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Born in 1966, Andy Cadman is the older brother of well-known silversmith Darrel Cadman and a half-brother of renowned smiths Gary and Sunshine Reeves. This group of relatively young smiths (35 to 40 years old) all learned much of their trade from David Reeves (Gary and Sunshine's full-brother who is now deceased). The Cadman brothers and the Reeves brothers, therefore, share a common element of apprenticeship and exhibit certain similarities in their work. Andy is a jovial big bear of a fellow and his friends and family call him "Ben."
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The patrol was located at Wood Norton, NR Evesham.
Research into this patrol and its training is ongoing. The information above is published from
various sources and is by no means conclusive. If information is not listed above
it does not necessarily mean the information is not out there but normally means CART researchers
have not found it yet.
If you have any information on this patrol or can help with research in this area please do
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Little is known about this patrol. It was given the name X Platoon instead of a biblical name similar to all
other Worcestershire Patrols.
Worcestershire (Groups 1a and 1b) formed part of area 19 which also included Herefordshire, Monmouthshire (Group 3) and latterly from 1943
part of Glamorganshire (Groups 4a and 4b).
The first intelligence officer was Captain John Ellerman Todd who had been a London stockbroker before the war.
Known to be a character but dressed as the country gent it is believed he lived at Llanfihangel Crucorny in
Monmouthshire. Recruited to SOE, Todd was replaced by Captain Christopher Sandford and the area headquarters became
Eye Manor near Leominster. A later Intelligence Officer included Captain Lloyd Bucknell RA.
Worcestershire Group 1a consisted of three Patrols: Bishampton ("David") Patrol, Overbury Patrol and Alfrick
("Jehu") Patrol.
Area Commander for both groups in
Worcestershire was Captain Lewis E Van Moppes.
Group commander of 1a Patrols was his brother Lt Edmund M van Moppes.
It is thought that stores were held at Wolverton Hall, the home of Company Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas
Many Auxiliers recall Sergeant Thurston Holland-Martin of Overbury Patrol as having a roll in recruiting and
Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire Patrols were given Biblical code names. It is assumed this
was an initiative of Todd to prevent the use of patrols locations names.
Not currently known.
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Rumour has it that there was an OB in the woods above the site but nothing has been located.
We can only speculate that this patrols target would be to sabotage the BBC broadcasting facilities and to
destroy the aerial on top of the hill in the event of an invasion.
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- Opinion
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Genomic and proteomic adaptations to growth at high temperature
- Donal A Hickey1Email author and
- Gregory AC Singer1, 2
© BioMed Central Ltd 2004
- Published: 30 September 2004
Most positively selected mutations cause changes in metabolism, resulting in a better-adapted phenotype. But as well as acting on the information content of genes, natural selection may also act directly on nucleic acid and protein molecules. We review the evidence for direct temperature-dependent natural selection acting on genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes.
- Structural RNAs
- Nucleotide Composition
- Synonymous Codon
- Synonymous Codon Usage
- Mutational Bias
What's so special about adaptation to growth at high temperature?
Variations in environmental temperature represent an obvious and easily quantifiable form of environmental heterogeneity. Biologists have long been aware of a host of behavioral, morphological and physiological adaptations to this environmental variable. Recently, the accumulation of genomic data has led to an interest in another type of temperature adaptation. Specifically, we would like to know whether the genomes themselves - along with their encoded proteomes - are subject to predictable, temperature-dependent patterns of molecular evolution.
While variations in environmental temperature share many of the characteristics of other environmental variables, temperature is special because of its pervasiveness: it can penetrate physical barriers and can have dramatic effects on the structure of virtually all macromolecules. And given that temperature variation affects all levels of biological adaptation, we see adaptive responses at all of these levels. For instance, variations in environmental temperature can be used to explain the evolution of biological phenomena as diverse as the migration patterns of birds, on the one hand, or the density of hydrogen bonds in a nucleic acid sequence, on the other.
Adaptations at the genome (DNA) level
A number of recent studies (discussed in more detail below) have shown other sequence differences between mesophiles and thermophiles, such as the increased level of purine bases in the coding strands of thermophiles [4, 8, 13, 14]. While these effects can be detected at the DNA level, and may be due to the effects of natural selection, they reflect selection for RNA stability rather than direct selection on DNA.
Adaptations at the transcriptome (RNA) level
The transcriptome includes both the structural RNAs (such as ribosomal and transfer RNAs, rRNAs and tRNAs) and the protein-encoding messenger RNAs. One could argue that these molecules, especially the structural RNAs, would be subject to the same temperature-dependent constraints as DNA. Of course, given that the expected correlation between G+C content of genomic DNA and growth temperature is not seen, we might expect that the correlation would also be lacking at the RNA level. But, interestingly, this is not the case. For instance, Galtier and Lobry [2] demonstrated that there is a significant correlation between the G+C content of structural RNAs and growth temperature, and that the high G+C content was concentrated in the double-stranded stem regions of the molecule. This provides strong evidence for selection acting to increase the thermostability of these regions by changing the nucleotide composition. Indeed, this enrichment of G and C is so striking that structural RNA genes virtually identify themselves within the genomes of hyperthermophiles whose DNA is otherwise AT-rich [15].
The effects of natural selection are not limited to the double-stranded regions of these RNAs, however: selection is also acting to reduce the G+C content of the single-stranded regions of rRNA molecules, thus maintaining them in the single-stranded state [13]. An obvious question that comes to mind is why we observe the expected correlation between nucleotide content and growth temperature in the paired regions of an RNA molecule, but not in double-stranded DNA. One possible answer is that single mutations affecting nucleotide composition have a much greater effect on the stability of the stem regions of an RNA molecule than they do on double-stranded genomic DNA, simply because the length of the paired region is much shorter in the RNA molecule.
In contrast to structural RNAs, the critical feature of the protein-coding messenger RNAs is not their secondary structure but their coding capacity. Thus we might not a priori expect to see strong selection for structural stability in these molecules. While it is true that a given, specific secondary structure may not be important for mRNAs, stability per se is critically important, because it affects the steady-state level of the genetic message within the cell. There is now growing evidence [8, 13, 14, 16–18] that all single-stranded RNA molecules, along with the single-stranded segments of structural RNAs, show characteristic patterns of nucleotide composition in all organisms. Specifically, they are relatively rich in purines, particularly adenine [13, 14, 16]. Moreover, the degree of purine-richness correlates with environmental growth temperature. The initial interpretation of these trends [17] was that they acted to prevent purine-pyrimidine base pairing between coding sequences. Such base pairing would be prevented by having a preponderance of one type of base - either purines or pyrimidines - on the coding strand. Subsequent studies [4, 8, 13] indicate, however, that the selection is specifically for purines.
Translational efficiency and codon usage at high temperature
Although different synonymous codons may encode a single amino acid, there has been considerable interest in the possibility that some codons are functionally 'preferred'. The idea of preferred codons stems from the work of Ikemura [19], who showed a positive correlation between the frequency of particular codons and the abundance of their cognate tRNAs. Over the past two decades, many genomic studies have attempted to detect clear evidence for selection acting on synonymous codons, but despite all of these studies it now appears that the major determinant of synonymous codon usage on a genome-wide scale is mutational bias rather than selection [10, 20–22]. Despite the dominant effect of nucleotide composition, recent genomic surveys have shown that environmental growth temperature can have an important secondary effect on patterns of synonymous codon usage [8, 23, 24]. Although there is no obvious explanation for why particular codons are used preferentially among thermophiles, the fact that the pattern is repeated within different evolutionary lineages provides strong support for the fact that it is based on natural selection.
Adaptations at the proteome level
Given that the thermolability of protein structures - like that of nucleic acid structures - can easily be demonstrated in the laboratory, and since protein function depends on protein structure, we expect the proteins of thermophilic organisms to have been subjected to intense natural selection for stability at high temperature. It is, however, difficult to predict the precise outcome of such selection because the forces governing protein structure and function are not yet well understood. Many comparisons of individual protein sequences between mesophiles and thermophiles have been reported in the recent literature. Although several of these studies point to differences between thermophilic proteins and their mesophilic homologs, different studies have tended to identify different aspects of protein sequence and structure as contributing to thermostability [25]. The attraction of studying entire proteomes is that we can hope to identify the more 'universal' adaptations underlying protein stability at high temperature. But, as pointed out by Petsko [26], the problem with such genome-wide studies is that they may only discover some of the lowest common denominators for thermal adaptation at the protein level.
Most of the proteome-based studies to date have focused on the average amino-acid composition of proteins in the proteomes of mesophiles and thermophiles. If we consider that protein structure is determined to a large extent by the primary amino-acid sequences, then we can look for consistent differences in amino-acid composition between the proteins of thermophiles and mesophiles. Such differences have been reported for individual genes and in whole-genome comparisons [8, 27–29]. These studies show that while the average amino-acid composition of a given proteome is dramatically affected by the underlying patterns of genomic nucleotide bias [6, 9], there is a secondary but highly significant effect of growth temperature. One study [21] found a significant effect of nucleotide bias, but did not reveal any selection on the amino-acid content of thermophilic proteins. By limiting the analysis to a subset of genomes with comparable nucleotide compositions, we [8] showed that the major effect of thermophily at the proteome level was a significant reduction in the frequency of the thermolabile amino acids histidine, glutamine and threonine. This is consistent with the recent observation of increased evolutionary constraint on thermophilic proteomes [30]. The concomitant increase, among thermophiles, of both positively charged residues (arginine and lysine) and negatively charged residues (glutamic acid) suggests that ionic bonds between oppositely charged residues may help to stabilize multimeric proteins at high temperature [28]. The proteomes of thermophiles also contain a larger fraction of proteins with isoelectric points in the basic range [31], and a general bias in favor of charged rather than polar residues among thermophiles has been noted in two separate studies [32, 33]. One of the genome-wide surveys [28] also found support for the conclusions of previous pilot studies (based on one or a few genes) that there are average length differences between the proteins of mesophilic and thermophilic species [32, 34, 35]. Specifically, the proteins of thermophiles tend to be somewhat shorter than their mesophilic homologs. Finally, a number of recent structural genomics studies [36–39] support the sequence-based studies in that they point to an increase in intra-helical salt bridges and in hydrogen-bond formation among thermophiles. The increased number of salt bridges may contribute to protein stability at high temperature [40].
Post-translational molecular adaptations in thermophiles
Most species can survive for short periods of time at temperatures that are significantly higher than their normal growth temperature. Such a pulse of increased temperature usually triggers the expression of heat-shock proteins that act as chaperones to facilitate protein stabilization and proper protein folding. Such protein chaperones do, in fact, also play a role in thermophiles [41]. Furthermore, genome-sequence surveys have uncovered evidence for a novel, thermophile-specific set molecular chaperones among highly thermophilic species [42]. Thus, in addition to encoding more thermostable mRNAs and proteins, thermophilic organisms may devote more energy to the stabilization of those proteins at high temperature.
Complications of genome-wide surveys Secondary effects of selection
A significant complication in genomic surveys, although one that is often ignored, is that the average patterns seen in genomes and proteomes are not independent; for instance, the nucleotide composition of the genome can have a dramatic effect on the amino-acid composition of the encoded proteome [6, 43, 44]. Although most of the studies to date have looked at the effect of G+C content on protein composition, similar effects will result from other kinds of genomic biases [45, 46]. For instance, a genome whose coding regions are very rich in purines will necessarily encode a proteome that is deficient in phenylalanine residues, and a genome with pyrimidine-rich coding regions would correspondingly encode few lysines and glutamic acids. Thus, if the sequences on the coding strand are subject to selection for increased purine content because of increased mRNA stability, this selection at the level of RNA can result in a correlated change in the amino-acid content of the proteins, and even in deterministic changes in the biochemical properties of these proteins - the isoelectric point, for example. Many recent studies have discussed the possibility that mutational biases can mimic the effects of selection, but few authors seem aware of the problem where a selective effect at one level results in an apparent selective effect at another level.
The need for replication
What about thermophilic eukaryotes?
Several authors have drawn parallels between thermophilic and mesophilic microbes on the one hand, and warm- and cold-blooded vertebrates on the other. In fact, a considerable amount of work has been done on the correlation of differences in genomic G+C content with the body temperature of animals [55]. Although at first glance there does appear to be a convincing correlation between elevated genomic G+C content (especially in isochore regions) and homeothermy, these results are subject to alternative explanations. For instance, the higher G+C content in certain regions of mammalian genomes may be due to elevated recombination rates in those regions [56, 57]. It is also worth noting that the body temperature of mammals is well below 45°C, which is usually taken as the lower threshold for thermophily among prokaryotes.
In conclusion, given that temperature is a single, clearly defined environmental variable, one might expect to see a single, characteristic genomic and/or proteomic response to changes in this variable. We do see selective responses at the nucleic acid and protein levels, but they are varied and unpredictable. It is especially difficult to predict any significant differences above the level of primary sequence composition. A number of general trends have been identified in the sequence composition of DNA, RNA and proteins, but it has proved much more difficult to identify thermophilic responses at the higher levels of structural organization. This is particularly true of protein structure, partly because we do not yet have a good understanding of the rules governing protein folding, and partly because it now seems likely that different proteins may respond to selection for greater thermostability in distinctly different ways. Despite the obvious complexities of the issue, we can expect widespread continued study of temperature adaptation at the molecular level, especially in proteins, because the results are not only of great biological interest but also of commercial and practical interest - both in the discovery of new, naturally occurring 'thermozymes' and in the design of new custom thermozymes for industrial purposes [58–60].
The authors' research was supported by grants from NSERC Canada to DAH and from the Science Foundation Ireland to K.H. Wolfe, supervisor to GACS.
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While browsing about for Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine resources, I happened upon A User's Guide to the Apocalypse, a fan supplement of uncommon size and depth.
It is extraordinary.
I haven't finished reading the thing, but even from partial experience, the layers of meaning in the project boggle the mind. User's Guide* can, to scratch the surface, be read as:
- A playable alternative campaign setting for Chuubo's
- A reflection on life and relationships while dealing with abuse or the lingering trauma thereof
- A love letter to/eulogy for a now unraveled online community
- A codex of or guide to Replay Value, a Homestuck alternate universe
- Speculative fiction of the cautionary tale variety, exploring the potentially disastrous nexus of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and gamification
- An existentialist parable, grappling with the search for meaning in a universe where, given sufficient time, all things are futile
- A deconstruction of video game tropes, particularly those belonging to the MMORPG genre
- An examination of digital addictions to games and discussion fora
- A sociological commentary on the communities that come and go across the Internet
The author herself lays out the first few I listed; the rest unfold in emergent fashion from the work. It's the kind of thing that makes me wish I still had a foot in the educational sphere, to teach this text or write a thesis on it!
Prior to discovering User's Guide, I hadn't quite understood alternate universe fandoms, or AUs. The idea of an alternate universe for a fictional setting was straightforward enough, but e.g. Undertale with its Underfell, Reapertale, Flowertale, etc., etc., each with their own fan art and other assorted media, mystified me. User's Guide, though, made it click. When a fandom grows large enough, like-minded individuals within it gather into sub-fandoms, and one way such a group can coalesce is around a particular AU. The AU itself—whether via the ongoing efforts of a central author, or the roleplay and works of its fandom, or both—takes on a life of its own. It brings back a sense of belonging to those longtime fans of the parent work who feel crowded out by its becoming too popular or mainstream. And it revitalizes fannish activity when the depths of the parent canon might otherwise seem tapped out.
Now I'm in the curious position of becoming a fan of a specific AU's commemorative project, without any familiarity in the parent work. I know Chuubo's, of course, but I've never made it further than a couple of pages into Homestuck. I'll take a look again, but it may be that's how it stays! If that's how it goes, all the more credit to User's Guide author Elaine "OJ" Wang for managing to so mesmerize someone who doesn't even get Homestuck.
* The author tends to refer to the work as "RV Chuubo's," but I find that a bit cumbersome for casual use. Not least because it suggests a Chuubo's campaign involving road trips with really bad gas mileage.


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August 15th, 2011
I have anxiety issues. About 1 1/2 days ago I had a typical panic attack. Today I feel perfectly fine. I don't feel tired or dizzy. Everything is fine except for this tingling almost ticklish sensation deep in my left chest. It only came about after I woke up.
It's not debilitating but it sure is annoying and uncomfortable.
Does anyone know what this could be? Can anyone recommend a method to get rid of this?
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Hi ayagh and welcome to ehealth: If you are not older and worried about a health problem, I would say to forget it...What is it?...Probably a reminder of the other day...Maybe something that is trying to work its way into your mind to worry about something...You see this is the way that Panic Attacks work...They seed themselves to make you worry and then it can be off to the races...Again, if you have a history of heart problems then check it out...Or, if you think that your mind is again playing games with you, then forget it...Take care...
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I'm only 20 years old.
The thing is I wasn't worried about anything up until my chest started tingling. I'm not that worried now but I am trying to figure out what it could be.
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Hi again: It could be a pinched nerve or just about anything...Try not to worry and relax...Take care..
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It is most likely from your panic attack. Anxiety has a symptom of tingling feelings anywhere in your body. I get it too and I went to the doctor just to make sure. My doctor told me it's just my anxiety and that I'm healthy! Trust me, anxiety has a way of making you think something is totally wrong when it's not! You're only 20 and I'm 21. My doctor told me straight out...to start enjoying life and to stop making anxiety get the best of me! You should too! I've been feeling better since then! I still think negative here and there, but other than that...I'm slowly learning to fight my anxiety. I hope we all get better!
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Hi, iv been having the same symptoms as you, a slight tingling feeling and sometimes a short burst of pain. Iv had my heart checked and its perfectly fine. I feel like the more I think about it the more I can notice it. Anxiety sucks take it from me
, but these responses are really helpful, just try to ignore it and make the best out of life. Also iv started taking a natural medicine called Veeva and it's really helpful there is nothing in it that can harm you its all natural. It reduces physical and mental stress, which will make you feel better and hopefully reduce your anxiety
try it out!
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i get the same feeling right at my heart and in the shoulder blades for last two days idk if im just thinking its there it stinks so bad, these panic attacks are literally controlling my life. idk how to overcome then i tried everything
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here we go again! anxiety!
im 25 and ive had attacks since the age of 18. im having one right now! i hate them. i feel a tingly sensation in the left side of my face and jaw as well as that weird sensation in my left chest area. ive been to the doctor numberous times and they tell me the same thing every time! its anxiety! they proscribed me xanax...it helped a little. iv been out of xanax for a week now and i think thismorning i will go back to the dr. to get some more. this is realy interupting my family life as well as my job.
-chris s.
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hi guys,thnks for all the wonderful feedback,
anxiety is really confusing,and i got panic attack a month ago,,now sometimes felt the tingling near the chest area at left,,i got all the test done ,but got slighter higher bp,,doctor said it was panic attack,,this disorder eally suck,,i feel only way to stop worrying is to start doing sometihing,,when you are not doing something and you arent busy,you will strt worrying,instead start reading fav books,exercise,go for walk etc,,,
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How did I feel after dropping the kids off on the first day of school? Well, I wasn't exactly sad to see them go, but I also wasn't doing my usual jig of joy to be rid of them. I wasn't quite ready for our wonderfully unstructured summer to end, which has never happened to me before. For the past ten years, I've been chomping at the bit to get the kids back to school and get back to regularly scheduled programming. My entire life, I have loved September and all of the fresh starts and promises it brings. It was an odd sensation, feeling ambivalent about a season I usually can't wait to embrace. I was unsettled and restless and in a fog, uncomfortable with my admittedly mild discomfort.
What I really felt was redundant. What I told my friends was, "I'd better go dust off my c.v. because these kids don't need me any more." I didn't even get proper goodbyes. The bell rang, and Middlest (Grade 6) and Youngest (Grade 3) were gone with never a backwards glance. And today, when I went to kiss Youngest goodbye, he said, "I'm 8, Mum. I don't need goodbye kisses anymore."
"Well I'm 45," I said, "and I do."
What I felt a little was panic. What I told my husband was, "I feel like a shirker. I've just witnessed my own redundancy. I had no idea my job security was so precarious. I should be working somewhere else already, because these kids don't need me anymore."
What I felt was enormous relief to see my friends on the playground, enormous comfort in the mom squad, followed by shock when it registered that many of the friends who used to join me for a celebratory coffee after drop-off have gone back to work or their kids have graduated and there is actually no reason for them to be gathering on the empty playground to head en masse to the local coffee shop.
Is it too late to get a teaching job for this fall, I wondered, thinking now of the crowds of undergraduates who might benefit once again from my wit and wisdom at the front of an English literature class. A few days of brooding on the impossibility of a return to the ivory tower followed. I spent the hours the kids were in school organizing the kids' bookshelves. Hours.
So this evening, when Eldest (Grade 10) and I had the following conversation, I was well prepared for feeling useless.
"It's time to put your phone away. Go find a book," I said. I've been longing for him to ditch the phone and get lost in reading all summer.
"Our English teacher wants us to read for pleasure," he said.
"50 books before the end of the year," he said.
"It's impossible," he said, "but I will go find something to read."
"I have just sorted all of those books!" I thought. "I know just what to recommend!"
I began to get excited, I began to feel purposeful, I began to plan a reading list, I began to daydream about him forgetting all about his phone and getting lost in a good book again, confident in my expertise and my ability to find him such a book and pleased to have institutional support for so much reading.
"I will ask her in class tomorrow for some suggestions for some good books," he said.


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"Whaddya think?" Cougar asked, "Should we host a Second Annual Flywheel Tale Telling Competition and Free Buffalo Feed? It's getting to be that time of winter, if we're gonna do it."
There was plenty of discussion, which in the end all boiled down to, why not?
Of course, we had to decide one major thing: Did we want to go on with a nice rigid little program, jist copying what we'd done in '78, or did we want to up the ante a bit, give the folks something new to experience? Improving the show this year might not be that difficult to pull off, but it would set a precedent: Every year from now on, the community would expect us to top our previous best.
So naturally that's the option we went with.
The fire pits blazing merrily were the same. The endless supply of buffalo meat was the same. Even the stories were mostly the same, except fer Tam opting to tell the true story of–as Cougar had dubbed her–Clarisse the Beast, the one woman wrecking crew who'd nearly wiped us out with nothing but a teapot. He'd cleared that with Elly in advance, of course. And he used the opportunity to paint his lover as the tragic heroine she truly was, which put to rest at least some of those vicious rumors circulating around Walsenburg.
You know, the rumors that Elly was a chip off the old block, that her husband was crippled because of poison she'd given him. Stuff like that.
When Tam was done, even the nose-in-the-air church ladies showed a little sympathy fer the girl. Which of course they wouldn't have done, had Penny talked about her discovery of Mrs. Franzen's dalliance with the tale teller.
This year, there were–finally–a few folks who began wondering where Flywheel got all the fresh buffalo meat, since bison in general were getting hard to find. Take Kansas, fer example. Henry had recently learned in school that in 1871, jist one Kansas herd had numbered more than four million individuals…and they expected to see the last Kansas buff killed off sometime this year, making the critter extinct in that state.
They weren't quite that dead-and-gone everywhere jist yet, but it wouldn't be long now.
We'd been ready fer the questions, though. All queries were politiely directed to Tam himself, who spun yarns about Flywheel buff hunters fanning out through the Universe, hunting to the stars and beyond, in order to feast the good people of Huerfano County. Nobody could git a straight answer out of him, but he left 'em laughing and shaking their heads, agreeing he was known as the tall tale teller fer a reason.
The tiny seed herd we kept hidden in the box canyon as a hedge against the future? That was looking wiser by the day. We'd become ever more deeply convinced our little bunch might end up being literally the only thing destined to keep the species from going extinct entirely.
And young Reggie Tamson, as hard-headed a seven year old as I ever seen, seemed to have appointed himself protector of every wild creature threatened by man.
What? No, he didn't talk about it. Not yet; the boy seemed keenly aware of the need fer silence till he was ready. But I'd finally started noticing what he was about. I don't really think Reg and I ever liked each other that much–certainly there was no bond like with me and Henry–but the lad was worth studying.
The thing is, he was studying. Learning, saying little but reading every book his teachers or his Mom could round up for him…if it pertained to wild animals.
How'd we upgrade the festivities? Simple enough, at least this time: Stupid pet tricks. That is, L'Amour, my new palomino stud colt–a short yearling at this point–got to show off his willingness to be led around with tiny children (such as David Tamson Trask, age two) on his back. That was followed by Sadie, now four, riding solo–no lead, jist showing off her ability to git L'Amour to start, stop, walk, trot, and lope with nothing whatsoever attached to the young horse but Sadie herself.
Yeah, I know. I'd lost me a colt. You don't think it was me that named the critter The Love (in French), did you?
Eight year old Henry followed Sadie's tour de force with a bronc riding exhibition on a bridled and saddled pinto that'd buck with considerable enthusiasm, then go on as a saddle horse fer the rest of the day. Young Tamson had figured out how to "cue" Hopper to pitch on command. It was pretty impressive. Tam's natural seat on a bronc's hurricane deck had passed on down to his grandson; that much was obvious.
But of course, none of this would have been more than merely "cute" if not fer Smokey and the tale teller showing 'em all how it was really done. Them two were fun to watch fer those of us who knew 'em and a sight to behold fer the rest of the crowd. They come charging from the point where I'd once positioned myself to provide support in an all-out firefight, bursting outa the timber like the Hounds of Hell were at their heels.
Believe I've mentioned the grulla can scat. He weren't getting any younger, but he weren't getting any slower, neither.
Slim Morgan, five feet eight inches tall and nearly that wide, had been recruited to play the victim. The heavy fellow jist "happened" to be wandering outside the ranch yard, square in the path of the charging horse, "oblivious" to his danger.
Tam had his lariat ready…threw…the loop settled neatly over the big man's head and shoulders, snugged up as the tale teller pitched his slack. Smokey's butt was jist about dragging on the snow as he slid to a screeching halt, then backed up jist enough to keep Morgan from un-catching himself.
That was jist fer starters, of course. They had the attention of the audience now.
The rope was dallied, not tied hard and fast, so it was the work of no more'n a second to release the thing, let it fall.
Did I ever tell you the kind of show Smokey could put on when he wanted to? No? Well, now. He'd stand on his hind legs and rear up, Tam waving his hat to the crowd like he was some sorta celebrity. He'd hop sideways on all four feet, left or right made no never mind. Pick up objects off the ground with his teeth–the rope, or a saddle blanket, anything Tam told him to grab.
He could untie square knots–also with his teeth–and do paces that made him look like he was dancing. He–okay, here's the best of all, the final thing. I had to announce this one, mostly 'cause Tam and Smokey needed to be seen doing the visual stuff, and I'd been there when Blue Sky's Kiowa raiders had been fooled into believing both man and horse were lamed.
With me describing it as if through Blue Sky's eyes, it was amazing to see my partner and his horse, both limping like they couldn't run if their lives depended on it, which at the time they did.
At the end, with the imaginary Kiowa closing to almost within shooting range, a suddenly "healed" Tam leaped aboard a suddenly "healed" horse…and they thundered off, scat-quick, disappearing into the brushy draw situated some distance south of the yard, escaping the entirely imaginary but extremely hostile (and totally frustrated) Indians.
We had more'n three hundred folks in attendance when he done that bit of performance theater, and ever one of 'em was hooting and hollering, stamping the ground and clapping their hands in appreciation. Flywheel Productions had a hit on its hands.
I turned to find Scrap Hannigan at my elbow. He'd jist ridden in from the east end of our range, having felt a powerful hunch jist yesterday that he needed to go take a looksee at Trickle Creek. "A minute, Dawson?"
Uh-oh. What now? I followed the one-eyed man over to the barn where we could talk without being overheard. What could be going on at Trickle Creek? We weren't doing anything with that drainage at the moment other than using it to make the State mine inspectors think that was where our sapphires come from.
Which they didn't, of course, except fer the handfuls of raw stones Scrap scattered in the gravel bars ever now and then.
"We got claim jumpers," he explained.
"There's twelve of 'em so far," Scrap told us, addressing the late-night emergency owners' meeting, "but the feel of it is, there's gonna be more and more all the time, until we put a clear stop to it."
Cougar shook his head. "I don't git it. We been careful to feed them State people enough manure to raise mushrooms and not much else. All their official reports say we've got a few sapphires, all right, but not enough to count as something like a–oh, a gold strike or something. What the Hell?"
Hannigan had clearly been thinking this through during the hours-long ride back to headquarters. "It's gotta be deliberate. There haven't been any big news stories about us finding gemstones on Flywheel property. Somebody in the government leaked the information. And since it still ain't out in the press that we know of, they leaked it in a very specific way. You know, to somebody with power who jist plain don't like us."
We kind of all looked at each other, sitting around the table with our hands wrapped around steaming coffee cups…and we all got it at the same instant.
"Goss," we said, and we knew we were right.
The meeting went on till midnight, by which time we had a plan. We knew it was a plan because Tam had the key points organized into one of his lists, detailing both what we figured we knew and what we knew we had to do.
Or something like that.
Trickle Creek Trap
1. The jumpers are crossing Evans land to reach Trickle Creek. Let him know he's got trespassers. His riders might shoot a few of 'em and chase others off.
2. Sheriff not an option. A few fines for trespassing won't stem the flow–might even encourage it, get too much word out of a "strike".
3. Can't jist kill 'em. You can bet they'll have plenty of "witnesses" who saw murder, plus (again) the publicity would work against us.
4. Scare tactics: Wolf Tea?
5. Must move fast. If they keep coming (which they will if not dissuaded), they'll eventually be too many to dislodge easily.
That was the list. The Wolf Tea would take a couple of days to put together, considering we needed Jack to ride back over to his and Hattie's place and return before we'd have all the necessary ingredients.
We'd ridden in force to within striking distance of Trickle Creek, but only the Tamsons went on from there. Dawson and Jack had their field glasses covering the situation. If we got in trouble, they could bring half a dozen men with a whole ton of firepower to bear on the situation…but only if we got in trouble. Otherwise, this was to be a Tamson task.
Wolf, my Heyókȟa, half-Cheyenne, 1/16 Comanche son, carried–appropriately–the Wolf Tea in a wineskin that would allow him to administer precise doses.
Cougar, his twin brother, covered him from a position in the rocks above the creek. I did likewise from behind a deadfall jist inside the treeline.
The sun was setting. There were still exactly twelve men down there, panning in the creek as if fer gold, except they were looking for purty little pebbles. Discard gold miners, it looked like, suspenders and long scruffy beards and Lord forbid you ever got downwind of 'em. Three tents, three campfires. They'd all got their fires going, hung coffee pots over the flames to heat, and gone back to panning. Gold fever–'scuse me, sapphire fever–was forcing these idiots to use ever last ray of light before calling it a day.
Wolf ghosted down outa the rocks. I seen a faint hint of his movement from time to time, but not much–and he weren't trying to hide his presence from me.
You woulda thought at least one of them men might notice a strange Indian skulking around their campfires, squirting shots of greenish-brown liquid into their coffee pots, but no. Not a chance. Yeah, they were focused on their panning–which likely didn't work all that well anyway, since gold is a lot heavier than sapphire in the first place–but even when one of 'em would glance up toward the fires, he clearly didn't see a thing amiss.
It was like the Heyókȟa really was invisible. I, Crazy Rifle, was some impressed. I'd snuck up on enemies in my day, but….
Not until my son was away from them fires and back up in the rocks with his brother did I discover I'd been holding my breath.
Their voices drifted up to us. "Damn, Fowler, this cofee tastes like you dunked yer dang socks in it! That is, if you was wearing socks in the first place!"
"Quitcher bitchin', Muff. It ain't no worse'n yer sowbelly 'n' beans."
"Easy, gentlemen, easy. We're doing good. Hard to say how many of these freaking rocks in our pokes are really sapphires and how many jist colored gravel–it ain't like gold, doncha know. But we're all getting paid enough as it is, eh? Ten bucks a day fer playing sapphire miner beats the hell outa getting strung up fer rustling, doncha think?"
"What I think, Jenks, is you use ten words when one would do. When's the next wave coming in, anyway?"
"Day after tomorrow, from what we was told."
"Be glad when they git here, I'm tellin' ya. That Flywheel bunch don't sound like nobody to be messin' with. We need them reinforcements. Safety in numbers and all that."
The chit-chat went on fer so long, we thought maybe Brook and Hattie had got the Tea recipe wrong.
Shouldn't have doubted.
Maybe twenty minutes before moonrise, we heard the wolf howl. A real wolf, not Wolf Tamson. Two thoughts run through me when I heard that: Damn wolves are back, and Great timing!
Great timing…because that unearthly sound coincided exactly with the hallucinations.
The claim jumpers–the phony paid-to-be claim jumpers–were all on their feet, ever last one of 'em, and they were going nuts. Seeing things. Scary things, especially fer men who knew in the bottoms of what passed fer their Souls that what they were doing weren't right.
We'd later git word through the grapevine that ever man seen something different, but none of what they seen was pleasant.
Time to add to the chorus. "SCREE-HUA-HA-HAAA!" I let fly with my old Screeching Sophie Saunders concert, updated some with various sound effects copied from enraged mountain lions and wounded women, whatever I'd absorbed in forty years of battling a tough world to stay alive. "SCREEEE!!!"
I couldn't tell you to this day what sorts of contributions Coug and Wolf were making, being entirely focused on my own output as I was, but I do know we shut the distant wolf pack up entirely. Maybe even run 'em back outa the county fer a while, fer all I know.
The effect on them twelve rounders down by the creek was absolutely hilarious. Iffen I hadn't needed to keep the concert going, I'd have been laughing too hard to breathe. It's a wonder they didn't shoot each other, or at least stick somebody with a knife, the way they went to pieces. They did everthing else, though. Stumbled into and tripped over each other. Screamed on their own account, some of 'em pointing here and there and everywhere. One fellow did get punched in the face. Broke his nose, but he never even noticed.
Remember back when I was thirteen, I told you about Sophie-screeching them three Army deserters so bad they left their saddles behind and lit out on their horses bareback? Hell, that little situation was an orderly retreat compared to this bunch. It kept getting worse and worse, with them getting more and more agitated–and us Tamsons wondering if our screaming, hooting, and whatever other weird sounds Wolf and Coug were making…well, truth be told, we were wondering if this little fandango was going to come to a resolution before our voices give out, or not!
Turned out all we needed was the light of the moon. The moment them first rays of silver light come splashing across the creek to their campsite, that bunch huddled up like a–I dunno, maybe a gaggle of geese would describe it–and they took off the way they come in, headed out toward Evans property…on foot!
Making some noise of their own along the way.
Journal Entry: February 1, 1879. Martin Cross relayed stories told at the Singlejack. Says he heard men talking about Trickle Creek, how it was haunted by ghosts and werewolves and vampires and Bigfoots and all manner of monsters. Said "somebody" was offering good money for people to sneak onto Flywheel property and pan for–supposedly–sapphires. No takers.
What? Oh, okay; guess I never did really explain that part of it. See, we kinda owed our expertise at brewing up a batch of what we come to call Wolf Tea to the late, unlamented Clarisse the Beast. After Hattie Prosser got somewhat recovered from being poisoned, she come to a decision: She was going to learn all there was to know about plants that could be used to produce unhealthy effects in folks. Not so's she could poison anybody, but so's she'd know her enemy. She'd been studying hardcore, ever spare moment and then some, and she'd also acquired quite a store of herbs and such with…interesting properties.
Then there was Laughing Brook's lifelong expertise with such things, mostly fer healing, but including the dangerous plants as well.
Put them two together, tell 'em what we needed–a brew that could pass in coffee, more or less, and that would produce hallucinations without killing anybody–tell 'em that, and let 'em git to work.
Oh, come on. No, I ain't about to give you the recipe. Fer one thing, only the girls really know it, anyway.
I do know there was a bit of peyote in there–ain't sure how much–and I think I heard Hattie say something about mushrooms.


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I've been happy to welcome two lots of visitors today to Hopcraft towers... yes, I actually welcomed people, I know it's not generally the way I do things, but these people are my friends!
First up were Elaine and Tara of Yorkshire's Mallinsons brewery; we go back a long way do Tara and I, and it's always a pleasure to have some banter with the lasses from Huddersfield, and now it looks like I'll have to go and brew a beer with them! Oh the hardship... !
|Tara under the "mezzanine"
Second up was long-time mate Jessi (and friends) of old-skool Railpunk band Eastfield who popped in to check up on "Sharks against Surfers" which was named after an Eastfield track! A clothing exchange was completed too, with a hoodie coming my way so I can look more "yoof", innit...
|Jessi with goodies
I'm now about to cask up a load of beer before heading off home, I'm leaving two beers in full ferment with very happy looking yeasties gorging on the worts of Day of the Lords and Oceanic; as I've already mentioned this week was our busiest week ever so thanks to everyone who supports us and drinks our beer...
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FAQs on the LibQUAL+ Survey
George Fox University Libraries are conducting an internationally-validated online survey, called LibQUAL+™ Lite.
This page provides details on the survey, which is intended for all George Fox students and employees.
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What is the LibQUAL+ Lite survey?
Service quality has always been the focus of libraries; the current LibQUAL+ Lite instrument measures library users' perceptions of their libraries' service quality and identifies gaps between minimum, desired, and perceived levels of service.
LibQUAL+ was developed by statisticians for the ARL (Association of Research Libraries). More than 1,300 libraries have used this internationally-validated online survey. Submitted surveys will be compiled by ARL staff and will provide comparisons with other institutions.
What kind of information does the survey seek to elicit?
The survey instrument addresses three service quality dimensions that have been found to be valid in previous assessments of library services, namely: staff service, access to information, and library as a place.
Each question has three parts that ask respondents to indicate, on a scale of 1-9, (a) the number that represents the minimum level of service that they would find acceptable (Minimum); (b) the number that represents the level of service that they personally desire for the item (Desired); and (c) the number that represents the level of service that they believe the library currently provides for them (Perceived). This design permits analysis of gaps between expectations, perception and minimum acceptance levels of service.
An open-ended text box is provided at the end of the survey, for comments and suggestions.
How will this survey benefit the George Fox community?
By using the LibQUAL+ Lite instrument and initiating action based on the results of the survey, GFU libraries can be more responsive to users' needs and provide services that are better aligned to users' expectations.
How and when is the survey being conducted?
A link to the web-based LibQUAL+ Lite survey will be made available via the library website, E-nnouncements, and an email invitation. The survey will be available March 6-24, 2017. Data will be collected on secure servers located in the Texas A & M University Library.
Are responses confidential?
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The LibQUAL+ survey evolved from a conceptual model based on the SERVQUAL instrument, a popular tool for assessing service quality in the private sector, grounded in the "Gap Theory of Service Quality". It was developed by Leonard L. Berry (Distinguished Professor, Texas A & M University), A. Parasuraman, and Valarie A. Zeithaml.
The Texas A & M University Libraries and other libraries used modified SERVQUAL instruments for several years; those applications revealed the need for a newly adapted tool that would serve the particular requirements of libraries. From 1999, ARL, representing the largest research libraries in North America, partnered with Texas A & M University Libraries to develop, test, and refine LibQUAL+. This effort was supported in part by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE). LibQUAL+ Lite, a shorter form of LibQUAL+, was released in 2010.
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If you are a distance student (e.g., Redmond, Salem, online program) and do not use one of the George Fox University location libraries please choose "N/A Distance Student".
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Choose what you think best describes you. For example, this may be your 4th year as an undergraduate, so choose 4th year.
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Survey data is transmitted directly from the LibQUAL+ server to a database. The data is then compiled and reports are generated for individual libraries that provide information on how users perceive the quality of service. Participating institutions will have access to summary results for each institution, allowing for comparisons among peer institutions and all participating academic institutions.


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The professionalism of the Church is of paramount importance in today's world. It's intellectual property, identity and integrity need to be monitored and protected to safeguard its core ministry from corruption and interference. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013) and the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations (2013) have demonstrated the need for constant and ongoing reflection of the health of the daily interactions of Church personnel and the quality of programs within its ministry. Most Catholic dioceses around Australia have a Professional Standards branch.
The responsibilities of the Professional Standards Committee (PSC) are as follows:
- To promote the overall professionalism of the diocese through the implementation and design of policy, consultation and professional learning
- To participate in dialogue on professional standards issues and related matters with other Catholic dioceses, parishes, education offices, Catholic Professional Standards Ltd, VRQA and government agencies
- To consider correspondence relating to complaints and reports of professional misconduct or abuse
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(NOTE: Hover over each photo for USA Shooting Team member names.)
Every four years, the U.S. fields an Olympic shooting team known worldwide for achieving success in a most un-contemporary way—a rich and distinctly American background in traditional field sports.
Coaches say hunting and fishing, still the primary funding mechanisms for conservation in our country, also help boost America's competitiveness on the international stage.
In recognition, the entire USA Shooting Team is serving as honorary chair of National Hunting and Fishing Day 2010, set for Sept. 25. Congress established the annual commemoration to recognize hunters and anglers for their leading role in fish, wildlife and habitat conservation. Sporting licenses and special taxes on certain gear generate $100,000 every 30 minutes, totaling more than $1.75 billion per year, for programs that benefit all who love the outdoors.
Denise Wagner of Wonders of Wildlife, the official home of NHF Day in Springfield, Mo., said, "American hunters and anglers are not only world-class conservationists, they have skills that help make world-class athletes."
National Shotgun Coach Bret Erickson agrees.
"Most members of our shooting team grew up hunting and fishing," said Erickson, himself a four-time Olympian and lifelong hunter and angler from Bennington, Neb. "Nobody starts hunting because they want to go to the Olympics, but it helps. The skills learned in hunting and, to a lesser degree, fishing—safety and comfort with firearms, basic shooting mechanics, patience, controlling emotions, concentration, ability to focus for long periods, persistence—can translate directly to competitive shooting."
This deep and unrivaled connection to outdoor traditions helps make the U.S. a surprisingly fierce contender in all three shooting disciplines: shotgun, rifle and pistol.
Erickson explained, "In many countries, Italy for example, shotgun shooting is a premier sport. Everyone shoots. And they shoot the international-style games that are relatively uncommon here in America. So before a match even begins we know we're outnumbered and outmanned. Our athletes typically haven't had as much time in their sport. Our training budgets are often smaller. And yet, in shotgun events, the U.S. remains among the top one or two countries in the world."
He added, "Most nations don't enjoy the broad freedoms to hunt like we do in the U.S., and that unique tradition and rural lifestyle produce much of our talent. Hunters have always been a reservoir of natural shooting abilities that America has relied on and successfully developed for Olympic competition."
Shooters are among the most decorated athletes in U.S. Olympic history. With 103 medals for shotgun, rifle and pistol marksmanship, only track and field, swimming, diving, wrestling and boxing have been more prolific medal producers for Americans. In fact, shooting ranks ahead of gymnastics, figure skating, volleyball and more than 30 other Olympic sports.
Buddy DuVall of USA Shooting, the national governing body for Olympic shooting sports, said, "Our team is thrilled to serve for National Hunting and Fishing Day. It's a great honor to recognize our roots in hunting and fishing, raise awareness of conservation and build appreciation for the sportsmen and women of America."
Notes and Quotes
A sample of USA Shooting Team members, listed by home state, on hunting, fishing and conservation:
Corey Cogdell, 23, Eagle River—Olympic bronze medalist, 2008. Shotgun: trap. First U.S. woman ever to win a medal in her event. Avid hunter with moose, caribou, bear, deer, ducks and upland birds to her credit. Quotable: "Hunting brought me into the shooting sports. I grew up hunting and fishing with my dad. I can remember him teaching me to shoot at a very young age, and I grew up realizing that shooting, hunting, fishing and conservation are all intertwined."
Dan Jordan, 31, Fairbanks—Paralympic silver medalist, 2004. Rifle: 3 position. Former world record holder in his event. Lifelong sportsman who pursues both big and small game as well as fish in both freshwater and saltwater. Quotable: "The fundamentals of shooting, whether for targets or game, are the same. The same attributes that make you a good hunter can also make you a good shooter—with enough practice."
Matt Wallace, 26, Fairbanks—Olympic hopeful, 2012. Rifle: various events. Began fishing at age 7, hunting small game at age 8 and big game at age 14. Quotable: "Hunting was the reason why I learned to shoot. Being successful in hunting and fishing, just like in competitive shooting, require the patience to work hard, the ability to focus on what you can control, and the attitude to enjoy the experience along the way."
Kim Rhode, 30, El Monte—Olympic gold medalist, 1996, 2004; Olympic silver medalist, 2008; Olympic bronze medalist, 2000. Shotgun: double trap, skeet. Most decorated shooter in American history, and among the most enduring and successful Olympic athletes in all of sports. Lifelong angler. As a hunter, collected her first limit of doves at age 7. Since then has taken numerous big game species from several continents. Quotable: "When I won my first Olympic gold medal (age 16, in the Atlanta Games) they rushed me off to be interviewed by the media. The first question I was asked, by a New York Times reporter, was, 'Which is bigger—the 300-pound bear that you just shot in northern California or the Olympic gold medal around your neck?' The reporter went on to write a great article and people accepted me as a hunter, angler and outdoor woman."
Lance Bade, 38, Colorado Springs—Olympic bronze medalist, 1996; Olympian 2000, 2004. Shotgun: trap. Since the age of 9, a devoted hunter and angler who now guides big game, waterfowl and upland bird hunts. Quotable: "My accomplishments in shooting and guiding have allowed me to work with all kinds of conservation groups. Conservation not only preserves land for future generations but also assures healthy game populations. All true outdoorsmen are stewards of the land."
Amber English, 20, Colorado Springs—Junior Olympic gold medalist, 2009. Shotgun: skeet. Enjoys fishing and hunting, especially with her father and other family members. Quotable: "I was taught at a young age about what conservation means and what we as hunters do for wildlife and habitat. I take lots of pride in this. If people don't take the initiative to help conserve our outdoors, future generations will not get to share the same experiences as we did with hunting, fishing and shooting."
Haley Dunn, 25, Eddyville—National Championships silver medalist, 2009. Shotgun: skeet. Lifelong hunter and angler who enjoys pursuing big game (including an African safari), turkey, upland birds and all kinds of sportfish. Quotable: "Two major traits that hunting has taught me are dedication and patience. I get the same adrenalin rush when a monster whitetail comes by my stand as I get when I am competing for the gold. The patience it takes to sit in a treestand waiting for that one opportunity is the same patience it takes on the skeet field."
Rachael Heiden, 18, Clinton—World Cup bronze medalist, 2009; Junior Olympic gold medalist, 2009. Shotgun: trap. Enjoys fishing as well as hunting for deer, quail and waterfowl. Quotable: "My parents taught me early on that hunting, fishing and conservation went together. However, since I started shooting competitively, it has brought a whole new realization about how our sport can increase that awareness for other people."
Teresa Meyer, 24, Dearborn—National Championships silver medalist, 2009; collegiate national champion, 2008. Sport pistol; air pistol. As a young child caught her first fish, a 1 lb.-1 oz. bluegill which is mounted at her parents' home. She also enjoys hunting and has taken seven whitetails. Quotable: "I was a shooter first, but hunting taught the absolute importance of safety. Knowing that I can kill something with a gun made me more aware of why the rules on the range are so important. Hunting also sparked my interest in rifles and I competed nationally for several years with high-powered rifles."
Collin Wietfeldt, 18, Hemlock—U.S. Junior Olympic gold medalist, 2009; World Championships junior team silver medalist, 2009. Shotgun: trap. Avid hunter, angler and trapper. Quotable: "My life revolves around the shooting sports and the outdoors. I wish more Americans would see how important the great outdoors, the right to bear arms, hunting, fishing and shooting are to not just me, but to all of America and the world."
B.J. Banchard, 19, Vidor—Olympic hopeful, 2012. Shotgun: skeet. Has been hunting as long as he can remember and is especially fond of bird hunting. Quotable: "Hunting is what got me started in shooting. Every time I go out hunting it seems to help my skills in skeet shooting."
Glenn Eller, 28, Katy—Olympic gold medalist, 2008. Shotgun: double trap. Fervent bass angler and deer hunter. Quotable: "The first time I passed up a deer that most people dream of shooting because I would rather have it in the gene pool than on my wall, I really made the connection between conservation and hunting. Without hunters, there would be far less pristine land left in the world."
Sean McClelland, 24, Harlingen—Olympian, 2008. Shotgun: skeet. Grew up fishing the saltwater flats of the Texas gulf coast, chasing redfish and speckled trout. Also an avid bird and big game hunter. Quotable: "Hunting at a very early age proved to be the foundation for my interest in the shooting sports. This passion eventually opened the doors for my Olympic dreams. It was through hunting, also, that I learned how hunting license and tag fees go back into conservation efforts for all kinds of wildlife."
Connie Smotek, 45, Bryan—Olympian, 2004, 1992; World Cup bronze medalist, 2009. Shotgun: skeet. Longtime dove hunter, deer hunter and angler. Quotable: "Hunting and fishing require staying calm, being patient and paying attention to detail, which for me has translated to better focus in competition."
John Mullins, 22, Port Orchard—National Championships gold medalist, 2009. Shotgun: trap. An avid elk and deer hunter who started out hunting ducks and geese, as well as fishing offshore for salmon and halibut. Quotable: "When I represent our sport, I'm not only representing the shooting world but also one of America's longest passions—the outdoors."
Jacob Turner, 20, Richland—World Championships silver medalist, 2009; Junior Olympics silver medalist, 2009; National Championships silver medalist, 2009. Shotgun: trap. Devoted duck and goose hunter who also enjoys big game hunting and salmon and bass fishing. Quotable: "I remember when I was younger, my dad explained the Wildlife and Sportfish Restoration Acts. Basically it means that when you buy supplies for hunting, shooting and fishing, a portion of the revenue supports and improves wildlife and habitat for all to enjoy."
The USA Shooting Team joins a long list of sports personalities who have served as honorary chair of NHF Day. Baseball stars have included Ron Guidry, Tom Seaver, George Brett and Wade Boggs. Football pros Bert Jones, Terry Bradshaw, John Riggins and Jay Novacek, along with golfers Tom Weiskopf, Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer and Tom Lehman have also served. Basketball legend John Havlicek, NASCAR's Ward Burton and tennis champion Roscoe Tanner round out the sports heroes who have helped spread the word about hunting, angling and conservation.
Since launching in 1972, NHF Day has been formally proclaimed by every U.S. President.
The growing list of sponsors for NHF Day 2010 includes Wonders of Wildlife, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Bass Pro Shops, Smith & Wesson, Sportsman Channel, Realtree, Cabela's, GunBroker.com, Yamaha, and Pope and Young Club.