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Fenster zur Natur und Kunst
Kunstkammer – Das Fenster zur Natur und Kunst. A historical-critical refurbishment of the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer as an observatory, laboratory, communication area and showroom of knowledge
The Humboldt University of Berlin, the National Museums in Berlin and the Museum of Natural History Berlin are jointly dedicating themselves to researching the history of the Berlin Kunstkammer as the nucleus of today's Berlin museum landscape.
The Kunstkammer, once housed in the Berlin Palace, was the origin of the city's museum landscape. This collection, which existed from the 16th to well into the 19th century, brought together objects of nature, art and science. Today, many of the objects formerly belonging to the Kunstkammer are scattered across numerous museums in Berlin. The DFG project, in which the National Museums in Berlin cooperate with the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Museum of Natural History Berlin, aims to research this collection and the paths taken by its objects to their present day museums.
The history of the Berlin Kunstkammer is to be developed from the object biography: In what way did the objects enter the collection? In what contexts did they stand before their entry into the Berliner Kunstkammer? In what way were they placed in the collection in ever new taxonomic, narrative, spatial, staging and usage contexts? How did their entrance into the museums that were created from the 19th century onwards take shape? And what attributions of meaning were associated with these processes?
Based on questions like these, the Kunstkammer will be examined in its various historical transformation stages. These include the reorganisation processes in the 17th and 18th centuries, but also the changed form of the collection after various object areas were given up in the 19th century. We will focus on the enormous enrichment of the Kunstkammer through comprehensive private collections in this late phase of its development, as well as on the role of its objects in the founding of various new museums. The object-biographical perspective forms the basis for making visible facets of Berlin's museum history that have so far received little attention from the Kunstkammer.
Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp
Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer
Prof. Dr. Johannes Vogel
Dr. Marcus Becker
Sarah Wagner
Rosa Miriam Reinhardt
Duration: November 2018 to October 2021


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Warframe Review (Nintendo Switch)
Published on March 8th, 2019 by Randy S.
Warframe is a free to play SciFi co-op third person combat online game, developed and published by Digital Extremes and ported over to the Nintendo Switch by Panic Button (who also ported Rocket league, Doom and Wolfenstein 2).
Warframe's story takes place in a far off future, where your race (The Tenno) awakens from a deep stasis to fight off warring factions that are trying to control the solar system. You must journey across vast planets and ships in the solar system, perfecting your skills, laying waste to your enemies, trying to unite the factions, all while trying to figure out the mysteries of the past and current state of things. The game is continuously adding new updates which expand on the story and the mythos in the Warframe universe.
Ever growing planets and environments, some of which have their own massive open worlds
Visuals & Audio
The graphics are among the best of any game on the Switch, bar none. Very few games come close, if at all. It runs at a reasonable 30 frames per second most of the time but will dip as low as 20+ frames when you enter the massive open world environments with lots of particle effects. The frame rate dips at times are understandable; the Switch is not a massive power house. The game does have very rich graphical options, very similar to what you would see on a PC, so you can always tweak those to your liking.
The graphics are not like your typical first-party Nintendo game like Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey (which are amazing by the way) and that's perfectly fine. It's a nice change of pace to get a more "mature?" looking kind of game on the Switch. Audio is also very good. Crisp, always in sync and definitely adds to the dark atmosphere of the game very well. There isn't a ton of different kind of music in the game and that's a good thing. This is definitely the kind of game that does better without music hanging over the combat.
Gorgeous scenery as far as the eye can see
Gameplay & Controls
It can feel intimidating at first, very intimidating. The game has a very serious tone to it that many Nintendo games do not have, such as the typically friendly, happy-go-lucky vibes. Warframe will not provide such a vibe. It is VERY fast-paced with all kinds of projectiles, melee weapons and abilities. You zip around maps, rooms and open worlds in your Warframe (robot ninja armor suit thing) at lightning speeds, destroying your enemies while fulfilling any other mission objectives you have. Most missions can be done co-op with up to 4 people. While Warframe is also available on PC, Xbox One and PS4 for free as well, there is unfortunately no cross platform play (as of yet).
There are scores of different Warframes and weapons to collect and build, each being very unique and fully customizable with tons of different unlockable color pallets and armor flairs. That's a big part of the game: collecting the Warframes, weapons, pets and decorations for your ship; a bit reminiscent of Animal Crossing in that regard. You level up these items that you collect and craft which in turn levels up your account itself (called a mastery rank). Though the gameplay is very fast-paced, it is actually a very relaxing, chill and laid-back kind of game in the same breath. It sounds paradoxical but that's how it is. Warframe can be played as an intense and upfront adrenaline spiking game or buried back in the couch while also watching your dog chase its tail.
Large Unclockable Color Palette Options for both Warframes and weapons
Playing on the big screen is a pleasure: vivid, beautiful and clean. The Switch does get hot, more so than with any other game. This is likely due to the game pushing the limits of the hardware. If you are playing docked in a generally warm environment, it would not hurt to get something like a little USB fan to assist with cooling (granted, it is recommended when playing any game docked).
Playing handheld at first yielded pretty low resolution and frame rate hiccups at launch but a few weeks later this was all fixed with an update and is now a crisp 720 while handheld. Expect to get about 2 hours of playtime on a full charge. Since Warframe is an online game, it needs an internet connection to play. This is easily remedied if you have a phone with a data connection and a hotspot handy. You can expect to use about 65MB of data per hour on average.
When it comes to using the JoyCons or a Pro Controller, and as with most games, the Pro Controller is the way to go if you can manage it. The longer analog sticks on the Pro Controller gives better shooting accuracy and is generally more comfortable to hold over long periods of time. The motion controls on the JoyCon & wrist straps are pretty fun to play with though, so definitely try those out too.
Warframe is definitely not a game for everyone. Admittedly, it can be somewhat daunting once you get a few hours into it, there is little to no hand holding or explaining done to help the player with the intricacies of the game. The usual route for learning the ropes is via various sources around the internet but there is always plain old in-game global chat with other players. The Warframe community is legendary in the interwebs for how helpful it is.
You will enjoy doing missions on different planets when starting out, collecting loot to craft new Warframes and weapons. In due time feeling out the game you will learn about clans and the open world missions, the rest of the storyline, trading and all that jazz. It's understandable that if you don't know what you're doing sometimes; playing will feel a bit aimless and that's fair. The initial learning curve can be a tad steep, so hopefully the developers will make things a bit more accessible for newer players. For what it's worth, overall it is very accommodating to many different player skill levels, as long as you take the time to learn the ins and outs.
Combat is VERY fast-paced yet intuitive and easy to learn
Is Warframe 'Pay to Win'?
The fact that this game is free is mind boggling. This is easily a quality $60 AAA game. There are micro transactions in the form of a premium currency, similar to many online games like MMORPG's BUT purchases are not necessary at all! The premium currency (platinum) can be bought, sold and traded between players just like the regular in-game currency, no limitations at all. Such a system is unheard of in online microtransaction games.
Kudos to the makers of this game for doing this, not luring players into the game due it being free and putting content behind a paywall when you become invested. It's great to having everything open and accessible, leaving you with full freedom to buy something if/whenever you choose.
From its launch in 2013, the game has been slowly growing its playerbase and popularity out of the love and passion of a few developers who had a dream of making their own game their own way, without the overhead and limitations of a big company telling them what to do. It constantly receives new content and bug fixes where players can also give their feedback as to what they think, would like to add or even improve upon.
Some players have put in over 1,000 hours into the game and still have many items to unlock, upgrade and master. Panic Button (who ported the game from PC to Switch) has a long-term contract with the developers to ensure the game stays in tip top shape. With a current playerbase of 26 million across all the different platforms, Digital Extremes has noted that they hope to maintain and keep working on Warframe for at least the next 6 years.
There are over 50 Warframes and 300 weapons to craft, customize and master so far
It is so surprising that a game of this kind would appeal to both the hardcore and casual gamer alike. Nothing is perfect, but this is not very far off from being perfect. The expansiveness, gameplay, beauty and overall fun factor of this game arguably rivals first party games like Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Make your way through the first few hours and you will see there is something amazing to be had. With a promising past, loyal and dedicated teams behind this game, the future looks very bright. How this game manages to be so fun, look so amazing AND IS FREE is beyond comprehension.
Warframe for the Nintendo Switch gets a solid 9/10.
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The latest release from pop artist Drew Schueler is the fresh tune 'Can't Say (Word Like That), "a song describing the fear of telling someone you love them for the first time. It focuses on unrequited or one-sided love, a universal and frequent subject in pop culture. The song considers the anxiety of potential rejection from expressing these true feelings."
So the young and promising singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer based in Nashville, introduce his song and emerges with a compelling and energizing number on the crowded pop music scene, releasing a hit number which conveys all the uniqueness of his creative touch.
Moved by vibrant and catchy melodies, compelling electro-pop synth textures, and enthralling rhythms, with 'Can't Say' Drew Schueler brings us a production of remarkable musicmanship, already selected as a top 10 finalist for the 2020 NSAI Song Contest presented by CMT and Martin Guitars.
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Fred Atkinson (1910 – May 14, 1988), better known by his ring name Fred Atkins, was a New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, trainer, referee, manager, and announcer, best known for his time with Maple Leaf Wrestling.
Atkinson was born in Westport, New Zealand. He worked in the Australian outback cutting railway ties during the Great Depression. Atkinson spent his spare time wrestling for exercise and recreation. He wrestled as an amateur wrestler for five years before turning pro during World War II.
Atkinson first wrestled as an amateur in New Zealand before turning pro in the late 1930`s. On October 10, 1942, he defeated Pat Meehan in a tournament final to win the Australian Heavyweight Championship. He wrestled in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore into the mid 1940`s. Atkinson's bout against world champion Jim Londos in November 1946 was held at Sydney Stadium in front of a record setting 14,000 spectators. Atkinson remained champion for several years until leaving the country in 1949. From there, he immigrated to Canada where he started a long association with Toronto promoter Frank Tunney. While Atkins was not flashy compared to his fellow wrestlers he put on strong efforts as a heel.
As well as Toronto he also appeared in St. Louis and Chicago facing the likes of Moose Cholak, Sweet Daddy Siki, Pat Flanagan, Lou Thesz, Whipper Billy Watson and Pat O'Connor. For a time he also appeared in San Francisco. In Toronto he pulled a major victory over Watson for the NWA British Empire Championship before losing it back to him. Into the 1960`s he became a popular and respected baby face but again turned heel as a manager mainly to the men he also trained like Giant Shoehi Baba and Tiger Jeet Singh. Atkinson also worked as a pre-season conditioning trainer for the Toronto Maple Leaf's hockey club.
Later he worked as a referee for the Tunney promotion and wrestled his final match in 1974 at age 63. He lived in Ridgeway, Ontario near Fort Erie and when training wrestlers would have them run along a Lake Erie beach on the sand to build their leg strength. As a referee he was no nonsense. If a wrestler wouldn't let go of a hold Atkins would shove an elbow in their face. At Maple Leaf Gardens he refereed the February 6, 1977 NWA World Heavyweight title match in which Harley Race beat Terry Funk for the championship. On another card between Superstar Billy Graham and prelim Terry Yorkston he angrily removed his shirt and threatened to go at Graham as Graham roughed up Yorkston after the match. In 1977 he looked after follow longtime wrestler Lee Henning in his home until Henning died there of cancer. As the Tunney promotion went though changes holding cards for the American Wrestling Association, NWA Mid-Atlantic and the World Wrestling Federation he stayed on as a referee while working as a trainer for the Buffalo Sabers hockey club until his passing.
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↑ "FRED ATKINS IS WRESTLING CHAMPION". Barrier Miner. October 12, 1942.
↑ Munroe, Jack (November 26, 1946). "Londos Wins; Atkins "out"". Sydney Morning Herald.
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Tune into the Golden Joysticks livestream this Friday.
If my calculations are correct, I make it just 93 days till next year's PC Gamer Weekender—our second annual weekend-long event in the heart of London that celebrates all things PC gaming.
At this year's inaugural gathering our tech experts shared their enlightened PC-building wisdom, some of the best developers in the world held presentations, and attendees competed in tournaments and got the chance to sample a host of top unreleased games—not least the HTC Vive months before it landed in Europe. It'll be more of the same next year (yes, Chris is streaming the entire thing again) with the first of the early accessible games to be revealed at this week's Golden Joysticks Awards.
The Golden Joysticks, aka the videogame Oscars, is this Friday, November 18th. You can watch the winners via the Golden Joystick Awards 2016 live stream—the broadcast begins at 7am PT/3pm GMT.
The PC Gamer Weekend, on the other hand, is set to run the weekend of February 18-19 in the Olympia London. Tickets are on sale now at the early bird price of £9.99, and they come with a free digital edition of the February 2017 PC Gamer.
The two-day Weekender+ ticket is even better value for 2017, and will include all sorts of extras including exclusive early access to the show. For show news and announcements, check out the PC Gamer Weekender website, and follow us our PC Gamer Weekender Twitter account. Again, if you can't make it, Chris will be streaming the whole thing without a break. Poor guy.


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The artists of the show have worked for many years in the context of the natural sciences, research, and ecology. For the Hildesheim exhibition they have taken up topics from the museum's geological collection and employed scientific methodology for their own fictional documentations.
They slip into the role of amateur scientists setting up beehives, baiting birds of paradise, or collecting gene data. They undertake expeditions to the edges of the earth with the verve of an explorer or archive weeds, insects, and trees in the urban space.
As the exhibition title suggests, they observe animals, reflect on the passage of time, and devote themselves to subtle changes in our environment.


Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Nirand Pornsuksomsakul, 33, a resident of Chiang Rai's Mae Chan district, at the Chiang Rai bus terminal in Muang district at 5.30pm.
Police said Nirand was found sitting on a bus while waiting for it to depart for Bangkok. The drug was found hidden in his travel bag.
He said a Myanmar man, whom he knew only as "Boy", had paid him Bt50,000 to courier the drug from a graveyard in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai district to a recipient in the capital.
I'd suggest you carefully melt away out of sight.
Boy is he in trouble ..
'Intelligence gathering' could be seen as an oxymoron.
No honour amongst Thai criminals .If they can make a buck /get off being charged for something they are Dogs (dobbers) Worst of the lot.


If you noticed your iPhone 4 freezing when texting, you are the only one who experienced it. The good thing is, you can solve this issue easily, without too much fuss or some complicated solutions. Down below, you can find 5 ways to fix iPhone 4 freezing when texting, so make sure to try them. In just a couple of minutes, you will notice the difference, and texting will be fun again.
If there are too many apps running, it can have the impact on texting as well. Tap on the home button two times, and you will get the list of the apps you recently used. Swipe up, and close a few.
If the issue with freezing started right after you installed some new app, maybe the app is faulty, and it is causing the problem. Delete that app, and see if there is any difference.
To do this, tap on the home button two times, find the SMS app, and swipe up to close it. After a couple of seconds, launch the app again.
If you have too many saved conversations, especially with photos or videos that may be the reason why you are experiencing the problem. Simply delete them. That way, you will free up some space on your phone.
Same as people, phones often need a fresh start. Backup the files from your device, tap on Settings, General, Reset, and choose Erase all Content and Settings. After several minutes, when the task is over, and settings deleted, set up your iPhone 4 as a new device.
The problem can be easily solved with 5 ways to fix iPhone 4 freezing when texting listed above, which is why you should try them out. As promised, texting will be fun and enjoyable.


From 'Ukraine's Got Talent,' an unlikely source of pure inspiration. An unbelievably powerful representation of the tens of millions of Ukrainains who died in WWII.
When you're feeling sad and blue…like the world might end…this is a bit refreshing.


Looking for an activity to keep your students busy while you get everyone checked in on the first few days of school? This word scramble will challenge the students to think of words related to school and ease them back into the idea of completing work. There is an answer key on the second page.


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Engineers of the New Millennium: Dream Jobs profiles engineers in dream jobs all over the world. We met a robotics engineer, a video games designer, a Bollywood special effects expert, a toys engineer, and others with a passion for their work. We traveled to four continents and hear stories about some people who always knew what they wanted to be, and others with roundabout paths into fields they came to love. Dream Jobs is a co-production of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation.


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The Limitations and Breakthroughs of Teaching Filmmaking Over Zoom
I teach documentary filmmaking at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at Mizzou. One basic lesson about filming interviews is that you should try to place your subject in an environment where they feel comfortable. Filming someone in their own home is common; it's relaxing, and people can be themselves. When Yance Ford switches on his camera to talk to my class over Zoom, he's in what looks like his home office, but it could be a bedroom. I don't ask. The Oscar-nominated director of Strong Island is wearing a T-shirt and clearly feeling chill.
Holding classes over Zoom has become a necessity in a pandemic. We used to fly in visiting artists, and it was a real loss when all that was cancelled. The now-ubiquitous Zoom image is draining for students and professors alike. But I've had Yance talk to my students many times, and this is the best class we've done. The insights flow freely. He holds his face close to the camera, not unlike the signature image of Strong Island. He discusses the mechanics of that close-up interview technique that helps give the movie its unique intensity. Thousands of miles away, my students lean forward to watch their own screens. Something potent happens when he maneuvers his face into the exact same angle and distance from the camera as in his film. "Like this," he says. And I can see them get it.
From Strong Island (2017), dir. Yance Ford (image courtesy Netflix)
Any image can be made into a movie, but there's something different about Zoom. Skype, FaceTime, and other videoconferencing tools have always held the faintest scent of cinema, but Zoom doesn't feel quite like them — there's its sudden omnipresence, its particular image quality, its ease of use, the way we've all learned lighting techniques (or not), its frame, the quiet desperation on both ends of the line, etc. The circumstances of use its have made us all think about the image in a way that feels almost like filmmaking. Our homes are now stages, and we learn a lot about each other based on where and how we film ourselves. Small performances and self-projected fantasies often make for great nonfiction cinema. In the before-times, we were more selective about when to turn on our video images. Now we all live on camera, so we might as well become decent documentarians.
Maybe we're also getting more interested in reading images. Think about how carefully you'll study the bookshelves and décor behind the person you Zoom with, looking for clues. Remember the brief national fixation with Barack Obama's bare bookshelves? As the late great documentary editor Jonathan Oppenheim said, interview is behavior, and the frame reveals personality.
Barack Obama takes a risk here. Gaps in a bookcase can indicate humility, that there is more to learn, but if they widen into chasms then credibility slips away. The stifled flowers guide us. Barack tells us change is needed for flowers to flourish and books to fill shelves. pic.twitter.com/hlEA7U3B5n
— Bookcase Credibility (@BCredibility) June 4, 2020
Early in the pandemic, Eric Hynes, Jeff Reichert, and Damon Smith released a Zoom-based installment of their series Room H.264, and it showed the possibilities of this now nearly universal visual language. The frame is locked, the silence of thinking is magnified, and the unfeeling camera creates a flat canvas from which mise-en-scène pops forward. It's all stasis and energy, like some of my favorite films. Every day, across the world, we're all imitating Chantal Akerman.
When things broke in March, I wasn't so happy when I realized that virtually all my teaching would be virtual. Still, no expenditures for travel means lower costs and more guests for the students — an unspoken lesson in budget filmmaking. Many of my students are young filmmakers. Getting together and watching films in class is crucial. Since young people are now so accustomed to watching movies on laptops and tablets, I cringed at the thought of adding to their small-screen time while losing the comradery and magic of in-person group screenings. This was no way to watch movies together. Early in the semester, though, the immediacy of the Zoom interview (as opposed to the oft-stilted energy of an in-class visit) became clear. Tabitha Jackson, director of the Sundance Film Festival, seemed really comfortable talking to us in medium close-up from her home in our first chat of the Fall. Tabitha is a friend and eminently approachable, but for students who sometimes view their dreams as distant and abstract, humanizing one of the most powerful gatekeepers in the business was affecting. It was one of the light-switched-on moments I crave as both a teacher and a filmmaker — the kind of connection cinema forges.
Later we chatted with Hale County This Morning, This Evening director RaMell Ross, and he was even closer to the camera. Filmmakers invented this kind of close-up for good reason. The charge of RaMell creating such a mighty image of himself to talk about his own mighty images was palpable. There was value in seeing Brandy Burre, the lead of my film Actress, Zooming in from the same room where a crucial scene took place, now years later after her life has changed significantly. There was a subtle tension when Steve James got up from his desk to put away his dog, leaving the frame for us to study, before returning to talk about the triumphs and regrets of his work since Hoop Dreams, which he said paid for his house. There was a crackling energy when Garrett Bradley Zoomed in from a closet at MoMA, where she was in the process of both promoting her brilliant film Time and installing her groundbreaking exhibition. "Don't try to be a genius," she told the wide-eyed students, "Do it and be a good person."
A scene from Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018), dir. RaMell Ross (image courtesy IDIOM Film)
At its best, documentary is cinema in the present tense, though its images are filmed in the past; the sense of happening is a construction. But when Turner Ross gets up from his seat next to his brother Bill during Zoom class to walk his laptop over to a wall of images which he says are inspiring their new film, that's happening, and it's a revelation. And the students experienced this moment in the same frame through which they watched the brothers' Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. This feels like a breakthrough, teaching filmmaking directly with filmmaking.
Now we're at the end of this semester, at the end of a never-ending year. I'm exhausted, and so are my students. Our eyes have been melted by virtual everything, our brains rewired, and we don't know when we'll be in class together again. In the middle of an ongoing pandemic, with US democracy on life support, this exhaustion is the tiniest of tragedies. But reflecting back on these Zoom conversations and the little one-shot movies we inadvertently made with so many amazing filmmakers, I can't help but feel that maybe some of the fatigue is the sweet kind, like after a good movie. I've learned a lot as a teacher, and when this all passes, I'm going to keep exploring the possibilities of teaching image-making through images of the makers.
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Die römisch-katholische Kirche St. Remigius  ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Kirchengebäude in Dirmerzheim, einem Stadtteil von Erftstadt im Rhein-Erft-Kreis. 1758 erhob Kurfürst Clemens August die Dirmerzheimer Kirche, bis zu dem Zeitpunkt eine Filiale von St. Kilian in Lechenich und dem Stift St. Aposteln in Köln inkorporiert, zur Pfarrkirche. Sie ist dem heiligen Remigius von Reims geweiht und gehört heute zum katholischen Seelsorgebereich Rotbach-Erftaue im Erzbistum Köln.

Baugeschichte und Architektur
Eine kleine romanische Saalkirche des 11. Jahrhunderts mit eingezogenem quadratischen Chor ist durch Grabungen nachgewiesen. Reste aus Bruchstein, Kiesel und römischem Material bis zu einer Höhe von fast vier Metern sind in den östlichen Saalwänden des Baus erhalten.
Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts wurde der Chor erweitert und erhielt einen abgesetzten Sockel, Strebepfeiler, und einen polygonalen Chorabschluss sowie eine polygonale Sakristei. Aus dieser Zeit stammen die Fresken an den Chorwänden. Durch Einbau spitzbogiger Fenster mit Maßwerk Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts wurden einige Gemälde im Chor beschädigt. Nach einer Erweiterung des Kirchenschiffs nach Westen wurde 1778 ein Kirchturm außerhalb der Kirche errichtet, der durch Ankerzahlen datiert ist. Er ersetzte den im Innern der Kirche liegenden hölzernen Glockenturm.
Nach der Beseitigung der Kriegsschäden im Jahre 1946 entstand in den Jahren 1958/60 ein Erweiterungsbau, bei dem das Querschiff in das Langhaus eingeschoben wurde. Dadurch erhielt die Kirche einen kreuzförmigen Grundriss. In der Vierung steht der Zelebrationsaltar. Im Innenraum sind beide Schiffe mit offenem Dachstuhl versehen.

Chorausstattung
In dem etwas tiefer als das Kirchenschiff gelegenen Chor, der als Taufkapelle dient, ist die ursprüngliche Ausstattung mit einem spätgotischen Sakramentshaus aus Sandstein noch weitgehend erhalten. Der Fußboden besteht aus Tonplättchen, die in Fischgrätmustern und Kreisen verlegt wurden,  Brennhilfen der Töpfer, die eine Zweitverwendung fanden.

Die spätgotischen Fresken der Chorwände stellen den Pfarrpatron, den heiligen Remigius, und die 12 Apostel dar.
Die Ausmalungen im Gewölbe, die, auf einem Spruchband datiert, 1523 entstanden, wurden 1981/82 gründlich restauriert.
Sie zeigen Symbole des Leidens und der Auferstehung Christi, Schweißtuch und ein von den vier Evangelistensymbolen umgebenes  Gotteslamm, das ein Schriftband mit der römischen Jahreszahl MDXXIII (1523) trägt.
Die freigelegten Reste der Wandmalerei an den Unterseiten des Chorbogens zeigen die heilige Ursula und die heilige Lucia, die Malereien beidseitig des Chorbogens eine Szene der Hubertusjagd und die im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert im Kölner Raum sehr verehrten "Heiligen Vier Marschälle" Cornelius, Quirinus, Hubertus und Antonius.

Weitere Ausstattung
Von den erhaltenen Kirchenschätzen sind die bedeutendsten:
 ein um 1300 entstandener musizierender Engel in der Tracht eines Diakons, der ursprünglich zu den musizierenden Engeln des Kölner Doms gehörte
 eine neu gefasste Figur des heiligen Remigius um 1480.
 eine Kasel, auf deren vorderen und rückwärtigen Seite ein Kreuzstab aufgenäht ist. Die "Kölner Bortenkreuzstickereien" entstanden Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts.

Glocken
Zwei Mal lieferte die Glockengießerei Otto aus Hemelingen/Bremen Bronzeglocken für die St.-Remigius-Kirche in Dirmerzheim und zwar in den Jahren 1904 und 1923. Im Jahr 1904 waren es drei Glocken mit der Disposition fis' – a' – h'. Die beiden kleineenn Glocken wurden im Ersten Weltkrieg vernichtet, weshalb Otto diese im Jahr 1923 erneut lieferte. Diese wurde wiederum im Zweiten Weltkrieg eingeschmolzen. Von den Glocken hat nur die in schwerer Otto-Rippe gegossene fis-Glocke von 1904 die Glockenvernichtungen der beiden Weltkriege überstanden. Sie hängt heute zusammen mit drei Glocken der Glockengießerei Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock aus dem Jahr 1955 in dem vierstimmigen Geläut mit der Disposition: fis' – h' – cis'' – d''.

Lage
Die weiß verputzte Kirche mit einem unverputzten Turm aus Backstein steht unmittelbar an der Dirmerzheimer Landstraße auf einem ummauerten früheren Friedhof, auf dem noch einige Grabsteine erhalten sind.

Literatur
 Frank Kretschmar: Kirchen und Andachtsstätten im Rhein-Erft-Kreis. Köln 2005. ISBN 3-7616-1944-8
 Josef Recker: Dirmerzheim im Wandel der Zeiten 1758–2008. 250 Jahre St. Remigius. Dirmerzheim 2008.
 Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (Bearb.): Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Band I: Rheinland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München/Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X.

Weblinks

 Homepage des Seelsorgebereichs Rotbach-Erftaue.

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Pfarrkirche des Erzbistums Köln
Kirchengebäude in Erftstadt
Gotisches Bauwerk in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Remigiuskirche
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There will be a set dancing night in The Mill Room, Kilcoole on Friday 14th March at 9pm. Music by Michael & Brian. All are welcome.
Djouce Golf Club had two ladies representing The Club in Daily Mail/All Ireland Golf Competition in Blainroe this week – Margaret Bolger aka Duffner and Catherine Halligan – The Shark. We would like to congratulate them on their great effort and extremely good play on the day. Though they did not succeed in getting to the next level, we are very proud of them both, and wish them and the other teams good luck in their inter club matches which start 31st March.
The starting date for ladies golf lessons which will be held at Djouce Golf Club is Tuesday April 1st2014. Lessons will be held on Tuesday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm and from 4pm to 5pm. There will be a max number of 12 ladies per group and the course will run for 4 weeks. The course is suitable for all levels from beginners to advanced. Cost is €50 per person. For further details please contact Djouce Lady Captain Deirdre Carroll on 087 9118499. or on 086 8512238.
An exchange is planned for August this year with a group of individuals and families from Spezet's Breton Band travelling to Roundwood. The group will have their own transport and intend to organise opportunities to play throughout their stay. A meeting regarding the Spezet Twinning will take place in Roundwood Old School on Tuesday the 18th of March at 8:30pm. If you are interested in hosting an adult band member or small family group please come along to the meeting. A group from Roundwood will travel to Spezet in 2015. Roundwood host families will be most welcome to travel to Spezet to sample the french hospitality in return. The twinning provides an excellent opportunity for students learning french to practise their oral language skills and experience french culture in a relaxed and family orientated atmosphere. Those who travelled to Spezet in the past have made lifelong friends there and continue to communicate after 20 years or more. Come along to the meeting for more information or email [email protected].
The mile this year stretches from Roundwood Health Centre to the Derralossary Church Lane on the Annamoe Road. Well done to all the volunteers for their great work on the hedge cutting and litter picks. The next meeting will take place in Aras an Tochar on Wednesday 19th of March at 8pm.
A beginners computer course will start in Roundwood National School on Thursday 13th of March for 8 weeks. If you are interested in taking part or would like further information please call 086 8055040. The course costs €20 for those with a social welfare entitlement and €40 otherwise. This course is organised through the Roundwood & District Community Council with the support of Community Education Section of Kildare Wicklow Education & Training Board (formerly Wicklow VEC).
A flower arranging course will start in the Old School Roundwood on Tuesday 25th of March for 6 weeks. If you are interested in taking part or would like further information please call 086 8055040. The course costs €20 for those with a social welfare entitlement and €40 otherwise. This course is organised through the Roundwood & District Community Council with the support of Community Education Section of Kildare Wicklow Education & Training Board (formerly Wicklow VEC).


It had been touted as a much higher-end smart speaker than Google Home. Announced at the last Berlin IFA at a price of 299 dollars, the Sony model finally arrives in stores at 200 dollars (Not in India), the product is positioned right in front of the walls of Google; with much better arguments than the latter. This is why we choose the device of the Japanese rather than the American.
Google Home is more compact than the Sony.
First, let's take a break from the exactly identical point between the two models: the Google Assistant. The software part is exactly the same. Unlike the Android OS, manufacturers can not customize the services installed on their device. The Sony LF-S50G is therefore content to perform exactly the same tasks: answer a question of general culture, turn off the lights of the home, launch a Netflix series on TV or music from Spotify directly on the speaker. And updates made by Google on its wizard are deployed in exactly the same way on all smart speakers.
The speaker dedicated to midrange and treble.
This is clearly the first point on which the Sony model wins hands down. We had indeed been disappointed by Google Home. The three speakers of the latter do in fact deliver almost only midrange frequencies. If the sound quality of the Sony model is not the most incredible – there is a weakness in the high midrange bandwidth in our measurement of the bandwidth – it offers bass deeper than its competitor. To achieve this, Sony has chosen to place two speakers face to face in a horizontal position. The lower one is responsible for mid and high frequencies and the upper one – supported by a vent – bass.
Between the two speakers, the design is very different.
Another advantage of the Sony model is its ability to push the volume automatically. Imagine an evening with friends where the discussions intensify as it progresses. The volume of the music will follow so as not to be too covered by the voices and to become inaudible. The function can be deactivated if necessary.
Its use in a bathroom or kitchen is quite suitable. The Sony LF-S50G meets the IPX3 standard. It is, therefore, able to withstand a rain of drops of water up to 60° from the vertical.
Swirling your finger in one direction or the other above the speaker increases or decreases the volume. Performing a hand gesture from the bottom up makes the audio playback pause. Moving your hand to the left goes back to the previous song, right to the next song. Finally, leaving it three seconds above the device launches the Google Assistant without having to say "OK Google". This system is practical because you can control the speaker directly, even with dirty hands, for example, when you are cooking. Let's concede, however, that the system is not 100% efficient and that it is experiencing some regular misses.
Like Google Home, Sony's device can also be paired with a smartphone to serve as a Bluetooth speaker. It uses the codec apt-X, slightly deteriorating, but offering a pretty good audio reproduction. Equipped with an NFC chip, the pairing between the two devices is very easy and fast.
The time is displayed through the grid.
Sony announced three years ago at CES in Las Vegas the widespread use of the Chromecast system on many devices in its range of sound bars, audio amplifiers, wireless speakers and TVs (they are now all equipped with Android TV). Be careful though, no Google Assistant speaker can yet stream Netflix directly to an Android TV. The fault with the service of VOD which makes possible this use via an HDMI key Chromecast, but not on the OS for televisions of Google.


Backyard lighting ideas are also important in the backyard. If you want to decorate the backyard, you should know what the best decoration the backyard. The lighting is the simple thing to make the backyard beautiful. It is because the lighting has different style to make the backyard interesting at night.
The ideas for beauty the backyard is very various. Therefore, you should choose the best idea to make the backyard good looking. The perfect lighting for your backyard is bright lighting. It is because the backyard is outdoor area so you have to choose the bright lamp to light the entire area. Otherwise, you can install some garden lighting in the corner of backyard to make it fascinating and gorgeous.
You can use the backyard for many things. For example you are able to use the backyard as the flower garden. It is interesting right! You can make the backyard is like in the fantasy. Some flowers like rose, orchid, lotus, and many more can be making the backyard amazing. Otherwise, you are able to put a fishpond in the backyard. It is depending with your necessity.


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Vt. women inmates find outlet in writing
Nov 3, 2013, 7:03 PM
BY KTAR NEWSROOM
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – Elaina Decker was full of rage, and if anyone gave her a hard time in prison, she'd act on her anger.
But, she's gentler now. Decker has put aside her anger and worked on discovering who she really is. That transformation has come through writing and the support of a weekly writing group at Vermont's Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility that has helped her come to terms with her past and, perhaps most importantly, with her brother's suicide nine years ago.
"I don't do that anymore because I don't have to," she said of acting out of anger.
About a dozen women convicted of crimes ranging from assault, forgery and drug offenses to armed burglary and murder come together each week to try to make peace with themselves and connect with others by putting their raw emotion into words on paper.
Now, prose and poetry and artwork from about 60 of the inmates are available in a book called "Hear Me, See Me, Incarcerated Women Write," published by Orbis Books.
"These straight-from-the-gut writings by incarcerated women will break your heart and put it back together again," wrote Sr. Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking" of the book.
The inmates write of the pain of childhood traumas, addictions, missing children and loved ones, being behind bars and trying to better and heal themselves. They view the weekly group as a sacred space where they feel safe, are not judged, and can heal. Those are the qualities instilled by the two women from outside the prison who started the circle as volunteers in 2010 and offer the women so much more than a chance to write.
"It's therapeutic," said the 49-year-old Decker who was imprisoned for a drug felony and then violating probation.
"I guess I learned to deal with my brother's suicide here. It took nine years," she said as tears filled her eyes. "It's a great opportunity for self-exploration."
Marybeth Christie Redmond, a journalist and Sarah Bartlett, who founded Women Writing for (a) Change _ Vermont, LLC, started the prison writing circle. The program is now funded with a $30,000 donation from an unidentified benefactor.
Many of the women come from generations of poverty, have suffered some sort of childhood trauma like sexual abuse and have some mental health issue, Redmond said. Addictions, substance abuse and dysfunctional relationships are common.
The program provides an outlet for the women to express themselves in a way that communicates beyond the walls of the facility, Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andrew Pallito said.
"The writings, as an accumulation, help to show the challenges that many of the women face and identify the barriers in front of them," Pallito said.
The sale of the $25 book is expected to cover the cost of publishing 1,500 copies of it. Any proceeds would go back into the writing program.
Recently, the women sat around a table and, one at a time, read aloud comments and praise from people who attended a book launch in Burlington on Oct. 3.
Then, after a volunteer recited a poem called "An Ordinary Life," they put pens to paper and wrote for 15 minutes. They wrote of the pain of being away from their children, the constant noise in prison _ chatter, the jingling of guards' keys, doors opening, closing _ and being accepted by others despite their past.
As each women read theirs aloud, the others jotted down lines that struck them. As they do each week, the women called out the lines at the end of the session _ a sort of live, running poem that is transcribed and read the following week.
"The beauty that awakens us from behind the walls of imprisonment;" "I'm not afraid and all alone;" "Heaven forbid one of us escape into the realm of happiness and light;" "The murmur of her heart understanding my sadness is what keeps me going," were among their writings.
Redmond doesn't excuse what the women have done, and a number who had been released have been returned to prison. But, she and Bartlett hope to give the women a voice and guide them in making better choices when they are released.
Norajean LaManna of Brattleboro, who suffers from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and is in a wheelchair, has attended the writing circle from the start.
"It's the best thing I've ever decided to attend," said the 52-year-old LaManna, who was convicted of armed assault and robbery and been released from prison twice but relapsed into drugs both times.
"It's a way to deal with anger, fear, frustration, not only toward others but toward myself," LaManna said.
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If you haven't been to Botanica in a while, it's definitely time to visit again. Family time is the focus of the biggest extension to the botanical gardens since it opened 24 years ago. The new Downing Children's Garden will be ready for play on July 2, 2011. This is the first of a huge expansion project planned in the gardens which will eventually more than double its size.
The children's garden features elements that come to life and invite kids to join-in. Among the one-acre area will be a giant tree house for climbing, an Enchanted Glen for storytelling, puppet shows and chalk drawing, a musical maze and a farm where kids can work an old fashioned water pump.
I have always thought Botanica already had plenty of exhibits to treat the young and old alike. My kids love the butterfly house which was filled with pansies during our most recent visit. They also enjoy the wall of plants designed specifically to touch and smell, the little pond with the big coy fish they can feed, and there's always something about fountains that kids love. This new exhibit will make Botanica a definite family destination.
The Sedgwick County Zoo is celebrating 40 years of thrilling families. When it opened in 1971 with two small exhibits, it was probably hard to imagine it would become one of the largest zoos in the nation. Today, the zoo is a major regional draw with high class exhibits and plenty of space to keep expanding.
Our favorite exhibits were the Tigers and the Gorillas. Both are some of the newer exhibits at the zoo. You get to cross a long swinging bridge to enter to the Downing Gorilla Forrest which spans eight acres and features over 50 animals. I loved the viewing area for those mighty lowland gorillas, which made you feel like you were at a research station. Key here is an interior (not smelly) building where you can enjoy viewing these animals even on the hottest days.
The new Slawson Family Tiger Trek also has a nice temperature controlled viewing area. The really creative display allows you to walk into a replica of the "wilds of Asia." You can also get up close to red pandas and brow-antlered deer. We got to see the pandas getting fed. So, that's always a thrill.
The zoo does a great job of offering special events and keeper talks throughout the day. Coming up the end of June will be the 4th Annual Ape Awareness weekend featuring special events at the Koch Orangutan & Chimpanzee Habitat. Our boys left TIRED but happy.
While you are in Wichita, don't forget to look up. It's not called the Air Capital of the World without merit. The aviation heritage of the town is nearly always on display in the skies above. People who live in Wichita are skilled at naming the wide variety of military, private and commercial planes often criss-crossing in the skies above.
The great thing about a Weekend in Wichita is that it's an easy drive from nearly anywhere in the state. So, even if Grandma doesn't live there, if you're looking for a quick family get-away, I'd recommend you give it a try.


With farmers facing hardship at the start of the Great Depression, the magazine from International Harvester offered a pep talk.
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New Shaw-Based Food Ordering and Delivery App Helps Restaurants Survive
Look out, Caviar, GrubHub and UberEats. Shaw bar owners have come up with a cheaper homegrown alternative to the national food delivery services, offering DC's bars, restaurants and nightclubs, currently limited to takeout only, a way to keep more cash in their registers instead of sending it to Silicon Valley.
DC To-GoGo, a web and mobile app food and beverage ordering platform, is now live. The name is a nod to DC's official music genre, GoGo, and 'to go.'
When the health emergency forced bars and restaurants to stop seating customers, many businesses that had never considered offering takeout discovered that the national apps' commissions and fees cut each sale by as much as 40%.
The owners of Ivy and Coney, a six-year-old Shaw bar, pitched the idea of a local, low cost alternative app to a District government agency, but were turned down for funding. When they shared their idea with Shaw Main Streets, the commercial revitalization nonprofit decided to fund the app's development, knowing that businesses in the neighborhood and citywide could benefit greatly from the savings the app could generate. And two months and hundreds of volunteer hours later, DC To-GoGo was born.
The DC Council recently enacted a 15% cap on commissions for food ordering and delivery apps during the current health emergency. While the national apps' commissions will go back to being unregulated after the emergency is lifted, DC To-GoGo's commissions will continue to range from 5% to 15%.
DC To-Gogo commissions and fees stay in DC, and every possible dollar generated is spent with DC businesses and contractors. DC To-GoGo customers see how their dollars are spit between the bar or restaurant they're ordering from, drivers and the app. DC To-GoGo drivers will be paid a living wage and keep their full tips, instead of seeing national apps take a share.
DC To-GoGo launched in Shaw, but will expand citywide. "DC To-GoGo is a lifeline for restaurants and bars struggling to stay afloat," said Alexander Padro, executive director of Shaw Main Streets. "DC residents that want to help their favorite restaurants survive the Coronavirus crisis should use the app to order dinner and drinks as often as possible."
DC To-GoGo is available online at www.dctogogo.com and as a mobile app, available for iPhone and Android.
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Q: How to clear abandoned memory that doesn't point to own code? It seems that my app is abandoning memory since the persistent memory of recorded heapshots don't fall to zero and the heap continue to grow when the same set of operations are continuously repeated:

To find out the problems, many people suggest Bill's site that is not useful for me since I am using ARC, whereas he points to reference issues. I then followed Apple docs and watched some videos relating to abandoned memory from the WWDCs. They all say that instruments will help to point to the line of code that might cause the problems. So I reviewed every single object but didn't see anything relating to my code:

A: I think you need to look explicitly for retain cycles. When in hierarchy you have a parent object object that has related object and both have strong type of proprties, they will never get released from memory.
Quick example:
@interface Parent : NSObject
@property (strong) Child *child;
@end
@interface Child : NSObject
@property (strong) Parent *parent;
@end

Also by default properties are strong, so it is the same if you do not declare it at all.
The way it should be:
@interface Parent : NSObject
@property (strong) Child *child;
@end
@interface Child : NSObject
@property (weak) Parent *parent;
@end

I also found information that Instruments can show you retain cycles (and it looks nice). More details here How to activate Cycles reporting in Instruments under ARC? However I don't know if it works with ARC, comments may suggest it does not. As a cumbersome way I can recommend commenting out some code you feel may be responsible and then check the picture.

So that's for the retain cycles. Another thing you should look for is when you allocate memory that ARC is not able to return. Those calls are looking like C functions and by convention have a word Create in the name. Each time you make such a pointer then you should also clean after yourself. Just to give you some examples:

*

*CGColorCreate - CGColorRelease

*CGColorSpaceCreateWithName - CGColorSpaceRelease

*CGBitmapContextCreate - CGContextRelease

As you can see each function has it's corresponding releasing function which usually you should be able to find in documentation.

A: It seems that changing Build Settings\Build Options\Debug Information Format from DWARF to DWARF with dSYM File will fix the problem.

A: Or you are testing with Zombies turned on (edit scheme - diagnostics). If zombies are turned on, they are never deleted and thus memory always grows.

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