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Early in college, Ou Jiayong had already learned two things. One, textbooks can be wrong. And two, it can be hard to change them — especially on topics as sensitive in China as homosexuality.

In 2016, during her first year at South China Agricultural University in her hometown, Guangzhou, she stumbled across a psychology textbook that described being gay as a mental disorder.

As a lesbian, Ms. Ou felt that was unacceptable, but the complaints she made went nowhere.

So Ms. Ou, who also uses the name Xixi, brought a lawsuit demanding that the publisher remove the reference and publicly apologize. Her case has renewed the conversation about tolerance and human rights in a country where discrimination based on sexual orientation is rampant and where homosexuality has long been seen as incompatible with the traditional emphasis on marriage.

In a letter to the judge, Ms. Ou, now 23, recalled being “deeply stung” when she read the textbook. “It brought back memories of being laughed at by my classmates because of my homosexuality,” she wrote in the letter, which her lawyer read aloud in court this summer, three years after the suit was filed.

The judge was unswayed. Last month, the court in Jiangsu Province in eastern China ruled in favor of the publisher, Jinan University Press, saying the content did not “contain factual errors.”

Ms. Ou’s case stunned many people who had no idea that some textbooks still classified homosexuality as a disease, said Peng Yanzi, director of L.G.B.T. Rights Advocacy China, an influential group that has led many awareness-raising campaigns. Citing a survey that a research group conducted in 2016 and 2017, out of the 91 psychology textbooks used in Chinese universities, almost half of them said that homosexuality was a type of disease. Several have been amended, Mr. Peng said, but “many more” remain.

A hashtag about Ms. Ou’s case on Weibo, a popular social media platform, generated 26.7 million views, and several Chinese newspapers covered the hearing in July. Three weeks after the verdict, a school in Jiangsu said it would amend a health education manual after an internet user highlighted a phrase in it that said: “Homosexuality goes against the laws of nature.”

Ms. Ou has also galvanized China’s L.G.B.T. communities, Mr. Peng said.

“Many admire her for doing this for three years, in particular gay people, who are encouraged by this kind of bravery,” he said.

In recent years, L.G.B.T. communities have been asserting their rights more forcefully, suing “gay conversion” clinics, employers and even the government. This year, as China prepared to adopt its first civil code, activists led an unsuccessful push for the legalization of same-sex marriage, flooding legislators with more than 230,000 online suggestions and letters.

Even though China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from an official list of psychiatric disorders in 2001, discrimination persists in employment, health care and other areas. Many people, including Ms. Ou, are not open with their families about being gay.

Darius Longarino, a research scholar in law at Yale Law School who has managed legal reform programs promoting L.G.B.T. rights in China, said Ms. Ou’s case had brought “a rights issue into a scientific and technical terrain where the evidence is all on your side.”

L.G.B.T. communities have tried that approach in the past. In 2015, a student sued the Ministry of Education over textbooks that describe homosexuality as an affliction, arguing that the government was responsible for ensuring the books’ quality and should disclose its approval process; she lost two years later. In 2014, a Chinese court ordered a clinic to compensate a man who underwent electroshock therapy designed to “cure” homosexuality, saying the clinic had committed consumer fraud.

But suing for discrimination is harder because Chinese law does not protect people based on their sexual identity. Like the case against the clinic, Ms. Ou’s lawsuit was couched as a violation of consumer rights, with her lawyers arguing that there were dozens of typos and other errors in the 2013 edition of “Mental Health Education for College Students,” a widely used textbook.

The most egregious error, they said, was this phrase: “Compared with the sexual orientation of most people, homosexuality can be seen as a mental disorder or a confusion of sexual desires.” Since homosexuality is no longer on China’s official list of psychiatric disorders, the phrase is factually incorrect and the publisher should be held liable, said Leon Ge, Ms. Ou’s lawyer.

As the case encountered repeated delays, Ms. Ou completed her degree in sociology in mainland China and moved to the semiautonomous territory of Hong Kong, where she now works for a labor rights organization.

“We used a very difficult method to sue, and after three years, we are still insisting that they correct the error,” Mr. Ge said. “That, in itself, is symbolic.”

Ms. Ou’s activism began in college, when she took courses on gender equality and joined an L.G.B.T. student group at another school.

She described the humiliation she felt her freshman year when she participated in a debate about whether a gay couple could form a family. One classmate cited a psychology textbook to argue against same-sex marriage. Another asked Ms. Ou how she would feel if she were surrounded by gay people.

“I’m gay,” Ms. Ou said, as the classroom erupted in laughter. She recalled that a male classmate responded, “Whatever you say about your own life is meaningless, the textbook is right!”

In May 2016, after Ms. Ou discovered the offending phrase in the textbook, she sent an email to the publisher but received no reply. She turned up at the publisher’s office with a letter signed by 300 people asking for the textbook to be revised. An employee accepted her letter, but no one followed up. She then contacted the provincial Press and Publication Bureau, which responded by saying that the content had no “factual or logical mistakes.”

She took the publisher to court the next year, driven by her classmates’ derogatory comments as well as the suicide of a gay student at a Guangzhou university in 2015.

When the hearing was finally scheduled for this summer, Ms. Ou could not return to the mainland in time because of pandemic restrictions. So she stayed up through the night writing two letters to the judge, including one that she asked to be read out in court.

In it, Ms. Ou argued that the judge and the publisher must have had their own experiences being ridiculed over personal qualities beyond their control.

“I believe you can empathize with the daily injustices that minority students face on campus: being isolated, cursed, beaten and even sexually assaulted,” she wrote. “We should not tolerate discrimination. We have to change.

Ms. Ou said she was appealing the judge’s ruling against her, comparing the fight to her hobby of hiking.

“How can you just quit? You can only continue walking,” she said. “This is a path with no return.”

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian regulator Anvisa on Friday authorized a biomedical center to import 6 million doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, one day after President Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil would not buy the Chinese vaccine.

Sao Paulo’s Butantan Institute plans to initially import Sinovac’s vaccine, which is in phase 3 trials conducted with the help of a local university and not yet approved for wider use in Brazil. Butantan would ultimately manufacture the vaccine if proven effective.

Brazil’s Sao Paulo governor João Doria said earlier on Friday that Anvisa told him it will not bow to political pressure over the approval of potential coronavirus vaccines.

Earlier this week, Bolsonaro said on social media that Brazil would not buy the coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, over apparent political concerns after being questioned by his supporters about the Chinese candidate.[nL1N2HC0MW]

Brazil has the second-deadliest outbreak of COVID-19 after the United States, with 156,471 deaths.

Saturday 3 October was the wettest day for UK-wide rainfall since records began in 1891, Met Office researchers have said.

The downpour followed in the wake of Storm Alex and saw an average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) of rain across the entire UK.

The deluge was enough to exceed the capacity of Loch Ness - the largest lake in the UK by volume - the researchers added.

The previous record wettest day was 29 August 1986.

It has been a year of stark contrasts across the UK when it comes to rainfall.

Two named storms, Ciara and Dennis, helped push February to the top of the records as the wettest ever in the UK.

This was followed by a very dry and bright spring that saw May break the record for sunniest calendar month with 266 hours of sunshine.

But a middling summer has been followed by a drenching autumn across much of the UK.

In the wake of Storm Alex, the heavens opened almost everywhere.

"The main characteristic for October 3 was moderate but persistent rain, and it was very widespread," said Dr Mark McCarthy, from the Met Office.

"We had 30 to 50mm of rain, quite extensively across large parts of the UK that day, and that's quite unusual."

If all that rain was collected together, Dr McCarthy said, it would over top the UK's biggest lake by volume.

"So 31.7mm across the area of the UK equates to around 7.6 cubic kilometres of water by volume," he said, adding: "Loch Ness is around 7.4-7.5 cubic kilometres."

While the previous record came during the very wet summer of 1986, the third wettest day across the UK was on 15 February this year with 27.2mm.

Many parts of the UK have already passed their average October rainfall in the first couple of weeks of the month.

Oxfordshire is leading the way as the wettest county, with around 148% of its long-term average October rain experienced so far.

So, do these heavy downpours across 2020 show the signal of climate change?

"We can't make any definitive statements specifically about the attribution of this particular event on October 3," said Dr McCarthy.

"There's a general expectation that under our warming climate, we would expect to see increases in some types of extreme rainfall and rainfall events and we're expecting to have wetter winters overall, we could expect increases in these types of extremes."

While the record for the wettest day on average across the UK stood for 34 years, it might not take so long to break it again.

"Over recent decades that we have seen a cluster of notable rainfall records in the last sort of 10 to 20 years in quite a long rainfall series," said Dr McCarthy.

"So it would fit within the general pattern that we're observing, and aspects of what we would expect continued climate change to lead to."

In the real world, two main factors determine the appearance of a surface: what an object is made of, and light. When light hits the object, some of the light is absorbed and some of it is reflected. The smoother the object, the shinier it is; the rougher the object, the more matte it is.

In Maya, the appearance of a surface is defined by how it’s shaded. Surface shading is a combination of the basic material of an object and any textures that are applied to it.

In Maya, materials (also called shaders) define an object’s substance. Some of the most basic attributes of materials include color, transparency, and shine. For more information see Maya materials.

Factors beyond basic color, transparency, and shine that determine the appearance of an object’s surface (such as more complex color, transparency, shine, surface relief, reflection, or atmosphere) are defined by textures. See also Textures, 2D and 3D textures, Procedural textures, and File textures.

Les Hongrois l’ont surnommé « KGBela » pour sa proximité supposée avec les services russes. Mais jeudi 24 septembre, Bela Kovacs, ancien eurodéputé du parti d’extrême droite hongrois Jobbik, a été acquitté par un tribunal de Budapest des charges « d’espionnage contre les institutions de l’Union européenne » qui pesaient contre lui depuis 2014. Elu entre 2010 et 2019, ce très discret élu du Parlement de Strasbourg, proche de l’ex-eurodéputé RN Bruno Gollnisch, était accusé par le parquet hongrois d’avoir transmis des documents confidentiels à Moscou, une première pour un eurodéputé dans l’exercice de ses fonctions.

China's top legislature has formally adopted a resolution easing the country's one-child policy, the state news agency Xinhua reports.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed a resolution allowing couples to have two children if either parent is an only child.

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The changes in policy were announced following a meeting of top Communist Party officials in November.

The reforms, which came at the end of a six-day meeting of the congress, have already been tested in parts of the country.

They needed formal legislative approval to be put into effect.

It is expected that reforms will be rolled out gradually and incrementally around the country, with provincial authorities entrusted to make their own decisions on implementation according to the local demographic situation.

Factors other than the one-child policy, such as a lack of social security support, have also encouraged couples to limit their offspring.

China is now believed to have a birth rate of just over 1.5 children per woman of child-bearing age - which is, in fact, higher than many of its regional neighbours, including Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

Niger has the world's highest birth rate per woman, with over seven, India has 2.55 and the US has 2.06.

'Leftover men'

China introduced its one-child policy at the end of the 1970s to curb rapid population growth.

But correspondents say the policy has become increasingly unpopular and that leaders fear the country's ageing population will both reduce the labour pool and exacerbate elderly care issues.

By 2050, more than a quarter of the population will be over 65.

The one-child policy has on the whole been strictly enforced, though some exceptions already exist, including for ethnic minorities.

Previous reforms also permitted couples to have a second child where both were only children or, in the case of rural couples, where their first-born child was a girl.

The traditional preference for boys has created a gender imbalance as some couples opt for sex-selective abortions.

By the end of the decade, demographers say China will have 24 million "leftover men" who, because of China's gender imbalance, will not be able to find a wife.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s economy remains resilient and there are ample policy tools at Beijing’s disposal despite rising external risks, President Xi Jinping said in remarks published on Saturday.

The world’s second-largest economy has steadily recovered from a virus-induced slump, but analysts say policymakers face a tough job to maintain stable expansion over the next several years to turn China into a high-income nation.

“The basic characteristics of China’s economy with sufficient potential, great resilience, strong vitality, large space for manoeuvre and many policy instruments have not changed,” Xinhua news agency quoted Xi as saying.

China has strong manufacturing capacity, very large domestic markets and huge investment potentials, Xi said.

Xi reaffirmed a “dual circulation” strategy that would help steer the economy towards greater self-reliance, as U.S. hostility and a global pandemic increase external risks.

China still enjoyed “strategic opportunities” in its development, although the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated global challenges as globalisation slows and unilateralism and protectionism are rising, Xi was quoted as saying at a meeting on the country’s 14th five-year plan (2021-2025).

“We must seek our development in a more unstable and uncertain world,” he said.

Xi urged calmness amid rising difficulties and challenges.

“The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation can never be achieved easily with the beating of gongs and drums,” he said.

I knew how to cook rice with a saucepan through perhaps Jamie Oliver's videos. I shot a video of making Richard Mabey's double cooked pork belly with rice, with a saucepan. Perhaps people in the west they do not have a rice cooker as we do in the east. We'd better to use Ken Hom and Ching He Huang's recipes as they have been tested good. If you check their versions of making egg fried rice on BBC, Asian people like me may find them authentic. BBC means a certain sort of a whole new world to its audience, so don't say you don't know what BBC is. If you are not a regular audience, how could you judge it fairly on its quality?

A series of amendments proposed for the Ontario government’s housing and rental legislation has sparked charges that the measures could speed up evictions and lead some renters to lose their housing without a hearing.

On March 20, Premier Doug Ford reassured renters who fear they might be left homeless amid the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic if they can’t pay their rent. “Be responsible, pay if you can, but if you’re down and out and just don’t have the money, food is more important to put on the table than paying rent,” Mr. Ford said at a daily news briefing. “I’ll be making sure I have their back – if they can’t pay rent, they aren’t going to be evicted.” On March 12 the Ford government introduced Bill 184, “Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act 2020,” which included a number of measures to speed up evictions at the chronically backlogged Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). Last week, the standing committee on social policy voted on a package of government and opposition amendments, rejecting NDP amendments that would have specifically banned evictions relating to late rent payments caused by the pandemic. Instead, the committee approved changes that would require the LTB to consider – retroactive to March 17 – whether landlord and tenants had attempted to negotiate any repayment plan.

“If tenants, during COVID, have done what the Premier told them to do, they could still be evicted,” said Suze Morrison, Toronto Centre NDP MPP and tenant’s rights critic. “The temporary ban on evictions hasn’t stopped landlords from filing, and tenants are very concerned about an unprecedented oncoming wave of evictions in the province.”

Kenn Hale, director of legal services at Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, says Bill 184 expands the scope of written agreements tenants and landlords can already enter into to resolve payment disputes without a full hearing of the LTB. Before, such agreements could not include an eviction clause, and now tenants can sign away their right to a hearing.

“The day you come up a dollar short of a day late, the landlord can call the sheriff’s office,” Ms. Morrison said. A resident living under such a deal could “effectively lose their right to a hearing.”

“We think there should be an ability for a landlord and tenant to negotiate a repayment plan that doesn’t require as much oversight from the board,” said Tony Irwin, chief executive officer of the Federation of Rental-Housing Providers of Ontario, which represents some of the largest landlords in the country. He points out pre-COVID-19 hearings could sometimes take several months to resolve, a backlog the pandemic has undoubtedly worsened. The new process changes decades of practice in Ontario where any application to remove someone from their home gives them a chance to be heard by an adjudicator first. “Depending on the circumstances, an adjudicator could issue an eviction order without a hearing … that’s what’s caused a lot of angst.”

Last week amendments to the bill went further, instructing the board to consider whether any attempt to negotiate a repayment plan has been made by a landlord prior to filing for eviction, retroactive to the beginning of the pandemic state of emergency on March 17.

Tenants, Ms. Morrison said, will feel pressure to signing such agreements because they will be given weight at any potential LTB hearing. “Our concern is it opens the door to make this process ripe for abuses,” she said.

“This change would emphasize to landlords the importance of making efforts to negotiate repayment plans with their tenants to help maintain tenancies where tenants have been impacted by COVID-19, as they may not be able to obtain an eviction order if they have not made attempts to do so,” said Conrad Spezowka, spokesman for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

However, the text of the amendment gives no direction to the LTB how it should weigh the fairness of those negotiations, merely that it should consider them.

“Some of these repayment plans are crippling,” said Bryan Doherty, tenant activist behind Toronto’s Keep Your Rent campaign. ”If COVID didn’t get you, the repayment plan will.” He says he knows of tenants who have been offered repayment plans where if they miss one month’s rent, the following two months rent will be 50 per cent higher to catch up – and often the agreements maintain the right to evict later anyway. “If you’re going to be evicted because you refused a usurious or dangerous repayment plan, where does that leave a tenant?”

“This bill caters to medieval thinking,” said Mr. Hale, who argues the government seems to be prioritizing the expansion of eviction powers when the pandemic has shown putting people on the streets isn’t the only way to resolve disputes. “We’ve had an eviction moratorium, and the world hasn’t fallen apart … [Bill 184] is not really dealing with the housing problems of low-income people.”

Mr. Irwin urges renters to wait and see.

“We’re in a pandemic. Losing housing is not something we want anyone to experience right now … but on the other hand, as time goes on, there has to be some sort of a plan to reopen the LTB,” Mr. Irwin said. “I don’t expect this will lead to an opening of the floodgates of ex-parte eviction orders being granted. … Until we actually see how this is operationalized by the LTB, we don’t really know what’s going to happen.”

From his balcony in Parkdale, Mr. Doherty can see where two homeless encampments are, with close to 200 people living in them already. “This is the reality if the landlords get what they want, for the sake of four months of rent, they are willing to pile a homelessness crisis on top of this pandemic,” he said.

It was a warm spring evening, and the golden pinnacle of the Leifeng tower was gleaming in the sunlight. We sat by the shore of Hangzhou’s West Lake, watching the boatmen pass in their low wooden vessels, the oars casting silvery ripples across the surface of the water. In our glasses, set on the balustrade, the grey-green, spear-like leaves of Dragon Well tea quivered in a delicate infusion. I had no desire to do anything else, to be anywhere else. After three weeks of work and travel, just being in Hangzhou was a tonic. I could certainly understand why its inhabitants are said to be the happiest in China.

Hangzhou is less than two hours by train from Shanghai, yet it’s a complete change of scene. If Shanghai is the flirtatious sing-song girl who gets all the international attention, Hangzhou is like the beautiful and accomplished daughter of a bookish household: quieter, but more refined. The cityscape itself, like most in China nowadays, is largely new-build and unexciting, but the West Lake has an almost magnetic attraction. Its shores are fringed with peach trees and willows, ringed with paths that lead through landscaped gardens to peaceful teahouses on its brink; and scattered with benches where you can sit and admire the view. On a sunny day, the water glitters; when it’s misty, the scene has the softness of a traditional ink-and-water painting.

As with the city, so too its food. Foreigners flock to the glamorous restaurants on the Bund in Shanghai, and often overlook the pleasures to be found just an hour or two inland. Chinese gourmets point out that the Shanghai gastronomic scene is an upstart, and that until recently (in Chinese dynastic terms), the city was a fishing village. Hangzhou, by contrast, is a place with rich and ancient gastronomic associations. Its most famous dish, Dongpo pork, is named after the 11th-century poet and governor of Hangzhou, Su Dongpo. According to legend, he wanted to reward the people of Hangzhou for their efforts in dredging the West Lake, so he ordered his servants to cook the year-end gifts he’d received of pork and Shaoxing wine according to his favourite recipe – a slow-cooked stew in which wine took the place of water – and then sent it to the workers’ households. It was so exquisite, so meltingly soft and wine-fragrant, that it has never been forgotten. Another local delicacy, Mrs Song’s fish chowder, is named after a cook who lived in Hangzhou some 800 years ago, and whose subtle blend of fish and slivered ingredients in a broth sharpened by vinegar attracted the attention of the emperor.

Several notable local restaurants specialise in the cooking of Hangzhou and the wider Southern Yangtze region. The Zhiweiguan is what is known in China as a “famous old name” (or laozihao). It grew out of a simple wonton shop that opened in 1913, and was a popular local restaurant by the 1930s. It now has several branches in the city. The most highly regarded is the Wei Zhuang, a complex of restaurant buildings linked by zig-zagging walkways above an inlet of the main West Lake. One of the two public dining rooms on the ground floor offers the local equivalent of Cantonese dim sum, which includes wontons, and “cats’ ears” pasta in soup (a Chinese version of orecchiette), but the finest dining experience comes in the 40 private rooms. If you take one of these with a group of friends, you can try accomplished versions of Hangzhou classics, such as a sumptuous Dongpo pork served with stewed pigeon’s eggs and asparagus spears, Hangzhou spiced duck, and fragile Wushan pastries dusted with icing sugar.

The Hangzhou Restaurant is in the new city rather than the scenic area, and is run by the nationally acclaimed chef Hu Zhongying. The menu reads like a roll-call of local specialities. Try, for example, the snow-white, cloud-like fish balls, served in a clear broth with a pretty garnish of Jinhua ham, shiitake mushroom and greens; the “jingling bells” (xiang ling), crisp whispers of beancurd skin that rustle and then melt in your mouth; and the magnificent hilsa herring (sadly now imported, since there are none left to speak of in the Yangtze), steamed in its scales for maximum richness. The menu has neither pictures nor English translation, so non-Chinese speakers might need a guide.

High-end hotels are not usually the best places for regional food, but the Hyatt chain in China has a policy of recruiting talented local chefs to prepare refined versions of local delicacies. The head chef at 28 Hubin Road restaurant in the Hyatt Regency, Hangzhou, is the young Fu Yueliang, regarded by many of his peers as outstandingly talented and single-minded. His menu includes both Hangzhou delicacies and dishes from other parts of China. Local highlights include Beggar’s Chicken, which is brought whole to the table, so your waiter can smash the mud crust with a hammer and unwrap the fragrant lotus leaves to reveal a tender, juicy bird; and a spectacular version of Dongpo pork, a virtuoso display of knifework served with chestnut flour buns. The advantage for non-Chinese speakers of a place like this is a clear menu with good English translation.

Just outside Hangzhou, on the winding road that leads to the tea-growing village of Longjing, lies Dragon Well Manor, which must be one of the most delightful places to eat in China. It consists of a cluster of private dining pavilions in a beautiful garden surrounded by hills. In an age of food scares, the manor offers what its owner, Dai Jianjun, likes to call fang xin cai – literally “dishes that put your heart to rest”. The fixed daily menu (there is no à la carte) is made from fresh, seasonal ingredients, almost all of which are sourced directly from peasant households practising what westerners would call organic or biodynamic agriculture. Some of the dishes are very simple – omelettes made from free-range eggs and chives, or steamed bamboo shoots. Others are more extravagant, like braised sea cucumber or a milky soup of carp and wolfberries. The surroundings are exquisite, the service attentive, and the food a tonic for body and soul.

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Summary

What is diarrhea?

Diarrhea is loose, watery stools (bowel movements). You have diarrhea if you have loose stools three or more times in one day. Acute diarrhea is diarrhea that lasts a short time. It is a common problem. It usually lasts about one or two days, but it may last longer. Then it goes away on its own.

Diarrhea lasting more than a few days may be a sign of a more serious problem. Chronic diarrhea -- diarrhea that lasts at least four weeks -- can be a symptom of a chronic disease. Chronic diarrhea symptoms may be continual, or they may come and go.

What causes diarrhea?

The most common causes of diarrhea include

Bacteria from contaminated food or water

Viruses such as the flu, norovirus, or rotavirus . Rotavirus is the most common cause of acute diarrhea in children.

Parasites, which are tiny organisms found in contaminated food or water

Medicines such as antibiotics, cancer drugs, and antacids that contain magnesium

Food intolerances and sensitivities, which are problems digesting certain ingredients or foods. An example is lactose intolerance.

Diseases that affect the stomach, small intestine, or colon, such as Crohn's disease

Problems with how the colon functions, such as irritable bowel syndrome

Some people also get diarrhea after stomach surgery, because sometimes the surgeries can cause food to move through your digestive system more quickly.

Sometimes no cause can be found. If your diarrhea goes away within a few days, finding the cause is usually not necessary.

Who is at risk for diarrhea?

People of all ages can get diarrhea. On average, adults In the United States have acute diarrhea once a year. Young children have it an average of twice a year.

People who visit developing countries are at risk for traveler's diarrhea. It is caused by consuming contaminated food or water.

What other symptoms might I have with diarrhea?

Other possible symptoms of diarrhea include

Cramps or pain in the abdomen

An urgent need to use the bathroom

Loss of bowel control

If a virus or bacteria is the cause of your diarrhea, you may also have a fever, chills, and bloody stools.

Diarrhea can cause dehydration, which means that your body does not have enough fluid to work properly. Dehydration can be serious, especially for children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems.

When do I need to see a health care provider for diarrhea?

Although it is usually not harmful, diarrhea can become dangerous or signal a more serious problem. Contact your health care provider if you have

Signs of dehydration

Diarrhea for more than 2 days, if you are an adult. For children, contact the provider if it lasts more than 24 hours.

Severe pain in your abdomen or rectum (for adults)

A fever of 102 degrees or higher

Stools containing blood or pus

Stools that are black and tarry

If children have diarrhea, parents or caregivers should not hesitate to call a health care provider. Diarrhea can be especially dangerous in newborns and infants.

How is the cause of diarrhea diagnosed?

To find the cause of diarrhea, your health care provider may

Do a physical exam

Ask about any medicines you are taking

Test your stool or blood to look for bacteria, parasites, or other signs of disease or infection

Ask you to stop eating certain foods to see whether your diarrhea goes away

If you have chronic diarrhea, your health care provider may perform other tests to look for signs of disease.

What are the treatments for diarrhea?

Diarrhea is treated by replacing lost fluids and electrolytes to prevent dehydration. Depending on the cause of the problem, you may need medicines to stop the diarrhea or treat an infection.

Adults with diarrhea should drink water, fruit juices, sports drinks, sodas without caffeine, and salty broths. As your symptoms improve, you can eat soft, bland food.

Children with diarrhea should be given oral rehydration solutions to replace lost fluids and electrolytes.

Can diarrhea be prevented?

Two types of diarrhea can be prevented - rotavirus diarrhea and traveler's diarrhea. There are vaccines for rotavirus. They are given to babies in two or three doses.

You can help prevent traveler's diarrhea by being careful about what you eat and drink when you are in developing countries:

Use only bottled or purified water for drinking, making ice cubes, and brushing your teeth

If you do use tap water, boil it or use iodine tablets

Make sure that the cooked food you eat is fully cooked and served hot

Avoid unwashed or unpeeled raw fruits and vegetables

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Chinese state-owned gold companies are going after some of the most troubled gold companies in Canada, betting that their deep pockets, cheaper access to capital and long time horizons will pay off.

In the past few months, Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. proposed a $323-million acquisition of Guyana Goldfields Inc., and Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd. offered to buy TMAC Resources Inc. for $207.4-million.

Both Toronto-based companies are among the most beaten-down assets in the Canadian gold sector, with Guyana long grappling with grade problems at its Aurora mine and TMAC struggling for years with an underperforming mill at its Doris mine in the Arctic.

“It has been a pattern,” Barry Allan, analyst with Laurentian Bank Securities Inc., said of the Chinese targeting the problem children of the Canadian gold mining sector. “Certainly the Chinese like deep value.”

The Chinese companies can afford to take their time betting on companies such as TMAC and Guyana Goldfields. Their time horizons are much longer than both publicly traded Western miners, whose investors typically demand quick turnarounds on acquisitions, and even private equity buyers who can afford to wait about six years for a return.

With access to the vast coffers of the state, Chinese buyers have ready access to cash for both the acquisition itself and the hundreds of millions of dollars in additional capital that are often needed to fix companies such as Guyana and TMAC.

“Buying the asset is just a ticket to the dance. There’s still a lot more money to be thrown in,” said Jon Case, precious metals portfolio manager with Sentry Inc. “Not a lot of companies have that firepower.”

While the ore at TMAC’s underground Doris mine in Nunavut is high grade, the company’s mill has been problematic. Since Doris went into production in 2017, output has been consistently lower than expected and costs significantly higher than predicted, in large part because of the company’s decision to use an unconventional modular mill.

Close to $700-million is needed to rightsize TMAC, including the construction of a brand new conventional mill.

Guyana Goldfields, too, needs a big capital infusion. Last year, the company stunned investors by reducing its gold reserves by 40 per cent after an earlier geological model overestimated the amount of gold in the ground at its Aurora mine in northwestern Guyana. The cost to transition from the current open-pit operation to a higher grade underground mine is about $140-million.

Rick Rule, chief executive officer of Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc., said the Chinese hold a major trump card when heavy capital expenditures are needed because their input costs are much lower than Western miners. That encompasses everything from raw materials, such as steel that they can source domestically, to cheaper labour costs and savings on using their own engineering firms.

Chinese state-owned firms can also raise money for mine construction on much better terms than junior Canadian miners. Mr. Rule said they can borrow at interest rates as low as 5 per cent, compared to as much as the 15 per cent TMAC might be subject to.

If Shandong were to borrow the $680-million needed to fix TMAC, for example, its interest costs would be $34-million a year. TMAC, by comparison, would have to pay up to $102-million a year. Over three years, Shandong could save $204-million in financing costs alone.

“The Chinese have a durable advantage in terms of both capital cost and cost of capital,” Mr. Rule said.

Before the TMAC and Guyana acquisitions can close, they must pass a security screening by the Canadian government. In April, Ottawa announced it would subject acquisitions by foreign state-owned firms to “enhanced scrutiny” in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If the government suspects either transaction could be a threat to national security, the deals could undergo a more thorough review under Section 25.3 of the Investment Canada Act. Canada has rejected large takeover deals on security grounds in the past, including the proposed $1.5-billion acquisition of construction company Aecon Group by China’s CCCC International Holding Ltd. in 2018.

This year, Ottawa has already given the nod to one large acquisition in the gold sector by a foreign buyer.

Last month, the federal government approved London-based Endeavour Mining Corp.‘s $1-billion takeover of Montreal-based gold company Semafo Inc. Since Semafo’s gold operations are located in West Africa, ostensibly the takeover presented little risk to Canadian national security.

Guyana Goldfields’ operations are also abroad – meaning on the surface, the acquisition by Zijin would not appear to be problematic.

TMAC’s operations by contrast are located not only within Canada, but also in a sensitive location from a national security viewpoint. The Doris mine is situated near tidewater in the Northwest Passage, a highly strategic shipping route connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

China doesn’t own any territory in the Arctic but has referred to itself in the past as a “near Arctic” state.

http://www.zijinmining.com/

http://en.sdhjgf.com.cn/

https://www.guygold.com/Home/default.aspx

https://www.tmacresources.com/Home/default.aspx

New words and expressions

grapple /ˈɡræpl/

acquisition /ˌækwɪˈzɪʃn/

coffer /ˈkɒfə(r)/

ore /ɔː(r)/

unconventional /ˌʌnkənˈvenʃənl/

modular /ˈmɒdjələ(r)/

rightsize /ˈraɪtsaɪz/

encompass /ɪnˈkʌmpəs/

scrutiny /ˈskruːtəni/

ostensibly /ɒˈstensəbli/

tidewater /ˈtaɪdwɔːtə(r)/

passage /ˈpæsɪdʒ/

Notes on the text

谷歌翻译

中国国有黄金公司正在追逐加拿大一些最陷入困境的黄金公司，押注他们的财力雄厚，获得资本的成本较低以及长期的发展前景将会得到回报。

在过去的几个月中，紫金矿业集团有限公司提出以3.23亿美元的价格收购圭亚那金矿公司，山东黄金矿业有限公司提出以2.074亿美元的价格收购TMAC Resources Inc.。

多伦多的两家公司都是加拿大黄金行业中表现最差的资产之一，圭亚那长期以来一直在努力解决其Aurora矿的品位问题，而TMAC在其位于北极的Doris矿的表现不佳的钢厂中苦苦挣扎多年。

劳伦森银行证券公司（Laurentian Bank Securities Inc.）的分析师巴里·艾伦（Barry Allan）说：“这是一种模式。中国人瞄准的是加拿大黄金开采业的问题儿童。当然，中国人喜欢深厚的价值。”

中国公司有能力花时间在TMAC和Guyana Goldfields等公司上，他们的时间跨度要比公开交易的西方矿商长得多，西方矿商的投资者通常要求快速完成并购，甚至有能力买得起的私募股权购买者。等待大约六年才能返回。

由于可以利用该州庞大的资金，中国买家可以随时为收购本身以及获得修复圭亚那和TMAC等公司所需的数亿美元的额外资金获取现金。

Sentry Inc.贵金属投资组合经理乔恩·凯斯（Jon Case）说：“购买资产只是跳水舞的门票。还有很多钱可以投入。没有很多公司拥有这种火力。”

尽管TMAC位于努纳武特（Nunavut）的地下Doris矿的矿石品位高，但该公司的轧机一直存在问题。自2017年Doris投产以来，产量一直低于预期，成本也大大高于预期，这在很大程度上是由于该公司的决定使用非常规的模块化轧机。

要使TMAC合法化，需要将近7亿美元，其中包括建设一个全新的常规工厂。

圭亚那金矿区也需要大量的注资，去年，该公司通过早期的地质模型高估了圭亚那西北部Aurora矿场地下的黄金量，使黄金储备减少了40％，从而震惊了投资者。从目前的露天开采过渡到更高品位的地下矿山大约需要1.4亿美元。

Sprott US Holdings Inc.首席执行官Rick Rule表示，在需要大量资本支出的情况下，中国人持有一张王牌，因为他们的投入成本远低于西方矿商，这与原材料（例如钢铁）相关联。可以从国内采购，从而降低劳动力成本并节省使用自己的工程公司的费用。

相比于加拿大初级矿业公司，中国国有企业还可以以更好的条件为矿山建设筹集资金，Rule先生说，他们可以以低至5％的利率借款，而TMAC可能高达15％的利率。

例如，如果山东要借贷6.8亿美元来修复塔马克，那么它的利息成本将是每年3400万美元，相比之下，塔马克每年将需要偿还高达1.02亿美元。仅此一项就可以节省2.04亿美元的融资成本。

Rule先生说：“中国人在资本成本和资本成本方面都具有持久的优势。”

在TMAC和圭亚那的收购完成之前，他们必须经过加拿大政府的安全审查。4月，渥太华宣布，将对外国国有公司的收购进行“加强审查”，以应对COVID-19大流行。

如果政府怀疑任何一项交易可能对国家安全构成威胁，则可以根据《加拿大投资法》第25.3条对交易进行更彻底的审查。

加拿大过去曾出于安全理由拒绝大型收购交易，包括中国CCCC International Holding Ltd.在2018年以15亿加元收购建筑公司Aecon Group的提议。

今年，渥太华已经同意了一位外国买家在黄金领域的一项大型收购。

上个月，联邦政府批准了总部位于伦敦的Endeavor Mining Corp.以10亿美元的价格收购总部位于蒙特利尔的黄金公司Semafo Inc.。由于Semafo的黄金业务位于西非，表面上看，此次收购对加拿大国家安全几乎没有风险。

圭亚那金矿公司的业务也在国外-从表面上看，紫金矿业的收购似乎没有问题。

相比之下，TMAC的运营不仅位于加拿大境内，而且从国家安全角度来看也位于敏感位置.Doris矿山位于西北通道的潮水附近，西北通道是连接大西洋与太平洋的高度战略性运输路线。

中国在北极没有领土，但过去称自己为“北极附近”国家。

Scarcely a week went by had Billy Yin felt the need to take in more protein powder as his instant noodles and frozen food from Iceland had extra nutrients added: they are not toxic and disruptive. He thought that a win-win deal, men sucking each other’s dick, is the word amicable means.

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Changbai mountain is located in east part of Northeast China, bordering North Korea and Russia. In autumn, its forests are colorful. From pine to perch, it is like telling a tale of talking trees. Tian Shan mountain is located in west part of Northwest China, bordering Russia, Kazakhstan. In autumn, its forests are colorful, which makes it famous for tourists.

The rivers originated from Changbai mountain begin to flow in summer. Woods are around smaller cities miles away from the mountain.

“The vegetation of the mountain slopes is divided into several different zones. At the top, above 2,000 metres, tundra predominates. From 1,700 to 2,000 metres, vegetation is dominated by mountain birch and larch. Below this zone, and down to 1,100 metres, the dominant trees are spruce, fir, and Korean pine.”

“Forests in the Changbai Mountains are the richest in northeast China. Low-elevation areas below 1,100 m support mixed stands of conifers and deciduous broadleaf trees. Conifers include Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis), fir (Abies holophylla), red pine (Pinus densiflora), and Japanese yew (Taxus caspidata ssp. Latifolia). Deciduous broadleaf trees include Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica), Tilia amurensis, ash (Fraxinus mandschurica), and dwarf birch (Betula ermanii). Plant species with a subtropical affinity also occur in these forests. Examples include woody climbers, native Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia spp.), or kiwi fruit, and “Dutchman’s pipe” (Aristolochia mandshuriensis). These lower elevation forests are similar and transitional to the surrounding Manchurian Mixed Forests ecoregion. Understory vegetation includes economically important, and in some cases much depleted, species such as ginseng (Panax ginseng), Manchurian wild ginger (Asarum heterotropoides), and Gastrodia spp. which is used as an analgesic.

The “dark conifer” forest zone at 1,100 to 1,900 m includes a species-rich assemblage of plants that trace their origins to Siberia, western Eurasia, Japan and the Korean Peninsula. The forest here is cloaked in moss and supports an understory of forbs, grasses, and ferns. At 1,100 to 1,500 m, the forest consists of spruce (Picea jezoensis, P. obovata), fir (Abies nephrolepis), and larch (Larix olgensis). At 1,500 to 1,900 m, the tree diversity declines to stands composed of Picea jezoensis and Abies nephrolepis with a reduced understory and dense moss layer. Subcanopy vegetation in the dark conifer forest includes maple (Acer ukurunduense), birch (Betula castata), mountain ash (Sorbus pohuashanensis), and poplar (Populus ussuriensis).

Alpine elevations support a variety of forb species. Exposed sites support meadow, but in favorable locations where snow protects exposed buds during winter, woody shrubs such as willow (Salix spp.), Vaccinium spp., Rhododendron spp., and dwarf rock birch (Betula ermannii) form a low groundcover.”

https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/pa0414

“Coniferous forests in the Tian Shan tend to be quite homogeneous. The system is dominated by the spruce, Picea schrenkiana, a tall tree with a narrow crown that may form single-species stands or may grow up through a layer of broad-leaved deciduous trees. At the lower elevations, spruce associates with aspen (Populus tremula), a pioneer of landslides and other disturbed sites. At higher elevations, the associated broad-leaved species include mountain ash (Sorbus tianschanica), willow (Salix xerophila), and several birch species including Betula tianschanica, B. verrucosa, and B. microphylla.

Landscape vistas reveal a park-like mosaic of cropped meadows, scattered shrublands, rocky outcrops and dense stands of narrowly conical, dark-needled spruce. Meadows serve as pastures in most locations and are dominated by the grasses Festuca spp., Poa spp., and Helictotrichon schellianum. In moist areas within the lower forest belt, a shrub understory grows beneath the forest canopy. Species here include Lonicera spp., Cotoneaster melanocarpa, Euonymus semenovii, Rosa albertii, and R. beggeriana. Some of these species are identical to those that dominate the adjacent shrub or steppe areas. In the upper forest belt, understory shrubs form “spruce thickets.” The shrubs found here (Juniperus turkestonica, J. sibirica, Caragana jubata, Salix spp., Dasiphora fruticosa, and Spiraea tianschanica) include many of the same species that comprise the alpine scrub vegetation at elevations above tree line. Where grazing pressure is high, pastures tend to acquire an increasing density of thorny, unpalatable shrubs like Lonicera spp., Rosa spp., and Berberis spp.

Grasses and forbs also occur in the forest understory. Some of the important species include the grasses Brachypodium pinnatum, Calamagrostis spp., Helictotrichon pubescens, Dactylis glomerata, Agropyron tianschanicum,and Poa nemoralis and the forbs Solidago virga-aurea, Mulgedium azureum, Doronicum altaicum, Senecio soongoricus, Crepis sibirica, Aegopodium alpestre, and Cerastium dahuricum.

Like the forests of the Himalaya, the middle-elevation coniferous forests here support diverse and luxuriant carpets of moss (Thuidium spp., Rhytidiadelphus spp., Hypnum spp., and other genera) in shady locations with understory vegetation adapted to low-light conditions (Pyrola spp. and saprophytic orchids like Corallorhiza innata).

The larch, Larix sibirica, is found in a few local areas in the extreme eastern part of the Tian Shan.”

https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/pa0521

Ingredients

Freezing Guidelines

Keep Frozen at -18°C or cooler. Important: If food has thawed, do not refreeze.

Defrosting

Remove all packaging

Defrost thoroughly for a minimum of 4-5 hours in the refrigerator

Alternatively defrost thoroughly for a minimum of 2½ hours at room temperature.

Once defrosted, keep refrigerated and use on the same day

Do not refreeze

Préparation de la recette

1 - Ici nous avons choisi de cuire la poitrine de porc au Kamado Joe en mode barbecue couvert pour une cuisson à coeur sans carbonisation.

2 - Préparer les braises avec du charbon de bois de qualité un quart d'heure avant de mettre en cuisson.

3 - Nous avons choisi des morceaux de poitrine de porc moins chers à l'achat et pourtant plus charnus que les travers seuls.

4 - Si vous choisissez des travers la méthode reste identique mais le temps de cuisson sera plus court.

5 - Dans un bol réunir les ingrédients de la marinade.

6 - Badigeonner les morceaux de porc sur toutes les faces.

7 - Démarrer la cuisson à petites braises et à découvert pour commencer.

8 - Dès la première coloration, couvrir et cuire à 150°C environ pendant une heure.

9 - A mi-cuisson ajouter les légumes d'accompagnement si vous en avez prévu.

10 - Remonter la viande d'un étage et terminer la cuisson à couvert. Vérifier de temps en temps la juste cuisson des légumes.

11 - On obtient une coloration typique de la cuisson au bbq ouvert avec une cuisson à coeur caractéristique d'une cuisson à couvert.

12 - A la découpe la viande est bien croustillante à l'extérieure et pas du tout sèche à l'intérieur.

Ingrédients

Pour cette recette de travers de porc ou poitrine de porc (ou ribs) au BBQ

2 kg de poitrine fraîche de porc - 2 cuillers à soupe de moutarde à l'ancienne - 2 cuillers à soupe d'herbes de Provence - 1 cuiller à soupe de pimento fumé - 3 gousses d'ail écrasées - 1 cuiller à soupe de miel - 4 cuillers à soupe de sauce soja -1 filet de vinaigre.

Cooking

travers de porc

poitrine de porc

cuite

Cbf 4 15 confident, ebiento

what are you waiting for

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remember what happend last time with

i remembered that you were there

i remembered what i did

remembering the holiday,

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promise me not to wait and to go to speak to her as soon as possible

it was hot enough for someone to go to swimming

it was nice enough for the children to play outside

last upadted 9 Janvier 2019 mercredi

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Instructions: 220°C / Fan 200°C / Gas 7 7-10 mins. Place on a baking tray on the top shelf of a preheated oven for 7-10 minutes or until golden brown.

Grill

Instructions: Place under a preheated medium grill for 3-5 minutes, turn and grill for a further 1 minute.