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game pass roblox 76ers' star Paul George sidelined the next 2 games with bone bruise in left kneePremier Doug Ford has threatened to cut off energy to U.S. states in retaliation of the 25 per cent tariffs President Elect Donald Trump says he will be imposing if Canada doesn’t shore up its borders. Ford’s comments came following a virtual meeting between the premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss a plan to tackle Trump’s threat to impose the tariffs on Canadian imports. Ontario’s premier said the country needs to be ready for the fight that begins when Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20. when asked about any potential retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. “We will go to the full extent, depending on how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin,” said Ford. Related: “We’ll use every tool of our toolbox ... This is coming. It’s not if, it is coming. And it’s coming January 20 and 21 and we need to be prepared. We need to stand as a country,” said Ford. He adds that these tariffs won’t just hurt Canadians. “At the at the end of the day, the consumer gets hurt, Canadians get hurt. But I can assure you one thing, the Americans are going to feel pain as well.” Ford added Ontario is the number one exporter to 17 states and second to another 11 states. Canada has vowed to beef up border security in the face of Trump’s threats, despite a lack of evidence for his claims about illicit fentanyl pouring into the U.S. from Canada. While Ford said the border is a federal issue, he said they will be supportive of them at the border. “We will always be there to support, with our OPP at the ready ... I know the other regions across the country as well.” The first ministers’ meeting comes just a day after Trump launched more jibes at Trudeau on social media by calling him governor of “the great state of Canada” — a nod to his ribbing that he might just have Canada join the U.S. as its 51st state. Wednesday’s high-level meeting also comes days before Ford will hosts the fall premiers’ meeting in Mississauga, which lasts Sunday through Monday.ANZ taps HSBC's Nuno Matos as new CEO, shares fall

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NoneWhere to sleep? “The Haneda Airport departure terminal’s good,” a 45-year-old Osaka executive tells Spa (Dec 3-10). For sleep? Why not? “Our company’s top accommodation allowance for business travel is 18,000 yen a night” – not bad compared to the maximum 10,900 yen a night a mid-level government employee is permitted by law; still – “I’ve never found a hotel room in Tokyo at that rate. A colleague said to me, ‘Try Haneda.’ Okay, I thought, I’ll try Haneda.” Sure enough: “The chairs are spacious, you can stretch your legs out, there’s a convenience store, a coffee shop...” Word’s getting around: most nights it’s full almost to capacity. Tokyo is desperately short of hotel rooms, Spa finds. The post-COVID surge of inbound tourism has shown Japan’s enormous appeal to the world (the cheap yen helps of course). Never have so many foreign tourists strained the limits of Japan’s facilities and hospitality, their number projected to hit 35 million by year’s end. Tokyo’s hotel prices soar, “no vacancy” signs multiply. Where’s a business traveler to lay his or her head? Some are driven to some pretty desperate shifts, and the remarkable thing is, if Spa’s report is any indication, how tolerant they are of the stresses involved, what an easygoing sense of humor they display. Sleep and repose issue the strangest invitations, conceal themselves in the most unlikely places. No one noticed when a hotel room was to be had for a click or a phone call. What business traveler would have thought then of sleeping in... well, for example, a car share car. These are cars rented by the hour or half hour or kilometer for errands. They’re not meant to be slept in and in fact industry regulations more or less ban it, but growing demand exerts its force and topple the barriers. “There’s a certain campground I park at for 500 yen,” says a 37-year-old business traveler from Shiga Prefecture. “There’s a coin shower and everything.” Scanning the internet, a 35-year-old from Hyogo Prefecture happened on a love hotel offering rooms for an astonishingly economical 5,000 yen. It was in a remote back street, but what of that? Nothing – but “really,” he thought as he stood outside, “is this a love hotel?” More like a disused warehouse it seemed: heavy iron door, moldy smell. “I wouldn’t bring a lover here” – but he was alone, it was only for one night, the price was right; still, an uncomfortable night it proved to be; he felt uneasy in ways he couldn’t put his finger on, and when he woke up in the morning the sheets were inexplicably soaking wet. “Back home, I told my wife about it, and she said immediately: ‘A ghost!’” It’s as good an explanation as any. The legal limit on accommodation allowances for government employees seems utterly out of touch with reality – perhaps because reality changed so quickly. 10,900 yen! Not everyone stumbles on a “ghost love hotel” – or would settle for one. “There are late night meetings and I need a place near Kasumigaseki” – Tokyo’s political core – says a 57-year-old bureaucrat from Osaka. With nothing to be had anywhere nearby for less than 20,000 yen, he feels he has no choice. He pays the difference out of his own pocket. Other options where various budget arrangements can be made, varying degrees of discomfort more or less cheerfully endured, and also various unexpected pleasures enjoyed, include internet cafes, aesthetic salons, co-working spaces (part coffee shop, part office space for remote workers), remote suburban hotels that are available and reasonably priced but likely far from wherever your business is, and last but not least – this is not for everyone – a park bench. Not for everyone, but a 28-year-old company employee from Osaka, blessed with the adaptability of youth, grinned and bore it and even enjoyed it. “It was last September, still very hot. but in the park it was nice and cool and I got five hours of good sleep. And there’s a fully equipped toilet, so I could wash a bit and brush my teeth.” What more do you need at 28? “The only trouble was,” he says, “mosquitoes. I had to get mosquito repellent at a convenience store for 1000 yen.” So it wasn’t entirely free after all.

Itron's Meter Data Collection and Management Solution to Help Aqwest Improve Visibility of Water Consumption and Losses LIBERTY LAKE, Wash., Dec. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), which is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water, marks a significant milestone with the 50th deployment of its Temetra ® solution in Australia, which is being deployed by Aqwest, the provider of drinking water to the City of Bunbury and its surrounding areas in Western Australia. With Itron's cloud-based multi-vendor meter data collection and management solution, Aqwest will be able to manage its existing mechanical meters while enhancing and optimizing operations. Aqwest selected Temetra, Itron's innovative cloud-based solution, to simplify meter data collection by utilizing a solution capable of incorporating multi-vendor meter reads. With the adoption of Temetra, Aqwest can now upgrade to digital meters at a pace best suited for its operations and seamlessly collect meter readings from existing mechanical meters and future smart meters through a single data collection and management platform. This multi-vendor capability allows Aqwest to gain comprehensive insights into consumption patterns through one unified platform. Utilizing Aqwest's existing communication protocols and meter vendors, Temetra will collect, record and upload meter data using the handheld mobile Android devices currently in use by the utility. Temetra provides valuable insights by analyzing both current reads and historical data, enabling Aqwest to address customer billing questions and detect potential water leaks. This 50 th customer milestone reinforces Itron's commitment to addressing water scarcity in Australia and ensuring that communities are better equipped to manage water operations. The Temetra solution enables utilities to address critical water management tasks more efficiently. These capabilities are key to helping utilities anticipate and address potential water challenges before they turn into a crisis, such as losing water within the distribution system. "Aqwest is committed to providing sustainable, high-quality drinking water to the Bunbury Region. As the effects of climate change continue to impact on local water security, having an efficient water management system in place is crucial,” said Gary Hallsworth, chief executive officer at Aqwest . "We are delighted to be working with Itron to upgrade our water metering infrastructure to improve our customer consumption data and billing capabilities.” "Australia is no stranger to water shortages due to its dry climate, recurring droughts and the challenges caused by climate disruption, making water management a complex issue. On top of these challenges, population growth is increasing the demand on existing water infrastructure, much of which is aging and prone to inefficiencies,” said Don Reeves, senior vice president of Outcomes at Itron. "We are excited to celebrate this significant milestone. Working together with Australian utilities, we strive to deploy efficient solutions to address these challenges and to ensure that both remote and urban communities are equipped to tackle water management. With Temetra, utilities across the country are another step closer to water security.” Temetra is a globally adopted, cloud-based, multi-vendor, multi-commodity, meter data management solution. Temetra supports a variety of meter manufacturers and communications protocols enabling a smooth migration from automated meter reading to advanced meter reading. Temetra's open ecosystem solution enables interoperability at all levels and supports multiple data collection technologies concurrently, providing utilities a smooth migration path from manual to smart metering. Storing meter read data from a variety of sources in one location, combined with other innovations like map-based routing, enhances operational efficiency. Temetra has demonstrated scalability, accommodating thousands of customers ranging in size from several hundred meters to several million. About Itron Itron is a proven global leader in energy, water, smart city, IIoT and intelligent infrastructure services. For utilities, cities and society, we build innovative systems, create new efficiencies, connect communities, encourage conservation and increase resourcefulness. By safeguarding our invaluable natural resources today and tomorrow, we improve the quality of life for people around the world. Join us: www.itron.com . Itron ® , the Itron Logo and Temetra are registered trademarks of Itron, Inc in the United States and other countries and jurisdictions. All third-party trademarks are property of their respective owners and any usage herein does not suggest or imply any relationship between Itron and the third party unless expressly stated. For additional information, contact: Itron, Inc. Sharon Chong Field Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific Office: +65 69837687 [email protected] Paul Vincent Vice President, Investor Relations 512-560-1172 [email protected] Itron, Inc.

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The Trump Transition Is Winning Good Marks If the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory on Election Day feels joyous and tranquil, you are not alone. American households and businesses are much more serene and hopeful this time around. Polling released by Pew Research on Friday shows that 70 percent of Americans are very or somewhat confident that the transition to the Trump administration will go smoothly. Similarly, a majority of Americans say they have a positive evaluation of Trump’s post-election conduct. A 53 percent majority of Americans say they approve of the president-elect’s plans for the country . When asked if they approve of Trump’s conduct post-election, 53 percent answer affirmatively. That’s better than the 40 percent who said they approved of Trump’s cabinet choices in November 2016 and the 41 percent who said they approved of the job he had done in explaining his policies and plans for the future. Of course, there are the usual partisan differences in how people are reacting to the election. As recently as October, just 10 percent of Republicans said they were satisfied with the state of the country, according to Pew. Now, 35 percent are satisfied. Democrats have seen their satisfaction slip from 38 percent to 24 percent. Consumer Sentiment Shows Republican Hope Beats Democrat Despondency Similarly, the University of Michigan’s survey of consumer sentiment showed an explosion of hope for the economy among Republicans and a slump among Democrats. The GOP expectations index jumped from 61.4 to 89.2, the highest since October 2020. The Democrat expectation index fell from 93.1 to 75.4. Independents were mostly unchanged. The aggregate effect of this was to push up the expectations index by 3.8 percent. As a result, overall consumer sentiment improved even though the current conditions metric worsened. How does this compare with four years ago? When Biden won the election, consumer sentiment actually fell . The current conditions index improved a bit, but there was a sizable decline in the expectations component. Perhaps counter-intuitively, Democrat views of current conditions fell from October 2020 to November 2020 while Republican views improved. But in the expectations gauge, the Republican outlook crashed and the Democratic outlook improved. Famously, over the next four years, consumer sentiment remained very low. Six months after Biden’s election , the consumer sentiment index was almost exactly where it had been before the election. Six months after that, it was down almost 18 percent and headed even lower as the worst inflation in four decades gripped the nation. In other words, Americans really are feeling better about the country and the economy . Though the sentiment figures may exhibit a partisan hue, it is manifest that Republican buoyancy has ascended with far greater vigor than the Democrats’ penchant for political melancholia. Comparisons with the last time Trump was elected president are harder to make because the University of Michigan’s consumer survey only measured partisan affiliations occasionally. So, we know how Republicans and Democrats felt in October of 2016 (Democrats were much more positive than Republicans) and in February of 2017 (when Republicans were much, much more positive). Overall, consumer sentiment rose following Trump’s election, with boosts in both the expectations and current conditions metrics. Flash! Bang! Business Confidence Grows American businesses are also feeling more positive about the economy. The S&P Global “flash” composite purchasing managers index climbed to the highest level in 31 months, beating expectations. The services side of the survey reached a 32 month high, and the beleaguered manufacturing index climbed to a four-month high. Optimism about output staged a notable comeback in November, rebounding for the second straight month after hitting a 23-month low in September. Confidence reached its highest level since May 2022, with a particularly striking surge in the manufacturing sector, where optimism hit a 31-month peak. “The business mood has brightened in November, with confidence about the year ahead hitting a two-and-a-half year high. The prospect of lower interest rates and a more probusiness approach from the incoming administration has fueled greater optimism, in turn helping drive output and order book inflows higher in November,” said Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence. And there are hints of what our friends Larry Kudlow and David Malpass have been calling a “blue collar boom.” The promise of domestic tariffs is lifting confidence in the goods producing sector, according to Williamson, which is fueling higher factory employment. The Philadelphia Fed’s monthly manufacturing survey came in weak overall, but there was in increase in the expectations gauges and a surprise uptick in the employment measure. The numbers don’t lie. Hope and confidence are back in style, and the economy is starting to feel it.Believe it or not, Cowboys might have hope yet after chaotic win at Washington

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