Sylvan Beach (WSYR-TV) Investigators in Oneida County have arrested two people after they say drugs were found at a home in Sylvan Beach on Wednesday.

44-year old Scott Leisner and 42-year old Chrystal Palmeter are charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance and Criminally Using Drug Paraphernalia, after a search warrant was executed at a home on 15th Avenue.

Deputies say they found methamphetamine and heroin during the search.

The case sparked an evacuation of about 20 homes nearby when a suspicious item with wiring was found during an initial sweep of the home. The New York State Police Bomb Disposal Unit was called to the scene and determined the device was not a real explosive.

Several streets in the neighborhood were blocked off until detectives felt the area was safe.

Palmeter and Leisner were arraigned and taken to the Oneida County Correctional Facility.

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Two people arrested after police say meth is found at a home in Sylvan Beach

Sylvan Beach (WSYR-TV) Investigators in Oneida County have arrested two people after drugs were found at a home in Sylvan Beach on Wednesday.

44-year old Scott Leisner and 42-year old Chrystal Palmeter are charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance and Criminally Using Drug Paraphernalia, after a search warrant was executed at a home on 15th Avenue.

Deputies say they found methamphetamine and heroin during the search.

The case sparked an evacuation of about 20 homes nearby when a suspicious item with wiring was found during an initial sweep of the home. The New York State Police Bomb Disposal Unit was called to the scene and determined the device was not a real explosive.

Several streets in the neighborhood were blocked off until detectives felt the area was safe.

Palmeter and Leisner were arraigned and taken to the Oneida County Correctional Facility.

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SHERMAN, TX - Three Sherman men are behind bars, accused of stealing property from a vacant home two days in a row. Residents who live in the neighborhood say burglary is a big problem on their block.

Tools, wire, and even a floor lamp are now missing from a vacant Sherman home on North Ross Street.

"They were breaking into the house," said Sherman police Sgt. D.M. Hampton. He says 61 year old Larry Thacker, 48 year old Kenneth Moss, and 59 year old Robert Riles were arrested Tuesday, after officers found a large amount of stolen property in their truck, in the alley behind the home on the 1600 block.

"A little window unit, just odds and ends kind of things, some tools, and they ended up getting some wiring," said Sgt. Hampton.

Sherman police say they got the call from a nearby resident who also saw a red truck at the house the day before.

Neighbor Jesse Martinez and his wife tell us thieves will steal anything that's not locked down, and they target vacant homes on the block, "It happens a lot you know sometimes we call and they'll get caught and stuff, it happens once or twice a month sometimes three times. I come out with my dogs and my flashlight, but I carry a stick or something."

Sgt. Hampton says the suspects took anything that could be sold, probably to sell as scrap.

69/82 Metal Recyclers say there's no way to tell if someone's bringing in stolen materials, but before they buy from anyone they require a photo ID and a license plate number. They also tell News 12 hundreds of people come through the scrap yard on a daily basis, and every sale is captured by surveillance cameras.

All three suspects in this case are charged with burglary of a habitation, a second degree felony.

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Because of the legalizing of marijuana Durango and La Plata County, residents can now grow for their own use. It has been safer than before because

JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald

Because of the legalizing of marijuana Durango and La Plata County, residents can now grow for their own use. It has been safer than before because

Growing marijuana at home has become safer and, some say, less popular as Colorados legal landscape has changed.

Under Amendment 64, Colorado residents age 21 and older may grow up to six plants at home. But many users say they arent growing their own.

At the end of the day, theres not that many people exercising their right to grow marijuana under Amendment 64 and thats because people can just go into a store and buy it, said Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado. Its like you can homebrew, but you can just go into the liquor store and buy it.

Marijuana stores also offer a greater variety of products than any home grower can hope to match, featuring different strains, edible marijuana-laced products and accessories.

Before Amendment 64 went into effect, home marijuana grows were often haphazard, and some were blamed for causing fires. Most tragically, in 2009, a Durango man named Dan Middleton was killed when his grow operation caused a fire in his condominium.

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--INSTEON, creators of the worlds best-selling home automation and control technology, today announced the opening of two new offices in Ecuador and Guatemala. Each location will feature a connected home and office showroom, product inventory and local tech support for the companys growing user base.

Training sessions for INSTEON dealers will also be available. The upcoming session, Introduction to Technology and Applications, will take place Wednesday, July 16, 2014 in Queretaro, Mexico from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. The session will also be presented as a webinar for dealers in Ecuador and Guatemala on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from 10 a.m. 12 p.m. local time.

The new offices in Latin America not only expand INSTEONs global footprint, but also serve the connected home and office market in a highly populous region of more than 600 million residents, said Joe Dada, CEO, INSTEON. Local retail customers are delighted that INSTEON is expanding availability of its simple, affordable and reliable home automation products and technology to homes and businesses in Latin America. With our new offices and professional INSTEON trainings for dealers in Latin America and Mexico, we aim to provide unprecedented access to the most innovative connected home offerings on the market.

INSTEONs reliable dual-band technology uses both the existing wires (power line) in the home and radio-frequency (RF) communication instead of relying on spotty Wi-Fi connections and routers, which dictate where smart devices must be placed to work properly. By making every networked device talk to each other via RF and the power line, INSTEON eliminates the need for custom wiring and ensures that every device is always connected. Adding remote control and automation to everything from home monitoring to lighting, INSTEONs dual-band network and devices allow users to manage the home or office in more variations than any other home automation technology.

To sign up for one of the distributor trainings, please contact Luis Pedraza at luispedraza@insteon.com.mx.

For more information on INSTEON, please visit http://www.insteon.com.mx.

About INSTEON

Developed in Irvine, California, the award-winning INSTEON remote control product line includes more than 200 devices, from lamp dimmers to thermostats and LED bulbs. INSTEON delivers the fastest, most reliable wireless device communication in the industry with its innovative dual-band and simulcast mesh technology, creating the optimum platform for the coming Internet of Things. INSTEON products are available throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as internationally. For more information about INSTEON, please visit http://www.insteon.com, or connect with INSTEON on Facebook (www.facebook.com/insteon) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/insteon).

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In July Computer Weekly visited Martin Vesper, CEO of digitalSTROM, who has kitted out his home with smart technology, allowing him to control lighting and electrical appliances and monitor usage.

In this video Computer Weeklys Cliff Saran talks to Vesper about how the internet of things technology forms the basis of an open, expandable platform developed by his company, that is able to integrate with other smart devices like a SonusHi-Fi and Philips Hue smart light.

The technology from digitalSTROM starts with a patented mains terminal block, that has an integrated processor. Vesper says this can be connected into a wiring circuit in a house, where it is able to provide intelligent switching.

Communications with the terminal block is achieved over mains cabling using powerline Ethernet. A central control console and Linux server, fitted in the homes fuse box, provides a way to share data between other intelligent terminal blocks to coordinate activities and monitor events such as when a smoke detector has been tripped. The system uses orchestration software from Tibco.

Vesper believes that a smart home needs to be built on software and open technologies, since electrical appliances have different lifespans. Cloud connectivity is also important, both for configuring the system and to enable best practices and updates are filtered down to the home.

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Interview with Martin Vesper, CEO, digitalSTROM on smart home technology

House of The Whale, by Scott Bluedorn.

By Mara Certic

A house is a walled structure with a roof and a floor and a number of other features. A home, however, is typically defined in a more abstract manner: where the heart is, where one starts from or, according to Emily Dickinson, where thou art. This ambiguity and flexibility is mirrored in A Different Kind of Home/ Show on view at Dodds & Eder in Sag Harbor.

Curator Kathy Zeiger, who is also the founder and director of ArtWalk Hamptons, was inspired to put on the exhibition after seeing House of the Whale, an ink drawing by local artist Scott Bluedorn.

I just thought thats so interesting, she said of the drawing. There are a lot of home shows that go on in the Hamptons. Im going to do a different kind of home show. And so the project was born.

I have always been inspired by nautical things, Mr. Bluedorn said in an interview on Monday. The initial inspiration for the entire series was photographs that I took on a trip to Nova Scotia last year, and a lot of the old fishing houses, which are similar to the ones we have, said the artist, who grew up in East Hampton.

His intricate drawings show a hybridization of nature and architecture. Ive always been very involved with detail in my drawings; Ive always used texture, he said. Thats why shingles are such a big part of the series.

Ms. Zeiger was determined to make this not just your typical kind of home show, but still wanted a homey and cozy element, which is why she chose to include textiles artist Casey Dalene. Ms. Dalene, a native of North Carolina who has lived full-time in East Hampton for the past decade, has decorated the front nook of the Dodds & Eder showroom for the exhibition. I thought she would be great as home sweet home, Ms. Zeiger said.

I want this space to feel really warm and inviting and thats why I chose to use drapery frames, said Ms. Dalene who also has decorated the area with hand-painted pillows and six acrylic paintings on paper. Ms. Dalene loves showing the artists hand in the work, she said, explaining her use of obvious paintbrush strokes.

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The likely culprit in Saturday's fire Le Roy that destroyed the home of Greg and David Luetticke-Archbell is electrical.

Whether it was an electric device that first caught on fire or wiring in a wall hasn't been determined.

There is no evidence of any deliberate action that caused the fire.

Jim Bouton, a coordinator and investigator with Genesee County Office of Emergency Management, discussed the investigator's findings with The Batavian this morning.

"On the report it will say the cause is undetermined," Bouton said. "The primary principle is electrical."

The fire started in the garage, Bouton said, not on the porch as initially reported.

Also, the explosion during the fire was caused by backdraft, which is caused by the rapid reintroduction of oxygen into an enclosed area where oxygen has been depleted by fire.

There was lots of fuel available for a fire -- what firefighters call "fire load" -- big wood beams and all of the accoutrements of a modern lifestyle.

Bouton said these days people have a lot more polyester, plastic and other flammable materials around the house, which is just fuel for flames.

In the Luetticke-Archbell garage there was a motorbike, snowmobile and woodchipper, all with gasoline in the tanks, not to mention the fiberglass of the snowmobile to add fuel to the fire.

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Herbert Jackson's front yard was a whirlwind of strangers Monday morning.

Plumbers, electricians, county code enforcement bosses, volunteers, reporters and a politician swirled around the battered tan home on Monticello Avenue in east Bakersfield.

Jackson isn't one to ask for help, friends said.

But an avalanche of help descended on him last week after his home was boarded up by code enforcement officers.

A community effort aimed at making his home livable again, coordinated on social media and powered by political pressure and media coverage, blossomed.

On Monday, Jackson was just worried about keeping out of the way of "the traffic."

"I'm going to let them do it their way," he said.

VIOLATION

Jackson, 85, has owned the Monticello property since the 1950s.

He and his late wife had the modest home built when their twin daughters were born and they raised their family in it.

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The ability to repair basic house wiring in you home is a skill you can acquire. Knowing how circuits work and what can be done with them is useful knowledge. Wiring in a residential house is not that complicated, but it can be dangerous. Proper understanding and cautions are required.

Some popular pages related to residential wiring are, 'Doorbell Wiring', 'Phone Jack Wiring', 'Installing Electrical Outlets', 'Wiring a Light Switch' and 'Ceiling Fan Repair'.

Most homes in the United States have two hot wires and one neutral coming into them. Supplying a stated 240/120 volts. The actual voltage received is normally slightly less 230/115 volts. This type of power is commonly called single phased power. Most residential homes have this type of basic house wiring.

The power coming into your home is also called alternating current. There are people in the world that can explain what that means exactly, but none of them are writing this article. Alternating current is used to allow electricity to be transported over long distances. Leave it at that, the guys that can explain it will talk in a language you won't understand.

The first power plant using alternating current came on line in Niagara Falls, New York in 1894. Nikola Tesla is credited with the development of a system the would allow power to sent long distances. Thus, making it practical.

When you use one hot wire and the neutral you get 115 volt power. Most small electrical devices and lights run on this current. Heavy duty items like ranges, hot water tanks and dryers use both hot wires and the neutral to achieve 230 volts.

You may not want to tear into replacing you electrical service, but doing some basic house wiring may not be out of the question. The first thing you want to do is get a healthy respect for electricity. It is dangerous and can hurt or kill you. Take precautions when working around electricity.

The first rule to remember is that basic house wiring can be dangerous. Never attempt to do it without a good understanding of how it works and safe work practices. This article is intended to provide basic information and is not a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of house wiring. See the article 'Electrical Safety Tips' for more information.

In addition local and national electrical codes apply. You will need to consult your local building department to get information on what is acceptable for basic house wiring in your area.

You never want to work on basic house wiring in your home with the power on. See the article 'Electrical Safety Tips' for more information. Just shutting off a switch is not enough. On the job electricians use lock out tag out procedures to make sure circuits are not inadvertently turned on while they are being worked on. You turned off the switch, so everything is fine right?

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