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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 26 Jul 1921
Arezzo, Italy 20 Jun 2013
Art Gallery of NSW, artist profile: Jeffrey Smart
Jeffrey Smart in Italy, 1967, by Robert Walker © Estate of Robert Walker. Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales Archive
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Jeffrey Smart is acclaimed for his precisely delineated urban and industrial landscapes. Having absorbed the influences of Australian modernism in the 1940s, he worked in a distinctive, highly finished and detailed style.
Smart spent most of his working life in Italy but continued to exhibit in Australia where he enjoyed popular and critical success. His paintings are held in major collections in Australia and overseas including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Smart was born in Adelaide in 1921. In the late 1930s he studied part-time at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts under Marie Tuck and Rupert Bunny while also training at Adelaide Teachers College from 1939 to 1941. He visited the studio of the pioneering modernist painter and printmaker Dorrit Black, whose views on symmetry, line and composition greatly influenced the young artist.
Smart began exhibiting in group shows in the early 1940s and had his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1944. Inspired by the poetry of TS Eliot, his early landscape The Wasteland II 1945 was painted during his formative years in South Australia where he began to establish his remote vision of the urban landscape.
Smart travelled to Europe in 1948 and studied under Fernand Léger at the Académie Montmartre in Paris. He also visited Italy and England, seeking out the work of post-impressionist French painter Paul Cézanne, 15th-century Italian painter of perspective Piero della Francesca and northern Renaissance artist Rogier van der Weyden for their treatment of perspective, space and composition.
Returning to Australia in 1951, Smart won the Commonwealth Jubilee Open Art Competition and settled in Sydney, where he lived for the next 12 years, working among artists who included Russell Drysdale, Justin O'Brien and Jean Bellette. He was an art critic for the Daily Telegraph for a short time and a host on the popular children's radio program The Argonauts Club. He also taught at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School).
In 1963 Smart left Australia permanently for Rome. It was during this decade he gained major recognition for his meticulously crafted paintings. Later he moved to Arezzo in Tuscany where he remained for the rest of his career; he died there in 2013.
Smart dedicated himself to the representation of the modern city. He executed each painting with classical precision and included repetitious architectural motifs which reference Renaissance perspective. He saw beauty in everyday scenes, choosing to paint highways, factories, trucks and vacant city lots – as seen in a number of works in the Art Gallery of NSW collection such as Truck and trailer approaching a city 1973.
Portrait of Clive James 1991-2 is significant because it belongs to a trilogy of rare portraits painted by the artist in the 1980s and early 90s (along with Portrait of Germaine Greer 1984 and Portrait of David Malouf 1980). Smart has depicted the author standing on an overpass, small and isolated within the iron and cement structures of the city. The fence is based on a motif the artist saw in Japan:
I happened to be in Tokyo, on a train, and I spotted this lovely yellow corrugated iron fence – and I thought, that's the ideal place for Clive. It's really a portrait of a yellow fence, and Clive is the figure in the composition.
Matisse at Ashford 2004, arguably one of Smart's finest paintings from his later years, was acquired by the Gallery in 2007. The repeated motif of an exhibition poster advertising Matisse cut-outs at the Royal Academy, London appears on each platform of Ashford Station, emphasising Smart's interest in repetition and visual irony. Smart has said of his work:
My only concern is putting the right shapes in the right colours in the right places. It is always the geometry.
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Jeffrey Smart: constructed world
Jeffrey SmartTruck and trailer approaching a city (1973)1.1980 | Collection highlight
Jeffrey SmartMan with bouquet (circa 1981)117.1997
Jeffrey SmartThe dome (circa 1979)118.1997
Jeffrey SmartSecond study for Margaret Olley (1994)141.1995
Jeffrey SmartFigure study for Margaret Olley (1994)164.1995
Jeffrey SmartMan with bouquet (second version) (1996)181.1997
Jeffrey SmartMan with bouquet (second version) (1996)183.1997.1
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Manufacturing Success
by Nicole Davis | Mar 1, 2014 | 2014 | 0 comments
Overton Industries builds stable jobs and durable business in Mooresville
By Elaine Whitesides
Morgan County Business Leader
Even when their business grew to supply customers across the globe, Steve Overton and his brothers, Ron and Rick, stay in Central Indiana, Mooresville more specifically. Why is that?
Steve says it's because of a couple of reasons. He said, "It's where we live; it is home. The community has been good to us and of our business. It's a great place to live." After a breath, added, "We have fantastic people working for us here, too."
Those two things, the people who work with the Overton brothers and the community, stand out as integral components to what's important to this company and the owners.
Overton explained that Overton & Sons Tool & Die was originally started by his father, Ruby Overton, in November, 1968 on Bishop Street in Mooresville. By June of 1973 the company had twice outgrown their facility and the business moved to its present day location.
All the boys had, at one time or another, worked in the business, but in 1986 when Rudy died suddenly in an accident, three brothers came together to take over as owners. Their had been working on the floor, not management, and then that the new owners started to see what the people there really meant. Steve said they learned very quickly that you care of your people and they take care of you. You are only good as the people who work here.
"It was hard. We didn't really know anything about running a business, especially a tool and die business, but you do things because you have to. It took a lot of adjustment. We had about 20 people and we did not lose one single person in that time. They got behind us and supported us," he said. "If it hadn't for them, we probably wouldn't have survived.
And they were determined to keep their father's business alive. Ron stepped in as president/CEO. Steve had a business degree from the University of Evansville and took over the side. Rick moved into the estimating area. Even though roles were seemingly defined, each brother stepped in and as needed in any role or for any responsibility. Even sister helped the business recruiting new employees.
With the support of employees and each other, Overton Sons Tool & Die grew. "You do it because there is opportunity," said Steve about expansion. "You take the chance, the risk, hope it turns out.
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205. Veterans. The veterans' exemption is as specified in subdivisions (o), (p), (q), and (r) of Section 3 of Article XIII of the Constitution.
The following are wars under subdivisions (o), (p), (q), and (r) of Section 3 of Article XIII of the Constitution:
(a) Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775–January 14, 1784.
(b) Second War With England, June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815.
(c) Black Hawk War, April 6, 1832–August 2, 1832.
(d) War With Mexico, April 24, 1846–May 30, 1848.
(e) Civil War, April 18, 1861–August 20, 1866.
(f) War With Spain, April 21, 1898–April 11, 1899.
(g) War in Philippines, April 11, 1899–July 4, 1902.
(h) Chinese Relief Expedition, June 20, 1900–May 15, 1901.
(i) Campaign against the Rogue River, Yakima, Nez Percé, and Snake Indians in Oregon and Washington, 1855–1856.
(j) Campaign against the Indians in southern Oregon and Idaho and northern California and Nevada, 1865–1868.
(k) Campaign against the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, and Comanches in Kansas, Colorado, and Indian Territory, 1867–1869.
(l) Modoc War, 1872–1873.
(m) Campaign against the Apaches in Arizona, 1873.
(n) Campaign against the Kiowas, Comanches, and Cheyennes in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Indian Territory, and New Mexico, 1874–1875.
(o) Campaign against the Northern Cheyennes and Sioux, 1876–1877.
(p) Nez Percé War, 1877.
(q) Bannock War, 1878.
(r) Campaign against the Northern Cheyennes, 1878–1879.
(s) Campaign against the Ute Indians in Colorado and Utah, September, 1879–November, 1880.
(t) Campaign against the Apache Indians in Arizona, 1885–1886.
(u) Campaign against the Sioux Indians in South Dakota, November, 1890–January, 1891.
(v) War With Germany-Austria, April 6, 1917–November 11, 1918.
(w) Campaign against the Apache Indians in Arizona, 1895–1896.
(x) World War II, December 7, 1941, to January 1, 1947.
(y) Campaign against the North Koreans and Chinese Communists in Korea, June 27, 1950, to January 31, 1955.
(z) Campaign against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Communists in South Vietnam, August 5, 1964, to May 8, 1975.
The following are campaigns under subdivisions (o), (p), (q), and (r) of Section 3 of Article XIII of the Constitution:
(a) First Nicaraguan campaign.
(b) Second Nicaraguan campaign.
(c) Yangtze River campaign in China.
(d) All other campaigns for service in which a medal has been issued by the Congress of the United States.
History.—Stats. 1941, p. 1193, in effect September 13, 1941, added subsection (w). Stats. 1947 (First Extra Session 1946), p. 157, in effect May 21, 1946, added subsection (x). Stats. 1951, p. 1792, in effect May 24, 1951, added subsection (y) with the provision that it was declaratory of existing law. Stats. 1953, p. 1713, in effect September 9, 1953, substituted "January 1, 1947" for "May 16, 1946" in subsection (x). Stats. 1955, p. 1457, substituted "January 31, 1955" for provision authorizing a date to be fixed by the Governor in subsection (y). Stats. 1967, p. 3180, added subsection (z). Stats. 1974, Ch. 311, p. 591, in effect January 1, 1975, substituted "subdivisions (o), (p), (q), and (r) of Section 3" for "Section 11/4" in the first sentences of the first, second, and third paragraphs. Stats. 1976, Ch. 1092, p. 4937, in effect January 1, 1977, substituted "May 8, 1975" for provision authorizing a date to be fixed by the Governor in subsection (z).
Note.—For annotations relating to the veterans' exemption see Article XIII, Section 3, of the Constitution.


Thanks a lot for the photos of Kiev!!!!
You treat me like a crystal vessel.
, I think we will be a very good match.
It made me very happy because I like to read all the details and everything about you.
I will definitely translate every word that are dear for me.
I checked all your letters and think that September between September 14-29 would be better dates.
, Please write me your thought about that.
I need the new foreign passport- 300 EURO, and what is important the sooner I get into proceeding (give all papers into it)- the sooner I will get it,this will take approximately a month or even less than a month.
It can be done even sooner ,but also it will cost more expensive ( if that to be done sooner}.
I think the best way is to get into proceeding right now.
I also found out about the best and extremely effective French class here and what is important I may attend it along with Helen !
The whole individual course is 200 Euro for me and 100 Euro for Helen.
I need just to go somewhere every day and study hard each day, like I went to the Medical University and how I go to work each day.
thoughts and feelings to you in full measure, My Klod!
I lack it very much my Klod.
I am so sorry Klod! I just hope you will understand my feeling I so worried about him .
I wish you "Mens sana in corpore sano."
I do not know about Helen it is additional 100 Euro and I am so worrying because it is already expensive. What do you think?
You were right in saying that you believe that we have a little the same temperament, the same tendency to be worried.
I am also so honored that I became the princess of your dreams of childhood, beautiful, soft.
I am happy so happy also that I have met you finally and being able to have a place at the bottom of your heart. You are also filling my heart with joy,of an immense heat.
I will give you a million kisses when I meet you.
Je t'Aime. Mon amour Klod!!!!!!
I am awfully sorry for not writing you .
This is just a short letter because I still problem and have very little money to pay for the Internet letters.
As you know I run out of money and I think may be tomorrow I will recieve the salary.
and she is OK about it.
Today is Big Christian festival called "Has rescued"
a lot of people went to the Orthodox church for special service,and then they went home ,resting,eating and celebrating.
I also think about the meeting in September.
I want you to know that I love your soul.
You are very noble and honest and I highly apreciate it.
I do not want you to come on this dates.
I need to start making the passport $ 300USD as well for the police report 20USD and another document from the registry office will be about $20USD hence the same price.
I also don't like to say goodbye and to see you leaving again I would like to go to France with you .
And when you come at this date all of us will go to France together to live.
I want this for sake to save some money and because I will not have much time for you,when I come back from work I rush to take Helen from the kindergarten and then I am tired and want just to make it to sleep.
When you come in late October I will finish with my work and we will just leave to France.
Since I think your furniture will be sufficient for uswe wiil not take mine.
I have stucked into one problem.
They official called me and said that ,In order to get a foreign passport I need to pay out the debt , for my appartment and which is , 375 EURO.
They say it need to be done very soon ,since without it they cancel the proceeding of issuing the FOREIGN PASSPORT.
Send it soon if possible,if you sent it tomorrow I would pay out the debt on Saturday since GEK is working on Saturday.
Since it is expansive to eat for us in the restaurants in Kiev.


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The 'store within a store' is a new concept for Avantiplus and our ideals fit well with our host Big Save Furniture who strive for an environment "where the customer is inspired" and not just visiting a furniture store. The idea of having the whole family come in and look for furniture just became a lot less daunting with the family members not interested in sitting, get a chance to jump on a bike instead.
The partnership with Avantiplus is the second open floor concept for the furniture chain, with the innovation starting in Napier where Big Save Furniture shares its floor space with a Café along with Honda and BMW motorcycles.


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According to Hatboro-Horsham Patch, a high school and youth wrestling coach, 50 years old, has been arrested for use of child pornography on his computer from his Hatboro home. He has been charged with 10 felony counts of child pornography; two felony counts of distributing photos of child sex acts; and two felony counts of criminal use of a communication facility.
After searching the coach's desktop and laptop computers, more than 50 images of child pornography were found.
The investigation began with the Department of Homeland Security Child Exploitation Unit in Philadelphia receiving a tip that five child pornography images were uploaded from a particular email address and that the email address was accessed multiple times from an address in Hatboro. Homeland Security then contacted the Montgomery County Detective Bureau that a Hatboro computer was involved in the distribution of child pornography.
As this news story indicates, child pornography is a concerted focus of law enforcement. Pennsylvania law make it an offense for any person to intentionally view or knowingly possess or control any book, magazine, pamphlet, slide, photograph, film, videotape, computer depiction or other material depicting a child under the age of 18 years engaging in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such acts. The statute specifically defines "intentionally views" as the deliberate, purposeful, voluntary viewing of material. The law provides as exception for anyone who accidentally or inadvertently views the pornographic material; thus, a person who thinks they are accessing an adult website and lands in a child site would not be in violation of the law. The law also does not apply if it is used for educational or scientific purposes.
In addition to the viewing or possessing, the law makes it an offence to knowingly sell, distribute, disseminate, display or exhibit such images to others. In all these cases, when a person involved in a prohibited sexual act is alleged to be a child under the age of 18 years, competent expert testimony is sufficient to establish the age of that person.
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The child pornography statute in Pennsylvania is entitled Sexual Abuse of Children and there is a similar federal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children. For anyone who has been charged with an offense related to child pornography, it is important to immediately seek the advice of an experienced Pennsylvania attorney.
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Severe fire danger warning for Darling Downs regions
AUTHORITIES are warning of severe fire conditions across the Darling Downs, Granite Belt and Maranoa regions due to recent weather patterns.
The Bureau of Meteorology forecast the severe conditions for today and urged residents to take precautions and be mindful in the coming days.
"Ä hot and dry air mass will combine with fresh and gusty northwesterly winds ahead of a trough to produce severe fire dangers over the western parts of the Darling Downs and Granite Belt district and south-eastern parts of the Maranoa district," the BoM said.
Rural Fire Service Area Director Tim Chittenden said the region would move into bushfire season quickly.
"The area from Warwick south to Stanthorpe will have a higher bushfire risk this year as there's been a lot of frost and it's very dry at the moment," he said.
"We have already seen a few bushfires in the area as fuel loads are high."
Last year Toowoomba had increased bushfire activity with firefighters attending more than 80 fire incidents, compared to more than 60 the year before.
Dalby also experienced a higher rate of fires, with firefighters attending more than 60 incidents compared to about 50 in 2016.
Mr Chittenden said it was a great time for landholders to prepare their property and reduce fuel loads as most of the region's vegetation had dried out.
"Too often we see landholders relying solely on firefighters to put in fire breaks and burn fuel loads on their own properties, without taking the steps to reduce fire risk themselves," he said.
"Regular burns are the most effective way to manage fuel loads, which includes dead leaves and bark build-up.
"If you own the fuel, you own the fire - if it's your land and your fuel, you hold the legal responsibility to manage the fuel and reduce fire risk on your land."
Residents can monitor the bushfire situation online at ruralfire.gov.au and bom.gov.au.
Call 000 in an emergency.
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The Town Council hold a Full Council meeting usually on the second Wednesday of each month and Committee meetings are held usually on the fourth Wednesday of each month. As of May 2016, the Town Council will be changing their structure by having two Full Council Meetings a month - the second replacing the Committee meetings.
All meetings are usually held in the Town Hall, The Platt, Wadebridghe with full disabled access. Other meetings may be held in the Victoria Room, located on the 1st floor of the Town Hall with limited access, please telephone for more information. The location of the meeting is always listed on the Agenda.
Below is the link to view the Calendar of Meetings.
An Agenda is drawn up prior to each meeting and a Public Notice is displayed in the Town Hall notice board at least three working days prior to the meeting. All Council meetings are open to the public and a Public Participation section is included at the beginning of each meeting. Parishioners of Wadebridge have the opportunity to address the Council on any item included within the Agenda. Please use the link below to view the Public Participation Policy.
Planning - Relevant applications are considered at both the Full Council meeting and at the Planning Committee meeting. To view applications currently being considered please refer to the Planning & Consultation page or view the latest Agenda.


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A blend of active algae components including Polysaccharides (sugar).


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While there are surgical treatments for this condition, a significant chance that the child may sustain a permanent cognitive disability remains.
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Q: The Thinkpad T480 boasts 30 hours of battery life, I'm getting 6 What gives? How come Ubuntu chews through both of my two batteries so fast?
Using 18.04.1 by the way.

A: That's because Ubuntu is hardware-agnostic and you need to set the battery savings yourself for your particular hardware.

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Q: GE Smallworld PNI 4.3 forgot Administrator Password I forgot the Administrator password for my company's Smallworld PNI installation, we had been making due with just the user accounts but now the user accounts don't log in anymore, is there anyway to reset the Admin password

A: If you do know your way around the cli/magik, you can start an open image with a "-noinit" parameter, then open the database and fiddle around with the authorisation database.


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Mothers of Rotterdam: a new medical and social support programme for vulnerable pregnant women
By	Johanna P. de Graaf, Marijke W. de Groot, Marije van der Hulst, Loes C. M. Bertens and Eric A. P. Steegers
Photo: Courtesy of Erik Godijn/Moeders van Rotterdam
The global economic downturn that started in 2008 took its toll on European societies, with pressure on public finances leading to the weakening of social security systems (Reinhart and Rogoff, 2009; Stuckler et al., 2009; Keeley and Love, 2010). In the Netherlands, cuts in state care services were presented politically as part of a transition towards a 'participation society', but in practice have increased isolation of some highly vulnerable groups. Midwives and obstetricians in Rotterdam, the country's second-largest city – which is highly multicultural – noted an increase in the number of pregnant women with complex psychosocial as well as medical problems, such as homelessness, poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, sexual abuse and mental health issues.
Often these problems are combined with very limited opportunities for self-care and self-direction, decreased sense of empowerment and much mistrust in the care system. Based on a large number of international studies it can also be concluded that these highly vulnerable pregnant women have an increased risk – mostly poverty-related – of prematurity, foetal growth restriction, a suboptimal start for the child at birth and inadequate implementation of the parental role by the mother (Barker, 2007; Heijmans et al., 2008; van den Berg et al., 2009; Henrichs et al., 2010; Poeran et al., 2011; Seng et al., 2011; Timmermans et al., 2011; de Graaf et al., 2013; Quispel et al., 2012).
This situation calls for an integrated chain of antenatal care, crossing medical and social care domains and crossing the generations – not only aiming to improve the children's life chances, but to address the multi-dimensional problems in the lives of their mothers. In 2014 the innovative Bureau Frontlijn ('Frontline' office) of the municipality of Rotterdam therefore developed the Moeders van Rotterdam (Mothers of Rotterdam, MoR), together with the Erasmus Medical Centre and with the support of the Verre Bergen Foundation. The MoR programme aims to provide care to highly vulnerable pregnant women up to their child's second birthday, increasing the chances of a healthy and safe pregnancy and postpartum period that can give the child a good start in life.
Mothers who have worked with their MoR coaches to improve their situation include Saana, who has struggled to get to grips with the language and legal system in the Netherlands since fleeing from Syria with her husband and two children; Jennifer, originally from Ghana, whose MoR coach helped her to find a place to live and a place in school for her 6-year-old son and to restructure her debts; and Loes, who along with her partner has worked hard with her coaches to overcome drug-related issues and establish healthier eating and sleeping patterns.
The MoR programme connects the social and medical domains. It is divided into three main phases:
resolving the acute crisis situation, by taking control
creating the circumstances for a safe mother–child attachment, and
stimulating the mother's parenting skills, appropriate to the child's developmental phase, and improving the mother's autonomy to participate actively in society.
Beyond problems in the social domain, MoR pays attention to medical risks: care providers promote a healthy lifestyle and regular visits to the community midwifery professionals during pregnancy, as well as visits to a general practitioner or obstetrician when medical complaints occur, and regular visits to the preventive healthcare centres which exist to monitor children's health and development.
'The MoR programme aims to provide care to highly vulnerable pregnant women up to their child's second birthday.'
The intensity of MoR is initially high, with two home visits a week, decreasing over time to one home visit every two weeks. Care is provided by a team of social service professionals and third-year students in pedagogics and welfare from the University of Applied Sciences. Deploying these interns, with appropriate supervision by professionals, reduces the costs of the programme. It could also help to build trust between mother and care provider, as the mothers may perceive interns as less threatening than more senior medical professionals.
The MoR programme's theory of change
If we combine medical and social risk assessment during early pregnancy, then we can identify the most vulnerable women and children at risk.
If we ensure close cooperation between medical and social care, then we can provide holistic and more effective care.
If we provide personalised care intensively, then we can reduce stress,
improve life and parenting skills and increase self-sufficiency.
If we reduce stress and women become self-sufficient, then we improve the likelihood of a healthy newborn, safe bonding and optimal child development.
If children are born healthy and develop optimally, then this will increase the likelihood of them leading happy and healthy lives.
If women become self-sufficient and we increase the likelihood of children's healthy development, then we save government expenditure and increase tax revenue.
In 2016, a four-year prospective cohort study began, which will compare the effects of the MoR programme with the municipality of Rotterdam's normal social care programme on self-sufficiency, as judged by: the caregiver; the mother's mental health, measured through questionnaires on depression, fear and stress completed by the mother herself; and child development at 1 year of age, as measured by an 'age and stage' questionnaire.
In the meantime, the Mothers of Rotterdam programme is generating interest from across the Netherlands in the potential for the approach to be scaled up and replicated elsewhere. The Bernard van Leer Foundation came on board as a scaling partner, and the ultimate aim is to use the Rotterdam initiative to develop an evidence-based intervention that can be integrated into the existing work methods of local municipal service providers and expand this model to other cities in the Netherlands.
Johanna P. de Graaf Project Leader, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Marijke W. de Groot PhD student, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Marije van der Hulst PhD student, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Loes C. M. Bertens Epidemiologist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Eric A. P. Steegers Head of Department, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Today, City Gallery Wellington is opening two new exhibitions. The first is John Pule – Hauaga (Arrivals) which is his first major solo exhibition in a public gallery.
The second exhibition is Ready to Roll, an exhibition curated by Heather Galbraith of 'recent, exciting work' by eight New Zealand based artists.
Both exhibitions continue until 12 September 2010.


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Q: Equations over fields Let $x_1,\cdots, x_n$ be distinct elements of a given field $F$ such that for any $k$, $\sum_{i=1}^n x_{i}^k = 0$. I want to show that all $x_i$'s are zero.

A: Not a complete answer. In characteristic zero we can do the following. The claim is clear when $n = 1$; we will show that any counterexample to the claim gives rise to a counterexample with smaller $n$.
The condition forces any symmetric polynomial in the $x_i$ to vanish. To see this, note that
$$
0 = (x_1 + \ldots + x_n)^k
$$
for any $k$. (See the "properties" section of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_sum_symmetric_polynomial).
In particular,
$$
x_1x_2\ldots x_n = 0
$$
so one of the $x_i$ must be zero.
(If I'm not mistaken we don't need $F$ to be a field; the argument is true in any $\mathbb{Q}$-algebra which is a domain.)


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AN EXHIBITION at the Australian War Memorial is telling the story of more than 3000 Australians involved with the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944.
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the operation, the exhibition will run through until September in the Anzac Hall Mezzanine, opposite the Lancaster 'G-for-George'.
More than 2500 RAAF personnel were involved with the D-Day landings to begin the liberation of Occupied Europe.
More than 156,000 Allied personnel landed on the first day, and by July 4, more than a million had arrived.
The exhibition at the Australian War Memorial illustrates how the operation was conducted, and the role Australians played.
Amongst the displays are the uniform won by a RAAF Spitfire pilot, an artwork of 460 Squadron, and the remains of a Typhoon strike fighter flown by a RAAF pilot brought down over Normandy.
Director of the Australian War Memorial, Dr Brendan Nelson, said the freedoms we enjoy were partly owed to the D-Day operation.
"Some 3,300 Australian servicemen and servicewomen contributed to Operation Overlord," Dr Nelson said.
Whilst D-Day is commonly associated with the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, few might be aware of the extent of Australia's involvement.
"Australia's contribution and its sacrifice is a little-known story in one of history's most dramatic events," Dr Nelson said.
"Few Australians would know that the first enemy aircraft – a Heinkel 177 – that was shot down on the day of the Normandy Landings was shot down by two Australians in a Mosquito of 456 Squadron.
"Thirteen Australians were killed on D-Day: two members of the Royal Australian Navy and 11 members of the Royal Australian Air Force.
The RAAF's Role
After two years of planning and preparation, the Allies landed in the Normandy region of northern France on 6 June 1944.
It required months of preparation, training, and preliminary missions to support. RAAF personnel fulfilled some of the following roles:
Although the majority of RAAF personnel involved with D-Day flew missions over Normandy, Flight Lieutenant Glenorchy McBride was the only known RAAF member to step ashore on 6 June 1944.
The 43-year-old Administration Officer from Adelaide was a member of No. 101 Royal Air Force (RAF) Beach Squadron when it landed at SWORD Beach near Caen.
His job was to facilitate the arrival of supplies and equipment that would allow Allied aircraft to operate in France, and return downed aircrew and equipment back to England.
Arriving after the fighting on SWORD Beach had finished, Flight Lieutenant McBride was met with traffic chaos as Allied vehicles attempted to get off the beach and onto local roads.
In his first hour ashore, Flight Lieutenant McBride assisted Military Police on traffic management duties, and ordered German Prisoners of War to collect stretchers for wounded Allied troops.
He remained in Normandy until August 1944 when his squadron redeployed to England, and returned to Australia the following year.
RAAF aircrew flying with RAF transport squadrons helped deliver 8500 personnel with the British 6th Airborne Division to Normandy on the night of 5/6 June 1944.
Flying Stirlings, Dakotas and Albermales, they carried paratroops or towed gliders across the English Channel.
Diversion Missions
Allied efforts to confuse the Germans about the true location of D-Day led to a number of RAAF personnel flying diversion missions.
This included dropping dummy paratroops into Northern France, sowing confusion about the location of the landings.
They also airdropped foil as a means of jamming enemy ground-based radars, again attempting to convince the Germans that an invasion would come against the Pas de Calais region of France.
On D-Day, allied Air Forces enjoyed overwhelming air supremacy against the Germans over France fielding more than 10,000 aircraft against 80 – the majority of which did not fly missions on D-Day.
Fighters flew patrol missions against enemy aircraft and, when able, attacked German road movements and ground positions.
Long Summer days allowed Spitfire pilots from No. 453 Squadron to fly multiple missions over Normandy in the weeks following D-Day, although it was a 200-kilometre flight over the England Channel.
It wasn't until June 16 that they faced the enemy in the air, with the squadron successfully bringing down two Me-109s without loss.
From June 25, the squadron moved Spitfires to a forward base in Normandy, greatly increasing their time over the battlefield.
Mosquito nightfighter crews from RAAF No. 456 Squadron meanwhile used airborne radar sets to find German bombers and other nightfighters.
On the night of 6/7 June 1944, No. 456 Squadron destroyed four Heinkel He-177 bombers, a number of which were equipped with first-generation guided missiles.
In the coming weeks, the squadron would claim 17 German aircraft destroyed, all without loss of their own.
RAAF maritime squadrons flew missions to guard the Allied naval convoy as it crossed the England Channel.
Beaufighters with RAAF's 455 Squadron were re-assigned from their base in Scotland to defend the convoy on D-Day, although poor weather prevented them from engaging the enemy.
Sunderland flying boat crews with Nos. 10 and 461 Squadron meanwhile were tasked with patrolling against U-Boats.
On D-Day itself, a No. 10 Squadron Sunderland crew encountered no U-Boats, but was able to 'scare' off a Junkers Ju-88, a medium bomber that could be used against Allied patrol aircraft.
On July 8, a 10 Squadron crew sank the U-Boat U243 approximately 170 kilometres off the coast of Brest.
A critical mission for Allied Air Forces in Normandy was to prevent or delay the arrival of German reinforcements.
This meant attacking road and rail infrastructure, and RAAF heavy bomber squadrons - 460, 463, 466 and 467 Squadron – flew missions against French rail network from in April 1944.
Missions were normally flown at night, however on 30 April 1944, No. 466 Squadron Halifaxes joined 128 bombers for a low-level daylight raid against marshalling yards in Achères, north-west of Paris.
In smaller Mosquito fighter bombers, crews from RAAF No. 464 Squadron flew low level missions at night to 'Tennis Courts', areas assigned to them in which they were given free rein to attack enemy vehicle movements.
Whilst the RAAF lost 11 personnel on D-Day, many hundreds more were killed in missions leading in to D-Day, and in the weeks that followed.
Flight Sergeant Stanley Black was the only RAAF member ground casualty, killed alongside US Paratroopers defending the French village of Graignes from a German SS Division.
A bombardier on a RAF Lancaster, Flight Sergeant Black was shot down on June 7 but brought by French to the US.
In the air, many RAAF aircrew lost their lives to enemy flak over Normandy.
Those killed ranged from experienced aircrew through to Flight Sergeant George Howard, killed on his first sortie when his Typhoon was shot down on D-Day.
The fate of many RAAF personnel remained undiscovered, and a handful have still yet to be found.
In 2010, the remains of Flight Lieutenant Henry 'Lacy' Smith were discovered in France after his Spitfire had crashed into a canal. He received a full military funeral in April 2011.
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Cloistered within a Rocky Mountain cave, Drake Forte is an amnesiac forced into a life of seclusion by a global Calamity. He can't remember how he got there. But he's determined to find out…if life would give him the chance.
Global catastrophes constantly hamper his struggle for survival. A wolf-dog harasses his every step. A hot-headed woman, Ashton Deveraux, stakes a claim to his territory and resources. And a global conglomeration will stop at nothing to assimilate all under its purview.
Drake wrestles on a daily basis to find a reason for living and must acknowledge the one force he has been trying to deny: God.
However, even that doesn't come easy when the realization dawns on Drake that the Rapture has occurred, the Great Tribulation is upon him, and that sacrifices must be made in such chaotic times.
The question is: how dire will those sacrifices be?


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Q: c# / XNA 4.0- Move textures to give illusion of infinite plane I've been having trouble implementing an algorithm to shift my textures given their positions and the cameras position. The first two pictures in the  image explain what I'm trying to accomplish, but I can't figure out how to move them accordingly. I had created a program once upon a time that did this, but I've gone and lost it. Any ideas?
If it helps any, the Cameras/Viewports width and height are the same as the textures' width and height. The goal is the get them to shift positions, giving the illusion of an infinite plane. (With out having to draw an infinite plane, lol.)

A: You do not really need to move your regions, enough to decide where to draw them. Lets assume you have a terrain containing N*M blocks (in this case N=M=2), each of them are size of A*A (in this case the screen hase the same size, but this doesn't matter), and the Tiles are continously following each other.
int LeftColumn = Camera.X / A; // let it round to nearest lower int
int TopRow = Camera.Y / A;

LeftColumn = LeftColumn % N; // Calculate the first tile
TopRow = TopRow % M;

for (int i = LeftColumn+N; i < LeftColumn+2*N; i++)
  for (int l = TopRow+M; l < TopRow+2*M; l++)
  // you may check here if the tile is visible or not based on the screen size
  {
    Tile[i % N, l % M].Draw(i*A, l*A); // Or do whatever you like
  }

Is this clear?

A: After a couple hours of trial and error, I finally figured out how to get the regions/textures/rectangles to move accordingly. For those who want the solution,
        if ((int)Math.Abs(region.X - camPos.X) > region.Width * 2)
        {
            region.X += region.Width * 2;
        }

        if (camPos.X < region.X - region.Width)
        {
            region.X -= region.Width * 2;
        }

        if ((int)Math.Abs(region.Y - camPos.Y) > region.Height * 2)
        {
            region.Y += region.Height * 2;
        }

        if (camPos.Y < region.Y - region.Height)
        {
            region.Y -= region.Height * 2;
        }

Where camPos is the camera position, and region is the region/texture/rectangle/whatever.
This code works for a 4 square region (2 regions by 2 regions). To change for more regions, simply change all the *2s to *3s or *4s for a 9 square region and 16 square region, respectively.


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We've played 6 hours of Destiny 2: Forsaken, here's what we think so far
Destiny is finally back
By Ryan Gilliam@RyGilliam Sep 4, 2018, 1:00pm EDT
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Destiny 2: Forsaken is being billed as a rebirth for Destiny 2, a great game that saw a massive dip in players after only a few months, and has been going downhill ever since. For most games, a month's worth of quality engagement would be great, but an online game like Destiny 2 needs more longevity if it wants to keep players coming back. At an Activision-run event at Bungie's offices last week, I was able to sit down and play about six hours of Forsaken, and I'm pleased to report that it delivers on nearly every front ... so far.
From Forsaken's opening mission, Destiny 2 feels different than it did two weeks ago. Maybe it's as simple as the weapon slot changes, but it certainly seems like more than that. The world, the music, the story; it's all much darker than it was before. It's a marriage of the overly serious mentality of the first game and the bit-too-lighthearted feeling of the second. Things start bad in Forsaken, and there isn't any guarantee that they'll get much better by the expansion's end. But the worlds appear alive, despite the dark nature of everything surrounding them.
I spent quite a bit of time in the new Tangled Shore destination, which is filled with resources and chests, and Fallen — both friend and foe. When you first land on its utterly barren front, the location looks like the rough-and-tumble desert that Bungie promised. But as you dive deeper, making your way into the anchored-together asteroids via cracks and gravity lifts, the wasteland goes from moisture farm to Mos Eisley.
The depths of the Tangled Shore are compact and cluttered; you can't walk more than a step or two without running into a pack of enemies or the Spider's goons. Makeshift huts and toppled ether canisters are everywhere, giving the wasteland a lived-in feel. But the Reef is in a state of war when you arrive, with the Fallen fighting against their undead brothers and sisters: the Scorn. The two races look and act fairly similarly, making their conflict appear from afar like a strange civil war — something that Guardians will be only too eager to interrupt.
But the Tangled Shore isn't all dark Western space opera. A fellow member of the press discovered a Lost Sector that made them burst into laughter, which of course led to them sharing the coordinates with the rest of us. When I walked in myself, I found some sort of Fallen nightclub. Other previews have detailed this Lost Sector before, but they failed to mention that Paul McCartney's very silly "Hope for the Future" Destiny song is blaring loudly over the speakers, followed by some kind of space banjo music.
The Dreaming City, a location we only got a brief look at, is easily the most beautiful space Bungie has ever created. Every part of it looks handmade — not by the developers, but by the Awoken people that supposedly lived there. It feels like hallowed ground, something that an entire species poured their culture and aesthetic into before being wiped out.
But like the Tangled Shore, the Dreaming City is already in trouble by the time we get there. Some kind of curse has gripped the surrounding areas, leaving Guardians with a lot of work to do. One activity we played in the Dreaming City was the new Blind Well, Forsaken's equivalent to Escalation Protocol.
While I didn't get to spend much time with it, what was there was already more interesting than the wave-based mode from Warmind. You spend your time ducking in and out of a small safety zone, which rapidly expands to cover more ground as the mode goes on. It was fun, and failure left me eager to try again, rather than move onto something else. The only thing we can hope for is that it comes with the kind of rewards that players will want to grind for — and that it'll avoid some of Escalation Protocol's matchmaking issues.
Gambit is the excellent, revolutionary mode that Destiny 2 needs
Of all the Forsaken-specific content I played, the Warden of Nothing strike was by far my favorite. It takes place in the heart of the Prison of Elders, and has some of the best callback moments of anything I've played in Destiny 2. I found myself — and the rest of the room — laughing at each surprise and silly death. It brought me back to the original Destiny, and the great times I had raiding the Prison of Elders with friends.
And from what I've seen so far, that's what Forsaken is all about. Every aspect of it seems like a step in the right direction (backward): armor pieces and weapons with random rolls, a deeper level of customization, and locations that feel like they're alive around you. For an old Destiny player like me, it's like coming home.
But Forsaken still feels like a Destiny 2 expansion. Instead of giving up on Destiny 2 and reverting wholly to the original game, Bungie has made Forsaken an amalgamation of the two. There is so much to do and see that it seems like you'll never finish it all, even if some of that content is the same grindy nonsense that players saw in Destiny. But with the gameplay improvements of Destiny 2 still intact, Forsaken is an expansion that I can also see appealing to vanilla players who stepped away for a bit after they ran out of interesting things to do.
There is so much left to discover in Destiny 2: Forsaken, but the sections I've seen and played are the best that Bungie has offered us yet in Destiny 2. Forsaken feels like the transformative expansion for Destiny 2 that The Taken King was for Destiny. But Forsaken has the potential to surpass our bout with Oryx, ushering in the best age of Destiny we've ever seen.
We'll have to see how Forsaken ages, and what happens when that six hours becomes 40. But for now, I have more ... hope for the future for Destiny than I have in a long time.
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Tarzan of the Apes: A very fine introduction to the original swinger
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Three years ago, the character of Tarzan celebrated his 100th birthday. Making his initial appearance in the October 1912 issue of All-Story Magazine, in the original Tarzan novel Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs' creation proved to be so popular that the author went on to create 25 more novels featuring the jungle swinger. Released in book form two years later, the novel is a perfect introduction to the character who has been called the best-known fictional creation of the 20th century. Like many others, my only previous familiarity with Tarzan was via the Johnny Weissmuller films of the '30s and '40s — all dozen of them — and, to a lesser degree, those featuring Bruce Bennett, Buster Crabbe, Lex Barker and Gordon Scott (I have never gotten a chance to see the... Read More
April 24th, 2015. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Free! | SFF Reviews | 10 comments
The Return of Tarzan: Bungle in the jungle
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Perhaps the most well-known fictional creation of the 20th century, Tarzan celebrated his official centennial in October 2012. First appearing in the pulp publication All-Story Magazine as a complete novel in October 1912, Tarzan of the Apes proved so popular that its creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs, wasted little time in coming up with a sequel ... the first of an eventual two dozen! That sequel, perhaps inevitably titled The Return of Tarzan, was first seen in the pages of the short-lived pulp New Story Magazine (cover price: 15 cents); unlike its predecessor, it was published serially, in the June - December 1913 issues, and first saw book form in 1915. This is a tremendous continuation of the initial... Read More
April 29th, 2015. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | 4 comments
The Beasts of Tarzan: Raw lion steaks, anyone?
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
To celebrate the centennial of Tarzan of the Apes in October 2012 — Edgar Rice Burroughs' first Tarzan novel was released in the October 1912 issue of All-Story Magazine — I have been compulsively reading the first novels in what eventually became a series of some two dozen books. Book #2, The Return of Tarzan (1913), was a fairly direct sequel to the initial classic outing, while book #3, The Beasts of Tarzan, picks up the tale several years later. This novel originally appeared in serial form in the pages of All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914 (the popular pulp had debuted in 1905 and would end its run in 1916), with a cover price of ... 10 cents. It made its first book appearance two years lat... Read More
May 8th, 2015. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Free! | SFF Reviews | 3 comments
The Son of Tarzan: A "runaway" success
The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the conclusion of the third Tarzan novel, 1914's The Beasts of Tarzan, the Ape Man's archenemy, Nikolas Rokoff, lies dead (and 3/4 eaten!) beneath the fangs of Tarzan's panther ally, Sheeta. But Rokoff's lieutenant, the equally dastardly Alexis Paulvitch, manages to flee into the African wilderness to escape. Needing to know more, this reader wasted little time diving into book #4, The Son of Tarzan. As it had been with the first two Tarzan sequels, Son initially appeared serially in magazine form, in this case as a six-parter in the pulp periodical All-Story Weekly, from December 1915 - January 1916. It would have to wait another 14 months before being released in hardcover book form.
The novel begins a full decade after the events of book #3, as we see Paulvitch, now a wreck of his former self after... Read More
May 14th, 2015. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | 4 comments
A Princess of Mars: More than the sum of its parts
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
As most of the world already knows, A Princess of Mars is the first of 11 Burroughs novels that tell of John Carter's adventures on the planet Barsoom (Mars, to we Earthlings). This was Burroughs' very first novel, and one of the first books in the swashbuckling space-opera vein; perhaps the very first. It is a marvel of fast-moving action and imagination; indeed, practically every page offers some new marvel or piece of outrageous spectacle. Unfortunately, the book also displays some of the weaknesses of the novice author, but these weaknesses are more than counterbalanced by the pace, color and detail of the story.
Burroughs' imagination seemed to be working overtime in this first book. The descriptions of alien life-forms, dead cities, Barsoomian customs and battles are very well drawn, although those battle scenes could have lasted a little longer, for me. (Burroughs might have lear... Read More
October 7th, 2016. Sandy Ferber and Tim Scheidler´s rating: 3.5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | 3 comments
The Gods of Mars: A tremendous feat of imagination
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars, #2 of 11 in Burroughs' JOHN CARTER series, is a direct sequel to the classic A Princess of Mars, and a reading of that earlier volume is fairly essential before going into this one. The Gods of Mars was first published in serial form in All-Story Magazine in 1913, and comprises one of Burroughs' earliest works.
It is amazing how much action the author manages to cram into the book's 190 pages; on just about EVERY page there is some kind of incredible happening or colorful bit. The book really is hard to put down, and yet, at the same time, the end of just about every paragraph could serve as a cliffhanger! The pace of the plot is brisk and relentless, and really carries the reader along to another great cliffhanger at the conclusion.
In The Gods of Mars our hero, John Carter, returns to Barsoom after ... Read More
July 12th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | no comments
The Warlord of Mars: Exciting but sloppy
The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Warlord of Mars (1914) is the third of eleven JOHN CARTER novels from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is a direct continuation of the first two in the series -- A Princess of Mars and The Gods of Mars -- and a reading of those earlier titles is absolutely essential before going into this one.
Here, Carter tries to rescue his princess, Dejah Thoris, from the clutches of some particularly nasty villains. In his relentless pursuit, one that makes Indiana Jones look like a slacker, Carter travels from the south pole of Mars to the forbidden lands of the north. He encounters many varieties of monster, such as the apt and the sith, and gets into more fights and cliffhanging situations than a reader would believe could be packed into a mere 160 pages. The pace of The Warlord of Mars is furious, never pausing for breath, and the final ba... Read More
July 16th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | 1 comment
Thuvia, Maid of Mars: Veers even more to the fantastic
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the fourth of eleven JOHN CARTER novels from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. It first appeared in April 1916, as a three-part serial in the magazine "All Story Weekly." This is the first Carter novel that does not feature John Carter himself as the central character; he only makes a brief cameo appearance early on. Instead, the action mantle is taken up by Carthoris, Carter's son, but fortunately, Carter Junior turns out to be just as good a swashbuckler as the old man.
In this installment, Princess Thuvia of Ptarth has been kidnapped by the spineless Prince Astok of Dusar, which abduction almost causes a world war on Barsoom (Mars). Young Carthoris, in his quest to free his beloved princess, runs across deserted cities, a forgotten kingdom, banths (10-legged Barsoomian lions), ethereal warriors, mucho swordplay, giant white apes, and on and on. As is u... Read More
The Chessmen of Mars: Fun and lively
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Editor's note: This title can be purchased free on Kindle.
The Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs' fifth JOHN CARTER novel out of eleven, first appeared in serial form in the magazine Argosy All Story Weekly from February to April 1922. It is easily the best of the Carter lot to this point; the most detailed, the most imaginative, and the best written. Carter himself only appears at the beginning and end of the tale. Instead, our action heroes are his daughter, Tara, who gets lost in a rare Barsoomian storm while joyriding in her flier and blown halfway across the surface of the planet, and the Gatholian jed Gahan, who goes in search of her.
In the first half of this novel, Tara and Gahan wind up in the clutches of the kaldanes -- bodiless brains who live in a symbi... Read More
December 13th, 2016. Sandy Ferber and Tim Scheidler´s rating: 4 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Free! | SFF Reviews | 2 comments
The Master Mind of Mars: Extremely entertaining
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Master Mind of Mars is book 6 of 11 JOHN CARTER adventures that Edgar Rice Burroughs gave to the world. It first appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Annual in July 1927, and John Carter himself only puts in a cameo appearance near the book's end. Instead, our hero is another Earthman, Ulysses Paxton, who mysteriously gets transported to Barsoom (Mars) after being critically wounded on the battlefields of WW1. Paxton becomes an apprentice of the eponymous mastermind Ras Thavas, and from him learns all manner of surgical miracles, including brain transplantation. Paxton falls in love with a young woman, Valla Dia, whose body has been sold to an old empress, so that that empress can now live on in her new hotty body. Paxton vows to travel across Mars, kidnap the empress, and restore his beloved's body to her. He enlists the aid of some of Ras Thavas' medical subjects: a Barsoo... Read More
A Fighting Man of Mars: A great show of imagination
A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Fighting Man of Mars is book 7 of 11 JOHN CARTER novels that Edgar Rice Burroughs gave to the world. It first appeared serially in The Blue Book Magazine from April-September 1930, and, at almost 250 pages, is the longest of all the CARTER novels. As in the previous three books in the series, Carter himself only makes a few token appearances, the action mantle this time falling on a distant relation of his, Tan Hadron. As Carter did for Dejah Thoris in books 1-3, and Carthoris did for Thuvia in book 4, and Gahan did for Tara in book 5, Hadron in book 7 goes on a quest to save a woman who has initially spurned him.
This is a big book in the CARTER series, as I have said, and Burroughs throws in everything but the proverbial kitchen sink to entertain the reader. Whereas previous books generally featured two or three enemy nations and their leaders,... Read More
August 1st, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | no comments
Swords of Mars: As fun as they get
Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Swords of Mars is the 8th of 11 JOHN CARTER OF MARS books that Edgar Rice Burroughs gave to the world. It first appeared serially in the Blue Book Magazine in six parts, from November 1934 to April 1935, and is one of the best in the series. For the first time since book 3, The Warlord of Mars, Carter himself takes center stage, rather than making a brief cameo appearance, and his return as the lead character is perhaps the best single element of this book.
This time around, Carter goes to the Barsoomian city of Zodanga to put an end to the assassins guild that is thriving there. In the first half of the novel, Carter goes undercover to infiltrate this Murder Inc.-type of organization, and this segment is extremely tense and exciting. In the second half, Carter's wife, Dejah Thoris, in what to any reader of this series must come as an instance of Dejah vu (sorry.... Read More
August 5th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | no comments
Synthetic Men of Mars: Wonderful entertainment
Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Synthetic Men of Mars is the 9th of 11 books in Edgar Rice Burroughs' JOHN CARTER OF MARS series. It first appeared serially in Argosy Magazine in early 1939, and is one of the most way-out entries in the series. The book may be seen as a sequel of sorts to book #6, The Master Mind of Mars, in that Ras Thavas, the eponymous superbrain of that earlier work, here makes a return, and the bulk of the action once again takes place in the dismal and forbidding Toonolian Marshes of Barsoom (Mars, to you and me).
In Synthetic Men of Mars, Carter and one of his lieutenants, Vor Daj, go in search of Ras Thavas, to enlist his aid when Carter's wife is critically injured in a midair collision. Thavas is engaged in creating an army of synthetic men (the so-called hormads), who have taken over an island in the Toonolian Marshes, made an unwilling slave of ... Read More
August 13th, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | no comments
Llana of Gathol: A veritable packet of wonders
Llana of Gathol by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Llana of Gathol is the 10th of 11 JOHN CARTER OF MARS books that Edgar Rice Burroughs left to the world. This book is comprised of four linked short tales that first appeared in Amazing Stories Magazine from March to October 1941. Each of these stories is around 50 pages in length and is made up of 13 very short chapters.
In the first tale, "The Ancient Dead," John Carter goes for a spin in his flier to get away from it all, and winds up in the ancient Barsoomian city of Horz. This long-dead city, however, turns out to be anything but. In "The Black Pirates of Barsoom," Carter discovers an enclave of the First Born (last seen in book 2, The Gods of Mars) and is forced to fight in their gladiator-style games. In "Escape on Mars," Carter goes to the aid of the besieged city of Gathol, and winds up stealing a battleship and putting together an untrustworthy crew of... Read More
John Carter of Mars: The final volume
John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter of Mars is the 11th and final volume in Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic JOHN CARTER series, and is comprised of two novellas of varying quality. The first, John Carter and the Giant of Mars, first appeared in Amazing Stories Magazine in January 1941; the second, Skeleton Men of Jupiter, first appeared in that same publication in February 1943. (For full details on the complicated publishing histories of these tales, I refer all interested parties to the ERB List, one of the best Burroughs Websites on the Net.)
As most people seem to know by now, the first of these tales was NOT written by ERB himself, but rather by his son, John Coleman Burroughs, who illustrated 13 of his father's books and drew the John Carter comic strip from 1941-1943. In this tale, Carter is captured by Pew ... Read More
August 22nd, 2013. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | no comments
The Land that Time Forgot: Fun pulpy adventure
The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
You gotta love Edgar Rice Burroughs. He underperformed in life until, as a pencil sharpener salesman who spent his free time reading pulp magazines, he figured he could be paid to write "rot" at least as good as the "rot" he read in the pulps. And thus started the illustrious career of the man who brought us Tarzan, John Carter, and David Innes... And who inspired a generation of fantasy and science fiction writers.
The Land that Time Forgot, a lost world story set during World War I, is the first in Burroughs' CASPAK trilogy. It was originally serialized in Blue Book Magazine in the fall of 1918 and then published as a novel in 1924.
Bowen Tyler is on a boat that's torpedoed and sunk by the Germans. He saves a beautiful drowning young woman who he immediately falls in love with (that's always how it ... Read More
August 9th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment
The People that Time Forgot: Adventure and romance
The People that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People that Time Forgot (1918) is the second novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' CASPAK trilogy. In the first installment, The Land that Time Forgot, Bowen Tyler gets stranded on Caspak, a lost world where prehistoric animals and subhuman people exist. The story picks up in The People that Time Forgot as Bowen's friend Tom Billings decides to go looking for him. When Tom lands on Caspak, he doesn't have much time to search for his friend because it takes all his effort just to survive.
The People that Time Forgot offers all of the pulpy masculine adventure found in The Land that Time Forgot. There's a constant stream of bears, dinosaurs, sabertooth tigers, barbarian warriors, and other creatures to fight, so Tom gets to prove his manliness as he moves from one exploit to the next.
And there's... Read More
December 20th, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment
Out of Time's Abyss: Formula has become stale
Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs
In Out of Time's Abyss, the last volume of Edgar Rice Burrough's CASPAK trilogy, we learn what happened to Bradley, one of the adventurers we met in the first novel, The Land that Time Forgot. As we expected, Bradley has frightening adventures on Caspak, is nearly killed by lions, bears, tigers, dinosaurs, etc, and he saves and falls in love with a beautiful young damsel in distress.
In this installment, we meet the Wieroo, the most highly evolved species on Caspak. Their form and society isn't at all what the American and European adventurers would have expected. We also learn the rest of the mystery of the strange evolution that has happened on Caspak. Since this is Earth instead of a fantasy world, it's all too far-fetched to believe, but that's okay because we weren't really expecting or demanding more from a lost world story.
The p... Read More
December 21st, 2012. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2.5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | SFF Reviews | 2 comments
Beyond Thirty: A must-read for all ERB completists
Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
By 1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs was already a popular and regular contributor to the pulp periodicals of the day. Though a late starter — his first work, the John Carter story "Under the Moons of Mars," was serialized in All-Story Magazine in 1912, when Burroughs was 36 — his output increased rapidly, to the point that by 1916, he had already seen the first three Carter works, the first two Tarzan titles, the first Pellucidar entry (At the Earth's Core), plus such various works as The Eternal Savage, The Monster Men and The Cave Girl, all printed in that same magazine. But despite his reputation at All-Story, he still managed to get his manuscript for ... Read More
April 1st, 2015. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments
The Monster Men: Edgar Rice Burroughs melds Dr. Moreau with Frankenstein
The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs are both legion and loyal, as evidenced by the long lasting popularity of his characters. Tarzan of course is his most famous character, and John Carter of Mars (and Virginia) was the main character of a recent poorly marketed (but I thought still well done) Disney film. But Burroughs was an extremely prolific author who wrote a lot more than just Tarzan and Martian stories. One of his earliest efforts was this adventure story set in the south Pacific near Borneo. In many ways it can be considered Burroughs' take on both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and H.G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau. Originally published as "A Man Without a Soul" in 1913 in the Pulp publication All-Story Magazine, The Monster Men was later published under the present title as a hardcover book in ... Read More
October 23rd, 2012. Steven Harbin (GUEST)´s rating: 3 | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments
More fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pellucidar — (1922-1944) At the Earth's Core with illustrations. At the Earth's Core is a 1914 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a four-part serial in All-Story Weekly from April 4–25, 1914. It was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in July, 1922.


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