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The Naked Teacher Principle Strikes In Texas: The Playboy Variation
October 15, 2013 October 15, 2013 / Jack Marshall
"Miss DEWEESE?? Ay Caramba!!!"
This version of the NTP is not especially close to the gray area of ethics, nor is the result surprising, though I expect a lot of teeth gnashing about it because the naked teacher in question will attract a lot of, uh, sympathy.
Dallas's school district has apparently fired Cristy Nicole Deweese, 21, a Spanish teacher for the city's Townview Magnet High School. Less than three years ago she posed in various provocative positions and states of undress for Playboy, in its February 2011 issue. That magazine is still available, but more to the point, the photos are easily available online. Naturally some students found them, and the core tenets of the Naked Teacher Principle had been triggered.
The Naked Teacher Principle states:
"A secondary school teacher or administrator (or other role model for children) who allows pictures of himself or herself to be widely publicized, as on the web, showing the teacher naked or engaging in sexually provocative poses, cannot complain when he or she is dismissed by the school as a result."
I won't keep you in unnecessary suspense. Deweese is almost dead center in the middle of the NTP. A teacher of young men and women cannot be a role model or authority figure when accurate visions of her naughty bits are dancing through the heads of her hormonally-active charges, who, in the case of high schoolers, are not that much younger than she is. This might be less of a concern if the teaching profession were more responsible and effective in keeping sexual predators from joining its ranks, but as the tally in any month of the year shows us, this is not the case.
The past 12 months have been a useful period in the annals of the NTP. In May, we examined what I described as the far pole in inappropriate and intolerable Naked Teacher conduct, the former porn star teacher variation. The (now ex-) teacher was named Stacy Halas, and I wrote at the time of her professional demise...
"Halas was fired in April from her job as a biology teacher at Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard after online videos of her starring in hardcore pornography were found by teachers and students. Of course she was fired. She should have been fired simply for not letting her employers know about the fact that students would be able to find photos and videos of her naked and happily performing sex acts that are banned from network TV, and some zoos. I always like to have the poles set in matters like the Naked Teacher Principle, and the case of Stacie Halas/Tiffany 6 neatly gives us one pole. Where is the opposite pole, the point where the teacher's web photograph just barely (no pun intended) activates that NTP? I'm sure it will be along shortly."
It hasn't arrived yet, but a useful exercise did in the controversy involving Olivia Sprauer, a 9th grade English teacher in Florida. She was fired for secretly moonlighting not only as a model for Victoria's Secret bathing suits, but also for offering her services to photographers for various kinds of erotic photo sessions.
I compared Sprauer's qualifications for the NTP with the case of Tiffany Webb, a 37 year-old guidance counselor in the New York City public schools who was fired in 2012, despite excelling at her job for 12 years, because photos she posed for as a 20-year-old lingerie model turned up on the internet. The verdict on Webb was that she was blameless, and that the Naked Teacher Principle did not and should not apply to her, because:
1. She was not naked, though the photos didn't leave much to the imagination.
2. It was 17 years ago, and there should be some statute of limitations on the NTP, one that is less than 17 years.
3. Webb did not post the pictures, or pose for them when the internet was as ubiquitous and intrusive as it is today.
4. The photos were not posted under proper authorization from her or anyone else. Many have been photo-shopped.
5. Webb fully disclosed her lingerie model past to the Board of Education when she was hired.
6. Unlike most cases of the Naked Teacher Principle, the teacher's judgment, motives and sense of responsibility are not in question.
None of these mitigating factors were present in the Sprauer case, and they don't apply to Cristy, either. Three years is a long way from 17, and even an 18 year old would know in 2011 that a photo session in Playboy was likely to be web-bound. Most of all, there is nothing I can find in any of the news accounts that Deweese gave her employers, when they hired her, a heads-up that this might happen. If she did, the Dallas school board needs to fire the fools who did the hiring, and they may have a legal problem ridding themselves of Cristy too.
Absent that, Cristy is a classic victim of the Naked Teacher Principle. Nothing prevents comely maidens and strapping lads from showing the assets nature bestowed on them in all their glory to photographers, art galleries, gawkers, consumers or the world, and they have my blessings. They just can't do it and expect to teach teenagers or younger without hearing snickering in the back row, and if they can't figure that out in this Internet age, they are too dim to teach anyway.
Sorry, Cristy.
Pointer: CNN
Sources:Dallas Observer 1, 2; NY Daily News
Arts & Entertainment, Character, Education, Gender and Sex, Popular Culture, Professions, Workplace
"Playboy", Cristy Nicole Deweese, Dallas, disclosure, fairness, models, naked teacher principle, Olivia Sprauer, Oxnard, role-models, Stacie Halas, students, teachers, Texas, Tiffany Webb, Townview Magnet High School
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30 thoughts on "The Naked Teacher Principle Strikes In Texas: The Playboy Variation"
fattymoon
Cristy Nicole Deweese teacher porn 21 playboy "Naked Outdoors" and modeled in a simulated lesbian sex scene, but now one former Playboy model-turned-teacher just wants to be an educator — and at least one parent seems to have a problem with that.
Even while Cristy Nicole Deweese was Playboy's "Coed of the Month" in February 2011, she intended to become a Spanish teacher. She discussed her future plans in a sexy, innuendo-laden video that was produced around that time.
Deweese, who modeled under the name "Cristy Nicole," was 18 when she posed for Playboy. She's 21 now, and has since achieved her goal of becoming a Spanish teacher, landing a job at a Dallas-area magnet school. But according to the Dallas Morning News, her modeling past isn't sitting well with at least one parent.
garlicfriesandbaseball
Oh my. You and Bill O'Reilly.
Jack Marshall
I had the Naked Teacher Principle online before Bill ever opined on anything similar, if that's your meaning. I only watch Bill when I'm a guest.
Comments and questions for you Jack.
Many people think that there is nothing wrong about the human body (e.g., beaches in Europe) and that not all nudity is sexual. We have a joint friend who frequently swims naked — whether he is alone or in a group. That's just who he is. It's not for me, but it doesn't disturb me anymore. Assuming that nudity becomes more accepted in the US, my guess is that your NTP will begin to crumble.
Is it the nudity or the sexual aspect? What if there were photos online of her breastfeeding a child? Or is she publicly fed her child at a school function? I was always the hide-in-the-ladies-room-with-a-blanket-type, but public breast feeding is more and more common now and has a militant support group — liberal and conservative.
Do you make an "artistic" decision in your analysis at all? What if she posed nude for an artist, and that artist was able to display it in a prominent gallery?
I'm on the fence about this but only because the conduct happened before she became a teacher. Assuming her behavior is unseemly, it was in the past. And everyone knows that the maturity gap between 18 and 21 is more like 20 years, not 3. Lots of people engage in improper or even illegal behavior in their pasts and they go on to become successful, moral, law-abiding citizens. If she did this while employed as a teacher, I agree — boot her — at least using today's social norms. But to deny this woman ever the opportunity to earn a living as a teacher (or perhaps using a 17-year SOL) because she once posed for nude pictures seems unethical to me. And, the sad and ironic thing is, she probably did it in the first place to pay for that college teacher's degree.
The web photos aren't in the past—they're in the present. The artistic angle is irrelevant. If you're planning on teaching kids, don't leave your naked or sexually provocative photos where they might end up in front of a student. If you have, give your employer notice so they can know what the risks are. It's not unreasonable or uncomplicated. This woman knew she was interested in teaching and still posed. She's a fool. I have no sympathy for her at all.
texagg04
But Jack, in Europe, they are way cooler with laid back sexual attitudes. In Europe Jack!!!!! (To be read with starry eyes and hearts spinning around the head)
That's where I generally stop reading cultural revolutionary "no barriers" lifestyle arguments.
I did not say I supported that view Tex — sheesh, try reading what I write with a clear head.
FinlayOshea
As an American who actually lived in Europe, I'm here to tell you the rumors of nudity are grossly overstated.
I've been there too and the rumors of extreme sexual "laid backness" are true.
Okay — but how far do you take this? Pictures always are forever now that we are in the digital age. You posit that 17 years is too much and 3 years is too short – but how can have a SOL here given that kids always will be able to find those photos? Does this come down to the fact that the teacher still looks like the girl in the photo given her age? If so, I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with that test.
The school's responsibility is to the experience of their students, their education and the efficiency and judgment of the teachers they hire, not to consider how much to blame the specific teacher who wrecked her own or his own image on line may be. You should read the rather long list of variations on this, but the bottom line is that one is responsible for who one presents himself or herself on line. Do I think a large number of current teens will find that they have limited their job opportunities by posting photos of themselves online drunk, naked, or doing idiotic things? Sure do. Tough. Similar photos will stop them being elected to office or getting hired by the FBI. Tough. The effect of such photos doesn't change, even though the ease or posting them and the pressure to do so does. Bottom line—if a student is fantasizing about a graphic image of a teacher rather than thinking about her job and her actual relationship to him, she is handicapped and diminished, and he is vulnerable if she's a predator.
Um … Jack — her male students were fantasizing about her well before those pictures came to light. I do agree with you about kids though. The parents need to be doing a better job policing their online behavior — but I would include in that letting their sons surf porn.
wyogranny
Some things just are. Not teaching after posing provocatively and having the pictures available for those you teach to view is one of those things.
Eeyoure
I am less on the fence about this now than Beth says she is. I think her closing comments of Oct 15 at 5:04 pm are persuasive. Nudity, and persons whose images of their nudity are publicly available, deserve less stigmatization no matter why, how or when the nudity is manifested.
Honestly: The hang-ups about nudity, and posing nude, in the final analysis are nothing more than reflections of insidious re-packagings of rationalizations for all kinds of bigotry and backward discrimination. I am not "romanticizing Europe" here. I am envisioning an America where nudity is not some exploited prisoner of titillation industry – an America where erotic drives are neither so easily excited and increased, nor presumed to be easily excitable and enhanced, by nudity alone (or even, by observing "performances" by nudes).
Nor am I advocating deliberate force-feeding of overdoses of nudity to the public, not any more than I am advocating such of eroticism. I am advocating recognition of how American culture (such as it is – I always feel obligated to include that caveat, "such as it is") already suffers from exaggerated exclusivity of linkage of nudity (and performances involving nudity) to eroticism. From there, flows all manner of self-righteous disrespect. I think the culture is promoting a perverse, "moldy rule," to wit: "I demand that you treat me only the way I want to be treated, while I treat you only the way I want to treat you." That is a signature attitude of a narcissist.
For example (a theory): De-program the delight of voyeurism, and not only will there be fewer voyeurs, but those voyeurs who remain will be less likely to delight themselves with their peculiar lust – which would be a net positive for the voyeurs and their fellow pilgrims.
Nothing in the post has anything to do with "hang-ups." Sexual images sexualize, and teachers and authority figures should not be sex objects—when they are, the educational process suffers. It's pretty simple, and, I think, obvious and undeniable.
I think you're camping too comfortably with confirmation bias. Hang-ups are the core justifications for the NTP. Sexual beings sexualize images; nature is involved, yes, but so is nurture. The NTP confirms the existence of the hang-ups, and nurtures their perpetuation.
"A teacher of young men and women cannot be a role model or authority figure when accurate visions of her naughty bits are dancing through the heads of her hormonally-active charges, who, in the case of high schoolers, are not that much younger than she is." What, besides hindsight bias on an anecdotal basis, confirms that?
The educational process presumably suffers when sexual thoughts are dancing through the heads of teachers and students (perhaps unless, and except when, the subject is specifically sex education). But I now reject the contention that practice of the NTP makes any marginal difference in avoiding that specific vulnerability of the educational process. If there were not Playboy images of the teacher readily available for horny teens to circulate, then eventually there would be a horny teen or two, or more, who would exercise desperately their talents at sexually objectifying their teacher with photoshopped images of her.
We can clamor for authority figures to do their part not to encourage anyone to view them as sex objects, but the ultimate responsibility for viewing someone as a sex object is the viewer's. (So maybe it's a good thing that I once again viewed "Eyes Wide Shut" this weekend; God Knows I never would have chosen OB/GYN, even if it, besides baseball, had been the only other activity that ever could have gotten me to second base.)
Utter nonsense. A teacher allows a photo like one over the post to be widely circulated, and the sexualization is all in the mind of the student? "Hang up" was how the Sixties chaos mongers excused legitimate social objections to harmful behavior. You know—what's with the "hang up" over promiscuous sex, man? Adultery? Sex with children! Spitting at pigs!
If you reject the NTP, then you must allow 7th Grade teachers to dress for class in mini-skirts and push up bras. After all, it's just a hang-up and in the minds of those 13 year olds. You do recall that we don't hold minors to have adult control over such matters—hence statutory rape. Or is that just a hang-up too?
Nor does your distinction between current naked cyber behavior and past behavior make any sense. If it's serious enough to warrant dismissal when contemporaneous with employment as a teacher, why isn't it also worth avoiding prior to such employment, since the effects on the students and their education is identical.
"Nor does your distinction between current naked cyber behavior and past behavior make any sense."
Gotcha! Where did I make "my" distinction?? YOU made that distinction. CURRENT naked cyber behavior IS serious enough to warrant dismissal when contemporaneous with employment as a teacher, depending on the circumstances. But not in every case. If a teacher is sending porn images to students, he or she is a goner. But if a teacher appears in images that result from his or her chosen employment separate from teaching, and students just happen to find the images, then no, that teacher does not deserve automatic dismissal. I just don't buy the "effects on the students and their education" argument anymore.
You don't have to buy it. It's factual. Deny what you like. What other role models and authority figures do you think it's appropriate to have seen in leather, pasties and lick me poses? Judges? Senators? What earthly difference does it make why or for what such images are available? You honestly think a teacher with stripper and soft porn photos on the web can command respect as a professional? OK…you're deluded. Nothing I can do about that.
By the way—the NTP doesn't say she has to be fired…only that she has nobody to blame but herself if she is, and it is fair and appropriate to can her, if that's the decision. If she hides it when she's hired, she must be fired. If the school knows and hires her anyway, obviously they shouldn't.
"A teacher allows a photo like one over the post to be widely circulated, and the sexualization is all in the mind of the student?"
Umm, yeah. You were expecting me to defend the Flip Wilson Excuse ("The devil made me do it!")? Or the Son of Sam Excuse ("My neighbor's dog told me to shoot.")? Lady's showing her bare butt – so what? She could be advertising eye make-up, or hair straightener, or tanning lotion, for all anyone knows; the nudity is just there to help draw attention. While we're re-defining marriage, let's re-define modesty, too, and take nudity out of the "immodesty" definition. How DARE we know and ever appreciate how our bodies look! ONLY sex partners are supposed to see THAT, and ONLY about each other. That explains the federal government's mad dash to fund and complete the Bots for Butts program, to properly remove the human from the loop, and to be ready with an army of robots in case of any shortages of graduates from schools of proctology. Pity the poor primates that get bred for subjects for the rubber glove tests!
"If you reject the NTP, then you must allow 7th Grade teachers to dress for class in mini-skirts and push up bras."
Now you're going from hung-up to unhinged. See what I said earlier about titillation industry. No, I'd be happy to see 7th grade teachers all wearing burquas and opaque sunglasses, with their feet covered-up by chicken feathers. But, of course, we dare not ignite the lustful feelings of young chicken feather fetishists. Jack, it matters little what a teacher wears; students (and teachers) who are pre-conditioned to objectify are going to objectify. What matters is that students (and teachers) learn and practice what you call adult control. Pandora's Box has been opened, and no amount of pre-opening nudity-suppression can be done, but the duty to learn and teach adult control will always be there.
We can clamor for authority figures to do their part not to encourage anyone to view them as sex objects, but the ultimate responsibility for viewing someone as a sex object is the viewer's.
I don't know about that.
The whole purpose of something like Playboy is to print pictures that display women as sexual objects.
I think with American attitudes being such as they are, you are not going to get a kid to respect a teacher or let's say a cop after they've seen them posed nude in a sexually provocative fashion.
A 7th grade male wouldn't be able to stop laughing.
Does the Playboy magazine cover still include "Entertainment for Men?"
I'll take the risk of putting on my feminist hat for a moment even though I can already imagine the responses — the only reason she got paid in the past for posing for these pictures is that men will pay to see it. If her behavior was lewd, then the men's behavior in viewing it is equally so. But, hey let's fire the woman. I don't blame the kids, but I will blame their parents, because kids have no business looking at any porn.
And before Jack argues that his analysis applies equally to men, I will concede that point. But given the higher demand for female porn, I think his NTP has a disparate effect on women.
Just another observation on nudity attitudes in the US:
Read the viewer comments sometime on a review of a film that has a lot of full frontal male nudity in it.
It will be angry MALE viewers who normally have no problem with female nudity.
They will insist it is an obscenity.
You figure that one out.
You're making my point for me there, Finlay. Those attitudes toward nudity make no sense to me, either.
Carlo R
Teachers should not be sex objects. Students should not find any teacher attractive. The solution: only hire ugly teachers. Or maybe we just give our kids some credit and allow them to deal with it, let it go, and move on. They could probably do this easier than most adults.
Since you prefer sarcasm to honest debate, well, sure, that's a great idea. We all know impulse control and restraint of sexual urges are special strengths of teens, and that they are especially responsible and rational bout such matters…far more than they will be as adults, who aren't great in these areas either. Good point. Useful. Bravo.
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PORTLAND, Ore. —Noted photographer Susan Seubert will be giving a public talk about pursuing two discrete photographic careers: one as an artist and the other as an editorial photographer.
In this talk, I will discuss the challenges and rewards of being both a fine art and editorial photographer, how I've kept the two careers separate, and how ultimately they've grown to inform and involve one another. I will show work that spans both careers.
Susan Seubert's public talk is part of the Photography Council's monthly "Brown Bag Series", a series of informal presentations by Northwest photography luminaries, the 3rd Wednesday of every month from Noon – 1 p.m. in the Miller Room at the Portland Art Museum.
This presentation is sponsored by the Portland Art Museum's Photography Council.
Date & Time: Wednesday February 17, Noon – 1 p.m.
Susan Seubert was born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana and is an active fine art and journalism photographer based in Portland, Oregon. Her provocative imagery has earned her critical acclaim with inclusion in the Portland Art Museum's 1999 and 2001 Biennials and most recently in the 2009 Tacoma Art Museum Biennial. In 1999 Columbia University awarded Ms. Seubert an Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for her magazine work. Exacting in her preparation and printing, she is a master with the techniques of silver gelatin, platinum, tintype and wet plate collodion. Since receiving her BFA in photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1992, Seubert has exhibited continuously in the United States. She was featured at Houston Center for Photography in 1997, and included in exhibit at Exit Art (New York) in 2001. Currently, her work is represented by Froelick Gallery (Portland, OR), G. Gibson Gallery (Seattle, WA), and the Joseph Bellows Gallery (La Jolla, CA).
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Quirnheim, historisch auch Querum, pfälzisch "Querem", ist eine Ortsgemeinde im rheinland-pfälzischen Landkreis Bad Dürkheim. Sie gehört der Verbandsgemeinde Leiningerland an, innerhalb derer sie sowohl hinsichtlich der Zahl der Einwohner als auch hinsichtlich der Fläche die sechstkleinste Ortsgemeinde darstellt. Sie liegt im Nordwesten der europäischen Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar.

Geographie

Lage
Die Gemeinde befindet sich in der Pfalz auf . Sie liegt am Südostrand des zum Rheinhessischen Tafel- und Hügelland gehörenden Alzeyer Hügellandes nahe dem Nordende der Deutschen Weinstraße. Nachbargemeinden sind – im Uhrzeigersinn – Kindenheim, Bockenheim an der Weinstraße, Grünstadt, Mertesheim, Grünstadt, Ebertsheim, Lautersheim und Biedesheim.

Gemeindegliederung
Zur Gemeinde gehören die Ortsteile Quirnheim mit dem Hertlingshäuserhof, Boßweiler und Quirnheim-Tal mit den Wohnplätzen Neuhäuschen, Göbelshaus, Bruchmühle und Papiermühle.

Erhebungen
Im Nordosten der Gemarkung unmittelbar an der Grenze zu Kindenheim und Bockenheim erstreckt sich der Gerstenberg () und direkt südlich von diesem der Quirnheimer Berg ().

Gewässer
Der Hauptort sowie die beiden Ortsteile werden durch den Quirnheimer Bach entwässert, einen linken Zufluss des Eisbachs. Der Quirnheimer Bach nimmt innerhalb des Gemeindegebiets von rechts den Quirngraben auf.

Geschichte

Mittelalter und frühe Neuzeit

Am 22. Mai 771 wurden Quirnheim und die Kirche St. Maria und St. Martin erstmals urkundlich im Lorscher Codex erwähnt; die ab dem 16. Jahrhundert protestantisch genutzte Kirche gilt als älteste des Landkreises. Der heutige Ortsteil Boßweiler ist bereits am 11. Mai 767 als "villa Buchsolare" bzw. "Buchrolare" im Codex diplomaticus des Klosters Fulda zu finden. Im zehnten Jahrhundert wird Königsgut in der Wormsgau erwähnt, diese beiden Königshöfe lagen bei Bossweiler; der Hertlingshäuserhof geht auf einen davon zurück.

1453 wurde Boßweiler – Bußweiler als damaliger noch existenter Hauptort – als Lehen des Landgrafen Hesso von Leiningen erwähnt, nach dessen Tod 1467 gelangten beide Siedlungen in den Besitz der neuen Linie Leiningen-Westerburg und gehörten dem Amt Grünstadt an. Das Dorf Bos(s)weiler ging im Dreißigjährigen Krieg unter, erhalten blieben nur die am Rande liegende Oswaldskapelle und Gebäude des alten adligen Hofes – die kleinere Siedlung Quirnheim mit dem Hertlingshäuserhof blieb unberührt. In den Jahren 1671 bis 1672 wurde der Mainzer Patrizier Quirinus von Merz mit dem freien Quirnheimerhof beschenkt und mit beiden Orten belehnt. Dies geschah aus Dankbarkeit der Leininger Grafen und des Fürstbischofs von Speyer für die erbrachten Dienste als Kanzler und Komitialgesandter. Der beträchtliche Schaden durch französische Übergriffe in den 1690er Jahren wurde finanziell von der Familie Merz getragen. Quirin Merz, Johann Wilhelm Merz und Albrecht von Mer(t)z ist die Ritter-Merz-Straße gewidmet.

Ab dem 19. Jahrhundert
Nach der Französischen Revolution wurde die Region 1794 im ersten Koalitionskrieg besetzt.

Von 1798 bis 1814, als die Pfalz Teil der Französischen Republik (bis 1804) und anschließend Teil des Napoleonischen Kaiserreichs war, war die Gemeinde in den Kanton Grünstadt im Département du Mont-Tonnerre eingegliedert und war Sitz einer eigenen Mairie. 1815 hatte der Ort 430 Einwohner. Aufgrund der auf dem Wiener Kongress getroffenen Vereinbarungen wurde das Gebiet 1815 zunächst Österreich zugeordnet und 1816 in einem Staatsvertrag an das Königreich Bayern abgetreten. Unter der bayerischen Verwaltung gehörte Quirnheim zum Landkommissariat Frankenthal im Rheinkreis, der späteren Pfalz.

Ab 1939 war Quirnheim Bestandteil des Landkreises Frankenthal (Pfalz). Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Ort innerhalb der französischen Besatzungszone Teil des damals neu gebildeten Landes Rheinland-Pfalz. Im Zuge der ersten rheinland-pfälzischen Verwaltungsreform wechselte der Ort am 7. Juni 1969 in den neu geschaffenen Landkreis Bad Dürkheim. Drei Jahre später wurde Quirnheim Bestandteil der ebenfalls neu geschaffenen Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land, ehe diese 2018 in der Verbandsgemeinde Leiningerland aufging.

Religion
Ende des Jahres 2014 waren 39,7 Prozent der Einwohner evangelisch und 27,9 Prozent katholisch. Die übrigen gehörten einer anderen Religion an oder waren konfessionslos.  Katholischerseits gehört die Gemeinde zum Bistum Speyer und untersteht dort dem Dekanat Bad Dürkheim, die Evangelischen zur Protestantischen Landeskirche Pfalz. Bis 2015 bildete die Gemeinde katholischerseits die Pfarrei Boßweiler und gehörte zur Pfarrgemeinschaft Grünstadt. Seit 1. Januar 2016 gehört die Gemeinde zur in Grünstadt ansässigen Pfarrei Hl. Elisabeth; die beiden katholischen Kirchen bilden seither die Filialen Mariä Himmelfahrt (Quirnheim) sowie St. Oswald (Boßweiler).

Politik

Gemeinderat
Der Gemeinderat in Quirnheim besteht aus zwölf Ratsmitgliedern, die bei der Kommunalwahl am 26. Mai 2019 in einer personalisierten Verhältniswahl gewählt wurden, und dem ehrenamtlichen Ortsbürgermeister als Vorsitzendem.

Die Sitzverteilung im Gemeinderat:

 FWG = Freie Wählergruppe Quirnheim e. V.
 WGW = Wählergruppe Würtz

Bürgermeister
Zum Ortsbürgermeister wurde bei der Direktwahl am 26. Mai 2019 Rainer Merz (FWG) mit einem Stimmenanteil von 65,2 % gewählt. Er war damit Nachfolger von Hubert L. Deubert (SPD), der das Amt seit 1994 ausgeübt hatte, 2019 aber nicht mehr angetreten war. Da Merz aus gesundheitlichen Gründen das Amt nicht mehr weiterführen konnte, erfolgte am 14. März 2021 eine Neuwahl. Bei dieser trat in Ermangelung eines anderen Kandidaten wiederum Deubert an und wurde mit einem Stimmenanteil von 72,3 % zum Ortsbürgermeister gewählt. Sein Amtsantritt erfolgte am 16. März 2021.

Wappen

Sehenswürdigkeiten und Kultur

Bauwerke
 Kulturdenkmäler

Vor Ort existieren insgesamt zwölf Objekte, die unter Denkmalschutz stehen, darunter die protestantische Kirche und der Quirnheimer Hof; letzterer diente einst als Hof des Klosters Hertlingshausen.

 Museum
Im Gewerbegebiet auf dem Gelände der ehemaligen US-Raketenstation wurde das Motorrad- und Technikmuseum Leiningerland geschaffen, das von ehrenamtlichen Kräften geleitet wird.

Natur
Obwohl außerhalb des Pfälzerwalds gelegen, ist das Gemeindegebiet Bestandteil des Naturparks Pfälzerwald.

Regelmäßige Veranstaltungen
Der Ort feiert zweimal Kirchweih, die in der örtlichen Mundart Kerb genannt wird: Die Erbsekerb wird im Juli, die Dorfkerb in der ersten Woche im Oktober veranstaltet.

Infrastruktur

Militär
Während des Kalten Krieges befand sich etwa 1500 m nordöstlich der Gemeinde und des Segelfluggeländes Grünstadt-Quirnheimer Berg () und etwa 700 m östlich des Gerstenbergs eine US-amerikanische Flugabwehrraketenstellung bei , die bis 1983 mit Nike-Hercules-Raketen, später mit MIM-104 Patriot-Raketen ausgerüstet war. Bis 1994 durften noch Kernwaffen stationiert werden. 2001 wurde die Quirnheim Missile Station samt Munitionslager und Truppenübungsplatz aufgelöst.

Verkehr
Durch Quirnheim verläuft die Kreisstraße 26, die den Ort mit Kindenheim und Ebertsheim verbindet. Auf dem Quirnheimer Berg liegt das Segelfluggelände des Luftfahrtvereins Grünstadt und Umgebung. Nächstgelegene Bahnhalte sind Ebertsheim und Mertesheim entlang der Eistalbahn.

Persönlichkeiten

Söhne und Töchter der Gemeinde
 Karl Joseph Merz von Quirnheim (1747–1802), Adeliger und letzter Besitzer der Freiherrlichkeit Bosweiler und Quirnheim
 Albert Merz von Quirnheim (1774–1857), General; Kommandant des 5. und des 12. Königlich Bayerischen Infanterie-Regiments, der Veste Oberhaus und der Stadt Passau
 Peter Eckhard (* 19. Dezember 1886; † 29. Dezember 1971 auf Maria Rosenberg), Dekan, Geistlicher Rat und Päpstlicher Hausprälat, Ehrenbürger von Sankt Ingbert

Personen, die vor Ort gewirkt haben
 Theodor Rhodius (~1572–1626), ab 1599 Pfarrer vor Ort
 Johann Konrad Schragmüller (1605–1675), evangelischer Theologe und Hochschullehrer, war ab 1610 in Quirnheim Pfarrer
 Quirin Merz von Quirnheim († 1695), Patrizier, Jurist und Diplomat, wurde in den 1670er Jahren als Erster seines Geschlechts mit Ländereien im Bereich von Quirnheim und schließlich auch mit dem gesamten Ort belehnt.
 Johann Niclaus Reuter, 1792/93 Mitglied des Rheinisch-Deutschen Nationalkonvents
 Hermann Knoll (1897–1935) wirkte hier sieben Jahre lang als Spiritual und Leiter der Hildegardis-Schwestern vom Katholischen Apostolat. Bis zur Umbettung 1959 war er auf dem Ortsfriedhof begraben.

Weblinks

 Landkreis Bad Dürkheim: Ortsgemeinde Quirnheim
 Quirnheim auf den Seiten der Verbandsgemeinde Leiningerland

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Bad Dürkheim
Weinort in Rheinland-Pfalz
Ersterwähnung 771

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Meeting called to order at 7:11 pm. Paul thanked everyone for attending. Paul apologized for Jim Mitchell not being able to attend this meeting due to a job interview. Paul asked for everyone to sign the attendance sheet. Paul asked for additions or changes to the agenda. Paul added Jim Mitchell's motion under new business. Dustin moved to accept agenda, Ken seconded, called to question, all in favour, none opposed, so moved. Paul asked everyone to read over the previous minutes. Motion to accept minutes by Dustin; seconded by Patrick, called to question, all in favour, none opposed so moved.
Under unfinished business, Paul talked about the Dunlop Creek Fence. Great job everyone who participated. Paul updated everyone on the final logo and will send out to those who wish to have it on their hard drive. Paul talked about the Ucona Mainline project being put on hold until someone can coordinate this project. Paul forgot to look into the lost stream keeper course certificates with Dave Clough, but will do so. Paul couldn't print out the Stewardship Education certificates because he hasn't received the list of participants yet. The Stewardship Education program will fall by the wayside if no one steps forward to coordinate it. Paul reminded everyone that the correspondence has been emailed to all on the mailing list and that the members who aren't receiving should contact Paul.
Under new business, Paul read out Jim Mitchell's motion to present Darrel Glass with a check for $200 for his excellent work in carving a burl award for Dave Davies. Jane seconded, called to question, all in favour, none opposed, so moved. Elections were next with all the standing directors giving the okay to stand again, with Jane Bogie as treasurer, Ken Smith as secretary and Paul Smith as President. Jim Mitchell will stand as Vice President. Paul gave the financial report. Dustin moved to accept financial report. Ken seconded. Called to question, all in favour, none opposed, so moved.
1. Paul will contact Gary Foster regarding rock weir on Hutchinson Creek.
2. Dave Davies will contact Seton regarding final report on Dunlop Creek data.
3. Paul will look into the stream keeper certificates for the members who took Dave Clough's course.
4. Dustin will look into Stewardship Education classes.
5. Jane and Patrick will coordinate the removal of the Dunlop Creek fence.
6. Paul will talk to Roger Dunlop or Jamie James about summer run Chinook in the Gold River.
There was some discussion on the salmon enhancement for Gold River Chinook. Dave Davies stated that the plan has changed from last year, as it's too difficult to take brood stock in the upper watershed. This year 400,000 eggs will be taken from the main stem of the Gold and Robertson/Robertson fish will still be killed. What about using the fish weir? What about Muchalat River Chinook? Question was asked about the summer run Chinook population in the Gold watershed, is it substantial? Dave Davies asked the group for question about the NSWS. Are they still focused on only salmon enhancement and not watershed enhancement? Dave talked about the new direction for the NSWS. It would be great if someone from GRSK would attend meetings and report back to the directors. Ken Smith volunteered to do so. Question was asked about the location of our book on funding and also the digital camera. Paul stated that Jim has both as far as he can remember. Dave Davies talked about the award being given to GRSK and Jim Mitchell individually for all our dedication and hard work in stewardship. Way to go everyone!
Motion to adjourn at 8:30 pm by Dustin. Next meeting is Wednesday September 20, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Aquatic Centre in meeting room number one.


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Below is the complete Biography, Contact number, home address and other detail of Syed Zaeem Hussain Qadri who wins the Election in 2013 from PP-154 (Lahore-XVIII). Moreover, You will also find the Official Mobile number together with the Email address of Syed Zaeem Hussain Qadri. The home address of this member is also provided. This member started to campaign in 2013 for General Election. As a result of successfully wins the Election from PP-154 (Lahore-XVIII). Above all, now this member is Member of Punjab Provisional Assembly from 2013 to 2018 from PP-154 (Lahore-XVIII). Furthermore, This member is very honest and has a pleasant personality.
Syed Zaeem Hussain Qadri Biography, Contact Number And Present address is given below:
Syed Zaeem Hussain Qadri son of Syed Saleem Hussain Qadri was born upon December 25, 1964 in Lahore. He got the level of LL.B. in 1988 from Quaid-e-Azam Law College, Lahore and that of MBA in 1991 from Canadian School of Management Sciences. A lawyer, who remained Member, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab during 2008-13 and also functioned as Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Higher Education and Youth Affairs. He has been reelected as Member Punjab Assembly for the 2nd successive term generally elections 2013 and also is functioning as Minister for Auqaf & Religious Affairs. He has extensively taken a trip abroad consisting of USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Denmark, Bangkok, Singapore, France, Turkey, India, Iran and Switzerland. His partner, Syeda Uzma Qadri is a sitting MPA from W-302. His uncle, Syed Shamim Hussain Qadri, previous Chief Justice, Lahore High Court continued to be a Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly during 1951-55 as well as Member, Provincial Assembly of West Pakistan throughout 1956-58.
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Official Seats Minister: Auqaf & Religious Affairs
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Academic Qualifications MBA
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Official Mail pp154@pap.gov.pk
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Birth Date 1964-12-25
Permanent Address Home No. 105, Street Number 112, Cavalary Ground, Lahore Cantt.
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Report- Senators Ready To Extend The Contract Of GM Bryan Murray
by Paul on 01/10/14 at 06:58 PM ET
from Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun.
Bryan Murray is ready to sign on the dotted line.
League executives told the Ottawa Sun late Friday Murray has agreed to a wide-ranging long-term extension that will keep him in the GM's chair for at least another two years and a significant role with the organization after that.
It's believed the deal will be confirmed Monday when all the paperwork is completed. This news comes less than 24 hours after assistant GM Tim Murray accepted the GM's job with the Buffalo Sabres and ensures stability in the organization.
Murray has helped the club shape a successful rebuild and hired coach Paul MacLean to get the club back to respectability.
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How Did Life Begin?
How did life begin on Earth – was it God, science or both?
The Press recently announced that scientists had discovered new evidence regarding how life began on Earth.
Astronomers were studying a giant rock which is orbiting around the Sun when they noticed that there seemed to be ice on the rock's surface.
Not only that but from the way the light was reflecting off the ice, it looked as though there might be organic chemicals. This was a very exciting discovery because until recently space rocks were thought to be lifeless.
Could this be the solution to a long-running mystery?
What mystery?
Scientists think that life first started on earth nearly four billion years ago. Once it existed, the theory of evolution seems to explain what happened next. Over billions of years, life gradually evolved, from simple creatures to what we have today.
BUT there's a problem. The first living thing was simple compared with life today, but it still consisted of a long chain of chemicals. Somehow those chemicals had to come together and join. How did this happen?
To get an idea of the scale of this mystery, it's useful to have an idea of what that first life form might have looked like. Once you do, you'll see why scientists are finding it difficult – using what we currently know – to explain how the right chemicals could just 'accidentally' come together.
What did the first life look like?
Scientists think that the first life form was a long chemical chain of so-called nucleic acids. Nucleic acids are important because they contain information and allow self-replication. This is what makes this very simple organism 'alive' – it can replicate or copy itself.
You have probably already heard of one kind of nucleic acid. It is called, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
DNA is the 'stuff of life' inside all living things on Earth today. A copy of your DNA code is in every one of your cells and helps to determine all kinds of things about you from the colour of your hair to the shape of your ears.
Scientists don't think the first life was made of DNA, but of another nucleic acid called RNA (as shown in this representation.)
RNA, like DNA, can be used to code information. RNA can also play other useful roles in a basic living organism. In particular it can act as an 'enzyme'.
So how do we fill this 'gap' in our current knowledge. Here are just two of the theories that have been proposed:
The Slimy Soup Theory
According to this theory, life began in a pool of water, called 'soup' because it was rich with the kinds of chemicals needed to make life.
Suddenly something happened – perhaps a bolt of lightning hit one of the pools – and the chemicals reacted and formed more complicated chemicals.
The weakness in this theory is that scientists suspect that in reality the soup was not concentrated enough to allow the necessary chemicals to meet.
The Meteorite Theory
According to this theory, the first life form arrived by hitching a ride on a meteorite. If this theory is right, and rocks from space did bring the ingredients for life to Earth, the next question has to be, where did those rocks originate from?
Will we ever know the answer?
There are many people who believe that science will never explain how life began – in their view, the first spark of life was created miraculously by God.
This method of combining science and religion is called "God of the Gaps".
The "God of the gaps" idea is the idea that God fills in the gap when there's something we can't explain … like how a bunch of chemicals might suddenly become alive.
You can see why it's an attractive view. It not only explains why science so far cannot tell us all the answers; it also tells us why God is a necessary part of the picture.
A jelly fish in the Pacific Ocean – one of the Earth's many millions of creatures. Which idea best explains how it comes to be here?
What religious scientists say
It's not a popular approach with scientists who are religious. One reason why is that if there are gaps that are only filled by God then this means that there are some things about the natural world that are beyond science. If science keeps filling in the gaps, there will soon be noth ing left for God.
Most scientists believe that everything in the natural world is open to scientific investigation.
So scientists who believe in God say that God engineered the universe to ensure that the ingredients for life would be here and that life would follow. And this, they point out, was no small achievement.
John Billingsley is a Professor of Engineering and a scientist who admires the 'cleverness' of the universe.
Professor John Billingsley
As an engineer, I enjoy taking things apart to find out how they work and how they were designed.
It is called 'Reverse Engineering'. You often find that little features you didn't even notice have a huge part to play in making the invention work.
It is fun to try Reverse Engineering the universe. And when you do, it seems to me there are lots of things which push coincidence a bit too far.
As you know, when water freezes, it becomes ic e and ice floats.
This is odd because most liquids become denser when they freeze. Water, however, expands as it changes to ice. And the result? When lakes freeze, ice does not gather at the bottom, but at the top, trapping a layer of warmer water underneath. This is a very happy 'fluke' of nature because it gives fish and other living things a chance to survive.
Scientists know why water is unusual and expands as it freezes – we can explain it with chemistry. That makes the universe even neater in my view. I'd be disappointed to find on investigation that our universe is held together with sticky tape. Instead I can imagine God as a "Cosmic Engineer" scratching His head and devising ways to things happen.
As I say, the more I look into it, the more interesting features I notice. What's more I suspect that there is a host of other clues, right under our noses, which we'll never even spot."
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