He pointed to a pile of bricks and tile in a corner where two high walls met.
That was one tile in a tumble of dominoes that ended the career of Mr Bo, Chongqing's party secretary.
Or is that too difficult to deal with while kvetching over having to stand on bare (and therefore possibly germ-ridden) tile in a magnificent hotel shower?
But the couple decided to maintain the traditional feeling of the home's front rooms, retaining the original tile in the vestibule and the chestnut molding in the parlor.
They did a 10-month remodeling that included making a television room out of a screened porch while preserving original details like the pecky cypress ceilings in the living room and library, the handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and the Cuban tile floors in the dining room.
Neighbors said Mr. Holmes spent at least some of his childhood in a two-story, cream-colored house with a Spanish tile roof in an upper-middle-class San Diego neighborhood.
The company also anticipates bezels shrinking in the future, and so is working on an interaction technology that'll let users tile tablets in the future.
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And we are lining the bookcases with a small-print wallpaper called French Tile, in Moss, from Michael S. Smith's Jasper line.
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An artist is tracing the "forgotten stories" of the tile industry in Stoke-on-Trent after coming across a piece of the area's history while in New York City.
While the exterior walls are white washed, the inward-facing walls are comprised of panels of various shapes and sizes -- all of them covered with brick and tile work in various patterns.
In deference to the historical nature of the home, the Pattersons preserved several elements of the original structure, including the Cuban tile floor in the living room and a limestone fireplace in the dining area.
Baseballs are woven throughout the plans, embedded in ironwork along the side of the facade, through terra-cotta balls adorning the top of the stadium, in stitches visible in the tile inlay on the rotunda floor and in its dangling baseball-and-bat chandelier.
Bits of food would sneak into the seams of laminate counters or the grout in tile counters.
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Jimmy Millen, 27, was shot outside his home in Tile Barn Road, Hastings, by two men who rode past him on a motorbike.
The baths are clad in stone tile and are equipped with soaking tubs and separate showers.
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His father owned a roofing tile factory and dabbled in politics.
From the Me Tile people can check in to their location, post an update, set chat status, see what's new and monitor notifications across Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Then, rather than building polygons that are mostly invisible on top of each other, the engineers devised a way to render in each tile only graphic data that are actually visible at a given moment.
Each Scrabble letter tile has its own uniquely identifiable RFID tag embedded within (100 in total), with an RFID circuit board enclosed in each of the players tile racks to ensure that all information is captured and showcased to the online viewers.
It includes digital photographs of workers in the town and surrounding parishes, and those in the related tile and brick works.
Deeper in the maze-like layout is a windowless detention center, its walls covered in dingy granite tile and smelling of mildew.
This rectangular, windowless block grabs attention with its vertically-aligned tile work -- all in white -- which creates a rich texture when it catches the sunlight.
Small, but well-designed rooms offer unique touches like black washed oak flooring, colourful headboards that are swapped out by the season, and bright, functional bathrooms sheathed in marble mosaic tile.
The blurry text on the left edge reads "property of Nokia not for sale, " which suggests it could be a prototype, while the presence of a Family Room live tile implies we're in the presence of Windows Phone 8 -- even if the WP logo is the old kind.
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The people had dispersed the barracks had been destroyed and stripped of everything in them, the tile taken off the walls.
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The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.
It does seem likely, however, that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform could play host to Home before even iOS, as Zuckerberg's referred to the live-tile OS as falling "somewhere in between" due to the licenses involved.
Available initially for iPad, the Nick App features a moveable tile layout that can be swiped in any direction, promoting discovery and exploration and offering kids instant and on-demand access to more than 1, 000 pieces of Nickelodeon-themed content.
After seeing the Minton tile ceiling at the Bethesda Terrace Arcade in Central Park, Danny Callaghan decided he wanted to find more about other places around the world that tiles had been used.
Out of the box, users will have access to an S Pen-optimized version of Flipboard which enables Air View hover functionality and headline previews from the main tile page (up to three, in our experience).
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