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Chris Mooney | June 25, 2012
By Chris Mooney • Monday, June 25, 2012 - 06:37
Last year, I wrote about how journalists in developing nations were doing a better job of covering climate change, largely because denial hadn't really taken root in many of these countries. In particular, I singled out Brazil for praise: According to a study by James Painter of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and his colleagues, Brazil's major papers contained the least climate skepticism in all of the 6 major nations surveyed (U.S., UK, China, France, India, Brazil).
So it is with much dismay that I report to you that, in conjunction with the Rio+20 conference, climate denial is making a strong showing in Brazil. I initially became aware of this troubling development through a Brazilian Facebook correspondent—and received helpful translations of some of the content itself from another Brazilian and Portugese speaker.
In what follows, I've also had to rely on Google translate a bit—hardly ideal, but necessary in this instance, as I don't speak Portugese. While I certainly wouldn't trust any quotations below to be precise, I do think they give the broad gist of what is being said.
Basically, the high profile denialism achieved liftoff due to the popular comedian Jo Soares, who gave it quite a boost on his widely watched Letterman-like Programa do Jo (The Jo Show, we'll call it). In May, Soares had on the geographer Ricardo Augusto Felicio, for a nearly half-hour denial fest that has gone pretty viral.
Who is Ricardo Augusto Felicio? He's a professor at the University of Sao Paulo, specializing in the study of Antarctic climate. His faculty webpage says—according to Google translate—that he "Conducts research and serious criticisms of climate variability and its consequences, demystifying the 'anthropogenic climate change' and its ideology embedded." In other words, he seems to be wearing his denial proudly on his sleeve.
Ricardo Augusto Felico was also involved, according to Joanne Nova, in the Portugese translation of her Skeptic's Handbook, which we have debunked here.
Based on the translation that I acquired—which comports nicely with an English language summary, blogged here–Felicio's statements on The Jo Show are pretty stunning. He doesn't just dismiss, outright, the idea of human-caused global warming. He also appeared to cast doubt on the greenhouse effect and the idea that chlorofluorocarbons damage the ozone layer (Nobel Prize winning science, in this case). Other skeptic chestnuts were also aired, such as the idea that the planet has been cooling since 2008.
What is most disturbing, according to my Brazilian correspondent, is that the interview resonated and created a much wider influence. Take, for instance, this article the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globo, commenting on the Jo Show skepticism fest, and also suggesting that Felicio is instilling climate skepticism in his students at the University of Sao Paulo.
Meanwhile, the television network known as Band, Brazil's fourth largest, has also aired a climate denialist broadcast, which appears to be the beginning of a series. Google translate gives this caption: "Earth's temperature is not increasing, say scholars."
So much for claiming that Brazil has some sort of exemption from climate denialism among the world's major countries.
So what should those who want to improve Brazil's climate debate do? Well, that's hard to say, because I am not at all rooted in the nation's discourse.
But first, there is a clear issue of journalistic ethics that needs to be raised. Here in the U.S., I and many others have explained not only why one shouldn't give science denialist claims such dramatic airings in the media, but moreover, why they don't necessarily even belong in so-called "balanced" reports. Is this argument being made in Brazil as well? I don't know. I hope so.
Second, there is an issue of science communication. Why is it that Ricardo August Felico is on the Jo Show, rather than scientists representing the mainstream position in Brazil? And what are they doing to rebut this attack on their knowledge? Once again, I don't know—but I hope that efforts are afoot to improve scientists' communication skills in Brazil, as they are here in the U.S.
If not—or, if not to the same extent—then perhaps those of us here in the U.S. can help.
The Rio+20 conference seriously underperformed last week, as many feared that it would. I'm not saying an emergence of climate skepticism in Brazil directly influenced that outcome. But it's just one more development that makes the whole climate issue a little tougher to resolve—and one that, in a country of nearly 200 million people, with the world's sixth largest economy, ought to greatly disturb us.
One thing I wonder about is how much Climate Denial is language based. Its largely the English world that is suffering from Climate Denial. Furthermore its relatively the same sources in the English world.
I don't know about language,
I don't know about language, but I do know that at least in part, it's because climate change denial has been deliberately spread to Australia, and probably New Zealand and Great Brittain, from the United States. 'think tanks' like Competitive Enerprise Institute and Heartland Institute, for example.
And then there's the Murdock media empire doing it's dirty work.
Pat Michaels, Robert Balling and Fred Singer helped found the skeptic organization, ESEF, in Europe in 1996. The ESEF takes the same absurd position as OSIM, the group who issued the Oregon Petition . They want you to think global warming will be good for you.
Those three skeptics sure get around, don't they?
My point is 'reuse'...
Specifically the denial sphere is all about repeating articles and echoing them all over the place.
Jo Nova discusses doing this with Monckton.
So, if you were in a country that largely didn't speak English, what material would you read? If you searched the internet, the information would be relatively scarce and likely limited to a few staid scientific journals from local scientists, likely in English. Unless some Denial Tank pays someone to deny the science, they will likely come out pro-climate change.
That is the only reason that comes to mind when I think of Europe. Its obviously more complex that that though. The Dutch started promoting wind after Chernobyl.
Its equally hard to counter in a foreign language. Perhaps there should be a global language translation of the Aussie response to Ian Plimer's questions?
Thinking a bit further, what is the price a small country? In Australia's case, Gina Rinehart pays, what, $192 million, to finally shift the news to anti-science. Pretty cheap, wouldn't you say?
How much are they paying for Canada? How much damage is Canada doing on the world stage?
May the green Jesus high on the hill in Brazil
send these Brazillian deniers to green hell for their blasphemy. :-)
Also at Jornal da Bandeirantes
Last Week Jornal da Band from Bandeirantes network, the 3rd most watched in Brazil, ran a reportage series titled Global Warming a Covinient Doubt (the original title "Aquecimento global, uma dúvida conveniente") starring a professor from Paraíba Federal University. It was literally translated replay of all usual non-arguments, including climategate.
I'm linking bellow but it is all in Portuguese:
It's more than 'denial'......
I'ts more than just 'denial, it is clear that the 'system' is broken, and this from someone on the inside. You can keep wasting time blaming 'communication' or a 'well-funded effort to confuse' but that won't change things!
I urge all to read this Financial Post article. They are reporting on a review of Rio+20 posted by Mark Halle, executive director of the Europe division of theInternational Institute for Sustainable Development.
Some key points:
Intergovernmental structures beyond reform: "Intergovernmental structures are tired, lack vision and courage, and are increasingly left behind by the natural momentum of creativity and innovation in our societies. Worse still, there can no longer be any doubt that they are to all intents and purposes unreformable. Instead of once again launching attempts to streamline the UN system, we should simply assume that coordination, efficiency, accountability, responsible use of scarce funds, good governance and transparent process are now and always will be elusive goals and act accordingly."
Corporate sector more innovative: "For all the problems still associated with corporate activity, there is more advanced strategic thinking, more deep analysis of problems, more attachment to innovative thinking in the corporate sector than is evident in inter-governmental dialogue."
Sustainable development governance: "The real disappointment comes in the failure of the conference to agree on any serious reform of sustainable development governance. If there is a consensus on anything in the international system, it is that the configuration of organizations, conventions and forums dealing with sustainable development is overlapping, inefficient and unresponsive to the fundamental needs. But 60 years of reform ambition have unearthed another immutable rule: that the multilateral system is in essence unreformable. It is possible to add new organizations, forums or processes to the existing maelstrom, but it is impossible to shift what is already there in any fundamental way."
Rio failure not isolated: "Worse still, this failure is not an isolated one. Although it reached a consensus conclusion, what happened in Rio is a mirror of what happened at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, and resembles the failure of the last few WTO ministerial meetings. Far from being a sad exception, low expectations and disappointment in global intergovernmental process have become the new norm, at least when success requires consensus on economic policy. We can no longer afford years of straining that ends up giving birth to a mouse."
Finally: "We must put a stop to the massive waste of money represented by events like the Rio conference."
Overall, Mr. Halle's commentary reads almost like an obituary of sustainable development itself, but certainly it's an RIP for the global movement as currently structured. Nobody involved in the sustainable development industry can read Mr. Halle's words without seeing them as writings on a gravestone.
Did you read up on him?
Hmm… Doing what I do Hank… Using sources of the same ideological bent. Interesting change of tactics. (I can't just tear into you any more.)
I realize you're not big into trying to understand anything. That's why you just regurgitate sources. Right?
Mark Halle is not a Climate Change denier…
Neither are any of the board of directors…
So… why would a green organization be mad at what is going in Rio?
Apparently the locals are mad too, claiming its some sort of Capitalist agenda.
Here's Chas' link;
Here's what the organization is really saying;
Here's why everyone is upset.
The conference has been Shang Hai'd so that its not longer about the environment.
Hank, the unmistakable conclusion is that you and your kind are still working really hard to make money and destroy the environment. The end justify's the means, right?
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Folks, we've published a full translation of the interview with Felicio, so you can see some of the claims, including the denial of the greenhouse effect and ozone layer


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It's no accident that Mormon steeples, temples and necks are free of Christian crosses.
LDS leaders long have said the cross, so ubiquitous among traditional Christians, symbolizes Jesus' death, while Mormons worship the risen Christ. Some Latter-day Saints go even farther, condemning the cross as some kind of pagan or satanic symbol.
Now a historian at California State University in Sacramento claims in a just-completed master's thesis that Mormon aversion to the cross is a relatively recent development in LDS history, prompted in part by anti-Catholic sentiments.
"It first started at the grass-roots level around the turn of the 20th century, " Michael Reed argues in the thesis, "The Development of the LDS
"It later became institutionalized during the 1950s under the direction of LDS Prophet David O. McKay," Reed writes.
Before that, Reed says, many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used and promoted the revered Christian symbol as a potent expression of personal and collective faith.
That's a welcome conclusion, says Mormon scholar Bob Rees of southern California.
Reed's research explains Mormons' "ambiguous, confused relationship to the cross," says Rees, a former LDS bishop. "At one time there was an informal acceptance of it as an overt symbol, but in the 20th century its use has been discouraged by church leaders. Wanting to maintain its distinctive identity among Christian churches, the church essentially rejected outward manifestations of the cross, one of the most compelling symbols in all of Christendom - even though there's nothing doctrinally, theologically or scripturally that keeps us from embracing it."
Lifelong fascination » Reed came to his thesis naturally. As a Mormon child in Sacramento, Reed was fascinated by the cross. He once stole a cross necklace and wore it to
Later, his rebellion toned down, but his attraction to the cross continued.
While Reed was a Mormon missionary in Baltimore, a potential convert said he had dreamed of a cross in flames, which he interpreted as a signal to join the church. Uncomfortable with the cross as divine message, Reed later sought answers in Mormon Doctrine , a book by the late Bruce R. McConkie. McConkie, vehemently anti-Catholic, equated the cross with the Bible's satanic "mark of the beast."
The missionaries also consulted the work of another expert, LDS President Joseph Fielding Smith, who compared the cross to a guillotine. Smith, who was church president from 1970 to 1972, believed that both items were merely "tools of execution."
A complex story » Early leaders of the LDS Church did not share that hostility, Reed concluded.
While Mormons, like Protestants, preferred simple buildings with little art, founder Joseph Smith used a cross to mark the spot for a future temple on his plans for the City of Zion. Many Saints used the Greek or Maltese cross common in folk beliefs, Freemasonry and other popular rituals of the time. They also used the cross from pre-Columbian America, Reed writes, as evidence that their unique scripture, The Book of Mormon, was a literal history from that era.
In pioneer Utah, crosses of various styles were common in jewelry, church art and funeral arrangements. Amelia Folsom Young, one of Brigham Young's wives, sported a cross necklace, and a floral cross was prominent on the caskets of Daniel H. Wells, Young's first counselor in the First Presidency, and John Taylor, the third LDS president. Architects designed the Assembly Hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City as well as LDS tabernacles in Vernal and Loa, Utah, on a "cruciform" plan.
But the clearest example was Charles Nibley's 1916 proposal to place a giant cross on top of Ensign Peak as a way to honor the Mormon pioneers. Karl A. Sheid, Salt Lake City's commissioner of public affairs and finance,
Others, especially Apostle Orson F. Whitney and members of the LDS 20th Ward in Salt Lake City, opposed it as a strictly Catholic symbol. The proposal eventually was discarded.
Still, for a couple more decades, Mormons continued to find meaning in the cross.
When Spencer W. Kimball was called as an apostle in 1943, for example, feelings of inadequacy rocked the future president. On a hillside hike, Reed writes, Kimball saw a "sign that gave him assurance God was with him."
It was a "huge cross with its arms silhouetted against the blue sky beyond," Kimball wrote in his journal. "It was just an ordinary cross made of two large heavy limbs of a tree, but in my frame of mind, and coming on it so unexpectedly, it seemed like a sacred omen."
A ban institutionalized » Roots of opposition to the cross were laid in the 1920s, when then-apostle McKay was president of the church's European Mission. He noted with disdain one Catholic celebration in Belgium, where people were "drinking and carousing until 6:30 a.m."
He also saw the obstacles Mormon missionaries faced in Catholic countries such as France, Italy and Spain, while having more success in Protestant areas such as Great Britain.
Tensions in Utah arose in the 1930s, Reed writes, when the state's Roman Catholic Church became more concentrated and powerful. Catholic Bishop Duane Hunt launched a radio show intended to reaffirm the faith of the state's Catholics, but the Mormon leadership -- including McKay, by then in the First Presidency -- saw Hunt's addresses as a veiled attempt to convert Mormons.
Two years after becoming president in 1953, McKay pointed to a Catholic church in California and commented: "There are two great anti-Christs in the world: Communism and that church."
In 1957, McKay established the LDS Church's no-cross protocol, saying it was not proper for LDS girls to wear it on their jewelry, saying the cross is "purely Catholic. ... Our worship should be in our hearts."
Though McKay later tempered his comments about Catholicism, his opposition to the cross became church policy. From that day to this, Mormons look askance at any member who pays too much homage to the ubiquitous Christian symbol.
"If someone is wearing a cross, we get very uncomfortable," Rees says. "Yet we believe the scars of his crucifixion is how Christ identified himself in ancient America, ancient Israel and to Joseph Smith. If Christ so openly displayed the marks of the cross, shouldn't we be more open to its symbolic possibilities?"


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Media mouthpieces inject "patriot" and "tea party" talking points
Steve Watson
April 16, 2013
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod has joined other mainstream media mouthpieces in insinuating that the horrific Boston Marathon bombing may have been linked to "tax day".
Appearing on MSNBC this morning, Axelrod said of the term 'terror attack', "The word has taken on a different meaning since 9/11. You use those words and it means something very specific in people's mind."
The political consultant then suggested that the president has refrained from using the term because he may believe an anti-government tax protester could have been behind the bombing, rather than a co-ordinated group of foreign terrorists.
"You use those words and it means something very specific in people's mind. And I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is — we really don't know who did this — it was tax day." Axelrod said.
"Was it someone who was pro–you know, you just don't know." he continued. "And so I think his attitude is, let's not put any inference into this, let's just make clear that we're going to get the people responsible."
Axelrod isnt the first talking head to inject such points into news coverage of the attack. Without any evidence whatsoever, media mouthpieces have been suggesting that the incident may have been carried out by a "home grown" radical, potentially in the vein of OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh.
BBC News coverage suggested that "chatter within the intelligence services" indicates that right wing extremists could be behind the attack, with analysts noting that the bombing occurred on Patriot's Day, the holiday that commemorates the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. The OKC bombing in 1995 was also carried out on this day, the third Monday in April.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer took that insinuation even further, noting "It is a state holiday, in addition to the Boston Marathon. It is a state holiday in Massachusetts today, called Patriots' Day. And who knows if that had anything at all to do with these twin explosions?"
MSNBC's Chris Matthews also theorized that the bombing could be the result of a protest against federal income taxes.
"As you point out, and I just forgot, I filed already. It's filing day for the federal income tax, which does cause some emotions around the country – sometimes in the wrong parts of the brain anyway," Matthews said during his show:
In comments to the media, Richard Barrett, the former United Nations co-ordinator for the al-Qaeda and Taliban monitoring team said that the timing of the attack on Patriots' Day and the relatively small size of the devices suggested the work of a domestic extremist.
Barrett, who is now senior director at the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies (QIASS), said: "At the moment it looks more likely that it was a right-wing terrorist incident, rather than an al Qaeda attack because of the size of the devices."
He added: "This happened on Patriots' Day, it is also the day Americans are supposed to have their taxes in, and Boston is quite a symbolic city. These are all little indicators."
Boston was, of course, the location for the famed "tea party" protest of 1773 against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
The suggestion that talking heads are making is that whoever carried out the bombing may be sympathetic to the modern day Tea Party movement, which advocates for limited government.
Esquire's Charles P. Pierce also made the connection, noting that Monday is the "official Patriots Day holiday" in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord. He also pointed out that April 19, the actual date of the battles, is connected to Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh, who apparently considered himself a "waterer of the tree of liberty and the like."
Huffington Post blogger and Al Sharpton radio producer Nida Khan also blindly speculated that "all these anti-gov groups" could be behind the attack.
"We don't know anything yet of course, but it is tax day & my first thought was all these anti-gov groups, but who knows," Khan tweeted.
We don't know anything yet of course, but it is tax day & my first thought was all these anti-gov groups, but who knows
— Nida Khan (@NidaKhanNY) April 15, 2013
former FBI agent Brad Garrett said he wouldn't be surprised if the bombing had been carried out by a domestic extremist group or an individual in an attempt to make a statement.
He added that a "neo Nazi or a patriot group" would likely not claim responsibility right away.
"There's a lot of public source information about demonstrations on taxes, on a number of other issues that are hot button issues for extremists groups who don't like either what the government is doing or what the government represents," he stated.
In addition, the official story of the attack appears to be being subtly altered to fit this media driven narrative.
A police press conference today contradicted earlier reports that more explosive devices had been found in the vicinity of the attack, and had been destroyed by bomb squads in controlled explosions. Analysts suggested that the notion of bomb squads finding and detonating extra devices within the hour were far fetched, without them having some prior intelligence of the attack.
It was also reported that a drill was being carried out in the area involving members of the Boston bomb squad.
That oddity has now been swept aside in a change of the narrative, as has the idea that the attacks were coordinated and indicative of an organised group.
Police also now claim that no arrests have been made and that there are no suspects in custody, contradicting earlier reports that a Saudi man had been arrested close to the scene of the bombing.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
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Children with ASDs have the same general nutrition needs as all children and teens. Children with ASDs may be picky eaters, so their parents may be concerned that they are not getting the nutrients they need. For example, if a child doesn't drink milk (because the child refuses or because of a special diet), the child may not get enough calcium and vitamin D. If a child doesn't eat enough foods made from grains, she may not get enough fiber and B vitamins. Some children with ASDs have such a limited diet that they are at risk for nutritional disorders. They may also be at higher risk for low iron intake.
Eating problems are common in children, but for children with ASDs, the problems may last longer, be affected by differences in sensory processing such as how the child can taste and smell, and be the result of learned patterns of behavior. Up to three-quarters of children with ASDs may have problems with mealtime behavior and food choice. These problems include
Limited range of food texture, color, taste, or temperature
Food rituals or obsessions
Eating or mouthing nonfood items (pica)
Compulsive eating
Packing the mouth with food
Throwing up, gagging, and chewing or re-chewing food for a long time
Limited intake of fiber-rich foods including vegetables and fruits
Gastroesophageal reflux may lead to food refusal. Sensory issues with the setting of each meal may deter eating; for example, the school cafeteria is loud, bright, distracting, and disorganized, with multiple smells. Medication side effects, such as increased appetite with antipsychotic medications and reduced appetite with stimulant medications, may also cause issues. Children with ASDs may have difficulty recognizing when they are full, when they are hungry, and how long they have been sitting at the table. The child might think he is "all done" after a bite or two of food. If your child has felt sick after eating a certain food, he may refuse to eat that food again. This may happen even if the food was not what made your child sick. Your child might also eat a limited number of foods or refuse to eat what has been a favorite food in the past. This may be behavioral, related to preference and obsession, and may have a sensory component.
A great way to work on eating and nutrition issues is to set up a regular structure for mealtimes. Offer your child meals and snacks at about the same times each day. Keep mealtime calm and limit distractions. Sit down with your child and eat the same foods. Your child should feed herself if able. Do not ask your child to come to the dinner table until you are done preparing the food, everything is in place, and you are calm and ready to sit down.
At each meal, be sure to serve at least one food that your child has eaten and liked in the past.
Remember that a food often has to be offered multiple times before it is finally accepted. Offer the new food on multiple consecutive days with food your child is known to eat. This way, your child has something she is likely to eat. You should not be a short-order cook. Ask your child to eat, but do not plead or threaten. Once your child leaves the table, the meal is finished. To encourage eating at scheduled meals and snacks, do not give your child food or drink other than water until the next meal or snack. Incorporate a visual schedule so that the time and place of each meal is known. Your child will learn to eat what the rest of the family eats and behave like their mealtime behaviors. Therefore, the rest of the family will need to model good mealtime behaviors, eat fruits and vegetables, and avoid grazing. Your child will learn the eating habits of other family members.
Social stories can help establish a predictable schedule for the child of what happens at mealtimes and mealtime expectations at home, at school, and in the community. To address special feeding problems like mouth packing, re-chewing of food, and severely restricted diets, you will likely need help from experts in behavior, speech, or occupational therapy. Talking with a registered dietitian may help too.
Your child's pediatrician should review your child's diet at well-child checkups. Let your doctor know if your child has a very limited diet. The doctor should do a history and physical examination to help find medical factors that could be related to eating problems. Eating nonfood items (pica) may be related to low levels of iron in the blood, delayed development (very young children explore by mouthing items), sensory-seeking behaviors, or obsessions and anxiety. Blood lead levels should be checked periodically if your child is at risk for lead exposure and puts things other than food in his mouth. Your doctor should be told if you notice belching, retching, or difficulty sleeping at night. Your child's pediatrician may order tests to check for nutritional deficiencies or food allergies. Tell your doctor if you are giving any vitamins, supplements, or over-the-counter medications.
Keep in mind that what you think children need to eat may actually be too much. Your child's pediatrician should be able to tell you the portion sizes that are best for your child depending on her age and weight. Also remember that a balanced diet is over the whole week, not in one meal. In addition, eating problems do not go away overnight. You will need to keep teaching your child the rules for eating (ask your child's pediatrician about the "Behavioral Challenges" handout).
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Legge B. Can't Eat, Won't Eat: Dietary Difficulties and Autism Spectrum Disorders. London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 2002
Williams K, Foxx R. Treating Eating Problems of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed; 2007
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Hello all,
i'm new here and forgive me if there is any thread like this but i need help fast as i can. I have project for Faculty for next week so i need to finish it fast, but i'm beginner in Java and Tapestry framework. I want to share for now 2 of my problems. I have tried lot of time to fix this and learn it, but i don't have idea what i'm doing because as i said, i'm beginner in this 2 things.
Problem No.1:
I'm following THIS tutorial and i stopped at "Defining your model" part. I really don't know how to make all of this things showed below that title.
Problem it's, i don' know how to make something like this tutorial, connected with my database. Of course i need to use Tapestry and my MySQL database. I will use this it for making Register/Login form connected with that database. Any one who know how to work with this thing, please help me, i need it fast.
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I'm using Apache Tomcat 7.0.34 server for running my app, and for normal things, i can see all complete at http://localhost:8080/app/Start.
But when i'm pressing one of my links for Login, this: http://localhost:8080/app/Login.tml, i got error like:
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"Access to the specified resource has been forbidden."
I tried without that .tml at the end, but it's same. So i don't know how to enable in my app to enable access for this page too, or any other.HTML Code:
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The West Coast Green Institute (WCGI) was created to continue community development projects born at West Coast Green year round. WCGI has developed a program dedicated to transforming low-income communities into ones that are sustainable, healthy, empowered and vital communities /neighborhoods. We strive to develop strong community leaders, train and empower local organizations and networks with the capacity to continue building on our foundation. Through building a network of support we facilitate the development and the implementation of a sustainable collaborative community vision which incorporates leaders who are building green affordable housing, promoting community economic development, and launching ambitious urban agriculture projects that respect cultural histories.
The WCGI is the educational arm of the West Coast Green conference, and plans content for all sessions, summits and special collaborative projects.
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- Fort Mason Design Slam: The design slam brought together community leaders, engineers, conference attendees and LEED specialists to discuss how Fort Mason, a National Park and a Historic Monument, can sustainably improve it's look and feel, physical structures and strategic partnerships.
- Tribal Summits: West Coast Green has partnered with the US EPA's Tribal Solid Waste team, who works with tribes in Arizona and Northern California, to develop a Tribal scholarship program to meet the needs of tribal members. West Coast Green sponsors 30 full conference passes for members, and created a tribal summit held in conjunction with the Conference. The EPA sponsors the travel expenses for those who West Coast Green provides passes to and strategically distributes all sponsored items to members.
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This year the WCGI is focusing on the Sustainable Redevelopment and Empowerment of Low Income Communities project (described below). This ongoing project is WCGI's response to a need that has been expressed by many underserved communities in the Bay Area.
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The one who sows the seeds of anger will harvest the storm. The same applies for relationships and in this specific case for your partnership. Again and again you tend to make impossible demands of your beloved and then you get unnecessarily angry if he or she cannot satisfy them. If you experience some heated arguments today, you should question whether this is the right way!


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When the Trans Am Series makes its 26th appearance at Road Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013 for Round 9 of the 2013 Season, it brings with it a Trans Am field of a quality that Georgia-based fans have not seen in over a decade, not since 1999 to be exact. The Trans Am Series heads south will a 32-car entry, the third largest in Trans Am History at Road Atlanta.
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I want to install ubuntu 12.10 to an external hdd.
How do I do that?
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I want to install ubuntu 12.10 to an external hdd.
How do I do that?
Thank you.
1. Connect hard drive.
2. Insert Ubuntu DVD.
3. Turn on computer.
4. Boot from DVD.
5. Select "Something Else" on the partition screen.
6. Follow installation directions selecting the External drive when asked where to install.
7. [This step provided by Arpanaut]: Install grub to the external drive. For explination, see arpanaut's post below.
8. Make a cup of tea. Sorry, make two, mine's strong, milk and a sugar.
1. Create a separate home partition if not already.
2. If carrying the external drive around with you, encrypt the /home partition (see point 6 above).
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Another point to remember is to install grub on to the external drive,
because if you install grub on to your internal HDD grub will be looking for the external
and will not boot into any OS without the external being plugged in.
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Some screen shots to show the good instructions by Mr_JMM and arpanaut. I have missed the where to install grub2's boot loader combo box on the install screen and had to restore a boot loader, so review the partition screen and particularly the where to install grub. Install to MBR of external drive (often sdb) not any partitions like sdb1 or sdb2.
Install to external drive. Also any second drive.
Installer version has not changed much so still a good guide except I do not recommend the separate /boot for most systems. Older systems may need it. And some with very large / (root) partitions. BIOS/MBR not for UEFI
Installing Ubuntu in Hard Disk Two (or more) internal or external Lots of detail - now alternative (text based) installer
Different versions have slight difference in install screens but process is the same.
p24/041.png Shows combo box to select where to install the grub2 boot loader.
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Unfortunately 12.10's grub is broken for external drives at the moment, so you may have to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg initially before first boot after install and any time the kernel or grub updates (any time grub-update is run) until grub is fixed. And the 1st boot after installation will have 95 updates including a kernel.
Grub used to be able to find drives by UUID regardless of where they were, but the grub in 12.10 uses hardware drive definitions that break that when the drive is in a different hd# or achi# after installing from USB memory stick, or it ends up as hd0 when BIOS boots that device instead of the hd# or achi# grub set during grub-update.
The reason I know that is because I just installed 12.10 on a USB drive, and it it booted to a grub prompt (not grub menu) because grub was looking for hd7 where the drive was (sdh) above the USB stick during install. But it is hd0 when BIOS boots it. Then during those 95 updates including a kernel, grub changed it to hd6 because it was sdg while Ubuntu was running (without the USB stick), but is still hd0 when BIOS boots it.
Not very user friendly. More of nuisance for those of us who know how to correct it, but possibly aggravating to new users.
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I had a similar issue when installing from one flash to another and drive number were like yours hd5 & hd6. But that was with grub 1.98.
Once fixed, I never had issue and I assumed it was that after a gap in drives the search function which is supposed to override the set root stopped searching. But never had issue again on any of my 4 drives and sometimes my flash it sda, sdc or sde, have not checked grub's enumeration to see what it says.
All I did was edit grub menu with e and change to hd0 when I next booted flash drive.
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does anyone know if grub was updated to fix this issue? i came across this thread while planning to install 12.10 to a thumbdrive or an external HDD. But it sounds more difficult than i thought. more reading on my end is needed i reckon.


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Is a collection of Newfoundland and Labrador related Websites, Stories, Recipes, History, Photos and more. We have two very popular Newfoundland site one that deal with the community of Clarenville. If you are a regular visitor to our site, first of all Thank you and we are currently giving the site a new look. Hope you enjoy the changes.
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Come taste the history and heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador. There's a centuries-old tradition of ingenuity, imagination and inspiration in every bite. A blending Irish, Scottish, Aboriginal, English and French ancestry. With the freshest ingredients from our oceans, lakes, rivers, game, plants and gardens. Lobster. Cod. Caribou. Salmon. Moose. Served up in recipes handed down generation to generation.
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I have always found the history our province to be of great interest and think we should all remember where we came from and to keep our rich history alive. I have focused on the history of my home town of Clarenville, Shoal Harbour as well the history of my current home of Logy Bay Middle Cove Outer Cove. I also have fawn memory of our railway and how it tied our great province together. If you can help me with this project please contact me with any information along with any photos that you may have.


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From the moment the BIG BLUE packet arrived on my front doorstep next to the milk box, I've been somewhere between a reflective, grateful, contemplative young woman to a girl who is running around like a chicken with their head cut off.
I think they are both natural responses to a BIG life change. How big? RWANDA big.
Finally, after almost a year (to the day) of waiting, I found out that I was in the Peace Corps. I would be leaving in September, and I would be teaching.
That was enough for about the first 2 hours upon finding out.
Then. it started.
What do I do next?
What forms do I have to turn in?
Do I need a passport?
When should I buy stuff that I need?
What all do I need to take?
Is teaching really right for me?
Am I going to do a good job?
Will I be able to communicate with my friends and family?
Where in Rwanda will I live?
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You get the idea. The thing is, I 've thought about all of these things before. 1 year in the PC application process will do that to you. But. Now, I have this letter. And it's like "Congratulations! You are invited to begin training in Rwanda!" I guess that's what they mean when they say it just got real.
I went backpacking with my mom and Randy this last weekend and I thought a lot about this opportunity. There were moments that I laid in the hammock wondering how my life got to this point…and I just smiled. And the answer is basically, I don't know. But I'm glad, and grateful. So so grateful. I can't even begin to imagine what this experience will be like, but I'm so thankful that I get a chance to do it, that I have this opportunity to pursue something I am so dearly passionate for.
What is right, is right. What will be, will be. This is something that it took me 4 years to learn in college, and I'm still learning it. But, I am believing it more and more. That's what this is. Somehow, in all of the madness that this process brought, ultimately, it worked out. God's hand was in this.
So, now I am moving forward appreciatively and a little crazily, but certainly very productively. To date, I have submitted my US passport to get approved for a special Peace Corps passport, I have submitted my aspiration statement and updated resume to PC, I have formally accepted the position (writing that email was probably one of the most insane/cool emails I have ever written), I have finished the paperwork for the media relations office, I have started this blog, I have read the Volunteer handbook, I have ordered a Kinyarwanda dictionary, and I am voraciously everything I can read about Rwanda. I am doing really well in this preparation process. Maybe as well as could be expected? I am working through the financial issues (banks, loans, etc.) but that too is getting worked out.
This is a special period in my life, I think. So, I'm going to do my best to enjoy it. The month of August will be one of the best…I don't even doubt it. Michelle is coming to visit Colorado, I am going to Disney World with Rachel, I am helping Rachel move into her grad-school apartment in Murfreesboro, I am going to Michelle's wedding in Moscow, TN, seeing all my friends (reunion!), and then hanging out at Hendrix for a week, capped off with seeing the first Hendrix field hockey game of the season. Indeed, it's a special time in my life right now. I will come home from this trip and have ONE WEEK to get my things together, spend time with my family, and prepare to close the door on this part of my life for awhile.
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The mortgage-refinancing boom is over. So said Tim Sloan, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo & Co.
Of course the bank has known that for a while. So has anyone who's been watching Wells Fargo and other big banks make less and less money from funding mortgages. What's interesting here is what Wells Fargo is doing to stem the tide: cutting mortgage jobs, placing more emphasis on mortgage-servicing fees, scouring far corners for new loans.
Of course the end of the refi boom is a problem throughout the banking industry, as super-low interest rates peter out and fewer homeowners see a need to refinance. But how Wells Fargo decides to tackle the problem will have a significant impact on the rest of the industry, as it happens to be the country's biggest mortgage lender.
"We are clearly through the big refinancing phase of the cycle," Sloan told investors gathered Wednesday at the Credit Suisse financial services forum, while also noting different areas where the bank is growing, including credit-card accounts and trust and investment fees.
Inside the mortgage unit, the bank is working to bring in more purchasing customers by lending for jumbo and high-end mortgages. On the other end of the spectrum, it's also embracing some interest-only mortgages and other loans that might not qualify for typical regulatory protections, Bloomberg News has reported.
Servicing revenue, where the bank makes money not by making loans but by handling paperwork for the loans, has been helped because fewer people are paying off their loans early – maybe not a happy development for the home buyers, but a good one for the bank. And Wells Fargo bankers of various persuasions are being prodded to encourage clients to pick up a Wells Fargo mortgage while they're at it, too.
"They are really all hands on deck there," CEO John Stumpf said in a call with analysts last month.
Wells Fargo's staffing levels in the units that make retail mortgages are down by half since the peak in early 2013, and Sloan added Wednesday that the mortgage unit will continue to "improve efficiency" with "more technology in the hands of our team members," though he didn't give details.
The dearth of refinancings has changed the makeup of the mortgage unit. Home purchases now make up two-thirds of the bank's mortgage-origination revenue, compared to one-third a year ago. But Sloan said making new mortgages plays to Wells Fargo's strengths, because "we've got the best distribution and sales system in the industry."
In the fourth quarter, Wells Fargo funded $50 billion in residential mortgages, plummeting 60% from $125 billion the year before. Wells Fargo now controls about 19% of the U.S. mortgage market, down from 30% a year ago, according to the trade publication Inside Mortgage Finance, though Sloan has said before that Wells Fargo's share was "disproportionately high."
The average rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 4.43% in January, according to Freddie Mac – still low by long-term historical measures, but up a full percentage point from the year before.
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Three-time All-Ivy second team selection (2011-12, 2010-11 & 2009-10).
2009-10 All-Rookie selection.
Has earned five Ivy League weekly awards (1 Player of the Week, 4 Rookie of the Week).
Has recorded 3 double-doubles.
Career Highs
Points: 28 at Columbia (2/20/10)
FG made: 11 at Columbia (2/20/10)
FG attempts: 17 at Dayton (12/30/10)
3FG made: 4, 4 times
3FG attempts: 9, twice
FT made: 7 vs. Brown (2/13/10)
FT attempts: 8 vs. Boston College (11/14/09)
Rebounds: 13 vs. Cornell (1/30/10)
Assists: 5 vs. Alcorn State (12/9/11)
Steals: 3, 5 times
Blocks: 2, 4 times
2011-12 (Junior)
Second team All-Ivy League ... Ranked sixth in the Ivy League in three-point field-goals per game (1.6), ninth in field-goal percentage (43.6), ninth in three-point percentage (34.5) and 10th in scoring (11.7) ... Netted 14 points vs. Butler (Nov. 13) ... Scored 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting, including 3-of-5 from three, at Providence (Nov. 18) ... Tallied 10 points, seven rebounds and one assist versus Holy Cross (Nov. 27) ... Notched 11 points and four rebounds against Boston University (Nov. 30) ... Scored 17 points, including 14 points in the second half, on 7-of-10 shooting at New Hampshire (Dec. 6) ... Named to the Best Buy Classic All-Tournament Team after averaging 10.5 ppg, 9.5 rpg and 3.5 apg ... Scored 16 points and dished out a career-high five assists vs. Alcorn State (Dec. 9) ... Grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds at Minnesota (Dec. 10) ... Notched 12 points and five rebounds against St. John's (Dec. 22) ... Tallied 12 points and three assists in 39 minutes of action at Hartford (Dec. 29) ... Registered 13 points, five rebounds and four blocks at TCU (Jan. 7) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll Jan. 23 after scoring a game-high 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting, including 3-of-4 from three, against North Dakota (Jan. 17) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for a second straight week Jan. 30 ... Scored 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting and grabbed six rebounds against Yale (Jan. 27) ... Notched 14 points and went 4-of-7 from three against Brown (Jan. 30), while her three with 2:01 to play gave the Crimson the lead for good ... Scored 19 points and was 3-of-5 from three at Columbia (Feb. 4) ... Eclipsed the 1,000 point plateau with a 12-point, seven-rebound performance vs. Penn (Feb. 10) ... Registered 14 points and eight rebounds at Yale (Feb. 18) ... Tallied 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting at Penn (Feb. 25) ... Recorded her first double-double of the year with 13 points and 10 rebounds against Columbia (March 2).
2010-11 (Sophomore)
Named second team All-Ivy League ... Played in 28 games, starting 17 this season ... Was second on the team and fourth in the Ivy League in scoring, averaging 13.5 points ger game thsi season ... Made 86.5 percent (45-52) of her free throw attempts and 46.8 percent (52-111)of her 3-point attempts ... Her 50.7 field goal percentage ranked 50th in the nation ... Made 7-of-9 shots for 17 points, and added six rebounds and two steals in win over Maine (Nov. 13) ... Scored 15 points in 30 minutes of action against Oral Roberts (Nov. 19) ... Contributed 11 points and five rebounds against BU (Nov. 23) ... Led the Crimson with 12 points and added four rebounds at Holy Cross (Nov. 28) ... Scored a team- and game-high 21 points on a 9-for-13 effort from the field in win over Hartford (Dec. 3) ... Went 5-for-8 from the field for 13 points, grabbed four rebounds and handed out two assists in win over UNH (Dec. 10) ... Led the Crimson with a season-high 22 points on a 9-for-17 performance from the field, pulled down team-high four rebounds and dished out a team-best four assists at Dayton (Dec. 30) ... Recorded 17 points, six rebounds, two assists, a steal and a block in win over UMass (Jan. 2) ... Tallied three three-pointers and went 6-of-15 from the field for 15 points ... Contributed 11 points, three rebounds and two assists in win over NJIT (Jan. 9) ... Posted 14 points in win at Seattle (Jan. 22) ... Led the Crimson with 20 points on a 7-for-11 shooting performance at Columbia (Jan. 28) ... Scored a team-high 15 points and grabbed five rebounds in win at Cornell (Jan. 29) ... Named to the Ivy League Honor Roll on Jan. 31 ... Scored 14 points and grabbed seven rebounds in win over Princeton (Feb. 4) ... Scored 16 points, grabbed seven rebounds, collected three steals and handed out two assists in win over Penn (Feb. 5) .... Had a team-high 18 points and team-best eight rebounds against Yale (Feb. 11) ... Led the Crimson with 15 points against Cornell (Feb. 18) ... Dropped 22 points on Brown (Feb. 25) and 14 on Yale (Feb. 26) ... Scored 13 points at Penn (Mar. 4) and 12 points at Princeton (Mar. 5).
2009-10 (Freshman)
Named to the second-team All-Ivy League as well as the Ivy League All-Rookie team ... Second on the team and fifth in the Ivy League in scoring (13/1 ppg) … Sixth in the Ancient Eight in field goal percentage (.462) … Record three double-doubles … Posted double figures in 18 games … Scored 14 points, grabbed four rebounds, blocked a shot and collected a steal in first collegiate start against Boston College ... Named to the Ivy League honor roll for her efforts ... Went 10-for-12 from the field with a game- and career-high 24 points in win over Maine ... Scored 13 points all in the second half , grabbed three rebounds and collected two steals at New Hampshire ... Scored nine points and pulled down a then-career-high six rebounds in win over New Orleans ... Downed a pair of threes and went 5-for-9 from the field with 14 points in Omni Hotels Championships game at Colorado ... Recorded first collegiate double-double with 21 points and a then-career-high 10 rebounds in double overtime win over Northeastern ... Also handed out a career-high three assists in career-high 44 minutes of action ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for her efforts ... Led the Crimson with 17 points in win over Navy ... Grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds against Cornell ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after averaging 24.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.0 blocks per game and shot 67.9 percent from the field in wins over Yale and Brown ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after averaging 24.0 points and 5.5 rebounds in weekend sweep of Cornell and Columbia ... Recorded second double-double of the season in win at Cornell with 20 points and 10 rebounds ... Scored a career-high 28 points on 11-for-13 shooting and recorded three steals in win over Columbia ... third double-double of the season with 16 points and 11 rebounds in win over Yale ... Also had three steals, two assists and a block in 32 minutes of action ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Feb. 28) for third consecutive week ... Led the team in scoring with 15 points in win over Penn ... Scored 15 points and grabbed three rebounds against Princeton ... Scored 10 points and grabbed three rebounds in win over Dartmouth.
Before Harvard
Was a four-year letterwinner in basketball ... Served as captain in final two seasons ... Name to the Cal-Hi Sports All-State freshman team (2006), sophomore team (2007) and junior team (2008) ... Earned Cal-Hi Sports All-State Division III in 2008 and 2009 ... A four-time All-San Diego Section honoree ... Named San Diego Union-Tribune Newcomer of the Year in 2006 ... Three-time Western League Player of the Year and four-time team MVP ... Led Cathedral Catholic High School to San Diego Section Division III championship in 2008 ... Three-time Western League champion ... Scored 2,398 points, which is a school record and ranks ninth in section history ... Averaged 20.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game as a senior ... San Diego Union-Tribune Student-Athlete of the Year in 2009 and two-time all-academic recipient ... Cathedral Catholic Female Student-Athlete of the Year ... Therapeutics Recreations Services volunteer and camp leader for YMCA.
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With Oracle OpenWorld scheduled to run from September 30 to October 4 this year, the eagle eyes of developers will now be turning towards San Francisco to scrutinize the effects of another year of Sun technologies under Larry Ellison's parentage.
News so far this month in this vein is interesting. The company is reportedly now dropping any further development of the object-oriented programming language Fortress.
NOTE: Fortress is a new programming language being designed and developed at Oracle Labs. It is intended to provide static checking of an expressive type system; implicit, abundant parallelism managing with work-stealing; extensible definition through libraries; and syntax providing support for the expression of mathematical (and other) algorithms.
The above definition of Fortress actually comes from Oracle, but as far as it being a "new programming language"… well, the company actually acquired it in research project status from Sun back in 2010. Sun's tagline for the language was… Fortress: we will try to do for Fortran what Java did for C.
Guy Steele of Oracle's programming language research group has confirmed that after nearly a decade of working on the design, development, and implementation of the Fortress programming language, the group that has completed most of the work on Fortress will now see the project wound down.
During the 2004 to 2006 time period Fortress sat under the sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and it was hoped to potentially become a possible successor to Fortran — as the language did indeed sport a particularly keen scientific and mathematical focus. In January 2007 the project became open source. Then in 2008, version 1.0 of Fortress was completed with a specific focus on support for high-end parallel systems.
"Many aspects of the Fortress design were novel, and we learned a great deal from building an interpreter and an initial set of libraries. Nevertheless, over the last few years, as we have focused on implementing a compiler targeted to the Java Virtual Machine, we encountered some severe technical challenges having to do with the mismatch between the (rather ambitious) Fortress type system and a virtual machine not designed to support it (that would be every currently available VM, not just JVM)," writes Oracle's Steele.
He continues, "In addressing these challenges, we learned a lot about the implications of the Fortress type system for the implementation of symmetric multi-method dispatch, and have concluded that we are now unlikely to learn more (in a research sense) from completing the implementation of Fortress for JVM. We also note that, over the last 10 years, other languages (Chapel, X10, Clojure, and Scala, among others) have explored some of the same issues that Fortress has addressed, and we have very much enjoyed conversations, collaboration, and friendly competition with those who have explored these ideas in alternative contexts."
The project will be wound down over a period of months with research reports on the language to be shared alongside open discussions was to how to manage the code base.


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Editor's note: Each issue of the Influential Women enewsletter will feature a profile of one of the Business Journal's reigning 50 Most Influential Women in West Michigan. The profile first appeared in the event program.
As a principal with Progressive AE, Kathleen Stewart Ponitz led a corporate initiative to become the first architectural/engineering firm in North America to earn CarbonNeutral Company status.
Progressive AE also was the first architectural and engineering firm in West Michigan to be an Energy Star Partner, to be a part of the Mayor's Community Sustainability Partnership and to earn a Sustainable Merit Award for Aquinas College's Jarecki Center for Advanced Learning from AIA Grand Valley.
Ponitz is founder and principal of The Stewart-Ponitz Group, a consulting practice dedicated to the development of robust learning organizations. An accomplished business executive and community leader, Ponitz excels at aligning people and resources determined to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.
A catalyst for change in the West Michigan community, Ponitz launched the Holland and Grand Rapids chamber of commerce leadership initiatives and established Leadership West Michigan — the first regional leadership program.
Ponitz played a key role in diversifying marketing and membership in the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, as well as launching its first strategic plan and re-branding initiatives.
She generated marketing and client strategies to build customer share for National City Bank and has served as governance chair for Priority Health's board.
Ponitz's community work has included serving on Experience Grand Rapids, helping to integrate its new president and director into the community, while supporting the efforts of attracting conferences, conventions and events to West Michigan.
She's also served on Grand Rapids Symphony's Development Committee, Michigan Women's Foundation, Circle of Red, part of the Women's Heart Association, and West Michigan Sports Commission.


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Tiger Woods and his wife were unavailable to speak to state troopers for the second straight day, asking them to return on Sunday to clear up questions about how he crashed his SUV into a neighbor's tree.
Troopers first tried to talk to Woods on Friday, but the Florida Highway Patrol said his wife, Elin, told troopers Woods was sleeping, and they agreed to return the next day.
On Saturday, the patrol said officers were en route to interview the couple when Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, called to say they wouldn't be available.
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Patrol spokesman Sergeant Kim Montes said Woods was not required to talk to troopers in a traffic accident; they only need his driver's license, insurance and registration. She said troopers inside the gates at his gated community of Isleworth were "looking at other things for their investigation."
Woods smashed his Cadillac near his $2.4 million mansion at 2:25 a.m. on Friday and was briefly hospitalized. His lips were cut, and Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out a back window and help Woods from the car.
Montes said it was "kind of normal" for Woods not to speak on Friday, the day he was treated and released from a local hospital.
"It is unusual that we haven't gotten a statement," she said. "This just delays us to getting closer to the completion of the investigation. We'll work with them. The investigation will continue no matter what."
The emergency phone tapes of the crash could be released as early as Sunday.
According to the patrol, Woods had just left his Florida mansion when he lost control of his 2009 Cadillac and hit a fire hydrant, then a tree on his neighbor's property. The report said alcohol was not a factor.
The patrol reported the accident occurred at 2:25 a.m. Friday morning and classified the injuries as serious. The first word from Woods' camp — some 13 hours after the crash — was that it was a "minor accident," and he was in good condition after being treated and released.
Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor said his two officers found the 33-year-old Woods lying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him.
"She was frantic, upset," Saylor said in a briefing Friday night. "It was her husband laying on the ground."
Saylor said Woods' wife told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and "broke the back window with a golf club." He said the front-door windows were not broken and that "the door was probably locked."
"She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground," he said. "He was in and out of consciousness when my guys got there."
Saylor said Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and blood in his mouth; officers treated Woods for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived. Woods was conscious enough to speak, though the police chief said Woods didn't say anything coherent.
Damage to the front of Woods' SUV was described by Saylor as "not real extensive, but not real light."
Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour. His agent, Mark Steinberg, and spokesman Glenn Greenspan said there would be no comment beyond the short statement of the accident posted Friday afternoon on Woods' Web site that said:
"Tiger Woods was in a minor car accident outside his home last night. He was admitted, treated and released today in good condition. We appreciate very much everyone's thoughts and well wishes."
Asked at an evening news conference if the couple could have been arguing, Saylor said he had no knowledge of that. The couple, married five years, have two children.
The accident came two days after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York night club hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters.
The woman, Rachel Uchitel, denied having an affair with Woods when contacted by The Associated Press.
"I resent my reputation is getting completely blasted in the media," she said during a telephone interview late Friday. "Everyone is assuming I came out and said this. This is not a story I have anything to do with."
Uchitel said she was in Melbourne two weeks ago with clients and never saw Woods the entire time she was there.
A representative of the National Enquirer declined comment.
"Right now we believe this is a traffic crash," Montes said. "We don't believe it is a domestic issue."
The Florida Highway Patrol said tapes of the 911 call won't be released until they can be reviewed, probably Monday at the earliest. Montes said the accident report was not issued for 12 hours because it did not meet the criteria of a serious crash, and the FHP only released information because of inquiries from local media.
Woods, coming off a two-week trip to China and Australia earlier this month, is host of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif., which starts Thursday. He is scheduled to have his press conference Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Country Club. Steinberg said he did not know if Woods planned to play next week.
Woods rarely faces such private scrutiny, even as perhaps the most famous active athlete in the world.
He usually makes news only because of what he can do with a golf club. Few other athletes have managed to keep their private lives so guarded, or have a circle of friends so airtight when it comes to life off the course.
Woods' $2.4 million home is part of an exclusive subdivision near Orlando, a community set on an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course and a chain of small lakes. The neighborhood, which is fortified with high brick walls and has its own security force, is home to CEOs and other sports stars such as the NBA's Shaquille O'Neal.
Woods has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, becoming the first player of black heritage to win a major at the 1997 Masters when he was 21. He attended the Stanford-Cal football game last Saturday, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.


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