It was a place bound by cinder blocks and cement.
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The cinder blocks supporting each corner are contemporary to the period.
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Their marbleized cinder blocks pose a great opportunity for exposed architectural foundations.
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"We're seeing cars being put up on cinder blocks again," he said.
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Do you have to put your washer and dryer on cinder blocks?
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Even some errant cinder blocks on the ground were overrun with fake rats.
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The only decoration in the fish's tanks were pebbles, pipes, and cinder blocks.
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They're both about the size of two stacked cinder blocks on your countertop.
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They broke his arms and legs, and threw cinder blocks onto his back.
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We had adobe in this hemisphere before, but never cinder blocks, never rebar.
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And eventually cinder blocks replaced the view from one of her bedroom windows.
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Cinder blocks, cereal boxes, even a Valentine's Day balloon were out of place.
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Because cinder blocks are not really that strong and kind of rough and grainy.
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Shuffling its feet with a sound like cinder blocks scraped across a ship deck.
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Business signs have been torn down, gates padlocked, entrances walled off with cinder blocks.
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" JS: "Our first pop-up, we used cinder blocks and birchwood for our shelves.
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"Cinder blocks are heavy, so I would say storm surges are stronger," she said.
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Wood and concrete dwellings, their facades scrawled with invented addresses, sit on cinder blocks.
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He likens the crime to throwing cinder blocks off a roof into a crowd below.
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They don't even meet our gaze; they just laze about on concrete and cinder blocks.
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The construction experts CNN spoke to said the strongest wall would be made of cinder blocks.
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Bulldozers had plowed a path through heaps of cinder blocks, felled power poles, and other detritus.
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The debris includes bricks, cinder blocks and metal, including the bands that held the barrels together.
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They're not the most rugged, but they also don't feel like cinder blocks on your feet.
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I'm not over the moon, either, with her tactic of dropping hints like so many cinder blocks.
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Closer to the coast, more stores sell cinder blocks, cords of wood, fireplaces and outdoor furniture supplies.
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A plain metal pole juts from the ground, propped up by a tripod and anchored by cinder blocks.
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So he's saving up paychecks from his part-time hardware store job to buy cinder blocks to rebuild.
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Robin Ventura in need of a life vest and Chris Sale is just tossing cinder blocks to him.
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A twelfth of the size, these mini cinder blocks are made of actual cement — just like the real deal.
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Derrick Lewis and Roy Nelson will test each other's gas tanks over a few minutes of throwing cinder blocks.
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The nearly nine-foot painting rests upon two cinder blocks, emphasizing the earthbound status of this happy Arcadian couple.
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Settlers and their supporters hurled cinder blocks at the officers, who charged on horseback and beat protesters with batons.
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The teens giggled as they beat the three men with their fists, pieces of cinder blocks, and metal pipes.
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"We have no choice," a Nigerian man who cleaned houses, stacked cinder blocks, and worked on farms told me.
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Flying debris darkened the sky, and, after a seemingly long interlude, whole cinder blocks began crashing onto the roof.
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They also drain water in which mosquitoes might breed, such as muggy ponds, hollow cinder blocks and littered bottle caps.
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Instead they beam from correctional facilities, the prisoners hidden from view behind miles of razor wire, cinder blocks, and electric fencing.
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Eventually, Saleh managed to get his hands on some cinder blocks and used them to build a small one-room house.
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Built with cinder blocks in a zone where it was illegal to build, it was shut down by authorities and abandoned.
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It is a modest square of cinder blocks, perhaps 18003 feet on each side, topped with an aluminum dome and minarets.
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They first had to get Tiffany off of the cinder blocks and, like an RV, unhook the water, sewage, and electric.
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At dawn, they rode to the plant in a dilapidated van whose seating consisted of wooden planks resting on cinder blocks.
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Hutson and Snipes, meanwhile, crafted beats from unconventional field recordings like a blaring alarm clock and cinder blocks and ball bearings.
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Cinder blocks stacked above the T-shaped sections of preformed concrete raise the dividing wall in the Komari neighborhood by another meter.
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As Neto flies up to gather Exum's handoff, Ingles darts toward Lyles and Withey who pose as cinder blocks on the wing.
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The local government is constructing new buildings nearby, a vote of confidence — even if it's one that rests on raised cinder blocks.
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She can usually tell how much water has ever come in by how many cinder blocks high people have stored their belongings.
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Outside the studio, a Dodge Challenger Violette had bought and treasured sat on cinder blocks, its wheels stolen and its windows progressively smashed.
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My wife and children might be shot by a sniper any time from Binnish, even though we put up curtains and cinder blocks as protection.
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Whatever tool was used on the wall made clean horizontal cuts through six rows of cinder blocks, two stacks thick, and a layer of drywall.
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Or where it used to be — a doorman in the outer lobby showed this reporter that the wall had been repaired with new cinder blocks.
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"It's a very surreal feeling when you're handing your dog to a stranger while he's standing on a pile of cinder blocks," Mr. Tucker said.
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With a 40-foot mast held up by a car tire or cinder blocks, they tested different antenna locations to optimize the reception at their houses.
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By using materials such as vinyl siding, cinder blocks and chain like fences, he explores the lost American dream through concepts of nostalgia and abandoned hope.
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There, the boyfriend, Johnny Shane Barker, allegedly helped them remove the bodies, dismembered them, tied them with chains to cinder blocks, and dumped them in the water.
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This video shows off navigation of a heaping pile of cinder blocks, as well as narrower paths, which are trickier to navigate because of limited navigation options.
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Four of the finalists plan to produce sturdy building materials such as cinder blocks made from the slag left over from steel production, cured with carbon dioxide.
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Lauri Markkanen and (the still unsigned) Nikola Mirotic will create space as best they can, while Cristiano Felicio and Robin Lopez will roam as rim-rolling cinder blocks.
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As the evening began in the city's St. Pauli section, about 30 protesters blocked roadways near the main train station with cinder blocks and pieces of a fence.
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The smallest of the three sculptures that comprise this quietly overwhelming show is an untitled ziggurat of blackened cinder blocks, rusted steel and plastic-wrapped fiberglass from 22010.
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For Tim Herrick, it's when he takes a bunch of cinder blocks, hoists them 6 feet in the air, then pulls a cord to release them, sending them plummeting groundward.
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But Mini Materials' Miniature Cinder Blocks set is a lot more than fun and games: It's a great way to refocus your attention, practice strategic thinking, and unlock your creativity.
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Mr. Parker's father died when he was 11, and he grew up in a housing project in Norfolk, Va. — "rats and cinder blocks," he said in an interview on Saturday.
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I think about Sebastian, the baby born after the storm, and Pilar, who died in its aftermath; about Carmen with her broken arm, and Héctor saving money for cinder blocks.
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Most of the homes in the neighborhood are modest, and some are propped up on wooden stilts or cinder blocks, but even that did little prevent the floodwaters from creeping into homes.
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Mini Cinder Blocks With Pallet & Shipping Crate — $220 See Details Calling all non-yard-havers: You can establish your own garden right on your kitchen countertop with EcoQube's vertical micro-green frame.
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The effect, Cole said, is dorm room-esque: no frames, just signs taped to the walls of whitewashed cinder blocks, offset by the occasional flag, all meant to keep homesickness at bay.
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Besides being a hard worker, the Ram HD is also surprisingly nice to drive around even when it's not towing thousands of pounds or carrying a load of cinder blocks, said Rechtin.
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Texcore, a new EP for Yellow Claw's Barong Family, reads as a statement of intent—fast as fuck and absolutely pummeling in a way that breaking cinder blocks with your forehead might be.
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Luckily, when Devon gets to what I assume is their pied-à-terre in the city, she discovers that Richie hasn't been crushed under a thousand cinder blocks; he's merely in the shower.
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"It took about 52 cinder blocks," David Gleeson, one of the artists, said by phone on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after he and his partner, Mary Mihelic, erected their version of Mr. Trump's wall.
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Today we're thinking about CINDER blocks, which are used for building (or holding up a plank of wood to make a spiffy TV stand, if you're in college) and made, ostensibly, of CINDER.
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A wall in the living area is made of cinder blocks interspersed with thin strips of glass and framed by clerestory windows and sidelights, designed to create a pattern of light at sunset.
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Angela took him to her home, the first time he'd seen it, a wooden house on cinder blocks, with a concrete cistern, very tidy, laundry on a line and chickens in the yard.
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In this case, he's dropping those cinder blocks into the bed of the 2019 Sierra Denali, the latest iteration of GMC's high-end pickup truck, to see what sort of abuse it can handle.
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Oklahoma officials have charged three white men and a woman in connection with the deaths of two black men whose dismembered bodies were found tied to cinder blocks at the bottom of a pond.
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It's capable of turning cinder blocks into pebbles, but you can also swap a bowling ball for a watermelon or a pumpkin and turn those gourds into a massively satisfying explosion of pulp.[YouTube]
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He stopped traffic on the High Line with his sculpture of a car propped on cinder blocks and covered with a patchwork of cut tires that became a giant vase for an apple tree.
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Concrete walls made of stacked cinder-blocks are a known risk in earthquakes but the danger has been largely ignored even though the current building codes calls for walls built before 1981 to be upgraded.
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Target acquired, it tears at the wood with rodent-like teeth that are both continually growing, like a beaver's, and so strong that in captivity aye-ayes have been known to chew through cinder blocks.
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The father, in spare moments between his three jobs, built a four-bedroom house out of cinder blocks he acquired two or three at a time from Home Depot, working sometimes late into the night.
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Atop this monocultural edenic bounty, with copiously sloppy handfuls of grainy gray cement and nine unevenly staggered rows of light beige cinder blocks, he built a slightly listing and occasionally gaptoothed but unmistakably solid wall.
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You could watch endless cat videos on YouTube or play an addicting game on your smartphone, but if you're looking for a productive way to unwind or refocus, Mini Materials' Cinder Blocks may do the trick.
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The station reported that the night Karki died, pledges had been required to run relays, do push-ups, lift cinder blocks over their heads for extended periods of time, and perform other acts of extreme exercise.
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When most people hear the term "breeze block," they think of drab rectangular cinder blocks—the kind you find stacked unceremoniously in the back of Home Depot, or that job site down the street from your office.
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If there were a sport in which the athlete moved a stack of cinder blocks across a field while listening to a podcast, I might have been able to ride the pine for a minor-league team.
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Jonathan Mosca, who has worked as a set designer for films like "Beasts of the Southern Wild," designed and built the interiors all in minimal gray and blond: cinder blocks, poured concrete, matte steel and wooden booths.
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"Police Story" is largely the sum of its action scenes although it's also enjoyable to watch the villains wield cellphones the size of cinder blocks, or see the very young Maggie Cheung as Chan's long-suffering girlfriend.
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My stepdad kept the requisite junk car on cinder blocks in the side yard, tinkering in spurts to get the pistons firing just enough to enter her in the next demolition derby at Riverside Amusement Park in Agawam, Massachusetts.
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Protesters, who have demanded Mr. Moïse's ouster, have blocked roads with burning tires, metal fencing and cinder blocks, paralyzing transportation in the capital, forcing the closing of businesses, government offices and schools, and causing shortages of food and fuel.
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The encounter went well and they decided to advance to the backyard, which required walking through their prospective neighbors' apartment, squatting through their back window, and clambering down the stack of cinder blocks they used as a makeshift staircase.
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Decades later, Yang would address his absence in an installation at the 20093 Sharjah Biennial 12, in which she constructed a labyrinth of cinder blocks, turbine vents, steel grates and several rooms, including one where a Korean TV channel played on mute.
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Then José Rafael Castro, Ms. Lugo's boyfriend and the only other breadwinner in the household, came home with bad news: The construction supply factory where he worked making cinder blocks had let him go because the owners could no longer find cement.
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This Wall Street comedy is set in the 1980s, and the era itself is one of the jokes of the show — the senselessness, the cocaine, the hairdos, the stupid TV shows, the cellphones the size of cinder blocks, the sexism, the racism, the lack of introspection.
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By incredible fortune, my restaurant, Prune, had an adjacent empty lot in the early years, where I built an ersatz pit from the yard's rubble (cinder blocks and cobblestone, rebar and duct tape, essentially) and spit-roasted whole lambs all day on Easter Sunday in keeping with tradition.
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They are angry, assertive, and loud, poised for a fight behind Madison's barbed wire and cinder blocks — an entire squadron of "mouthy little girl[s]," which is the most common description given of any one of the teens featured on the show, both by the inmates themselves and their correction officers.
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In Yemen today, sweet chai masala is far more prevalent than coffee, and as my friends and I drove through the dusty lanes of Mokha that afternoon, the town appeared to be little more than a cluster of mud-colored hovels and shacks built from cinder blocks and metal sheets.
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Notable at the Cleveland Museum of Art are a series of huge woodcuts by Kerry James Marshall, Allen Ruppersberg's crisp lightbox photographs of Cleveland, and Marlon de Azambuja's paradoxically whimsical "Brutalismo-Cleveland," an airy little city of found bricks and cinder blocks held up with a menagerie of interesting clamps.
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Brook said the ad was inspired by engineers having to develop new durability tests for the box, which the company has previously said included benchmarking it against other pickups, including its own trucks and the Ford F-150, by throwing objects such as sledgehammers and cinder blocks onto the beds.
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"In past decades, houses didn't have cinder blocks [under them]; people still had trees in their yard and they didn't have fish swimming around in their front yards," said Dave Schulte, a marine biologist at the Army Corps of Engineers who studies the island, when VICE News Tonight visited Tangier Island in October.
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The pillows, the patterns, the pulled-together look — of such things Mr. Price knew little and cared less, until the summer of 2015 when, apparently, he'd had quite enough, thank you, of friends pointing out that the way he lived was unseemly, a very short step up from bookcases made of boards and cinder blocks.
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On a recent afternoon in early June, the sky bright and the air sticky, Ernesto and I walked across the grassy lot where his cousin was shot, retracing those final, frantic steps past the big tree, across the ditch, around the half-vacant apartment row, and into the yard behind the mobile homes perched on cinder blocks.
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Designed a year after Nakashima had signed his contract to create furniture for Knoll Associates, the house became an experiment in low-cost construction at a time of economic optimism and postwar excess: He assembled the low walls facing the property's entrance out of cinder blocks and fieldstones that he collected from the roadside with Marion and Mira.
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