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Nazul (, also Romanized as Nāzūl) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 417, in 108 families. |
= = = Namazgah, Hamadan = = = |
Namazgah (, also Romanized as Namāzgāh and Namāz Gāh) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 584, in 146 families. |
= = = Linga language = = = |
Linga ("Elinga") is a Bantu language of the Soko–Kele group, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
= = = Likile language = = = |
Likile is a Bantu language of the Soko–Kele group, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
= = = Haley Farm State Park = = = |
Haley Farm State Park is a public recreation area that preserves Colonial-era farmland as open space in the town of Groton, Connecticut. The site of the state park once formed part of the lands granted to Governor John Winthrop and later became a dairy farm. The park's are connected to the adjacent Bluff Point State Park by way of a pedestrian bridge over railroad tracks. Park activities are restricted to bicycling and walking. The park is managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. |
Land containing the acreage for Haley Farm State Park was part of a larger parcel granted to John Winthrop, Jr., in 1649. Known as "John Winthrop the Younger," Winthrop was governor of the Saybrook Colony and is often recognized as "Connecticut's first governor." The land was later split up, with the piece containing Haley Farm designated as Fort Hill Farm. The farm was purchased by Starr Chester in 1789 and passed to Noyes Barber in 1833. The land was split again in 1852 with the farm being sold to Henry B. Lewis. Four hundred acres were sold to Caleb Haley in 1869 for the price of $12,000. Haley farmed the land, built stone walls throughout the property and raced horses around "Racetrack Pond." The land passed to his son, Samuel Haley, after his death in 1924. Samuel Haley continued to operate the farm until his death in 1947, when it was passed to his daughter Juliet Haley. The farm produced cream and milk that was shipped to Noank, West Mystic and Mystic. In 1953, the farm was sold out of the Haley family to A. C. White who abandoned the farm to develop a gully called Mumford Cove and placed the 250-acre parcel of land containing Haley Farm for sale. In 1960, the homestead burned down and the other buildings eventually were demolished in 1973 after being documented for possible future reconstruction. |
In 1963, efforts were made to purchase the land to prevent it from being developed. The town opposed re-zoning the site for multi-residential development. The land was sold from Alcor Inc. to O&G Construction Co. as a 250-acre parcel in 1966. A total of 198 acres of land was returned to White when O&G Construction "were in arrears on their payments and back taxes." In July 1970, the state acquired 198 acres of Haley Farm from A. C. White for a total of $300,000, with federal funding accounting for $150,000, state funding for $100,000, and the remaining $50,000 coming from the Groton Open Space Association, a local organization that completed raising the required funds in early 1970. At the time, the Park and Forest Commission said there were no plans to make it into a park. However, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection recognizes that Haley Farm was officially made a Connecticut State Park in July 1970. |
In 1975, a bike trail from Mystic to Noank was established, part which goes through the Haley Farm State Park. |
In 2001, the "Racetrack Pond" area was purchased from the Mumford Cove Association. In 2002, a total of 57 acres was added to the park through the purchase 49.95 acres from Guerra-DeAngelis Trustees and 7.14 acres from Bowen Briggs for a total purchase price of $913,300. The funds for the purchase, which was 30 years in the making, were provided by the State of Connecticut's Recreation and Natural Heritage Trust Program. |
The park hosts a wide range of upland and wetland vegetation. Algae and intertidal plants can be found at the shore including salt meadow grass, sedge, and sphagnum moss; the park's swampy areas have red maple and tulip trees; the upland sections include cherry, hickory, and shrubs. |
The park offers trails for non-motorized uses: hiking, jogging, and cycling. The park is connected to Bluff Point State Park over a pedestrian bridge that crosses Amtrak railroad tracks, built atop the former Groton and Stonington Street Railway bridge. The park's bike trail forms part of a town-owned bikeway from Mystic to Groton. |
= = = Yrjö Norta = = = |
Yrjö Norta (originally Nyberg, 18 March 1904 – 11 November 1988) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer and sound editor. Occasionally he used the pseudonyms Georg Nyberg and Ilmari Waltamaa. He was also the production manager and one of the founders of the film production company Fenno-Filmi. |
= = = Chewy (company) = = = |
Chewy, Inc., based in Dania Beach, Florida, is an online retailer of pet food and other pet-related products. |
Chewy was founded under the name "Mr. Chewy" in September 2011 by Ryan Cohen and Michael Day. The company hired former employees and executives from Amazon, PetSmart, Whole Foods Market, and Wayfair. In March 2012, the company estimated a total yearly revenue of $26 million, despite losing money in its first half year. In 2014, the company opened a 400,000-square-foot facility in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania to allow for overnight delivery in the Northeast. From 2014 to 2015, sales grew from $205 million to $423 million. |
By 2016 it had received $236 million in venture capital financing over 5 rounds from Volition Capital, Mark Vadon, T. Rowe Price, New Horizons Fund, BlackRock, Allen & Co, Verlinvest and Greenspring Associates. By 2017, the company had revenue of approximately $2 billion and 51% of online pet food and litter sales in the US. It spent heavily on customer acquisition and retention; in 2017 Forbes reported that its profitability was unclear. Between 2017 and 2018, Chewy’s sales increased from $2.1 billion to $3.5 billion, with 66% of sales coming from customers signed up for automatic recurring shipments. |
In February 2018, Chewy opened a new 100,000 square foot customer service center in Hollywood, Florida, which houses over 1,000 employees. Also in 2018, Chewy.com opened a new 802,671 sq. ft. distribution facility in Goodyear, Arizona. That year the company employed around 7000 people in the United States. Chewy received the Stevie Award for Favorite Customer Service in Retail in 2017 and 2018. As of 2019 the company was valued at $10.2 billion. |
Chewy produces and retails an eponymous pet food brand, Chewy. In 2018 Chewy created Chewy Pharmacy, an online pharmacy providing pet-targeted prescription medications. Orders placed through the business are completed in coordination with a team of in-house veterinarians. The site also houses pet care literature and care advice regarding pet health. Items can be purchased a la carte online or delivered automatically. |
The first CEO of Chewy was cofounder Ryan Cohen. In March 2018, Cohen stepped down as Chewy's CEO, and Sumit Singh was named the company's new CEO. Singh had first joined the company in 2017 as COO. The company’s CFO is Mario Marte and the company’s Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel is Susan Helfrick. Raymond Svider is the chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. |
In 2017, as Ryan Cohen prepared to take Chewy public, both Petco and PetSmart approached with merger offers. Petco's offer would be paid for in part using stock, whereas PetSmart offered and all-cash bid that would also allow Chewy to remain a completely separate business. Chewy was acquired by PetSmart in May 2017 for $3.35 billion, which at the time was the largest ever acquisition of an e-commerce business. Allen & Co. served as financial advisor to Chewy on the deal. PetSmart later transferred 20% of its ownership stake in Chewy to private equity firm BC Partners, which has owned PetSmart since 2014, and also spun off an additional 16.5% of Chewy to an unrestricted subsidiary in 2018. On April 29, 2019, Chewy filed an S-1 for an initial public offering, intending to trade under the ticker symbol CHWY. In its filing, Chewy reported a net loss of $268 million on total sales of $3.5 billion for its 2018 fiscal year. Chewy went public on June 14, 2019, at $22 per share. |
= = = Namazgah = = = |
Namazgah or Namaz Gah ( meaning 'Place of prayer'), may refer to: |
= = = Pir Savaran = = = |
Pir Savaran (, also Romanized as Pīr Savārān and Pīr Sawāran) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 78, in 27 families. |
= = = Sarab-e Tajar = = = |
Sarab-e Tajar (, also Romanized as Sarāb-e Ţajar) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 61, in 21 families. |
= = = Tajar-e Samen = = = |
Tajar-e Samen (, also Romanized as Ţajar-e Sāmen; also known as Tajar) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 944, in 235 families. |
= = = Vashan, Hamadan = = = |
Vashan (, also Romanized as Vāshān) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,433, in 294 families. |
= = = Weightlifting at the 2002 Asian Games – Women's 48 kg = = = |
The women's 48 kilograms event at the 2002 Asian Games took place on September 30, 2002 at Pukyong National University Gymnasium. |
The following records were established during the competition. |
= = = Langa language = = = |
Langa is a Bantu language of Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
= = = Jean-Efflam Bavouzet = = = |
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (born 17 October 1962) is a French classical pianist. |
Bavouzet was born in Lannion, France and grew up in Metz. He started his music studies there, encountering such luminaries as Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. Moving to the Conservatoire de Paris, he studied under Pierre Sancan, among others. He also had private lessons with Georg Solti, and in June 1997 was engaged to play Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Solti conducting the Orchestre de Paris in 1998. Solti died in September 1997, so they never appeared together in public. |
Bavouzet won first prize in the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Cologne in 1986. |
Bavouzet is a recording artist for the Chandos label. His recordings have received several Gramophone Awards (2014, Prokofiev piano concertos; 2011, works for piano and orchestra by Debussy and Ravel; 2009, Debussy Complete Solo Piano Music, vol. 4), and numerous other awards, including the BBC Music Magazine Award, the Choc de la Musique and the Diapason d'Or. |
His discography includes: |
= = = Zarb Ali = = = |
Zarb Ali (, also Romanized as Ẕarb ‘Alī; also known as Qal”eh Naqd ”Ali, Qal‘eh-ye Naqd ‘Alī, Ẕarbeh ‘Alī, and Ẕarbeh‘alī) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 232, in 68 families. |
= = = Zereshgi = = = |
Zereshgi (, also Romanized as Zereshgī; also known as Zereshkī) is a village in Samen Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 88, in 32 families. |
= = = Anjireh, Hamadan = = = |
Anjireh (, also Romanized as Anjīreh) is a village in Sefidkuh Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 190, in 41 families. |
= = = Anuch = = = |
Anuch (, also Romanized as Anūch; also known as Anūj) is a village in Sefidkuh Rural District, Samen District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,927, in 476 families. |
= = = Garett Jones = = = |
Garett Jones is an American economist and author. His research pertains to the fields of macroeconomics, monetary policy, IQ in relation to productivity, short term business cycles and economic development. He is an associate professor at George Mason University and the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center. |
Jones completed a B.A. in history with a minor in sociology from Brigham Young University in 1992. He did a M.P.A. in public affairs from Cornell University in 1993, followed by a M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. Jones completed a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, San Diego in 2000. After holding a number of visiting scholar and other academic positions, Jones joined the faculty of George Mason University in 2007. |
Jones started his research on IQ in a paper with Schneider in 2006 that argued that IQ is a statistically significant explanatory variable of economic growth, thus agreeing broadly with the thesis advanced by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen in their book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations." The chief observation that Jones made, and popularized, is that national IQs have much greater predictive power for individual earnings than the individual's IQ. |
Jones' further research has been on identifying the causal mechanisms by which IQ might affect productivity and economic growth at a national level. One mechanism posited by Jones is that smarter groups tend to be better at arriving at and enforcing norms of cooperation. Jones has used laboratory experiments involving repeated prisoner's dilemma, combined with the SAT scores of participants, to offer support for this hypothesis. Jones has also suggested that patience and delayed gratification might offer an explanation. |
Jones has also argued that certain sectors requiring very high quality work and with very low error-tolerance can only exist and thrive given access to a high-IQ population, because in such sectors, it is not possible to replace a single high-IQ worker by multiple low-IQ workers and achieve the same output. Jones informally dubs such sectors "O-Ring sectors" in contrast to "foolproof sectors" where a larger workforce of people with lower productivity can produce the same output as a smaller workforce of people with high productivity. |
Jones offer a summary of his and others' research on the relationship between IQ and national productivity in an article for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. |