Chris Elwood's card has him down as "mechanical engineer" for Marlin, but he handles half of all the company's sales.

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But in July two friends joined me for the ordeal: Thomas Pennington, 30, a civil engineer from Portland, Ore.

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He's as rigorous as any formal engineer in that he draws up designs for each work but, he said, the finished device can look very different to the initial conception.

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An entrepreneur gets no break on his or her taxes for hiring an engineer or a sales person to enhance the ability to grow a business, but the purchase of a new truck to replace an old one is fully deductible.

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As with any new technology, high frame rates and higher resolutions will take some time for our eyes to get used to, but equally important, the industry will learn from these early attempts and engineer these formats to better align with our own cognitive capacities.

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