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With every security operation carried out by the regime’s apparatuses in Jordan “against terrorism,” the mouthpieces of the authority resurface, finding in it their opportunity to renew their allegiance, spread lies a…
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The Hubei High People's Court on Wednesday upheld the 20-year sentence handed down to Li Tie, former head coach of the Chinese national men's soccer team who offered and accepted bribes.
Armored vehicles on the road to Jerusalem and cars cleared from Gaza border communities after October 7. What can we learn from wrecked cars when they become symbols for something else?
At first glance, budget tiles might seem like the economical choice. But when you factor in repairs, replacements, and ongoing maintenance, luxury tiles often come out ahead with their superior durability.
Navigating the world of tiles can feel like a daunting task. The burning question: Are luxury tiles worth their higher cost?
At first glance, budget tiles might seem like the economical choice. But when you factor in repairs, replacements, and ongoing maintenance, luxury tiles often come out ahead with their superior durability.
Here’s why luxury bathroom tiles are built to last and how they save you money over time.
1. The Strength of Premium Materials
The core difference between standard and luxury tiles lies in their materials.
Standard tiles are typically made from ceramic or low-grade porcelain—decent for light use but softer and more prone to wear.
Luxury tiles are crafted from:
High-grade porcelain
Natural stone (like limestone or marble)
Engineered stone with advanced finishes
These materials are denser and more robust, standing up to moisture, heavy traffic, and cleaning agents without losing their charm.
In short: better materials mean a longer lifespan.
2. Precision Manufacturing
It’s not just about the materials—it’s about how they’re made.
Luxury tiles are produced with meticulous standards, resulting in:
Fewer imperfections
Consistent sizing for seamless installation
Durable surface treatments
Many are fired at higher temperatures, reducing porosity and increasing resistance to stains, cracks, and water damage.
That’s why budget tiles often chip or crack, while luxury tiles remain steadfast.
3. Surfaces That Endure
Bathrooms are tough on surfaces, facing humidity, soap scum, dirt, and steam daily.
Standard tiles often show wear over time, such as:
Faded or dulled finishes
Cracks from minor impacts
Staining, especially in grout lines
Luxury bathroom tiles are designed to withstand these challenges. Their finishes—whether glossy, matte, or textured—are tougher and often treated with protective coatings.
The result: They stay stunning for decades.
4. Low-Maintenance Durability
All tiles need some upkeep, but luxury tiles make it easier. High-end porcelain, for example, is low-maintenance because:
It repels water and stains
It resists grime buildup
It holds up to regular cleaning
Natural stone may require periodic sealing, but with minimal care, it lasts for years. It’s not demanding—it’s built to endure.
Bottom line: Luxury tiles save you time and effort.
5. Resilient Against Damage
Cheap tiles are fragile, prone to chipping, cracking, or breaking—sometimes even during installation. Finding a matching replacement years later can be a headache.
Luxury tiles are more durable and reliable. Reputable tiles suppliers often maintain stock for years, making replacements easier. Quality brands ensure long-term consistency.
Professional installation, common with luxury tiles, also minimizes future issues.
6. Longevity by the Numbers
Here’s the reality:
Standard ceramic tiles: 10–20 years with typical use.
Luxury porcelain tiles: 30–50 years, often more.
Natural stone: 50+ years with proper care.
These figures are backed by real-world use in homes, hotels, and commercial spaces.
Ask any seasoned tiles supplier: budget tiles wear out; luxury tiles last.
7. True Cost Savings
The upfront cost of luxury bathroom tiles can seem high, but replacing tiles every decade is far more expensive.
With luxury tiles, you avoid:
Reinstallation labor costs
Struggles to match discontinued tiles
Disruptions during renovations
The gradual decline of aging surfaces
Invest once, enjoy for decades.
8. Where to Prioritize
Luxury tiles aren’t necessary everywhere, but they’re ideal for high-wear areas:
Bathrooms (floors, walls, showers)
Kitchens (backsplashes, floors)
Entryways or mudrooms
These spaces face constant moisture and traffic, making durability a must.
Final Reflection
Luxury bathroom tiles aren’t about extravagance—they’re about choosing materials that stand the test of time. They save you money, time, and stress while keeping your space beautiful.
Unsure where to begin? A trusted tiles supplier can guide you toward durable, stylish options tailored to your needs.
Choose tiles that last. Your bathroom deserves it.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Wednesday that a minerals agreement with the US, including a joint investment fund and a 10-year development plan, would be signed within 24 hours.
Microsoft continues to add to the conversation by unveiling its newest models, Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. Learn more.
"If living unfreely but comfortably is something you’re willing to accept, and I think many of us are, it’s the human nature, you can get up every day, you can go to work, you can collect your large paycheck for relatively little work against the public interest, and go to sleep at night after watching your shows. But if you realize that’s the world that you helped create, and it’s going to get worse with the next generation, and the next generation, who extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression, you realize that you might be willing to accept any risk, and it doesn’t matter what the outcome is, so long as the public gets to make their own decisions about how that’s applied."
Half a century ago, the US withdrew from Vietnam, leaving a trail of tears for 4 million dead Vietnamese. Sadly, the war has yet to become history, as many are still being affected by Agent Orange, t...
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has emerged as the loudest and most consistent dissenting voice within the European Union’s otherwise unified front
La vacuité n’est pas le rien,bien au contraire,elle est le tout.La vacuité est l’absence de focalisation sur quoi que ce soit,L’impossibilité de s’arrêter pour en faire un modèle à partir de quoi q…
Religion provides mental objectsWith which we initiate and sustain a relationship,Religion then suggests playing with the objects it has provided.Religion is a toy store.Several brands, as many typ…
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we are not hosting blacks. they are as much american as anyone else and have been here for centuries communalism may be the best of a number of imperfect solutions
Believe this is one of the few vendors left making and distributing Linux magazines still(?). Would be interesting to hear what peoples feedback on these are, whether its this one or another. Seems like a fun monthly delivery to get!
I loved Linux Voice back when it was still published. They had a series of articles on writing your own kernel in x86_64 ASM that I followed and ran on QEMU back when I was a philosophy student. It really cemented my interest in tech and now I do that for a living.
Edit: Linux Voice folded into Linux Format sometime around 10+ years ago
Baguio’s most famous haunted house is the Laperal White House. A place of ghost stories and dark history, it now serves as an upscale French restaurant.
WORKERS SUPPORT PALESTINE - Thursday, MAY 1 at 5pm edt JOIN US on Zuccotti Park sidewalk, Broadway between Liberty & Cedor., NYC Join to greet marchers on the May Day 2025 parade with a militant, pro-Palestine rally demanding an end to the U.
The upcoming Global Digital Forum in Russia will become an effective tool for spreading knowledge and exchanging best practices in digital transformation, Dmitry Grigorenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Russian Government Staff said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for transforming Eurasia into not only a symbol of peaceful coexistence but also a model for sustainable economic progress, social prosperity, and human development.
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
Deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs told the International Court of Justice that the Israeli regime has continued its genocide in Gaza in defiance of repeated court orders.
Four major web browsers dominate the market: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple’s Safari. What most users don’t realize is that Google effectively bankrolls over 80% of the…
US President Donald Trump has said in an interview with ABC television channel that Russia will not try to “take over all of Ukraine” out of respect for the American leader. “I think that, let’s just say that he [Vladimir Putin – ed.
I have played my favorite game probably close to a hundred times all the way through and watched my favorite show a couple dozen times all the way through
I don’t get why people want an incredible amount of variance in what they do
so i feel like every #musician and music lover on the #fedi at least knows @etherdiver , right? somehow, in between spotlighting so many other artists every single week with his Other People's Music #opm posts, we manages to make his own tunes and he manages to keep getting better at his craft. tonight he released what is likely his best album yet. you can still hear his compositional style, particularly in the way he phrases melodies, but its better. hes grown sharper, he's honed his craft. put it on this week's #bandcampfriday list! etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/…
Presuming you can only have 2 dolls that are just a couple dollars more instead of 30 dolls that were a couple dollars less than those 2 future dolls means you will have about 90% less money in the soon-to-begin golden age. Or you will have the same amount of money in this golden age but have to spend most of it on survival stuff. Make....America....Wealthy....Again!
I say put that fucker on the teevee more. It's instructive for us and embarrassing for him because he can't help revealing he knows nothing about anything. "They treated us very unfairly, very unfairly. We will make them pay and Make....America....Great....Again."
@DrFell he's stepped far away from ego problem into the realm of traitor many years ago. It's correct to think it was what the OSS needed. We've been living under the directive to merge with the Soviet system for over a century.
found out inhalers are prescription only What a gay fucking world we live in Do they seriously think niggas are going to be doing hits of inhalers to get high or something
Not sure that being denied the opportunity of reading my brilliant posts will actually change anybody’s mind on anything, but I’m just maintaining a space here for myself where we all agree that it’s not fine to kill tens of thousands of kids, actually.
Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.
Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.
They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.
It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.
In June, a beautifully made book will come out at "Berlin Universities Publishing", with contributions on: Alexander von Humboldt, perspectives for the Anthropocene - with a longish contribution from me about a certain moment in Humboldt's life, architectural theory and the history of Earth system science. The book's pdf will be free - but if you wish, you can also buy a softcover or hardcover version for the bookshelf. I just went through the proofs. It'll be an interesting read!
AAU OPEN’s Competence Unit guides AAU's researchers within Open Access, Open Science, and open publishing opportunities. At the same time, AAU Open Publishing is an alternative publishing platform for open publications from Aalborg University, i.e.
TEHRAN, Apr. 30 (MNA) – In a phone conversation, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf discussed bilateral ties and urged stronger Islamic cooperation in response to Israeli aggression in Palestine.
Harvard released dueling reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim bias. Guess which one the Times emphasized. theintercept.com/2025/04/30/ha…
NDFP Denounces US Imperialism’s Growing Web of War
US-led military partnerships between PH, Japan and New Zealand only deepens imperialist control
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) strongly opposes the growing web of war provocations being spun by US imperialism across the Asia Pacific. The recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the Philippines—following the trilateral military framework forged last year between the United States, Japan, and the Marcos Jr. regime—marks another thread in this dangerous imperialist design. The so-called “Strengthened Strategic Partnership” is not about mutual security, but about tightening a US-led military net aimed at ensnaring China in an inter-imperialist conflict. Washington spins this web of alliances and agreements, hoping China will fall into its trap of war provocations—but it is the Filipino people who will ultimately be sacrificed as collateral damage in a war that does not serve their interest.
For decades, the US has manipulated regional tensions to maintain its military dominance in East and Southeast Asia, and today’s developments are a continuation of that imperialist legacy. Japan, under the pretext of “collective self-defense” and “regional peace”, has systematically reversed its post-World War II pacifist constitution, rearmed its military, and expanded its reach across the region at the behest of Washington. Japan’s increasing involvement in military pacts, including this trilateral agreement with the Philippines and the US, does not serve the interests of the Filipino people, but the strategic ambitions of the US to encircle and contain China.
The Marcos Jr. regime, a willing accomplice to US imperialist dictates, is shamelessly dragging the Filipino people into this growing web of war provocations. Most recently, the regime has moved to finalize a Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with New Zealand, set to be signed on April 30. Like the existing VFA with the United States, this new agreement with New Zealand will allow their troops to enter, stay, and operate within the Philippines under the pretense of joint exercises, humanitarian missions, and disaster response. But in reality, it is meant to provide a formal excuse for permanent foreign military presence serving the broader US strategy of military encirclement in Asia. This is not an act of national defense, but clear example of subservience to US imperialist warmongering. The Philippines is once again being turned into a staging platform for foreign intervention and a pawn in the inter-imperialist rivalry between US and China.
Though portrayed as mutually exclusive thus bilateral, these military alliances and so-called security cooperation agreements are part of a coordinated framework to expand and consolidate US military presence in the region—a strategy vital to the US pivot to Asia and its containment policy against China. From Japan and New Zealand, Australia to South Korea and the Philippines, the US is systematically repurposing its post-WWII military alliances to maintain its hegemony amid its ongoing strategic decline.
This expanding network of military partnerships undermines national sovereignty, escalates the risk of conflict, and makes the Philippines a frontline pawn in a brewing inter-imperialist confrontation. It serves neither peace nor development. The Filipino people must oppose these unequal military treaties and reaffirm our national independence and right to chart our own course free from foreign domination and imperialist subjugation.
As the US lays the groundwork for war, the Filipino people wage their own war of liberation. In the countryside, the revolutionary movement steadily advances the people’s democratic revolution, fighting for genuine land reform, national industrialization, and a truly sovereign and democratic society. This path to just and lasting peace entails the overthrow of the semicolonial and semifeudal system and the dismantling of imperialist control over our land, our seas, and our future.
Down with US imperialist war alliances! Scrap the Visiting Forces Agreements! Victory to the people’s democratic revolution!
What is regarded as “calm” in the West Bank is a daily reality of settler and army violence, home demolitions, and arrests. It is as if for Palestinians to exist in the media, they have to be killed.
Shen Yun, the dance company associated with the far right, anti-communist Falun Gong cult, staged a number of performances in British cities between January-March 2025.
"37. "Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38. Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." " (Luke 6:37-38 NKJV)
The world is realigning. Prepare yourself. The enemies you have been sold bear a new and sober reckoning. Consider the lies. Consider the liars. Consider their motives. They wash out ugly. Now. Think for yourself. Forgot the programming. Think. Watch. Observe. It will become more clear. Stand alone if you must. Think for yourself.
President Trump publicly promoting the first 100 days is brilliant. He sets a marker. He gathers attention. Show man. Calendar versus accomplishment. Reset the critics. Use them. Expose them. The past is a great comparison. Bold. Unflinching. Face the detractors. Lessen them. How? FACTS. NOTHING BUT FACTS.
Sir Anthony Bacon
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