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A-4 Wednesday, August 26, 2020 The Press-Dispatch I just want to express my gratitude to everyone who sent prayers, thoughts, cards, gi baskets, and donations during my recent illness. Your prayers are a big reason I believe I'm still here. Your generous donations have helped alleviate my stress level during this trying time. My recovery will be a slow one, but please know I am eternally grateful! Sincerely, Amy Lee and Family Thank You! INTRODUCING OUR NEWEST PHYSICIAN Glen Oriaifo, MD Psychiatrist Now accepting new patients! 515 Bayou Street Vincennes, IN 47591 812-886-6800 | gshvin.org Traylor celebrates 97th birthday with card shower A card show- er is planned to celebrate the 97th birthday of Norma Tray- lor on Sept. 4. Norma worked for many years as the drive- through tell- er at Integra Bank and fol- lowing retire- ment, spends her time work- ing in her flow- er garden. Cards may be sent to her at 410 S. 5th St., Petersburg, IN 47567. Drew celebrates 84th birthday with card shower Ronald Drew, at Amber Manor Care Center, will be celebrating his 84th birthday on Monday, August 31. He lived with Louie and Ella Mae Cockerham in Pe- tersburg for several years and worked at their antique store. A fter their passing, he went to live with Harry and Deanie Lee in Elnora, where he drove a semi and helped them show their extensive antique International Har- vester tractor collection all over the United States. A fter their passing, he went to live at Amber Manor. Send cards to: Ronnie Drew, Amber Manor Care Center, 801 E. Illinois Street, Petersburg, IN 47567. Birthdays Norma Traylor Ronald Drew To enter the Birthday Club, email your name, ad- dress, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@ pressdispatch.net. Only the person's name, town and birth- day will appear in the paper. As an added bonus, one lucky person each month will re- ceive a free three month Press-Dispatch subscription. This month's birthdays have a chance to win a $25 gift certifi- cate to Silk Designs, in Petersburg. THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Marcia Hathaway ......................... Winslow .............8/26 Shane Randolph .......................... Winslow .............8/29 Frederick McClellan .................. Petersburg .............9/1 THIS MONTH'S SPONSOR 816 E. Main St., Petersburg • 812-789-3046 NEWS BRIEFS Volunteers needed for Benner Bark Park Work at the Benner Bark Park in Petersburg will con- tinue this Saturday and next. Bridget Butcher said a group of volunteers are planning to work a few hours this Satur- day, beginning at 8 a.m. Any volunteer help would be ap- preciated. Petersburg Senior Citizen Center will be offering senior lunch today On Wednesday, Aug. 26, the Petersburg Senior Citizen Center will be offering seniors lunch beginning at 11 a.m. This will be a carry-out only at the Petersburg courthouse basement, 801 Main Street. For pricing and for more information, contact Phyllis Jones at 812-766 -2945. Upcoming event? We want to know! Do you have an upcoming event? Send it to news@press- dispatch.net. Pike County Community Foundation announces grant opportunity The Pike Community Foun- dation is now accepting online applications for their Commu- nity Good Grants Program. The deadline to submit appli- cations is September 15, 2020. The Foundation awards Community Good grants to charitable partners located in or directly serving Pike County. Funding opportuni- ties are available to support a broad range of local needs. Grants are normally given as one-time support of a project but may be considered for ad- ditional support or for expan- sions or outgrowths of an ini- tial project. Charitable entities can view details related to funding re- quirements and access the grant application via the Foun- dation's website at www.Com- munityFoundationAlliance. org/Pike/grants. Agencies and projects not eligible for funding include religious organizations pro- posing activities that support a religious purpose, political parties or campaigns, endow- ment creation or debt reduc- tion, capital campaigns, annu- al appeals or membership con- tributions, and travel requests for groups or individuals such as bands, sports teams, or school classes. For questions, contact Cin- dy Gaskins at director@pike- communityfoundation.org The Pike County Commu- nity Foundation is one of nine affiliates of the Community Foundation Alliance. The Al- liance holds more than 1,200 named funds established by individuals, families, busi- nesses, civic groups, and agencies to improve the qual- ity of life throughout south- western Indiana, with chari- table assets of over $100 mil- lion. During our most recent fiscal year, grants and schol- arships awarded from all Al- liance funds to benefit pro- grams, projects, and people in the 9 affiliate counties totaled $ 3,323,968. The Alliance pro- vides management, adminis- trative, and development ex- pertise and services, so every local affiliate foundation can focus on promoting philan- thropy, building endowment, and grantmaking, making a difference in their communi- ty today and for years to come. Research team looking to patch code in embedded systems, aid in cybersecurity By Kelsey Schnieders Lefever, Purdue News kschnied@purdue.edu Three Purdue Univer- sity researchers and their teammates at the Universi- ty of California, Santa Bar- bara and Swiss Federal Insti- tute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have received a DAR- PA (Defense Advanced Re- search Projects Agency) grant to fund research that will im- prove the process of patching code in vulnerable embedded systems. Purdue's Antonio Bian- chi and Dave Tian, both as- sistant professors of comput- er science; and Dongyan Xu, the Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science and direc- tor of CERIAS (the Center for Education and Research in In- formation Assurance and Se- curity); and their team mem- bers received the grant, which totals about $ 3.9 million as part of a project called "As- sured Micropatching." The project is expected to last four years. "Many embedded systems, like computer systems run- ning in trucks, airplanes and medical devices, run old code for which the source code and the original compilation tool- chain are unavailable," Bian- chi said. "Many old software components running in these systems are known to con- tain vulnerabilities; however, patching them to fix these vul- nerabilities is not always pos- sible or easy." Without source code, patch- ing a vulnerability necessi- tates editing the binary code directly, Bianchi said. Addi- tionally, even in a system that has been patched, there is no guarantee that the patch will not interfere with the original functionality of the device. Be- cause of these difficulties, he said, the code running in em- bedded systems is often left unpatched, even when it is known to be vulnerable. The team's proposed ap- proach entails defining and verifying a set of properties that a patch must have to en- sure it doesn't interfere with the device's original function- ality. The research also aims to develop automatic and min- imal code patching for devic- es that may be vulnerable to cyberattacks. Minimizing modifications, Bianchi said, will require minimal resourc- es to verify the patched code and prevent the device's func- tionality from being harmed. In addition, they will also de- velop new ways to test the patched code, which does not require it to run on real hard- ware. All three researchers are af- filiated with CERIAS, which is providing administrative assistance. The researchers are looking for graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers to work on this project. DARPA, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, funds re- search in breakthrough tech- nologies for national security. It was established in 1958 as part of the U.S. Department of Defense. Pregnant... or think you are? 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