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FOXNews.com – Recycling Nuclear Fuel: The French Do It, Why Can’t Oui? – Opinion

Jim Charanis | No Comments » Posted on June 29, 2008

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!

Father’s day at the Gardens

Jim Charanis | No Comments » Posted on June 23, 2008

We spent the day at the Botanical Gardens

Gotta love a warm summer afternoon and wonderful kids!

2008 Hike

Jim Charanis | No Comments » Posted on June 15, 2008

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!

Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jim Charanis | No Comments » Posted on June 04, 2008

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:

Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
Folksonomies (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)
Microformats extending pages with additional semantics
REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
Weblog-publishing tools
wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
Internet privacy, the extended power of users to manage their own privacy in cloaking or deleting their own user content or profiles.

2008 Hike – in Google Maps

Jim Charanis | No Comments » Posted on June 02, 2008

Google Maps – these are the waypoints on our hike in June, 2008:

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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:

Wednesday: Rock Gap to Siler Bald Shelter – 7.4 miles
Thursday: Siler Bald Shelter to Campsite between Wayah Bald and Licklog Gap – 6.8 miles
Friday: Campsite to Campsite between Cold SpringShelter and Tellico Gap – 7.5 miles
Saturday: Campsite to NOC – 9.3 miles.

OR – Alternate Route:

Wednesday: Rock Gap to Siler Bald Shelter – 7.4 miles
Thursday: Siler Bald Shelter to Cold Spring Shelter – 12.1 miles
Friday: Cold Spring Shelter to A Rufus Morgan Shelter – 11.42 miles
Saturday: A Rufus Morgan Shelter to NOC – .8 Miles & and we mess around at the center for the day.

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.