Home improvement: How to make your Tahoe home a ‘smart home'

LAKE TAHOE — With the growing number of options for flooring, woodwork, custom cabinetry, granite, lighting, and dozens of other choices during the building pro cess, it is easy to forget the role that low voltage wiring and electronics will play in the home.

Secret Places: Control room can monitor 9440 miles of transmission lines - Capital Times (blog)

Secret Places: Control room can monitor 9440 miles of transmission lines Capital Times (blog) And spread across the walls, giant movie theater-like screens that are covered with electrical diagrams — the grid. The diagrams look like wiring schematics for your house gone wild and dwarf anyone standing in front of them. and more »

For trademark licensors, quality-control provisions can prove risky - The National Law Journal

For trademark licensors, quality-control provisions can prove risky The National Law Journal See, eg, Digital Theater Systems Inc. v. Mintek Digital Inc., 71 USPQ2d (BNA) 1448 (CD Calif. 2004). As discussed in Digital Theater, it does not matter whether a third-party product is of equal quality to the trademark owner's goods; rather, ...

Eastern Shore school columns for week ending Jan. 27 - Press-Register - al.com (blog)

Eastern Shore school columns for week ending Jan. 27 Press-Register - al.com (blog) Can you light a bulb using a battery, wire and a bulb? Newton's fourth graders can. Fourth graders are completing a unit on electricity to learn about conductors, insulators, series and parallel circuits. We will end our unit by constructing and wiring ... and more »