Flexibility & Experience Make Frias & Daisy, LLP Northern Virginia’s Premiere Business Law Firm

Navigating the complexities of business law on your own can be an intimidating prospect. Simply starting a business can be difficult enough (Should I incorporate? What’s an LLC? Or would an S-Corp be better suited to my needs?), and if you’re dealing with shareholders, venture capital, or government contracts, you definitely want to make sure that your business and your assets are protected.

There are many law firms throughout Northern Virginia that specialize in one aspect or another of general business law, but if you’re in need of a well-rounded boutique firm that handles everything from government contract law to construction law, government compliance and even estate planning, the experienced counsel of Frias & Daisy LLP are prepared to help.

Borne from the need for affordable and knowledgeable legal services specifically catered to Northern Virginia businesses (especially those contracted by the federal government), Frias & Daisy’s business contract and business law attorneys have the flexibility to meet the varying legal needs of your business.

In addition to assisting local Northern Virginia business owners with their business law requirements, Frias & Daisy also specializes in government contracting law. From bidding to contract completion and close-out, having professional and experienced legal counsel on your side can help assure that your project is completed smoothly.

Located in Reston, and serving the entire Northern Virginia region, Frias & Daisy’s team of business law, construction law and government compliance attorneys are standing by to assist your business.

Hunt Country Propane Provides Propane Delivery to Leesburg & Beyond

Do you own your propane tank? Did you even know that you might not? It’s not often talked about or realized, but most Leesburg propane customers don’t even own their own tank. During home construction, it’s a common practice that rather than purchase a propane tank, a contractor will accept a “free” tank from a propane company, with the caveat that the homeowner must then purchase all their propane from that supplier. It saves the contractor the expense of purchasing the tank, but none of those savings are passed on to families who end up stuck paying artificially inflated propane prices for years to come.

As a result of this practice, it’s not uncommon for a homeowner to be paying a much different price-per-gallon for propane than their neighbor, even if both tanks are owned and filled by the same propane company! Without needing to worry about competitors’ pricing, these propane companies can charge Leesburg residents practically any price they’d like. Even if you’ve “locked in” your pricing (through a company-offered “special deal”), how do you know how your price compares to other homes? What was the “special offer” presented to them?

Hunt Country Propane is a new, locally-owned Leesburg propane gas supplier determined to change the status quo when it comes to propane pricing. Put simply by Hunt Country Propane founder Dale Schulz, “Propane costs too much!”

Exposing the truth behind manipulative price gouging while offering a lower priced propane alternative to Leesburg residents is Hunt Country Propane’s mission. A membership with Hunt Country Propane includes many benefits, including honest & up-front pricing, online (or by phone) scheduling for propane delivery to Leesburg, and advice and assistance with buying your propane tank back from the company clutching it so tightly.

Offering propane delivery to Leesburg homes, businesses, farms, and even HOA’s, Hunt Country Propane is truly a propane company for the masses. Visit their website for more information about how you can take back control of filling your propane tank.

Local, Loudoun County ASL Interpreting & Sign Language Interpreting Services – HISsign

From hiring highly educated and capable employees to sourcing the best possible customers, clients and contracts, Loudoun County businesses strive on a daily basis to better themselves and our community as a whole. But what do you do when this quest for the best leads you to an interaction with a disabled individual? How do you assure that everyone’s needs are being met, while still doing what’s best for your business? State and federal laws mandate accessibility for those with physical impairments, but when it comes to the hearing impaired, companies often don’t know where to turn for ASL interpreting resources.

HISsign is a local company that delivers sign language interpreting services in Ashburn and to all of Loudoun County and other DC regions. From schools, hospitals, and local government offices to private businesses throughout the region, HISsign’s team of experienced ASL interpreters are available for short and long term interpreting assignments.

By providing top-quality ASL interpreting services, HISsign works each day to better the lives of deaf individuals, interpreters, and local Loudoun businesses alike. With 24-hour ASL interpreting services from HISsign, your business never needs to miss an opportunity again.

Creating a harmonious relationship between the Loudoun County deaf community, interpreters, and businesses is HISsign’s goal. Woman-owned, and with a staff that includes hard-of-hearing individuals, a PhD candidate interpreter, and with over 30 years of combined experience, HISsign’s sign language interpreters are invaluable to Loudoun businesses. Actively involved in the deaf community, HISsign participates in a number of outreach programs throughout the year designed to raise awareness and foster a sense of togetherness for deaf and hard-of-hearing Loudoun residents.

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In a new building security video released by Kastle Systems, the largest managed security services provider in the country, Piyush Soda (CEO) speaks to the new benchmarking indicators Kastle is developing to better assess facility security risks.

Energy efficiency ratings for office buildings and professional or educational facilities are governed by standard certification programs including LEEDS – but physical building or facility security risk assessments or provision of security coverage isn’t yet governed by standard performance measures.

In the new building and facility managed security services video, Mr. Soda explains that “Kastle is on the verge of launching a new set of standard performance indicators, that allows us to benchmark every building across our portfolio, from a risk assessment point of view. All of that information, when mined correctly, gives us a good indication of the risk associated with a particular building from a security perspective”.

Further emphasizing its commitment to developing standards-based security solutions, Kastle Systems recently participated in the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) demonstrations during ASIS 2012 on Tuesday, September 11. The demonstrations showcased how PSIA standards make it easier to build robust security solutions in which a wide variety of systems and devices easily share information and intelligence.

During the PSIA event, access control; intrusion detection; physical security information management; video cameras; storage and retrieval systems interoperated using PSIA (Physical Security Interoperability Standards) to carry out typical security functions. ” This demo marks another important step for the market towards openness and standards,” said Mohammad Soleimani, Kastle Systems Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer and PSIA Profile Compliance Working Group Chair. “It is our belief that these systems should be designed to work together — this demo represents our ability to manage more systems for our clients.”

Kastle System’s mission is described in the video to provide the most effective, efficient, and least intrusive managed security services and solutions along with the highest levels of customer service. J.D. Power and Associates in fact was hired to help measure the levels of managed security customer services across the entire company. The company is now completely integrated around this very important and noble cause, i.e. making the workplace a safer and more secure place without any intrusions on the part of the protective, monitoring systems or services.

From its origins offering basic access management capabilities and solutions to facility and building managers, to its newest solutions and managed service offerings including remote, virtual monitoring of any building or security devices and secure video cameras – Kastle Systems is the industry leader in high-performing, high quality and technologically advanced managed security services for all building and industry types.

How is a useful “return on investment” (ROI) regarding managed security services for buildings and facilities truly measured? This managed security solutions industry briefing explores the ROI topic and provides references for further professional information and advice.

Achieving an environment of safe, secure and productive employees or guests is both the strategic and tactical imperative of all facility managers. Whether your location is in a difficult area of town to monitor, your building is spread among diverse landscape features, or your visitor and guest movements are extremely unpredictable; building security managers are constantly planning, reviewing, implementing, analyzing and modifying all elements of the building security context. It’s an extremely challenging, constant and sometimes failure-prone exercise – to completely secure and safeguard a building’s occupants and assets. That’s why many facility managers turn for help to professional managed security services providers, who offer time-tested, proven best practices and tools for a holistic security system management solution.

Much like an “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) provider of computer technology and services offers to Internet businesses, managed security solutions for buildings and facilities offer a fully-vetted, tested and proven set of skills, methods and tools to completely mitigate all known facility security risks. Many building security risks may be known and unique to your own facility, but a national managed security services provider will also bring to bear thousands of “lessons learned” and risk avoidance experiences from their inventory of past or existing clients. This practice of leveraging a managed security service provider’s experience is increasingly common in the broad and complex discipline of building security management solutions, becoming as common as leveraging very experienced IT consultants for the scenarios they’ve tackled over hundred of clients with similar objectives.

As a prominent industry example, Kastle Systems Managed Security provides building and facility security managers a “Security as a Service” (SECaaS) capability – though not only as commonly defined by providing “security software system management and solutions as a service”, but also by providing “physical facility or building security management, skills, personnel expertise and training” as a service. In fact, many data centers actually do offer SECaaS that includes not only IT software and data protection, but also physical security design, technology and personnel protection as part of the facility itself. Kastle Systems provides security as a service through an extremely mature, proven and comprehensive set of managed security products and solutions specifically for buildings and facilities, including secure access control, video security, fire and life safety systems, intrusion detection and environmental control monitoring and reporting products.

A SECaaS approach to managing your building’s security plan and execution helps reduce and shift security-related risk and costs to an external provider, away from your internal staff and budget. Costs including personnel staffing, training, customized onsite systems and constant research and education for security policy and approach maturity are typically borne by your company or perhaps a standard property management firm (without adequate expertise in building security). A managed security services provider like Kastle Systems can design and operate a single facet of your security plan, or the entire scope of protective needs and objectives – whatever approach is most effective and mitigates the right scope of risk for your property.

Your return on investment (ROI) using an SECaaS approach for the critical elements of your building security management execution will be most quickly and easily measurable from a direct reduction in costs spent addressing out-of-date risks. Risks are typically measured by evaluating the “impact of loss” rating against the “vulnerability to threat” exposure, per given threat (i.e. natural, criminal, terrorist, accidental). Out-of-date risks are those that are no longer current (yet may still be monitored via expensive systems); for example the assets being protected have been fully depreciated or replaced (and are therefore no longer critical), or the threat being monitored is overcome by events (i.e. recent public construction has eliminated a flood or crowd access issue).

Managed building security ROI is also measured from a cost avoidance perspective – avoiding direct employee costs for constant retraining, keeping up with industry tools and developing new techniques for growing security threats. As well, the ROI will be expressed as an overall confidence, satisfaction and productivity factor experienced by your building managers, security staff, employees and visitors. This kind of “qualitative” ROI can be measured through employee or building occupant surveys or feedback, the overall improvement in building traffic and expected activity profiles, along with a decrease in security incidents and monitoring events.

For more information or guidance about how a managed building security system solution, implemented in a “Security as a Service” model, can comprehensively improve your facility, space or asset management ROI – contact a reputable, experienced national managed security services provider like Kastle Systems.

Here’s a quick Fall 2012 roundup of really interesting businesses in the Loudoun County and Northern Virginia supported by KME Internet Marketing and Fulcrum Marketing Group – local and regional businesses you’ve probably never heard about, with very unique, helpful products and services. This is a great time to write about them – waiting at Rebounderz trampoline park in Sterling, and headed towards a fun-filled fall weekend of @LoudounSoccer and the @NovaBrewfest!

Take a look, visit, or give them a call…

Ashburn sign language interpretation services and training at HIS Sign. HIS Sign is a full-service agency providing Ashburn with deaf interpreting services such as: In-Person Interpreting, Video Remote Interpreting, Sign Translation of Text, Oral Interpreting, Tactile Interpreting, Real-Time Captioning, ASL Classes, ADA Consulting. Truly a unique and important service for the regional deaf community.

Paxton Manor’s Shoktober features Leesburg VA’s only true haunted hause. Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night throughout the month of October, the Paxton Manor opens its doors to those who are brave enough to walk her halls and descend into the basement. There are three nightly haunts for you to explore: The Paxton Manor, The Funhouse, and The Haunted Well of Souls. For 90 years, the historic Paxton Campus has been providing underprivileged families and children with a safe environment. It is thier mission to support families and maximize the potential of children of all abilities so that they may thrive in the community.Under The Arc of Loudoun, a 501(c)3 organization, the Paxton Campus has opened a preschool and multiple programs to benefit families and individuals in our community.

Looking to organize that perfect family or business outing, party, festival, tour or other event in Loudoun County? Check with South Riding’s own Heidi Carlstadt at Forks, Corks and Kegs Loudoun County meetings, tours and events concierge. If you’re a business looking not only for event locations and help, but also for local Loudoun County commercial investment opportunities and properties, check in with our friends at the Loudoun Department of Economic Development.

Something feel out of kilter? Karen McPadden at Kinections Physical Therapy in Arlington: Kinections provides highly experienced outpatient physical therapy and personal training services in the convenience of your Arlington home, office, or in our clinic – i.e. House Calls! Specializing in post-surgical, sports, orthopedic, and neurological injuries. Book now for the holiday season…

For the upcoming holidays, consider an absolutely perfect, professional family portrait by the areas leading portrait photographer – Suna Lee Photography in McLean. Suna Lee is an award-winning, professional, and master portrait photographer, with over thirty-five years of expertise in lighting and camera angles in combination with her personal and creative style. Other services include framing, styling, photo restoration, and copy work.

It’s a little hard to notice on Rt. 50 near South Riding, but the Greenworks Landscape Design and Garden Center in Loudoun is huge, chock-filled with plants and landscaping materials, and staffed by oodles of professional, trained and friendly nursery professionals, designers and support staff. Get fall planting underway, and schedule winter cleanup and spring landscape design right now.

Right here in Loudoun, Ready Depot is one of the most successful national providers of emergency preparedness supplies online. Regardless of individual reasons for visiting Ready Depot, they pledge to consistently deliver shelf-stable foods for long-term storage, MREs, freeze-dried and canned Foods, first-aid kits, and emergency preparedness products, including outdoor tools, etc., at the best value possible.

Hunt Country Propane is a brand new business specializing in delivering fast, affordable Loudoun propane supplies to individuals and businesses throughout our Hunt Country region (Loudoun, Fauquier, Clarke & Western Prince William Counties, plus Middleburg, Purcellville, Leesburg, etc.) By providing the most affordable propane in the area, they are doing everything they can to protect locally-owned businesses, farm owners, and families from typical price-gauging found in many Northern Virginia areas. Local propane for less!

Find more local business ideas, services and products for your home – at NovaAtHome.com.

The recent 2012 Dulles & Reston Chamber of Commerce Global Mixer was an unprecedented success, hosted at TriVision Studios in Chantilly. Several hundred Dulles area business leaders and chamber members gathered at TriVision’s beautiful, expansive multimedia recording and publishing studios, to sample international cuisine, share business information and build long-lasting relationships in the heart of the Loudoun-Fairfax Dulles regional business districts.

The TriVision Studios Team and Local Business Leaders

Find more pictures of this summer-ending local business event of the season, on TriVision’s Facebook page!

The Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce include local and regional business members leading the growth and entrepreneurial spirit of the entire Dulles corridor, extending from the Dulles and Sterling areas of Eastern Loudoun County, to and through the Chantilly, Herndon, Reston and Great Falls areas of Western Fairfax. These Chambers essentially serve the business interests and provide collaborative relationship-building for the entire Dulles Corridor, coordinating economic development interests with the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce to the West of Dulles Airport.

TriVision’s partnership with these regional Business Chambers, local/state government agencies and other local businesses will soon include the “TriVision Seminar Series”, launching to match DC-area business superstars with innovative thought leadership and entrepreneurs through educative, entertaining and multimedia-driven events.

TriVision Studios is a Washington DC regional global creative media production and marketing agency headquartered in Chantilly, VA, providing industry-leading multimedia production and marketing solutions to Washington DC area businesses, Federal and International Government clients – with an overseas international presence in Afghanistan as well. In their 12,000 square foot full service, custom built video production studio, TriVision creates music videos, commercials and chroma-key productions for clients ranging from Chevrolet and the Discovery Channel, to the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art and the White House. TriVision also hosts live entertainment and performances, recordings and events; such as this first-of-its-kind local Dulles area Chamber business collaboration and social mixer.

The Trivision Studios Live Event and Recording Facility Studios

TriVision Studios also delivers full service marketing and advertising capabilities from creative print and DVD production to Interactive, Internet Marketing, SEO and broadcast advertisement strategies. TriVision is an integrated member of the Washington DC and Northern Virginia digital publishing and marketing business community, collaborating with leading regional IT, digital marketing specialists and SEO/Adwords subject matter experts such as KME Internet Marketing and AML & Associates.

Local Business Leaders in the Dulles Area!

STERLING, VA – Velocity 5 Sports Restaurant and ESPN 980 (AM Radio and Online Audio) will once again team up to present “Monday Night Live with Chris Russell” and “The Sports Reporters” broadcast live from Velocity 5 every week during the upcoming football season. During each live broadcast at Velocity 5 restaurants, patrons will be able to watch the broadcast and meet the Redskins “Player of the Game.” The player of the game will be a part of each broadcast and will be at Velocity 5 in Lansdowne or Sterling (Loudoun County) each week.

“Monday Night Live”, hosted by ESPN 980 Redskins Beat Reporter Chris Russell, features Washington Redskins players as guests. “The Sports Reporters” is hosted by veteran ESPN 980 personalities Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban. The shows will be held at the Velocity 5 locations in Lansdowne and Sterling due to their close proximity to Redskins Park. Velocity 5, the Northern Virginia area’s leading sports restaurant chain, also has locations in Arlington, Falls Church and Centreville.

The Velocity 5 restaurant chain was founded by Jim Speros, former assistant coach for the Washington Redskins in the 1980’s under Hall of Fame Coach Joe Gibbs. Jim was with the team during their winning 1982 season, coached with the Buffalo Bills and then went on to own several football teams including the Canadian Football League Grey Cup Champion
Baltimore Stallions, and the Montreal Alouettes. Jim is extremely passionate about football and especially the Redskins. Bringing this type of access to his customers is a dream come true.

“We are extremely excited to renew our relationship with ESPN 980,” Speros said. “ESPN 980 is the voice of DC sports and the Home of the Redskins, and our partnership will allow Velocity 5 to become the headquarters for football in Northern Virginia once again this season. I am pleased to be able to offer this exclusive player access to my customers. It is nice to be able to bring the team closer to their fans. This promises to be one of the most interesting seasons in Redskins history, and we look forward to reviewing the games every Monday night with Chris Russell and his Redskin guests.”

“Monday Night Live” debuted last season and some of the players who appeared as guests at Velocity 5 included Ryan Kerrigan, Tim Hightower, Fred Davis, Niles Paul, Mike Sellers, Jamaal Brown, Graham Gano, Lorenzo Alexander, Kedrick Golsten, Anthony Armstrong, Stephen Bowen, Adam Carriker, Darrel Young, Sav Rocca and Jarvis Jenkins.

“We are also looking forward to expanding our charitable and fund raising activities associated with ‘Monday Night Live’,” Speros added. “The show is a great vehicle to help local charities, schools, churches and youth teams raise money with events centered on the live shows from Velocity 5.” Velocity 5 has been actively involved with fund raising events for Wounded Warriors, Cystic Fibrosis, the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society, Breast Cancer Awareness, local churches, schools and athletic teams. Velocity 5 also provides pre-game meals for high school football teams and cheerleaders from Stone Bridge High School, Centreville High School, Dominion High School and Potomac Falls High School.

“Our presentation of “The Sports Reporters” on Thursdays is also one of the highlights of our week,” Speros said. “Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban are extremely knowledgeable and entertaining, and our customers enjoy their in-depth discussions and guests. Velocity 5 is all about great food and great sports in Northern Virginia, and being on the “inside” with the Redskins, Chris Russell and ‘The Sports Reporters’ is a major part of our sports concept. We are looking forward to another great season with ESPN 980 and the Redskins. We encourage our fans and customers to come on out for these broadcasts and be part of the action all season long! This is a great opportunity for fans to come out and meet the Redskins players, take pictures and get autographs.”

“Monday Night Live” will be broadcast from 7:00 – 8:00 PM on Monday nights beginning on Monday, September 10th, following the Redskins season opener against New Orleans. “The Sports Reporters” will debut on Thursday, September 13th, from 4:00 – 7:00 PM.

A special edition of “Monday Night Live” will be broadcast on Wednesday, September 5th from the Velocity 5 Sports Restaurant in Lansdowne at 7:00 PM prior to the NFL season opening game between the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.

For more information about this press release, contact Elysa Leonard, Splash Communications, LLC, at 571-426-5145, or elysa@splashmarcom.com. For more information about distribution of optimized, local press releases like this online and in social media around DC and Northern Virginia, contact us here at KME Internet Marketing.