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Boommates -- Seniors living together (from Bloomberg)

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million Americans will turn 65 this year and every year through 2027, data from the Alliance for Lifetime Income shows. For homeowners, increased costs for taxes, insurance and utilities have surged 26% since 2020. There were 58 million Americans ages 65 and older in 2022, up from 43 million in 2012, according to Harvard’s JCHS.

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Highlights from the 2024 AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra

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billion by 2027. In December 2020, AWS pledged to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to provide free cloud computing training to 29 million people worldwide by 2025. Guest speakers Country opener Rouse began his opener by highlighting the significant investment AWS is making in the region. In New Zealand, AWS is investing NZ$7.5

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

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But it is not scheduled to start service til 2027. But they plan to start building the station later this year, and have it open next year so clearly they are moving fast (" Nevada senator backs grant for Brightline’s LV-LA train system ," Las Vegas Review-Journal ).

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Eutelsat increases service availability by migrating to AWS

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Original system Launched in January 2020, Eutelsat Konnect is a high-capacity satellite which delivers broadband services across Europe and Africa to help bridge the digital divide in areas where terrestrial networks are not deployed or offer poor performance. percent, and decreased incidents.

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

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The Washington Post has an editorial, " The Purple Line is in the news again — for the usual reasons ," about continued failures with the Purple Line light rail project in Montgomery and Prince George's County Maryland, which means it won't open until 2027. The culprit for this latest glitch is the relocation of utility lines.