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I had spent a magical day with my second cousin, where I, a recent home-schooled graduate from Maine felt sophisticated and like an only child in the hands of my modern and liberal family member. I was enjoying a sleep over to continue this marvelous experience. Having my portable CD player, I vividly recall tearing apart the plastic of my newly purchased Let's Talk About Love, my first purchase by the talented artist. The cozy and queen size bed suited my selfish needs and Celine Dion's mature and angelic vocals stood for everything I had felt that day as I drifted into a daydream. My maturing into teen years (after being treated like one) and how I so desperately wanted to experience these feelings of love Celine so elegantly and sweetly sang about. It was such a permanent feeling of wonder and the plausible hope of reaching it, I instantly credit the artist for allowing me to contain those moments into song.
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BBC News Online's Nick Assinder gives his instant view on the winners and losers during Tony Blair's weekly grilling in the House of Commons.
Tory MP John Taylor asked: "Will you confirm that modernisation means 10,000 firefighters losing their jobs?"
Eric Illsley kept up what has become a weekly assault from Labour's back benches against the idea of students having to pay higher fees to go to top universities.
Voicing concern for poorer students, Mr Illsley argued that if collective provision was right for the NHS, it was right to the health service too.
The government's plans will be published in January - probably after a good few more parliamentary questions - but Mr Blair stressed there would be nothing to put people off from going to university.
Helen Jackson was asking for trouble by starting her question: "I'm not a killjoy, but...."
After a pause as the laughter died down her question was revealed to be about stopping "using fireworks like a toy that children can play with..."
Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith kicked off by asking the prime minister if he considered a strike ballot of tube drivers, prompted by the fire dispute, as secondary strike action.
"The whole of London Underground is likely to grind to a halt and you don't give a straight opinion," he said.
Mr Duncan Smith later taunted the prime minister over stakeholder pension schemes, saying 300,000 of them had no members and more than half of occupational schemes were closed to new members.
Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy asked if the prime minister was embarrassed that his government had presided over the longest period of manufacturing recession since the Second World War.
He pressed Mr Blair to say how long it would be before he took action, particularly with a timetable for a referendum about joining the euro.
Other topics covered included: Raising standards for all pupils, treating fireworks as "fairly dangerous explosives", deaths in young offenders' institutions, Northern Ireland, university top up fees, anti-social behaviour, flood protection, keeping Somerset County council, hoax calls to 999 centres, abusive Catholic priests, firefighters' strike, missing people following Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, airport expansion and domestic violence against women.
It was a low key intervention, but Labour MP Eric Illsley's question to the prime minister was none the less effective for that.
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The reception his question received from the Labour benches should have served as a clear warning to the prime minister - if he needed another one.
This issue may have been postponed with yet another of the government's famous reviews, but it will not go away.
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The backbenches did not like it at all. The prime minister is on notice over this one.
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Pitohui kirhocephalus est une espèce de passereaux de la famille des Oriolidae. C'est un oiseau vénéneux.

Répartition
Cet oiseau se trouve sur l'île de Nouvelle-Guinée.

Habitat
Son habitat naturel est les forêts humides subtropicales ou tropicales.

Taxinomie

Les travaux phylogéniques de Jønsson  (2008, 2010), Dumbacher  (2008) et Dumbacher (2013) montrent que le genre Pitohui est polyphylétique, et entraînent sa révision complète dans la classification (version 3.4, 2013) du Congrès ornithologique international. Il est démontré que le genre Pitohui est apparenté au genre Oriolus, et il est par conséquent déplacé dans la famille des Oriolidae. Le genre étant aussi polyphylétique, il est démembré et ne conserve que deux de ces anciennes espèces, le Pitohui bicolore (Pitohui dichrous) et Pitohui kirhocephalus.

Les travaux de Dumbacher  (2001, 2008) et Dumbacher (2013) entraînent aussi la reconnaissance de deux nouvelles espèces jusqu'alors considérées comme des sous-espèces de Pitohui kirhocephalus (ce taxon était alors connu sous le nom de Pitohui variable) : Pitohui cerviniventris (constituée de deux sous-espèces) et Pitohui uropygialis (constituée de six sous-espèces).

Sous-espèces
D'après le Congrès ornithologique international (version 3.4, 2013), cette espèce est constituée des douze sous-espèces suivantes :
 Pitohui kirhocephalus kirhocephalus  (Lesson & Garnot, 1827)
 Pitohui kirhocephalus dohertyi  Rothschild & Hartert, 1903
 Pitohui kirhocephalus rubiensis  (Meyer, AB, 1884)
 Pitohui kirhocephalus brunneivertex  Rothschild, 1931
 Pitohui kirhocephalus decipiens  (Salvadori, 1878)
 Pitohui kirhocephalus stramineipectus  van Oort, 1907
 Pitohui kirhocephalus adiensis  Mees, 1964
 Pitohui kirhocephalus carolinae  Junge, 1952
 Pitohui kirhocephalus jobiensis  (Meyer, AB, 1874)
 Pitohui kirhocephalus meyeri  Rothschild & Hartert, 1903
 Pitohui kirhocephalus senex  Stresemann, 1922
 Pitohui kirhocephalus brunneicaudus  (Meyer, AB, 1891)

Voir aussi

Liens externes

Références

Bibliographie
 Dumbacher J.P. & R.C. Fleischer (2001), « Phylogenetic evidence for colour pattern convergence in toxic pitohuis: Mullerian mimicry in birds? », Proc. Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 268, 1971-1976.
 Dumbacher J.P., K. Deiner, L. Thompson & R.C. Fleischer (2008), « Phylogeny of the avian genus Pitohui and the evolution of toxicity in birds », Mol. Phy. Evol., 49, 774-781.
 Dumbacher J.P. (2013), « A taxonomic revision of the genus Pitohui, with historical notes on names », BBOC, publication à venir.

Oriolidae
Faune endémique de Nouvelle-Guinée

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Old School! Custom-bodied 1941 Ford Hot Rod
This could be a nifty custom-bodied vintage hot-rod, or it could have been slapped together a few years ago on a lark. Potential buyers should contact the apparently lonely seller for answers because the listing here on eBay consists of 53 words, 41 of which constitute a warning not to double-cross the seller… or else. Based on a complete 1941 Ford that "runs/drives great," this Fort Lauderdale, Florida machine could be yours for the "Buy It Now" bid of $8800.
All jokes aside, I can think of worse ways to finish a fully-functional 1941 chassis and drive-train. I've thought of designing and building a complete '30s style roadster from scratch, and this project appears to have been admirably followed through to completion. This custom eschews the cobbled-together "whatever parts were lying around" look, telling the tale of a Ford that lost its body to a damage or tin-worms. In absence of any back-story, tall tales and other alternative truths are welcome in the comments below.
The large round gauge does not resemble the stock 1941 Ford art-deco dash and, since $8800 did not justify lowering the car for proper pictures, the rest of the interior remains a mystery. Let's assume that's a three-speed column-shifted manual transmission, and the body structure seems to consist of tube steel.
I love the "Mr. Horsepower" decal. Flathead newbies may count three zoomies on each side and identify this engine as a V6, but Ford's iconic Flathead V8 siamesed the two center exhaust ports. Thus decades of Ford V8s count up four cylinders on each side but only three exhaust pipes (thanks to midstateantiquestockcarclub.com for some details).
This does not look like a 1941 Ford rear bumper; Who can identify the visible parts? Apparently the car's great running and driving ability occurred sometime before the air escaped from its tires. Setting aside its half-baked representation I like this car! There are enough perfectly restored 1941 Fords out there to respect this custom creation — which may have saved one from the crusher. Normally I'd ask who sees $8800 of value here, but based on the top-secret listing I'll simply ask for stories about how you think it came about? Vintage hot rod, '90s high-school Vo-Tech project, or what?
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I'll hazard a guess that this was perhaps cobbled together around 1961-63 in their garage and has had a freshen-up from time-to-time, over the years. That funky-looking top may have been a later addition.
The Clay Smith Cams woodpecker decals looks like a recent addition, lacking the 'Mr Horsepower' moniker.
The Covico/Grant/whatever manufacturer's steering wheel may date it to that era, as do the taillights and overall 'East Coast' look. Perhaps the gauge in the middle is something like '49 Ford?
Is it worth the seller's asking price? Not to me, at any rate.
Looks to me like they used the '41 Ford frame or a similar one rather than tube steel, along with transverse leaf springs. Based on the funky top, which resembles a 'glas dune buggy roof, looks to me like a creation of the late 50's/early 60's.
CanuckCarGuy
Taking a peek at his other items for sale, he has an eclectic mix of vehicles available…flipper?
Not much to go on there but my best guess is that it's a relatively recent build, it just don't smell right. On the other hand the seller has sold several other vehicles to happy eBay buyers with only one who left negative feedback, claimed seller "lied about obvious flaws", seller then blamed buyer for not coming to inspect the vehicle. Hmmmm. Really?
Ugly…. plain and simple ….
Feb 4, 2018 at 1:47am
Cool as it gets. Judging by the oil leaks, somebody actually drove this for a while. I bet someone had a blast driving this.
I'd like to know how the seller can claim this buggy "runs/drives great." It looks to me like it's been on that lift for quite some time. The pics are terrible! Too lazy to push the "Down" button on the lift? If the lift doesn't work, ever hear of a ladder? I've read many comments on Barn Finds about the lack of undercarriage pics. This car is up in the air and the seller couldn't walk under it to snap a few details? The seller is apparently arrogant enough to feel the crappy pics and lack of details don't matter; this "gem" will sell itself.
I'll pass, especially at that price.
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If…it's an old Hot Rod, it's certainly cool. Since Harbor Freight hadn't yet opened up, most guys didn't have access to specialty tools that most every garage now has. They typically worked with a torch, and an arc welder. If it's a mock up of an old Hot Rod, I think they pulled if off quite well. I especially like the custom lowering springs, that appear to have been created with a little heat from that torch, which they had in the garage.
More pictures, and description certainly would be nice.
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The Ft Myers Craigslist has had these cars listed for months. Sellers claims he is liquidating his 32 car collection. Same cars are listed again and again with slightly reduced prices. If they are bargains, you would think the list would be shrinking.
Here's a car based on a '39 Ford – homebuilt, and wicked fast…built 1953-57 by a college student and raced decades later by the original builder !
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Agree with the thought of the build being in their garage / small shop with torch and arc welder. Also believe the build is late 50's early 60's as the tail lights are 58 chevy ( I think). Looks like the single round speedo is attached to the column as there appears thee is no other dash on the passenger side
Easy on the Arc welder comments guys, remember ALL the old GREAT Hot Rods were done with a Arc Welder. I still use one on frames but I'm old too. The tail lights are 50-51 Buick. Some good parts on the THING ?? though….
May 27, 2018 at 8:29am
Back in the days of small (Readers Digest sized) Hot Rod magazines, maybe around the mid 50's, an article ran about building your own "sports car" out of cheap and readily available parts. It appears that this car (less the funky top panels) followed the article to the letter, including the bent ends of the front leaf spring for lowering.
There were several other similar articles including building a custom car with a wooden body and building "The Roadster" for a-buck-a-pound.


On a recent trip to Turkey, President of Ireland, Mary McAleese expressed gratitude to the Turkish people for the humanitarian aid provided by the Islamic Khilafah to Ireland during the Great Famine, 160 years ago.
Turkish newspaper "Ikinci Vatan" reports that McAleese on her official visit to Turkey made the statement during her meeting with Turkish president Abdullah Gul and expressed the words of gratitude from the people of Ireland for humanitarian aid provided by Ottoman Caliphate.
During the period of 1840-1850, Ireland suffered the great famine, directly caused by the colonial policy of Great Britain who had occupied the territory.
In 1845, the onset of the Great Irish Famine resulted in over a million deaths. Ottoman Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I declared his intention to send 10,000 sterling to Irish farmers but Queen Victoria requested that the Sultan send only 1,000 sterling, because she had sent only 2,000 sterling herself.
The Sultan sent the 1,000 sterling but also secretly sent 5 ships full of food. The English courts tried to block the ships, but the food arrived in Drogheda harbor and was left there by Ottoman Sailors. Due to this the Irish people, especially those in Drogheda, are friendly to the Turks. note football crest below.
In 1845, the 10,000 pounds dedicated to the Irish from the Sultan would be worth approximately 800,000 pounds today, that is $1,683,280 US Dollars. On the other hand, the Queen gave the equivalent of 160,000 pounds today or 336,656 US Dollars, The Osmanli Traveller blog has copied to text a write up by a Christian Priest who wrote about the Sultan of the time in his travelogue.
"One or two anecdotes will put his character in its true light. During the year of famine in Ireland, the Sultan heard of the distress existing in that unhappy country; he immediately conveyed to the British ambassador his desire to aid in its relief, and tendered for that purpose a large sum of money.
It was intimated to him that it was thought right to limit the sum subscribed by the Queen, and a larger amount could not therefore be received from his highness. He at once acquiesced in the propriety of his resolution, and with many expressions of benevolent sympathy, sent the greatest admissible subscription.
It should be noted that this generosity and compassion occurred during the time of the supposed "downfall" of the Ottoman empire according to the Western Orientalists point of view, and Sultan Abdul Majid in himself is not counted as one of the greatest of Ottoman Sultans.
Furthermore the help was offered solely on the ground of charity to the Irishmen, considering that there was no request for help made from the British Empire who at that time ruled the whole of Ireland.
During that period of time more than a million people died out of hunger and millions became refugees. Most of these people were forced to escape to the US and also to other countries, where Irishmen initially occupied the bottom layers of society.
It was interesting to note that the Irish did not forget the hand of friendship that Turkey had extended to them. In the aftermath of the end of the first world war, when the Islamic Caliphate was being dismantled, Yahya Kemal Beyatli (d. 1958), a famous Turkish poet and a former ambassador, had an interesting memory from the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, in which he participated as a reporter.
He recounts that while all the plenipotentiaries of the allied powers (The British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, and the Serb- Croat-Slovene State) voted in unison in opposition to Turkey, the representative from Ireland was an exception; in each vote, he raised his hand in favour of Turkey's interests.
I studied the Great Famine and the Michael Collins inspired uprisings in Ireland as part of my GCSE history, but of course this fact was never mentioned.
A simple examination of the events surrounding this engagement will open anyone's eyes to the high station of the character of the Khaleefah's combined with their skilful ability to traverse political waters to achieve moral, Islamic ends.
How many more facts remain buried in the annals of history of the positive steps that have been taken by Muslims to contributing towards a fairer and just society and civilisation?
And the some in the world try and accuse the Ottomans of genocide. I think anyone who knows the truth knows there was no Armenian genocide as such leaders would not indulge in acts invented by the likes of UK or France.
A great piece of research into a hidden past.
It may interest our brother to know that such items are not taught here in Ireland either.
It seems the Catholic Church / Secular State alliance don't want people to know the truth.
Excellent bit of research, this was something that I had no idea about!
Akh – I don't usually reply to posts but I will in this case, great info…I will bookmark your site.
I've emailed this article to everyone I know.
I had this forwarded to me via email, and i'm very impressed with this post and your blog in general.
Brilliant piece of article. It's just a shame that people around the world are ignorant of the great things that were done by Ottoman and indeed other Caliphates.
Alhamdulillah – a fantastic article.
As someone spending their time speaking as a da'ee and doing interfaith, this is a real sadaqah and a barakah. Have shared with my wife who will post onto FB to share with her networks as I will share with mine.
These stories need to be shared. Well done brother.
This is during last part of the Khilafah, a system which is unparalleled in it's history, an system which gave justice to all irrespective of what back ground people came from. One example suffice here, during the europeans massacre of jews, the Khilafah gave shelter to the jews, Today capitalism has failed the muslim world, as well as disunited Muslim's, there is no better time than now to look to the Khilafah as the solution to our current reality, further more with out doubt, this is the system Allah swt ordained for Muslims in fact for humanity.
Khilafah a system of justice, as this news is a evidence, should be re-installed. may Allah help us.
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As a muslim living in Ireland since 2008 and having witnessed sporadic yet several incidents of racism, islamaphobia and religious hatred, I wonder why the Government of Ireland doesn't do enough to highlight the above article and educate the ignorant irish masses of who it was that came to their aid during their hour of extreme need. Come on Ruairi Quinn, stand up and speak for the silent victims…….
Despite the differences on what we believe, we are all brothers and sisters after all.
We are playing merely a role here on earth. When we die we can not take anything to other side but good deeds.
This particular event shows that no matter who you are and what you believe, if you could extend your hand for the one who needs. This comes from inside not necessarily from religious doctrines. This is my humble opinion.
Peace and gratitude to all.


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Waiting on Wednesday #124: The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash
The Geek's Guide to Unreauited Love
by Sarvenaz Tash
John Hughes meets Comic Con in this hilarious, unabashedly romantic, coming-of-age novel about a teenager who is trying to get his best friend to fall in love with him from the author of Three Day Summer.
Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy...
Archie and Veronica...
Althena and Noth...
...Graham and Roxy?
Graham met his best friend, Roxana, when he moved into her neighborhood eight years ago, and she asked him which Hogwarts house he'd be sorted into. Graham has been in love with her ever since.
But now they're sixteen, still neighbors, still best friends. And Graham and Roxy share more than ever - moving their Harry Potter obsession to a serious love of comic books.
When Graham learns that the creator of their favorite comic, The Chronicles of Althena, is making a rare appearance at this year's New York Comic Con, he knows he must score tickets. And the event inspires Graham to come up with the perfect plan to tell Roxy how he really feels about her. He's got three days to woo his best friend at the coolest, kookiest con full of superheroes and supervillains. But no one at a comic book convention is who they appear to be... even Roxy. And Graham is starting to realize fictional love stories are way less complicated than real life ones.
Publcation date: June 14th 2016
Top Ten Tuesday #85: Top Ten Bookworm Delights
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Broke and Bookish. This weeks topic is Top Ten Bookworm Delights
The smell of books
The atmosphere in a bookstore or library
Knowing where exactly you can find which book on your bookshelf
The pleasure when someone gives you books
When your best friend loves the a book as much as you do
The fact that you never get bored
The feeling of going on a new adventure every time you start a new book
The knowledge that you can read all day long on your free day
Finding out that one of your favorite authors will release a new book soon
Dreaming of having your own personal library one day
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Top Ten Tuesday #84: Ten Books That Made Me Laugh
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Broke and Bookish. This weeks topic is Ten Books That Made Me Laugh
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
LOL by Kody Keplinger
Bridesmaid with Attitude by Christy McKellen
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Crap Kingdom by DC Pierson
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
How To Ruin A Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles
Waking Up Married by Mira Lyn Kelly
New Book Releases in April
This month is a month in which some amazing books are released. I'm so excited for some of them and I can't wait to read them!
The Mirror King (The Orphan Queen #2) by Jodi Meadows (April 5th)
Flamecaster (Shattered Realms #1) by Cinda Williams Chima (April 5th)
When We Collided by Emery Lord (April 5th)
The Fallen Prince (The Riven Chronicles #2) by Amalie Howard (April 5th)
Forest of Ruin (Age of Legends #3) by Kelley Armstrong (April 5th)
Lady Renegades (Rebel Belle #3) by Rachel Hawkins (April 5th)
The Glittering Court (The Glittering Court #1) by Richelle Mead (April 5th)
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater (April 26th)
Heir to the Sky by Amanda Sun (April 26th)
Redemption (Mila 2.0 #3) by Debra Oriza (April 26th)
The Rose & the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn #2) by Renée Ahdieh (April 26th)
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi (April 26th)
Waiting on Wednesday #123: The Season of You & Me by Robin Constantine
The Season of You & Me
by Robin Constantine
Cassidy Emmerich is determined to make this summer - the last before her boyfriend heads off to college - unforgettable. What she doesn't count on is her boyfriend breaking up with her. Now, instead of being poolside with him, Cass is over a hundred miles away, spending the summer with her estranged father and his family at their bad-and-breakfast at the Jersey Shore and working as the newest counselor at Camp Manatee.
Byran Lakewood is sick of nevers. You'll never walk. You'll never surf. You'll never slow dance with your date at prom. One miscalculated step and Bryan's life changed forever - now he's paralyzed and needs to use a wheelchair. This is the first summer he's back at this former position at Camp Manatee and ready to reclaim some of his independence, in spite of those who question if he's up for the job.
Cass is expecting two months dealing with heartbreak.
Bryan is expecting a summer of though adjustments.
Neither of them is expecting to fall in love.
Publication date: May 10th 2016
Release Day Blitz: The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
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For a select group of girls, the Glittering Court offers a shot at a life they've only ever dreamed of, one of luxury, glamour, and leisure. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family is forcing her into a loveless marriage, the Glittering Court represents something else: the chance to chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea.
After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as a servant to join the crop of impoverished girls he promises to transform into proper ladies. But her familiarity with upper class life comes with a price: she must hide her identity from her new friends, mysterious refugee Mira and fiery former laundress Tamsin, and most importantly, from Cedric himself—even though she's falling in love with him.
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Gautier Paulin and Team France couldn't be matched in Latvia. Could this mark the beginning of a French stranglehold on world motocross? Note the little burp of flame in Paulin's muffler as he breathes his KX450F over a jump.


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Peter von Winter (ochrzczony 28 sierpnia 1754 w Mannheimie, zm. 17 października 1825 w Monachium) – niemiecki kompozytor i skrzypek.

Życiorys
Przez ponad 60 lat swojego życia związany był z dworem Wittelsbachów w Mannheimie i Monachium. W wieku 10 lat został zatrudniony w orkiestrze dworskiej jako skrzypek i kontrabasista. Jego nauczycielami byli Anton Joseph Hampel i Georg Joseph Vogler, w latach 1780–1781 przebywał natomiast w Wiedniu, gdzie uczył się techniki bel canta u Antonio Salieriego. W 1778 roku otrzymał posadę dyrektora orkiestry dworskiej w Monachium, w 1787 roku jej wicekapelmistrza, a w 1798 roku kapelmistrza. Odbył podróże do Neapolu i Wenecji (1791–1794) oraz Pragi i Wiednia (1795–1798). W 1803 roku odwiedził Londyn. W 1810 roku koncertował w Wiedniu wraz ze swoją uczennicą, śpiewaczką Clarą Metzger-Vespermann, z którą w 1816 roku odbył także podróż po północnych Niemczech, a 1817–1818 do Mediolanu. W 1814 roku, w uznaniu za zasługi dla dworu, otrzymał tytuł szlachecki, został też odznaczony krzyżem kawalerskim Orderu Zasługi Korony Bawarskiej. W ostatnich latach życia komponował muzykę religijną i uczył śpiewu. Opublikował pracę Vollständige Singschule (Mainz 1825).

Twórczość
Jako autor dzieł scenicznych tworzył z dużą łatwością, skomponował ponad 40 dzieł w różnych gatunkach, m.in. singspiel, opera seria, dramma giocoso czy opera komiczna. Współpracował z czołowymi librecistami ówczesnej epoki, takimi jak Emanuel Schikaneder i Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Dbał o podkreślenie znaczenia tekstu przy pomocy środków muzycznych, obok dialogów mówionych wprowadzał niemieckie piosenki biesiadne, francuskie pieśni wodewilowe i włoskie arie. Jego opery na samym dworze elektorskim nie spotkały się z większym uznaniem, ceniono je natomiast w Wiedniu, Londynie i na scenach włoskich.

Poza operami skomponował szereg baletów, oratoriów i kantat, 28 mszy, 4 symfonie (w tym symfonia z udziałem chóru Die Schlacht, 1814), uwertury orkiestrowe, koncert skrzypcowy, fletowy i fagotowy, 2 koncerty obojowe, 12 divertimentów na 2 skrzypiec, altówkę i wiolonczelę, divertimento na 2 skrzypiec, altówkę, wiolonczelę i 2 rogi, 6 kwartetów smyczkowych, 3 kwintety, 2 sekstety, po jednym septecie i oktecie, sonaty. Muzyka religijna Wintera cechuje się prostotą i powagą, kompozytor unikał stosowania części fugowanych i techniki kontrapunktycznej, mało urozmaicona orkiestracja służy podkreśleniu godności utworu. Kompozycje instrumentalne mają w twórczości Wintera znaczenie wyłącznie lokalne, tworzone były okazjonalnie na potrzeby dworu elektorskiego.

Dzieła operowe
(na podstawie materiałów źródłowych)

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Peter von Winter – nuty w bibliotece Polona

Niemieccy kompozytorzy
Niemieccy skrzypkowie
Urodzeni w 1754
Zmarli w 1825
Ludzie urodzeni w Mannheimie
Odznaczeni Orderem Zasługi Korony Bawarskiej


Seeing Brian Atwood… and exactly why hasn't he designed a shoe for me (yet)?
The silver beaded Marchesa gown, with the gorgeous bow on the single shoulder, that closed the episode. This one made my heart flutter. Will Camaron wear it, or will Demi? Will it even show up on time?
The entire Marc Jacobs show… "it's theater?" Meh.
Next week… more Marchesa madness while Zoe's in Milan. This week seemed to slow down the pace of the series, but the excess of runway footage made it worth the watch.
I kinda hate Naomi Campbell. People who conduct their lives with an air of supreme entitlement bug me. I want to knock them off their high freakin' horses, it's just my nature. Having said that, I grudgingly admit the chick pulls together some high-minded, idealistic fundraiser events that send resources to places and people who need it, and that's where Rachel Zoe comes in for this week's episode.
The Fashion for Relief Haiti runway show couldn't have been more inconveniently scheduled with only 3 days to organize and produce, and hitting smack dab in the middle of February's Fall Fashion Week. And then there's the U.K. version of the Haiti Relief runway show, scheduled on the same weekend as a trans-Atlantic event, which is grand in concept but fails in practice, due to the shows having to compete with each other for designers' donated looks, as mentioned. Why? Why schedule them this way, if no other reason than to show off? Let's not forget Mother Nature's influence during this event as well, since the blizzard certainly complicated matters considerably.
But with Naomi Campbell, like most divas, it's not so much how it gets done, it's just the fact that it will get done, and done exactly when and how they demand it. So, as they say in our house, poop rolls downhill. Naomi gets pissed at Rachel. Rachel dumps the blame on Brad.
Result? Brad dumps on his friends in one of the most contrived and unnatural scenes in the entire episode. After seating himself around a group of anonymous people that we the viewers don't know and don't care about, Brad opens a conversation to himself in the guise of sharing his woes. He is met with the unsympathetic sound of crickets chirping, which causes him to burst into spontaneous soliloquy. Simply the most painful and useless 2 minutes which do nothing to advance the plot, and slows down the entire show's momentum.
The death of Lee Alexander McQueen is mentioned, and the five McQueen commemorative looks as an homage at the end of the runway show were quite a moving tribute (did you see the tears in the models' eyes?) but hearing Rachel discuss her grief while looking at one of his stilettos? Superfluous.
In other news, Gwen Stefani's brief appearance seemed strained, a bit unnatural in front of the RZP cameras, which is shocking considering her megastardom. I would have liked more of her and of L.A.M.B. Other notable cameos include Diane von Furstenberg, walking the fund raiser's runway. Wasn't she adorable? Love her.
Best thing about this week's episode… no one discussed "the Taylor situation." Since 2 months have passed since Taylor's leaving and the filming during Fashion Week, let's hope they've dropped it for the rest of the season in favor of building baby anticipation.
P.S. Did you die over Rachel's Chanel? Because I did.
Well, kudos to the producers for stacking the episode with a ton of content! Immediately we get right to the heart of the Taylor Jacobson matter, who was summarily dismissed from the company after Rodger's accusations of financial misdealings. Rachel's word was "betrayal," and Brad Goreski was promoted immediately within the Zoe hierarchy. And he rejoiced. Rachel wore her Hermes cuff and waved it around often, and I rejoiced.
Then they interviewed for the new intern position, which montages quickly, thank goodness. Suffice to say, many of her applicants seemed woefully inept. Oh, to have a 23 year old clone of myself to send off and live an alternate life.
Demi Moore's Harper photo shoot was full of red and glittery Louboutins, white mice and Chanel, and Alexander McQueen's armadillo shoes on a spiral staircase to nowhere on an empty beach… with a giraffe. Of course. I enjoyed Demi's presence on camera as herself, she came off as unpretentious, unlike Rachel who was carried down the hill due to her impractical 6 inch heels for a beach shoot. But it was Brad who tripped over himself to do a good job with Demi, running around and pulling zillions of pieces for all of her looks. Sigh… to paw through such racks!
I could have done without the scenes of vitriolic displays of anger whenever Taylor's name continued to be discussed, although I forgive the producers for exploiting Rachel's emotional pain. This isn't over yet, but I kinda wish we could forget about it, as the viewer, and move on.
The Chanel scene? I have no words. How much those items cost? I can only imagine. Gorgeous? Beyond measure. Let's not forget why I watch this show.
And how cute was it that they're teasing us with future scenes of Rodger and Rachel discussing pregnancy and making a baby? Awwwww! I would love to see Rachel have a family, but realistically, I can only imagine what her schedule is like. But, I bet you she could do it… what with the nanny for work hours, and such. Think they're gonna spin a future season of RZP with a Bethenny's Getting Married? pregnancy theme?


You will not find any whimsical twists in this writing. There are no stories of family jokesters, no descriptions of family outlaws, no remembering the aunt who forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pie. What you will find in this writing is passion, commitment, appreciation, and love.
Usually, my writings focus on one person, but this writing is about two people. The first person is the school teacher from Wyoming who fell in love with a budding Montana rancher, married him, and moved to the remote country southeast of Biddle, Mont., and who brought into this marriage five children.
The second person in this writing is the lady who knew her 59-year-old husband was gone long before they arrived in Spearfish, S.D., even though the ambulance folks continued with their CPR efforts.
The University of Wyoming educated school teacher sure had no idea that her life was about to take a different direction when she drove to southeastern Montana in 1970 for a summer visit with her brother, who was working on a ranch.
In 1972, when fall showed up, the young brown-haired teacher did not return to her home at Moorcroft, Wyo., to teach at the Green River school where she had taught for the previous five years. Instead, she packed her clothes, a few personal possessions and her accordion, and started life as Mrs. Leland Brimmer.
In harmony with the hills and tall pines that dominate the landscape of the Brimmer ranch, the new bride's music spread deep roots into daily life. Like a well-worn winter coat, it was part of the new Mrs. Brimmer. It was her.
"As a little girl, I remember always wanting to play accordion." She and her father drove to the music store in Casper, Wyo., and came home with her accordion. It was a dream come true.
She has two other push-and-pull boxes, but the used one her father bought overflows with memories and will always have top spot on the shelf.
It's been almost 60 years since that memorable trip to the Casper music store. Mrs. Brimmer has gained a few pounds, and her brown hair is streaked with some gray. At 73, her step is a bit more cautious, and her fingers don't move around the accordion like they used to.
This writer has precious little music ability, so when Mrs. Brimmer ran her fingers over the accordion, explaining how it works, how it's a reed instrument and doesn't get out of tune, and that it is put together with bees wax, I found myself lifting the pen off my note paper and focusing on the love that came pouring out of Mrs. Brimmer's eyes, the smile I hadn't seen in the first part of our interview.
I looked out the big picture window, tried to put together a picture of a young Mrs. Brimmer playing music as her little kids sat on the floor. It was that special moment I always look for in my writing.
Now, we put down the pen and leave the accordion lady behind. Oh, but first we need to give our accordion lady a name — Hilda Ann Brimmer.
She's the other lady in this writing, a woman who never missed a step in keeping the family business running when her husband passed 15 years ago. And the name of this remarkable lady — Hilda Ann Brimmer.
In 2010, the Brimmer Ranch celebrated 100 years of existence. It started out as a homestead. Today, with the help of a daughter, Mrs. Brimmer keeps the sheep and cattle ranch going.
We walked amongst the sheep as family and neighbors docked the lambs. Mrs. Brimmer noted lamb prices should be good this year. She recalled years ago when she and Leland left the sale ring where they had watched their 125-pound lambs bring $30.
Today, this stocky Estonian lady admits that when she runs out of groceries, she does not make a special trip to town, but she will right quick get in her old Suburban if they need vaccines or mineral for the animals and head out.
Before they make any business decisions, Mrs. Brimmer visits with her daughter Leann.
When we first spoke, Mrs. Brimmer explained her place is primitive — no TV, no internet. Just a radio to get the morning news.
Mrs. Brimmer does all the books for the ranch. It's a big job.
Indeed it was obvious from the short time we spent together, this woman knows the sheep and cattle business. She pointed to the short fine grass growing amongst the tall pines.
The sheep do well on this grass and on the gumbo prairie of our summer pasture.
By the time October comes around, the lambs are good-sized, very desirable in the marketplace.
But the wool is good, too. Wool sheared from the ewes brings in part of the income. According to Mrs. Brimmer, the ewes have good clean fleeces in this country.
Leann is a sheep person and has been since her toddling days. She lives and breathes sheep. Loves the shearing work. She is a world-class wool evaluator, as good as anyone in the business.
The Brimmer Ranch must continue and never be sold, Mrs. Brimmer insisted.


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Eric Cantor and His Dysfunctional House
Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the House, made it official today: His party won't be bringing President Obama's jobs bill to a vote. This isn't particularly surprising: From the get-go, Republican leaders have said they oppose the measure as a whole. But it was Cantor's particular phrasing, during a Capitol Hill press conference, that caught my attention. According to Talking Points Memo, Cantor said "I think at this point Washington has become so dysfunctional that we've got to start focusing on the incremental progress we can make."
Washington has become so dysfunctional. Yes it has. And why is it that, Mr. Majority Leader? Could it have something to do with the party that uses the filibuster as a matter of routine, imposing a super-majority requirement on all legislation and blocking even uncontroversial presidential nominees from coming to a vote? Could it have something to do with party that decided to play chicken with the country's credit limit, a virtually unprecedented move that caused real harm to the economy? Could it have something to do with the party that turned down ridiculously lopsided compromises -- lopsided in its favor -- because it holds an absolutist position on taxes that would decimate the welfare state?
No, Democrats aren't blameless, either for the culture of Washington or the failure to pass meaningful legislation. Even now, conservative Democrats are resisting some parts of the jobs bill, particularly in the Senate. But for Cantor, of all people, to bemoan the dysfunction of Washington gives chutzpah a bad name.
The proof is in the substantive position to which Cantor, and his allies, still hold. In the press conference, Cantor indicated House Republican would seek to find common ground with the administration and pass legislation on which the two sides agree. "Both sides have their desires to do the big bold things," Cantor said. "The problem is they're just vastly different.... We should certainly focus on trying to put some wins on the board."
But look closer at what wins Cantor has in mind, via National Journal:
Cantor said the House will move forward on legislative initiatives in October in which there is some agreement between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue: making permanent the 3 percent withholding provision for government contractors included in Obama's jobs bill; passage of three long-stalled trade pacts with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea; further repeal of regulations restricting business; and a bill coming out of the Financial Services Committee that will increase small business owners' access to capital.<<
Whether or not you like this agenda, it's incredibly small scale -- and excludes even those items on Obama's agenda with which Republicans have historically agreed, like the payroll tax cut. As Brad Plumer notes, House Republicans are backing away from their demands to slash highway funding -- most likely, in reaction to the political pressure the White House and assorted allies have applied. But it's still not backing a serious infrastructure package, even though past generations of Republicans showed at least some support for such initiatives.
Jonathan Cohn, Politics, Washington, Eric Cantor


I drove a lot more today, like, drove to work and back, drove my Mom to the post office, grocery store, etc.
I'm starting to work on the Symphony Espagnole for violin and orchestra in D minor, Op. 21, by Edouard Lalo, a French composer. It's a really cool piece, I like it, and interesting to play.
This morning I went to the High School to do some duties as president of the Video Club. This morning was Freshman orientation, and there is a time when the freshman go around to tables that each school club has set up and sign up for activities they are interested in. We got a few names and phone numbers of potential new club members, so that's really cool.
We did a little moving around at The Evergreen Project today, where I work. Most of us there got moved to a different location in the office. That gave us a good chance to clean up our stuff too, and do other things like blow out the dust from the computers with air dusters, etc. Air dusters are fun. It's fun to play with very cold liquids.
I just now looked at the search engine Northern Light for the first time in a while, and a lot has improved. I like the left side menu of directories, the spider that they use is obviously very powerful, and from what I heard, they crawl through more sites than any other search engine.
I am getting the opportunity to upgrade my little Power Computing PowerTower 225 that I use at The Evergreen Project, where I work. I just now realized the machine is around 3 to 4 years old, because that was back in the days of Macintosh clones. And the thing is still nice and of decent speed. I opened it up today to inspect some things, because I plan to install a new hard drive and some more RAM. The first thing I notice is that there are 8 DIMM slots. OK, so I think, "that's cool", and then I find out that each DIMM slot can handle 128MB DIMMs. WOAH. That's a potential of a GIG of RAM :) I run System Profiler to confirm that, only to find that I also have 1MB of L2 Cache. Woah, that's NICE for a 4 year old machine! OK, so that's nice, and then I look in the CPU bay, and there's an empty CPU socket. Now wait a minute, that can't be right, and after checking some websites, it DOES have dual CPU support! Wow! Now if only the freakin BUS weren't 40 Mhz, I'd have a decent speed machine :) Owell, so I order some more RAM, and turns out it uses some wierd Fast Paging RAM that's not EDO, so it's much more expensive than I had thought originally, but still better than the $600 it would have cost at the stupid MacWarehouse place. Now tonight I need to decide whether or not to get two 4.5GB SCA Seagates and RAID them, or get a nice blazing IBM Ultrastar with 2MB of cache.
I attended my first Calculus III class at Washington University today. The course sound interesting, and the instuctor has a nice different approach to Calculus, and mathematics in general, and I like it all.
I drove downtown to The Evergreen Project today, where I work, and it was pretty cool driving all the highways, Interstates 170 and 64. So I finally got around to finishing the Evergreen Project Adventures site that I had started to remodel, and now it's all done. There are few good FTP clients for Macintosh, and I was quite annoyed today by the fact that I had to reupload the huge 80MB website with a 56k modem, and I finally found a proper FTP client called Transmit, and it actually compares files for revisions, so I don't have to watch the big thing upload for an entire weekend.
I drove to school today to do a little work there with computers this morning. It was kinda fun having to drive in pretty dense early morning rush hour traffic. At, the other place I work, The Evergreen Project, we got the Norton Antivirus that I ordered, and cleared out all the crazy Macro viruses bouncing around the templates all over the network. I drove home from work, which is in downtown St. Louis, and got to get experience with driving at higher speeds on Forest Park Expressway and Interstate 170. So that was pretty fun, getting to drive the 30 minutes it took to get home the long and slow way.
I went down to Jefferson City, MO today with The Evergreen Project to do some more interviews for our Road Scholars project. Ask Jeeves has also teamed up with Nickelodeon to produce a kid's educational series involving Road Scholars.


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Venture capital undermines human rights
Michael Kleinman 1 year
Michael Kleinman Contributor
Michael Kleinman is the director of Amnesty International's Silicon Valley Initiative.
The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world's 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow.
There is a startling lack of diversity within the venture capital sector. This means that a small group of men — mostly white men — make decisions that affect all of us. Unsurprisingly, they all too often ignore the broader societal and human rights implications of these investment decisions.
We all live in a world shaped by venture capital. As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S., Europe and China, which in turn are shaping the future of technology. If you spend time on Facebook or Twitter, use Google, travel in an Uber or stay in an Airbnb, then you've experienced firsthand the impact of venture capital funding.
Venture capital firms, which provide equity financing for early- and growth-stage startups, play a critical gatekeeper role, deciding which new technologies and technology companies will receive funding.
Venture capital firms need to institute human rights due diligence processes that meet the standards set forth in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
All businesses — including venture capital — have a responsibility to respect human rights. In order to ensure that their investments are not undermining our human rights, it is therefore critical for venture capital firms to conduct due diligence processes before making investments.
Amnesty International recently surveyed the world's largest venture capital firms and startup accelerators. Of the world's 10 largest venture capital firms, not a single one had an adequate human rights due diligence process that met the standards set forth in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Unfortunately, this is true of the broader venture capital sector as well. Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes.
Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020
This failure to carry out adequate due diligence means that a vast majority of VC firms are failing in their responsibility to respect human rights.
This almost complete lack of respect for human rights among the world's largest venture capital firms has three key impacts. First, and most immediately, it means that venture capital firms invest in companies whose products and services have been implicated in ongoing human rights abuses, such as companies that provide support to the Chinese government's repression of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang and across China.
Second, it means that venture capital firms continue to fund companies whose business models have a significant negative impact on human rights, including our privacy and labor rights. For instance, leading venture capital firms continue to support companies that rely on app-based or "gig" workers, who often face exploitative or otherwise abusive work conditions, as well as companies whose "surveillance capitalism" business model undermines our right to privacy.
Third, the lack of human rights due diligence by venture capital firms dramatically increases the risk that they fund new and "frontier" technologies without ensuring that adequate human rights safeguards are in place.
For instance, the application of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) tools across a wide variety of sectors risks amplifying existing societal biases and discrimination. Seemingly objective algorithms can be biased by reliance on incomplete or unrepresentative training data, and/or by replicating the unconscious bias of those who developed the algorithms.
This is a critical blind spot, especially as VC-funded startups seek to disrupt such fundamental parts of our lives as education, finance and health.
The negative impacts of the VC firms' lack of human rights due diligence — especially regarding issues like algorithmic bias — are magnified by these firms' own lack of gender and racial diversity. For instance, women comprise only 23% of venture capital investment professionals (i.e., those involved in deciding which startups to fund).
The numbers are even worse when it comes to racial diversity — just 4% of investment professionals at VC firms in the U.S. are Latinx, and only 4% are Black. Groups like Blck VC, Diversity VC and digitalundivided have been calling attention to this issue for years, but venture capitalists have been slow to respond so far.
This lack of diversity is mirrored in the gender and racial composition of founders who receive VC funding. In 2018, all-female founding teams received just 2.2% of all U.S.-based venture funding. At the same time, Black and Latinx founders received less than 2.3% of all U.S.-based venture capital funding in 2019.
With power comes responsibility. Venture capital firms need to institute human rights due diligence processes that meet the standards set forth in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Further, they should provide support to their portfolio companies to ensure that they comply with human rights standards. Venture capital firms should also publicly commit to hiring more diverse teams, especially in investment-related positions. Finally, they should publicly commit to funding more diverse startup founders as part of their flagship funds.
VC firms have a responsibility to ensure that their investments are not causing harm. A responsibility that they have, to date, largely ignored.
On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point


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Multiplex Head of Engineering joins Keltbray
August 17, 2021 Santos Guerra
Keltbray has appointed Craig Moorfield as its new Group Technical Director.
Moorfield joins from Multiplex Europe where he was Head of Engineering.
The newly created post will see Moorfield become an Executive Board Member and report directly to Keltbray Chief Executive Officer, Darren James.
Moorfield will lead the group's performance in engineering, research and development and innovation. He will also take responsibility for the corresponding technical and engineering assurance across the group.
He has been involved in the design and construction of commercial and high rise buildings, stadia, and airports across Australia, the Middle East and Europe and has led the development of cutting edge construction methodologies and analysis techniques for implementation on some of the world's most high-profile projects.
James said, "We are delighted that Craig has chosen to join us and help lead the next stage of Keltbray's engineering development. Craig's appointment is hard-wired to fulfilling Keltbray's core purpose – "To redefine the way sustainable development is delivered".
"He has an industry reputation as a leading technical expert in the sustainable design and delivery of complex buildings and infrastructure, and his appointment marks a step change in our engineering ambitions.
"He will play a creative role in delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to meet our clients' diverse needs. His experience of successfully developing cutting-edge ideas will greatly benefit the Group as we evolve our strategic focus towards expanding the opportunities to deploy our integrated self-delivery model in existing and new markets."
Moorfield said, "I am thrilled to be joining Keltbray at such an exciting point in its development. I genuinely believe it has the strategic focus, the resources and most importantly, the right talent to lead the specialist engineering and construction industry, setting the standards by which all other organisations in the sector will be measured."
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Ceres initiative looks to boost stock exchange sustainability reporting
A new initiative has been launched to lobby for the integrating of environmental and social disclosure requirements into listing rules for companies on US and global stock exchanges. The potential changes could allow investors to better compare the sustainability of companies.
The initiative, which aims to engage with global stock exchanges via the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), was announced by sustainability advocacy group Ceres in collaboration with fund manager BlackRock and other major institutional investors. Over 100 leading investors from six continents have helped shape the proposal, demonstrating the demand for standardised reporting.
By setting requirements, it is hoped that such a scheme will create an even playing field whilst providing investors with the information they need to make informed decisions.
Gwen Le Bere, vice-president of corporate governance and responsible investment at BlackRock, commented, "Cross boarder collaboration by stock exchange will help shift public companies towards more comparable and meaningful disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk factors.
"This will enable investors to more accurately value companies and make better informed investment decisions."
Taking ESG factors into consideration can give investors additional security in the long-term. Previous research has linked sustainability to investment stability. One study found that firms that invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) action see less risk in their stock prices, particularly during economic downturns.
"We know from experience that sustainable, long-term growth requires integrating ESG consideration into the investment process", said Thomas DiNapoli, trustee of the New York Stake Common Retirement Fund.
"A global standard for sustainability would give investors data to assess performance and risk, while allowing exchanges and companies to address specific market regulations and cultures."
The recommendations made by the group will now be formally submitted to stock exchange members of the WFE, in conjunction with the launch of an exchange comment period that will run for several months.
The role of stock exchanges in sustainable investment has previously been debated, with some saying their role is important and others labelling sustainability efforts as "greenwash".
Fiona Reynolds, managing director of Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), said, "Stock exchanges have a key role to play in promoting better ESG disclosure and ultimately performance by listed companies."
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Power Lifter Chris Paynter
August 2006, Column, Louise Tucker Jones
by Louise Tucker Jones
Christopher Paynter lifts a lot of weights, but recently that weight turned to "gold."
As a power lifter for Oklahoma Special Olympics, Paynter recently competed in the first National Special Olympics games in Ames, Iowa, and brought home one gold and three silver medals. The 31-year-old athlete captured first place with a bench press of 242 pounds. He followed with silver in the categories of squat, dead lift and combination.
Paynter said he likes all parts of power lifting, but his favorite may be the bench press. In 1998, he broke the Junior American Record at the Sooner State Games, a power-lifting event separate from Special Olympics, when he bench-pressed 230 pounds. He weighed 121 pounds at the time.
Paynter has competed in Special Olympics since he was 10, but he became interested in power lifting when he was in the ninth grade. He began training every Saturday at what was then the Adams Course in Edmond. Today, he works out three to four days a week, year-round, at the Transformation Fitness Center in Edmond with Trent Fisher, his trainer for the last eight or nine years.
Throughout the years, Paynter has garnered his share of awards at the Oklahoma State Special Olympics. His mother, Ellen, estimates a total of 60-70 gold medals. That doesn't include the medals he has earned at the International Special Olympics competitions. Even though this is the first year for national competition, international games have been taking place for years.
Paynter competed in the International Special Olympics in New Haven, Conn., in 1995, bringing home three gold medals. In 1999, he captured a gold, two silver and a bronze at Raleigh, N.C. In 2003, he traveled to Dublin, Ireland, to compete and earned two gold medals, one silver and a bronze. The seasoned athlete also competed in the International Winter Special Olympics in Alaska in 2001, earning a gold medal in downhill skiing and a silver in the giant slalom.
A 1995 graduate of Edmond Memorial High School, Paynter has been employed at the Meadows for nine years. He works in the document destruction department, traveling by truck to banks and clinics, where he picks up bins full of documents for shredding. The shredding is done at the Meadows.
"I travel a lot," he said, "but I love it!"
His father, Dean Paynter, is on the board of directors at Meadows, which employs 40-60 people with disabilities at any given time.
Not to be outdone by his father, Paynter sits on the board of directors for the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR), a worldwide fundraiser for Special Olympics. Each organization asks one athlete to sit on its board. For the past two years, Paynter has been the designated athlete for the board of directors in Oklahoma, attending meetings once a month.
LETR also raises money for Special Olympics by sponsoring the "Polar Plunge," a fun event each February at the Bass Pro Shop in Oklahoma City. Participants plunge into a swimming pool of ice water.
"It's cold," Paynter said, "but I do it." However, he admitted to skipping the plunge one year when the weather was extremely cold. "I chickened out," he said.
His parents attend every event he participates in, including the international games. Sometimes Paynter has to travel ahead of them, but they are always present to cheer on their son during his events. Paynter's brother, Nicholas, who is in law school, also attended events when he was home, making it a family affair.
The next international event will take place in Shanghai, China, in 2007, but Paynter does not know if he will be going. There are several power-lifting athletes in the state but only a few slots available on the state team.
"We're sending out an application right now," he said. Meanwhile, he continues to train for state competition in Stillwater next spring.
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This is a Passport park that gives you your money's worth. Easy access and level. Sites are a little snug for a big rig. We also had to change sites to get satellite. Wi-Fi is excellent. Park is close to everything. This is our second stay here. We camped at Creekside RV Park in a Motorhome.
Nice park for an overnight stay. Right off I-75 and easy access. We got Passport rate. Music park starting to look run down since we were last here. Wi-Fi does not reach the park. We camped at Renfro Valley RV Park in a Motorhome.
We were here a week. Nice campground: was clean, neat and had all the amenities. Would definitely return. This Ohio valley area is beautiful. Only two drawbacks here. Staff could be a little more cordial. Your GPS will turn you the wrong way. We were sent out of the way. Owners could put up a better entrance sign, would have saved us an extended, out of the way detour. We camped at Little Farm On The River LLC in a Motorhome.
A nice, Passport park which has level grassy sites, good WiFi, a pool and playground for kids. It's a direct drive into South Bend and very quiet. They do not have a sewer which is a drawback for us. Still it was good for a couple days. We camped at Maple Ridge Campground (formerly Beaver Ridge Family Camping) in a Motorhome.
Nice park with easy access and good WiFi. We were here over the fourth and they had a full house. Staff was very accommodating. Would definitely return. This is a good stopping off point on your way to UP. We camped at Lakeside Camp Park in a Motorhome.
Excellent park. Only shortcoming is poor WI-FI reception. They moved me once, but still weak. We camped at Little River Casino Resort in a Motorhome.
One of the few parks in this area where full hookup includes sewage. Close to all amenities. Run and owned by an elderly couple that have had the park for 37 years. We stayed extra days, we were so comfortable. We camped at Tiki RV Park & Campground in a Motorhome.
A nice park, but it was fairly crowded. Sites are nice. WiFi works intermittently. A little pricey for what you get. Would stay here again, but only if we got the PA rate. We camped at Nashville North KOA in a Motorhome.
We have stayed here several times. It is one of the few parks in the Keys that accepts Passport in the winter. Free Wi-Fi, a plus. Staff very friendly. Location is halfway between Key Largo and Key West, so very convenient for exploring the Keys. We camped at Jolly Roger Travel Park in a Motorhome.
A nice Park. The sites are a little tight for a large rig, but we made it. Hosts were willing to give us at least one day of Passport although they don't usually do so in July. Park is close to all the activity as well as having a trolley that comes by. This would certainly be our base when in the area. We camped at Creekside RV Park in a Motorhome.
A nice Park situated conveniently to Indianapolis. Easy access, but entry is a little confusing. The Park is in two sections, neither convenient to the office. The office is actually a nice residence and you start looking elsewhere for the office. We went by it once. The Park is laid out very well. You can opt for an open site or a shaded site. There was a problem with dust, but they are slowly paving all the access roads, and this should resolve the issue. Wifi is good. We will make this our Park of choice when visiting this area. We camped at Lake Haven Retreat in a Motorhome.
Easy access full service park. Dogs have to go to outside perimeter, but not a problem. This is the ideal location for the Riverfront activity. A little noisy at night. Wi-Fi is excellent. Staff is very helpful. The place to be for St Louis attractions. We camped at St. Louis RV Park in a Motorhome.
Off the beaten path, but easy to find. Nice, quiet location. Park is well maintained and has something for everyone. We were to stay for a day, but stayed for two. One of the nicest parks we have stayed in since leaving Florida in May. Would definitely return if in the area. We camped at Cottonwoods RV Park in a Motorhome.


WASHINGTON — Conservative lawmakers in the House say they want a fight over spending—including restricting funding for President Obama's new executive orders on immigration—when Republicans officially take over control of both sides of Congress next year.
During the monthly "Conversations with Conservatives" meeting on Capitol Hill Tuesday, these lawmakers said there seems to be a general consensus to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government running, and to set up a real spending fight early next year.
They want to vote on restricting funding to the Department of Homeland Security — which will implement Obama's executive order — and other areas of the government when Republicans take over the Senate in January.
With the government poised to shut down again if President Obama and Congress are unable to agree on a spending plan, Speaker of the House John Boehner is expected to push a spending bill over the next week that funds most of the government until Sept. 30 of next year.
But some conservatives, like Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, prefer a route that allows Congress to take up the issues with the new Congress in January.
Louisiana Rep. John Fleming agreed.


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