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The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, March 22, 1995

The Castlegar Sun WEDNESDAY, March

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Registration meeting for the 1995 season will be held:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1995 7:30 P.M. CASTLEGAR REC. CENTRE

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Biathlon in Castlegar does not have a long history but it is acquiring a great reputation. Four Castlegar biathletes have just recently returned from com- petition with impressive results.

Melanie Gibson competed as part of Team B.C. in the Canada Winter Games held last month in Grand Prairie, Alberta. Gibson is 18 years old and is one of the Castlegar club's top stars.

Unfortunately, a sore hip hampered her performance in the skiing portion of the race but her. superb shooting put her in 22nd place.

Coincidentally the coach of the Castlegar biathlon club as well as the B.C. Biathlon team is Gord Gibson, who is also Melanie's father. It was the second year in a row Gibson has coached the B.C. team and the team finished in fifth place overall.

“Had they been shooting in the standing position like they're capable of we would have been third,” said Gibson.

There are three basic biathlon races at the Canada Games. The first is the individual race which is 10 kilometres in length with three shooting stops. Two of the stops are from the prone position while one is standing. The other race is

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Straight shooters! Andrea Hanley (top), Gareth Orr and Elizabeth St. John are just three of the young guns of the Castlegar Biathlon Club.

the sprint race which is 7.5 kilo- metres with only two shooting Stops, one prone and one standing. The last is the relay race.

Biathletes at other levels of competition compete in the same distances but prone shooting is not allowed until age 14.

Gibson's disappointment in the performance of Team B.C. was short-lived after he heard the results of some of his Castlegar athletes at the B.C Winter Games,

The Castlegar contingent of Gareth Orr, Elizabeth St. John and Malcolm Menninga that attended the B.C. Winter Games in the Comox Valley fared much better than Gibson’s Canada Games team as they picked up seven medals.

Menninga was the leader with three gold medals while Orr wasn't far behind with two gold. St. John used a keen eye to bring home a silver and bronze medal.

As you might have guessed the key to success in biathlon is a balance between the two main disciplines.

“The key is both good strong skiing and strong shooting,” said Gibson. “Shooting is critical in both races. In the individual you get a one-minute penalty for every target missed and in the sprint you have to ski a lap in the penalty loop.”

The strength of the Castlegar ¢lub is shooting which they are able to work on all year round.

“We have been able to get some good shooters out of this club,” said Gibson. “We may not be able outski everybody but we outshoot them.”

“We've put a lot of work into it. We shoot at least once a week and we also do a lot of dryland training in the summer.”

Gibson is the founder of the Castlegar Biathlon Club which

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has been in existence for six years. He started the club the year after the 1988 Olympics in Cal- gary and thinks the sport is just what any young cross-country skier needs to liven up their lives. In fact, that’s how he gets most of his members.

“All of them come out for the shooting,” said Gibson. “A lot of them have come out of the Jackrabbit Cross Country Ski Program. The shooting just seems to add that little addition to the skiing component.”

The club's brightest young star is the 15-year-old Orr who Gibson Sees as a candidate for the Cana- dian National team in a few years.

Orr is a big fan of the sport and has not regretted taking up biathlon instead of straight cross- country competition.

“It was something I started years ago and I stuck with it,” said Orr. “I also do a lot of hunt- ing and shooting, but just small targets, nothing big.

“It's good exercise, great for balance and cardiovascular. It’s great fun once you get used to it.”

Not to mention that the number of young women and girls joining the sport of biathlon is growing by leaps and bounds. Apart from Orr and Menninga, all the rest of the members of the Castlegar club are female. They include Andrea and Alysha Hanley as well as Dyana Doskoch.

The Hanley sisters still have a few years until they will be able to compete at the B.C. Games but Doskoch should see action next year.

In the end, it seems, the dreams of a biathlete-can never be shot down.

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I never liked reading science fiction. I didn’t even like Star Trek. It wasn’t the science they used that bothered me, it was the story line. I believed in the science and technology they used: stun guns and transporting people by changing matter to energy and then energy back to matter made sense. It was the story line that left me skeptical.

wanted to access it with our computers at home or at work? What could we do?

If personal computers were the first wave and modems the second, then hang on because the third wave is about to swamp you. It’s called Internet.

The U..S government is about 20 years ahead of us in having computers communicate with each

‘If personal computers were the first wave and modems the second, then hang on because the third wave is about to swamp you. It's called Internet.

—MARILYN STRONG computer user

Then came ‘Hal’ and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was hooked. A computer that could talk, that could ‘see’, that controlled all life support systems. That was something believable. Computers were the new wave of science and I wanted more.

At university, I learned a now non- existent computer language called Fortran. I used keypunch machines to enter my data until IBM terminals were installed in the mid 1970s. The Computer Science building was 6 stories tall with a 4 story hollow coce to hold the main frame computer where all the calculations and print outs were generated. And, before I could graduate with a BA, I had to have completed a computer course and generated research using computers.

Leaving the confines of the University of Waterloo and moving to the Kootenays certainly took me back in time.

Except for some of the faculty at Selkirk College no one really knew what computers could do. It was almost ten years after I moved here that I finally hada chance to work on a computer again. This time though there were no keypunch cards, no terminal hooked up to a mainframe.

I had been introduced to an Apple Macintosh 128 computer. The rest, as they say, is history.

It’s one thing to create or write on a computer. It wasn’t long before I wanted to be able to send my information to another computer or take information that someone else has keyed in on another computer elsewhere and bring it into mine.

A modem, which allowed me to use telephone lines and a software package that would translate information into data bits, was the next logical step.

As technology increased so did our insatiable thirst for information. It wasn’t good enough that we could send or receive information one item at a time. What if we wanted information but didn’t know who had it? What if we knew that a university or government office had the information we wanted and we

other (that’s how long they’ve had their U.S. defence departments and various other radio and satellite networks connected). And it is upon their base that Internet has grown.

Internet itself is not a network but a collection of networks. It’s not really important for non-techies to know how it is stuck together; suffice to say it is. (and if you want to know the details then a book called.“The Whole Internet User’s Guide & Catalogue” by O'Reilly & Associates Inc. details it for you.)

Most large companies and universities have their computers hooked up and talking to each other. By linking part or all of their in-house network to other in-house networks, around the country and the globe this series of networks became

beyond that, we know what we have to do and we're ready."

Right now there is limited access through a link Soukoreff has established with Seattle. “We can offer e-mail and access to USENET,” said Soukoreff, “but ence the line is in, there will be full access to Internet.”

Internet offers what you want, when you want it. Internet is also a work in progress and grows , exponentially.

There are two parts to the network: running software programs on your computer to access Internet and then using those programs to do things across the network once you are connected.

The following is a fun example of what you can do. The topic is red- heads.

Leave messages on e-mail for other red-heads to contact you; research the history of history of red-heads on USENET, and then contribute your own information to that history; access the world wide web (WWW) using the keyword red-heads and discover more than you ever wanted to know about red- heads including organizations exclusive to red-heads, the countries in the world where there are no red-heads, and countries where there more than what would seem to be statistically possible.

Substitute your choice of topics for the words red-head in the above paragraph and you start to see the

potential.

Internet. For what seems to be years, the buzz- words" Internet”,

Mid-May is our target. That’s when we'll have the line, the tests will be completed, the bugs worked out and we should be up and running’

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library when —GORDON SOUKOREFF Kootcom systems manager

“information highway","on-ramps", and "fibre optics" have permeated our conversations and reading materials. Very few of us actually understand what it all means, let alone how to access it or why we would want to.

Luckily, in the Castlegar area, for almost five years Gordon Soukoreff has been networking with friends on the coast and in Seattle and is on the leading edge of information about, and access to, the Internet.

Soukoreff, along with Kootenay Computers in Castlegar and John McLafferty from Nelson, have formed a company called Kootenay Network Systems. Milton Villegas has been assigned by Kootenay Computers to be the liaison person.

“Mid-May is our target,” said Soukoreff. “That’s when we'll have the line, the tests will be completed, the bugs worked out and we should be up and running. At that point we can have up to 255 users simultaneously accessing our server and the Internet. If it grows

Concerned about global warming and weather patterns? Information is available on the Internet. The list goes on.

It’s more than information available. It’s the speed at which you can access the information, look at it, decided if you want to keep it, download the information onto your own computer and then keep looking for more.

As a tool for school research projects, it’s invaluable. As a tool for families spread out around the + world, it’s a fast, easy and effective means of communication across time zones.

If you don’t limit your imagination, you too can use Internet as a tool for work, for school, for family and even for play.

Start thinking now and next week we'll show you how to get on the surfboard, balance yourself and hang on while you ride the greatest wave ever.

Watch for Part Two of Surfing the ‘Net in next week’s Castlegar Sun.

What it all means

Address — is the series of names and dots you ~ use so that people can find you when they want to send you e-mail.

e-mail — is electronic mail. instead of using paper and envelopes, e-mail allows you to send files, _efeated on your computer to any one in the world who has an e-mail address.

download — copy information from another computer onto your own computer

n’etiquette — is etiquette on the Internet. Service provider/h ver — provides all the connections and the service throughout which you

can access Interriet. in the Castlegar area, Kootcom is a service provider.

Kootcom — is the name of the internet service fh ec ae has been created by Kootenay

ley eb aon used to indicate that your computer is talking to the service provider's

can acopss the Inernet. -Iitemnd6 a colsction OF hetwoine from around ee tai ede core sire nal network — a series of computers physically linked

together

USENET ~is a perian cf newmgrpepe ont different topics.

page — is a business or category. Often there are several topics on the home page and each one can be accessed via your keyboard or mouse.

information Highway — is a term used to describe the linkages grouping networks to networks.

Protocol — is a way to access information. Major protocol for internet is TCP/IP

TCP —Transmission Control Protocol. TCP is a collage of standards, now universal that have been developed to communicate across computers. Very | Simply, it allows computers to communicate with each other.

iP — internet protocol. IP that works like an envelope going through the mail. It has the address on it and makes sure the routers along the way know what to do when the message arrives at it destination. You will have to know your own IP address and the IP address of your service provider. —

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