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Hi Herndon! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Which Herndon bar made this Northern Virginia karaoke hotlist?
  • How a Herndon IT leader is reshaping the dairy data revolution
  • How a 1994 Herndon meeting reshaped global drilling safety standards

Also on today's calendar: Children’s Nativity Musical & Communion – Christmas Eve in Sterling.

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Today's riddle: I used to work in a doughnut shop. 🤔 (Answer below!)


Weather forecast:

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  • Wednesday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 51 and low of 35 degrees.
  • Thursday: Mostly cloudy and misty, temps: high: 54, low: 30.
  • Friday: Cloudy, a little rain; colder, with a high of 37 and low of 32 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Where to Sing Karaoke in NoVa (virginialiving.com) — If you’re in Herndon and itching to grab the mic, Breakers Sky Lounge on Centreville Road offers karaoke on Wednesdays and weekends right in town. The roundup also points you to other lively karaoke spots across Northern Virginia, from Fairfax and Reston to Springfield, Manassas, and Woodbridge, so you can plan your next sing-along night out.
   

• Data revolution: Modernizing dairy processing facilities (dairyprocessing.com) — A Herndon-based IT leader at dairy co-op Maola is helping drive a broader shift toward data-driven operations in dairy processing. The piece explains how cleaner data, connected systems, and strong supplier partnerships can boost efficiency, forecasting, and supply-chain resilience across plants. It also stresses that thoughtful leadership is essential to make new automation and AI tools truly effective.
   

• Richard Grayson's Story (iadc.org) — Industry veteran Richard Grayson recalls a 1994 trip to Herndon where drilling contractors presented a unified well-control training standard to federal regulators. Their work, though not formally adopted into regulations, helped establish a performance-based accreditation that streamlined training across the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf and later evolved into a global standard.
   


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