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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Amazon Web Services will invest another $10 billion to bolster its data center infrastructure in Ohio. The company and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced the plan Monday. The new investment will boost the amount it has committed to spending in Ohio by the end of 2029 to more than $23 billion. AWS launched its first data centers in the state in 2016 and currently operates campuses in two counties in central Ohio, home to the capital city of Columbus. The new investment will allow AWS to expand its data centers to new sites, but the company said those locations have not been determined yet and noted that its investment plans are contingent upon the execution of long-term energy service agreements. AWS said the new data centers will contain computer servers, storage drives, networking equipment and other forms of technology infrastructure used to power cloud computing, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. In June 2023, AWS said it would invest $7.8 billion by the end of 2029 to expand its data center operations in central Ohio. That was on top of $6 billion already invested through 2022. The Associated Press
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HOUSTON (AP) — Kavion McClain scored 14 points as Texas Southern beat Texas A&M-Kingsville 80-72 on Wednesday. McClain added six assists for the Tigers (2-5). Grayson Carter scored 13 points, shooting 6 of 7 from the field. Kenny Hunter and Alex Anderson both added 12. The Javelinas were led by Isaiah Payne, who recorded 18 points and four assists. Texas A&M-Kingsville also got 16 points from Allen Singleton. Nate Lacewell also had 13 points and seven rebounds. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Global Asset Servicing Market Set For 7.4% Growth, Reaching $1859.64 Billion By 2028
Aspinal of London 50% off Black Friday sale reduces Kate Middleton's go-to bagThe City of Boston says its X account will stay alive while it gains a presence on Bluesky , a social media platform that has attracted millions of users following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in early November. “The City maintains a presence on multiple communications platforms to reach constituents,” a city spokesperson told the Herald on Saturday. “We are not deleting our presence on other platforms as we establish new accounts on Bluesky to meet the surge of activity and local interest there.” Critics accused the city of “running away” from Elon Musk’s “toxic” X platform after announcing it had created a Bluesky account last week. “Hey Boston, we’re here!” officials wrote in their first Bluesky post, the day before Thanksgiving. “City teams are building accounts and making moves to make Bluesky our home. Stay tuned.” The post included links to various departments that had already created Bluesky accounts including the Streets Cabinet , Parks and Recreation , and the Public Health Commission . Bluesky had gained 1 million new users in the week after Trump’s reelection, as some X users, mostly liberals, looked for an alternative platform to post their thoughts and engage with others online. Despite Bluesky’s growth, X reported that it had “dominated the global conversation on the U.S. election” and had set new records. The platform saw a 15.5% jump in new-user signups on Election Day, it said, with a record 942 million posts worldwide. Bluesky has referenced its competitive relationship to X through tongue-in-cheek comments, including an Election Day post on X referencing Musk watching voting results come in with President-elect Donald Trump. “I can guarantee that no Bluesky team members will be sitting with a presidential candidate tonight and giving them direct access to control what you see online,” Bluesky said. Bostonians Against Mayor Wu , an X account critical of how the city is being governed, posted about the Bluesky development around 5 p.m. on Friday. As of 4 p.m. Saturday, the post had gained nearly 900,000 views. “The city of Boston announces it is ditching @elonmusk’s X and moving all of their accounts over to X’s rival platform,” the post read. Thousands of critics responded to the post, slamming the city for adding Bluesky to its social media repertoire. Former Herald sports columnist and current podcaster Gerry Callahan chimed in: “Elon Musk: We will allow ANYONE to speak. No censoring. No shadow banning. No collusion with the government. Democrats: Sorry, not for us.” The post even caught the eye of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones , who has 3.4 million X followers. “This is what cults do when they are exposed and in total collapse,” Jones posted on X late Friday night. “They run and hide from reality. This is the last stage of a failed ideology’s death. As Jesus said ‘let the dead bury the dead.’” Mayor Michelle Wu has sparingly used her @wutrain X account since Musk took over the platform. She posted a link to her Bluesky last Sunday, days before the city announced its account. In an interview with Commonwealth Beacon in January 2023, Wu said she’d stop using X as often as she did during her mayoral campaign as the platform became “an increasingly difficult place to share information and have civil dialogue over important issues.” “I’ve experienced this platform becoming more and more toxic over the last year,” Wu said, “and it’s a direction that makes it a less productive use of my personal time to reach constituents about local issues.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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When Seuk Kim took off from Maryland last weekend with three small dogs aboard his plane, it was the latest of many volunteer flights he had made to rescue animals in need. After realizing a childhood dream of becoming a pilot, Kim transported cats and dogs from disaster areas, overcrowded shelters and other misfortunes — including a dog trapped for days in a shipping container — to rescue groups. He lined up other aviators to do the same. But Sunday's flight to New York was his last. Kim's 1986 Mooney M20J crashed in the snowy woods of the Catskill Mountains, killing the 49-year-old pilot and one of the dogs, authorities said. The other two pups survived and were recovering Tuesday. “There are very few people like Seuk in this world. He has no ulterior motives. He never needed recognition,” said Sydney Galley, a fellow rescue flight volunteer. “He just wanted to help.” RELATED STORY | 'Need all the help I can get': Hurricane-related IV shortage landed woman in hospital for 6 weeks Whiskey — a 4-month-old Labrador-mix puppy who was found huddled in the snow with two broken legs — was doing well while awaiting surgery at Pieper Memorial Veterinary emergency and specialty hospital in Middletown, Connecticut. Videos showed the tawny pup getting belly rubs, licking a staffer’s face and, later, calmly looking around while having a leg bandage changed. The other surviving dog, an 18-month-old Yorkshire terrier mix called Pluto, was found Monday with minor injuries. By Tuesday, Pluto was at the Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley, the New York organization that had been set to receive all three dogs. The third was a 5-pound (2.3-kg) puppy named Lisa, Galley said. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that the aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances in mountainous terrain. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were at the crash site. Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky has said visibility was poor Sunday and that Kim sought permission to change his altitude because of turbulence before the plane went down in early evening. Galley said the aircraft — Kim's third plane, purchased in recent months — was equipped with technology to help locate it in an emergency. Still, it took authorities until about midnight Sunday to find the aircraft, which was in about a foot of snow a couple of miles from the nearest road, the sheriff said. Kim lived with his wife and their three children in Springfield, Virginia. Originally from South Korea, he “came to this country with little but a dream, and through hard work and perseverance, he built a life of meaning and generosity,” cousin Christine Kim said in a Facebook message. “Witty, spontaneous, and full of boundless generosity,” he combined a caring heart with a sense of adventure, the Kim family said in an online obituary. RELATED STORY | 'Need all the help I can get': Hurricane-related IV shortage landed woman in hospital for 6 weeks Seuk Kim had worked in fields including public relations and marketing. His family said he had pastimes including cooking and following baseball, but he had long aspired to fly. He eventually made that wish come true, and Galley said Kim recently told friends that he had landed a job with a charter flight company. “He was on top of the world,” she said. Kim started flying rescue dogs about four years ago and became a dedicated volunteer who handled as many as three flights a week and helped line up other pilots, Galley said. Unfazed by huge dogs, cats that other pilots didn't want to fly, or animal potty accidents, he responded to virtually any request with a smile and “sure, I can do that,” she recalled. Earlier this year, he flew “Connie the container dog,” the canine found in a shipping container at the Port of Houston, according to Galley and to a post on his memorial website. After Hurricane Helene struck parts of the Southeast this fall, Kim helped fly planeloads of generators and other supplies to hard-hit western North Carolina and even acquired a pickup truck to drive in hay for farms, Galley recalled. Penny Edwards of Forever Changed Animal Rescue, one of the groups Kim helped with Helene response, called him “a huge asset to not just us but the entire rescue community.” “Our hearts are shattered,” she wrote in an email Tuesday. Maggie Jackman Pryor, the Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley’s executive director, said Kim helped save hundreds of animals over the years. Among them were a dog and her five puppies that he flew in October to Cathy West of Kuddles & Kisses K9 Rescue in Baltimore. The mixed-breed dog had been on a list to be euthanized at an overfilled shelter in Tennessee, West said. “He was so involved in trying to get the word out to volunteer, to other pilots — that this is a good thing to save these dogs so that they don’t die in shelters,” she said. On Sunday, Galley said, Kim picked up four dogs at a Virginia airport where her husband had just transported them from Georgia. After excitedly telling her husband about his new charter-plane job, Kim took off, dropped a big dog at a small airport in Maryland, and headed on with the rest toward Albany, New York. She imagines that he apologized to his canine passengers as the plane went down. “He always,” she said, “put everybody ahead of himself.”
The Ohio State Buckeyes put the hurt on Indiana this past Saturday, and put themselves in the driver’s seat for a rematch with the Oregon Ducks in the Big Ten championship game . But was the one-loss Buckeyes’ win over the Hoosiers enough to vault them past an undefeated Ducks team — one that beat them head-to-head? One member of The Oregonian/OregonLive’s sports staff thinks so. Who could it possibly be? WATCH: Stream most Big Ten football games live for FREE with Fubo (free trial) or with DirecTV Stream (free trial). Here are the Big Ten power rankings for Week 14 from The Oregonian/OregonLive. (Voting panel: Ryan Clarke , James Crepea , Aaron Fentress , Sean Meagher , Joel Odom , Bill Oram ) 1. OREGON DUCKS (11-0, 8-0) Poll points: 107 (5 first-place votes) Last week (1): Idle. This week: vs. Washington, 4:30 p.m. PT Saturday on NBC. 2. OHIO STATE BUCKEYES (10-1, 7-1) Poll points: 102 (1 first-place vote) Last week (2): Beat Indiana 38-15. This week: vs. Michigan, 9 a.m. PT Saturday on Fox. 3. PENN STATE NITTANY LIONS (10-1, 7-1) Poll points: 94 Last week (T3): Beat Minnesota 26-25. This week: vs. Maryland, 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday on Big Ten Network. 4. INDIANA HOOSIERS (10-1, 7-1) Poll points: 92 Last week (T3): Lost to Ohio State 38-15. This week: vs. Purdue, 4 p.m. PT Saturday on FS1. 5. ILLINOIS (8-3, 5-3) Poll points: 82 Last week (5): Beat Rutgers 38-31. This week: at Northwestern (at Wrigley Field), 9 a.m. PT Saturday on Big Ten Network. 6. IOWA HAWKEYES (7-4, 5-3) Poll points: 79 Last week (6): Beat Maryland 29-13. This week: vs. Nebraska, 4:30 p.m. PT Friday on NBC. T7. MINNESOTA GOLDEN GOPHERS (6-5, 4-4) Poll points: 64 Last week (7): Lost to Penn State 26-25. This week: at Wisconsin, 9 a.m. PT Friday on CBS. T7. WASHINGTON HUSKIES (6-5, 4-4) Poll points: 64 Last week (8): Idle. This week: at Oregon, 4:30 p.m. PT Saturday on NBC. 9. MICHIGAN WOLVERINES (6-5, 4-4) Poll points: 63 Last week (9): Beat Northwestern 50-6. This week: at Ohio State, 9 a.m. PT Saturday on Fox. 10. USC TROJANS (6-5, 4-5) Poll points: 53 Last week (11): Beat UCLA 19-13. This week: vs. Notre Dame, 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday on CBS. 11. NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS (6-5, 3-5) Poll points: 47 Last week (14): Beat Wisconsin 44-25. This week: at Iowa, 4:30 p.m. PT Friday on NBC. 12. WISCONSIN BADGERS (5-6, 3-5) Poll points: 43 Last week (10): Lost to Nebraska 44-25. This week: vs. Minnesota, 9 a.m. PT Friday on CBS. 13. UCLA BRUINS (4-7, 3-6) Poll points: 40 Last week (T12): Lost to USC 19-13. This week: vs. Fresno State, 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday on Big Ten Network. 14. RUTGERS SCARLET KNIGHTS (6-5, 3-5) Poll points: 34 Last week (T12): Lost to Illinois 38-31. This week: at Michigan State, 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday on FS1. 15. MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS (5-6, 3-5) Poll points: 23 Last week (15): Beat Purdue 24-17. This week: vs. Rutgers, 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday on FS1. 16. NORTHWESTERN WILDCATS (4-7, 2-6) Poll points: 17 Last week (16): Lost to Michigan 50-6. This week: vs. Illinois (at Wrigley Field), 9 a.m. PT Saturday on Big Ten Network. 17. MARYLAND TERRAPINS (4-7, 1-7) Poll points: 15 Last week (17): Lost to Iowa 29-13. This week: at Penn State, 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday on Big Ten Network. 18. PURDUE BOILERMAKERS (1-10, 0-8) Poll points: 6 Last week (18): Lost to Michigan State 24-17. This week: at Indiana, 4 p.m. PT Saturday on FS1. PREVIOUS RANKINGS Week 13 Week 12 Week 11 Week 10 Week 9 Week 8 Week 7 Week 6 Week 5 Week 4 Week 3 Week 2 Week 1 -- Ryan Clarke covers the Oregon Ducks and Big Ten Conference. Listen to the Ducks Confidential podcast or subscribe to the Ducks Roundup newsletter .
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam , Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The HoSkar Night series has become a favorite event for hospitality and real estate professionals across Asia , connecting industry leaders, developers, and innovators in a vibrant networking atmosphere. In 2024, the series embarked on an incredible journey, covering major cities such as Ho Chi Minh City , Hanoi , Phnom Penh , Bangkok , and Manila cementing its status as a key platform for meaningful dialogue and collaboration in the industry. Launched in 2024, the HoSkar Talk – Developers Seminar marked a new milestone, bringing industry professionals together to discuss critical topics shaping the future of the hospitality and real estate industries. Looking ahead to 2025, the HoSkar Talk will dive deep into themes such as Wellness in Real Estate, Branded Residences, Technological Advancements in Hospitality, F&B Trends, and Design in Project Development. Mark your calendars for the 2025 event series, scheduled in key cities across the region: Bangkok (8th May), Phnom Penh (29th May), Manila (19th June), Ho Chi Minh City (10th July), Hanoi (29th October), Dubai (6th November) and Ho Chi Minh City (27th November). Kick off 2025 with us by joining the first HoSkar Night of the year in Ho Chi Minh City on 18th March, from 6 PM – 9 PM at Vinpearl Landmark 81, Autograph Collection. This event is part of the Meet The Experts conference, the largest Hospitality and Real Estate conference for industry professionals in the region, promising to set the tone for an exciting year ahead. Brought to you by WeHub, the largest community for hospitality and real estate developers, as well as senior industry professionals in the region. With its commitment to fostering innovation, collaboration, and growth, WeHub provides a robust platform for members to share knowledge, explore opportunities, and stay ahead in a competitive market. HoSkar Night would not be possible without the incredible support of our sponsors and partners. If you’d like to showcase your brand, share your expertise, or collaborate with us to make 2025 even more impactful, we’d love to hear from you. For sponsorship and collaboration inquiries, contact us at Host@wehubyou.com . Visit the HoSkar Night website at https://hoskarnight.com/ or find out more information at WeHub LinkedIn . Vision Asia Pacific is a registered company which owns WeHub and organizes many event series, including Meet The Experts conference (MTE) and HoSkar Night networking event. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/hoskar-night-event-series-2025-lets-explore-the-real-estate-market-together-302333251.html SOURCE VISION ASIA PACIFIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANYNo. 7 Tennessee outscored UT Martin by 28 points in the second half in routing the visiting Skyhawks 78-35 on Friday afternoon in Knoxville. Chaz Lanier scored a game-high 18 points for the Volunteers (7-0), who expanded on a 35-20 halftime lead with a 43-15 second half. Felix Okpara had 10 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks, helping Tennessee command the paint along with Igor Milicic, who added nine points and 13 rebounds. Zakai Zeigler nearly had a double-double with 11 points and nine assists. The Volunteers used their size to their advantage, outscoring UT Martin 36-10 in the paint and out rebounding the Skyhawks 49-24. That included 20 offensive rebounds for Tennessee, which led to 19 second-chance points. UT Martin (2-5) was cold coming out of the locker room after halftime, missing its first eight shots. Conversely, the Vols started the second half with a nine-point run to extend their lead to 24 points. The Vols never let the Skyhawks score consecutive baskets in the first half, holding UT Martin to 25 percent shooting (4 of 16) from beyond the arc and allowing a total of only three points from the starting five. For the game, guard Josue Grullon led UT Martin with 15 points. The leading scorer in the Ohio Valley Conference entering Friday at 18.2 points per game, Grullon has not started any game for head coach Jeremy Shulman. Most of the Skyhawks' points -- 28 of 35 -- came from their reserves. The starting five combined to score seven points -- six points from Matija Zuzic and a free throw for Lamine Niag. The starters went a combined 2 of 18 from the floor, while UT Martin as a team shot 22.6 percent (12 of 53) from the field. The Skyhawks made 5 of 7 free-throw attempts and made 18 turnovers. The Volunteers, who got 23 points off the bench, were 8-for-10 and had 11 turnovers. Tennessee improved to 6-0 all-time against UT Martin since 1993. --Field Level Media
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Loos 1-2 2-2 4, Brookshire 1-5 0-0 2, Lax 3-11 0-0 7, Thomas 4-13 7-8 15, McCubbin 4-8 0-0 10, Carpenter 2-7 2-3 8, Gaines 1-3 1-2 3, Hammer 1-4 0-0 3, Dawson 1-2 0-2 2, Burries 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 19-57 12-17 57. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.