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Posted: Friday, April 4, 2014 10:59 pm
Faulty wiring blamed for house fire in Chesterfield
CHESTERFIELD A fire started in a Chesterfield County home from a light switch with a faulty electrical wire, according to Chesterfield firefighters.
On Friday, authorities released the cause of the Thursday night fire that spread into the walls of an apartment in the 6300 block of Jefferson Davis Highway.
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Wireless technology is one of the most significant contributors towards widespread adoption of smart home technology, lowering the barriers and costs involved in connecting just a room or an entire home. Instead of paying for a custom install, devices can connect to each other and to home networks over WiFi, NFC or radio waves to name a few options. That means no drilling, no wiring and little technological know-how required for a homeowner to establish a smart solution.
Wireless speakers are among the most popular connected devices for the home, and theyre also some of the most beautiful. As the market matures, expected to reach $13.75 billion by 2018, companies like Philips, Sonos and Samsung are differentiating their products through design. But such differentiation tactics can be employed by startups as well.
Portland, Oregon-based BlueshiftPDX is one startup looking to pave a path to success by designing a better battery for wireless speakers. Its Helium speaker charges in only five minutes, thanks to its supercapacitor. This energy storage capability allows the speaker to charge quickly, and then play at full volume for six hours, Blueshift claims, lasting about 500,000 charge cycles.
Turning to crowdfunding, Blueshift has already exceeded its $35,000 campaign goal. Today we hear from Blueshift founder and head designer Sam Beck, who began by building bike speakers. Here Beck details the reasons his team chose CrowdSupply over Kickstarter, the importance of open source tools in startup communities, and his speaker design process.
Why CrowdSupply over Kickstarter?
Sam Beck, Blueshift founder
Theyre local, so I was able to meet with them in person, and I got a great deal of support from them. They helped with public relations and marketing more than what I wouldve been able to do on my own.
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For Blueshift, whats the role of open source?
Its been really helpful so far, probably five or six electrical engineers have looked at the project and offered feedback. I have a couple guys helping with final round for revisions before our speaker goes out to production. Its been amazing to see how willing people are to help out.
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What we did right was something different and honest. Blueshift founder on wireless speaker design
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga.
Sandy Springs police say what officers initially thought might be a meth lab behind a home, was in fact a moonshine operation.
Police told Channel 2s Mike Petchenik they were called to a home on Windsor Parkway this week after the property owner discovered the unusual setup.
There was a pressure cooker, copper wiring, said Sgt. Ron Momon.Upon further verification it was determined to be a moonshining operation.
Momon said police believe whomever was distilling the homemade cider was making about a gallon of it a week.
Its actually a felony in the state of Georgia, he said. At this point we dont have any evidence, any leads. Only thing we have is the cooking operation.
Neighbors told Petchenik that they were surprised to hear about the found firewater.
I think its fantastic, said Guy Tucker.The mountains have come down to the city and its great to blend the two.
Neighbor Jack Byrd said he was disappointed to hear police had destroyed the distillery.
No samples? he asked. The whole neighborhood could have gotten happy.
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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Yasiel Puig was scratched from the starting lineup after arriving late for the Los Angeles Dodgers' home opener on Friday.
The rest of the team was already on the field stretching before batting practice while Puig was getting dressed in the clubhouse. He had been slated to start in right field for the afternoon game against the San Francisco Giants, who beat the Dodgers 8-4.
"I'm sincerely sorry," Puig said through a translator after the game, explaining that he didn't realize stretching and batting practice would be held so early with a 1 p.m. start.
Puig said he apologized to manager Don Mattingly and his teammates, and they accepted.
"They felt it was OK when I owned up to it and apologized," he said. "I felt bad I wasn't out there playing for all the fans."
Instead, Matt Kemp replaced Puig in the lineup after manager Don Mattingly had earlier said Kemp wouldn't start. Kemp came off the disabled list on Friday after rehabilitating from left ankle and shoulder operations. He was limited to 279 games during the last two seasons because of injuries.
Puig, last year's runner-up for NL Rookie of the Year, was 5 for 20 through his first five games of the season. He wasn't used as a pinch-hitter because Mattingly said the situation didn't call for it. The Dodgers trailed 8-0 after two innings.
Mattingly downplayed Puig's mistake.
"He truly felt bad," the manager said. "You can tell by his body language; he doesn't hide things well."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - This spring will look less leafy at 39th and Genessee streets.
Blame the need for Internet speed.
A crew, hired by Google Inc. to make way for the companys overhead fiber optic lines, transformed the neighborhood ginkgo trees into tall stumps one morning last summer.
They butchered em, just butchered em, said Ted Larkin, the owner of three buildings in the neighborhood.
Complaints would ultimately prompt the removal of what was left of the trees, replaced with saplings needing decades to produce the same shade. Those in the neighborhood notice the difference.
Technology, said Jim Svetlecic of State of the Art picture frame shop, is not painless.
Once Google Fiber fully wires Kansas City with its light-speed-to-the-home Internet network, no other American market its size will boast such broad, broad broadband.
To get there, the Google Fiber technicolor bunny is tree-trimming, jackhammering and trenching its way across the area to hoist, bury and stretch a network of fiber optic lines that zig-zags - so far - for nearly 6,000 miles.
On a given day, city officials say, about 1,000 workers for private companies scatter across the market to climb utility poles, string cables through buried conduit or lace lines into crawl spaces to stitch together Googles network.
Sometimes their work leaves beloved trees denuded. Other times, crews clip electrical, telephone, cable or natural gas lines. On occasion, people nearby have had to clear out of homes or offices when gas leaks were triggered.
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Wiring cities for Google Fiber not always pretty
Spring is a popular time to start renovating your home. Some projects you look forward to, but others you don't yet they still need to be done. Angie Hicks, the creator of the Angie's List website, says, "Unfortunately, there are projects that have to be done around your house that you are never going to talk to other people about like updating wiring, replacing your roof. They are not fun and exciting, but if you don't do these things it's really going to hinder the value of your home and its resale value." Here are three home projects you should never avoid. One, repairing the foundation. Get that slow-growing crack up the wall checked out before it's too late. Two, removing mold. Failure to remove it can cause health problems. Make sure to hire a remediation company that finds the source of the mold. Three, update electrical wiring. Rewiring a home or modernizing an aging electrical system is not cheap, but you'll sleep better knowing there's a decreased risk of fire. Angie's List says spending money on needed projects can be painful, especially when you don't have an emergency fund. Financial planners recommend tucking away at least $5,000 for these types of situations. If you don't have an emergency fund, start small. Have a portion of each paycheck automatically deposited into a savings account.
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The average home broadband ISP download speeds for the largest seven Internet access providers in the United Kingdom managed to reach 20.94Mbps in March 2014, while uploads hit 4.79Mbps. As usual BT and Virgin Media continued to hold the top spots for downstream performance.
Its very important to highlight that theres been a big change this month because weve decided to experiment byusing Ooklas data from Speedtest.net for our monthly summaries. In the future this will allow us to expand and cover more ISPs but for this month well retain a little consistency by focusing upon only the largest mainstream providers (TOP 10), although for a comparison weve added Zen Internet into the mix.
Top7 Big UK ISPs Average Download Speed (Megabits per second) 1. Virgin Media 42.60Mbps 2. BT 25.41Mbps 3. PlusNet 21.16Mbps 4. Zen Internet 20.15Mbps 5. TalkTalk 12.65Mbps 6. Sky Broadband 12.38Mbps 7. EE 12.27Mbps
Top7 Big UK ISPs Average Upload Speed 1. BT 7.44Mbps 2. PlusNet 6.51Mbps 3. Zen Internet 6.15Mbps 4. Virgin Media 4.91Mbps 5. Sky Broadband 3.29Mbps 6. EE (Orange) 2.94Mbps 7. TalkTalk 2.29Mbps
Please take anecdotal data like this with a big pinch of salt. Every home is different and performance can be affected by all sorts of issues, many of which are beyond the ISPs ability to control (e.g. slow wifi or poor home wiring). We do not consider the above data to be a reliable barometer for individual users but it can help to highlight general changes in the market.
In addition, Ooklas data attempts to reflect the fastest sustainable throughput performance by dropping a large chunk of the slowest and a smaller slice of the fastest results for each ISP. This may be useful for certain comparisons but it can also skew the results, especially since slower connections tend to exist in rural areas. The impact is most noticeable for upstream speeds, which we believe to be too high (we might not use their data for upstream in the future).
On top of that not everybody takes the fastest speed available from their ISP and the latest super-fast connections (FTTC, FTTP etc.) can have a disproportionate impact compared with the older and slower copper ADSL2+ lines etc.
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The UK Top 7 Fastest Big Fixed Line Home Broadband ISPs March 2014
Emma Shaw, 22, killed by 240 volts from stopcock made live in building blunder but mother Diane Potter brands negligent supervisor's punishment a 'joke'
The mother of a young woman electrocuted by faulty wiring during a flood at her home has told of her fury after the worker responsible was fined just 1,000.
Mum-of-one Emma Shaw, 22, died when she was hit by 240 volts from a stopcock that had become live because of a building blunder. Her one-year-old son Brayden was playing in the lounge when she collapsed
Negligent Neil Hoult, 53, was handed the fine after being found guilty of breaching health and safety rules.
But Emma's mum Diane Potter branded the punishment a joke. She said: I am so very disappointed. It just does not seem right to fine someone only 1,000 for such a terrible thing.
That is a very small price to pay for a death. It has been over six years since I lost Emma and I havent really been able to grieve. But now at last I have closure.
Emma was killed while dealing with a leak from a boiler at her flat, in West Bromwich, West Mids.
She was trying to turn off the stopcock when she was hit by the fatal shock. Investigators found the tap had become live after a screw penetrated an electric cable during construction work at her home.
Hoult, of nearby Rowley Regis, approved and issued a certificate ruling the electrical installations were safe and did not pose any danger.
Emma was found dead in a storage room by her partner Andrew Cross. He had rushed home from work after she sent frantic text messages about a pipe which had fallen off. She told him "the electrics were sparking".
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(ANGIE'S LIST) - When it comes to home improvement, we'd all like to spend our money on nice projects transforming the master bath into one that belongs in a hotel suite or turning the backyard into an outdoor oasis that rivals the finest resorts.
But chances are, you'll have to spend some big bucks on unglamorous maintenance projects. While you won't want to show these projects off to the neighbors, they will keep your home healthy.
Homeowner Robyn Meslin isn't posting pictures of her latest home improvement project on Facebook or Pinterest.
After discovering her home's previous owner had done of lot of electrical work himself, she had to call in a professional.
"The basement was pretty much a nightmare. He had finished it himself so there were open electrical boxes down there, switches that didn't turn on and off, anything that we could figure out," says Meslin.
As Meslin knows, home ownership is unpredictable.
Angie Hicks from Angie's List says,"Unfortunately, there are projects that have to be done around your house that you are never going to talk to other people about updating wiring, replacing your roof these are the kind of things that are required to keep your house in good condition, but they are not fun and exciting, but if you don't do these things it's really going to hinder the value of your home and it's resale value."
Here are three unsexy home projects you should never avoid.
One, repairing the foundation.