Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Bathroom Gadgets

!±8± Bathroom Gadgets

Electronics have become a huge part of our lives - even picture frames require a "plug-in" these days. High tech gadgets in our home once meant owning a flat screen TV or a home entertainment system, but now electronics are used to monitor home security, regulate lights, heat, or even water our lawn. They've worked their way through the entire house, and most recently, to the bathroom.

You don't have to be a techie wiz to digitize your bathroom. Here is a sampling of some of the high tech gadgets available to you.

Splash-Proof Screens:

What better way to relax in a tub then by watching your favorite TV show? Now Austin Lowery of California-based Jetson Systems has come up with a water-proof television cabinet with a fog-free glass frame that can be installed right in the shower or adjacent to the medicine cabinet. This, along with your handy waterproof remote will give you the ability to watch your favorite shows or DVD's while you bathe.

The entire unit can be covered with a two-way mirror that allows you to see the TV screen, and when not in use, all you see is your reflection.

Surround Sound:

What good is a television without the woofers and tweeters? Kohler has designed Sound Tile speakers that can be installed right in the shower walls with speaker technology from Polk Audio.

MTI Whirlpools has gone one step better. By installing transducers in the actual bathtub, it can be connected to your tuner or iPod, allowing you to absorb the sound while you soak in the tub.

MP3 Shower Mirror:

This great little gadget transmits music from your iPod or MP3 player to its built-in water-proof speakers. With a transmitting range of 100 feet, your iPod can be sitting safely in another room. When not in use, the unit doubles as a fog-free mirror for the shower.

The Fish n' Flush Aquarium:

You'll have no trouble finding Nemo in this double-lined aquarium toilet tank that can be attached to most toilets. The aquarium is encased within the outer tank, providing a clean environment for your fishies. It also comes with plastic plants, a fill valve, a flush valve, a flushing system, LED lighting, and a built-in door for feeding your fish. The fish, gravel and water are extra.

The LavNav:

In keeping with the toilet theme, and probably designed by a woman, the LavNav is a motion light just for the toilet. It gives you the right amount of light, in just the right area and shuts off when you leave. Too bad it doesn't put the seat down.

Towel Warming Shelf:

We all know about radiant floor heating for the bathroom, but imagine a warming shelf to make sure your towels are nice and toasty when you get out of the shower.

Super Showers:

Remember when we thought a shower head with a massage setting was revolutionary? Now with multiple shower heads, added foot baths, built in saunas and steam baths, stereos and TV's the simple home shower has evolved into more of a home spa, filled with optional features to enhance your bath time.

Using a digital control pad, the BodySpa Shower from Kohler gives users the ability to adjust the direction and massage action of the shower heads.

The Temazkal from Bain Ultra provides sensory stimulation in your shower by allowing you to adjust the lighting according to your mood, or create a thermal effect with its sauna setting. You can even add essential oil to the diffusers to enjoy aromatherapy benefits.

You'll feel like you've gone through a car wash with the Ambient Air Body Dry System from Jacuzzi. Using the Summer Rain setting, the unit sends warm air through numerous jets, drying you off completely without the use of a towel.


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Friday, December 9, 2011

Polk Audio RM75 5-Channel Home Theater System (Set of Five, Black)

!±8± Polk Audio RM75 5-Channel Home Theater System (Set of Five, Black)


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Sound this big from speakers this small just has to be heard to be believed. The Polk Audio RM75 is a great complement to modern furniture and flat panel TVs without taking up too much space. The new RM75 Home Theater System is a five-piece speaker package that presents a sleek, minimalist design while delivering impressively big sound. Heavy-duty, non-resonant composite enclosures feature an elegant, high-gloss finish that creates the ideal décor accent. Polk speaker technology ensures superior system performance, delivering rich, full-bodied, big speaker sound. Mount the speakers on shelves, or next to your plasma or flat-screen television using their flexible wall-mount brackets. An included cradle supports the center channel. Just add a powered subwoofer, hook it to your surround sound receiver and you're ready to go! The RM75 may be upgraded to 6.1 and 7.1 configurations by adding additional RM7 or RM8 satellites.

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

American Foreign Policy, Conspiracy or Cabal

!±8± American Foreign Policy, Conspiracy or Cabal

In glibly talking about the necessary withdrawal of American soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen from Iraq, Democratic presidential candidates are refraining from speaking directly about the faults of U.S. foreign policy and the presumed plenary power of the post modern president to wield an imperial scepter around the world. While, on one hand, calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama maintain that some troops, thousands of them, should remain in Iraq and, generally, in the Middle East to enforce U.S, foreign policy. This, probably, also means their support for the establishing permanent U.S. military bases throughout Iraq. Obama has gone as far as to advocate invading Pakistan. This is certainly not a constitutional approach to campaigning for the office of U.S. chief executive, that is, if these candidates' ultimate motive is to maintain, and, if possible, increase, the current level of illicit power exercised by the U.S. executive branch.

Numerous federal officers, and a few motion pictures, have referred to the American president as the most powerful person on earth. This is, however, not true. The Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Branch are essentially coequal in power. The only greater powers presently wielded by the President, other than those conferred upon the Executive Branch by the U.S. Constitution, are those which have been wrongly relinquished by Congress and delegated illegally to the Executive Branch without amending the Constitution to make such relinquishment legal. The decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold such unconstitutional delegation of authority have added pseudo-credibility to the process.

If New York's Hillary Clinton, Ohio's Barack Obama, South Carolina's John Edwards, or the other Democratic candidates are to embrace the purely constitutional role of the Executive Branch, in which Article 2 executive power is vested only in a President of the United States, they must renounce the imperial foreign policy agenda which has been pursued by every President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Recently, I had an email conversation with retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Colen Powell, in which Wilkerson spoke candidly of his personal view on the capacity of the President to conspiratorially plan and execute illegal crimes against the people of the United States and the U.S. Constitution. He said, "Power management at the level of the presidency of the world's most powerful nation is hardly reducible to naïve theories of (criminal) conspiracy, however much satisfaction such theorizing may give to uninformed minds."

Wilkerson is publicly free with his use of the word "cabal" in describing the "Bush-Cheney Cabal" that has been in power since before 9/11. He has gone on record to say, on national television, that "A 'Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal' ran U.S. foreign policy for a president not versed in international relations and not too much interested."

The "Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary" defines cabal as a conspiratorial group of plotters, or a secret plot or scheme. Yet, he deigns calling a cabal a conspiracy, which puzzles me about Wilkerson's greater regard for political correctness than the naked truth. I perceive Wilkerson as a prime example of the "supposedly" educated professional career soldier who has "supposedly" studied government independent of personal bias in order to arrive at such conclusion about presidential arrogance. This is, perhaps, the basis for his, rather, colored perception of Richard M. Nixon and Watergate. In his apologetic email, decrying my use of the word conspiracy, suggesting deliberate executive branch involvement in the WTC and Pentagon bombings on 9/11, he said,

"What I have learned that is applicable here is that arguments such as those you espouse do not leave room for rational debate. Watergate was as much incompetence as conspiracy; Iran-Contra (Oliver North lying to Congress and Ronald Reagon's denied complicity) could well be construed as an executive branch reaction to an overreach in legislative oversight; the Mexican War, was, as you say, based upon farcical (absurd) evidence - but very well supported by the American people (one of the reasons Lincoln lost his House seat), and was anything but a conspiracy unless you conclude in that conspiracy the bulk of the people who were clearly complicit; and Vietnam was a tortured process of utter incompetence, lies, deceit, and subterfuge played out over a number years (14) with conspiratorial overtone."

Wilkerson represents himself as an authority on U.S. political history, but has failed to realize that American historians, since 1975, have attributed the Mexican War of 1846 to an almost single cause, the political hubris, expansionist mandate, and illegally covert executive actions of President James Polk. Letters, memos, and diaries of General, and later President, Zachary Taylor, cabinet officers under Polk, and the papers of Polk, himself, recount the conspiracy between Polk and Taylor to create a war with Mexico. Polk's personal mandate to increase the size of the United States, by taking from Mexico, by any expeditious means available, the great amount of land which was ceded by Mexico to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was the motivation behind the conspiracy that took the lives of nearly 2,000 American soldiers and marines.

When Taylor was summoned to the White House, in February of 1846, he was ordered by Polk to create a war with Mexico. And much like the traditionally accepted U.S historical perception of the behavior of the legendary Davy Crockett, at the Alamo, that he died in the 1836 battle swinging his flint-lock rifle, Old Betsy, the historical perception that the Mexicans started the fray, in April 1846, which led to an attack on U.S. Cavalry forces by the Mexican Army, had been supported by American historians until the honest Mexican account was studied. It seems that, according to numerous journals of credible Mexican officers, Crockett hid from the Mexicans at the Alamo when he knew that, if caught, he would be killed. According to the accounts, after the battle he pretended to be a diplomatic tourist until he was discovered, captured, and shot by a Mexican firing squad.

It also appears, from credible Mexican accounts, that Zachary Taylor, and his heavily armed cavalry, went to the Rio Grande, built a fort on the side of the River claimed by the Mexican government, and on April 24, 1846, fired the first shots on a Mexican cavalry patrol, killing a cavalryman and forcing the Mexicans to return fire. The same account was recorded in numerous journals of Mexican soldiers who witnessed what actually happened. Taylor, however, returned and report to Congress that the Mexicans had drawn first-blood through attacking the American fort. James Polk then fostered a press propaganda blitz, which published the great lie before the American public, inciting public war frenzy, before he went before Congress to demand a declaration of war against Mexico. Hence, Wilkerson's claim that most of the American public were ignorantly in favor of the war was basically true. Had the people known the truth, they would have probably demanded Polk's impeachment. But the ends of conspiracy played out in favor of the conspirators, and a deadly war took the lives of over 12,000 men and women.

What I see as the bottom line, in Wilkerson's response, is a work of sophistic explanation, attempting to purport, in effect, that the average U.S. voter does not have the insight and intelligence to judge the power, and the acts wielded by, the standing U.S. President. While I do have a master's degree in political science, Wilkerson is contending that it basically requires advanced degrees, and years of federal government service, to be capable of rightly dividing presidential behavior as right or wrong, and truth from lies. Wilkerson is a good example of the Samuel P. Huntington model of the professional soldier, who poses as the fiery implementer of the foreign policy decisions of career politicians, at the expense of constitutional limitations. The oath that Wilkerson, and all other commissioned military officers, took contained a sworn duty to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Nowhere in that oath does it say that jeopardy to the Constitution is to be determined only by higher ranking officers, and that the singular duty of the sworn officer is to obey the dictates of that person's superior officers and the U.S. President. In a nutshell, if Polk, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagon, Clinton, and GHB could get away with deliberate conspiracy, through the efforts of the military and the intelligence communities, why wouldn't George W. Bush try to do the same as his predecessors? I believe that sad history clearly promotes the ends of rational debate, if the irrational person, denying the possibility of conspiracy, is willing to discuss the matter logically.

When a U.S. President goes behind the backs of Congress, and the American electorate, to secretly plot illegal schemes, and commit acts contrary to existing constitutional and federal law, such as unilaterally extending U.S. troops into police actions for imperial foreign policy purposes and establishing treaties and international agreements without the will of the people, that particular U.S. President has broken the law and should be punished. Thus, when one American GI is killed in an unnecessary military conflict perpetrated by an American President, I believe that President is guilty of voluntary manslaughter, if not premeditated murder. Such death is a regular result of the king-like type of power presently wielded by the executive branch, the power to invade sovereign nation-states merely to obtain and use their natural resources. The next President will inherit these unconstitutional powers unless the current Democratic candidates publicly express a sincere willingness to abrogate extra-constitutional executive power-grabbing.

Yet, Donald Sutherland, in his role as Speaker of the House in the television series "Commander in Chief," made a scripted statement that "a person who seeks the presidency is seeking ultimate power. It's all about having the power, and a person not wanting that supreme power should not be in the White House." This is a paraphrasing of the rehearsed line, but it contains a gigantic truth that cannot be denied. As I have said before in numerous essays, the "Federalist Papers," written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, were all about restraints on the executive branch. The American colonists had already dealt with a tyrant-king, George III, in a bloody revolution, and they did not want to see another tyrant rise up in the form of a U.S. President. To exemplify this, the Article 1, Section 8 power of Congress "to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces is not mentioned in Section II, which comprises the very narrow powers of the executive branch. If the framers had wanted to give the President the authority to control the movements of land and naval forces, isn't it reasonable to conclude that they would have listed that power in Article 2 instead of Article 1? Something very perturbing is the sad fact that since 2003, no member of Congress has even attempted to address on the House or Senate floor, the reasons behind Congress' relinquishment of its Article 1, Section 8 power to make rules for governing the military.

I can plainly see why 75 percent of the people of Vermont want to secede from the federal union of states. The government of the United States has been counter-productive to the welfare of it citizens for a long time. In the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which I memorized as young child, several national objectives are succinctly mentioned. First, the establishing of justice, Second, insuring domestic tranquility, Third, providing for the common defense (not offense), Fourth, promoting the general welfare, and Fifth, the insuring of the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. No mention is made in the Preamble of a foreign policy agenda, which would take trillions of dollars of tax money to maintain. It would seem that the Framers were much more concerned with what would transpire domestically among the people of the United States, than what would transpire outside the country. The American republic did not begin, in 1789, with an imperial agenda. A fledgling American republican form of government was morphed and mutated into such a distorted regime. Shouldn't those individuals aspiring to the office of President, rather, emulate the goals and aspirations of those who designed and wrote the glorious U.S. Constitution? I should think so.


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Patriotic History of the Stars and Stripes

!±8± The Patriotic History of the Stars and Stripes

On that historic day, the flag of the United States of America came into existence and this form remains unchanged to the present day. Just who designed the first flag or who made it is a question still debated by historians. Some believe that Betsy Ross designed the first flag, although claims have also been made that Francis Hopkinson, a Congressman, designed and made the first flag. Historical records do show that Betsy Ross made flags for the government in 1777, but whether she made the first United States flag will probably always remain in doubt. In 1782, the Congress of the confederation reaffirmed the choice of the Continental Congress by stating that the national seal and the flag would remain red, white and blue. Deeper meaning was also given to the flag and its design. The thirteen original states would always be represented by the seven red stripes and the six white ones. However, they left open the question of how the stars on the blue union would be arranged. In 1777, Congress had not specified any particular design for the arrangement of the stars and some flags had thirteen stars in a circle. Others had twelve in a circle with the thirteenth in the center. By 1782 though, almost all the national flags had the thirteen stars in a circle. In 1794, Vermont and Kentucky were admitted to the Union bringing the number of states to fifteen. Congress ordered that all new flags would carry fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, and that a star and a stripe would be added as each new state joined the Union. This would later prove to be too cumbersome and would soon be abandoned. This flag, with its fifteen stars and fifteen stripes, is the flag Americans carried in the War of 1812. By 1817, The Union was expanded by five more states: Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi. This expansion meant a new flag. Samuel C. Reid, a navy captain, redesigned the flag using the original thirteen stripes and adding a star for each of the twenty states. This idea was proposed to Congress by Peter Wendover, a representative from New York. It was passed as the New Flag Act, and the date was set as July 4th next after a new state had been admitted to the Union as the day on which a new flag would be flown. Congress again left open the question of how the stars might be arranged, so the design was left to individual flag makers. In later years, the President has usually proclaimed how the stars would be arranged and all flags must agree with the Presidential proclamation. New states were constantly being admitted to the Union and the United States had thirteen national flags between 1817 and 1861. During the Civil War, we had another two flags with the admission of Kansas and West Virginia. Union troops fought under a 33-star flag during the first three months of the war; a 34-star flag until 1863; and a 35-star flag until the end of the war. President Lincoln refused to take out the stars of the southern states which had seceded. After the war had ended, the nation began to move west. Nebraska joined the Union in 1867; followed in 1877 by Colorado; 1890 by North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington and Idaho; 1891 by Wyoming; 1896 by Utah; and 1908 by Oklahoma. During this period of transition in the country, we had six more national flags. The twenty-third flag, adopted in 1896, was the flag that we fought under during the Spanish-American War in 1898. In 1912, Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union and thus the United States needed another new flag. This was the twenty-fifth flag, adopted in 1912, and which lasted until 1959. The total of 47 years that this flag flew over the nation represents the longest period of duration of any one flag of the United States. This flag was carried to the battlefields of World War I and World War II, as well as the Korean War. In 1959, Alaska was admitted as the 49th state of the Union. The 49-star flag, adopted in 1959, was raised at 12:01 a.m. on July 4th, 1959, over Ft. McHenry to signal the official admittance of Alaska. This flag lasted but a short while for on July 4th, 1960, the United States raised the present 50-star flag signaling the admission of Hawaii as our 50th and last state. To date, we have had twenty-seven national flags, and they have all flown in glory over this great nation, the United States.

27 Flags of the United States

1st US Flag 1777-1795

The Betsy Ross Flag. To this day, the actual maker of this flag remains unknown. This almost casually constructed national emblem incorporated the unchanging design of thirteen stripes with a thirteen-star union. Although this claim is seriously in doubt, Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress, is said to have made the first American flag. This claim was first made by William J. Canby, her grandson, in 1870. His claim is based on the signed statements of several persons, including Betsy Ross' daughters, nieces and granddaughters. Historical records do show that she made flags for the government in 1777, but there is no proof she made the first flag. The second claim as the maker of the first flag was by Congressman Francis Hopkinson. Shortly after the adoption of the first flag by Congress in 1777, Hopkinson came forward and asserted that he was the maker of the original flag. This claim is unsubstantiated by historical records, and so the real maker of the flag will probably always remain in doubt. It's unfortunate, for this design has remained unchanged for almost 200 years.

2nd US Flag 1795-1818

In 1791, Vermont was admitted to the Union and the following year Kentucky was also admitted. By 1974, it became apparent to Congress that the country needed a new flag. Congress decided to change the basic structure of the flag and add not only two more stars, but two more stripes. The 15-stripe flag was ordered flown after May 1, 1795. This 15-star flag was flown during the War of 1812 and during the United States' war with the Barbary States. It was this flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star-Spangled Banner." It also inspired a heated debate in the Congress over the change from 13 to 15 stripes in the banner. Between 1795 and 1818, five new states were admitted to the Union and a new flag was needed. A navy captain redesigned the flag and returned to the 13 original stripes, but added a star for each new state. Finally, the idea was accepted by Congress because it was easier to change the stars than the stripes. Congress adopted this idea and also stipulated that on the July 4th following the admission of a new state; a new star would be flown in the flag to represent the state.

3rd US Flag in 1818

Our third flag saw a return to tradition as Congress decided to return to the thirteen stripes, but to add a star as each new state joined the Union. Designed by navy captain Samuel Reid, this flag was proposed to Congress on April 4, 1818, and changed back to thirteen stripes. This flag had 20 stars and became official July 4, 1818. This flag is also called the "Great Star Flag" because the 20 stars were sometimes arranged to form a star.

4th US Flag in 1819

The 21st star in the flag represented the admission of the state of Illinois on December 3, 1818. The Northwest Territory was rapidly becoming settled and four new states would be carved out of this section of the country. 1818 was also the year that the United States-Canada boundary dispute was settled, making it the longest open border in the world.

5th US Flag in 1820

The hot issue of the day was whether the nation could keep the balance between free and slave states. Alabama was admitted in 1819, giving the country an equal number of both. But in 1820, Maine was admitted as a free state, thus tipping the numbers in favor of the free states. In 1820, our fifth flag appeared with 23 stars in the Union.

6th US Flag in 1822

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 would settle the question of slaves states versus free for 30 years. No state would be admitted to the Union as a slave state above the line 36°-30' in the new Louisiana Purchase. Another tenet of the Compromise was that Missouri would be admitted as the 24th state and takes its place alongside the slave states.

7th US Flag in 1836

During the last months of President Andrew Jackson's administration, Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state. On July 4, 1836, a new flag was flown over the country bearing 25 stars. In the same year, Texas became an independent nation.

8th US Flag in 1837

Michigan, since the days of the Revolutionary War, had been a favorite spot for fur trappers and traders. The Erie Canal, recently opened, allowed travelers and pioneers to move from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. This massive wave of pioneers brought about a growth in Michigan that enabled it to be admitted as the 26th state. In addition, Michigan was given the Upper Peninsula for giving up land claims in Ohio.

9th US Flag in 1845

Florida was admitted to the Union as the 27th state in 1845, completed the present Atlantic seaboard of the United States. Florida had been purchased from Spain in 1819 after having been a part of the Spanish Empire for 300 years. The southern expansion of the United States was now complete and the nation turned its attention to pushing back western frontiers.

10th US Flag in 1846

Texas had once been an integral part of the Spanish domain on the North American continent. Spain controlled Texas for nearly 300 years until 1821. In 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico and became an independent nation. In 1845, President James K. Polk admitted Texas as the 28th state. This action directly led to war with Mexico and thus fixed the southern boundary of Texas as the Rio Grande.

11th US Flag in 1847

In late 1846, the Midwest gave birth to another state - Iowa. Once a part of the Louisiana Purchase, Iowa was admitted to the Union as a free state to become the first free state to come from that purchase. An uprising by the Sioux Indian Nation plagued Iowans during their early years of statehood.

12th US Flag in 1848

Wisconsin preserved the balance that was precariously being kept between free and slave states when admitted to the Union in 1848. There were 15 free and 15 slave states in 1848. During the drive for statehood, the Ripon Convention was held, later to be claimed as the beginnings of the Republican Party.

13th US Flag in 1851

In 1848, the discovery of gold in the American River at Sutter's Mill, CA, touched off the "Gold Rush" of 1849. This set into motion a tide of settlers. Previously in 1846, a small group of Americans had proclaimed California independent from Mexico. The need for immediate government organization led to the admission of California as the 31st state in 1850.

14th US Flag in 1858

In 1851, by the Treaty of Mendota, the Indians gave up all claims to land in Minnesota and throngs of settlers swarmed into the territory. There were enough people in the state to grant admission to the Union and Minnesota became our 32nd state on May 11th of that year.

15th US Flag in 1859

During James K. Polk's presidential campaign, the issue was the Oregon Territory. "Fifty-four forty or Fight" was the slogan. Statehood for Oregon would mean the consolidation of the Pacific coastline as members of the United States. In 1859, Oregon became the 33rd state in the Union. Our 15th flag was raised that year.

16th US Flag in 1861

January 29, 1861, Kansas was admitted to the Union as the 34th state. Kansas had been a state for less than three months when the nation went to war. On April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire on Ft. Sumter and four years of a bitter civil war battle were fought. This flag was carried into battle by Union troops until 1863. It carried 34 stars.

17th US Flag in 1863

As Virginia decided to throw its lot in with the new Confederacy, several northwestern counties of the state decided to remain loyal to the Union. The result was the formation of a new state, West Virginia, marking the first time a new state has resulted from a rebellion against the original state. This fledgling was admitted as the 35th state, June 20, 1863.

18th US Flag in 1865

The Confederate States of America were in their last hours when Nevada was admitted to the Union as the 36th state. Because the war was ending with the victory of the Union, little jubilation went up for the admittance of Nevada. Little notice was paid to the fact that this flag bore 36 stars when it was raised in 1865.

19th US Flag in 1867

Nebraska applied for admission into the nation as the Reconstruction era opened in American history. A bitter struggle developed between President Andrew Johnson and Congress. President Johnson vetoed the bill making Nebraska the 37th state, but Congress overrode the veto. Nebraska became the 37th state in 1867 and the 37th star on our flag.

20th US Flag in 1877

Gold was discovered in the Colorado Territory in 1858 bringing in thousands of new settlers. Hostile Indians and the extremely hard terrain of the country did not deter the new pioneers. With them, they brought the determination to become a state and in 1876, Colorado was admitted as the 38th state.

21st US Flag in 1890

With the admission of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington and Idaho in 1889-90, five new stars were added to our flag. These states were the last of the Northwest Territories to become states and completed the expansion of the country along the Canadian border. Completion of railroads speeded the growth of these states.

22nd US Flag in 1891

The twenty-first flag was obsolete six days after it was raised. On July 10, 1890, Wyoming was admitted to the Union as the 44th state. Wyoming had become a territory in 1845 when Texas was annexed to the United States and relinquished its claim to this area. On July 4th, 1891, the twenty-second flag was raised with 44 stars.

23rd US Flag in 1896

Utah became a territory of the United States in 1848. Its first constitution was established in 1849 as the Mormon state of the Deseret. Congress changed the name to Utah in 1850, and a running argument began between Utah and the U.S. Congress over the question of polygamy. In 1890, the Mormon Church outlawed this practice and in 1896, Utah became the 45th state.

24th US Flag in 1908

The Indian Territory of Oklahoma was opened to settlers in 1889 and resulted in the first Oklahoma land run. Thousands of settlers, farmers, ranchers and pioneers rushed into the new territory to begin a new life. This migration resulted in the admission of Oklahoma to the Union on November 16, 1907, as the 46th state.

25th US Flag in 1912

In 1912, New Mexico and Arizona were the 47th and 48th continental states admitted into the union. The 48-star flag came into existence in that year and lasted for 47 years, longer than any other US flag. Under this banner we fought World War I, World War II and the Korean War.

26th US Flag in 1959

On July 7, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill making Alaska the 49th state of the Union. The admission of Alaska marked the first time a state had been admitted that had not been in the continental United States. Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for million, or two cents an acre. Alaska became the 49th star.

27th US Flag in 1960

At Hawaii's request in 1898, Hawaii was annexed by the United States. In 1903, the territorial legislature petitioned Congress for admission to the Union, but was denied. Not much was thought of Hawaii until the bombing of Pearl Harbor when Americans realized what an integral part of the U.S. Hawaii was. On March 18, 1959, Hawaii became our 50th state and the last star in the flag.

Respect for the Flag

o The flag should always be carried upright, aloft and free.

o The flag should be displayed high above and free of anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water or merchandise.

o The flag should always be allowed to fall freely. Use bunting - not the U.S. flag - to drape, festoon, draw back or hang in folds as decoration. Bunting of blue, white and red - always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle and the red below - should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform and so on.

o The flag should be treated with respect. Protect it from being easily torn, soiled or damaged in any way when fastening, displaying or storing it.

o All parts of the flag should be kept completely free of markings, insignias, letters, words, figures, designs, pictures or drawings of any nature not inherent in its creation.

o The flag should not be used as an informal covering for a ceiling.

What the Flag means A flag, an inanimate object made of stitched cloth, means as much as people will let it mean to them. Through two centuries of American heritage, our national flag has come to stand for the people, the ideas, the government, and national honor and glory of the United States. Our flag has endured through many years of hardship and toil. It is known and respected throughout the world. It has come to be the beacon of democracy, freedom, liberty and justice, and it is to this banner the countless millions came from all over the world in their search for political and religious freedom. Perhaps the modern American has come to take for granted the proud Stars and Stripes. Perhaps the notion that our flag means nothing more than mom's apple pie and the Fourth of July picnic has been allowed to live too long. Let us not forget that this flag was born of blood and has been preserved by blood. This flag is the symbol of liberty and the cost of liberty is dear indeed.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Polk Audio RC55i 2-Way In-Wall Speakers (Pair, White)

!±8±Polk Audio RC55i 2-Way In-Wall Speakers (Pair, White)

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Just as a magician makes a car disappear, Polk has made the speaker disappear. Paint over these in-walls speakers to match your decor and -poof!- you're left with nothing but deep rich sound. Why worry about tripping over a clunky floor speaker or one that takes up your shelf space? These mount quickly and easily into your wall. All thatM-^Rs left to do is relax and immerse yourself in the magic of sound. Note: Priced as pair.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

What Are the Best Powered Speakers?

!±8± What Are the Best Powered Speakers?

With the Polk Atrium 45p self-powered speakers, so you can listen to your iPod or portable CD player and do away with the extra amplifier. You can use your receiver's auxiliary output to send pre-amplified signals to another room, and the internal 25-watt amplifier will ensure supply the power. These speakers can be mounted at any angle. Each speaker comes with a tweeter. They have a wide dispersion capability that can create an open sound.

SCN300W indoor/outdoor weatherproof wireless system can be connected to any audio source and the range of output is about 150 feet. The speakers and the transmitter can be battery or AC powered. A 7.5 watt speaker with a 4 inch woofer and one inch tweeter can play for about seven hours on battery. The volume, bass and power controls can be operated independently or through remote control. The speakers can be mounted on a wall or placed on a stand or table. The SCN300W can be considered a complete cordless speaker system.

JBL's Creature II is three-piece system which belts out high-quality stereo sound for movies, MP3s and gaming. Compatible with all desktops, portables, MP3s and Walkmans, it boasts of cutting edge design. The speaker produces high-quality audio while the subwoofer which is magnetically shielded, provides clean bass and keeps off distortion.

Boston Acoustics has some low range models with reasonable sound quality. If not completely satisfied, you could change the speakers but in this range, you cannot get away from the wire-tangle.


What Are the Best Powered Speakers?

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