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School is back in session, fall is almost upon us and many of the OHS Mustangs teams are gearing up for the 2015 season. Oakdale's football, volleyball, cross country, tennis and soccer teams were all involved in scrimmages and tournament play this past week.
Oakdale football traveled to Tracy High School to take on the Bulldogs in a scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 22. Both the junior varsity and varsity teams buckled their chinstraps and went to work. Scrimmages can prove beneficial for players and coaches alike, the players getting the chance to go 'game speed' against an actual opponent instead of teammates, and coaches get a good look at where players might fit in the offensive and defensive schemes. This Friday night, Aug. 28 the defending CIF Sac Joaquin Section champion Mustangs welcome longtime rival the Sonora Wildcats to The Corral for the team's season opener. Kick off for the varsity game is 7 p.m., following conclusion of the JV game, which begins at 5 p.m. Freshmen will be at Sonora for a game Thursday, with a 6 p.m. start.
Another group of section champs took the field in scrimmage play, as the varsity soccer boys hit the road in a pair of scrimmages this week. Monday, Aug. 24 and Tuesday, Aug. 25 the Mustangs took on Enochs and Beyer in pair of tune up games. Oakdale continues to play on the road when they will do battle in the Pitman tournament set for Friday and Saturday this week. Oakdale then comes home for some preseason action, hosting Franklin and Livingston on Sept. 1 and 3, respectively.
The new era in varsity volleyball got under way as new head coach Heather Gonzalez and the girls had a busy week. The team traveled to Beyer High School in Modesto to participate in a Round Robin scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 22. The team also hosted a scrimmage against Hughson on Tuesday, Aug. 25. Tuesday, Sept.1 Oakdale squads will host Enochs in the season opener.
Off and running are the boys and girls of the cross country team. Oakdale held its Red/Gold Fox Trot scrimmage where the team ran one mile in a time trial. No times were released as it was listed as a scrimmage. Oakdale will travel to Ceres to take on Ceres and Central Valley on Wednesday, Aug. 26.
Oakdale's tennis girls look to make quite the racket this season. The team took on Enochs in a scrimmage on Tuesday and will hit the court again Wednesday and Friday, both times on the road. Wednesday, the girls take on Turlock in a scrimmage before taking on Downey on Friday. Tuesday, Sept. 1 the girls begin league play on the road against Weston Ranch.
Girls golf has a pair of scrimmages Wednesday and Thursday, both at home, hosting Gregori on Aug. 26 and Downey on Aug. 27, both at 3 p.m.
Water Polo girls will be in the pool on Saturday, Aug. 29 at home for a scrimmage.


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For about five minutes in the last Democratic debate, the candidates discussed reform for the Supreme Court.
It's not a new conversation by any means.
This year, candidates have ideas to make the highest court more fair, from term limits and expansion to rotating the justices among the federal bench.
Many have questioned whether those reforms could happen because Congress is in charge of the structure of the Supreme Court. But, there is a reform that's already garnered support in the House of Representatives and Senate.
For years, people have talked about whether to allow cameras in the Supreme Court, particularly after many lower federal and state courts adopted the practice.
Last month, a subcommittee of the House of Representatives held hearings about public access to the Supreme Court and how to increase it.
And in the 2019-2020 Supreme Court term, that could decide rights for Americans across the country, information about what the justices say is in demand for the press and the public.
What People Miss
On days when the Court is in open session, the public is able to sit in the chamber to watch hearings live, but seats are limited and cases with a lot of attention attract long lines of people.
By the end of the day, the Supreme Court releases transcripts of what happened, and by the end of the week, audio is available.
Still, some argue those measures don't give Americans a clear idea of how the Court works.
Anthony Marcum, a member of the policy team at R Street Institute and a federal judiciary researcher, said there was a number of benefits to witnessing Supreme Court hearings live, including a greater understanding and appreciation for the institution and an education in how it works.
"Importantly, I think that would make the courts less mysterious, more approachable and would increase public trust in this very important institution in our federal government," Marcum said.
Even with other options for staying informed about the Court, seeing it live is still preferable, he said.
"There is an important visual aspect to it," Marcum said. "I think it's, again, a similar analogy of being in the actual courtroom, being able to see the tone of these conversations. Transcripts, of course, can only tell you so much. Transcripts can tell you what words were said but not how they were said."
Marcum said the tone of Supreme Court hearings was an important element to the process because justices are generally respectful to each other and the attorneys.
"This would set a wonderful example of how people in our government and our people at large can disagree without being disagreeable," he said.
Bipartisan Support
Despite being a well-known proposal, broadcasting Supreme Court hearings isn't one Democrats have brought up in events or press gaggles.
Marcum thought most of the candidates would support allowing Supreme Court hearings to be broadcast, though, because of existing congressional support.
For years, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley has sponsored bills to put cameras in the Supreme Court. Though the bills don't make it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar frequently co-sponsors them.
In fact, both the "Cameras in the Courtroom Act" and the "Sunshine in the Courtroom Act" inspire bipartisan support.
This year, Grassley introduced the "Cameras in the Courtroom Act" alongside Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. Year after year, other Republicans like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham co-sponsor it.
Marcum said that was even more evidence this Supreme Court reform had a chance to work.
"The significance of it being bipartisan is that it's an effective way to communicate to the public that this isn't a right/left issue," he said. "This is about transparency and opening the People's Court up to the people."
What's The Issue?
The main argument against cameras in the Supreme Court is that it might change the behavior of lawyers arguing the case.
Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, said there was momentum for the idea at one time.
"In 1991, the federal court started a cameras courtroom pilot program in two federal appeals courts," he said. "And then, unfortunately, it ended right around the time of the O.J. Simpson trial happened. So, that I think made a lot of folks gun-shy about broadcasting court proceedings."
Marcum also said there was a fear lawyers or justices would grandstand with a camera audience in the chamber, despite having no jury in Supreme Court proceedings.
"I think that's speculative," he said. "There's very little suggestion that any justice is eager to put on a show and there's also less incentive for justices to grandstand."
The same applies to lawyers, he said, who have limited time in front of the justices and don't want to waste time on an audience that ultimately has no say in how a case is decided.
Roth said there wasn't much pressure from the justices because the effort to install cameras might take time away from their work reading petitions and deciding cases. But, that's not all.
"So, I think part of it is inertia," he said. "Part of it, I think, is elitism. They're concerned that if there are cameras in the courtroom during oral argument, the rest of the public wouldn't understand what's going on."
Because the Supreme Court often works in the realm of old legal concepts and in the details of law, it's likely regular citizens wouldn't know how to follow the conversation. But Roth said that can be remedied.
Broadcasters can already provide additional information to audiences with graphics. Many organizations fact-check during broadcasts. So, there's a way to explain Supreme Court proceedings as they happen.
"I think that that's a really unfortunate misconception that the justices have," Roth said.
The Net-Benefit
Both Roth and Marcum said the pros outweigh the cons.
Roth suggested a more incremental approach could work, by transitioning slowly to same-day audio, then to live audio, then video, all working up to live broadcast.
The House hearing on public access to the courts included letters from judges on state supreme courts who broadly approved of the practice based on their own experience.
"The feedback from the public and legal community is universally positive," wrote Bridget M. McCormack, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
"Viewership is not substantial … but the impact is substantial because the public is assured the sun is shining on the judicial branch. Even if they decide not to watch, they tell us they are grateful that we allow them to choose," McCormack wrote.
"I thought that was an interesting perspective to see how states have really subscribed to this," Marcum said. "And as Louis Brandeis said, states are laboratories of democracy, and this is one of these good examples."
By Nikoel Hytrek
Posted 10/29/19

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These reports are prepared by the Office of the United States Global AIDS Coordinator in collaboration with the United States Departments of State (including the United States Agency for International Development), Defense, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services (including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of Global Health Affairs), and the Peace Corps.
Nineteenth Annual Report to Congress (2023)
When President George W. Bush announced the creation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in his 2003 State of the Union address, and the U.S. Congress quickly followed by passing the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 in strong bipartisan fashion, it fundamentally changed the course of public health history.
Since then, the U.S. government, with the strong, unwavering support of the U.S. Congress, has proudly invested nearly $100 billion in the global AIDS response through PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund). On World AIDS Day 2022, President Biden announced that the U.S. government, through PEPFAR, has saved more than 25 million lives, and more than 20 PEPFAR-supported countries have now achieved epidemic control of HIV or reached the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90-90-90 HIV treatment targets, even without a vaccine or a cure.
Reaching these goals was virtually unimaginable when PEPFAR began, and a series of other countries are also on pace to attain them soon. These are also critical milestones toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3 target of ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
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Matthias Hansen is Domino's bound.
Domino's Pizza Enterprises has appointed a new group chief technology officer.
The company said today that it had appointed Matthias Hansen to the group CTO role.
Hansen has previously held technology leadership roles in the health and retail divisions of Telstra; he is currently group CIO of a smart alarm maker in Switzerland.
Domino's group CEO and managing director Don Meij said in a statement that Hansen's appointment "demonstrates the importance of technology to the future of this business."
"We are excited about working with the talented team members of the technology function, helping our people grow and prosper as we deliver on the next step of our growth strategy," Meij said.
Hansen will initially work remotely from Switzerland before relocating to Australia at the end of the year.
His appointment means that Domino's current group chief digital and technology officer Michael Gillespie's title will change to group chief digital and experience officer – or CDXO.
Domino's said this will "reflect the focus and commitment on the customer experience" at the company.
"Otherwise Michael's remit will remain unchanged," it said.


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In the wake of the Scott Walker win in Wisconsin, big labor, whose temper tantrum forced this ridiculous recall election, should be shaking. When the governor first implemented his reforms, which (despite liberals crying as if the world was ending) were quite modest, the Unions had all the momentum. The president spoke out publicly for their cause, they were able to rally crowds of people to protest, and they successfully began the fourth recall of a state's governor in US history. If I had been a leader in one of the big unions at the beginning of this election, I would have been planning ahead to how they should carry their momentum over into Ohio and other states that had implemented reforms to public sector employee unions.
Unfortunately for them, however, Governor Walker's reforms began to work. Unemployment came down. Given the choice, many workers began to choose to leave the union. Deficits were drastically cut. On paper, this should have been good for everybody in Wisconsin, but the unions and the left did not see it that way. When Walker's reforms began to work, it seemed that the previously unchecked clout of public sector employee unions in Wisconsin was hurting the state's economy overall. This is not news to most people; even President F. Roosevelt, the father of the American welfare state, knew that unionizing government workers was an awful idea. But, it took away the unions' selling point that they helped the state and protected workers. If more people can work without the unions, then why would the public support the unions, especially during recession?
The recall effort saw this, and pretty quickly changed their tune. The left did not completely abandon the union issues, but they certainly did not try to focus on them in the last weeks. They went with personal attacks and flirting with the voter-intimidation-line instead. If they had focused on Scott Walker's reforms, however, then I believe the 7 points margin that Walker won by (larger than his initial win margin in 2010) would have been even larger. The need to switch took a lot of the energy out of the left's campaign though, and put it into the Walker camp's. With tampered down energy, the unions garnered smaller crowds, raised significantly less money, attracted fewer big-name Dems to actively campaign (with the notable exception of Bill Clinton), and only received a last-minute tweet of support from the sitting president. By contrast, the fiscal conservatives supporting Walker raised unprecedented amounts of money for the recall election (not that it made too much difference according to this AP study), attracted nearly every big-name Republican governor in the nation (but to be fair, Romney was notably absent), and had support from across the nation.
Now the question is what does this mean for Public Sector Unions' (traditional supporters of the Democrats) power nationwide. Well, it means that they likely do not have the momentum to try to overturn established reforms because they will be focusing on preserving what is left of their power. State officials from both parties (Democratic Governor Cuomo is demonstrating this to a lesser degree in NY right now) have just seen that it is possible to go after the lavish pensions and benefits guaranteed by Public Sector Employee Unions as a means of balancing budget sheets.
San Diego and San Jose, California just overwhelmingly approved measures to scale back the lavish public sector union benefits in their cities. Certainly, if two major cities in California have already turned on the Unions, then they should absolutely be afraid of what comes if the economy gets worse or Republicans do particularly well in the November election.


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Open Academic Series
The DHI co-sponsored two of the events in the open academic series in fall 2017.
Through a series of workshops and discussions we aim to give the CEU community the skills and tools needed to engage in debates in the public sphere in innovative, unconventional or 'non-academic' ways. Taken together, the events will foster a university-wide conversation about the role of academics and academic knowledge in public debates. Each session is devoted to a different mode of dissemination including comics, podcasts, popular writing, op-eds, social media, visualisation of data, policy briefs and audio documentaries.
Academic Journalism: Writing Research for Readers
October 26, 4pm in Nador 15, Room 106
How can I write about my research for non-academic audiences? How can I make my academic writing clearer and easier to understand? How can I pitch ideas to print and broadcast media outlets?
Peter Geoghegan graduated with a PhD from Edinburgh University in 2008. Now he is a successful writer, journalist, broadcaster and lecturer. His latest book, The People's Referendum: Why Scotland Will Never Be the Same Again, was published in January 2015 by Luath Press, and was nominated for the Saltire Society First Book Prize. He is a co-founder and director of The Ferret, an investigative platform launched in 2015, which was nominated for a British Journalism Prize for its work.
In this seminar, he will show academics how to write for different audiences, how to develop their narrative style and voice and how to pitch ideas to media outlets. The seminar will be run in two parts. In the first, Peter will introduce key concepts and approaches for writing with clarity. In the second, attendees will be asked to write up pitches based on their research work and academic interests.
Using Comics to Communicate Your Research
December 5, 4pm in Nador 13, Room 516/A
How can you turn your research into a comic? In this workshop you will learn how to break down your idea into a format that works as a comic story, turning your thoughts into scenes and moments and thinking through how they might appear on a page. Participants will then work on scripting for comics, developing the skills needed to work with an extreme economy of words and space. Finally, we'll discuss how to go about making your comic dream a reality. A multiple-time New York Times Best-seller List and Eagle Award winning Writer, Tony Lee has worked professionally for over thirty years, including a decade in trade journalism and media marketing/creation for radio. Since returning to comics in 2003 he has written for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Titan Publishing, Markosia, 2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Superboy, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
May 2, 9:00-15:00 Nador 15, Room 103 (Tiered)
Text Analysis Across Disciplines
This is the culminating event in our year-long series called "Conversations in the Digital Humanities." We have invited some of the most exciting, up-and-coming scholars from around the region to present their work in various forms of text analysis, and to think together with us about how text analysis can be used in disciplines beyond literary studies.
Rafał Górski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Inst. Polish Language, Computational Stylistics Group)
Petr Plecháč (Czech Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Czech Lit, Versification Research Group)
Artjom Shelya (Tartu University Linguistics Department)
Maciej Maryl & Piotr Wciślik (Polish Academy of Sciences, Digital Humanities Center)
Katalin Lejtovicz (Austrian Center for DH, APIS)
Toma Tasovac (Belgrade Center for the Digital Humanities)
Liviu Pop (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Folklore Archive; Transylvanian Digital Humanities Center, DigiHUBB)
Tamás Scheibner (ELTE, COURAGE Project)
Margit Kiss (HAS)
Levente Seláf (ELTE)
March 28, 15:00 -17:00 Nador 15, Room 101 (Quantum)
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #7
Roundtable Discussion Coorganized with the Cultural Heritage Special Program
Cultural Heritage Reconstructions – 3D Solutions
3D technology and solutions offer one of the most impressive visualization possibilities within the realms of humanities and heritage studies. They also provide an opportunity to consider the ways of digital reconstructions by looking at the process of presenting virtual and/or augmented reality, but at the same time, to pose questions on the very nature of humanist research too. How technology (and esp. 3D reconstructions) does shape the way of thinking and research itself? How to plan and pursue research in a new context that deals with reconstruction, visualization and interpretation? These and similar questions will be discussed in the Conversation 07, led by Professor József Laszlovszky, Director of the Cultural Heritage Special Program, CEU, with experts dealing with 3D architecture, digital reconstructions and technological solutions, such as András Fehér (Humansoft), Zsolt Vasáros (Narmer Stúdió) and Gergely Barcza (Moholy-Nagy University of Arts).
József Laszlovszky (Director of the Cultural Heritage Special Program)
Guest discussants:
András Fehér (Humansoft)
Zsolt Vasáros (Narmer Stúdió)
Gergely Barcza (MOME)
March 7, 15:30 -17:00 Monument Building, Room 201
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #6
Seth Bernstein (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Mapping over Time: Researching and Teaching Soviet History through GIS
This discussion will focus on Seth Bernstein's work creating simulations and visualizations using geographical information systems (GIS) to understand the history of the USSR. Mapping provides a way of representing and understanding change over time, whether it is shifting world borders, Soviet air networks or Stalinist labor camps. The conversation will address the opportunities and problems Dr. Bernstein has had in working with GIS in the Soviet context, as a research historian, collaborator and a teacher.
Seth Bernstein is assistant professor of history at Higher School of Economics and writes about the impact of war on society, culture and politics, and the role of Soviet socialism and Soviet people in the world. He uses digital techniques like GIS and massive textual databases to extract and visualize data. His first book, an archival history of Stalinist youth culture, is Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2017).
Viktor Lagutov (Environmental Systems Lab, Environmental Sciences and Policy)
Charles Shaw (Department of History)
(The event will be followed by a reception.)
February 7, 16:00 -18:00 Nador 15, Auditorium B
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #5
Roundtable Discussion Coorganized with the Department of Gender Studies
Archiving Contested Memories
This roundtable discussion will be focused on the student projects developed during the course entitled "Preserving and Interpreting Knowledges of the Past and Promoting Social Justice" taught by Prof. Andrea Pető (Department of Gender Studies) in Fall 2016. The online interdisciplinary research seminar, offered together with Duke University, introduced students to various approaches to rethinking "the archive" – that is, in the broadest sense, records of the past, and how knowledge about the past is preserved or repressed. Students were encouraged to pursue their own archive-related research projects as part of CEU's Civic Engagement Program onthe following three topics: the lesbian archive of Budapest, the right to be forgotten, and counter-memories. In this event students will present and converse with the audience about the findings of their course projects. The event will be moderated by Andrea Pető and Robin Kirk, representing Duke University's Human Rights Program.
Gulag Memories in Hungary
Raikhan Satymbekova (Gender Studies Department)
Alexandra Smith (Legal Studies)
Lesbian Memories in the City Space (in collaboration with Labris)
Andrea Schnitzer (Legal Studies Department) and Kristina Cajkovicova (Gender Studies Department)
Contagious Memories of Hitler's Birth House
Constanze Jeitler (History Department)
What can we learn from student segregation in Canada and in Hungary?
Camilo Montoya-Guevara (Medieval Studies Department)
The event will be followed by a reception in the Nador 15 Lower Foyer area.
December 8, 16:30 -18:30 Nador 11, Room 004
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #4
Zsófia Ruttkay (MOME TechLab)
The Digital Museum: Challenges and Opportunities
Zsófia Ruttkay will discuss the opportunities of digital-era galleries, libraries, archives and museums (the so-called GLAM institutions) to respond to the changes taking place in communication and educational technologies as well as the habits of the younger generations. Digital technologies offer new possibilities to achieve this demand not only by addressing the internet generation through their preferred media and communication devices, but also by enhancing their "museum experience" with novel techniques in placing them in the midst of happenings through space and time. In a broad discussion of the potentials (and pitfalls) of using the digital arsenal, Dr. Ruttkay will draw on international examples and her own developments of museum applications such as an installation bringing poems to life, an app enabling its users to "walk" in the narrative of a novel, or a digital "take-away" content as an alternative for fridge magnets. Vlad Naumescu (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU) and Sahana Udupa (School of Public Policy and the CMDS, CEU) will engage in a conversation with Ruttkay and the audience about the future of exhibitions and museums in light of the current developments in the realm of digital applications. This event will be co-hosted by the Visual Studies Platform.
November 22, 16:00 -18:00 Nador 15, Room 101 (Quantum)
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #3
Susan Schreibman (Maynooth University)
Digital Humanities, Social Engagement, and the Archive
The "we will build it so they'll come" approach to audience engagement with digital humanities tools and projects is long over. As a philosophic approach, it rarely worked. Rather, developers of successful DH projects work at audience engagement and retention. The idea of using crowdsourcing as a means to get some of the more difficult-to-automate aspects of project workflow completed has become popular in recent years. Yet, a recent workshop of a wide cross-section of these projects at DH2016 revealed a generally low success rate. Rather than think of audiences as ready-made to do our drudge work, Dr. Schreibman proposes in this talk that we adopt a social engagement approach to find, retain, and enrich audiences of digital scholarship, demonstrating this through two projects, Letters of1916 and Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
November 3, 16:30 -18:30 Monument Building, Room 201
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #2
Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Computational Criticism via Stylometric Methods
Stylometry, or applying statistical methods to trace stylistic differences between (literary) texts, is usually associated with the question of authorship attribution. It relies on the assumption that each author has their own distinct lexical profile, e.g. reflected in idiosyncrasies of word frequencies. Effective as they are, however, authorship attribution methods can be further extended to solve more general questions of genre, chronology, intertextuality, textual coherence, and so forth. Dr. Eder's conversation starter will be focused on two possible ways in which stylometry can support literary criticism. Firstly, a large-scale approach will be shown, aimed at capturing relations between dozens of texts at a time (to this end, network analysis will be applied); secondly, a micro-scale method of tracing local idiosyncrasies will be discussed. Presumably, both techniques might become an attractive extension to the repertoire of time-proven heuristic routines.
October 4, 16:00-18:00 Monument Building, Room 201
Conversations in the Digital Humanities #1
Corina Moldovan (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
The Challenges of Setting Up a DH Center in Romania
As a conversation starter, Dr. Moldovan will give a commentary on the manner in which a DH Centre is established in an Eastern-European country and the challenges that exist within the traditional structures and mentalities at different levels - the academia, the policy-makers and the society in the larger sense. Her talk will focus on the strategies that DigiHUBB has, at different levels – education, research and innovation, collaboration with the IT industry. She will also point out similarities between other post-revolutionary experiences and learn if there could be a kind of specificity that could give our centre a uniqueness that will make it relevant internationally.
May 19, 15:30-17:30, Monument Building, Room #201
Kick-off event
Our goal at this event is to begin building a community of interest, develop an understanding of common themes and challenges in working with digital humanities methodologies, and see how CEU might further support and develop these practices.


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A group of hackers tried to leverage the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia by distributing malware aimed at Bitcoin wallets. Bitdefender Labs, a cyber-security company with a keen interest in the digital currency market, issued a report where it highlighted how the alleged hackers masked one type of malware as another.
Apparently, the perpetrators dispensed software programs that they claimed capable of unsettling the digital activities of the Western governments combating against the Russian territory.
In fact, the program secretly installed Kelihos, a malware package which was first identified 5 years ago. Kelihos can steal the content of a Bitcoin user's wallet, and it features numerous other negative effects, too. The group's most recent attack was aimed at Ukrainian Internet users, and it looks like 40% of those users were already impacted. Doina Cosovan, analyst for Bitdefender mentions:
"Some of the IPs might indicate the origin of servers specialized in malware distribution or other infected computers that became part of the Kelihos botnet. As most of the infected IPs are from Ukraine, this either means that computers in the country were also infected, or that Ukraine itself is home to the main distribution servers."
Leaving aside the Bitcoin theft, it looks like Kelihos can also enslave a host computer to a worldwide botnet, thus permitting hackers to use that device and send out spam or even scan data and continue to spread malicious software.
A fake nationalist initiative
In the Bitdefender report, it was mentioned that hackers attempted to pass the "software" as a means for affected users to generate turmoil for the Russian government. Apparently, the message that came with the malware claimed the hacker's location was inside Russia.
"We, a group of hackers from the Russian Federation, are worried about the unreasonable sanctions that Western states imposed against our country. We have coded our answer and bellow [sic] you will find the link to our program. Run the application on your computer, and it will secretly begin to attack government agencies of the states that have adopted those sanctions."
Bitdefender explained the message also included a link; clicking on that links means downloading Kelihos, and this is how the hackers were able to take control of a person's computer.
Always under threat?
Despite the security improvements, there will always be people that can crack even the toughest and most secure alarm systems. Many upgrades were made in the way crypto currency fans store their digital currency. And yet, the threat of malware attacks aimed at Bitcoin will most likely ramp up in parallel with digital currencies' increasing popularity.
With every day that goes by, the attempts to steal digital currency like Bitcoin are expanding. Kaspersky Labs notes that 22% of all malware attacks linked to finances targeted Bitcoin. Malware attempts come in the most convincing disguises, and they've managed to fool millions. This malware issue has attracted lots of attention from regulators and government officials, and it often serves as the basis for investor and consumer warnings on the subject of digital currency.
Agencies like the Securities Exchange Commission and the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have already warned against using cryptocurrencies and the malware problem is apparently the key reason for people to be wary of cryptocurrencies.
We at Cointelegraph believe that instead cryptocurrency 'regulation' by a centralized authority, which probably knows less about Bitcoin than your average Bitcoiner, we decided to present our readers with a list of possible cyber threats that they could encounter to avoid falling for the most common pitfalls when dealing with digital currencies.
Bitcoin Scams 101
Fraud – a scammer claims to sell digital or physical good and airline mileage but asks users to pay upfront. Basically, you send bitcoins but they don't send out the goods; scammers may also use fake passports. Since Bitcoin is like hard cash, the transaction is irrecoverable once sent.
Pyramid schemes – the operators claim to offer "interest" for deposits in bitcoins. The method apparently generates "interest" through various methods, such as loaning digital currency to some of their site's users. Rather than pay interest, the website's operator pays using the new funds coming in.
Cloud hashing Ponzi – alleged mining groups sell mining capabilities in fractions; your initial investment will eventually be lost as they will claim the hashing difficulty increased.
Pre-order scams – some manufacturers may ask users to place an order (e.g. for mining equipment) and pay in advance; they accept Bitcoin payments but they don't refund bitcoins if the price goes up; they may even declare bankruptcy to come clean.
The pump & dump – there are numerous digital currencies available and many are created with the sole intention of getting rich quick - the developer that is. People find out about the new coin, it is hyped up on crypto forums to increase its value and then the holdings are liquidated.
Phishing attempts – receiving fake emails that claim to be from famous Bitcoin companies. Users will be compelled to click a link that will take them to a fake website where they are prompted to enter the login info of the real site. If there's no 2-factor authentication set up for your account, then it will probably be empty next time you look.
Gambling sites– since there's no way to ban Bitcoin universally, it is ideal for gambling. Nonetheless, just like with any type of gambling platform online, there is always a possibility that it could be fake with back-doors permitting insiders to see your player cards and private information.
IPO/premine – an initial public offering allows investors to buy shares in a company, with the hope that one day, their value will increase in the future. Some of these companies are nothing more but mirages, however. But just like the tricky world of OTC stock markets, users are advised to research in advance prior to making an investment. This usually involves premining, which means that the developers set some coins aside for themselves before the public was able to download the client and mine their own coins. When the coins increase in value, the developers can potentially end up being the biggest holders.
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Little People, Big Dreams: Bruce Lee - Isabel Sanchez Vegara
This little biography of martial artist and Hollywood film star, Bruce Lee tells the inspiring tale of the little boy born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong. He was a child star of Hong Kong cinema, but got into trouble as a teenager and his dad sent him to live in America. As an Asian-American actor, it was hard to get major roles in Hollywood, but with his amazing martial art skills, he went on to become a star in blockbuster hits like Enter The Dragon.
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The upcoming Arcade Edition of Street Fighter V will feature a Team Versus Mode, and Capcom has outlined what players can expect from the mode when the updated version of its popular fighter launches next month.
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An Actor Prepares
Two acting classmates rehearse a scene, and one of them takes it too far.
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Written and directed by Carey Kight
Produced by Andrea Buccilla
Starring Mallory Corinne, Ben Isaacs, and Terria Joseph
Director of Photography: Cooper Naitove
Edited by Gabe Templin
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Scored by Billy Long
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"An Actor Prepares" is an ode to well-meaning, woke dudes who refuse to give women their agency without realizing agency isn't something that's given. It's something that's taken.
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What you'll read in this Article:
- Our universal paradoxical need for Novel-Sameness
- Modern-day obstacles to staying focussed and effective
- How are successful people so productive?
- The value of a Morning Ritual
- Grabbing some ideas from Steve's Morning Ritual
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Our Universal Need For Novel-Sameness
As much as people don't like the mundane lifeless idea of every day being the same Groundhog Day, it's surprising just how important familiarity and certainty is to the human psyche.
There's a concept that describes this need for both newness and familiarity – it's called MAYA. "Most Advanced Yet Acceptable".
People gravitate to products, people and activities that are bold and new, but are instantly comprehensible. Familiarity and predictability gives us certainty, safety and reduces the pressure off needing to grasp totally new concepts and ideas all the time.
Tony Robbins talks about it in his Six Human Needs, where people need Certainty AND Uncertainty to be satisfied and fulfilled. We want the certainty that the floor will hold our weight, that our phones will work as expected, and that a horror film follows a tried-and-true format.
But, we also like to be surprised – improvements to products we use, twists in movies, suprise gifts, and not being able to predict every aspect of what your day or dinner date is going to look like.
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"We want as much certainty of the any given day – to feel happy, productive, successful, satisfied – but with enough unpredictable newness that makes today sufficiently different from yesterday"
Some people love certainty, have lots of internal accountability and feel happy following a rigid predetermined plan for the day. Others prefer the fluidity and freedom of taking each day as it comes, and 'going with the flow'.
And whilst they sound like very different people, the needs are the same – to end each day feeling satisfied in how they showed up and that some progress was made.
Everyone & Everything Wants Our Attention!
OK, so we all want to have a 'good day' – where we achieve and experience what we wish to experience, on our own terms. The problem is, in todays world, we can easily march to someone elses beat, and our best intentions can and often get hijacked by external influences.
- You employers work schedule or client activity dictate a big chunk of your working week
- Our email, instant messages and text messages present us with a steady stream of someone else's problem, needs or agenda
- Facebook, Instagram and other Social platforms can easily hijack our train of thought or good intentions, as we get drawn into discussion, ideas, troubles, sales pitches or the general curiosity of someone elses life
- If you've got kids and other dependants, you need to accommodate and support their schedule and needs
- News channels, papers and apps offer up problems, newness or ideas that vie for our increasingly limited remaining attention
- Our Smartphones offer unlimited and irresistible familiarly and newness – with the apps, the notifications, search, entertainment and so much more
And of course, there are many more sources of interruption, hijacking or general pulls on our schedule and attention that can sometimes make it feel impossible to get YOUR important stuff done.
Humans generally have very curious minds, and have inbuilt rewards systems to encourage exploration, discovery and doing things that achieve familiar states that have been deemed 'necessary' or previously successful.
The Dopamine reward system, for example, is what can drive many of the modern day addictions to food, drugs, gambling, social media, gaming and porn.
When it's laid out this way, it can sometimes be surprising that people get anything done that they actually WANT. The things what makes a difference to them and are important to their idea of progress and satisfaction. As opposed to fulfilling someone elses need or offering a fleeting moment of instant gratification.
However, there are many people who are hugely productive. They get the stuff that is important to them done, consistently. They seem to have unlimited resolve, discipline, belief and work ethic. They seem happy and are owning life – not letting life own them.
How do they do it? Do they have a secret formula? Are they just super militant, and their level of resolve is simply not available for the rest of us mere humans? In getting lots of stuff done, are they actually happy, or does the pressure weigh them down?
Success Leaves Clues – Own The Morning & Have A Plan
The reality is, some people just have the perfect blend of talent, attitude, work ethic, smarts, risk appetite, leadership, foresight and skills to achieve greatness at scale. Think of the superstars of sport, business, academia.
Think of Kobe Bryant, Tony Robbins, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, Ray Dalio, Richard Branson, Tom Brady, Jeff Bezos, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan and Gary V etc.
These leaders achieve breathtaking feats of performance, innovation and productivity. They are not normal. They are gifted. But, without tremendous effort, work and belief, their gifts would have gone unnoticed.
All these great achievers have an abundance of self-belief and certainty of the future. They have unshakable mindsets. And, they combine this mindset with approaches that help them get lots of important stuff done. Activities that they know will move the needle.
They are not operating on someone else's agenda, and they are not allowing themselves to get distracted or hijacked in any meaningful way. They are, for the most part, impenetrable when it comes to unwanted distractions or things that do not serve their mission.
How do they deflect distraction? How do their get meaningful work done, day in day out? How do they achieve such consistency, familiarity and predictability in their lives, when it comes to performance and outcomes?
You guessed it – to achieve predictable consistent results, albeit those results are novel and ever improving, high-achievers need to OWN their day. It needs to start right, on a consistent basis, and the things that matter MUST get scheduled.
Boiling it down further, what we are talking about is having a Morning Ritual & A Plan For The Day.
Let's start at the beginning, and cover the morning ritual within this article.
The Value Of A Morning Ritual
It's rarely the case that high-achievers and those who are positively transforming the world don't have a consistent morning ritual. These guys and gals are not leaving the morning to chance.
From a rested sleep, the clock resets to zero from the moment we wake up. The slate has been wiped clean. It's a new day, where yesterday has no physical hold on what you do today.
As your brain boots up ready to start afresh, what you decide to do in the first 30-60mins of the day can have a profound effect on the rest of the day.
An alarming number of people spend their very first waking moments checking out what stories, agendas or issues from others have entered our world whilst asleep. We're talking within the first 0-2mins of waking up, people are drawn to check out those red badges, scroll through facebook, email, instagram and news apps. I know – that has been me for a long time!
This is not a good start. For one, it's risky. There is a good chance you could go down a rabbit hole of curiosity. Secondly, there's a good chance that what you read will not be geared towards making you feel great and inspired to amazing things. Far from it.
And thirdly, you are showered with new information and potential decisions, before you've had a moment to focus on you and your impact on the day.
What would be a better approach?
For me, anything that nourishes the mind, body and spirit, and centres around a predictable outcome of feeling great, calm and ready to own the day, on your terms, is the way to go. Then, and only then, should we allow other people's problems and agendas to flow into our lives.
Whether you're someone who needs to 'warm-up' slowly or you are a morning person, getting that first 30-60 mins of your day programmed to maximise your chances of feeling awesome has to be your goal. Whilst perfection does not exist, you have much more control over the quality of your day, your emotions and the feeling of 'flow' than you may have lead yourself to believe.
Ultimately, you need to do what works for you and your life circumstances. That said, there is ALWAYS time to do what is a must. Let's make feeling great and being in control a MUST.
Steve's Morning Ritual
Being an ongoing student of self-optimisation of both my life and others, I consume tons of books, podcasts and articles every month. I totally buy into the idea that I know so little, and there any many many people who know far more than me. Why not take on board the lessons from those who had to learn the hard way?
In learning about the successful habits of many highly-productive and impactful people in the world, as well as the science behind habits, I've come up with a morning format that works for me.
I can honestly and confidently say, that my mood, productivity and outlook on the day (and life) is significantly and consistently better on the days I follow all/most of the below and I don't break my no Social Media rule.
It's like night and day! I can consistently get the buzz of excitement, confidence, contentment and a sense of being 'in flow' when I do the majority of the below before I get busy.
But, I'm human. I knowingly break my rules from time to time. I pay the price when I do, in terms of not reaching the same height of enthusiasm and energy, and that can lead to more negative thoughts of regret. The effect can be pretty noticeable, and it's that contrast that gives me my WHY to adhere to my ritual – rain or shine.
Whether it be holidays, weekends, wintry dark mornings or really busy days – I've learnt that I need to maintain the key elements of my morning ritual, because knowingly choosing to have a less happy/productive/enjoyable day is just plain wasteful and self-penalising.
NOTE: This is NOT a perfect Morning Ritual. It's not one size fits all. There are many alternative or additional habits of successful people that I have not adopted because of time, interest, or because it feels like 'too much work'. I'll likely refine it as I realise what adds most value, what offers too little return and when I hear of habits that sound complimentary.
First, My Distraction Limiting Rule
Using Screen Time on the Apple iPhone, all Social Media, News, Entertainment and Surfing apps are silenced and blocked between 22:00-08:00. I do break this rule from time to time (frustratingly) as it is an addiction, but Screen Time makes it so much harder to go against this rule, that I know is good for me.
This makes a huge difference to my morning mood.
Night Before
- A pragmatic rough-plan of Actions for the next day – Not too ambitious, but aligned with what's important and pressing. What needs to be done and will move the needle?
- Blue Blocking Glasses & Reading – reading helps me drift off and stops me replaying thoughts from the day. The glasses help settle into night time be eliminating daylight-resembling light from screens and tech.
- Good Sleep – 6 hours minimum, with the sweet spot being 7-8 hours. Pillow spray, perhaps some topical magnesium spray and a few deep belly breaths. Sleep has a profound impact on the quality of tomorrow. Invest in getting this right.
My Morning Ritual
This is how I've structured my mornings. Timing shifts around a little, but for the most part this is a good representation:
#1 – Cold Lemon & Rock Salt Water – This is the very first duty of day. Rehydrate, replenish electrolytes, awaken the digestive tract and general liven me up. Half a lemon, 10-15 turns of a Rock Salt grinder and 400ml of water.
#2 – Non-Fiction Reading – To replace my smartphone habits/addiction, I reach for a book (usually digital) and get going on learning. Seems a lot harder than it actually is – within a minute or so my brain is fired up and ready to engage. I'll ready for about 30-40mins, but 10mins would be fine too.
#3 – Valkee Human Charger Light Earbuds – These neat earphones emit a bright white light into my ears, which is equivalent to your eyes being exposed to daylight. In the dark mornings, this is a great extra hack that gets my mental and emotional cogs turning. No need to sit in front of a SAD box.
#4 – 3-5min Outdoor Rebound (weather permitting) – Whenever possible, I like to get a few minutes of fresh air, especially as we tend to spend most of our time indoors in the colder months. I'll rebound (jump) on our outdoor trampoline, which NASA claim to be the best exercise you can do, as the g-force changes and motion illicit diaphragmatic stretching, excites your lymph system and acts as mini push ups for every cell in your body.
#5 – Food – Steve's Awesome Morning Fuel – Everyday, I will have a hot morning shake that serves many needs for me. I get caffeine, healthy fats for cognitive sharpness and stead energy, protein to re-establish protein synthesis from being fasted whilst asleep and some creatine for overall performance. It's hot, chocolatey, stimulating and ticks all the boxes for me. In the morning, your body is like a sponge, and will absorb all the nutrients you can throw at it.
#6 – Wellness Supplements – As your body is most receptive to nutrition absorption in the morning, I'll take pretty much all of my wellness related supplements in the morning. You can read about what I take in the article below.
#7 – 10min Guided Meditation – I'm not religious about this, but I try and make time for 10mins of meditation using an app called Headspace. I struggle to switch off my thoughts, and can allow my thoughts to run away with me with not kept in check. I can also struggle with having my head always in the future. Meditation helps keep me in the present, and will help bring a little more calm to the start of the day.
#8 – Cold Contrast Shower with Wim Hof Breathing – By far, the one ritual that is both the most consistent and has the highest impact on my mood, energy and alertness, is my cold shower routine. You can read about the Contrast Shower approach, as well as the value Wim Hof technique if you're intrigued in the articles below. In total, I'm in the shower 10-12 mins, and when I come out, I am lit up like a Christmas tree.
Energised, cognitively sharp, usually buzzing with some good business ideas and feeling physically strong. I LOOOOVE my Contrast Showers with Wim Hof breathing, and do it every single day.
Even in the coldest days of the year, I'm showering under 15 and 48 degree showers, because the outcome is amazing. I NEVER look forward to it, but always am grateful I did it. Plus, it's a small dose of stoicism first thing in the morning, that sets me apart from most other people. It takes courage, strength of character and commitment to plunge yourself into a freezing cold shower, and as a result you feel proud and certain of yourself immediately after.
#9 – Strength Workout – 4-5 days a week, I get into the gym for 60-90mins to complete some heavy strength training. You can check out my workouts within the #HyperWorkouts area of AdapNation. I like to train first thing in the morning, as it's an integral part of amping up my mood for the rest of the day, plus my adherence and time management is more consistent if I get in the gym before life gets busy.
That said, I would perform better if I worked out mid-afternoon, but that for me is not possible.
With the above Morning Ritual, I give sufficiently to my mental, physical and emotional wellbeing first thing. My cup is full, meaning I can overflow and give to everyone and everything else so much more effectively and selflessly for the rest of the day.
It means that I start my day on the very best possible footing, as most of my needs are met, other than connection and achievement. So, if (and when) the day throws me a curveball and plans/intent is challenged, I've got both the resolve and comfort to flex and accommodate left field demands or surprises.
FULL CONFESSION: I've organised my life to work from home with minimal travel commitments, and I like to start work between 09:30-10:00. I'll work as long as needed to make meaningful progress that day, which means some days of long evening shifts to get things out. This approach works for me. It allows me to fill my cup up sufficiently in the morning, and then operate on my business for as long as needed.
What Morning Ritual Would Work For You?
Some people like to take the dog out for a walk, say some affirmations, get grateful, box-breathe, get into an infrared Sauna, do some intense HIIT training and many other habits.
For me, the current Morning Ritual works with my personality, available resources at home, and seems to offer the best return for the time invested. I'm sure it will adjust in time.
That said, everyone is different. The key is deciding to take control of your day, owning the outcomes you want to achieve, and designing your morning habits and rituals to support the mental state necessary to consistently have awesome days.
Has this stirred some emotion within to reorganise and prioritise your morning activities?
Do you have a Morning Ritual that works really well for you? If so, I'd be really interested to hear your approach! I'm always looking to learn from anyone who has figured out how to be their best.
What Happens After The Morning Ritual?
Well, I kick ass for the rest of the day, of course! 😉
In all seriousness, the Morning Ritual is only as effective as your plan and goals for the day. If there is no objective and plan, you've got yourself all fired up, but with nothing to aim for.
So planning your day needs some thought too. For me, I know I work best when I go into auto-pilot on the repetitive stuff, I automate where possible, and I block time upfront for the really important stuff. I'm keen to delay the inevitable daily decision-fatigue for as long as possible by taking these decisions away upfront.
But, I am torn between wanting to code up my whole day to the minute upfront, versus leaving some flexibility to go where my energy takes me.
Hence the reason I spent some time to develop my Perfect Day and Perfect Week. A aspirational template that guides my planning, execution, and level of satisfaction on any given day during my work week, whilst offering a reasonable amount of flexibility.
In the next article, I'll share with you more about my approach, it's intent and it's effectiveness.
Now, go own the day already! 😉
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The uses and abuses of constitutional pluralism: undermining the rule of law in the name of constitutional identity in Hungary and Poland
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This article explains why autocrats love constitutional pluralism and constitutional identity. Though these concepts were developed by scholars and jurists with the best of intentions in mind, we explain why they are also attractive to and inherently prone to abuse by autocrats. We then describe how the regimes in Hungary and Poland have made use of these concepts in their drive to consolidate autocracy. We conclude that given the dangers inherent in constitutional pluralism and its susceptibility to abuse, it should be replaced with a more traditional understanding of the primacy of EU law.
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In an
article last week I pointed to the copious evidence that our elections are headed straight towards disaster; a "Train Wreck". That "Train Wreck," however, may still be avoided. The engineers of one of those trains, as it were, are the elections officials who are allowing themselves to be cowed by vendors like ES&S, Sequoia, and Diebold. The disaster can be avoided, but it will require the election officials to switch their train to a different track - by first acknowledging that there are problems.
In order to begin that process those officials must finally realize that they are not alone. Counties across the country are finding the exact same problems. The bad ES&S memory cards were not just found in Summit County, Ohio; they were also found in North Carolina and probably other counties in other states. ES&S will fail to deliver on contracts for voting machines in many counties all across the country. Does anyone really expect the engineer of the other train -- the voting machine vendors -- to switch tracks? They only see the money bags at the end of the track and not the other train barreling down on them.
The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) -- created by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 -- has likewise not been doing their job. They seem to be content to just sit back and watch as voting systems across the country are in melt-down. Do they really serve any purpose other than to shovel out HAVA funding for these new systems to the states, who in turn pass them on to the vendors? It appears not. Take a look"
On Wednesday of this week a lawsuit was filed in Allegheny County, PA against the Secretary of State and other state elections officials, county elections officials, a US Attorney and the Attorney General of the United States. This lawsuit, brought by citizens of the county including two disabled individuals, seeks to stop the use of Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) iVotronic Direct Recording Electronic (DRE or touch-screen) voting machines.
In part, the complaint [WORD format] argues that the county decided to use their third-choice vendor, ES&S and their machines which are not accessible to people with disabilities as required by HAVA and the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The complaint also claims there isn't enough time to train poll workers and voters properly on the use of the new machines. The complaint includes US Attorney Kim and Attorney General Gonzalez for the pressure put on the county to make a decision at the last minute when both Kim and Gonzalez could clearly see that any decision made just five weeks before the state primary elections would surely lead to chaos.
In order to assuage the concerns of the voters in Allegheny County and most certainly to respond to the lawsuit, ES&S and the county announced that for the May primary they will add one DRE voting machine, an iVotronic, at each polling place and install precinct-based optical-scan machines for the use of overflow voters. Previous plans were that just one iVotronic would be used. The county and ES&S also announced that one of the two machines would be equipped with "sip-puff" technology to accommodate voters with mobility impairments.
Neither the county or ES&S has explained how they have previously been able to claim that the iVotronics, prior to this last-minute addition of the "sip-puff" technology, were accessible under the requirements of HAVA - despite the fact that ES&S has been making those claims all across the country for months. They have also not bothered to explain how they can make the required modifications to the machines -- which will include changes to hardware, firmware, and software -- and have those modifications both federally and state certified in a timely way to be used in November"nevermind May.
In an apparent attempt at misinforming the media and the voters, according to The Daily News, a spokesman for Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, Kevin Evanto made one of the silliest statements to date:
"The ES&S iVotronic machines are fully HAVA compliant," spokesman Kevin Evanto said. "They have been certified by both the U.S. government and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The optical scan machine does not have a voter-verifiable paper trail."
Even if it did, Evanto said it may violate state voter privacy provisions.
Unfortunately the reporter did not ask Evanto any follow-up questions about how the machines could possibly be HAVA compliant if they were talking about adding technology to make them compliant or how a voting system that uses a paper ballot as an integral part of that system does not have a "voter-verifiable paper trail." In fact, the paper ballots used with the optical-scan systems are both verifiable and verified by their very nature! Also not explained is how optical-scan systems "violate state voter privacy provisions" and why, if that is true, the county would allow them to be used in the primary at all!
By the way, County Executive Onorato is one of the defendants in the lawsuit and is one of those "engineers" who just can't seem to see the rail switch that might help him avert the "Train Wreck".
The Secretary of State of Indiana, Todd Rokita, announced investigative hearings will be held to investigate possible illegal actions by ES&S and another vendor, MicroVote, in the state. The hearing on MicroVote is scheduled for today and the ES&S hearing is yet to be scheduled. There is a potential fine of $300,000 per incident against both companies.
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With a vintage design and an elegant look, a vintage font can be the perfect thing needed to put your client's business first.
In this collection, we present some of the best vintage fonts you can use to add that vintage elegance to your designs. These fonts are especially suitable for various luxury brand designs, product labels, packaging, logo designs, and more.
To help you decide on the perfect font to convey your brand message successfully, we've compiled a list of 50+ retro and vintage fonts. Take a look below and get inspired.
Best Retro and Vintage Fonts for Your Project
Paralines is a free font with a retrofuturistic vibe to it. Inspiration for this came from both modern-day fonts and retro designs in the past.
Lazer 84 is a retro-style brush font inspired in the '80s. This font includes numbers, symbols and accents.
Ansley Display
Ansley Display is a past and modern retro-inspired display font made. This font free for commercial and personal use.
Akura Popo
Akura Popo is a vintage and classic condensed serif font with bold, tough-looking and robust style. Suits best for logo, headline, letterhead, sports theme designs, etc. Available in both OTF and TTF.
Retro Font
Retro font family was designed as a result of a love for typography, especially in the 20th century. As an experimental design, this font is given to the public for free and for any use.
Nexa Font
Nexa font family is suitable for headings of all sizes and text blocks in maximum and minimum width and height. Nexa font styles are applicable for any graphic design of digital, web, print, hard surfaces, fabrics, posters, logos, and branding.
Bukhari Script
Bukhari Script is a bold monoline cursive font. Very useful for various design projects, web or printing, such as a Logotype, Posters, Badges, Signage, Bussiness Card, T-shirt Design, or it can be anything.
Oldways Font
Oldways is a retro font that combines old western typography with the modern design style. It is highly suitable for posters, branding, logo, etc. You can easily give the feel of a retro design style in a modern way to your project.
Whisholder is a free vintage font and retro typeface is inspired by vintage lettering sign and art. Whisholder is perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, and any projects that need handwriting taste.
Fritch is a free vintage typeface with an elongated/condensed body. It is perfect for titles and headings in posters, book covers, magazines and more. Fritch is an uppercase only font and it is free for personal and commercial use.
Stone Board
Stone Board is a modern vintage typeface style with decorative characters and a dancing baseline! The typeface was inspired by lettering. So beautiful on logo like headline, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters.
Nathan Vintage
Nathan Vintage Script is inspired by modern vintage and retro style. This is a typeface that works perfectly to convey a vintage aesthetic. All characters have a poor shape that gives a natural look to this typeface.
Rousseau Deco
It is a sans serif font that features multilingual characters and also unique stylized O, R & S characters. This font is perfect for any retro design project as a standalone font or paired with others.
Nature Spirit
Nature Spirit is a unique vintage style font from Alex Joganic of 1871 Project. This font has retro stylings and features tons of alternate characters for creating custom types. This is perfect for vintage branding, logo & label design, apparel, lockups and much more!
The font is based on geometric shapes and has a very classy vintage look. Cheque looks best when used for headlines or compositions. The Cheque Regular and Cheque Black fonts are both free for personal and commercial use.
Parker is a handmade vintage-inspired font. It works great for vintage design, t-shirts, logos, posters and more. Free for personal use.
Lovelo free font is remake of the original Lovelo Inline – designed by Renzler Design, Vienna, Austria.
Aircraft models from the 40s inspired ailerons. The typeface was designed for an experimental project of air models and is now available for personal use.
Big John / Slim Joe
Create extraordinary typography with Nocturne, a vintage typeface that is available in 2 styles – Regular & Rough. It works perfectly for logos, headers, titles, prints & plenty of other creative possibilities.
The Helsinki free fonts cover the Western and Central European character set and come for desktop and web. To use the fonts, install the TTF files on your system.
Supria Sans
Supria Sans™ is an extended family of 36 fonts designed by Hannes von Döhren. It contains two widths, six weights and three styles, including the curvy, feminine Italic, and the more conventional Oblique.
Cast Iron
WT Bradford was designed by Winston Type Co. and is inspired by the old-fashioned display, traditional sign-writing and packaging in the early 1900's, the ubiquitous letter-heads, trade cards, advertising circulars and bills that were common in everyday life.
Orwellian is a reversed-stress typeface designed for display use.
Swiss Grit
Swiss Grit is a font inspired by my 90s design heroes' work and a passion for Letraset typographic dry transfers.
Booster Vintage
Booster Vintage is a handcrafted script vintage font. This script typeface gives a feel of vintage, classic, old, handmade looked like because the process of the font itself through the scanning process and carved digitally, the texture itself is well crafted and added carefully in each character.
Arvil has strong lines with rounded, soft terminals to produce a strong yet friendly letterform. Available in all caps with numerals, punctuation, and a wide range of symbols, Arvil is versatile and sure to deliver your next message with style.
Vintage Stylist
Vintage Stylist is a modern vintage serif font loaded with alternates and ligatures that makes for stunning logos, quotes, wedding invites, blog posts, Instagram, and more!
Vintage Dreams
Vintage Dreams is a modern yet groovy bold script is here to help you make a statement in your projects! Comes in Hairline/ brush SVG and a clean, solid version.
Vintage Varsity
Vintage Varsity was inspired by that classic iron-on letterman jacket your "cool" uncle wore in high school.
Milan is a gorgeous and classic all-caps sans serif that looks stunning in just about every context. Use it for logos, print, collage, body text, and more!
Huscon is a great typeface for achieving an authentic vintage aesthetic as seen in the display images.
Celestial Typeface is a handmade Victorian handlettering, which is combining modern and classic typography with some awesome features. Yes we back to early 1800s, bring classic touch on this decade.
Creative Vintage
Creative Vintage is a modern serif with vintage charm, fashion look and retro yet modern style.
Old Pines Vintage
Old Pines Typeface is a sans serif font, it has a modern vintage look design styles. The font have smooth edges to simulate the look of an vintage printing, so it will bring a vintage handmade looked like.
Baroneys is a vintage serif font textured, suitable for your next creative project like suitable for art, modern envelope lettering or book design, poster, craft design, any Branding project, pop vintage designy.
Baheula Vintage
Baheula is a highly detailed vintage handcrafted font inspired from hand-drawn lettering and vintage style, to work together in aesthetic for creating masterful handlettering designs in a flash!
Mogan is an upper and lowercase serif font with nicely balanced curves. Its wide range of stylistic alternates allows versatile design options and works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, postcards and much more.
Bignord is a brand new fonts with vintage look and style inspired from many vintage packaging and from typographic cover lettering.
Blackriver is inspired by vintage packaging and advertising from the early 20th century. It is perfect for vintage logo design, headlines or packaging design.
Reuben is a display typeface inspired by vintage fascia signage of New York City's lower east side. Specifically, these letterforms were designed to mimic the immigrant delicatessens that popped up around the turn of the century.
Andromeda is a vintage, yet modern, soft serif font. This retro looking font was inspired by Oswald Bruce Cooper's famous font Cooper Black.
ROTHE is a luxury vintage lettering style fonts. Inspired by the branding from the vintage classic era with the full decorative feels and complex design but still get the luxury feels right away.
Sarcastic is a font display is made by hand, inspired by classic posters.
Summer 0f 76
Summer of 76 is a nostalgic multi-line font inspired by the 70's aesthetic. Perfect for headers, can be used for text blocks also.
Muara is a typeface classic taste ,very suitable as to make a design choice for books, magazines, packaging, branding , signage and more other creative project.
Thistails is font duo with modern vintage look design styles, available on script and Display Sans serif typeface.
Royal Signage is a font inspired by beautiful vintage sign art and lettering. The font comes with special uppercase letters and 38 alternate characters to give your designs an elegant and artistic look.
Charoe is a playful and elegant sans serif, perfect for branding projects, headlines, posters and packaging!
Rumble Brave
Rumble Brave Typeface is perfect for beverage label design project. coffee label. logotype design, badges, classic wedding concept. victorian design concept and so on. gig poster, letterhead, droop cap, titles, and any artworks.
Drone Ranger
Drone Ranger is a geometric display family that includes 9 various styles for your designing needs. Drone Ranger lends itself perfectly to sports design, logos, posters, packaging, brochures, t-shirts, and so much more!
American Label
American Label is a typeface vintage font. Its masculine style makes it perfect for logos, typography, and product labels that require a classic and masculine touch. This font is available in 3 styles, namely, clean, rough and striped.
The Letterpress & Stamp Fonts Bundle
Inspired by vintage rubber stamps on old envelopes and postcards, this bundle with solid and textured letters will help you create the perfect hand-pressed effect. There are 158 fonts divided across 42 font families included in this bundle.
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