Atlantic News Staff Writer LEBANON, MAINE | at More Than 10,000 Feet Clarity Lives
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INSIDE: TV ListinGS 26,000 COPIES Please Deliver Before FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2007 Vol. 33 | No. 32 | 2 Sections |32 Pages W HOO O S Cyan H Magenta ! Yellow BY SCOTT E. KINNEY ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER LEBANON, MAINE | At more than 10,000 feet clarity lives. Black Everyday fears and anxieties such as paying the rent or mortgage or the bills, concerns of the wife/ husband and kids, the pace of traf- fic jams and graying hairs are gone. They’re all out the window. And I am soon to follow. This is Skydive New England. School in Session I am shuttled into a small room filled with couches and comfy chairs promptly at 11 a.m., joined by roughly a dozen other first-time jumpers. The looks on their faces reflect my own thoughts: This might just be crazy. Two videos are played for those in the room on a big- screen TV. The first is a video of a first-time tandem jumper. It is meant to give a small taste of what is to be expected once we’re ready to go. 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PORTSMOUTH | Ports- attendance through a small “They don’t have the mouth Computer Group sample of the timesaving time to go to a full-day (PCG) invited several cus- and security enhanced pro- event,” he said. tomers and potential cus- grams that promise to lead Instead, PCG sent out tomers to get on the bus on to a more efficient and safer a number of invitations to Tuesday. workplace for all. The new local business owners to The Microsoft Bus, that programs also offer the flex- get a taste of what the new is. ibility of working remotely Microsoft products have to During the afternoon, from the road in a multitude offer and those who have between 1:30-5 p.m., Vince of formats. interest could inquire with Catazaro, Microsoft repre- PCG President and CEO PCG. sentative and “driver” of Dave Hodgdon said he rec- In addition to Microsoft’s the bus took several small ognized the benefits of the offerings, PCG has also part- and medium-sized business Small Business Server and nered up with Whaleback GOING UP — The frame is up for an environmentally conscious home in North Hampton using new breakthroughs in the building industry. — Atlantic News Photo by Scott E. Kinney Home sweet high-tech home BY SCOTT E. KINNEY in industries all over there That translates to impressive ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER are factories and assembly savings in a home of 3,000 Cyan NORTH HAMPTON | plants. The building indus- square feet. The timbers are raised and try is about a hundred years The energy efficient Magenta the walls are going up on behind in that aspect. Job site insulation is just a portion an energy efficient home in work equals dollars.” of the green, environmen- North Hampton that is sure Caswell said the end tally friendly elements of the to leave its neighbors “green” result of using such a prod- home. When building such Yellow with envy. uct is a building that is well a home, Caswell said, one The new home on Buck- insulated throughout. Much has to take into consideration skin Lane will both serve more so than a traditional both environmental respon- Black as a showroom for River- wall made with studs every sibility as well as making the bend Timber Framing, a 16 inches. Caswell said insu- home economically feasible national leader in timber lation of the home is a large for the customer. frame homes, and the home part of any new building. “This is not an overboard, GET ON THE BUS, GUS — Portsmouth Computer Group on Mirona Road offered several local of Aaron Caswell of Ports- “The number one thing expensive ‘green’ building,” small and medium sized business owners the opportunity to view some of the new small business mouth Performance Home, when building a new house he said. “You want to be software available from Microsoft aboard the Microsoft Bus. LLC, the company’s local is insulation,” he said. “It’s socially and environmentally — Atlantic News Photo by Scott E. Kinney representative. not mechanical. It’s in place conscious and making the Throughout the construc- and it will never let you dollar work for you. That’s owners through several of the integration of Microsoft Systems to provide their tion project, tried and true down.” what everybody wants. It’s the offerings of Microsoft’s Office 2007 and SharePoint customers with Voice Over methods will be utilized The utilization of the about finding that mix.” business software.