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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 28,2005 - FIVE L exington G range dictionaries to HES donates Meteorite program set for Boardman Library Students of Mrs. Osmin’s third grade class received dictionaries from the Lexington Grange. They were presented by substitute teacher Dennis Peck (left), Principal Jack Thompson (right) and Grange member Clarence Buchanan (far right). For a third year, the Lexington Grange has donated dictionaries to the third grade students at H eppner Elementary School. Clarence Buchanan, a member of the Lexington Grange, presented the dictionaries to students of Mrs. Cara Osm in’s third grade class on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Twenty-one students received the dictionaries. GT has new work experience student Mahaley Huddleston M ahaley H uddleston, a 16-year-old ju n io r at Heppner High School, has started work experience at The Heppner Gazette Times as part of a school credit. Huddleston is the Student Body Vice President this year. She is part of National Honor Society, a Stars Teen leader and an active athlete. She has not yet decided on what college to attend, since she’s only a junior, but she knows she wants to be involved with journalism and acting. “1 wanted to pick a work experience that would help me in the future, after high school, and working at the H eppner G azette T im es w ill do ju s t th a t,” stated Huddleston. She lives in Heppner with her mom and dad. Mark and Janice Huddleston, and younger brother, Jared, 14. Her older brother Kyle just moved to Eugene to attend University of Oregon. Over the Tee Cup Ladies of Willow Creek Country Club gathered for their second to the last playday of the year on Sept. 20. Pat Edmundson took low gross of the field. Bernice Lott took low net of the field. Suzanne Jepsen took least putts of the field. In flight A, Eva Kilkenny took low gross; Corol Mitchell took low net; Janice Paustian took least putts; and Eva Kilkenny took long drive. In flight B, Luvilla Sonstegard took low gross; Virginia Grant took low net; Betty Christman took least putts; and Lynnea Sargent took long drive. In flight C, Lorrene Montgomery took low gross. Edmundson, Christman and Jepsen each were closest to the pin on hole #4. Sonstegard had a chip in on hole #2 and Jepsen had one on hole #6. A sp ec ia l fam ily program about meteorites will be held at the Boardman Public Library on Monday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. The program is free and open to persons of all ages and is sponsored by the nonprofit Libraries of Eastern Oregon (LEO) and the Oregon Trail Library District. This event kicks off a special weeklong tour for the meteorite program. The program will be held at 7 p.m. each evening and will be at public libraries at La G rande on Oct. 4, Baker City on Oct. 5, Bums on Oct. 6 and Prineville on Oct. 7. A cco rd in g to scientists, in eastern Oregon there is likely at least one meteorite lying on the earth’s surface within every half square mile. R ich ard Pugh, a leading scientist with the C a sc a d ia M eteo rite Laboratory at Portland State U niversity will present a lively program that includes a power point presentation and question and answ er period. Pugh said he will b rin g $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 w orth o f meteorites with him and he encourages those attending to touch and handle the meteorites. “To date not one meteorite has been found in O reg o n east o f the Cascades,” Pugh said, noting that only a total o f three meteorites have ever been found in Oregon. “The eastside of the state is most intriguing to scientists. We know that th ere are m eteo rites out there and that it’s ju st a matter of time until one is found,” Pugh said. Pugh ask s that anyone with a rock that he or she th in k s m ay be a meteorite, to please bring it to the ev en t for identification. Most meteorites are heavy, m ag n etic and irregular in shape, often with indentations that resemble th um bprints. T hey often appear rusty w ith a thin black or brown coating from being hurled through space. This program is one in a series of family science p ro g ram s th at w ill be brought to public libraries by LEO and the library district, which are in partnership with The O regon M useum o f S cien ce and In d u stry (OM SI) to bring science and sp ace scien ce to rural Oregon. With the support of Oregon’s federal delegation, OM SI has obtained $1.9 million to date from NASA over a two and a half year period to develop and roll out the STARS Program - Science, Technology And R u ral S tu d en ts. The m eteorite program is one aspect of STARS. Other STARS efforts include bringing O M SI’s portable Discovery Dome planetarium to rural schools and lib raries and d ev elo p m en t o f funding sources for technology tools such as telescopes and global positioning units for schools and lib ra rie s. Video conferencing units have been purchased for rural libraries, including at Hermiston and La Grande, and for some schools in eastern Oregon to fa c ilita te the e lec tro n ic delivery of OMSI programs to the rural area. O M SI’s Discovery Dome is scheduled to be at Windy River Elem entary School in Boardman all day on Tuesday, Oct. 18; at lone E lem en tary School on Wednesday, Oct. 19; and at Heppner Elementary School on Tliursday, Oct. 20. Once inside the real planetarium, students will “jo u rn e y ” to the stars, constellations and celestial highlights of the night sky. The 25-minute program will start at the top of each hour and includes a live guide through the current night sky that is tailored to each grade level. “We’re really excited t.o have the m eteo rite pro g ram and D isco v ery Dome come to Boardman th is fa ll,” said M arsha R ichm ond, O regon Trail Library D istrict D irector who also serves on the LEO board. “T h ese are wonderful opportunities for re sid e n ts in o ur lib rary district and both reinforce the concept that libraries can o ffe r so m uch to the community.” LEO serv es 42 public libraries in 14 counties o f eastern O regon. For further information about the m eteorite laboratory, see m e te o rite s.p d x .e d u . For further information about the STARS project or OM SI’s D isco v ery D om e, see www.omsi.edu or contact Richmond at 481-3365 or Lyn Craig, LEO executive director at (541) 763-2355. VVAF accepting nominations for Torch for Tomorrow award Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) is accepting nominations for its first Torch for Tomorrow Awards, to be held in New York City on Nov. 10, 2005, and w e'd love for someone from your community to be nominated. The awards will be presented to veterans and humanitarians who most exemplify the mission of VVAF. an international humanitarian organization that addresses the causes, conduct and consequences o f war through programs of advocacy and service for victims of conflict. The organization is launching the awards in celebration of its 25,h anniversary this year. (This year also marks the 30“’ anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.) Nomination forms are available at www.VVAF.org and must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Oct. 31, 2005. $ 5 0 0 R EW A R D Internet Security Part 2 Hiding in Plain Sight By Pat Strutters T h e re ’s a lot o f o v e rla p in the v ario u s methods of securing your c o m p u te r from secu rity threats on the Internet. For convenience I’ve reordered the list I gave at the end of my last article to group related strategies. Here are the first two: -S hut dow n y o u r Internet connection when you are not using it. -Install a firewall and make sure it’s working when you are connected. If you’ve been using a dial-up Internet connection for years, the first is familiar to you, even if you haven’t been doing it for reasons of security. Most households and many businesses share their dial-up line with a voice or fax line. Disconnecting the modem connection to the In te rn e t ro u tin ely is necessary just to free up the phone line for other use. But the risk s multiply when you graduate to a DSL or w ireless connection. Since you are no longer tying up a phone line, you d o n ’t have that sq u ea lin g noise on the extension to remind you that your modem is still on. The user of such a service is more likely to forget to shut down the connection when it’s not in use. So, when you obtain such a service, it’s important to know how to shut it down. Unattended, u n sec u re d , h ig h -sp eed connections to the Internet are a bonanza for digital criminals: they can easily break into and install stealth software to assist them in th e ir e x p lo its. Such a corrupted computer, called a “bot,” can maintain its own connection with similarly corrupted machines on the Internet. Such a network, a “botnet,” forms a pool of computing power that the criminal can use for a wide variety of attacks, including sp am -b ased p assw o rd hacking (phishing), denial- of-service (DoS) attacks on large w eb sites, or even scanning the Internet for other vulnerable computers. O b v io u sly , to m in im ize the risk , you should be connected to the Internet as little as possible, right? “But, but,” you say. “I need to get work done (eBay tra d in g , In te rn e t poker, C ounter S trik e...). There must be some way to hide my presence on the Internet so that the evil hordes can’t get me.” And indeed there is; it’s called a firewall. A ll p erso n al computers, out of the box, have security “holes.” This is true of any machine with any version of Windows, and to a lesser extent those with some version of Unix, Linux or a Mac OS. A firewall is sim ply a h ard w are or software system that tries to close these holes without w alling you off from the Internet completely. W indow s XP and 2003, along with most DSL and wireless modems and ro u te rs, have b u ilt in firew alls. These are very For information leading to the conviction or persona com m itting criminal acts to or against property belonging to Morrow County Cabin Owners TREATED WITH RAXIL & LINDANE $8.80/BU ANDERSON SEED 422-7204 County Sheriffs Dept, at 676- 5317 with Information. I TT»» HEPPNER GT NEWS AND ADVERTISING DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5 P.M. CLEARFIELD 101 Association Members. Please contact the Morrow M m e ffe ctiv e at b lo c k in g incoming traffic and hiding your computer’s location on the Internet, but they have to be turned on in ord er to work. XP and 2003 will annoy you with irritating messages if their firewalls aren ’t on, but this is not necessarily the case with DSL and w ire le ss equipment. This hardware, usually provided by your ISP, may very w ell be delivered with the firewall tu rn ed off. It is very important that you read the documentation that comes with your modem or router and make sure you know how to check the firewall se ttin g s. Your ISP can answer such questions also. While the above are very good at p rev en tin g attacks on your com puter from the outside, they are of little use once your computer is infected by “m alware.” M ost co m p u ters are compromised not by direct attacks from the Internet, but through in d irect m eans: email attachments that install viruses when you open them or tainted websites that use your b ro w ser (In te rn e t Explorer, usually) to install spyware. For any W indow s m achine, a m ore c o m p reh en siv e p ack ag e such as ZoneAlarm (free), Norton Internet Security, or M cA fee F irew all is recommended. These block incoming traffic and also can be trained to allow “good” p ro g ram s to reach the Internet, w hile blocking unauthorized ones. They are trickier to configure but they o ften in clu d e sp y w are/ adware protection and email scanning. U nix and L inux- based machines come with a variety of extremely effective and fle x ib le firew a ll program s; in fact, many Internet service providers have a Linux/Unix-machine specifically designed to act as a dedicated firewall. W hile the security risks described above are relatively rare compared to those arisin g from poor em ail and w eb-brow sing h a b its, they are m ore d an g ero u s b ecau se they allow crim inals to easily subvert computers to their own use. If you have a DSL/ Wireless connection and/or a current version of XP, use the firewall provided, and think seriously about getting a better one. Minimize your footprint on the Internet by sh u ttin g dow n your connection when it is not in use. These rules are both easy and cheap to follow and will drastically reduce your v u ln e ra b ility to casu a l attacks. 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