these 'PMS' symptoms are not normal for my cycle.
For the past 2 weeks I have felt hungry almost all the time and if I dont eat every 2 - 3 hours I get severely nauseous. I have had some lower rib pain, mostly on the right side, increased temperature (99.5), and fatigue. I thought I might be pregnant (as these were all early symptoms from my first pregnancy but this morning I started spotting, what i feel is relatively heavy. I usually track my menstrual cycle and expect my period to begin on Wed/Thur so the spotting at this time would be normal but these 'PMS' symptoms are not normal for my cycle.
If I am not pregnant, what else could these symptoms indicate?
The symptoms that you describe (increased hunger, nausea, lower rib pain, increased basal body temperature, fatigue, spotting) could be few of early symptoms suggestive of pregnancy. Wait and watch for your next periods. Look out for development of any other new symptoms if pregnancy is suspected. If your usual periods have not started within 10 days of expected period dates, or if you get abnormal periods, or if you suspect chances of pregnancy, consider visiting your doctor/gynecologist at the earliest for thorough examination (to confirm pregnancy related changes/signs in body) and blood/serum HCG level test (to confirm/rule out pregnancy accurately). If pregnancy gets confirmed, or if you develop any other new symptoms suggestive of ectopic pregnancy, consider getting ultrasound scan done to confirm the gestational age and location of pregnancy/gestational sac (intrauterine or ectopic). Visit your doctor/gynecologist for further clarification and assistance.
are these symptoms caused by the pill?
What could all these symptoms mean?
What could have caused these changes?
I'm 15, Are these symptoms serious?
What are these white patches?
Are these symptoms of Chlamydia?


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As well as the Barnet game, the former Watford youngster will miss the U's fixtures against Crawley Town and Accrington Stanley.
He came on as a second half substitute at Bloomfield Road but caught Jim McAlister in injury time and received his marching orders.
A red card on his debut at Blackpool saw a three match ban for the U's new signing, starting with the weekend game against Barnet.
The U's will be without Sean Murray on Saturday.
Three of the U's own youngsters have been added to the squad, following excellent performances in recent U23s matches.
Cameron James, Diaz Wright and Charley Edge will be hoping to be involved against the Bees, as the U's look to close the gap to the Play-Off positions.
There is also a place in the squad for new loanee Rekeil Pyke, who like the trio mentioned, impressed in the 1-1 draw in the U23s game against Coventry City.

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Judi Lynn (144,841 posts)
4. You imagine the leader of that island with approximately 10,000,000 people, maximum, at that time,
had the wherewithal, and the intention of killing John F. Kennedy?
Didn't you know John F. Kennedy held secret meetings between his aide, and Che Guevara in the months prior to his assassination?
[center]Kennedy Sought Dialogue with Cuba
INITIATIVE WITH CASTRO ABORTED BY ASSASSINATION,
DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS SHOW
Oval Office Tape Reveals Strategy to hold clandestine Meeting in Havana; Documents record role of ABC News correspondent Lisa Howard as secret intermediary in Rapprochement effort
Posted - November 24, 2003[/center]
Washington D.C. - On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the eve of the broadcast of a new documentary film on Kennedy and Castro, the National Security Archive today posted an audio tape of the President and his national security advisor, McGeorge Bundy, discussing the possibility of a secret meeting in Havana with Castro. The tape, dated only seventeen days before Kennedy was shot in Dallas, records a briefing from Bundy on Castro's invitation to a U.S. official at the United Nations, William Attwood, to come to Havana for secret talks on improving relations with Washington. The tape captures President Kennedy's approval if official U.S. involvement could be plausibly denied.
The possibility of a meeting in Havana evolved from a shift in the President's thinking on the possibility of what declassified White House records called "an accommodation with Castro" in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Proposals from Bundy's office in the spring of 1963 called for pursuing "the sweet approach…enticing Castro over to us," as a potentially more successful policy than CIA covert efforts to overthrow his regime. Top Secret White House memos record Kennedy's position that "we should start thinking along more flexible lines" and that "the president, himself, is very interested in [the prospect for negotiations]." Castro, too, appeared interested. In a May 1963 ABC News special on Cuba, Castro told correspondent Lisa Howard that he considered a rapprochement with Washington "possible if the United States government wishes it. In that case," he said, "we would be agreed to seek and find a basis" for improved relations.
The untold story of the Kennedy-Castro effort to seek an accommodation is the subject of a new documentary film, KENNEDY AND CASTRO: THE SECRET HISTORY, broadcast on the Discovery/Times cable channel on November 25 at 8pm. The documentary film, which focuses on Ms. Howard's role as a secret intermediary in the effort toward dialogue, was based on an article -- "JFK and Castro: The Secret Quest for Accommodation" -- written by Archive Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh in the magazine, Cigar Aficionado. Kornbluh served as consulting producer and provided key declassified documents that are highlighted in the film. "The documents show that JFK clearly wanted to change the framework of hostile U.S. relations with Cuba," according to Kornbluh. "His assassination, at the very moment this initiative was coming to fruition, leaves a major 'what if' in the ensuing history of the U.S. conflict with Cuba."
Among the key documents relevant to this history:
•Oval Office audio tape, November 5, 1963. The tape records a conversation between the President and McGeorge Bundy regarding Castro's invitation to William Attwood, a deputy to UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, to come to Cuba for secret talks. The President responds that Attwood should be taken off the U.S. payroll prior to such a meeting so that the White House can plausibly deny that any official talks have taken place if the meeting leaks to the press.
•White House memorandum, Top Secret, "Mr. Donovan's Trip to Cuba," March 4, 1963. This document records President Kennedy's interest in negotiations with Castro and his instructions to his staff to "start thinking along more flexible lines" on conditions for a dialogue with Cuba.
•White House memorandum, Top Secret, "Cuba -- Policy," April 11, 1963. A detailed options paper from Gordon Chase, the Latin America specialist on the National Security Council, to McGeorge Bundy recommending "looking seriously at the other side of the coin-quietly enticing Castro over to us."
•CIA briefing paper, Secret, "Interview of U.S. Newswoman with Fidel Castro Indicating Possible Interest in Rapprochement with the United States," May 1, 1963. A debriefing of Lisa Howard by CIA deputy director Richard Helms, regarding her ABC news interview with Castro and her opinion that he is "ready to discuss rapprochement." The document contains a notation, "Psaw," meaning President Kennedy read the report on Howard and Castro.
•U.S. UN Mission memorandum, Secret, Chronology of events leading up Castro invitation to receive a U.S. official for talks in Cuba, November 8, 22, 1963. This chronology was written by William Attwood and records the evolution of the initiative set in motion by Lisa Howard for a dialogue with Cuba. The document describes the party at Howard's Manhattan apartment on September 23, 1963, where Attwood met with Cuban UN Ambassador Carlos Lechuga to discuss the potential for formal talks to improve relations. In an addendum, Attwood adds information on communications, using the Howard home as a base, leading up to the day the President was shot in Dallas.
•White House memorandum, Secret, November 12, 1963. McGeorge Bundy reports to William Attwood on Kennedy's opinion of the viability of a secret meeting with Havana. The president prefers that the meeting take place in New York at the UN where it will be less likely to be leaked to the press.
•White House memorandum, Top Secret, "Approach to Castro," November 19, 1963. A memo from Gordon Chase to McGeorge Bundy updating him on the status of arrangements for a secret meeting with the Cubans.
•White House memorandum, Top Secret, "Cuba -- Item of Presidential Interest," November 25, 1963. A strategy memo from Gordon Chase to McGeorge Bundy assessing the problems and potential for pursuing the secret talks with Castro in the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination.
•Message from Fidel Castro to Lyndon Johnson, "Verbal Message given to Miss Lisa Howard of ABC News on February 12, 1964, in Havana, Cuba." A private message carried by Howard to the White House in which Castro states that he would like the talks started with Kennedy to continue: "I seriously hope (and I cannot stress this too strongly) that Cuba and the United States can eventually sit down in an atmosphere of good will and of mutual respect and negotiate our differences."
•United Nations memorandum, Top Secret, from Adlai Stevenson to President Johnson, June 16, 1964. Stevenson sends the "verbal message" given to Lisa Howard to Johnson with a cover memo briefing him on the dialogue started under Kennedy and suggesting consideration of resumption of talks "on a low enough level to avoid any possible embarrassment."
•White House memorandum, Top Secret, "Adlai Stevenson and Lisa Howard," July 7, 1964. Gordon Chase reports to Bundy on his concerns that Howard's role as an intermediary has now escalated through her contact with Stevenson at the United Nations and the fact that a message has been sent back through her to Castro from the White House. Chase recommends trying "to remove Lisa from direct participation in the business of passing messages," and using Cuban Ambassador to the UN, Carlos Lechuga, instead.
Key Figures in the Dialogue
William Attwood
Gordon Chase
Lisa Howard
Carlos Lechuga
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB103/index.htm
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When J.F.K. Secretly Reached Out to Castro
Michael Beschloss
President Obama's surprise effort to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, concurrent with an economic embargo, recalls the two-track approach — economic and sometimes military force, along with secret, sporadic attempts to find some kind of accommodation — that formed American policy toward Cuba during the most dangerous years of that relationship.
On Monday evening, Nov. 18, 1963, at the Americana Hotel in Miami Beach — four days before his assassination — President John F. Kennedy, wearing black tie, told the Inter-American Press Association that only one issue separated the United States from Fidel Castro's Cuba: Castro's "conspirators" had handed Cuban sovereignty to "forces beyond the hemisphere" (meaning the Soviet Union), which were using Cuba "to subvert the other American republics." Kennedy said, "As long as this is true, nothing is possible. Without it, everything is possible."
The president had asked his speechwriter, Theodore Sorensen, for language that would open a door to the Cuban leader, although, as Sorensen later observed, the audience was "a very tough anti-Castro group."
That same day, Ambassador William Attwood, a Kennedy delegate to the United Nations, secretly called Castro's aide and physician, Rene Vallejo, to discuss a possible secret meeting in Havana between Attwood and Castro that might improve the Cuban-American relationship, which had been ruptured when President Eisenhower broke diplomatic ties in January 1961.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/upshot/when-jfk-secretly-reached-out-to-castro.html?_r=0
OPINION: JFK's Secret Negotiations with Fidel
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr
WHITE PLAINS, New York, Jan 5 2015 (IPS) - On the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, one of his emissaries was secretly meeting with Fidel Castro at Varadero Beach in Cuba to discuss terms for ending the U.S. embargo against the island and beginning the process of détente between the two countries.
That was more than 50 years ago and now, finally, President Barack Obama is resuming the process of turning JFK's dream into reality by re-establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Those clandestine discussions at Castro's summer presidential palace in Varadero Beach had been proceeding for several months, having evolved along with the improved relations with the Soviet Union following the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
During that crisis, JFK and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, both at odds with their own military hardliners, had developed a mutual respect, even warmth, towards each other. A secret bargain between them had paved the way for removing the Soviet missiles from Cuba – and U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey – with each side saving face.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was spying on all parties. In a top secret January 5, 1963 memo to his fellow agents, Richard Helms (later to become Director of the CIA in 1966) warned that "at the request of Khrushchev, Castro was returning to Cuba with the intention of adopting with Fidel a conciliatory policy toward the Kennedy administration for the time being."
JFK was open to such advances. In the autumn of 1962, he and his brother Robert had dispatched James Donovan, a New York attorney, and John Dolan, a friend and advisor to my father Robert Kennedy, to negotiate the release of Castro's 1500 Cuban prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Donovan and Nolan developed an amiable friendship with Castro. They travelled the country together. Fidel gave them a tour of the Bay of Pigs battlefield and then took them as his guests to so many baseball games that, Nolan told me, he vowed to never watch the sport again.
After he released the last 1200 prisoners on Christmas Day 1962, Castro asked Donovan how to go about normalising relations with the United States. Donovan replied: "The way porcupines make love, very carefully."
My father Robert and JFK were intensely curious about Castro and demanded detailed, highly personal, descriptions of the Cuban leader from both Donovan and Nolan.
The U.S. press had variously caricatured Fidel as drunken, filthy, mercurial, violent and undisciplined. However, Nolan told them: "Our impression would not square with the commonly accepted image. Castro was never irritable, never drunk, never dirty." He and Donovan described the Cuban leader as worldly, witty, curious, well informed, impeccably groomed, and an engaging conversationalist.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/01/opinion-jfks-secret-negotiations-with-fidel/
Learning about the secret meetings years ago was real food for thought for a lot of US Americans. Finding out as much as possible can only help, no matter how set in one's way a person might be at the moment.
Memorandum on Conversation between Richard Goodwin and Che Guevara
In August, 1961, just 4 months after the Bay of Pigs invasion, presidential aide Richard Goodwin traveled to Uruguay for the Punta del Este Conference. Here, a meeting between him and Che Guevara was set up. As Guevara was wholeheartedly opposed to US foreign policy and one of Castro's best friends (he was instrumental in the 1959 revolution), the conversation went much better than expected. Both were at ease, spoke freely, and even humored one another. Guevara promised no attack upon Guantanamo, that free elections would be held after the revolution was complete, and that they could pay for expropriated US properties.
Guevara explained the Cuban revolution to Goodwin in terms he was unaware of, namely, that Cuba is now irreversibly out of the US sphere of influence, and that the revolution, too, is irreversible. They have the support of the masses, and that support will grow even more as time passes, Guevara asserted. Above all, Guevara sought a modus vivendi with the United States. This conversation was extremely important for the top of Kennedy's administration to understand the "new" Cuba, and to deal with it more effectively in the future (a year later during the Cuban Missile Crisis).
Richard Goodwin
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/19610822.pdf
Tyler Gabrielson
Paper Memorandum
http://americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/exhibits/show/bay-of-pigs/item/268
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A-Schwarzenegger Dec 2016 #1
Oh, my gosh. Don't know when I've laughed less hard!
Judi Lynn Dec 2016 #2
You imagine the leader of that island with approximately 10,000,000 people, maximum, at that time,
I am failing to communicate.
So glad to see your comment! I was really slow grasping your meaning.
I was being too clever for my own britches.
I heard there was a French person with Castro at that time. Never saw this article 'til now.
Youre welcome, i thought you would appreciate it.
A-Schwarzenegger Dec 2016 #10


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St. Pete leaders hold another 'Enough Is Enough' rally, calling for an end to gun violence
Local leaders organized Saturday's rally at the corner of U.S. 19 and 18th Ave S. just days after another shooting in South St. Pete left a St. Pete police officer injured, and a man dead.
By: McKenna King
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — "Enough is enough." That's the message St. Pete leaders echoed during another "Enough Is Enough" rally Saturday afternoon, as they called for an end to gun violence in the city.
They're asking for the community to get involved in their movement.
Saturday's rally was the second of many to come in St. Pete.
"We wanted to do a sign-waving today. We want to get the community involved. We want the community to see us," said St. Pete City Council Member Lisa Wheeler-Bowman.
A community divided, as gunshots ring throughout South St. Pete week after week.
"We are actually killing each other," said St. Pete City Council Member Deborah Figgs-Sanders.
"I get there to find out that another young man lost his life, that one of our police officers was wounded in the act… then I realized this is our reality," said Council Member Figgs-Sanders.
Wednesday's shooting was just the latest in a recent string of shootings in the area.
"Food Max has a history of having people killed up at that store," said Council Member Wheeler-Bowman.
Police say they were conducting an investigation into 20-year-old Dominique Harris, who was wanted on charges of child abuse.
Detectives found Harris inside his car at Food Max and say they blocked him in when he ignored their commands. They say Harris hit a police cruiser attempting to get away, before shooting a detective with a handgun.
"I just wish another choice was made by, by Mr. Harris," said Council Member Wheeler-Bowman.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says six officers with the St. Pete Police Department fired more than 50 rounds at Harris, hitting him more than 30 times. They say Harris died at the hospital.
"I want the investigation to continue and bring out the actual facts of what happened," said Council Member Wheeler-Bowman.
Local leaders say there is a problem in South St. Pete.
"We don't like to see the gatherings on 16th Street, that they are now calling Crenshaw Blvd., where people are being killed. We don't like seeing the corner stores allowing people selling drugs out of them. We don't like seeing them allowing people to gather and they won't sign blanket trespassing warrants so that our police officers can go and do their job," said Council Member Wheeler-Bowman.
They're begging the community to take notice, regardless of what side of the city you live on, and say "enough is enough."
"Just because it did not cross your door, doesn't mean it did not impact you. And we're gonna hold a partner collaboration meeting so that we can ask everybody that wants to play a role, everyone that has specialties that can provide a service to this movement, we're gonna need you," said Council Member Wheeler-Bowman.
The group says they plan to hold their "Enough Is Enough" rallies at least once a month for the foreseeable future.


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SEC and CFTC Rule XBT Corp. Engaged in Selling Unregistered Swaps
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued simultaneous press releases in which they charged XBT Corp., also known as First Global Credit (FGC), with selling security-based swaps for bitcoin without registering as a futures commission merchant (FCM) on a national exchange.
According to the legal filings, between March 2016 and July 2017, XBT had at least 90 investors who conducted trades in security-based swaps, of whom 24 were U.S. residents, and accepted payments in bitcoin. At that time, the company had no FCM registration and also failed to properly register as a security-based swaps dealer.
XBT launched its First Credit in October 2014. The company offered "contract for difference" (CFD) derivative products, which enabled customers to purchase credits representing shares in famous companies in exchange for bitcoin deposits.
Overall, between 2014 and 2019, FGC's investors collectively carried out over 18,000 security-based swaps. Over this time period they bought and sold $62.5 million worth of security-based swaps "based on U.S.-listed securities," of which $34 million worth of transactions were conducted by traders residing in the U.S.
The SEC accepted XBT's request for settlement and, as part of that settlement, ordered it to pay more than $130,000 in civil penalties, fees, and disgorgement, with the funds passing into the SEC's custody in the course of the next year. The CFTC also mandated that the company pay a civil monetary penalty in the amount of another $100,000 and disgorge the gains it received as a result of its violations; it was also ordered to cease and desist from future Commodity Exchange Act violations. The press release from the CFTC states that the regulator "recognizes that FGC's civil monetary penalty in this matter was substantially reduced in light of FGC's cooperation and remediation."


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A SPECIAL school is in line for a major upgrade.
Kirklees Council's cabinet will decide today whether to give the green light for the £575,000 improvements to Lydgate Special School in New Mill.
The upgrade includes building a food technology area where teenagers can learn life skills.
The school kitchen would also be refurbished as part of the plan.
And the assembly hall, kitchen and computer suite would be re-wired.
Clr Ken Smith, cabinet member for children and families, believes the investment is badly needed.
The Ashbrow Labour councillor said yesterday: "We need to go ahead with this spending and I think it will be popular with parents."
Clr Smith added that the ageing school building on Kirkroyds Lane had to be improved.
He said: "It's an old listed building serving a very useful purpose but, like many old school buildings, it needs improvements."
A report to the council's cabinet notes that money will also have to be spent to make the school compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act.
Clr Smith said: "I believe there are some areas of the school which have stairs but no lift so we're keen to put that right."
Kirklees has been asked to contribute £225,000 to the upgrade, with the remaining £350,000 coming from central government.
If councillors back the plan today, the improvements should be complete by early next year.
The spending looks set to go ahead at Lydgate despite the collapse of Building Schools for the Future earlier this month.
Education secretary Michael Gove scrapped the national programme, which would have seen £400m of investment to improve high schools in Kirklees.
Clr Smith said: "Central government has given us some money for Lydgate which is not affected by Building Schools for the Future.
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Cast : Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris	Screenplay : Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney	Release : November 22, 2011	Director : Guy Ritchie	Genre : Adventure, Action, Crime, Mystery	Country : USA	Stream Now	Tim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :
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In almost every way, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is functionally identical to the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes with which it shares almost all the important people on both sides of the camera, except for the writers (and the writers, I think we can most of us agree, are not actually very important people in the making of these pictures); and in almost every way, A Game of Shadows is also modestly, but observably better. Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law are both considerably more comfortable in their characters' skin (Law particularly), Guy Ritchie's direction, while still way too jumpy and manic for a Victorian period picture, has settled down considerably and leave the movie considerably more visually coherent - I do say more visually coherent, for it is not really visually coherent per se, but baby steps - the sets and props look a little bit more like something that might actually exist anywhere that's not a soundstage; the story is more sensible and easier to follow and more rewarding for having followed it; and most gratifyingly, if not most importantly, there's quite a bit less steampunk and quite a bit more Conan Doyle this time around. Why, a dedicated Holmesian could even tell you which handful of the original Holmes short stories are referenced in the story that isn't really "adapted" from any of them - the aficionado need only hear the word "Reichenbach" to guess where things are going to end, and maybe even feel a twinge of enthusiasm - and that's anyway quite an improvement from the last time we visited Ritchie's singular vision of late 19th Century London, which is a whole lot like his vision of 1990s London only with more CGI coal smoke and the kind of dialogue that a high schooler would come up with if given the single descriptor "old-fashioned".
Some time after the events of the initial movie, which cunningly dropped hints that immensely brilliant and modestly sociopathic consulting detective Sherlock Holmes (Downey) had just tugged at the first thread of a web containing the most venomous spider in England, we return to find him gone pretty much the rest of the way to insane in tracking virtually every crime of scale committed in Europe back to a mathematics professor, James Moriarty (Jared Harris). The motive and depth of Moriarity's crime empire is the stuff of the movie's plot & thus not worth spoiling, but it plainly involves a tricky diplomatic nightmare brewing between France and Germany, raised to a fever pitch by a series of unexplained terrorist bombings. Things come to a head the night before the wedding of Dr. John Watson (Law), Holmes's former sidekick, who is dragged with a great deal of irritated grumbling into the continent-spanning investigation when Moriarty targets him and his new wife to get to Holmes.
That sounds, maybe, more like a scenario than a plot; but really, A Game of Shadows isn't a good enough film to need more than just a scenario. It's still kind of stupidly enjoyable, for what it is, and this has less to do with Ritchie's none-too-fleet handling of the relatively straightforward mystery plot (the film is over two hours long, and feels it), and sweet fuck-all to do with his thuggish handling of the action setpieces, which are firstly much too fractured in the editing room - not Bourne-style chaos-as-aesthetic, but more the absolute terror that we might be, for some brief period of even two seconds, bored if the camera doesn't jump like a scared rabbit - and secondly much too deeply in love with racking the framerate. In a particularly ghastly example, characters running from an exploding forest sometimes drop into slow-motion and then back and then to slow and then back, not because something is particularly "cool" and Ritchie wants to focus on it - the reason Zack Snyder does that sort of thing - but simply because the technology exists to do such a thing, and why on earth not? Truth be told, whatever ingenuity he displayed in bright and playful Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or even in the derivative but largely decent Snatch has been boiled off, and it is a bit shocking how actively bad he turns out to be at the basic mechanics of film grammar and visual storytelling. There is a point where a filmmaker can be accused of taking three shots to do what can be accomplished one shot, for example, and this is frequently called excessive, or indulgent, or the like. Ritchie, bless his soul, would rather do in three shots not what could be done in one, but which could not actually be done in three, without giving every action the feeling of being stretched out to a nasty thinness. It needn't take four separate shots to demonstrate e.g. that Holmes is looking at Watson. And yet, it does.
But I was talking, wasn't I, about how A Game of Shadows is, in despite of itself, a fun movie, or anyway a fun-ish one; it has to do mostly with the actors, who combine in all sorts of absolutely delightful ways. The first movie's annoying little game of poking fun at how much Holmes and Watson kind of seem like a gay couple, in a very laddish, Guy Ritchie way, has been replaced by the indifferent acknowledgement that they're basically a gay couple, with Holmes's catty sniping at Watson's new marriage providing most of the film's conflict, while double entendres that sort of only have a single intent litter the screenplay. It's no less laddish, but Downey and Law have a lot more fun with it, and both seem much more alive than before. Then there's Downey's handful of smart asshole competitions with Jared Harris, who is the best possible casting choice for this film's interpretation of Moriarty (kind of a compliment and kind of not); and further on, in a small but welcome performance, Stephen Fry plays Holmes's profoundly arrogant and profoundly lazy brother Mycroft; he's a little bit more bitchy than Conan Doyle ever wrote him, but it's probably the closest that the film comes to capturing the actual spirit of the actual stories, and it is satisfying.
The fun character dynamics that make even the densest parts of the film slide by without too much pain do not extend to the film's scant few women: Rachel McAdams briefly returns for absolutely no damn reason, and Noomi Rapace makes her English-language debut with the flat character of a gypsy girl who advances the plot and doesn't have much personality beyond "spitfire", or any chemistry at all with the other actors. Weak female characters being the perennial hallmark of Ritchie's filmography, this is not surprising at all, but worthy of notice regardless.
It doesn't solve the biggest single issue of the first movie - it is a story about a genius, that shamelessly panders to the audience segment that cares only about punchy style and easy quips - and there's no fun quite as shallow as the fun of watching actors goof with one another, which is pretty much the single card that A Game of Shadows has to play. But dear reader, I am of no use to you nor anyone if I am not honest, and the honest truth is that I was amused. Only a little, and partially as a defense mechanism. But sometimes that's enough to keep a wintertime popcorn movie from being a complete waste.
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Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for pulled beef rolls with corn and green chilli relish.
It may seem time-consuming to make your own barbecue sauce, but it makes all the difference. Of course you can use shop-bought sauce if you like.
For barbecue sauce, process onion, garlic and chilli in a food processor until finely chopped. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, add onion mixture, sauté until tender (6-8 minutes). Add bourbon, simmer for 5 minutes, add remaining ingredients. Simmer until thick (15-20 minutes), season to taste, cool. Makes about 550ml. Barbecue sauce will keep refrigerated for 2 weeks.
Heat oil in a large saucepan, add onion and garlic, sauté over medium heat until tender (4-5 minutes). Add tomato and barbecue sauce, simmer for 10 minutes. Add beef, bring to the simmer, cover, reduce heat to low, cook until meat falls apart (3½-4 hours). Remove from sauce and, when cool enough to handle, coarsely shred (discard sinew) and set aside. Continue cooking sauce, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching, until thick (30-40 minutes), drizzle a little over beef, keep warm.
Meanwhile, for corn and green chilli relish, combine ingredients and 60ml water in a saucepan, season to taste, stir over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil, cook until corn is tender (15-20 minutes), transfer to a sterile container, refrigerate until chilled. Makes about 750ml. Corn relish will keep refrigerated for up to 1 month.
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A giant in Indian politics
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By Sambad English Bureau	 On Dec 24, 2014 Last updated Jun 1, 2016
In the six decades he was in electoral politics, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, awarded the Bharat Ratna Wednesday, catapulted from one who lost one election after another to a colossus who eventually became India's only non-Congress prime minister to last a full five years in office.
In the short but tumultuous period he presided over the destiny of the world's largest democracy, Vajpayee – the consummate diplomat he was – stunned the world by making India a declared nuclear state and then almost went to war with Pakistan before making peace in the most dramatic fashion.
In the process, Vajpayee's popularity came to match that of Indira Gandhi – a woman he admired for her guts even as he hated her politics. He also became the country's known national leader after Indira Gandhi and her father Jawaharlal Nehru.
That was a remarkable achievement since his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including its earlier incarnation Jan Sangh, didn't achieve for decades the popularity of the Congres. Even later, the BJP had to be apologetic over its Hindutva agenda vis-à-vis even some allies. No wonder, the bachelor politician was often referred to as the "right man in the wrong party".
Success didn't come easily for Vajpayee, who was born on Christmas Day in 1924 in Gwalior into a family of moderate means. His father was a teacher. Vajpayee would later recall his early brush with poverty.
Vajpayee did his Masters in Political Science, studying at the Victoria College in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh and at the DAV College in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, where he first contested – and lost – elections. By then he had embraced the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS).
But even as he struggled to win electoral battles, his command over Hindi, his ability to agree-to-disagree, and his envious oratory brought him into limelight in a manner that it could never fade away.
His first entry into parliament was in 1962 through the Rajya Sabha. It was only in 1971 that he won a Lok Sabha battle. He was elected to the Lok Sabha seven times in all – and to the Rajya Sabha twice.
Vajpayee spent months in prison when Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency Rule in June 1975. When the Janata Party took office in 1977, dethroning the Congress for the first time, he became the foreign minister.
The lowest point in his career came when he lost the 1984 Lok Sabha polls, that too from his birthplace Gwalior. And the BJP he led ended up with just two seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha. In no time, Vajpayee was eclipsed by his long time friend L.K. Advani.
Although they were the best of friends publicly, Vajpayee never fully agreed with Advani's advocacy of Hindutva. When Hindu mobs razed the Babri mosque in 1992, his was a lone voice in the Hindu nationalist pantheon who didn't sound happy. When Hindu hardliners celebrated, Vajpayee was full of personal remorse and called it the "worst miscalculation".
It was precisely this persona of Vajpayee – one merged in Hindutva yet seemingly not wholly willing to bow to it – that won him admirers cutting across the political spectrum. This trait made him the prime minister when BJP's allies concluded they needed a moderate to steer a hardliner party widely seen as pro-Hindu.
Vajpayee proved to be as astute politician, at times seen as a statesman. He combined the compulsions of politics astutely with his BJP's rightwing ideology but would seldom budge from the USP of his high ethical pedestal.
His first stint as prime minister in 1996 lasted 13 days, from May 16 to 28. The second one ran for 13 months, from March 19, 1998. But he learnt his lessons from failures to preside over a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that took office Oct 13, 1999, and completed a five-year term. His was the first multi-party coalition in India to do so.
His government tested a nuclear device in May 1998, a quarter century after the first such explosion when Indira Gandhi was prime minister. In doing this, and despite global censure, he thrust India into the nuclear club – until then restricted to a privileged few. It was an action that finally resulted in the path-breaking India-US nuclear deal of 2008.
In 1998, Vajpayee launched a widely acclaimed diplomatic initiative by starting a bus service between New Delhi and Lahore in Pakistan. Its inaugural run in February 1999 took Vajpayee. It was suspended after the 2001 terror attack on Indian parliament that nearly led to war between India and Pakistan.
The freeze between the two countries, including an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation on the border for nearly a year, was finally cracked in the spring of 2003 when Vajpayee, while in Kashmir, extended a " hand of friendship" to Pakistan.
That led to a historic summit in January 2004 with then president Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, a remarkable U-turn after the failed summit in Agra of 2001.
Vajapyee was not known as "Atalji", a name that translates into firmness, for nothing. He could go against the grain of his party if he saw it deviate from its path. There were times when Vajpayee would withdraw into a shell, due to disagreements with the party colleagues, forcing them to mollify their icon.
His critics insisted that Vajpayee was only an expedient mask for the Hindutva idology his party espoused. As prime minister he rebuked his BJP Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat, where hundreds died in a communal conflagration in 2002, but defended him at a party meet only days later.
Vajpayee wrote several books and Hindi poetry. He was a master of pauses, an expert at evading replies, often shrugging off tough posers with a huge laugh, a cold stare or a long pause.
When he stepped down in May 2004 after an election that he was given to believe he would win, it marked the end of a long and eventful political career. Almost since then, Vajpayee has suffered from frail health. (IANS)
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K-band ISAAC (2.2 microns) image. 35x35 arcsecs.
This WLRG/FRII is at the centre of a cluster. In our Gemini GMOS-S image the galaxy appears surrounded by the diffuse halo typical of central cluster galaxies, and also shows hints of a broad fan or shells towards the NE (Ramos Almeida et al. 2011a). By looking at our processed images, we also detect a knotty sub-structure in the near-nuclear regions of the galaxy, which may be due to patchy dust obscuration. Evidence for a dust lane is also found in the model-subtracted NIR image of Inskip et al. (2010). The NIR data also reveal an excess of diffuse emission towards the east, coinciding with our tentative detection of a fan or a shell. This source is one of the three galaxies in our Gemini observation program with dust as the only feature with secure detection.
Despite the fact that it belongs to the class of weak-line radio galaxies, with no broad permitted lines detected in its optical spectrum, this FR II radio galaxy displays a substantial UV excess. A significant contribution from a young stellar population is suspected (Tadhunter et al. 2002).
Chandra observations of the hot X-ray emitting gas show clear evidence for cavities that have been hollowed out by the expanding radio jets and lobes (Croston et al. 2011).


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High sensitivity magnetic sensors are important in medical diagnostics for applications such as monitoring heart and brain activities, where mapping distributions of localized extremely weak magnetic fields arising from these organs could provide early warning of life threatening diseases and malfunction.
Mitsuteru Inoue and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech) have developed high sensitivity magnetic sensors using magnonic crystals—artificial magnetic crystal structures capable of controlling the propagation of magnetostatic waves. Magnonic crystals support the propagation of magnetostatic waves through the crystal spin system or suppress the propagation of waves due to the periodicity of the crystal structure.
In this research the Toyohashi Tech researchers fabricated magnonic crystals by the direct formation of one-dimensional arrays of metal strips on yttrium iron garnet (YIG)—a ferromagnetic material widely used in the magneto-electronics industry— which serves as the propagation medium. The metal stripes induce an attenuation band in the frequency spectra of the magnonic crystal and restrict the propagation of waves of specific frequencies.
Even at room temperature, the output signal of the devices—frequency of the attenuation band—is very sensitive to external magnetic fields applied to the YIG crystal, where a one Oersted change in the field causes a 2.6 Megahertz shift in the attenuation band gap. Importantly, the maximum detection sensitivity of the magnonic crystals is more than 10 times greater that of giant magneto-impedance devices.
Next the researchers are planning to demonstrate the measurement of magnetic fields in three dimensions.


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Q: Should I write the form and processor in the same file or seperate them? In terms of best practices of PHP, is it better practice to write the processing script and the form in the same file or have them separate in different files? How does each scale in proportion to each other for larger projects?
For example, should I write it as:
login.php
<?php
process_form_here();
?>
<form>
<input>
</form>

Or should I write it as:
processor.php
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process_form_here();
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login.html
<form>
<input>
</form>

I've been trying to decide for a while between making it more abstract or more condensed... Is there a certain way that most web developers follow?

A: I think it is generally seen to be a better practice to separate them. Doing so gives you the added benefit of allowing you to guide alternate input routes into the same processor (making it more reusable).

A: In terms if scaling it's much better to keep the business logic separate from the view as stated already. This makes things much easier to adapt at a later time and cope with change and expansion. This also allows for reusability.

A: as matter of fact for PHP there is no specific practice such as inline, internel or external you can adapt whichever you are comfortable with. for example for form you can use inline if fields are few. but if you see CMS (wordpress, etc.) file structure you will come to know. think on it see the difference

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The cytoskeletal actin filamentous network is anchored, in part, by focal adhesion contacts and adherens junctions, which are membrane-associated complexes that serve as nucleation sites for the filament termini. These centers also act as crosslinkers between the exterior cell matrix, plasma membrane, and actin cytoskeleton. Serving to connect the extracellular matrix to the actin cytoskeleton, the focal adhesion sites function as strategic structural elements. In addition, these complexes perform as sites of cellular signal transduction by initiating signaling pathways in response to new adhesion contacts. Among other proteins, focal adhesion junctions contain integrin-type receptors that are attached to the extracellular matrix and are associated with complexes containing vinculin (a universal focal adhesion marker), talin, alpha-actinin, tensin, paxillin, zyxin, and focal adhesion kinase.
An adherent culture of the HeLa cervical carcinoma epithelial cells (illustrated above) was immunofluorescently labeled with anti-vinculin mouse monoclonal primary antibodies followed by goat anti-mouse Fab heavy and light chain fragments conjugated to Cy3 (red emission). In addition, the specimen was simultaneously stained for DNA with the ultraviolet-absorbing probe Hoechst 33342, and for the cytoskeletal filamentous actin network with Alexa Fluor 488 conjugated to phalloidin. Images were recorded in grayscale with a QImaging Retiga Fast-EXi camera system coupled to an Olympus BX-51 microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks provided by Omega Optical. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
View a smaller image of the human cervical adenocarcinoma (HeLa) cells.


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**TreeView** is a component that creates a hierarchical display of data. Example uses of TreeViews include a corporate hierarchy, a directory structure, a documentation center, and so on.

## Elements

![TreeView example](./assets/treeview/treeElements.png)

**TreeView** is composed of **TreeItems** (nodes).

**TreeItem** is composed of a **TreeItem Label**, and an optional **TreeItem Icon** if the node has children.

**TreeItem Icon** is used to expand and collapse its particular node.

## API

### Component Props

| name   | type                | default  | required | description                                     |
| ---- | ------- | -------- | -------- | ---------------------------- |
| dataSource   | TreeItemData[]      |          | yes      | Collection of item data.       |
| itemRenderer | React.ComponentType | TreeItem | no       | Returns an JSX.Element to render as a tree node. |
| onSelectItem | React.EventHandler  | () => {} | no       | Callback to be invoked when an item is selected. |
| onFocusItem  | React.EventHandler  | () => {} | no       | Callback to be invoked when an item is focused.  |
| selectedItem | TreeItemData        |          | no       | Refers to the currently selected data item.      |
| focusedItem  | TreeItemData        |          | no       | Refers to the currently focused data item.       |

### The Tree Item Props Interface

In order to render custom tree nodes, you need to provide an `itemRenderer` as described in the props table above.
The component (or function) should accept props that conform to (or extend) the `TreeItemProps` interface:

| name   | type    | default  | required | description                       |
| ------- | ----------- | -------- | -------- | ------------------------------- |
| item         | TreeItemData         |          | yes      | Item data to render.        |
| itemRenderer | React.ComponentType  | TreeItem | no       | Returns an JSX.Element to render as a tree node. |
| onItemClick  | TreeItemEventHandler | () => {} | no       | Callback to be invoked when the item label is clicked. |
| onIconClick  | TreeItemEventHandler | () => {} | no       | Callback to be invoked when the item icon is clicked.  |
| stateMap     | TreeViewStateMap     |          | yes      | A map that keeps the state of each item.    |

> Note the `itemRenderer` is required in order to enable the tree nodes to render nested nodes.

### The State Map

In order to manage the state of the tree items, each item is mapped to a `TreeItemState`.
This object encloses information about the item's state (is it selected? expanded? focused?).
It is required to propagate the state map through the tree items so they can access their own state and render accordingly.

## Code Examples

##### Sample data for the examples

```
const treeData: TreeItemData[] = [
    { label: 'Food Menu', children: [
        { label: 'Salads', children: [
            { label: 'Greek Salad' },
            { label: 'Israeli Salad' },
            { label: 'Caesar Salad' }
        ]},
        { label: 'Steaks', children: [
            { label: 'Filet Steak' },
            { label: 'Sirloin Steak' }
        ]},
        { label: 'Desserts', children: [
            { label: 'Pancakes' },
            { label: 'Muffin' },
            { label: 'Waffle' },
            { label: 'Cupcake' }
        ]}
    ]}
];
```

##### Example views

* Renders a TreeView

```
<TreeView dataSource={treeData} />
```

* Renders a TreeView with the ability to select an item.

```
const parentState = {
  selectedItem: Object;
};

function onSelectItem(selectedItem) {
  this.state.selectedItem = selectedItem;
}

<TreeView dataSource={treeData} selectedItem={this.state.selectedItem} onSelectItem={this.onSelectItem.bind(this)} />
```

## Style API

### Subcomponents (pseudo-elements)

| selector        | description | note            |
| --------- | ----------------- | --------------- |
| ::root | The root class for the **TreeItem**. |
| ::icon | The style for the **TreeItem Icon** which appears only if child nodes are available. |
| ::title | The style for the **TreeItem Label**. |

### Custom CSS States (pseudo-classes)

| State     | Description                                                         |
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Share this Story: Andrew Coyne: Our unelected Senate doesn't even have to actually defeat a bill to kill it
Andrew Coyne: Our unelected Senate doesn't even have to actually defeat a bill to kill it
Are senators of such exceptional wisdom, such exalted character, that each should be entitled to the same voice as 80,000 of their fellow citizens?
Andrew Coyne
The Senate of Canada Building in Ottawa. Photo by Errol McGihon/Postmedia/File
Phew, that was close. Or: darn, that was close. That sums up the reaction to the Senate's near defeat last week of two important, if controversial government bills: C-69, establishing a new regulatory approval process for major infrastructure projects, and C-48, banning oil tankers from the northern coast of British Columbia.
That the Senate did not, in the end, defeat the bills, passing them by majorities of, respectively, 57-37 and 49-46, was treated either as a calamity, by those opposed to them, or a triumph, by those in favour. More typically, it was greeted with relief. The appointed Senate had declined to overturn a vote of the democratically elected House of Commons. A constitutional crisis averted, once again.
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As a Canadian Press story notes, the last-minute reprieves — another, C-83, abolishing solitary confinement in federal prisons, passed only after Conservative senators, uncharacteristically siding with the government, voted to reject amendments to the bill — were the closest the Senate has come to a showdown with the Commons since Justin Trudeau's "non-partisan, merit-based" appointment process was introduced.
It has not been unduly obstructionist
"Had the bills gone down," CP reports, it "would have handed ammunition to critics of Trudeau's Senate reforms." But so long as the Senate does not vote to defeat a bill outright, it would seem, all is well. Constitutional scholar Emmett Macfarlane, in a recent commentary, finds that, "contrary to the concerns expressed by some critics," cough, "the Senate has successfully navigated the changes to its composition."
"Although there are clear signs that a more independent Senate has made the legislative process more challenging and complex from the government's perspective," he writes, "it has not been unduly obstructionist."
Not "unduly" obstructionist? OK. But the Senate doesn't have to actually defeat a bill to obstruct or deflect the will of the people's elected representatives. The mere threat, for starters, can deter governments from introducing legislation, or ensure it is its drafted in such a way as to avoid a confrontation.
How many bills fall into either category we will never know, but it would be hard to imagine there weren't some. And so long as there are any then the drafting of our laws is not solely the province of the people we elect, but is subject to the approval of an appointed claque, unelected and unaccountable, overpaid and underworked: government, not with the consent of the governed, but of the expensive.
The Senate has also taken to amending legislation much more often than before: of 88 government bills passed by the 42nd Parliament, 33 were amended by the Senate — almost four times the rate of recent Parliaments. Perhaps most of those amendments were friendly, enthusiastically adopted by a grateful Commons. But a good number were probably accepted only under duress.
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At least those bills passed, in the end. Not so the bills that, having passed the Commons, languish for months or even years in the Senate, eventually to expire with the end of each parliamentary session. Though no government bills met such a fate this time, more than 20 private member's bills "died on the order paper," as the phrase has it — killed, that is, by inaction that is as often the product of malice aforethought as mere sloth.
This is the notorious "pocket veto," and if you think it is not deliberate have a word with Romeo Saganash and Rona Ambrose. Saganash is the NDP MP who succeeded, against the odds, in getting his private member's bill, C-262, incorporating the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Canadian law, passed by the Commons, on May 30, 2018. The vote was 206-79.
Ambrose, the former Conservative cabinet minister and interim leader, was the sponsor of Bill C-337, requiring that federally appointed judges receive mandatory training in sexual assault law. It passed the Commons by a unanimous vote on May 7, 2017 — more than two years ago. Yet both bills are now dead, the victims, as has been widely reported, of some crafty procedural manoeuvres, not in the House of Commons but the Senate.
Beautiful! The senators opposed to these bills did not even have to muster a majority of their fellow appointees to overturn a vote of the Commons — or even expose their names to public view, not that anything would happen to them if they did. The Senate didn't defeat the bills outright? They didn't have to! If that is not a constitutional crisis, it is only because in this country we prefer that assaults on democracy take place in private.
In this country we prefer that assaults on democracy take place in private
These were not trivial or flippant pieces of legislation. Whether or not one thinks either were advisable, they were drafted to address some of the most serious concerns of our society. And they had the support, not of narrow majorities of the House, but supermajorities, even unanimity.
Every member of the House of Commons had first to secure his or her party's nomination, often in competitive races, then win election in his or her riding. The average MP was the choice of more than 25,000 citizens; collectively, they received some 8.5 million votes. To pass the House, then, a bill must have the support of MPs elected with the support of at least 4.3 million voters.
But what are the wishes and desires of those millions of Canadians compared to those of 105 senators, or however many of them were required to quietly suffocate these bills. How many people elected them? In most cases one: the prime minister of the day. Or in the case of those appointed on the advice of Trudeau's Senate-selection panels, five — though he appoints all of them.
No doubt these latter appointees are of a better quality than the bagmen and hangers-on of old. But are they of such exceptional wisdom, such exalted character, that each should be entitled to the same voice as 80,000 of their fellow citizens?


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MIL-OSI Translation: BMW Team MTEK proves fighting spirit at the final of the "Super Season" in Le Mans.
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Source: BMW GroupLe Mans. With the 24 Hours of Le Mans (FRA), the BMW Team MTEK has completed the "Super Season" of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The two BMW M8 GTE finished 11th and 14th in the LM GTE Pro class. The BMW M8 GTE with starting number 82 – driven by Jesse Krohn (FIN), António Félix da Costa (POR) and Augusto Farfus (BRA) – had started from fifth position, but could not hold it in the race and came after 335 driven Round to eleventh place. The number 81 with the drivers Martin Tomczyk (GER), Nick Catsburg (NED) and Philipp Eng (AUT) drove to the 14th position. Due to technical problems, both vehicles had lost additional time during repair stops during the night and at the end of the race. The victory in the LM GTE Pro class went to the # 51 Ferrari.
In the course of the "Super Season" the BMW Team MTEK celebrated a total of two podium finishes. Both in Fuji (JPN) and Sebring (USA), the BMW M8 GTE finished second in the LM GTE Pro field.
At Le Mans, BMW celebrated the 20th anniversary of the overall victory of 1999 with the BMW V12 LMR. The first BMW class victory of the BMW 328 was the 80th time. Both cars went for a parade lap before the start of the race.
Responses to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Jens Marquardt (BMW Group Motorsport Director): "The conclusion of the WEC, Super Season 'had it all again. We knew before the race that it would not be easy for us under the circumstances in Le Mans. And that's how it happened. Relatively soon, therefore, it was clear that we could not keep up with the pace of the top. Our riders had to go to the limit from the first lap, the load on the equipment was very high right from the start. In the second third of the race, the resulting technical difficulties on both cars cost us additional time. So a top result was out of reach early. Nevertheless, the whole team gave their all to the last round, although of course we would have liked to say goodbye to a more positive result from Le Mans. Accordingly, due to the difficult circumstances, everyone deserves greater respect and recognition. Now we say, Au revoir, Le Mans' – and say goodbye to the FIA World Endurance Championship. Many thanks to the BMW Team MTEK, the ACO and the WEC. Above all, we would like to thank the many BMW fans who gave us great support in our WEC project in recent years. "
Ernest Knoors (Team Principal, BMW Team MTEK): "It was a very difficult race for us. However, in a 24-hour race you still hope for a chance to improve. But she did not really bid us that. Then there was one or the other technical problem. In the end, it was basically just about getting the cars to the finish. Whether you win or not, the work you put into a race as a team is always the same. My girls and boys did a fantastic job. Too bad we were not rewarded for that. "
António Félix da Costa (# 82 BMW M8 GTE, # 11): "Le Mans is always special. As a team, we were well prepared for the race, but under the circumstances we did not have the necessary pace. Each of us has fought hard and given everything. Of course, now comes a little sadness, as we say goodbye to the BMW M8 GTE from the WEC. Thanks to the entire BMW Team MTEK team for the time together. New challenges will come – for me this weekend at Formula E in Bern. "
Augusto Farfus (# 82 BMW M8 GTE, 11th): "The race has been disappointing for us. We wanted to say goodbye with a good result and tried everything to keep up with the top group. But the pace was just not there. The technical problem at night was therefore no longer crucial. I really enjoyed the BMW M8 GTE project in the WEC. Many thanks to every single one of the BMW Team MTEK. The team did a great job. "
Jesse Krohn (# 82 BMW M8 GTE, # 11): "Basically, my Le Mans debut was a fantastic experience that I'll never forget. Unfortunately we did not have it easy sporty. The team worked very hard and did not get the result it deserved. For me it goes directly to the Nürburgring. I hope it works better for us. "
Martin Tomczyk (# 81 BMW M8 GTE, # 14): "Le Mans 2019 unfortunately was not a success for us. We had difficult conditions and really had to do everything we could to keep up with the pace of our competitors at least halfway. The technical problems have once again cost additional time. Nevertheless, after all the hard work, it is good for the whole team to reach their destination by car. Looking back, there were ups and downs in our WEC program. The highlight for me was certainly the second place in the 1,000 miles of Sebring. I would also like to have achieved a top result at the Le Mans 24 Hours, but fortunately this weekend I have the next chance at the Nürburgring. "
Nick Catsburg (# 81 BMW M8 GTE, # 14): "That was a tough race. We did not have the pace, had to drive very hard, and our technical problems were the result. If you spend so much time in the pits, of course you have no chance to get a good result in Le Mans. Overall, I was very happy to be part of the WEC project and the BMW Team MTEK. Unfortunately not with the success we had hoped for. I'm looking forward to my favorite 24-hour race at the Nürburgring next weekend. "
Philipp Eng (# 81 BMW M8 GTE, # 14): "Overall, the week at Le Mans was great again. Too bad that we could not finish it with a good result. The BMW M8 GTE was basically good to drive, but unfortunately we missed the necessary performance on the straights. We had to go to the limit of driving and, of course, put a lot of strain on the material. Many thanks to BMW Motorsport and the BMW Team MTEK for being part of this project right from the start. "
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