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It ain’t necessarily an easy gig, writing western history. There’s just so
much cultural freight behind the genre, so much expectation. Unless
you’re Bernard de Voto, how do you make an appeal to the general
market without losing the respect of your peers? Unless you’re Wallace
Stegner, how do you indulge the professorial without seeing your
subject turn bland as Ovaltine? Charles G. Worman’s new coffee table
book Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-
Century American West (University of New Mexico Press, $55) goes a
long way toward striking that difficult balance between authenticity and
amusement, elbowing its way onto the short list of entertaining texts that
nevertheless manage to make some contribution to their disciplines.

Seventeen chapters and 522 pages, heavy as a gym plate and thick as
a cheap couch cushion, there’s no curling up in bed with this sumbitch.
No, Gunsmoke is meant to be browsed, read randomly while you’re
hunched over your knees in the stacks, flipped through in the search for
a familiar, faded face (Calamity Jane, “with a Stevens pocket rifle with
detachable skeleton stock.”) or guns associated with famous names
(”This Burgess [a 12 gauge folding shotgun] passed to Pat Garrett,
famed as Billy the Kid’s killer, who served as US customs collector in El
Paso…Garrett had this gun with him when in 1908 he was gunned down
by one of his tenants…”) Despite the imposing size, the book is an easy
way to kill an afternoon, a heavy hodgepodge of distracting tidbits.
About the development of repeating rifles, for instance, Worman writes,
“Manufacture of the Henry repeater ceased in 1866, shortly before the
demise of the Spencer. Oliver Winchester and his associates
recognized the need for improvement in the Henry’s magazine design.
The solution was patented in May 1866 by Nelson King, a spring-
tempered loading gate set in the right side of the brass frame…Loading
was accomplished merely by inserting the cartridges one by one
through the gate.” For anyone with the least knowledge of firearms,
these few sentences represent a treasure trove of learned trivia. Henry’s
stopped production when? And Spencer’s? And that side loading
mechanism that you remember from Uncle Earl’s old 30.06? Turns out it
was an 1866 patent. For a firearms enthusiast or amateur historian,
anyone with the least interest in Western history, it don’t get much better.

The academic value of the book arises from Worman’s considerable,
nearly encyclopedic expertise, his thorough knowledge of the subject.
He takes a particular delight in writing captions, explaining that the
fuzzy, nearly indecipherable handgun on the hip of a drover is not only
being carried butt forward, but it’s a Colt Model 1878; that the interior of
a cow puncher’s bunk shows us a Winchester Model 1873 rifle, a
double-barrel shotgun and a holstered Colt Model 1878 revolver. “A pair
of hand weights on the floor beside the boots indicates the owner must
have been health conscious.” The various chapters, while arranged in
rough temporal sequence - chapter eight, “The 1860s,” precedes
chapter nine, “Trailing Cattle,” and chapter eleven, “The Slaughter of the
Bison” - nevertheless can (and perhaps should) be read as stand alone
essays.

This particular arena of western history, of course, is clotted with titles,
each one clamoring for its share of attention. Winchester has a book, for
instance. Colt has a couple, Remington. Under their own bargain
imprint, Barnes & Noble has released a whole scad of coffee table
browsers (A History of Arms, etc.). But Charles G. Worman’s effort
manages to stand out. A firearms specialist and, previously, the co-
author of the two volume, Firearms of the American West, a retired
deputy director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force and a
Fellow of the Company of Military Historians, Worman is an able and
entertaining guide, a scholar with no real agenda aside from the
communication of his passion. His book is a skilled and valuable
addition to a difficult genre.

Allen Jones is Books and Writers Editor for New West Network.
http://www.newwest.net

Diabetic diets have flooded the ‘health niche’ of the Internet. This ‘flood’ is caused by extremely high number of diabetics all over the world, and by the fact that the Internet is the easiest way to get important and often vital information at any time.

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No one has a stronger command of the English language when attacking the evils of unbridled liberalism than Ann Coulter.

Her analytical, strongly logical, vituperative commentary is as much remarkable for its content as its delivery.

Kudos to her for the first time equating liberalism with treason and worse - stupidity.

Far from being a party platform or idealogy, liberalism is painted as a deep-rooted disease that has all but undone, if not shaken, the foundations of our great nation.

The United States succeeds in spite of liberalism, not because of it.

Despite the betrayals and coverups by a liberal governing body through the Truman and Roosevelt administrations, the nation has somehow managed to remain strong and get back on course. One wonders, though, how much stronger it might have been.

Coulter rightly questions the strange bedfellow relationships between Hollywood, the media and politics.

Why Hollywood has never created a major motion picture depicting the horrors of the gulag and the Stalin ’show trials’ is a question that most likely may continue to go unanswered.

Liberalism in the media, motion pictures and politics, seems to be the safe road for imbeciles. We now know positions of high power are reserved for those of limited brain power of the privileged class, and Coulter paints a gritty, alarming picture of how and why this is so.

Liberals do not only not believe what they see, they don’t see things correctly.

Perhaps this is a byproduct of the innate persistent desire of rose-colored sensibilities, a reluctance to see things for what they really are.

A most representative sampling, from P.81 of Treason:

Owen Lattimore, poor beleaguered victim of “McCarthyism, hailed Stalin’s murderous show trials as “the sort of habitual rectification” that would encourage others to tell the truth. As he put it, “That sounds like democracy to me.” Russia was awash in the blood of this Felliniesque hoax. But Lattimore gushed with admiration. Lincoln Steffens said famously after a visit to Stalin’s Russia, “I have been over into the future - and it works.” Theodore Dreiser wrote of the abject poverty in the Soviet Union: “There is poverty. There are beggars in the streets. But, Lord how picturesque! The multi-colored and voluminous rags on them!

From his hideout in Mexico, Trostky denounced the show trials as a ‘frame-up,’ saying the confessions “contain such inherent improbabilities” as to convince “any unprejudiced person that no effort was made to ascertain the truth.” American liberals were not the “unprejudiced” witnesses Trostky had hoped for. In 1992, the Times referred to “recent revelations about Stalin’s purges and other Soviet deeds.” Who was hiding that from the Times?

While tens of millions were being executed, torn from their families, subjected to forced starvations as a matter of government policy, packed on trains, and sent to Siberian gulags in the glorious USSR, about two hundred people in America were blacklisted from a single frivolous industry. They could still go to Paris or sell real estate or do any number of things. They just couldn’t work in the movies. That was the only price they paid for shilling for a mass murderer.

- J. Wilson, Vegas Buzz

Jerry Wilson, a.k.a., James B. Wilson, is Editor/Publisher of Vegas Buzz (”What Happens in Vegas”) - http://www.vegasbuzzz.com

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As a writer, I think The Letter must have been a very
interesting challenge for author Roxanna Russell. This work
of fiction is actually a collection of 14 short stories - each
revolving around some kind of letter; the Suicide Note, the
Closure Letter, Love Letter, Fan Letter and so on. Yet the
book is also a novel, in that each chapter is centered on a
particular family and each chapter ties into the next.

The three main characters are Mark, his wife, Carol and his
son Jack. Mark and Carol meet in dire circumstances, fall in
love and raise children who grow into adults with lives of
their own. Each major life altering moment is accentuated
with an accompanying letter written by someone in the
family.

The author’s humor, love and appreciation of people in her
live are apparent within the first few pages of The Letter. She
brings up issues so subtly that you hardly know they are
there. For instance, is it wrong for Jan to sell herself to save
her father? I think not. The Letter reinforces that intent is
what weighing the rights and wrongs of life decisions really
boils down to.

It was both a pleasure and an honor to read The Letter.

ISBN#: 1-4137-9311-8

Author: Roxanna Russell

Publisher: Publish America

Book Reviewer: Lillian Brummet - Co-author of the book
Trash Talk, a guide for anyone concerned about his or her
impact on the environment - Author of Towards
Understanding, a collection of poetry.
(http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)

Malta’s history stretches back into the ages as far back as 5000 BC and radiocarbon dating has proved this. Scattered all over the Maltese Islands one comes across evidence of Malta’s prehistory. The most important being a series of temples which have been termed to be the oldest free-standing stone structures exceeding even the earliest stone constructions of Egypt - the Pyramids; and older even than Stonehenge. Prehistory remains in Malta are unique and nothing is remotely comparable anywhere in the world. Prehistory is divided into three phases Neolithic (5200 - 4100 BC), Temple Period (4100 - 2500 BC), Bronze Age (2500 - 800 BC). The book Malta Before History published by Miranda Publishers and written by a number of authors gives an in-depth study of the Malta’s prehistory.

Malta Before History is an archaeological, academic and pictorial analysis of Malta’s pre-history embodied in the oldest freestanding stone buildings in the world on the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo.

Malta Before History explores the stone structures, known locally as ‘the temples’ that are older than the pyramids in Egypt, the sites of Mesopotamia and Stonehenge in England. This unique publication, with a foreword by renowned historian Lord Colin Renfrew, brings the Maltese Islands to the attention of new generations of historians and academics as well as readers and travellers who enjoy the uniqueness of history and have never before discovered Malta was the home of such superb ancient sites. To quote Lord Renfrew, ’something exceptional took place in Malta more than 5,000 years ago and there is nowhere else in the world that can boast of great stone monuments at so early a date’. Two of the locations examined in this publication, the megalithic temples and the Saflieni Hypogeum were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1980.

Extraordinary facts unfold about the mysterious origins of prehistoric Maltese man and how he constructed such unmatched architecture. Chapters include studies on The Building of Megalithic Malta and The Bronze Age as well as the enigma of the Cart Ruts and whether the ‘Fat Lady’ was really a god or a goddess. Equally important is a chapter showing how recent radiocarbon dating has proved that Malta’s prehistory and its standing stone monuments are much older than archaeologists had first assumed. Authors include David Trump, Anthony Pace, Anthony Bonanno, Ann Monsarrat, Daniel Clarke, Michael Hughes Clarke, Alex Torpiano, Frank Ventura, Reuben Grima and Richard England.

Miranda Publishers is at the forefront in the publication of large format Maltese books about Malta’s cultural and historical heritage. For more details or to purchase any of our books visit http://www.mirandabooks.com

Malignant mesothelioma is a uncommon cancer of the tissues that line the body’s inner organs. Around 2,000 brand new instances are pinpointed every year in the whole US. Out of this group, almostthree fourths of cases concern the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In about 10 to twenty percent of cases, mesothelioma could involve the tissue that encloses abdominal organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, resulting in what is then known as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Being introduced to asbestos is positively the largest risk factor for this uncommon sickness. After asbestos exposure, the time to progression of the mesothelioma disease may be two to four decades. Because of job related introduction, mesothelioma is almost 3 times more regular in males, than in females. Due to the amount of instances goes up with your age, there are nearly 10 times more instances in the males more than age 64 than in the men in their midlife.

Being diagnosed with Mesothelioma is a grave ailment, that, at the moment, has a incredibly bad degree of lasting survival. However, if it is diagnosed quickly, treatments are then at hand that will notably extend the patient’s life. Advanced approaches continue to be and are being tested through the use of clinical trials.

We all know someone who’s idea of a good time is hanging off cliffs. If you’re looking for Christmas gift ideas for a rock climbing enthusiast, here’s some unique rock climbing gift ideas.

Rock Climbing Gift Ideas

You can always tell a rock climber by their appearance. White chalk fingers, bleeding knuckles, bent fingers and…a grin a mile wide. Whether they are climbing in indoor climbing gyms or hanging off Half Dome in Yosemite, rock climbers are very receptive to rock climbing gifts. Here are a few gift ideas that will make you a favorite with them.

1. Rock Climbing Gym - Most metropolitan areas now have rock climbing gyms. These gyms are typically indoor areas where rock climbers can work on their techniques. Walls come in a variety of terrains and with differing holds. Membership costs range all over the place, but climbers will love the gift. This is a particular good rock climbing gift idea for people living in big cities and who can’t head off for an afternoon of knuckle crunching.

2. Climb International DVD - The Climb International DVD is a highly recommended financial planning tool for rock climbers. Why? Well, the DVD contains climbs from exotic locations such as Thailand and China. After watching the DVD, the average rock climber will suddenly start saving every penny from their paycheck, rolling nickels and generally being as cheap as possible. The goal? To save enough money to travel to these locations for a personal rock climbing adventure. The DVD can be a bit hard to find. Search for it by name on any search engine and you should be able to find it. Expect to pay roughly $20 for this mouth watering movie.

3. Build Your Own Indoor Climbing Wall - You have to be very careful when giving this gift. This book gives step by step instructions on how to build an indoor climbing wall. This, of course, requires one to have a space in which to build said climbing wall. Basements and garages are typical locations, much to the chagrin of spouses. Personally, I wouldn’t put my name on the “from” section of the gift card. You can expect to pay $10 or so for this evil little book.

4. Climbing Holds - Climbing holds are plaster molds that are put on a climbing wall. They come in all kinds of vicious shapes, which are perfect for bending fingers in truly unnatural positions. If you know someone who has built a climbing wall in their garage or house, this is a perfect gift. Since each climbing hold is more or less unique, just pick the ones that grab your fancy. They come in a wide range of prices, so it is often best to shop by what you can afford. Helpful Tip: Look closely at the holds. If you can’t imagine how a hand would possible hold onto a particular hold, that is the one to buy!

5. Nomad Rock Climbing Journals - A little self-promotion. Nomad Rock Climbing Journals are great gifts for rock climbers. These writing journals allow climbers to keep track of their climbs, impressions, people the climbed with, routes and any additional information they feel necessary. Over time, the climbing journals become a history of climbs and a great keepsake. A great Christmas gift, you can see the rock climbing journals by clicking the link in the byline of this article and expect to pay $25 for the journal with case.

As you know, there is simply no way to keep a climber from climbing. You might as well give in and give them a Christmas climbing gift.

Rick Chapo is with http://www.nomadjournals.com/climbing.cfm - makers of rock climbing journals which make great rock climbing gifts for him or her.

Children come into this world so innocent. They just want to have fun and just love to explore and find new things out. During this time children should be supported and loved back. If they want to experience something in a certain way, they should be able too. So many times they can appear to mess up and get in all kinds of trouble. Each time they get into trouble they can become withdrawn and not express themselves to the fullest. This is not good; they should be able to do as they choose. There are instances when they do mess up real bad because they could get hurt so they are being protected that way, they just need to be completely aware of what they did and how it can have that type of outcome. The best is when they can come to that conclusion on their own and no one has to tell them. This will give them a huge advantage as they get older and are on their own because solving problems is a skill that we all have to have to some degree or another. Children are free and just the thought of going back to being a child again and experiencing that all over again is enough to make me feel positive inside. Children need love and they need support, they just want to have fun and learn and that is what life is all about.

The waste industry has experienced a welcome drop in the number of accidents since 2004, according to the Bomel Report published by HSE. The report maps the health and safety standards in the UK Waste industry and was previously published in 2004. A comparison of the 2003-04 and 2007-08 reports shows that the accident and injury rate in the waste sector has been reduced by about 15%.

The decline translates to about 800 lesser injuries each year in comparison with 2000-2001, and has been the result of a joint effort of various parties including the Waste Industry Health and Safety (WISH) Forum. WISH has been working on the injury situation ever since the first report looking into the matter was published in 2004. The present trend shows that the poor performance at the beginning of the decade has now been controlled and rapid improvements are taking place.

There is, however, still a long way to go for the waste industry according to the report, which showed that the injury rate is still four times that of the all-industry average and around twice the rate in other major sectors like manufacturing and construction. Additionally, the profile of injuries has remained largely unchanged. Sprains during the handling of material, trips, and instances in which workers were hit by machinery have caused about 80% of all injuries. More than three-fourths of the injured were found to be involved in gathering, sorting or disposal of waste.

Any company that is involved in work where employees could potentially be injured must make themselves fully aware of the legal implications and training available to avoid the wrath of the HSE and the courts. Protect your company with accredited health and safety training courses, such as the nebosh general certificate offered by Workplace Law Training.

HSE has promised to follow the goals set by WISH and has asked for the active participation of people from the industry in this critical project. The target areas for the next 4 years will be:

• inspection of poorly performing area;
• evaluating contracts offered by local authorities;
• and conducting more research on occupational health hazards.

Most importantly, employers and workers have to ensure that safety practices are followed and improved in line with the risks involved in their tasks.