The balloon pilots could see passengers waving and taking photographs as it went past and Mr Elson, aged 45, from Wells, Somerset, praised the captain’s skill. “I’m sure the captain had a hard time keeping his plane upright, when all of his passengers rushed to one side of the plane to catch sight of us. “It was an amazing sight for us, particularly seeing so many friendly faces smiling at us after only having each other to stare at during the past 16 days.” It provided a welcome diversion for the pair who are inching their way around the globe after comprehensively breaking the world balloon endurance record. The biggest worry for the Swiss-registered Breitling team, which includes British pilot Mr Brian Jones, was going too fast and having to wait over India for favourable winds, a spokesman said. In contrast, the Cable and Wireless crew have been forced to stay in slow, low-altitude winds to avoid being blown off course as they make their way up the eastern side of China. All British-registered teams were barred from Chinese airspace when Virgin tycoon Mr Richard Branson’s balloon strayed into a restricted area on his round-the-world attempt in Brass Brooch December. The Anglo-Swiss crew, who launched from a site in the Alps, will be ed hardy wholesale allowed to fly over the country. Cable and Wireless pilots Mr Elson and Mr Prescot, aged 48, from Stockbridge, Hants, thought the detour around China would add just seven days to their journey. But 17 days after the pair took off from Spain they are still not expected to reach the jet stream winds they must catch over northern Japan until Monday, a spokesman, who added the men wished the Breitling team well. l Explorer Mr David Hempleman-Adams was due to set off yesterday on his last solo expedition – a 250-mile trek through snow and ice to the geomagnetic North Pole. Mr Hempleman-Adams, aged 42, who lives in Box, near Bath, is setting off for Canada, starting the 20-day expedition from Ellesmere Island, off the North-west Territories of Canada on Monday. His trip will take him over a 4,000ft mountain range and across an ice shelf and will finish at the geomagnetic North Pole in international waters between Greenland and Canada.

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Mrs. Boucher is the daughter of Daniel and Eileen Dennis of Lewiston. Mr. Boucher is the son of Robert and Linda Boucher of Lewiston.

The bride, given in marriage by her parents, wore an ivory strapless gown in A-line style with beaded lace and she carried a bouquet of ivory and pink roses.

Serving as witnesses were mothers of the couple. Roman Dennis, nephew of the bride, was ring bearer.

A reception followed at Marco’s Italian Restaurant in Lewiston, after which the couple traveled to Riviera Maya in Mexico.

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The bridegroom is a 1992 graduate of St. Dominic Regional High School and attended the University of Southern Maine. He is employed at Kamco Supply Boston in Portland.

Seat’s new Leon Ecomotive 1.6-litre diesel, is about to hit UK showrooms. With a fantastic combined mpg figure of 74.3, which translates into almost 900 miles on a tank of diesel, its CO2 emissions have also been slashed to just 99g/km.

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The Mobility Roadshow 2010 takes place at the East of England Showground, near Peterborough, from July 1 to 3. For details, go online to The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is to be preceded this year by a new contest for electric, hybrid, and low-emissions cars. The low-energy contest will be on Saturday, November 6, the day before the veterans turn out. See A warning has been issued to football fans about drink-driving during the World Cup. Road Safety GB is asking supporters not to drive their cars to the pub to watch games if they intend to drink, and to be aware that those who do drink a lot could still be over the limit the next morning.

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Graafeiland is enjoying his retirement and participating in the pro bono work he never had the chance to do as a corporate lawyer at Eastman Kodak.

Although Graafeiland, who retired from the company five years ago as chief counsel, did arrange pro bono work for Kodak lawyers and paralegals, he said he never had the time to try it out himself, and often felt a little distant from the local legal scene.

“My schedule was too much beyond my control,” said Graafeiland, who has been active at Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County since his retirement.

Now he’s ready to commit to the newly initiated attorney emeritus program announced by New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman in January. A rules change added the new category of lawyer, the status of which is neither active nor retired.

Attorneys emeritus are free from requiring malpractice insurance, do not have to pay the $350 biennial registration fee and are exempt from CLE requirements.

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Speaking before the Monroe County Bar Association on June 10, Chief Judge Lippman addressed the issue of the poor’s lack of access to civil legal representation.

Part of his plan was to initiate the emeritus program and fill it with an untapped resource: “That is, baby boomers who are coming into retirement age and want to do something meaningful with all the years of expertise they have in the legal profession,” Chief Judge Lippman said earlier this month, noting that 40 percent of lawyers statewide are close to retirement.

Joining the program, he said, was akin to a lawyer having a gold star pinned on his or her chest, an sign of the work done in support of indigent clients, with skills learned over a lifetime. He said 50 attorneys already had signed on, and would be assigned to legal services providers, where they’ll receive an office if needed and training.

Chief Judge Lippman also noted that the economic downturn has led to an increased number of people showing up in state courts — estimated at more than 2 million annually — who cannot afford representation. The sinking economy has manufactured an underfunded and broken legal services system filled with evictions, foreclosure, debt collection and other civil cases, he said.

Graafeiland has not yet signed on the dotted line, but this week he said the program’s 60 hours of required service spread out over two years is less pro bono work than he’s doing now. To qualify for attorney emeritus status, a lawyer must: be 55 years old, be an attorney in good standing, have practiced for at least 10 years and no longer accept paying clients.

Graafeiland said he was ready and willing. Although he’s done his share of helping the indigent with pro bono work that “runs right across the spectrum,” such as estate planning and living wills for AIDS and cancer patients — he said Tory burch flats he likes the idea of a structured system, and that the program has the chief judge’s endorsement.

Graafeiland said he believes there is a “pronounced need” for the program and that, once the word is out, its ranks of volunteers will swell.

“What’s nice about the emeritus program is that it does have a certain cachet,” Graafeiland said. “As it gains momentum, I think people will flock to the banner.”

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By 4 p.m. Wednesday, more than 32.3 million people in 10 southern provinces and Chongqing Municipality had been affected by continuous rainstorms and floods, the ministry said.

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The case against the company was brought by the Environment Agency who received numerous reports of discoloured water along the brook on July 7 last year.

The pollution was traced to an area on Crownhill Down, near Cornwood, where the china clay company, Sibelco UK had stripped grass and topsoil from a large area of moorland to extend quarrying operations.

Heavy rain caused surface water on the exposed area of land to be contaminated with suspended solids and run-off into the headwaters of the Smallhanger Brook via a temporary drainage channel.

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When an officer returned to inspect the site he saw the containment bund had been breached and the stream was once again contaminated with sediment.

Jon Snowden, for the Environment Agency, said: “There were no pollution prevention measures in place to try to reduce the environmental impact of potentially harmful run-off from this site.

“Anyone undertaking major engineering works must provide adequate containment and settlement facilities to ensure their activities do not pollute nearby watercourses. Sediment entering watercourses blankets the riverbed and clogs the gills of fish and other aquatic life.”

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Sibelco UK Ltd, of Cheshire was fined Pounds 4,000 and ordered to pay Pounds 3,210 costs at Plymouth Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to two offences of allowing polluting matter to enter the Smallhanger Brook, Drakeland Corner.

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Temporary buffer zones that 102 residents registered for prior to city crews hitting the streets with truck loads of malathion Friday and Saturday night will also lapse.

“At the end of the day, the approach that we took by allowing people to phone their requests in, we did that because of the short notice that we wanted to spray in. Now, that process will definitely go back to what’s mandated on the (pesticide management) permit,” Bailey said.

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As outlined in the pesticide management bylaw, residents must submit a formal letter of request to register their property as a buffer zone. When the policy was temporarily waived Thursday, the list skyrocketed from a dozen to 114 registered buffer zones by Saturday night. A doctor’s note isn’t required for adulticiding programs; only for annual lawn care type pesticide applications.

Although each buffer zone is 100 metres, or about one city block, Bailey says he’s confident that the mosquito population has been at least temporarily decimated.

“I am happy with our controls. There’s no doubt the buffers eliminate a real strong control across the board but I don’t think (the buffer zones) defeated the purpose,” he said. “It still allowed us to do the fringe areas and a lot of hot spots across the city, so we’ve definitely reduced the population.”

The city is currently on the lookout for additional supplies of malathion so the fringe areas of the city and hot spots like along the riverbank can be targeted one last time — likely on the weekend, Bailey said. Buffer zone requests will be honoured until the end of this week only. Afterwards, the normal procedure is reinstated.

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Just a day later, a sloth bear went berserk and mauled five people at a small settlement along Adegaon-Masele road on Sunday morning. Like the tiger incident, the situation turned tense and heavy police force was rushed to the area to control the mob.

Around 40 families of farmers and farm labourers live in a settlement located some distance away from Adegaon village in Chimur tehsil. A bear strayed into this settlement around 5 am and attacked one Indira Nannaware, who was up early for her morning chores. Neighbours and family members of Indira woke up on hearing her cries.

However, the bear directed its fury at the rescuers and mauled three others –Annaji Nannaware, Nandkishor Nannaware and Bhauji Nannaware – before fleeing the spot. Later, all the four injured were admitted at Chimur rural hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, the bear escaped to a nearby zudpi jungle and took shelter in the shrubs near Adegaon. A group of people soon tracked the beast down and tried to capture it with the help of a net made of ropes.

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However, the beast foiled their attempt and mauled one Murlidhar Gajbhiye. He too was taken to Chimur rural hospital for treatment. Forest officials from Chimur and Talodhi range also reached the spot. However, Replica Gucci Watches the villagers were enraged due to the delay of forest officials in reaching the spot. Efforts were on by the forest department staffers to capture the bear with the help of net till late in the evening, but the beast kept eluding the pursuers.

aThe heavy mob of over two hundred villagers kept following the foresters and bears in Zudpi jungle during the exercise. In a couple of instances, the annoyed bear charged at the crowd. In the panic that ensued, one Ankush Sonwane, 19, fell down and broke his leg. RFO, Chimur range, BS Padve confirmed the incident and said that the forest department staffers are trying hard to net the bear. “The place falls under Talodhi forest range. However being close a team of Chimur range too has come to assist the Talodhi foresters. We have brought a cage to the spot, so that after bear was captured in the net she could be caged safely,” said Padve. For Reprint Rights: timescontent.com

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By pouring a lot of water into a bucket with a large hole, the world sustained the impression that the receptacle was almost full. As Norman Cousins, an American political journalist, noted: “Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”

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Cognitive dissonance ensured that excessive debt levels and the unsustainable nature of debt-fuelled growth was ignored. Governments merely transferred the debt from private sector balances sheets onto public balance sheets. Today, in Europe, that year of wishful thinking has run its course. It’s not only the UK that is having to make painful fiscal adjustments and undertake profound structural changes.

And if you think it’s bad in the UK, look at what the International Monetary Fund said about Spain: “The challenges are severe: a dysfunctional labour market, the deflating property bubble, a large fiscal deficit, heavy private sector and external indebtedness, anaemic productivity growth, weak competitiveness, and a banking sector with pockets of weakness… [Spain needs] growthenhancing structural reforms, building on the progress made on product markets and the housing sector, especially overhauling the labour market.”

To Spain can be added Greece and several other European nations. In an ideal world, banks and investors raise capital and write down their exposure to the troubled debtors over time, allowing the restructuring to be relatively smooth and avoiding disruption to financial markets.

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Now, governments have become the problem. Many indebted economies, including Britain, have implement austerity measures. New Labour’s dreams of a Scandanavian-style social welfare state financed by tax revenues from a booming economy and a strong financial services sector have been consigned to history.

The sharp reduction of government spending coincides with the end of the effects of stimulus packages and is likely to slow economic growth. It may be a repeat of an error made in the Great Depression when attempts to balance budgets exacerbated the decline in economic activity.

Refusing to acknowledge the real problems, major economies have, over a period of two decades, transferred debt from companies to consumers and finally onto public balance sheets. Borrowing can only be repaid by the sale of assets or by redirecting income. The harsh reality is that much of the debt was not used to finance productive enterprises but fuelled consumption or was channelled into unproductive uses. There are no substantial assets or income from those investments that will help repay the debts.

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