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Master Tile Selects CrossCheck’s Check Guarantee Services

By Anonymous

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – CrossCheck, Inc., the nation’s largest privately held payment guarantee-company, has begun providing check guarantee to 17 Master Tile stores in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida. With CrossCheck’s services, all Master Tile stores will have protection against returned personal and business checks and risky CODs, making the acceptance of check payments worry-free.

“Having protection against potentially unreliable COD transactions is important for building supply companies like Master Tile that rely on CODs to make sales,” said CrossCheck’s President and CEO J. David Siembieda.

Master Tile has been in business for more than 52 years and was one of the first U.S. companies to import ceramic tile. Both the residential and commercial markets are served by Master Tile’s prompt and personal service and wide selection of tile styles and price brackets. Master Tile only sells through wholesale channels so its Certified Ceramic Tile Consultants and other staff can focus on customers from the building and remodeling industries. For more information, please visit Master Tile’s Web site at www.mastertile.net.

Founded in 1983, CrossCheck provides payment guarantee solutions to more than 79,000 retail and dealer outlets nationwide and handled more than $10.2 billion in guaranteed transactions in 2002. Its goal for nearly two decades has been to provide merchant customers with increased profitability while reducing their financial risk. CrossCheck is known for industry firsts and cutting-edge technology in the point-of-sale financial services marketplace. For more information, visit CrossCheck’s Web site at www.cross-check.com or call (800) 654-2365.

For More Information Contact:
Kristin Coughtry
Phone: (707) 586-0551, ext. 9504
Fax: (707) 586-1884
Email: KristinC@cross-check.com
www.cross-check.com



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New Glass Tile Color & Texture OptionsFor Interior Designers

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Pawtucket, RI -- Bold Living Color has introduced new glass styles to its extensive line of unique glass & mirrored decorative tiles.

The Pyramid Series includes the X-Tile (sand texture) and Meteorite (peprism-glass-tilee texture), and the Deep Patterned Series includes the Fossil and Tidalwave patterns.

From the designers perspective Bold Living Color’s tile lines represent a new set of esthetic tools that can translate vision into reality in the living or working space. For example in living areas in the home: walls, counters, and dividers:
        - Kitchens – backsplashes & cabinet
               door insets
        - Baths – backsplashes & mirror
               trim
        - Bars
        - Inlays in furniture

Not limited to any one surface, the designer is given a unique selection -- a new palette -- from which to choose, and a new freedom to cross architectural boundaries and give reality to their vision for using light, texture and color in defining spaces

Glass Tiles:
All glass tiles are prepared one by one to be fired in glass kilns, specially designed to regulate the temperature of the firing -- a factor critical to the formation of the glass tile. The shapes, patterns and textures are slumped into the tile (formed by melting) at very high temperatures and then annealed (cooled). This precisely controlled process gives each tile an individual style, dimension and lasting beauty -- qualities that set it apart in its versatility in surface design application.


In a lighted area these glass tiles capture & manipulate light in ways no ordinary glass can.

The company is pleased to have on staff, Ms. Kana Tanaka, as its Director of Glass Design. Her training and research in glass, beginning in Japan, has taken her around the globe in her pursuit of knowledge about this material. Her aesthetic interest and research is rooted on the phenomenon of light, which she emphasizes and expresses through the medium of glass. "Light is the source of my inspiration. I use glass, a precious and spiritual material, to manipulate light and amplify the experience of light phenomena."

Mirrored Tiles:
The mirrored tiles are decorated by hand, etched in our factory and baked with rich enamel colors. This combination of our original colors and mirrored quality give additional depth to your surface design. The collection is a mix of abstract patterns and colors interplaying to create a bold, contemporary look for your new environment.

This line of decorative and visually arresting surface tiles, comprises three core materials/processes: glass, mirror and ceramic, each with a wide range of patterns, colors and textures.

In addition to the items currently in production, we can customize colors, patterns, materials and textures. Bold Living Color welcomes input from designers and will quote on custom design ideas for any of the three media. Contact us with your ideas.

Dealer inquiries are appreciated -- contact the company directly for information on sampling & merchandising programs and dealer pricing.

Bold Living Color manufacturers all its own products at its factory in Pawtucket, RI. For more information contact Phil Mambro at Bold Living Color. (800) 645-3363, fax 401 722-7216, email info@boldlivingcolor.com -- or visit the company web site for a detailed look at samples at: www.boldlivingcolor.com


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New Porcelain Roof Slate Launched on to the US market

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NEW CERAMIC SLATE FROM THE TILE MAN!
       
    It is actually quite difficult to imagine a product this handsome that is also exceptionally competent in protecting the dwelling underneath. Nonetheless, this ceramic slate merges the best of these traits and more!

   
This Slate can handle just about any weather Mother Nature flings its way.
That includes hail, which can be an anathema to some slates and/or tile by causing breakage. Of great importance to buildings in forested areas, ceramic slate does not burn.
For your unique hideaway, either in the deep woods, on the mountains or by the seashore... these tiles shield your habitat from heavy wind-driven rains as well as acid rains.
   

They offer incredible and special climate armors. A heavy blizzard resulting in collecting large amounts of snow will not bother a slate roof that you could walk on. Conditions that included continual freezing and thawing have no effect on this material at all. (Note: the proper application of snow guards distributes the collective weight of a winter storm.)
       
       
This superior roofing material perceptibly enhances the desirable look of a European countryside!




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Walstad Tile Smiles as they go High-Tech... A-propos Delivers TileMaster™ Remote Job Management System

By Anonymous

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, March 18, 2003—A-propos, a software and systems development company that delivers applications on-time and on-budget, today announced the completion of a remote job management system for MN-based Walstad Tile. The application was developed in order to streamline management of more than 30 field tile installers.

Prior to development and installation of the TileMaster™ solution, Walstad tile installers worked unmanaged in the field, 8 hours each day, which made managing productivity a challenge. Now with the TileMaster™ solution, developed by MN-based A-propos, field tile installers punch in and out via cell phone as they start and complete each job.

"Now, our tile installers log the time it takes to lay tile in each room and then we upload their timesheet data to our corporate database." said Mike Walstad, president of Walstad Tile. “After implementing the system we definitely saw that our labor to percentage of sales had improved. I don’t know anybody else in the trade that is doing this."

Walstad tile installers are also more encouraged now to document change-orders in the field. For example, if a job called for 8 hours to lay tile on a straight pattern and the job was changed in the field to a diagonal pattern, the installer now calls the corporate office in order to be allocated more time via their “cell-phone timeclock”. Prior to the development and installation of TileMaster™ these types of field changes would be easily missed and never billed.

“Due to the A-propos development process, dubbed OnTarget (SM), we were able to complete the entire TileMaster™ application within a 2 month timeframe.” said Olivier Meyer, president of A-Propos. “By implementing the Walstad Tile corporate database and integrating with AirHours, through Nextel, Walstad Tile can now estimate jobs more accurately, monitor productivity more closely and conduct billing more precisely.”

Walstad Tile and A-propos are now planning the next phase of the TileMaster solution – a PDA based solution designed to completely eliminate paper work orders.

The TileMaster™ remote job management system was built with industry standard technologies and platforms including WML/WAP, Microsoft Visual Basic, SQL and Microsoft Access.

About A-propos, Inc.
A-propos is a software and systems development company committed to delivering solutions on-time and on-budget through its unique development process-- OnTarget(SM). With a tenured team of applications and development professionals, A-propos brings a unique mix of development and product management skills to its clients who include Gelco Expense Management, AIR-Serv Group, Sprint and General Mills. Contact A-propos at 612-435-2120 or at www.a-propo.com.

About Walstad Tile
For Nearly 10 years, Walstad Tile & Stone has been recognized as one of the Twin Cities’ leading tile, stone and hard surface provider. In addition to completing more than 150 Parade of Homes installations, Walstad Tile & Stone is the hard surface flooring provider of choice for the area’s top builders. They provide high quality flooring solutions for any home price level. Contact Walstad Tile & Stone at 763-519-1444.

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5 Star Mahjongg v1.01 - Mah Jong Tile Game, classic Eastern Mahjongg Game

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July 4, 2004 -- 5 Star Mahjongg v1.01 - Mah Jong Tile Game, classic Eastern Mahjongg Game

5 Star Mahjongg is a wildly popular, contemporary version of the classic Eastern game, suitable for both kids and adults.

5 Star Mahjongg takes this game favorite to a new level with spectacular, original and classic tile graphics, unlimited game capacity, innovative scoring options, and complete control over game behavior and appearance.

5 Star Mahjongg Features:
Play tile layouts that you like: 48 unique tile layouts (ranked from Easy to Very Hard)
Don't play the same game twice: each tile layout has an infinite number of games
6 stunning, original thematic tilesets: Classical, Egyptian, Medieval, Primitive, Ancient, and Pop
3 scoring modes: Easy Rules (suitable for kids), Normal mode, and Tournament mode (for realistic Mahjongg solitaire tournament simulation)
Track the Top 10 scores for each individual layout
2 tile distribution modes: Solvable and Random
6 unique background textures and an infinite number of background colors
Numerous fun sound effects

http://www.puzzlegame.org/5-star-mahjongg/


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