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Financial Services and Markets Authority
About the FSMA
News & Warnings
Warnings & sanctions
Beware of fraud
Wikifin: for all your questions about money
Belgian Audit Oversight College
Professionals /
Topics /
Financial Markets /
Information provided by listed companies (STORI)
Takeover bids and squeeze-out bids
Suspension(s) and reopening(s) of trading
Warnings: failure to comply with information requirements
Storage of regulated information (STORI)
For the entire collection of documents relating to this supervisory area, please consult the French or Dutch site.
You can, however, consult a selection of documents in English:
Article 25 and sections 8 and 9 of the law of 2 August 2002 on the supervision of the financial sector and on financial services(451.34 KB)
(Unofficial consolidated version: 07/2013)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055 of 29 June 2016 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to the technical means for appropriate public disclosure of inside information and for delaying the public disclosure of inside information in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(330.99 KB)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/959 of 17 May 2016 laying down implementing technical standards for market soundings with regard to the systems and notification templates to be used by disclosing market participants and the format of the records in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(334.92 KB)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/378 of 11 March 2016 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to the timing, format and template of the submission of notifications to competent authorities according to Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(345.9 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/960 of 17 May 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the appropriate arrangements, systems and procedures for disclosing market participants conducting market soundings(329.66 KB)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/523 of 10 March 2016 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to the format and template for notification and public disclosure of managers' transactions in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(323.09 KB)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/347 of 10 March 2016 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to the precise format of insider lists and for updating insider lists in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(333.34 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/957 of 9 March 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the appropriate arrangements, systems and procedures as well as notification templates to be used for preventing, detecting and reporting abusive practices or suspicious orders or transactions(444.29 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/958 of 9 March 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the technical arrangements for objective presentation of investment recommendations or other information recommending or suggesting an investment strategy and for disclosure of particular interests or indications of conflicts of interest(352.14 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the conditions applicable to buy-back programmes and stabilisation measures(350.43 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/909 of 1 March 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the content of notifications to be submitted to competent authorities and the compilation, publication and maintenance of the list of notifications(346.99 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/908 of 26 February 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down regulatory technical standards on the criteria, the procedure and the requirements for establishing an accepted market practice and the requirements for maintaining it, terminating it or modifying the conditions for its acceptance(446.58 KB)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/522 of 17 December 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for certain third countries public bodies and central banks, the indicators of market manipulation, the disclosure thresholds, the competent authority for notifications of delays, the permission for trading during closed periods and types of notifiable managers' transactions(419.77 KB)
Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC(949.26 KB)
Circulars and communications
FSMA_2016_08
Annex A: Insider list to be submitted by issuers of financial instruments : KMO_PME_SME(23.43 KB) Annex B: Templates to be used by disclosing market participants (39.03 KB) Annex A: Template to be used for insider lists and for updating insider: deal-specific & permanent(29.34 KB) Annex D: Template for reporting suspicious orders or transactions(27.11 KB) Annex C1: Quick User Guide for listed companies about Notification of managers' transactions via eMT(2.16 MB) Annex C2: Quick User Guide for declarers about Notification of managers' transactions via eMT(1.5 MB) Annex E: ESMA-Guidelines MAR – Persons receiving market soundings (ESMA/2016/1477 – EN)(278.79 KB) Annex F: ESMA-Guidelines MAR – Delay in the disclosure of inside information (ESMA/2016/1478 – EN)(182.38 KB) Annex G: ESMA-Guidelines MAR – Information relating to commodity derivatives markets or related spot markets for the purpose of the definition of inside information on commodity derivatives (ESMA/2016/1480 – EN)(214.29 KB)
Joint Guidance on Auction Manipulation(58.58 KB)
Questions and answers (FAQ)
Questions and answers on takeover bids and the MAR (dd. 15 January 2018)
1. When does a potential bidder have to announce his/her intention to launch a bid?
2. What information has to be included in a press release in which the potential offeror announces his/her intention to launch a bid?
3. When does notification have to be made of transactions in securities carrying voting rights or conferring access to voting rights in the offeree company, the offeror or the company whose securities are being offered by way of consideration?
4. Do the provisions regarding the obligation to disclose any inside information to the public apply in the context of the preparation of a takeover bid?
5. Does the legislation governing market abuse offer a legal framework for an offeror's negotiations regarding its takeover bid?
6. May an offeror still buy securities in the offeree company during the preparation of a takeover bid, in order to strengthen its position within the shareholdership (also known as stake-building)?
ESMA Questions and Answers On the Market Abuse Regulation


Language service procurement in government continues to be a prickly issue. First a number of language service providers (LSPs) filed cases in market court over the way Finland's central procurement agency handled an interpretation tender. And then a similar thing happened half a world away when a Maryland-based LSP filed a complaint over the way a US government procurement agency ran the tender for the supply of linguists to the Air Force. Now, it's Canada's turn.
According to a report in the Ottawa Citizen, the CRA accounted for close to CAD 4m, roughly more than 25% of Masha Krupp's yearly revenues.
No surprise, therefore, that when the CRA chose another LSP in late 2016, Masha Krupp kicked up a storm by filing a protest before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the country's quasi-judicial arbiter for government procurement issues and other matters.
Replacing Masha Krupp was CLS Lexi-tech, formed after CLS Communication acquired Canadian LSP Lexi-tech International in 2009. CLS Communication was subsequently acquired by Lionbridge in 2015.
In October 2016, the CRA announced it had awarded CLS Lexi-tech with the CAD 8.6m contract for translation and editing services to be carried out over two years, plus five extensions of one year each — a contract valued at CAD 35m (USD 25.6m) over seven years, according to case documents.
Masha Krupp earned CAD 7.2m during the last two years of its CRA contract, according to the Ottawa Citizen article, which said the company could have had an advantage over CLS Lexi-tech on price. According to the original tender documents, however, the winning bidder would be selected based on technical merit (50%) and price (50%).
In its complaint to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, Masha Krupp chose to home in on the technical merit criteria, saying the CRA had used an evaluation inconsistent with the RFP and had introduced "an unfair element of subjectivity" in awarding the contract to a non-compliant bidder.
Masha Krupp claimed "it was obvious and common knowledge in the translation industry that CLS Lexi-tech could not have met the mandatory requirements of having 25 qualified in-house translators to complete the CRA's translation work" in its complaint to the Tribunal. To support the claim, Masha Krupp said that within three hours of being advised that it had won the contract, CLS Lexi-tech "e-mailed" one of Masha Krupp's senior translators trying to get her to leave her employment.
The Trade Tribunal called this claim of Masha Krupp's unsubstantiated. On the contrary, "CLS supplied detailed and compelling information" that it could deliver on the RFP, the Tribunal said. It also found no connection between CLS contacting a Masha Krupp employee (i.e., through LinkedIn with neither a résumé request nor project specifics) and a violation of trade agreements.
Masha Krupp also noted how it was "highly unusual" that all three of its references could not confirm they had been contacted by the CRA, a requirement of the RFP. But the CRA produced an e-mail trail for the reference checks as well as e-mail messages from Masha Krupp's three references confirming that, "upon reflection," they were indeed contacted.
Masha Krupp retracted this claim and described the inability of their references to initially confirm they were, in fact, contacted by the CRA as merely "coincidental"; and the Tribunal ruled this claim invalid.
In the third part of its complaint, Masha Krupp was finally able to latch onto a detail that resulted in a more favorable ruling.
Masha Krupp claimed the CRA was subjective in its evaluation process and "bidders were not treated equally." The Tribunal agreed with this claim, pointing to the so-called evaluation grids that showed CLS Lexi-tech being awarded half points, while Masha Krupp was not.
The Tribunal, therefore, said the CRA's actions had "compromised the evaluation beyond repair" and found this part of Masha Krupp's complaint valid.
As a remedy, Masha Krupp requested the Tribunal to ask the CRA to do any of the following: award Masha Krupp the contract, compensate the company for lost profits, re-evaluate the bids, or re-tender the contract.
On April 21, 2017, the Tribunal published its recommendation: That the CRA re-open the RFP and set a date for re-tendering by April 24; but that the current contract stay with CLS Lexi-tech until a new contract is awarded.
The Tribunal further recommended that Masha Krupp and another bidder be compensated for lost profits.
Dissatisfied with the ruling, the CRA fired back by elevating the case to the Federal Court of Appeals, accusing the Tribunal of overstepping its jurisdiction. The appeal has locked things in a holding pattern as the court deliberates the issue.


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Momo has launched the Ableton Live iPad Editor, an app for controlling Ableton Live.
With the "Ableton Live iPad Editor" you can control the scenes, volume, sends, recording etc.
It use in Ableton Live the MIDI Remote Scripts "Launchpad95" and my User Remote Script.
Ableton Live iPad Editor is available for purchase for 4.99 EUR.


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Q: PHP and FPDI/FPDF: Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: FPDF error: Incorrect output destination I have a PDF file, and I want to add a new page with FPDI/FPDF

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: FPDF error: Incorrect output
  destination: outfiles/111111.pdf in C:\wamp\www\pdf\fpdi\fpdf.php on
  line 271 ( ! ) Exception: FPDF error: Incorrect output destination:
  outfiles/111111.pdf in C:\wamp\www\pdf\fpdi\fpdf.php on line 271

require_once('fpdi/fpdf.php');
require_once('fpdi/fpdi.php');

foreach(glob('infiles/*.pdf') as $file)
{
    $filename = basename($file);
    $fileout = 'outfiles/' . $filename;
    //echo $fileout;
    $out = new FPDI();

    $pagecount = $out->setSourceFile($file);

    for($i = 1; $i <= $pagecount; $i++)
    {
        $tpl = $out->importPage($i);

        $out->addPage($format);
        $out->useTemplate($tpl);

        if($i < $pagecount)
        {
            $out->addPage($format);
        }
    }

    $out->Output($fileout);
}

A: The Output() method requires the first parameter to be the destination and the snd parameter the filename.
So just change the line to:
$out->Output('F', $fileout);

Additionally you should know that you cannot modify a PDF document with FPDI but you import the pages into a reusable structure. Your resulting PDF is a completely new PDF document and you'd not added new pages to the original one.

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This month GridGain CEO Nikita Ivanov will be speaking about functional programming at JavaOne in San Francisco. With its 3.0 release, GridGain added a more functional feel to its product by reworking the APIs. InfoQ contacted Mr. Ivanov to get the deeper story about his company's experiences with functional programming.
Mr. Ivanov started with being inspired a couple of years ago when creating a roadmap for their 3.0 release. They started planning with "a growing sense we have to provide a much more simplified usage model along the lines of a DSL." With Java they felt they had "hit the wall how much simpler it can get" and so tried creating Scala DSL. When they were done, they were "startled" when they placed the same code side-by-side.
On the left side, we had the Scala code which was very functional, very concise, very pragmatic and on the right we had the Java code and it looked bloated and it looked basically three to five times longer....we saw first hand how 45-50 lines in Java became two lines in Scala without any syntatic trickery.
You really have to create the entire new framework....you start with your closures and predicates...it starts with a very comprehensive list comprehension library: it's currying and distributed currying; it's recursions and distributed recursions; and on and on and on.
...pretty much as close as you can get technically to a post-functional feel. It's not because we're smart or anything. We were able to look at existing frameworks that were developed in the last two or three years and really took out the best from them and integrated them natively so all these constructs don't feel like an afterthought.
When asked what the prefect functional use case was, Mr. Ivanov answered that here is no pure functional or pure object oriented use case. He added that "post-functional" languages like Scala illustrate best the need for both.
Object orientation excels at the higher level where we reason or think about our classes with inheritance, encapsulation and packages where these big items get glued together...No matter what Clojure or Haskell will tell you, it's pretty limited in a way how a pure functional language can think about packages, classes, inheritance, and things of that nature.
...when you get to the level of code, of basically implementing your algorithms...your methods. In Java the object orientation becomes basically a drag. It's too heavy. These are not my ideas, it's prevailing wisdom right now.
Java 7 was pushed to November 2012, that's almost three years away again. Java is definitely going to be relevant in 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 years from now but it's kind of worrisome that Java itself as a language will not get any help from its own syntax....If you are not married to Java there's nothing else like Scala today. But for many other organizations Scala is not an answer for many reasons...for years to come Java will be the predominant language in the enterprise. There's an abundance of developers and an abundance of software.
Those attending JavaOne who want to hear more from Nikita Ivanov can catch his presentation on Thursday the 23rd at 2pm.
Congratulations on your success incorporating functional programming ideas using Scala. As Martin Odersky wisely says, people encouraging more functional approaches on the JVM should work together, not against one another.
As a technology adopter, you are under no obligation to evaluate every other option under the Oracle. But if you did have a few minutes to evaluate Clojure, you would find that Clojure is not purely functional, and that (2) Clojure supports interfaces, classes, and packages in ways that are simpler and more powerful than their Java counterparts, while still being usable from Java.
Best of luck at JavaOne, and I hope your talk will convince other folks to try functional programming on JVM.


80% of young people globally suffer from acne.
That's a lot of people. Are you one of them? If the answer is yes, it's time to change that.
I've suffered from acne prone skin for as long as I can remember. It's affected my mental health, confidence and my ability to step outside the door without wishing I had a balaclava handy. Sound familiar? Well you definitely aren't alone!
Recently I was kindly sent some products from the slightly higher end skincare brand, Dermalogica. I've always wanted to test out their products as I have heard some excellent reviews. Dermalogica are also cruelty free which is great! I wrote a post all about cruelty free beauty, read it here.
However, as I usually am when trying yet another skincare range, I was skeptical. Would it actually do anything? Or would it be the same as the hundreds of products I have already tried? I thought I'd give it a chance and changed my skincare routine to integrate the new skincare products.
Let's get into the products I received. Dermalogica picked the products to send me based on my unique skin concerns, not just bulk sent to lots of bloggers. I thought this was a nice personal touch! I love the packaging of these products, it's simple but practical.
This product intrigued me the most, as I have never used one before. There's always been a great controversy in the skincare world as to whether double cleansing is better or worse for your skin.
I can happily say after using this product that it's a definite yes! It has an oily consistency, which I was a little skeptical about at first. You apply the pre cleanser to dry skin and massage it in. This breaks up all the leftover makeup and oil on your skin. Wash it off afterwards, and your skin will feel as soft as a baby's bum (no kidding).
I believe it is this product that has helped transform my skin to where it is now. It's a step I have never used in my skincare routine before, and it has definitely improved my acne prone skin issues. This product also smells amazing.
This cleanser has a gel based formula, which I know is supposed to be better for skin types like my own. I love the bottle for this product, it has one of those pop up lids (I'm easily amused, I know).
You really don't need a lot of this, it foams up into a lather and a little goes a long way. It smells delicious, but doesn't have a harsh scent which I really like.
I've always struggled to find a moisturiser suitable for my difficult skin type. Most are too thick and clog my pores like crazy.
However, I think I may have found the perfect one in this little guy. This citrus scented beauty is so incredibly light feeling and seems to be the only moisturiser to agree with my acne prone skin right now. You don't need a lot of this, which I think helps balance out the heftier price tag.
These little packets have a small exfoliating pad which you can place on your index finger, and exfoliate your skin daily. I find the smell slightly over powering, but not unbearable.
I haven't begun to use these daily yet, as I thought it could be a little harsh on my breakouts. I've been using one very 2 to 3 days, which for now is definitely enough for my skin.
This product really intrigued me, as I've never used anything like it before. Sun protection is such an important part of a skincare routine, but a lot of people overlook it.
These drops allow you to add sun protection to whatever moisturiser/serum product you desire. Make sure it's one you apply in the morning and is long lasting. I've never found a suncream for my face that doesn't make my skin flare like crazy, so this may be the answer! Hoorah!
They don't make my skin feel oily and protect my skin from the sun. It's a win win situation!
I really hope you found this post useful and maybe give some of these products a go. I know they are slightly pricier, but in my eyes it's totally worth it! Have you tried Dermalogica before? Let me know in the comments!
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, meaning I receive a small commission if you make a purchase using that link. This is at no extra cost to you. These products were gifted to me by Dermalogica but all opinions stated are my own.
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Awh sorry to hear that! Yes mine gets worse during summer too, would really recommend these products!
Would have loved to have seen some before and after photos… Sounds like some really great products if they clear up acne in just a month. Thanks for sharing.
I really wish I took some, I was so excited to start using them I completely forgot! My acne has always been very mild but has effected my confidence a lot, and these products have definitely helped! Have a wonderful week.


Every month HelloFresh produces an in-box magazine. With the idea of starting small with your resolutions I highlighted often forgotten custom spice blends, herbs, and small packaged ingredients that customers receive weekly to visually represent that although they may be small they are still mighty (and your dish wouldn't be the same with out them!).
With that in mind I utilized the interior spread to create a poster sized calendar where customers could track their goals.


Internet arrived and changed everything and it will happen again, very soon. New technologies like augmented reality, gamification, drones, 3d printing, bioprinting, internet of things and big data bring a new digital wave that will generate a lot of businesses. However, this also brings new challenges and risks. Are you ready?
WHAT IS METHOD INNOVA 3DX?
Innova 3DX Method emerges from the fact that innovation is not a direct result of financing, but of people's innovative energy. This method helps to manage with efficiency the three dimensions that determine innovation: creative environment, innovative spirit and passion.
Which consultancy services does she offer?
Are the employees afraid of innovation? Are they motivated to innovate? Are there any "inno-leaks" to be repaired?
To move innovative energy a dose of external inspiration will accelerate the change. That will set a milestone.
If you are worried about your future and your capability to adapt yourself to the digital wave? She can help.
Synergies play a key role in the world of innovation and digital transformation, and she can help you to get them.


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Expert-Led Private Tour of the British Museum
Private & Custom Tours in Kaluts
DepartsYou will meet your docent in front of the La Roma Bella Cafe
A private visit to the British Museum led by an expert; usually a historian or similar.
This walk explores how the British Museum came into existence in the mid-eighteenth century during the period of Enlightenment, so called because of people's desire to re-examine received ideas and explore new ones using different methods of collecting data.During the Enlightenment period different disciplines were born, among them archaeology, art history and the study of languages and scripts.We will look at some of the antiquities and languages of ancient Iraq and Iran as material from these areas forms some of the earliest collections in the British Museum. Large-scale excavation in the ancient Middle East and the race for deciphering of hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts were inspired by the finds from Mesopotamia and Persia. The beginnings of the British Museum are inextricably tied to the European re-discovery of these ancient cultures.We begin our walk in the Enlightenment Gallery where we will talk about how archaeology evolved from the work of antiquaries; how art history was born with the study of ancient Greek sculpture and vase painting, and how Greek art set the standard for the next 200 years of what was considered the model of fully evolved art. We then move onto discussing how ancient texts came to be deciphered in the first place and we will compare the ways in which hieroglyphs and cuneiform, the two earliest scripts, were cracked.Our discussion will be illustrated by the Rosetta Stone which now lives in the British Museum, along with about 130,000 pieces of cuneiform tablets from ancient Iraq, some of which are on display. Depending on the interests of your guide and the group, we may then spend time looking more in depth at the art of ancient Iran and/or of ancient Iraq in its earlier phases, before taking in the palace reliefs of ancient Assyrian kings, which form the best collection of ancient Iraqi sculpture outside of Baghdad. If time permits, and we are in the mood, we may take a peek at the Parthenon marbles, which will bring us back to the beginning of our discussions of what the 18th and 19th century European viewer perceived as the highest art form.
Local Expert Guide
Entrance tickets to any special, temporary exhibitions not included on the private tour
Entrance tickets to the British Museum are free however, donations are greatly appreciated and at your discretion

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► TQO#103 - Democrats such as John Kerry think you are stupid - is he right?
One year my wife and myself, when I was working a real job, gave more to charity then "liveshot" Kerry did that year. I know, I know, to serve us heathens is charity payment enough for him, for gracing us with his presence. Good thing Mr. Botox married money.
I have an idea - since far left loonies like those that do the bidding of Soros like to boycott companies, how about we boycott Heinz until Kerry resigns?
With the housing crisis, TARP, and failed stimulus why hasn't anyone in the media investigated Wilson Meany Sullivan? Is it because of who they donate to and because of their ties to Pelosi?
Political contributions disclosed by campaign committees to the Federal Election Commission, sorted by employer. The data, from the FEC, covers the years 1979 through 2008.
Is it because of the Pelosi and her husband being involved themselves in the real estate market?
The Presidio is turned over to private hands in 2012.
Former Russian leaders live there.
It is directly supplied with power.
They have been planning on collapsing the USA's economy in 2012 for a long time and this is going to be one of their spider holes that can be defended because it has limited access, water, and direct electrical power.
Totally ignore the fact that Pelosi use to live there, who the Presidio trust benefits, and that Jack Anderson thought Pelosi was a sleaze bag. Totally ignore earmark #8084.
Live up to John Kerry's image of you.
► Pelosi's $2 million earmark to herself #8084 ?


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One of the most visited cities in the world, Paris is also one of the most photogenic, with historical monuments, grand museums, and charming streets. Here are the best Instagram spots in Paris!
There is no bad view of the Eiffel Tower, Paris's most iconic monument, but you'll find the best view at the Trocadero.
Arguably the most famous art museum in the world, the Louvre is also one of the top Instagram spots in Paris. The modern glass pyramids and historic buildings create plenty of photo ops.
Known as one of the most beautiful bridges in the world, Pont Alexandre III features ornate details and bronze sculptures. The magnificent details makes it one of the best Paris photo spots.
The quirky black and white striped columns were once considered controversial - today it makes Palais Royal considered to be one of the most Instagrammable places in Paris.
The spectacular Palace of Versailles is full of photo ops, with opulent and extravagant details. It is one of the most popular day trips from Paris, easily accessible via train.
La Maison Rose
This charming restaurant in the Montmarte district has a pretty pink facade, making it one of the top Instagram spots in Paris.
Musee d'Orsay
The Musee d'Orsay is housed in a former train station and boasts an impressive impressionist art collection. The clock tower on the 5th floor is especially photogenic.
One of Paris's most iconic monuments, the Arc de Triomphe creates a grand backdrop to your photos. The view of the city from the top is also impressive.
Most Instagrammable Places in Paris
150 Epic Things to Do in Paris: Ultimate Bucket List


Ok, so, not going to try and claim this is remotely healthy (although arguably it's healthier than the real deal) but what can I do; I wanted to share a little Christmas treat with y'all!
This is so simple; no sugar thermometers or fancy equipment; just a whisk and a bit of patience. Plus there are only 4 ingredients; coconut milk, coconut sugar, vanilla, and sea salt.
I'm not super into traditional Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, trifle, or whatever else, so I've included a few alternatives that you could have with the salted coconut caramel sauce instead.
Here's how to do it?
2 tsp. vanilla powder or 2 vanilla pods, scraped (I know this is kinda fancy, but it's Christmas after all! You can just use vanilla extract if that's what you've got).
Open the cans and carefully scoop out the solid part of the coconut milk, leaving all the watery stuff in the can. If you forgot to chill your coconut milk (like I did) don't worry, maybe just cook for a tiny bit longer, or until it gets to the consistency you want it at. Ok so dump the solid part in a pan over a medium-high heat until it gets simmery. Add in your sugar, vanilla, and sea salt, whisk together, and let it simmer.Be careful not to let it get too hot because it will burn and boil over the top of the pan and make a huge mess. Keep whisking every 3-4 mins for about 20-30 mins - the longer you cook, the thicker it'll be. Keep in mind that it'll get thicker as it cools down too. Wait until completely cool before serving.
I gave you a range of salt to add in, but I'm telling you now, I go for the full whack. Remember that it will be spread out over whatever you're pouring or drizzling it on, so the saltiness will get diluted.
This makes enough to easily fill a few jars for a last minute Christmas gift OR, if you're too lazy for that ish, check out my gift guide and get Amazon to do the heavy lifting for you.
On Tuesday, I'm heading up to Scotland for a whole week of doing as little as possible before I come back and hit it hard in January, so this will be my last post (here) this year. I hope your Christmas is freaking awesome and you get to spend time wearing your PJs, watching tacky Christmas TV, and spending time with the people you like best in the whole world.
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Systematic review of observational studies finds increased risk of fracture among older adults taking a proton pump inhibitor
Peter Vestergaard
The Osteoporosis Clinic, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Correspondence to: Peter Vestergaard
The Osteoporosis Clinic, Aarhus University Hospital, Tage Hansens Gade 2, Aarhus DK-8000 Denmark; p-vest{at}post4.tele.dk
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebm.2011.100114
Commentary on: Yu EW, Bauer SR, Bain PA, et al. Proton pump inhibitors and risk of fractures: a meta-analysis of 11 international studies. Am J Med 2011;124:519–26. OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) were initially considered to be potentially beneficial for bone as they were perceived to be able to inhibit acidic degradation by osteoclasts and thus have antiresorptive potential.1 However, this has been shown not to be the case, as the original studies were based on compounds differing from those used clinically.1 Studies of bone density have failed to show any major changes in bone density with PPIs.2 Short-term studies have failed to show an effect on calcium absorption by PPIs.3
The present study examines whether a relationship exists between the use of …


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I am on my way home after a weekend of service. I had the honour to serve for a workshop called Power Surrender and Intimacy. I had a joy filled time. I was surprised to find that I could change my beliefs, change my outlook and change my experience. It was very simple, all I needed to do was dive into the place in myself where I could make a choice. Sometimes it was very simple and sometimes it was immensely complex. The simplicity of choosing to choose became more and more clear as the weekend went by.
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The Japan Clinical Oncology Group has recently conducted large scale clinical trials with findings that have revealed pivotal strategies for the treatment of resectable gastric cancer surgery. These findings include the fact that D3 lymphadenectomy does not improve survival rates when compared to D2 lymphadenectomy, and it is not recommended for resectable gastric cancer. Also, a transhiatal approach is recommended, instead of the left thoraco-abdominal approach, for the treatment of adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction or gastric cardia which has invaded ≤ 3 cm of the esophagus. Gastrectomy with splenectomy and bursectomy had been recommended as a part of the D2 lymphadenectomy. However, the results of the recent clinical trials revealed that splenectomy should be avoided in total gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy for proximal gastric cancer and that bursectomy should be avoided in gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy for resectable gastric cancer. Both splenectomy and bursectomy were found to be unable to improve survival, but instead increased operative morbidity. These trials revealed that the above-mentioned invasive and aggressive procedures did not provide sufficient survival benefits and that gastric cancer surgery may be trending from an "invasive to less invasive" and "aggressive to more conservative" approach.
Although there has been remarkable progress in the treatment of gastric cancer, including in minimally invasive surgeries and chemotherapeutics, occurring in the recent years, however, gastrectomy with lymph node dissection still remains the only curative method for patients with gastric cancer. The Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA), inaugurated in 1962, has proposed several therapeutic strategies for gastric cancer which have historically established surgical standards in this field based on numerous data and efforts of several surgeons over the years .
The treatment of gastric cancer in Japan is conducted according to the Japanese Guideline of Gastric Cancer and the Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma. Current editions are the 5th Japanese Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines and the 15th Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma [2, 3]. When the first edition of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Treatment Guideline was published in 2001 , there was insufficient solid evidence regarding the therapeutic strategies based on clinical trials and scientific studies, as the Japanese therapeutic strategies for gastric cancer were mainly based from the experience of surgeons and through clinical practice. Even the efficacy of D2 dissection had not been properly evaluated by large scale clinical trials in Japan. Subsequent to the publication in 2001, several clinical questions have been verified by clinical trials mainly conducted by the Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG). Some of their findings from conducting large scale clinical trials are gradually contributing to more standardized therapeutic strategies for gastric cancer. In this review, we discuss the recent trends of the results from JCOG trials on gastric cancer surgery.
D2 lymphadenectomy, rather than D1 lymphadenectomy, has become the standard for the extent of lymphadenectomy to be performed for resectable gastric cancer, not only in East Asia but also in Western countries. While D2 lymphadenectomy has been performed routinely for years in Japan, D1 lymphadenectomy has been the standard lymphadenectomy performed in Western countries due to higher morbidity and mortality, and lower survival rate following D2 lymphadenectomy as compared to D1 lymphadenectomy [5, 6, 7].
However, between August 1989 and July 1993, the Dutch Gastric Cancer Group conducted a phase III trial on 711 locally advanced gastric cancer patients to compare the efficacy of D1 against D2 lymph node dissection [6, 8]. Though the surgical mortality was significantly high in the D2 lymphadenectomy group (10%) when compared to that of D1 lymphadenectomy (4%), the 15-year follow-up results showed that the postoperative gastric cancer-related deaths were significantly lower after D2 lymphadenectomy as compared to D1 lymphadenectomy (37% vs. 48%, respectively; P = 0.01). In addition, D2 lymphadenectomy was found to be associated with a lower locoregional recurrence (12% vs. 22%, respectively) . This study demonstrated the benefit of D2 lymphadenectomy for advanced gastric cancer and resulted in D2 lymphadenectomy, without pancreatosplenectomy, to be performed in Western countries.
However, it still remained unclear whether D2 lymphadenectomy plus para-aortic lymph node (PAN) dissection (D3) (Fig. 1) would improve the survival rate of surgically resected gastric cancer patients. There were some retrospective reports which have shown that patients with PAN metastasis had a long survival rate after D3 lymph node dissection [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. For that reason, in the 1990s, Japanese surgeons in some institutions performed D3 lymph node dissection for almost all advanced gastric cancer patients with the "enthusiasm" or "passion" for improving the curative rate gastrectomies [13, 15]. The reasons for the surgeons to opt for D3 lymph node dissection was possibly because the mortality rate after D3 lymph node dissection in Japan was low, almost similar to that of D2 lymph node dissection, but with the advantage of retrieving more metastatic lymph nodes and expectation of increasing curative rate [13, 15, 16].
However, in 1995, a phase III open-label randomized clinical trial (RCT) performed by the JCOG, the JCOG 9501 study, for locally advanced gastric cancer revealed that routine D3 lymph node dissection did not improve the survival rate of patients with gastric cancer . In that study, a total of 523 patients were assigned to compare the treatment of D2 versus D3 (D2 + PAN) lymph node dissection. The results showed that the surgical mortality rate was very low in both groups (0.8%). No significant difference was found between the two treatment groups in terms of 5-year recurrence-free survival (RFS) (62.6% vs. 61.7%, respectively; hazard ratio [HR] for recurrence in the group assigned to D3 was 1.08 and the 95% confidence interval [CI] was 0.83–1.42; P = 0.56), and overall survival (OS) [70.3% vs. 69.2%, respectively and the HR for death was 1.03 (95% CI 0.77–1.37; P = 0.85)], but the overall perioperative complication rate in the D3 group was higher than that in the D2 group (28.1% vs. 20.9%, respectively). Further, the observed minor surgery-related complications, such as ileus, lymphorrhea, left pleural effusion, were significantly higher in the D3 group (20.0% vs. 9.1%, P < 0.001).
Table 1 shows the results of other RCTs comparing D2 to D3 or D4 (D3+) lymph node dissection [16, 17, 18, 19]. These trials showed that there were no significant survival rate benefit for performing PAN dissection in curable gastric cancer patients and simultaneously revealed its association to a higher surgical morbidity. As such, gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy has been considered as the standard routine lymphadenectomy for locally advanced gastric cancer.
However, the effect of the D3 dissection on gastric cancer patients with PAN metastasis is still debatable. In 2004, the JCOG launched a phase II trial for patients with PAN metastases which had preoperative S-1/cisplatin chemotherapy followed by D3 dissection (JCOG 0405 study) . The results of this study demonstrated a relatively high 5-year OS rate (53%), even though the proportion of pathological metastasis in the group 3 lymph nodes (extent of lymph node N3 in the Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma—2nd English edition), including PAN, was 31% . In another phase II trial, with a relatively short follow-up, Wang et al.  showed that the use of preoperative chemotherapy with capecitabine and oxaliplatin followed by D3 gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer patients with PAN metastases had a 1-year OS rate of 67.9% and a median OS of 29.8 months . Since the OS rate observed in these two reports were relatively high, this suggests that D3 lymphadenectomy with preoperative chemotherapy was beneficial for some patients with PAN metastasis but, more investigations are needed in regard to the proper patient selection.
The surgical approach for the treatment of cancer of the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) was controversial in the 1990s. Some institutions preferred the left thoraco-abdominal (LTA) approach (Fig. 2) to the transhiatal (TH) approach to perform lymph node dissection in the lower mediastinal field and for obtaining a safer surgical margin. Others preferred the TH approach considering that it had a lower postoperative morbidity and that the prognosis for patients with metastasis in the lower mediastinum was poor.
In the year 1995 in Japan, a phase III open-label RCT (the JCOG9502 study) was initiated to compare the TH and LTA approaches for patients with EGJ cancer invading the esophagus by 3 cm or less [23, 24]. The trial randomly assigned 82 and 85 patients to the TH and LTA group, respectively. However, the trial was stopped after the first interim analysis because patients assigned to the LTA group were unlikely to have an improved OS compared with those assigned to the TH group, and that the LTA group had a higher morbidity rate (LTA group, 49% vs. TH group, 34%; P = 0.060) . For a selected of six major complications (pancreatic fistula, abdominal abscess, pneumonia, anastomotic leak, pulmonary emphysema, and mediastinitis), the incidence was significantly higher following the LTA approach as compared to the TH approach (41% in the LTA group vs. 22% in the TH group; P = 0.008) . The 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) rate was higher in the TH group, but not significantly different from the LTA group [47% vs. 37%, respectively; the HR for the LTA group compared with the TH group was 1.28 (95% CI 0.87 to 1.89; P = 0.215)]. Also, the 5-year OS was higher in the TH group, but without any observed significant statistical difference [51% in the TH group vs. 37% in the LTA group; the HR for the LTA compared with the TH approach was 1.42 (95% CI 0.98–2.05; P = 0.060)].
These results showed that the LTA technique could not significantly improve the OS or DFS rate when compared with the TH approach and were associated with greater morbidity and mortality. Therefore, based on the finding of the JCOG9502 study, the LTA approach is not recommended in the treatment of adenocarcinoma of the EGJ or gastric cardia with esophageal invasion of ≤ 3 cm.
Splenectomy aiming for complete lymphadenectomy at the splenic hilum, used to be performed in Japan, because the complete lymph node dissection was not technically feasible without a splenectomy. However, its overall survival benefit was unclear, although splenectomy in total gastrectomy was associated with an increase in operative morbidity and mortality.
Cuschieri et al.  reported the results of an RCT—comparing the postoperative morbidity and mortality after D1 and D2 lymphadenectomy—consisting of 400 patients with curable gastric cancer. They found that performing splenectomy led to a high surgical morbidity (54%) and mortality (16%). Multivariate analyses showed that conducting splenectomy was the possible cause of a lower survival rate, in contrast to when a splenectomy was not performed. However, the difference was not statistically significant, for which the HR of the splenectomy group compared with the preservation group was 1.36 (95% CI 0.97–1.90; P = 0.07). This result thereby suggested that splenectomy may not contribute to a survival benefit.
However, despite the mortality was relatively high after splenectomy, there were some RCTs which showed that patients who had undergone splenectomy had a better survival than those having spleen-preserving gastrectomies if the perioperative splenectomy mortality was low, although the obtained results were not statistically significant (Table 2).
Further, Csendes et al.  reported the results of an RCT which compared D2 total gastrectomy versus D2 total gastrectomy plus splenectomy in 187 gastric cancer cases. They found a slightly better 5-year survival rate regarding the splenectomy group as compared to those with spleen preservation (42% vs. 36%, respectively), with an observed operative mortality similar in both groups (4.4% vs. 3.1%, respectively). Yu et al.  reported the results of a RCT for splenectomy versus splenic preservation in 207 patients with proximal gastric cancer and found a slightly better survival rate with for those with splenectomy (54.8% vs. 48.8%, respectively; P = 0.503), with low surgical mortality (1.9% vs. 1.0%, respectively).
In Japan, splenectomy was routinely performed with total gastrectomy for years as the observed mortality was very low but, until there were some retrospective studies which showed that splenectomy did not contribute to survival benefit [27, 28]. Finally, in 2002, a phase III open-label RCT, the JCOG0110 study, was initiated on 505 patients to compare their survival after total gastrectomy with and without splenectomy for proximal gastric cancer . Their recent published results showed that splenectomy was associated with a high morbidity (30.3%) but low mortality (0.4%) and did not improve survival rates. The 5-year OS rates were 75.1% and 76.4% in the splenectomy and spleen preservation groups, respectively. The HR for death in the spleen preservation group, when compared to the splenectomy group, was 0.88 (90.7% CI 0.67–1.16, 1-sided P for non-inferiority = 0.025). The 5-year RFS of the splenectomy and spleen preservation groups were 68.4% (95% CI 62.3–73.7) and 70.5% (95% CI 64.4–75.7), respectively, and the HR for the spleen preservation to splenectomy group was 0.87 (95% CI 0.65–1.17). Based on these results, splenectomy is not recommended in total gastrectomy since it has been found to increase operative morbidity without significantly improving survival.
The role of performing bursectomy, in which the peritoneal lining covering the pancreas and the anterior plane of the transverse mesocolon is dissected (Fig. 3a, b), for the prevention of peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer has long been controversial. A retrospective study of 254 patients in Japan showed that gastrectomy with bursectomy had a better 5-year OS than that of without bursectomy, although the difference was not statistically significant [85.8% vs. 80.8%, respectively (HR 0.82; 95% CI 0.37–1.74; P = 0.60)] .
To demonstrate the survival non-inferiority of gastrectomy with the omission of bursectomy, an RCT was initiated in 2002 by the Osaka University Clinical Research Group for Gastroenterological Surgery, which enrolled two hundred and ten patients with cT2–T3 gastric adenocarcinoma . The obtained 3-year OS rates were 85.6% in the bursectomy group and 79.6% in the non-bursectomy group. The HR for death without bursectomy was 1.44 (95% CI 0.79–2.61; P = 0.443 for non-inferiority). Among 48 pathologically serosa-positive (pT3–T4) patients, the 3-year OS was 69.8% for the bursectomy group and 50.2% for the non-bursectomy group, conferring to an HR for death of 2.16 (95% CI 0.89–5.22; P = 0.791 for non-inferiority). A greater number of patients in the non-bursectomy group were found to have peritoneal recurrences as compared to the bursectomy group (13.2% vs. 8.7%). These results suggested that the bursectomy group tended to have a better OS than that of the non-bursectomy group, although they were not statistically significant.
A large-scale phase III open-label RCT, the JCOG1001 study, was conducted between June, 2010 and March, 2015, to compare the survival benefit of gastrectomy with and without bursectomy and to clarify this issue . A total of 1204 cT3–T4a gastric cancer patients were enrolled but no survival differences between the two groups were found. The 5-year OS was 76.7% (95% CI 72.0–80.6) in the non-bursectomy group and 76.9% (95% CI 72.6–80.7) in the bursectomy group. The HR for death in the bursectomy group as compared to the non-bursectomy group was 1.05 (95% CI 0.81–1.37; one-sided P = 0.65). The 5-year RFS was 69.3% (95% CI 64.8–73.3) in the non-bursectomy group and 68.0% (95% CI 63.5–72.1) in the bursectomy group. The HR for recurrence in the bursectomy group versus the non-bursectomy group was 1.07 (95% CI 0.86–1.33, two-sided P = 0.54). Contrary to the above-mentioned results of the Osaka University Clinical Research Group, this large-scale trial could not demonstrate a survival benefit of bursectomy over the non-bursectomy group in the treatment of resectable gastric cancer. A possible reason for the difference in the results shown between these two RCTs may be the advent of postoperative chemotherapy. In the JCOG1001 study, the patients were allowed to receive adjuvant S-1 chemotherapy, but no adjuvant treatments were allowed in the Osaka Trial . Since postoperative chemotherapy is performed for almost all advanced gastric cancer patients nowadays, bursectomy may not be recommended for resectable advanced gastric cancer.
Since the racial background of Japanese patients has some advantages as compared to Western countries' patients in terms of low BMI and lesser co-morbidities, aggressive and meticulous gastric cancer surgeries had been easily performed in Japan. In addition, the high incidence of gastric cancer in Japan has contributed to a big accumulation of surgeons' experience in surgical oncology and techniques of performing the operations. The development of gastric cancer surgery in Japan had been based on those reasons. Although the Japanese-style gastrectomy might be difficult for Western surgeons to perform on their Western patients for the above-mentioned reason, recent standardization of gastric cancer surgery based on Japanese clinical trials could still be applied in other countries and possibly with the same oncological benefit and low post-operative mortality with certain extent of accumulation of the surgeons' experience.
Based on the results of these four clinical trials—the JCOG9501 (D2 vs. D2 + PAN dissection), JCOG9502 (THA vs. LTA), JCOG0110 (without splenectomy vs. with splenectomy), and JCOG1001 (bursectomy vs. non-bursectomy— the D2 lymphadenectomy, THA approach, spleen-preservation gastrectomy and non-bursectomy (omentectomy) are recommended as standard strategies for resectable gastric cancer surgery in each of their respective application. It is interesting to note that less invasive methods were adopted among the comparative arms in each of these major clinical trials. Japanese surgeons have performed D2 + PAN dissection, the THA approach, splenectomy, and bursectomy aiming for oncological benefit over many years; however, such invasive and aggressive procedures have now been proven to be without survival benefits and surgeons are now gradually accepting these scientific-based results.
Less invasive and conservative procedures may be the forth-coming recent trend in gastric cancer surgery. However, these results of the clinical trials did not imply the advantage of using laparoscopy or robot for minimally invasive surgeries (laparoscopic and robotic surgeries). The results did not mean that the less surgical stress contributed to the better results. Discussion regarding less invasive surgeries should not include the debate on minimally invasive surgeries (laparoscopic and robotic surgeries) for gastric cancer. Therapeutic strategies for oncological treatment should be the same across all surgical modalities.
Based on the results of the recent clinical trials discussed in this review, we can observe that the treatment strategies in gastric cancer surgery are trending from an "invasive to a less invasive" and "aggressive to a more conservative" approach.
Drafting of the manuscript: TK. Critical revision of the manuscript: TF. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Japanese Gastric Cancer Association. JGCA gastric cancer treatment guidelines March 2001 edition. 2001. http://www.jgca.jp/pdf/E-gudeline.pdf.


FX has announced today that Golden Globe Award-winning actress Annette Bening has joined the cast of Katrina: American Crime Story, the second installment of the universally acclaimed, award-winning limited series from Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Bening, who has also been nominated for an Emmy Award and four Academy Awards, will portray Kathleen Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana during and after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The series is set to premiere in 2018.
The first installment, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, was nominated for 22 Emmy Awards and won 9, including Outstanding Limited Series. The People v. O.J. Simpson also won two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made For Television; four Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Movie Made for Television or Limited Series; and was named an AFI Television Program of the Year.
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[Media Release] FC Barcelona Asian Tour 2013 – Reigning World Club Champions to play against Malaysian XI at National Stadium Bukit Jalil Kuala Lumpur on 10th August 2013.
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FC Barcelona Asian Tour 2013 – Reigning World Club Champions to play against Malaysian XI at National Stadium Bukit Jalil Kuala Lumpur on 10th August 2013.
KUALA LUMPUR, August 8, 2013 – It is with great pleasure that we announce the forthcoming visit by FC Barcelona to Kuala Lumpur. This is the most exciting event on Malaysian Football Calendar. After intense bidding and lobbying by several countries, FC Barcelona chose Malaysia – along with Thailand – to be among two countries to make up their Asian Tour 2013. This is a significant honour for both our football fans and for Malaysia.
The visit by FC Barcelona will boost the promotion of Visit Malaysia Year 2014 as this year is designated the preparatory year for the Visit Malaysia Year 2014 campaign. The unique and historical event is supported by Malaysia Major Events, a division of Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB) an agency under the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia.
We are pleased to announced that, this event is presented by the title sponsor, CIMB Bank Berhad. CIMB Bank Berhad are overwhelmed to collaborate with FC Barcelona Asia Tour 2013 as this is their first time presenting a football event.
FC Barcelona, or Barca, has a wide international fan base and it is expected to draw 80,000 spectators including 8,000 international fans who will watch the game in Kuala Lumpur. The event is expected to bring in more than RM 115 million to the national economy.
The magnificent track record of FC Barcelona has made it among the iconic football clubs globally. Among the unique achievements which FC Barcelona has won include: 2 Club World Cups; 4 Champion Leagues; 4 European Super Cups; 22 Spanish Leagues; 26 Spanish Cups. In addition, it is the first team in history to win 6 titles in the same season (2009) and the club most times first in the IFFHS World Ranking as well as World, European and Spain Champions in 2011.
FC Barcelona is also unique in that it's more than 175,000 members are also owners of the club and its Camp Nou is the biggest stadium in Europe with 99,534 seats. FC Barcelona will thus be bringing to Malaysia a unique football experience and hopefully make a positive input to our sporting culture overall.
The FC Barcelona TV global audience reached a record 1 billion in the 2010-2011 season and continues to grow. Barca has been involved in social issues like no other sports organization; not surprisingly the team carries the UNICEF logo on its jersey.
The club's mission of providing healthy entertainment to the people through the values of respect, team work, humility, effort and ambition are the very values we would like to inculcate in our youth.
Though football remains the most popular sport in Malaysia, as it has been for decades, we aspire to reach the glory days of decades past when Malaysia could outplay South Korea and Japan and qualify for the Olympics.
Now there is a chance for our current Super Stars like Mahalli Jasuli, Norshahrul Idlan Talaha, Khairul Fahmi Che Mat, Mohamad Aidil Zafuan Abd Razak and Safiq bin Rahim to showcase their skills against the top stars of the world and probably learn a couple of tricks from them. Our team will be represented mainly from the team which won the AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 and Sea Games Gold Medal 2011. Our National Coach, Dato' K Rajagopal will have his hands full planning the downfall of FC Barcelona in Kuala Lumpur.
The appearance of FC Barcelona in Kuala Lumpur and the opportunity to play against them will no doubt be an inspiration for our national team, particularly to learn from their values of respect, teamwork, humility and the other positive attributes they bring with them.
Hereby we would like to announce FC Barcelona players who would be attending the friendly match. The players' names are as listed below:
Valdes, Pinto, Oier, Alves, Fabregas, Xavi, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi, Neymar, Dos Santos, Mascherano, Bartra, Sergio, Pedro, Jordi Alba, Montoya, Adriano, Song, Tello, Sergi Roberto, Bagnack, Dongou.
Hopefully this event will be a great success and a historical memory for all Malaysian and FC Barcelona!
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MASS AT THE SHRINE OF SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER
Bishop Francis Malooly will be the celebrant for Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church (Old Bohemia) in Warwick, MD on Saturday, September 1 at 11:00 am in conjunction with the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington 150th Anniversary Historic Churches Pilgrimage. Guided tours of the church and rectory will be offered at 9 am, 9:30 am and 10 am. The rectory museum and historic graveyard will be accessible for individual inspection and study. The Visitor Center and Gift Shop featuring religious articles will also be open. Founded in 1704 by Jesuit priests, Bohemia Mission is one of the oldest permanent Catholic establishments in the English Colonies and is considered the mother church of the Diocese of Wilmington. The plantation was clandestinely established to minister to the scattered Catholics throughout what is now Cecil County, MD, the entire Delmarva Peninsula, and southeastern PA, when Catholicism was outlawed in the English Colonies. The property is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Through the efforts of Francis W. (Frank) Krastel, Sr., a Catholic, and Alfred N. Phillips, a Presbyterian and owner of nearby Worsell Manor, the Old Bohemia Historical Society (OBHS) was established in 1953 as a non-sectarian non-profit corporation. Founding members of the group immediately started major repairs to the church which had fallen into ruin due to neglect. The Society purchased the adjoining 120-acre farm on which the plantation was located and had been sold by the Diocese of Wilmington in 1931. The Society continues to maintain the site. Income for the upkeep of the buildings and grounds is generated from the collection at five regularly-scheduled Masses at the church every year, fundraisers, membership dues, and donations from benefactors. The buildings will continue to be open the first Saturday of every month through March 2, 2019 for the Pilgrimage, with Mass celebrated at 11 am. The Society encourages schools, Knights of Columbus Councils, Columbiettes, Altar and Rosary Societies, Sodalities, youth groups, religious education classes, senior groups, Scout groups, and other church groups and ministries to organize a visit on one of the planned Pilgrimage dates or on another date that is convenient. Additionally, groups may arrange for their pastor or associate pastor to celebrate Mass. For more information or to arrange a tour, please call OBHS President Marji Matyniak at 302.328.4803 or send an email to [email protected] The church is also available for group retreats and weddings. A video about the mission can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFGlCsNM6gk. The GPS location of the Bohemia Mission is 1699 Bohemia Church Road, Warwick, MD 21912. The next Sunday Mass at the church will be on September 16 at 4 pm. Monsignor David Kelley, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Middletown, DE will be the celebrant.


There comes a point when everyone's garden starts to look a little overgrown. It's very exciting and satisfying when plants first start filling in, but all too soon the thugs take over, or lush simply turns to chaos. Before you run for the backhoe to tear all the plants out and start over, consider the following 18 ways to make your garden look better immediately, with a minimum of effort. These ideas won't make garden maintenance go away, but they will help keep your garden looking good, by giving it definition. The following photos illustrate simple time-proven techniques for spiffing up your garden in the afternoon or two.
This is a beautiful planting, but the distinction between garden and lawn is blurred. A clean edge would have given the border more impact.
Here's a very informal border that could easily look messy if it bled right into the lawn. The edge and slightly raised bed make it clear that this is an ornamental planting and not just some plants that went wild in the corner.
These garden beds were cut into the middle of the lawn. Without edging, they would look like they were floating in the lawn. With edging, they look like destinations.
Closely related to edging is mulching. We know we should mulch to suppress weeds and conserve water, but mulch also serves an aesthetic purpose. If the color combination of dark soil and green leaves can make an impact with an edge, why not bring that impact throughout your garden? The darker the mulch, the more your plants will stand out. The shredded cedar mulch is a fine choice in general for mulch, but the pale rusty color doesn't do much to enhance the golden leaves of the hakonechloa grass.
Edges don't always have to be cut in the soil. Sometimes it's easier to maintain if you use an edging material. This gardener solved 2 problems by using the rocks she dug out of the soil to create her edge.
The darker mulch under this corydalis not only complements the yellow flowers, but it also brings the shape and texture of the foliage into sharper focus. It's like the old gardeners trick of wetting the soil before a garden tour. The damp soil is darker and makes the greens look greener.
Once again, the yellow seems to brighten when played against a dark mulch. You can see the shape and texture more clearly.
If the problem is lack of structure in your garden, you should consider adding a shrub or two. Even though this cottage border is backed by an evergreen hedge, the border itself is starting to look overgrown and messy.
You can't tell from this part of the garden whether the path ends or leads on, but the white flowers of the hydrangea and the large, round shrub at center both tempt you to walk out and see. Without this path, this garden would blend in with the forest behind it.
It's the pair of Blue Spruces that tell your eye where to settle. Cover the spruce trees, and the plants look like a jumble. With the anchor of the spruce trees, your eye stops darting and slowly takes in the surrounding plants.
When your plants start taking over and merge into a jumbled mass, you need to create a path. Even the humblest wild, woodland garden can look impressive if you care out a path. Add an object at the end of the path, and you've turned your garden into an irresistible stroll garden.
This person divided her gardens into islands joined by a grass path that opens to a hidden seating area. Notice how nicely the edging defines the islands.
Using shrubs in your garden borders becomes addictive. You can get just as much color and interest, with a fraction of the maintenance. This border has several groupings of perennials, but it's the shrubs that give the garden weight and age.
Perhaps the easiest way to regain control of your garden is to limit the colors you use in it. This is a display garden, so the impact of all this color is intentional, but if this were someone's home border, exuberance quickly changes to over stimulation.
One solution is to limit yourself to pastels. Pastels are always well behaved and work well with each other.
You can still have bold, hot colors and avoid chaos if you choose 1 or 2 colors total. The red lilies are repeated down the border, creating impact and cohesion. And the orange-red of the flowers is complemented and softened by the gold of the evergreens.
Another option is to choose a color and vary its shades. This astilbe will stay in bloom for a long time. Even as the flowers fade, they will be in hues that still work together to create a frame for the clematis. The Impatiens in the back corner add a pink accent.
Don't forget the basics of the color wheel. Complementary colors, colors opposite each other on the color wheel, are a no-brainer combination. Think of red and green at Christmas. Blue and yellow are a favorite of gardeners. Blue flowers tend to wash out or get lost in a garden full of colors. The yellow makes blue flowers more vivid, and the blue softens the harshness of yellow flowers.
So you don't need to spend weeks remapping, digging and moving your plants. Just use some ingenuity to give your gardens definition and cohesion with edging, mulch, paths, shrubs, and a limited color palette.


After decanting, it delivers red fruit and vanilla aromas, with a long & silky finish.
It is a powerful wine with a good tannin structure and an elegant woody palate.
Harvested by hand ; 21 days of malolactic fermentation in vat under constant temperature control.
Matured in oak barrels for about 12 months.
It will only improve with age, from 7 to 10 years.
Serve between 16°C & 18°C with red meat, game and cheese.


Cropped and lean, the Liberator Legging is a narrow, figure hugging style with just the right amount of stretch. Includes Volcom touches like logo'd metal hardware and a vegan leather patch at back waist. Model is wearing size 26.


Shane On The Go: Breakfast at Kokuya and, hey, where'd they hide the car?
Breakfast at Kokuya and, hey, where'd they hide the car?
Breakfast isn't served in the room. In Ryokans breakfast is generally served in a large buffet or in private tatami mat rooms. Breakfast at Kokuya is in a private tatami mat room and is every bit as good as we remember. All the usual type stuff - fish, rice, pickles and the most delicious onsen eggs. We keep forgetting to get them, but out the front of the Ryokan is a small hot spring fountain. In it they keep a basket of eggs for sale at about 50 yen each.
After breakfast we ask for our car. It was whisked away to car parks unknown when we checked in the night before. Like magic it appears at the front door of the lobby. Within minutes we're off to the Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park which is only about 10 minutes drive from our Ryokan.
Great experience. I travelled to japan last year and your article was very helful. Looking for more from your blog in the future.


When the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced its proposal to reinstate new net neutrality regulations that would allow broadband providers to engage in commercially reasonable traffic management, the agency set off a firestorm of protest from digital rights groups, Internet commentators and bloggers.
One problem, though: People freaking out about the proposal haven't actually seen it yet.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's proposal is scheduled to be released to the public on May 15, when the commission plans to vote on the first step in a long process to reinstate net neutrality rules shot down by an appeals court in January.
A second problem with the controversy: A major criticism of the new proposal seems to be over what may be a fairly minor change in wording, from the FCC's original 2010 net neutrality order. FCC officials say the new proposal would allow commercially reasonable traffic management -- and, in limited cases, pay for traffic prioritization -- while the old order prohibits "unreasonable" discrimination against legal network traffic.
While the new order appears to be a change in tone, from a prohibition against unreasonable traffic management to an approval of reasonable traffic management, FCC officials have insisted the change is not as big of a deal as critics have made it out to be. FCC officials insisted they're trying to restore net neutrality rules after the court threw out the regulations.
"To be very direct, the proposal would establish that behavior harmful to consumers or competition by limiting the openness of the Internet will not be permitted," Wheeler wrote in a blog post Thursday. Under the proposal "no legal content may be blocked, and ... ISPs may not act in a commercially unreasonable manner to harm the Internet, including favoring the traffic from an affiliated entity."
The proposal will be a version of net neutrality rules -- the question will be whether they're a significantly weakened version and whether the change in degree will be acceptable to open Internet advocates and Web users. So far, the outcry has been strong, with scores of bloggers, advocacy groups and websites condemning the proposal before the text has been released.
The first criticisms of Wheeler's proposal came shortly after the Wall Street Journal broke a story Wednesday saying the FCC proposal would allow broadband providers to charge Web businesses for access to their fastest service.
The 1,300-word story was short on details, with only one or two paragraphs describing the proposal, and most of the rest of the story focused on reactions and on the history of the net neutrality fight. Late Wednesday, the FCC provided a few more details, and on Thursday, FCC officials briefed reporters and largely disputed allegations that the agency had backflipped on net neutrality.
A New York Times editorial on Thursday ripped into the not-yet-released proposal.
"Dividing traffic on the Internet into fast and slow lanes is exactly what the Federal Communications Commission would do with its proposed regulations," the Times editorial board wrote. "[Wheeler] "is proposing that broadband providers -- phone and cable companies -- be allowed to charge fees for faster delivery of video and other data to consumers."
The Motley Fool was even more breathless. "In a drastic reversal of position, the FCC will support the rights of ISPs to regulate the speeds with which consumers access different materials on the web, a huge boon for companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon," said the article on Fool.com. "The FCC's rejection of Net neutrality will speed along the death of the Internet as we know it."
Esquire.com said: Broadband providers will be able to "create tiered Internet packages that force consumers to pay more for the service they already have. ISPs will also be able to force companies and services -- everything from Netflix to home automation companies like Nest to anything else that runs on the web -- to pay speed tolls to ISPs in order to maintain the reliability of their website or service."
Never mind the fact that broadband providers already sell tiered packages based on speed. And it's unclear how the FCC will define what's a commercially reasonable traffic management practice, but agency officials have said that they will not allow broadband providers to extract speed tolls from "anything" that runs on the Web.
"This is not a request, but a demand by the citizens of this nation," the petition says. "No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or its source."
So what do we really know about Wheeler's proposal?
What will happen at the FCC meeting on May 15?
The FCC is scheduled to vote on a notice of proposed rulemaking, or NPRM, addressing the new net neutrality plan. In an NPRM, the commission releases a set of proposals and asks for public comment on them. It's the first step in a long process for the FCC to pass new regulations.
Because of the controversy over the proposal, the FCC has already begun taking email comments at openinternet@fcc.gov.
What's the timeline for FCC action on net neutrality?
Wheeler has said he wants to pass new net neutrality rules by the end of the year, which would be a speedy process by FCC standards. Wheeler wants to move quickly, he said, because there have been no net neutrality rules in place since the appeals court threw them out in January.
Why does the new proposal change the way it deals with unreasonable traffic discrimination?
Wheeler and other FCC officials say they are following the guidance from the January ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which suggested that the FCC's past prohibition of unreasonable network management was a blanket rule that looked too much like old, common-carrier telephone regulations.
Will the new proposal allow broadband providers to charge Web services for faster speeds to end users?
The FCC will take a hard look at attempts to engage in pay-for-priority traffic schemes, officials have said. It's unclear what that means, exactly. There are also a couple of caveats: The agency doesn't plan to ban all pay-for-priority business models, because, in some cases, consumers may want some Web traffic to be a higher priority. A Web-based heart monitor was one example an FCC official gave.
The net neutrality rules also won't cover traffic exchange arrangements, also called peering agreements, that are in wide use today, FCC officials have said. Peering agreements cover all types of traffic exchanges, but the definition of what's a peering agreement and what's a pay-for-priority deal gets a little fuzzy at the edges.
In January, Netflix, under protest, signed a traffic agreement with Comcast, the largest broadband provider in the U.S., but Netflix executives have called for stronger net neutrality rules that would eliminate the need for the company to pay broadband providers for faster speeds. Many critics have echoed Netflix's concerns.
Are there other concerns about the FCC proposal?
There are, and one of the biggest remaining concerns is that the FCC proposes to handle complaints about unreasonable traffic management on a case-by-case basis. FCC officials again point to the appeals court decision as grounds for taking complaints one by one, but critics say that approach will leave customers and Web businesses confused about what's allowed and what isn't.
The definition of what's commercially reasonable could also change over time. The FCC currently has a Democratic majority that's sympathetic to net neutrality advocates, but a future Republican president could appoint a majority that's more hostile to those regulations.


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Nintendo may be cutting back on its profit forecast, but that didn't stop the firm dropping $141,156,912 (12.8 billion yen) at the end of 2008 on sizable golf driving range close to Nintendo headquarters. Nikkei.net reports that the company plans to use the site for new game software and hardware R&D, and will integrate its […]
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Lafayette arrival
1 February 2012, from Acadiana
Arriving in Lafayette, I am immediately enveloped in a warm humidity and the chirring of cicadas. It brings me back to the Maryland woods where I grew up, sweaty summer nights buzzing with activity, alive with creatures great and small.
From the airport, I phone a cab, and ten minutes later it arrives. It's a low-tech setup: no meters running on the dashboard, but the rates determined by the dispatch operator, and Thomas, the driver, is more than happy to double up on passengers. Thomas takes us through downtown, somewhat slow and quiet at 9pm on a Wednesday, and he points out the best burger joint in town. He lets me in on the fact that while the country looks to New Orleans as the beacon of this region, in fact it's Lafayette that holds the culture. Especially in the last few years, the population has increased by over 100,000 people, due in large part to the emigration of New Orleanians after Katrina's destruction. The city has gained (and curated, I suspect) a reputation for incredible food and music, offering itself up as the true cultural center of Louisiana.
I ask Thomas whether it would be safe for me to take a walk tonight. He points out that I'll be nearby the college, that lots of folks walk to and from the bars, and that as long as I'm careful and don't stay out too late, I should be fine. He claims that the crime rate in Lafayette is surprisingly low, almost zero. That's surprising to me, given the awful reputation of New Orleans, just a two-hour drive east.
We arrive at my home for the month: a modest studio apartment build atop a garage, in a quiet area near downtown and the college. The room is comfortable, with a hint of rustic-country-cabin feel. I unpack my bags slowly, savoring the feel of moving into a new residence, if even for a month. I find a place for everything, and then take a walk.
Jefferson Street makes a gentle curve around downtown Lafayette, and I'm only a block off it, so I stroll north towards the strip where Thomas earlier pointed out the various restaurants and bars. It's now 10pm, a strange new city, and I'm walking. The old street sense, honed as a teenager exploring sketchy neighborhoods of DC, kicks in: I walk purposely, taking quick glances down alleys and alcoves. There's no one around, save a few college students walking to a pub, and a police car idling in an abandoned parking lot. I keep my eyes ahead.
I head to a tavern I found listed online, but a different place strikes my eye: a rambling compound of walls & roofs that calls itself the Artmosphere. Inside, it's PBR and mustaches and ironic eyeglasses. Maybe it's not surprising that within an hour of my being in this southern city, I find myself in a bar that could easily be anywhere in Portland. I order a local beer (one of several) and a plate of pasta, and settle in to watch the singer-songwriter croon earnestly from the stage.
Besides me, the only other people over thirty in this place are two fellows sitting at a nearby table. They're clearly not hipsters, and indeed, when I introduce myself, it turns out they are here in Lafayette working for a few days. JT is from Texas, and Jim's from Tennessee, with an accent to match. He's got amazing soft eyes and a constant smile through bad teeth, but is wobbling a bit, drunk I assume. Later I realize he's probably mildly retarded. JT is kind to Jim, like a brother, letting Jim vent and ramble, but taking it in stride. He puts his hand on Jim's shoulder, calming him.
We watch the singer play another set, and talk. With that weird intimacy that only happens with strangers, we're rolling through philosophy and theories of living, dabbling in sports and music, thoughts on the relative strengths of cannabis, tall tales of travel, and the finer points of the continuing American racism. Mostly it's JT and I talking; Jim stays silent, occasionally acting the surrealist court jester by throwing in an absurd non sequitor.
Walking home, I find the police that were previously idling are now having a much more active night. One lane of Jefferson Street is blocked off by a a barricade and a cruiser's flashing lights. I avoid the situation, and take a side street, which turns out to be crowded with several more police cars. Yet, inexplicably, folks are just hanging out, apparently ignoring the police. I think of what Thomas said — that there's almost no crime here — and wonder whether this is just a normal Wednesday night: the police called out, over-reacting by blocking roads, and the young partiers generally ignoring the cops, if anything treating the flashing lights as landmarks, marking the most interesting places to be.
'Hey, mister!' calls a girl from across the street. She rambles over to me, a short, young pixie with heavy makeup and bleached hair in a sort of 1960s bouffant. My first thought is, of course, that I have blundered into the child prostitution business of Lafayette. But in fact she is just drunk and looking for her friends, who are apparently driving around looking for her and the next bar they're going to. I'm sure she knows more than I do about this city, me here a scant five hours, but we puzzle through street signs and phone maps, and realize that of course the place she wants to go is half a block back, flashing blue with the lights of cop cars.
She calls her friends, then passes the phone to me, and I have a short conversation with a guy who's probably wondering who the hell his girl is hanging out with. We agree on a nearby corner, and moments later, the oh-so-cool dude whom I presumably spoke with whisks in, driving a shiny new sedan, scoops up the pixie girl, grunts his thanks, and charges off into the sultry night.
Towards the earth's floating edge
Discovering the water
Of bread and stars
Searching for the dance for a chicken
Copyright © 2012 John Labovitz. All rights reserved.


There are so many exciting releases coming out lately and so my wishlist has been growing and growing since. I'm now on a spending ban to save money up for the upcoming birthdays and christmas. This time of the year is the most expensive. I have Alfies birthday and Christmas within days of each other, urgh. Why did he have to arrive so early? haha. It is seriously torture knowing that I have money that I can't spend but I've managed it for over a little while now. If I can do that, I can do anything right?. Anyway the whole purpose of this post was to show you what's on my awfully long wishlist. Let's get to it!
This gorgeous collection of makeup brushes were only just released not so long ago. It includes a total of 12 brushes which are used for both the eyes and face. They come in the most beautiful shell shaped bag with a pearl metallic sheen with a rose gold chain. Each one of the brushes have accents of baby pink, dark pink and rose gold within them which is so 'me'. I need!
My skin is in no way perfect. I have acne prone and combination skin which also has its fair share of scarring too, so when it comes down to foundation I really need a foundation that covers everything. I have seen this foundation everywhere, on youtube, blogs, etc. It is highly raved about. It is high coverage and looks like it has a gorgeous finish. Although it's a little pricey I still really want to try it out but I don't think it'd be one for everyday wear.
I'm not normally one for a vibrant and glitter packed eyeshadow palette but the Moondust Palette is just not one that I can pass up on. I really want to try and experiment with more colours and I seriously believe I would wear every single one of the eyeshadows in the palette. My favourites are Galaxy, Element and Magnetic. Urgh, I want this so much!
Sooo, Kat Von D Beauty is finally available in the UK, and I couldn't be more excited. I was literally counting down until the big day and as soon as they launched onto Debenhams I ordered a few things. See what I bought here. I only managed to pick up a few things but next on my list is the Kat Von D Lock-it Foundation. It's supposedly a high coverage foundation which is just what I need. The only thing that baffles me is the shade range. I have no idea what shade I would be as the whole range is quite extensive and there's not anywhere I can get colour matched, unless I spent the £££ to travel to London next month when it launches in stores. Nuh-uh, not happening.
Another from Kat Von D is the Lock-it Creme Concealer. I was going to purchase it when it was finally launched on Debenhams but I decided against it. I didnt want to spend too much. Again I would have no idea what shade to buy but I know I'd need two, one for covering my acne scarring and another for highlighting. It's claimed to be long lasting, creamy and transfer and water resistant. It sounds too good to be true. I don't want it, I need it!
I have seen many a youtuber and blogger rave about the Jouer Long-Wear Lip Creme Liquid Lipsticks. There are so many beautiful shades within the range in matte and metallic finishes but there are at least three that I want, Papaye, Peche and Dulce De Leche. They are described as full coverage with 'pigment-rich colour that dries with a smooth, soft touch finish'. Oh they sound so dreamy.
I popped into Boots the other week but just for a browse and I found myself looking around the fragrance section. There are always so many scents being released at this time of the year. I spritzed a little of the Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming Eau de Parfum and I fell in love. It is the most wonderful floral scent mixed with a few juicy fruity notes to it. Oh, it is just divine.
It's safe to say that I am highlighter obsessed. I've said this many times but I just can't control myself. Everytime I see a new highlighter I am instantly drawn to it like a magpie. The Urban Decay Highlighter in Sin is one that I need in my collection. It's a gorgeous champagne but looking at the swatches is nothing like any other highlighter I have within my collection. That's my excuse as to why I need it anyway.