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The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs on Wednesday cited 68 home improvement contractors, including 12 from Bergen and Passaic counties, for $1.3 million in penalties and consumer compensation for violations of consumer protection laws, according to a release by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

All of the contractors also were cited for violations of New Jersey's Contractor's Registration Act. Such violations include failure to provide consumers with detailed written contracts for projects costing more than $500.

"With this action we are demanding more than $1 million in restitution for consumers who paid for work that allegedly was never finished," acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman said in the release. "We also are giving these contractors the opportunity to come into compliance with the law, and reminding New Jersey consumers to protect themselves by conducting basic research before hiring a contractor."

The 12 North Jersey contractors cited are A1 Safeguard LLC in Pompton Plains; Air Force One N.J. LLC in Oak Ridge; Do It Right Chimney in Wayne; Durango Travertine Limited Liability Co. in Ridgefield; Flash Painting Inc. in Paterson; Home Care in Oakland; Medina Floors and Construction Inc. in Palisades Park; Mountain Top Maintenance in Haledon; A&E Improvements LLC in North Bergen; Accomplished Chimney Inc. in North Haledon; Agnello Construction LLC in Mahwah; and Keith's Contracting in North Haledon.

Of the 68 companies cited, 44 were penalized for operating without being registered as home improvement contractors in New Jersey.

In 2013, the Division of Consumer Affairs received 1,434 consumer complaints about home improvement contractors. It was the largest consumer complaint category last year.

New Jersey law requires that all individuals or businesses who either solicit or perform home improvement work or both must obtain registration from the Division of Consumer Affairs. The registration application requires demonstration that the contractor has a legitimate street address and at least $500,000 in liability insurance.

For home improvement projects costing more than $500, the contractor must provide the consumer with a written contract with specific, detailed information, including the project's agreed-upon price; the starting and ending dates; the scope of work; the contractor's business name, address and registration number, and other required information.

Each of the contractors receiving a notice of violation has the opportunity to contest the assertion that he or she has violated the law.

Violators of the Contractors' Registration Act are subject to civil penalties of up to $10,000 for the first violation, and up to $20,000 for subsequent violations.

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Kirkland, Washington (PRWEB) July 17, 2014

Washington Commercial Painters, (WCP) a Seattle area-based painting contractor, was the recent recipient of an Excellence in Construction Award from the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. for their extraordinary transformation of the 90,000 square foot Seattle Coast Guard facility.

The facility located on the Seattle waterfront at pier 36 was in desperate need of cleaning and restoration, with concerns about potential health risks to Coast Guard members due to the buildings condition. Built in 1943, the building is home to the Coast Guard's administrative offices, armory, and gym, and contains a soaring metal-trussed ceiling sloping upward to clerestory windows, portions of which had become covered with layers of dust and pigeon guano. Exacerbating WCPs task of cleaning and painting the facility were the presence of asbestos ceiling tiles, flaking lead paint on the steel trusses and siding, and maintaining a safe work environment for its own workers and the Coast Guard members occupying the building.

Washington Commercial Painters readily accepted the challenges of the project. Says Washington Commercial Painters founder John Noble, We were excited by the unique challenges of this job. We were confident our experience and commitment to safety would result in a clean and revitalized facility for Seattle Coast Guard.

To accomplish this complex job, WCP first created platforms to reach the upper portions of the building, and then encapsulated each area as a Class 1 and Class 2 hazardous zone. The containment was accomplished using 9 mm thick shrink wrap to seal the areas, and then negative air pressure was used to prevent the escape of any contaminate particles. Safety-suited WCP workers then broom cleaned the asbestos ceiling tiles and coated them with a multi-surface acrylic paint. To protect the ceiling tiles when sandblasting the nearby trusses, rigid cardboard sheets sealed with duct tape were used to cover the ceiling tiles to prevent their disruption.

To clean and rid the structure of the flaking hazardous lead paint, WCP sand blasted the areas using an additive to stabilize the lead paint to ensure its classification as non-hazardous waste. 176 tons of materials, along with 2,812 pieces of cardboard, were taken to a recycling facility during the project. The project took over 11 months and 11,225 man-hours to complete. In total, 3,275 gallons of new industrial surface acrylic coating were applied. Says John Nobles, We are very proud of the Excellence in Construction Award. Despite the challenges of the work environment and lengthy job, we were pleased to complete the project with a perfect safety record and deliver a bright, clean, and safe environment for the men and women of the Seattle Coast Guard.

About Washington Commercial Painters:

Based on a tradition of quality craftsmanship and commitment to service, Washington Commercial Painters provides quality painting services. As part of our organizational goal to be the key creator of quality environments in the United States, we partnered with Turman Commercial Painters and established Oregon Commercial Painters. Through these affiliations, our organization provides an array of first class commercial painting services across the Nation.

For more information see: http://www.wa-cp.com.

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Participating in summer's classic outdoor pastimesfrom tennis to golfis as much a rite of the season as cookouts, fireworks, and sleepaway camp. A portfolio of aerial photographs offers an arresting perspective on our nation's sporting life as it's played out across the landscape.

Manchester, New Hampshire

The fuzzy yellow blur of the ball, the guitar-like chord it makes as it thwacks against the racket, the whirl of slices, serves, and volleysthere are few more exhilarating ways to while away a summer afternoon than on the tennis court. Though its origins as a jeu de paume hark back to the Middle Ages, tennis arrived in America in 1874, springing up on the manicured lawns of the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club. Today there are almost 300,000 courts in the country, and the most famous of them all is at New York Citys Arthur Ashe Stadium, where the worlds top tennis seeds descend every August to spar over sets at the U.S. Open, a 15-day affair that marks the end of summerand, in many years, the birth of a new star.

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Riding on the rollicking swells of the tide is quite the rush: You hear the luff of the sails, feel the whip of the wind, taste the salty bite of the spray. From San Francisco Bay to the Great Lakes, more than 16 million recreational boats line the docks of our nations harbors and coastal marinas, and no wonder: Americans have always loved taking to the sea. Indeed, competitive sailing in this country can be traced back to 1851, when eight yachtsmen representing the New York Yacht Club first raced in a regatta that would become known as the Americas Cup (and whose trophy is the oldest in international sports). A fleet of wing-sail catamarans manned by the worlds best crews still compete every three to five years in the 15-day race, making for what is doubtless the most magnificent yachting spectacle.

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Splashes of bright turquoise (imagine Hockneys aquamarine acrylics), the reverb of the diving board, the smell of melting Coppertone: When the mercury rises, the swimming pool is an elixir for summers sweltering heat. Americas first municipal pool, the Cabot Street Bath, opened its doors in Boston in 1868and soon the natatorium evolved into ever-splashier structures, with artificial beaches of hauled-in sand surrounding one and majestic bathing pavilions another. After World War II, these grand arenas gave way to the backyard swimming poolwhich became a symbol of status in suburban Arcadia, thanks to MGMs 1952 aqua-musical Million Dollar Mermaid. How much do we love our pools? A great deal, it turns out: There are 10.4 million private plungesand 309,000 public poolsto cool off in across the country.

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From the rolling fairway to the putting green, the golf course is a maze of sloping hills, grassy roughs, sand traps, and loblolly pines. Though 96 golf clubs and 432 balls arrived in South Carolina from Scotland in 1743, it wasnt until 1888 that the sport really took off stateside with the establishment of the countrys oldest continuously operating club: the St. Andrews Golf Club, in Greenburgh, New York. From Pinehurst to Pebble Beach, America is home to 14,564 courseseach with its own unique mix of 18 holes, from the tropical (like the Prince Course at the Princeville Resort in Kauai, where the seventh hole affords views of the deep-blue surf breaking off Anini Beach and the heady scent of plumeria) to the impossible (like the legendary island green on the seventeenth at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida).

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Philip Johnson's influence on architecture during the 20th century is impossible to overstate. He brought Ludwig Mies van der Rohe into the American consciousness, he became one of the most famous practitioners of the International Style (then angered and confused critics with an abrupt mid-career shift into Post-Modernism), and he created one of the best-known private homes in the last 100 years. His brand of glass-and-steel architectureand his bespectacled appearanceare familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in buildings and the people who design them.

Still, even given his great fame and exhaustively documented life, it might be surprising to learn that the designer of the Glass House and Manhattan's AT&T Building considered himself an architect of the landscape as well as one of glass cathedrals and columned performance spaces, once stating that for him, architecture and landscape architecture were "one art.

For an architect like Frank Lloyd Wright, whose philosophy of organic architecture led him to build some of his most famous designs literally into the landscape, that kind of statement would make sense as a logical extension of his famous quote on the relationship between a house and its land: "No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."

For someone like Johnson, though, with his Modernist background, iconoclastic bent, and love of glass-and-steel construction, the sentiment either reflects an unexpected facet of the architect's sensibility, a deliberate provocation, or both.

Photo via The Glass House

Johnson surely was somewhat influenced by the rural Ohio landscapes of his youth, but beyond that there's little to suggest a deep-seated love of nature seeking expression in landscape architecture. The fact that he did not start his architectural career until well into his 30s, combined with his wide-ranging lifelong interests in philosophy, music, and the visual arts, seem the hallmarks of a young man who struggled to find an appropriate outlet for his restless, energetic intellect (a search that perhaps led tobut does not excusehis troubling involvement with Nazism), and who gratefully threw himself into his avocation as soon as he stumbled upon it. It would seem that he'd have little energy left to devote to the landscape as a design form.

But if the man himself believed he was a landscape architect, then maybe it's best to take him at his word. After all, under the broad Wikipedia definition of the discipline, which states that "landscape architecture is the design of outdoor public areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes," he does squeak in. So perhaps the question that should be asked is not "Was he a landscape architect" but rather "Did he have any aptitude at all for it?"

To answer that question, it's probably best to start with a look at what is inarguably his most successful created landscape, the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.

Glass House site plan via The Glass House

Constructed in 1949, the heavily Mies-influenced Glass House was designed to serve as Johnson's personal residence and, just as importantly, as a way of trolling the traditionalists like Wright, who, upon entering the house for the first time, sniped, "Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?" Sited on what was then a lot of five acres, amid the ruins of old farmhouses, the home and its glass walls would come to preside over the many changes Johnson swept over the landscape as the estate expanded to 47 acres and 14 buildings over the years.

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It was expected that the fabulous Tour de France would inspire Yorkshire folk to dust down their bikes and take up cycling. But it wasnt expected to provide inspiration for a room scheme at a brand new homes development!

Yorkshire based interior designer Jeanette Holmes is currently working on the interior scheme for Miller Homes latest show home at its new development; Quercus Green at Harrogate.

Tour de France fever has been fantastic for weeks in Yorkshire and culminated spectacularly when the race got underway, said Jeanette. It seemed a perfect tribute to mark the occasion in our lovely show home and was a perfect way to show prospective buyers how they can incorporate hobbies and interests into room schemes with taste and simplicity.

The four bedroom show home has incorporated the popular vintage theme throughout its rooms and this is reflected in the cycling inspired guest room. There are bike patterned soft furnishings, old fashioned bike wall prints and a few modern day pieces of cycling memorabilia too.

Its been a real pleasure creating a vintage inspired show home and reflecting our counties pride at hosting such an iconic sporting event, said Jeanette. It was an important part of Yorkshires history and now it can form part of Miller Homes too.

There will be 74, three, four and five bedroom homes built Quercus Green, located on Bogs Lane, Harrogate, HG1 4EB. The sales centre is open Thursday Monday, 10.30am to 5.30pm. The team can be contacted on 0808 278 6074 alternatively, further information can be found at http://www.millerhomes.co.uk.

Miller Homes is also opening its Harlow One development in the town later this summer.

Picture Caption: Jeanette Holmes - Interior designer for Miller Homes showcases her inspiration together with Beth McDonagh, sales adviser at Quercus Green

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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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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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