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"This is the only question on this list we can answer definitively—yes, you need flood insurance. Before Harvey, many realtors said it was only necessary when it came to certain parts of town, certain types of homes, or certain areas in the flood plain. ‘That’s about the opposite of what the message should be,’ says Caroline Schlemmer, an agent with Greenwood King."

Business hasn’t slowed down much since then, and is still substantially higher than prior to the storm. Hudson said sales have outpaced stock delivery multiple times. Much of the support Hudson attributes to his staff’s social media prowess. He said technology has vaulted the location “over the hill” away from being a laid back location to one that has Wi-Fi access and offers people new ways to place orders remotely, just in time for the new Richmond Community College campus coming next door in late 2019.

Early acoustics materials focused on absorbing sound—soaking up sonic energy rather than reflecting it. That approach produced its own idiosyncratic soundscape. As the science historian Emily Thompson explains in her book The Soundscape of Modernity, absorptive materials removed reverberation, producing “clear and direct” sound. “In a culture preoccupied with noise and efficiency,” Thompson writes, “reverberation became just another form of noise, an unnecessary sound that was inefficient and best eliminated.”

A simple, affordable way to retrofit poor acoustic-performing spaces, the panels have a Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) of 0.90 to provide sound absorption while maintaining the look and feel of the exposed structure. The panels were installed directly to the deck with a 4- to 6-inch offset to eliminate the need to move any sprinklers or conduits.

The south end makes plain how the structure stands up. An ensemble of enormous cables encased inside a giant beam counteracts the thrust of all those heavy, cantilevered concrete decks. Like a sword in a stone, the beam angles from the top of the tower through the red-tiled roof of an adjacent former warehouse, anchoring in the floor below.

To sum things up, if you’re in the market for a stylish lower mid-range smartphone, and don’t really care about things like camera quality and software experience, the Honor 8C is going to serve you just fine. However, if you’re looking for a value-for-money mobile device that checks all the right boxes, I’d advise you instead go for the aforementioned Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro, Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 (or perhaps wait for the upcoming Zenfone Max M2), or even the entry-level variant of the Realme 2 Pro.

Once the helmets are molded, they are staged and ready for sanding, painting or decals. Notice that all of the “holes” in the helmet are ready for vents and other parts; this is done in the molding process:

Finished space on the lower level offers the added versatility to suit a variety of needs such as a recreation room, play room, home theater, office or gym.

–      Three available powertrains include a responsive 180HP 2.0-liter Ingenium diesel 4-cylinder, a 247HP 2.0-liter gas Ingenium 4-cylinder and a potent 380HP supercharged 3.0-liter gas V6 engine. Each engine is mated to an 8-speed ZF® transmission with all-wheel drive standard2

I’ve had a few tech21 cases over the years, and they all follow the same basic design: a clear back with a pattern, plus a colored frame. The Pixel 2 versions use the exact same formula, and while the result isn’t bad, it’s certainly not worth the $39.99 (add $5 for the XL) tech21 charges.

Jim Grote, of Cream City Construction, said how the outside of a garage looks is just as important as the inside.

I had previously asked Ive about the rounded corners and edges that have long helped distinguish an Apple product from a ThinkPad or a book. (As Apple’s product range has narrowed to a series of flat rectangles, these transitions have become a surviving zone of pure industrial design.) On a day when Ive was so exhausted that it seemed possible he might fall asleep while talking, he became animated when describing the “primitive” design geometry that was usual before the computer era—essentially, two straight lines joined by a fragment of a circle. He then spoke of the opportunities that now exist, if the material permits, to take a more elegant path from one line to another; he talked of tangency breaks and Bézier surfaces. When I mentioned this to Powell Jobs, she cried out, “Yes! That is such a breakthrough, I forgot about that.” For each product, Jobs and Ive would discuss corners “for hours and hours.” She later noted that she and Ive share a taste for Josef Frank, the Austrian-Swedish designer of rounded furniture and floral fabrics, who once announced, in a lecture, “No hard corners: humans are soft and shapes should be, too.”