A brain tumor! Really?

This was my thought last April 2012 when I was diagnosed with a 3 centimeter tumor in the left occipital region of my brain. What about simple illnesses like a cold, or if that wasn’t appealing to me, how about a less life-threatening illness? Of course, those questions cannot be answered, so I made up my mind. I would do my best and use all available tools (medical and otherwise) to manage this crisis, learn from it, grow from the experience, and be free of it! This is the first of several articles that will describe the healing process and understand how to make the most of a health crisis.

My Story: It is traditional at the Passover Dinner for all participants to read. When it was my turn, I tried to read and couldn’t! Of course, I went into immediate denial. “I’m tired of all the cooking” and “I just got a new puppy.” Well, that didn’t make a difference. What he did was my good friend Judy, who yelled at me, “Call the doctor.” “But I was in the middle of a TV show,” I complained. She and my husband wouldn’t leave me alone, so I called. Two days later I had an MRI and 4 hours later I was at Cedars Sinai Hospital with the best neurosurgeon in California. Three days later they operated on me to remove the tumor.

The good news…they got it all…the bad news…it was aggressive and I had to have radiation for 6 weeks and take chemo pills for 6 weeks. The treatment protocol is to take 5 days of chemotherapy pills every month for a year. I have also entered a clinical trial at Cedars Sinai for a vaccine that will inactivate these cells. The end result of the surgery is that I’m healthy, but I still can’t read or drive… damn it… more to deal with! I think we have lessons to learn from the crisis in our lives. I will address that important topic in a later article.

I told you my “story” because I didn’t want you to get caught up in what happened. What’s important is what I decided to do about it and the journey I’ve been on over the past six months.

When first diagnosed, after the initial wave of fear and apprehension, we take action. We listen to the doctors and we choose who we want to be on our team. There is a lot of pressure on everyone to do the ‘right’ thing. But what is correct? How do you know what is right for you? Questions flood your brain. The tendency is to leave decision-making in the hands of doctors or family members. Do not do that! Keep your humor. Feel the emotions that arise. Then come back to yourself, to your truth, to your intelligence and to what you believe. This is the only place where you can really hear yourself. It became clear to me that I needed a traditional and holistic treatment. I saw it as a complete circle. Very clear. Now he had to find out what the circle contained.

I knew I needed an advocate, a therapist who could keep me in tune with myself so fears wouldn’t take over. I knew that I was going to do Western medical treatments, although I have always been suspicious of the traditional medical society. I took a leap of faith and realized that they are experts in treating tumors, they are trained by experts, and I would receive good advice and guidance. I listened to my family and friends and made my own decisions. I went through all the options and ideas that came my way. I think when an idea occurs to me I should pay attention. It is an opportunity that may or may not be right for me. I decided yes with a nutritionist, yes with my holistic doctor (which I already had), and yes with a clinical trial of a cancer vaccine. I decided against acupuncture and some other healing modalities simply because I was overwhelmed with doctor’s appointments. I of course said YES to hypnosis and guided imagery. I have been practicing hypnotherapy for 30 years and it is a big part of me. The difference is that I allowed other practitioners (my friends) to work with me. I have some wonderful CDs to listen to and hypnosis is multi faceted as I am able to work with stress, fear, negativity as well as healing, relieving symptoms and strengthening my health.

My mindset was important. I chose a therapist who believes that once the tumor is there, the crisis that caused it is over and healing is in progress. He resonated with me. I have never seen myself as sick or unhealthy.

The articles that follow will explain how I maintain my strength, my power, and my patience. They will discuss different healing modalities and how to choose what is right for you. The last six months have been a journey of letting go, relearning what I took for granted, making up for it, letting myself be cared for, and receiving. I am learning to control my urge to be in control! This is the hardest job I’ve ever had. As I navigate through life, sometimes I feel like I’m failing and I don’t understand it, and other times I feel very wise and powerful. When friends, family, doctors, people I know look up to me for how I’m handling it, I just quietly smile inside.

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The first thing to do is go to the California DMV website, dmv.ca.gov. I will add links so you can find the information easily, as the DMV website can be a bit difficult to navigate. (AB2499 is the new CA legislation for traffic schools that was implemented on 9.1.2012) Covers all rules and regulations as well as necessary owner, operator and instructor qualifications.

After reviewing the information, you’ll want to print out the Traffic School Owner’s Checklist, it will come in handy for checking off each thing you need to complete.

Opening a school for traffic violators can be a long and tedious task; there are many requirements that must be met before the DMV will approve you.

I will list some of the steps involved in opening your school:

1) The first thing the DMV requires is to submit a traffic school lesson plan along with a fee of $800.00 for your original review of an online course, $800.00 for a home study course review, or $475.00 for a face-to-face course to send with your form OL764. You will have to wait up to 120 days for the DMV to run a background check on you and wait for your approval or rejection of your course. If you prefer you can buy a pre-approved lesson plan which is probably easier than writing your own which is a 6 month to a year project. Also, you will receive your DMV approval letter in about a week and only have to pay a $25.00 fee to use a pre-approved course.

2) The DMV must approve your traffic school name before you can proceed with the rest of your application, you will need to fill out the OL 612 form, but before you waste time buying your domain name for an online traffic school , you can call DMV and see if the name you want to use is available at the time of your call (916) 229-3126. If your name is similar to another name in use, your domain name will be rejected. If the name is available, you can submit the form to the DMV via priority mail, they will send you an approval for your chosen name via US mail, which is free marketing to you.

Some additional DMV requirements are: live fingerprinting, securing a bond, paying required fees, submitting a certificate of insurance, purchasing a DMV-approved lesson plan, or writing your own, renting a space office in which to run your business without and take your classes for traffic offenders if you want to teach a face-to-face course. FYI… DMV makes no distinction between a classroom traffic school or online traffic school course in terms of the application process, DMV wants you to have office space even if you only have an online course . They state that students should be able to get into the business they have chosen to take their traffic school course.

Your application must also have: Guarantee of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Verification of use of the property. If you incorporate or elect to have a limited liability company or limited liability partnership: You will need a copy of the articles of incorporation, corporate minutes, or other document filed with the Secretary of State, identifying the officers, shareholders, and managers. An interest in the business is required.

A copy of your business license

Copy of your fictitious name statement

Copy of your lease or lease for all offices and classrooms or use form OL 144, School Room Lease or Lease Agreement for Traffic Violators.

A California traffic school consists of an owner or owners, an operator who oversees the operation of the school, and the traffic school instructor who will teach the classes. The operator must take an 8 hour course either online or in class as part of their application process if they have never been a DMV licensed operator before. If he has previously been a DMV licensed operator, he only needs to take a 4 hour online or face-to-face course. After the class, they will receive a certificate that can be taken to the DMV with their application package. After the operator has taken his initial course, either 4 or 8 hours, he will be required to take a mandatory 4 hour class each year. The owner does not have to take a DMV test, but the operator and instructor do. The written exam will consist of traffic laws, safe driving practices, knowledge of teaching methods and techniques. The operator will also have additional test questions on statutes and regulations, office procedures, and record keeping.

These are just a few of the requirements I have listed above, please read the information on the DMV website before deciding if you want to proceed with opening your school. In my future articles, I will go over the requirements in more depth for the operator and instructor, as well as for promoting yourself on the internet.

DMV Links:

To see the forms and fees along with the traffic school owner application requirements, the link below will show you all the information on one page.

http://dmv.ca.gov/vehindustry/ol/tvschowner.htm

As of this writing, Apple has decided not to list Singapore as one of the countries for worldwide shipping of the Apple iPad. This is bad news as many Singaporeans are eager to get an iPad. I will share with you some tips to buy the Apple iPad with the best deal.

First tip is popular Singapore forums like hardwarezone.com or olx.sg have them. Go directly to the classified sections and you should find a lot of people selling the iPad. Look through all the ads and find the cheapest price available. Some of them will leave behind their mobile phone number with which you can contact them immediately.

If they don’t leave any contacts in the forum post, you’ll need to register an account on that forum and then send them a private message to tell the seller that you want to buy the iPad from them.

Once the seller contacts you, simply schedule a suitable time and place in Singapore of your choice and meet the seller face to face. Be sure to check the iPad thoroughly and that it is working fine. Do your due diligence by checking for scratches, cracks, and any signs of defect.

The advantage of buying the iPad this way is that you’ll most likely get the best deal since the seller doesn’t have a physical store and therefore you don’t have to pay rent and the savings can be passed on to you.

Another tip is to shop at popular electronic mall stores like Sim Lim Square, Funan, Mustafa, and Lucky plaza in Singapore. In Sim Lim Square, the 16GB iPad Wifi model retails for around SGD$950, and the Mustafa center retails from SGD$1249. If both malls have sold out of the iPad and you can’t wait any longer, still you can try to buy the iPad at Lucky plaza for SGD$1,600 and up.

The reason for the high price of iPad in Lucky plaza is that it is a shopping paradise for tourists and therefore most customers are willing to pay sky-high prices as they cannot retrieve an iPad back home.

For the second year in a row, the rookies defeated the sophomores in the NBA All-Star Rookie Challenge. Are rookies trying harder than sophomores, or are players from the last two drafts better than last year’s picks? Before the 2010 game, the sophomores had won the last 7 games, usually by a wide margin.

In 2010, standout sophomore players were Michael Beasley, Marc Gasol, Danilo Gallinari, Eric Gordon, Kevin Love, OJ Mayo, and Russell Westbrook (Derrick Rose did not play). Notable rookies were DeJuan Blair, Stephen Curry, Tyreke Evans, Taj Gibson, James Harden and Brandon Jennings. Gordon, Love, Mayo and Westbrook should have been enough to hold off the rookies, but led by game MVP Tyreke Evans, the rookies cruised to a 140-128 victory.

The sophomores definitely had the best heavyweight talent in this game, but the rookies have a bit more depth. Gordon, Love and Westbrook may be a contender’s second-best player, especially with a couple more years of growth, but the talent fades after that. The rookies have a lot more players who could be the third or fourth man in a contender with Curry, Harden, Gibson, Blair and Jennings. Other than those players and OJ Mayo for the sophomore team, there’s not much to like. The 2011 game features more players who could emerge as the best players in the future.

In 2011, the top rookies are Demarcus Cousins, Blake Griffin, John Wall, Landry Fields, Gary Neal and Eric Bledsoe. The best sophomores are Wes Matthews, DeJuan Blair, Stephen Curry, Serge Ibaka, and Brandon Jennings. John Wall was awarded MVP with a Rookie Challenge-record 22 assists, but Cousins ​​might as well have been MVP with all of his points. Kentucky’s former teammates combined to win the game for the rookies. Wall and Cousins ​​had talked before the game, Wall wanted the assists record, Cousins ​​wanted the MVP. No other player tried as hard as those two in the game, so it made sense that the rookies would win. Wall probably won MVP when he made a ridiculous half-court alley-oop bounce pass to the Clippers’ Griffin in front of the Los Angeles crowd. Watching the game, it was easy to see that Cousins ​​took the game very seriously, as he recently got into some trouble with the Kings over fighting with a teammate. Maybe that’s why the rookies won over the sophomores.

As the sophomores emerged last year and with the incoming rookie class, there’s a lot to like for the future of the NBA. There are plenty of young players who could help contending teams with superstars in their prime. Wall looks like a great PG from the future, and Cousins ​​is a headcase who probably won’t mature until he’s 20 if you can afford to keep him that long. Griffin is exciting and gives the Clippers hope along with Eric Bledsoe. Landry Fields and Gary Neal are two draft steals who can help their team in the playoffs. Greg Monroe will emerge as a talent on the Pistons that people will be talking about if they can finally gut the old team. The sophomores have had another year to develop, and the future looks bright for them as well.

The NBA definitely seems ready for supporting and role players with these rookies and rookies like Durant, LeBron, Melo and the rest of the superstars in their prime looking to start NBA dynasties.

It’s becoming that time of year where the weather can have an impact on real-life NFL games. As a fantasy football coach, it’s a concept you just can’t pass up. Yes, I will go on record and say so. Checking weather reports is required as a factor in the process of setting up your fantasy football lineup! This article will explore the impact of weather on the production of fantasy football.

It is necessary to realize that there are different categories of weather, all of which need their own discussion. This article will focus on rain, snow, extreme cold, and wind. In the context of this article, rain is defined as creating conditions where the field and ball are affected, so a light drizzle would not count. Similarly, for snow there needs to be significant buildup on the ground that will affect jogging players. Extreme cold is defined as temperatures close to freezing. Lastly, we’ll consider wind conditions defined as more than just a light breeze, we’re talking about those cold Sundays with gusty winds having an impact on the quarterback’s ability to throw the ball.

Our first instinct would be to consider any adverse weather a negative in regards to fantasy football production, however, that is simply not the case. Rain and snow actually seem to have a negative effect on defense more than offense. Looking back on the 2008 season, Week 16 saw inclement weather games in Buffalo, Chicago, and Cincinnati. Those three games produced five 100-yard rushers. Keep in mind that all of these performances came from the running back position, however quarterbacks and wide receivers can excel in windy or snowy conditions. While the quarterback may not be able to grip the ball as well, receivers have a huge advantage on slippery surfaces. Defenses are at a disadvantage in poor field conditions as it is more difficult to cut and maintain coverage.

While snow and rain are really favorable for offense, wind is another story. On days when the wind is blowing, quarterbacks and wide receivers will be greatly affected. All one has to do is think back to the 2007 season when Tom Brady and company were just riding over the top until they met Mother Nature in Week 15. The only thing that could stop the Patriots’ offense that year was wind. If you have a quarterback or wide receiver on your team scheduled to play in extreme wind, I suggest looking into an alternative.

Finally, there is the cold weather. Some of the warmer-weather teams are certainly upset by the extreme cold, which gives teams like the Green Bay Packers a huge home-field advantage toward the end of the season. Cold weather also has an impact on kickers losing distance on their kicks as the air pressure on the ball is affected. We came across an analysis that investigated the effects of extreme cold that showed within a 1998 data set that the home team won all of the extreme cold games. That’s right, unbeaten at home in the cold! The bottom line is that teams that are not used to extreme cold will see a negative impact on production.

In short, the weather is something to consider when establishing your fantasy football lineup in recent months. Snow/rain seems to favor the offense, particularly the running game. Stay away from defenders scheduled to play in the rain and snow. The wind is another story, since it can completely shut down the passing game. The extreme cold will affect kickers and visiting teams not used to such conditions. So remember, take a quick look at the weather before setting up your lineup, as it can give you the edge that makes the difference between winning and losing on NFL Sunday.

The EV market collectively accounted for 1043k units in 2016 and is projected to tilt to 285188K units by 2030. Governments in various countries are highly focused on increasing EV sales to reduce the level of pollution and thus the global warming. With manufacturers launching new models and the charging infrastructure picking up speed. The market is anticipated to witness immense growth during the forecast period.

In the report “Electric Vehicle Market: By Types (BEV, HEV, PHEV); By Modules (Body & Chassis, Powertrain, Infotainment, Safety); By Geography (Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, RoW) – Forecast (2018 ) to 2023)”, published by IndustryARC, the market will be driven by development and advanced batteries in the coming decades.

Electrification is the most viable way to achieve clean and efficient transport that is crucial for sustainable development around the world. The current split of the year says electric vehicle technology, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and pure battery electric vehicles (BEVs), will dominate the clean vehicle market.

Asia-Pacific dominates with strong growth in electric vehicle market

Geographically, the electric vehicle market is present in regions of North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world. New car demand has increased by 70% since 2016. In 2016, more than 550,000 vehicles were adopted worldwide, including both battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The research says China is expected to extend its lead in the industry by making gains across all dimensions of EVs on the supply side, including projected current production of EVs and their components. In general, Germany and the United States of America also perform well in the industry, with a number of important changes in the production of electric vehicles. These countries saw a slight market drop, due to the production of electric motors due to the expansion of China.

Sales analysis made in the full report:

Sales of higher capacity batteries have increased. It is observed that direct reuse is always cheaper than batteries in a similar productivity environment. The PHEV is being projected towards sale and is expected to present the best price offer. The pricing concept gives you an idea about the current market estimate price as the advancement in electric motor drive batteries is in full swing. The expansion and launch of the product will clear the cost of establishment and electric cars to sustain for a longer period of time.

Selected type and application analysis performed on the full report:

The uptake of electric vehicles is the result of several factors, including strong technological progress, cost reductions, and policy support, including purchase incentives, driving and parking access advantages, and increased availability of public charging infrastructure. . BEVs dominated sales over hybrid cars in most countries until 2015. However, plug-in vehicle (PHEV) sales have grown rapidly in the past two years, and as of now, the PHEV market is almost equal to BEV sales worldwide. PHEVs have a considerable range of advantages due to continuous improvements in battery performance and the feasibility of reducing costs to achieve maximum market share.

Excerpts on market growth factors

Following the diesel emissions scandal, in the California city, Electrify America invested $44 million to bring hundreds of electric vehicles to the city. The project includes 260 electric vehicles. Vehicles can locate nearby cars with an app and drive them anywhere within a 13-square-mile radius. The vehicles will be available in early 2019.

ISRO announced the start of its major project on lithium-ion cell technology to achieve adoption on a non-exclusive basis for use in automobiles. This initiative will accelerate the development of the indigenous electric vehicle industry.

The growing adoption of electric cars is creating new opportunities for Volkswagen. He says that quantum computing technology could help build custom batteries, with a chemical blueprint that will speed up the development and production of batteries for electric vehicles. This will build a specialized and customized car battery for future green cars.

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Key Players of the Electric Vehicle Market

At present, progress is the key strategy driving the market, accounting for around 44% of the total strategies adopted by key players. Major players described in this report include Tesla, BMW Group, Nissan Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen AG, General Motors, Dailmer AG, and Energica Motor Company SPA. These are the major market players who are focused on expanding their business operations in emerging countries. . Among all the continents, APAC is the emerging region where investors are most focused to introduce innovative solutions. Some of the well established EV cars in today’s market are Tesla Model S, Nissan Leaf, BMW i3, Mitsubishi iMiEV, Ford Focus EV; these are available BEV models. BMW i3 REX, BMW i8, Cadillac ELR, Ford Fusion Energi, Ford Cmax Energi, Toyota Prius Plugin and others are the PHEV type models available. Audi Q5 Hybris, Acura ILX hybrid, Cadillac escalade Hybris, BMW Active Hybrid 3 and others are available HEV type models.

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The Electric Vehicle Market Report is prepared with the main agenda to cover the following 20 points:

1. Market size by product categories and application 11. Demand analysis (revenue and volume)

2. Market trends and relevant market data 12. Country level analysis

3. Manufacturer overview 13. Competitor analysis

4. Distributor Overview 14. Market Share Analysis

5. Price analysis 15. Value chain analysis

6. Analysis of the top 10 end users 16. Analysis of the supply chain

7. Product benchmarking 17. Strategic analysis

8. Product developments 18. Current and future analysis of the market landscape

9. Analysis of mergers and acquisitions 19. Analysis of opportunities

10. Patent analysis 20. Revenue and volume analysis

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If you’re in a cash crunch and need to find some financing for your business, here are three ways you may have overlooked.

1. Supplier Financing

Extending accounts payable from, say, 30 days to 60 days is a fairly common method for businesses to improve their cash flow. Vendors are usually not very happy when this happens, and some even express their disapproval in no uncertain terms. Most companies are small businesses and stretching accounts payable only hurts everyone in the long run. Think about it: if you depend on one of your customers to pay you within 30 days, and that customer doesn’t pay for 90 days, it can significantly affect your cash flow. If it’s one of your major customers, the impact can be quite severe. You don’t have the cash to pay your bills, so there’s a ripple effect down the road.

This suggestion is different. If you’ve built a good relationship with your suppliers, it’s sometimes possible to get them to agree to finance part of your business by extending their terms for a particularly large order for an extended period of time. If you are a new company with little or no track record, you can approach suppliers by showing them your business plan and documentation of orders you have already received. If the vendor is convinced that your business will be successful and one of your best customers in the future, they may be willing to give you a break now.

Another alternative is to guarantee the seller that they will be their exclusive supplier for an agreed period of time in exchange for longer credit terms. Or you can offer to pay a slightly above market price in exchange for longer credit terms. This method can be dangerous, because it sets the priority of a higher price. When longer lead times are no longer necessary, it can be a challenge to reduce the price you pay to the provider.

Occasionally, it is possible to convince a supplier to exchange a trade payment due for a promissory note in its place, or possibly an equity position in your company.

2. Customers who pay in advance

If you’ve successfully demonstrated to your customers that you deliver their merchandise on time, as ordered, you can persuade one or more of them to put down a deposit on their future orders, perhaps up to 50%. You can add an incentive by lowering your price a bit in exchange for the deposit. Or you can add a bonus: if they’ve ordered 100 items, you give them an extra 10. New customers may also be asked for a deposit, especially if it is a large or custom order.

3.Trade and barter

Bartering is probably one of the oldest forms of trade. It is simply the exchange of goods or services for other goods, rather than using cash as the medium. The trade can be directly between the two parties or the trade can go through a barter exchange.

The barter exchange generally works on a point system, one point for every dollar. The exchange has members who have agreed to exchange their services and products. Let’s say you need a new laptop, but the computer store doesn’t need your product/service. You earn points by exchanging with those people and companies that need your product/service. You accumulate points through redemption. When you have enough for the laptop, you will ‘buy’ the laptop with your accumulated points. The exchange sometimes takes a small percentage of the points as a fee for its services.

Don’t be limited in your thinking as to what can be traded. Approach barter as you would any other sale or purchase. I deal with reputable companies. Don’t feel like you have to discount your product. The barter purchase is reflected on your income statement as an expense. The barter sale (what you exchange) is reflected as income.

Barter organizations can be found on the web, just enter the trade and barter organization. Many cities have locally operated barter organizations. Contact your local chamber of commerce. The yellow pages also give listings.

Use these three methods to generate cash for your business.

A center-ceiling-mounted light is certainly not enough because it causes shadows when standing in front of task boards, and furthermore, you can’t create special ambient lighting with it.

In this article, we’ll give you an overview of the different lights you can use in your kitchen that could enhance your kitchen lighting. For each type of lighting fixture, we’ll also recommend a few designer lights to show how they will enhance your personal kitchen style with a unique look.

Let’s start with uniform lighting in your kitchen first. We typically have kitchen cabinets, a kitchen island, and an eating area within our kitchen. Instead of one ceiling fixture in the center of the ceiling, it is much more convenient to install four or six recessed cans. The Fabbian Beluga Crystal F01, for example, has a 360° movable lamp head so light can be easily directed where you need it.

But not all of us have the possibility to change the existing power lines in our home. You may want to look at track lighting fixtures as an alternative. Those only need one termination, but have plenty of turn signals that can be placed anywhere along the track. Track accessories are available in various sizes, colors, and shapes (U-shaped track accessories may be the best option for larger kitchens). Also, there are two different types of track systems: low voltage track lights and line voltage track lights. The first comes along with a transformer; the latter has none and can be applied to house line voltage. The Fabbian Beluga lighting family also offers contemporary track lights.

Most families prefer to hang lamps over the dining room table or kitchen island. One of this year’s lighting trends follows that pattern and includes oversized dome-shaped pendant lights. From Flos Skygarten, Alt Lucialternative Coupole S, Marset Olivia, Artemide Nur, Aureliano Toso Bow, Terzani Magdalena 50, Prandina Biluna to Catellani & Smith Stchu-Moon: many lighting designers prefer the elegant hemispherical lampshade with moderate reflections in the material used or the visible inner shadow.

These large hanging lamps create a special, warm and illuminated atmosphere in your kitchen. But on the other hand, they block the view of your kitchen cabinet. Some lighting designers have already considered this problem and created pendant lamps with shallow shades. The Alt Lucialternative Infinity pendant light, for example, has a unique modern shade that reminds me of a trifoliate cloverleaf. The outer shade is alternately made of black or white metal, the inner one is made of Acryl and has a spiral look. The understated Metalarte Zero hanging lamp also fits into modern kitchens. It provides bright ambient lighting and its proportions convey the impression of a UFO. The Prandina Extra S1/3 hanging lamp consists of two curved casings, the upper one reflects the atmosphere of the room, while the lower one provides direct lighting.

The possibilities in lighting design seem to be endless. So take your time and be enchanted by the unique appearance of modern and contemporary designer lighting.

“Away to the Great Plains of America, to that vast short-grass western prairie now mostly plowed! Away to the still empty land beyond the kiosks, malls, and velvet ropes of restaurants!”

Thus begins Great Plains, the 1989 survey of America’s heartland. That vast inland expanse of plains and prairies stretching from Canada in the north to the Texas Panhandle in the south. About 2,500 miles long and about 600 miles wide at its widest point, the Great Plains encompasses parts of the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and parts of the US states of Montana, North, and South Dakota. Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Part history, part travelogue, part sprawling road trip, Great Plains has the grandeur and expanse of the frontier itself in its concise 214 pages of main text, which is no small feat, let me tell you.

When he wrote this book, Ian Frazier had driven some 25,000 miles on the plains, from Montana to Texas and back. Twice. As well as many shorter distances. His wanderings took him from an abandoned anti-ballistic missile system command center in remote Montana to the exact spot where Bonny and Clyde plunged into the Red River; from the location of Sitting Bull’s camp at Grand River, to the site of Custer’s last stand at Little Big Horn; from Fort Union in North Dakota to Fort Stockton in Texas.

It is no coincidence that rivers appear so much in this book, even as peripheral ‘characters’. The Great Plains are sometimes so dry and arid that in the early years of exploration parts of it were known as the Great American Desert. It made sense for early settlers, like Native Americans, to build their forts and villages, their towns and cities along the banks of any river large enough to provide a source of vital food and water for the population.

It is also no coincidence that the story of the conflict between Native American Indians and settlers emerges on the Great Plains. Frazier gets to examine the slaughter of millions of bison, the betrayal and death of Crazy Horse, and meets and mixes with numerous descendants of the great warriors of the past as he traverses this vast space.

All the great characters are here; ranchers and homesteaders, highlanders and fur trappers, outlaws and gangsters, cowboys and Indians, railroad barons, oilmen, coal miners, and more. You get to meet the great and the low, the rich and the poor, German emigrants and former black slaves from the South, and the men and women who fought for generations (and still fight today) to make a living in the Great Plains.

Ian Frazier is clearly a man in love with the Great Plains, its history, and its huge cast of fabulous characters, both modern and ancient. As an introduction to this vast area of ​​land and open space, Great Plains is both entertaining and informative, packed with obscure and ultimately immensely readable information, facts, and historical references.

Finally, the book is well indexed, includes 16 pages of black and white photographs, and has almost 70 pages of extensive notes to supplement the main text. Highly recommended.

While not as elegant as satin or silk sheets, jersey sheets are incredibly comfortable and wonderful to sleep on. Not only are they comfortable, but they also keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In fact, they are so versatile that you may never want to use another type of fabric for your sheets again.

These sheets come in a wide variety of colors. Children’s sheets are also often printed with a cartoon or movie character. You can buy Star Wars jersey sheets or SpongeBob sheets for a child’s bed. You can also find children’s sheets with letters, numbers, animals and other patterns. Jersey sheets for adult-sized beds are usually a solid color, but chances are there’s a sheet set to suit your bedroom scheme. For those who like organic products, there are even organic sheets available. These sheets are chemical free and can be found online and at local retail stores.

Jersey sheets are sold as a set or as individual pieces, either fitted or flat. Prices are based on the size of the sheet, with larger sheets being more expensive than those made for a double bed. The brand will also affect the price, as well as whether they are plain or patterned. Jersey is generally much cheaper than buying Egyptian cotton, silk, or sateen sheets.

One of the biggest advantages of these sheets is that they require very little maintenance. They can be washed in warm or cold water and will only slightly wrinkle. The only downside is that they will bleed quite a bit, so you’ll want to wash the darker colors separately from the lights.

Jersey sheets will match any décor and can add a touch of unmatched comfort. In fact, they’re so comfortable you won’t want to get out of bed. These sheets are not only comfortable but also very affordable and will fit any budget. They also come in a wide range of colors, styles, and sizes to fit from a baby to an adult. Just give these sheets a try and you may never want to change.