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Thursday, April 3, 2008
A reporter from Wikinews recently interviewed Jim Babka, chair of Libertarian organization Downsize DC. The organization claims to have arranged for 22,158 people to send a message regarding the “American Freedom Agenda Act” proposed by Ron Paul, in addition to supporting many other laws. The full text of the interview can be found below.
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Fridholm Home renovation in Albany is built on deliberation and cooperation. contact Fridholm Painting and Remodeling provides a team. The crew is sent out in waves. The first initial step is the gathering of information about the client’s various needs, goals, budget, etc. it is a cooperation that begins at the very initial steps and ends beyond the successful completion of the project and with a later date check-up. This marks the total spectrum of teamwork.
A client may be a little lost at how to portray a certain idea or home decor set-up. The team works alongside them in establishing the goal and frame of work. Whatever the idea is, it will be fully realized and not completed until it is to the client’s utmost satisfaction. This will include the complete renovation of a certain area, or even the entire home.
It is a field that takes a lot of discipline, and a large team is required to put everyone’s specific expertise at play. For example, kitchen decor is a bit different than bedroom set-ups. Furthermore, a family may want to capture something very irregular, which will need specific expertise.
The teams are hand-picked and hand-delivered. This means that a client is getting a team that is perfectly conducive to their needs. Home renovation in Albany is not a simple task, and it will require detailed photos, outlines, and agreement by all parties on what is the best way to approach a certain aesthetic style.
But ultimately, it is up to the client. It is up to them to gauge the path and revamp their home in the exact way they desire. The team will facilitate this goal to the absolute best of their ability, and bring to a life a vision that the client is reflecting. No matter the renovations, the design choices, or the difficulty, Fridholm has the resources and ability to make it a reality.
Explore the photo gallery, review the testimonials, or sift through all the various services included in the packages and of the company. Whether it is a small job, such as a countertop replacement, or the entire remodeling of the home, the company is determined to make it happen in the most beautiful way.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
New South Wales Premier, Morris Iemma quit politics on Friday after a disagreement with the governing Australian Labor Party’s dominant “Centre Unity” faction about his proposed cabinet reshuffle. The reshuffle was prompted by the resignation of Deputy Premier John Watkins and the sackings of Treasurer Michael Costa and Health Minister Reba Meagher.
The political fallout follows the botched attempt to privatise the state’s electricity industry.
The right of the Labor party was presented with a list of colleagues who the Premier wanted in and out of his reshuffled cabinet. MPs were frustrated that Joe Tripodi was not on the our list. MPs rejected Iemma’s list and demanded the chance to vote upon it. Mr Iemma then told the faction that unless they accepted his cabinet he would resign. Caucus called Iemma’s bluff and said Iemma had lost support of the party.
The party then looked to the left-wing faction of the party and Nathan Rees was appointed unanimously and unopposed, Carmel Tebbutt was appointed as the state’s deputy premier.
It is the first time in 117 years that a Premier has lost support of his own party and the first time in NSW Labor history that the party has been led by a member from the left.
Speaking to the media, Mr Iemma said he could not lead a cabinet that was not of his own choosing.
“I took what I believed to be a package of renewal, reform and refreshment, for the party, the Cabinet. That was not accepted, so I tendered my resignation.
“I wasn’t going to serve as the head of a Cabinet that was being foisted on me and I wanted change and that was not going to be possible, so I tendered my resignation.”
Following his appointment, Nathan Rees told reporters that he had been elected as Premier of NSW. “Morris Iemma resigned as premier today, I nominated for the vacancy and I was elected unanimously by the full Labor caucus,” Rees said.
“We start work today for the people of New South Wales, we start work this afternoon to deliver services to the people of New South Wales”.
Rees and Tebbutt were sworn in by Governor Marie Bashir on Friday afternoon.
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It’s no surprise that the kitchen is often one of the most used rooms in a home. This explains why so many people choose to renovate their kitchen space before any other space that needs it. Whether they’re renovating the entire house, and the kitchen is the first room on the list, or whether they’ve saved up for a number of years to have the kitchen of their dreams, there’s no questioning the popularity of kitchen renovation. However, simply because you’ve decided to renovate your kitchen doesn’t mean there aren’t other decisions to be made. There are many different methods of incorporating new Kitchen Designs in Pittsburgh, and it’s important to understand the difference between the various approaches to renovating and redesigning a kitchen.
One of the first things that you may choose to do, especially if the function of your current kitchen is working properly, is to simply update the surfaces within a kitchen. This is technically considered a less involved form of kitchen renovation. However, any expert in Kitchen Designs in Pittsburgh will tell you that even though you’re simply updating the current surfaces of the kitchen doesn’t mean that the renovation process is going to be any less significant. There’s a great deal of work to be done, especially if you’re updating all the surfaces of the kitchen. When you renovate everything from floors, cabinetry, countertops and appliances, this can mean for a very disruptive and detailed renovation process.
Some people choose to throw out their existing floor plan for the kitchen. They remove walls to gain more space or make additions to the home, and this is the second approach to kitchen design and renovation. This is going to entail a great deal of work involving demolition and architectural design, as well as the implementation of an entirely new floor plan and updating all of the surfaces of the kitchen. This is typically a more expensive method of redesigning a kitchen, and it is also one of the more time-consuming approaches as well.
Regardless of what type of design approach you choose, you may want to Visit Patetekitchens.com. You can take a look at their past work and see the services they have to offer. Contact them if you’re interested in getting the kitchen of your dreams.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Eric Bogosian is one of America’s great multi-dimensional talents. “There’s sort of three different careers, and any one of them could exist by itself, on its own two feet. There was that solo stuff, and then I started writing plays in the late seventies.” Although his work has spanned genres, most readers will recognize Bogosian for his acting, which has included a memorable performance in Woody Allen‘s Deconstructing Harry to co-writing and starring in the Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio (based upon his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play) to playing the bad guy in Under Siege 2 to his current role in Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross. They may not know, however, that he had collaborated with Frank Zappa on a album, worked with Sonic Youth, and was a voice on Mike Judge‘s Beavis & Butthead Do America. He started one of New York City’s largest dance companies, The Kitchen, which is still in existence. He starred alongside Val Kilmer in Wonderland and his play Talk Radio was recently revived on Broadway with Liev Schreiber in the role Bogosian wrote and made famous.
Currently at work on his third novel, tentatively titled The Artist, Bogosian spoke with David Shankbone about the craft of writing and his life as a creative.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Torture proliferates American headlines today: whether its use is defensible in certain contexts and the morality of the practice. Wikinews reporter David Shankbone was curious about torture in American popular culture. This is the first of a two part series examining the BDSM business. This interview focuses on the owners of a dungeon, what they charge, what the clients are like and how they handle their needs.
When Shankbone rings the bell of “HC & Co.” he has no idea what to expect. A BDSM (Bondage Discipline Sadism Masochism) dungeon is a legal enterprise in New York City, and there are more than a few businesses that cater to a clientèle that wants an enema, a spanking, to be dressed like a baby or to wear women’s clothing. Shankbone went to find out what these businesses are like, who runs them, who works at them, and who frequents them. He spent three hours one night in what is considered one of the more upscale establishments in Manhattan, Rebecca’s Hidden Chamber, where according to The Village Voice, “you can take your girlfriend or wife, and have them treated with respect—unless they hope to be treated with something other than respect!”
When Shankbone arrived on the sixth floor of a midtown office building, the elevator opened up to a hallway where a smiling Rebecca greeted him. She is a beautiful forty-ish Long Island mother of three who is dressed in smart black pants and a black turtleneck that reaches up to her blond-streaked hair pulled back in a bushy ponytail. “Are you David Shankbone? We’re so excited to meet you!” she says, and leads him down the hall to a living room area with a sofa, a television playing an action-thriller, an open supply cabinet stocked with enema kits, and her husband Bill sitting at the computer trying to find where the re-release of Blade Runner is playing at the local theater. “I don’t like that movie,” says Rebecca.
Perhaps the most poignant moment came at the end of the night when Shankbone was waiting to be escorted out (to avoid running into a client). Rebecca came into the room and sat on the sofa. “You know, a lot of people out there would like to see me burn for what I do,” she says. Rebecca is a woman who has faced challenges in her life, and dealt with them the best she could given her circumstances. She sees herself as providing a service to people who have needs, no matter how debauched the outside world deems them. They sat talking mutual challenges they have faced and politics (she’s supporting Hillary); Rebecca reflected upon the irony that many of the people who supported the torture at Abu Ghraib would want her closed down. It was in this conversation that Shankbone saw that humanity can be found anywhere, including in places that appear on the surface to cater to the inhumanity some people in our society feel towards themselves, or others.
“The best way to describe it,” says Bill, “is if you had a kink, and you had a wife and you had two kids, and every time you had sex with your wife it just didn’t hit the nail on the head. What would you do about it? How would you handle it? You might go through life feeling unfulfilled. Or you might say, ‘No, my kink is I really need to dress in women’s clothing.’ We’re that outlet. We’re not the evil devil out here, plucking people off the street, keeping them chained up for days on end.”
Below is David Shankbone’s interview with Bill & Rebecca, owners of Rebecca’s Hidden Chamber, a BDSM dungeon.