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AUTRYVILLE — Twelve-year-old Jonathan Pounders probably just wishes everybody would leave him alone. After all, it’s kind of embarrassing when your little sister’s friends call you ‘superhero’ and ask for your autograph. And then there’s all those newspaper people hanging around, wanting to take pictures of you and ask you all those weird questions. But Jonathan takes it in stride — ducking his head and smiling shyly. By now he knows that that’s what you get for being a good Samaritan. Jonathan, a seventh-grader at Roseboro/Salemburg Middle School, was standing outside his grandmother’s house in Autryville on Nov. 5 when he heard what sounded like a donkey braying in a nearby cornfield. It was noon on a school day, but Jonathan, who has ADHD and bipolar disorder, had been suspended for acting up, and he was waiting for his mother to take him to a doctor’s appointment in Chapel Hill.
Lancaster Hotels Announce Launch Date for Philippine Condotel ...
The Lancaster Suites located in Shaw Boulevard, Metro Manila, Philippines, a Brand Name Condotel Investment of Pacific Concord Properties Inc, will soon be ready to accept guests on short and long term leases in the Condo Hotel. Under the management of Lancaster Hotels, Land and Properties, Inc. [LHLPI], rental operations will be soft launched from December 2007 .
Bessemer Venture Partners Expands India Team Industry Veteran Devesh ...
LARCHMONT, N.Y., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Bessemer Venture Partners, the oldest venture capital operation in the United States, today announced that Devesh Garg has been named a Managing Director of the global investment firm's India practice. Mr. Garg brings more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience to the existing nine-person Mumbai based investment team. In June, Bessemer closed its latest $1 billion global fund with $350 million earmarked for investments in India. Since opening the India office in 2003, Bessemer has invested in 17 Indian companies including: In addition to Mr. Garg, Bessemer has dedicated five other partners to the India effort, including Anil Sarin, who joined Bessemer last year from Prudential ICICI, where he was co-head of equities.
Homes blend eco-friendliness, unique design
Theres been quite a buzz around town lately about energy and water conservation practices, and for years so-called green building has been a hit.
However a few homes in Truckee were built eco-friendly, not just to save heat and money, but because theyre just plain interesting.
One with the Earth
Sue and Jeff Cauhape have been living in their Tahoe Donner, earth berm home for 12 years. The couple maintains that, despite being for-the-most-part covered in dirt, their home is very bright and inviting.
Its not dark inside at all; we were surprised by how much light there was, Sue Cauhape said. We tried to sell it for two years, but I dont think a lot of people get the concept. Its odd, but weve been very comfortable here.
Comfort inside the home can be attributed to its thermal mass the walls absorb and retain heat, so the house requires neither heater nor air conditioner.
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