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MIAMI – Miami-Dade County pushed its curfew up from 10 pm. on Friday night to 9 p.m. on Saturday, with Mayor Carlos Gimenez saying it will remain that way until further notice.
The county had moved the start of its curfew back from 9 p.m. to midnight on Wednesday, but then made the shift Friday evening to 10 p.m.. when large crowds were gathering near an entrance to the highway in Miami.
I’ve ordered the curfew time to be changed to 9 p.m., beginning Saturday, June 6, 2020, until further notice.— Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez (@MayorGimenez) June 6, 2020
With protests planned around the county for Saturday, the Mayor moved the curfew back to 9 p.m.
Broward County terminated its curfew order on Wednesday, saying that it may be reimposed with as little as one-hour notice “if there is evidence of possible civil unrest that threatens the health, safety, or welfare of the public.”
Curfews went into effect last weekend when there was unrest in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The City of Sweetwater has initiated a curfew for 8 p.m. Saturday because of the planned protest at FIU.
Some cities impose their own curfews that may be earlier than what the County has ordered, so it’s best to check. No one is allowed to be out after the curfew unless they need to travel for essential work.
The beaches in Miami-Dade remain closed while the curfew is in place.
Protests in both Miami-Dade and Broward are planned for the weekend as residents join nationwide demonstrations against racial inequality after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.

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Beef Slider patty, creamy American cheese, and crispy, center-cut bacon on a potato roll.
Two fresh cracked eggs, crispy center-cut bacon and melted cheddar cheese in a flour tortilla
Crispy center-cut bacon, two fresh cracked eggs and melted cheddar cheese in a grilled flour tortilla
Crispy center-cut bacon, fresh cracked egg and melted American cheese on a croissant roll
This flat bread takes the well-known BBQ Chicken pizza up a notch, by adding fresh red onion and cilantro giving this recipe a unique twist that is sure to be remembered and adored. This flat bread will be made on an 8” x 11” Lavash flatbread which is light and crispy and makes four large triangular slices.
Center-cut bacon, romaine lettuce, fresh tomato and fresh mozzarella on Texas toast
Decadent Chocolate Iced, Bavarian Crème Filled yeast donut round
Jimmy Dean® Breakfast Sausages and Kraft American Cheese on toasted Kings Hawaiian Slider buns.
Lightly seasoned, breaded chicken breast fillet tossed in buffalo sauce on King’s Hawaiian roll.
Lightly seasoned, breaded chicken breast fillet tossed in buffalo sauce on a potato roll
Crispy chicken, Buffalo sauce, fresh red onions, ranch dressing, and blue cheese crumbles in a grilled flour tortilla
The Delicious Cereal Donut starts with our Rich’s Yeast-Raised Donut, topped with Vanilla Icing and lots of Crispy, Cereal Crunch!
We wrap our amazing Ball Park® 100% Angus Beef Dog with melted Kraft® American Cheese and Crispy Applewood Smoked Bacon then load it into a delicious Potato Bun to make this amazing, super premium hot dog.
Grilled chicken breast, crispy center-cut bacon, melted cheddar cheese and buttermilk ranch in a grilled flour tortilla
This large sandwich starts with a 6 oz. Breaded Pickle Brined Chicken Breast. Then we layer on Melted Provolone cheese and crispy Applewood Smoked Bacon, Crispy Pickles, Mayo, Fresh Lettuce, Sliced Tomatoes, and Fresh Red Onions on a toasted Kaiser Bun.
Crispy chicken tenders, potato wedges and your choice of dipping sauce
Tender chocolate cake donut topped with chocolate icing.
Delicious chocolate donut topped with chocolate icing.
Decadent Chocolate Iced, White Crème Filled Long John donut.
Grilled chicken salad with dried cranberries, celery and red onion on a croissant roll
Lightly seasoned breaded chicken breast fillet and dill pickles on King’s Hawaiian roll.
Lightly seasoned breaded chicken breast fillet and dill pickles on a potato roll
100% Angus Beef Slider patty, creamy American cheese, Thousand Island dressing and pickles on a potato roll
The all-time favorite crispy, spicy and mouthwatering Pepperoni gets paired up with a traditional Sweet Italian Sausage for a meaty and delicious Premium Pizza that puts a spring in your step
Our Egg Salad sandwich takes traditional egg salad with its savory blend of hardboiled eggs, mayo and mustard, and kicks it up a notch with celery, pickles and spices. This is served on sweet, thick sliced King’s Hawaiian® Bread.
Our house-made cranberry chicken salad on a bed of romaine, garnished with tomato and cucumber slices
Introducing one of the most popular menu items from our Chantilly store, our Fried Chicken Sandwich! This large sandwich starts with a 6 oz. Breaded Pickle-Brined Chicken Breast, Crispy Pickles, Mayo, Fresh Lettuce, Sliced Tomatoes, and Fresh Red Onions on a toasted Kaiser bun.
Glazed Apple Fritter Pastry.
Classic for a reason! Sweeten your day with this simple yet delicious donut.
This new wrap is filled with Diced grilled Chicken, Bacon, Ham, Shredded Cheddar Cheese, Lettuce and Ranch Dressing. Served wrapped in a 12” flour tortilla.
8” hand-tossed pepperoni pizza with our signature zesty tomato sauce on our authentic garlic brushed pizza crust.
8” hand-tossed personal Four Cheese pizza with our signature zesty tomato sauce on our authentic garlic brushed pizza crust.
These traditional breaded wings are drizzled with honey and mixed with cayenne & Old Bay® seasoning
It’s Back! Reintroducing Dash In’s own, Italian Sausage & Peppers Sub! This hefty fan favorite features our 6” Amoroso roll topped with our own Dash Sauce, Grilled Sweet Italian Pork Sausage, Grilled Green Peppers, and Caramelized Onions.
This great little slider features our King’s Hawaiian Slider Bun with smoked ham, Oven Roasted Turkey, and applewood smoked bacon. It’s accented with creamy Kraft real American Cheese, and Heinz Spicy Brown Mustard.
This great little slider features our King’s Hawaiian Slider Bun and a big stack of Oven Roasted Turkey. It’s accented with creamy Kraft real American Cheese, and Heinz Spicy Brown Mustard.
These amazing morsels start with a sourdough flatbread crust and are topped with a zesty tomato sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese. Choose the flatbread versions of the pizzas we have always carried: Cheese, Pepperoni, Double Meat or Triple Meat. Or choose to create your own! Start with a Cheese pizza and choose three toppings of your choice. Extra toppings or Sauce Drizzles are available at additional cost.
Tender glazed yeast ring donut with pink vanilla icing and colorful sprinkles.
Two fresh cracked eggs, Tater Tots® and melted cheddar cheese in a flour tortilla
Crispy seasoned potato wedges available in regular or Old Bay® seasoning
Two fresh cracked eggs, Jimmy Dean® Country Sausage and melted cheddar cheese in a grilled flour tortilla
Fresh cracked egg, Jimmy Dean® Country Sausage and melted American cheese on a croissant roll
Griddled thin-cut steak on mixed greens with roasted corn, poblano chiles, black beans, fajita cheese, tomatoes, and crispy tortilla strips
Classic, meaty bone-in wings with a mildly spicy and peppery breaded crunch
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with thinly shaved fajita seasoned steak, fresh red onions and cheddar cheese
Thinly sliced USDA Prime Cut Steak, fresh cracked egg and melted American cheese on a croissant roll
Tots made from American grown potatoes and lightly seasoned with salt and pepper. Available in regular or Old Bay® seasoning
Diced, breaded chicken breast, romaine lettuce, red onion, diced cucumber, matchstick carrots and sesame ginger dressing wrapped in a flour tortilla
Grilled flour tortilla stuffed with a blend of American, cheddar, and mozzarella cheeses.
Traditional, meaty bone-in wings with a lightly seasoned breading
The Tuna Salad sandwich marries our own signature Tuna Salad with Kings Hawaiian bread to form an amazing answer to the lunchtime blues!
This classic vanilla iced chocolate cake donut is always a crowd pleaser.
Oven-roasted turkey, smoked ham, pepperoni, provolone cheese, lettuce, banana peppers, red onion, Cherry Pepper Italian sauce on a toasted roll

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Former President George H.W. Bush's fishing boat ended up high and dry on a beach near his Maine home after it ran aground in thick fog.
Fidelity IV became a curiosity for tourists as it sat stranded on Gooch's Beach at low tide on Monday. Hours later, his staff moved the boat to its dock in Kennebunkport.
The former president and some family members were aboard when the boat ran aground between 3 and 3:30 p.m., said Bush spokesman Jim Appleby. No one was hurt.
Bush was close to shore in low visibility when a wave pushed his boat onto the beach, Appleby said. As water receded at low tide, tourists walked up and snapped photos of the 38-foot boat.
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection is suffering with matchmaking issues, with Microsoft and an external partner “to correct this issue right away”. “Some improvement” has been made and they are “working around the clock” to fix the issues.
The multiplayer beta for Halo 5: Guardians will render at 720p and run at 60 frames per second, but the resolution for the final release is expected to be higher. [More…]
The first patch for Call of Duty Advanced Warfare has been released on PC. The Xbox One and PS4 version of the patch will follow this week. Patch notes are available here.
Just Cause 3 has been officially announced, and will be heading to the PC, Xbox One and PS4 in 2015. More information can be found on Game Informer. [via Press Release] Some additional details about the game have also made an appearance via AllGamesBeta.
Telltale Games have released some details on their new Game of Thrones series.
A day one update for PES 2015 will add new teams, licences and faces, and will be followed by another update in December. [More…]
Final Fantasy XIII-2 will launch on Steam on 11 December, and will include “a host of new features and enhancements”.
The ‘Dark World’ expansion for TowerFall Ascension arrives in early 2015 and will bring new “archers, levels, modes, power-ups, variants, trials, and more”.
Consoles & Hardware
A mandatory PS4 update (version 2.02) has been released and improves system software stability during the use of some features, games and apps.
The Halo Channel app is now available for Xbox One and the Windows 8 Store. It will feature episodes of Halo: Nightfall, as well as letting players play Halo: The Master Chief Collection through it. Twitch has been fully integrated so get your streams on.
Sales & Discounts
The weekly Deals with Gold have been announced and you’re unlikely to feel any affinity to buy them… On Xbox One, the highlight is EA Sports UFC at 50% off. The other titles include Dive Kick, Kick Beat, Stick it to the Man and Castlestorm. On Xbox 360, the highlight game is Fallout 3, after that you can get Serious Sam, Catherine and some others. Full details are available here.
The ‘Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack’ DLC for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is now available. It weighs in at 169.96 MB on Xbox 360 and is priced at £7.99/$9.99 if bought as a standalone.
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham officially launches.
How do you make a game like WWE 2K15? With lots of real life pain we assume.
If you missed HaloFest, you can catch up with these videos below. The first is the Grand Finals of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection Launch Invitational tournament between Str8 Rippin and Believe the Hype, and the second is a Halo 5: Guardians exhibition match. There’s also additional Halo 5 gameplay, as well as behind-the-scenes footage.
Alternatively, here’s every Halo 2: Anniversary cutscene for you to thrill over.
Tekken 7 has a trailer.
A pre-order trailer for Pillars of Eternity.

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Hot press furnace systems are used to process ceramic, ceramic/metal matrix, and intermetallic composites. Typical applications include diffusion-bonding studies; hot compacting of oxides, nitrides, borides, carbides, sulfides and their mixtures to near theoretical densities; and sintering ceramics and powder metals. A hot-press furnace system typically is capable of operating temperatures from 500 to 2500 C (930 to 4530 F), up to a maximum temperature of 3000 C (5430 F). Because of the extremely high operating temperatures, system design is critical to ensure safe, reliable operation and long service life.
Furnace system design criteria include type of atmosphere in which the load is processed, including inert gas, such as helium, argon and hydrogen and reactive (reducing) gases and vacuum partial pressure. The system also includes a mechanical vacuum pump to evacuate and backfill with process gas or to maintain an operating vacuum level of 10-2 torr. High vacuum pumps are available for an operating vacuum level up to 10-10 torr. The heat zone design is based on temperature rating. Generally, three major components make up a hot press furnace system including a controlled-atmosphere furnace, hydraulic press system and vacuum pumping and process-gas control systems.
The controlled-atmosphere furnace consists of a furnace chamber, heat zone, power supply package and control instrumentation cabinet. The chamber assembly is a double-wall, water-cooled configuration with water-cooled full opening, hinged door access.
The heat zone is the most vital component of the furnace, consisting of heating elements, insulation or heat shields, and a water jacket for additional cooling if operating temperatures exceed 2000 C (3630 F). Proper selection of element, insulation and heat shield materials (based on temperature and process requirements) is critical for proper operation, as shown in Table 1. Maximum operating temperature varies depending on hot zone materials and process gas. The compatibility of these combinations is shown in Table 2.
Geometry of the heat zone and heating-element location also are critical to proper operation. For example, a cross section of a furnace designed with graphite heat shields and graphite heating elements is shown in Fig. 1. In this instance, the heat zone is significantly higher than the load to allow free radiation from the heating elements to the top and bottom sides of the load. Figure 2 shows a metallic hot zone with mesh-type heating elements.
Graphite heat shields are single layer, rigid board insulation. Metallic heat shields are multilayered sheets separated by a spacer. Specific to Oxy-Gon's design are the use of 0.25 mm (0.010 in.) thick sheet for all layers. Shields are precisely and stably separated using helix spacers made of 2.9 mm wide x 0.25 mm thick (0.115 in. x 0.010 in) ribbon. Traditionally used coiled wire spacers change diameter when stretched.
Heating-element voltage is controlled via a power supply package that is able to adjust for the sharp increase in electrical resistance of the element with increasing temperature. At maximum temperature, heating elements typically operate at approximately 20 V. Line voltage is converted to operating voltage via a transformer, and a phase-angle silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) controls voltage to the primary side of the power transformer.
The control instrument cabinet also serves as the central process control center for the entire hot press furnace system. A microprocessor based multiloop, programmable, process controller is used to control temperature of the heat zone and the force generated by the hydraulic press system.
A fixed thermocouple senses temperature up to 2000 C (3630 F) and is retracted from the heat zone above 2000 C, upon which an optical, infrared pyrometer is engaged to sense the heat zone temperature. The closed-loop control system provides fully proportional control of temperature through the entire operating range. The programmable process controller also provides fully proportional control of force through the entire cycle via load cell.
An independent over-temperature protection instrument signals the contactor located in the power supply package to disengage and remove power from the heating elements when an over-temperature condition is sensed.
An independent vacuum controller, incorporated in the control instrumentation cabinet, senses pressure with thermocouple gauges below 10-3 torr and an ion gauge from 10-3 to 10-10 torr pressure.
The final major component of the control instrumentation cabinet is a programmable logic controller (PLC). Function of the PLC is to operate all remaining electro-mechanical devices.
Hydraulic press system
Figure 3 shows a typical hydraulic circuit and path of force through the system. The use of a servo control valve provides fully proportional control of pressure throughout the entire process cycle. A linear encoder is capable of measuring movement within +/-10 microns accuracy.
Atmosphere conditions within the furnace chamber are controlled to prevent oxidation of the load and heat zone components. The conditions are neutral such as with nitrogen and argon, reducing with hydrogen and other reactive gases and vacuum.
A mechanical, or roughing, pump is used to evacuate and backfill the furnace chamber with process gas or operate at a vacuum level of approximately 10-2 torr, the practical operating limit of a mechanical pumping system. Four or five evacuation and backfill cycles typically are required to reduce residual oxygen to an acceptable level when operating with process gas. Mechanical pumps are also used to evacuate discharge of certain molecular high vacuum pumps.
Molecular type pumping systems are used to achieve operating vacuum levels higher than 10-2 torr. These types of pumps use several different means to physically "knock" molecules out of the environment, such as diffusion, turbo molecular and cryopumps, which absorbs or captures molecules using a helium refrigeration system (Fig. 4). Ultimate vacuum capability of these pumps is higher than operating vacuum levels. Operating vacuum level is an objective value determined to be reasonable and achievable for most hot-press furnace applications. A typical high vacuum system is illustrated in Fig. 5.
In the process of achieving a vacuum, the foreline is evacuated through the foreline valve while the high vacuum, and roughing valves remain closed. When an appropriate foreline vacuum level has been established, the high-vacuum pump is initiated and stabilized. The foreline valve closes and the roughing valve opens, and the chamber is evacuated by the roughing pump through a port in the high-vacuum valve. The right-angle, high-vacuum valve remains closed to the high-vacuum pump. When the chamber reaches an acceptable vacuum level, and contingent on the foreline maintaining its vacuum level, the roughing valve closes and the high-vacuum valve opens to the furnace chamber. The system is now operating in high vacuum mode, and the vacuum level is sensed by an ion gage. Foreline pressure is constantly monitored by a thermocouple gage and initiates a system alarm should foreline pressure exceed a safe minimum.
Additional atmosphere control system components can include a burn-off stack, flame arrester, and relief port for use with hydrogen or other combustible gases. Condensation traps are used when the load outgases heavy hydrocarbons such as wax used for binder material.
Putting technology to work
Busek Co. Inc., Natick, Mass., manufactures critical parts for use in aerospace and military applications including hot pressing and sintering ceramic powders in a graphite die at 1500 C (2730 F) and metallizing various configurations of ceramic parts. The company also conducts research and development of microfluidic devices. The devices consist of micromachined (0.025 mm, or 0.001 in.) capillary quartz plates approximately 50 mm wide x 50 mm deep x 3 mm thick (approx. 2 in. x 2 in. x 0.12 in.) diffusion bonded to form a leak-tight structure between the plates while maintaining capillary integrity. Other plates are 50 mm wide x 50 mm deep x 1 mm thick (2 x 2 x 0.04 in.) gold-plated stainless steel, micromachined to the same capillary tolerance. Diffusion bonding is done under pressure at 1050 C (1920 F). Metal components are processed under pressure at 800 C (1470 F). Both material matrixes are bonded at a vacuum level of 10-5 torr. The pumping system consists of a turbo mechanical high vacuum pump backed with a mechanical roughing pump.
To produce these and other parts, Busek required a small hot-press, controlled atmosphere furnace of a conventional cold-wall design with a refractory metal heat zone for use in a laboratory environment. Process requirements dictated that the system could handle diffusion bonding and press applications at temperatures to 2000 C (3630 F) in an inert atmosphere environment.
Oxy-Gon developed a system using a commercially available bench-top type, 25-ton (222 kN) post and platen laboratory pres. This type of hydraulic press uses a manually operated cylinder mounted on the bottom platen as opposed to an automated electromechanical hydraulic cylinder normally mounted on a split top platen. The furnace hot zone (Fig. 6) is designed to be compatible with an existing power supply.
The versatile compact furnace design includes:
- Double walled, water-cooled stainless steel chamber.
- Insulation package of two layers, each 0.010 in. (0.25 mm) thick tungsten sheet backed by four layers of 0.010 in. thick molybdenum sheet separated with helical wound strips.
- Tantalum sheet heating element.
- Work-zone dimensions of 3 in. diameter by 4 in. high (about 75 by 100 mm)
- Suitable for mechanical and molecular vacuum pumps.


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Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra never fail to give major couple goals. The two got married in a close-knit ceremony last month. The wedding festivities took place in Jaisalmer. Now, Kiara has declared on Instagram that Sidharth has “my whole heart”. The actress has shared a video on Instagram featuring Sidharth accepting the style icon award. In his speech, the actor says, “Thank you for this one. It is actually my second award post my marriage. The first one was for acting. Now, this award is for my style. I think my wife will be happy. She is a good actor who is extremely stylish.” Sidharth looks dashing in an all-black suit. Sharing the video on Instagram Stories, Kiara wrote, “This man has my whole heart”. She has also added a red heart emoji to it.
Before this, a video of Sidharth Malhotra addressing Kiara Advani as “wife” for the first time trended big time on social media. In the clip, which was from a launch event, Sidharth says, “It is going to be a great addition to my night perfume range. I hope my wife likes it.”
Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani's chemistry in the film Shershaah ticked all the boxes. In an interview with News18, Sidharth opened up about their relationship. He said, “It felt like the real Vikram and Dimple, in some parallel universe, came together. Shershaah has given me so much love and a wife too, so what else do you need from a film? I think it was meant to be. Much like us, Vishal Batra (Vikram Batra's twin brother) was extremely emotional and happy when he came to our wedding.” In Shershaah, which is based on the life of late Captain Vikram Batra, who died in the line of duty during the 1999 Kargil War, Sidharth played the titular role. Kiara portrayed Dimple, his love interest in the film.
Sidharth Malhotra will be next seen in Rohit Shetty's cop drama series Indian Police Force. Shilpa Shetty and Vivek Oberoi are also part of the web show.
Kiara Advani's work slate includes Satya Prem Ki Katha opposite Kartik Aaryan.

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Capt. Antonio M. Padrón, “IMO Maritime Ambassador”, visited the “International Monument to the Seafarers”, which is located at the entrance of the IMO headquarters, in London
The monument, work of the sculptor Michael Sandle, was inaugurated on September 27, 2001.
With seven meters of height and ten tons of bronze it represents the bow of a ship with a seafarer on deck and, given its large scale, has transformed the front of the IMO building and created an important landmark on the banks of the Thames.
The sculpture is not only a monument to seafarers who have lost their lives at sea, but also a recognition of the important role that seafarers play in world trade and its development.
The logo adopted by the IMO for the Maritime Ambassadors Program, is precisely based on this impressive monument which, with its “strong”, “reliable” and “serious” image, incorporates all the qualities that have been demanded to seafarers in all times of history.

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The results of their study from the 2009 NASA Student Airborne Research Program are published in the Aug. 4 online edition of the journal Remote Sensing Letters, (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2010.551550).
In brief, the students from Howard University and Georgia Institute of Technology flew over Southern California aboard NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory and operated NASA's MODIS and ASTER remote sensing instruments. The flight was guided by forecasts from the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER).
When processing the images they collected, the students found that using CGRER's regional model forecasts for local weather and air quality substantially improved sea surface temperature measurements and also increased the sensitivity of measurements over cities and areas covered by vegetation.
Using CGRER model results was found to be an improvement over standard approaches to calculating surface measurements from satellite images, which incorporate a one-size-fits-all average for weather and trace gas concentrations.
"This new approach can help improve the global satellite record of the Earth's surface and oceans, by taking better daily snapshots of how human activity affects them over time," Spak said. "This one change can improve our ability to accurately track a wide range of environmental questions, including urban heat islands, coastal algae blooms and the regrowth of deforested areas."
Spak and CGRER Co-director Greg Carmichael are working with NASA to apply the technique to improve satellite air pollution estimates.
Spak is an assistant professor with joint appointments in the UI Public Policy Center, School of Urban and Regional Planning, and the UI College of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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The Carlsberg Group’s Sustainability Report 2020 shows solid progress towards the targets set out in its Together Towards ZERO plan, stating its continued commitment to tackling the global challenges we face, together. In a year dominated by the pandemic, Carlsberg reports a 7% decrease in relative carbon emissions across its total value chain – the beer-in-hand footprint – from 2015 to 2019, and across its breweries a 12% reduction in relative carbon emissions and 7% improvement in water efficiency since 2019.
Reducing carbon across the value chain: We have collaborated with partners and suppliers across every step of the value chain – including raw ingredients, packaging and refrigeration – to identify, trial and roll out more sustainable solutions. This has resulted in a 7% reduction in our relative beer-in-hand footprint – our total value chain emissions – from 2015 to 2019. We are on track to achieve 15% by 2022 and 30% by 2030.
Our leadership in climate action has been acknowledged by the global environmental non-profit organisation CDP with a place on its prestigious “A List”. Recognising the increasing risk of climate change to businesses and communities across our regions, we have published our first disclosure according to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting framework in our Annual Report 2020. This builds on the foundation created in 2017, when we worked with the Science Based Targets initiative to become one of the first businesses to set targets aligned to the more ambitious goal of the Paris Climate Agreement, to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Protecting shared water resources in priority areas: In 2020, we launched a partnership with Desolenator in India to create 20,000 litres of water a day for a town of 4,000 people using the world’s first solar thermal sustainable water purification technology. And in Vietnam, our partnership with local authorities to improve the infrastructure will bring fresh water to around 20,000 people.
Brewing with lower emissions and less water: A further three breweries achieved carbon neutrality in 2020, bringing the total to eight. And from 2019 we reduced carbon emissions per hl of beer produced at our breweries by 12% and water use by 7%. We are sharing and implementing best-practice efficiency measures across the Group and trialling innovative technology, such as the total water recovery plant at our Fredericia brewery in Denmark, which will make it world-class in water efficiency, reducing water use from 2.9 to 1.4 hl/hl.
Supporting communities hit by the pandemic: In our markets across the world, we transformed brewery production lines to produce alcohol for hand sanitiser, donated equipment and alcohol-free beverages to support healthcare workers, and ran campaigns to support the hard-hit hospitality sector. In addition to corporate contributions to support people affected by COVID-19, Carlsberg teams around the world raised funds for local organisations, and the Carlsberg Foundation, New Carlsberg Foundation and Tuborg Foundation, donated a total of DKK 109m during the crisis to support research, arts, culture and civil society.
Increasing availability of alcohol-free brews: Increased availability of alcohol-free options is vital to provide consumers with an alternative choice. 100% of our international premium brands and a third of all our brands now offer alcohol-free options. And in 2020 sales volumes of alcohol-free brews grew by 11% (83% since 2015).
Improving information and engaging consumers: The right information helps consumers make an informed decision. Across our markets, we secured over 90% compliance with the Digital Guiding Principles and engaged 22.5 million consumers through campaigns on Global Beer Responsibility Day.
Creating a safety culture: In a challenging year, we brought in strict measures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of employees at our breweries and offices around the world. Through a continued focus on safety culture, we achieved a 19% reduction in our accident rate, and over 11,000 drivers (95% of all company drivers) completed online training on road safety.
Contributing to economies: Our business and products play an important role in economies, supply chains and communities around the world. In 2020, we directly employed more than 40,000 people around the world and created indirect employment for around 1.09 million people throughout our supply chain, including in the hard-hit hospitality sector. We generated economic value of around DKK 85bn – 11% lower than in 2019 – highlighting the need for governments to support brewing and related sectors so that we can continue our role in sustaining livelihoods.
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San Diego, CA, July 23, 2020 - For 12 years, Managed Solution has supported the Just in Time College Bound program by preparing and donating ready-to-go laptops for young adults transitioning into college. In addition to supplying the laptops, the Managed Solution team configured the laptops will all the tools and apps these college-bound students will need, plus lifetime computer maintenance and repair.
Managed Solution provides laptops to these young adults which set them up for success in their college years as we have seen how critical it is to have access to technological resources today, especially when it comes to education.
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Whether contorting their muscular limbs around unforgiving poles or manipulating their bodies around fabric in midair, the studio's team of talented instructors demonstrates that pole dancing is no longer just for flirty firefighters and penguins. Within the mirrored practice space accented by splashes of lavender, patrons of all fitness levels learn impressive vertical tricks and choreography designed to build strength and flexibility. Colorful suspended silks allow students to reach new fitness heights both literally and metaphorically during aerial classes. Expanding its reach to the mind along with the body, Phoenix Aerial Art and Pole offers a slew of martial-arts classes, such as qi gong, xing yi, and yi chuan.
Grace and self-confidence are learned skills at Allegro Ballroom. The nonprofit, volunteer-operated dance studio teaches students of all ages and skill levels how to master the footwork of various American and international ballroom dance styles. Instructors lead group and private classes in everything from the Viennese waltz and the tango to the rumba and the cha-cha, meeting in one of the three ballroom practice spaces that range in size from 800 to 3,000 square feet. Whether visitors are looking for an introduction to the fundamentals of ballroom dancing or a more in-depth study of a particular style, the instructors are available to provide engaging and informative insight intended to help people navigate a dance floor with ease.
When Sheila Kelley broke into the fitness scene, fitness pole-dancing classes were unheard of. However, in just a few years, the S Factor—her unique fusion of yoga, ballet, Pilates, and striptease—became renowned for its physical benefits and confidence-boosting ability. Due to this focus on both mind and body, the S Factor garnered widespread acclaim, with endorsements from Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, and Martha Stewart. The workout's mission is clear: engendering female empowerment, confidence, and respect through sultry pole dancing. The S Factor's healthful impact on its students' bodies can be attributed to its combination of diverse workout methods, all of which build lean muscle mass. The course's six levels build on one another, relying on stretches, pole work, and traditional dance to get students twirling around the pole safely regardless of their athletic experience.
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Looking to boost falling pet-adoptions and provide families and pets with holiday cheer, San Diego County’s three animal shelters, the Rancho Coastal Humane Society and Chula Vista Animal Care Facility are letting the adopter decide what fees they will pay in the first-ever “Your Price is Right” pet adoption drive. Through Dec. 30, families can […]
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LOS ANGELES – A new collection of short stories by Elmore Leonard from early in the late American crime author’s career will be released this summer, publisher William Morrow said on Tuesday.
“Charlie Martz and Other Stories,” to be published on June 16, will include 15 stories, 11 of which have never been published before, that introduce some of Leonard’s recurring characters in later works, such as lawman Charlie Martz and former matador Eladio Montoya.
The short stories “reveal a writer in transition, exploring new voices and locations,” the publisher said.
The stories were penned early in Leonard’s career when he was writing Westerns in the 1950s after he gave up his advertising agency job. He moved on to crime and suspense novels such as “Get Shorty,” and “Out of Sight,” both of which were made into films.
During his prolific career, Leonard published 47 books, three of which were the inspiration for FX network’s hit TV show “Justified,” now in its sixth and final season.
Leonard, who spent much of his life in Detroit, died in August 2013 at age 87 after suffering a stroke. – Reuters

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The Home of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly authorised a $146 billion spending invoice to fund the Vitality Division, veterans’ applications and the legislative department as a part of a bid to keep away from a authorities shutdown Oct. 1.
The measure handed the Home by a 377-20 vote, in the future after the Senate handed it by a 92-5 vote. Eighteen Republicans and two Democrats voted no on the invoice, which fits to President Trump for approval.
The White Home has indicated that Trump will signal the so-called “minibus” bundle, which accounts for 3 of the 12 annual spending payments that fund the federal government and is the primary of three such measures Congress has aimed to approve this month.
Additionally Thursday, legislative leaders unveiled a stopgap invoice to fund the remainder of the federal government by way of Dec. 7. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., chairman of the Home Appropriations Committee, mentioned the short-term plan could be added to a separate spending invoice that lawmakers are negotiating to cowl the Protection Division and labor, well being and education schemes.
The stopgap invoice wouldn’t deal with Trump’s long-promised wall alongside the U.S.-Mexico border. GOP leaders have mentioned they’d favor to resolve the difficulty after the Nov. 6 elections.
The invoice represented a marked departure from current years, when Congress routinely ignored agency-specific spending measures in favor of large so-called “omnibus” packages that funded all the authorities directly. Trump mentioned earlier this yr that he wouldn’t signal one other such invoice.
The three “minibus” plans, if handed by Congress and signed by Trump, would account for almost 90 p.c of annual federal spending, together with the navy and most civilian businesses.
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“If it occurs, it occurs,” Trump mentioned final week. “If it is about border safety, I am prepared to do something.”
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During the show, the members of 'Running Man' were obligated to finish their own missions to win the whole game.
For one of the missions, Kim Jong Kook had to get slapped by a female celebrity born in the 90s. To complete this, he met up with Eunji who was born in 1993. As soon as they met up, Kim Jong Kook proposed to play a game of rock, paper, scissors. He won 2 times in a row which made him flustered as he needed to lose in order to get slapped for the mission. On his last try, he finally lost and received a slap on the forehead he probably won't forget for a long time.
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Brooklyn’s Sonia Kreitzer has undergone quite the transformation in the process of ‘becoming’ Doe Paoro. Her latest musical guise may be far from the “neo-Motown slash rap” of her former band Sonia’s Party! & The Everyone’s Invited, but her debut album Slow To Love shares some of that outfit’s outlandish tendencies and rebellious approach to the songwriting process. Seemingly inspired by a stop in the Himalayas during a six-month globetrotting sabbatical last year, it’s a heartfelt, if sometimes perplexing, album that attempts to fuse ordinarily clashing musical styles into some kind of palatable whole – with mixed results.
Kreitzer describes the music of Doe Paoro as “ghost soul”, and the soul aspect is immediately apparent. Second single ‘Born Whole’ features some full-on soul diva singing among the diverse and sometimes abrasive array of vocal sounds that Kreitzer experiments with, while the opening track, simply called ‘Intro’, backs its heavily treated vocal pyrotechnics with some gutsy background wails. On ‘I’ll Go Blind’ the vibe at times feels borrowed from the funky blaxploitation soundtracks of the 1960s, while the warbled, sometimes shrill ‘Can’t Leave You’ piles on the gospel, with elegiac piano and choral backing adding to its hymn-like feel. And all this just on the album’s first four songs.
Not to be outdone by the diversity of Kreitzer’s vocals, the range of instrumentation on Slow To Love is equally impressive. The guitars and strings veer from scratchy and staccato to rich passages heavy with sorrow and yearning; the Hammond organ lends plenty of verve to ‘I’ll Go Blind’; and the synths at work on ‘Body Games’ lend a curious, if somewhat heavy-handed, Afrobeat feel to the track. The epic gospel meets world fusion arrangement of ‘Body Games’ certainly takes some quite concerted listening to get a handle on, but it joins both ‘Born Whole’ and ‘Slow To Love’ as the album’s most memorable moments. The title track in particular stands out with its hesitant guitars and lo-fi, pared-back sound, making it the album’s most authentically emotional number.
[Self-release; February 13, 2012]


There’s one clear winner in the race to be Mzansi’s richest citizen – but of all the dollar-billionaires in Africa, one blows the rest away.
These pandemic-proof South Africans have proved to be untouchable in the past 12 months, remaining dollar-billionaires throughout
Elon Musk said that the ‘Texas Institute of Technology & Science’ will have ‘epic merch’ when considering its raunchy acronym.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has been laughing all the way to the bank despite early predictions that his Amazon venture would be a failure.
Rihanna has become the richest female musician on the planet…but it’s not her music that’s made her so wealthy. Have a look.
The UK’s Sunday Times Rich List for 2021 recorded 250 of wealthiest individuals and families in the United Kingdom, which includes four South Africans.
Most of the world’s young billionaires work in the technology sector while others are spread over sectors ranging from automotive to media.
Jocelyn Wildenstein received $2.5 billion from her ex husband and an additional $100 million annually for 13 years, but now relies on a government grant
FYI: It’s not the usual suspects – Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg
In a letter to his employees, Tik Tok boss Zhang Yiming admitted he lacked the necessary managerial skills to lead the tech giant
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the ‘world’s richest doctor’ AND Wits University alumni, has given his home country a cash injection for future vaccine development.
‘Top Bill-ing’: Bonang Matheba has confessed that she has Dm-ed both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
Many are interested to know whether Bill or Melinda Gates will get the mega lakefront mansion called Xanadu 2.0 in their divorce.
Believe it or not, more than a dozen people on this planet have at least R1 trillion in the bank – here’s our updated list of ‘rand trillionaires’.
Wealth in history: A new video shows how the world’s 10 richest people have transformed in the past two decades.
The South African dollar-billionaire club is notoriously exclusive – and one member is clinging to his ‘membership’ by the barest of margins.
According to Forbes, Johann Rupert has made more money in the past 12 months than any other South African. But he’s not top of the tree in Mzansi yet…
Rapper Kanye West is now reportedly the richest African American man in US history and his net worth has jumped to more than $6bn.
Five South African ‘dollar billionaires’ feature on the Hurun Rich List – but only one of them has risen up the index since 2020.
That jab, confirmed by Johann Rupert, has ignited a furious backlash in the canton where the billionaire businessman was vaccinated.
Despite signing Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s ‘Giving Pledge,’ Musk has done relatively little publicly in the way of charity.
The 1100-hectare estate features a main house with six bedrooms along with three guest houses, a four-acre lake with a waterfall, tennis courts, several barns, animal shelter facilities and a Ferris wheel.
Only Jeff Bezos has made more money than Elon Musk in the past year – and the billionaire’s net worth has now soared to new heights.
Chuck Feeney has given away more money in his life than most people can dream of. And he’s inspired Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to do the same.
The rough figure of the wealth of Kim Kardashian’s hubby is $1.3 billion.


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Brian McDonald, 55, was used to being a busy man. He worked full-time at Michelin as a mold assembly operator and owned a consignment shop. During his spare time, Brian enjoyed golf and seeking unique items for his store. But one November day, Brian’s world turned upside-down.
Visiting his mother, Brian noticed the right side of his body felt numb. “It was like it went to sleep,” he described of the sensation. Brian’s daughter, who works in the healthcare industry, recommended a visit to an urgent care facility. “From there, I was sent to Charlotte, NC, where I was diagnosed with an intraparenchymal hematoma.” This is when blood pools in the brain. Brian’s condition required a craniotomy.
“After surgery, I realized there were things I couldn’t do,” Brian recalled. “I never thought at 55 I would be in a situation where I couldn’t feed myself, bathe or go to the bathroom alone.”
For someone who lived such an active life, the sudden lack of independence proved challenging. But Brian wouldn’t allow this to be his new normal.
“After 30 days in the hospital, I was stable and ready for the next step,” Brian noted. The hospital recommended acute rehabilitation. “I knew about Spartanburg Rehabilitation Institute from a family member,” said Brian. “The hospital was highly rated from friends and family, so it was an easy decision.”
Brian considers this to be a critical point in his road to recovery.
“Never did I expect what a good decision it was! Everyone from the front desk staff, dietary, nursing, therapy, and the guys that clean the floors were wonderful. There are people I remember from all areas of the hospital. They worked hard for me every day and I didn’t want to let them down.”
Brian certainly didn’t let anyone down. His hard work allowed him to discharge from inpatient rehab and return home.
But his work wasn’t done. Brian still had goals he wanted to achieve. “After I was released from the inpatient side they continued therapy on an outpatient basis,” Brian said. “I continued to get better and went back to work part-time 5 months later. Not only was I working, but doing normal activities again like cutting the grass and driving.”
“This experience reaffirmed my faith in God and people,” he continued. “Everyone at SRI contributed to my success and I am proud to share my experience.”
With Brian’s stroke in the rear-view mirror, he looks forward to living a healthier life. “In the future, I want to be more educated on my health and be proactive to stay healthy,” he said. “This was a wake-up call and I have reprioritized things in my life.”

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an article in the Saudi Gazette, Dr. Sami Alnuaim discusses OPEC. Alnuaim is a Saudi expert on the Saudi oil business. On its surface, it is merely an article about OPEC's oil strategy. Barely veiled by its superficial appearance is a threat. On behalf of Saudi Arabia, Alnuaim is threatening the United States with the collapse of its oil boom. He says the Saudis could drop the world price of oil to $70 a barrel. Many experts in America have pointed out that a significant percentage of American shale oil production begins to be unsustainable below $90 a barrel.
other words, whenever they think the time is right, Saudi Arabia could
drop the world price of oil and burst the shale oil bubble in America,
just as they did to the ethanol industry in the 1980s.
Are they waiting for a better time
to bring down the shale oil industry? Are they waiting until much more
money is invested before they pull the rug out from under it? Are they
waiting until Americans feel overconfident and begin gloating over our
new "energy independence?"
Saudi Arabia has the cheapest-to-produce oil in the world. That's the leverage they have over the other members of OPEC and why Saudi Arabia can dictate to them what the world oil price will be.
Member nations of OPEC must agree to do what Saudi Arabia says or the
Saudis can retaliate by lowering the price so much (by increasing their
oil production) that the rest of the OPEC nations go into debt or even
They have the same power over America's oil
industry, and for the same reason. But their power over our energy
security and economic vitality only exists because we haven't yet
bothered to create true fuel competition in America, even though it would be easy and inexpensive to do.
Part of the reason is that some of the immense profit from the oil
industry has been used for over a hundred years to prevent competition.
is ridiculous. If we were already using methanol made from natural gas,
Saudi Arabia couldn't touch us. Their ability to influence our economy
or our national security would drop to almost nothing. They would have
nothing to threaten us with. And as a side-effect of our new fuel competition, our economy would be thriving.
We must — urgently — diversify our fuel portfolio. We must introduce competition.
If our cars were able to burn methanol, the price per barrel of oil would drop below $70
a barrel, completely changing the balance of power in transportation
fuel. But it would also hurt the shale oil boom in America because that
price is too low for much of that oil to be worth recovering. However,
there would be a simultaneous profusion and expansion of other American
fuel-producing businesses, and American drivers would save big money at
the pump, which means we would have more money to spend on other things,
which leads to job creation.
Arabia would no longer have the ability to threaten the United States.
In fact, their repressive regime may well collapse without their massive
oil revenue to pay off their subjects. And when fuel prices drop in America, the economy soars. It would greatly increase our national security, it would reduce the amount of money the oil industry has to influence our government, it would help solve our garbage and landfill problem, help people in developing nations rise out of poverty, help prevent mental illness, put fewer military personnel in harm's way, and reduce the amount of pollution and greenhouse gases that are sent into the atmosphere, into the ocean, and into the ground.
It would be such a technically simple
thing to do, but the consequences would be world changing. Get involved
and let's make this happen. Use whatever resources you can muster to
support this goal. Support and promote Fuel Freedom's plan and support and promote the Open Fuel Standard. Overkill would not be out of line for a goal this significant.
Author: Adam Khan, the co-founder of OpenFuelStandard.org and co-author of the book, Fill Your Tank With Freedom.


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The £26.5m project - now named Marina Quay - could finally move ahead now that the retail giant has signed a 20 year lease
Denbighshire is a county in North Wales. Like neighbouring Conwy it has some densly populated towns in the north of the county such as Rhyl and Prestatyn with more rural areas to the south, including Ruthin and Denbigh. The county has a population of more than 90,000 people.
LARGE SHOPS: Councils in England and Wales will be given the choice of whether they want to ease the current rules limiting shops with over 280 sq m (3,000 sq ft) floorspace to six hours opening on a Sunday.More »
SIR EDWARD HEATH SEX ABUSE CLAIMS: In other news, a fifth police force has received allegations against Sir Edward Heath.More »
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TEARFUL TRIBUTE: A tearful Chris Evans used his BBC Radio 2 morning show to pay tribute to the pilot who died at the CarFest motor show over the weekend.More »
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Numerous surgical stapler models have been found to be faulty, putting patients at risk of injury and even death. The FDA issued recalls, and people nationwide have joined the lawsuit against these potentially harmful staplers.
Learn more: Surgical Stapler Lawsuit
Baby sleepers with an incline above 10 degrees are proven to be potentially harmful and even fatal to infants. However, some manufacturers have failed to recall these hazardous products. A baby sleeper recall lawsuit has been filed against the manufacturers of these sleepers after being linked to the deaths of dozens of babies.
Learn more: Baby Sleeper Lawsuit

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Learn about Mexican-American chemist Mario Molina and chemical reactions while experimenting with Kool-Aid. For children ages 6 and older.
Connect to engaging discussions and performances related to the Latinx community.
¡VIVA! at the Library is a celebration of Latinx heritage, cultures and traditions. San Francisco has a rich Latinx heritage that is highlighted in a diverse array of exciting programs for all ages, from Spanish/bilingual storytimes to cooking classes, author talks to art and cultural presentations.
Find inspiration through craft programs featuring talented artists, makers and even your local librarians. For craft programs, all materials are provided, unless noted.
Gain a new perspective on and understanding of the world through programs on the sciences.


Seeking Big Data Hadoop/Spark data engineer opportunity
- Experience working in Department of Homeland Head Quarter to perform data ingestion, enhance and utilize data frame application to ingest hundreds of million records daily from DHS agencies.
- Perform and oversight data ingest from landing server to HDFS of +70 servers, data mapping, data load to Accumulo, index Solr Cloud, running Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs with Pig, UTF, and cron shell script
- Set up Accumulo table and auth list, set up Cloudera SolrCloud instances and shardings, perform Solr index, Solr performance turning. Monitor Accumlo performance, data node, recycle Job trackers and data nodes across 70+ servers.
- Profound experience in full software development cycle, Object Orientation, distributed systems, multiple - tier (SOA, EIS, middleware),JEE, public/private cloud, database, and integration
Languages: Scala, Spark, Pig/Hive, JAVA, XML, PL/SQL, Unix/Linux shell scriptings.
Database: Accumulo, SolrCloud, ElasticSearch, MySql, Oracle, SQLServerSearch Engines
Skills: ETL, Amazon EC2, S3, private cloud, Hadoop ingestion, SolrCloud indexing JEE (JSF, JSP, Servlet, Restful JAX-RS, JAX-WS, EJB, JPA, JMS, JDBC, CDIJSON-P, etc), text and binary parsing, PL/SQL, Shell scripting)
Software: Hadoop, Puppet, Kibana, Nagio, Virtualbox, GPG, Velocity, Subversion, Mockito.
Confidential, Washington, DC
- Oversee contractors’ development of effort for Confidential Project.
- Work side by side with contractors in development and platform, laying ground work for the new project initial effort.
- Work with cross team and office of Chief Information Office personnel on corporation effort.
Lead Software Engineer
Confidential, Washington, DC
- Develop and enhance Web application iService Benefit Inquiry using Velocity, JSF, Java, IBM Websphere.
- Maintain and modify Hibernate and MyBatis data access object to support user inquiry data.
- Performed bug fix and production support.
Confidential, Washington, DC
- Perform daily data ingestion and data search index at the department of Homeland data warehouse.
- Operated and enhanced implementation of data frame programs and utilities to support Data Scientists with Accumulo.
- Operations consists of ingestion of over hundreds of million records of Big data daily from many data sources at the landing server into HDFS (operated over 70 Hadoop data nodes.) Performed data transformation from HDFS to Accumulo using Java UDF and Pig script.
- Developed program to track and report data metrics, failed jobs, and rerun failed jobs. Monitored and ensured DataNode and JobTracker availabilities.
- Performed data mapping and Solr schema for SorlCloud which consists of four server nodes. Set up solr cores (instances), data collections, sharding.
- Indexed data in SorlCloud, maintained, trouble-shoot, and monitoring. Utilize static and dynamic fields with multiple value attributes to resolve searching adhoc of thousands of data similar data fields.
- Configure and tuning SolrCloud by increase caching.
- Created Accumulo tables with split file and performed data query.
- Setup Accumulo column visibilities.
- Assisted System Admin in creating KVMs, Puppet settings, assist scheduled maintenance of Hadoop ecosystem and services.
- Mitigated risks when planning switching search engines.
- Developed and modified Java programs to scan and pinpoint for special characters that causes corrupted file ingestion.
- Performed trouble-shoot on ingestion and indexing issues. Recycled Jobtracker and data node services.
- Configure bloom filter on Accumulo and Solr caching to improve performance.
- Implement Java application using PDFBox and Apache POI to extract plain text content from Adobe PDF and MSDoc files and index them to ElasticSearch engine.
- Performed ElasticSearch index and inquiries.
- Facilitate third party software vendor, MuleSoft product in response to the client request.
Senior Principle Software Engineer
Confidential, Hanover, MD
- Developed Java projects and deploy in the public and private cloud. Setup and manage EC2 instances, user, group, policies using AWS IAM console.
- Utilize S3 bucket containers services such as creating buckets and putObject, listing bucket objects, etc.
- Elaborate AWS Exception when creating a new bucket which already preexists by other in Java. Utilize public/private keys encryption features in secured applications.
- Utilize Java and Spring integration framework such as channel adapters, chain-channel, service-activator, transformer, etc to develop data flows.
- Utilize JPA and Spring transaction managers for data persistence. Utilize database to manage many large data flows in both directions.
- Design and develop the enterprise Bi-directional XOP (XML-binary Optimized Packaging) File Processor software that are deployed at two remote terminal servers to construct XOP data file from complex data mappings and various MIME type payloads such as text, binary, XML, MS documents, JPEG, PDF, gzip, tar and other proprietary packages for one end server and to extract XOP components to their consumable formats for other end server with many configurable features such as compression, segmentation, sequential reassembling.
- The software is highly available and operational around the clock with capacity of several tens of thousands data files.
- Apply polymorphism, effective enumeration for compact data mappings, design patterns, name/value pair list POJO and recursion to construct sophisticated objects and afford data expansion, extensive usage of parallel I/O streams for real time file processing to reduce memory footprint for very large data file, utilization of series of parsing techniques such as regular expression, DOM XML, binary indexing, thread safe concurrency, check-pointing, base 64 encoding, and other framework such as Velocity template engine, Tika MIME type detection to implement the software.
- Software is also developed to have server synchronization mechanism using locking features to accurately track data sent and received between the two remote servers with multiple level acknowledgments and resend feature to ensure data delivery.
- Develop REST Webservices to provide client interfaces using Jersey framework to consume and produce XML and JSON formats. Implement the back-end DBMS(db persistence unit) by JPA framework.
- Generate GPG public/private key pair, import client public key for encryption. Implement shell program to automate GPG encryption and decryption in junction with the application.
- Develop tool suite by shell script to automate software build, deployment, and test. Implement series of watch consoles to interactively monitor data flow in real time and to perform periodic reports for daily, weekly, and monthly scheduled by cron jobs.
Software Engineer Staff
Confidential, Hanover, MD
- Developed and maintained PHP web application, Java, MySQL to monitor network vulnerabilities.
- Developed web database applications. Implemented REST Web Services with various parameter inputs such as path, query, matrix, etc. producing XML and JSON data.
- Developed DBMS using JDBC AND JPA object relational mapping (ORM,and DAO). Implemented smart object (collection of key/value pair) to accommodatedynamic growth data structures. Developed database change notification mechanism using Tibco JMS messaging service and Observer pattern to generate event notification and provide listener registration for callback.
- Lead in Object Oriented design and development the database application to detect database change and to propagate such data change events to Tibco JMS messaging service via callback mechanism. Provide guidance to peers to use Observer pattern to register their callback for database event notification.
- Performed software integration and productized the research prototypes into operations. Provided architecture design guidance to team members to integrate their components into the overall architecture. Implemented the script to improve installation process by simplifying database and software configurations from three days down to five minutes.
- Plans, conducts, and coordinates software development activities.
- Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs software.
- Corrects program errors, prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
- Ensures software standards are met.
Confidential, Vienna, VA
- Developed, enhanced, and supported the Enterprise Information Service (EIS) system of Automated Commercial Environment program for Confidential hosted at IBM facility.
- Provided production support for Java based components in J2EE environment and other Java Connector Architectures such as DB2, SAP, etc.
- Component supports include EJBs, SAP structure mapping and interfaces, immigration of image data from Documentum to DB2, and implementation of Unicode conversion for ID verification.
Enterprise Software Engineer
Confidential, Rosslyn, VA
- Developed Electronic File Delivery component of Enterprise Staging Content product for Confidential .
- Implemented the routine automate database maintenance service configurable using Spring framework, Quartz enterprise job scheduler, and iBatis data mapping framework.
- Utilized injection dependencies and auto-start feature to automate program self start.
- Utilized Java object database and SQL statement mapping configurations for event synchronization.
- Developed object relational mappings using hibernate.
Confidential, Washington, DC
- Performed ETL using Hibernate mapping and Java implementation to migrate massive claim data from SQLServer to Oracle database.
- Designed and developed the entire web based imaged document application - Auto Damage Server to deliver electronic documents to Confidential legal community using Java, Servlets, JNDI, Oracle JDBC, FiletNet ISRA, and Websphere server. Designed and developed common components that can be integrated with or without the application server. Implemented core binary parser to extract meta-data, text, and variety of image document such as jpeg, pdf, MSWord, etc. from compressed format.
- Setup and configured J2EE application server environments such as database connection pool, JNDI, JMS, log4j, and JCA connector(FileNet image resource adapter).
- Developed and deployed EJB components using Weblogic. Developed Java message service components such as topic and queue messaging. Implemented SAX and DOM parsers for XML data.
- Implemented and deployed Web services using Axis SOAP engine. Provided implementations to publish and to consume vendor service.
- Successfully proposed and developed the printing solution using Java Printable interface to deliver dynamic and robust features such as variety format of text and image rendering capabilities, resolution for over-run margin, network intelligence to locate alternative printers, and printer alert feature in event of device failures paper jams, paper shortage, and hardware issues.
- Designed and developed the SOA InfoCenter application server using Singleton and lazy-loading technique to provide data inquiries for fifty states and other U.S. territories.
- Revamped the entire Diary SOA server to enhance performance by fixing 10 MB of memory leakage and improved source code efficiency. Discovered and resolved IBM Visual age bug.
- Created database data models and schemas. Transformed object database model to relational database model for Payment service oriented server. Implemented database manager layers to insulate the application from vendor specific. Applied Singleton pattern and lazy loading technique to improve performance. Developed screen scrapping programs to read and write data to the mainframe.
- Developed Korn shell programs to build the entire code baseline on AIX platform with other vendor products such as Tuxedo middle-ware.
Confidential, Rockville, MD
- Designed and implemented the most modernized and advanced aircraft communication components: Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) and Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) of the air traffic controller software for aircrafts equipped with satellite surveillance to fly in oceanic and non - radar coverage regions for international clients:Scotland, Korea, and Argentina.
- Developed Context Manager (CXM) using C++ in distributed system to retrieve or register aircraft information in dual Flight Data Processors and Radar Processors and communication establishments, information status, etc from controllers to pilots directly.
- Designed and developed the software to run on a dual redundant distributed system using object- riented design, check pointing, client-server and sub/publisher (Observer pattern), and fault-tolerant collection to ensure automatic data recovery (data reconstitution) and system availability. Programmed flight-deck using Ada and C++ interfaces.
- Deployed traffic controller software on multiple processors and console stations.
- Set up the entire air traffic controller system and simulated flight traffic scenarios using AR INC software.
- Implemented PL/SQL scripts to create tables, constraints, triggers, procedures for airport facilities database. Implemented Oracle forms to validate and to generate system initialization data.
- Implemented ProC programs to persist and generate airport adaptation data.
- Implemented shell scripts to invoke ProC from Oracle forms. Performed database administration tasks such as export, import, and cloning database.