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D-6 Wednesday, August 30, 2017 The Press-Dispatch OBITUARIES Submit obituaries: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: obits@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday Shelba Shoultz went to Montana Mikes with the Se- nior Saints group from First Baptist Church on Thursday with an extra large turnout. They had a great time, but it was also sad knowing this was the last time that Pas- tor Mark and Cinda would be attending. Pastor Mark has accepted the call to lead the congregation at First Baptist Church in Dunkirk, New York and will be mov- ing soon. Randy Armstrong went to a dentist's appointment in Princeton on Friday morn- ing. He's scheduled for oral surgery on September 11 in Evansville. Walt and Marcella Robb went to lunch for breaded tenderloins. The Robbs love the tenderloins because they're so large they make a few meals for each of them. Theresa Loveless went to the doctor on Friday for a check-up. Luella White went to Gib- son General Hospital on Thursday morning to see her skin doctor about the spot they removed from her arm. The biopsy results did reveal cancer, so the doctor has scheduled surgery on Wednesday. A fter the appoint- ment, she went out for lunch. Donna Horrall played eu- chre at the Blue Jean Center in Monroe City on Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday, they had their normal fam- ily dinner and on Thursday she spent time with a distant cousin exchanging geneal- ogy information. Donna is still working on her beauti- ful quilts in her spare time. Sue Ellen Barton and her son Derek went to Sue El- len's cousin Janice L. Kis- sel's funeral at Colvin Funer- al Home in Princeton. Maggie True Armstrong took her mom Judy True to Princeton on Saturday afternoon for lunch. They stopped at the produce mar- ket before returning home. SUBMIT YOUR NEWS If you'd like to see your news and events in the Per- sonals Column, call Judy at (812) 354-6502 or email your notes to pikeperson- als@wildblue.net. My mail- ing address is 7438 W. State Rd. 56, Hazleton, IN 47640. We'd love to hear from you and share your happenings. looked tired, like the jour- nalist you'd see running on no sleep after tying himself to a tree to report a hurri- cane. (As it turns out, "tired" is an industry look for people who work in newspapers). He wore worn jeans and a button up and asked us what we would write a col- umn on, if we had one. My hand shot up. "I'd write about really important, like, life stuff," I said. "Like the meaning of life." He nodded and called on someone else, my friend Sarah, who also thought life and love would be a good choice. "You've got to get away from this life stuff," he ad- vised. "What you want is something specific." He lauded the friend who wanted to write about fibromyalgia and the one who wanted to write about getting into the military— these, he said, were real subjects, and that medical stuff is popular, he said. Then we veered off on the topic of what we all thought of the song "Amer- ican Woman," which from my perspective, was not much. It's Garrett Matthews my husband reminds me of when he says I write too much about my life, or what he calls, women's topics. Childrearing, spray tans, my lackluster camping skills—these are women's topics. My husband is also a writer, and his latest proj- ect, outside a duck-umenta- ry aimed at getting children duck facts, is a screenplay featuring a team of janitors that end up tangled in with the mob. Of course he had to turn "Jerry" into "Jenny" when he realized he had no janitorial love interest, and every action film needs a love interest. This, he said, is guy stuff. "Guy stuff," I scoff, re- minding him that I am not the one who wrote an en- tire duck-puppet rap—yes rap—about the Pekin duck. I remind him I am not the one that caught a dad- dy long legs on a card and dropped it outside on the porch instead of squishing it. ( When I objected that it would only get back in, he said it wouldn't because he was shutting and locking the door on the way in). Marriage isn't guy stuff, Connie Chung isn't guy stuff, childhood isn't guy stuff. "You're really limit- ing your audience," said the guy who spent sever- al years as a stay-at-home dad but still lectures me on what guys are interested in. "We outnumber you," I tell him in a clipped tone. "What? " "Women. We outnumber you. One day, it's just going to be people stuff." He laughs at the idea that one day he will care about spray tans and mom prob- lems, as if I've told him he's going to don one of those T-shirts about how much moms like wine. That's the complicated thing about sometimes hating the peo- ple you love. You can't get them out of your head, even when you sit down swearing you won't, again, write about stuff that's not "guy stuff." In the Barniak house- hold, I internally narrate in a voice that is some- how both mine and Connie Chung's, women's liberation has played out on a small- er scale, and leaving anger and frustration in its wake. How do you feel about your husband's attitudes? Is this really worth fighting over? " Chung asks the tough questions. Well Connie, I imagine myself saying, I just have to ask myself again why hu- mans, like geese, insist on mating for life. You don't see the bees with writer's block. During copulation, the male bee explodes, leav- ing them unable to foster self doubt in their partner. I bet the queen bee doesn't worry about whether her writing includes enough "guy stuff." In my mind, Chung's eyes are wide at the mention of the exploding bees, and I realize it's CBS Chung of the 1980s, with her beauti- ful moon of an unlined face, interviewing me in this sce- nario, which makes sense because in some way all our marriages our dated to the decades we were born in, harkening back to the real- ities we experienced in our origin families. That's quite a visual, she would say. Back to you, Dan. ROGER L. KNIGHT Roger L. Knight, 72, of Otwell, died at 4:35 p.m. on August 27, 2017, at his resi- dence. He was born December 23, 1944, in Evansville, to Jack R. and Clarice (Perry) Knight, and married Do- ris Redman on January 29, 1966. He was a graduate of Mt. Vernon High School, Mur- ray State University, and the University of Kentucky for Agriculture teaching li- cense. He then received his master's from the Universi- ty of Evansville. He taught agriculture at Galaton Co. High School in Warsaw, Ky., Otwell High School and Pike Central High School. His member- ships included Otwell Unit- ed Methodist Church, Jeffer- son Township Ruritan Club, National Agriculture Teach- ers Association and the Na- tional Rifle Association. Surviving are his wife, Doris (Redman) Knight, of Otwell; a son, Ryan (Amy) Knight, of Hope, Ind.; a daughter, Debra Lynn (Ed- ward) Tryon, of Otwell; and four grandchildren. A Celebration of Life will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 2, 2017, at the Otwell United Methodist Church, with Pastor Logan McCullough officiating. In lieu of flowers, the fam- ily requests donations be made to the Roger Knight Family Scholarship Fund (checks payable to Pike Co. Community Foundation, with Roger Knight in the memo field), PO Box 587, Petersburg, IN 47567. K AY ELLEN NELSON Kay Ellen Nelson, 68, of Marietta, Ga., passed away peacefully in her sleep at home on Friday, August 18, 2017. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, teacher and friend. She grew up in Winslow, and was a graduate of Winslow HS Class of 1967, where she was an Eskimo cheerleader, ma- jorette, band member, Rain- bow Girl and choir member. Two years after graduation, she married her high school sweetheart, Eldon. She is survived by both her daughters, Leah (Scot) Stankiewicz and Heath- er (Paul) Rattin; and four granddaughters. She was preceded in death by her husband of 38 years, Eldon Nelson; and her par- ents, Kermit Earl Auten and Barbara Powers Auten. Visitation was at Mays Ward Dobbins Funeral Home in Marietta on Thurs- day, Aug. 24, 2017, from 5 - 7 p.m. The service to cele- brate Kay's life was at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, at the First Presbyterian Church of Marietta. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Marcus Autism Center of Children's Health- care of Atlanta. MARK T. DUNN Mark T. Dunn, 61, of Washington, died at 6 a.m. on August 16, 2017, at his residence. He was born in Daviess County on September 27, 1955, to John and Norma L. Dunn. He was a former employ- ee of Solar Sources. He is survived by his mother, Norma L. Dunn, of Otwell; two sons, Dan- iel Dunn, of Charlestown, Ind., and David Dunn, of El- berfeld; one sister, Kathy Noland, of Otwell; and one grandchild. Graveside services were at 11 a.m., Monday, August 21, 2017, at Walnut Hills Cemetery in Petersburg. PERSONALS Continued from page 2 ORIGINS Continued from page 1 Thank You e family of Donald W. Davis would like to thank everyone for their kind words, flowers, cards, food, visits and donations to the Hornady Park fund. We also want to thank the staff of Amber Manor, Janet Graff, Heart to Heart Hospice, Dr. Keepes and Har - ris Funeral Home. ey all helped make a difficult time much easier for our family. A very special thank you to Pastor Barry Whitaker for making the trip to Petersburg to perform the service for Donnie and the women of the First United Methodist Church for providing the delicious meal for our family and friends. Your love and kindness will be remembered. Nancy Davis and Family PEACE of MIND Let our 125 years of experience aid you in your selection of a meaningful memorial. SCHUM MONUMENTS, INC. Dale, Indiana www.SchumMonuments.com 937-4921 Local Representative RONALD WOODS 789-2009 Hackers, humans, and an FBI operative By Scott A. Hartley Technology Columnist As our plane slowly tax- ied down the Indianapolis International Airport run- way shortly after 7 a.m., the pilot announced he just received word our takeoff had been delayed for 35 minutes. Early morning conges- tion at Atlanta, the nation's busiest airport and our lay- over destination, was the cause. Upon landing, Christian and I rapidly disembarked one plane and raced to the gate across the aisle just in time to board our flight to Austin, Texas. Thankfully, our stowed luggage made it as well! It made for an interest- ing start to our education- al vacation to learn from ex- perts at the CompTIA Part- ner Summit about the cur- rent and future states of cybersecurity. MEETING AN FBI UNDERCOVER OPERATIVE Eric O'Neill captured ours and the audience's at- tention with his keynote luncheon presentation. O'Neill served as an un- dercover FBI operative tasked with building a case against Robert Hans- sen, an FBI agent who had been sharing national secu- rity secrets with the Soviet Union for over two decades. His work ultimately led to Hanssen's conviction on 15 counts of espionage. You can watch the re- cording of his 50 -minute dy- namic speech on Facebook at www.bit.ly/fbi- operative. WHO'S HACKING YOU? Not all that long ago, most hackers were bored com- puter-savvy teenagers test- ing their hacking skills. Seldom were they looking to steal your information for profit. They wanted to earn their bragging rights among their peers. Today, however, organ- ized criminals spanning multiple countries per- form cybercrimes designed to steal your personal and business information for profit. Using advanced hacking techniques, it's of- ten difficult to detect and prosecute these crime rings. THINK YOU'RE NOT AT RISK? Unfortunately, most peo- ple – including many I talk to every day – hold the er- rant belief that cybercrimi- nals only attack large cor- porations and government agencies. A fter all, what could they possibly be inter- ested in on your home or small business PC? These crooks know it's much easier to break in- to your computers and steal your personal information. Because you're not as likely to have robust, mul- ti-layered (yet afforda- ble) security protections in place. On your home com- puter, they're capturing: • Bank account and oth- er financial information • Passwords • Credit card numbers • Social security num- bers On your small business computer, they're looking for: • Stored credit card num- bers • Bank account informa- tion • Customer information • Employee information • Passwords THE WEAKEST LINK Although having the right hardware and soft- ware technology in place is crucial to deterring cy- bercriminals, the weakest link exposing the most se- rious vulnerability to your personal information is the human using the computer. I talk to clients every week who fall victim to the hackers' sneaky attacks. • Some click on links in a legitimate-looking email purporting to come from their bank or credit card company. • Others allow unknown persons remote access to their computer when they receive an unsolicit- ed phone call telling them their computer is infected. • Some call phony tech- nical support phone num- bers for assistance with Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo. (By the way, you can't reach them by phone!) You and your employees, if you run a business, must become and stay educated about how to avoid letting cybercriminals steal your personal information. Oth- erwise, the consequences could be devastating and costly. If you'd like more infor- mation on practical how-to steps you can take to be bet- ter protected at home and at work, email me at info@cal- ibre-cs.com. Scott A. Hartley is the President/CEO of Cali- bre Computer Solutions in Princeton. 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