Holiday – Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha عيد الأضحى — “Festival of Sacrifice” or “Greater Eid” is a holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God.
Eid is also about spending time with family and enjoying the fact that we all have food and a roof over our heads.
Holiday – Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941. Thanksgiving was historically a religious observation to give thanks to God, but is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.
The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians. The traditional Thanksgiving menu often features turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. Americans may eat these foods on modern day Thanksgiving, but the first feast did not consist of these items. On the first feast, turkey was any type of fowl that the pilgrims hunted. Pumpkin pie wasn’t on the menu because there were no ovens for baking, but they did have boiled pumpkin. Cranberries weren’t introduced at this time. Due to the diminishing supply of flour there was no bread of any kind. The foods included in the first feast included duck, geese, venison, fish, lobster, clams, swan, berries, dried fruit, pumpkin, squash, and many more vegetables.
The ASQ Board wishes all of our members a Happy Thanksgiving.
December Dinner Meeting Announcement
December Dinner Meeting – Reliability
Information on the Tuesday, December 8th Dinner meeting has been posted:
Program: “Reliability Analysis – A Tool Set for Improving Business Processes”
Aron Brall, ManTech International
Tutorial: “Integrated Life Cycle-based Software Reliability Assurance Approach for NASA Projects”
Ying Shi, ManTech International
Click on Events » Dinner Meetings on the webpage so you can get details on the dinner.
Click on Events » Event Reservations on the webpage in order to reserve your spot at the dinner.
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Join us for our fourth meeting of the 2009-2010 Program Year and the last meeting before the holidays are upon us! Look forward to seeing you there for networking and a great meeting topic.
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements for our new Program for the upcoming year.
Check out our all our local upcoming events and training (see the Calendar of Events). Check out our education page for recent and upcoming certification courses.
Program Committee
Holiday – Veterans Day
Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans, a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11.
It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)
ASQ Baltimore salutes our veterans and our military, and thanks them for the service they have provided to our country.
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