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Trump has not done all the things he said he would do during the campaign, and that is just as well, as some of the things he said he would do are just horrible.  I remember Trump addressing a large contingent of policemen and declaring that the policemen should not "be so gentle" when placing suspects into police cars, but should whack the detainee's heads against the door sills.  The policemen were horrified, but carefully avoided saying anything at that time.  Later, dozens of police chiefs roundly condemned that statement. 

With the steel industry experiencing an upturn, though, there aren't as many value-priced acquisition candidates around. So, Nucor has stepped back a little from buying assets (it hasn't stopped completely, but it also isn't willing to overspend). Instead, management has laid out plans for ground-up construction and plant expansions. It has nearly $2.2 billion worth of growth spending lined up through 2021 spread across nine projects.

5 – Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd. was hit with one of largest penalties ever imposed in Canada for an environmental violation. The company, based in Saint John, N.B., was fined $3.5 million for dumping improperly treated effluent into the Saint John River over a two-year period.

The MEB’s system is likely similar in concept to what’s offered in the Nissan Leaf (whose schematic is shown above) and the current Volkswagen e-Golf, whose heat pump VW explained in a 2013 press release, saying:

The regulator also argued that Eskom’s free cash flow is expected to be positive, even with the lower increase, and that the utility can further improve its cash flow position through capital expenditure (capex) rationalisation, along with better working capital management.

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One approach for commercializing new reaction systems is to incorporate an incremental slip-stream reactor in parallel with the existing reactor. While this approach avoids some of the costs associated with a large-scale demonstration, it may present less than ideal conditions for validating the new technology. Examples of limitations could be restrictions on equipment location or plot area, the inability to independently control pressure or flows, difficulties with equipment during startup and shutdown or the inability to maintain steady operations because of moving production-rate targets. Lastly, because the highest priority of plant operating personnel will always be the main production unit, the experimental program and the demonstration unit may not get the attention needed to guarantee success.

Each process-development program requires several project phases, from the initial proof-of-concept through numerous levels of technical readiness, stage gates and eventually to the construction of the commercial plant. These reassessment requirements vary greatly from company to company. As one can imagine, the technical readiness requirements for a major petroleum or chemical company are likely different from those of a technology licensor or engineering company. Even within the same organization, depending on starting point and complexity, each technology-development program has its own path and strategy to get from the initial concept to full-blown commercialization. Additionally, risk mitigation and individual risk tolerances set and drive the scaleup progression and development lifecycle. The textbook rules of process scaleup include steps going from a very small-scale testing apparatus (bench scale) to a more representative pilot plant, then possibly to a demonstration unit and finally to the commercial plant (Figure 2). It should be highlighted that scaleup is not only limited to the key process-unit operations, but also to the catalysts, feedstocks, additives and equipment that form the complete basis for the new process.

3 – Canada signed a legally-binding international agreement to block commercial fishing in the High Arctic for at least 16 years. Other signatories included Norway, Russia, the United States, China, Iceland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the European Union and Denmark in respect of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The agreement covers an area about the size of Quebec and Ontario combined.

“The battery cell availability is for us the base really to produce the cars,” Ulbrich said, “but we are taking care of it.”

28 – A massive earthquake and tsunami with waves as high as six metres struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, destroying more than 70,000 homes. The country’s national board for disaster management said on Oct. 8 that the death toll was at least 1,949 with another 2,500 people injured.

The shareholders include Managing Director Tharin Stuart and Director Robbie Carelse who oversees production and logistics