As a journalist, he has been a foreign correspondent of L'Europeo, and he also wrote historical and adventure books, including La taverna del doge Loredan (1980), La partita (1986) and the latest Il ponte della solita ora (2006).
He attended local schools in New Orleans, including Martin Behrman School in Algiers and later St. Aloysius High School in New Orleans where he was a band member for four years under the direction of Professor Taverna, composer of the schools famous fight song.
He contributed to the Futurist meals formulated in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Fillia's 1930 Manifesto of Futurist Cooking: the dish pollofiat was his idea and he co-designed the interior of the Taverna Santopalato, the prime establishment for futurist cuisine.
Mary (Zoe Laskari) is a rich young lady that challenges problems in a traditional folk neighbourhood in Plaka, Athens, when she moves to play modern music in a store opposite a traditional taverna, where Fotis (Faidon Georgitsis), a bouzouki player, works along with Kostas (Kostas Voutsas), Sofia (Mary Chronopoulou) and others.
SHIWA developed workflow interoperability solutions for several workflow systems, namely ASKALON Fahringer, et al. 2005, MOTEUR Glatard, et al. 2008, Pegasus Deelman 2005, PGRADE Kacsuk, et al. 2003, Galaxy, GWES, Kepler, LONI Pipeline, Taverna, ProActive and Triana Majithia et al. 2004.
Taverna allows users to integrate many different software components, including SOAP or REST Web services, such as those provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the European Bioinformatics Institute, the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ), SoapLab, BioMOBY and EMBOSS.
A mineral water spring (vrysi) fed from the ‘bottomless’ Avithos lake at Agios Nikolaos feeds a fountain in the plane tree sheltered square where the village festivals, served by souvlaki stalls and the adjacent taverna, are held in the summer months.