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Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day. It was inaugurated in 1953, anchored by a law signed by the Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion and the President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (April/May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day.[1]
Some other countries have different commemorative days for the same event—see Holocaust Memorial Day.
Yom HaShoah was inaugurated in 1953, anchored in a law signed by the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, and the President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.[2]
The original proposal was to hold Yom HaShoah on the 14th of Nisan, the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943), but this was problematic because the 14th of Nisan is the day immediately before Pesach (Passover). The date was moved to the 27th of Nisan, which is eight days before Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence Day.
While there are Orthodox Jews who commemorate the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, others in the Orthodox community—especially Haredim, including Hasidim—remember the victims of the Holocaust on days of mourning declared by the rabbis before the Holocaust, such as Tisha b'Av in the summer,[3] and the Tenth of Tevet, in the winter, because in the Jewish tradition the month of Nisan is considered a joyous month associated with Passover and messianic redemption. Ismar Schorsch, former Chancellor of Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary of America held that Holocaust commemoration should take place on Tisha b'Av.[4]
Most Jewish communities hold a solemn ceremony on this day, but there is no institutionalized ritual accepted by all Jews. Lighting memorial candles and reciting the Kaddish—the prayer for the departed—are common. The Masorti (Conservative Judaism) movement in Israel has created Megillat HaShoah, a scroll and liturgical reading for Yom HaShoah, a joint project of Jewish leaders in Israel, the United States and Canada. The booklet was subsequently converted into a kosher scroll by sofer Marc Michaels for reading in the community and then into a tikkun—copyist guide for scribes—'Tikkun megillat hashoah'. In 1984, Conservative Rabbi David Golinkin wrote an article in the journal Conservative Judaism suggesting a program of observance for the holiday, including fasting.
Yom HaShoah opens in Israel at sundown[5] in a state ceremony held in Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Authority, in Jerusalem. During the ceremony the national flag is lowered to half mast, the President and the Prime Minister both deliver speeches, Holocaust survivors light six torches symbolizing the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and the Chief Rabbis recite prayers.[6]
On Yom HaShoah, ceremonies and services are held at schools, military bases and by other public and community organizations.
On the eve of Yom HaShoah and the day itself, places of public entertainment are closed by law. Israeli television airs Holocaust documentaries and Holocaust-related talk shows, and low-key songs are played on the radio. Flags on public buildings are flown at half mast. At 10:00 a.m., an air raid siren sounds throughout the country and Israelis are expected to observe one minute of solemn reflection. Many people stop what they are doing, including motorists who stop their cars in the middle of the road, standing beside their vehicles in silence as the siren is sounded.[7]
Observance of the day is moved back to the Thursday before, if 27 Nisan falls on a Friday (as in 2008), or forward a day, if 27 Nisan falls on a Sunday (to avoid adjacency with the Jewish Sabbath). The fixed Jewish calendar ensures 27 Nisan does not fall on Saturday.[1]
Jews in the Diaspora may observe this day within the synagogue, as well as in the broader Jewish community. Commemorations range from synagogue services to communal vigils and educational programs. Many Yom HaShoah programs feature a talk by a Holocaust survivor or a direct descendant, recitation of appropriate psalms, songs and readings, or viewing of a Holocaust-themed film. Some communities choose to emphasize the depth of loss that Jews experienced in the Holocaust by reading the names of Holocaust victims one after another—dramatizing the unfathomable notion of six million deaths. Many Jewish schools also hold Holocaust-related educational programs on, or around, Yom HaShoah.
Also during this day, tens of thousands of Israeli high-school students, and thousands of Jews and non-Jews from around the world, hold a memorial service in Auschwitz, in what has become known as "The March of the Living," in defiance of the Holocaust Death Marches. This event is endorsed and subsidized by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Holocaust Claims Conference, and is considered an important part of the school curriculum – a culmination of several months of studies on World War II and the Holocaust.
In the last few decades all the prayerbooks of Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism have developed similar liturgies to be used on Yom HaShoah. The siddurim of these groups add passages that are meant to be added to standard weekday service, as well as stand-alone sections. These liturgies generally include:
- Lighting of a candle (often each member of the congregation lights one)
- Modern poems, including "I believe in the sun even when it is not shining..."
- El Malei Rahamim (God, full of mercy, dwelling on high)
- Mourner's Kaddish.
In the Conservative Sim Shalom and the Israeli Masorti Va'ani Tefilati siddurim there is a special addition into the framework of the Shomeya Tefillah ("Hear our prayer")[8] or Birkat HaTzadikim (Prayer for the Righteous),[9] Nachem, said in each Amidah of Yom HaShoah.
Some Modern Orthodox prayerbooks suggest prayers or psalms to be said on Yom HaShoah.
In 1988 the American Reform movement published Six Days of Destruction (Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Albert Friedlander). Narratives from Holocaust survivors are juxtaposed with the six days of creation found in Genesis.
More recently Conservative rabbis and lay leaders in the US, Israel and Canada collaborated to write Megillat Hashoah, (The Holocaust Scroll). It contains personal recollections of Holocaust survivors. A responsa was written by Rabbi David Golinkin expressing the view that not only is it legitimate for the modern Jewish community to write a new scroll of mourning, it was also incumbent to do so.[10]
In response to the lack of liturgy dedicated to Yom HaShoah, Daniel Gross composed, in 2009, I Believe - A Shoah Requiem, a complete musical liturgy dedicated to the observance of Yom HaShoah. An a cappella oratorio scored for cantor, soprano solo, adult chorus and children's chorus, I Believe features several traditional prayer texts such as the Mourner's Kaddish (Kaddish Yatom) and the El Malei memorial prayer, and also includes the poetry of Paul Celan and Primo Levi. On April 7, 2013, I Believe had its world premiere[11] presentation at Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, Michigan. An excerpt from this oratorio,[12] was performed earlier at the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin during the 2012 Cantors Assembly Mission to Germany. Daniel Gross is a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, The Juilliard School and The University of Pennsylvania and is the cantor of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Orthodox Judaism
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, in 1949, under the guidance of Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel and Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, decided that the Tenth of Tevet should be the national remembrance days for victims of the Holocaust. The Tenth of Tevet fast commemorates the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II. For this day, it recommended traditional Jewish ways of remembering the dead, such as the study of the traditional Mishnah section about ritual baths, saying Psalms, lighting a yahrzeit candle and saying Kaddish for those Holocaust victims whose date of death remains unknown. On other occasions, the Chief Rabbinate also referred to Tisha b'Av as being a date of remembrance for Holocaust victims.[13]
The Knesset decision taken on April 21, 1951 to designate the 27th of Nisan as Yom HaShoah ignored the Rabbinate's decision from two years earlier, and the Chief Rabbinate, in turn, decided to ignore the Knesset's chosen date, one reason being the fact that Jewish law forbids fasting and certain laws of mourning during the month of Nisan, which is considered to be a month of happiness. Another view, held by influential Haredi Rabbi Avraham Yeshayeh Karelitz (known as the 'Chazon Ish'), held that nowadays we do not have the power to institute new days of mourning or commemoration for future generations.
While there are nevertheless Orthodox Jews who commemorate the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, others in the Orthodox community – especially Haredim, including Hasidim – remember the victims of the Holocaust on traditional days of mourning which were already in place before the Holocaust, such as Tisha B'Av in the summer, and the Tenth of Tevet, in the winter. Several well-known Haredi rabbis, including Rabbi Michael Dov Ber Weissmandl, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov, Rabbi Shimon Schwab, and several others, wrote kinnot about the Shoah, to be said on Tisha b'Av.
While most Modern Orthodox Religious Zionist Jews do stand still for two minutes during the siren, in Haredi areas, no attention is given to Yom HaShoah. Most stores do not close, schools continue and most people do not stop walking when the siren sounds. The non-participation of Haredim in Yom HaShoah is one of the points which regularly causes friction between Haredim and non-Haredim in Israel, as non-Haredim consider the Haredi position of ignoring the siren and Yom HaShoah altogether to be disrespectful.
Thus, a situation has come into existence where religious forms of commemoration take place primarily on the Tenth of Tevet and on Tisha b'Av, while secular forms of commemoration take place primarily on Yom HaShoah, and either part of the population ignores the other's day of commemoration.
Conservative JudaismFJMC, a branch of the mainstream Conservative/Masorti movement, created a special memorial project specifically for Yom HaShoah. A dedicated yahrzeit candle was conceived, with yellow wax and a barbed-wire Star of David logo reminiscent of the armbands Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust. This object has come to be known as the Yellow Candle (TM). Approximately 200,000 candles are distributed around the world each year, along with relevant prayers and meditations.
In 1984, Conservative Rabbi David Golinkin wrote an article in Conservative Judaism journal suggesting a program of observance for the holiday, including fasting. In his article he noted that while private fasts are indeed prohibited during the month of Nisan (a major Orthodox objection to the placement of the day), communal fasts for tragedies befalling Jewish communities had indeed been declared throughout the pre-Modern period.
Another prominent Conservative Jewish figure shared the Orthodox sentiment about not adopting Yom HaShoah. Ismar Schorsch, former Chancellor of Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary of America held that Holocaust commemoration should take place on Tisha b'Av.
The Masorti (Conservative Judaism) movement in Israel has created Megillat HaShoah, a scroll and liturgical reading for Yom HaShoah. This publication was a joint project of Jewish leaders in Israel, the United States and Canada.
In 2011, the FJMC introduced a related Yellow Candle concept for use on Kristallnacht (The Night of Shattered Glass) and other important Shoah commemoration dates. Called the Ner Katan, FJMC's new version consists of six Yellow Candles provided for communal observances and ceremonies.
Gregorian dates
In 2010, 27 Nisan fell on Sunday, April 11, starting on the evening of Saturday April 10. Due to a conflict with Sabbath observance, under these circumstances, Yom Hashoah is shifted forward one day to 28 Nisan. So in 2010, Yom Hashoah was observed on Monday, April 12.[14] Similarly, for 2011, the 27th of Nisan fell on Sunday, May 1. Thus the observance was moved up a day to Monday, May 2.[15]
Upcoming dates of observance:
- 2015 Thursday, April 16
- 2016 Thursday, May 5
- 2017 Monday, April 24
- 2018 Thursday, April 12
- 2019 Thursday, May 2
- 2020 Tuesday, April 21
- 2021 Thursday, April 8
- 2022 Thursday, April 28
See also
- Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
- The Holocaust
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Remembrance Day Calendar". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ↑ Gilad, Elon (April 27, 2014). "The history of Holocaust Remembrance Day". Haaretz. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
- ↑ Feinstein, Moshe (1996). Igros Moshe, Volume 8, Yoreh Deah, Siman 57. New York. p. 289.
- ↑ "Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Ha-Shoah)". Jewish Virtual Library. 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
- ↑ In the Jewish calendar the day begins in the evening and ends in the following evening.
- ↑ "Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, April 18-19, 2012". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.587745
- ↑ Rabbi Avram Israel Reisner, ed. (2002). Siddur Sim Shalom for Weekdays (in Hebrew and English). New York: Rabbinical Assembly. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-916219-14-7.
- ↑ Ze'ev Kinan, ed. (2009). Va'ani Tefillati: Siddur Yisraeli (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv, Israel: Miskal-Yedioth Ahronoth/Chemed. pp. e.g., 45. ISBN 978-965-545-042-2.
- ↑ "Megillat HaShoah: The Holocaust Scroll".
- ↑ Gary Graff. Interfaith Shoah Requiem at Orchestra Hall. [1]
- ↑ Kaddish Yatom on YouTube
- ↑ Wagner, Matthew (April 28, 2008). "An anchor for national mourning". The Jerusalem Post.
- ↑ Jewish holidays 2000-2050#5770 (2009–2010)
- ↑ Yom HaShoah Dates
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yom HaShoah.
- Yom Hashoah on the Yad Vashem website
- Yom HaShoah from the Israeli Knesset Invalid language code.
- Yom HaShoah from the Israeli Knesset Invalid language code.
- The Forum for Yom HaShoah (UK)
- Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Ha-Shoah) at the Jewish Virtual Library
- 27th of Nisan as standard dates on HebCal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Days of Remembrance
- Moshe Yaalon, Holocaust Remembrance Day April 2007.
- Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust


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Don't get me wrong, I love a good green apple, but who are you kidding with this gourmet candy corn business? And is there another flavor out there besides green apple? Is there?
Football Thursday? The NFL Network? Don't get me started. I'll take my Big Ben, Little Willie, and Alan Fanny free of charge on a Sunday afternoon the way the good Lord intended thank you very much.
These candy corns go by the peculiar name Candy Specimens and are by Galerie. Their website hurt my eyes and someone should tell them to turn their music down. They are having a clearance sale in Kentucky this October. Whoopty doo.
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Trump's New-York-based organization released a statement late Monday saying Jenna Talackova, 23, who was dropped from the beauty contest last month after admitting she was born a male, can compete in the May 19 event "provided she meets the legal gender recognition requirements of Canada." The statement, posted on the pageant's website, did not elaborate on what those requirements were.
The statement came shortly after Talackova announced a news conference in Los Angeles with high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred for Tuesday.
Allred's office said its news conference is still proceeding as planned and that Allred would not comment on Monday night.
Back in B.C., Canadian lawyer Joseph Arvay, who said he was retained over the weekend, said he hopes the announcement means Talackova can compete but he's not yet sure.
"It's gobbledygook to me," he said of the announcement.
When talking about the legal gender recognition requirements in Canada, human-rights laws in B.C. and Ontario apply, he said, adding those laws "prohibit discrimination based on being transgendered."
"So one would think that she therefore meets the legal gender requirements in Canada."
Arvay said he has been given instructions to begin legal proceedings against pageant organizers on the grounds that they've discriminated against Talackova and he hopes developments on Tuesday add clarity to the situation.
The decision to drop Talackova from the pageant raised her profile considerably, with pictures and YouTube videos of the six-foot-one-inch blond getting plenty of clicks. News outlets in the United States, Britain, Canada and elsewhere picked up the story.
Talackova vowed to keep up the fight and is urging supporters to sign an online petition calling for her reinstatement. By Monday night, more than 40,000 people had signed the petition, which calls the decision to disqualify her "discriminatory, unjust, and quite frankly disgusting."
Officials with Miss Universe Canada denied the discrimination claims, saying the rules established by the Miss Universe franchise state each contestant must be a "naturally born female."
In an interview posted on YouTube during the Miss International Queen 2010 contest in Thailand, Talackova said she knew at a very young age that she was female and started hormone therapy when she was 14.
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Across eastern Ukraine, election officials worry about security for Sunday's vote
Election workers in this city of a half million on Saturday night completed preparations for Sunday's presidential election, uncertain whether voters will brave the threats of armed pro-Russian militants who have set up a base just blocks from the election commission's offices..
The outcome of the voting is not in question; polls give Petro Poroschenko, the billionaire "chocolate king," an unassailable lead in the field of 21 candidates. The issue is whether voters in eastern Ukraine, with 15 per cent of the country's 46 million population, will cast ballots.
The surprising news from a visit to Mariupol and three other towns and villages between this industrial port town and the regional capital of Donetsk is that elections workers are in fact preparing to receive voters Sunday. Everyone is aware that an armed attack is a possibility.
"Only a fool is not afraid," Victor Ivanovich Kovta, the chairman of the regional election commission, told McClatchy.
The self-styled Donetsk People's Republic, which has fought deadly battles against Ukrainian authorities in Mariupol and throughout the Donetsk region, sent a manifesto to the commission earlier in the week, demanding that it halt its work.
But the commission is ignoring it. "The unity of Ukraine and the direction of our country" are the major question to be decided Sunday, Kovta said.
"I want to support the unity of Ukraine," said Tatiana Ignatemko, the commission's spokeswoman. "I want someone to protect me on my land."
The militants have seized a bank building just 350 yards from the commission's offices in the Palace of Youth and are armed with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, she said, estimating their numbers at 300 to 400.
Ukrainian security forces are no match. "We have the police," said Kovta, rolling his eyes in disbelief. There are also private militias, now officially grouped into a national guard, but operating mostly without direction from Kiev.
At a checkpoint north of Mariupol, Ukrainian soldiers slowed cars and performed random inspections, but the operation seemed amateurish, with most soldiers lacking body armor, and no one wearing a helmet. Knots of soldiers sat or stood without weapons by the side of the road, watching, easy prey if a foe were to attack from both ends of the checkpoint. All 20 soldiers could easily be killed _ which is exactly what happened Thursday in Volnavaha, not far from here.
The government's response to the Thursday attack was to blame Russia and its proxies for the incident, rather than to draw lessons from the military's own unprofessional handling of the event _ an ominous sign of weakness and disorder.
The lack of protection at a time of major threat was on the mind of election officials in the towns visited by a McClatchy reporter.
In Novoazovsk, a town of 30,000, a Donetsk People's Republic flag flies over city hall, just below Ukraine's national flag, the result of two visits by large groups of the pro-Russian militants, the most recent on Friday. Each time they threatened to break windows and destroy furniture if they weren't allowed into city hall so they could put up their flag on the roof, said Eduard Moskovchenko, a security guard there.
They demanded that the election be called off, but preparations went forward.
What will happen if they attack the polling stations on election day? "I don't know," Moskovchenko said. The police in the town "don't work." The sole checkpoint, at the edge of town, was unmanned Saturday.
In the town of Telmonovo, an election official couldn't answer the question of what they'd do if insurgents attacked the voting process. "We have our police," said one official who did not give his name. "But we don't know where they are." It appears the town will have to rely on the Ukrainian military, which has set up three checkpoints on the edge of town.
In Starobeshovo, a village of 3,000, by contrast, the entire police department of about a dozen men were gathered in front of the main polling station and appeared prepared to defend it. The mood was tense. "We are expecting something any minute," said Kanna Tatyana Nicolaevna, who was in charge. "Maybe in five minutes, something will change."


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Business Studies A Level (Distance Learning) at National Extension College *Fees Payable*
Course description
If you wish to work in business in any capacity, the knowledge this in-depth home study course provides will equip you with the detailed understanding you need to put you at an advantage. Covering areas such as management, corporate strategies and marketing at an advanced level, our distance learning business studies A level is perfect for anyone wanting to make a difference in the world of business, whether they wish to go on to study it at a higher level or not.
You should allow for between 250 and 300 hours' study time, plus additional time for completing assignments. You will have tutor support for a period of up to 18 months from the date of enrolment.
Course content
Unit 1: Starting a business and financial planning
- Starting a business
- Financial planning
Unit 2: Managing a business
- Finance
- People in business
- Operations management
- Marketing
Unit 3: Strategies for success
- Corporate objectives and strategies
- Advanced accounting and finance
- Advanced marketing
- Advanced people in organisations
- Advanced operations
Unit 4: The business environment and managing change
- Advanced external influences
- Managing change
Entry requirements
A general education up to GCSE level is advisable.
This course follows specifications 2130 (A level), 1131 (AS) and 2131 (A2) from the awarding organisation AQA. Full details of the specification can be obtained from AQA's website.
Four exams: 1hr45m (25% of marks), 1hr45m (25% of marks), 1hr30m (30% of marks) and 1hr15m (20% of marks)
Six AS assignments, six A2 assignments
No coursework
Please note that due to upcoming changes the final opportunity to sit exams for this course isSummer 2016.
Financial information
It's your choice: pay in full and discount your course fees, or spread the cost with our finance offer. To pay in instalments, you will need to enrol by telephone.
Representative examples:
Course fee: £545
Deposit: £54.50
Amount of credit: £490.50
Monthly payment: £81.75
Duration of agreement: 6 months
Total repayable: £545
Rate of interest: 0%(fixed)
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Course fee: £325
Deposit: £32.50
Amount of credit: £292.50
Duration of agreement: 6 months
Total repayable: £325
Rate of interest: 0% (fixed)
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- EU – £75 for the first course and £40 for second and subsequent courses
- Rest of the world – £130 for the first course and £70 for second and subsequent courses
Further information
Essential textbooks
- Marcouse, I. et al., AQA Business Studies for AS, 2nd edition, Hodder Education, 2011
- Marcouse, I. et al., AQA Business Studies for A2, Hodder Education, 2009
How to apply
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact National Extension College *Fees Payable* directly.


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Partner Highlight: Girls Full STEAM Ahead! at the Leonardo
We're all familiar with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) — it's a buzzword that continues to build momentum in education. There are dozens of studies on how to improve STEM education at all levels. But what happens when you introduce art into STEM?
That's exactly the type of question we explore at The Leonardo Museum in downtown Salt Lake City. By approaching big topics in science and culture through the lens of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math), we are able to appeal to populations and make applications that could otherwise be overlooked. Just like Da Vinci himself, we use a cross-methodological approach. Now, Da Vinci didn't have the chance to explore nanoscience during his lifespan, but we think he would have given two thumbs up to our newest nano exploration - an all girls' summer camp called Girls Full STEAM Ahead!
We use nanoscience to make STEAM more than just an acronym, but a daily practice. With support from a 2014 NISE Network Mini-Grant, our campers will get the chance to interact with female professionals in science, art, and technology who will act as mentors and role models. Participants will also be asked to use what they learn in order to create a new nano-oriented board game, which they will prototype in another camp that runs simultaneously with Girls Full STEAM Ahead.
This camp is geared toward achieving a variety of goals: engaging young females in science and technology, determining which nano activities and lessons resonate with respective age groups, and creating a safe space for creativity and innovation. The Leonardo is implementing the TBI (Team-Based Inquiry) approach in order to focus on and achieve the second goal. By developing a game based on nanoscience, the girls will be exhibiting which activities they found were most significant. By prototyping on the younger campers in a separate camp, we can see what concepts and activities work with which age group. We also plan to incorporate small surveys and observations which will further support our findings.
These goals and findings work toward the larger vision that we all, as educators, surely share: spreading the word about nano, and STEM (or STEAM!) at large. To learn more about The Leonardo and its unique approach to education, please visit www.theleonardo.org, or contact Tim Hecox from Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and the West Regional Hub Leader.


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Booshy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Looking for print ready art work to send to China to print on these cups.
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I am looking to have a logo made for 3000 coffee cups I am having made in china. This cups need to represent my company professionally. I would like to get a design that they will recognize as a familiar logo but with a TekWorks spin on it. But I want people to see it and know its from TekWorks..The cups will look just like a paper cup of coffee. (They are ceramic) So I will want the box menu down the side as well as the warning on the bottom. Please see this drawing.Â
It is close but after I looked at it I realized that you would not know who it was from as the logo is not really there. I like everything else. The font for the warning should change as well.  My company is a technology company so I would like it to be techy looking.. I will give feedback as well.
 Here is my compnay logo
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I've got in mind to make a savory play on s'mores, using morel mushroom paste where you would expect chocolate. The graham cracker replacement should be no problem. But I'm stuck on the marshmallow. If you google savory marshmallow, you basically find a bunch of standard sweet marshmallow recipes that have had some savory things added to them. I want to make one that isn't sweet at all, or only barely so, but with a recognizable marshmallow texture. Any ideas on how to approach this? I'm not asking for the recipe, just a sense of what set of ingredients and techniques have a prayer of reproducing that texture with minimal sweetness. Bonus points if it can be done using some other hydrocolloid instead of gelatin, since ultimately I need to make it vegetarian.
I've used agar-agar recently, and I think it might do the trick for you. A recipe plus some technique discussion is behind this link.
In the comments, a reply has been posted that the marshmellow would probably ´taste of the sea´ as agar-agar is seaweed based. This has not been my experience. However, paying homage to its heritage by using some sea-salt seems appropriate.
I'm a bit troubled by too many associations with the sea due to your use of mushroom paste. Selecting a flavor feels a delicate matter. As I'm getting a Japanese vibe from this dish, I would probably investigate shiitake as a mushroom. (If you weren't emulating chocolate, I'd suggest enoki as well).
I am highly tempted to investigate edible seaweed flowers (the existence of which I'm totally unsure about and just dreamed up - at least this link seems to support their existence). If their taste matches your needs, great. And, presuming they look nice as well, they'd be an interesting edible garnish on your plate.
Update: and for additional savory tastes, I'd look into other savory flavour often associated with seaweed or shiitake in oriental dishes - soy, ginger, cilantro, etc.
What about using mochi, an Asian pounded rice paste? It's a similar—though not identical—texture, it's available in sweet and savory forms, and it's held together by the starch in rice rather than anything gelatin, so it's vegetarian. You can get plain unflavored mochi at many Asian food stores; it may take some looking, as it's more often sold sweet and filled with bean paste in the US. I've had it in savory Korean dishes and I believe it's used in savory Korean dishes as well.
Originally marshmallows were made from the root of the Marsh Mallow (Althea officinalis). I have not yet tried making marshmallows this way, so I do not know if using mallow root would give you the exact same texture as our modern marshmallows. You may be able to find marshmallow root at a local health store, or there are plenty of sites that carry it online.
I was able to find one marshmallow recipe using powdered marshmallow root, about halfway down the page at http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m010702.htm. This too is a sweet recipe, but perhaps you could substitute your chosen savory flavorings in place of the sugar and vanilla.
I also found a single Marshmallow recipe claiming to be savory: http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-11/anatomy-marshmallow?page=1
The problem is you need the sugar for the structure of the merringue. You might consider a sweet and sour or sweet and salty flavor profile for the dish so the merringue adds the sweetness. You may also be able to use some flavored vinegars (not sure what this will do to the structure) to cut the sweetness. Oh, I just noticed when this was posted. What did you finally do?
This is super old so I'm sure you've moved on but I felt compelled to comment. The Mission Street Food cookbook has a recipe for "mozzarella mousse" in which they put fresh mozzarella through a whip cream dispenser. I bet that would be a pretty good savory imitation of marshmallows.
Ok, I know this thread is really old, but why couldn't you use egg whites beaten with lemon juice or cream of tartar for added stability, and then incorporate the dissolved gelatin into the meringue? You'd have to use less water, obviously. Or could you perhaps thicken milk or broth with corn starch to sort of mimic the consistency of sugar syrup? I guess it'd be like mixing in a thin gravy to which gelatin had been added. I'm intrigued. The only other option I've found was to use a balsamic vinegar syrup in place of the sugar syrup, but obviously that would still add sweetness.
use isomalt to replace some of the sugar since it's much less sweet, but still has the properties of sugar


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Making a batch of Hercules for tonight's Savoy Night at Alembic.
Stop by for a warming beverage on this cold, dreary San Francisco Fall night.
Hercules #5
1 Stick Cassia Cinnamon, crushed
2 tsp. Coriander Seed, crushed
3 Cardamom Pods, crushed
8 Whole Cloves, crushed
1 tsp. Quinine Powder
1 tsp Gentian Root
1/4 Cup Yerba Mate
1 bag peppermint tea
Rind 2 Seville Oranges
Rind 1/2 Valencia Orange
1/2 cup Raw Sugar
750ml Quady Elektra Orange Muscat
1/4 cup Osocalis Brandy
METHOD: Combine spices, peel, yerba mate and wine. Heat to 160 degrees. Add mint and allow to steep for 15 minutes. Filter through chinois and add Brandy. Let stand for at least a day. Pour liquid off of sediment and through a coffee filter and bottle.


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jaybearman needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 160 designs submitted by 66 freelance designers.
The goal is modern, corporate and professional logo with a construction/architectural icon. Attention to detail and reading of scope is especially important as excellent direction has been given.
We are an agency, and thus we don't have time to provide feedback to those contestants who are beginners and whose designs that have no chance to get to the level we are looking for. We are looking for top-notch designers, and prefer those who have won contests before.
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The home directory is the portion of a file system allocated to a user for storing private files. The amount of space you allocate for a home directory depends on the kinds of files the user creates, their size, and the number of files that are created.
A home directory can be located either on the user's local system or on a remote file server. In either case, by convention the home directory should be created as /export/home/username. For a large site, you should store home directories on a server. Use a separate file system for each /export/homen directory to facilitate backing up and restoring home directories. For example, /export/home1, /export/home2.
Regardless of where their home directory is located, users usually access their home directories through a mount point named /home/username. When AutoFS is used to mount home directories, you are not permitted to create any directories under the /home mount point on any system. The system recognizes the special status of /home when AutoFS is active. For more information about automounting home directories, see Task Overview for Autofs Administration in System Administration Guide: Network Services.
To use the home directory anywhere on the network, you should always refer to the home directory as $HOME, not as /export/home/username. The latter is machine-specific. In addition, any symbolic links created in a user's home directory should use relative paths (for example, ../../../x/y/x) so that the links are valid no matter where the home directory is mounted.


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A Double Take at White Rabbit
Things are not quite what they seem in 'Double Take' at the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney. The exhibition presents some new works and others which have been seen before but deserve re-examination. A heap of porcelain sunflower seeds, a shiny Harley Davidson which turns out, on closer inspection, to be a bicycle, and the doorway of a Beijing apartment which reveals itself to be[…..]


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It seems that you always want what you can't have. So what a better time to plan your next summer gathering in your friendly neighborhood cabana than in the dead of winter? Having a party in a cabana is outdoor living at its best, especially if you happen to be by a pool or the ocean. The first thing to remember about cabana living, is that just because you are participating in outdoor entertaining, doesn't mean that furniture, flooring, and decorations aren't at a premium. Think about setting up your cabana like setting up a high-end tent to go couture camping. You'll need at least a large outdoor table with chairs for your guests to sit. If you really want to take your seating area one step further, you can experiment with pillows and couches.
During the evening, an outdoor fireplace or fire pit is always a nice touch and can serve as a means to keep away mosquitoes. For more light and protection from those pesky mosquitoes, you can also make a trail to your cabana using bamboo torches. Keep your guests cool in the summer heat with lots of water, lemonade, and exotic beverages. Lastly, remember to serve food. It's tempting to get caught up in planning for and decorating your cabana, but your party is going to be so great that people will want to stay all day and they are bound to get hungry. I recommend ordering a few platters of finger sandwiches and storing them in your inside refrigerator until they are all ready for serving. Now, all you have to do is wait until summer.


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2 charged in killing over Air Jordans
Two Houston teens have been arrested and charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of another young man over a new pair of Nike Air Jordan sneakers.
Neal Bland, 18, and Kegan Arrington, 19, are charged in the Dec. 21 shooting of Joshua Wood in the 1700 block of Plumwood in northwest Harris County.
Bland was arrested Friday, and Arrington was already in custody on a charge of failure to report a felony in an unrelated shooting, according to law enforcement records.
Wood, 22, was shot in a parked car as he was trying to escape two armed men demanding his new Air Jordans, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
He and another man had bought several pairs of the newly released Air Jordan XI "Bred" sneakers earlier that morning at Willowbrook Mall and then had driven home.
Drove away, wounded
When Wood's companion reached his house, a green four-door car pulled up in front of them, investigators said.
An armed man emerged from the green car and demanded the new shoes, which retail for about $185.
The driver ran off with the armed man firing at him, leaving Wood, the passenger, behind.
As the driver knocked on a neighbor's door for help, he heard more gunfire, which turned out to be a second man shooting at Wood.
Although wounded, Wood managed to slid behind the wheel and drive off, only to crash between two homes and hit a gas line, the sheriff's office said.
Wood was taken to Houston Northwest Hospital, where he died.
His companion was unhurt.
Bland and Arrington are scheduled to appear Jan. 2 in the 178th State District Court.


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At Ant Control Fareham, we are at hand to deal with all your ant problems 7 days a week. Pest Control Southampton are all fully qualified and trained to undertake all Ant Control and Ant Prevention throughout all Fareham and Hampshire areas for both domestic and commercial properties.
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Ants are very social insects and are related to wasps and bees. This happened some 130 million years ago when they lost their wings. There are more than 22,000 Species of ants throughout the world.
They can be identified by their antennae; Ants form colonies that can range in size from a few dozen to millions. Ants are organised in these colonies with workers and soldiers who all work together to form a very successful entity working for the Queen and to support the colony.
Ants have colonised almost every land mass in the world and can adapt very quickly to varying climates. They have the ability to quickly tap into resources and to defend themselves against predators
However, their ability to exploit resources brings ants into conflict with humans, as they can damage crops and invade buildings.


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From MeritBadgeDotOrg
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Wrong requirements
These don't look like Railroading requirements! I think somehow the Radio ones are here by mistake. -EagleForumFan November 10, 2008
- Thank you for the catch! Fixed now! — Milominderbinder2 (Sysop) 15:57, November 10, 2008 (EST)
Niles Canyon Railway resources
The Niles Canyon Railway is posting some study guides for some requirements on their website, http://www.ncry.org/rrmb.htm. You may post some links to them here (perhaps requirement 1c?). -Z- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncry-rrmb (talk • contribs) July 11, 2009. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
Old cloth badge pictured
The cloth badge pictured on the Railroading Merit Badge page is the old one.
The current badge looks like this:
--Blbachman 13:41, June 23, 2010 (EDT)
- Done. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 05:19, June 24, 2010 (EDT)
Railroading worksheet error
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The Railroading merit badge worksheet (both the .doc and .pdf) in 8a(3) (which is model railroading, identify gauge & scale...) has extra text that is NOT in the requirements: "Show the correct way to clean and oil model train equipment." That should be deleted. The rest of the text seems to line up nicely with the current requirements.
I haven't yet figured out how to get access to change it, or to contact Sysops, so I'm trying this talk page... :-) Wesley —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcder017 (talk • contribs) March 23, 2011. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
- Wesley, I will check into this today (and reply here when I found out something). Thanks, —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 10:37, March 23, 2011 (EDT)
Railroading worksheet update
Wesley, I have removed the offending text; uploaded a new
.doc versions here, at this time); and, forwarded the updated
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Thanks, again. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 11:06, March 23, 2011 (EDT)


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Playtype Mug Nationale DemiBold £
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Just Beachy
It's summer, the perfect time of year to head out to the seashore and soak up all the natural wonders the beach has to offer.
You know, like the native wildlife:
The completely family-friendly blue-lined mushroom thingies,
And of course all the great sea life:
Hey Sue S., Sharon, Alyska B., Sharon R., & Anony M., you know what's pastier than a Minnesotan in January? A Floridian in July. Yep. Now shut the door and hand me my sweater; you're letting all the cold air out.
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Guess what? I recently took a long drive. A really, really long drive. All the way from Seattle to Chicago. From the Rainy City to the Windy City. Across much of America, that great, big country.
And I ate a lot of sweet stuff along the way. While the driving schedule was fairly tight (I had to make it to Chicago in time for the Renegade Craft Fair), and I wasn't able to stop at every bakery I wanted to based on the hours I was passing through various cities, I did manage to put away my fair share of sweet treats; here are some of the highlights. Let's go:
The first stop? Mary Lou's Milk Bottle in Spokane. What could be sweeter than stopping for a shake at an establishment shaped like a milk bottle? The huckleberry shake was delicious here, perhaps slightly thinner than I would have liked, but the flavor and pretty hue made up for it in my mind.
Last time I road-tripped, I also stopped at Rocket Bakery, which some say makes the best pink frosted cookie in the state.
Sadly, La Vie en Rose was closed by the time I rolled into Coeur D'alene, but next time!
Observation at an Idaho rest area: This is where I started to notice that we were seriously entering Huckleberry Country. Even the rest area had an end cap display devoted to the berry, including sweets like Huckleberry gummi bears. This trend would continue through Montana and Wyoming.
Time for some morning sweets!
Le Petit Outre was the first stop, for coffee and sweets, including a cranberry bread (not cake, I know, but quite good!) and cookies. And caneles.
Next up was Bernice's Bakery, where croissants and a slice of poppyseed cake were obtained. Of note: Poppyseed Cakes are apparently big business in Montana, and I have even heard a rumor that this is where they were invented (who knows? Do you?). I asked a local, who had an interesting theory on their popularity. She she said that drug use is big in the state, and that the poppyseeds might be popular because of the purported high they offer. I'm not sure if I'm convinced about that, but I thought it was an interesting thought.
Recommended by a hotel concierge was Black Cat Bake Shop, renowned for their chocolate eclairs.
For morning treats, you must hit up either Sweetpea Bakery or On the Rise. This trip it was On the Rise, for a weighty oat bar, a tart, and a rich quiche (not sweet!). The reverence for carbohydrates is clear here, with buttery crust and deliciousness abounding. But on to lunch...
Shake o'clock! At Burger Bob's, largely thought of as the city's best burger joint, the chocolate shake was made with vanilla ice cream and rendered "chocolate" with syrup—perhaps not ideal for chocolate shake die-hards, but I thought it was pretty good.
If you have time to go nowhere else, you MUST hit up Caramel Cookie Waffles in Billings, Montana. Owned by a cute-as-pie couple, this place is THE supplier of caramel-filled dutch waffle cookies, and they do a good job. But wait, there's more!
They make a mean cheesecake (which they will top with chocolate sauce and chocolate sprinkles, thankyouverymuch), oatmeal cookies, huckleberry caramels, and—wait for it—they even had NANAIMO BARS!
This made me feel right at home, and theirs have a delicious secret: instead of graham cracker crumbs for the base, they use the crumbs from their waffle cookies. Nom! Yum! Awesome!
...but that's not all that Montana had to offer.
Another thing I love about Montana is that their huckleberry reverence is so clear in every eatery. Even a casino rest area had delicious huckleberry ice cream, though their shake maker was broken (what?!?). Last time I went on a pastry road trip, I had a fantastic Huckleberry bar at a rest area, too.
Sheridan, WY: Sadly I didn't get a chance to stop there, but I want to give a shout-out to Java Moon because it was so highly recommended by a reader. Next time!
In Sundance, WY, I spied this. I was sad to answer "no" at the moment the question was posed to me.
South Dakota
What would a stop to South Dakota be without a krispie bar or Special K Bar? I picked this one up at a gas station. Too delicious. But moving on to Wall, and Wall Drug...
If you have never been to Wall Drug, well then, consider it a must. Their doughnuts are pretty dreamy.
So is the pie.
The ice cream was not as special as the baked goods to me, but still respectable. They also have fudge. Including a flavor called Tiger Butter. What's Tiger Butter? Oh:
Rapid City:
Guess what? I also got a speeding ticket in—wait for it—RAPID CITY, South Dakota. The police officer became my new best friend as we both have the same birthday, but he still gave me the ticket. Vive l'aventure, sweeties!
A stop in Mitchell, South Dakota provided a sweet retreat: not only did I get a glimpse of the Corn Palace, but I also got to stop for some tasty vittles at what I was assured was the best breakfast in town, at the VFW Hall.
The biscuits were simple but perfect morning fare, and the cookies and pie were down-home tasty.
Down the street, highly-recommended Daylight Donuts had already sold out of treats, but I do hope I'll get to try them out one day: also disappointed were a husband-and-his-pregnant wife, the latter having a massive doughnut craving. Very cute, and clearly these are craveable doughnuts if the shop sells out so early!
Because I was booking it across the state to get to Chicago in time, I didn't have much time to stop and visit Cake Eater Bakery, and sadly the Minnesota State Fair was already over.
In Rochester, I had previously visited Daube's, and would have loved to have visited again.
I forget where in Minnesota, but I saw this display of fruit...puddings? They were called parfaits. It reminded me of retro cookbook pictures, but this was the real deal.
Wisconsin: is there anything it can't do? It's got amazing dairy, delicious meat products, and plenty of sweet treats.
One of the standouts, for me, was unexpected: the Mauston Rest area. This truck rest stop surprised me with a full-service bakery full of amazing (and huge!) treats. The carrot cake was seriously one of the highlights of my trip: moist and flavorful cake, with sweet-sweet-sweet cream cheese frosting with the perfect lightly-gritty sugar consistency to balance out the cake. It was divine. They also had all sorts of other goodies, including these enormous pig and cow cookies - the scale really isn't evident from this photo, but rest assured each one was as large as your head and half of someone else's head too.
Obviously I needed to drive by Ella's Deli, but didn't stop this time. Sometimes when time is tight I like to hit up a local grocery store--sometimes they have baked goods from a bunch of local bakeries. And I had some good luck at the Willy Street Co-Op, where they had baked goods made on site, such as strawberry crumb bars:
...as well as sweets from local bakers Larsen Bakery, Batch Bakehouse (who made the monkey bread pastry pictured below), Greenbush Bakery, and East Side Ovens.
Reaching Illinois, a waffle was obtained at the Country Kitchen restaurant. Waffles don't hum to me frequently, but this one did, and I was rewarded by a pecan-filled and covered waffle. I was a little put off by the fact that the pecans on top, which were dry, but adding butter and syrup to the waffle made it into something really special.
In Chicago, once I made it to the Renegade Craft Fair, a mandatory stop was made at the Alliance Bakery, where I always enjoy a little something. Sadly no trip to the Angel Food bakery was in my cards what with the time restraints, but I can't wait to visit on my upcoming book tour! I wish I could have gone to every place on this list though.
Happily, Black Dog Gelato had a stand just up the street at the fair, so I finally got to sample some of their stuff. You will not be disappointed if you go.
Another sweet find was Puffs of Doom, a cream puff maker of epic proportions. The portions themselves are modest but the rewards are huge: filled with cream and creative fillings of both sweet and savory persuasions.
Sweet and savory treats were obtained at Milk and Honey cafe, where pastries are made in-house and everything I have ever tried there is delicious.
A big highlight? Natalie of Bake & Destroy brought me one of her crack-filled Peanut butter pillow cookies, which kept me buzzing with happiness all day. Another huge highlight was a delivery of Vegan chocolate snickerdoodles by my pal Bunny Knuckles, who knows how to make me smile.
I tried out some heart-shaped cookies from Artemio Bakery, which were sugary and crumbly and quite satisfactory.
My bff customer Margaret stopped by, and then the fair started and I sold so many copies of my book that I think I might be a bestselling author now.
I also had the extreme and exquisite pleasure of eating at a restaurant called Moto. This place made me want to say "golly" I was so delighted the whole time I was there. And for dessert, they had made a sweet surprise: cookies with a CUPPIE image transfer on top! I kind of freaked out, in a good way. They also let me tour the kitchen, which I thought was oh-so-kind of them. It reminded me of Scott of Seattle Food Geek, who would fit in gorgeously there.
An unexpectedly wonderful treat was the custard at Niko's Gyros. I also had the extreme pleasure of visiting the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Oak Park; my curiosity having been piqued after reading Loving Frank: A Novel, I also visited the once-home of Mameh Cheney.
Nearby, Petersen's Ice cream was serving up ice cream pies, as well as pints, scoops, and shakes. I saw a lady lose her scoop from the top of the cone while I was there, and it really made my heart hurt.
Prelimary sketches were made at the home of Michelle of Bleeding Heart Bakery—I'm gonna finish that when I go back for my book tour. But can I just tell you a bit about her newest location? Brunch is King there, and they have a doughnut breakfast sandwich and all sorts of crazy-delicious treats. If you live in Chicago, why are you not there right now, friend?


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Unless you're tyrannized by the laws of calendars and clocks, the "Sixties" (as opposed to the 1960s) were born not on a day or at a given hour. Rather they emerged from the six months between August 28, 1963, and February 23, 1964, the midway locus falling on November 22—three dates marking episodes as irrevocable as they were momentous.
The March on Washington ("for Jobs and Freedom," to give the event its precise title) on August 28 was at once the start of something and the culmination of what unfolded the preceding decade. This included a Supreme Court ruling on racial segregation, a woman who refused to change seats on a bus, federal troops enforcing the integration of Southern schools, a minister imprisoned during a close presidential campaign, the savage murders of black and white civil rights workers, and the proposal of landmark legislation only two months before by the president of the United States. The march was most notable for the appearance by the Reverend Martin Luther King in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial, where he delivered the greatest speech of the 20th century and, with Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural, one of the two greatest speeches in American history. Following the Declaration of Independence and the Lincoln address, King's "I Have a Dream" oration completed the spoken triptych of a national covenant struck, challenged, fought and died for, and realized institutionally over the course of two centuries.
Only in the wake of this realization could an era of possibilities like the Sixties flourish. Fittingly for a decade that, more insistently than any before or after, would be epitomized by its music, that August day had a soundtrack. It was a white soundtrack, or would largely be remembered as white, to the chagrin that day of some black activists. Though in fact the program was divided between white and black singers (the latter of whom included the formidable Odetta, Marian Anderson, and Mahalia Jackson), in what may have been a canny appeal to young whites of conscience, prominence was given to the trio Peter, Paul and Mary; reigning madonna of the folk movement Joan Baez; and wunderkind Bob Dylan, who had been updating Woody Guthrie's songbook of protest. Unsettled to be a Midwestern Jew singing to black people songs like "Only a Pawn in Their Game," Dylan himself concluded that African Americans wary of his appearance had a point.
After the march, its leaders met at the White House with the president. By all accounts John Kennedy was impressed by the occasion, but also had tried to discourage it and then declined to appear in its proximity for fear of being booed; some junior members of the leadership, including future Congressman John Lewis, were underwhelmed by the civil rights bill that Kennedy had sent to Congress in June. The legislation's prospects were poor and, though it's tactless to say so, probably doomed to defeat by segregationists in Kennedy's own political party if not for what happened 12 weeks later in Dallas. The suggestion that some idealism died on November 22 with the president's assassination gets things exactly backwards. His death sanctified not just Kennedy but the objectives of the August 28 march as well as an image the country had of itself as visionary and utopian—traits that in life Kennedy represented only erratically. Whatever the nostalgia some progressives feel during Barack Obama's administration for the strong-arming can-do of Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson wouldn't have passed the Civil Rights Act but for the inexorable momentum of Kennedy's martyrdom, which in turn led to Johnson's landslide presidential victory in 1964, which in turn swept in the veto-proof Democratic congress of Obama's dreams, which then passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965—all before the Sixties that Kennedy's assassination helped unleash consumed Johnson politically three years later. The balance of the decade would be haunted by a Kennedy legacy no longer threatened by sexual or medical scandals and that was synonymous with the struggle for civil rights. As his brother's attorney general, Robert Kennedy was irritated by what he considered the impatience of black Americans, and approved FBI wiretaps of King's phone conversations; with his brother gone, the younger Kennedy would go on to forge a connection with black America that no white politician had since Lincoln.
On the morning that Kennedy was shot, 6,000 miles away an English band whose growing popularity in Europe was noted by few in the United States released their second album. In spite of the fact that the band's records had been issued stateside by small independent labels for the better part of a year, they had met the same reception as other Anglo sensations who never found success in the wayward colonies; but part of being great is being lucky, and now a grieving New World offered four working-class musicians an unprecedented chance that they seized as winter set in. That dark Christmas barely a month after Kennedy's death, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" began gaining traction on American radio. Another month and a half later the band laid foot for the first time on the tarmac of the New York airport that had just been rechristened in the fallen president's name. Only underscored by the grim coincidence of its release date, With the Beatles announced the Sixties more than any other recording, certifying that the group might not be just a passing spectacle, even if no one could contemplate how mythic they would become in terms of a decade with which they ultimately were more associated than slain statesmen.
The sequel to the band's debut was a distinctly more American record, which is to say a blacker record. Nearly half of With the Beatles was covers of songs by African American rhythm and blues artists, and if the Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson, and Marvelettes selections are relatively obvious in hindsight, then a truer measure of the Englishmen's sensibilities were more obscure choices like Barrett Strong's 1959 "Money" (the first Motown record) and a black girl-group nobody had heard of, the Donays from Detroit, whose "Devil in His Heart" the Beatles' lead guitarist unearthed in a record shop owned by the band's manager. Then in their third of three appearances on American television's The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired February 23, 1964 (though it was recorded earlier), the band performed a tune by the Isley Brothers, capping their so-called invasion during which they incessantly phoned radio stations with requests for Marvin Gaye hits and proselytized for the black artists of whom, to their astonishment, a white American public was barely aware.
The Beatles' music, in other words, was closer to the spirit of the March on Washington than the music most of the public heard that August afternoon on the National Mall. Of course the Beatles had no particular interest one way or the other in advancing the march's aspirations. They were careerists on the make who knew good material when they heard it and had just enough grace and guilelessness to acknowledge they were plumbing the archives of black American music. As King's speech was both a beginning and culmination, so too the Beatles came to the United States as inheritors of what a 19-year-old white Tennessee truck driver began a decade before, his first heedless, racially mixed records having been cut within weeks of Brown v. Board of Education. The Beatles gave expression to the sheer adolescent fun of collapsing racial barriers, a notion that to some was a signal of moral degradation and to others who thought about it at all probably the trivialization of a noble cause. One of the reasons that town councils across America were so horrified by Elvis Presley and 1950s rock and roll was their well-founded dread that sooner or later white kids would start dancing with black kids. Allowing that Motown records were having almost as much impact on white kids from the other side of the racial divide, still the Beatles personified a disruption of an old American order—including as it had to do with race—at the same time that America symbolized to the Beatles an unfathomable liberation.
Marking the gestation and birth of the Sixties, the March on Washington in August, the assassination of the president in November, and the Beatles' TV appearances in February were unto themselves a series of mini-Year Ones in a timeline that changed the country and the world. Each date cut off history from what had been before, the world already different in February from what it was November 22, when the world was different from what it was August 28, when the world was different from what it was August 27. Notwithstanding the racism to which the march responded, the horror that attended assassination, and the mania that characterized the music, each represented the Sixties at their most surpassing: Once and for all the King speech lay claim to an indisputable moral authority on behalf of justice; the Kennedy assassination gave to King's quest its second white martyr after Lincoln, which in a racist society still counted for as much as the quest's many black martyrs; and the Beatles relegated to obsolescence the existing structures of white American culture, as embodied at the march by Peter, Paul and Mary and even Joan Baez (Dylan, whose genius for opportunism matched his other gifts, knew a seismic forecast when he heard it and moved fast to become its American prophet). We'll never know what anyone, black or white, might have made of the Beatles singing the Isleys' "Twist and Shout" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But when the night of February 23 circled back to the afternoon of August 28, what was spoken at the march was inchoately fulfilled in terms no one anticipated, and the next six years would decode and then transcend what happened in those six months, before the decade succumbed to the destiny of promises too good to be true.


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IAI boosts spending on R&D and advanced technologies to win foreign customers
There are ominous converging trends in the defense world. New technologies, in particular cyberdevelopments and advanced electronics, are growing exponentially in cost. At the same time, military budgets are falling rapidly and will continue to do so. The survivors of the coming turmoil will be those who embrace the formula of faster, smaller, better and cheaper.
Molded in that model is Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) new chief, who has plans to boost spending on advanced cyber, stealth, radar, communications, air defense, unmanned aircraft and gallium nitride microchip technologies.
On the commercial side, the emphasis will be on exploring opportunities for producing longer-range executive jets.
Military officials in both Israel and the U.S. say there is an operational need for lower-cost, stealthy, unmanned aircraft designs—perhaps like Lockheed Martin's RQ-170—that can serve as a persistent, network node that uses easily interchangeable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) payloads. These platforms are seen as filling a different role from the more expensive and stealthier X-47-like aircraft that would conduct the unmanned strike mission. However, the lower-cost, stealth designs will eventually carry weapons as well, these officials say.
Moreover, defense planners in both countries have accepted the fact that stealth is a perishable product with today's designs good for 5-10 years, while the airframes themselves will operate for 30-40 years; this will drive them to adopt advanced cyber and electronic warfare options to protect their aircraft as they mature.
"Those are delicate things, I cannot discuss them, but IAI through the years has done everything it can to keep the technological and operational edge," says new IAI President and CEO Joseph Weiss. A mechanical engineer with an MBA degree, Weiss led a program to develop Dolphin submarines for the defense ministry and became general manager of all space-related activities for IAI's MBT space division in 2003.
"We will have to deal deeply with cyber-issues and with all aspects and types of low signatures," says the 61-year-old Weiss. "I think IAI has to enlarge the percentage invested in its own R&D to keep its technological edge over competitors and to support the state of Israel. We have to improve the affordability of state-of-the-art technology to compete in international markets. And we have to increase our hold on the space domain."
IAI revenues were $894 million in the first quarter of 2012. The company employs 16,000 people.
A key to IAI's plans is development of the next generation of gallium nitride microchips. GaN has been commonly used in light-emitting diodes. It offers special properties for improving electro-optic, high-power and high-frequency devices. It also is suitable for solar-cell arrays for satellites since they remain stable in high-radiation environments. GaN also operates at hotter temperatures and higher voltages than other transistors, so the devices make excellent power amplifiers at microwave frequencies.
Other IAI interests include advanced communications of all types and phased array radars.
"At the systems level, we will see how to position ourselves more strongly in the air defense field, with optical and radar seekers, and in electronic warfare," says Weiss. "With potential partners, we will exchange views about future long-duration executive jet markets."
Cybertechnologies are yet another area that IAI intends to target. Weiss points out that it is a new field that no one really understands yet. Moreover, the level of investment increases as the research becomes more sophisticated.
On the other hand, he notes, "you can't discuss any system without taking into account potential cybereffects. Inherently, cyber is a mandatory building block. To understand the nuts and bolts of cyber, we have a ways to go. At IAI, we have focus teams dealing with the technology.
"Trying to differentiate what is cyber and what is the rest of a system is becoming more and more problematic," says Weiss. "In defining a system, what are the basic requirements and what are the cyber-requirements? Sometimes it is the very essence of the requirement, sometimes it is just the outer envelope. While doing practical things to our own systems, we are looking and mapping the areas of real interest to IAI and how much money to invest in that and what revenue can result from such activity.
"I'm coming to my new appointment in very foggy weather," he says. "We can see the crisis in Europe, the depression in the U.S., and we are totally aware of the huge cut in U.S. and Israeli defense budgets. Even in the markets of the Far East—China and India—the growth is lower than expected. For a company whose business is 80% export, the environment is very tough, so we have to be aggressive and creative. We need ideas to solve the customers' problems with reasonable cost."
Weiss's initial weeks in office will be spent crafting IAI's strategy with Chairman Dov Baharav. Despite slowing markets in the U.S. and Asia, the prospects for growth are good. Weiss will be working on a number of large contracts that were initiated in the last three years regarding UAVs, missiles and electronics systems.
One involves developing airport robotics—in particular, the Taxibot aircraft tug, a joint project with Airbus. A second with Spacecom Satellite Communications involves building the Amos-6 communications satellite and ground station. A third contract with Italy concerns a high-resolution reconnaissance satellite program and purchase of advanced jet trainers to replace the Israeli air force's flight-training fleet; two early warning aircraft and a reconnaissance satellite are also included in the contract. Dassault is involved in the fourth big initiative, which could result in IAI manufacturing the Heron TP unmanned aircraft for the French air force and other European customers.
In the meantime, IAI is in negotiations with Spacecom and anticipates the boost that development of Amos-6 will give to all of the company's space activities
"After a long two-and-a-half-year process we have won the contract to be the lead company and, in doing so, have introduced a lot of new cutting-edge technology," says Weiss.
Amos-3 is still in orbit, Amos-4 will be lofted in 2013, and Amos-6 is planned for launch in the first quarter of 2015 with an anticipated life of at least 16 years.
"We are making a real technology leap with Amos-6," he says. "We've doubled the [signal output] capacity from 4.5 kilowatts to 9 kilowatts. And we've almost doubled the number of transponders. We learned from [losing the contract to ISS Reshetnev for] Amos-5 to be creative and cost-effective in competing against the best companies in the satellite world. It's about a $200 million contract—which is a huge deal for IAI and the space industry in Israel. About 100 IAI employees, some of them new, will be working on the project."
Some of the payload integration will be done at IAI, which is another technological leap for the company that positions it at the center of the commercial satellite business. The satellite to follow Amos-6 has no specific design yet.
In addition, Weiss says IAI will be enlarging its "indigenous capabilities" to enhance its competitive edge. "We intend the platform to compete in the international market. Its heritage is from Amos-4. It is one of the most sophisticated payloads that was ever built by IAI [and] it will be a good starting point."
Business with Italy also looks promising, with agreements that Israel will buy 30 Alenia Aermacchi M-346 advanced trainer aircraft for roughly $1 billion. This acquisition would be offset by an Italian purchase of two IAI-built Gulfstream G550-based Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) aircraft, worth about $760 million, and an Ofeq high-resolution, electro-optical reconnaissance satellite priced at around $200 million. The Italian-operated satellite could be lofted as early as 2015.
The M-346s are to replace Israel's 1960s-vintage Fouga Magisters and older F-16A/Bs used in flight training. IAI and Elbit are to partner on the program as part of a deal with the Israeli defense ministry.
As for the CAEW aircraft, they are expected to have active electronic-warfare and intelligence-gathering capabilities based on IAI technology.
"We are defining the requirements," says Weiss. "We expect the maintenance to be conducted in Israel. It could be that there will be interest in enhanced-capability aircraft in the future."
Because the special-mission aircraft is built around a U.S. Gulfstream airframe, Israeli officials believe the design could be of interest to the U.S. as the Air Force replaces its much-larger C-135-based special-mission aircraft such as the E-3 AWACS and Joint Stars. Gen. Norton Schwartz, USAF chief of staff, says the service needs replacement aircraft the size of business jets and not the larger Boeing 737.
Dassault—the longtime manufacturer of France's high-performance fighters and strike aircraft—is negotiating with IAI to market the next-generation Heron TP to the French air force and European customers. The French are already operating IAI UAVs in Afghanistan, and France's military leaders are considering their UAV road map.
"We think Heron TP is one of the most capable unmanned aircraft in the world and that it can be certified to fly in France," says Weiss. "The decision should come soon. Dassault is a leading aircraft manufacturer and very good partner. If you look strategically over the next 30 years, the role of manned aircraft will be declining and that of unmanned aircraft will be growing. So we think Dassault will be there because they are thinking strategically [about new markets]."
As for robotics, IAI's leaders believe it is an area that could be a more integrated and well-funded element of its product line. The Taxibot, which was shown at the Farnborough air show, is a semi-autonomous tractor for moving large aircraft quickly and efficiently around airfields. It is designed to improve safety and save aviation fuel as airliners wait in long queues before takeoff. Use of Taxibot also reduces wear and tear on aircraft landing gear.
"We're in the middle of testing," says Weiss. "We're hoping this will be a bonanza for IAI and Airbus."
Bankers Capital Transportation Leasing Group is planning to purchase dozens of narrowbody and widebody TaxiBot systems that will be operated in North America. A letter of intent regarding the $97 million deal was signed at Farnborough. It is the launch contract for providing TaxiBot services to airlines and airports. Delivery is planned for late 2013.


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The use of kerosene for providing light in homes results in over one million deaths every year, in addition to countless burn injuries, respiratory illnesses, asphyxia, and visual impairment.
The Rotary Club of Huntsville, Texas, USA, recently joined forces with an Austin based non-profit organization called The Grid Earth Project to provide solar powered household lamps to the village of Gracie Rock, Belize.
Gracie Rock is a small village located on the banks of the Sibun River near the Pecarry Hills of Belize; its inhabitants have traditionally hunted and lived off the land. Many of the villagers use kerosene to light their homes.
Huntsville Rotarians adopted the village. Through working with The Grid Earth Project, the club has been able to provide solar powered lighting for every home, with the goal of decreasing deaths and injuries from kerosene accidents, and improving the quality of life of those previously dependent upon kerosene lamps.
Solar powered lighting provides a safer environment, decreases burns and suffocations, and provides educational opportunities for children. Studying and reading at night is very difficult by kerosene, which provides only a fraction of the amount of light recommended for reading. The solar powered lamps Grid Earth provides light up a 10 foot by 10 foot room.
The Huntsville club is proud to be part of this effort. Through international service projects, Rotary clubs and districts are meeting the humanitarian needs of people around the world. What is your club doing to reach those most in need?


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On October 8, 2002, my dad died suddenly from pneumocystis carinii (AIDS-related pneumonia). He was only 47 years old, and I was 21. I believe that my dad actually died from the shame associated with sexually transmitted diseases because he never received HIV treatment. He kept his positive status a secret from everyone around him, and because he did not seem sick, his death came as a huge shock. Every day he had worked diligently throughout his secret illness to ensure posthumous financial security for his loving partner Doug and me.
Having no idea that the next day would be the last day I would see my father alive, some kind of loving grace woke me from a deep sleep with an instinctive compulsion to talk to him. The next afternoon I went to his house to visit and bring him flowers. When I left, I said to him, "I love you Dad." He died the next night.
After his death, I went through the motions of making his funeral arrangements and then, after the funeral, I moved to California. Once there, I fell into a major depression. Soon my grief turned to anger. I hated a world that would take away my dad so abruptly. I lost hope in anything good and was left with overwhelming fear and loneliness.
Through it all, my dad's unfaltering love and acceptance remained in my heart and I realized that the best way to commemorate his life would be to reach out to other people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
I am an artist and my first inspiration to create again occurred when I made an AIDS awareness illustration that depicted my dad's life and the circumstances surrounding his death.
A week before my dad's first postmortem birthday, I went to my neighborhood drug store and purchased hundreds of condoms. Then I went to the copy shop down the street to print my AIDS awareness illustration multiple times on vinyl -- I now had an AIDS awareness poster series.
When the actual day of my dad's birthday arrived, I dressed up in high-heeled boots and a purple vinyl skirt, went to West Hollywood -- home to Los Angeles' gay community -- where I entered as many gay bars as I could so that I could distribute condoms and my posters. I must have given out hundreds of condoms that night. This reaching out to build community in memory of my dad was my first step toward believing in life again.
I was surprised when many of the younger men I encountered didn't want anything to do with me, saying things like, "You just ruined my night," and (with attitude), "I was planning on getting laid."
I was crushed but I stayed the course. I was finally gratified when I happened into the gay leather and "bear" bars. The men in these establishments reminded me of my dad. Most of them were 40-something, hyper-masculine looking men. Many were scantily dressed in leather with tattoos, piercings and lots of facial and body hair. In contrast with the men I met in the other gay bars, these men supported me with kindness by encouraging my HIV/AIDS activist beginnings. (This began a course which is now an infinite life path.) While out that night, I noticed an advertisement for AIDS Walk Los Angeles and jotted the date in my calendar. This would become the next step in my AIDS activism.
I was sleepless the night before the AIDS Walk and could only think of my dad. I may have gone to the walk by myself, but I was carrying him in my heart. The only person I spoke to was at the sign-in area where I made a donation of $25 toward my personal fundraising.
As I walked, joined by thousands of participants, I suddenly no longer felt alone in my grief and I sobbed behind big sunglasses. Dozens of partnering organizations set up at the finish line advanced my stride to regain hope of daily life-purpose -- I picked up every pamphlet I could find to begin various volunteer opportunities.
One year after AIDS Walk Los Angeles, I moved to San Francisco to study sculpture. While I was in school, I developed my art practice with HIV/AIDS advocacy.
In June 2005, synchronistically, I saw an AIDS Walk San Francisco advertisement. It was only a few weeks before the Walk, but I decided to form and lead a team of my closest friends called "Group of Drunks." With seven team members and very little time, we raised $2,000 for the fight against AIDS. The camaraderie I experienced at this walk --combined with the achievements of my team -- multiplied my recovering hope.
Today, I work for AIDS Walk New York and help circulate the same type of advertisements that catalyzed my journey by ensuring visibility of and information on AIDS Walk New York throughout the local community and on a national level as well. I have made a commitment to be a "Star Walker." This means I have set a goal to raise $1,000 or more for AIDS Walk New York.
My dad's birthday is the week before the AIDS Walk, and for his celebration I have been embraced by the gay leather community once again! Eagle Bar New York City (554 W. 28th Street) has donated their venue for an AIDS Walk fundraiser called "Bob's BDSM (Bondage Domination Sado-Masochism) Birthday Bash" (named for my dad, Robert H. Millis) on Sunday, May 10 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Now that I am a part of the community that I longed for when I lost my dad, I hear stories like mine every day. On October 8, 2002, if I had tried to imagine the biggest difference that one person could make in the fight against AIDS, I would have colossally sold myself short. I have created activist opportunities for myself that began with a simple sketch and prophylactics purchase so that I could voice my passion and grief. If one child who has lost his or her parent(s) to AIDS or even one HIV-infected parent, who is afraid to seek treatment, sees an AIDS Walk advertisement or reads this story, we are succeeding in the eradication of apathy. I know that we will walk together through this reality until we exist in a world without HIV/AIDS.
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