Leave the Furniture to the Professionals

February 19, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Attempting to handle the relocation of your home or business is not a wise thing to do, as the many details involved can give you immense stress. You can even sustain a serious injury in the process of lifting and moving your furniture. The lifting of heavy objects is very risky, and you may suffer from a sore back, strain or pull your muscles, and a worse scenario is suffering from a slipped discs. If you lose balance while moving, you can even fracture your bones. Injuries as such are very dangerous and costly, so it is best to call in a professional furniture mover.

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A marriage of space

February 10, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

    The photo gallery. Local photographer Al Rendon lives and works in an 1890s building located in Southtown. In 2001, Rendon bought the building that once housed offices and a motel. The renovated space now serves as a gallery and living quarters for Rendon, his wife and his brother. Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News

    The photo gallery. Local photographer Al Rendon lives and works…

    The kitchen area.

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Coral Gables automates building and zoning process

February 6, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

A customer tries Coral Gables’ new automated customer management system in its Building and Zoning department. The kiosk system is designed to guide customers to the correct line so as to minimize wait times. Coral Gables Building and Zoning Upload and share your own.

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As a permit expediter for several Coral Gables high rises on busy Alhambra, Maria Delgado knows what it feels like to pull a permit in Coral Gables.

Visitors to the third floor of City Hall get in one line to schedule an appointment with an inspector, another to query a receptionist, yet another to pay a cashier and so forth.

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Richard Branson’s High-flying Autobiography: Many Success Stories, Few Success Secrets

January 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Appearing recently at a TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference, Virgin Group founder and CEO Richard Branson sits hunched modestly in his chair, legs crossed, fingers knitted around his knees. The posture is not that of the powerful, self-assured tycoon, but of the beta male signaling submissiveness. Thereby reduced in size, Branson chuckles a lot and tells stories on himself — how Mates, his condom brand, failed and how he is now godfather to one of the results; how Virgin Brides went under when he couldn’t find any customers; how he can never remember the difference between net and gross; how he once tried on Goldie Hawn’s huge diamond ring and had to have it cut off his finger when it got stuck.

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Lightroom 4 Public Beta Released

January 5, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

I was just about ready to call it a day but I just noticed that Adobe just put up LR 4 Beta for download. So I thought I’d pass that along.

  1. www.photoshopcafe.com/lightroom/
  2. Cnet.com

More to come on this later.

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