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If the results continue to look promising, the next step involves producing the catalyst at a large enough capacity such that it can be considered representative of commercial-scale production. This typically involves working with a catalyst supplier to develop the commercial production techniques required to economically produce a catalyst with performance parameters close to or better than those of the laboratory-scale material. It is common that the catalyst vendor will perform an abbreviated plant trial to produce a sufficient quantity of material. This activity can be the most challenging step because the commercial catalyst must not only have similar activity and selectivity to the sample, but also the physical properties, such as crush strength, required to operate at commercial scale.

29 – Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced targeted sanctions against 17 Saudi nationals that Canada believed were involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The sanctions froze any assets the targets might have in Canada and barred them from entering Canada.

To put that in some more context, the Chevrolet Bolt, by comparison, offers a single motor up front producing 200 horsepower, while the Nissan Leaf puts out 147. The Tesla Model 3 Long Range’s rear motor produces 258 horsepower, and the all-wheel drive Dual Motor Performance models make up to 450 ponies combined, according to Motor Trend. (It’s worth noting that the combined figure on the all-wheel drive model is not just the sum of the two motor outputs).

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22 – Canadian boxer Adonis Stevenson’s girlfriend, Simone God, released a statement saying her partner has regained consciousness. The light heavyweight boxer was in a medically induced coma for three weeks following a knockout loss on Dec. 1. Stevenson’s condition deteriorated after he was helped into the dressing room following the fight against a Ukrainian boxer in Quebec City.

The biggest whack, and win, would be to hit the Canadians with a 25% auto tariff.  Some 85% of Canadian production goes straight to the US market, thus enriching Canadian (highly paid) auto workers at the expense of US jobless workers.  Personally, I anticipate that Trump will do that, notwithstanding the howls you will hear from anyone and everyone.  Also, remember that a large number of US plants have closed as Mexican assembly plants started up; a hefty duty against Mexican-assembled autos will sting.  Right now Volkswagen has a large assembly operation in Mexico with the product immediately shipped to the US, including the Beetle.  US VW production is only for the Passat model, which is a nice seller, but I don't think consumes the volumes that would keep Trump from tariffing Mexican production. There are some ten auto plants in Mexico that ship their product to the US.  Also, a number of engine casting plants are set up in Mexico, including (strangely enough) the engine casting plants for Outboard Marine Corp and I believe The Mercury boat motors.  All of that is work taken away from Wisconsin, home of Paul Ryan as I recall.  Don't be surprised that the auto parts industry gets slapped with tariffs. Would that upset the auto makers?  But of course.  So what?  It will push that work back into the US, no question.  (The result for Canada would be acutely unpleasant, probably pushing the country in a recession and a 40-cent dollar). 

29 – The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the winter season was spotted off the Florida coast heading north with its mother, a known resident of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said on Facebook that the two endangered whales were sighted near the mouth of the state’s St. Johns River.

The KOSPI holds an all-time low of 93.10 points, which was last seen in January 1981; and an all-time high of 2,228.98 points, which was last seen in May 2011. It had first hit the 2,000-point mark on July 24, 2007, a year before the 2008 Global Financial Crisis broke out.

23 – Toronto police charged Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard with one count of sexual interference and two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm. The charges stemmed from three separate incidents in 2016 that involved two alleged victims. Hedley went on indefinite hiatus earlier in the year after Hoggard was accused of sexual misconduct in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

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Part of the reason for continuing demand for expensive goods is that those goods are complex, and thus require a high level of integrated skill to produce.  For example, take the conundrum of massive cruise ships, the stuff of Costa Concordia size, now being built at 140,000 tons, a floating city of 5,000 guests and another 2,500 staff.  These monsters are invariably built up an obscure North German River, the Ems, at the town of Papenburg, at the Meyer Werft shipyard, which has been around in the Meyer family since 1795  (the current CEO is Jan Meyer, no surprise).  Here in this tiny town you have this monster shipyard with 3,300 men building the world's cruise ships.  German (and danish) shipwrights will earn easily the equivalent of $50,000/year each; the men in yards in Romania are paid $2,500./year, and in say Poland perhaps $4,000./year.  So the logical approach you would think would be to build the hull (if not the entire ship) in Romania, then tow it up to Germany or Denmark and do the outfitting there. 

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