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At 1:52pm on May 2, 2008, Sanjai Moses said…: maybe this site should be about cheese instead...

About Me:: Background:
Born and raised in small farm town in upstate New York.
B.S. Biology and B.S. Business Administration from Le Moyne College.
Product Management. Product Marketing. Brand Management.
New York to Denver to San Diego to San Francisco.

Concerns:
* The Greenland Ice Sheet!
* Exploitation of human and natural resources in underdeveloped countries by developed countries.
* World poverty when the economical, intellectual and technological means exist for the food and the medicine necessary to solve this crisis.
* The direction of global democracy especially that of the US Government and its policies under the current administration.
* Ethnocentrism! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism)

My end goal is quite simple:
Live HAPPY and die having made a IMPACT!

Interests:: Leo. Rooibos tea. Adirondack Mountains. Popcorn with butter and salt. Jogging. Dark Chocolate. Ansel Adams. Cooking. Oceans and rivers. Herb gardens. Fireflies. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Music. ABC building blocks. Swimming. Rocky Mountains. Worn jeans and tees. Mindfulness. Green grass. Snowboarding. Orcas and polar bears. Summer BBQs. Curious George. Campfires. Jackson Pollock. Memories and Dreams.

Books:: * Everyday Enlightenment by Dan Millman
* Wherever you go, There you are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
* Change the way you see Everything: Through Asset Based Thinking by Kramer & Wasiak
* Field Notes of a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
* The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell