In 2000 Customs returned to China a marble wall panel of a warrior that had guarded a 10th-century tomb.
When considered this way a single Ming wall panel covered with flowers, for example, is not only lovely to look at, but also a technical tour de force.
He opens a section of a wall panel to show that it comes from the factory already insulated, with designated spaces and connections for the electrical systems, which arrive ready for installation.
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For next year's meeting, Mr. Buffett has so far decided the crowd will get roughly a third fewer questions because a panel of Wall Street analysts will be added to the lineup.
However, upon completion, instead of reaching for toilet tissue you press a button on a control panel on the wall.
Working out of the University of California, San Diego, Smarr is constructing a campus full of high-speed wireless connections, supercomputers, nanotechnology labs and wall-size flat-panel screens.
The slowing economy may have extended RPTV's lease on life with a size bang for buck that's tough to beat, but ultimately customers opted for bright flashy flat-panel HDTVs that offer easier wall-mounting options while seeming to get bigger, lighter and cheaper every year.
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The science fiction future, as imagined by children growing up between the 1950s and 1980s is already here: we have the flat panel televisions mounted on the wall like canvases, we have the Dick Tracy personal communication devices (and we've managed to cram jukeboxes inside them -- we call them iPhones) but we're missing something.
Much like Samsung's 10-inch deep DLP from CEDIA, these are designed for shallow cabinets and stands made to fit flat panel displays or even hung on a wall.
Behind a high fence in Menlo Park, Calif. a gray, tuna-shaped robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride.
Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride. (See video below.) The robot, made by Menlo Park, Calif.
In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall. (As with many of his objects, Mr. Davis said he got it in a barter deal, trading it with the publisher of a popular book series for the use of his music.) At the center of the home is a 44-foot-tall, four-sided fireplace.
Last year he spoke in a panel discussion in New York about the future of Wall Street.
That's the honor conferred upon Oliver Stone's 1987 film Wall Street by the readers of Forbes.com and a panel of film critics.
An original draft of a report by an advisory panel to the Federal Communications Commission, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, endorsed a list of concrete suggestions for major telecommunications and cable companies to tackle the cybersecurity problem.
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New financial regulations will force low- and moderate-income Americans out of the traditional banking system, according to a panel of banking analysts at a gathering of more than 600 Wall Streeters on Thursday just hours before the Senate was expected to approve the financial regulation overhaul bill.
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These devices transform the direct current generated by a solar panel or electric car battery into the alternating current you expect from a wall socket.
Aguirre, who was the panel's star witness Wednesday, contends that the importance of hedge funds' to Wall Street will make it tough to go after them.
The panel also criticizes regulators and the broader industry, according to a copy of the report viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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