Yamaha NS-SP1800BL 5.1-Channel Home Theater Speaker Package
- 2-way satellite speakers with 2.5″ woofer & 1/2″ tweeter
- 2-way center speaker with dual 2.5″ woofers & 1/2″ tweeter
- Magnetic shielding (all speakers)
- 8″ 100W cube-type high power subwoofer
- Wall hanging capability
Product Description
The Yamaha NS-SP1800BL 5.1-channel home theater speaker package is a low cost, convenient way to enjoy the full benefits of 5.1-channel home theater sound. The NS-SP1800BL features advanced Yamaha active servo technology (Advanced YST) is a unique system in which the speaker and amplifier work together to cancel out impedance so the speaker unit has a perfectly linear motion. Advanced YST helps to ensure the highest levels of sound pressure and overall performance…. More >>
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Logitech S220 2.1 Speaker System
- 17 Watts RMS; 34 Watts Peak Power
Product Description
The new Logitech S-220 Speaker System contains several upgrades to its predecessor, the S-200 Speaker System. Unlike the S-200, the new S-220 encompasses increased usability with a newly styled control base to manage improved acoustics, volume and VoIP connectivity. Bass tuning by the end user is often permanent once a setting is established. With the end-user experience at the forefront of Logitech¿s design strategy to minimize desk clutter the S-220 bass control … More >>
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TCC TC-9 4-Way Stereo Speaker Selector
- passive device, no power required
- NO overload protection
- power rating 200 watts RMS per channel
- 60 day defective exchange warranty; CE certified
Product Description
This model allows you to connect up to four pairs of speakers to a stereo originally equipped to support only one or two pair. One or four or any combination in between can be selected to play at once. Note that you do not gain any output power by doing this; what you’ve got is what you’ve got (and the further you spread it, the less it covers…). This product is meant for providing moderate level music in multiple rooms, not running a disco. Power rating (per chan… More >>
Categories: Audio & Video Tags: 4Way, Selector, Speaker, Stereo
Is Speaker John Bercow’s comic really just child’s play?
By Quentin Letts
Last updated at 12:52 PM on 26th November 2011
Commons Speaker Bercow was jeered by MPs a fortnight ago for obsessing about the Youth Parliament. Lord knows what they will make of his latest ‘yoof’ ventures, spotted by an MP friend of mine in the Commons Library the other day.
The richly-funded parliamentary outreach programme has come up with a kiddies’ information pack full of babyish drawings, cartoon characters and some fantasy about a drink called Froggypop. It seems to be aimed at the dimmer end of the six-year-old market.
Yoof: Speaker John Bercow was jeered by MPs a fortnight ago for obsessing about the Youth Parliament
The booklet ostensibly explains to kiddies what Parliament does. One of its pages asks the question ‘how you become an MP or a Lord?’ The correct answer to the latter might well be ‘bung a million quid to one of the political parties’.
The thrilling yarn about Froggypop imagines a Health Minister called Lord Wellness, a schoolgirl called Hardeep, a prime minister with a sticky-upppy fringe and an image of the Queen in running gear. There is also a disconcertingly realistic cartoon of Speaker Bercow which may well give tender minds nightmares.
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Another dumbed-down publication recently produced by the Commons authorities is a ‘parliamentary scrapbook’ for children. In this, the cartoon character previously known as Lord Wellness has miraculously become a life peer called Lord Ovdadance who is such a lark that he loses his voice from shouting too much in the Lords’ Chamber. This seems unlikely, given that debates in the Lords are generally genteel.
The 20-page scrapbook is full of black and female faces and has a two-page spread on the Suffragettes. Of 20 parliamentarians recognisable in the scrapbook’s photographs, just one is a Conservative (there is also a picture of the back of David Cameron’s head). Easily the biggest snapshot of the lot is of Squeaker Bercow.
Is this outreach really about informing the public or is it about empire building and self-promotion? MPs maintain severe restrictions on where television cameras may film inside even the public parts of the Palace of Westminster.
When the BBC this month applied to shoot some educational films about Parliament in the Commons (offering to do so on a non-sitting day), back came a flat refusal. It was explained that MPs did not like journalists and would therefore not approve.
On his guard
Cheeky story from Whitehall’s personal protection officers. You will recall that one of Alan Johnson’s bodyguards had an affair with the then Home Secretary’s wife. This led, naturally, to much chuntering between politicians and their police protectors.
Tony Blair is understood to have looked his bodyguard in the eye and said, with just a hint of dry humour: ‘At least I can be certain there is no question of you running off with my wife.’
No goal: Blatter was blasted for saying that racism on the football pitch could be resolved by a handshake
Football chief Sepp Blatter says that it is OK to call people nasty names and the Left (and the Right, happily) erupt in anger.
A couple of days later Mister Justice Bean says it is OK to swear at the police (because apparently ‘everybody’ swears all the time these days). The Left celebrates the judge’s tolerance and awareness of modern Britain.
Is there not a certain paradox in those two positions?
That’s the spirit, Diana!
Vodka at the ready: Macleod’s daughter, Diana Heimann, will be joining the Crisis walk
Crisis At Christmas, the charity, was founded in 1967 by the late Chancellor Iain Macleod and his wife. Although both of them were disabled, the Macleods took part in the first annual sponsored walk from Canterbury to Southwark.
This year, Macleod’s daughter, Diana Heimann, will be joining the Crisis walk. ‘Both my parents were very infirm but they managed 100 yards at either end of the walk, both on sticks,’ says feisty Mrs Heimann, 67.
How is she training for her adventure? ‘Fags, vodka and tonic and the occasional slug of rose wine,’ she rasps. Attagirl.
It’s Dim and Dimmer
Bar talk at the House of Lords concerns an informal contest: who is dimmer, Lady Stowell or Lady Willcox? Even the great racing commentator Sir Peter O’Sullevan might find it hard to judge this photo-finish.
Both ladies are ministers. On Tuesday, Lady Stowell was answering questions about tidal generation. Crossbencher Lord Walpole inquired amiably about Scapa Flow. Lady Stowell had never heard of it. ‘In the Orkneys,’ explained Lord Walpole.
Lady Stowell, with a moony smile: ‘I am not sure that helps me very much.’
Knowledge gap: Lady Stowell (left) and Wilcox
Pressed by other peers for information, she kept admitting she did not have details and ended the little session by saying daffily: ‘I am amazed at the expertise that is coming at me today.’
On Thursday, Lady Willcox essayed much the same routine when answering peers’ questions about fuel prices and employment laws. Replying at one point to her party colleague Lord Tebbit, she actually said: ‘Gosh! I’m afraid I do not have the details of the answer to that question.’
With that she gave a little beam of delight.
Much as one might admire such candour, is it too much to expect ministers actually to know something before they present themselves for scrutiny in the Upper House?
Last week, the Europhile BBC was describing Mario Monti, the new prime minister of Italy, as a ‘respected economist’. This week, in a subtle shift, it was calling him an ‘accomplished economist’. If they insist on using an adjective, how about ‘unelected’?
Left in the dark
Former Defence Minister Quentin Davies, now a Labour peer, made a defiant, rancorous speech on Thursday saying suggestions that Labour left the Defence budget in a mess were ‘unscrupulous’ and ‘complete falsehoods’.
In the Commons just a day or so earlier, Jonathan Lord (Con, Woking) sought a factual answer to the question: how many Harrier pilots capable of flying from aircraft carriers were there when the Coalition started its Defence review? Back came the answer: eight, but only one of them was qualified to do so at night.
Just one pilot for night flights. It gives new meaning to the phrase ‘the Few’.
Today Programme presenter James Naughtie has a suggestion on how to prevent flies invading your house: wash the windows with whisky.
This is certainly what used to happen at the Naughtie family home on Skye in the 1920s. ‘The flies had a fine time,’ Naughtie tells The Keeper magazine (for whisky tilters). ‘They fell senseless to the floor in their hundreds and never entered the house. The living outside was too good.’
Wednesday’s PMQs had the customary tributes to the latest British soldiers killed in action. One of them was a Lieutenant. Ed Miliband pronounced this ‘Lootenant’.
Mrs Speaker Sally Bercow swaps the Commons for a caravan in latest publicity stunt
By Sara Nathan
Last updated at 4:26 AM on 18th November 2011
Standing outside a caravan with a damp cloth in one hand and a bucket of grimy water in the other, this is not where you would expect to find a wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons.
But, given that the current Speaker’s wife is Sally Bercow, the latest publicity stunt should come as little surprise.
Having attracted criticism for posing in just a bedsheet outside the Commons and then appearing in Celebrity Big Brother against the wishes of husband John, the glamorous 41-year-old moved in with traveller Paddy Doherty to spend a couple of weeks at his mobile home in North Wales.
Telling off: Doherty tries to get his new ‘woman’ off on the right foot
Life through a lens: Mrs Bercow takes her cleaning duties seriously as she throws herself into her new, uncharacteristically subservient role
All for the sake of the cameras, of course.
Which is how she came to be scrubbing his double glazing while dolled up in £245 Lynnea Ugg boots and a padded jacket.
Doherty, the star of Channel 4 series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, met Mrs Bercow earlier this year when they both appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, which he won. He is notorious for summoning his wife of 25 years, Roseanne, simply by yelling: ‘Woman!’
At one point during filming of When Paddy Met Sally, Mrs Bercow was clearly on the end of similar treatment, having to be shown how to wash the windows to Doherty’s exact liking.
How well the Speaker’s wife, renowned for being a bolshy blonde, takes to her new subservient role remains to be seen.
Mobile home: Mrs Speaker is a world away from her grace-and-favour apartment as she film When Paddy met Sally in North Wales
Last night she seemed positive, saying on Twitter: ‘Exhausted. Full-on day of cooking, cleaning & waiting on my “man”. Having a laugh with Paddy tho’ – between my chores.’
By contrast, how well 52-year-old Doherty takes to living with a lady more used to a grace-and-favour apartment overlooking Big Ben was suggested in his comments before filming started.
‘I told the people when I signed up that I’m likely to murder her,’ he said.
And should his wife be at all concerned about her husband’s Amazonian new houseguest, he reassured: ‘Me woman doesn’t need to be jealous.’
The Channel 5 show is due to be shown in the new year.
