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(TNS) — Between state and federal programs aiming to get all New Mexicans reliable, high-speed Internet access, there are still about 95,000 households left out of the mix. State broadband officials are looking for legislatively allocated dollars to fill the gap. And how would they use the money to fill the gap? Satellite technology. Nearly 100,000 households aren't eligible for federal broadband programs, a gap that state-provided vouchers and subsidies for satellite high-speed Internet services could help address, said Drew Lovelace, acting director of the state's Office of Broadband Access and Expansion. His office on Tuesday asked for $70 million before the Legislative Finance Committee to accelerate the Connect New Mexico Fund, which aims to enhance connectivity for all New Mexicans. Satellite Internet technology would particularly boost access in rural and hard-to-reach areas of New Mexico while the state waits for more reliable broadband technology deployment, according to the broadband office. The office would prioritize unserved areas — locations with 25 megabits per second, or mbps, download and 3 mbps upload speeds or less — and underserved areas — locations with between 25 mbps/3mbps and 100 mbps download and 20 mbps upload speeds. Lovelace proposed household vouchers for necessary hardware for satellite Internet services and $30 monthly subsidies for low-income households to ease their $120 monthly Internet bills. The broadband office's one-time expenditure ask of $70 million would make sure "New Mexicans don't get left behind in the digital divide today" while also still looking toward the future, Lovelace said. The satellite vouchers and subsidies, if the appropriation request is approved in the 2025 Legislature and by the governor, would likely start at the earliest next year. The overall budget request for the broadband office for fiscal year 2026 is just over $3 million, which is a $650,0000 increase from the previous fiscal year, according to the broadband office. Overall, Lovelace said, broadband is infrastructure and needs to be funded longer term. "My big ask coming out of this is that we no longer get one- and two-year appropriations, that we look at three- to five-year appropriations and make sure that we can do the entire grant cycle," he said. ©After the first meeting to permit the public to have a say before Philadelphia City Council on the the controversial plan to bring a $1.3 billion arena to Center City ran late on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, councilmembers heard from the public in earnest on Wednesday. And this time, instead of holding off public comment until later in the day, Wednesday's hearing permitted members of the public to start early. Darlene Olsen, the first person to speak at Wednesday's hearing opened to public comment, said that the project hasn't been presented with the needs of senior citizens in mind. "Those of us who are 65 and up, and came here for a good retirement life, have not been considered as a stakeholder group," she said. "But, we must not be ignored!" Get top local stories in Philly delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia's News Headlines newsletter. As she doesn't drive, Olsen said she relies on SEPTA for all travel and she wants the mass transit needs of senior residents of the communities where the arena would be built considered. Olsen was joined by Lynn Major, a West Philadelphia resident, who said as a Sixers fan, she sees no need for the team to get a change of venue, especially if it would cause issues in Center City. "The Sixers should stay where they are in South Philly. That's where they belong," said Major. Both women led a steady stream of comments from city residents opposed to the arena plan on Wednesday morning. "Chinatown has been asking to be at the table for our voices to be heard since day one of this arena proposal. Instead, this mayor has applied the full weight of her authority against the door to keep us out to sell out the people of Philadelphia to the developers behind closed doors," said Dave Kyu, who introduced himself as a sports writer for the Philadelphia Citizen. Gina Chang, who said she is a resident of the city's Old Kensington neighborhood, said she is against the plan as she noted the project would be exempt... Hayden Mitman
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Advisors Asset Management Inc. trimmed its holdings in shares of Global Payments Inc. ( NYSE:GPN – Free Report ) by 18.3% in the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,406 shares of the business services provider’s stock after selling 314 shares during the quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Global Payments were worth $144,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in GPN. Cromwell Holdings LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Global Payments during the third quarter worth $25,000. LRI Investments LLC acquired a new position in shares of Global Payments during the first quarter worth about $32,000. POM Investment Strategies LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Global Payments during the second quarter worth approximately $32,000. Capital Performance Advisors LLP acquired a new stake in Global Payments in the third quarter valued at approximately $33,000. Finally, Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. lifted its stake in Global Payments by 59.6% in the third quarter. Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. now owns 383 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $39,000 after acquiring an additional 143 shares during the last quarter. 89.76% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Wall Street Analyst Weigh In GPN has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Royal Bank of Canada dropped their price objective on shares of Global Payments from $143.00 to $130.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, October 31st. Monness Crespi & Hardt dropped their target price on Global Payments from $165.00 to $155.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, September 25th. William Blair downgraded Global Payments from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, September 25th. B. Riley lowered their price objective on Global Payments from $204.00 to $194.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, September 25th. Finally, StockNews.com lowered Global Payments from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Wednesday, November 20th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have assigned a hold rating and fifteen have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $136.57. Global Payments Price Performance Shares of GPN opened at $118.96 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.65, a quick ratio of 0.93 and a current ratio of 0.93. Global Payments Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $91.60 and a fifty-two week high of $141.77. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $106.57 and a 200-day simple moving average of $103.84. The company has a market capitalization of $30.27 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.40, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.91 and a beta of 0.97. Global Payments Announces Dividend The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 13th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 13th. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.84%. Global Payments’s payout ratio is 18.83%. About Global Payments ( Free Report ) Global Payments Inc provides payment technology and software solutions for card, check, and digital-based payments in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. 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The podcast hosts from the Des Moines Register and The Athletic also suggested that McNamara -- who played three years at Michigan (2020-22) before transferring to Iowa -- is not "fit to play quarterback in the Big Ten right now." "We don't want to bury his career yet, but it does seem like that interception against Northwestern was his last snap as a Hawkeye," Leistikow said. McNamara, who passed for 1,017 yards with six touchdowns and five interceptions in eight games this season, released a statement updating his current status. "My status is the same as it's always been -- a proud member of this football team," he said. McNamara said he has not yet been cleared to play. He said he was cleared to practice on Sunday but suffered an "adverse reaction" and was unable to practice this week and therefore unable to travel with the team to Maryland. 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Advisors Asset Management Inc. Has $151,000 Stock Position in TD SYNNEX Co. (NYSE:SNX)TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Donald Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products , a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Monday. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don’t stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the United States. He said on social media last week that he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, attended a dinner with Trump and Trudeau at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Friday. Trudeau requested the meeting in a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump that the northern border is nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico . "The prime minister of course spoke about the importance of protecting the Canadian economy and Canadian workers from tariffs, but we also discussed with our American friends the negative impact that those tariffs could have on their economy, on affordability in the United States as well," LeBlanc said in Parliament. If Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, alcohol and other goods. The Produce Distributors Association, a Washington trade group, said last week that tariffs will raise prices for fresh fruit and vegetables and hurt U.S. farmers when the countries retaliate. Canada is already examining possible retaliatory tariffs on certain items from the U.S. should Trump follow through on the threat. After his dinner with Trump, Trudeau returned home without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. “The idea that we came back empty handed is completely false,” LeBlanc said. “We had a very productive discussion with Mr. Trump and his future Cabinet secretaries. ... The commitment from Mr. Trump to continue to work with us was far from empty handed.” Joining Trump and Trudeau at dinner were Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, and Mike Waltz, Trump’s choice to be his national security adviser. Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Kirsten Hillman, told The Associated Press on Sunday that “the message that our border is so vastly different than the Mexican border was really understood.” Hillman, who sat at an adjacent table to Trudeau and Trump, said Canada is not the problem when it comes to drugs and migrants. On Monday, Mexico’s president rejected those comments. “Mexico must be respected, especially by its trading partners,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said. She said Canada had its own problems with fentanyl consumption and “could only wish they had the cultural riches Mexico has.” Flows of migrants and seizures of drugs at the two countries’ border are vastly different. U.S. customs agents seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the Canadian border during the last fiscal year, compared with 21,100 pounds at the Mexican border. Most of the fentanyl reaching the U.S. — where it causes about 70,000 overdose deaths annually — is made by Mexican drug cartels using precursor chemicals smuggled from Asia. On immigration, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 1.53 million encounters with migrants at the southwest border with Mexico between October 2023 and September 2024. That compares to 23,721 encounters at the Canadian border during that time. Canada is the top export destination for 36 U.S. states. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian (US$2.7 billion) worth of goods and services cross the border each day. About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada, and 85% of U.S. electricity imports as well. Canada is also the largest foreign supplier of steel, aluminum and uranium to the U.S. and has 34 critical minerals and metals that the Pentagon is eager for and investing for national security. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press . All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Middle East latest: Israeli strikes in Gaza kill more than 50 people, including kids
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NoneFood prices could shoot up again as weather and Labour's Budget hits suppliersA neurosurgeon has spoken about the four things he does to stave off the chances of getting dementia. Around 50 million people worldwide have dementia, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), with around one in 14 over-65s affected, as well as a significant number of younger people. But the disease doesn’t have to be an inevitable part of ageing, according to one expert. Leading neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial gave a number of simple lifestyle measures that can help keep your brain healthy. The author who has published his book Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon said: “I’ve operated on over 5,000 skulls, and they’re all different ages so you see the developing brain to the ageing brain, and everything in between. Dr Jandial said spent years trawling through scientific research in order to come up with what he believes are the best ways to help boost memory, manage stress and reduce Alzheimer’s risk. He explained: “There are habits some people have, that tend to link with them having resilience of thought and emotion as they get older. Since we don’t have a medicine for dementia, it’s really about lifestyle modification. And doing it early – early being your 40s, 50s, even 60s. There’s always a window to make a difference. “Fortunately, our brains ask so little of us that very manageable changes, like replacing your steak for salmon a few times a week, eating more plants, less fried food, a bit of brisk walking – all these changes add up. It would be great to have this be a new focus because there’s no treatment if you get dementia. Let’s see if we can make a difference with small changes, rather than waiting for a silver bullet or a single pill or food that fixes everything.” Here are four changes Dr Jandial recommends: “The brain’s 90 billion neurons share the garden inside the skull with supporting cells called glia. They’re sort of the shrubs around the roses that protect the brain environment. Those glia create fatty insulation for the neurons, so the electricity can bounce around inside our heads faster and more organised. “That fatty sheath at the microscopic level is the good fat that comes from fatty fish – and there are some good choices for vegans as well. That’s an essential part of the Mediterranean diet, and huge studies over decades show eating mostly plants, fatty fish, nuts, and drinking occasional red wine, really makes a dent in the chances of getting dementia. “It’s not about how much you eat, it’s about what you eat,” he adds. “These are the nutrients that are helpful and not difficult to adhere to, to help reduce our dementia risk. So the first and most fundamental thing is the mind diet – essentially the Mediterranean diet.” Jandial warns people should be wary about other so-called ‘brain foods’ however, as nutrients have to get past the gut wall, into the blood, and are then filtered by the liver before passing through the blood-brain barrier. “Getting to the brain requires passing three barriers and the Mediterranean diet and its nutrients, whether it’s flavonoids, antioxidants or all of them, really is an effective strategy,” he says. “So the first thing to do is to switch to more components of the mind diet. Occasional cheesecake or burger or chips isn’t an issue – it’s not the indulgences, it’s the regular things we put inside us [that matter].” Being active is among the brain surgeon’s top tips for brain health. Until the coronavirus situation settles, could you stretch your legs with a stroll in the garden, or do some exercise in the living room? “The second most important thing is exercise – and I don’t mean becoming super-athletic, I mean simply standing and walking. The neurons and their supporting cells are floating in liquid – our brain is like densely-packed tissue in an aquarium. The tissue doesn’t physically touch, it gets very close to each other and sprays chemicals at each other called neurotransmitters. “But there’s also something called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which the brain showers on itself, and the trigger for that is being vertical and moving. It doesn’t have to be a marathon; a 30-minute brisk walk gets you to a sweet spot where your brain is showering itself with BDNF – it’s a growth factor, like Miracle-Gro for the flesh of the brain. It’s something anybody can do, it’s free and can be just a micro-change in your week.” “If the arteries in your brain aren’t open, just like those in the heart, you can have small swathes of brain tissue wither, much like a garden that doesn’t get irrigated goes dry. Exercise helps with that, and good heart health with control of blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol is fundamental to keeping the plumbing of the brain open, so it’s getting the blood flow it wants. It’s an amazing amount of blood it demands – 20% of our blood flow goes to our 3lb brain.” “The brain is thinking flesh. Life is brain training – you don’t need to buy an app or pay money – but you do need to learn. Engaging the brain, learning, reading, trying to learn a new instrument or language, even if you fail miserably, just the effort of trying to learn anything will engage wider swathes of your brain, and that serves as the engagement of those brain cells,” he says. Even thinking about planning something for the future, like how you would run a company or keep up with friends, could count, he says: “Any time you’re thinking. “But it has to challenge you just a bit. If it’s too easy, your brain doesn’t need to think and you’ll rely on habits. If it’s too hard, your brain won’t engage and you’ll say it’s impossible. So the trick is to find just that one level past your comfort zone. That’s the trigger for the brain to say it’s got to dial it up.” Again, socialising isn’t as easy right now, as the government advises everybody, particularly older age groups, to make avoiding non-essential contact and minimising the risk of coronavirus their top priority. Now is the time to make use of our phones and laptops to keep in touch with friends we can’t see in person. And when the pandemic settles, we can embrace our social lives again. “Socialising is also considered an advantage because it’s forcing you to think – about others, what you’re going to wear, where you’re going to go, etc. For people who are lonely, part of the risk is that they’re thinking less and they’re thinking negative thoughts.”