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A door briefly opened, and I saw flashes of color pinned to a wall. (This, Ive later explained, was the conference room where the Apple Watch film was being storyboarded.) Then we stopped in Ive’s office, a twelve-foot square separated from the studio by a glass wall. On shelves, Ive had set his Playmobil likeness and similar gifts, along with dozens of custom sketchbooks that had padded blue covers and silver edging. On the floor, behind a Marc Newson desk, was a rugby ball. Overlapping framed images leaned against the wall: a Banksy print of the Queen with the face of a chimpanzee, and a poster, well known in design circles, that begins, “Believe in your fucking self. Stay up all fucking night,” and ends, many admonitions later, “Think about all the fucking possibilities.”

In 1985, Ive began studying industrial design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). He had the profound experience of using a Mac for the first time: “I had a sense of the values of the people who made it.” He had two half-year internships at a London design firm, and his adeptness was embarrassingly evident: according to Clive Grinyer, who met him in that office, Ive was given some of the company’s most important work. Grinyer recalled visiting Ive in Newcastle: “I stayed the night in his living room, surrounded by hundreds of foam models—all white, of course. There was that little tiny difference between each one.” He called Ive “the most focussed human being I’ve come across.” This is also Ive’s description of Jobs.

Asked how, with such a bleak outlook in September, did the staff come together to get to this point, general manager Robin Roberts said the bonds between the staff and the community made it possible.

Her clothes always seemed less about what men desired than what whet her creative appetite. He was once invited to propose an expansion for the Museum of Modern Art and thumbed his nose at the selection committee by suggesting a billboard that said “MoMA Inc.” They were both contrarians and closet optimists.

Now, Meyers points proudly to the pulley, which he left hanging from the rafters, a subtle symbol of what it took to bring Kurant’s tap house to life.

By creating in-plane variations in the superheat temperature, the nucleation, growth, and departure of vapor has been substantially affected. Spatial ordering of the flow field allows for the efficient removal of vapor and return of liquid, accelerating the ebullition cycle and promoting the departure of bubbles. The efficient return of replenishing liquid has been seen to delay dry-out and enhance CHF up to a factor of 2x using bi-conductive surfaces. While no formal characterization of the long-term reliability of the samples has been conducted, none of the bi-conductive surfaces tested in this work have shown any mechanical failure or degradation during several hours of testing.

The infotainment system also features two multi-function rotary controllers that are distinguished by their tactile, rubberized outer surface, Satin Chrome bezels and seamlessly-integrated digital display screens. The rotary transmission controller rises silently from the center console on start-up.

At Jobs’s memorial, which was held on the lawn at Infinite Loop, Ive said, “Steve used to say to me—and he used to say this a lot—‘Hey, Jony, here’s a dopey idea.’ And sometimes they were: really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But sometimes they took the air from the room, and they left us both completely silent. Bold, crazy, magnificent ideas. Or quiet, simple ones which, in their subtlety, their detail, they were utterly profound.” Ive said to me, “I couldn’t be more mindful of him. How could I not, given our personal relationship, and given that I’m still designing in the same place, at the same table, where I spent the last fifteen years with him sat next to me?”

Nearly all segments of the Houston housing market saw gains this year, and the most recent HAR data for November 2018 shows a record increase of more than 12 percent in the luxury market, which includes homes priced at $750,000 and up.

"This $5.85 million estate for sale in Sugar Land is frequently compared to a castle, and not for nothing—the three-acre property boasts decidedly castle-like features, not limited to expansive and park-like grounds, courtyards (with stone balustrades), a circular two-story library, another two-story opera room (with a balcony), travertine marble floors in the chef’s kitchen, a wine cellar, a reception hall with a domed ceiling, and—wait for it—an observation deck for views of adjoining Alkire Lake."

Kevin Keenan, owner of StoreWALL, a Grafton wall organization company that works mainly with installers but also directly with the public, said it uses a system that gives homeowners “a bigger footprint on their garage walls.”    

“We’re a family and we stick together, we take care of our own,” Roberts said. “We were here every day putting in the blood, sweat and tears but it’s very, very well worth it.”