The Dominican Week in the United Kingdom is the main networking and relationship building activity organized by the Dominican Embassy at the United Kingdom, in collaboration with the British Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic and the British Embassy in the Dominican Republic, which every year contributes to the business connection between both nations, and promotes the good positioning of the Dominican image on British soil, one of the most important commercial partners in Europe. This important event pretends to combine business and cultural activities, with the purpose of promoting the Dominican Republic as a strategic business, investment and commercial partner for the United Kingdom.
During the Dominican Week in the United Kingdom a delegation composed by representatives of the Dominican government and professional and syndicated organizations, known businessmen, executives, liberal professionals, academics, among others, travel to London to participate in meetings and gatherings with British governmental authorities and investors, with the purpose of enhancing business, commercial and financial relationships between the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.


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Laurel is an experienced Sports Physiotherapist who has been a member of the SportsMed Murdoch team since 2000.
A graduate of The University of Sydney (Physiotherapy, 1992) and Curtin University (Master of Sports Physiotherapy, 1999) Laurel has worked in a variety of areas of Physiotherapy including In-Patient Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Palliative Care, Clinical Pilates, Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, and Sports Teams.
At SportsMed Murdoch Laurel consults full-time in the clinic where she provides evidence-based practice in the assessment and management of musculoskeletal, spinal, and sporting injuries. Laurel advocates the use of Clinical Pilates in the treatment of musculoskeletal and postural conditions, as well as the maintenance of optimal physical condition following injury or illness.
Laurel has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of adolescent conditions such as Benign Joint Hypermobility Syndrome, as well as the management of sporting injuries in the Child and Young Adult. She works with fellow health professionals to provide comprehensive rehabilitation and safe return to the sporting arena.
Laurel is a former captain of the Australian Women's Volleyball Team. She is currently the head coach for of Ataque Volley Academy, ECU Chequers Volleyball Club, and Western Australia's U19 Women's Team. Laurel was a volunteer Physiotherapist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games and has been the team Physiotherapist for the Australian Women's Volleyball Team.
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You might also be interested in the FAQ: How should I ask her father for permission?


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Logo Making Made Simple: Beginner's Guide
Sunday, December 23, 2018 8:59 AM UTC
A logo is the face of your business. It is the visual manifestation of your brand and therefore it reflects your brand's personality, image, and overall message. The logo is a vital piece for your business, whether you use it on your website, billboards or business cards. The core idea is to make it stand out and be memorable to your audience. Logo allows giant corporations to retain their reputation, but it also allows small businesses to thrive in these waters.
Every business should have a logo, but what exactly does it take to create one?
There are many ways to design a logo for your business and it's entirely possible to do it yourself, even as a complete beginner. Some of them are:
Paying for logo design by a big agency - $5000+
Using paid service platforms such as UpWork or Fiverr - $10 to $1000
Doing it yourself, from scratch or with a help of online tools such as Renderforest's logo maker - $0 to $19
While there are many ways to get a logo for your business, we realize that a lot of small business can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for a professional designer — and that's totally fine! It is entirely possible to create an amazing logo all on your own, and this article will help you achieve precisely that.
Importance of a Great Logo For Your Business
Think about the most iconic logos of our age, such as Nike, McDonald's or Apple.
What do you think makes them so special?
All of these logos are simple when you look at them, and yet they wield so much power. These logos are the faces of multi-billion dollar companies, all from different industries. You need only venture to your nearest street corner and ask about any of these logos, chances are that everyone will recognize these logos in their first attempt. That's how important they are for these businesses, and the same goes for yours.
Did you know that Nike paid only $35 for their Swoosh logo?
The point we're getting to here is that great logos don't necessarily require a lot of money. They could be created for as little as $35 in the case of Nike, and even less than that. What matters is not the budget, but your knowledge of the brand that you're designing your logo for, as well as being aware of all the design principles that go into the process of creative logo creation.
Logo Design Principles to Keep in Mind
Behind every great logo, you can find the underlying principles that guide it. They aren't the rule, but they can help you create a great logo with little effort. Before we get to that and before you start the process of making your new logo, you should first answer some of these questions:
What does my brand represent?
What should my logo symbolize?
Who is exactly my target audience?
What makes my business better than the competition?
Which emotions would best describe my business?
With all these questions answered, you are one giant step closer to creating your perfect logo. The answers will help you a lot because you will know which direction to take when creating your logo. All it takes now is to follow the basic principles of logo design, and your job is almost done. These logo design principles are:
The number one principle for logo design has to be simplicity. Your logo should always strive to be visually simple, with a particular brand depth behind it. Visual simplicity is a key principle when it comes to marketing overall, and logos follow the same logic as they are the face of it all. Designers constantly overdo their work, and yet — the most popular logos in the world strike you with their simplicity.
Think back to the logos we've already discussed. McDonald's logo is a simple letter M written in a specific way, but it does its job perfectly. And we can say the same about Nike & Apple logos as well, they are simple and they work.
Keep your logo design simple and don't overcomplicate it unless it goes along with your brand image.
Personality is essential when it comes to logo design. The ideal logo would be something that fully encapsulates your brand's personality. You don't want to create a great logo that lacks the right personality. A good example of this would be a playful, colorful, cartoonish logo for a serious law firm — that just won't work for the obvious reasons.
Depending on what industry you are in, and the overall goal for your brand image, you want to create a logo that fully represents that. For example, if you're selling food (restaurant, store etc.), you want to create a logo that shows off the personality of fun time with your friends & family. McDonald's logo and its color/typography represent precisely that.
Your logo should be as unique as it can be. Although it helps if your logo has a personality, it won't mean anything if all the other logos in your industry are just the same. Ideally, you want to follow all these principles, but still have the unique touch that makes you stand out from the crowd. Unique logos always have a great impact on the audience.
Flexibility is a principle that relates to representing your logo correctly, regardless of the medium. Your logo needs to be presentable in both color and black & white setting, on a PC website or smartphone, business card or a billboard. It is possible to slightly edit the logo for different mediums, but you should always strive to have a logo that's flexible to be used anywhere.
For best flexibility, try to keep your logos as simple as possible. Overly complex logos don't fit well on smaller formats and they can be quite a pain to edit later on. Keep your logo as flexible as possible.
Recognizability
The ideal logo should be easy to recognize, even from a distance. At this step, you need to get inside the minds of your audience and figure out what exactly will make their eyes open up. You want to design a universal logo that's going to stand out and capture attention, and a logo like that is always easily recognizable.
Timelessness
Finally, your logo should stand the test of time, it should be timeless. It should be as relevant in 50 years as it is now, especially if you plan to play the long game. Make sure your logo represents a timeless symbol, something that will still be memorable for the newer generations.
Ready to Design Your Logo?
By know, you should have a firm grasp of what logo design should look like. There's still a lot to learn, but there's no reason not to try your skills right now. Check out the online logo maker tool by Renderforest and see for yourself how easy it is to create a great logo. With some help, you will be able to craft a powerful logo to represent your brand. It's also free to try, so why not give it a shot?
This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or management of EconoTimes.

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OSHA Evaluates State OSH Programs, Seeks Changes
Federal OSHA officials recently announced they found numerous deficiencies in state-run occupational safety and health programs during a special evaluation of programs under the agency's jurisdiction. Evaluations of 25 state programs are now available online.
"While we found many positives in the state programs, we also found deficiencies including concerns about identification of hazards, proper classification of violations, proposed penalty levels, and failure to follow up on violations to ensure that workplace safety and health problems are corrected," said OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels.
Reports on each state are now available on OSHA's Web site. The Enhanced Federal Annual Monitoring and Evaluation reports provide detailed findings and recommendations on the operations of state-run OSHA programs in 25 states and territories. States will have 30 days to provide a formal response, including a detailed corrective action plan for addressing findings and recommendations. Each state's formal response will be public information and available online as soon as it is received.
The review was initiated after a 2009 special OSHA report on Nevada's program (prompted by numerous construction-related fatalities in Las Vegas) identified serious operational deficiencies in that state.
Review OSHA state evaluation reports here.
Read more of the OSHA announcement here.
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People wait in line to enter the U.S. Supreme Court building January 11, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
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Supreme Court strikes down North Carolina gerrymandering
North Carolina Republican leaders may be radicalized to an alarming degree, but they're also competent enough to achieve their goals. It's not easy, for example, to take a state where voters are roughly divided evenly between the parties, and then draw the congressional district lines so that Republicans hold 10 of the state's 13 seats, turning roughly 50% of the vote into 77% of the power.
That is, however, precisely what GOP officials in North Carolina did in one of the most ridiculous contemporary examples of gerrymandering in the country. It's also a map that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down yesterday as illegal.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday threw out North Carolina's maps for two of the state's 13 congressional districts, a ruling that former attorney general Eric Holder called "a watershed moment in the fight to end racial gerrymandering."
In drawing the boundary lines for both districts, race was the predominant factor and the state failed to offer a compelling justification, the court said.
The full ruling in Cooper v. Harris is online here. Note that the majority included the court's four center-left jurists – Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, and Breyer – who were unexpectedly joined in this decision by, of all people, Clarence Thomas. (It was a 5-3 ruling, since Gorsuch did not participate. The case was heard before his confirmation.)
The key takeaway of a ruling like this is about establishing some boundaries. When state lawmakers draw district lines following a decennial census, they're legally permitted to consider race as a factor, but as Vox's report explained, "to use race as a predominant factor, the state has to have a compelling interest. For example, a state can say that it needs to, under the federal Voting Rights Act, consider race to ensure that a minority voting bloc isn't consistently negated by a larger set of white voters who vote against the minority voting bloc's preferred candidate."
That's not what North Carolina Republicans did. In fact, they did largely the opposite, working with remarkable precision to isolate minority communities, not to advance a compelling state interest, but to maximize partisan GOP power by deliberately diminishing the voting power of people of color.
The Supreme Court said yesterday that this is a step states cannot take.
There's some debate in legal circles about the scope of yesterday's ruling and how much it can be used by voting-rights advocates, but the broader pattern of recent rulings gives them some cause for optimism. The Nation's Ari Berman noted yesterday, "[T]hese GOP efforts are increasingly running afoul of the courts, who've now struck down GOP-drawn redistricting maps in Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia – all states that previously had to approve their voting changes with the federal government under the Voting Rights Act."
For more, election-law expert Rick Hasen's perspective is always worthwhile, and he wrote a detailed analysis on his blog yesterday, and a Washington Post op-ed today.
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Le elezioni presidenziali negli Stati Uniti d'America del 2020 si sono tenute il 3 novembre e sono state le 59e elezioni presidenziali della storia degli Stati Uniti.

In virtù del funzionamento del sistema elettorale statunitense, gli elettori sono stati chiamati a eleggere i cosiddetti grandi elettori che il 14 dicembre 2020 si sono riuniti nel collegio elettorale per eleggere il nuovo presidente e il suo vice presidente. Prima delle effettive elezioni presidenziali si è svolta una serie di elezioni primarie e di caucus, aventi lo scopo di individuare il candidato di ogni partito alle elezioni. Questa fase preliminare si è tenuta durante la prima metà del 2020. Anche questa procedura di nomina è un'elezione indiretta, in cui gli iscritti di ogni partito nominano dei delegati, che poi sono chiamati a eleggere il candidato del proprio partito in una convention che ufficializza la nomina del candidato alla presidenza e di quello alla vice presidenza (il ticket).

Il presidente uscente Donald Trump ha annunciato di volersi candidare ad un secondo mandato per il Partito Repubblicano. A seguito di questa candidatura, i dirigenti di questo partito di numerosi Stati hanno annunciato di non tenere le primarie e i caucus, in dimostrazione di sostegno della candidatura di Trump. Per il Partito Democratico inizialmente sono pervenute 27 candidature, il numero più alto mai avuto per un processo di nomina del candidato presidenziale nella storia delle elezioni presidenziali statunitensi moderne. Al termine della procedura di elezioni primarie, la convention, il partito ha proclamato Joe Biden candidato ufficiale alla Casa Bianca. Biden ha poi indicato come compagna di ticket la senatrice californiana Kamala Harris.

Queste elezioni hanno registrato la più alta affluenza ai seggi della storia degli Stati Uniti dal 1900 ed entrambi i candidati hanno battuto il record di preferenze totali ottenuto precedentemente da Barack Obama alle elezioni presidenziali del 2008.

Il vincitore delle elezioni è risultato essere Joe Biden, il quale ha interrotto dopo 28 anni la serie di vittorie da parte dei presidenti uscenti ricandidati dai rispettivi partiti. Biden è divenuto presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America dopo essere stato eletto dal collegio elettorale il 14 dicembre 2020 e ha iniziato ufficialmente il suo mandato il 20 gennaio 2021.

Sin dalle ore immediatamente successive allo spoglio, il Presidente uscente Donald Trump si è rifiutato di riconoscere l'esito delle votazioni e la vittoria dello sfidante, sostenendo la presenza di brogli e annunciando ricorsi legali. Il 23 novembre 2020 l'amministrazione Trump ha consentito l'avvio della transizione.

Contesto

Procedura

L'articolo 2 della Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America prevede che una persona che si voglia candidare alla presidenza sia cittadino statunitense dalla nascita, abbia almeno 35 anni di età e risieda su suolo statunitense da almeno 14 anni. Solitamente il candidato cerca di ottenere la nomina da uno dei partiti politici attraverso il procedimento delle elezioni primarie in cui i singoli partiti giungono alla nomina del proprio candidato. Nella maggior parte dei casi, le elezioni primarie sono delle elezioni indirette: gli iscritti di ogni partito eleggono una serie di "delegati" che si recheranno successivamente alla convention del proprio partito dove eleggeranno ufficialmente il proprio candidato alla presidenza e alla vice presidenza (il ticket), anche se quest'ultimo è spesso scelto direttamente dal candidato alla presidenza. Anche le elezioni presidenziali di novembre sono delle elezioni indirette: gli elettori nominano dei delegati (i grandi elettori), che successivamente si riuniranno nel Collegio elettorale ed eleggeranno direttamente il presidente e il vice presidente.

Il 25 agosto 2018 il Comitato nazionale democratico (DNC) ha fortemente limitato l'influenza dei cosiddetti "superdelegati", ovvero di quei delegati nominati automaticamente alla convention del Partito Democratico e quindi liberi di scegliere il loro candidato preferito, a differenza dei pledged delegates, quei delegati che sono stati nominati durante il processo delle primarie e che "promettono" di votare alla convention per un certo candidato. Da questa tornata elettorale in poi, i superdelegati, che sono circa un 15% circa del totale dei delegati alla convention, sono esclusi dalla prima votazione.

Per quanto riguarda il Partito Repubblicano, alcune sezioni statali del partito hanno cancellato la loro procedura delle primarie appoggiando direttamente la ricandidatura di Donald Trump, mentre altre sezioni hanno considerato di farlo. Come precedente di questa scelta, si citano i casi della cancellazione delle primarie repubblicane durante le rielezioni di George H. W. Bush e di suo figlio George W. Bush, rispettivamente nel 1992 e nel 2004. Anche il Partito Democratico in precedenza aveva cancellato le sue elezioni primarie nel 1996 per non ostacolare la ricandidatura di Bill Clinton e nel 2012 per non intralciare la nomina di Barack Obama.

Il 26 agosto 2019 lo stato del Maine ha approvato una norma che consente, sia per le elezioni primarie sia per quelle generali, il sistema del voto alternativo: esso prevede che l'elettore, nel caso in cui vi siano più di due candidati, abbia la possibilità di indicare un ordine di preferenza fra i candidati. La mancata firma del governatore del Maine Janet Mills non ha però consentito che la norma fosse applicata materialmente già dalle primarie democratiche del 2020, che hanno preso inizio a marzo 2020; tuttavia la norma è valida e quindi il Maine è divenuto il primo stato ad applicare il sistema del voto alternativo per le elezioni presidenziali. L'applicazione di questo sistema, che il Maine e il Nebraska utilizzano da diversi anni per le elezioni dei loro rappresentanti al Congresso, è però potenzialmente foriera di complicazioni nelle operazioni di scrutinio e nell'interpretazione del voto popolare.

Il 22º emendamento alla Costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America non consente a chi abbia già ricoperto due mandati presidenziali di candidarsi nuovamente alla presidenza. Quindi questa norma vieta agli ex presidenti Bill Clinton, George W. Bush e Barack Obama di ricandidarsi. Tra gli ex presidenti ancora in vita l'unico che può candidarsi è quindi Jimmy Carter, essendo stato presidente per un solo mandato. Tuttavia, Carter dichiarò nettamente di non volersi candidare, soprattutto per ovvi motivi di età e di salute.

Tendenze demografiche
Da molto tempo le strategie dei partiti politici statunitensi seguono con costanza i trend demografici degli elettori. Per le elezioni presidenziali del 2020, il gruppo degli elettori di età compresa tra i 18 e i 45 anni, il cuore dell'elettorato statunitense, è stimato di poco al di sotto del 40% dell'elettorato complessivo, mentre il 30% degli elettori è di etnia non bianca. Un rapporto condotto da entrambi i partiti prevede che gli elettori afroamericani, ispanici, asiatici e di altre etnie minori, come anche gli elettori "bianchi con un diploma al college" siano in aumento rispetto alle elezioni del 2016. Questo dato in linea teorica sarebbe favorevole al Partito Democratico anche se, a causa delle differenze di collocazione geografica di queste tendenze, ciò potrebbe non limitare fortemente le possibilità di Donald Trump di vincere le elezioni nel Collegio elettorale, anche ottenendo un numero di voti popolari ancora inferiore rispetto al 2016.

Elezioni concomitanti
Le elezioni presidenziali del 2020 si sono tenute in contemporanea con le elezioni di un terzo dei componenti del Senato e di tutti i componenti della Camera dei Rappresentanti. Diversi Stati hanno avuto le proprie elezioni per nominare il loro rispettivo governatore e i rappresentanti delle loro Camere. Dopo le elezioni, la Camera dei Rappresentanti è chiamata a procedere a una riorganizzazione dei distretti elettorali sulla base dei risultati del nuovo censimento nazionale; a cascata un procedimento simile di riorganizzazione dei distretti elettorali è previsto anche a livello statale. Ciò a dimostrazione dell'importanza di queste elezioni presidenziali e delle contemporanee elezioni per la Camera dei Rappresentanti, per il Senato e di quelle statali. Infatti i vincitori di queste elezioni possono procedere alla modifica dei distretti elettorali, che a seguire non si potranno modificare fino al 2032. Inoltre, a causa del noto coattail effect, la vittoria del proprio candidato alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti può favorire la vittoria dei singoli candidati al Congresso e a livello statale, determinando un assetto politico stabile almeno per un quadriennio.

Candidati

Partito Democratico

Il candidato del Partito Democratico è stato Joe Biden, già Senatore per lo stato del Delaware (1973-2009) ed ex-vicepresidente degli Stati Uniti (2009-2017) avendo raggiunto la quota di 1.991 delegati il 6 giugno 2020.

Come accennato, nell'agosto 2018 il Comitato Nazionale Democratico ha votato per impedire ai superdelegati di votare al primo scrutinio del processo di nomina a partire dalle elezioni del 2020: ciò ha richiesto che un candidato vincesse la maggioranza dei delegati promessi dalle elezioni primarie assortite per vincere la nomina del partito. L'ultima volta in cui questo non si verificò fu per la nomina di Adlai Stevenson II alla Convenzione Nazionale Democratica del 1952. Nel frattempo sei stati hanno scelto di utilizzare il Voto alternativo nelle primarie: Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas e Wyoming per tutti gli elettori, Iowa e Nevada per il voto a distanza.

Dopo la sconfitta di Hillary Clinton nelle precedenti elezioni, il Partito Democratico è stato in gran parte considerato privo di un chiaro leader e si è diviso tra l'ala centrista, affine alla Clinton, e l'ala più progressista del partito, legata all'indipendente Sanders, perpetuando una situazione già verificatasi nelle elezioni primarie del 2016. Nel 2018 diversi distretti della Camera degli Stati Uniti che i democratici speravano di ottenere dalla maggioranza repubblicana hanno avuto elezioni primarie controverse, situazione che Elena Schneider di Politico ha descritto come una "guerra civile democratica". Nel frattempo c'è stato uno spostamento generale a sinistra della rappresentanza democratica al Senato per quanto riguarda le posizioni sulle tasse scolastiche, l'assistenza sanitaria e l'immigrazione.

Complessivamente, il campo delle primarie democratiche del 2020 aveva 29 candidati principali, battendo il record per il campo più grande nell'ambito del moderno sistema delle primarie presidenziali precedentemente stabilito durante le primarie del Partito Repubblicano del 2016 con 17 candidati principali. Diverse donne si candidarono, aumentando le probabilità che i Democratici nominassero una donna per la seconda volta di seguito.

Arrivati ai caucus dell'Iowa il 3 febbraio 2020, il campo era sceso a 11 candidati principali. Pete Buttigieg ha sconfitto di poco Bernie Sanders in Iowa, poi Sanders ha battuto Buttigieg nelle primarie dell'11 febbraio nel New Hampshire. Dopo l'abbandono di Michael Bennet, Deval Patrick e Andrew Yang, Sanders ha vinto i caucus del Nevada il 22 febbraio. Joe Biden ha poi vinto le primarie della Carolina del Sud, costringendo Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar e Tom Steyer ad abbandonare le loro campagne; Buttigieg e Klobuchar hanno poi immediatamente sostenuto la candidatura di Biden. Dopo il Super Tuesday, 3 marzo, Michael Bloomberg ed Elizabeth Warren hanno abbandonato la gara, lasciando tre candidati rimasti: Biden e Sanders, i principali contendenti, e Tulsi Gabbard, che rimase in gara nonostante le scarse probabilità di vittoria. Gabbard poi abbandonò e sostenne Biden dopo la corsa del 17 marzo, Arizona, Florida e Illinois. L'8 aprile 2020, Sanders si ritira dalla corsa, secondo quanto riferito dopo essere stato convinto dall'ex presidente Barack Obama, lasciando Biden come l'unico grande candidato rimasto per la corsa alla Casa Bianca. Biden ha poi ottenuto l'approvazione di Obama, Sanders e Warren. Il 5 giugno 2020 Biden aveva ufficialmente guadagnato abbastanza delegati per garantire la sua nomina alla Convention Democratica, e ha continuato a lavorare con Sanders per sviluppare una task force politica comune.

L'11 agosto 2020 Biden, ufficialmente candidato come presidente, annunciò di aver scelto come candidata alla vicepresidenza Kamala Harris, già senatrice democratica e Procuratrice Generale per la California. Harris, una volta eletta, è diventata la prima persona di colore a essere vicepresidente, prima vicepresente donna, primo vicepresidente afroamericano e primo asiatico-americano degli Stati Uniti. È inoltre la terza donna a candidarsi alla carica di vicepresidente, dopo Geraldine Ferraro nel 1984 e Sarah Palin nel 2008, nonché la prima persona in rappresentanza degli Stati Uniti occidentali a comparire nel ticket presidenziale del Partito Democratico.

Partito Repubblicano

Donald Trump ha formalmente ufficializzato di volersi ricandidare come presidente e di voler candidare nuovamente come vicepresidente Mike Pence, già vicepresidente durante la prima amministrazione Trump. La campagna elettorale per la sua rielezione ha già preso avvio dalla sua precedente vittoria del 2016, spingendo alcuni commentatori a sostenere che la tattica elettorale di Trump, con quest'ultimo continuamente impegnato in manifestazioni politiche, si potesse descrivere come una "campagna elettorale senza fine". Il 20 gennaio 2017 Trump ha ufficialmente presentato la documentazione necessaria per la sua candidatura secondo le norme del Federal Election Campaign Act.

Tuttavia, a partire dal successivo agosto 2017, numerosi articoli di stampa hanno sostenuto l'esistenza di una fronda interna al Partito Repubblicano per ostacolare la ricandidatura di Trump, soprattutto da parte dellestablishment più moderato del partito. L'allora senatore dell'Arizona John McCain dichiarò che i repubblicani vedono nel suo presidente delle debolezze". Susan Collins (senatrice del Maine), Rand Paul (senatore del Kentucky) e Chris Christie (ex governatore del New Jersey) hanno tutti espresso dubbi sul fatto che effettivamente Trump possa ottenere la nomination del Partito Repubblicano. Altri commenti negativi alla sua ricandidatura sono provenuti dal senatore Jeff Flake e dall'esperto di strategia politica Roger Stone. Tuttavia il 25 gennaio 2019 il Comitato nazionale repubblicano (RNC) ha espresso il suo appoggio alla ricandidatura di Trump, anche se in forma non ufficiale.

Il primo politico repubblicano a presentare ufficialmente la sua candidatura sfidando quella di Trump è stato l'ex governatore del Massachusetts Bill Weld, annunciandolo il 15 aprile 2019. Bill Weld, che alle elezioni presidenziali del 2016 era il candidato alla vice presidenza per il Partito Libertario, è considerato uno sfidante debole per via delle sue posizioni piuttosto libertarie su diversi temi, come il diritto all'aborto, sui matrimoni gay e sulla legalizzazione dell'uso di marijuana. Successivamente è stato Joe Walsh, ex deputato alla Camera dei Rappresentanti e proveniente dall'Illinois, a presentare ufficialmente la sua candidatura il 25 agosto 2019, dichiarando: "Farò tutto quello che posso. Non voglio che Trump vinca. Il paese non può permettersi che lui vinca. Se non dovessi riuscirci, non lo voterò". L'8 settembre 2019 anche l'ex governatore e deputato della South Carolina Mark Sanford ha presentato la sua candidatura ufficiale, salvo poi ritirarla il 12 novembre successivo.

Il 31 ottobre 2019 la Camera dei Rappresentanti ha votato per approvare le procedure che regoleranno le udienze pubbliche nell'ambito di un possibile impeachment nei confronti del presidente Trump in seguito allo scoppio del caso "Trump-Ucraina". Le udienze hanno preso nella metà novembre 2019, il processo è iniziato al Senato il 16 gennaio 2020 e si è concluso con la sua assoluzione il 5 febbraio.

Partito Libertario

La candidata del Partito Libertario (o Libertariano) è Jo Jorgensen, docente di psicologia all'Università di Clemson e già candidata a vice-presidente libertaria nel 1996. Jorgensen è l'unica candidata presidenziale donna nel 2020 con accesso ad almeno 270 voti dei grandi elettori e ha ricevuto il sostegno del candidato presidente libertario per le elezioni del 2012 e del 2016, Gary Johnson, e del primo membro libertario del Congresso Justin Amash.

Jorgensen è stata scelta il 23 maggio 2020 come candidata del partito, dopo 4 votazioni, sebbene il candidato Jacob Hornberger avesse vinto più primarie e ricevuto più voti. Nella seguente tabella dei candidati sono presenti solo i candidati che hanno superato le nomine.

Partito Verde

Il candidato del Partito Verde con il maggior vantaggio alle primarie del partito è il co-fondatore del partito, candidato anche per il Partito Socialista degli USA e tre volte candidato governatore di New York Howie Hawkins, sostenuto anche dai candidati presidente del Partito Verde del 2012 e del 2016.

Nella seguente tabella sono indicati solo i candidati la cui campagna è stata ufficialmente riconosciuta dal Partito Verde e/o rientra nei suoi criteri.

Partiti minori e indipendenti

Risultati

Risultati per stato

Mappe

Controversie

La campagna elettorale del presidente uscente è stata apertamente critica verso il voto postale, storicamente favorevole ai candidati del Partito Democratico. Data la pandemia di COVID-19 in pieno corso durante le elezioni e l'elevata presenza di scettici tra i sostenitori del presidente, era infatti prevedibile che il voto postale fosse largamente a vantaggio dello sfidante. Inoltre le stesse dichiarazioni del presidente durante la campagna elettorale avrebbero contribuito a disincentivare l'utilizzo del voto postale da parte degli elettori repubblicani.
Nella giornata del 3 settembre 2020 Trump, durante un comizio in Carolina del Nord, ha invitato i suoi elettori a "sfidare il sistema elettorale e votare due volte: una di persona e un'altra via posta" per testare se i controlli sul voto fossero realmente funzionanti, cosa che se fatta consapevolmente risulterebbe illegale.

Sin dalle ore immediatamente successive allo spoglio, il Presidente uscente Donald Trump si è rifiutato di riconoscere l'esito delle votazioni e la vittoria dello sfidante, paventando brogli e annunciando ricorsi legali. La scelta di Trump di non ammettere la sconfitta tramite un discorso pubblico risulta un unicum dal 1896 (sebbene il concession speech non sia formalmente richiesto a norma di legge) ed ha costituito un rilevante caso mediatico, come anche le dichiarazioni successive da parte di Trump e del suo staff, in particolare quelle del segretario di stato Mike Pompeo secondo cui la transizione dei poteri sarebbe avvenuta verso una seconda amministrazione Trump. Tali azioni hanno suscitato notevoli critiche al presidente uscente da parte di gran parte dei mezzi d'informazione nazionali ed internazionali ed anche da parte di numerosi esponenti di spicco dello stesso Partito Repubblicano tra cui l'ex presidente George W. Bush ed il candidato repubblicano alle presidenziali del 2012 Mitt Romney, i quali si sarebbero entrambi congratulati con Joe Biden per l'elezione prima del presidente uscente.

Trump avrebbe insistito vigorosamente sulle sue posizioni, diffondendo prevalentemente tramite i social accuse riguardanti presunti malfunzionamenti dei sistemi informatici per la trasmissione dei conteggi dai seggi ed avrebbe sostenuto che siano avvenute delle irregolarità quali voti effettuati da persone decedute, mancanza di corrispondenza tra i numeri delle schede elettorali e dei votanti registrati o situazioni in cui l'accesso ai seggi sarebbe stato impedito agli osservatori repubblicani durante la fase di spoglio elettorale. Diversi osservatori internazionali tra cui i funzionari dell'OSCE hanno sostenuto la mancanza di prove concrete
riguardo alla veridicità di tali affermazioni ed hanno accusato Trump di cercare di portare a termine un palese abuso di potere. Il social network Twitter avrebbe inizialmente oscurato diversi tweet del presidente in quanto contenenti fake news ed in seguito posto su di essi il contrassegno "questa affermazione sulla frode elettorale è contestata", salvo poi chiudere permanentemente l'account del presidente uscente l'8 gennaio 2021. Trump avrebbe inoltre licenziato il segretario alla difesa Mark Esper ed il direttore dell'Agenzia per la sicurezza informatica e delle infrastrutture (Cisa) Christopher C. Krebs il quale aveva definito le elezioni del 2020 "le più sicure della storia Usa". Egli avrebbe inoltre impedito allo sfidante l'accesso ai fondi federali per la transizione dell'amministrazione oltre che alle informazioni di intelligence correlate.

Il team legale di Trump avrebbe inoltre provato a trarre vantaggio dalla legislazione dello stato del Michigan in base alla quale in caso di risultati contestati la scelta dei delegati spetterebbe, indipendentemente dal voto popolare, alla legislatura dello stato (la quale era a maggioranza repubblicana). I due membri repubblicani del consiglio elettorale del Michigan sarebbero stati quindi convocati alla Casa Bianca ma avrebbero tuttavia espresso parere negativo riguardo all'opzione del rovesciamento del voto popolare. Il 23 novembre il consiglio elettorale del Michigan avrebbe certificato i risultati delle elezioni con 3 voti favorevoli (2 democratici e un repubblicano) ed un astenuto.

In seguito al fallimento di oltre 30 diversi ricorsi in sede legale ed alla certificazione dei risultati delle elezioni in Georgia ed in Michigan, il 23 novembre il presidente uscente ha comunicato tramite Twitter di aver messo a disposizione la sua squadra per gestire il periodo prima dell'insediamento dello sfidante. Nel contempo Emily Murphy, la donna a capo del General Administration Services (GSA) che aveva tenuto in stand-by lo sblocco dei fondi federali e l'avvio dei protocolli, ha dato il via libera alla transizione di Joe Biden.

Il 9 dicembre i procuratori generali di 17 Stati e 126 deputati repubblicani firmano l'appello promosso dal procuratore generale del Texas Ken Paxton che richiedeva l'annullamento di 20 milioni di voti in Pennsylvania e in altri stati. L'11 dicembre la richiesta è stata respinta all'unanimità dalla Corte Suprema. Il 14 dicembre il collegio elettorale ha eletto Biden come 46º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America.

Il 6 gennaio 2021, in occasione della seduta del Congresso degli Stati Uniti per la proclamazione dell'elezione di Joe Biden, una folla di manifestanti pro-Trump riesce ad oltrepassare il cordone di polizia a Capitol Hill e a raggiungere l'interno del Campidoglio. La sessione viene di conseguenza sospesa e i membri del Congresso vengono evacuati. La manifestazione ha causato 5 morti e 13 feriti. La seduta riprese in tarda serata, una volta evacuati i manifestanti, e nella notte del 7 gennaio è stata ratificata l'elezione di Joe Biden.

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Time running out and still no progress on cost savings proposals at negotiating table
With two weeks left before the June 30 contract deadline, BART unions have yet to agree to a single major cost saving proposal designed to help close a $250 million, four-year deficit and secure a new labor contract that will protect jobs and worker salaries.
"The public and our ridership want and expect us to get this done by July 1," BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger said. "That's when BART riders will start paying more in fares. It's only right that all BART employees – union and non-union – work together to address this deficit and agree to new contracts that will prevent further fare hikes, cuts in service and layoffs."
To date, BART management has offered a number of proposals to union leaders that could cut $100 million in costs. The proposals include increased employee contributions to their PERS pension plan, the elimination of their secondary retirement plans and the reform of expensive and wasteful work rules.
Eliminating certain work rules, some of which were instituted decades ago, could save BART as much as $38 million. Many of these rules keep BART from operating efficiently. For example, the Amalgamated Transit Union continues to insist on an outdated work rule that keeps funding for 50 unneeded positions.
"We've been at this since April 1," Dugger said. "The unions have had plenty of time to decide what makes the best sense for them and their members. The tough choices need to be made now."
BART's Board of Directors have already sent a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger asking him to reject any calls for a 60-day "cooling off" period after June 30. The letter sends a clear message that BART wants to conclude negotiations quickly and avoid any delays that could potentially lead to a strike by the unions over the Labor Day weekend when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be closed for seismic upgrades.
BART finances will suffer further if contract talks are extended. The District will incur up to an additional $1 million in negotiating costs if talks extend an additional 60 days past the June 30th deadline. Additionally, every day past the June 30th deadline adds roughly $70,000 to the overall deficit.
"It's in everyone's interest to get this done quickly," Dugger said "Even under a new contract, BART employees will remain among the best compensated transit workers in the country. Union leaders need to help us hammer out an agreement at the negotiating table."
Leading Bay Area media organizations and institutions, such as the Bay Area Council, have joined BART management in calling for a productive and cooperative conclusion to contract talks. Visit www.BARTlabor.com for more information.


As this year comes to a close and folks all over the world are feasting and drinking, as they might each to his own culture, I thought a worldbuilding blog post about worldwide eats and drinks might be interesting. I've had a little look around and, avoiding the Disney Epcot links, picked out a few I thought might be informative. Useful to the game prepper? I think so, insofar as a GM has to have some idea of what folks might be eating not only where the PCs are but also to help distinguish traveling NPC that might turn up. As well as to add some depth to the cargoes of trade ships.
In any event, the first link to check out is from the potsdam.edu website and is on the rather broad topic of "History of Alcohol and Drinking around the World," an article by David J. Hanson, Ph.D. Learn what you can here.
The second link, from the New York Times website, is to an article titled "Rise and Shine: What kids around the world eat for breakfast." Read more here.
Finally, from the National Geographic website comes an interactive infographic that will have you tooling around it for hours. Check out "What the World Eats" here.
So have a safe and Happy New Year!
A couple from the Medievalists.net website then a quiz. First, "Medieval Magic Tricks" here.
Also, "Hearing, smelling, savoring, and touching in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" here.
Finally, "Which Ancient Civilization Suits You Best?" here.
Recently reported on io9.com, "Sony's Letting Robert Rodrgiuez Finally Make Fire and Ice." Read more here.
If you enjoyed how Leverage (2008-2012) was created and written, you'll probably also enjoy the new series The Librarians (2014-), as John Rogers is at the helm again. It's based on several Noah Wyle made-for-TV movies. Check the details on IMDb here.
Finally, Sploid featured what Jesus Diaz describes as "The most amazing and inspiring vision of the future I've ever seen." See more here.
Over on the Medievalists.net website, they share a tasty pasty recipe here.
Also, archaeology.org takes a look at the "Seaton Down Hoard" here.
Finally, on io9.com, they have a recent pictorial article on "America's Biggest Cities, Back When They Were Tiny Villages" here.
Over on the jpl.nasa.gov web pages, it's been reported that "NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars" here.
Also, on namecraters.carnegiescience.edu, they'd like you to participate in a contest to name a crater on Mercury here.
Finally, on the NASA website proper, "NASA's Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission" here.
Bonus: Let's have a final Saturday in Space XMas post of the ISS decorations for the holidays here.
Over on the most excellent Atlas Obscura there was an article from last year detailing "The Monsters of Christmas" here.
Also, here's a sad but uplifting tale of a "monkey at Kanpur train station in India [who] saves the life of another monkey who had fallen unconscious on the tracks after being electrocuted." Find out more here.
Finally, with more about monkeys, the Medievalists.net had a recent article titled "Animals in the Middle Ages: The Monkey" here.
The Medievalists.net website has been sharing some wonderful Medieval Christmas stuff this year (and in years past) so I though I would recount some of their sharings here. We start with their heralding of "Gift Giving in the Middle Ages – new exhibition at The Getty" here but also include their counterpoint article "Bah! Humbug! Complaining about holiday gifts 1600 years ago" here.
Further, from 2011, they included a feature on "Medieval Christmas Celebrations" here.
Finally, from 2010, they highlighted "Christmas in the Middle Ages" here including a video.
Over on archaeology.org, a recent article discusses that a "2,800-Year-Old Farm House Will Be Preserved" here.
Also, on the Telegraph website, they speculate that an "Ancient Egyptian burial site may contain one million bodies" here.
Finally, from a year ago, the Medievalists.net website has us "Exploring abandoned castles in France" here.
Over on Viral Nova, a recent article titled "After His Death, This Grandpa's Family Found A Trunk He Left Behind. What's Inside Is Fascinating" will give you some ideas for game props here.
Also, on english-heritage.org.uk, there is a cool PDF titled "Introductions to Heritage Assets Pre-industrial Ironworks" here.
Finally, over on tortagialla.com, there is a nifty tutorial on chain stitch bookbinding here.
Over on evanpalmercomics.com you can check out J.R.R. Tolkien's Ainulindalë adapted as a graphic novel here.
Also, on the CGP Grey YouTube channel there is a video showing "The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained." Enjoy.
Finally, on Neil Gaiman's YouTube channel Neil Gaiman reads Jabberwocky. Enjoy.
Recently on archaeology.org they took a look at "The Secret Strength of Roman Concrete" here.
Also, on Boing Boing, an article by Mark Frauenfelder looks at his family's "self-guided tour through the Catacombs of Paris" here.
Finally, over on the Medievalists.net website, they examine "The King's Courts and the King's Soul: Pardoning as Almsgiving in Medieval England" here.
This week saw the return of the NASA's Orion spacecraft, so read more here.
The ISS has a 3D printer recently used to fashion a needed tool. See more here.
On io9.com, they recently speculated over "How NASA Could Build A Cloud City Over Venus" here.
Over on the National Geographic YouTube channel is a wonderful video called "The Secret World of Dragonflies." Enjoy.
Also, over on girlsvineus.com, "These 25 animal hybrids are incredibly cool" here.
Finally, on the Medievalist.net website, they tell us about "The oldest Onion in Denmark" here.
Starting on page 167 of a paper on academia.edu is a section titled "Arms and Armour: a Farewell to Persistant Myths and Misconceptions" by Dirk H. Breiding here.
Also, check out this feature from August on the Medievalist.net website on "Famous Gladiators of Ancient Rome" here.
Finally, also on the Medievalist.net website, there is a featured article from earlier this week on "Norse Elements in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien" here.
Not far north of Dublin City lies a prehistoric site in Ireland "dominated by the three well-known large passage tombs, Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth, built some 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic or Late Stone Age. An additional ninety monuments have been recorded in the area giving rise to one of the most significant archaeological complexes in terms of scale and density of monuments and the material evidence that accompanies them. The Brú na Bóinne tombs, in particular Knowth, contain the largest assemblage of megalithic art in Western Europe." Learn much, much more here.
For those who don't have time to create their own Tabletop RPG Setting or simply have a hankering to allow players to explore Middle-earth, one of the easiest ways to do so is to get hold of some old Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP) games books. Licensed by Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) from 1984 through 1999 from Tolkien Enterprises, the setting detailed by I.C.E. spans much of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit works. If you go this route, just look for some of the (admittedly expensive) out of print books on eBay. The I.C.E. website has some alternate suggestions for resource materials here. There is a good guide to the products and what is in them over on waynesbooks.com here. One eBay auction I saw here seems to be offering much more than what is supposed to come in the basic boxed set. I'd send a question to that seller before committing to buy it though.
Over on the Medievalist.net website, they recently featured an article from the Journal of Gender Studies titled "Medievalism and the Fantasy Heroine" by Jane Marianna Tolmie here.
Also, on that same site last month, they featured a Master's Thesis titled "An actress' approach to the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion In Winter by James Goldman" by Roxanna Prosser here.
Finally, last month on NPR they had a review of Nicola Griffith's Hild here.
Over on Life Buzz, they expound on "20 Reasons Why You Would Not Have Kissed Shakespeare (Or Anyone Else In The Middle Ages)" here.
Over on the Medievalists.net website, a recent feature discusses "Fashioning the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Culture Through Clothing" here.
Finally, Sunny Skyz tells us in a pictorial article of "A Secret Ballroom Built In The 1800s Lies Under A Lake, Guarded By Neptune" here.
Saturday in Space - Orion!


Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Sandalstrand (1927), oil over linocut and woodcut on board, 47 x 54 cm, Bergen Kunstmuseum, KODE, Bergen, Norway. The Athenaeum.
By 1925, Nikolai Astrup had recovered from his depression and frustrations of five years earlier, and was painting and making prints avidly in the family's smallholding at Sandalstrand, on the southern shore of Jølster Lake in western Norway. Although spending the winter in North Africa in 1922-23 had helped his health for a while, he still suffered frequent chest problems and was far from being well.
For much of his career, Astrup's prints and paintings had informed and influenced one another; The Befring Mountain Farms (c 1924-28) is an example of his mixing the media in a single work, coupling woodblock printing with oil painting. It shows an extended series of farm buildings not far from Jølster Lake.
Astrup uses the natural environment to generate one of his most magical works. Two people are engaged in milking a goat by the entrance to a building in the left foreground. The farm buildings have turf roofs with luxuriant growth, in one case sporting a small tree. Spindly birches stand next to them, their leaves shimmering in the light of the crescent moon.
That moon is reflected in a small pond which is surrounded by marsh marigolds in full flower. You can hear the silence among the massive rock bluffs which tower over the lake, and that in the centre looks like the head of an owl, watching over the stillness of the night.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Two O'Clock on a June Night (c 1926), oil on canvas, 50 x 70 cm, location not known. The Athenaeum.
Another time, at Two O'Clock on a June Night (c 1926), Astrup shows a lake high in the hills, the same crescent moon shining in the sky. The surface of the water has fine ripples from the breeze which is blowing down from the snowfields above. These give that lake a fascinating texture, which contrasts with the surrounding craggy hills.
In 1926, Astrup exhibited again at the Bergen Art Association, and the last of the family's eight children was born. Nikolai was delighted that his wife Engel still found time to become increasingly involved in the national arts and crafts movement, her speciality being textiles.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Early Snow (1926-27), oil on canvas, 67 x 72 cm, Bergen Kunstmuseum, KODE, Bergen, Norway. The Athenaeum.
Early Snow (1926-27) is a loose oil sketch of the beds at Sandalstrand after the first snowfall of the autumn. It has caught the Astrup family's vegetables by surprise, with two large red cabbage plants looking the worse for the cold. The door to the house is open, revealing a traditional wood-burner blazing away to keep the occupants warm.
The Astrups had clearly worked hard to develop their smallholding to support their family. Sandalstrand (1927) shows Engel and two of their children enjoying the summer sunshine, in partly-backlit conditions which surrounds their figures, trees, and fences with a magical aura.
This too was created using mixed media, starting with a linocut and woodcut on board, over which Astrup painted in oils. It also underwent his characteristic evolution, starting as Growing Season Weather (c 1923), which was reversed and recomposed to a print of Growing Season at Sandalstrand (1925), and finally reworked as here, and dedicated to Trygve Bydal and his wife.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Apple Tree in Bloom (c 1927), oil on canvas, 78 x 100 cm, Bergen Kunstmuseum, KODE, Bergen, Norway. The Athenaeum.
Apple Tree in Bloom (c 1927) shows a much more substantial if not industrial building, with the trees in full blossom and the marsh marigolds in flower.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), The Parsonage (c 1928), oil on canvas, 101 x 88 cm, Bergen Kunstmuseum, KODE, Bergen, Norway. The Athenaeum.
The Parsonage (c 1928) presumably shows the replacement for the original building which was demolished in 1907, which Astrup had painted using a less extreme perspective projection in his The Shady Side of the Jølster Parsonage (before 1908). It continues to develop his theme of radical perspective in buildings, to which he had returned from time to time.
Through the winter of 1927-28, Astrup's pulmonary tuberculosis worsened. After Christmas, he developed pneumonia, and died of that on 21 January 1928, aged just forty-seven. His widow Engel went on to become a very successful textile designer, raised her eight children, and maintained their smallholding. She died thirty-eight years later, in 1966.
In 1986, their home at Astruptunet was opened as a museum, and between February 2016 and January 2017 a major exhibition of Nikolai Astrup's paintings and prints was held in London, Norway, and Germany. Work is progressing on his catalogue raisonné, and many of his works are on show in Bergen and Oslo.
The dating of Astrup's paintings is often uncertain; that of his prints can be little more than intelligent guesswork. Here are a few which are believed to be from the period in which his colour woodcuts underwent their most dramatic development.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Little Corn Stooks (c 1904), colour woodcut on paper, 19.6 x 19.7 cm, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo. Wikimedia Commons.
Little Corn Stooks (c 1904) is an early exploration of this motif, when the cut corn was still becoming anthropomorphic, before his later paintings and prints of them.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Night Ploughing (c 1905), colour woodcut on paper, 18.0 x 25.7 cm, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo. Wikimedia Commons.
Night Ploughing (c 1905) shows a simpler motif in which he seems to have taken advantage of the texture of the paper for the soil.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Waterfall and Glacier (c 1907), colour woodcut on paper, 15.2 x 15.5 cm, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo. Wikimedia Commons.
Waterfall and Glacier (c 1907) contrasts the white water cascading down with its source in the ice-covered mountains above.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), May Moon (c 1908), colour woodcut on paper, dimensions and location not known. Wikimedia Commons.
May Moon (c 1908), above, is one of many different versions of Astrup's motif of the full moon reflected on Jølster Lake, seen from his early home on the north shore. Below is the winter version of the motif, in Winter Night (date not known).
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Winter Night (date not known), colour woodcut on paper, dimensions and location not known. Wikimedia Commons.
Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928), Marsh Marigold Night (c 1915), colour woodcut on paper, 40.7 x 47 cm, Bergen Kunstmuseum, KODE, Bergen, Norway. Wikimedia Commons.
Astrup's early paintings of Old Jølster Farm and blooming marsh marigolds, for example in A June Night and Old Jølster Farm (before 1911), became prints such as this Marsh Marigold Night (c 1915). By this time his technique had come a long way, and many of his later prints were extremely painterly – to the point where it can be difficult to distinguish woodcuts made between 1920-25 of his Foxgloves painting from 1920 from that original, for example.
There is more extensive coverage of his print-making and prints in the book cited below, which is a unique account of Astrup's life and work, with many high-quality illustrations. I acknowledge its importance in my compiling this series of articles.
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Future Melbourne Cup winner unearthed?
I'm putting my Nostrodamus hat on here with what will be a rather long-sighted prediction.
I think we in Australia will see a horse named Buckhurst racing for Melbourne Cup glory one day. Probably next year.
And I base this on the fact he ground out a dour, come from off the pace, debut win at Leopardstown in Ireland on the weekend over 1600m.
He ran down the leader, the heavily backed favourite Jack Yeats who is trained by Aidan O'Brien.
It was a maiden and the winner earned 8,008 Euros which converts to be about $12,800 in Aussie dollars.
#TheEyecatcher: Buckhurst could be exciting for @JosephOBrien2 and the trainer gives you several reasons why in conversation with @Niallhannity.
Well, Buckhurst is by a stallion named Australia. And yes, this Australia is superbly bred being by Galileo from the wonder mare Ouija Board.
Australia won the Gr 1 English and Irish Derbies as a race horse.
This 3YO, Buckhurst, was having his first race start and it was a slow track.
He is trained by Aidan's son, Joseph O'Brien, who, as we know, has trained a Melbourne Cup winner.
Now, why am I writing about Buckhurst, well, because he is owned by the great man…..Lloyd Williams.
Too many things, such as Lloyd's desire to race his horses Down Under, the fact the horse is a colt, the fact he's by Australia, the fact his trainer comes to Australia to race and the fact he seems very talented, say this horse will one day race in Australia.


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Three Al Riyadh (F3000S) class multipurpose anti-air warfare frigates have been built for the Royal Saudi Navy.
The first of class, HMS Al Riyadh (812), was commissioned in July 2002.
Stealth features have been included in the design to reduce the radar cross section and infrared, acoustic and electromagnetic signatures.
The second of class, HMS Makkah (814), was launched in July 2001 and delivered in April 2004.
HMS Al Damman (816) was launched in September 2002 and will be commissioned in 2005.
The ship is built to carry two eight-cell Sylver vertical launch systems for the Aster 15 surface-to-air missile, which has a range up to 30km.
The frigate's stealth design is based on the La Fayette class frigate in service with the French Navy.
The frigate is armed with eight Exocet MM40 Block II surface-to-surface missiles. The anti-ship missile has a range of 70km.
Three Al Riyadh (F3000S) Class multipurpose anti-air warfare frigates have been built by DCN of France for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces. The frigates, based on DCN's stealth frigate design, are about 25% larger than the French La Fayette Class frigate and have additional capabilities, for example enhanced anti-air warfare and anti-submarine capability, to achieve the operational requirements of the Royal Saudi Naval Forces.
The ships have been built at DCN's Lorient shipyard. The first of class, HMS Al Riyadh (812), was commissioned in July 2002. The second, HMS Makkah (814), was launched in July 2001 and was commissioned in April 2004. The third, HMS Al Damman (816), was launched in September 2002 and delivered in January 2004.
In April 2007, DCN became DCNS. This followed an agreement in which Thales became a 25% shareholder in the new company and DCN acquired the naval business of Thales France (excluding naval equipment). The contract for the first two ships was agreed between France and Saudi Arabia in 1994 under the Sawari II agreement. The contract for the third ship was placed in 1997.
The prime contractor was Thales (now DCNS) which is responsible for the vessel architecture, propulsion systems and combat systems integration. Main contractors include: SFCS (a subsidiary of Armaris, now owned by DCNS), responsible for the ship's combat systems; MBDA which is supplying missiles; and Sofinfra, which is responsible for the construction of 20,000m² of infrastructure facilities including a school and workshop in Jeddah.
NAVFCO, the training organisation within the French Navy, is contracted to carry out crew and engineering training for over 700 trainee personnel under the Sawari II programme.
The ship's construction is carried out through the assembly of prefitted hull blocks. The hull has an overall length of 133m and a beam of 17m. The ship has a full load displacement of 4,500t and carries sufficient fuel and stores for a range of 7,000nm between replenishments. Maximum speed is 24.5kt.
The sides of the stealth frigate are sloped at 10° to minimise radar cross section, surfaces have been coated in radar-absorbent paint and the profiles of external features have been reduced. The vessel has a computer-controlled fin-and-rudder stabilisation system which keeps the flight deck operational for 10t class helicopters up to sea state 6.
The ship's highly automated combat management systems have been developed by SFCS, a subsidiary of Armaris. The SENIT 7 combat system is based on the Thales Tavitac 2000, with additional elements of the SENIT 8 system in service on the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
Weapons control is provide by the DCNS CTM radar / infrared system, which includes the Thales Castor 2J I-band pulse Doppler radar and an infrared tracking system.
The ship is being built to carry two eight-cell Sylver vertical launch systems for the Eurosam (MBDA and Thales) Aster 15 surface-to-air missile. Aster 15 is effective at ranges from 1.7km to 30km and to an altitude of 15,000m. Missile guidance is inertial with data uplink and active radar terminal homing. For increased manoeuvrability in the terminal phase, the missile uses a 'PIF-PAF' direct thrust control system with gas jets.
All three frigates have been taking part in trial firings of the Aster SAAM (surface-to-air anti-missile) system. Successful firings were conducted by Al Damman in March and Al Riyadh and Makkah in September 2004.
The frigate is armed with eight MBDA Exocet MM40 block II surface-to-surface missiles. The anti-ship missile has a 165kg shaped charge warhead and a range of 70km and approaches the target in sea-skimming mode at high subsonic speed, approximately Mach 0.95.
The ship's main gun is the Oto Melara 76/62 Super Rapid gun which can fire up to 120 rounds a minute to a maximum range of 20km. There are also two 20mm Giat 15B guns.
There are four 533mm aft torpedo tubes. The ship is armed with the DCNS F17 heavyweight anti-submarine torpedo.
The sonar suite is the Thales Underwater Systems CAPTAS 20 towed array sonar. CAPTAS (combined active passive towed array sonar) is a low-frequency variable-depth active sonar.
The round radome of the Thales Arabel 3D I-band surveillance and fire control radar is installed on the pyramid mast forward of the hangar and between the two funnels. The Arabel carries out the fire control function for the Aster missiles.
Thales long-range air search radar, DRBV 26D Jupiter operating at D band, is forward of the main radar mast. Two Sperry Marine Decca navigation and helicopter control radars are also fitted.
The electronic warfare suite has been supplied by Thales and includes: DR 3000 electronic support measures (ESM), Altesse communications intercept system, Salamandre B2 radar jammer and TRC 281 communications jammer. Two Sagem Défense Sécurité (formerly EADS Defence & Electronics) Dagaie decoy launchers are also fitted.
The helicopter deck at the stern has a single landing spot for a medium size helicopter, such as the Eurocopter AS 365 Dauphin or the larger AS 532 Cougar or NH90 helicopters.
The deck is fitted with the DCN Samahe helicopter handling system. A fully equipped hangar accommodates one helicopter.
The vessel's CODAD (combined diesel and diesel) propulsion system is based on four SEMT Pielstick 16 PA6 STC diesel engines, rated at 5,700kW (7,740hp) each. The diesel engines drive two shafts with Rolls-Royce Kamewa controllable-pitch propellers. DCN has a licence agreement to manufacture these propellers for the Al Riyadh frigates.


I started my own travel blog, Not Here, in 2014 as a way of indulging my two greatest passions, travel and writing. I write both for pleasure and as a way of sharing my travel experiences with friends, family and the wider world.
I'm part of Lonely Planet's Community Pathfinders programme, which provides a platform for bloggers to reach a wider audience, and my article Khiva: In the court of the khan was featured on the Lonely Planet website in 2015.
The sun-baked city of Khiva sits between two bleak and inhospitable deserts, the Kyzylkum and the Karakum. As you approach the city limits the rusty brown sand begins to sprout unlikely patches of green, and you find yourself wondering whether it's an oasis or a mirage that you've stumbled upon.
The steep, crenellated walls of the old town, the Ichon Qala, enclose an impeccably restored medieval city that feels like walking into another age. The streets are flanked by mosques, mausoleums and madrassas sculpted in the dusty ochre tones of the surrounding desert, crowned by glistening flourishes of turquoise tiling. Old ladies in technicolour headscarfs amble along the alleyways, souvenir stalls are stacked high with shaggy woolen Turkmen hats, and bulging minarets soar towards the blazing blue sky.
Khiva belongs to a historic region known as Khorezm, one of those half forgotten countries that has all but disappeared from the modern map; in the 13th century the Khorezmians built an empire that included the territory of modern day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Iran, as well as a sizeable chunk of western Afghanistan. For those who are ignorant of Central Asian history, as I was before I started researching this trip, Khorezm's historical significance comes as a surprise. A statue outside Khiva's West Gate commemorates Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Muso Al-Khorezmi, a gifted Khorezmian mathematician who gave his name to the mathematical process we now know as the algorithm, and from whose work Al-Jebr we get the word 'algebra'. We spent a few confused minutes looking round a museum that we thought was his old house, before we realised that it was actually the tomb of a different Al-Khorezmi, a musician whose significance was unclear in spite of the many photos of him posing with his instruments.


Title: Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to acquire the 3100 block of Ludlow Street from Drexel University, together with all improvements thereon, all under certain terms and conditions.
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Iron striker Kevin van Veen has set his sights on a successful season for both the club and himself after players returned to pre-season training this week.
The Dutchman has aspirations on challenging for the League One golden boot and is also eyeing a promotion push.
He told The Iron Player: "I hope to be the top goalscorer in League One but if I don't and we still get promotion then I will be happy.
The 24-year-old reported back for pre-season a fortnight ago to see some new faces in the squad.
Manager Mark Robins has brought in nine new players so far this summer, which include former Stoke City midfielder Jamie Ness and ex-Leicester City striker Tom Hopper.
van Veen says he has been impressed by his new team mates on the training field and says they are fitting in with the squad nicely.
"They are good players and because we are a really good squad it is easier for them to settle in," he said.
He also commented on how his own fitness programme is going, which he says required a lot of work for him over the summer.
He stated: "I did a lot of work in the gym and a lot of running and I won't stop now, I have to continue it.
"I'm getting fitter and fitter every day because of how hard I'm training but that's good because it's only not long until the competition starts.
See much more from Kevin van Veen and other players on The Iron Player HD.


If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times; this girl is not a fan of winter, well not Boston's winter anyways – it doesn't look all that bad in San Fran. The moment those temps drop below 50 I enter hibernation mode which, I have to admit, does have it's good points. I've always enjoyed the run up to the hols (probably even more than the holidays themselves) because it's one of the very few times of year we get to really slow down and enjoy the little things in life without feeling guilty. Suddenly, that voice nagging you to run another errand or unload the dishwasher is completely silenced and it seems nothing could be more important than simply relaxing.
If you're anything like me then there's probably nothing you enjoy more than spontaneously treating yourself to a half day which is exactly what I did yesterday. The minute it hit 2PM I whipped up my signature spiked peppermint hot chocolate, poured it into my favorite mug (this cutie is a part of Ello's limited edition holiday set and coincidentally one of the biggest mugs in our house) and didn't move again until I'd read PORTER from cover to cover. Sitting back and soaking up the afternoon? An indulgence so simple it could sound silly and yet it was the highlight of my week.
If you've been feeling more hamster-on-a-wheel than actual human being lately then I'd highly recommend taking a day or even just a few hours to enjoy the little things that make you smile. Oh and just in case my spiked cocoa sounds like one of those things I've gone ahead and included the recipe below – as well as a few details on the perfect gift for all those hard-to-buy-for people on your list this year.
Combine half-and-half and milk in a small saucepan. Heat on medium until warm.
Stir in chocolate chips and whisk until totally melted.
When satisfied with your extract balance, stir in peppermint schnapps.
Pour into your favorite mug and top with as much garnish as possible.
Psst! Since I know how stressful it can be to find gifts for the notoriously hard-to-buy-for people in your life (here's looking at you, hubby) I thought I'd tell you a little more about this holiday set from Ello. I actually treated myself to the one you see here simply because I loved the look of it but after using it for the past couple of weeks I've picked up two more – one for my mother-in-law and one (in black) for Ted. Here's why I love it and know they will too . . .
I'm a sucker for a classic with a twist so it didn't take long for me to fall for just about everything Ello. I can't tell you how much I love their modern take on the classic camp mug you see here. As for the water bottle? You can't go wrong with rose gold – so cute!
As practical as it is pretty, this water bottle keeps your favorite thirst quencher cold for 24 hours.
When it comes to Ello, you don't have to worry about the harmful chemicals (think BPA and/or BPS) found in so many other tumblers and food containers.
Possibly the best thing about the Campy Travel Mug? It's 100% leak proof which is a huge win for this girl who recently destroyed her favorite tote after packing another lower quality travel mug into it before her commute home. UGH.
If you love anything limited edition as much as this girl then you'll want to get your hands on one of the Campy Holiday 2pks ASAP. They've already sold out at Ello but did I notice there are a few left at Target.