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Editor's Note: Thousands of Nova Scotians face daily challenges keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table, let alone living a safe and rewarding life.
Today 500 volunteers fan out across the city for a day of action, part of a campaign by United Way, supported by Halifax Regional Municipality, to develop and implement a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy. In the coming months, we'll be watching how they do and bringing you stories of people, their struggles and solutions, large and small.
Dianne Crosby was desperate to get back inside a kitchen when the debilitating pain of her second back surgery in as many years finally subsided.
A degenerative spinal condition had forced the 55-year-old Kentville resident to quit her job four years ago at Acadia University where she was employed as a cook, feeding hundreds of students a day.
So last February she seized the chance to volunteer at Open Arms community kitchen in Kentville. She saw it as a step toward getting off social assistance and to help the marginalized of her community.
For months Crosby was feeling better than she had in years. She was a hit with the clients.
But the pain came back, to the point that she needed a walker again. After four months on the job she was forced to quit.
Confined largely to her tiny one-bedroom apartment, she's now awaiting a third surgery. Each day she swallows a concoction of powerful anti-inflammatories and painkillers, including four Percocets a day, to manage the pain. She's forced to make due with an $846 monthly social assistance allowance, of which $570 goes to rent.
She can't make ends meet. Crosby's a regular at the community food bank but by mid-month her cupboards are largely empty. Her doctor has been prescribing her one bottle of Boost — a meal replacement drink — daily in an attempt to improve her health, but the province stopped paying for it two months ago.
She has appealed to her caseworker but has been given no assurance that the province will pay for the added cost, even though the Department of Community Services lists Boost among 17 diet-related expenses it covers. So she goes without.
"Why are they doing this to me?" said Crosby. "I have no money, there's absolutely no way I can make ends meet. My doctor prescribed me Boost so I can get as healthy as I can for my third surgery in just over two years.
"They're going to cut open my back and work on my spinal column. This isn't fixing a broken toe.
"I can't do anything. It makes me want to walk in front of a Mack truck, to be quite honest, and I keep threatening to do this because right now I feel like a waste of oxygen on this earth and I'm taking up money. I'm taking up space and I don't see a better future."
Crosby's monthly disability allowance offers $535 to cover housing and a personal allowance of $275 to pay for everything else. She gets an added $36 to pay for other expenses, including non-prescription drugs and medical transportation. Her monthly $659 disability pension cheque gets clawed back by the province. She sees none of it.
Vince Calderhead, a Halifax based pro bono lawyer with more than 30 years working on behalf of the poor as a Legal Aid counsel, says he sees no reason why the province is refusing to provide Crosby with what has been deemed a medical requirement.
Beyond this, he said, Crosby's case is an illustration of how the province knowingly neglects the basic needs of people on social assistance.
"It's a policy decision to ensure that people are kept at a level that is manifestly inadequate," said Calderhead.
"The evidence is super clear. When you have short-sighted policy-making, such as the province has in the area of social assistance, you will end up paying many times more in health-care costs, in justice system costs, in lost opportunities for people to contribute to the economy. You can nickel and dime people in poverty but it's going to end up costing you down the road.
"The bottom line is that the social assistance rates are grossly inadequate — certainly to permit recipients to eat a minimally nutritious diet."
Heather Fairbairn, a Department of Community Services spokeswoman, said she couldn't speak to Crosby's case for privacy reasons. But she stated in an email to The Chronicle Herald that Crosby could appeal a decision made by the department within 30 days.
"The funding amount provided is based on the individual's medical condition(s)," Fairbairn stated. "If an individual's circumstances change, based on the medical information provided, the amount of funding is reviewed and adjusted accordingly. Caseworkers work with their clients to review the options that may be available."
It's a response that Calderhead says misses the point. He points to a 2017 provincial study authored by Mount Saint Vincent University's Food Action Research Centre (which was funded by the province) that shows income assistance recipients fall well short of having enough to meet nutritional standards.
The study shows that Crosby falls about $450 short of what is required to eat a minimally nutritious diet.
"The province is well aware of/participates in the food costing research. It is invaluable in demonstrating that, regardless of how careful recipients are with their money, they simply cannot afford to eat a healthy diet," Calderhead says.
Therefore, Calderhead also argues that the province has broken a fundamental human rights treaty signed with the United Nations.
In February 2016, the United Nations Committee on Economic and Social Rights conducted a review of Canada's compliance with its human rights treaty obligations concluding that social assistance rates were inadequate in all provinces.
The committee recommended that in order to ensure compliance with the human rights covenant, provinces should "ensure that social assistance rates are increased in all provinces to levels that allow a decent living for beneficiaries and their families so as to ensure an effective income safety net."
"Thus, Nova Scotia is not in compliance with its human rights obligations. Those are rates set by cabinet at cabinet's discretion, when they will be increased, whether they will be increased and how much they will be increased," said Calderhead.
"The UN has said and pointed to Nova Scotia in the past and said you're not providing an adequate income. It's a treaty and as a result it's a human rights violation to knowingly set rates to know that people will be food insecure," he said.
But he says people have the power to hold their government accountable in an attempt to improve the lot of their fellow Nova Scotians.
"If Nova Scotians were to say to their government, to their MLA, 'We're fed up, we may not have been aware of the extent of poverty that people on assistance are experiencing, but now that we are aware, we don't want this in our name anymore, we want people to have an adequate income,' if people were speaking out that way then I have no doubt politicians would respond."


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CHICAGO – For better or worse, the White Sox have become accustomed to playing in close ballgames.
Unfortunately for the Sox, they have found themselves typically on the losing side. They were able to halt the trend for at least one day with a 3-2 win against the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday to snap a four-game losing streak.
Eighteen of the Sox's 20 games have been decided by three runs or less, going 6-11 in those games, which includes a 5-6 record in one-run games. Alex Rios' two-run homer in the fifth gave the Sox a 3-0 lead and ultimately saved the Sox (8-12). The Indians (8-11) responded with two runs in the sixth and stranded the tying run on third.
"It's not an easy thing to do when you play games this close all year, but you have to battle through these things," Rios said. "It's a long season and we're going to go through stretches like this, hopefully not too many."
Starting pitching again saved the Sox. Jose Quintana (2-0) held Cleveland to two runs in five innings and set a career high in consecutive scoreless innings pitched (18 2/3), which ended on Jason Kipnis' RBI single in the sixth.
"All I'm trying to do is take it inning by inning, hitter by hitter," Quintana said through a translator. "That's about it, just doing the little things to control the game."
Although the Sox found a way to win Wednesday, their brand of baseball – a reliance on home runs and an inability to string consecutive base hits – isn't conducive to long-term success. They aren't producing with runners in scoring position (1 for 8 against Cleveland), continuing a season-long problem. The Sox have scored two runs or fewer seven times this season and also have been held to five hits or less seven times, including Wednesday's win (five hits).
"When it's a group and you're not getting it done consistently, it's tough on everybody, it's not just tough on me," manager Robin Ventura said. "I've been on their side, too, and know what's it like sitting there and I've been the problem. I get it. Eventually, it moves on and you just keep playing."
The Sox can't survive on solid starting pitching and an efficient bullpen the entire season if the offense doesn't show up on a consistent basis. Each starting pitcher will have his fair share of rough outings and the bullpen will blow leads, however, none of that matters if the Sox can't score. In 2012, every playoff team outscored their opponents by at least 56 runs. Currently, opponents have outscored the Sox by six runs.
The Sox are getting tired of talking about their no-show offense, and only 16,765 came to U.S. Cellular Field to watch them scratch together three runs. It's shaping up to be a long summer on the South Side.
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Actress Keke Palmer and rapper J. Cole have visited protesters in Ferguson, Missouri to show their support over a shooting controversy.
The city near St. Louis has been torn apart by unrest over the past week (begs09Aug14), as groups of campaigners have taken to the streets to express their outrage over the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a local police officer.
Heavily armed riot police descended on the city center and used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstration, and while the news has sparked outrage among many celebrities, who have taken to Twitter to voice their disgust, both Palmer and J. Cole decided to witness what the tense atmosphere is like first hand.
The 21-year-old actress had already been urging for unity and nonviolence during the protests on her various social media sites, but was spotted in Ferguson on Sunday (17Aug14).
Citizens snapped photos of Palmer as she visited the protesters, and shared them on the microblogging site, with one user writing, "@KekePalmer thank you for showing love to my community," and another adding, ""Thank you for standing with the people of Ferguson."
Palmer also made an appearance at the Greater Grace Church in St. Louis, where she spoke at the podium.
Meanwhile, rapper J. Cole, who recently released a tribute song, Be Free, in honor of Brown, was also in Ferguson on Sunday, first stopping by the scene of the crime where the teenager was shot.
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STILLPOINT Archive: last updated 12/07/2012
By John Dixon Mirisola '11
Somewhere in the South Bronx, there is a classroom full of third graders who understand what Golden Goose is. When these kids close their eyes, they see themselves studying by the fireplace in Jenks; they imagine wandering through the woods surrounding Coy Pond.
They have written a chant about our fine New England institution.
"They're obsessed with Gordon College," says their teacher, Aleah Tarnoviski '12. That's because Tarnoviski's New York City charter school, Success Academy, stresses the importance of getting kids to think about college early and often. Each classroom at this school—part of a network of 14 Success Academy charter schools in New York City—learns about the college its teacher attended. As a result, students come to personally identify with the institution and begin to project a college education into their own future.
Aleah, who made the unusual jump straight to a job as lead teacher after graduating in May, takes special delight in knowing that her students consider themselves Gordon College Class of 2026.
The 14 Success Academy schools serve low-income, typically low-achieving districts in the New York City school system. "Your zip code shouldn't have any weight on what you can achieve," Tarnoviski says. The results back up her claim. Success Academy's standardized test scores consistently outrank New York's state averages, and even beat scores from affluent areas such as Manhattan's Upper East and Upper West Sides.
College-mindedness is just one aspect of the innovative educational framework at Success, one of the most well-known charter school systems in the country thanks in part to the national buzz created by recent education reform documentaries like Waiting for Superman and The Lottery. The network's website unpacks six core values that guide the educational process: Agency, Curiosity, Try & Try, Integrity, Others, and No Shortcuts (A.C.T.I.O.N.).
Additionally, Aleah points to another of the school's maxims: "joyful rigor." Tarnoviski works hard to infuse a sense of joy into every element of her students' education, even as she holds them to high expectations. The students embrace learning as an outgrowth of this joy. They cheer—that's right, cheer—for homework and for tests. And even in the third grade, Aleah's students understand that they are expected to be accountable for their own education's success. "We talk to kids like they're smart. If they don't understand a word or a concept, we expect them to raise their hands and ask us; our job is to make them feel safe and confident doing that."
As an education major at Gordon Aleah discovered her zeal for the empowerment that quality education can bring to urban communities. Dialog with professors in her department sharpened her enthusiasm; she learned how and where she could make use of it. "I can go back to my freshman year and trace the education department's influence in where I am today," Tarnoviski says. "They sought my development, and they allowed me the freedom to remain completely focused on education reform."
Now there is a classroom full of third-graders who share Aleah's feelings about Gordon, and who no doubt also share her appreciation for the teachers working to help their students succeed.
John Dixon Mirisola is a communications specialist at Gordon and a staff writer for STILLPOINT.
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|Number of banks per RFQ jumps in EU, posing risk to prices-continued
|May 9, 2018--Some requests for quote are sent to over 20 dealers, raising worries about information leakage.
Dealers fielding buy,side requests for quotes on swap trades are facing sharply increased competition from other banks, due to a recent clarification from European regulators.
|And the impact on prices may be the opposite of what regulators intended.Dealers fielding buy-side requests for quotes on swap trades are facing sharply increased competition from other banks, due to a recent clarification from European regulators. And the impact on prices may be the opposite of what regulators intended.
|Source: risk.net
|Europe ETP News
|Mifid II impact on small and mid-cap brokers fuels consolidation talk
|August 18, 2018--New European investment research rules trigger sharp drop in commissions.
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|New WisdomTree-ETF on Xetra maps diversified commodity basket
|August 17, 2018--Since Friday, a new Exchange Traded Fund from the issuer WisdomTree is tradable via Xetra and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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|Official Statistics: Forecasts for the UK economy: August 2018
|August 16, 2018--A comparison of independent forecasts for the UK economy in August 2018.
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|New SPDR-ETF on Xetra: US Companies with focus on Communications Services
|August 16, 2018--Since Thursday, a new Exchange Traded Fund of the issuer State Street Global Advisors is tradable via Xetra and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The SPDR S&P U.S. Communication Service Select Sector UCITS ETF gives investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of communications service providers from the USA.
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|STOXX licenses fully automated Blockchain Index to Coincapital
|August 14, 2018--STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group's index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has licensed the STOXX(R) Yewno Developed Markets Blockchain Index to Toronto, Canada-based Coin Capital Investment Management Inc. (Coincapital).
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|Thomson Reuters-Monday Morning Memo: Has ESG gone mainstream?
|August 13, 2018--The announcement that the world's largest fund management company-BlackRock-will require its fund managers to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in their investment decision-making process has been discussed widely in the trade press over the last few days.
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|Environmental risk heats up for pension investors
|August 12, 2018--Pension funds across Europe are belatedly waking up to the threats to their investment portfolios posed by climate change, according to Mercer.
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|Franklin Templeton drops out of European top 20
|August 11, 2018--Investors flee New York-listed group over performance concerns
Franklin Templeton has fallen out of a list of the 20 biggest mutual fund managers in Europe in a huge blow for the $734bn investor that once ranked among the continent's most popular investment houses.
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|Treasury gets 'no-deal' Brexit plans ready for City
|August 10, 2018--The Treasury has said that it will soon start putting in place contingency arrangements in case Britain leaves the European Union without a deal for the financial services industry.
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|Legal & General to launch European ETFs by year end
|August 9, 2018--More and more big-name firms are emerging to do battle for assets in Europe's booming market for exchange traded funds
Legal & General Investment Management, the UK's largest fund manager, will begin chasing money in Europe's fiercely competitive market for exchange traded funds before the end of the year.
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|Unscheduled free-float adjustment of Grammer AG in SDAX
|August 9, 2018--Changes to be effective as of 14 August 2018
On Thursday, Deutsche Börse announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX index. Due to acquisition of Grammer AG (DE0005895403) by Jiye Auto Parts GmbH the free float of Grammer AG changed by more than 10 percentage points.
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|Lyxor-ETF Money Monitor-July 2018-ETF flows slow as sentiment reverses
|July 9, 2018-European ETF market flows slowed slightly in June, with net new assets falling to Ć757m from the €1.1bn we saw in May. Sentiment reversed yet again, with fixed income ETFs attracting most of the inflows (€1.1bn).
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|ESMA updates validation rules under EMIR
|August 9, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated today its validation rules regarding the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) with regards to the revised technical standards on reporting under Article 9 of EMIR.
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|Brexit Novations Raise Questions Over EMIR, Lifecycle Events
|August 9, 2018--Market participants are repapering and novating their current derivatives contracts to an EU27 subsidiary due to the ongoing uncertainty around Brexit-but are finding new issues every day.
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|August 8, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an updated statement on the clearing obligation and trading obligation for pension scheme arrangements (PSAs), with the objective to avoid, to the extent possible, disruption to certain PSAs who may face potential challenges clearing their OTC derivative contracts and trading them on trading venues on 17 August 2018, when the current, and final, exemption from the clearing obligation under EMIR expires.
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|ESMA updates equity derivatives, equity and equity-like instruments' transitional transparency calculations for MiFID II/ MiFIR
|August 6, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today an updated version of the MiFID II/MiFIR transitional transparency calculations (TTC).
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|Monday Morning Memo: Is the trend toward ETFs in Europe over?
|August 6, 2018--The fund ecosystem in Europe has become accustomed to new all-time highs and exceptional growth rates in the European ETF industry. But, it is not surprising that some market observers are starting to ask whether the trend toward ETFs in Europe is now over, since ETF flows have seemed to be lower over the course of first half 2018.
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|Borsa Italiana Listings Notice-Amundi
|August 6, 2018--Borsa Italiana is pleasured to welcome on ETFplus market 1 new ETF issued by Amundi:
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|Deutsche Bank head of EMEA equity research leaves
|August 3, 2018--Deutsche Bank AG (DBK.XE) said Thursday that its head of equity research for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Paul Reynolds, has left the company.
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|National Statistics: UK official holdings of international reserves: July 2018
|August 3, 2018--This monthly release shows details of movements in the UK's official holdings of international reserves, or assets. These consist of gold, foreign currency assets and International Monetary Fund assets.
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|Borsa Italiana's ETFplus market sees strong second quarter Aug 03 2018
|August 3, 2018--ETFplus market saw a 7.1% increase compared to the same period last year
52 new instruments listed in the second quarter of 2018: 50 ETFs and 2 open funds
A total of 1276 instruments available on ETFplus at the end of June
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|ESMA-Consultation Paper no.6 on the Clearing Obligation under EMIR
|August 3, 2018--All interested stakeholders are invited to respond to this consultation paper. In particular, responses are sought from financial and non-financial counterparties of OTC derivative transactions as well as central counterparties (CCPs) and clearing members.
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|HM Treasury- The economic value of data: discussion paper
|August 2, 2018--A discussion paper on the economic value of data and the challenges to address to strengthen the UK's position as a world leader in data-driven innovation.
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|Boerse Stuttgart Group Creates End-To-End Infrastructure For Digital Assets
|August 2, 2018--In Addition To BISON, There Will Be An ICO Platform, A Trading Venue And Custody For Cryptocurrencies
Services Along The Value Chain Are Offered Under One Roof
Boerse Stuttgart Group is creating an end-to-end infrastructure for digital assets.
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|Environmental risk heats up for pension investors
|August 2, 2018--Pension funds across Europe are belatedly waking up to the threats to their investment portfolios posed by climate change.
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|Strong month for Eurex' Equity segment
|August 2, 2018--In July, Eurex, Europe's largest derivatives exchange and part of Deutsche Börse Group, has seen strong demand for its equity products. Traded equity contracts were up by 76 percent to 23,790,806 from 13,506,099 in July 2017.
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|Boerse Stuttgart generates turnover in excess of EUR 5.4 billion in July
|August 1, 2018--Trading volume of debt instruments (bonds) and investment fund units up on previous month
According to its order book statistics, Boerse Stuttgart generated turnover of more than EUR 5.4 billion in July 2018.
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|Borsa Italiana Listings Notice-4 WisdomTree ETFs
|August 1, 2018--Borsa Italiana is pleasured to welcome on ETFplus market 4 new ETF issued by WisdomTree:
WisdomTree US Multifactor UCITS ETF ACC (IE00BD8ZD313)
WisdomTree US Multifactor UCITS ETF (IE00BD8ZCY59)
WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Div UCITS ETF (IE00BFXYK923)
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|EBA publishes final draft technical standards on risk retention for securitisation transactions
|July 31, 2018--The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the requirements for originators, sponsors and original lenders related to risk retention as laid down in the new EU securitisation framework (STS Regulation).
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|EBA publishes final draft technical standards defining the homogeneity of the underlying exposures in securitisation
|July 31, 2018--The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out conditions for securitisation to be deemed homogeneous. Homogeneity is one of the crucial requirements for a securitisation transaction to be assessed as simple, transparent and standardised ('STS') and to be eligible for more risk-sensitive risk weights under the new EU securitisation framework.
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|Concerns grow as colour drains swiftly from eurozone economy
|July 31, 2018--Concerns over a sharp slowdown in the eurozone are rising with its economy growing at its weakest rate in two years, reversing a bumper 2017.
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|ETFGI reports that ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe gathered net inflows of US$661 million during June 2018, the lowest net inflows since May 2015
|July 31, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe gathered net new assets of US$661 million during June 2018, marking the 45th consecutive month of net inflows.
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|S&P Dow Jones Indices Europe Dashboard
|July 31, 2018--Summary
European equities posted steady gains in July as last month's focus on trade tensions and political risk largely gave way to earnings figures, economic data, and central bank guidance. The S&P Europe 350 gained 3.22%, with nearly all countries contributing positively to returns.
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|IMF Country Focus Greece: Much Progress, but Action Needed to Address Crisis Legacies, Boost Inclusive Growth
|July 31, 2018--Greece has successfully eliminated its extraordinarily high fiscal and current account deficits, and restored growth. It must now take action to address crisis legacies and boost inclusive growth, says the IMF in its annual health check of the country's economy.
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|iSTOXX Developed Markets B.R.AI.N. Index licensed to Coincapital
|July 31, 2018--STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche B&oum;erse Group's index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has licensed the iSTOXX Developed Markets B.R.AI.N. Index to the Canadian Coin Capital Investment Management Inc (Coincapital).
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|Jane Street Chooses Amsterdam for Post-Brexit ETF Trading Base
|July 30, 2018--Europe's second-largest ETF trader already employs 5 in city.
Amsterdam is becoming a center for traders and trading venues
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|ESMA updates the Questions and Answers on ESMA's temporary product intervention measures
|July 30, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its Questions and Answers on ESMA's temporary product intervention measures on the marketing, distribution or sale of CFDs and binary options to retail clients based on Article 40 of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 (the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, MiFIR).
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|ESMA finds shortcomings in national supervision of efficient portfolio management by UCITS
|July 30, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has found that national regulators need to improve their supervision of Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) engaging in efficient portfolio management techniques (EPM).
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|Monday Morning Memo: Have European fund investors started to change their asset allocation?
|July 29, 2018--Looking at the headline figures, first half 2018 could be considered a business-as-usual period for the European fund industry, since the assets under management (+€10.7 tr) increased in the first and second quarters of the year. But a closer look at the underlying trends shows that the recent geopolitical uncertainty and discussions of possible new tariffs in the U.S., which may result in a trade war, caused investors to change their asset allocations.
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|Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: first quarter of 2018
|July 27, 2018--Euro area economic and financial developments by institutional sector: first quarter of 2018
Euro area net saving was higher in the first quarter of 2018, compared to the first quarter of the previous year. Total euro area non-financial investment (net) increased to 4.3% of net disposable income (compared with 3.8% a year ago), as increased investment by households and non-financial corporations was only partly offset by negative net investment of government.
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|New ETF Listing on Euronext-
|July 27, 2018--Euronext is pleased to announce that Amundi Asset Management will list 1 new ETF on 31/07/2018 :
ETF Trading name: AMUNDI MSCI EM DR
ETF Symbol: AEME
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|FLow Traders Reports 2Q18 NTI 53.8M euro, On Target To Achieve Record Year
|July 27, 2018-- Flow Traders N.V. (Euronext: FLOW) today released its unaudited 2Q18 results. The highlights for the period are as follows:
NTI reached €53.8m in 2Q18, against € 213.2m in 1Q18 and € 46.7m in 2Q17. 1H18 NTI reached €266.9m and is on track to lead to a record year
Fixed costs grew 0.8% Q-o-Q, leading to fixed cost growth in 1H18 of 4.1% Y-o-Y
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|IMF Staff Country Reports France: Selected Issues
|July 26, 2018--CORPORATE DEBT IN FRANCE1
France's corporate debt has risen significantly since the global financial crisis and is among the highest in advanced economies, reflecting mainly an increase in intercompany loans and bonds. The increase in debt has financed real investments, as well as acquisition of financial assets and extension of intercompany loans.
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|ECB-Monetary policy decisions
|July 26, 2018--At today's meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.40% respectively.
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|Monetary developments in the euro area: June 2018
|June 25, 2018--Annual growth rate of broad monetary aggregate M3 increased to 4.4% in June 2018 from 4.0% in May
Annual growth rate of narrower aggregate M1, comprising currency in circulation and overnight deposits, stood at 7.4% in June, compared with 7.5% in May
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|EBA publishes its assessment of European Secured Notes
|July 24, 2018--The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a report presenting the outcome of its assessment to the European Commission's call for advice on the European Secured Notes (ESNs).
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|Monday Morning Memo: European Fund-Flow Trends June 2018-Negative market sentiment takes a toll on mutual funds
|July 23, 2018--European investors pulled back further from long-term mutual funds as the market environment and general sentiment turned negative. As a consequence, June was the second month posting net outflows from long-term mutual funds after 16 consecutive months showing net inflows.
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|Canada has high levels of well-being and solid growth but trade tensions and housing market pose risks while inclusiveness could be improved
|July 23, 2018--Canada is one of the OECD economies delivering the best outcomes for its citizens, according to a new OECD report presented in Ottawa today by OECD Chief of Staff and G20/G7 Sherpa Gabriela Ramos. Canada scores highly in all dimensions of the OECD's Better Life Index, especially in regards to self-reported well-being, personal security and health status.
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|New SPDR-ETF Launched on Xetra: Bond ETF Trades Emerging Market Government Bonds in Local Currency
|June 23, 2018--Since Monday, a new exchange traded fund from State Street Global Advisors is tradable on Xetra and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets Local Bond UCITS ETF (Acc) gives investors access to liquid government bonds issued by emerging markets in their local currency.
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|Opus makes ETF debut with actively managed US small-cap ETF
|July 23, 2018--Opus Capital Management has become the latest US investment advisor to enter the ETF space with the launch of the Opus Small Cap Value Plus ETF (OSCV US) on NYSE Arca.
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|ESMA updates UCITS and AIFMD Q&As
|July 23, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its Questions and Answers on the application of the Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
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|SIX Swiss Exchange-ETF Market Report: 2nd quarter 2018
|July 23, 2018--This report provides detailed figures regarding the performance of the ETF segment of SIX.
In Q2 2018, demand on the Swiss ETF market eased, as the latest ETF Market Report[pdf] shows. As a result, trading turnover fell to CHF 25.4 billion compared to the previous quarter. Following a very strong Q1, investors were more cautious, in particular with equity ETFs.
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FORMER chief constable of Gwent Mick Giannasi has been appointed chairman of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust.
Mr Giannasi retired from Gwent's top police post in April 2011 after a 31-year career during which he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for his outstanding contribution to policing.
He has been appointed to the £59,760-a-year ambulance trust post until March 31, 2016. Most recently Mr Giannasi, who was chief constable in Gwent for three years, has acted as a commissioner for the Isle of Anglesey county council, an appointment made by the Welsh Government after it intervened in the running of the authority.
Health minister Professor Mark Drakeford said: "Mick's experience will help us to lead the organisation through a period of very significant change, including full implementation of the output of the McClelland Review."
Mr Giannasi joins the trust as it prepares for a fundamental change of role, through a series of changes recommended in the report of the McClelland Review.


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Miami Lakes, Fla.– O. Ford Gibson was installed as the Orange Bowl Committee's new President and Chairman of the Board during an evening reception on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at Riviera Country Club in Coral Gables. An Orange Bowl Committee member since 2000, Gibson succeeds Immediate Past President Jeffery T. Roberts as the 74th President of the Orange Bowl Committee.
Under his leadership, Gibson will oversee the Committee's continued mission to promote and serve the South Florida community, while presiding over the 2012-13 Orange Bowl Festival which includes the 2013 Discover Orange Bowl and the 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game. The 2012-13 Orange Bowl Festival marks the second time the Orange Bowl Committee has "double hosted" two BCS games, and will mark the 19th time the Orange Bowl has hosted the National Champion. In addition to the annual football game, the 2012-13 Orange Bowl Festival includes the19th Annual MetroPCS Basketball Classic and a collection of entertainment, family and youth sports events.
"Serving the South Florida community, I am ready and excited to lead the Orange Bowl Committee as we prepare for double hosting duties, presenting both the 79th Orange Bowl and 2013 Discover BCS National Championship Game," said Gibson. "The economic impact of double hosting and the exposure the games create for South Florida is a tremendous opportunity to positively impact our community and showcase all that we have to offer visitors."
Gibson will also oversee the Orange Bowl's commitment to youth sports in South Florida. On an annual basis, the Orange Bowl supports the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance presented by Sports Authority, which serves more than 16,000 young football players and cheerleaders in nine youth football leagues spread out across South Florida, from Lake Okeechobee to Key West. Since 1999, the Orange Bowl has invested approximately $4.5 million in youth sports in South Florida.
Andrew P. Hertz moves into Gibson's previous role as President & Chairman-Elect and will serve as the 75th President & Chairman during the 2013-14 year. Luis E. Boué will serve as First Vice-Chair and will become President & Chairman of the 2014-15 Orange Bowl Festival. Eric L. Poms enters his seventh year as the Chief Executive Officer and marks his 20th year overall with the Committee.
"As South Florida and the Orange Bowl prepare to become the center of the college football universe this year, I am confident that we are in the extremely capable hands of Ford Gibson," said Orange Bowl CEO Eric Poms. "Ford spearheaded and led the Committee's efforts to restore and revitalize Moore Park, and I am confident he will build upon the Committee's history as one of the leading civic organizations in South Florida."
Ford Gibson is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Gibson Development Partners, a leading real estate development firm in South Florida. For more than 20 years, Gibson has earned a reputation in the South Florida real estate world for his innovative management approach and rock solid business practices. His development portfolio includes more than 12.5 million square feet of office, retail, industrial, manufacturing, and multifamily projects. Gibson was instrumental in the redevelopment of Orange Bowl Field at Moore Park, which represented the Orange Bowl's Legacy Gift for its 75th Anniversary and a total investment of $5.6 million. In addition to the Orange Bowl Committee, Gibson serves on the boards on other notable local organizations. A letterman in football at Clemson University, he graduated with a BS in Construction Management and received his MBA from Tulane University. Gibson lives in Pinecrest with his wife Lynn and their three children.
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Oregon Democrats' tax plan takes shape
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
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SALEM — Democratic leaders in the Oregon House said Monday that their plan to raise more tax revenue would target corporations and wealthy individuals.
Speaker Tina Kotek and Rep. Peter Buckley, the House Democrats' budget chief, said their plan would limit the amount an individual can claim in tax deductions on a graduated scale beginning with individuals earning at least $125,000 and households earning more than $250,000. Those same taxpayers also would be eligible for a smaller share of the personal exemption — a $183 tax credit for every individual on a tax return.
The Democratic plan would eliminate the cap on the corporate minimum tax, which would affect corporations with more than $100 million in revenue. It also would try to collect more from multi-state and multi-national corporations by trying to keep better tabs on how much of their revenue comes from Oregon and should be subject to state taxes here.
The House Revenue Committee is scheduled to begin discussing the proposal Tuesday and will work out the details, including how much to limit tax deductions for wealthy taxpayers.
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Machine and Embedded Control - PACs: Opto 22 SoftPAC works like a hardware PAC but uses a PC's processing speed and file handling to run computationally intensive applications or those needing to log, manipulate, and exchange large amounts of data. This is a Control Engineering 2013 Engineers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention.
Part of a control engineer's job is to choose equipment that best meets an application's particular requirements. For many automation projects, engineers choose a programmable automation controller (PAC). An industrially hardened hardware-based PAC is a reliable workhorse for many applications, notably those in harsh environments and those requiring closely timed, deterministic operation. Yet, for some applications, a PC-based software controller can be a better choice.
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For computationally intensive applications, SoftPAC uses a PC's computational speed to improve calculation time and increase overall performance of the complex logic encountered. Data acquisition applications involving large volumes of data can be difficult using a hardware PAC, but are possible with SoftPAC due to a PC's extensive storage and networking capabilities. File operations are limited only by the size of hard drives and the available network volumes.
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"I" is For Inclusion (PDF) - The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young People. Program of the ALA/OLOS Subcommittee for Library Services to American Indian People. American Indian Library Association. American Indian Children's Literature: Identifying and Celebrating the Good. Washington, D.C., June 23, 2007. Compiled by Naomi Caldwell, Gabriella Kaye, Lisa A. Mitten. Updated October 2007.
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St. Louis' mother, France, suffered a heart attack in hospital following a lengthy illness. She was 63.
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June Lake residents move forward on winter activities planning
June Lake residents gathered together this past weekend to assign volunteers to work on the coming winter's plan to keep June alive in the face of the closure of the June Mountain Ski Area. The residents were given $100,000 from Mono County last week toward the effort, with the money funneled through the county's tourism department.
Activities such as a snow play area, a cross-country ski area, and other similar winter activities are at the top of the community's list, according to the area's supervisor, Vikki Bauer. Interested residents and community leaders will be meeting with the county tourism officials Friday to begin the hard work of prioritizing spending and timing, she said.
In other June Mountain news, Mono County's U.S. Representative, Buck McKeon (R-Santa Clarita), told the Mammoth Times Tuesday that he didn't believe the June Mountain closure would affect a land trade bill (created on behalf of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area) when (and if) it moves to the Senate, a bill that he sponsored and passed through the House earlier this spring.
"I believe the Senators might use this as a reason, but in reality, the chances of getting anything through the Senate this year is zilch," he said, echoing MMSA CEO Rusty Gregory's words last week that the June Mountain closure would not impact the land trade.
The reason the bill is unlikely to pass is due mostly to election year politics, McKeon said. If the bill is reintroduced next year by Mono County's new U.S. Representative (McKeon will be redistricted out of the district in January), he would be "willing to help in whatever way possible," he said.
The bill, HR 2157, would allow MMSA and the U.S. Forest Service to trade private lands that the forest service wants—for example, land that provides excellent habitat for endangered species—in return for MMSA gaining private ownership to a chunk of federal land near Main Lodge.
MMSA has been engaged with the forest service for many years in this land trade process, but last week, Mono County Supervisor Vikki Bauer suggested that the land trade deal might be "at risk in the Senate" now that MMSA has closed June Mountain for the coming winter season.
At least one of the state's two U.S. Senators, Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) or Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), would need to sponsor the bill through the Senate by the end of the year.
Feinstein's response to the Mammoth Times question about the issue was vague.
"Senator Feinstein is aware of the closure of the June Mountain Ski Area and is hopeful that its operators and local leaders can work together to develop a strategy that will allow it to reopen as soon as possible," said spokesman Brian Weiss.
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Dr. Charles Shepherd is Honorary Medical Adviser of the ME Association (UK). He is a private physician with a personal interest in ME/CFS. Dr. Shepherd developed ME following an infection with varicella zoster (chicken pox) that he caught from one of his hospital patients.
Dr. Shepherd has been involved with all aspects of the illness for over 30 years, from benefits to education, management, media, politics, research, and services. He was a member of the Chief Medical Officer's Working Group on ME/CFS and the Medical Research Council's Expert Group on ME/CFS research.
In this video Dr. Shepherd discusses symptoms and treatment for ME/CFS.
Seminar 40: ME & possible treatments – Dr. Charles Shepherd, Broadcast April 21, 2014
Transcript courtesy of the Dutch ME/CFS Association.
What are the most common symptoms of ME?
The most common symptoms in ME are I think grouped under three main headings: the brain symptoms and in particular here we have what we call cognitive dysfunctions. This is problems with normal mental activity, problems with short term memory, concentration, attention span, being able to process new information and retrieve information. Balance problems are a characteristic feature of this illness. People don't describe this as sort of feeling dizzy, spinning round, but they say that they feel as though they're constantly unsteady when they're walking along. As though they might be walking on rubber or so they probably had too much to drink. We know that the balance centers in the brain may be disturbed in this illness.
A third part of the brain abnormalities in this illness causing brain symptoms, is what we call symptoms relating to the autonomic nervous system. In medical jargon we call this orthostatic intolerance. This is problems related to being able to stand up for a long period of time. Or symptoms relating to changing posture from being flat or lying down to standing up. In which case there may be a change in or lowering of blood pressure causing what we call orthostatic hypotension; fall in blood pressure when changing posture. This causes problems such as feeling faint, sweating or even feeling sick.
So we have this group of important neurological symptoms, which I think fully justifies this disease being called a neurological illness by the WHO. We then have the very characteristic muscle symptoms which I already described, the exercise-induced muscle fatigue, pain which can be very severe in some people. It's not always present as muscle pain but muscle pain can be a very major feature of this illness. We then have what I call the infective immunological type symptoms; a feeling as though you got a sort of ongoing flu-like illness which may be accompanied by feelings of sore throats, enlarged glands.
And then finally, I think the other key symptom of this illness is the sleep disturbance. So I think you cannot have this illness without some form of sleep disturbance. It's interesting that in the very early stages this sleep disturbance may be an excessive requirement to sleep what we call hypersomnia, particularly in the early post viral stage. Then this quite often moves on to another type of sleep disturbance where people have either difficulty initiating sleep, getting off to sleep, they have erratic sleep, they wake up early in the morning. But they're no longer having to sleep 12-14 hours a day. Whatever type of sleep disturbance they have, they will describe the fact that they wake up and feel unrefreshed, they have unrefreshing sleep whatever type of sleep disturbance they have.
So those I think are the key cause symptoms of this illness. There are many other symptoms which are associated with it: increased sensitivity to light and noise, increased sensitivity to alcohol is a very interesting symptom which I think is diagnostic of this illness. But I think the brain, the muscle, the infective and the sleep symptoms are the core ones you would make the diagnosis on.
Which symptoms can be treated?
The symptoms that can be treated, and I think really should be treated by a doctor when they occur, are pain and sleep disturbance, and if it actually occurs as part of the illness then obviously any sort of depressive component. So as far as pain is concerned there are a number of drugs which doctors can consider prescribing when ordinary types of pain reliever like aspirin, ibuprofen and paracetemol are found to be ineffective. And we have a, if you like this, step ladder of pain killing drugs available on prescription which could be considered when these sort of ordinary pain killers aren't working.
Examples of the sort of drugs which might be used, there is a drug called Amitriptyline, which is a sedating tricyclic anti-depressant drug, which is used at very low doses, not used as a depressive, the sort of dose you would use to treat a depression. It's used at a very low dose and at the very low dose it can help with pain, it can help with muscular pain, neuropathic nerve pain, and it can also – because it has a sedating effect – help with sleep disturbance. So that is one drug that can certainly be discussed with the patient. If pain is more severe then there are other drugs which pain relief doctors who are specialized in this type of medicine might consider using. One of which is called Gabapentin. This is a drug which is actually normally used to treat epilepsy, but it's also been found, again as a different type of dose and regime, to be very helpful and sometimes in pain relief particularly pain relief when that involves nerve pain.
There are various drugs which can help with sleep disturbance in addition to possibly Amitriptyline. There are groups of drugs which can help people, there are short acting drugs, they can help people get off to sleep and they are just used for a very short period of time.
There is also some evidence that the drug melatonin, which is used to help people cope with jetlag, can be helpful in some people with this illness. And people with this illness who have a very disturbed form of sleep disturbance, sometimes they gather a complete reversal of sleep rhythm, that is something that could be considered in those circumstances. And as I say if someone has a clinical depression with this illness, and a clinical depression is something that can occur with any long-term illness, especially when you're having all the problems that you're having with an illness like ME, then that always has to be taken seriously. Because we know that sadly some people with ME who are very upset because of all the things that are happening around them, do actually contemplate and just occasionally even commit suicide.
So depression, clinical, true clinical depression as opposed to just feeling fed up with this illness must be taken seriously. And again, if necessary, treated with antidepressants. Sadly at the same time we have groups of symptoms which are not amenable to drug treatment.
One example there would be the problems that people have with cognitive function, problems with memory, concentration and it would be wonderful if we as doctors had some sort of drug that we could help people with that type of symptom cope with better.
What other treatment suggestions can you give?
Other treatments in addition to the key aspects of management which of course are activity management and pacing and dealing with symptoms such as pain and sleep disturbance are, I think that any doctor who is dealing with this illness has to deal with the many practical aspects that this illness creates for their patients. So I think they have to be very pro-active and supportive in relation to things like helping them with their benefit applications, giving them a suitable advice on what they should do in relation to work and employment. And in the case of children and adolescents helping them with their education which might involve trying to get home tuition, if a child is able to do so, and integration back into school at a very gradual level if the child is well enough to start returning to school.
What help can be given to very severe ME patients?
Help for people with severe ME is very sadly lacking, certainly here in the UK, and I suspect the same picture applies throughout the rest of Europe. Many of these people who are wheelchair bound, house bound or bed bound have no access to medical services. They are unable to get to hospital clinics for appointments obviously and at the same point we have a number of specialist referral hospitals based services here in the UK now, but these clinics by and large are not providing home visiting domiciliary services for people with severe ME. So there is a major problem for this group of patients in accessing medical services and it is something that really should be addressed as a matter of urgency. We have tried to do that through the all-party parliamentary group on ME, but it very much relates to the willingness of physicians and people looking after patients at a hospital based level to try and set this in motion, and sadly that is not happening.
On Thursday April 24th 2014 dr. Charles Shepherd answered questions in a chat-session. These are the Q&A of this session.
Q: In your webinar you mentioned several symptoms of ME. But you did not mention problems with the stomach or the bowels. Don't you consider problems with them as symptoms of ME?
A: Yes, irritable bowel type symptoms are very common in people with ME/CFS and I have just produced a new information leaflet on this subject for people in the UK. However, it's also important to exclude other possible explanations – such as coeliac disease. Although very common I would not regard irritable bowel type symptoms as being a key diagnostic feature of ME or CFS.
Q: Do you have personal experience with alternative treatments or did you hear of them from patients? What is your opinion about them?
A: There is a limited role for alternative treatments for bowel symptoms. One product that may be worth trying is a probiotic such as Activia – where there is some research evidence of benefit for constipation and pain. Ginger and acupressure at the wrist can also help where nausea is a problem.
Q: What is Activia, is it a medication?
A: Activia is a probiotic supplement that contains bifidobacteria – and it may help where there is constipation and pain.
Q: Do you know a treatment for problems with the bowel? (and coeliac disease is excluded)
A: After excluding other possible explanations most doctors would recommend a symptomatic approach using drugs that can reduce constipation or diarrhoea, colic pain and wind/bloating. Changes to diet can also be very helpful in some cases, especially for wind and bloating.
Q: I saw a video of Teitelbaum who, like you, said that if you don't have problems with sleeping you don't have ME. Don't most of the criteria mention "unrefreshing sleep", which is something different?
A: I would regard unrefreshing sleep as a key diagnostic feature of ME/CFS. Disturbed sleep can take several forms in ME/CFS – in the early stages there is often an excessive sleep requirement – known as hypersomnia. Later on people may have difficulty getting to sleep or just very erratic sleep.
Q: Teitelbaum also said that something like 90% recover, doesn't he mean they manage it with diets and pills?
A: I would not agree that 90% of people recover from ME/CFS. A lot of people make some improvement (as I have done) and learn to manage their symptoms and disability. But that is not the same as recovery. A significant minority – perhaps as high as 25% – are severely affected and remain so.
Q: Once an orthomolecular doctor noticed that my system had shortage of hormones from the adrenal cortex like DHEA. He suggested taking medication containing those hormones. Would you give such treatment? Can it possibly harm the whole system?
A: There is plenty of good quality research evidence to show that people with ME/CFS have slightly lowered output of the hormone called cortisol – but clinical trials have not shown that taking cortisol is a safe and effective form of treatment for ME/CFS. There is no sound research evidence to show that people with ME/CFS have lowered levels of DHEA and there are dangers in taking DHEA if it is not needed by the body – so I would not recommend this approach.
A research study from Cleare et al. in 2004 reported that DHEA levels were actually raised in ME/CFS -suggesting that DHEA supplementation was both unnecessary and possibly harmful.
Q: I have been an ME/CFS patient for about 30 years and my question is: I'm reading regularly that the pituitary gland probably plays a role in ME/CFS. The pituitary gland controls the thyroid gland. Could it be that a thyroid abnormality is an effect/symptom of ME/CFS? Or vice versa, that ME/CFS is an effect/symptom of a thyroid abnormality, like for example subclinical hypothyroidism?
A: We know there is a disturbance in the hormone regulating pathway that starts in the hypothalamus gland in the brain, the pituitary gland (which lies beneath it) and the adrenal glands (that produce cortisol). But there is no sound evidence of a similar disturbance taking place in the thyroxine pathway.
So, doctors should not be prescribing thyroxine to people with ME/CFS – unless they also have abnormal blood tests (T4 and TSH levels) that are used to measure thyroid gland function.
Q: Can alternative treatments in general cause harm to ME/CVS patients?
A: I would not say that alternative treatments cause harm to people with ME/CFS , but they have to be used with care, especially if you are going to take large doses of supplements or vitamins or plant based remedies.
And if you have faith in things like acupuncture (especially for pain) or homoeopathy then I think they are well worth trying.
Q: Is there a relationship between ME/CFS and a vitamin B12 deficiency? I have both an elevated TSH value as a far too low vitamin b12 value. I am recently treated with vitamin b12 injections and Thyrax.
A: Having an elevated level of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) normally indicates that your thyroid gland isn't working as effectively as it should be. Thyroid disease and vitamin B12 deficiency can sometimes be linked through autoimmunity – where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.
Q: Are you familiar with low dose naltrexone? What do you think of it?
A: Some people in the UK are prescribed LDN and we receive very mixed feedback from them. The problem is lack of evidence from a clinical trial to show that it is a safe and effective form of treatment. So in our current state of knowledge I do not use or recommend LDN. There has been a small clinical trial using LDN in fibromyalgia (Younger et al, 2013) which suggested that it provided some benefit in pain relief.
Q: Big compliment btw for the video on exercise (and mitochondria).If anyone ever starts again about treadmills I'll show it to them!
A: Thanks for the comment on the activity management video. There is a new research study out confirming that the VO2 max test is a useful tool for clinical assessment in ME/CFS.
Q: Speaking of videos, last time I mentioned a pressure in my brain after antibiotics etc. It sometimes moves to my eyes (they tremble, which can also be felt from the outside) and for instance my throat/thyroid, which "plops", also noticeable by others and I filmed it. Would you care to watch it? A neurologist said they're muscle contractions, but as far as I know I don't have muscles in my brain.
A: Ah, but you do. There are lots of small muscles controlling movements in the face, eyes, mouth etc. A spasm in the muscles that open/shut your eyelids is called blepharospasm – and I think it's quite common in people with ME/CFS, especially when they are tired.
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This course serves as an introductory platform to investigate and discover object, environment, human and natural science 2D/web-based animation, in addition to basic interface design, to create a narrative with goals to communicate a message and/or educate and instruct the viewer. The student will use the concept of narrative to tell animated short stories of the body, environment and/or natural science through the medium of Adobe Flash (using AS 3.0) in conjunction with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver. Within the course, strong conceptual skills are emphasized and developed through professional production techniques, workflow and time-based linear media. The principles of 2D animation and web-based interface design will be used as the foundation for understanding how to communicate a message. Learning the ideas of simplistic object, environment and body motion accuracy/timing will be taught in 2D and students will be expected to create simple to complex animations (based on level and individual progress.) This course is designed to benefit all majors AND non-majors with required prerequisites. Offered fall.
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