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Faulty pumps, fuming drivers
When San Antonio loan officer David Fernandez pulled into the Valero at Loop 1604 and Voigt Drive in December, he estimates that he had about half a gallon of gas left.
"I have a 20-gallon tank, so, realistically, I figure I probably should have put in 19 and a half," Fernandez said.
"I pumped in over 22 gallons."
An incredulous Fernandez filed a complaint with the state Department of Agriculture, the agency tasked with ensuring pump accuracy. When inspectors showed up the next day, they failed 50 of the station's 73 inspected gas pumps for potentially shortchanging motorists. (For purposes of inspection, the Department of Agriculture treats each grade of gas dispensed at an island — regular, midgrade and premium — as a separate pump.)
State inspectors told Fernandez that his pump wasn't one of the problems. But he doesn't buy it.
"There's no way in hell I could have put in over 22 gallons," he said. "I paid for probably two gallons more than I received — about seven bucks."
Valero Energy spokesman Bill Day disputed the state's findings. He said inspectors dispatched by Valero the same day could not replicate the errors.
The Valero that Fernandez filed a complaint against offers one of the starkest examples of a common problem in the San Antonio area: gas stations with faulty pumps that could cheat motorists.
State inspectors found that nearly one in five gas stations in greater San Antonio — 99 of 509 inspected stores — were operating at least one pump that could stiff motorists, according to a San Antonio Express-News analysis of databases maintained by the Department of Agriculture.
Nearly one in eight stations inspected in the past year had multiple pumps fail inspections for such errors.
The errors could have shortchanged motorists from as little as 3 cents up to more than $3 per fill.
The records analyzed by the Express-News covered inspections performed in Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina and Wilson counties from May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2012.
When inspectors fail a pump, they shut it down, pending a successful re-inspection.
Pumps are inspected at least once every four years. Inspections also are triggered when new pumps are activated, when a motorist complains about a pump and when a station fails to re-apply for its permit in a timely manner.
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Click here for a interactive map showing gas stations that failed to dispense the amount of gas shown on the pump.
How pumps cheat
Does not hold zero (pump-jumping)
Sometimes, before gas is dispensed, the pump will add some amount — a nickel, a dime, sometimes more — to the bill. Records indicate pump-jumping was the most common violation in the San Antonio area from May 1, 2011, through April 30, 2012, accounting for 47.6 percent of inspection failures.
Improper calibration
Inspectors will also catch pumps that are calibrated improperly — providing less gasoline to the customer than indicated on the pump. When determining whether a pump is too far short of its measure, inspectors give station owners some room for error. A pump can be off by as many as 6 cubic inches per 5 gallons tested. There are 231 cubic inches per gallon. In metro San Antonio, just over one-fourth of motorist-shorting pumps were flagged as coming up short of their measure. And about one-fifth of those were found to be off by more than double the allowed amount. They were treated as a separate offense by inspectors.
Improper maintenance
Stations can be cited when at least 60 percent of their pumps are found to be off to the detriment of the customer. In such a case, inspectors will fail those pumps that were miscalibrated. Such pumps account for a bit over a quarter of the area's motorist-shorting pumps.
Price/quantity not in agreement
Finally, there are pumps that, while dispensing an accurate amount of fuel, improperly calculate the price per gallon. For example, a pump might have dispensed 5 gallons of gasoline but charged the motorist for 5.1 gallons. Data indicate this was not an issue for any area pumps.
Fundamentally, all these errors come down to the same result: charging consumers for gas they never got.
Source: Texas Department of Agriculture
Who to call
If you suspect that a pump is charging customers for undelivered fuel, you can file a complaint with the Texas Department of Agriculture by calling 800-TELL-TDA or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Additionally, all stations must post an up-to-date registration certificate. Motorists can use a QR code printed on the certificate to obtain the latest inspection information for a particular station. If you do not see a registration certificate posted on the pump, you can contact the Department of Agriculture.
Stations must apply for renewal of their permit annually, but their performance on pump inspections has no bearing on whether their license is renewed, said Bryan Black, director of communications for the Department of Agriculture.
Tom "Smitty" Smith, director of Public Citizen's Texas office, said that's a problem.
"Compliance with the law ought to be a fundamental component of whether a license is renewed," Smith said.
The Department of Agriculture can fine station owners to deter noncompliance. From last May through this April, inspectors issued 40 fines to 32 stations in the San Antonio area. The fines ranged from $100 to $1,600, with all but six less than $500.
The penalty data, obtained through a public records request, does not indicate for what violations the stations were fined or when they occurred.
The amount of the fines struck Smith as insufficient.
"One of the basic principles of fines is they have to be big enough to deter repetitive violations, and a fine that small is looked at as the price of doing business," Smith said.
Black disagreed with the premise that fines can be the main enforcement mechanism, saying that the lost income from having a pump shut down is deterrence enough.
"Every minute that pump is not working, that station owner is losing money," Black said.
Repeat offenders
When inspectors tested 12 of the pumps at the Chavez Food Mart at 803 Old Highway 90 in San Antonio in March, they failed eight midgrade and premium dispensers for so-called "pump jumping": ringing up charges before gas comes out.
At the reinspection the next month, they failed all eight for the same offense — discovering they were still adding between 5 and 70 cents per fill.
Owner Sam Khoja said that on the rarely used midgrade and premium pumps, "air gets into the pump." He expressed exasperation that his pumps failed the April inspection after he paid a company $500 to fix them after the March inspection.
"I don't know what I have to do," said Khoja, who's considering shutting down his higher-grade pumps for good.
John Keller, vice president of Petroleum Solutions, a company certified by the Department of Agriculture to perform repairs on defective pumps, said that, as gasoline loses pressure over time, the fuel from the dispenser's nozzle recedes back into the pump's storage tank. The longer time a pump sits unused, the more likely this phenomenon is to affect a given quantity of fuel.
And, says Keller, there's not much to stop it.
"It's normal wear-and-tear maintenance," Keller said, adding that most owners who Petroleum Solutions does business with promptly report pump-jumping when it's brought to their attention.
Data indicate that of the 204 pumps that inspectors failed for pump-jumping, 72 percent were midgrade and premium pumps. For all other customer-shorting violations, 51 percent involved midgrade or premium pumps.
Since May 1 of last year, at least nine area gas stations had at least one pump fail a reinspection for the same offense for which it failed an earlier inspection.
The office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott can sue station owners who intentionally defraud motorists. Over the past five years, the office has filed only one such lawsuit.
That case followed a three-day series of inspections at Sunmart gas stations in July 2008. The investigation revealed that 58 percent of the company's Texas gas pumps were shortchanging customers.
The attorney general sued Sunmart's owner, Petroleum Wholesale, LP, and a Harris County jury ordered the company to pay $30 million in restitution to defrauded customers, penalties and fees to the state.
The verdict was later thrown out on a procedural issue. Court records indicate the case is on appeal.
Attorney general spokesman Tom Kelley directed further inquiries about legal enforcement to the Department of Agriculture, writing in an email that "TDA is the first-line regulatory enforcer, not us."
Criminal prosecutions are the responsibility of local district attorneys, but — at least in Bexar County — they are non-existent, according to First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg. In response to inquiries from the Express-News, Herberg surveyed department heads in the DA's office to see if anyone could recall such a prosecution. None could.
Herberg said the reason the DA hasn't pursued cases against station owners is simple: The Department of Agriculture hasn't referred any cases to the office for prosecution.
"We would be glad to have those cases if they're filed with our office," Herberg said. "If they were filed, we would prosecute them."
Triggered by complaints
Many inspections are triggered by complaints from motorists who believe a pump cheated them out of gas.
Such complaints led to 288 inspections from May 2011 through this April in greater San Antonio, 24 of which revealed pumps that could be cheating customers. Inspectors shut down 30 pumps as a result of those inspections.
One complaint was filed by Terri Glascock.
When Glascock stopped by the Valero at 5100 Crestway last September, she encountered a familiar problem. The pump would charge her for gasoline before any had been dispensed.
"When you selected the grade, 12 cents would come up on the screen before you even pulled the trigger," said Glascock, a bookkeeper who lives in Universal City.
Glascock said the incident that led her to file a complaint wasn't the first time she'd noticed the pumps jumping.
"I'd gone there several times to fill up, and one time it was 12 cents and then it was 12 cents again and then the next time it was 26 cents," Glascock said. "That's what really ticked me off."
Every time she was cheated, she'd go to the employees at the store, and they'd give her a refund without argument.
"It's like they knew it," Glascock said.
After the 26-cent incident, she filed a complaint with the Department of Agriculture. Records indicate that an inspection four days later revealed nine of the station's 24 pumps to be pump-jumping. At the station's two most recent inspections — in October and November last year — all but one tested pump passed.
Valero pumps have a greater propensity to fail inspections for potentially shorting customers than do their competitors, records show. Valero pumps failed at a 7.4 percent rate. Non-Valero pumps failed at a 3.9 percent rate. In terms of individual stores, 24 percent of Valero stores had at least one pump fail an inspection for shorting motorists. For non-Valero stores, the number was 19 percent.
Day, the Valero spokesman, blamed the higher failure rate on the greater number of Valero stores.
"If you have more dispensers in the state, then you're going to have more failures, especially when we're talking about these very small tolerance levels," said Day, referencing a state rule that allows inspectors to fail pumps that are within regularly allowed tolerances if more than 60 percent of a store's pumps shortchange consumers.
Inspectors refer to such pumps as "improperly maintained," and data show that violation accounts for a disproportionate share of Valero's failed pumps. If violations for improper maintenance are not counted, Valero's pumps fail at a 2 percent rate, compared with 3.4 percent for other companies' pumps.
But Day couldn't explain why Valero stores were less likely in the past to fail inspections for providing more fuel than consumers paid for. From May 1, 2008, through April 30, 2011, when the state stopped keeping track of overdispensing pumps, non-Valero stores were three times more likely than Valero stores to have at least one pump fail for providing more gas than consumers paid for.
Padding the bill
Pump-jumping was also a problem for Sylvia Robinson when she tried filling up at the Stop N Get near South New Braunfels and Steves avenues in March.
The San Antonio public school teacher said that once she lifted her pump's release, she didn't even have time to put gas into her Mini Cooper before she was charged 34 cents.
"I went over there (into the station) and I told them (station employees), 'I haven't pumped a thing yet and it's already showing 30-something cents, and they said, 'There's no way' and I said, 'I'm telling you.'"
Two off-duty employees happened to be in line at the store, and the cashier asked them to accompany Robinson back to her pump. She started it up again and, after the same result, one of the employees asked her to use another pump. That pump also jumped — by 28 cents.
"I told them, 'I know 30-something cents is not a lot, but if this is done to every customer that comes through here on a daily basis, that's quite a bit of money," Robinson said.
An inspection two days after Robinson filed a complaint indicated that one of the reported pumps was pump-jumping, though inspectors did not record by how much. Twelve other pumps passed inspection.
A man who identified himself as the station's manager denied that it has ever failed an inspection but was unable to offer evidence to the contrary.
"Thirty-something cents is not that much, but gas is high enough as it is," Robinson said. "We all expect to get what we pay for."
She continued, "At least I do."


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Now there's a blog title I can be proud of for a long time. In my ongoing battle against the pile of games labelled "Want To Play" sit upon various shelves and inside hard drives, I wandered into the side-scolling Mexican playground that is Guacamelee! One of the many aspects of the game I enjoyed were the the power-ups (special wrestling moves) which can be used in combat and in the platforming sections.
Early on in the game, you unlock the 'Rooster Uppercut', which allows your character to punch into the air, flaming fist first. Jump before using the attack, and Juan the Luchador will leap twice as high into the air, allowing you to reach higher platforms. Or groin-punch unsuspecting flying opponents.
"That is an interesting way to bring the classic double-jump into the game", I thought to myself.
Some time later, to my surprise, the game then handed me the officially titled 'Double-Jump'. The classic kind too: leap once into the air from the ground, and then leap higher into the air from the... well, the air. Combined with what I thought was the games D.J. equivalent, Guacamelee! allows the player to perform the ever-elusive triple-jump!
Now I could travel down the old 'what's up with double-jump?' line of inquiry (if I can jump off nothing, why not just keep jumping? Etc), but I accepted this piece of gaming logic a long time ago, providing it's done well. Instead, I'm wish to talk about some of my experiences with the double-jump, and then ask you to share yours.
Kratos (God of War) – 'I can't be bothered' style.
I've no issue with the ash-covered King of Rage using a double-jump. Kratos can move mountains, claw his way out of the afterlife and generally stab his way through the torso of any big baddy that he goes up against. Oh and he uses magic too. Performing a mid-air jump should be easy for him. So why, does his double-jump need to be... so half-hearted?
One tap of the jump button and Kratos will begrudgingly perform a little bounce. Pretty standard. Press the button again when he is in midair and the God of War, with all his might, with all his power... does a little kick and shrugs his shoulders. This is a guy who can literally topple giant statues over by pushing them with his legs. Yet ask him to jump a little higher and his reaction is akin to teenager whose parents just told them to take out the bins.
"Kratos, do a double-jump!"
"I don't wanna!".
Jak (Jak and Daxter) – 'I'll double-jump however I want' style.
The Jak and Daxter Collection is also part of my pile of yet-to-play games (I have completed the first of the HD Trilogy). And isn't Jak the show off? Not content with the regular "screw you" to physics, Jak wants to add a jump at the end of jungle roll too.
If Jak can't reach a nearby ledge with the usual double-jump, throw him into a dodge followed by the jump button. Jak will launch forward – into midair no less – and then dive forwards onto the next platform. Or he'll roll off the other side, the little poser.
Prince & Elika (Prince of Persia, 2008) – 'helping hand' style.
This Prince of Persia game did a lot of things differently, for better or worse. That's another discussion for another time. One new addition was a double-jump which comes courtesy of Elika, your partner for the duration of the game. She's a princess and she has powers, one of which is her ability to appear in the air above the Prince as he leaps into space, whereby she grabs his hand and flings him further forward.
This makes for an interesting take on the double-jump, as well as developing the co-dependency of the main characters. Nevertheless, if the traditional double-jump leaves you scratching your head, this version will not appeal: normal double-jumping laughs in the face of Logic; this version waits for Logic to fall asleep, and then nicks their wallet. You can imagine the Prince thinking to himself:
"I'm pretty sure I could just get her to carry me up that mountain..."
Razputin (Psychonauts) - the 'bouncy ball' style
"We should justify the double-jump in Psychonauts", exclaimed the game creators.
"Oh really?" I inquired, in this interview, which clearly never happened. "I don't think you need to do that. The game is wonderfully surreal and bonkers. No one will question how the character manages to leap in mid-air. Besides, very few games bother to justify double-jumps"
"Nonsense. The game must have some grounding. Besides, we have a simple idea: instead of twirling inexplicably in mid-air, Razputin will form a mental bubble which will allow him to jump a second time!"
"That sounds cool." I beamed. "It fits the game's style neatly too. Well done."
And with that, the logical part of the game was complete, and the game creators began work on the Pyrokinetic Cougars.
Your thoughts?
These are just a few examples of double-jumping in video games. Do you enjoy double-jumping? Which games do you think do it well? Do you think it makes games too easy? Or are you still confused that such a concept even exists?
Thank you for reading.
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Delegates can catch a wave of opportunity at the 61st annual Conference and Recreational Sports Exposition hosted by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) from April 20-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. The four-day event is designed to bring together collegiate recreational sports professionals, students and industry vendors.
New attendees can enjoy a special social event from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, April 20, on the show floor, according to Katherine Otten, NIRSA editor and assistant director of marketing.
"There will be great raffle prizes, including cash and a four nights' stay at the Anaheim Marriott, the host hotel," Otten says about the New Member Welcome Social.
The Recreational Sports Exposition allows attendees to connect with vendors showcasing fitness equipment, architectural services, technology and more. In addition to the Tuesday evening hours, the show floor will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21.
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Since Anaheim is home to the Disneyland Resort, NIRSA invited speaker Bill Capodagli, co-author of "The Disney Way" and "Innovate the Pixar Way," to speak about why Disney is a relevant role model for recreation leaders. His lecture, "If Walt Ran Your Organization," will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Friday, April 23, at the closing general session.
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Marisa McGilliard, executive director of the Council for Responsible Sport, Portland, OR, a nonprofit organization designed to establish standards of environmental and social responsibility in sports, will discuss "Sports as a Catalyst for Social Change."
In addition, Joe Watz, associate director of marketing and business development at Cal Recreational Sports, Berkeley, CA, will speak about "PLAYgreen — Leading the Green Revolution on Your Campus." Watz created the Caltopia and PLAYgreen experiential marketing events that serve more than 46,000 attendees annually.
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OMG. Toni and Dallas killed.
Wasnt Tina describes as the blonde in green, and thats why we thought they were so far behind. I could be wrong though.But if i am right Tina is not wearing green....Toni is. Toni and Dallas can be the team hours and hours behind Nick and Starr.
Joab,Tina has her fanny pack here at the pitstop location:We know it isn't them who lose it, and we also know it isn't Nick and Star, who were filmed checking into the pit stop first.
Here it is: http://moscow.usembassy.gov/passports.htmlI don't know how the Russian visa-end will work because I know Russia is VERY VERY STRICT with the Visas but I am sure with production in tow and it being a race the Russian gov't may be lenient.EDIT:Sponsorship: Under Russian law, every foreign traveler must have a Russian-based sponsor, which could be a hotel, tour company, relative, employer, university, etc. Even if a visa was obtained through a travel agency in the United States, there is always a Russian legal entity whose name is indicated on the visa and who is considered to be the legal sponsor. Russian law requires that the sponsor must apply on the traveler's behalf for replacement, extension, or changes to a Russian visa. U.S. citizens are strongly advised to ensure that they have contact information for the visa sponsor prior to arrival in Russia, as the sponsor's assistance will be essential to resolve any visa problems.
Even though Nick & Starr appear to be first at the pitstop it's possible they lost their money and passports.As of the first preview it doesn't look like Nick has the fanny pack. Although it could be under his coat although I don't think it looks like it.
Quote from: Michael on November 23, 2008, 08:42:58 PMJoab,Tina has her fanny pack here at the pitstop location:SNIPWe know it isn't them who lose it, and we also know it isn't Nick and Star, who were filmed checking into the pit stop first. What makes you say so Michael? AS far as I know, we don't KNOW who loses it...having your fanny pack doesn't mean your passport is in it... SNIP
Joab,Tina has her fanny pack here at the pitstop location:SNIPWe know it isn't them who lose it, and we also know it isn't Nick and Star, who were filmed checking into the pit stop first.
ur great thanks. i'm excited. this will be fun. now amazing race info for you guys: the team that vanessa took a pic of was obviously the first. i can't describe the 2nd team. we saw them at a difference. but as we were leaving, maybe 4 or 5 hrs after the first went through, we bumped into a 3rd as they got off the monorail. she was blond and wearing spandex pink. she was yelling at the guy she was with and they fought over the right direction. she sprinted the wrong way, then they figured it out. it was pretty funny. they also had a huge amazing race party that night at a hall at the back of the exhibition centre. it was all very secretive. also, did you know once the contestants come through they sit at the side? i always envisioned them giong off to a hotel, but no they sat in a waiting area until at the one of the other teams came thorugh. talk soon robyn
Peach whats this about Nick & Starr having to wait at the Pit Stop? I don't remember that.
ok, party's over - unwinding here! just remembered that i saw phil on NBC Extra yesterday being interviewing in his home office - just briefly - but i do remember one significant thing he said which i don't think has been mentioned here before - he said " one team lost some important documentation and some valuables that was ultimately detrimental to their situation in the race, not good not good at all", and then "we make sure everybody gets home safe and sound".so i'm not so sure about the portland mixup scenario anymore, seems like one team lost (left somewhere or had it stolen) their fanny pack with all their clues and their passports + credit card etc and that's why they don't make it to the final 3.
Dandrew are near the Victory Monument in Victory Park, Moscow
The shots of Ken and Tina are not on the Metro (that's the Moscow Subway). They are seen on one of the many buses or trams that run just about everywhere in Moscow.And the fact that a team lost their passports does not mean that that team finished last at the pit stop. A team could have finished second (Dallas and Toni) and then suddenly realized that they did not have their passports. So we have one team eliminated from the race (Dan and Andrew) and one team stuck in Moscow. So only two teams actually make the final dash to Portland. We had a similar situation when only Romber and (names excape me) make that plane from Puerto Rico to Miami.
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Mixed media artist Brock Davis's latest project, 2012 iPhone Photos, captured with no more than a mobile phone, transports audiences to a world of everyday oddities within fantastical environments. The recent Instagram privacy snafu had users up in arms about the photo-sharing network, but we can't deny that Instagram is an incredible platform that elevates creative photography to new heights.
In a 2009 interview, Brock said that his work is driven by "a strong idea and simple execution," an artistic outlook that certainly lends itself to Instagram's straightforward square-shaped medium. 2012 iPhone Photos proves that great photography isn't about fancy equipment — it's about a little imagination.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
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Howard Terpning, Advertising Illustrator
After finishing his apprenticeship with Sunny, Terpning "moved to Milwaukee, where for three years he painted such subjects as farmers on tractors." Feeling he was finally ready to try his luck in the illustration mecca of New York, he signed on with Stephens, Biondi, De Cicco - the same art studio for whom Lucia Larner worked. Terpning spent five years perfecting his painting technique on mostly advertising art assignments.
Although it's not mentioned in any of the online biographies I read, I have it on good authority that Terpning's next studio was Fredman-Chaite, another New York art studio I presented many posts about just a couple of months ago.
Since we don't have an accurate chronology of this period in Howard Terpning's career, the 1959 ad below may have been done while he was at either SBD or F/C.
Only the barely visible initialed "H.T." verifies that this Orange Crush ad is Howard Terpning's work...
... but that same year (1960) in an ad for McGregor men's fashions, you can see Terpning beginning to explore the distinctive, energetic painting style for which he became known and was much sought-after by clients for the next decade.
Here, for your enjoyment and inspiration, are some more 1960s advertising illustrations by Howard Terpning:
(Worth noting: Terpning seemed to have inherited the Dobbs Hats account from Bob Peak, another Fredman-Chaite Studio member)
Just look at all the dynamic painting details in the background elements of this ad!
Two from 1967...
... and a whole series which I'm guessing are from around 1970.
Now scroll back to the top and marvel at how Terpning's style evolved!
* Thanks to Harold Henriksen and Aron Gagliano of the American Academy of Art for providing most of today's scans.
Howard Terpning was a student at the AAA in Chicago during his early days before his apprenticeship with Haddon Sundblom. He was the academy's distinguished alum at graduation in 2010. Aron had a chance to meet him in person and says, "Spending time with the Terpning's (Howard and Marlies) was just fantastic. I don't think I've ever met a more gracious couple. All around inspiring people in every way."
"While Terpning was at the Academy we had a local news channel come in and do a piece on him:"
Artist Howard Terpning | Chicago Tonight | WTTW
Aron also shared a link to the trailer for a recent Howard Terpning documentary, "Portrait of a storyteller,":
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- Anonymous12:02 AM
Wonderful compilation, thank you! Isn't it striking, how the men in these illustrations are, well, men?ReplyDelete
Today's men in their 40s and 50s are more like eternaly boys in how they carry themselves. Not only in their manner of dressing themselves — collarless shirts in shriek colours and with loud logos or silly words on them, blue jeans all day long, sneakers and baseball hats — but also in their behaviour and how they talk. And it's not only blue collar men, or poor people who cannot afford a suit and tie and clean shirt.
These men depicted here, of what we call The Greatest Generation, somehow pgive off a certain aura that makes you take them seriously. I wonder why we gave that up and what for.
That's a great question, Anonymous; as someone who fits your description (48, jeans and collarless shirt all day, eternally a boy) - and also has the opportunity to spend part of each week "dressing up" in my role as a college instructor, I understand exactly what you're talking about. When I dress 'like a man' for work I do so because I want to be taken seriously - it does make me feel more like an adult. I don't think we've given that up - that's really a generalization, imo, but I think we have rejected a certain amount of the role playing our fathers accepted because I think we saw them as "old men" when they took on that role, and we didn't want to fill those shoes when our turn came. Many of the men of that more serious manly generation retired at 65 and were dead at 67 - or at least it seems that way... I think part of what motivated my generation of men to reject the role our fathers played is a fear of following their footsteps into an early grave!ReplyDelete
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I can't find his name in the Society of Illustrators inductees. Any idea why?ReplyDelete
Has anyone seen this painting in an add? Possibly for General Electric? It shows a couple under an umbrella with two children, all walking at night on a city street on a wet pavement. Predominantly blue colors. Thanks.ReplyDelete
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LOS ANGELES -- The Padres insist there won't be any carryover on Monday night from Thursday's benches-clearing brawl with the Dodgers as the National League West rivals begin a three-game series at Dodger Stadium. It's the first time the clubs have met since the fracas.
Padres manager Bud Black spoke over the phone with Joe Torre, vice president of baseball operations for MLB, before Monday's game. Torre's message was simple: Keep things in perspective on Jackie Robinson Day. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly had a similar conversation with Torre on Monday.
Black said he's spoken to the club at least twice about last week's events, which resulted in an eight-game suspension for outfielder Carlos Quentin and a broken left collarbone for Dodgers starter Zack Greinke. Greinke was injured when Quentin charged the mound after being hit by the right-hander in the sixth inning of a 3-2 loss.
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Quentin began serving his suspension on Sunday after he dropped his appeal. Quentin did not travel with the club to Los Angeles. He is eligible to return for the April 23 home game against the Brewers.


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Hashim Amla (25*) and JP Duminy (2*) are the overnight batsmen, following the dismissal of Alviro Petersen, who was caught off a leading edge for 38.
Skipper Graeme Smith scored a brisk 60 off 84 balls, after which he retired, as he looked to give the rest of the line-up opportunities.
Australia A's batsmen added 155 runs to their overnight score, with Alex Doolan finishing unbeaten on his highest first-class score of 161.
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Smith used his pace bowlers sparingly and strategically, as his arsenal continues with the necessary preparation ahead of Friday's opening match.
Vernon Philander bowled 21 overs without a wicket, an uncommon statistic but one that doesn't bother the Proteas.
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"Time in the middle is invaluable, no matter what the state of the wicket," Amla continued.
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One of the highlights of the day was Amla's rare four-over spell of off-spin, which he was openly delighted about.
"I enjoyed the four overs," Amla – who has one first-class wicket to his name – added.
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"We liberated Iraq."
—Ahmad Chalabi's campaign slogan in Iraq, 2005
"We have undertaken to liberate the beloved homeland," announced the voice on the radio through the static one early morning in Baghdad in 1958. The calendar showed it was July 14, Bastille Day, the anniversary of the start of the French Revolution. Iraqis had slept on their rooftops to avoid the summer heat, and now, all over the city, people began to stumble out into the street. The radio crackled on, repeating a lengthy message. "We have undertaken to liberate the beloved homeland from the corrupt crew that imperialism installed. Power shall be entrusted to a government emanating from you and inspired by you."
In the palace, the Crown Prince, the power behind the throne, got out of bed and turned on the radio to hear the news of his downfall, and then rushed out to surrender. The story goes that when the royals gathered in the courtyard, an Iraqi army captain slaughtered them, riddling their bodies with machine-gun fire in one long-sustained burst.
It was still the early hours of the morning when members of the wealthy Chalabi family, at their homes in the Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya, learned of the coup. Three majestic adjacent homes all belonged to the Chalabis, a close-knit clan. The Chalabis gathered hurriedly to consult on what to do in this new and sudden crisis. The children had slept on the roofs too, under the Baghdad sky, and now they watched the adults as they debated in fright. Children can sometimes sense these things, and the children there had a foreboding that this day was different, that it symbolized an ending of things as they had known them. The grown-ups quickly reached their decision, and then they acted.
Young Ahmad Chalabi, thirteen years old, black-haired and serious, was herded with his mother and the others into a convoy of big American sedans to flee their mansion. Ahmad left behind the basketball hoop he had helped to set up. He left behind the ping-pong table, which slid behind a specially constructed wall. Abandoned as well, just for a time that day, were the pet parrots in the massive cage — almost as big as an aviary — squawking away in the excitement. The brightly colored birds were just one of the delightful and distinctive things in their stately home that the Chalabis were leaving behind. The family split up. Some of the men, joined by the foreign minister of the country, Fadhil al-Jamali, and by Chalabi's much older brother Rushdie Chalabi, fled from town to hide. The rest, including Ahmad and his mother and several siblings and nephews and cousins, drove to Khadimiya, back then just a suburb just north of Baghdad. Khadimiya, a Shiite stronghold, had been the Chalabi family's main base going back for generations. In fact, Medina Abdul Hadi was an adjacent enclave named for Ahmad's father. Luckily, on this day Ahmad's father, Abdul Hadi Chalabi, was out of town; he was in Tehran when the revolution began.
But according to family lore, the Chalabis did not even venture into their compound in Khadimiya, called Seef, which had been a splendid place to play and hunt and celebrate in a well-tended orchard — a wonderland where Iraq's royalty and elite held their parties and festivities. No, the family didn't even go there; instead they crowded into the home of an ally in Khadimiya. They needed somewhere to hide from the soldiers and mobs. While the rest of Iraq was celebrating the bloody revolution, the Chalabis were targets, clustered in their host's estate for shelter.
Born October 30, 1944, toward the end of World War II, when the British still quietly pulled the strings in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi was his parents' ninth and final child. He was born nine years after his next oldest brother, Hazem, and their mother, Bibi, used to joke occasionally that Ahmad was a "mistake," an "accident." Yet she doted on her youngest son. And since some of his older brothers were old enough to be his father, it was as if he had a half-dozen parents tending to him. The Chalabis were a leading Shiite merchant family, entwined with the monarchist government of Iraq. Before the monarchy they had allied themselves with the British occupiers and before that with their Turkish overlords. In the context of the Middle East, they had converted to Shiism relatively recently. Family members say that Ahmad's great-great-grandfather was a Sunni who adopted the Shiite faith. Perhaps the zeal of the convert impressed itself on his offspring, because they became pillars of the Iraqi Shiite community.
'A sigh of relief' after forebear's death
Iraqi historian Hanna Batatu describes Chalabi's great-grandfather as an extremely brutal and powerful man, with his own "special prison at his disposal" and a "bodyguard of armed slaves" that he used to impose his will on the Shiite community of Khadimiya. "When he died the people of Khadhimiyyah heaved a sigh of relief," Batatu wrote, citing Jawad Chalabi, Chalabi's elder brother, as the source.
Chalabi's father, Abdul Hadi, shed the oppressive reputation of his forebear. He functioned as a financier of the Iraqi monarchy, but also of the Shiite clerical leadership in Najaf. Family members say he gave a percentage of his wealth to the Shiite religious leaders, as was expected of those in his position. As for rulers of Iraq, in 1938 Abdul Hadi "got in the good graces of the regent-to-be, 'Abd-ul-Illah, by coming to his assistance with loans." The prince, a gambler, "in due course made him a minister of public works and eventually the vice president of the Senate."
Indeed, a year after young Ahmad Chalabi was born, Prince 'Abd-ul-Illah brought Abdul Hadi with his entourage to the United States on a state visit. They stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York before going to Washington, D.C., where the prince overnighted at the White House. The Chalabi family was part of the old Baghdad business elite: the word "Chalabi" — of Turkish origin — originally was an honorific applied to high-ranking merchants. As Batatu summed it up, "Translating economic power into political influence, and political influence into economic power, the Chalabis climbed from one level of wealth to another, and on the eve of the 1958 revolution surpassed other business families."
Pampered and happy, Ahmad Chalabi was a studious boy. And in the play room of his father's big house, he played ping-pong with Jasseem, the son of a police official who helped to protect the place. He and Jasseem — boys of a different class entirely — played against each other, rhythmically tapping the ball back across the fragile table. Chalabi would later evoke the pleasant times in Iraq that preceded those atrocities of 1958. From his childhood perspective, waist-high to the wealthy, well-educated men around him, this Iraq was an eclectic, tolerant place, where Shiites, Sunnis, Christians, Jews, and even Yazidis worked together. Chalabi kept a photograph for decades that he would show to his friends. "It was the board of his father's company," as one man recalled, "and it was a Turcoman, a Jew, an Assyrian, a couple Shiite, a couple of Sunni. It was like a cross-section of Iraqi Society, and his big thing was, this is how Iraq was. This is how we were, this is how we will be again!"
It was, in one account by a Chalabi supporter, a "golden age." He wrote that "Iraq had a constitution, elections, a reasonably free press, a market economy, expanding public schools, a rising middle class." Another writer described it this way: "Iraq in the 1950s was multiracial and increasingly prosperous." That Iraq was a place to which anyone would want to return.
And indeed, for the rich, the Iraq of the day was a dreamland. The Iraqis mimicked the British nobility. Iraq even had the only foxhunting between Rome and Peshawar, diplomats would quip. But that Iraq existed for only a privileged few. The real Iraq of the day was nothing like it. Even the young Ahmad Chalabi must have caught a glimpse, or a smell at least, of the poverty of that other Iraq. The year before the coup of 1958, he has said, he had traveled to London. Like any boy, he must have looked out the car window on his drive to the Baghdad airport to see the surroundings: "clusters of medieval mud huts, holes for windows, a rusty piece of sheet iron for a door." That was the way the Washington Post described it at the time. One historian writes, "Throughout the 1950s massive slums spread around Baghdad, with the hovel inhabitants periodically swamped by muddy overflows from the Tigris." "The infant mortality [rate] is 250 per thousand. A woman has a 50:50 chance of raising a child to the age of ten. There are no social services of any kind. . . . On the adjacent dumps dogs with rabies dig in the sewage and the slum-dwellers pack it for resale as garden manure."
Aram Roston is an investigative producer at the award-winning NBC News investigative unit. He has also worked as a correspondent for CNN and a New York City police reporter. His work has been published in Maclean's, The Nation, the London Observer, GQ Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine and The Washington Monthly.


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The bullying, confrontational style of Mayor Bob Filner took center stage again Wednesday as he ramped up his running feud with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. The mayor's conduct was beyond laughable. It is increasingly irresponsible and threatens to turn San Diego into a morass of dysfunction.
The latest theatrics began when Filner showed up, uninvited, at Goldsmith's news conference, called to discuss legal issues related to the mayor's legally questionable refusal to sign off on a deal between the city and the Tourism Marketing District for promotion of San Diego as a tourist destination. The promotion revenue comes from a 2 percent hotel room surcharge that is estimated will generate $30 million this year. The deal with the marketing district was approved by the City Council last year, before Filner took office.
When Goldsmith had concluded his remarks to reporters, Filner popped up to accuse him of "unethical and unprofessional conduct" for supposedly giving legal advice through the press.
"It would have been nice, Mr. Goldsmith, to have a memo," Filner said. "It would have been nice to have advice. I am your client. That's privileged communication. You not only have been unprofessional but unethical in this press conference. And I resent it greatly that you're giving your advice through the press."
What would have been nice, Mr. Mayor, would have been for you to bother to seek the city attorney's advice in the first place – before making the decision to put a hold on the marketing district contract and the money. But in Filner's world, it is evidently OK for him to fail to seek legal advice from the city attorney before acting, but it is not OK for the independently elected city attorney to publicly discuss the issues involved.
The mayor didn't stop there.
"I do not have to advise you on my policy considerations," Filner told Goldsmith. "But you ... have the obligation to defend me in any court action and to give me advice in a privileged fashion, not to announce your own policy on your own."
In fact, since Day 1 of the Filner administration, Goldsmith has been careful to avoid any appearance that he was intruding on the policy prerogatives of the mayor and council, and he did so again Wednesday.
But when Goldsmith, a former judge and state legislator, has spoken out, Filner has responded with supposedly joking personal attacks on Goldsmith's physical stature and appearance. Even as humor, that is not exactly the kind of thing one would expect of a politician who portrays himself as a progressive.
In the meantime, San Diego's tourism industry, one of its most important economic sectors, will suffer because of Filner's petulance.
After fewer than 100 days in office, it is increasingly clear that Filner doesn't have a clue when it comes to leadership – how to implement his agenda and achieve his goals. He knows nothing about the proper role of the mayor, the City Council and the city attorney. He knows nothing about building support and coalitions to get things done. He only knows confrontation.
It was only Wednesday morning, just hours before Goldsmith's news conference, that the mayor was actually an opening speaker at a University of San Diego forum on civility in civic dialogue.
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The pension legislation put forward by Gov. Brown and Democratic legislators has a number of changes that Republicans have sought in the pension system.
But they are opposing it anyway.
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And things will get worse, since the more you put into the constitution now, the more you'll have to put into the constitution to change things tomorrow.
I'm still not sure whether the pension legislation is worthy of support, or whether it represents real progress on the issue. Details are still coming out, and there's been little scrutiny.
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Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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When gas prices go up, what happens to auto sales? You might have a few hunches — and a couple may be correct — but according to Experian Automotive, you'd likely find some surprises, too.
Experian looked at gas prices over the last five years, paying attention to the way that fuel-price fluctuations affected auto sales. It probably won't come as much of a shock that as fuel prices increased, sales of full-size pickups decreased. On average, a $1 rise in fuel prices caused trucks to lose about 0.5% in market share.
Nor should it be surprising that small cars gained traction in such scenarios. The same $1 jump at the pump caused sales of small cars to increase by roughly 0.7%. As Experian explains, if we assume 1,000,000 new-car sales per month (which is slightly lower than the present rate, but work with us), that would mean an additional 7,000 small cars sold every 30 days.
That doesn't sound like a lot. And in fact, the figures are even less impressive if you look the effect on individual dealers. Since there are around 18,000 new-car dealerships in the U.S., a $1 rise in gas prices results in each dealership selling one additional small car about every three months.
And if you think that the hybrid and electric-car markets benefit from spikes in gas prices, think again. According to Experian's data, a $1 increase in fuel prices typically cause sales of hybrid cars to increase by just 0.2%. Electric cars? A mere 0.1%.
Perhaps weirdest of all, sales of hybrid pickup trucks actually fall by 0.1% in the wake of increasing gas prices.
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What Experian's data seems to say is that the cost of fuel doesn't have much of an impact on the type of vehicle that shoppers buy. If you like crossovers, for example, you're likely to stick with a crossover, even as fuel prices climb. You may be more interested in fuel-efficient crossovers than you once were (though not necessarily hybrids), but you'll probably continue to buy crossovers until your lifestyle needs change.
Similarly, this would seem to imply that no amount of price hikes will increase the rate at which consumers switch to hybrids and electric cars. If encouraging them to do so is a goal of the auto industry, the government, or some other authority, Experian's data suggests that it's going to take something other than gas taxes to get the ball rolling.
That said, what Experian's data may not account for is consumers' awareness of the cyclical nature of gas prices. We all know that prices tend to spike in the spring, as refineries switch production to the more expensive summer blend. We also know that prices tend to fall in September and October, with the return of cheaper, winter-blend gas. If we expect these fluctuations and feel comfortable with them, they're not likely to have a huge effect on our shopping habits.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Poor young women are more likely to delay going to the doctor when they find a breast lump than women in better financial straits, a new study suggests.
Researchers surveyed young breast cancer patients about how they first discovered their cancer, how long they waited to see a doctor and how long after diagnosis they started treatment.
"We know that women from underserved communities have a greater risk of recurrence and death from cancer, and this is just one more reason women from this group might not do as well," Dr. Ann H. Partridge, who worked on the study, said.
She is the director of the Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer in the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Approximately one woman in 200 will get breast cancer before she turns 40.
Young women diagnosed with the disease tend to fare worse than older women, a phenomenon which has confounded researchers.
One explanation says young women are often diagnosed with more advanced disease because they wait longer to go to the doctor and get checked out. Based on recent studies of UK and U.S. national data, young women often experience delays in getting diagnosed.
For the new study, Partridge and her colleagues talked to almost 600 young women with breast cancer. Unsurprisingly, 80 percent of those women had found a lump themselves, compared to 12 percent whose cancer showed up on an imaging test – like a mammogram or MRI.
Mammograms are not recommended for women under 40 years old based on most U.S. guidelines.
For six percent of the women, a doctor found a lump during a physical exam. The remaining one percent felt generally ill and visited the doctor, later learning that breast cancer was the reason.
Among women who detected their own lumps, 17 percent waited more than three months to visit a doctor.
Women with fewer financial resources – who said they had little money left over after paying the bills – were more likely to delay going to the doctor.
Of those who reported being short on cash, 22 percent delayed seeing a doctor after finding a lump. That compared to 12 percent of more financially comfortable young women.
Twelve percent of women who found their own lumps also waited more than three months between first visiting the doctor and getting diagnosed with breast cancer. That wait was not related to women's financial state, according to findings published in Cancer.
A three-month delay in care could make a difference for some women, but that varies case by case, Partridge told Reuters Health.
It's encouraging that a majority of women did not experience delays between discovery of a lump and a doctor's visit or a doctor's visit and diagnosis, according to Theresa Keegan.
But the women in this study were primarily white and educated, and the results might not generalize to other groups, she said.
Keegan is a research scientist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California in Fremont, specializing in breast cancer occurrence and survival among young women. She was not involved in the new study.
Her own research has suggested women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 40 are more likely to be non-white than older women.
"Thus, it is very important to extend this work to other racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups," Keegan told Reuters Health in an email.
Younger women, who are less likely to be insured, might feel the financial pinch of seeing a doctor more than older women, Keegan said.
The current study did not include older women and can't answer that question. All it can say is that finances are a factor for some young women.
To address disparities on a community-wide scale, more studies are needed to assess just why these delays occur. Some women may have trouble getting childcare during a doctor's visit, some may be afraid of the outcome if they do go to the doctor and some may not be able to get time off from work, Partridge said.
"Ultimately we need to increase awareness in communities with lower resources," she said.
A woman who suspects something abnormal in her breast should get evaluated by a doctor immediately, Keegan said.
"Early detection is the most important determinant of outcome for young women with breast cancer," she said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/19ensut Cancer, online November 11, 2013.


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This is the second part of the two part series of Practices for Software Startup Pluralsight Course. Please read the first part of this series over here. The course is written by Stephen Forte (Blog | Twitter). Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company, Telerik.
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After these three sessions it was 6:30 am and time to do my own blog. But for the rest of the day, I kept thinking about the course, and wanted to go back and finish. I was wishing that I had woken up at 3 am so I could finish all at one go. All day long I was digesting what I had learned. At 10 pm, after my daughter had gone to bed, I sighed on again. I was not disappointed by the long wait. As I mentioned before, Stephen has started four to six companies, and all of them are very successful today.
Here is the video I promised yesterday – it discusses the importance of Right Sizing Your Startup.
The Heartbeat of Startup – Technology
Stephen has combined all technology knowledge into one 30 minute session. He discussed how to start your project, how to deal with opinions, and how to deal with multiple ideas – every start up has multiple directions it can go. He spent a lot of time emphasized deciding which direction to go and how to decide which will be the best for you. He called it a continuous development cycle.
One of the biggest hazards for a start-up company is one person deciding the direction the company will go, until down the road another team member announces that there is a glitch in their part of the work and that everyone will have to start over. Even though a team of two or five people can move quickly, often the decision has gone too long and cannot be easily fixed. Stephen used an example from his own life: he was biased for one type of technology, and his teammate for another. In the end they opted for his teammate's choice , and in the end it was a good decision, even though he was unfamiliar with that particular program. He argues that technology should not be a barrier to progress, that you cannot rely on your experience only. This really spoke to me because I am a big fan of SQL, but I know there is more out there, and I should be more open to it. I give my thanks to Stephen, I learned something in this module besides startups.
Money, Success and Epic Win!
The longest, but most interesting, the module was funding your start-up. You need to fund the start-up right at the very beginning, if not done right you will run into trouble. The good news is that a few years ago start-ups required a lot more money – think millions of dollars – but now start-ups can get off the ground for thousands. Stephen used an example of a company that years ago would have needed a million dollars, but today could be started for $600. It is true that things have changed, but you still need money. For $600 you can start small and add dynamically, as needed. But the truth is that if you have $600, $6000, or $6 million, it will be spent. Don't think of it as trying to save money, think of it as investing in your future. You will need money, and you will need to (quickly) decide what you do with the money: shares, stakeholders, investing in a team, hiring a CEO. This is so important because once you have money and start the company, the company IS your money. It is your biggest currency – having a percentage of ownership in the company. Investors will want percentages as repayment for their investment, and they will want a say in the business as well. You will have to decide how far you will dilute your shares, and how the company will be divided, if at all. If you don't plan in advance, you will find that after gaining three or four investors, suddenly you are the minority owner in your own dream. You need to understand funding carefully. This single module is worth all the money you would have spent on the whole course alone. I encourage everyone to listen to this single module even if they don't watch any of the others.
Press End to Start the Game – Exists!
The final module is exit strategies. You did all this work, dealt with all political and legal issues. What are you going to get out of it? The answer is simple: money. Maybe you want your company to be bought out, for you talent to bring you a profit. You can sell the company to someone and still head it. Many options are available. You could sell and still work as an employee but no longer own the company. There are many exit strategies. This is where all your hard work comes into play. It is important not to feel fooled at any step. There are so many good ideas that end up in the garbage because of poor planning, so that if you find yourself successful, you don't want to blow it at this step! The exit is important. I thought that this aspect of the course was completely unique, and I loved Stephen's point of view. I was lost deep in thought after this module ended. I actually took two hours worth of notes on this section alone – and it was only a three hour course. I am planning on attending this course one more time next week, just to catch up on all the small bits of wisdom I'm sure I missed.
Thank you Stephen for bringing your real world experience with us! I recommend that everyone attends this course, even if they don't want to begin their own start-up company.
It was indeed a long day for me. Do not forget to read part 1 of this story and attend course Practices for Software Startup Pluralsight Course.
Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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