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Zucchini alla Parmigiana

It is time to celebrate!

Celebrate what you ask?  Zucchini season!

Yep, this is the time of year when the stores and farmer's markets are filled with the delicate loveliness of zucchini.  I happen to be a huge fan of this vegetable (did you know that zucchini is technically a fruit, I never knew).  It can be used in a variety of ways, both savory and sweet, and all are perfectly wonderful.  Personally I love to saute it simply with olive oil and garlic, but this past weekend I decided to do something a bit more.

Zucchini tends to be the supporting dish, always pushed aside for the main dish....this time I wanted to make it the star of the show...what I am trying to say is, nobody puts zucchini in a corner (love that movie quote!!) at least not this time.  Zucchini alla Parmigiana is a beautiful combination of all things Italian: lightly fried zucchini, tomato sauce, mozzarella and parmigiano-reggiano cheeses, and last but certainly not least fresh basil!  A one dish wonder that is certainly the star of any dinner.

Just in case you are a fan of eggplant feel free to substitute it for the zucchini as this dish is originally made with eggplant.  I think you will find it equally as fantastic!

Zucchini alla Parmigiana
     adapted from: Melanzane all Parmigiana
  • 3 garlic cloves, minced
  • 4 cups (approx.) of canned tomatoes, crushed
  • Fresh basil leaves
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 4-5 medium-sized zucchini
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups flour (approx.), used for dredging
  • 1 medium mozzarella (4 oz), diced, or the 12 oz tub of bocconcini -sized mozzarella, quartered
  • 12 oz (approx.) Parmigiano, grated
  • Vegetable oil for frying
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a sauce pan over medium heat saute the garlic in a bit of olive oil until slightly browned.  Add the tomatoes, salt, sugar and basil.  Simmer for approximately 20 minutes.

Slice the zucchini lengthwise.  Try to keep the thickness consistent, around 1/2 inch is good.  In a small bowl beat the two eggs, pour out onto a plate.  On another plate place the flour.  Heat a good amount of oil in a large frying pan.  Dredge the zucchini slices in the flour, turn to coat and then dip each slice into the eggs, turn to coat.  Fry the zucchini for around 3 minutes each side, be careful not to crowd the pan.  Set aside each slice on paper towels to absorb excess oil.
In a large, greased 9 x 13" baking pan spoon a generous amount of tomato sauce.  Set the fried zucchini in a single layer, top with mozzarella and parmigiano.  Repeat for a second layer, tomato sauce, zucchini, mozzarella, parmigiano.  Finish by topping with the remaining sauce, parmigiano cheese (be generous) and fresh basil.

Bake for 10-15 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 more minutes.  It is now ready to eat and enjoy.

  1. One of my favorite dishes! I have never tried dredging the zucchini before baking it, I just sauteed it with lots of onions. I like how your method is like eggplant parm.

  2. Looks really good! I love zucchini and will definitely try it this way - great idea!

  3. A delicious dish with zucchini, perfect for the season!


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Early History of the State of Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Co., 1902. Illustrated history of Union and Wallowa Counties, Oregon.

THOMAS HIGGINBOTHAM – The representative and well known gentleman whose name appears at the head of this article has been a resident of Union County for more than a score of years, and he is to-day numbered with the most substantial and influential citizens here, and his home place, a farm two miles northwest from Elgin, displays industry and thrift, coupled with which are his stanch qualities of worth and moral excellence.

On March 17, 1856, in Wayne county, Kentucky, our subject was born to James and Priscilla (Cullum) Higginbotham, natives also of the Blue Grass State. In 1863 the parents went to Clay county, Illinois, and thence to Sangamon county, the same state, where the father was called from life in the fall of 1864, where his remains lie buried in Springfield, Illinois. In the same year the balance of the family removed to Marion county, Iowa, the older sons occupying themselves with the art of agriculture. In 1867 they removed to Sullivan county, Missouri, and for six years continued their employment in the line of farming, then went to Linn county and there they tilled the soil under the date of their advent to the west in 1881. They first went to Walla Walla, Washington, and after a few months came thence to Union county, in October of the same year. Our subject then purchased his present place, two miles northwest from Elgin. It contained one hundred and sixty acres, and is now the size of three hundred and sixty areas. Mr. George C. Higginbotham, a brother of our subject, and born August 31, 1845, in Wayne county, Kentucky, lives with our subject, and together they operate this fine estate, having labored together more or less all the time since they have been men. The mother lived with them until the time of her death, which occurred June 27, 1899, and her remains are buried at the Elgin Cemetery.
Mr. Higginbotham was married on August 10, 1879, in Linn county, Missouri, to Amelia, daughter of Ransom and Virginia (Ward) Gent, natives of Virginia and farmers of Missouri at this time. Six children have been born to them, Florence, James, Ransom, Priscilla, Thomas and Virginia. Mrs. Higginbotham’s father died in Missouri, but the mother came west with her sons and now lives north from Elgin. Mr. Higginbotham is a member of the K. of P., Orion Lodge, No. 73. He is a broad-minded and loyal citizen, possessed of capabilities that have won him success, and his integrity is quite commensurate with the other qualities of intrinsic worth.

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    I want to see more competition with better talent to push each other. I still think J Williams, Herzlich & Paysinger could use a good push to help them along

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    Most only see the splash plays they domnt see him get dominated the other 40 snaps he is on the field

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    Id like to see Boley - Herz - Williams.. dont know who would be the SAM though
    Herz might be the worst MLB that I have ever seen.

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    Herz might be the worst MLB that I have ever seen.
    next year will be his year..

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    they should keep rivers around for the right price he has speed along with jwill i think if they can stay healthy there both all purpose types

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    Easily the worst defensive unit this year. Will any of these LB's be starting next year?

    Kiwi - was invisible this year at LB and most likely moves back to DE with Osi leaving

    Blackburn - is a FA, and i don't he played consistency enough to warrant bringing him back. Plus, he sees himself as a starter now and i don't think he'll come back to be a backup and play special teams

    Boley - his play dropped off considerably this year and I think he may get cut, not because he played poorly, but because he lost playing time towards the end of the season to Paysinger and Herzlich

    Williams has good upside and I would like to see Rivers back, even though he is injury prone, and give him a chance to earn a starting spot

    - I always thought that Kiwi was wasted at LB. They should have just used him on the D-line and rotated him with JPP, Osi, and Tuck.
    - Blackburn is better than what they had which was Goff. I'd like to see him back, but as a 2nd stringer. The guy absolutely has value, and is a leader rah-rah type that's important to have.
    - If Paysinger and Herz are not starters and I don't think that they ever will be. If not Boley, then bring in a FA.
    - I like Williams a lot and am eager to see him play next year. Rivers? Please.

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    Herzlich sucks. Nice story, crappy LBer. Seriously I don't know how people think he's much good at all. Chase isn't going anywhere. He stinks in coverage?Not great, but had a clutch interception last year against GB at home that lit a spark for us, then another game changer in the Super Bowl. He is fiery, hits hard, plays balls to the wall which is MORE than most of these guys gave us this year. I would hire and fire attitude at this point on this team. I think he'll be back. Rivers should get another shot. Williams is still a work in progress. Paysinger I'm not sure about. I'd keep Boley if we need a cameraman or media guy smashed in the face with a ball. I agree with moving Kiwi to the line after Osi and/or Tuck go.

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    just saying, if i'm kiwi's agent, i'd be pretty pissed that they forced my client into taking almost all of his snaps in a lower paying position, and then shuffle him back to DE at a middle of the road LBers salary.

    just one of those things that, given how accomodating Kiwi has been with the giants, could be an interesting situation if he's finally fed up.

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    Chase is routinely praised by our coaches as the most valuable defender on the entire team. And despite this giants message board mindset that he is terrible, he actually, in reality, is tremendously consistent, and performed very well this year.
    We had a terrible D this year. The fact that the coaches think Chase is the best on the team, makes me wonder about what they see. I can see Blackburn stay on ST and #2MLB. If he is our starter we will have another bad year against the run and shallow passing plays.

    Kiwi needs to stay at DE. Never should have moved IMO. Boley may stay as a #2 because of TC's loyalty.

    I like Williams and Rivers. We have to draft a starter at MLB or find a good one on the FA market.

    These are just my opinions guys. I don't hate any Giants.

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You may recognize his name from the credits of the mega hit Rang De Basanti: Rensil D’Silva was the man behind the script of that groundbreaking film. He is known as one of the best screenplay writers in Hindi cinema and now he is adding director to his credit line, as well as writer, for the upcoming Kurbaan. Rensil D’Silva did not go the easy road for his directorial debut; he not only picked a very sensitive subject, the film was also quite complex to make. With the backing of Karan Johar and Dharma Productions and with the support of outstanding actors including Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Kirron Kher and Diya Mizra, Kurbaan is getting ready to give you a thought-provoking and throughly entertaining night at the movies. I got the opportunity to speak with Rensil in between shooting schedules one day in August. He was about four shooting days away from completing the film and was working on the background score. He wouldn’t give a lot away about the film but what he did was fabulous. We thought that with the release of the Kurbaan trailer this weekend, we would go ahead and publish our interview, so you can learn little bit more about this highly anticipated film!

Is directing something you always wanted to do?

Yes, I mean really writing and directing, but directing is something I wanted to do since I was 14 years old.

What made you decide you wanted to do Kurbaan?

Well, really I was looking for a script to make my first film and I was going off to London to write a script about a heist. Just before I went, Karan told me this story that he had had for sometime. He just narrated it to me one evening and it kind of hooked me. We started writing it, and even though I went off to London to write this other script, I couldn’t get very far with it because this script that Karan had told me about had completely captured my imagination! When I came back, I told him I wanted to make it and he said, ‘Yeah sure, why don’t you, because I have had it for the longest time. It would be great if you would make it.’ So, we set out to make it.

What’s the film about?

Well, it is a cross genre … it is a love story, it’s a thriller and it has political comment on global terrorism and the identity of Muslims in the modern world. It is a comment on Islam – the liberal and the conservative elements of Islam. I think there was enough meat for it to absorb me completely and also to my mind it should cross borders, it shouldn’t just only be an Indian film. I think it is a film that can make its way through the global market.

Why the title Kurbaan?

Kurbaan means sacrifice, and the context of that sacrifice will be apparent to the audience when the plot unfolds.

Ahhh, so not going to give anything way then. (laughs)

What went into deciding whom to cast?

This cast was my wish list. Saif, Kareena, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Kirron Kher, Diya Mizra – I was very lucky to get each and every one of them. They all came aboard with just a single reading of the script. I didn’t have to do to much convincing or anything, I just sent them the scripts. In that sense I think it has been a dream run from the casting end, but also from the production end because it is a fairly complex film to make.

Did you find it difficult to make?

Difficult simply because I was looking for subway stations for the climax and because of the kind of material it is, I got turned down; I got turned down in London, I got turned down in Germany. We even went over to other parts of Europe – like France and even Russia. I even had a snag in New York because they turned me down. But the people of Philadelphia were very accommodating and they allowed me to shoot in their station, which, fingers crossed, has turned out well.

How was it working with Saif, Kareena and Vivek?

I was lucky because they are all actors, they are not just stars. I knew Saif and Kirron Kher and Om Puri a bit. I did not know Kareena and Vivek, but by day three I think everyone was in on the film. Like I said, it has been a dream run. They are such fantastic professionals. I had no problems. I am 84 days into a shoot which is pretty complex, and was shot over 2 schedules in the US and I haven’t missed a single day. In fact, I am 3 days ahead of schedule!

Why did you decide to shoot abroad rather than in India, was it because it is a global film?

I think the script demanded it. It is a global film but the script demanded it. 85% of the film happens in New York, so that was a demand of the script, but it wasn’t preset or designed in a way to appeal to a global audience. I just think in the world we live in, the problem, and though I don’t know if it is a problem, only I think that the dimensions of Islamic terrorism as seen by the West and as conceived by people out here in the Indian subcontinent are diametrically opposite ends of polarity of this problem. I think I caught some of this in the film.

Do you have a favorite scene?

The script reaches a point were there is a debate in a classroom between the moderate voices of Islam and some pretty radical voices from the West. Where issues like 9-11 and Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq are seen in a very heated debate where hopefully I have put forward the points. It sees it through the prism of the US using the first invasion of Iraq, with Bush Senior, as a means to further their arms deal and the inclusion of the CIA into what is now the Mujahideen, right from the time of the Soviet invasion. The CIA’s intervention to create the Mujahideen, and now the Mujahideen striking back at the US and their interests; a lot of issues I think that might not have been dealt with in previous mainstream Hindi Cinema – I hope to at least address some of it. I don’t think it would be totally good to say I have resolved it or anything, but at least I have nudged the mind of the viewer more into that direction.

Do you think that is important and that cinema is a good way to get people to think in different ways?

Yes, I have always thought, if you can, provoke thought and go beyond. I think in India there is the obsession with the need to entertain and somewhere our concept of entertainment is almost light entertainment. Films with very serious dramatic issues or social issues – in the past they used to be that in the 50 and 60s – then we kind of lost our way by the 70s and 80s. We started making “blockbusters”, but now I think political comment is coming back. New York is one example of it, mainstream cinema is addressing it. It is very different from mainstream cinema made on these large budgets, usually it was addressed vis-

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House of Echoes
by Brendan Duffy
release date: April 14, 2015

A young New York City couple with a boy and a baby in tow, Ben and Caroline Tierney had it all…until Ben’s second novel missed the mark, Caroline lost her lucrative banking job, and something went wrong with 8-year-old Charlie. When Ben inherits land way upstate from his grandmother, the two of them began to believe in second chances. But upon arriving in Swannhaven, a town that seems to have been forgotten by time, they’re beset by strange sights and disconcerting developments…and they begin to realize they might have made their worst mistake yet. But what dark secret is buried in this odd place? And will Ben and Caroline figure it out soon enough to save their young family?

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This book features the Tierney family and their move from the big city to a small, rural town.  Ben and Caroline with their 8 year old son and a baby buys a huge monstrosity of a home in upstate New York with the intent on updating and renovating it to turn it into an inn.  Also hoping that the slower pace of small town life will help Ben with his newest novel and give Caroline an outlet to replace her lost job.

I have to say that it did take some time for this book to grab my attention and I finally just read it to get to the end.  It felt very slow going and though there were some suspenseful moments in the book, it was not the thriller that I thought I was getting.  The characters were interesting and felt pretty true to who you might find living in a very small town but the story was very slow going and at times felt wordy to me.  The storyline had moments where it started to get intense but then it sizzled out to nothingness.  I would give this book 3 stars. ~Booklover Sue

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Jealous that I can't yet read any of these (twenty more days 'til I hit US bookstores!!!) I am still staring at the shoes in PERFECT YOU. Sigh! I'm becoming convinced: this is a woman to watch. But how have I missed her thus far!? Where the heck have I been??

The same place as me, apparently. I only discovered her last month. I mean, I knew she existed before that, but I hadn't read any of her books.

Anyway, she's awesome. But I'm kicking myself that I didn't follow-up on the toilet paper. Which side of the divide does she fall on -- over or under? I'm over all the way.

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Such a fun interview! Thank you both!

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Lol, who doen't love cake in the morning?! Lol, I loved the interview! =) Aw, I love the OC (the first season was THE BEST!) I even have a shirt that says 'LOVE THE OC'-Lol, I'm wearing it right now! =D

How much do I love her picture there? A lot.

You know, Kelly Herold has an irrational fear of squirrels, too. I used to think that was so unusual (which is why I remember it), but, uh, maybe it isn't after all.

Awesome interview.

I'm currently a LIS student at Simmons. I had to do a professional observation at a high school library last semester. Several girls asked for your book. I got interested and read it myself. It was a tragic and wonderful book, even for an old gal like me. I will be recommending your books to all my high schoolers!

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I’ve been having some trouble sleeping so am often awake from 3 am for a bit, and was the other night. At some point one does have to read FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, and I guess this was my point.

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD tells the story of one Gabriel Oak, a shepherd who has managed to take out a loan to get his own flock and some land. He asks a local young lady, Bathsheba, to marry him. She refuses. Some time after this his young dog in an excess of zeal keeps chasing the sheep till he forces them over a cliff.

George’s son (the dog) had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o’clock that same day – another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

Gabriel is thus destitute again, as all his investment, the fruit of ten years work, is wiped out. This all happens before page 33. I was not surprised. I know very well not to trust Hardy, his books are hectic. He will crush you soon as look at you. I learnt this from reading JUDE THE OBSCURE, and I won’t give away the plot, but suffice to say, don’t get too attached to the children.

Anyway, Bathsheba has inherited a farm, and employs Gabriel, much to his chagrin. She marries a certain Sgt Troy who is irritatingly obviously going to be trouble, and he is, eventually faking his own death after his pregnant ex-girlfriend appears and dies of starvation on the doorstep. When he resurrects himself Bathsheba’s new boyfriend shoots him dead, and goes to jail himself. Enter Gabriel, and a happy ending.

So a story not lacking in drama, much of it stupid. However it was entertaining, and there is a supporting cast of yokels which is hilariously well written. Also, Hardy as a philosopher has much to say that is of interest - I enjoyed this, on Gabriel after his loss:

He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. . . . . There was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of aman, is the basis of his sublimity if it does not. And thus the abasement had been exultation, and the loss gain.

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  1. I read and liked Jude the Obscure. I have this one on my shelf waiting to be read. I agree with you on Hardy. He would deceive you and crush you.


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Magic, books, and cats collide in a village near Niagara Falls in the latest mystery from the author of Crime and Poetry...
In Cascade Springs, New York, Violet Waverly and her grandma, Daisy, are the proprietors of Charming Books, where the power of the written word is positively enchanting...
October in Cascade Springs means tourists are pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group, the Red Inkers, to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe on the shop’s front porch to entertain the revelers. Everyone eagerly agrees.
Yet their enthusiasm is soon extinguished when Violet discovers one of the writers dead in the shop moments before the event. After the shop magically tells Violet she’ll need to rely on Poe’s works to solve the murder, she enlists the help of her trusty tuxedo cat, Emerson, and the shop’s crow, Faulkner. But they must act fast before someone else’s heart beats nevermore...

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    When I open a book written by Amanda Flower, I know I will be transported into a world full of surprises. Prose and Cons is the second book in the Magical Bookshop Mysteries. Set in the quaint town of...

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There has been much whining and nashing of teeth about contacting certain mad-men-in-the-desert. Dealing with phone cards, coordination of time, poor international connections has me pouting non-stop.

So the other night I was on the treadmill at the gym and the local PBS channel is showing "The Best Years Of Our Lives". I settle in for my 40 minutes, very happy with this. This is a very beautifully made and acted film by William Wyler. Three minutes into the movie, tears are running down my face. Thank God the treadmills face the wall! Thank God there aren't many people there at that time of night! Watching Myrna Loy's face when she realizes that he is there........ Watching them walk towards each other.......Watching them embrace............moves me more than I can express here. You can see the clip here.
So after 40 minutes and several more moments of being choked up (Dana Andrews talking to his father, Harold Russell talking to his girlfriend and his uncle), I head down to do some yoga. After my shower it's time to call the desert.

"I was watching "The Best Years of Our Lives". She hadn't seen him in years. There were just a few letters between them."

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Should Entrepreneurs Be More Like Teenage Girls?

Even though I graduated from college (gasp) 18 years ago, I still think about the school season as my annual planning cycle rather than the calendar year.  Having three school age kids reinforces this life rhythm.

And so as I was thinking through my personal goals for this coming year, and discussing individual goals with each of my kids (a recently adopted ritual I highly recommend for any parent), this article from The Economist caught my eye.  The article's subtitle, tells it all:  "Depression may be linked to how willing someone is to give up his [or her] goals."  The article describes research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Carsten Wrosch and Gregory Miller, where teenage girls who had strong "goal adjustment capacities" - the ability to disengage from unattainable goals and reset their attention onto new goals - avoid feeling down and depressed.  In contrast, girls who get stuck on their goals and can't reset are more susceptible to depression.  The implication is that if you aren't facile at adjusting your goals, and they're overly ambitious goals, it can lead to depression.

Applying this research to entrepreneurs is an interesting thought experiment.  As investors, we VCs are always attracted to entrepreneurs who set big, hairy audacious goals (BHAGs).  Who wants to invest in an entrepreneur whose pitch is, "I'm going to make a nice living in a small niche," as opposed to, "I aspire to achieve world domination"?  Yet are those entrepreneurs more susceptible to depression and defeatism when they're unable to achieve those outrageous BHAGs?

To reconcile these two views I am reminded of an excellent book I recently read by renowned Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, called Mindset.  Dweck's research shows that successful people in business, sports and life have "growth mindsets" rather than "fixed mindsets".  The "growth mindset" is one in which a person believes that one's world view is less about ability and more about lifelong learning.  "Growth mindset" individuals feel they can always learn from experiences (failures and successes) and develop resilience because they're focused on personal growth rather than achievement tied to rigid objectives.  When a "growth mindset" individual faces adversity, they focus on the learnings and the self-improvement opportunities that come from adversity.

I have seen in my own work that the best entrepreneurs do set BHAGs, sometimes outrageous and unattainable ones (create a $100 million company in 5 years from scratch?  Is that really possible?), and push themselves to achieve excellence.  But the ones that really distinguish themselves are the ones who embrace the "growth mindset".  They embrace life long learning, no matter how great their achievements, and allow themselves to occasionally hit the reset button and adjust their goals without breaking stride when reality intrudes (such as, say, the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression) are the ones that can blend the best of both worlds.

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Complete agree Jeff, I think the other element is a "can do" attitude. I love people who no matter the project look at it as doable....the sit down, figure it out and get it done. Critical skill set in my opinion!

Yes. I remember one of my first bosses telling me: don't come to me with problems, come to me with recommended solutions!

I worked for Meg Whitman in a bunch of companies and we had plenty of setbacks. When we screwed up or something went awry she always said, "OK what did we learn?" It was said with no finger pointing and included total acceptance of both reality and responsibility. I never saw her get depressed for a minute.

And, as you probably know, Meg is profiled in "Mindset" by Carole Dweck.

A related point:
My belated view of the world is that planning and analysis can only take you so far. The variables we don't perceive can overwhelm those that we do. It is at least as important to be alert to changes and be prepared to change course.

Life long learning is definitely a key factor for success in any field. Thoughts on its application to entrepreneurship are at http://bit.ly/Cgmc6.

May be a good book there on applying business techniques to child raising. Goal setting with your kids is a very good idea.

Thanks, Robert. Goal setting with kids let's them know that the process is as important as the content.

One of the things we find is that new and ambitious business leaders are great at setting up goals but often they lack the skills to execute those BHAG's once they start leading a company and those goals (vision) need to be transferred to others.

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Great post. As an entrepreneur early in his career, and someone who studies people very closely, you mentioned several concepts that have resonated with me.

First, it's good to hear acknowledgment of entrepreneurs that set BHAGs. I'd challenge anyone to find someone that sets more ambitious goals than I do. While I can now recognize them as BHAGs, I think it's important to have an intense vision and unbounded ambition for a project that you choose to take up.

But what happens when this leads to frustration? This is something I've thought about quite a bit. I wrote about a simple framework for understanding goal achievement "The Equation of Performance" ( http://kevinvogelsang.com/?p=54 ).

My current conclusion is that achieving BHAGs (or making the decision to reset goals) comes down to self-awareness. However, you can only gain self-awareness by fully engaging BHAGs and learning from the experience.

The goal for anyone setting a goal should be balancing challenge/importance with our own personal skills. Check out the "Concept of Flow" ( http://kevinvogelsang.com/?p=58 )

As this study you mentioned shows, if you take up something you can't handle, you'll be overwhelmed. And if you're overwhelmed, you'll feel the effects of low performance and unhappiness. This is terrible for any ambitious individual.

However, people should be careful not to box themselves in. Skill sets and ability change over time. This is why the "growth mindset" is key.

Of course once you understand yourself and what a BHAG will take, it comes down to being relentless. Yes, it'll be difficult to get there, but achievement only comes one step at a time. This has been my recent expansion of understanding: "To Be Relentless" ( http://kevinvogelsang.com/?p=156 )

I'm sure you have no shortage of content to read, but these issues are important to me, and the thoughts that you bring up need to be more widely understood, particularly for ambitious people.

The difficult thing about being ambitious is that it is a minority of people that truly are ambitious. It takes time to understand that. It takes ever more time to position one self to achieve an ambitious goal. Then comes the need for understanding the brutal facts of driving progress toward the goal.

These are all pitfalls of ambitious people that are not easy to overcome when isolated from other ambitious people. Ambition and vision are gifts that should be unlocked, not left only for the land of dreams.

Thanks for your detailed comments and links, Kevin. Achieving goals is addictive. Once you get on a roll, you want to keep it going!

Relatedly, when we forge a start-up team in which we each get to use our strengths we are likely to be high performing and happy - with the work, ourselves and each other... per M. Buckingham & Donald Clifton's research (Now Discover Your Strengths)
People who are mildly on the pessimistic side are often more realistic (better decisionmakers) than those who are at the extreme end of optimistic - per Marty Seligman (Learned Optimism
those 25 and under grew up studying and playing in teams - thus, some research shows, more adept at collaborating with people unlike them - a vital trait in this Connected Age - and very helpful for start-ups I've noticed first hand both when covering them as a Wall Street Journal reporter and, for the past three years, coaching them.
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Thanks, Kare. I like to encourage start teams to take the Myers Briggs test for that reason!

I prefer Strengths testing bussgang yet know that MB is very respected - thanks

I love to see this combination in any leader, entrepreneurial or otherwise:
* Setting BHAG's
* Ability to inspire a team to help you achieve the BHAG - particularly a fan of the Strenghs approach Kare mentions, but also see the value in MB and the like
* Ability to inspire beyond the core team - turning the BHAG into a movement and bringing investors, customers, employees, influencers in
* Ability to reset those BHAG's during a dislocation - and then bringing everyone else along, especially linking the new vision to the old

It's a combination of a "growth mindset" and a leadership style that can set an entrepreneur apart from the pack. But it's oh so rare/hard to find, isn't it?

Hi Jeff. Glad to know you and now be reading your blog. It's very interesting to reflect on the threshold skills required to be an entrepreneur.

I have always thought that being a great entrepreneur requires two seemingly opposing skills: 1st - you have to have extremely high tolerance for risk....this may be in the form of either optimism or just less personal affect and 2nd - you need to be a very careful risk manager....constantly on the lookout for changes in environment that require tweaks or changes to your plan.

Pretty difficult to have both, right? This is where self-awareness becomes so important. My risk tolerance stems from my insatiable optimism. Like Kare suggested, this necessarily means I sometimes miss pitfalls. Bad news right? Good news is I know it and I work very hard to surround myself and listen to the pessimists identifying all the things that can go wrong. Of course, I have to figure out which risks are real and which ones are speed bumps. But at the end of the day, the self-aware entrepreneur is the one that understands the risks they personally bring to the business and will consciously build the team to reduce or remove them.

Great Info! Thanks for the post!

Thanks for sharing about it.

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Mohammad Hafeez refused to play in Chittagong Vikings by the side of Amir

The BPL T20 has just one day to go oncoming the hottest 3rd stage, where the opening match will be played amongst Chittagong Vikings VS Rangpur Riders. At the end moment there created a new drama by Pakistani senior batsman Mohammad Hafeez who refused to play along side pacer Mohammad Amir.

It is learnt by the source Hafeez rejected a remunerative offer from the last season runner up Chittagong Vikings. yesterday when the Pakistan national team was drilling on national cricket academy,Lahore, their previous bowling coach Mohammad Akram offered Hafeez for bowling  But Hafeez directly repudiated to face  Amir, the left-arm bowler for his stainted past.

He said that it was not about any personal or individuals clash, It was about the image of Pakistan cricket and also about the country. He totally refused to play in BPL and said he could not play with any player who has beshmirched and fetched a bad name for the country.

Hafeez told few other players name from Pakistan national team and he thought they are strongly not worth to play  for the national team again in any format.  He also share his feelings about the three players  Amir, Salman Butt and Muhammad who were banded for the spot fixing scandal.

This season BPL consists numbers of Pakistani players where Dhaka Dynamites hired most of them ontheir team. Total 16 players going to be participated on BPL season 3 including Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal, Yasir Shah, Wahab Riaz,  Saeed Ajmal, Umar Akmal.


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Finally the most dreaming day has come today and the first match will be going to start at 2.00 pm on the Sher-E-Bangla Cricket Stadium. This season the tournament has brought many stars players from national and International site. The tournament considering some new and old face this period and it going to be rocked when all stars batsman and all rounder will fight to make highest run score for the team also for own.

Brad Hodge, the Australian dependable batsman holding the record of highest individual run score in Bangladesh Premier Leage history. This outstanding batsman had played the both season in BPL 1st and 2nd and he was one of the most stable batsmen of BPL 2012 and 2013. Last two edition he made 756 run score and become the top ranking run scorer of BPL T20 2015.

Ahmed Shehzad the Pakistani opening batsman holding the most highest run scoring record in BPL 1st edition in 2012. In the opening season he played for Barisal Burners which recently changed the name to Barisal Bulls. He played all total 12 matches and managed 486 runs score with along the average rate of 48.6. He was the most valuable batsman of the tournament in 1st season.

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The two more Pakistani batsman Imran Nazir who got the score 390 and Kamran Akmal to 356, were the 2nd and 3rd top run scorer of first BPL respectively.

Bangladeshi wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim was most highest run scorer of BPL 2nd season in 2013. He had played total 13 matches for Sylhet Royals and made the score 440 with the average rate of 40.0 The Netherland batsman Rayan Ten Doeschate made 432 runs and got the 2nd position of highest run scorer of BPL season 2. The 3rd position holder was Shamsur Rahman, a Bangladeshi batsman who achieved 421 in BPL 2013.

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Earlier versions of Brian 2 contained bugs that could lead to incorrect recordings from subgroups with PopulationRateMonitor and SpikeMonitor. The issue was only triggered under quite specific circumstances and not for all code generation targets (for more details, see github issues 772 and 777), but could in the worst case lead to the recording of incorrectly high firing rates at certain time steps (for SpikeMonitor, the bug meant that spikes beyond the size of the subgroup were recorded).

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The Brown University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, in conjunction with JMR Communications, has announced the formation of the Brown Sports Radio Network, and has reached an agreement with three area radio stations to broadcast Brown football in the Fall.

The Brown Sports Radio Network can be heard throughout Rhode Island and Southern New England. WSKO-AM 790 The Score (Providence) will continue to broadcast Brown Football, along with new partners WOON-AM 1240 (Woonsocket), and WARL-AM1320 (Attleboro/Providence).

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When I obtain the Buddhahood, any being of the boundless and inconceivable Buddha-worlds of the ten quarters whose body if be touched by the rays of my splendour should not make his body and mind gentle and peaceful, in such a state that he is far more sublime than the gods and men, then may I not attain the enlightenment.

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Is there a 'Doer'?

Written by Mike Graham, 25 Jan 2008, last edited 14 Feb 2008

It is true that "We are Lived", "Life Lives Us" and "We are an expression of the One Life".

Does this mean that we are not the 'Doer' of anything?

Actions arise, things get done - there is no doubt about that.

The question remains - Who or what is the 'Doer'?

We only have two candidates nominated as the 'doer'.

Awareness / Aliveness / Consciousness / Presence-Awareness / Intelligience-Energy / God.

The 'me', the ego, the reference point.

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Awareness / Consciousness / Aliveness.
Awareness / Intelligence-Energy is Omnipresent - which means that it is Present in every possibly location in the Universe, without being 'more Present' in some places and 'less Present' in others.

There is no possible separation that can exist - and all apparent separation is an illusion. One is All. There is no room for a separate 'god' and no room for a separate 'you' or a separate 'me'.

There cannot be a separate 'doer'.

Some hold that "Consciousness is the 'ultimate doer' ", but that is Dualistic. There is no separation between Consciousness and anything else, even an 'ultimate 'doer'. The 'ultimate doer' is just a concept, a label, an abstraction. The actuality is there is only DO-ing but no separate 'Doer' except in the mind as a thought.

Everything arises in Consciousness in the immediacy of the Present Moment. It does not arise from a 'separate Doer' or a 'separate Source'.

Consciousness is non-personal - there is no entity that can be a 'Doer' or a 'Source'.

Everything just arises. That is it.

There is only Consciousness / Awareness / Intelligence - Energy. God.

The 'me', the ego
The ego is just a thought. The 'me' is just a thought. It has no power at all in it's own right.

The 'me' cannot be the 'doer' but it certainly claims to be.

Awareness sees and the 'me' says "I see". Awareness hears and the 'me' comes in and says "I hear".

The seeing and the hearing have already occurred before the thoughts "I see" and "I hear" arise.

These thoughts are 'after thoughts' - occurring after the event to which they refer.

Thoughts have no power of themselves.

Thoughts cannot be the 'doer'.

The understanding is that there IS NO DOER AT ALL. Everything just arises in consciousness.

We are Lived. Life Lives us.

But what then of the statement 'I am not the doer'?

This statement is flawed for two reasons - the assumptions on which it is based.

There is an assumption that a 'me' or an 'I' actually exists as a separate entity. So there is a belief in a non-existent 'me' which denies being the 'doer'.
That entity, when investigated is found not to exist, at which point the issue of 'who is the doer' is no longer an issue.

The 'doer' actually does not exist anywhere else other than thought. It is an abstraction. What happens is DO-ing, which is a Movement of Consciousness in the immediacy of the Present Moment.

The mind (which likes to divide and separate) latches onto this and describes it in terms of a DOER and something that is DONE - but in fact there is only DO-ing.

So the statement "I am not the doer" is correct except that there is no 'I' and there is no 'doer'.

How about "there is no doer and people should not be blamed for what they apparently 'do' and nor should you blame yourself either ".

This statement is seriously flawed as well, in addition to the reasons above, which equally apply to this statement

In blaming yourself there is an implicit belief in the 'me' that is doing the blaming and the same 'me' that is being blamed. So it is the Ego blaming the Ego. Total mind stuff. None of this exists except in the imagination.

Whether there is blaming or not is not the issue - the issue is the solid and steadfast belief in the existence of the 'me' in the first person. There is a similar belief in the separate entity of others (their 'me'). All are illusions. None actually exist.
If there is no 'me' here - how possibily could there be a 'me' over there?

When the 'me' is seen through - seen for the fiction that it is - the subject of blaming does not arise. It is a red herring.

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This page describes the hardware modifications needed to convert the TeraStation UPS serial port to a console port so that you can see the TeraStation's boot messages.

If opening the TeraStation did not void your warranty, this will. Opening the case probably doesn't void your warranty since the manual for the TeraStation gives detailed instructions on how to replace a drive. However, soldering pin-head/jumpers onto the mainboard is clearly not sanctioned as a necessary end-user activity by the manufacturer.

Enabling the console serial port requires some soldering skills, so practice on a dead mainboard first.

If you add a serial console, it is your own decision and I'm not responsible for any damage. These are just tips on what to do, if you are not sure what I'm talking about, don't try it.

As we can see from the hardware page, the CPU offers two serial ports. The first one is used for the system console, but it's not accessible from outside the box. The second one is used to communicate with the XXX microcontroller.

But there actually is a serial port on the back of the box. Officially it is used to communicate with the UPS. If we open the TeraStation, there is a serial port in lower back corner:

serial port, unmodified

Close to it is a Sipex3220EE level shifter to convert the 5v (or 3.3v) TTL-levels to RS232.

If we look closely, we see that the three (actually four) pins of the level shifter are connected to middle pin of the three connectors: JP3 (TxD), JP4 (RxD), JP5 (Vcc).

In order to connect the system console we must first remove the three 0Ω resistor (R437, R440, R441) and move them to (R438, R439, R442). Instead of moving them, we could just remove them and add pin-heads/jumpers to allow simple switching.

In any case the Rx line from the CPU will still not be connected. We also have to bridge R76 to connect it. Do not remove R75, it is a 10kΩ pull-down. If you remove it the input line to the CPU will float and feed random junk to it, not what you want.

If you add pin-heads/jumpers, then you can use them to toggle from serial console (all jumpers to the left, as shown) and UPS support (all to the right). Always put the jumpers all to the left or all to the right. If you don't you might kill the CPU.

serial port, modified

J1 can be used to directly access the serial console, but it uses 3.3v TTL levels and you need a separate level shifter. I added some connectors, as I already had a proper level shifter from some other embedded projects. (From memory: Pin1 is Vcc, Pin2 is GND, Pin3 is RxD, Pin4 is TxD, but I'd have to check to be sure.)

With all the jumpers to the left you can now connect your PC to the serial console using a cross-over (null modem) cable. Start your terminal program, configure the serial port to use 57600 8N1, aka:

Speed: 57600
Parity: none
Data Bits: 8
Stop Bits: 1
No flow control

If you power on the reassembled TeraStation you can see the boot messages.

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Tom Staton, Ferndale's head boys basketball coach, recently got some very good news to kick-off his summer vacation with. It appears that Staton's Eagles will be welcoming Joe "The Show" Baker, into the program for the 2010-2011 hoops season as Baker, one of the Oakland County's most prolific and well-traveled players has apparently transferred to Ferndale for his senior year.
Coming off almost a decade of futility in the once storied Eagles program, Staton, a 1975 graduate of the school and former prep all-stater himself, came to Ferndale last season and ushered in a landmark-resurgence. In just a year's time, the Eagles went from also-rans in 2009 to OAA conference champions with an undefeated league record in 2010. It was an exceptional accomplishment that can all be traced back to the fatherly love, discipline and stability coach Staton immediately instilled in the team from the minute he took the job last summer.
Up until this recent announcement, however, it looked like some rocky roads laid ahead for the second year head coach who is losing a bulk of his playing rotation to graduation, including all-conference studs Shawn Amiker and Jody Hill. Now, with Joe the Show in the fold at Ferndale, NOT SO MUCH!
A little simple math: Joe the Show playing for the Eagles in '11 = CONTENDERS ONCE AGAIN.
Baker's skills on the hardwood are unquestionable. In parts of two seasons at the varsity level with Clawson (not including his freshman year spent getting minutes off the bench at Southfield-Lathrup), he has averaged over 25 ppg and shot a very high field goal percentage for a perimeter player. This kid has bonafide D1 talent at the 2-spot and is a tough-as-nails competitor on the court at all times. Throw him into the mix with an already solid returning backcourt in Anthony Rice (definition of a human sparkplug in spelling Amiker and Hill last season) and Donovan Reynolds (ineligible 2010, but trust Burney when he tells you that he will be a star this upcoming season) and the Eagles' Nest is going to be rocking and rolling as loud as ever next winter.
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NJOY's King is the first e-cigarette that looks (and feels and smokes) like the real thing. It's put traditional cigarette makers on notice.

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A curious television commercial aired across the U.S. last month that, until its final few seconds, was indistinguishable from an ad for cigarettes — even though such advertising has been banned from broadcast TV for four decades.

In the television spot, the “cigarette” smoke, ash tip and flame look real. The carton looks authentic. The man smoking it looks satisfied.

The smoke, however, is vapor. The ash tip, plastic. The flame, simulated. The “cigarette” is a so-called electronic cigarette — in this case, an NJOY King, the first smokeless, nicotine-delivering, cigarette-like object that (at least according to its manufacturer) looks and feels and “smokes” like the real thing. Television commercials for NJOY Kings began running nationally in early December, making it the first smoking ad to run since Jan. 1, 1971, when Virginia Slims ran one final commercial a minute before the midnight deadline during The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. (President Nixon had signed legislation banning cigarette ads on TV and radio the year before.)

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E-cigarettes, invented in 2003, currently account for less than 1% of the $80 billion U.S. cigarette market. But they are growing rapidly: UBS projects that sales, which have doubled every year since 2008, will reach $1 billion in 2013. Numbers like that have put Big Tobacco on notice. “Consumption of e-cigs may overtake traditional cigarettes in the next decade,” predicts Wells Fargo analyst Bonnie Herzog. “And they’ll only evolve and improve as time goes forward — at far less risk. The technology portion of it is sort of like Apple. This is just Version 1.”

The Birth of the E-Cigarette

If e-cigarettes do start to take significant market share away from traditional cigarette makers, they’ll likely be led by NJOY, which has captured about a third of the e-cigarette market. The company was founded in 2006 by patent lawyer Mark Weiss, who had discovered an electronic cigar while traveling through China the year before. The technology was crude, but Weiss saw a business opportunity. Four years later, his brother Craig, also a patent attorney, took over as CEO.

The company’s strategy and professed ideals are to some extent a function of the fact that Craig Weiss doesn’t smoke at all. In short, NJOY claims it isn’t trying to create new smokers. It doesn’t market its product to children under 18, and it became the first independent e-cigarette maker to partner with the We Card program, which helps enforce the legal smoking age at convenience stores in the U.S. It doesn’t sell flavors like piña colada or bubble gum, only traditional menthol. And Weiss says his company is only going after current smokers, the 45 million Americans who light up on a regular basis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 69% of smokers want to quit completely, and many of them are looking for alternatives. “Can you think of another consumer product in the world that the people who are buying it, while they’re buying it, are thinking, ‘God, I wish I wasn’t buying this?’ ” asks Weiss.

Many smokers try to quit for the obvious health benefits and the cost savings of not lighting up. For decades, tobacco has been the leading cause of preventable disease globally, and state and excise taxes have pushed prices of cigarette packs in places like Illinois and New York to upwards of $10 and $12 each.

But NJOY discovered something that smokers dislike almost as much as the high cost and the gloomy health implications. “Odor is a big thing for smokers,” says Weiss. “It’s their clothes and their hair, and it’s probably the biggest complaint that nonsmokers who are either cohabitating or co-working with smokers have about smoking.” Weiss believes NJOY has addressed this trifecta of problems: the NJOY King doesn’t burn tobacco; one e-cig (about $8) lasts about as long as two packs of conventional cigarettes; and it’s odorless.

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When NJOY created its new e-cig, the goal for Mark Scatterday — the King’s developer and also a nonsmoker — was to essentially create a virtual cigarette. The King is the same length and diameter as a traditional cigarette. The ash tip resembles glowing embers when in use. The cigarette itself has a papery feel to it. The “filter” is even a bit squishy.

Scatterday and others realized that to make a successful cigarette replacement, it had to not just meet the chemical needs of the user — delivering nicotine, that is — but also reproduce the full experience of smoking. For many smokers, the feel of a cigarette, the hand-to-mouth movement, the taste, even the physical act of holding the pack are almost as important as the nicotine itself. That’s one reason nicotine gum and patches have such high failure rates. Scatterday says his priority was figuring out how to “bridge the gap between your typical e-cigarette and an analog cigarette.”

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NJOY doesn’t make any health claims about its product, and its electronic cigarettes aren’t regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. E-cigarettes don’t burn tobacco, which means they don’t contribute to the wide array of deadly health problems related to smoking, which include lung cancer, stroke, heart attack, emphysema and high blood pressure.

A study released last year by researchers at the University of Athens has shown that the nicotine vapor in e-cigarettes led to an increase in airway resistance, making it harder to breathe and leading to lower levels of oxygen in participants’ bloodstream. Still, a number of doctors have come out in support of e-cigarettes as cessation devices for those wanting to quit; several have written publicly in support of NJOY and have criticized the methodology used in the University of Athens study.

But this much is clear: e-cigarettes are healthier than traditional cigarettes, and the three companies comprising Big Tobacco are beginning to either buy up electronic-cigarette companies or create their own versions.

Lorillard recently acquired e-cigarette maker Blu, which has an estimated 25% of e-cig market share, according to Wells Fargo’s Herzog. And Reynolds American is currently testing an electronic cigarette called Vuse. The only major tobacco manufacturer that hasn’t made a move is Altria, formerly Philip Morris, the maker of such brands as Marlboro, Parliament and Virginia Slims.

Analysts at both Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs compare the growth in electronic cigarettes to the boom in energy drinks. Many of the big beverage companies failed to foresee the future popularity in energy drinks and reacted too late. The same thing may be happening with e-cigarettes.

While NJOY is independent from the three major tobacco manufacturers, there are rumors that Altria will attempt a takeover of NJOY. But for now, NJOY executives seem more interested in taking down Big Tobacco than cooperating with it. “Cigarettes haven’t evolved in 70 years,” says Weiss. “The last product innovation was the filter in 1952 and the flip-top box in 1954.”

Weiss isn’t shy about his vision for NJOY. He doesn’t want to just compete with large tobacco companies. He wants to beat them. “Our mission at NJOY is to obsolete cigarettes,” he says. “Do I believe that’s possible? Absolutely.”


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Since 2001, Reich Construction, Llc has been providing Land Subdividers And Developers, Residential from Eagle Point. Reich Construction, Llc is incorporated in Oregon. Reich Construction, Llc has estimated annual revenues of $500,000.00 and also employs an estimated 5 employees.

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