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.
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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
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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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