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Filipino life relies on "jeepneys." Riding one to work or school is routine for most people here. The eclectic utility vehicles – a mash-up of jeep and jitney – attract passengers with their flashy ornaments and bold paint jobs. However, for all their color, these small buses are decidedly not green.
With 15-to-20-year-old engines that are far from fuel-efficient, jeepneys exhale a sizable share of the country's carbon emissions.
That's why engineer Chips Guevera set out to convince jeepney owners in the Philippines to convert their diesel engines to run on filtered cooking oil.
Shrinking the industry's carbon footprint, he says, could improve air quality and curb the country's fossil fuel consumption.
"It's a no-brainer," he says in his small garage in Makati, one of 17 cities that make up metro Manila. "The costs are lower and it's better for the environment."
Mr. Guevera, who also sells the recycled and filtered fuel, touts how used cooking oil around Manila is already cheaper than diesel. Still, it's difficult to convince owners to take a risk on something new, especially when most can't afford the conversion kit that his company, Alterenergy Systems, sells.
While Guevera spreads the message in the nation's capital, he's inspired a nearby city to take matters into its own hands and to nudge jeepney owners toward a petrol-free future.
The government of Tanauan, a few hours south of Manila, has teamed up with one of the country's major banks to create a special program that will lend drivers the money needed to convert their vehicles. Already, the city council has set aside 600,000 Filipino pesos ($13,800) to fund a pilot program for 10 jeepneys.
Under the plan, drivers without the credit history or collateral needed for a normal loan may borrow the government money from Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation. As the jeepney owners repay the loan, the original amount of the loan goes back to the city while the bank pockets the interest.
Tanauan Mayor Sonia Torres Aquino put the plan in motion after her son-in-law and adviser, Jovi Bengzon, visited Guevera's garage. He returned very impressed.
"It smelled like fried chicken," jokes Mr. Bengzon. "But it worked."
If the pilot program runs smoothly, Ms. Aquino says it could expand to help more of Tanauan's 350 jeepney drivers save on fuel.
"It will be very economical for them," she says. "It is also environmentally sound; but to start, they will have to spend some money – more than they are used to."
Her biggest worry is that drivers will see this as a government handout and not make payments.
"I've told the government, 'You are not out in front. We are,' " says Long Pineda, who heads microfinance operations for Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation. "If the drivers get the money from city hall, they might think, 'We don't need to pay this back. It's taxpayer money anyway.' But when they go to a bank, they know they have to pay it back."
The terms of the loan are still being negotiated, but the city and bank will likely agree on an interest rate of 2 percent a month.
"Microfinance is a very lucrative business," Ms. Pineda says, "but it also provides a service. Jeepney owners normally borrow from money lenders who [don't require credit histories but] charge close to 20 percent interest a month. It's a huge savings for [drivers]."
The Philippines has a history of innovative financial programs for low-income borrowers. These customers traditionally get turned away because of the perception that they're too risky.
But nonprofit organizations started setting up microfinance programs in the Philippines more than 30 years ago. The country's Central Bank actively regulates these loans. Such measures led the The Economist to rank the country as the second-best climate in the world to conduct microfinance.
If the jeepney program in Tanauan succeeds, it could stand as a strong example for communities looking for creative ways to solve their own energy needs.
Five years ago, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to pass a biofuels law.
The law was supposed to encourage small towns to gain energy independence using indigenous resources. Instead, many of the resulting projects involved large-scale production of jatropha, a nonnative plant that can be turned into biodiesel. Many of these projects were not successful.
"If you can crack community energy needs, if you can find a way to source locally, then you'll have made a major difference," says Lasse Holopainen, who worked for the Philippine department of energy when it researched the national law and now teaches a class on business and climate change at Ateneo University in Manila.
According to Pineda, community-based projects tend to work better than those immediately launched on a national level.
"It really works better if you start on the ground level," she says.
The Tanauan jeepney project is the bank's first green microfinance program – environmentally friendly efforts are often considered unprofitable by bankers in the Philippines. But, she says, she's excited about the possibilities for more programs such as this in the future.
The travel for this report was underwritten by a grant from the International Center for Journalists.


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Video display Dublin/Wicklow Area Wicklow Mountains Subarea More detail Place count in area: 129, OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW Highest place: Lugnaquilla, 925m Maximum height for area: 925 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres, Places in area Dublin/Wicklow:Ballinacorbeg 336mBallinastraw 284mBallycurry 301mBallyguile Hill 188mBallyhook Hill 288mBray Head Hill 240mCarrickgollogan 276mCarrigeen Hill 298mCarrigoona Commons East 242mCloghnagaune 385mCorballis Hill 258mCupidstown Hill 378.6mDunranhill 342mEagle Hill 296mKilleagh 249mKilliney Hill 153.5mKilmichael Hill 267mKilnamanagh Hill 217mKnockannavea 400.8mKnockree 342mMount Kennedy 365.9mSlieveroe 332mWestaston Hill 270mDublin Mountains: Corrig Mountain 617.1mGlendoo Mountain 586mKippure 757mKnocknagun 555mMountpelier Hill 383mPrince William's Seat 555mSaggart Hill 396.9mSeahan 647.3mSeefin 620.6mSeefingan 722.9mTibradden Mountain 467mTwo Rock Mountain 536mWicklow Mountains: Annagh Hill 454mBallinacor Mountain 531mBallinafunshoge 480mBallineddan Mountain 652mBallycumber Hill 431mBallycurragh Hill 536mBallyteige 447mBaltinglass Hill 382mBarranisky 280mBenleagh 689mBlack Hill 602.2mBrockagh Mountain 557mBrockagh Mountain North-West Top 548mBrockagh Mountain SE Top 470mCamaderry Mountain 698.6mCamaderry South East Top 677.3mCamenabologue 758mCamenabologue SE Top 663mCarrick Mountain 381mCarrickashane Mountain 508mCarrig Mountain 571mCarrigleitrim 408mCarriglineen Mountain 455mCarrignagunneen 561mCarrigshouk 572.5mCarrigvore 682mChurch Mountain 544mCloghernagh 800mCollon Hill 238mConavalla 734mCorriebracks 531mCorrigasleggaun 794mCroaghanmoira 664mCroaghanmoira North Top 575mCroghan Kinsella 606mCroghan Kinsella East Top 562.1mCullentragh Mountain 510mCushbawn 400mDerrybawn Mountain 474mDjouce 725mDuff Hill 720mFair Mountain 571.2mFananierin 426mGravale 718mGreat Sugar Loaf 501mKanturk 523mKeadeen Mountain 653mKirikee Mountain 474mKnocknacloghoge 534mLakeen 357mLittle Sugar Loaf 342mLobawn 636mLugduff 652mLugduff SE Top 637mLuggala 595mLugnagun 446.2mLugnaquilla 925mMaulin 570mMoanbane 703mMoneyteige North 427mMullacor 661mMullaghcleevaun 849mMullaghcleevaun East Top 790mMuskeagh Hill 397mPreban Hill 389mRobber's Pass Hill 508.9mScarr 641mScarr North-West Top 561mSeskin 344mSilsean 698mSleamaine 430mSlieve Maan 547.8mSlieve Maan North Top 546.1mSlievecorragh 418mSlievefoore 414mSlievemaan 759mSorrel Hill 599.5mSpinans Hill 409mSpinans Hill SE Top 400mStoney Top 714mStookeen 420mSugarloaf 552mTable Mountain 701.7mTable Mountain West Top 563mTinoran Hill 312mTomaneena 682.4mTonduff 642mTonduff East Top 593mTonelagee 817mTonelagee NE Top 668mTonlagee South-East Top 546mTrooperstown Hill 430mWar Hill 686mWhite Hill 630.9m Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such. Centre on map. Carrigleitrim Hill Carraig Liatroma A name in Irish (Ir. Carraig Liatroma [PNCW*], 'rock of Liatroim or the grey ridge') Wicklow County, in Carn List, Pale grey fine to coarse-grained granite Bedrock Height: 408m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 56 Grid Reference: O04783 13976 Place visited by 71 members. Recently by: Colin Murphy, abcd, briankelly, melohara, strangeweaver, ckilm, pinchy, Bunsen7, supersullivan, Coles, Garmin, eoindunlea, Glanman2, geohappy, Pepe I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.) More detail Longitude: -6.434014, Latitude: 53.166236 , Easting: 304783, Northing: 213976 Prominence: 53m, Isolation: 2.2km ITM: 704709 714006, GPS IDs, 6 char: Crgltr, 10 char: CrgltrmBedrock type: Pale grey fine to coarse-grained granite, (Type 2e equigranular) Price has a good deal of information on this name: Pronounced Corrig·leitrim. The name of the hill which forms the northern spur of Sorrel Hill. It is quite well known, though it is not on the O. S. map. The old track which crossed the mountains between Douce Mountain and Gravale must have passed close to it... There is a cairn of stones on the hill [PNCW]. He also proposes this place as the identification for Liathdruim, mentioned in the 12th century Metrical Dindshenchas, suggesting it was of some importance. Previously Ballynatona in MV. Carrigleitrim is the 905th highest place in Ireland. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/ Rate Gallery COMMENTS for Carrigleitrim 1 2 Next page >> Follow this place's comments Picture from group : Open summit area looking South to Sorrel Picture: Open summit area looking South to Sorrel Go to the light! Short Summary created by Geo, Dessie1 3 Mar 2013 Starting from the car parking area at O045147 A pass the yellow and black barrier and continue on road/track for roughly 100m until it sweeps to the left. Don't follow the track but go uphill across newly clear-felled area. Head south for just over 500m until you reach a barbed wire fence.Literally a couple of feet over the other side of this fence the views open up and you will see a white post sticking up from a stone base which is the marker for the summit(O04781398 B ). Looking SW Carrigleitrim's nearest neighbour is Sorrel hill with its distinctive summit cairn visible.To the NE Seefingan with Kippure's mast dominating the East. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/comment/5550/ Picture from padodes : Grandstand view of Liffey Valley Picture: Grandstand view of Liffey Valley padodes on Carrigleitrim, 2010 by padodes 16 Mar 2010 I used to know Carrigleitrim as Ballynatona in years gone by, but I rather like the name now favoured by MountainViews. Given the many granite boulders that lie strewn around this hill, the possible "grey ridge" etymology would be neatly descriptive.I suggest starting from the little car park at O 043 108 C, above Lacken. Head north over Sorrel Hill and drop down to the shoulder between it and Carrigleitrim at O 044 129 D. Some years ago, there was a muddy track through this forest intersection that led straight to the summit, but you now have to circumnavigate a Maginot Line of straggly pines, water-filled trenches and barbed wire. Getting around that and crossing the fence to your left, you are finally standing on an open hillside, mercifully free of forestation. There is an excellent view back towards the long-drawn-out hump of Lugnagun and the little dome of Woodend Hill, with the snaking Pollaphuca coiled around its feet. At the top of the slight incline, the way is blocked by a wall of forest, but if you cross back over the fence to the right you have a splendid view of the Liffey Valley to the east, from the Sand Pits to Coronation Plantation, with a few silvery meanders of the Liffey thrown in for good measure. The summit – a rather pretentious word here – is marked by a post at O 0478 1398 B. Surprisingly, there seems to be no vestige of our megalithic past on this hill, even though it is overshadowed by nearby Sorrel and Seefin.If your retrace your steps to the shoulder, it is possible to give a bit of circularity to your walk by taking the track that leads into the forest to your right. Branch off at the first broad forest ride you meet on your left and you emerge onto the NW slope of Sorrel, from where you can easily contour over to Lugnagun and complete the circuit back to your starting point. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/comment/4511/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from march-fixer : View of Sorrel from the summit marker post with forest edge to right. Picture: View of Sorrel from the summit marker post with forest edge to right. Overshadowed little gem by march-fixer 14 May 2012 A nice hidden summit. I had visited Sorrel Hill many times and driven the road close by Carrigleitrim without ever realising its existence. Though the area is known locally as Ballynatona, I agree with others that Carrigleitrim is a fitting name. For a nice sheltered quick walk this summit is ideal.The start can be approached via Ballysmuttan Bridge (soon to be renamed) off the Manor Kilbride / Wicklow Gap road or from the Blessington and Oldcourt direction.There is handy parking available at O045 147 A the entrance to the wood. As it is a mature wood, you can head straight up towards the summit along the numerous old tracks left during tree extraction. It can be a bit soft going in places with scattered branches, so watch your footing.The mature wood is quite enclosed and only opens out right at the summit which is marked O0478 1398 B by a post. The area around here is quite flat and boggy in places, however there are nice views south to Sorrel Hill. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/comment/6799/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from Harry Goodman : Post marking the top ! of the hill. Picture: Post marking the top ! of the hill. A top that should be left to peak baggers by Harry Goodman 14 Jul 2012 I climbed this hill on 29 March 2012 parking at the forest entrance O 0439714743 E. I followed the track for about 100m to where it turned sharply left and turned off it to the right to follow along a cleared area between the trees to the boundary fence where I turned left uphill through the trees. As this is a mature forest progress was quite straightforward up to a point just beyond a small clearing, near some large rocks, where the trees became smaller and more dense making the way forward much more difficult. I therefore crossed the fence O 0468414051 F on to open ground and followed this up along the forest edge. Initially I climbed over some large rocks and then over heather, peat and stoney ground to another fence. Once across I followed the forest edge a short way to the top marked by a stout post atop a small raised stone ditch or cairn (see photo). While the view N was blocked by the trees there were views E to the high Dublin/Wicklow tops including Kippure Dublin's highest point. I returned by way of ascent except I did not re-enter the forest but continued down over the open ground to the road.. Although I had to cross a number of fences lower down this was greatly facilitated by stones to help the step overs. At first sight I had consided using this line for my ascent and not go into the forest but, viewed from the road the way ahead appeared to be blocked by thick yellow clumps of prickly whin bushes and I therefore changed my mind. In effect these were not a problem on the descent and a climb up from the road along the forest edge would have been quite feasible. In all a walk of 1.7k easily coverd in under an hour. In all honesty this is a hill for peak baggers and has little else to commend it especially as it has nearby the much more accessible, higher and finer viewing platform of Sorrell Hill. In my case it was the second of three isolated tops being sought out on that day. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/comment/14717/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from wicklore : White stick at the summit Picture: White stick at the summit wicklore on Carrigleitrim, 2008 by wicklore 14 Jul 2008 I was tired and sunburnt when I parked at the forestry track and barrier at O 045 147 A to bag the last of Sundays 6 Hill target list. I followed the track for a few mins before turning right and striking my way bravely into the Blair Witch forest. I calculated that I would reach the summit in 15 minutes. Despite the forest's best efforts I emerged scratched and gasping 25 minutes later. A lot of time was spent re-routing around clumped trees with wicked spear-like branches just waiting to rip and burst through walking gear and body parts. I was feeling negative when I finally burst through to the 'summit'. The photo shows this fine hilltop in all its glory marked by the white stick mentioned by walker_hollick and csd. Then I discovered the easy path back down through cleared land just to the west of the summit. Follow this down to the fence, turn back into the forest and straight down to reach the forest track in a few minutes. Any other route up this hill would be more straight forward I'm sure. But where's the adventure in that? Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/comment/3218/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Update - Clear-fell in progress - Summit now while you can! by Geo 3 Mar 2013 As of March '13 when Liz50 and I climbed this, most of the forest from the barrier to the last 100m from the summit has been cleared. This and the dry weather made progress quick and easy, if a little messy where the debris is thick on the ground! If this is cleared up and the area drained & planted it will be arduous going so get there now if you haven't done this! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/791/comment/14940/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average COMMENTS for Carrigleitrim 1 2 Next page >> (End of comment section for Carrigleitrim.) Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.) British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence) MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 11 Million Visitors Per Year. 1300 Contributors.

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Developing-world cities rival Silicon Valley in global ranking
[SANTIAGO] Two Asian and two Latin American cities are among the 20 best places in the world to set up technologically innovative companies, according to a report on start-ups.
'Startup Ecosystem Report 2012: Part One', published last month (20 November), analyses data on indicators such as start-up numbers; funding; company performance; talent and support infrastructure from more than 50,000 start-ups around the world.
Sao Paulo in Brazil is 13th in the ranking, Singapore comes 17th, Bangalore in India is 19th and Santiago in Chile sits in 20th place in the report published by Startup Genome, a network of local start-up communities, and Telefónica Digital, a branch of the Spanish telecommunications operator Telefónica.
"Simultaneous with a global explosion of entrepreneurship has been an explosion in the rise of new startup ecosystems around the world," the report says. "While Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest ecosystem, just five or ten years ago most of the other ecosystems on this list either barely existed or didn't exist at all."
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Cities or other areas may become Silicon Valley equivalents if they have political stability, a talent pool, access to capital and can draw on knowledgeable mentors, he adds.
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The report credits Santiago's high position in the ranking to various government support initiatives. "It demonstrates to other hubs and their political decision-makers that it is possible to nurture, sustain and foster an entrepreneurial mind-set," it says.
One of these initiatives is the Start-Up Chile programme run by the nation's government. This aims to attract early-stage, high-potential foreign entrepreneurs to start businesses in Chile.
Early next year, 105 start-ups from more than 30 countries — 44 per cent of them information-technology ventures — are due to arrive in Santiago. Twenty-four per cent are set to come from the United States, followed by 19 per cent from other parts of Chile, nine per cent from Argentina and seven per cent from India, according to Oliver Flögel, executive secretary for digital development for the Chilean government.
"Chile's bid is to become the lead innovation hub in Latin America, but there is plenty still to be done," says Horacio Melo, executive director of Start-Up Chile.
"For example, we are working hard on the cultural shifts needed for Chile to embrace failure and risk as a learning process," he adds.
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Weird California Incident Last Year Points To The Real Threat To The Power Grid (Hint: It's Not Cyberattacks)
from the uncommon-common-sense dept
Via Bruce Schneier's blog, we learn of the following intriguing story published in Foreign Policy:
Around 1:00 AM on April 16, at least one individual (possibly two) entered two different manholes at the PG&E Metcalf power substation, southeast of San Jose, and cut fiber cables in the area around the substation. That knocked out some local 911 services, landline service to the substation, and cell phone service in the area, a senior U.S. intelligence official told Foreign Policy. The intruder(s) then fired more than 100 rounds from what two officials described as a high-powered rifle at several transformers in the facility. Ten transformers were damaged in one area of the facility, and three transformer banks -- or groups of transformers -- were hit in another, according to a PG&E spokesman.
Oil then leaked from the transformers, causing them to overheat and shut down. However, there were no major power outages, and no long-term damage. The Foreign Policy post gives a good summary of what we do and don't know, and is well-worth reading in full. As Schneier comments:
The article worries that this might be a dry-run to some cyberwar-like attack, but that doesn't make sense. But it's just too complicated and weird to be a prank.
Feel free to theorize in the comments about what happened last April. Absent further information, I'd like to focus here on the following perceptive analysis from the article:
Anyone have any ideas?
At the very least, the attack points to an arguably overlooked physical threat to power facilities at a time when much of the U.S. intelligence community, Congress, and the electrical power industry is focused on the risk of cyber attacks. There has never been a confirmed power outage caused by a cyber attack in the United States. But the Obama administration has sought to promulgate cyber security standards that power facilities could use to minimize the risk of one.
This fixation on "cybersecurity" is something that Techdirt has been pointing out for a while. It seems largely driven by canny defense and security companies hungry for profitable contracts, which are able to take advantage of politicians intimidated by technology and worried about seeming "soft" on "cyberterror." Kudos, then, to Jon Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who seems to have more common sense than most of his colleagues:
A shooter "could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle and take the whole thing out," Wellinghoff said last month at a conference sponsored by Bloomberg. His proposed defense: A metal sheet that would block the transformer from view. "If you can't see through the fence, you can't figure out where to shoot anymore," Wellinghoff said. Price tag? A "couple hundred bucks." A lot cheaper than the billions the administration has spent in the past four years beefing up cyber security of critical infrastructure in the United States and on government computer networks.
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- 1. Rim Country Republicans Host Jinx Pyle
Jinx Pyle, local author and historian, will be the featured speaker at the November 24 meeting of the Rim Country Republican Club. As a rancher, Mr. Pyle had first hand experience with Mexican wolves/wolfdogs when the environmentalists demanded their release in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. Mr. Pyle wrote a book titled Looking through the Smoke about his experiences. (This book may be purchased at the Rim Country Museum, 700 S. Green Valley Parkway.) It can also be purchased on Amazon.com, by clicking here.
Please join the RCRC at Tiny's Family Restaurant, 600 East 260 Highway, Payson. Members and guests gather at 11:00 am to order lunch and to socialize. The meeting begins at 11:30.Click here to read more
- 4. Center for Biological Diversity: Turning Grizzlies on Arizona's Rural Families
When will the average Arizona voter stop giving any credence to these radical environmental knuckleheads? Groups like the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Sierra Club use the ESA (Endangered Species Act) to deny American citizens our Constitutional protections of individual liberties and property rights.
It isn't enough that they have used lawsuits to stop cattle grazing, logging, and badly needed forest thinning projects throughout Arizona and New Mexico. The pile-up of combustibles has frequently exploded into the most catastrophic fires in U.S. history, including the 2002 Rodeo-Chediski Fire.
Stop and think about that. They stop actions that remove forest underbrush, which leads to monumental fires that burn up the forests and hundreds of millions of animals, and pours toxic carbon into the atmosphere. These groups are on a mission to protect "endangered" plants and animals and the environment? They are doing everything they can to destroy it!
It isn't enough that these groups have set Mexican wolves loose on rural citizens in Arizona and New Mexico.Now, this evil Tucson-based group of power hungry, tantrum throwing degenerates wants to turn Grizzlies loose in the Grand Canyon and in our backyards.These groups are no different than the villains in old western movies rampaging from one frontier town to another.Grizzlies used to roam all over the west...until nasty varmints called people moved here. Ah, now we know the real enemy, don't we. Humans.
Look at this statement from Noah Greenwald, director of the Center for Biological Diversity:Click here to read more
- 5. Thorpe Critic has Libelous Past
The following letter to the editor, written by Anita Christy, was recently published in both the Payson Roundup and the Arizona Republican Caucus.
"This is a response to a recent Op-Ed (April 30) written by Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. It was titled, "Lawmaker Embraces A Racist And Violent Movement." Suckling made numerous false statements about Arizona Representative Bob Thorpe, Cliven Bundy, and the Americans who traveled to Nevada to stand with Mr. Bundy.
"How could I forget that name? Kieran Suckling. He, along with three other employees of the Center for Biological Diversity, were ordered to pay $600,000 in a lawsuit back in 2005. The judge in that case awarded this amount to Jim Chilton, a fifth generation Southern Arizona Rancher. The press release stated that Executive Director Kieran Suckling "set the tone for making false statements" against Mr. Chilton. In fact, the Center for Biological Diversity was found guilty of making "false, unfair, libelous and defamatory statements" against Jim Chilton. Suckling and his Center for Biological Diversity went so far as to use misleading photographs in an unsuccessful attempt to block the renewal of Chilton's grazing permit.
"The lawsuit-happy Center for Biological Diversity makes its living off of suing the federal government. It has received over $2 million in taxpayer dollars between 2009-2012 in settlement costs resulting from Endangered Species Act (ESA) related attorney fees and court cases.
"Suckling falsely calls Cliven Bundy a ranting, disgraced racist. This accusation is based on a video tape of Cliven Bundy that was heavily "edited" to distort his statements. This hacked up video traveled like wildfire from one media outlet to another. In response, one of Bundy's volunteer body guards, who happens to be African American, spoke in defense of Cliven Bundy stating "I'd take a bullet for him." A black Marine who was with Bundy stated, "He might not be tactful, but one thing he isn't. He isn't a racist."
"Suckling calls the militia who arrived to defend Bundy thugs. But he purposely ignores the fact that the BLM arrived first, heavily armed, and posted snipers on hilltops. It was the BLM that blared over loudspeakers to unarmed men and women, including a Fox news reporter, "Leave the area or you will be fired upon." The BLM thugs tased unarmed citizens, and even threw an unarmed woman to the ground. The BLM has a long history of thuggish cattle seizures.
"Kieran Suckling, known for making libelous, false statements, has attempted to damage the reputation of one of the finest representatives in the state of Arizona: Bob Thorpe.
"Thank you, Representative Thorpe, for demonstrating great courage by standing up for what's right."Click here to read more
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Sounds like the Sweden leg was in Kiruna, then.
I beleive it had something to do with a bell because whenever the bell would chime a team member would come running out. The first two teams out were a f/f pink team and and a m/m orange team were out first and one of the guys said "that was the most challenging thing i have ever had to do in my life, and i went to med school".
MJ, I don't believe we have any reports or sightings after they arrived in LA. (YET...)
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On Sunday, Feb. 3 at 4:04 p.m., the police and firefighters responded to an address on the 2600 block of Deer Valley Drive after a fire alarm was triggered. The police said a cooking error caused the alarm.
Someone called 911 at 11 a.m. from the vicinity of the S.R. 224-Meadows Drive intersection reporting an argument about a dog off a leash, the police said. The people and the dog were apparently on the McLeod Creek trail, according to the police.
At 2:40 a.m., the police were called to somewhere along Empire Avenue, where a loud party was reported. Public police logs did not list a block number. The police were told the party was keeping neighbors awake.
A suspected drunken driving case was reported on the 1700 block of Bonanza Drive at 2:11 a.m.
On Saturday, Feb. 2 at 7:13 p.m., the police were called to the 1700 block of Kearns Boulevard, where a tow truck driver reported seeing a man walking in the street wearing dark clothes.
A hit-and-run traffic accident was reported on the 1600 block of Lower Iron Horse Loop Road at 3:50 p.m. It was not clear from public police logs when the vehicle was hit.
Someone inside a vehicle was reportedly seen throwing items at bicyclists along S.R. 224 at 3:29 p.m. The driver was last seen near Kimball Junction, the police were told.
Skis were reported stolen on the 1300 block of Lowell Avenue at 2:11 p.m. Public police logs did not provide details about the case.
At 11:28 a.m., the police were told two dogs were locked in a car on Sullivan Road with the windows closed.
A fire alarm sounded on the 700 block of Park Avenue at 11:23 a.m. The police said a cooking error triggered the alarm.
A deer reportedly ran into a driver's side door of a vehicle as the vehicle passed the intersection of S.R. 224 and Meadows Drive at 11:12 a.m. The deer bounded off.
At 9:43 a.m., the police were called to the 700 block of Round Valley Drive, where dogs reportedly became locked inside a vehicle. A locksmith was summoned.
On Friday, Feb. 1 at 7:46 p.m., a man, reported to be very intoxicated, was taken to a first aid station by ski patrollers. The case was logged on the 2200 block of Deer Valley Drive.
At 1:46 p.m., between $300 and $500 was reported missing on the 1300 block of Lowell Avenue. The police were told the money might have been stolen at the person's workplace.
The Police Department received two calls in quick succession reporting young moose being spotted in the road on S.R. 224 close to the Payday Drive intersection. The calls were logged at approximately 8:45 a.m.
A suspected drunken driving case was reported at 12:50 a.m. on Guardsman Connection. Public police logs did not provide details.
On Thursday, Jan. 31, a carbon monoxide detector sounded somewhere along Norfolk Avenue at 12:01 p.m. Police officers and firefighters responded.
At 6:47 a.m., the Police Department and firefighters responded to a building along the 1700 block of Park Avenue, where a portion of a ceiling caved in after a water pipe broke.
On Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 8:44 p.m., the police received a report of skis being stolen on the 1300 block of Lowell Avenue. They were taken along with the poles on Jan. 29, the police were told.
At 3:03 p.m., several vehicles and at least one tent were spotted along Marsac Avenue, possibly on the runaway-truck lane. The police were told the people might be preparing to have a party.
On Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 10:03 p.m., skis were reported stolen in Park City. The skis disappeared on Jan. 14, the police were told.
On Monday, Jan. 28 at 8:23 p.m., a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported along Woodside Avenue.
A carbon monoxide detector was triggered on the 700 block of Main Street at 3:25 a.m. Firefighters responded.
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Career modes in sports video games do a superb job of helping you create the story of a single team or a player. Where even the best ones fall short is in making you feel part of something larger. Players are forced to hunt through menus for results and standings, and even then, it's hard to tell who is overachieving and who is having a disappointing year.
This problem is especially keen in NCAA Football, whose Dynasty Mode, because of its intensive player management, requires players to spend a lot of time in menus as it is. To better deliver the story of the season you're in, NCAA Football 13's designers have decided to take a risk on interrupting your game with from-the-studio announcements of other results or games in progress. Not only are the designers hoping gamers won't mind the intrusion, they're hoping they'll enjoy it.
"The information was all sort of reactive and hidden," in previous versions, said designer Christian McLeod. "What we wanted to do was bring that to the surface, because the story of college football is much more than the story of a single team."
To tell the story, EA Sports brought in Rece Davis of ESPN, a widely liked studio host at a network where everyone gets nitpicked by the public. Davis will not appear on-screen, but his voice will play over a scoreboard fully rendered in ESPN's visual style. He'll introduce the result, comment on the outcome and hand the broadcast back to play-by-play man Brad Nessler, who has also recorded new audio so that he can react to what Davis is saying.
These studio updates will occur at natural points in the game. In a game I was playing, a Stanford-Notre Dame matchup that started at 4 p.m. Eastern, right after I kicked the extra point on my first touchdown Nessler turned it over to Davis, who informed us that Virginia Tech had survived an upset scare from Duke to stay on top of the ACC's Coastal Division.
"We wanted people to have the feeling that they were watching a day of college football," said McLeod. And that is indeed one of my favorite activities. But this design choice also appears to be a shrewd one because it serves you the story of the larger season when you're basically a captive audience. The game doesn't require you to find it for yourself after a game, solely reading through the standings, polls and story blurbs—which typically dealt first with the game you already played.
Each game played in Dynasty mode can have up to 10 studio updates, McLeod said. They will not break in at critical moments of the game—if you're in the hurry-up offense, for example. They'll typically come as they do in real life. On changes of possession, clock stoppages or other pauses in the on-field action. The studio updates will be supported by another ESPN staple, the Bottom Line score crawl. This will be more than just the scores of completed games. You'll get the notorious "Upset Alert" when the network wants to call your attention to shocker in progress that it's not televising. The notice flashes, the linescore comes up, and then numbers roll over showing that a top 10 team is in trouble against a cupcake or conference doormat.
"I took a delay of game penalty on the first upset alert I saw," joked producer Ben Haumiller. And it's amusing, but it does show the hazard of this particular design choice. As has been written before, when gamers wonder why a sports developer doesn't add in more cut scenes or other visual components, their own habits are usually the reason why. We're not just watching a game, we're playing it, and truth be told, I button through a lot of stuff without giving it a second thought. Developers know this and they have a disc space budget, too.
While the studio updates can be dismissed by a button press, McLeod said a short delay before recognizing that command will cut down on inadvertent dismissals. The design team is confident most college football fans will want to stay with them, as it adds to the feel of immersion, and because Davis will bring his recognizable style to the update.
Davis, who used to work in Flint, Mich., will always make a reference to "the banks of the Red Cedar," a line from Michigan State's fight song, whenever updating folks on the action there. Rival Michigan always gets pronounced with a caricatured Upper Peninsula accent—"Meeshegan." One thing we're unlikely to hear, however, is Davis calling a high-scoring Alamo Bowl the "Tecmo Bowl," as he did (hilariously and on purpose) in a broadcast this past December.
"He said his kid is a hardcore player of [NCAA Football], so he understands it, and its appeal." said McLeod, who wrote some of Davis' dialogue, with a lot of the recording improvised. "He totally got it, right away."
What I saw and heard looked very polished, but again, this was in a conference room in Florida, not on my couch. The key will be in thwarting repetitive dialogue. McLeod said the game's commentary engine will feature multiple introduction points that can branch to different details of the game and then on to the context surrounding the result.
There seemed to be about six different groupings of phrases, from Nessler's throw to getting the broadcast back from Davis, forming each update. Details like BCS or poll positioning, rivalries and upcoming games, and individual performances are all part of the mix.
It really places a premium on keeping things fresh. But in concept, it's a good start. Bringing in a familiar voice, a guy who'll wait until I score that touchdown to tap me on the shoulder and tell me what else is going on in this sports fantasy I'm living out is a simple way to deepen the experience.


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The woodland walk is an ideal environment for many birds to nest and feed, a multitude of birds are catered for here, either within the trees or hedges providing natural nesting sites or via the 31 bird boxes we have placed around the site, we provide and maintain a landscape to be sympathetic to the bird life, ensuring berry's are left on shrubs for food, and leaving nesting material available.
As such the Park is rich in many varieties of bird's from the well known Robin to rarer breeds such as Goldcrest and Siskin.
Some of the birds you may see along the woodland walk include:
Goldfinch, Siskin, Robin, Blue Tit, Thrush, Goldcrest, Heron and Woodpecker
The Woodland walk is managed to promote natural flowers, in recent years we have aided this by planting foxgloves, oxeye daisy's and Cowslips, we also sow an annual flower seed mix on the edge of the Woodland walk next to the gate by the road to give a blaze of colour through the Spring, Summer and Autumn. A careful balance of plant life is maintained to promote seasonal interest, habitats and food sources, the grass and natural meadow flowers are cut to the ground in late Autumn, bulbs are left to naturally drift and when they have finished flowering we leave them to allow there nutrients to return back into the bulb.
Plants and flowers are a key part of natures eco system, providing food, pollen, habitat and colour to the natural world, they also play a key role in our everyday lives, did you know; Recent studies have shown that grass is one of the best materials to offset carbon emissions.
80% of all medicinal drugs come from plants. There are approximately 352,000 different flowering plants in the world, currently 25% of these face extinction in the next 20years. The smallest flowering plant in the world is the Wolffia Angusta, its so small you can pass it through the eye of a sewing needle.
The largest flower in the Uk is said to have been grown at the Eden Project, the flower of the Titan Arum reached 2.97m tall. Around ¼ of the worlds land is covered in grassland.
Hedges Our native hedgerows provide an important source of shelter and food for wildlife, in the past 50 years nearly half of the native hedgerows in the UK have disappeared. The hedges within the woodland walk give a screen and offer a corridor for animals and insects to thrive.
Our hedges are all native species containing;
Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Holly, Rose, Elder and Buckthorn
This variety of planting gives a great range of food from berries and flowers and provides a nesting site for birds such as The Thrush and Robin.
In 2011 we installed a series of new hedgerows in the woodland walkway with some 3,000 small shrubs and trees planted, staked and protected from rabbits, over the coming years the hedge will flourish and come to provide a strong backdrop for the Woodland walkway. During the time of planting this new hedgerow we also "laid" the older hedgerow located on the Northern Woodland walk, this hedge was nearing 40 years old, this traditional style of hedge creation used previously to aid in agricultural stock control will ensure the hedgerow continues to present a welcoming place for our wildlife
Along the walk we have placed 8 Log habitat piles all created from timber following essential tree maintenance on Birmingham Business Park. Each pile has been created by submerging logs into the ground, and securing them in place with stakes and wire, the piles have also been planted with Ivy, which, in time, will grow over the piles to provide increased provisions for further animals, insects, amphibians and birdlife to inhabit them.
Plenty of wildlife makes it's home in decaying timber and other animals use it as a source of food, wood falls naturally in the wild, and many species have adapted to use this habitat, obviously leaving wood scattered about presents many issues in a modern and busy environment such as the business park, as such these man made piles have been created to simulate a natural occurrence in the wild. Many species inhabit log piles, below are a few you may see on your walk;
Violet Ground Beetle, Stag Beetle, Common Toad, Harvestman Spider, Earwigs and House Mice.
As you stroll through the woodland walk, you will be walking beneath the canopies of our Oak tree's, the trees range between 80-100 years old, and where planted by the original landowner before the idea of Business Parks had even been considered!
As with all things of a certain age and to ensure the trees are kept in good order, we carry out regular maintenance to the trees on the Business Park, the trees are also surveyed on a by-annual basis by a qualified Arbourist, this can lead to the occasional dead limb being removed, or damage from wildlife and high winds calling for repair, due to this level of management the Oak trees within the Woodland walk will last for many more years to come.
We also have a number of Horse Chestnut trees in the Walk, which provide the site occupiers with an abundance of Conkers in the Autumn. The Latin names of the trees are;
Oak – Quercus Robur
Horse Chestnut – Aesculus hippocastanum
We have a number different species of animals residing in and round the park's lake including but not limited to:
Carp, Golden Orfe, Rudd, Herons, Geese and Moorhens
In addition to this there are a number of plants such as:
Iris, Bulrush, Elodea, Water Lily and Storwort
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FLOTUS, Castro energize Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Michelle Obama made an impassioned case for her husband's reelection Tuesday night, calling their family a testament to the American dream and vowing to fight for the "fundamental American promise" of giving ordinary a people a chance to succeed.
The first lady's speech – delivered in the heart of TV prime time on the first night of the Democratic National Convention – was a rare moment of poignancy and positivity in an evening defined by no-holds-barred attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Where other Democrats pilloried Romney for his overseas investments, his time in private equity and his reversals on policy, she laid out a personal, anecdotal argument for why President Barack Obama ought to be entrusted with another four years in the White House.
"I have seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are – it reveals who you are," said Michelle Obama, presenting herself as an anxious "mom-in-chief" to two young daughters.
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In what sounded like a brief, implied contrast with Romney, the first lady said there are "problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer, the judgment calls where the stakes are so high, and there is no margin for error."
"As president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are," she said. "So when it comes to rebuilding our economy, Barack is thinking about folks like my dad and like his grandmother."
She continued: "That's why he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help women get equal pay for equal work. That's why he cut taxes for working families and small businesses and fought to get the auto industry back on its feet. That's how he brought our economy from the brink of collapse to creating jobs again – jobs you can raise a family on, good jobs right here in the United States of America."
Michelle Obama wasn't the only speaker here in Charlotte to lean heavily on the personal side of things: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, the convention's keynote speaker, drew on his family's immigrant past to praise the Obama administration's approach to education, immigration, the auto industry and more.
Like the first lady, Castro delivered a values- and character-focused pleas for the president's campaign, and dismissed the Republican Party's economic agenda as a set of recycled and discredited ideas.
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"We all understand that freedom isn't free. What Romney and Ryan don't understand is that neither is opportunity. We have to invest in it," Castro said. "Republicans tell us that if the most prosperous among us do even better, that somehow the rest of us will too. Folks, we've heard that before."
Said Castro: "Their theory has been tested. It failed. Our economy failed. The middle class paid the price. Your family paid the price. Mitt Romney just doesn't get it."
But the Obama and Castro speeches capped off an evening of thundering denunciations of Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan. One Democrat after another attacked Romney as a wealthy corporate raider with little regard for average Americans: a candidate hostile to women's rights, who would have let the American auto industry collapse.


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Hello! I know that it's not quite a ghost town question, but does ANYONE has info on caves that are in Southern Arizona? I live in Tucson, but Oracle, AZ, San Manuel, AZ, Nogalas, AZ etc or anywhere within like 4 hours of Tucson is of interest!! (And I don't mean the commonly know ones, I know of pepper sauce colossal, Karchner )
I would love to peep around a cave that is not on private property!!!
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Workshop 3: Teaching Poetry
Jack Wilde's Lesson on Distinguishing Poetry and Prose
Like many other middle level students, the children in New Hampshire teacher Jack Wilde's fifth-grade class have had limited experience with poetry. So Jack's first priority—starting at the beginning of the school year—is to immerse his students in the genre.
One day each week, Jack has the children choose their reading from a poetry cart—a selection of 75 to 80 books Jack keeps in his classroom. The students also collect personal anthologies, selecting poems they want to own, and, occasionally, memorize. By the time they start writing poems, they know that poetry is more than rhyming words. They've begun to think about what's possible in poetry that's not possible in prose.
Jack begins his formal unit on writing poetry late in the school year. The first activity—a class discussion on what makes a poem a poem—requires the students to draw upon the experiences they've had reading poetry over the past eight months.
For Write in the Middle, Jack shares a mini-lesson on the differences between poetry and prose based on the model "The Truth About Why I Love Potatoes" by Mekeel McBride.
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Thomas Frazier, the new court-ordered overseer for the Oakland Police Department will be paid a base salary of $270,000 — hardly chump change. In one of his first public acts last week, the former Baltimore Police commissioner was feuding with city officials over his compensation package.
Frazier, who has a pension from San Jose Police Department where he spent 27 years rising to the rank of deputy chief, wants the cash equivalent of vacation, sick time and a pension benefit city officials insist he is not entitled to. That would propel his salary well above $300,000. City Attorney Barbara Parker is refusing to sign off on the contract.
Not a great start for the partnership between Frazier and city officials who must work together to move OPD into compliance with reforms mandated under the 2003 police brutality settlement stemming from the Riders case.
As one former OPD commander aptly put it, "once again, petty interests have eclipsed stewardship of the policing effort in Oakland."
It will be up to the federal court that appointed the 68-year-old Frazier and set his compensation to settle the mess.
Frazier is the latest in a string of overseers spanning the last decade that U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson has installed at Oakland's expense to oversee OPD reforms. For those not familiar with the long tortured history, four Oakland police officers — known as the Riders — were alleged to have beaten and framed suspects in West Oakland between 1996 and 2000. OPD fired them. The Alameda County District Attorney filed criminal charges but juries failed to convict. One hundred nineteen plaintiffs filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging police brutality. They were represented by attorneys John Burris and James Chanin. Oakland agreed to a $10.9 million settlement and promised to institute a host of police department reforms to prevent future officer abuses and make OPD more accountable to the community it serves. The Negotiated Settlement Agreement is known as NSA (it can be found here: http://bit.ly/171YUas).
Henderson, who was also the judge on the case then, appointed monitors to chart the police department's progress. Oakland agreed to cover all of the costs of reforms which included among other things, instituting and implementing policies and procedures to prevent racial profiling, requiring timely reporting of incidents involving use of force, setting up a system to identify problem officers, and thorough investigation of citizen complaints.
The process was expected to take five years.
It has dragged on for 10. The costs have soared. Millions upon millions have been spent yet both the judge and monitor Robert Warshaw with Police Performance Solutions say Oakland's progress has "stagnated." OPD has paid out more than $58 million on police misconduct lawsuits during the same time period.
What has the NSA's impact been on a city with scarce public safety resources and escalating violence? A place where people are shot and robbed with alarming regularity? Where residents are so fearful for their personal safety that those who can afford it are hiring their own private security patrols?
The NSA has devolved into a bureaucratic nightmare that has consumed resources that might otherwise have gone into fighting crime. But beyond the financial cost, the long years of the oversight process have had a toxic effect on officer morale. Some within OPD insist that it has discouraged proactive policing. One might well argue that the monitor has gone beyond the mandate of the NSA in his judgments of officers' actions in the field.
Since 2003, the city has paid out $10 million to "independent" monitors who have an inherent conflict of interest. The longer the process drags on the more they get paid. Police Performance Solutions has been awarded $3 million in contracts since it took over in 2010.
There are the costs for 10 years running to the plaintiff's attorneys, subcontractors, vendors, and who knows how many hours of staff time within OPD and City Hall spent on NSA-related tasks.
I am not suggesting that many of the reforms aren't necessary to transform an OPD culture that has led many people, particularly in poor African-American and Latino communities, to view the police as the enemy.
What I do wonder is whether the NSA has gone overboard, creating a situation where police and elected officials are spending more time and energy policing the police than figuring out how to protect citizens from crime.
Oakland is in desperate need of an NSA exit strategy.
Tammerlin Drummond is a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. Her column runs Tuesday and Sunday. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her at Twitter.com/Tammerlin.


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In the race to show greater leadership in corporate sustainability practices, one company has consistently raised the bar. Shortly after Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced its ambitious plans for all of its facilities to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy by the year 2020, another corporate giant came out with a proposal that generated its own buzz.
Internet powerhouse Google recently published a white paper on the company website calling for utilities to offer renewable-energy tariffs to large power consumers. This change in the way power is sold, Google argues, would create a much-needed incentive for companies to embrace renewable power.
Already a leader among companies in the use of renewable energy, Google asserts that existing options aren't enough for large businesses that are eager to show customers how green they are.
In its white paper, "Expanding Renewable Energy Options for Companies Through Utility-Offered Renewable Energy Tariffs," Google references on-site generation, renewable-energy certificates and power purchase agreements as three of the ways large users typically try to engage renewables. Of the three, Google has made use of on-site generation and power purchase agreements, but it argues that none of the three is adequate to meet the needs of today's commercial and industrial power consumers. In particular, it argues that they don't do enough to encourage investment in the development of more renewable generation, otherwise known as "additionality."
To address this need, Google wants utilities to create a unique class of service just for people who want to choose renewable power. This group would differ from the ordinary customer classes, such as industrial, commercial and residential, which utilities typically offer.
Companies that choose the renewable option would also pay a different rate for their power. The so-called "renewable energy tariff" would be voluntary and would protect other customers from the additional costs the utility incurs for procuring the renewable power. Most important, Google argues that offering companies the option of buying renewable power will lead to greater investment in local and regional renewable-energy projects.
Wasting no time at all, Google also announced that the local provider for its data center in Lenoir, N.C., Duke Energy, has pledged to develop a program for Google and other large companies to purchase renewable power for their operations.


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Time running out for Arias mediation in Honduras?
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras' political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of Honduras' top leaders to permitting deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to power.
Political, business, church and media leaders say they can't trust Zelaya to keep the commitments that would limit his authority under the Arias plan because, they say, Zelaya repeatedly violated the constitution in the days that led up to his June 28 ouster over a proposed public vote that they think was aimed at extending his stay in office.
They also say that Zelaya has proved himself untrustworthy by failing to submit a budget to Congress last year and by shifting left in the middle of his term and allying himself with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of the United States, traditionally Honduras' most important political and economic ally.
These officials say they prefer that de facto President Roberto Micheletti — or perhaps another senior government official who'd replace him — lead the country through the regularly scheduled Nov. 29 presidential elections and let the newly elected president take over as scheduled Jan. 27.
Opposition to the Arias plan runs so deep that Honduras' decision-makers favor holding tight even in the face of international sanctions and threats that other countries won't recognize the presidential election result.
"The president put himself above the law," said Oswaldo Canales, who heads the 9,000-strong Evangelical Fraternity of Honduras, the country's biggest Protestant organization. "No one is above the law. He cannot return."
Zelaya's supporters scoff at the notion that he's untrustworthy and say those blocking his return are protecting powerful political and business interests. They say there's no evidence that Zelaya intended to benefit personally from the referendum.
Arias hasn't given up on his efforts, although swine flu has sidelined him for the past several days.
The team representing Honduras in the Arias negotiations remains active. It met Thursday in Washington with Jose Miguel Insulza, the secretary general of the Organization of American States, to discuss rescheduling a trip to Honduras by foreign ministers and the OAS that the Micheletti government has delayed.
Powerful players in Honduras also would benefit from the Arias plan.
Honduras' military leaders, for example, favor an amnesty that Arias has proposed for all actions through the day Zelaya was forced from the country at gunpoint.
While many people say the military correctly carried out the Supreme Court's order to arrest Zelaya on charges of violating the constitution, they also say it went too far by forcing him from Honduras. Deputy federal prosecutor Roy Urtecho said his office was investigating whether the military leaders committed a crime.
Senior officials in Zelaya's Liberty Party who supported his ouster want to find a way to resolve the crisis before the election. Without a resolution, they fear divisions over what happened could send party candidate Elvir Santos to defeat.
The power struggle has disrupted commerce throughout Honduras and scared away tourists.
Most trade is flowing freely, however, after the country's Central American neighbors declined to impose an embargo. The Obama administration also has declined to take punitive measures against Honduras' economy.
Still, the opposition to a deal is intense, with news reporting slanted against Zelaya and virtually no public opinion leader voicing support.
"He'd breach the agreement, and nobody would stop him," said Adolfo Facusse, the president of the Honduran National Industrial Association.
That sentiment is based on the events leading to Zelaya's ouster, which began in March when Zelaya announced he wanted to consult the public on whether to rewrite the constitution to permit a president to succeed himself.
The move alarmed the country's elite because it resembled acts by Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Ecuador's Rafael Correa to extend their stays in office.
In time, Honduras' attorney general, Congress and Supreme Court ruled that the vote was illegal because the constitution contains an unusual clause mandating that any president who tries to extend his term must step down.
Zelaya ignored the opposition, and fired the armed forces commander June 24 after the commander questioned the legality of Zelaya's order to distribute the ballots despite the ruling that the referendum was illegal.
The next day, Zelaya led several thousand supporters to an air force base to seize the ballots, as troops stood by.
"If we didn't have any doubts about what was happening, that ended there," said Maria Eugenia Landa Molina, a Liberal Party member of Congress who once backed Zelaya but who now says he must never be allowed back into office.
Since his ouster, Zelaya has traveled to the U.S., El Salvador, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil and Chile to rally support to get the Micheletti government to bend. Each of those countries has voiced support for his return but stopped short of real action.
Zelaya said this week that the U.S. has such influence over Honduras' economy that Obama administration officials could put him back in power if they enacted tough economic measures. The administration has refused, however, to take anything more than symbolic measures and accused Zelaya of "provocative actions" that prompted his ouster.
Zelaya has tried to mobilize a popular uprising, but that movement seems to have little broad-based support, despite marches this week that attracted up to 10,000 people from throughout Honduras.
That makes the Arias plan the best hope for his return, though it's hard to find anyone among his opponents willing to contemplate his return. They're skeptical he'd follow the Arias dictate that he renounce efforts to change the constitution.
"I saw Zelaya change when he got too close to Chavez," said Marcia Villeda, another Liberal Party member of Congress who once supported Zelaya. "He fell in love with power and lost his perspective."
"Every day that passes, the chances for Zelaya's return dim," said Julio Raudales, a former senior government official. "Getting someone to replace Micheletti is much more likely than having Zelaya return under the Arias plan."
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LONDON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The British government said Wednesday it was advising against traveling to major cities in Libya after the death of the U.S. ambassador in attacks in Benghazi.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other members of the U.S. diplomatic corps died when militants attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi.
The British government warned that violent clashes are possible, especially at night, in parts of the country previously described as peaceful.
"We advise against all but essential travel to Zuwara, Az Zawiya, Tripoli, al-Khums, Zlitan and Misurata, and the coastal towns from Ras Lanuf to the Egyptian border, with the exception of Benghazi," the warning stated. "We advise against all travel to all other areas of Libya, including Benghazi."
Condolences poured in from world leaders after Stevens' death was confirmed Wednesday. U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to bring justice to those responsible for the attacks. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the level of violence "can never be justified."
"I welcome the Libyan president's condemnation and condolences and his pledge of his government's full cooperation," said Rasmussen. "It is important that the new Libya continues to move towards a peaceful, secure and democratic future."
The International Committee of the Red Cross pulled some of its staff from Benghazi and Misurata early this year after workers were attacked.
Similar attacks in Egypt broke out in protest of a controversial U.S.-made film that was seen as insulting to the Prophet Muhammad.
The Taliban in Afghanistan issued a statement calling for revenge against the U.S. government "by dealing a heavy blow to its invading troops on the battlefield."
Stevens apparently died from smoke inhalation. He was 52.