Julie Goloski Golob wins three titles at Wyoming State Steel Challenge
Team Smith & Wesson Captain Julie Goloski Golob won three titles at the Wyoming State Steel Challenge match at the Great Divide Shooting Club in Rawlins, Wyoming, the weekend of July 17 and 18. She finished the match as Ladies Champion, Production Champion and Limited Champion. Read more
Julie Goloski Golob wins again
The WOMA’s Julie Goloski Golob has won her second title in as many matches in the young 2010 handgun competition season. Read more
Julie Goloski Golob wins Single Stack Ladies title
Champion competition handgun shooter and WOMA member Julie Goloski Golob has won . . . again.
Julie took the Women’s Single Stack division title at the USPSA Area 6 Championships, held April 16-18 in Conyers, Georgia. USPSA Area 6 was the first match in her busy 2010 competition season. “Montana’s News Station” KTVQ ran a feature story on Julie’s win this week. She lives in Glasgow, Montana, with her husband and their young daughter.
She will travel to Barry, Illinois, this weekend to compete in her second 2010 season match, the USPSA Single Stack Nationals, held from April 30 to May 2.
A competition handgunner since age 14, Julie was a member of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit for eight years, and was named U.S. Army Female Athlete of the Year in 1999. She has won more than 70 titles in national and international shooting competitions.
Julie also serves as team captain for the Smith & Wesson pro staff.
Capital offense
December 8, 2009 by Amy Shaw
Filed under Editorial Exegesis
Overuse of capital letters is a common spelling error. Everyone knows that some nouns (names of persons, places, things or concepts) need initial capital letters, and others don’t. The trick is figuring out when to use them.
There are two kinds of nouns: common nouns and proper nouns. Common nouns are not capitalized (unless they begin a sentence); proper nouns are always capitalized. Here’s one way to look at it: Common nouns are informal, while proper nouns are formal.
Proper nouns are the formal names of persons, or the official names of specific places or things: Bob, Sue, Chicago, Arizona, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Golden Gate Bridge, Smith & Wesson, United States.
The Chrysler Building is proper.
Common nouns are informal or generic names: man, woman, city, state, hotel, bridge, firearm, nation. Most names of animals, fish, birds and plants are common nouns, not capitalized (even though they are names of specific entities): grizzly bear, rainbow trout, osprey, red oak.
The gray fox is common.
What about the exceptions? (I knew it!) Some common nouns have proper-noun elements. Examples are animals, birds, plants or fish named for a specific, formal person, place, group, etc.: Stone sheep (named for Mr. Stone); Merriam’s turkey (named for Mr. Merriam); Kentucky coffee tree (named for the state); Apache trout (named for the tribe).
Here are this week’s editorial funnies to test yourself. See how many errors you can spot. Each example contains at least one.
5. At the height of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate in the United States stood at 25%.
Say what?
4. He grew up in Detroit and his love for the city and its people are palpable, as is his grief for the horrors the city has endured.
3. We have a serious problem in this country—our champagne financing. TV covers candidates directly commiserate with their ability to sell ads, so an attractive candidate gets more coverage that someone not so photogenic.
2. The tragic news did not phase Jonathon as much as Melinda had expected.
1. After rounding the corner near the entryway, Wilson’s paranoia began to ease a little.
Here are the answers to the bloopers in the last post:
5. After we had conquered the mountain, we got off the horses and lead them down a steep tallow slope.
The past participle of to lead is led. Tallow is the purified fat of cattle or sheep; the correct word here is talus, for a pile of rocky debris.
4. She was a gorgeous, elegant lady and reminded him of a movie star, like Marilyn Monrow swan eye in a platinum mink stole.
The actress’s name was Marilyn Monroe. The author who wrote swan eye aimed high and missed; the correct word is soignée (pronounced SWEN-yay), French for stylishly well-groomed. (Pat yourself twice on the back if you got this one—it’s a fairly uncommon word. You might see it in Vogue or another high-end magazine.)
3. Every week, the Spotlight shits on a different member and highlights their professional accompaniments.
(Such treatment can’t make the members too happy!) Should be shifts onto. Wrong word; should be accomplishments.
2. Navigating the river and knowing which stretches the fish prefer along with knowledge of subtle nuisances in drift and presentation really make a guide on the Cumberland one of the best investments you can ever make.
Wrong word; should be nuances, meaning fine distinctions.
1. During the First World War, troops from the Royal Norfolk Regiment were fighting the Turks in Dardanelles, France, when witnesses reported seeing several strange clouds hovering above the battlefield, unaffected by the day’s strong winds.
(Two pats on the back if you got this one, too.) This sentence needs rethinking, not just rewriting. Because Dardanelles looks like a French word, and British troops fought in France in World War I, the author assumed that Dardanelles must be a French town. But it’s not a town, and it’s not in France—and the British in France were fighting Germans, not Turks.
The Dardanelles (aka the Hellespont) is an ocean strait in Turkey that connects the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. The described incident was part of the 1915–1916 Gallipoli Campaign, in which British troops invaded Turkey in an unsuccessful attempt to capture the straits and open a sea route from Europe to Asia.
Rewritten thus: During the Gallipoli Campaign in the First World War, troops from the Royal Norfolk Regiment were fighting Turkish forces at the Dardanelles, when witnesses reported . . .
The devil truly is in the details.
Kay Clark-Miculek Wins Top Lady at the World Steel championships!
January 17, 2009 by The WOMA
Filed under Featured Members
Photo credit to United States Practical Shooting Association.
Kay Clark-Miculek once again wins Top Lady at the World Steel championships. She is also the founder and head instructor for the Babes with Bullets/Ladies Action Shooting Camps, sponsored by Smith & Wesson. Now going into it’s 5th year of traveling through the U.S., the camps, instructed by women for women, are now part of a reality TV series. For more information on Kay’s long list of world and national championships with handgun, rifle and shotgun, visit her at www.Bang-Inc.com
