Oreck Air Purifiers: Reviewed

Have you heard the name Oreck before?  There is a good chance that you have. Oreck is the marker of a number of popular and well-known products. These products include, but are not limited to vacuum cleaners and air purifiers.  If you are in the market for a new air purifier, whether that air purifier be for your home or your office, you are advised to examine what Oreck has to offer. You may very well find yourself purchasing one of their products.

Oreck currently has two different types of air purifiers available for sale. Those air purifiers include the Oreck XL Table Top Professional Air Purifier and the Oreck XL Tower Professional Air Purifier.  Although Oreck may not have as many air purifiers available for sale, as many other air purifier companies, they do not necessarily have to. These two air purifiers come highly rated and recommended.  In fact, there is a good chance that one or both of these air purifiers is exactly what you want or need to have.

The Oreck XL Table Top Professional Air Purifier is not only great for the home, but for the office as well. Its table top design makes it ideal for those with limited amounts of space.  The air purifier could easily sit on an end table, an office desk, or even on a night stand.  In addition to being compact, the Oreck XL Table Top Professional Air Purifier cleans the air in spaces up to 900 square feet. This is amazing when you examine the size of the air purifier.  The Oreck XL Table Top Professional Air Purifier retails for around $450 to $500.  

The Oreck XL Tower Professional Air Purifier is ideal for those who are looking to clean a large area of air. This modern looking air purifier is able to clean the air in rooms up to 1125 square feet.  This square footage is absolutely amazing, especially when compared to the square footage of most other air purifiers. The Oreck XL Tower Professional Air Purifier, like the table top purifier, is considered energy efficient. In fact, Oreck claims that they both use the same amount of energy as a common light bulb.  The Oreck XL Tower Professional Air Purifier retails for around $700.

In addition to improving the air inside your home, which is the job of an air purifier, you will also find that most air purifiers also destroy the bacteria that is trapped inside of it. This will, in turn, make your home healthier than you ever could have imagined.  While a number of air purifiers also do this, not all do. That is why it is important that you try and find an air purifier, such as the air purifiers made by Oreck, which not only trap bacteria, but eliminate it.  Essentially, this will make it safer for you, when it comes time to clean your air purifier, should you need to.

If what was mentioned above wasn’t enough, you will find that the Oreck XL Tower Professional Air Purifier, as well as the Oreck XL Table Top Professional Air Purifier do not need replacement filters. Essentially, this means that the price you are paying for the original machine is all that you should have to pay.  A small amount of standard cleaning, here and there, and you should be set for a long time.

  

When purchasing an air purifier with Oreck, it is not uncommon to receive a free gift or a special discount. At the current moment, if you purchase an air purifier directly from Oreck, you could receive a free cordless sweeper.  This offer may not last for long, but there is a good chance that when it expires it will be replaced with another product or an amazing discount on their other products.  This combined with the amazing warranties, which are often for three or five years, makes Oreck air purifiers an amazing buy.

Coronado Island In San Diego

Everyone in California knows that the best beaches

in San Diego are on Coronado Island.  Being linked to

downtown San Diego by the Island Bay Bridge, Coronado

is home to the SEALs training center and the Naval

Air Station Coronado.  A military powerhouse, the

island of Coronado always has something going on.

One of the best features to Coronado is the world 

famous Hotel Del Coronado.  This Victorian style 

seaside hotel was established in 1888, and was easily

one of the biggest and best hotels of that era.  The

hotel was hosted in the past by the infamous Marilyn

Monroe and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

The Hotel Del Coronado has some of the best service

in California, along with breathtaking views of the

San Diego area.  The restaurant here is one of the

best around, and even if you aren't staying here, you

can enjoy a great meal.  Each and every year, thousands

of people visit Coronado just to stay at this world

class hotel - yes, it's that good.

The Ferry Landing is also a great addition to what

Coronado Island has to offer.  The Ferry Landing 

Marketplace offers you 30+ shops, restaurants, and

art galleries.  You can walk around and check out

what the marketplace has to offer, or enjoy a 

visit to the Tidelands Park.

There are great places to walk and bicycle here,

with awesome views of skyline San Diego.  At sunset,

this is one of the best places to be.  On Tuesdays, you

can find a farmers market here as well.

The Coronado Beach is located here as well, along the

Travel Channel.  North of the beach there's the Best

Weekend Getaway Beach.  Even in the summer, the

Coronado Beach isn't crowded, giving your family plenty

of room to enjoy the splendors of one of California's

best beaches.

From the Glorietta Bay Inn in Coronado, you can take

a walking tour.  Tours leave several times a week, 

showing you everything the area has to offer.  This is

a great way to learn more about the area.  Or, if you

like, you can let someone else do the driving and

try a pedicab tour.

For the romantic, the Gondola Cruise helps to take the

pressure out of life.  A romantic spin through the

canals of Coronado Cays can be quite the break from

the ordinary.  

You can reach Coronado Island from San Diego by taking 

the Coronado Bay Bridge exit off I-5.  By water from

San Diego, you can take the Coronado Ferry that runs

hourly from 9 AM - 10 PM.  Walking from the Ferry 

Landing to Hotel Del Coronado is a little over a mile.

American Indian Art Auctions: Beadwork

American Indian art encompasses many types of arts and crafts, from the more traditionally and / or stereotypically Native American art such as beadwork and pottery, to modern photography, fine paintings, sculptures and the like. There are many art auctions, both online and off, that feature this form of American Indian art.

In this article we’ll discuss one of the most traditional and historically relevant branches of American Indian art: beadwork. Beadwork of the Native American peoples had and has practical as well as decorative; utilitarian as well as rich symbolic meaning.

Beadwork and making of the beads themselves is a very old craft. Stone, bone and shell beads (such as turquoise and semi-precious stones) are still made the same ancient way. Little affected by modern technology, the making of beads is still carried out in nearly the exact same way as peoples did thousands of years ago.

Sea shell bead pieces are among the most popular and well known pieces of regional trade importance for thousands of years. Nearly everyone has seen American Indian art pieces, from beaded necklaces to purses, belts and such.

For the last several decades modern beadwork has been replicated in oriental factories and very cheaply imported. This makes it a competing factor against the top quality beadwork done by American Indian craftspeople. The native American crafts people have lost several millions of dollars (just over an eight year period during the 1980s) to these fake native beads and beadwork pieces.

Historically, beads were carved from turtle shell, animal horn and deer hooves. These were often used for making rattling or tinkling pieces utilized in dance. Hunters often wore necklaces put together with animal portions, such as bear claws or wolf claws. These indicated a hunter’s prowess. Bones and seeds were often steamed to soften them for stringing and /or bending into various shapes.

As an example of beadwork used for a most practical purpose, the Iroqois League (Haudenosee) used white and purple wampum chains made of fresh-water clam shells to record sacred ceremonies, treaties and songs. This practice was used both before and after the coming of European settlers.

Many types of agreements were recorded with such beadwork chains. They were highly valued and cared for by their owners. European settlers mistook this care and reverence for wampum beads as a sign that the beads held monetary significance. As such, they mistakenly assumed that the word ‘wampum’ referred to money, when in actuality these important beads were much more like very important original documents.

To string beads, Native Americans used animal sinew that is split very fine with which to attach beads to clothing, though infrequently strong plant fibers such as hide thongs or nettle were used for these purposes.

Today, the Navajos as well as some pueblo people still make the ancient bead type called the heishii. This is by far the most popular and high quantity type of beadwork that is still made today as it was in ancient times. These necklaces are also referred to as story necklaces as they can be used to tell stories, with each bead representing a character.

Beads and beadwork are a very important part of archaeological explorations of pre-European history. Beads have survived thousands of years and tell many fascinating stories about times we weren’t around to witness. This is particularly true with respect to beadwork mad of sea shells. Ancient shell beads have been found thousands of miles from seas, which indicates various trade routes and contacts among different groups of people.

Today American Indian artists even create digital beadwork designs to help them make actual beadwork pieces. In this way complex designs and pieces can be tested on the screen before the project is begun. This has certainly added to the creative process for many beadwork artists.

Beadworking weaves through native history both in ancient times as well as in today’s modern computer technology. The most important aspect of beadwork, though, is not what can be sold or gained, but personal pieces that are only given among family and friends. The true meanings behind these pieces are personal associations tied to visions, important perspectives and other things that an individual wishes to be reminded of.