What’s Your Favorite Food on Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, is a United States’ holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.  It has been an annual, official tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.

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The occasion Americans generally call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World.  The first Thanksgiving extensive feast lasted for three days, offering enough food for 13 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.  The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl (ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beetroot and possibly, wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize or corn, and squash.  The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

Raine would like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Source:   22 November 2011. http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States).

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World Hello Day

Today is World Hello Day!

Make sure you do your part and say hello.

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From the Inside of Product Development

I attended the Industrial Fabrics Association International’s (IFAI) Advanced Textile Americas conference.  This is the largest textile trade show in the United States and was held in Baltimore on October 25-27^th.

I enjoy going to this annual conference as you find out about the changes in the marketplace, learn about new hardware and fabrics used in products, observe new types of machinery and the overall networking opportunities.

The key points I learned were:  

1)      Raine is using a new, environmentally conscience EVA foam which retains less moisture.  I learned how to cut the foam material in an efficient way and find a broader range of ways to utilize automation.  Prior to that, we were having issues of the foam burning in production and having to hand cut the material. 

In Development: PVS 14 Night Vision Optical System

In Development: Eyeshield Pouch

–        Raine is currently working on products using this EVA foam which include the PVS 14 Night Vision Optical System and Eyeshield Pouch.  Products are being developed for 1^st Quarter 2012.

2)      Raine is working on a new project for the military and finding out dealers who can provide the computerized machinery at a reasonable cost. 

3)      New standards were learned on rejected goods going through production and keeping tolerances at a limited level.

I am always trying to find better ways to develop products for our clients.  

Steve Alt

Production Manager

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THANK YOU to our Veterans and Active Duty Armed Forces!

Raine wants to say THANK YOU to all Veterans and Active Duty Armed Forces for serving our country.  We appreciate all you do for our freedom.

When did Veterans Day begin?

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as "the Great War." Celebrated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938.  Following World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. 

Source: 11 November 2011. http://www.history.com/topics/history-of-veterans-day. Flag picture is from GeekPhilosopher.com