State University.

In 1959 he graduated from Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatrical Institute, Leonid Makaryev's course.

From 1957 till 1979 he was one of the leading actors of Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. The leading part in Wit Works Woe (1962) by Alexander Griboedov made him one of the most significant actors of his generation. His director's debut Moliere (also known as The Cabal of Hypocrites) by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1977 was highly acclaimed, but was not accepted by Georgy Tovstonogov, and led to Yursky's departure from the theatre.

From 1979, he was an actor and director of Mossovet Theater in Moscow. Also worked as an actor and director in Moscow Art Theatre, as well as in Belgium, France and Japan.

Yursky performed one-man recitals of poetry and prose, touring widely with them in USSR, then Russia and beginning in the 1990s many countries with Russian-speaking population.

Partial filmography

1961: The Man from Nowhere as Chudak
1963: The Serf Actress as Prince Nikita Petrovich Baturin
1965: Time, Forward! as  Margulies
1966: The Republic of ShKID as Vicknicksor
1968: The Little Golden Calf as Ostap Bender
1969: Intervention as Masks
1969: King Stag as Tartaglia
1976: The Darvish Detonates Paris as Musje Jordan
1979: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (TV Mini-Series) as Gruzdev
1979: Little Tragedies (TV Mini-Series) as Improviser
1983: Look for a Woman (TV Movie) as notary Rochet
1984: Love and Pigeons as Uncle Mitya
1987: The End of Eternity as Computer Hobbe Finge
2006: Master and  Margarita  as Berlioz (voice, uncredited)
2007: Korolyov as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Awards
1968: Honoured Artist of the RSFSR
1987: People's Artist of the RSFSR
1991: Kinotavr Grand Prize in feature films
2000: Pushkin Medal
2005: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of IV degree
2010: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of III degree

References

External links

1935 births
2019 deaths
Soviet male actors
Male actors from Saint Petersburg
Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Recipients of the Medal of Pushkin
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
Jewish Russian actors
Russian State Institute of Performing Arts alumni
Soviet theatre directors
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Audiobook narrators
Theatre directors from Moscow


WXMD may refer to:

 WXMD (FM), a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to serve California, Maryland, United States
 WDCR (FM), a radio station (88.9 FM) licensed to serve Oreana, Illinois, United States, which held the call sign WXMD in 2010
 WNKZ-FM, a radio station (92.5 FM) licensed to serve Pocomoke City, Maryland, which held the call sign WXMD from 2002 to 2009


Aisha Syed Castro (born September 15, 1989) is a Dominican Republic violinist and a member of the Yehudi Menuhin School orchestra.

Biography
Aisha was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the daughter of Saifuddin Syed, of Pakistani descent and Carolina Castro. She is the second of four children. She has three siblings: one sister, Sabah, and two brothers, Kabir and Kareem.

She started studying violin and flute when she was four years old at El Hogar de la Armonia in the City of Santiago, Dominican Republic with Professor Henry Disla. Then she traveled twice a week to Santo Domingo to take classes with Maestro Hipolito Javier Guerrero, years later became Maestro Caonex Peguero's student . By the age of six she was already a member of the Children's Symphony Orchestra.

At 11 she debuted with the National Symphony Orchestra, becoming their youngest solo performer. The same year she attended a symposium on the violin at the Juilliard School in New York City.

In 2002, following a two-year audition process, she entered the Yehudi Menuhin School in London. She was the first Latin American to be admitted to the school.  She passed all the tests and secured a scholarship from the British government.

Aisha presently resides in London, and has performed 57 concerts in Europe and the Dominican Republic.

Other performances
In 2001, she performed at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In 2007 she shared the stage with Michel Camilo Dominican Jazz Player at the Casandra Awards and shared a scene with pianist Jeremy Menuhin.

In 2009, she performed at the National Theater in Santo Domingo for the Casandra Awards. In March that year, she shared the stage at the Eilat Festival in Israel with performers of classical music such as violinist Julian Rachlin, Aleksey Igudessman, Pavel Vernikov and Boris Kushnir. She was directed by director and violinist Maxim Vengerov. She was later selected by Israeli composer Noam Sheriff to perform the world premiere of his Concerto Canarian Vespers, at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad in July 2009 in Gstaad, Switzerland.

As a soloist she has performed in festivals such as Claygate, Shipley, Summer, Royal Tunbridge Wells International Music, Thaxted and Bath. Her other performances include fundraising in Europe at The Leatherhead Charities, Princess Trusts, Rainbow and Save the Children.
She also performed at the Royal Festival Hall a concert called "Moving Young Minds". She performed for the Diplomatic Corps in the City of London, for the commemoration of the Independence of the Dominican Republic at the Bolivar Hall.

Awards
In January 2009, Syed won an international contest in which three thousand young people from 20 countries took part.
She won the Cassandra 2009 as an International Violinist.

References

External links
Music at Leamington Hastings, July 12, 2009 program
Banstead Arts Festival-May 2009

1989 births
Living people
People from Santiago de los Caballeros
Dominican Republic violinists
People educated at Yehudi Menuhin School
21st-century violinists
Dominican Republic people of Spanish descent
Dominican Republic people of Pakistani descent


Boyo is a department of Northwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 1,592 km and as of 2001 had a total population of 169,725. The capital of the department lies at Fundong.

Subdivisions
Boyo Division is divided administratively into 4 subdivisions and in turn into villages. The four subdivisions are

Communes
 Belo
 Bum District
 Fundong
 Njinikom

See also
Communes of Cameroon

References

Departments of Cameroon
Northwest Region (Cameroon)


The 8th Fighter Division () was a military formation of the German Luftwaffe in World War II.

The 8th Fighter Division was formed 15 June 1944 in Wien-Kobenzel from the Jagdfliegerführer Ostmark and subordinated to the I. Jagdkorps. The Division was subordinated to the IX. (J) Fliegerkorps in April 1945 and transferred to  Wolfsleithen and put under the command of Luftwaffenkommando 4.

Commanding officers
Oberst Gotthard Handrick, 15 June 1943 – May 1945

Notes

References
 8. Jagd-Division @ Lexikon der Wehrmacht
 8. Jagddivision @ The Luftwaffe, 1933-45

Air divisions of the Wehrmacht Luftwaffe
Military units and formations established in 1943
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945


Nanci is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:

Nanci Bowen (born 1967), American golfer
Nanci Chambers, Canadian American actress who was born in Ontario, Canada
Nanci Griffith, (1953–2021), American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas
Nanci Kincaid, American novelist
Nanci Parilli (born 1953), Argentine Justicialist Party politician

See also

Nancy (disambiguation)
Nancey (disambiguation)
Nance (disambiguation)

Feminine given names


Bui (Builand) is a department of Northwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 2,297 km and as of 2001 had a total population of 322,877. The capital of the department lies at Kumbo.

Subdivisions
The department is divided administratively into 7 communes and in turn into villages. Greater Kumbo is further divided into 2 subdistricts, Kumbo Urban and Kumbo Rural

Communes and villages
 Elak-Oku
 Jakiri
 Greater Kumbo
 Nkuv
 Mbiame
 Nkum
 Noni
  Mfumuland

See also
Communes of Cameroon

References

Departments of Cameroon
Northwest Region (Cameroon)


Porteous may refer to:

Surname
 Members of the Porteous family
 Beilby Porteus, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of London, noted abolitionist
 Bradley Porteous, South African cricketer
 Cameron Porteous, Canadian set designer
 Crichton Porteous, writer and author
 David Porteous, Canadian singer/songwriter and film maker
 Garrick Porteous, English golfer
 Gaye Porteous, Canadian field hockey international
 George Porteous, Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan
 Gladstone Charles Porteous, Australian missionary and linguist in China
 Haydn Porteous, South African golfer
 Hugh Gordon Porteus, art and literature critic
 Ian Porteous, Scottish footballer
 Ian R. Porteous, Scottish mathematician
 James Porteous, inventor of the Fresno scraper
 John Porteous (soldier), Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh lynched in the Porteous Riots
 John Alexander Porteous, columnist and journalist
 Johnny Porteous, Scottish footballer
 Julian Porteous, Bishop, Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia
 Katrina Porteous, Scottish poet
 Miguel Porteous, New Zealand skier
 Ned Porteous, British actor
 Nico Porteous, New Zealand skier
 Norman Porteous, theologian and translator of the New English Bible, last surviving officer of the First World War
 Patrick Anthony Porteous, Victoria Cross, war hero
 Rose Porteous, socialite
 Ryan Porteous, Scottish footballer
 Shane Porteous, Australian actor
 Stanley Porteus, psychologist and author
 Thomas Porteous, former United States district court judge
 Thomas Porteous (footballer), footballer for Sunderland and England
 Thomas Porteous (merchant), merchant and politician, Lower Canada
 Timothy Porteous, Order of Canada, former executive assistant to Pierre Trudeau
 Trevor Porteous, English football player and manager
 Victor Porteous, Canadian Member of Parliament
 William Porteous, Australian land developer

Others
 Porteous (store)
 The Porteous formula in algebraic geometry
 Porteous Point, on Signy Island, Antarctica
 The Porteous Riots of 1736
 Porteous's tuco-tuco, a rodent species

See also
 Joe Porteus, English footballer


The San Francisco Brewing Company was one of the oldest micro-breweries and bars in San Francisco, in addition to being one of the first four brew pubs in the United States.  It was not always known as the Brewing Company, as only in recent decades did it take the moniker. It was located on the edge of what was once known as the Barbary Coast, at the intersection of Columbus and Pacific Avenues. It was formerly known as the Andromeda Saloon and the Albatross Saloon.

History
The pub originally opened in 1907 as the Andromeda Saloon, where "angling executives, sharp-talking politicians and homesick sailors all rubbed elbows while brazen prostitutes flaunted coquettish charms at the brass rail of the ornate bar." In 1913, the Andromeda gained wide respect when Jack Dempsey, the future heavyweight champion, gained employment there. It is even rumored that, in 1939, Baby Face Nelson was captured in the pub by the FBI.

During Prohibition the Andromeda Saloon was one of very few pubs that survived, and it did so by calling itself the Andromeda Cafe – which provided classy seafood fare such as fresh oysters and clams, all the while still serving alcohol discreetly.

Decades later, in 1977, the brew pub was renovated and renamed the Albatross Saloon, and gained notoriety among San Francisco bars for its rich history. The bar itself was the original solid plank of mahogany used during its Barbary Coast days, and the vintage fan system run by leather belts and pulleys has remained in operation from its construction in 1916 until today in its most recent incarnation.

Allan G. Paul, while living on Telegraph Hill, developed an obsession with Barbary Coast history and unique, micro-brewed beer. Paul bought the Albatross Saloon in 1985 and renamed it the San Francisco Brewing Company. It still housed all the historical pieces from its early days, but had his addition of antique-style micro-brewing, which brought beer in brass pipes straight from the basement, where it fermented and self-carbonated, into a pint glass.

Tours of the pub, its famous Dempsey Room, and the brewery itself were given upon request. The Brewing Company had live music from classic jazz combos to blues and even more modern and avant-garde performances every Thursday through Saturday. Some of its chief attractions were the oddly humored brew titles, which included the Bock Obama, the Albatross Lager, and the Hugh Hefnerweizen.

The San Francisco Brewing Company closed in November 2009 due to financial issues but, as of April 2010, has since been remodeled and reestablished under new ownership as the Comstock Saloon.

In late 2012, Brew-master and new owner Joshua Leavy started up the brand and brewing again under the name San Francisco Brewing Co. They have put out four beers in two years and are serving their beers all over the Bay Area today.

See also
 California breweries
 Beer in the United States

References

External links

1861 establishments in California
Beer brewing companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Drinking establishments in the San Francisco Bay Area
North Beach, San Francisco
Restaurants in San Francisco
Defunct restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area