Rotary Club of Casper WY
Meeting Summary
08/26/2019
President John Griffith called the meeting to order promptly at 12:25, with the ring of the bell and welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.
Inspiration, Pledge, 4-Way Test:
Paul Wilhelm
Greeters:
Eric Schlidt and Katie Caldwell Burchett were our greeters today and Katie introduced the members who brought guests:
- Cori Burton introduced Cameron Ross (Visit Casper);
- Dan White introduced his daughter Alexis White and Aaron Schilling (Orthopedic PA);
- Brad Bodoh introduced Kira Johnson (Development Director BSA);
- Lisa Scroggins introduced her daughter Allie Scroggins;
Song and Merriment:
Gary Pehrson led us in singing Cowboy Joe;
Family of Rotary:
President John Griffith let us know that Dan O’Dell’s mom is in Hospice so keep them in your thoughts.
Rotarians of the Week:
Joe MacGuire nominated and thanked everyone who helped with the fundraiser for the Wyoming Veteran’s Museum and Fort Casper on the 17th. Brad Cundy, Tom Thorson, David Brui, Guy DeWitt, Steve Loftin, Don Cline, Al Metz, and Tony Valdez.
Mike Stepp nominated everyone who donated prizes for the Duck Derby as well as all those who helped pick up the prizes. He also nominated his son Ryan from the 5 trails club, and his staff from his store who also helped.
Membership:
Rick Reimann received his Paul Harris +5 and Dusty Johnson received his PH +3 today. Congratulations and Thank you for your donations.
Aaron Schilling, sponsored by Dan White was inducted into the Club today, welcome aboard, we look forward to getting to know you Aaron.
Announcements:
President John told us about the District Water project, Dig Deep and said that the District is asking all clubs to commit as clubs and individuals to help and donate with this project. Our Board has committed $2500 as a club to this project so if you wish to donate you can do so through your club account.
He also let us know that in conjunction with the Five Trails Club, in order to encourage interclub interaction, both clubs are waiving the meal charge for visiting Rotarians from the other club. So if you wish to attend their club meeting on a Thursday noon at the Ramada you can now do so and not incur the meal charge.
Leah Reeb Varela announced that this Wednesday August 28th from 5:30 to 8PM will be the unveiling of the Rev. James Reeb Mural. There are invitations on each table and she would love for everyone to attend.
Program (Super Nerd):
PE Lisa Scroggins introduced our speaker today, Jedadiah Shenefelt, owner of Super Nerd Tech Support here in Casper. Jedadiah is here to speak to us about the importance of password security. He started by talking about how hackers get ahold of our passwords and how they hack them. He said that our passwords are stored online by the site in a code rather than the actual password, these codes are called a Hash. Your password that you create is run through an algorithm which turns it into the hash and then the hash is what they keep on their server. These Algorithms that turn the password into a Hash are very well known as there are not very many of them so when a hacker breaks into a server they then obtain these Hashes and they then set up an Algorithm to guess what the passwords are. There are two types of attacks to guess the passwords they have the Hash for. The first is called a Brute Force attack, it is very simple but very tedious task. They set up their algorithm to guess each letter so the longer and more complex the password the harder it is to guess and the longer it takes. The Math behind it is there are 52 letters to choose from both upper case and lower case so you take the number 52 to the power of however many letters are in the password, so if you have an 8 digit password then there are 52^8 possibilities for that password. If your password has other characters in it then that increases the number of possibilities. The other attack is called a dictionary attack. He showed us a list of the 50 most popular passwords that they start with. The fourth most popular one is Password. Most attacks are a mixture of both Brute Force and Dictionary attacks. They use the computer to do the guessing so it doesn’t take long to hack it until you get into the over 8 digit complicated passwords, then it will take a while. He told us about the Beast, which can guess 40 billion passwords per second so the small passwords don’t take long, for example a 6 digit password the Beast can guess it in a half of a second. 7 characters takes 2.5 seconds, 8 takes about 2 minutes, 9 takes 19 hours a 10 digit takes about 4 billion years to guess due to the exponential increase of possibilities when you add digits. In 2016 Linked In was hacked and half of the stolen password were discovered within a half of a day. He said that we as a human race are very predictable and most people add a two digit number at the end of a word in order to hit the 8 digit requirement for a password thus making it an 8 digit password in essence with a two digit date on the end that is generally quite easy to guess. Lots of us use the same Formula and the same password for several different sites so when they get it from one place they try it everywhere. A 15 character password that is a good mixture of gibberish will take about 20 trillion years to break with the algorithms they currently use. Use a different password for each online account is the best security measure but not very practical. He has a solution, use a pass phrase that is very unique to you. He works with Doctors and they use Latin in their password which makes it even harder to break. He recommends we use a pass phrase that intermingles symbols in strange places where it would not make sense, like in the middle of a word not between words. Another solution is to use a password manager which is an encrypted data base that has one master online password. He suggests creating a 20 digit long pass phrase to use as your password for a password Manager software that then saves your password for everything. This will make you very near hack proof. He said that there are several of these managers and they are all very good. Bit defender has one in their anti-virus, Last Pass is a free one. There are others that range in price. This software will also randomly create very long complicated Passwords that you do not then need to memorize, you just use the Pass phrase for the software and it will log you into the site you need. Password Managers and Pass phrases are the best way to protect your passwords, as technology improves hacking them will become even easier. He also said that encryption and biometrics are also good to use in conjunction with passphrases and management software to improve your security. He also said it is not a good idea to have your
President John Griffith concluded the meeting at 1:23 letting us know that next week we will not have a meeting because it will be Labor Day, but we will be back at the Ramkota the following week and we will have our very own Megan Miller and Deanna Frey from Seton House as our guest speakers.
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Rotary Club of Casper WY
Meeting Summary
08/19/2019
President John Griffith called the meeting to order promptly at 12:26, with the ring of the bell and welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.
Inspiration, Pledge, 4-Way Test:
Mike Ward
Greeters:
Dan O’Dell and Maribeth Plocek were our greeters today and Maribeth introduced the members who brought guests:
- Visiting Rotarian Helen Bishop (Jackson Supper Club);
- Dan White’s guest, Aaron Schilling (Casper Orthopedics), introduced himself;
- Kevin Murphy introduced Eric Schlidt;
- Mike Kemper introduced Sabrina Foreman (CAEDA);
- Mike Ward introduced his youngest Grandson Blake Stupak;
- Edis Allen introduced Susan Burke (Central WY Hospice);
- Char Canada introduced her father;
- Dennis Gazdiewich introduced his good friend Bob;
- Megan Miller introduced Mike Morrissey, (Rocky MTN Power);
- Genevieve Lynch introduced her daughter Bethany;
Song and Merriment:
Gary Pehrson led us in singing a Ducky version of High Hopes;
Family of Rotary:
Anne Ruble announced that Darren Gruner’s Daughter Abby competed at the national level for a biathlon and she won the Silver medal for Junior Nationals Roller Skate and Shoot.
President John let us know that Jim Porter had some minor surgery last week and is dealing with some infection so please keep him in your thoughts.
Lisa Scroggins let us know that Matt got engaged on Saturday.
Rotarians of the Week:
Miamie Sleep nominated everyone who helped her with the Duck Derby. President John asked everyone who helped in any way with the Duck Derby to stand and he nominated them all as Rotarians of the Week.
President John nominated Bill Schilling for hosting our District Governor and his wife and providing a nice dinner as well. He also said that Bill sold 87 Duck tickets the day of the Derby, Martha Rakestraw then told us how he managed to do that.
Chastidy nominated Carley Applegate and Errol Miller for cleaning up the C-Can and organizing it all.
President John nominated Dean Cline and his crew for putting together the apparatus at the end of the race to capture the Ducks as they came in to the finish line.
Gene Theriault nominated Barry Johnson and Dusty Johnson for rescuing the part of the boom that broke loose.
Carley Applegate nominated Steve Loftin for finding boxes for them to organize the C-Can.
Membership:
Two Rotarians were awarded their Paul Harris Fellowship today. Anne Ruble PH+4 and Jim Ruble his PH+8. Congratulations and thank you both.
A new member was inducted into the club today, please remember to welcome Eric Schlidt, sponsored by Kevin Murphy.
Announcements:
President John reminded us that our exchange student Chloe will be arriving at the airport from France around 9:30 tonight.
Helen Bishop announced that the Jackson Supper Club is having a raffle to support the Nursing Program and each ticket is $25.
Anthony Martinez announced that The Wyoming Foundation for Cancer Care Angels program, which he sits on the board, is having a car show at the Gruner Brothers Brewery to raise money for the Angels’ program tomorrow night.
President John reminded everyone to take pictures of any club functions so we can post them and let the community see what the club is doing.
Program (JM Simon Consulting):
PE Lisa Scroggins introduced our speaker today, Jennifer Simon, the founder and principal of JM Simon Consulting who is here to speak to us about the Gender Wage Gap. She stated that there is a big debate going on about the Gender Wage Gap and what we are going to talk about today is the wage gap in terms of economics and how it is an economic security issue in the State as well as an economic development opportunity. The wage gap measures the inequality between the earnings of men and women. Nationally for every dollar a man earns the average woman earns about 80 cents on the dollar. In WY it is closer to a 30 cent gap so women earn 70 cents for a dollar that a man earns. Nationally Wyoming is rated number 45 now, an upturn from last year at 49th place and prior to that we were dead last. She stated that there are a number of myths about the Gender Wage Gap, 1. That it doesn’t exist, 2. We are comparing apples to oranges, 3. it exists because women care about different things and do not ask for raises, 4. It is a phenomenon that is out of our control and there is nothing we can do about it. There is a lot we can do and there is a big economic benefit to our State if we do something about it.
Ages 18-65 there is no point that the average woman earns more than the average man. Men therefore have more money available to them at retirement and more women are aging into poverty. She compared the pay for engineering where women Civil Engineers earn 88 cents on the dollar and then secondary school teachers only earn 89 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts. They are comparing equal education, time in the occupation, experience etc. so they are drilling down to make sure that this is an actual fair comparison of Granny Smith Apples to Granny Smith Apples as she put it. In every single U.S. Industry men out earn the women, construction is the closest occupation to earning the same. Even in female dominated professions the men earn more. With the myth of women care about different things, she feels that men care about their families as much as women do. One myth is that women look for a different work environment. Studies show that when more women enter a certain field that the average pay drops and when men move into a field that was more female dominated the average wages increase. When the job is basically the same but dominated by one gender or the other then there is a disparity in wages, she used the occupations of Janitor and House Cleaners, same basic job description but a difference in earnings. The caregiving of the children falls disproportionately to the women so they end up having to take time off when a child is sick and miss more work for those types of issues. They are seeing that men with children see an upturn in pay when they have more children but the inverse is true for women. Another myth is that women do not ask for raises but they actually do, especially the millennials yet they still do not get raises as often as men and when they do it is still smaller than the men’s raise.
What can we do about this? It has to be individual responsibility, private industry has to have a role in the change, and the Government has to put up some side boards to help guide the change. Individuals can get more educated on the issue, they can negotiate more with their bosses for raises and there are online trainings that can help with the negotiation skills. Also you can advocate, spread the information, and incorporate it into your business. Private Industry can be proactive like the company Sales Force decided to do when the owner/founder was told they had this problem about five years ago by his head of HR. They did a salary audit and they have the problem so they did something about it and they have seen very positive results from making the changes. In order for us to make a change we need all industries to do the same. They started performing salary audits, publishing compensation charts, provide HR training and not requesting salary history from applicants so they were not falling back into replicating the gap. The Government can do some of these same things. According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, changing the wage gap for women in Wyoming would have a positive effect on the economic security of women in Wyoming by allowing them to afford the following:
- Approximately 133 more weeks or 2.6 years’ worth of groceries
- 14.6 more months of mortgage and utility payments
- 24 additional months of rent
- 30.5 more months of child care
- Four years of tuition & fees for a four-year public university
For the State of Wyoming it would have a positive impact on the State economy including:
- An infusion of $153 million in labor income
- An induced effect of an additional 604 jobs
- Approximately $22.2 million in additional labor income
- Over $80 million in output to the Wyoming economy
- Increases to state and local taxes of more than $5 million
This is according to a report by the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services 2018. So being proactive in finding a solution to this issue everyone will benefit. She encouraged us to look at this report and it will be sent out to everyone. She added that 60% of Bachelor degrees are being earned by women who are also taking on more student loans and with the wage gap it is harder for them to pay off those debts. Fantastic presentation that warrants more education on this subject for everyone. Bill Schilling recommends the book The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates as a starting point for a conversation with your daughters.
President John Griffith concluded the meeting at 1:23 letting us know that next week we will be back at the Ramkota and we will have Jed Schenefelt, CEO of Super Nerd as our guest speaker.
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