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Capitol Heights, MD (PRWEB) October 06, 2014

The colors of the leaves are changing; pumpkin spice flavoring is available anywhere; and a cool, crisp breeze is beginning to blow. Yes, fall may be here, but Capitol Heights, Maryland-based company Long Fence wants homeowners to know that there's still plenty of time to enjoy the outdoors.

"October is the best time for last minute outdoor projects," says Brett Crouse, of http://longfence.com.

Taking care of outdoor projects now, while the weather is still enjoyable, means having less work to do come the spring. As Crouse explains, "Families will have more time to enjoy their decks and patios in the spring without having to worry about getting these jobs done when the snow melts. Families can get right into entertaining guests."

Long Fence offers paver patios with fire pit options, which allow families to enjoy the outdoors while staying warm on their patios. Paver products come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. Composite deck materials are also a low maintenance option when a deck is needed. These materials require less maintenance than a traditional wood deck.

Long Fence can install high-quality, outdoor products year round that can be enjoyed during the cooler months of fall. Says Crouse: "We are a very well-branded company, we've been offering and installing quality products for 70 year."

Family owned and operated since 1945, Long Fence has grown to be the industry leader in the residential and commercial fence industry. The company has four locations that service both the metro DC and Baltimore areas with offices in Capitol Heights, Maryland, Odenton, Maryland, Frederick, Maryland, and Chantilly, Virginia.

With the perfect time to accomplish last minute outdoor projects just around the bend, Long Fence is offering both new and returning customers a 20% discount on all their quality products.

About Long Fence

Long Fence offers outdoor solutions for a wide range of residential clients, businesses and industries. Since 1945, theyve specialized in the highest quality products at competitive prices. To learn more about their wide selection of quality products visit http://www.longfence.com.

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Businesswoman Kesia Estwick wants to bring peace and happiness to your home. Through her relatively young business, My Zen, she intends do just that with unique pieces.

Known more as a fashion designer whose Kiss The Girl line has graced international catwalks, she is using her talents to create throw cushions, accent pillows, plant pots, candles, curtains and bed linens.

She told the BARBADOS BUSINESS AUTHORITY she always wanted to get into interior decorating and given the clothing line was seasonal in nature and sales were slowing down, now was as good a time as any to step assertively into this aspect of her business.

My Zen is very young; I started earlier this year. It is always something I wanted to do, even before I got into fashion designing. I just like to use my hands cooking fashion designing. It started as just a hobby while I was doing Kiss. I started during the down period, Estwick said.

She will not be giving up the fashion designing though, as she explained that is still a main source of income. However, she said that even though she has her regular customers, this summer was slower than last year.

It was in February this year that she exhibited some of the products in her line at Girlfriends Expo.

There was a good response. People were interested, including a wedding planner. I would say there was a really good response, she added.

Since then she has done throw pillows, accent cushions and floral arrangements for clients. The flowers were made from scratch using wood for stems and fabric for the flower petals. It was harder to create the petals, she said, as she explained the process, but she got it done.

With less than 90 days until Christmas, the businesswoman is optimistic about offering her home accents to a number of clients.

The plant pots will be up-cycled, with her using regular pots and applying the papier mch technique to give them a unique look. The candles will also be different as will be bed linens. Everything she makes will be branded My Zen.

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ANAHEIM, CA -- Parex USA, Inc., the parent company of leading building material brands; Merkrete, Parex, Teifs, LaHabra and El Rey, announced the launch of Merkrete Pro Patch All-in-One, a fast setting, polymer modified patching compound specifically formulated as an embossing leveler for the finishing and smoothing of interior subfloors.

Pro Patch All-In-One was specifically formulated to smooth and finish substrates prior to the installation of luxury vinyl tiles, vinyl sheet goods and vinyl composition tile (VCT). It can also be used prior to the installation of carpet and glued-down floor coverings, ceramic tile and stone.

"Pro Patch All-In-One sets Merkrete apart from traditional products in the market place because it is the first patching compound that does not require extra additives, like a latex emulsion, for applications over existing vinyl. The polymer is already incorporated into the product to promote the bonding between the patching compound and the subfloor, and only the addition of water is necessary when using Pro Patch All-in-One," says Luciano Tavares, Brand Manager for Merkrete.

Merkrete Pro Patch All-In-One complements Merkrete's portfolio of surface preparation products which also includes Pro Patch Plus, Pro Patch XF, Underlayments (C, L and RS) and self leveling compounds (SLU and SLU Gold).

For more information, please visit http://www.merkrete.com.

About Merkrete For over forty years, Merkrete has been dedicated to providing architects, contractors and building owners with the most uniquely diversified and innovative product line in the industry. Merkrete has successfully supplied the building industry with over one billion square feet of tile and stone installation systems backed by our extended warranty programs. From surface preparation and waterproofing, to a complete line of tile installation systems, Merkrete makes it all possible.

About Parex USA Parex USA, Inc., a California Corporation, is a subsidiary of the ParexGroup, one of the world's leading manufacturers of specialty chemicals and ready-to-use mortars for the construction industry. With over 61 manufacturing sites and 9 R&D centers in 21 countries, the ParexGroup employs more than 3,550 industry professionals who are the corner stone of this thriving global organization. For more information regarding Parex USA, Inc. visit http://www.parexusa.com.

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About two dozen entrepreneurs in the legal marijuana trade came to west Houston Monday to pitch their products and services to local investors.

"We're all here for return on investment," said Tim Clark of Florida-based Modulux Lighting, which sells LED systems that he says boost yields while cutting electricity costs.

The head of another lighting company, Colorado-based BrightSpace, cited a university study showing $6 billion is spent annually growing indoor marijuana. Joseph DiMasi said electricity costs for indoor growing lighting and heat removal can make up a third of the final wholesale cost of a product.

Tony Alfiere, founder of Ripley's Formula, like many of those pitching their products today, also does not "touch" the plant. Ripley's makes a syrup that is sold to producers who bottle and sell cannabis-based drinks.

"We are the Coca-Cola of cannabis," he said.

Other presenters include Houston Amanda Gross, who plans to open a cultivation center in Los Angeles County, Calif., and a pair of Rice University-educated scientists who are starting a testing company.

Douglas Leighton, managing director of Massachusetts investment firm Dutchess Capital, which is underwriting the investors conference, told the Chronicle last month that the profit potential for those who get into the business early is enormous. He pegged the existing market for legal marijuana in the U.S. at $1.4 billion annually. The national black market, by comparison, is upward of $50 billion.

Dutchess Capital, founded in 1996, has invested in companies across the spectrum, from health care to homeland security. Leighton said managers began doing due diligence on the prospects for a fund to invest in marijuana-related businesses in November 2012, when a medical marijuana initiative passed in Massachusetts.

The firm made its first investment last summer and now has 11 companies in its portfolio. One produces edible marijuana products; another developed a social media website for cannabis enthusiasts. Others include a branding company, a consultancy that helps license applicants navigate the bureaucracy and a company that makes THC-infused personal lubricants for women.

With more medical marijuana votes coming up this year, a majority of states could soon allow some form of legal pot. Currently, 23 states do so. A majority of public opinion has already swung in favor of legalization, as a Gallup poll found last fall.

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Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the 89-year-old former chairman of American International Group,wantsnothing morehis constitutional rights.Yes, he is suing the government, claiming that it had no authorityto bail outhis old company inthe financial crisis, insistingthat AIGdidn't need to be rescued anyway, and demanding thattaxpayers pay him and other shareholdersabout $40 billion. It's not about the money, though,he told Charlie Rose last year.

"We have a Constitution that says government cant take property without compensation," Greenberg said.

Presumably, the federal officials who orchestrated the rescue--including former Federal Reserve ChairmanBen Bernanke, former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson, and former New York Fed president Tim Geithner,all of whom will be called to testify at this week's trial -- would respondthat Greenberg received more than just compensation for shares of AIG that had become essentially worthless.

That was the argument Paulson made on the standon Monday. He also said, as he has previously, that AIG's shareholders had to bepenalized to discourage other firms from making risky bets in the future.

"When companies fail, shareholders bear the losses," Paulson said. "It's just the way our system is supposed to work."

He was dismissed after just two hours of testimony, although he'd been scheduled for six. Geithner is set to testify Tuesday and Bernanke later this week.

Manylawyers are skeptical of Greenberg's case. But whatever the ruling, he has arguably already won an important victory by bringingthe architectsof the bailout to a courtroom to answer questions about their actions.Greenberg filed suitin 2011;his lawyers only deposed Bernanke earlier this year, after government lawyers couldn't gethim off the hook.

Six years after the crisis, Bernanke, Paulson and Geithnerwill be forcedto defend theirstrategy of bailing outmajor financial institutions -- a strategy that has caused deep resentmenteven thoughthey saidtheir goal wasto savethe economy. The men havemade their casealready, in memoirs and in Congressional testimony, but now, theymust submit toadetailedcross examination under oath.

The casecouldmarktheculmination of a long national debate about how federal authoritiesreactedduringthe crash.

Giventhe nation's uneven economic recovery, thethree officials'decisions at the time remain controversial -- and not just among wealthy insurance magnates.

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But first, I went to Mavericks thinking that both the show and the aforementioned birthday girl with her boyfriend Kyle in tow would be there. A quick text message to her confirmed that they were not although I was told that night afterwards once I'd left that Norwegian progressive metallers LEPROUS rocked the fuck outta that stage. If only they had been the co-headliners that night at the Ritual instead of noisy upstate New York alternative hardcore (seriously?) upstarts STRAY FROM THE PATH who, despite their ominous name moniker, sounded a bit too comfortable in keeping to their tried and true ways. It's likely I've officially become old and out of touch with the hardcore scene as far as the new breed are concerned. Or maybe STRAY FROM THE PATH just came off as very run-of-the-mill and pandering to pretty much every trick in the gospel of Harley Flanagan during their performance. I'm guessing both as even Julie and Kyle (both of whom are younger than me by about a decade) watched their set with the baited anticipation of undergoing a root canal without anesthesia. We tried to get into it but it was futile. Randy Blythe and Jamey Jasta conducted and commanded far better circle pits mostly because their respected bands actually had more than two songs that sounded different. Wayne Coyne at least makes his stage dives interesting by performing in a life-size transparent beach ball as he literally rolls atop the audience. Even JOURNEY's Arnel Pineda can handle a very close interaction with the crowd with style and last I checked, his band's music doesn't exactly conjure up images of mosh pits. In comparison, STRAY FROM THE PATH only made me want to stray towards the nearest bar for seconds and thirds.

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"That set was fuckin' sick!" - Kyle, sarcastically

"I know I felt violently ill having watched it." - Myself

"I promise you...the next band doesn't suck!" - Julie

I was ready to doubt Julie's word upon having seen the aforementioned co-headliners put in about 30 minutes of average-sounding *ahem* alternative hardcore, which is perhaps the most dumbest musical genre classification label ever conceived next to djent which thankfully nobody even uses anymore in casual conversation. Luckily headliners ARCHITECTS were able to back up Julie's claim once they took to the stage and belted out their opening number "Gravedigger". At times, their mixed musical buffet of progressive metal, metalcore, mathcore and even traces of djent seemed to be all over the place no matter how hard the band tried to reel it all together, but by the third number, "Alpha Omega", they were sounding more cohesive and tight. Musically, ARCHITECTS have a lot more going on for them as their own blend of progressive as well as aggressive heavy leanings thanks to the pummeling low-end guitar work of Tom Searle and the equally heavy-sounding yet melodic vocals of frontman Sam Carter drew lots of comparisons (at least to me anyways) to many of the purveyors of the Gothenberg metal scene; being a British band and all, the influences are more geographically accessible. Sam Carter practically channels Peter Dolving's early years in THE HAUNTED on tracks like "Colony Collapse" and "Devil's Island" and the rhythm section comprised of drummer Dan "Twin Brother Of Tom" Searle and bassist Alex Dean harkens towards lots of AT THE GATES influences on tracks such as "The Devil Is Near" and "Early Grave". They do lay on the mathcore influences pretty thick but when your band name is ARCHITECTS you're clearly indicating that you're proverbially building up a solid and sturdy base in your sound before rounding off the finished result with an indelible signature which allows your work to stand out. At least that was what the band was striving for initially. I liked their set because they really did remind me of THE HAUNTED in parts. And maybe PERIPHERY, too. Anything, really, as long as the final design in ARCHITECTS' blueprint didn't involve sounding like alternative hardcore. They still could've benefited somewhat from having LEPROUS as their opening band in my opinion though. But ARCHITECTS' latest disc Lost Forever//Lost Together sounds like they gave their competition a run for their money some time ago anyway.

And speaking of running, I continued my fitness routine by hanging out with the band members at their after-show party at the Ritual's dance lounge where a few of the members had already commandeered the DJ booth and were greeting its legions of local fans. It was their second time in Ottawa having played Mavericks just a few months prior but it looked like the second time around ARCHITECTS were building even more momentum. The constant touring is working as the band had wrapped up a tour of Japan, Australia and New Zealand before lining up their North American tour dates of which already half have been honored so far.

And on the day of the Canada Army Run, I covered a total of 2 hours and 13 minutes in my age category doing the 21 K. Not bad for a first try.

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BAY ST. LOUIS The new owners of the brick facade building at 111 Main St. will enhance the retail space on one side, open a coastal bistro on the other and rebrand the new development as The Shops at Magnolia Alley. Also in the plans is construction of exclusive apartments behind the building.

The Parrish family, who took over ownership last week, chose the name in honor of the Magnolia State Lumber Supply business that occupied the building from 1937 to the 1980s. The Phillips family created four retail spaces as part of the buildings post-Katrina makeover in 2008.

The current tenants Uptown Interiors, Bay Breeze, Biz-Zee Bee and Gourmet Galley all will remain under the new ownership.

Pass Christian architect Leah Watters is creating the Alley of Magnolia Alley on the side of the building where Uptown Interiors is. A new open air entrance off Main Street will lead to two side-by-side retail spaces running the length of the building, with a secure gated entry leading to the lobby of the planned three-story luxury apartments.

The two retail spots in the middle of the building where Gourmet Galley and Biz-Zee Bee are will be unchanged.

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