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Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he did not seek the approval of his Cabinet or his party room before announcing his surprise decision to reinstate knights and dames honours in Australia.

Outgoing Governor-General Quentin Bryce is the first dame to be announced and her replacement Peter Cosgrove will be the first knight under the revived system.

Labor MPs are ridiculing the Prime Minister's decision as a "back to the future" step and the Prime Minister's own parliamentary secretary agrees it is not a "hot button issue" with voters.

Mr Abbott says he consulted some "senior colleagues" but not his backbench before making the announcement.

"I consulted with a number of senior colleagues.I took some soundings in the community but in the end it was my recommendation to the Queen which she graciously accepted," Mr Abbott told Fairfax Radio.

"I've had some amusing texts from a particular Cabinet minister."

In a blog post, the Liberals' most prominent republican in Cabinet, Malcolm Turnbull, says supporters of a republic should not lose too much sleep because of the announcement because many countries which have knighthoods are not constitutional monarchies.

Liberal MP Russell Broadbent says Mr Abbott did not take the idea to his colleagues despite the Government party room meeting yesterday morning.

"It's most interesting, it's quite a surprise... an interesting surprise," Mr Broadbent said on his way into Parliament.

The Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary Josh Frydenberg said Mr Abbott was not obliged to tell his colleagues first.

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Jamison, PA (PRWEB) March 25, 2014

Earlier this month, website marketing agency FocusMX launched creoremodeling.com, a custom website that details the talents and services of Creo Remodeling, a home improvement contractor based out of the Bucks County area in Pennsylvania. The site was designed to provide users with a comprehensive overview of their home improvement services through detailed case studies and images. The new website also features a before-and-after gallery that exhibits their ability to dramatically improve the appearance and functionality of any room.

Founder and owner of Creo Remodeling, Paul Gilliland, needed a fresh and easy-to-use site that would enable him to give potential clients an overview of his services, while also providing them with a visual reference that shows the results of past projects. The site was developed with these standards in mind, and contains a gallery that can be used to display his new projects as he completes them.

Through their unique blend of contracting expertise and knowledge of design principles, Creo Remodeling works with their clients to develop customized solutions that are aesthetically pleasing and highly functional. The site describes the process that Creo undertakes with each of their clients to develop these solutions, and offers a contact form that enables homeowners to contact Creo for more information.

The customized website was designed and developed by online marketing and design agency FocusMX. FocusMX offers complete web services to provide their clients with a professional and effective website design that drives real results. To learn more about Creo Remodeling, and to see their brand new custom website design, visit them online: http://www.creoremodeling.com.

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Silver Spring, MD (PRWEB) March 25, 2014

This recently designed Kosher kitchen by Ellyn Gutridge of Signature Kitchens Additions & Baths, features beautiful contemporary lines and artistic details. The homeowners, Deborah & Dov Zakheim are thrilled with the outcome and love entertaining in their new spacious yet cozy kitchen.

Deborah & Dov Zakheim Dov Zakheim is a former Pentagon official who worked in both the George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan Administrations. In 2011, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Zakheim as a member of his advisory team on foreign and defense policy.

What made this a Kosher kitchen? A Kosher kitchen is required to separate dairy chalay and meat basar in storage, preparation surfaces, serving dishes & utensils as well as the way those separate serving items are cleaned. Ellyn Gutridge a kitchen designer with Signature Kitchens Additions & Baths along with the homeowner Deborah Zakheim, a successful textile designer designed this contemporary kitchen with separate dishwashers, separate sinks and separate ovens for dairy and meat. Of course there is also ample separate storage for utensils, cutlery and preparation products such as skillets. Interpreting kosher law and how stringently you want to adhere to it is a personal decision. The best definition may be one that is arrived at individually with that homeowner's Rabbi.

Dura Supreme Cabinets The cabinetry used in this project, is the custom kitchen cabinetry line voted by Houzz users to be the best designer line in 2013; Dura Supreme Cabinetry specifically their Alectra line. Ellyn & Deborah selected a Craftsman Panel Plus door in Cherry with a custom color whose base was Onyx. The back splash was full sheets of colored glass.

Kosher Kitchen Appliances Like Ellyns design for the Zakheims, a Kosher kitchen design ought to include appliances that can be set to Sabbath Mode for use during Sabbath and Yom Tov. This feature patented in 1998 by Whirlpool is essentially a Sabbath compliant timer. It allows you to prepare a meal before Sabbath, set it in the oven, set the timer and the oven will then begin cooking at the proper time without your having to touch the oven.

About Signature Kitchens Additions & Baths: Signature Kitchens Additions & Baths is a design build remodeling contractor in Rockville, MD 20850 serving homeowners in Montgomery, Howard & Anne Arundel County MD, Washington DC and Fairfax, Arlington & Alexandria VA. The company has four experienced designer, and twelve craftsmen ready to provide the best design and craftsmanship possible for each homeowners taste & budget. The company offers a 4,000 square foot show room for design inspiration & understanding. They represent and have on display cabinetry from Dura Supreme Cabinetry, Medallion Cabinetry and Jay Rambo cabinetry.

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For vandals on the prowl, Centennial Hills Center was just too tempting.

They smashed windows, sprayed graffiti and ripped out the copper from the abandoned medical-office project. As if to rub it in, they even set the elevator on fire.

Some investors now bet that the Las Vegas property, despite its trashed and troubled past, will prove a big money-maker.

Florida developer Malcolm Sina and his partners acquired the partially built, 24-acre project on Durango Drive near Centennial Parkway last fall. They are cleaning it, finishing construction and working to fill it with doctors, nurses and other health care workers.

Construction crews are on site, and Sina aims to have the eight-building first phase open for business by years end. If and when he sells or leases out that section, hell break ground on the 10-building second phase.

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, City Councilman Steve Ross and others will gather there Wednesday to celebrate the projects turnaround.

Its been sitting there as an eyesore, Sina said.

Sina is one of several developers in the past year or so who bought local, mothballed real estate developments victims of the recession in order to finish them. Buyers often scoop them up at steep discounts, but these bargains are far from risk-free in economically wobbly Las Vegas.

The local office market, for instance, is one of the worst in the country, with sky-high vacancy rates and minuscule asking rents. Health care buildings are faring a bit better than general office properties but still are limping along.

Its not as though medicals thriving out there, CBRE Group broker Carla Cole said.

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CoBank will become the anchor tenant in a new 11-story office tower to be developed in Greenwood Village.

Shea Properties said Tuesday that CoBank has executed a long-term lease in the 296,000-square-foot building, which will be named CoBank Center.

The building will be part of Shea Properties' Village Center Station development along Interstate 25 between Orchard and Arapahoe roads. Construction of the building will start in coming weeks with completion scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2015.

CoBank's current headquarters is at 5500 S. Quebec St. in Greenwood Village, a building it has occupied since the bank was formed in 1989.

"Colorado continues to see companies make capital investments in the state, which is not only helping our economy recover, but shows that it is picking up momentum," Gov. John Hickenlooper said in a statement.

Peter Culshaw, executive vice president of Shea Properties, said the developer is negotiating with prospective tenants for another new office building, the nine-story Village Station Center II. That building will mark the completion of the office and retail development.

Davis Partnership has been the architect for each of the three phases of Village Center Station. Adolfson & Peterson Construction will be the general contractor for new construction. CoBank was represented by Barry Dorfman and Billy Byrne of Jones Lang LaSalle and Shea Properties was represented by Tim Harrington and Tom Lee of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.

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More than 4,000 black granite slabs had to be removed and reattached to the Workers Compensation Board's 54-year-old headquarters on Broadway.

The Workers Compensation Board has spent three years and $14 million to ensure its downtown office building looks precisely the same as it did before.

To heritage advocates, this is a victory.

More than 4,000 black granite slabs have been re-affixed to the WCB's 54-year-old headquarters on Broadway as part of an effort to solve a problem common to other stone-clad structures built in Winnipeg from the late 1950s to the early 1970s.

During this era, the architects who designed some of Winnipeg's best-known modernist buildings were not aware of the effect freeze-thaw cycles would have on stone cladding.

Over the course of decades, water and ice got behind the stones on the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Public Safety Building, convention centre and Centennial Concert Hall, cracking or rusting away the braces that hold the stones in place.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It's a mansion we've seen before, but nowadays it looks a lot different. Its the mansion former NBA player Dell Curry built for his family in 1996.

Years later, Gerald Wallace bought it and NBC Charlotte got an exclusive look inside after he put it on the market. Then, we got another look inside when a Charlotte businessman bought it.

Fast forward to today and it looks very different.

The basketball court remainsfor now. But everything else has pretty much changed, starting with the grand entrance.

"We created this large foyer that we have now, which is 15-feet by 25-feet, and that became the two-story foyer that we've got with that groin vault ceiling," said James Benham, president of Benham Builders.

He added, "Those are 11-foot doors, and they probably weigh about 400 pounds apiece."

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