CYBERSPACE REPORT - 8
February 19th 1998
Bill Weber
 LOCAL TEENAGER WINS PRIZES USING INTERNET
        Adam Shisler,  13 year old son of  Mr. & Mrs. James Shisler of Tomah has 
used the technology of the Internet to be the first, on three occasions, to find the 
answers to  questions in a daily contest  sponsored  on Radio WCOW.
        Adam,  is a 7th grade, Scholastic Honor Roll  student at  the Tomah Middle School . He has never  had any computer classes in school as yet but is learning
to type using a  computer in Mr. Spaids class. 
         When asked about where he learned his computer skills?  Adam said, " I learned 
most about computers by playing with our computer at home. I have been using the 
computer  for about four years and have been using the internet for
about a year."
        In order not to jeopardize Adams secrets on how he uses the Internet to find  the answers to the questions asked, 
we will only say that his favorite search engine is "Webcrawler" and that he is a whiz at finding the information. Having  won three $10.00 
prizes within the past four months.
        Adam does not plan on going into computers as a career.  "I just use the computer for fun now."  
He also shares that  fun  on a daily basis with three other members of his  family..
        When he is not having fun on the computer he says, "I like sports"  His e-mail address is:  > shislerj@mwt.net <
    Congratulations Adam.
        I am amazed at the technical skills young people such as Adam  have been able
to pick up and learn on their own.  I have a grandson, Joseph Lynch, who is a student
at Belleville, Wisconsin Middle school and is also 13 years old..  He developed and put up my WEB page as well as 
his own at:  >http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/6043/main.html<
Most of his information he gathered from programs on the WEB.  He is now
taking computer "programming" at his school. and is interested in becoming a computer programmer as a career.
 His e-mail address is:  cybergeek@itis.com.  in case you want to know more about putting up your own WEB site
  
OLYMPICS 
http://www.nagano.olympic.org/
TO SEND E-MAIL TO  ANY ATHLETE:
http://wkbt.cbsnow.com/navbar/cbscom.html
I am not much of a sports fan but I do enjoy watching the Olympics, where the very 
best youth of all nations compete on a peaceful and fun loving basis.  The games
end this coming weekend.  Was not that skier, Picabo Street, a great skier and 
ambassador for the United States?  Then there was Jonny Moseley on the snow board.
How about the girls hockey team which has not yet lost a game as of this writing? 
 In the  coming weeks these same type of wonderful American young  people may be 
put in harms way as our President and  military leaders defy the United Nations and 
declare war on Iraq.
SHOULD THE UNITED STATES GO TO WAR AGAINST IRAQ?
Let your representatives in Washington know what you think::
US Senator,  Herb Kohl
Email: senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov 
Web Page: http://www.senate.gov/~kohl/ 
US Senator  Russ Feingold  
Email: russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov 
Web Page: http://www.senate.gov/~feingold/ 
US Congressman Ron Kind, 3rd  Congressionial district,
 Email: ronkind@mail.house.gov 
 Web Page: http://www.house.gov/kind/ 
       
 US Congressman Tom Petri  6th  Congressonial district 
 E-mail: tompetri@mail.house.gov
 Web Page:http:// www.house.gov/petri/
President Clintons e-mail is:.
President@whitehouse.gov
There are a lot of interesting sites with message boards where you can
read the thoughts of others as well as posting your thoughts on the Iraqi situation .
I think you will find many of them very interesting.
Limited space makes it  necessary to post the rest of this message on my
WEB page:   http://www.geocities.com/~billweber/