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Gruesome Civil War surgeon's kit takes center stage at re-enactment
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When being wounded could be a fate worse than death: Gruesome Civil War surgeon's kit takes center stage at re-enactment
Saws, scalpels and flesh hooks hint at the horrors of field hospitals
Amputation rates were high as surgeons struggled to treat 51,000 soldiers
By Jessica Jerreat
PUBLISHED: 00:04 EST, 29 May 2013 | UPDATED: 00:31 EST, 29 May 2013
As the nation prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the grisly contents of a surgeon's took kit have acted as a reminder of the realities of the war.
With 51,000 casualties to tend to over three days of fierce fighting, the civil war surgeon's weapon of choice was often an amputation saw.
A large saw, knives and hooks to pull back tissue were on show at the site of the historic battle, as was a tourniquet to help stem bleeding.
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Under the knife: Dave Morris, dressed as an army surgeon, displays a Civil War surgeon's toolkit
The contents of the surgeon's toolkit could be mistaken for instruments of torture, but they were actually very effective.
Despite a lack of sterilization, antibiotics and the sheer scale of casualties, 75 per cent of injured soldiers who went under the surgeon's saw survived.
Fortunately, the soldiers did have access to anesthetic, which had been introduced in the 1840s. An inhaler had also been developed by the war, taking over from when soldiers were offered a chloroform-soaked rag.
About 51,000 soldiers were wounded in the battle in July 1863, and about 7,500 people died in what is considered a major turning point in the war after Northern forces repelled a Confederate advance.
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"The contents of the surgeon's toolkit could be mistaken for instruments of torture. . . ."
Meh. Not too different from surgeons' instruments today. Form follows function.
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at least today they are all metal and can be sterilized. The only true improvements between now and then is the better anesthetics, antibiotics and sterilization of instruments....oh and of course Doctors do wash up between patients.
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English to Malay Meaning of quagmire - paya
Quagmire :
paya, rawa, terusan, saluran, tanah rendah, tanah mor, Lumut
Quagmire :: paya Quagmires :: quagmires
Inflections of quagmire
← Quadruplicate
quail →
Definitions of quagmire in English
Noun(1) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Examples of quagmire in English
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The season of the rallycross championship is slowly coming to its end, but there is one more event waiting for us out there, which has always attracted thousands of spectators. It is the final ALL-INKL.COM European Rallycross Championship, which takes place 1st and 2nd October in Global Assistance Racing Arena in Sosnova.
As same as in previous years the Rallycross Circuit in Sosnova welcomes the best drivers, who will fight for the European points and the highest titles for the last time this year. One race of the whole European Rallycross Championship is taking place here on this track since 1995, excluding 1999 and 2003, when it took place in Sedlcany.
It became the final race in 1998, 2007, 2009 and 2011, and the European Championship culminates here also this year. It is the valuation for the whole organizing team for their job well done, smooth run of the race and a good quality preparation of the track and the background.
Three events left to the end of the season and in no division have been decided for the winner yet. That's the reason for spectators to expect dramatic fights in all three divisions and of course with the attendance of the best Czech drivers.
Two days programme starts on Saturday 1st October at 10:30 by free and measured trainings. The first series of heat of all divisions starts at 16:00. The engines storm again during the warm-up training on Sunday at 8:30, the second and third series of heat start at 10:00. The European Championship culminates by the final rides at 15:00.
The European Rallycross Championship exists since 1979. But before that six events of the European Cup took the place. Among the most successful drivers of the whole history belongs Swede Kenneth Hansen having 14 winning titles, Martin Schanche (6), Matti Alamäki (5), Olle Arnesson and Eivind Opland (both 4).
All interested for tickets can make online order at www.ticketstream.cz or in person during the event at Global Assistance Racing Arena in Sosnova.


Our previous studies have shown that hydrostatic pressure can serve as an active regulator for bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs). The current work further investigates the roles of cytoskeletal regulatory proteins Ras homolog gene family member A (RhoA) and Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (Rac1) in hydrostatic pressure-related effects on BMSCs. Flow cytometry assays showed that the hydrostatic pressure promoted cell cycle initiation in a RhoA- and Rac1-dependent manner. Furthermore, fluorescence assays confirmed that RhoA played a positive and Rac1 displayed a negative role in the hydrostatic pressure-induced F-actin stress fiber assembly. Western blots suggested that RhoA and Rac1 play central roles in the pressure-inhibited ERK phosphorylation, and Rac1 but not RhoA was involved in the pressure-promoted JNK phosphorylation. Finally, real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments showed that pressure promoted the expression of osteogenic marker genes in BMSCs at an early stage of osteogenic differentiation through the up-regulation of RhoA activity. Additionally, the PCR results showed that pressure enhanced the expression of chondrogenic marker genes in BMSCs during chondrogenic differentiation via the up-regulation of Rac1 activity. Collectively, our results suggested that RhoA and Rac1 are critical to the pressure-induced proliferation and differentiation, the stress fiber assembly, and MAPK activation in BMSCs.


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Q: npm install into a new Laravel project - error messages I am using Laracast onto an OSX system.  I use the following shell command:
docker-compose exec -u laradock workspace bash

I created a new Laravel project...
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel stocks
cd stocks
npm install

Now I get some error messages:

npm WARN ajv-keywords@3.2.0 requires a peer of ajv@^6.0.0 but none is
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  run npm audit fix to fix them, or npm audit for details

How can I fix them?

A: write these for install peer
npm install -g npm-install-peers

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I wrote an article early in this school year about the success that BIS Abu Dhabi students were achieving in languages. You may recall that two of our GCSE students were recognised by Cambridge Examinations as achieving the best scores in the world for their Language GCSEs - a truly remarkable achievement.
I am now delighted to be able to round off the year with similar news!
Our school enters a competition called Education Perfect. This competition takes place online and nearly 2,500 schools from around the world take part. A particularly notable thing about Education Perfect is that students of all ages can participate, whereas examinations like GCSE are only for Senior Secondary students.
This is a fantastic achievement by the students to place so highly in a global competition. Education Perfect also analyses success in individual languages and it is very exciting that our two leading languages did so well. BIS Abu Dhabi students came 2nd in Arabic in the world and 14th in French in the world.
This is an exceptional achievement by the students of our school. They have a passion for learning and a commitment to do their best in all they undertake, and it makes us all so proud to see this lead to such international recognition. Our strongest congratulations to every one of them!


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Thousands of children and their families are in urgent need of assistance following the most devastating earthquake and tsunami to hit Indonesia in almost a decade.
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On 25 April 2015, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck Nepal, with its epicenter 50 miles (80 km) north-west of the capital Kathmandu. A strong aftershock (magnitude 7.3) followed on 12 May, with its epicenter 47 miles north-east of Kathmandu.
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The Effects of Drought in the Horn of Africa Go Far Beyond Hunger
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Eleven-year-old Kamal* walked barefoot across scorched scrubland for a week from his home in Somalia to Kenya. With their crops and livestock devastated by drought, Kamal's family had no choice but to leave and try their luck in a new country.
Kamal was lucky. Unlike many children who died along the way, he made it across the Kenyan border, and is now living in Dolow, near Ethiopia.
But there, too, the situation is desperate.
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Q: passing parameters to power bi filter programmatically from asp.net MVC I have developed a powerBI report and deployed the same in Workspace.
From PowerBI interface I viewed the report and am able to add filter like this:
filter=tablename~2Fcolumnname eq 4
The condition is working fine from the interface. But, when I add filter condition in the code of my asp.ner MVC application, filter does not work.
The condition is working fine from the interface.
But, when I add filter condition in the code of my asp.ner MVC application, filter does not work.
My sample code:
var client = new PowerBIClient(new Uri(ApiUrl), tokenCredentials);
var reports = await client.Reports.GetReportsInGroupAsync(WorkspaceId);
report = reports.Value.FirstOrDefault(r => r.Id == "aa07v254-8t46-2387-4k53-2725y90n3456");

report.EmbedUrl = report.EmbedUrl + "?filter=tablename/columnname%20eq%204";

Please help me diagnose, why the filter is not working.

A: You don't need to change the embed url, instead try to use the following example:
// Build the filter you want to use. For more information, See Constructing
// Filters in https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-JavaScript/wiki/Filters.
const filter = {
    $schema: "http://powerbi.com/product/schema#basic",
    target: {
        table: "Geo",
        column: "Region"
    },
    operator: "In",
    values: ["West"]
};

// Get a reference to the embedded report HTML element
var embedContainer = $('#embedContainer')[0];

// Get a reference to the embedded report.
report = powerbi.get(embedContainer);

// Set the filter for the report.
// Pay attention that setFilters receives an array.
report.setFilters([filter])
    .then(function () {
        Log.logText("Report filter was set.");
    })
    .catch(function (errors) {
        Log.log(errors);
    });


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Speak to a pharmacist or your doctor before taking if you: Have or have had asthma, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, a stroke, heart, liver, kidney or bowel problems. Such case studies lack credibility because of the absence of scientific controls. Abilify, particularly, is linked to several serious side effects. Warn patients not to drive or operate dangerous machinery unless they are tolerant to effects of drug and know how they will react to medication. To avoid the negative consequences of Doxycycline, it is necessary to abandon any alcohol consumption, even if the drug is used for prevention cialis 20 mg purposes. However, the generic version is cheaper because the manufacturers incur minimal production costs and can, therefore, afford to sell at the lowest prices. We allow you to buy Adderall online from us without any prescription. So always check with your healthcare provider before you take any kind of medicine during pregnancy even an. Click Jogos Jogos de Ao e Aventura Bearbarians. Antihistamines and cough Although an antihistamine medicine may reduce cough severity, the sedation and side effects are annoying. The problem also involves shutting off immune responses, and eliminating behavioral and environmental factors that precipitate diabetes. Doxycycline is an antibiotic used for treating bacterial infections, including Potomac Horse Fever, other Ehrlichia infections, and Lyme disease. All prescriptions ordered will be ready for collection after 2. Location: This type of pain usually shows up in the upper or outer buttock area and can resonate down on the side of the leg. It is important to note that many of these effects can last for several hours after administration of the drug. Filariasis is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type. Using Use of Zoloft for Anxiety Treatment Zoloft is a prescription drug approved to alleviate different types of anxiety disorders.


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Q: Logstash output logs to Elasticsearch server ConfigurationError I use Logstash(2.4.0) output logs to Elasticsearch(2.3.3) server.
Before launch Logstash,I write a configuration file logstash-2.4.0/conf:
input {
    stdin {}
}
filter{
}
output {
    elasticsearch { host => localhost }
    stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}

then run ./bin/logstash -f conf/logstash.conf,the error info as below:

how to slove this problem?

A: You could have the config look like below, without having the filter. You're missing out the "s" in hosts and the double quotes which should go before and after localhost.
input {
       stdin {}
}

output {
     elasticsearch { hosts => "localhost" }
     stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}

You could check the exact synopsis for the elasticsearch plugin from here.

A: according to @Kulasangar' answer,it works well on CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu 16.04,but has the same error on my MAC.I change to root user:
sudo su

then I relaunch logstash and elasticsearch,everything is well.


The uom system leaves some things to be desired. uom's should be much more interchangeable. I am trying to sell things by the pound and ship them by each. but first my shipping guys have to get a calculator out and a sheet that gives them the pound per square foot. then calculate the square foot. then multiply the two together then multiply by the number of sheets to ship. we cant use a scale for this process, because we sell things in theoretical weight. This really slows the shipping process.
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Now the only hard part is making the query to get the item id and placing the 3 custom buttons into the desired screens.
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In general the weather will be mainly dry for the weekend and much of next week, according to Met Eireann's latest forecast.
It says Saturday morning, any rain in the southeast will clear and for the rest it will be a generally dry day with a mix of cloud and sunshine.
Highest temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees, but several degrees cooler in the northwest and north, with light to moderate north to northwest breezes.
According to Met Eireann Saturday night will be dry with clear spells. Lowest temperatures of 5 to 8 degrees.
On Sunday, it says the weather will be mainly dry with sunny spells. However, there's a risk of one or two light showers in the northeast.
Highest temperatures on Sunday will be between 13 to 18 degrees with light variable breezes. It will be coolest in the northwest.
Met Eireann says Monday and Tuesday will both be dry with sunny spells.
Temperatures will range from 15 to 20 degrees on Monday, but will reach 22 degrees in places on Tuesday.
For Wednesday, it says current indications suggest that rain and drizzle will spread from the northwest and clear eastwards later, with cool, breezy conditions following. Rainfall amounts will be small.
Highest temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees.
Latest Met Eireann forecasts suggest Thursday and Friday look like being mostly dry, but cooler with highs of 13 to 16 degrees and moderate northwest or northerly breezes.


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Gras is the French word for fat, and jus gras is a very tasty, rustic style of sauce where the fats released by the carcass during the roasting process are not drained away. This results in a thick layer of fat on top of the concentrated jus, which you whisk back in to emulsify the sauce before serving.
Heat a large heavy-based saucepan over a medium-high heat. Add the oil and then the game. Cook until the bones have caramelised a golden-brown all over. Add the butter and heat to a nut-brown foam. Add the shallots, mushrooms and garlic and continue to cook over a medium heat until everything has caramelised a deep golden-brown.
Deglaze the pan with the white wine, being sure to scrape up all the sticky sediment from the bottom of the pan. Reduce to a sticky syrup then add the Madeira, game stock and thyme. Bring to the boil then lower the heat and simmer gently for 20 minutes until reduced to a sauce. Don't over-reduce the stock or it will become overpoweringly strong.
Leave to cool slightly then pour through a chinois or fine sieve. Tap the sieve lightly; don't press the contents to extract more liquid as it will make the jus cloudy. This jus is at its best used on the same day, but will keep up to 2 days in the refrigerator or for a month in the freezer.


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In our first blog, Prosper's Research Staff Developers, Dr Catherine Charlwood and Dr Fiona McBride, discuss the findings of our initial focus groups with postdoctoral researchers and Principal Investigators.
Introducing Prosper
'Career planning': two words we don't think we've thought seriously about, or really heard, since secondary school. Career planning is a concept that has largely been missing from the postdoc experience, mainly because there's the assumption that everyone is trying to progress to an academic career – the lectureship, the long-dreamt-of permanent job. However, with the number of academic jobs so small, and the skill-level and knowledge of postdocs so spectacularly high, more needs to be done to open up the UK postdoc community to the wide range of career possibilities available to them, both within and beyond academia.
Prosper is a three-and-a-half year, Research England-funded project focusing specifically on this issue. Built on the principles of co-creation and democratisation of access, Prosper will bring together postdoctoral researchers, Principal Investigators and employers to create new ways of approaching postdoc career development. This approach comes from our understanding that the kind of culture change that postdoctoral career development needs can't be achieved by working with one group in isolation, but requires continuous co-creation with a range of stakeholders.
Attending to all
While there are many postdoctoral career development initiatives which focus on a particular discipline or set of subject areas, Prosper seeks to support all postdocs – from physicists to philosophers, mechanical engineers to musicologists. In order to meet everyone's needs, though, we need postdocs and PIs from all disciplinary backgrounds to share their views, trial the content we produce and give us honest feedback – there will be plenty of opportunities for you to share your knowledge, experience and thoughts with us as this iterative project goes along.
Understanding where we are
In January, we held initial focus groups with postdocs and PIs from across all faculties at the University of Liverpool. Researchers from all stages of their careers came together to discuss what best practice looks like for postdoc career development, the challenges they faced and how Prosper could support them.
A clear theme which came out of our postdoc focus groups was the instability that comes with being a postdoc and the implications of this for their wellbeing. Relocating regularly is often an expectation of the academic job market, making it difficult to achieve other kinds of life goals such as starting a family or buying a house. Putting to one side those landmark moments, simply the energy required to 'start over' in a new place and making new connections is something often overlooked within the postdoc experience. Participants spoke of the difficulties of uprooting their lives away from family and friends, needing to develop new friendships – one postdoc had moved six times in four years. Constant moving also has a knock-on effect on postdocs' sense of identity since 'where am I?' often informs the answer to 'who am I?'.
Another consistent theme was a lack of knowledge about what is available to postdocs, both in terms of the opportunities which might exist for them beyond academia, and also the university services which can support them. This lack of knowledge of what is 'out there' beyond the academic track can then lead to the fear that their skills won't match employer requirements, both real and imagined. It's been hard to hear such highly capable people – who can analyse complex data, construct strong arguments, write grant applications, and refashion research for any given audience – doubt their abilities. Something needs to change. As we keep reminding ourselves in the team, "we haven't set ourselves small challenges!" Then again, it's only through addressing grand challenges that culture change is possible, something which the HE sector badly needs (highlighted most recently by the Wellcome Trust's 'What researchers think about the culture they work in' report published in January 2020).
Principal Investigators shared postdocs' concerns over the availability of time and money for specific development activities, but the pressure to deliver a set project to its funder understandably dominates for many PIs. They also shared concerns about their own lack of knowledge about the pathways that could possibly be open to postdocs beyond academia, with many PIs themselves having only worked within universities. Generally speaking, PIs understood that much more was needed by their postdocs in terms of professional development, but there is a lot of uncertainty as to how they, as PIs, can best support this.
What was really heartening was the willingness of PIs to come together to discuss postdoctoral career development, irrespective of their own career stage or discipline. This is evidently an area of interest for PIs, and a key message which came out of the focus groups was the lack of structure available to guide them in managing their postdocs' development. This was in direct contrast to the relatively structured offerings available for PIs when supervising PhD students. PIs also felt there was a lack of support around how to have potentially difficult conversations with postdocs about careers beyond academia, a need which Prosper is particularly keen to meet.
As the focus groups went on, the inherent value in bringing together experts in different disciplines became obvious, allowing PIs themselves to hear about the differences in development opportunities, industry partnerships and societal impact of different faculties and disciplines. The tendency to assume your discipline's norms translate to all others led to some amazed faces and a greater appreciation for the nuances of the different areas represented.
Similarly, what also became clear through these discussions is that while there are several shared experiences common to all postdocs and PIs, there are also key differences depending on discipline and how this relates to employment prospects; how likely you are to have colleagues or work as part of a team; whether you have teaching or supervisory responsibilities, to name but a few. It's important to remind ourselves that the term 'postdoc' is multitudinous in meaning even within a university context and Prosper must respond to this.
So what's next? Well, we are continuing to engage with postdocs, PIs and employers at different events and developing project links with the University of Manchester and Lancaster University. We're also working towards the launch of our prototype online portal available at Liverpool from June 2020. We will need your feedback on the material and content as we create and curate it to make sure that it meets your needs.
Have you found any tool to assess your skills that you liked? Tell us what and why!
What would you want to hear from former postdocs who have already made the move beyond academia? Let us know!
Email us at propser.postdoc@liverpool.ac.uk, or tweet us @ProsperPostdoc
Based within The Academy at the University of Liverpool, the project has two institutional partners, the University of Manchester and Lancaster University, as well as a wide range of employer stakeholders. These crucial relationships will allow us to reflect on both the diversity of the postdoc experience and the needs of employers, creating a development model that works for all.
Prosper was initially conceived of as part of the answer to the People Strand of the UK government's Industrial Strategy. Postdocs are highly intelligent, critical thinkers with both the skills and ability to adapt and learn at a rapid pace. They represent a largely untapped resource for employers, who may not even know that professional researchers abound on short-term contracts within universities. A robust and thriving knowledge-based economy requires these two groups – researchers and employers – to speak to each other, and Prosper aims to facilitate those conversations.
Central to all Prosper's activity is equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) and we are putting the democratisation of access to career development opportunities at the centre of the project. The postdoctoral population is rich in diversity and all postdocs deserve access to career development. Future blog posts will look at EDI in more depth.
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My Grandfather's Words: Saturday May 11, 1918 part A
The train arrived in St. Louis about 10 AM, and after being switched around the train yards a while, we were hauled out to Jefferson Barracks. We were ordered to stay on the train until we had orders to get off. This being our first orders they sounded rather harsh.
At the Barracks we were ordered off the trains and lined up two by two and marched to the registering hall. We were registered and given a string with a tag on it for around our necks. The tag had our names and the group we were classified with. After standing there for some time we were taken to a barrack and told to rest a while. They showed us where we could wash and get a drink of water. It was now nearly noon. Most of us were very tired and hungry. Mary girl had given me a lunch and some cake and popcorn and candy. So I fared better than some of the boys who had no breakfast.
About half past twelve they lined us up and took us to the mess hall for dinner. The mess hall was a huge structure capable of seating several thousand men at one time. We were seated at long tables. We ate everything we saw. I guess I don't remember much of what they offered. But we ate it, whatever it was.
Again, we were told to go back to our barrack and rest a while. I lay down and was just dozing off when they came and ordered us to stumble out and to bring our suitcases. We were taken to a great building. After standing a while we were taken to the second floor. We received a lecture on the soldier's insurance plan. We were then taken out on a balcony where we were told to sit. We sat for some time.
Like Cattle
Then, we were told that inside we would find a numbered stall and that we had to strip and leave our clothes in the stall. They reminded us that if we could not remember, we were to write the number of the stall down. They said to hold tight to our money and valuables, to wrap them in a handkerchief and sling them to our wrist. I tied my money in a handkerchief and tied the hanky to my left wrist with another handkerchief. My watch I carried in my right hand.
From this room we were hustled down to the basement of the building to a series of showers to bathe. Blankets were handed out from near the door as we filed past.
They herded us into the showers and turned a cold water hose on those of us who couldn't get out fast enough to the next room where we were told to find a seat and wait until our name was called. We were given our classification sheets. I found out for the first time that the Advisory Board for the Northern District of Iowa had advised my rejection on account of my poor eyesight. The objections were overruled by the Cedar Falls board, however, and I were sent through.
From this room we went (still without clothes) into a large room in the basement next to the showers room. We had to stand there as there were no chairs or benches. It was evidently the boiler room of the building as there were pipes and boilers. I finally found a seat, but all the rest stood. After some time we were herded up a long passage which ended in a physical examining room.
Here, we were lined up against the wall as close as we could stand, and about ten men deep. They painted numbers on our chest for all the world like a lot of cattle in a show ring. My number was 11,58. It meant I was the eleventh hundred, and fifty eighth man to go through that day! I knew there were several coming after me, too.
We were given a score card, which was filled with blanks. We were told to hang on to it. Next, our finger prints were taken and we were weighed, our height taken, then we were looked over for scars. If scars were found they were marked on the score card. My teeth were examined and next came an inoculation for smallpox.
A hope dashed
We were bustled to the next place where one man examined me for hearing, and another examined my eyes. I was shoved into a room where another man had me look through an eye examining instrument. I was then ushered into another room where a friend in uniform made us sit down in a row on a bench. He kicked our bare feet out a certain distance and proceeded to hit us on the knees with an instrument resembling an Indian war club. After this, our hearts and lungs were listened to.
Then, out into the main hall room again. This hall was probably 100 by 50 feet of one mad frenzy of activity. Shouting and swearing mingled with the buzz and click of many typewriters. Here we were inspected for blemishes on our bodies, such as stiff fingers or toes or hemorrhoids, and so forth. Then we were started along a line marked on the floor. We were made to hop on one leg so many steps, and then the other leg so many steps, and then we took so many steps on our toes. Then the line wound around past the typewriters.
Here, I was suddenly snatched out and taken to a little alcove at the far end of the room, seated on a bench and told to stay there. While seated I looked at my card and saw that the eye man had marked me "rejected." I was glad. I began to pray that the next man would reject me, too. My hopes were destined to be disappointed for the next man asked me some questions and marked my card accepted. I was sent out.
And again, I was seized by the arm.
(more to come from Saturday: May 19, 1918 part B)
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Obesity is the most common form of malnutrition seen in pets. It is defined as an excessive accumulation of fat in the body which eventually leads to adverse effects on health and your pet's life span. 41 per cent of dogs and 32 per cent of cats were overweight or obese according to 2013 figures from Animal Health Alliance (Australia).
Possible increased risk for certain forms of cancer.
Obesity is usually caused by a combination of an inactive lifestyle and eating too many calories. Very rarely, certain hormone diseases can also lead to obesity.
It is important that your pet has a healthy, active lifestyle and is fed strictly controlled portions to prevent your pet from becoming overweight and obese.
Ideally, if your pet is a healthy weight you should be able to feel the ribs of your pet through a small fat layer.
If you cannot feel your pet's ribs or if they have lost their waist line, they are overweight.
Weight loss is vital to the health of your overweight or obese pet, unless there is an underlying cause to your pets' weight.
If you suspect that your pet is overweight, it is always best to seek veterinary advice.
Avoid feeding your pet high-calorie table scraps and frequent feeding of dog biscuits and treats. It may be surprising to know that bones have a very high calorie content.
Do not encourage or allow begging during meal times.
This can be achieved by keeping your pet out of the kitchen during meal time preparation and gradually decreasing the amount of treats given. You can also substitute treats with attention, cuddles and play instead.
Ensuring your pet is fed at the same time each day can also aid in preventing begging.
Increased activity contributes to energy use that is necessary for weight loss.
Always start with slow and low intensity of exercise especially if your pet is used to a sedentary lifestyle.
As a general guide, 10 minute walks every day or every second day is a good start which should eventually lead to increased time and frequency.
Walking, running, playing fetch and other games are recommended forms of exercise, though ensure to start slowly.
Weigh your pet and set a goal for weight loss.
Next, calculate your pet's caloric requirement for maintenance of body weight (this can be discussed with your regular veterinarian). Feeding a diet that provides 60-70 per cent of the calories necessary for maintaining current body weight usually results in weight loss.
Do not attempt to severely restrict calories as this can cause a rebound in your pet's weight due to the effects of severe calorie restriction on the body's metabolic rate.
It is important to feed a well-balanced diet such as commercial pet foods that are formulated to contain adequate amounts of protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. You can obtain prescription commercial diets that are aimed at weight loss as they contain fewer calories either being low in fat and high in digestible fibre and carbohydrates.
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La  édition de Tirreno-Adriatico a lieu du 6 au  en Italie. La course est tracée sur sept étapes entre Lido di Camaiore et San Benedetto del Tronto. Elle fait partie de l'UCI World Tour 2023, le calendrier le plus important du cyclisme sur route.

Présentation

Parcours
La course débute au bord de la Mer Tyrrhénienne à Lido di Camaiore par un contre-la-montre et se termine à San Benedetto del Tronto, le long de la Mer Adriatique, sur un parcours total de . La cinquième étape est l'étape reine avec une arrivée au sommet de Sarnano Sassotetto, une ascension de 13,1 km avec une déclivité moyenne de 7,4 % et un passage à 14 %. En raison du vent, l'étape est écourtée des 2,5 derniers kilomètres.

Équipes
Vingt-cinq équipes disputent Tirreno-Adriatico : les dix-huit UCI WorldTeams et sept UCI ProTeams.

Favoris
En l'absence des deux premiers de l'édition 2022, Tadej Pogačar et Jonas Vingegaard, partis se confronter sur Paris-Nice, la course semble plus ouverte avec un grand nombre de favoris pour remporter le classement général. Parmi ces nombreux favoris, on peut citer le troisième de la dernière édition, l'Espagnol Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious), son compatriote Enric Mas (Movistar), le Britannique Adam Yates (UAE Emirates), en forme au Tour des Émirats arabes unis, son compatriote de l'équipe Ineos Grenadiers Tom Pidcock, sorti vainqueur deux jours auparavant des Strade Bianche, le Russe Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe), l'Australien Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), son compatriote Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën), l'Américain Brandon McNulty et le Portugais João Almeida (UAE Emirates), le Néerlandais Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers) sans oublier le Slovène Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) qui débute sa saison.

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Classements UCI
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What Are the Common Goods Surrounding the Pregnant Mother?
by Claire Fyrqvist July 22, 2022
On June 24th, a landmark decision was handed down from the Supreme Court of the United States declaring abortion to no longer be a constitutional right. This earth-shattering news coincided with the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Nativity of John the Baptist, a providential coincidence, if a coincidence at all. For my husband and me, this was news that we had personally invested years of our lives to hear. We were a part of a team that shut down our city's abortion clinic six years ago. When the ruling came down from the state attorney general, the relief and gratitude that washed over us was very similar to the emotion that brought tears to my eyes for days after Dobbs.
Prior to our work at Right to Life, we spent several years living and working at the Catholic Worker House in an inner city neighborhood, where the ongoing efforts of loving our homeless brothers and sisters made us understand in our bones that some work never ends. "The poor you will always have with you." This tension, the power of a changed law versus the day to day, arduous work of loving our neighbor, is one that is not going away.
We can breathe a sigh of gratitude, recognizing that something immense has occurred at the national level that has made our country more just. But on the ground, there is the vital ongoing work, now more than ever, of championing women and supporting them to be mothers, particularly those affected by the court's ruling.
Catholic Social Teaching is the body of teaching within the Church's Magisterium which applies directly to the human person and to the systems and communities of which she is a part. In the words of Pope Benedict XVI, "The value of human dignity . . . takes precedence over all political decision making."[1] How we think about structures, laws, individual choices, and Church teaching on any matter starts with the dignity and flourishing of each person, made in the image and likeness of God. Essentially, we must have a vision for, in the words of Peter Maurin, "a society where it is easier to be good."
As Catholics, there are three basic postures we must think about rightly in a post-Roe world in order to move forward in building that society with the immeasurable dignity of the human person at the forefront. First, the posture of the state. Second, the posture of the Church. And third, the posture of the individual.
Abortion—the violent severing of the most basic bond between mother and child and an egregious violation of human dignity—has not been outlawed in our country. Instead, it has been taken out of the hands of the federal government and put into the hands of the states. The principle of subsidiarity, an organizing principle by which matters should be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority, is dramatically in effect with the Dobbs decision.
At the heart of subsidiarity is freedom. Pope Benedict XVI wrote, "Subsidiarity is always designed to achieve . . . emancipation because it fosters freedom and participation through assumption of responsibility" (Caritas in Veritate §57). The actions of the Supreme Court call forth the responsibility of individuals and communities to act and promote the common good around the question of reproductive care, the prenatal child, and the rights of women.
In the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court determined that the federal government had overstepped its authority in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In Dobbs, the syllabus reads "the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives."[2] Each of the fifty states and their localized bodies of government will need to determine the role of law and state agencies in the question of women, the prenatal child, and the practice of abortion. But what is the purpose of the state? Pope Leo XIII, father of modern Catholic social doctrine, in his seminal work on capital and labor, Rerum Nevarum, wrote:
Rulers should anxiously safeguard the community and all its parts; the community, because the conservation of the community is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but is a government's whole reason for existence; and the parts, because both philosophy and the Gospel agree in laying down the object of the administration of the State should be not the advantage of the ruler, but the benefit of those over whom he rules (§35).
The posture of each state government then should be one of protection and beneficence towards the individual citizens making up its people. In order to ensure the thriving of individuals, communities, and the state as a whole, it is the state's job to think critically about the practical questions of life in all areas which touch its citizens, or the common good.
What are the common goods surrounding the pregnant mother? Food, healthcare, living conditions, just wages, and social and emotional support are some of the most basic goods to be considered for human flourishing. Parental leave and access to childcare and education are also necessary in many cases. Creating or bolstering more substantial structures of support for the woman facing pregnancy is a primary need in post-Roe America. In fact, the proper posture of any state voting to outlaw abortion ought to be simultaneously a guarantee of these structures for any mother or father in need.
Is it always the job of the state to provide for the physical and material needs of the single mother or family? No. If that woman has a strong safety net of family, neighbors, and friends, the state need not intervene. But if that woman is without resources or friends or family to help carry her burden of motherhood, it is appropriate that the state step in to give her the necessary aid. Pope Leo introduces the language of preferential option for the poor when he writes:
When there is a question of protecting the rights of individuals, the poor and the helpless have a claim to special consideration. For the richer class, surrounded as they are by their own resources, have less need of public protection, whereas the mass of the poor, with no resources of their own to rely on, must look to the State for protection. (RN §37)
He distinguishes between this necessary aid and overstepping in the private life of the family when he cautions:
The idea, then, that the civil government should, at its own discretion, penetrate and pervade the family and the household, is a great and pernicious mistake. True, if a family finds itself in great difficulty, utterly friendless, and without prospect for help, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid; for each family is a part of the commonwealth. . . . But the rulers of the State must go no further: nature bids them stop here (RN §14).
There is a fine line between protecting a person or family in need through aid and support and overreaching one's authority, moving toward coercion. The state forcing a Catholic hospital to offer abortions or contraception to women in the name of support, for example, would be outside the authority of the state to determine what a subsidiary organization can or cannot do for its members, given that the organization is serving its mission.
The state requiring a pregnant woman to give her child up for adoption, as Indiana inmates were forced to do in the early 20th century, or be sterilized after birth, a horrific practice still legal in several African nations and legal in many U.S. states as late as the 1970s, reveals an egregious violation of power. Remember that subsidiarity should lead to freedom. The state's role is actually to preserve the authority of subsidiary organizations, associations and individuals and families rather than infringing upon it. This promotes human dignity and greater liberty when applied rightly.
Second, the posture of the Church. Has she outlived her usefulness when it comes to civil matters? No. She is integral in building a good and just society, critiquing and guiding rulers in their decision making, called by Martin Luther King, Jr. "the conscience of the state." Though the modern world has often forgotten the role of spiritual authorities, in some cases even outlawing these voices in the public square, this only highlights a spiritual poverty and even greater need for the Church to courageously step into the breach.
It is the Church that proclaims from the Gospel those teachings by which . . . conflict can be brought to an end, or at least made far less bitter. The Church uses her efforts not only to enlighten the mind, but to direct by her precepts the life and conduct of men. The Church improves and ameliorates the condition of the working man by numerous useful organizations (RN §16).
Never is the Church more needed, writes Leo XIII, then in the midst of conflict and suffering and where truth and charity are most lacking. Both the world at the end of the 19th century and our world today are places of unprecedented advancements in technology and human capacities. Both Leo's world and our own face unimagined attacks on the human person and her dignity as a result. It is the Church who can speak calm in the middle of a storm; Christ himself stands up in the boat and orders the wind and the waves: "be still!" (Mark 4:39).
How we need our pastors and our bishops to calm fears from the pulpit and in the confessional, speaking and acting with courageous charity. How we need our Catholic hospitals, scientists and teachers to grapple boldly with the ethics and truth of our place in the universe as creatures. How we need more pregnancy resource centers, counselors, social workers, adoption agencies and families to extend the hand of friendship to women in crisis pregnancy and children in the foster care system. How we need churches to open their doors in welcome to the angry and confused "enemy" in their pro-choice parishioners and neighbors. Benedict XVI reminds us that no amount of state aid or institutions can replace human goodness, the love of neighbor:
Love—caritas—will always prove necessary, even in the most just society. There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a service of love. . . . The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person—every person—needs: namely, loving personal concern (Deus Caritas Est §28b).
The Church should be at the very heart, then, of the work to build a just and loving society where it is easier to be good. This call to solidarity and charity was echoed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. In an open letter the USCCB called upon all bishops, pastors, and the lay faithful to pick up their cross with radical love for neighbor and coworker and family member, wherever women face pregnancy and children face neglect or abandonment.
Here then is the dynamic interplay of subsidiarity with solidarity, that radical act of identifying with the other as oneself. One without the other is weak and lifeless as Pope Benedict XVI writes:
The principle of subsidiarity must remain closely linked to the principle of solidarity and vice versa, since the former without the latter gives way to social privatism, while the latter without the former gives way to paternalist social assistance that is demeaning to those in need (Caritas in Veritate §57).
It is the particular gift and challenge of the Church to promote and call forth this necessary balance of subsidiarity and solidarity, truth and charity. This occurs not only in word, but through the most vital grace of the Sacraments. Without Jesus Christ and his life coursing through the world in the Sacraments, we fall prey to our own error of judgment, laziness, and selfishness. The Church speaks, acts, and serves first and foremost as the minister of these Sacraments.
And finally, the individual. Each of us, no matter how little we've participated in politics or the culture wars surrounding abortion, have a unique, vital role to play in post-Roe America to build or a more just and loving society where it is easier to be good.
One of the first and most basic postures we ought to adopt is one of listening. When the world is full of yelling, polarized voices, it can be deafening and impossible to hear one another. The very act of sitting down with someone and listening to them in silence is a radical one. Pope Francis identified this problem of modern life, and called us to see in St. Joseph a marvelous example, saying "with his silence, he reminds us that everything begins from listening, from transcending oneself in order to be open to another person's word and history."[3]
When I was in the thick of the abortion wars, I found it incredibly fruitful and even necessary to seek out my pro-choice counterparts and have coffee with them. I needed to understand where they were coming from and why they fought so adamantly for abortion rights. It was extremely eye-opening to listen to their stories and their perspectives. This helped not only with my work but also greater humility and charity in putting myself in the place of my enemies. We cannot act without understanding. Our deeds are dead if we cannot see the other as a person worthy of love.
To all women facing pregnancy, wanted or unwanted, I say that you are doing the hardest work of all. You are giving your life for your child in the ultimate act of solidarity. You are the hero of this story and the one we champion in this work. You have the capacity to bear life, to make true all that has been said here. Pope Benedict writes: "Even in the most difficult circumstances human freedom is capable of extraordinary acts of sacrifice and solidarity to welcome the life of a new human being."[4] To rightly understand and say yes to motherhood is the particular cross and call of women, and to you I say we are with you and we are for you.
Let us not overlook that Roe was overturned on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Four years before his death in 1903, and fifteen years before the onset of World War I, Pope Leo XIII consecrated the whole world to that most sacred heart. We do not know if he foresaw the bloody wars which would follow. What he did see was the climate of anxiety, conflict, and fear, and in that knowledge he turned to Christ's heart flowing with love and mercy.
We find ourselves at a similar moment nearly a century and a half later, facing anxiety, conflict and fear in a divided land. I close with a portion of this powerful prayer of consecration, that the most Sacred Heart of Jesus would have mercy on us, our Church and the whole world.
Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Thy most Sacred Heart. Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy sacred Heart.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: "Praise be to the divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to it be glory and honor for ever." Amen.
[1] Benedict XVI, "Europe and its discontents."
[2] Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Syllabus.
[3] Esteves, Junno. "Pope Francis: Catholic media must not fall behind in digital age." America, The Jesuit Review. Americamagazine.org, accessed June 26, 2020.
[4] Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to Participants at the International Congress "Oil on the Wounds: A Response to the Aftermath of Abortion and Divorce," April 5, 2008, http://www.zenit.org/article-22218?l=english.
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Claire Fyrqvist is a mother, writer, and pro-life activist. Having spent several years working in the pro-life movement, she now helps run a Montessori co-operative preschool, and seeks to integrate human dignity and the defense of all life in the context of radical home making.
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Promoting the education of looked-after children and previously looked-after children.
The Local Authority has a statutory duty under the Children Act 1989 to safeguard and promote the welfare of a child looked after by them. This includes a particular duty to promote the child's educational achievement, wherever they live or are educated. The Children and Families Act 2014 amended the Children Act 1989 to require the Local Authority to appoint at least one person, in this case, the Virtual School Headteacher, for the purpose of discharging the local authority's duty to promote the educational achievement of their looked-after children and previously looked-after children.
The Virtual School Headteacher has a key role to ensure that looked-after children have the maximum opportunity to reach their full educational potential – an important part of why this role was made statutory.
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10 rescued after boat sinks in Grand Traverse Bay
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 10 people Friday from Grand Traverse Bay after their boat sank, plunging them into the water.
In a news release, the Coast Guard said its command center in Sault Ste. Marie received a distress call about 2:30 p.m. from a 30-foot vessel that was taking on water. The command center dispatched a 45-foot rescue boat and a helicopter.
A crew arrived 20 minutes later and began transferring passengers from the distressed boat to a Good Samaritan vessel.
As the crew was transferring passengers, the distressed boat began to sink rapidly, forcing everyone into the water. A Coast Guard rescue swimmer rescued 10 people with the help of the Good Samaritan, who transported them to shore.
The vessel went under in about 250-feet of water.
The Coast Guard said there were no signs of pollution from the sunken boat, which had a gasoline capacity of 75 gallons.
"As the boating season begins, it is important to ensure your vessel is ready to safely get underway," said Commander Amy Florentino, deputy sector commander. "Conduct a check of your boat, make sure you have the proper safety gear including life jackets, and ensure you have an operable VHF radio.
"In this case, the mariner was able to use a VHF radio to communicate to us that they needed help, which allowed the Coast Guard and other boaters to get on scene quickly."


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UEA hosts refugee history panel
As part of the nationwide Being Human Festival, UEA hosted a Refugee History Q&A talk on Thursday 23 November, discussing the current status of refugees in the UK.
Members of the panel included Orwell Prize shortlisted journalist Rachel Shabi, writer Daniel Trilling, 'Women for Refugee Women' campaigner Marchu Girma, equality Think Tank director Omar Khan, and Norwich South MP Clive Lewis.
Mr Trilling started the event by describing the 'refugee crisis' as "more of a crisis of the law," referring to the harsh government filtering system introduced by Tony Blair at the turn of the century. The UK is the only country in the European Union which lacks a time cap on the detainment of refugees.
This is reflected in the thousands of refugees held on indefinite detention in the UK, something which Lewis vowed to amend "when the bill comes to parliament".
Mr Khan, a refugee himself, suggested that British schooling continually implements students with "false ideas about what it means to be British". Mr Khan argued that if Britain wishes to follow Germany in welcoming large numbers of refugees, they must take inspiration from German schools' honest retelling of their own national history. This, Mr Khan believes, would help to disprove outdated ideas of who is and isn't British.
The event ended with the panel reflecting on the positive changes they had witnessed both in Norwich and around the country. Despite their detention, Ms Girma spoke of the hope felt by many female refugees in the UK who are "still confident they will secure a good future in this country".
The panel encouraged the audience to get involved in charities such as Safe Passage or by attending various events designed to raise awareness on refugee issues.
Mr Trilling used a quote by the late Tony Benn to summarise the event: "Pay close attention to how your government treats refugees, as it is how they would treat you if they could get away with it."
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The story's beginning doesn't even hint at its conclusion, starting with the chance materialization of the TARDIS in No Man's Land on what appears to be World War One Earth. Scurrying around to avoid artillery fire, the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe eventually encounter a group of British soldiers who, for the life of them, can't quite remember how long they've been at the front lines. Our time travellers' attempts to escape only brand them as German spies, earning them a visit with General Smythe to face interrogation and imprisonment—and execution.
Zoe escapes from captivity long enough to discover a communication device quite out of keeping with 1917 Earth, but if we didn't realize something strange was afoot then, the presence of a captured British Redcoat, thrown into Highlander Jamie's cell, seals the deal. Soldiers are being transported from their wars on Earth, forced to fight endlessly on an alien planet for as-yet unknown reasons by unknown captors.
Again, Dicks and Hulke tease out the threads of their story slowly, giving the viewer enough clues to piece together the story just before the characters do. This narrative technique serves to make the ten episodes of the story move with extraordinary rapidity, and even as the Doctor, Jamie, Zoe, and their "awakened" allies escape, are captured, and escape again (and again) in various time zones, the story scarcely loses momentum, though it does shed characters.
A huge cast comes and goes, with several figures being established as significant over the course of an episode or two and then disappearing with scarcely a trace. Lady Jennifer (Jane Sherwin), for instance, plays a major role in helping the Doctor and his companions escape via ambulance from the 1917 zone to the American Civil War zone, and then she's sent off to help the resistance and never reappears. Disappointing as it may be to lose characters the audience has developed a familiarity with, it's a ruthlessly effective bit of editing by Dicks and Hulke, allowing them to add new ones (and do they ever).
Zoe: But who else would have space-time machines like the TARDIS?
Whenever the Time Lords are hinted at, Patrick Troughton inflects his voice and visage, providing the Doctor with a crestfallen mien. Resignation becomes the Doctor's default attitude when considering his people, though the reasons for this hesitancy remain temptingly opaque until near the end of the story.
As the story's title suggests, the aliens led by the War Lord are conducting wargames, using real human soldiers from multiple eras, stretching from Roman times through to World War One, as pawns, pitting them against one another to winnow out the weak and the un-warlike. From this remaining core of hardened soldiers the nameless humanoid aliens will select an army to conquer the entire galaxy. Humans, after all, are some of the most savage creatures known to exist, making them ideal for conquest.
The generals plot out their moves using acrylic cubes on perspex boards, arraying their forces in a manner not unlike traditional wargames using chits on paper maps or miniature figures on terrain boards. Indeed, the whole premise of the story rests on viewers being familiar with wargaming as a concept, as described in H.G. Wells popular Little Wars work of 1913, not to mention a passing familiarity with military terms such as "Mills bombs" (grenades), "creeping barrages," and "pincer movements." With the Second World War not terribly far in the past, a British and Commonwealth audience could reasonably be expected to have some understanding of these terms and concepts.
The Doctor almost manages to infiltrate the aliens' Control Area after hitching a ride on an automated "SIDRAT" (as the War Chief refers to his time machines), but his fellow Time Lord recognizes him in a crowd, leading to much chasing and running around. In conversation later, the War Chief proclaims, "You may have changed your appearance, but I know who you are." As the Doctor does not know the War Chief, one surmises that the Doctor has a bit of notoriety about him as the person who stole a TARDIS and fled the Time Lords. And why did the Doctor flee? He was, he claims, "bored." According to the Doctor, Time Lords live forever, barring accident, and he craves more than the mere observation and accumulation of knowledge.
The technology to befuddle the soldiers' minds comes from the War Chief—and, by extension, the Time Lords themselves—explaining how the Doctor is able to easily reverse the process when confronted with the machinery. And so the Doctor engineers a rebellion within the Control Area the aliens set up on the wargame planet, but, with the War Chief's few usable time machines running out of power, he realizes, forlornly, that he has no means of returning the tens of thousands of humans to their respective times and places, particularly in such a way that they do not recall their experiences and alter human history thereby. With a heavy heart, he summons the Time Lords to undertake the necessary job, but not before trying to escape immediately thereafter.
He doesn't get far, barely even managing to enter the TARDIS with Jamie and Zoe; once inside, after a wrenching episode cliffhanger where his hand slides from the key on the police box door, the TARDIS cannot escape the reach of the Time Lords, who ultimately force it back whence it came, to what appears to be a master hanger of other time machines. The image lingers in the mind, suggesting a richness and vastness to the Time Lords without revealing much at all. This sort of visual economy prevails throughout the story, with frequent Doctor Who director David Maloney using the same setting in multiple ways throughout the story to express size and scope on a typical BBC budget. One corridor of thick vinyl walls in particular gets run through from every possible angle, time and again.
The War Lord's penalty for conceiving of this monstrous plot of galactic conquest is to be dematerialized. "It will be as though you never existed," proclaims the Time Lord mandating the sentence. And so he disappears, along with a group of henchmen. The planet of the War Lord is to be blocked off from contact with the rest of the universe forever, via force field. The Time Lords, it seems, do not play around, with powers, both physical and mental, on a vast scale that have not previously been suggested in the series. No wonder the Doctor is nervous about being apprehended by them.
Indeed, violence, of a level not often seen to date in Doctor Who, pervades this story. The Doctor is nearly executed by firing squad twice, once on camera, and people are shot, beaten, subdued, and killed with extreme frequency. Frazer Hines has multiple fight scenes as Jamie runs around with a gun and dispatches quite a few people, some the enslaved soldiers fighting against their will, and the Doctor shows no compunctions about asking for soldiers, at whose obedience he sneers, to buy time for his plans with their lives. Zoe, at least, has several scenes where she viscerally recoils at the action on screen, with Wendy Padbury blanching at several impending beatings.
Doctor: While you have been content merely to observe the evil in the galaxy, I have been fighting against it!
He attempts to put the Time Lords' own passivity on trial, railing against their willingness to sit back and not fight against evil. They are not amused, though they do seem to respect his passion. Noting the frequency with which he defends the Earth, particularly in the 20th century, they decide to exile him there, "without the secret of the TARDIS," and force upon him a regeneration so that he is not recognized by those he has opposed in the past. The stage is set for a long run of (budget-friendly) stories in the here-and-now.
Jamie and Zoe are unceremoniously returned to their original timelines, having a memory of their first adventure with the Doctor but no more, living their lives as though they never become companions. The Doctor says goodbye to them by trying to escape one last time, for their sake more than his own, but it comes to no avail. Their goodbye is certainly bittersweet, but unlike past departures, say Ian and Barbara running around London happy (and in possession of their memories), we see post-Doctor Zoe and Jamie try, vainly, to remember and then go on as though nothing had happened, computing on the Wheel and chasing Redcoats. Say what you will about Susan being kicked out of the TARDIS or poor Dodo being shuffled off for convalescence off-screen—this is the cruelest of endings for companions to date.
"The War Games" brings so very many new, and lasting, concepts to Doctor Who, but it also reinforces older ones with a reverence and respect borne, one assumes, from Terrance Dicks' association with the show as script editor. Happily, the term "companions" features several times in this story, as it becomes more and more the accepted term of art for those who travel with the Doctor. Jamie playfully mocks the Doctor's lock-picking attempts by reminding him that a tuning fork doesn't always do the trick. And, perhaps most importantly, we finally see the Sonic Screwdriver both up close and in action.
We also learn that the TARDIS has a theoretically endless power supply, unless fitted with dimensional controls that allow the interior space to be altered in size by remote control without changing the size of organic life within, the better to crush people with. The Doctor's TARDIS shrinks in size with the inhabitants as well in "Planet of Giants," and the Doctor removes a key component of the Meddling Monk's TARDIS in "The Time Meddler," shrinking it to prevent the Monk from entering, so either the remote control or the ability to separate out organic material from size changes ostensibly causes the excessive power drain. These may seem like throw-away details, but it's fair to suggest that the era of canonicity truly starts with this story. Here forward, canon begins to matter not only to the fans but, more frequently, to the writers and producers themselves. Not always, to be sure, but more frequently.
And so Season Six and Patrick Troughton's era as the Doctor come to a close. By changing the Doctor and the companions at the same time, at the end of a story and a season, the producers and writers have an absolutely clean slate—yet a slate within newly defined boundaries—with which to work. The season ends with no transition to a new Doctor, no superimposition of faces as happened when William Hartnell morphed into Patrick Troughton. And as we shall see, the switch to color broadcasting will turn out to be the least of the changes on Doctor Who.


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