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Known as 
(ka-ran-nis) or " The Happy Maker" in Greece, my ancestors produced some of the finer spirits (okay, they had a traveling distillery) on the Island of Lemnos, located in the beautiful Aegean sea.
The stuff was so good that when my great-great-great-…(way back)…….grandfather would come to town, the villagers would say: "here comes the happy-maker!"
So he changed his name to (ka-ran-nis) meaning happy-maker.
When my Grandfather came over from Greece to the USA he changed his name from to James Charanis and I was named after him. Here is the house where he was born:
I have not forgotten that tradition of keeping my customers happy.
Years of experience working with corporate clients of all types has taught me how to help my customers find solutions to their information management problems.
Here is another article of someone who traced their roots back to this lovely island
Pictures and info on the town: Lemnos Villages
FOXNews.com - Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Can’t Oui? - Opinion
Maybe when gas hits $5/ gallon and the other fossil fuels start to rise we will consider this. We cannot get Yucca Mountain operational and why put it all there if we can recycle it. Why store it when you can reuse it. I just makes sense. If I have to live with a liberal president in Obama then I hope they do some progressive things like this in his administration. Rather then hiding further in the fantasy that we can reduce our energy needs and save the environment. I’m all for reducing the use of Coal and other fossil fuels, and we can see that France is using nuclear power in a positive way (Can you think of a more liberal country?) so lets just do it already!
We spent the day at the Botanical Gardens
Gotta love a warm summer afternoon and wonderful kids!
Update - to my post: 2008 Hike - in Google Maps @ i-rant
We did go out this week and it was fantastic!
This is the view from the top of Rocky Bald
I have more pictures in my Web Gallery. Movie to come…. yes - I lugged my HD Vid Cam.
Shout out to Tim, our new friend from Wisconsin!
As my company continues to change with the times we are embracing web 2.0 stuff. I need to learn more about this.
2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:
Google Maps - these are the waypoints on our hike in June, 2008:
This year we are hiking from Rock Gap to the NOC - Nantahala Outdoor Center - US 19 and the River in Wesser, NC.
We will arrive Wednesday June 11 around 9:00AM and park our car at the Store and then get shuttled to Rock Gap. From Rock Gap - here is the breakdown:
OR - Alternate Route:
NOC: Since 1972, NOC has shared the outdoors with millions of guests on white water river rafting trips, with all varieties of kayak and canoe instruction, on mountain bikes and around the world with our adventure travel trips. Located in western North Carolina near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NOC is within easy driving distance of Atlanta, Charlotte and Knoxville. Our world-class staff leads whitewater (some say white water!) rafting trips on nine of the East’s best rivers, including the Chattooga, Cheoah, French Broad, Nantahala, Nolichucky, Ocoee, Gauley, New and Pigeon. Learn to whitewater paddle from the pros in our renowned canoe and kayak Paddling School. We also offer group programs, ropes courses, flat water kayaking, flyfishing and hiking.
This is a terrific laundry list of stuff to take/have for Family Camping. A bit more then I use but a good place to start
Just finished it - the last few chapters pulled me so far in it woke me up. Ellen’s light is on; Maia carries my light. She will someday carry my Talisman. Never can despair overcome the hope of the light in a child. Good stuff.
My friend Andy turned me on to this little web application. Interesting.
Tim Westergren crated the Music Genome Project:
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it’s about what each individual song sounds like.
This web application will create and play a list of songs based on an artist you chose and the attributes of that artist. I’ve not looked into the Genome but its picking interesting artist much like the old classics I like.
Jim
