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Праздники и памятные дни
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Общественные
 - Международный день защиты персональных данных

Национальные
  — День Армии.

Религиозные
  Католицизм
 — память святого ;
 — память святого Фомы Аквинского.

  Русская Православная Церковь
 — память преподобного Павла Фивейского (341);
 — память преподобного Иоанна Кущника (V);
 — память преподобномученика Пансофия Александрийского (249—251);
 — память преподобных Прохора Пшинского (X) и Гавриила Лесновского (XI);
 — память святителя Герасима II (Палладаса), Патриарха Александрийского (1714);
 — память священномученика Михаила Самсонова, пресвитера (1942):

Славянские праздники:
 Велесичи (Кудесы) — День домового.

Именины
 Католические: Фома, Юлиан
 Православные: Алпсидий, Варлам, Гавриил, Герасим, Елена, Елпидий, Иван, Михаил, Павел, Пансофий, Прохор

События
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До XIX века
 98 — римским императором становится Марк Ульпий Траян, второй из так называемых «хороших императоров».
 1077 — папа римский Григорий VII одержал верх над немецким королём и монархом Священной Римской империи Генрихом IV в конфликте, завершившимся «хождением в Каноссу».
 1226 — правитель Тулузы Раймунд VII (граф Тулузы) отлучён от церкви папой римским.
 1495 — папа римский Александр VI выдал французскому королю Карлу VIII в качестве заложника своего сына Чезаре Борджиа.
 1596 — на борту своего корабля от дизентерии умер английский мореплаватель Фрэнсис Дрейк.
 1724 — указом Петра I основаны Петербургская академия наук и Петербургский университет.
 1725 — в России наступила «эпоха дворцовых переворотов».
 1762 — российский император Пётр III помиловал фельдмаршала Б. К. Миниха.

XIX век
 1813 — опубликован роман Джейн Остин «Гордость и предубеждение».
 1820 — русской кругосветной экспедицией на шлюпах «Восток» и «Мирный» была открыта Антарктида.
  — в пригороде Чикаго основан Северо-Западный университет.
  — Франко-прусская война: капитуляция Парижа.
 1900 — в Лейпциге основан Немецкий футбольный союз.

XX век
 1906 — в Санкт-Петербурге открылись женские политехнические курсы — первое в России высшее техническое учебное заведение для женщин.
 1918 — Эстония и Латвия объявляют свою независимость от России.
  — Карл Густав Эмиль Маннергейм учредил орден Белой розы Финляндии.
 1930 — испанский диктатор Мигель Примо де Ривера ушёл в отставку.
  — Японо-китайская война: началось Первое Шанхайское сражение.
 1933 — в Германии ушло в отставку правительство Курта фон Шлейхера, последнее правительство Веймарской республики.
 1945
 Вторая мировая война: Андрей Власов назначен главнокомандующим Русской освободительной армии.
 Вторая мировая война: советские войска заняли Мемель (Клайпеду).
 1956 —  лыжница Любовь Козырева победила на дистанции 10 км на зимних Олимпийских играх в Кортине-д'Ампеццо и принесла СССР первую в истории золотую медаль зимних Олимпиад.
  — принятие Делийской декларации против ядерной войны.
  — катастрофа американского космического корабля «Челленджер».

 Борис Ельцин издал указ «О свободе торговли».
 Катастрофа Ми-8 близ Шуши.
  — в Москве прошёл финал первого международного конкурса красоты «Мисс Содружество».

XXI век
  — катастрофа Boeing 727 под Ипьялесом в Колумбии, 94 погибших.
  — в ходе встречи президента России Владимира Путина и президента Украины Леонида Кучмы подписан Договор о российско-украинской государственной границе.
  — в Москву прибыл Рауль Кастро. Это первый официальный визит лидера Кубы в Россию после распада СССР.
  — Верховная рада Украины отменила законы 16 января. Николай Азаров подал в отставку.

Родились
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До XVIII века
 1457 — Генрих VII (ум. 1509), король Англии и Ирландии (с 1485), первый монарх из династии Тюдоров.
 1600 — Климент IX (в миру Джулио Роспильози; ум. 1669), 238-й папа римский (с 1667).
 1608 — Джованни Альфонсо Борелли (ум. 1679), итальянский учёный-универсал, основоположник биомеханики.
 1611 — Ян Гевелий (ум. 1687), польский астроном, конструктор телескопов, основатель селенографии.

XVIII век
 1706 — Джон Баскервилл (ум. 1775), английский типограф и издатель, создатель шрифтов нового стиля, носящих его имя.
 1741 — Наталья Голицына (ум. 1838), фрейлина «при дворе четырёх императоров», прототип главной героини повести А. С. Пушкина «Пиковая дама».
 1755 — Самуэль Томас Зёммеринг (ум. 1830), немецкий анатом и физиолог.
 1767 — Пётр Талызин (ум. 1801), генерал-лейтенант русской армии, участник заговора против императора Павла I.
 1777 — князь Сергей Гагарин (ум. 1862), деятель русского сельского хозяйства, действительный тайный советник, обер-гофмейстер.
 1784 — Джордж Гамильтон-Гордон, граф Эбердин (ум. 1860), английский политический деятель, 34-й премьер-министр Великобритании (1852—1855).
 1800 — Фридрих Штюлер (ум. 1865), прусский архитектор.

XIX век

 1821 — архимандрит Павел (в миру Пётр Леднев; ум. 1895), русский миссионер, писатель, публицист, настоятель Никольского единоверческого монастыря.
 1841
 Василий Ключевский (ум. 1911), российский историк, профессор Московского университета.
 Генри Мортон Стэнли (наст. имя Джон Роулендс; ум. 1904), американский журналист, путешественник, исследователь Африки.
 1845 — Виктор Пашутин (ум. 1901), русский врач, один из создателей патофизиологической школы в России.
 1848 — Гасаналиага-хан Карадагский (ум. 1929), азербайджанский педагог, поэт, историк.
 1853
 Хосе Марти (погиб в 1895), кубинский писатель, журналист и революционер, национальный герой Кубы.
 Владимир Соловьёв (ум. 1900), русский философ, поэт, публицист, литературный критик.
 1858 — Эжен Дюбуа (ум. 1940), нидерландский антрополог, впервые нашедший останки ископаемого питекантропа.
 1863 — Григорий Хлопин (ум. 1929), русский советский учёный-гигиенист.
 1864 — Анна Голубкина (ум. 1927), скульптор, одна из первых в России последовательниц импрессионизма.
 1877 — Семён Франк (ум. 1950), русский философ, религиозный мыслитель и психолог.
 1881 — Александр Цуцунава (ум. 1955), грузинский актёр, режиссёр, народный артист Грузинской ССР.
 1884 — Огюст Пиккар (ум. 1962), швейцарский исследователь, физик, изобретатель стратостата и батискафа.
 1887 — Артур Рубинштейн (ум. 1982), польский и американский пианист.
 1888 — Осип Брик (ум. 1945), российский и советский писатель, литературный критик, сценарист, стиховед.
 1892 — Иван Тюленев (ум. 1978), советский военачальник, генерал армии.
 1893 — Пётр Богатырёв (ум. 1971), советский фольклорист, этнограф и переводчик.
 1897 — Валентин Катаев (ум. 1986), русский советский писатель, поэт, киносценарист, драматург, журналист.
 1900 — Элис Нил (ум. 1984), американская художница, мастер портрета.

XX век

 1901 — Николай Осипов (ум. 1945), русский балалаечник, педагог, дирижёр, руководитель оркестра, заслуженный артист РСФСР.
 1902 — Альфред Барр (ум. 1981), американский искусствовед, первый директор Музея современного искусства в Нью-Йорке.
 1904 — Теофилис Тильвитис (ум. 1969), литовский советский поэт и переводчик.
 1909 — Иосиф Туманов (наст. фамилия Туманишвили; ум. 1981), актёр, режиссёр, педагог, народный артист СССР.
 1912
 Алексей Консовский (ум. 1991), актёр кино и озвучивания, народный артист РСФСР.
 Джексон Поллок (ум. 1956), американский художник-абстракционист.
 1918 — Аль Деми (погиб в 1943), албанский партизан-антифашист, народный Герой Албании.
 1924 — Марсель Бродхарс (ум. 1976), бельгийский художник-сюрреалист, поэт, кинорежиссёр.
 1927
 Пер Оскарссон (ум. 2010), шведский актёр, сценарист, кинорежиссёр, призёр Каннского кинофестиваля.
 Хироси Тэсигахара (ум. 2001), японский режиссёр игрового и документального кино.
 1929 — Клас Олденбург, американский скульптор, классик поп-арта.
 1933 — Алексей Кожевников (ум. 1986), киноактёр, заслуженный артист РСФСР.
 1934 — Эдуард Гаврилов (ум. 2000), советский кинорежиссёр и сценарист.
 1936 — Алан Алда (при рожд. Альфонсо Джозеф Д'Абруццо), американский актёр, режиссёр, сценарист и продюсер, лауреат шести «Золотых глобусов», пяти премий «Эмми».
 1938 — Леонид Жаботинский (ум. 2016), украинский советский штангист, двукратный олимпийский чемпион (1964, 1968), 4-кратный чемпион мира, двукратный чемпион Европы.
 1943
 Александр Пашутин, советский и российский актёр театра и кино, народный артист РФ.
 Михаил Пташук (ум. 2002), советский и белорусский кинорежиссёр, сценарист.
 Пол Хендерсон, канадский хоккеист.
 1945 — Роберт Уайатт, британский музыкант, один из создателей рок-группы Soft Machine.
 1947 — Леонид Стуканов (ум. 1998), советский и российский художник, педагог.
  — Илкка Канерва (ум. 2022), финский политик, президент Парламентской ассамблеи ОБСЕ (2014—2016).
  — Грегг Попович, американский баскетбольный тренер, рекордсмен по выигранным матчам в НБА.
  — Хамад ибн Иса Аль Халифа, король Бахрейна (с 2002 года).
 1951 — Леонид Каденюк (ум. 2018), украинский лётчик-испытатель и космонавт, Герой Украины.
 1954
 Хайме Гарса, мексиканский актёр сериалов и эстрадный певец.
 Брюно Метсю (ум. 2013), французский футболист и тренер.
 1955
 Сергей Дроздов (ум. 2012), советский и российский певец, гитарист, автор песен, солист ВИА «Синяя птица».
 Николя Саркози, французский политик, президент Франции (2007—2012).
 1959 — Фрэнк Дарабонт, американский кинорежиссёр («Зелёная миля», «Побег из Шоушенка» и др.), сценарист, продюсер.
  — Сергей Супонев (ум. 2001), советский и российский телеведущий, руководитель дирекции детских программ ОРТ.

 Ольга Кабо, советская и российская актриса театра и кино, певица, заслуженная артистка РФ.
 Сара Маклахлан, канадская певица, автор песен, лауреат премии «Грэмми».

 Елена Баранова, российская баскетболистка, олимпийская чемпионка (1992), двукратная чемпионка Европы.
 Миндаугас Карбаускис, российский театральный режиссёр литовского происхождения, художественный руководитель Московского театра им. Вл. Маяковского (2011—2022).
  — Антон Кротов, российский путешественник.
  — Джанлуиджи Буффон, итальянский футбольный вратарь, чемпион мира (2006).
  — Ник Картер, американский певец, гитарист, актёр, участник группы «Backstreet Boys».
  — Элайджа Вуд, американский актёр кино и телевидения.
  — Микаэль Гигу, французский гандболист, трёхкратный олимпийский чемпион (2008, 2012, 2020).
  — Андре Игудала, американский баскетболист, чемпион мира (2010) и Олимпийских игр (2012).

 Лаурис Дарзиньш, латвийский хоккеист.
 Лизбет Трикетт (Лентон), австралийская пловчиха, 4-кратная олимпийская чемпионка
  — Лера Массква (при рожд. Валерия Гуреева), российская певица и автор песен.
  — Брюно Массо, французский и немецкий фигурист (парное катание), чемпион мира и Олимпийских игр (2018).

Скончались
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До XIX века

 814 — Карл Великий (р. 742), король франков (с 768).
 1547 — Генрих VIII (р. 1491), король Англии (с 1509).
 1596 — сэр Фрэнсис Дрейк (р. ок. 1540), английский мореплаватель, пират, вице-адмирал.
 1613 — Томас Бодли (р. 1545), английский дипломат и учёный, руководитель Бодлианской библиотеки, названной в его честь.
 1621 — Павел V (в миру Камилло Боргезе: р. 1552), 233-й папа римский (1605—1621).
 1663 — Франческо Мария Гримальди (р. 1618), итальянский физик, астроном, составивший первую карту Луны.
 1687 — Ян Гевелий (р. 1611), польский астроном, основатель селенографии.
 1754 — Людвиг Хольберг (р. 1684), норвежско-датский писатель, драматург, историк, философ.

XIX век
 1815 — Иван Теребенёв (р. 1780), русский скульптор и график.
 1831 — Александр Измайлов (р. 1779), русский баснописец, издатель, публицист.
 1838 — Александр Полежаев (р. 1804), русский поэт, переводчик.
 1859
 Карл Адольф Агард (р. 1785), шведский ботаник, альголог, теолог, энциклопедист.
 Уильям Прескотт (р. 1796), американский историк.
 1864 — Бенуа Поль Эмиль Клапейрон (р. 1799), французский физик и инженер.
 1868 — Адальберт Штифтер (р. 1805), австрийский писатель и художник.
 1893 — Густав Йонге (р. 1829), бельгийский художник.
 1894
 Александр Миддендорф (р. 1815), российский естествоиспытатель, путешественник, член Петербургской Академии наук.
 Август Хирш (р. 1817), немецкий врач-эпидемиолог, историк медицины.
 1896 — Джузеппе Фиорелли (р. 1823), итальянский политический деятель, археолог, нумизмат.

XX век

 1901 — Иосиф Гурко (р. 1828), генерал-фельдмаршал, один из выдающихся российских полководцев.
 1903 — Робер Планкет (р. 1848), французский композитор.
 1915 — Николай Умов (р. 1846), русский физик-теоретик, философ.
 1916 — граф Илларион Воронцов-Дашков (р. 1837), русский государственный и военный деятель.
 1920 — Панас Мирный (р. 1849), украинский писатель, драматург, общественный деятель.
 1921 — граф Павел Бенкендорф (р. 1853), обер-гофмаршал Двора российского императора Николая II.
 1928 — Висенте Бласко Ибаньес (р. 1867), испанский писатель.
 1935 — Михаил Ипполитов-Иванов (р. 1859), русский композитор, дирижёр, педагог, народный артист.
 1939 — Уильям Батлер Йейтс (р. 1865), ирландский поэт, лауреат Нобелевской премии (1923).
 1949 — Александр Коновалов (р. 1875), русский предприниматель и политик, министр промышленности Временного правительства.
 1952 — Сергей Труфанов (р. 1880), русский духовный деятель, иеромонах-расстрига, политик и авантюрист.
 1960 — Зора Ниэл Хёрстон (р. 1891), американская фольклористка, антрополог и писательница.
 1972
 Дино Буццати (р. 1906), итальянский писатель и журналист.
 Борис Зайцев (р. 1881), русский писатель и переводчик, эмигрант.
 1973 — Владимир Белокуров (р. 1908), актёр (фильмы: «Валерий Чкалов», «Мёртвые души», «Воскресение», «Полосатый рейс», «Неуловимые мстители» и др.).
 1975 — Антонин Новотный (р. 1904), первый секретарь ЦК КП Чехословакии (1953—1968 гг.), президент ЧССР (1957—1968 гг.).
 1976 — Марсель Бродхарс (р. 1924), бельгийский художник-сюрреалист, поэт и кинорежиссёр.
 1980 — Айдын Карадаглы (р. 1929), диктор азербайджанского радио.
 1988 — Клаус Фукс (р. 1911), немецкий физик-теоретик, работавший на советскую разведку.
 1991 — Леонид Ленч (настоящая фамилия Попов; р. 1905), русский советский писатель.
 1996 — Иосиф Бродский (р. 1940), русский поэт, лауреат Нобелевской премии (1987).
 1999 — Валерий Гаврилин (р. 1939), композитор, народный артист РСФСР.

XXI век
 2002 — Астрид Линдгрен (р. 1907), шведская писательница.
 2005 — Джим Капальди (р. 1944), британский барабанщик, певец и автор песен, один из основателей рок-группы «Traffic».
 2007 — Карел Свобода (р. 1938), чешский кинокомпозитор.
 2016 — Сигни Толи Андерсон (р. 1941), американская певица, первая солистка группы «Jefferson Airplane».
 2017 — Александр Тиханович (р. 1952), эстрадный певец, народный артист Беларуси.
 2021
 Рышард Котыс (р. 1932), польский актёр театра и кино.
 Пауль Крутцен (р. 1933), нидерландский химик, специалист в химии атмосферы, нобелевский лауреат (1995).
 Василий Лановой (р. 1934), советский и российский актёр театра и кино, народный артист СССР.
 Сисели Тайсон (р. 1924), американская актриса, обладательница «Оскара», «Тони», двух премий «Эмми».

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Павел Фивейский. Отдание. День Отдания или Видения.
 Коли на день Павла ветер — год будет сырой.
 Звёздная ночь сулит добрый урожай льна.
 Если звёзды сильно блестят, то быть морозу, а коли звёзды тусклые, то будет тепло.
 Если с севера показались тучи, то оттепели не жди.
 Снежный буран днём на Павла предвещает крепкий мороз ночью.
 По дню смотрится, каким будет лето: ясно — сухое и жаркое; ветрено — холодное; осадки — дождливое. Идеальный вариант — спокойная пасмурная погода.

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The Willie Nelson statue, or simply Willie, is a bronze sculpture of singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, located in Downtown Austin, Texas. The statue was commissioned to artist Clete Shields by the nonprofit organization Capital Area Statues.

Following his move to Nashville in 1960, Nelson enjoyed success as a songwriter, but his career as a singer did not progress. After shortly retiring from the music business, Nelson moved to Austin in 1972, where his career found new success as a performer.

Knowing of the plans for the statue, Austin mayor Lee Leffingwell proposed to rename a portion of Second Street to Willie Nelson Boulevard. The unveiling of the statue took place on April 20, 2012 at 4:20 pm with Nelson in attendance.

Background
In 1960, Willie Nelson moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and worked as a songwriter for Pamper Music. The publishing company was owned by Ray Price. While his songs became hits for other artists, Nelson toured as a band member in Price's Cherokee Cowboys. Nelson signed his first recording contract in 1961 with Liberty Records, and by 1964 he had moved to RCA Records. By 1970, Nelson had invested his earnings in tours that did not produce profit. The same year, he divorced his then wife, and his ranch in Ridgetop, Tennessee burned down. Nelson saw the events as a need for a change. He moved to Bandera, Texas, and re-married. In 1972, unhappy with his career, he decided to retire from music.

Nelson moved to Austin, Texas in 1972. The Austin musical scene, and his performances at the Armadillo World Headquarters rejuvenated his career. Local audiences welcomed his style of country music marked by traditional  country, folk and jazz influences. In 1974, Nelson produced and performed on the pilot of PBS' Austin City Limits. The following year, he raised funds for PBS-affiliated stations across the south promoting the show. The pilot was aired first on those stations, later being released nationwide. The positive reception of the show prompted PBS to order ten episodes for 1976, formally launching the show. In 1979, he purchased the Pedernales Country Club near Lake Travis. Nelson kept the golf course, and he build a studio designed by Chips Moman.

Statue and Willie Nelson Boulevard

In 2010, the nonprofit organization Capital Area Statues commissioned a bronze sculpture of Nelson to Philadelphia artist Clete Shields. Shields had met board member Elizabeth Avellán at the 1995 San Diego Comic-Con. In 2009, Avellán called Shields with the proposal for a Nelson statue. She requested Shields to portray on it Nelson facing the crowd, "approchable; and he had to have that twinkle in his eye." Shields made several versions in clay. The artist visited Nelson, and expressed his desire to capture the singer's "humor and humility". The organization wanted to fund the statue based on public donations, with an estimated cost of US$150,000 to $250,000. 18-inch replicas of the model were given to the donors that contributed with over $10,000. The commission of the statue was announced during the development of Block 21 in Downtown Austin in 2010. Mayor Lee Leffingwell considered the upcoming opening at the development of the new venue for Austin City Limits, The Moody Theater, and Nelson's forty year residence in the city to rename that section of Second Street to Willie Nelson Boulevard. In December 2010, it was announced that the  statue would be placed at the entrance of the Moody Theater, on Second and Lavaca streets. The statue was presented at Troublemaker Studios in November 2011 with Nelson in attendance.

The larger than life size bronze statue depicts Nelson perched on a stool, dressed in his typical style with a bandana over trailing braids of hair, a sleeveless t-shirt, long pants and boots, with his guitar Trigger slung under his left arm. The statue accurately depicts the large hole above Trigger's bridge, a hole worn into the guitar by Nelson during decades of use.

Nelson's statue was unveiled on April 20, 2012 (4/20 Day) at 4:20 p.m. Lawrence Wright, the president of Capital Area Statues considered it a "complete and utter coincidence." The date was convenient for Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, who were due to perform a Johnny Cash tribute concert that night on Austin City Limits. Nelson, Mayor Leffingwell, and members of the Austin City Council were in attendance, as well as Kristofferson. Nelson told journalist Andy Lager: "I'll be stoned one thousand years." The singer performed for the crowd "On the Road Again", followed by his latest composition "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die".

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The following quotes, excerpts and exchanges are all 100% true and are not in anyway Frey-ed to enhance the entertainment value. Names have been changed to protect the employment status of the not-so-innocent.
Bored Bookstore Cashier: Dum-dee-dum. Two more hours till my latte break.
A middle-aged woman with a very festive scarf in her very enthusiastic hair and wearing long, beaded earrings plops a stack of books at the register.
Cashier begins scanning books and ringing-up sale.
Cashier: (deciding between hazelnut or almond latte) Your total is $95.48. Will that be cash or credit?
Cashier: (deciding on hazelnut latte) Your total is $95.48. Is that cash or credit?
Customer: I'd just like to check these out.
Cashier: (changing mind, thinking almond would be nice) I'm sorry. You just wanted to…look at these?
Customer: I'd like to check these out. How do I get a card?
Cashier: (shall I get whipped cream?) A card? A discount card?
Customer: A library card. I'd like to check these out.
Cashier: (decaf or double espresso?) A…uh…this is a bookstore.
Customer: Okay. Can I just borrow these?
Cashier: (triple) Well, you see, it's a bookstore. You have to buy the books to take them home.
Customer: Oh no! I don't want to do that! I just need a new card to borrow them for a few weeks.
Cashier: …but we're a bookstore.
Cashier: We sell books. We aren't a library.
Customer: But the library doesn't have these books.
Cashier: Hmmm…well, the individual libraries are each part of an entire system. Maybe another library has the book you want to borrow.
Customer: When did you start selling books instead of loaning them?
Cashier: Well, we've always been a bookstore….
Customer: Oh no, I used to come in here all the time and borrow books.
Customer: I know you used to be a library.
Cashier: Wellllll…we aren't anymore. Now we sell books.
Cashier: Yes. It is. Would you like to buy these books?
Customer: Oh, I don't know. Does the other library still loan books or do you have to buy them there, too?
Cashier: I have to go on break now. My head hurts.
Customer: Oh, I'm sorry. I'll come back later for a new card.
Cashier: (forgets coffee and just needs Tylenol) Okay. By the way, you have very exciting hair.
Customer: Thank you! You've been very helpful.
Cashier: My feet hurt. Wait…only my left foot hurts.
Large man with no neck and small eyes tosses two Sunday papers at cashier.
Man: Hey! You know you're out of the Pittsburgh paper again!
Cashier: (I fear you.) Oh. I'm sorry. Today's the Super Bowl, so all the papers are selling out.
Man: (with clenched fist) No! It's not just today! Every Sunday morning I come in here and the Pittsburgh paper is sold out! Who is in charge of ordering the papers?
Cashier dials the in-store magazine and newspaper guy. His phone is busy.
Cashier: (with much fear) His line is busy. Let me ring up your purchase and then I'll call him again.
Man: (with red face and some foam in corner of mouth) So! Why don't you have enough papers! You'd think someone would figure out that you are selling out and that you need more! The customers want more papers! Why don't you have more of the Pittsburgh paper! You could be making money on this!
Cashier: (with much peeing in pants) Honestly, from what I understand, we don't make much money on the papers.
Man: (with large gesture that almost takes cashier's head off) OF COURSE the store makes MONEY on the PAPER! Do you THINK they would have the paper HERE if they didn't make MONEY on it!
Cashier: (uncomfortable in wet pants and now losing patience, but dialing frantically) Hmmm… the newspaper guy still isn't answering his phone. I hate him now.
Man: (leaning far over counter) Why would a store sell something they weren't making money on! That's just not how businesses are run in America!
Cashier: (feeling warm around the throat) Well, I think that we carry the papers to bring people in the store. Once the people are here, the thought is that they'll buy more product. But, sometimes, that doesn't always happen.
Man: (another large gesture toward café) OF COURSE they are buying more PRODUCT! You have a café FULL of people drinking COFFEE and reading PAPERS!
Cashier: (a small spark of pissed-off bravery) Well, you aren't buying anything else. Just papers. See?
Man: WHY DON'T YOU BRING IN MORE PITTSBURGH PAPERS! I WANT TO BUY PITTSBURGH PAPERS AND YOU NEVER HAVE THEM!
Man: YOU NEVER HAVE PITTSBURGH PAPERS AND I ALWAYS COME HERE LOOKING FOR THEM!
Cashier: It's a corporate decision. I'm sorry.
Man: OKAY THEN! I AM CALLING CORPORATE! THIS IS NO WAY TO RUN A BOOKSTORE!
Cashier: It's a decision. I'm corporate sorry.
Man grabs papers and storms out of bookstore.
Information Desk Attendant: Can I hit the lights with a rubber band?
Teen girl with very clear skin, turned-up nose, and sporting local private high school attire approaches desk.
Info Gal: Can I help you?
Teen: I'm looking for a book.
Info: (with fun-loving jocularity) Oh, then you need the gas station across the street.
Info: I'm sorry. What are you looking for?
Teen: I have, like, a paper due that I, uh, have to write and so I need some books on what I need to write about.
Info: Okay, do you have any titles?
Teen: No. There's this one book I saw online. It has a blue cover.
Info: Okay…any words on the cover? Author? Subject?
Info: Hmmmmm. We have a lot of books, ehm, about politics. I'm not sure about the blue cover….
Teen: Well, I need ten books for the bibliography, so I need more books than one.
Info: Yes. It would seem so. What is the topic of your paper?
Teen: I need to compare, like, all the political parties and what they like, stand for.
Teen: So, like, do you have any books that do that, that like tell you about the political parties and stuff.
Info: Yeeessssss….uhhhhmmmm…well, let's take a walk over to Current Affairs and History.
Teen: And, I don't like to read a lot so nothing too long. Do you have like a bunch of those Cliff Notes things?
Info: Uhhhhh…when is your paper due?
Teen: Next week. It has to be fifty pages. It's my senior term thing.
Info: I see. I hope I'm not butting in here, but I think you've set yourself up for a challenge. Fifty pages is a lot.
Info: I mean, it can be done. With a lot of espresso. And plagiarizing.
Teen: I don't know what that means.
Info: Good. Don't listen to me. Okay, let's look at this section here.
Teen: (picking up The Savage Nation) Here's one on political stuff. Like this one?
Info: Okay…well…yes, I suppose that's one side of it….
Teen: (flipping over book and looking at price) Whoa. This is a lot. Are all the books this expensive? I can't spend that much on my mom's credit card. I just bought shoes.
Info: Have you checked out the library?
Info: There's one down the street….
Teen: Can I just, like, copy a few chapters from this book?
Teen: No, I mean like, can I just use your copy machine and copy a few chapters? I don't need to buy, like, the whole book.
Teen: Don't you have a copy machine?
Teen: Okay, then could I, like, just buy the book and then I'll go copy the chapters and then I can return it, right?
Info: Is that a question?
Teen: I can just copy it and return it, right?
Teen: So, I'll just, like, grab a few of these books and then just copy what I need and then return them.
Info: Let your guide be your conscience.
Teen: Do you have any books with chapters on how to write term papers?
Info: No. No we don't.
Teen randomly grabs books from shelf, twirls with much perk, and leaves.
You must be making it up!
You mean I can't get a card? I always thought I could.
Damn. Now I'll pout for a week.
Girl, I worked for a bookstore for almost six years. You do bring back memories.
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We were talking to an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) recently and discovered they had a double-digit number of CNC punch presses. Yet they couldn't keep up with the amount of work that was coming their way. Some would say, this is a good "problem" to have. Nonetheless, there was a clear bottleneck in sheet metal. And that problem needed to be resolved to keep the customers happy by meeting delivery times.
This manufacturer has several options to resolve his capacity issue. Maybe you can think of a number of them. We'll review some options here, and you can decide for yourself, what would be the best solution.
Outsourcing – The lifeblood of all job shops is their ability to extend capacity on demand for and manufacturer. And it is certainly an option here. The OEM would need to assess the costs, turn around time, and quality of any outside vendor before pursuing this choice.
Adding Equipment – If sheet metal fabrication is the bottleneck, then possibly adding more equipment and more production lines would alleviate the problem. That is assuming the machine cycle time and not the programming (order and geometry / code inputs and nesting) is the bottleneck, then more equipment would be a possible solution. The OEM would need to look at floor space, the capital investment budget, and lead time for installation and training before moving on this. Further, he would need to be certain that the demand is sustained so to justify the investment over time.
Getting More Capacity from Existing Equipment – Another approach, and this may be the first one before any steps are taken, would be to determine if the existing equipment is at full or near capacity. Is it running at 80-90% of its duty cycle – barring time for maintenance? Most manufacturers we speak to find that this isn't the case. Even if they don't keep meticulous records, they can tell if the CNC equipment is running 30, 50, or 70 percent of the time. If this is the case – and most often it is – there is a golden opportunity to improve capacity by improving cycle time. Look at the turret changes, the delay or wait time for programs, the load/unload time, and/or the downtime for machine breakage as areas for improvement.
Using Automatic Nesting Software to Increase Capacity – One of the best tools to help increase the capacity in general and specifically of existing equipment is through efficient use of automatic nesting software. It can improve the duty cycle up to 90%, thereby creating one of several outcomes depending on the manufacturer's needs for improved throughput or cost reduction. Automatic nesting software can help improve capacity many ways.
Implementing Common Punching or Common Edge Cutting, which shortens the cut time – and the material use.
Efficient tool path management (a logical, linear path from one sheet edge to another), which again shortens the cut time.
Managed part unload with trap doors and automatic unloaders, also making removal and sorting of finished parts quick and simple.
What does more capacity mean?
Greater capacity can mean a lot of different things to different manufacturers. What they do with the extra capability is all dependent upon the economics of their situation. Here are a few examples.
Superfluous existing machines can be decommissioned or reserved for capacity peaks only.
In the case of shearing before punching, the shearing operation can be minimized or eliminated, freeing up floor space, manpower, and speeding throughput.
The choice of how to increase capacity is a decision that will be unique for each manufacturer. What we have discussed today is that there are a number of solutions – including automatic nesting software – as tools that can add more "floor space" and get more product out the door. It is the savvy manufacturer that considers his options and chooses wisely.
How are your capacity challenges handled? What solutions have you implemented? What advice would you give to someone in this situation? Let us know.
If Optimation can help you explore nesting software as a potential solution, let us know.


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I have walked many paths in my 76 years of living. I was brought up in the white culture in British Columbia, Canada, and early learned from my parents to respect Native traditions. For 33 years, I worked as a chemical engineer, finance manager, and human relations counsellor.
Then about 20 years ago I discovered the joys of being truly myself as a drum-maker and Pipe Carrier and Sweat Lodge leader, in the company of my friends among the Anishnabe people North of Superior. I have travelled from Owen Sound east to Kingston, to Goose Bay, and west to Winnipeg and Kamloops, doing ceremonies, and helping people make drums, read our dreams, and explore our world of spirit, always writing, always seeking a good way, a "right way", of speaking.
Thinking of all this, I realised that my life is more like path than a field. While I studied the field of Chemical Engineering, and worked in it for a while, I left that work to follow other interests, and so have done several times since. In my first year at University, UBC, 1951, I was enthralled by the poetry being taught by Thorleif Larsen in our English Literature class. Found I had a lot of validation in my exchanges with him about the poems. I remember he was quite disappointed to hear I was bent on becoming an Engineer. Well, I did become that engineer, Chem., Eng. 1956, winner of the WA White Student Contest Award for the best Student design submission in North America. But I never lost my interest in poetry. Whatever I was up to in my life after that, I often tried writing, kept journals and so on. Finally, around about 1985, I began to write every day, two hours every morning, seven days a week. And have accumulated 24 books and a total of about 1050 poems. Add to this a developing passion for photography,and poetry readings accompanied by original piano music with a talented colleague, plus the photos amalgamated into DVD's, and my creative life these days seems unlimited and very satisfying.
On graduating in 1956 I went to work for Shell Canada in their Montreal East Refinery, starting there after a training period and as refinery scheduler, as their first Engineering computer programer (IBM 650 in 1958). I stayed with Shell for 14 years, mostly in Toronto, in computer programming (every application from credit card accounting to sales forecasting to refinery and transportation optimisation), then corporate planning and budgeting. I got restless and quit to follow a brief spell in an electronics firm that failed, then joined Manulife in 1970 to install their first budgeting process and corporate planning process. Got interested there in sales and in human relations training and spent a few years freelancing doing training in human relations communication and teamwork and designing sales training programs. Taught management skills to over 3000 women. I imagine I was among the first to try to do something practical for equality in the managerial workplace.
Along the way I married, in my last year at UBC, to Penelope. Our marriage quickly ended, (though one beautiful girl child, she a forerunnerl of the creativity that would one day in the future visit me, never to leave, was born of it), in an annulment by act of the Federal Parliament two years later. Then a beautiful and capable Italian woman, Luciana, found me attractive enough to marry, and we stayed together that way from 1960 to 1980, before breaking up. We had one child who died within a few days. Together we did a lot of travelling in Europe, the USA, Mexico.
Then I met Suzanne, who was to become the mother of our three children, Michael, Julia, Jonathan. We moved out of Toronto to Owen Sound on Georgian Bay, in 1982, where the children grew up and from where they finally left home to chase education and love lives, and adventures in work, sports and travel.
There I began to drift away from the corporate work world, to explore the Red Road of North American native spirituality. My first book, on the Medicine Wheel, was written with Suzanne, in those days, and has been through seven printings.
Another turn of the Wheel and another lovely woman, Basha, partnered me for a while, then went her way, although we are still very good friends, truly like brother and sister. So I am learning how to handle this stuff, and am grateful to all these lovely women who gave so much of their time and life to me.
Now with my last and truest companion, Lisa, I have settled into a steady daily rhythm of writing, exploring new ideas in poetry, painting, photography, electronic publication, being with my loving partner part time at her house near Oshawa, and alone in my place in Owen Sound, then Durham, Ontario, now Peterborough. Some day we will live in the same place!!
For the past 15 years I have met every two weeks with a group of 16 men to do some drumming, simple rituals to get in touch with our place on the earth and our space of love for each other, and share the joys and sorrows of our lives, including yearly retreats and canoe trips. So I have plenty of good company these days on my path.
I often write of the beauties of natural life and friendships. I am just as often extremely annoyed at the drift of our society away from healthy connections with the earth to dull indulgence of food and consumerist addictions, which are eroding the habitat for all of life on the planet. Not to mention the failure of our various political and religious "isms" to find any outlet for the passions of millions of young men and women except in bloody warfare against each other and their communities, serving only the megalomania of their older leaders.
I refuse to be indifferent to the plight of human and other life on this planet, endangered as it is by the use of science almost exclusively for the weapons of war, and for providing ever cheaper ways to indulge consumerist addictions to unhealthy foods and the medications needed to try to control the resulting disease epidemics. My children's generation faces an epidemic of people, epidemics of their diseases, and epidemic destruction of planetary life systems, all made possible by science without morals allied to the world's human populations addicted to the North American Lifestyle.
More poetry and less profiteering is my prescription. January 2012.


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Pending the U.N. resolution expected to be approved on Monday, September 11, the positions taken by the various countries involved in the issue of North Korea - in the firing line after last Sunday's nuclear test - are becoming increasingly clear. At one end is the United States, pushing for a hard line. In a draft resolution submitted to the U.N., Washington is taking the lead in demanding an oil embargo against Pyongyang, a measure that would involve Beijing, a reluctant ally but which still remains North Korea's main goods supplier. At the other end, for obvious reasons, is China, which has reiterated, with Germany's support, the need for new and tougher sanctions. In a telephone conversation, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping, expressed their deep concern about the current situation in North Korea. At the same time, they said it was important to seek dialogue in order to reach a peaceful resolution of the crisis. It is thus unclear whether China will support the United States resolution pushing for cutting off oil supplies, a measure that would bring Pyongyang to its knees. In addition to speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chinese President Xi Jinping also had a telephone conversation with French president Emmanuel Macron to discuss the North Korean nuclear issue.


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US Marine Corps could soon take out enemy ships with Navy missiles
By David B. Larter and Jeff Martin
The U.S. Navy's newest long-range weapon is now deployed in the Pacific on an LCS. Watch it launch during exercise Pacific Griffin.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps could soon get the Navy's new Naval Strike Missile for use as a shore battery, according to the Navy's acquisitions chief.
"Just yesterday [Jan. 14] we had the team in that has the Naval Strike Missile on LCS working hand-in-hand with the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps does ground launchers, we do command and control," Assistant Secretary of the Navy James "Hondo" Geurts told reporters after his Jan. 15 speech at the annual Surface Navy symposium. "We'll make that immediately available to the Marine Corps."
Geurts said the effort on Naval Strike Missile, a Kongsberg/Raytheon product, was emblematic of a more coherent approach where instead of a dedicated Marine Corps effort to examine, test and field a system, the services were leveraging each other to get capabilities out faster.
The missile was recently deployed to the Pacific on the littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords, and the weapon is capable of flying more than 100 miles. It can passively detect enemy ships with imagery in its brain and is so precise that it can target individual parts of a ship, like the engine room or bridge.
In May, Raytheon announced it had been awarded $48 million through an other transaction authority contract to integrate the Naval Strike Missile into the Marine Corps' force structure, but very few details were available at the time.
This won't be the first time the missile is based on land, as Poland's coastal defense forces already have several batteries in service. And in 2018 at the Rim of the Pacific exercise, the U.S. Army fired a Naval Strike Missile at a decommissioned ship as part of a live-fire demonstration.
It's unknown what the Marine Corps will use as a launcher, as it is unclear whether or not the service's M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System can be used to fire the Naval Strike Missile. However, it is likely that the Corps' manned launchers will fire the missiles while on the deck of Navy amphibious ships, as the Corps has been testing the capability with HIMARS launchers.
"We're serious about it," Geurts said. "You've heard the commandant and the assistant commandant talk about more lethal anti-ship activity. ... It's certainly something we are looking at closely."
About David B. Larter and Jeff Martin
David B. Larter was the naval warfare reporter for Defense News. Before that, he reported for Navy Times.
Jeff Martin is the Associate Editor for Multimedia and the host & producer of Defense News Weekly, airing online and on American Forces Network worldwide. In his role as Associate Editor, he reports worldwide on the military and defense industry and leads a market-leading multimedia team.
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Best Contract Furniture has Garden Armchairs suitable for Bars, Restaurants, Hotels and other businesses looking for outdoor furniture. All of our Garden Furniture will look equally fantastic in your garden at home too!
Our Garden Armchairs come in a variety of materials and designs. Aluminium Garden Armchairs are extremely lightweight which makes them easy to carry and store when they are not in use. Aluminium is 100% corrosion resistant so they need no maintenance.
Wooden Garden Armchairs are beautifully traditional while many of the plastic designs are modern and edgy. Our Rattan Garden Armchairs have increased hugely in popularity over the last few years.
Please see the rest of our Garden Furniture range to find other items to match your Garden Armchairs.


Located just 20 meters from the sea, Hotel dei Fiori offers an elegant and well-kept ambience, with private beach and parking available for our guests.
The restaurant, open for lunch and dinner, serves excellent local specialties and international dishes. The 65 rooms, divided into three types, are spacious and equipped with all modern comforts: all air-conditioned with satellite TV, minibar, safe, hairdryer and free WiFi internet access. For those who want a holiday full of total freedom, we also provide a solution in Apartment: brand new accommodations of various sizes extremely accurate in detail, with ample space, kitchenettes with dishwasher, air conditioning, TV, pay garage and the possibility to comfortably choose the preferred stay formula.
you can enjoy an emotional journey and a pleasant multisensory experience: hydro massage, turkish bath, chromotherapy, aromatherapy, Kneipp path, Technogym equipment, massages and beauty treatments and relaxation room with herbal teas.
two steps from the sea: Book here at the Best Rate Guaranteed!