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China's foreign minister welcomed comments by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson offering reassurance to North Korea that Washington isn't seeking regime change there.
Tillerson said that the United States does not seek a collapse of the North Korean regime or an accelerated reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Wang said China hopes all sides could "meet each other half way to find a fundamental plan to resolve the security concerns of the parties through equal dialogue."

Tillerson also continued to push for Chinese help in keeping pressure on North Korea because of their special economic relationship.

US desire to change regime caused destructions of countries like Iraq, Syria, Libya recently, and may have set other countries back generation. So let us keep our desires to ourselves.

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Jolie...

In a newly released interview with Vanity Fair, actress Angelina Jolie opens up about her struggle with Bell’s palsy, a rare and often mysterious neurologic condition.

Bell’s palsy is a condition that leads to paralysis of the facial nerve, the peripheral nerve responsible for facial movement. Sufferers develop one-sided facial weakness -- generally over a matter of hours or days -- that can result in eyebrow sagging, inability to close the eye and drooping at the corner of the mouth. Other symptoms may include sensitivity to loud noise, ear pain on the side of paralysis and an impaired sense of taste. 

Crossing...

So many asylum seekers are crossing into Canada from the United States that Montreal's Olympic Stadium has been opened to house them.   The first groups were bused to the stadium. Cots are set up in the windowless, domed facility. The mainly Haitian migrants will stay until they get government financial assistance.

Francine Dupuis, head of a Quebec government-funded program that helps asylum seekers, said her organization helped 448 people in June and 1,174 in July, far more than previously.  Ninety percent are Haitians.

The U.S. is weighing ending a program that granted Haitians "temporary protected status" after Haiti's 2010 devastating earthquake. As many as 60,000 Haitians in the United States could be sent back to their homeland.

Dupuis said the YMCA and shelters are already full. She said the stadium has agreed to house up to 450 people for a few months but can't take more because they have other activities at the stadium.
She said her organization had usually been able to deal with an influx of migrants but the numbers now are unprecedented.

Rookie Mistake...

Andy Hall, a trader nicknamed the "God" of the oil and energy markets, is closing down his main hedge fund at Astenbeck Capital Management.   The flagship fund, Astenbeck Master Commodities Fund II, has tanked nearly 30 percent through June, Bloomberg reported, 

In July, Hall told investors in a letter that the global crude market had "materially worsened." He said OPEC has little control of the oil markets, and that $50 per barrel is the new normal, according to Bloomberg.  

Hall got his nickname for his ability to accurately predict the direction of oil markets. His main claim to fame came in 2008, a year in which he got a $100 million bonus as an oil trader at Citi.

Oil remains mired in a prolonged downturn that has seen crude prices crater from over $100 a barrel in 2014 to about $50 today. OPEC and other oil exporters have tried to drain a glut of oil by cutting their output, but the effort is taking longer than anticipated.

I knew that earlier. It was in the papers.   Just a thought.  

Shortage...

A recall of a drug used to treat critically ill patients has prompted some Canadian health authorities to begin rationing it for only the most serious cases.

Sodium bicarbonate is used to combat buildup of acid in the blood, in open heart surgery, as an antidote to certain poisons, in cases of organ failure, and in some types of cancer chemotherapy.

The company announced it was recalling two lots of vials of the drug due to the potential for microbial contamination, reducing the Alberta supply to just six to seven days.

The global supply of the vials has been tight since late May due to manufacturing delays.

Health Canada says it is working closely with the company, the provinces and territories as well as other partners and stakeholders to reduce the impact of the shortage on Canadian patients.

There are two injectable sodium bicarbonate drugs authorized in Canada, both supplied by Pfizer  vial format and pre-filled syringes. The recall does not affect the pre-filled syringe format.  Just a thought.

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