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What's a data centre (and why they are so important today)
Ten years ago, data centres were the preserve of big companies with lots of money. These days, data centres are relevant to just about everyone, from the average Joe in the street, to small and medium sized business. And yes, they are still just as important to those big companies.
Data centres are secure facilities which provide the ideal environment for computer equipment to live in. They are, in effect, earthquake-proof concrete bunkers, with controlled access, redundant power supplies (typically consisting of connections from multiple electricity providers, a bank of Uninterruptible Power Supply batteries and a diesel generator), air conditioning, water cooling and fire suppression systems. They are marvels of civil, mechanical and, because they consume enormous quantities of power, electrical engineering.
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Game Changing uses for Cloud that Were Never Possible Before
Cloud has opened up a new world of possibilities for ordinary users who would otherwise never have dreamed of enjoying such ready access to a multitude of services.
With the evolution of the public cloud, anyone with minimal resources can experiment with ideas and services that can fundamentally change the way any number of daily tasks are performed.
Here's our pick of game changing advantages delivered by the cloud:
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What is Cloud?
You will by now have heard the term 'Cloud Computing'a lot. You probably have found that the term 'cloud computing' used for completely different and apparently contradictory circumstances. Google, Uber and Amazon are all 'cloud' but very different services. Didn't Amazon once sell books? AWS, Evernote, Uber, AirBnB, Office 365, Google - all cloud, all quite distinct.
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Inconvenience regretted, says I-T Dept after issues reported on the e-filing website.
IT returns filing AY 2022/23: For this year the I-T department has released new forms - Forms 1 through 6 - to establish details of income from overseas retirement benefit accounts
The Income Tax Department tweeted Saturday evening that taxpayers attempting to file income tax returns online – through the e-filing portal – were experiencing technical difficulties. The I-T Department stated that Infosys, which created the website, had been notified and that irregular traffic' had been observed.
"It has been noticed taxpayers are facing issues in accessing the ITD e-filing portal. As informed by Infosys, they have observed some irregular traffic on the portal for which proactive measures are being taken. Some users may be inconvenienced, which is regretted."
The new e-filing portal, www.incometax.gov.in, went live in June 2021, but it had a bumpy start, with several glitches and difficulties reported. The contract was awarded to Infosys in 2019 and was worth 164.5 crore. Individual taxpayers (excluding those facing tax audits) have until July 31 to file income tax returns for Assessment Year 2022/23 (also known as Financial Year 2021/22). The deadline for others (to whom the audit applies) is October 31. This year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued new forms – Forms 1 through 6 – to establish details of income from overseas retirement benefit accounts.
Your PAN and Aadhaar cards, payslips for the year, details of any investments you may have made (including profits or losses for capital gains calculation), Form 16 and Form 26AS to establish TDS or tax deducted at source, are all required documents. If you live in rented accommodation, you will also need bank statements to establish interest credited and house rent details (with landlord or landlady's PAN). Any loan documents, such as home, car, or education loans, will also be required, as will your PPF, or Public Provident Fund, passbook, assuming you have invested in this over the year.
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Artist Profile - Emma Hignett
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Emma's worked in the broadcasting industry for more than 25 years – her career has seen her presenting breakfast radio programmes on Red Dragon FM and Capital Gold London, as well as television weather reports for ITV regions. Her voiceover work, which began very soon after her first radio work, has ranged from programme narration, to commercials to guiding more than 7 million Londoners every day!
In 2006, Emma was selected to voice Transport for London's new iBus system, announcing more than 19,000 bus stops on the city's 8,600 buses. She's now heard on the Riverbuses and London Overground trains and has recorded in excess of 60,000 announcements. And in 2018, she'll be heard on the new Elizabeth Line (Crossrail).
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MIT physicists capture audio of a "perfect fluid", people put it on their Soundcloud playlists
Clive Thompson 5:30 am Tue Dec 15, 2020
In the realm of physics, a "perfect" fluid is one that flows with the smallest amount viscosity possible under quantum mechanics. It's predicted that you'd find them occurring naturally in the core of neutron stars.
A group of MIT scientists recently created one artificially, and they blasted it with sound waves to see how it would respond.
Very trippily! Here's an audio file, which sounds like someone twiddling the dial on Moog ….
Wonderfully, people on Soundcloud have already begun adding this clip to their electronica playlists.
As MIT notes in a press release ….
This recording is a product of a glissando of sound waves that the team sent through a carefully controlled gas of elementary particles known as fermions. The pitches that can be heard are the particular frequencies at which the gas resonates like a plucked string.
The researchers analyzed thousands of sound waves traveling through this gas, to measure its "sound diffusion," or how quickly sound dissipates in the gas, which is related directly to a material's viscosity, or internal friction.
Surprisingly, they found that the fluid's sound diffusion was so low as to be described by a "quantum" amount of friction, given by a constant of nature known as Planck's constant, and the mass of the individual fermions in the fluid. [snip]
"It's quite difficult to listen to a neutron star," says Martin Zwierlein, the Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics at MIT. "But now you could mimic it in a lab using atoms, shake that atomic soup and listen to it, and know how a neutron star would sound."
(That image above, by Christine Daniloff, comes via the MIT press release)
AI-powered enhancement of voice recordings
Adobe Enhance claims to improve the quality of audio recordings. Such things already exist (and are supremely useful to journalists) for making low-quality interview tapes more easily transcribed, but Adobe… READ THE REST
Explore a library of disappearing and extinct sounds at Obsolete Sounds
Obsolete Sounds is described as the "world's biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct." This new project from Cities & Memory, a global sound remix community,… READ THE REST
The creepiness of a sonically dead room
I enjoyed this recent article in the New York Times about the weird experience of being in an anechoic chamber—a special room that absorbs absolutely all the sound around you.… READ THE REST


As you may have read recently one upcoming sci-fi movie I'm looking forward to is the barmy premised Outlander, the Vikings vs Aliens movie. This poster above is the final one to be released before the movies comes out.
The premise once again is: During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan (James Caviezel), a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.
Completely barmy, but one to see nonetheless!


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A Produce is Transported R.I.P.
Barry Craig passed away a few days ago on September 4th. You may not have known him by that name, but you might be familiar with the music he produced over the last two and a half decades as A Produce. He was featured heavily on Echoes, especially in the 1990s when he was most prolific.
It's sad to take note of Barry's passing since he's in the Echoes generation of musicians if you will, artists who are about my age who grew up listening to the same music. Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Steve Tibbetts are all artists who fall into this group, the 50-somethings, and that's much too early to leave the planet.
As A Produce, Barry Craig created sweeping expanses of sound that owed a debt to Steve Roach. But unlike Roach, A Produce usually had a hint of melody in his music, even in some of his most abstract, drone-zone works. I interviewed Barry in 1996 and looking back on it, it seems to sum up this musician as a man and as an artist.
He picked a difficult moniker for a stage name, but it was an even more difficult musical road that this synthesist and composer tried to follow. Throughout the 1990s he released a series of albums that explored the dimensions of introspective music and techno-tribal trance. Under the name of A Produce, synthesist Barry Craig made an ethereal brand of techno-tribal ambiences.
Sitting in his apartment at the corner of a busy intersection in Glendale, California, it was a different kind of ambience that dominated the room. "That's ambient traffic noise out there," said Craig sardonically. "People are waiting to turn at the stop sign there and have their radios cranked. And the windows down." It was a wonder how he made his music amidst the noise. "I sort of wait for the spaces in between," he said. Once I'm into it, I've got the volume up a little bit, I can tune out the rest or tune in more of what my sounds are.
Since The Clearing, A Produce released dozens of CDs on his own Tranceport label as well as the Hypnos label. If his influences aren't apparent in the music, he reveals them in his instrumental credits. he gives his sounds names like Wavestation, Hassell Air, Somber Reptiles And Fripp Vs Room, nodding to the first generation of modern ambient musicians.
Barry Craig died of natural causes on September 4, 2011 in Los Angeles, CA. He leaves behind his wife Jane, parents Jim and Doris, and sisters Cheryl and Laurie. Friends and followers are invited to leave words of remembrance about Barry on this Facebook page. Those wishing to express words to his family are invited to contact his sisters: Cheryl =cheryldparker@comcast.net or Laurie = hvn2fn@aol.com. You can read tributes to A Produce on the Hypnos Forum.
His most recent CD release in 2011 was INTANGIBLE, performed by A Produce & Loren Nerell. Barry's musical works are available from Hypnos Records or CDBaby or http://www.amazon.com.
A Produce transported us for years. Now he's been transported himself.
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Thanks John for the tribute to Barry, he is very much missed. I just thought I should mention that you should probably remove the link to Trance Port, since Barry is gone no one is around to full fill those orders.
Of all the more than forty electronic artists I have collected, beginning all the way back to "Zeit" from Tangerine Dream, no other artist has moved me like Barry Craig's truly different, and captivating epics. I loved his use of industrial noise over a floor of synthesizers.
"Heart of the Dunes" NEVER fails to fascinate me and to also send chills right down my spinel. I have given this tune to more than 50 people and most of them say it does the same for them.
Barry's music would have made a helluva soundtrack for the new "Prometheus" film, the Ridley Scott "Alien" prequel this summer. A Produce's evocative soundscapes coulda/shoulda been used to high acclaim, too, in lots of other dark genre film thrillers, IMO.


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Liquid Cooled PC in-desk design
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I'll admit, I'm not really into water cooled PC's since I don't know much about them. But when I saw this mod, I was gobsmacked. Using an acrylic-top desk laser cut, combined with an aluminum frame, they created thier computer desk. Looks goods, runs cool AND save's floorspace, this is a winner and I'd be very interested in attempting such a similar mod myself (if I had the funds ). You can check out the rest of the article over at popularmechanics.com
49-port USB hub… Sweet
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I didn't know one of these things existed. So, this should count up for all your loose USB sticks hanging around, bluetooth dongle, cup warmer, fan, external hard disk, webcam … the list could go on. Though its still unpratical for its size, I reckon you could come up a with a nice RAID solid state hard array using USB sticks. What would you do with it?
Gold nanotubes boost DVD storage
Australia researchers have unveiled a new type of disc that stores 10,000 times more data than current DVDs and could be on the market within a decade.
The discs store 1.6 terabytes of data, eclipsing the capacity of current DVD and Blu-ray discs which hold up to 50 gigabytes.
The researchers, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, have published their breakthrough in the journal Nature.
A standard DVD recorder uses light of a single wavelength to 'burn' data onto the surface of the disc.
The team at Swinburne found that by adding gold nanorods to the disc they were able to increase its capacity.
The nanorods react to light according to their shape. This allowed the researchers to record information using light of different wavelengths, or colours, on the same location on the disc.
The researchers also used polarisation – the angle of the light's electric field – to record data.
"The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees," says paper co-author Dr James Chon.
"So for example, we were able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, we were able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering with each other."
Professor Min Gu, director of the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne, who was also involved in the research, says current DVD and CD technology only uses a small fraction of the disc, essentially recording in 2D.
He believes the use of multiple wavelengths and polarisation will allow future DVD recorders to use a greater volume of the disc.
"We have created a new recording device that can respond to different colour and different polarisation," says Professor Gu. "By using these properties we can use more of the disc."
In their paper, the researchers were able to record three layers of information, using three different wavelengths and two polarisations.
Since publication, the authors have recorded 10 layers, and they believe it is possible to record 100 layers onto a single disc.
Beyond home entertainment, the discs could be used to store large medical files such as MRI scans, as well as financial, military and security records.
[via ABC News
Well if this becomes available on a retail level, it'll destroy blu-ray for sure. Excellent !
Winfox Adds Jump Lists to Firefox on Windows 7
Windows only: Jump Lists are one of the best new features in Windows 7, and since Firefox still doesn't take advantage of them, a small utility called Winfox adds the feature for you.
Using the utility is simple enough—just pin Winfox to your taskbar and you'll have a new Firefox icon with an enhanced context menu—you can open new tabs, view your most frequently visited pages, pin items by simply dragging and dropping, and the items even display the favicon of the page. It's one of those features that most likely will be included into future versions of Firefox, but for now it might be just what you're looking for.
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Sweet, Windows 7 looks promising. Shortcuts make life so much easier.
DIY Laptop Stand: Cardboard Style
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Man was I amazed when I saw this:
GreenUpgrader has managed to create an usable and cheap laptop stand. I know it doesn't look a million dollars but hey, it will certainly increase airflow to the Laptop and will provide better screen position. Head over to GreenUpgrader to print out the template yourself and give it go. The how-to article is easy to follow and has plenty of pictures to go with it. My laptop is out for repairs at the moment and does weigh a fair bit. With a few modification, I might just have myself a cheap, effective and usable cardboard laptop stand. Have fun!
Rumored Microsoft 3D Wii killer
The rumors, leaked images, and speculation are only going to get worse as we move closer to E3, and now it's Microsoft's turn to bear the scrutiny of the gaming press. A report making the rounds, along with a "leaked" photo from Engadget, seems to show a type of sensor bar that will allow gamers to control their games using only their body. You don't have to hold any hardware, there is interaction with both video and sound, and the system is able to focus on the player and ignore the rest of the movement in the room. How likely is this rumor? Very. In fact, we think we already saw and demoed the technology… last year.
Microsoft is making it clear that the company will have big things in store for E3. "Microsoft is gearing up for a big presence at E3 which will completely transform how people think about home entertainment," Don Mattrick, senior vice president for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, said in a statement at the beginning of the month. European executive David Gosen also hinted that E3 this year would be "gaming changing." It seems that people are comfortable with big promises, on the record.
So what fits the description of the technology according to the leak? At CES last year we met with a company called 3DV that showed off a small Web-camera-like device that was able to detect movement and interaction in 3D space. We even played a boxing game that worked very, very well. Even more impressive was the ability to control media functions with gestures. You could swipe your way through your movies, interact with pictures, change channels, all with a small camera and your arms. Imagine a Microsoft Surface—without the Surface.
In my years of covering games I've sat through literally hundreds of briefings and tech demos at trade shows, and what impressed me about 3DV was how real the technology was. Most companies are all show and no go at trade shows, but 3DV had a camera I could pick up and look at. They had a game I could play, as well as demos of the user interface functions. It was all there, and it was all working. "We're going to be launching comfortably in the sub-$100 area," Tomer Barel, VP of Marketing and Product Management for 3DV, told us.
The 3DV camera does everything the new Microsoft rumor suggests. So is there a connection? Of course there is. In February, Reuters started talking about reports that Microsoft was buying the company, and chief among the uses for the company's ZCam were gaming and teleconferencing applications. Sound familiar?
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Every feature discussed in the Engadget report—every single one—we saw in action in January 2008, by a company that Microsoft was reported to be in talks to buy, using sub-$100 technology that was mature more than 15 months ago.
If Microsoft is going to be showing its own version of the ZCam hardware, it could be bringing motion control that, in our time spent with it, felt even better than Nintendo's. The difference is that this technology works without having to hold any peripherals, with the power of the 360 bringing high-resolution graphics and surround sound, and at a good price. You could use the hardware to pause your streaming Netflix movies, or browse the music on your 360's hard drive. The features of the ZCam brought to the 360 simply makes sense.
Or the original leak and rumor were just that, and we may be spinning our wheels. After contacting Microsoft we received the expected lack of comment. Still, the possibilities here are more than enough to get excited by.
Source:Arstechnica
As they say: "If you can't beat them, join em." Can't say I wouldn't mind it.
BluWiki Sues Apple
Here's a high-tech twist on the 'man bites dog' story. Having launched many legal actions against Web sites and bloggers in the past in order to protect details on its products, is now being sued by the operator of a Wiki site dedicated to iTunes workarounds.
It started when a group of users of the BluWiki site began swapping notes on how to get their iPods and iPhones working with software other than Apple's own iTunes, such as the popular WinAmp and open-source Songbird.
Apple's lawyers contacted OdioWorks, which runs the BluWiki site, with one of their boilerplate take-down letters demanding the content be removed citing alleged breaches of copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. OdioWorks complied, and then kick-started legal action against Apple to retract its threat and allow the non-commercial wiki site to restore the threads.
"I take the free speech rights of BluWiki users seriously" said Sam Odio, owner of OdioWorks. "Companies like Apple should not be able to censor online discussions by making baseless legal threats against services like BluWiki that host the discussions."
The suit has been filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with staff attorney Fred von Lohmann claiming that "Apple's legal threats against BluWiki are about censorship, not about protecting their legitimate copyright interests."
"Wikis and other community sites are home to many vibrant discussions among hobbyists and tinkerers. It's legal to engage in reverse engineering in order to create a competing product, it's legal to talk about reverse engineering, and it's legal for a public wiki to host those discussions."
Source: APC MAG
Serves them right. What goes around comes around.


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Where do I begin... I was first introduced to you when I was four years old. You impressed me with your beautiful language, lush scenery, fresh mountain air, amazing food, fun festas and so much more. It wasn't long before we became good friends, and I was excited to be able to visit you time and time again over the years.
With each visit I grew more fond of you. You opened up and showed me new and exciting things about you that kept me coming back for more. New landscapes, new traditions, new ways of truly enjoying life. Soon I longed for the times when I would see you again, as the time spent apart felt like agony.
While I was away all I would do is compare others to you, but no one else could steal my heart quite like you, not even my own native land.
As I began my life as a young adult, I decided it was time to get serious and take our relationship to the next level. As I started to plan my move over to your quarters, I was quickly cautioned. People told me I had simply fallen under your spell and they warned me of your faults. They insisted that Italy wasn't just all about "la dolce vita." It pained me to hear but I knew deep down they were right. I had seen the faults they were talking about - the lack of work, the disorganization, the political troubles - but I had ignored it all. Instead, I chose to concentrate on the special things that only you could offer the way you do - the appreciation of art, the zest for life, the passion for love, and of course, the mastering of "il dolce far niente."
I got excited too when I saw the topic for this month's link-up! Your letter is so beautiful. I love how you say Italy is the one that got away but you still share a special relationship.
It's definitely a tough decision! Good luck!
Ahhhh I was hoping to read you made the leap whether the spell was actually a spell or not! It's special that you've been able to make it back to Italy so many times and were able to visit at such a young age. Keep coming back to bella italia!
Danila, I think this might be the first letter I've read from any of the Dolce Vita Bloggers that addressed Italy as "the one that got away". Adore that. It's so romantic and bittersweet but I think is the case for many people, not just yourself. Thanks for contributing this month, hope we'll see future posts from you as well, great writing and I just love to hear your perspective as a Italo-Canadian!
I have heard the same thing from so many people, especially Italians that Italy is not all about la dolce vita. But like you too, I have chosen to focus on the good things because there is so much good! Sometimes I think I'd love to live in Italy forever, and then sometimes I think I'd rather keep it as a vacation destination to keep the magic. Thank you for joining us Danila!
Yes, there really is a lot of positive to focus on! :) It is definitely a magical place :) Thanks for having me!
Danila this is great! The faults are real but I am so glad you kept your love for Bella Italia. Hope you get to make that move one day (actually I am sure you will).
"While I was away all I would do is compare others to you..." TELL ME ABOUT IT! Italy can be bitter sweet, without a doubt.


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THURSDAY'S PREP GIRLS ROUNDUP: Streaking Redbirds beat East Side
Published 12:00 am CST, Friday, January 24, 2014
The Alton Redbirds girls basketball construction job took another big step forward Thursday night at West Elementary in Alton.
The Redbirds got 21 points from Jordann Wilson and knocked off the East St. Louis Flyerettes 56-49 in Southwestern Conference play. Alton is 9-9 and 4-5 in the SWC.
The Redbirds are on the brink of reaching double-digit victories for the first time in a season since 2009 when they finished 13-14. East Side, which entered the game sitting in second place in the SWC behind Edwardsville, falls to 8-4 and 5-2 in the conference.
The Redbirds have won four in a row and six of their last eight, with the only losses in that stretch coming to 17-0 Edwardsville and 19-2 Civic Memorial.
Jasmine Bishop scored 14 points and Lajarvia Brown finished with 12 for Alton, which led 23-19 at the half. The Redbirds open play at 12 p.m. Saturday as the No. 5 seed against Jacksonville Routt in the Carrollton Tournament.
Carlinville 37, Bunker Hill 30 – Kathleen Kelly converted 4 of 4 free throws in the final minute to help the Cavaliers secure victory in the Macoupin County Tournament at Hlafka Hall in Bunker Hill.
Carlinville advances to the county championship game against once-beaten Southwestern at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The Minutemaids play Gillespie for third place.
Talesha Scott scored 12 points, Kelly had 10 and Megan Stayton added eight for Carlinville.
Southwestern 44, Gillespie 29 – The Piasa Birds reached 20 wins for the 13th time in 14 years with the victory over the Miners in the Macoupin County Tourney at Bunker Hill.
The 20-1 Birds will play Carlinville for the championship on Saturday. Southwestern is the defending county champion.
Staunton 58, North Mac 34 – Hannah McEnery had 20 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Bulldogs to the Macoupin County Tourney win. Staunton is 3-15.
North Mac led 12-9 after one quarter, but Staunton seized command with an 18-6 second quarter and a 24-7 third quarter. Caitlin Grosboll scored 13 points, Karissa Pesavento had 10 points and seven assists and Emily Gonterman pulled down eight rebounds for Staunton.
Marquette 48, Roxana 31 – The Explorers broke to a 11-6 lead after one quarter and finished off the Shells. Marquette improves to 8-6, while the Shells dip to 9-13.
Abby Porter scored 17 points and Samantha Darr had 16 for the Explorers, who got nine points from Emily Repking. Roxana was led by Maddy Sheraka's 13 points. Anna Whitaker added nine for the Shells.


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April 9, 2019 at 4:45 pm.
In Europe, the Netherlands and Denmark are notable for it. Yet, a repurposed ferry like the one the Oceanix City architects lives on is not really the same as a city. According to Ingels, however, a city is better. "At the city scale you can achieve more," the architect told Business Insider.
"The biggest question in people's minds is if these cities can actually float," the chief executive officer of Oceanix, Marc Collins Chen, told the BBC.


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Die römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Andreas in Eberspoint, einem Ortsteil des Marktes Velden, ist eine kleine barocke Saalkirche, die um 1700 erbaut und 1862 nach einem Teileinsturz wiederaufgebaut wurde. Das dem Patronat des Apostels Andreas (Gedenktag: 30. November) unterstellte Gotteshaus ist als Baudenkmal mit der Nummer D-2-74-183-33 beim Bayerischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege eingetragen.

St. Andreas wurde erst 1962 zur Pfarrkirche erhoben. Zuvor war dies St. Rupert in Ruprechtsberg, die zur Filialkirche abgestuft wurde, aber im Wesentlichen die Rechte einer Pfarrkirche behielt. Die Verlegung wurde trotz der geringen Größe von St. Andreas vorgenommen, da Eberspoint inzwischen im Zuge der Siedlungstätigkeit deutlich einwohnerstärker als der frühere Pfarrdorf geworden war. Die Pfarrei Eberspoint-Ruprechtsberg, die seit 1962 offiziell diesen Doppelnamen trägt, gehört seit dem 1. Juli 1980 zu dem 1972 gegründeten Pfarrverband Velden im Dekanat Geisenhausen des Erzbistums München und Freising.

Geschichte

Bau der Kirche
Das genaue Baudatum der Kirche ist unbekannt, jedoch wurde sie nach Ausweis der stilistischen Merkmale wohl um 1700 errichtet. Als gesichert gilt, dass sie vor 1728 entstand, als ein Wandgemälde in der damaligen Pfarrkirche Ruprechtsberg geschaffen wurde, das die Eberspointer Kirche zeigt. Bereits 1689 war in Eberspoint eine Maria-Hilf-Bruderschaft gegründet worden.

Restaurierung 1862
Um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts war die Kirche des damaligen Kuratbenefiziums Eberspoint stark baufällig: Dachstuhl und Glockenstuhl waren schadhaft, das Dach undicht, die Mauern einsturzgefährdet. 1858 wandte sich der Benefiziat Ludwig Wirz an das Landgericht Vilsbiburg, welches das Präsentationsrecht über Eberspoint ausübte, und brachte zum Ausdruck, dass er aufgrund des erbärmlichen Zustands seiner Kirche dort keine Heilige Messe mehr lesen wolle. Nach einem regen Schriftverkehr beauftragte die Regierung von Niederbayern im November 1859 ihren "Civilbau-Inspektor" Leonhard Schmidtner, das Bauwerk zu untersuchen.

In seinem Gutachten vom 21. Januar 1860 bestätigte Schmidtner den ruinösen Zustand der Kirche und veranlasste die sofortige Sperrung. Insbesondere der barocke Dachreiter mit Zwiebelkuppel habe sich bereits nach innen geneigt und könne jederzeit einstürzen. Über die Architektur der Kirche äußerte er, dass diese dem Mauerwerk nach aus alten Zeiten stamme und vermutlich in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in ihre damalige Gestalt umgewandelt wurde. Außerdem sei die Lage im Gelände ungünstig, da dieses zum Chor hin stark abfällt und das Gebäude durch starke Stützpfeiler gehalten werden müsse.

In den folgenden Monaten erarbeitete Schmidtner Pläne für einen Abriss und Neubau der Kirche an gleicher Stelle. Das Langhaus sollte etwas breiter ausgeführt und nach Süden verlängert werden. Über dem einzigen Portal auf der Südseite sollte ein Dachreiter mit Spitzhelm zur Ausführung gelangen. In dem baulich mit der Kirche verbundenen Mesnerhaus sollte die Sakristei untergebracht werden. Der Kostenvoranschlag Schmidtners lautete auf 10.100 Gulden.

Wohl aufgrund der hohen Kosten wurde die Maßnahme zunächst zurückgestellt. Die Gläubigen wichen auf Gottesdienste in den umliegenden Kirchen, zum Beispiel in Ruprechtsberg, Mariaberg und Johanneskirchen aus. Im Mai 1861 erstellten der Maurermeister Georg Behringer und der Zimmerer Paul Stummer, beide aus Velden, einen Kostenvoranschlag über rund 3.200 Gulden für eine Notreparatur der bestehenden Kirche. Auch diese gelangte nicht zur Ausführung. Im April 1862 beantragten die Eberspoint Bürger bei der königlichen Regierung in Vilsbiburg und Landshut, den Wiederaufbau ihrer Kirche unter technischer Leitung durch Behringer und Stummer selbst ausführen zu dürfen. Insbesondere mussten dringend die inzwischen stark ausgebauchten Mauerteile an der Langhaus-Südseite und die Umfassungsmauern des Chors abgetragen und erneuert, die undichten Fenster repariert, der Dachstuhl ausgebessert und der Turm abgetragen und neu errichtet werden. Für den neuen Turm erstellte Baumeister Schmidtner im August 1862 neue Zeichnungen, die erstmals den heutigen, eigenständigen Turm mit Spitzhelm an der Südseite des Langhauses zeigten. Bereits am 20. Oktober 1862 war der Bau in Eigenregie fertiggestellt. Am 3. November 1862 wurde die Kirche wieder geöffnet. Da der Ruprechtsberger Pfarrer die Gelder aus dem Benefizium Eberspoint nunmehr für sich verbuchte, wurde der Benefiziat Wirz aus seinem Amt verdrängt. Dieser hatte ohnehin während der drei Jahre der Sperrung seiner Kirche keine Einnahmen zu verzeichnen gehabt. Damit dürfte das Kuratbenefizium Eberspoint geendet haben. 1921 ist Eberspoint nur mehr als Nebenkirche der Pfarrei Ruprechtsberg genannt.

Im Jahr 1863 wurden Resttätigkeiten, wie zum Beispiel das Aufsetzen von Turmkugel und -kreuz sowie die Glaserarbeiten, erledigt. 1864 wurde ein Instrument des Landshuter Orgelbauers Franz Strauß angeschafft. 1867 wurde ein neuer Hochaltar im neuromanischen Stil aufgestellt, der vom Schreinermeister Frank aus Holzhausen errichtet und vom Veldener Kirchenmaler Andreas Fuchs gefasst wurden. 1870 wurde ein ebenfalls neuromanischer Seitenaltar des Landshuter Bildhauers Paul Weiß aufgestellt.

Renovierungsmaßnahmen um 1900
Bereits 1888 wurde die Kirche außen renoviert. 1889 wurde sie innen von dem Aiblinger Maler Josef Osendorfer im neuromanischen Stil ausgemalt und erhielt einen neuen Kreuzweg, während der alte in die Filialkirche Alteberspoint kam. 1900 wurde die Orgel von Franz Xaver Riederer aus Landshut repariert. Wegen unzulänglicher Reparatur musste nur ein Jahr später Franz Borgias Maerz aus München weitere Restaurierungsarbeiten durchführen.

Im Jahr 1912 wurde vom Ruprechtsberger Pfarrer erneut der Wunsch der Eberspointer Bürger nach einer neuen, größeren Kirche aufgegriffen. Er beauftragte den Architekten Michael Kurz aus Göggingen bei Augsburg mit einer Planung. Diese sah einen Abriss der alten Kirche und einen Neubau im Jugendstil, ähnlich dem Langhaus-Neubau in Hinterskirchen, an anderer Stelle vor. Kurz schlug mehrere Varianten für die Ausführung von Fassade und Turm vor. Der Kostenvoranschlag belief sich auf über 80.000 Mark, der Abbruch der alten Kirche auf weitere 30.000 Mark. Vom königlichen Generalkonservator wurde dieses Vorhaben unterstützt, da er die bestehende Kirche im Oktober 1912 als "architektonisch belanglosen Bau neuer Zeit" bezeichnet. Insbesondere der unschöne Turm sei weder künstlerisch noch kunsthistorisch von Bedeutung. Aufgrund des Ersten Weltkriegs wurden die Neubau-Planungen 1915 fallengelassen.

Renovierungsmaßnahmen um 1920
In den Jahren 1921/22 wurde die alte Kirche innen renoviert und die Raumschale nach dem Vorschlag des Kirchenmalers Peter Keilhacker aus Taufkirchen neu gefasst. Außerdem nahm der Maurermeister Breiteneicher aus Vilsbiburg eine Turmsanierung, bauliche Veränderungen an der Sakristei und den Einbau einer neuen Emporentreppe vor. Im November 1921 erhielt St. Andreas einen neobarocken Marienaltar anstelle des Seitenaltares. Dieser wurde von dem Bildhauer Engelbert Hain und dem Schreinermeister Max Wiesner, beide aus Pfarrkirchen, geschaffen. Im Oktober 1922 schuf Hain auch einen neobarocken Hochaltar, der von Keilhacker gefasst wurde. Die Entwürfe für beide Altäre stammten von Bader aus München. Hain fertigte 1923 außerdem den Prospekt für die neue Orgel von Michael Weise aus Plattling.

Renovierungsmaßnahmen in den 1960er und 1980er Jahren
In den 1960er Jahren wurde St. Andreas von dem Kirchenmaler Weilhammer aus Gangkofen in mehrere Etappen innen renoviert. In den Jahren 1983 bis 1989 erfolgte eine umfangreiche Gesamtrenovierung. Der Kirchenmaler Bernd Holderried aus Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm restaurierte die neobarocke Fassung der Raumschale von 1922. Der Kirchenmaler Franz Kugelmann aus Kleinaitingen bei Augsburg schuf mithilfe der Secco-Technik ein großes und sechs kleine Deckengemälde. Außerdem wurde im Turm ein neuer Glockenstuhl eingebaut.

Architektur

Außenbau
Die schlichte, barocke Saalkirche umfasst einen nicht eingezogenen Chor mit einem Joch und Schluss in drei Achteckseiten sowie ein Langhaus mit vier Jochen. Chor und Langhaus sind unter einem gemeinsamen Satteldach vereinigt. Da das Gelände nach Norden hin stark abfällt, wird der Chor durch mehrere, im Querschnitt dreieckige Stützpfeiler getragen. Der Chor wird außerdem – wie der Turm – durch weiße Lisenen gegliedert, die einen Kontrast zur gelben Wandfarbe bilden. Die Fensteröffnungen schließen nach oben hin mit einem kaum merklich eingezogenen Rundbogen ab. Die Sakristei befindet sich östlich im ehemaligen Schul- und Mesnerhaus, das baulich mit der Kirche verbunden ist.

Auf der Südseite wurde im Zuge der Restaurierung von 1862 ein schlanker, nur leicht in das Langhaus einspringender Turm über quadratischem Grundriss angebaut. Dieser umfasst drei Absätze, die durch schwache Gesimse getrennt werden. Im Turmerdgeschoss befindet sich das einzige Portal. Der obere Absatz enthält auf jeder Seite eine rundbogige Schallöffnung sowie auf der Süd- und Westseite je ein Ziffernblatt der Turmuhr. Der Turm wird durch Ecklisenen gegliedert. Den oberen Abschluss bildet ein Spitzhelm über vier Dreiecksgiebeln.

Der Bau befindet sich am Fuß des Schlossberges, auf dem sich bis zum Abriss im Jahr 1920 eine Schlossruine befand. Diese war zuletzt nur mehr als Getreidekasten genutzt worden. St. Andreas wurde wohl ursprünglich als Schlosskirche erbaut und ist deshalb aus praktischen Gründen nach Norden und nicht, wie üblich, nach Osten ausgerichtet. Auch einen Friedhof rund um die Kirche, wie sonst in Altbayern üblich, gab es in Eberspoint nie. Der heutige Friedhof befindet sich rund 250 Meter nordwestlich der Kirche.

Innenraum
Der Innenraum wird von einem flachen Tonnengewölbe mit Stichkappen überspannt, das im Chor auf Gesimsstücken, im Langhaus auf Pilastern ruht. Der stichbogige Chorbogen überspannt nahezu die gesamte Breite des Innenraums.

Ausstattung

Deckengemälde
Die Deckengemälde im Langhaus schuf der Kirchenmaler Franz Kugelmann im Jahr 1989. Das große Deckengemälde zeigt die Unbefleckte Empfängnis und ist in einem aufgemalten, geschweiften Rahmen angeordnet. Rundum befinden sich sechs Medaillons mit Mariensymbolen, die ebenfalls von Kugelmann geschaffen wurden.

Altäre
Der neobarocke Hochaltar umfasst einen schlanken Aufbau, der von zwei gewundenen Säulen getragen wird. In der Mittelnische ist eine Figur des Kirchenpatrons Andreas untergebracht. Die Seitenfiguren stellen Johannes den Täufer (links) und den heiligen Sebastian (rechts) dar. In dem zwischen zwei engelbesetzten Giebelstücken angeordneten Altarauszug befindet sich eine Herz-Jesu-Darstellung, die von zwei gewundenen Säulchen flankiert wird.

Der Marienaltar besitzt einen Aufbau ohne Architektur. In einer Rundbogennische befindet sich eine Figur der Mutter Gottes mit dem Jesuskind. Diese ist von geschnitztem Rankwerkaufbau mit zahlreichen Engelsköpfen umgeben.

Taufstein
Der Taufstein ist im Jugendstil ausgeführt und stammt laut einer Inschrift aus dem Jahr 1910. Er umfasst einen achteckigen Fuß, auf dem ein Muschelbecken ruht, sowie einen kupfernen Deckel.

Orgel
1864 wurde von Franz Strauß aus Landshut eine Orgel mit sechs Registern auf einem Manual und Pedal erbaut. Diese wurde 1900 von Franz Xaver Riederer aus Landshut und 1901 von Franz Borgias Maerz aus München restauriert.

Die heutige Orgel wurde 1923 von Michael Weise aus Plattling aus Teilen gebrauchter Instrumenten zusammengestellt. Sie umfasst unter anderem einen freistehenden Spieltisch, der vermutlich 1909 von Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer aus Oettingen angefertigt wurde. Der Prospekt stammt von Weise selbst. In den 1960er Jahren baute Ludwig Wastlhuber aus Mößling die heutigen Kegelladen mit Pneumatik zur Ansteuerung der Spiel- und Registertrakturen ein. 2014 wurde das Instrument von Thomas Reilich aus Oberschweinbach umfassend restauriert. Die Orgel umfasst acht Register auf einem Manual und Pedal. Die Disposition lautet wie folgt:

 Koppeln: I/P
 Spielhilfen: Piano, Forte, Auslöser

Weblinks

 Homepage des Pfarrverbandes Velden

Einzelnachweise

Kirchengebäude in Europa
Pfarrkirche des Erzbistums München und Freising
Kirchengebäude im Landkreis Landshut
Andreas
Andreas
Erbaut im 17. oder 18. Jahrhundert
Barockbauwerk in Bayern
Barocke Kirche
Saalkirche
Andreaskirche (Patrozinium)
Disposition einer Orgel

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Kalifornistan, CO2, clueless politicians, climate hustle
Ward Smith September 23, 2020 in Oil (General)
With all the problems Kalifornistan has right now, this makes perfect sense… Not
Gruesome Newsom's new ploy to distract voters from the swirling cesspool that is Kalifornistan should make the idiocracy happy and the cognesceti sad, just like he planned. Given that it's an executive order, it can (and should) be overturned by the first adult to take the governor mansion. Given that we're talking about Kalifornistan, that might never happen. In a functional democracy, the courts would shoot this down, but again Kalifornistan…
Just how bad an impact on the grid will this create, given they can't even keep the lights on now? Asking for a friend
Newsom is an asshole. He strikes me as the wanna-be poster boy for the green-control-the-masses-and-take-all-the-money idiots. He started his meteoric rise up in the world when then San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to the city's Parking and Traffic Commission.
(Excerpt)
His father was an advocate for otters and the family had one as a pet.[9]
While Newsom later reflected that he did not have an easy childhood,[10] he attended kindergarten and first grade at Ecole Notre Dame Des Victoires, a French American bilingual school in San Francisco. He eventually transferred because of severe dyslexia that still affects him. His dyslexia has made it difficult for him to write, spell, read and work with numbers.[10] Throughout his schooling, Newsom had to rely on a combination of audiobooks, informal verbal instruction, and digests, and to this day, Newsom prefers to interpret documents and reports through audio.[11]
He attended third through fifth grades at Notre Dame des Victoires, where he was placed in remedial reading classes. In high school, Newsom played basketball and baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. Newsom was a shooting guard in basketball and an outfielder in baseball. His skills placed him on the cover of the Marin Independent Journal.[12]
Tessa Newsom worked three jobs to support Gavin and his sister Hilary Newsom Callan, who is the president of the PlumpJack Group, named after the opera Plump Jack composed by family friend Gordon Getty. In an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, his sister recalled Christmas holidays when their mother told them there wouldn't be any gifts.[12] Tessa opened their home to foster children, instilling in Newsom the importance of public service.[12][13] His father's finances were strapped in part because of his tendency to give away his earnings.[13] Newsom worked several jobs in high school to help support his family.[2]
Newsom attended Santa Clara University on a partial baseball scholarship, where he graduated in 1989 with a B.S. in political science. Newsom was a left-handed pitcher for Santa Clara, but he threw his arm out after two years and hasn't thrown a baseball since.[14] He lived in the Alameda Apartments, which he later compared to living in a hotel. He later reflected on his education fondly, crediting the Jesuit approach of Santa Clara that he said has helped him become an independent thinker who questions orthodoxy. While in school, Newsom spent a semester studying abroad in Rome.[15]
Newsom's aunt was married to Ron Pelosi, the brother-in-law of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.[10]
Edited September 23, 2020 by Dan Warnick
Toned down the rant
Tom Nolan + 1,484
1 hour ago, Ward Smith said:
they can't even keep the lights on now?
We know the lights aren't on upstairs for Governor Newsom.
The article...
Newsom calls for California ban on new gas-fueled cars by 2035
People can't go to work or school at many places now with their gas powered cars. Newsom...Geez!...What a North Korean want-to-be.
Things are so dark in California, that even JP Sear's Comedy humor hints at vitriol.
4 minutes ago, Tom Nolan said:
Well, almost. North Korea still burns coal when the people need heat. The difference is, Fearless Leader in NK can back up his authority. Don't let Gruesome Newsom get that kind of power! The first time he calls out the National Guard to enforce his greener tendencies, look out!
17 minutes ago, Tom Nolan said:
Usually even I can't watch this guy. But this one's pretty good.
ronwagn + 5,051
3 hours ago, Ward Smith said:
If California's leaders had any sense they would be promoting natural gas trucks. They could demand biogas if they want. There is plenty of feedstock in California. California is already a leader in natural gas fueling but they are not adequately promoted.
https://cngvc.org/
https://cngvc.org/news/fueling-stations/
Edited September 24, 2020 by ronwagn
16 minutes ago, ronwagn said:
"...had any sense..."
If you accept the scientific consensus that climate change is a problem and that CO2 from fossil fuels is a big part of the problem, then this order makes sense from that perspective. I know that several of you guys do not accept these assertions, but it's not Newsom's fault that he does not agree with you. Because California is such a large market for cars, a California rule has a potential multiplier effect on the ICE industry, so this ruling is may in theory reduce the number of ICE vehicles in the world, eventually.
I am however concerned that he made this ruling based on climate change. In California, we have a much bigger local problem, and that is air pollution. Our combination of local climate, geography, and population distribution causes the worst air pollution in the US, by far, and ICE vehicles are a really major contributor. Newsom should not have made the "save the planet" argument. He should stayed focused on our very obvious and very real local California problem. Gasoline cars are no longer as large a percentage of the problem as they once were, but this executive order covers all ICE vehicles including heavy diesel trucks.
The argument that our existing electrical grid would not be able to handle that many EVs is weak. The order applies to 2035. That gives us 15 years to get the grid upgraded.
Eyes Wide Open + 1,720
21 minutes ago, Dan Clemmensen said:
I can tell as matter of fact...EV's are not economically viable. The Public at large just smiles at the concept of EV...today there are 14 million gas vehicles sold...around 350/500 thousand EVs sold. That is a very poignant part of the conversation.... Dealers do not place bets on a fad/speed bump, there is a very good reason Musk bypassed the dealer body. They are pragmatic business people knowing quite well what works. To my point i can assure you the dealer body is letting the MFGS know enough is enough.
At the same time i wish Musk well....chase the dream. That is the US way.
Edited September 24, 2020 by Eyes Wide Open
57 minutes ago, Eyes Wide Open said:
In 1905, gasoline automobiles were not economically viable. Only the rich used them and they were basically toys. The entire equestrian infrastructure laughed at them, and a substantial percentage of jobs (livery stables, horse dealers, hackers, farriers, and many more) were devoted to horses. In 1908, Henry ford introduced the Model T. By 1925, horses ware basically gone from major cities.
Jay McKinsey + 488
3 hours ago, ronwagn said:
Really? You do know we are the home of Tesla. Why shouldn't we support our own local industry?
1 hour ago, Eyes Wide Open said:
Listen to yourself, you are defending car salesman as elite business people. The most poignant business decision they have made is to lobby the state governments into giving them a monopoly.
If they are so superior, why are they afraid to compete with direct sales?
Edited September 24, 2020 by Jay McKinsey
37 minutes ago, Jay McKinsey said:
Natural gas vehicles have been in operation in California for a long time. California is a leader in natural gas stations also. Los Angeles has had an all natural gas fleet of buses for decades as has most of California bus districts. The Demoncrats are too stupid to realize the best way to go.
Direct sales are fine with me. Electric cars are too. We just get aggravated with the overselling of the electric option. It will take awhile. There is no point rushing the technology that will just waste a lot of money on renewables that we don't need. We need to balance our budgets and build infrastructure. We already have electrical power.
1 minute ago, ronwagn said:
You have got to be kidding? Tesla is a huge tax base for us. Natural gas has proven to be a dead end and we mandated a full shift to zero emission buses by 2040.
1 minute ago, Jay McKinsey said:
Natural gas is actually a better option for all large vehicles. It will take decades just to get small vehicles enough batteries and existing wind turbines storage batteries to back them up. Any ICE vehicle can be converted to a natural gas vehicle at much less expense and delay. There is no rush to electric vehicles needed.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/new-yorks-global-warming-doomsday-clock-underscores-decades-shifting
1 hour ago, ronwagn said:
Waste Connections recently ordered two electric chassis from Lion Electric, which will be mounted with fully electric bodies manufactured by Boivin Evolution. The company also purchased a third electric body from Boivin, which is being mounted on a diesel chassis to run as a hybrid, said Waste Connections COO Darrell Chambliss.
This marks a shift for Waste Connections, which has been running a fleet of around 1,100 CNG vehicles (11% of its fleet), but Chambliss and Vice President of Maintenance and Fleet Management Greg Thibodeaux have been looking for alternatives. In a sign of these shifting priorities, CEO Worthing Jackman recently dubbed CNG "just a stop on the way to EV" during a second quarter earnings call.
How is this at all relevant?
What is wrong with supporting otters? I like otters, don't you? In regard to the California sea otter I can tell you where to stand and see 1% of the entire population without turning your head.
Are you making fun of dyslexia? Sounds like hell to me!
Worked three jobs, damn what a communist.
Santa Clara University is where I got my doctorate.
The Alameda Apartments was an extension of the dorm. I knew a bunch of people who lived there.
There's always someone in this debate that has to throw out the old horse to car transition stage in our development, implying that people didn't want to do it and that automobiles were not economically viable. That is until someone says, "hey, let's run the numbers on that old theory of yours". Cost of horse ownership, once one crunches the numbers, was and remains about 5 times higher per mile travelled than owning a car. And that is just the cost of ownership. Add in the costs of keeping the animal alive (food, medicine, housing and the manpower to do all the DAILY work at least twice a day when the horses were IDLE), and the cost of clearing their refuse from town and city streets, and you quickly find that many horse owners must have been thrilled to buy a car once they became a viable option. The bottom line is that it was a watershed change going from animals to mass produced machines.
Let's face it, moving from ICE cars to Electric cars DOES NOT compare to moving from animals to machines. There simply has not been a watershed moment in this arena.
Here are a couple of references to what it costs and requires to own a horse vs. a car.
The Demographics of the U.S. Equine Population (this has data going back to the year 1900, but I would direct your attention to page 191 under the heading "How Are U.S. Horses Managed" to get some idea of what is entailed in owning a horse.)
Car or buggy: Which is cheaper to drive?
Get a horse!
That's what some drivers might think they should do as they pay $4.10 or more for a gallon of gas.
But maybe they should think again.
It's true that a new car costs nearly three times as much as a typical Lancaster County Old Order Amish horse-and-buggy rig.
And it's true that it costs about twice as much to keep a car on the road each year as it does to run a horse and buggy.
But - and this is a huge but - the average car travels about 10 times farther each year than the average buggy. So it costs a horse and buggy about five times as much as a car to go a mile down the road.
It's the horse, of course. It's the care and feeding of the horse.
"You turn that car key off, it's all over," observes Christian Z. Stoltzfus, a horse auctioneer in Honey Brook, Chester County. "But you have to feed that horse 365 days a year."
To determine who is getting the better deal on county roads busy with both buggies and cars, the New Era conducted an informal survey of costs associated with two radically different modes of transportation.
First, let's look at purchase prices.
The National Automobile Dealers Association says the average new car sold in the United States last year cost $28,800.
That's about what you would have to remove from your wallet to purchase a Saturn Aura XR with a sun roof and all the interior trimmings, according to Connie Weidman, a sales rep for Saturn of Lancaster.
Hardly a negligible amount, Weidman acknowledges, but worth it. She wouldn't think of trading her Saturn for less expensive horse-drawn transportation.
"I couldn't do without the air conditioning," she says, "or the recirculator for the manure smell as I drive through the country."
The average new non-air-conditioned fiberglass buggy costs $7,000. The average price of a former Standardbred race horse is about $3,000. Add the harness: $500. Total for horse and carriage: $10,500.
These are all local estimates. Of course, there are variations, all without motors.
Country Lane Coach Shop at Paradise sells a new fiberglass buggy for $6,000 to $8,000, depending on various amenities.
"Horses can sell for $6,000 to $7,000 or down to $1,000 or even $600," says Ivan Petersheim, a horse dealer in Gap. "But that $600 horse ain't much."
So, $28,800 vs. $10,500.
CHART: Comparative annual costs: Newfangled vs. old-fashioned
Sticker price advantage: horse and buggy.
Now let's consider the costs of basic maintenance.
Five oil changes a year cost about $110, according to Christine Bear, office manager at Roberts Automotive on Columbia Pike.
But veterinary expenses for a healthy horse run at least $250 a year.
Dr. Willard Stoltzfus, of Black Horse Animal Hospital, Kinzers, breaks that down: $100 for vaccines, $75 for four dewormings, $75 for a tooth floating.
Maintenance advantage: car.
When it comes to replacement parts, costs can be radically different. Let's just compare tires and horseshoes.
You can figure on buying a new set of tires every three or four years, according to Bear. Cost per year: $100.
But Petersheim says five or six sets of new horseshoes each year will set you back about $300.
"Footwear" advantage: car.
Now we come to fuel.
The cost of a gallon of regular gas this week is about $4.11. The EPA says the Saturn Aura gets an average of 20 miles per gallon. The average driver travels 15,000 miles a year. So the annual fuel cost for the car is $3,083.
The annual fuel cost for a horse is a bit harder to figure. The New Era has obtained three wildly varied estimates for a day's feeding: $1.25, $4 and $6.
Petersheim, the middle estimator, observes that horse feed "almost doubled in the last two years. That price went up because gas went up. Hay, feed, everything - it costs more to truck this stuff around."
At $4 a day, we get an annual cost to feed a horse of $1,460 - about half what it costs to gas up a car.
Fuel advantage: horse.
Now let's add everything (recognizing that we've ignored the costs of stable cleaning, car washing and other small stuff).
(The New Era did not attempt to add up all possible costs associated with cars and buggies. The costs of insurance, licensing, annual auto tune-ups and regular buggy wheel maintenance, for example, are not reflected in these comparisons.)
Car experts say the average car should run for 10 or more years without requiring radical repairs. The average buggy should last about that long without requiring a body rebuilding.
So let's divide the sticker prices by 10 to get an annual cost figure. Call it depreciation, if you want. That would be $2,880 a year for the car; $1,050 for the buggy and whatever's left in the horse.
Now, add to that the annual maintenance, tire and horseshoe, and fuel costs.
The bottom lines:
It takes $6,173 to operate the Saturn for a year.
A horse and buggy costs a comparatively trifling $3,060 annually.
Overall cost advantage: horse and buggy.
But - but - when you figure that the average car travels 15,000 miles a year and the average buggy an estimated 1,500 - only one-tenth as far - you get a very different set of numbers.
It costs about 41 cents a mile to operate the Saturn.
To drive a horse and buggy a mile down the road costs - hold on to your horses - about $2.04.
"Buying a horse and buggy is a little cheaper," concludes Sam Stoltzfus, a Gordonville businessman and historian, "but then you have to figure you don't go nearly as far."
Cost-per-mile advantage: car.
"I'm not convinced the Amish are traveling any cheaper than we are," notes Willard Stoltzfus at the Black Horse Animal Hospital.
Cars can break down and cost a small fortune to repair, he acknowledges, but horses can get colic. (treatment $200-$300 or more). Their muscles can freeze up on Monday mornings (another $200-$300 or more).
Horses can die.
When asked which is cheaper to drive, car or buggy, the owner of Country Lane Coach Shop makes an observation about business today.
"It would be cheaper to run a buggy, but in today's world time is more valuable to me than the gasoline money," he says. "We're not going to hitch up a horse and go up to Intercourse to get parts when we need them."
So his driver's car is burning gas on the highway while his horse eats hay in the barn.
Advantage: neither.
2018 study from the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found that electric vehicles cost less than half as much to operate as gas-powered cars. The average cost to operate an EV in the United States is $485 per year, while the average for a gasoline-powered vehicle is $1,117.
And you can buy a Tesla for the average purchase price of an ICE today.
Tomorrow the Tesla will be far less.
Your entire extended post missed the point. My point was not that cars are a huge change from horses: they were, of course. My point is that the change did not occur during the period from about 1880 to 1908, because cars were hand-built unreliable toys of the rich during that period, so horses were more cost-effective in that era. The change occurred very rapidly starting in 1908, because of the radical innovations and especially the cost reductions introduced by the Model T Ford. These were driven primarily by Henry Ford's emphasis on radical innovation in manufacturing. In real terms, the cost of the model T was reduced by a factor of about 4 over the years between 1908 and 1927.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
That article does not mention the struggles of the early adopters with finding gasoline for sale where they needed it. The gasoline infrastructure was built out during this period, thus reducing range anxiety.
We have not yet seen the EV equivalent of the Model T, but it's likely to arrive within the next 5 years.
11 hours ago, Dan Clemmensen said:
In California, we have a much bigger local problem, and that is air pollution. Our combination of local climate, geography, and population distribution causes the worst air pollution in the US, by far, and ICE vehicles are a really major contributor.
Dan, You are so, so, so right! Petroleum powered vehicles put off tremendous amounts of pollutants which are toxic to human health.
Alcohol (Ethanol) fuels put off NO toxic pollutants. Most cars (and of course "Flex Fuel" cars) can run on a high percentage of alcohol in the gas tank. It is the cleanest burning fuel, and is renewable, and can have a vast viable interactive eco-friendly, agricultural supply chain. It actually is THE solution for so many things, from cleaner to water, to healthier food, to wastewater cleanup, to local independent businesses, to ....
David Blume details many aspects in his book (decades old) "Alcohol Can Be a Gas". I have the book. It is a tome of information.
Organic Food, Fish, and alcohol production mixed...
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Alcohol (Ethanol) fuels put off NO toxic pollutants.
You must be kidding? You are afraid of tiny amounts of toxin in vaccines, but think tailpipe exhaust is safe to breathe?
Combustion always leads to more than pure water and CO2, and that is with your rare element containing catalytic converter.
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Norway witness to first Philippines Mindanao rebels' arms turnover
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16 June 2015 was the start of the decommissioning process, which will put the combatants and their weapons beyond use as part of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, says a press release from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Manila.
In a ceremony held in Sultan Kudarat, the MILF (Philippines' largest rebel group) registered and turned over 75 high-powered weapons to the Independent Decommissioning Body (IDB), and 145 combatants were decommissioned to formally mark their return to normalcy.
A Moro rebel standing in front of a sign describing an intiative by the USAID "Growth With Equity in Mindinao" farming program staged at the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) outpost inside the MILF Camp at Darapanan in Sultan Kudarat, Southern Philippines. Photo: Mark Navales
The Philippine government led by the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and the MILF Central Committee led by Chair Al Haj Murad as well as the international and local peace stakeholders attended the event. Norwegian Ambassador Erik Førner and Canadian Ambassador Neil Reeder also witnessed the arms turnover.
"We have been a committed partner to this process for several years—as part of the International Monitoring Team and now the IDB—and witnessing first-hand the beginning of the decommissioning is making a lasting impression. It means that the peace efforts are starting to bear fruit," says Ambassador Førner.
Ambassador Erik Førner
The Norwegian government is part of the decommissioning process. Retired Brigadier General Jan Erik Wilhelmsen is the head of the IDB headquarters and seats as the vice-chair for the establishment of the IDB. Norway also deployed experts in the IDB headquarters and in the verification and monitoring assistance teams (VMAT) that will securely facilitate the decommissioning process.
There will be a gradual decommissioning of combatants and their weapons. The secure arms storage facility will be supervised by the IDB while the decommissioned forces will be provided with immediate cash assistance and PhilHealth cards, reports the Norwegian Embassy in The Philippines.
The handover of assault weapons, including mortar and rocket launchers, is a result of an accord signed between the rebels and the government in March 2014 and is being seen as a concrete action by the MILF to abandon a decades-old insurgency that has claimed more than 100,000 lives and led to the displacement of millions.
The hand-over is seen by many as a symbolic gesture – a symbol that the peace process will continue.
The Philippines' parliament has been encouraged to pass a delayed bill designed to establish a more powerful autonomous region for minority Muslims in the south of the Catholic-majority nation.
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What Makes DeLonghi DBM450 a Popular Bread Maker?
It's getting harder and harder to pick out the best bread maker from the crowd. New bread machines and accompanying bread machine reviews pop up every year.
Ever since the first home breed of bread maker was introduced, almost every appliance manufacturers have joined in the fray. Almost every brand now has their bread machine offering in the market.
That's when bread maker reviews come in useful. That's how you find out exactly what to look for in a bread machine. There are some features that have become de-facto standard of even the basic type of bread maker while some are rarities or value-added features.
DeLonghi may be better known for its sleek and passionately designed coffee makers. Does it mean DeLonghi DBM450 bread maker can't be a great option for those looking to bake their own loafs of bread? Read on and find out.
Is DeLonghi DBM450 All about Style?
Bread machines have developed a common set of features that they all possess. The most important of these is the delay timer, a signature of the bread machine.
The delay timer is a tool that allows the bread machine to have bread ready at a certain predetermined time. So far, I have never seen one that permits a delay of longer than 15 hours. This is because the ingredients, like milk and eggs, might spoil if left in the machine for too long.
The basic machine now also has a variety of options for different kinds of bread, like French bread, gluten free bread, wheat bread, nut bread, and even jam. For nut and fruit breads, the machine will allow the user to add in the ingredients at the proper time.
The machines can also knead and prepare a dough without baking it. The basic setup of all bread machines is a rectangular pan that holds the ingredients, along with a rotating paddle that acts as a mixer for the ingredients and a kneader for the dough.
How Does DeLonghi DBM450 Fare?
This bread machine review concerns a single-blade model, the DBM450. It is a 23 pound monster. At its weight, it is heavier than most bread machines. Opinions among DeLonghi DBM450 owners have been mixed.
Some users like it because the weight makes it sturdy and about right to give it a reasonably 'expensive' feel. Of course others are not quite positive and some find the weight to be overkilling, considering it is to be place on a countertop.
It does have a slick chrome appearance, with a modern black touchpad. Now usually, bread machines can make a loaf of 1 pound, 1.5 pounds, or 2 pounds in weight. However, the DBM450 only makes 2 pound loafs, which is an unusual downside.
The key innovation of this model is the special kneading device. The kneading paddle has been designed to avoid the traditional bread machine problem of tearing holes in the loaf and getting stuck.
Any contender for best bread machine needs to address this problem. This is usually a feature that's absent in entry-level models like Breadman TR520 but present in higher end models like Breville BBM800XL and Zojirushi Virtuoso.
It has a few other high-end, but not necessarily unique features. The first is an ingredient loader. This allows the user to put in fruit, nuts, or other supplemental ingredients at the start of the process, and then the machine will add them at the right time automatically.
This eliminates the usual step of having to come back partway through the cycle to add these ingredients. The last special feature is a fan assisted baking process that is meant to distribute the heat and moisture in the machine evenly during the bake cycle.
User feedback is generally positive for these features, which is good, because otherwise this machine would not have much unique to offer. The ingredient loader in particular is a useful addition, because several other notable models lack one. This 'smart' feature makes the use of the delay timer with advanced fruit and nut breads possible.
As others have shared in their reviews of DeLonghi DBM450, the bread coming out of the machine is of good quality, and looks especially good.
The lack of versatility means it can't be the best bread maker for everyone. But for a person who likes large loafs and can use the advanced features, the DBM450 is a great pick.
So what do you think? Do you think DeLonghi DBM450 makes the right candidate to get you started practising your baking skills?
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AIRP Exchange Series 5: Grab Financial Group seeks overseas fintech partners in China
Written by AIRP Published on 24 Nov 2020
The fifth installment of AIRP (Asia's Innovation Resource Platform) saw Grab Financial Group discuss AI-Empowered Credit Technologies and SME Lending.
Under the auspices of its Asia's Innovation Resource Platform (AIRP), 36Kr Global aims to accelerate the development of cross-border economic flows and help industry stakeholders explore business opportunities with each other.
On November 18, AIRP, together with Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) and Grab Financial, the fintech arm of SEA unicorn Grab, organized the fourth instalment of the Bespoke Innovation Webinar 2020 focused on SME lending and AI-powered Credit Technologies. Speakers included VZoom Creditech, Tongdun Technology, Data Grand and ModGo Technology.
Discussions have been adapted and translated for public release.
Artificial Intelligence powered credit solutions
VZoom Creditech is one of the largest third-party micro-finance solution providers in China, tackling the expensive and inefficient, financing and credit scoring challenges for small to medium enterprises.
At of the end of Q2 2020, based on the credit technology products and services delivered through WeChat, Vzoom Creditech has served more than 220 banks. With their proprietary technology they have supported partnered banks to launch more than 180 small and micro credit products, and served upwards of 712,000 companies in obtaining bank loan credit lines of more than RMB 357.4 billion.
During the exchange Xu Wei, Chief Risk Officer of VZoom Creditech, shared how to use their latest AI and big data powered technology to analyse the business situation of companies based on credit reporting and risk control, providing services for SMEs and financial institutions.
The company combines its proprietary modeling algorithm with the respective screening criteria of partnered financial institutions, to analyze, calculate and screen target SMEs in large numbers. Thus helping financial institutions to accurately identify customer groups, reduce customer acquisition costs and improve marketing efficiency.
Additionally, during the credit appraisal process, VZoom Creditech is able to sieve out unqualified applicants, cross-checking available data sets on tax payment abnormalities, tax violations, previous court enforcements, blacklisted and high-risk companies, as well as unreliable commercial and industrial information.
During the Q&A section, Grab Financial and VZoom Creditech discussed the issue of online applications. To this end, VZoom introduced their current partnership and cooperation models with government agencies and financial institutions. With the information provided on their online application, relevant agencies, banks and other institutions will be able to provide the appropriate tax and loans assistance.
Intelligent decision making technologies empower innovation in the finance sector in the post-pandemic era
Tongdun technology is one of China's AI unicorns — a leader in intelligent analysis and decision-making solutions. As the internet economy rapidly develops, innovations in industries such as fintech, e-commerce have provided users hyper-convenience while giving rise to a new class of industry risks. With its proprietary analysis technology, Tongdun provides companies secure risk management solutions.
According to Zhang Renliang, Tongdun's Director of Sales, Tongdun covers 90% of the digital finance credit market and has rich experience in credit and fraud risk analysis. Through big data modeling, machine learning, complex networks and other AI-related technologies, Tongdun is able to tackle the pain point of insufficient credit records and and data for users. Its technology allows them to analyse the user-risk characteristics at varying levels and angles, identifying and preventing risks in business incorporation, credit investigation, appraisal and approval, loan auditing and more. Tongdun is thus able to give enterprises a comprehensive evaluation score and report, effectively controlling the potential risks.
In addition to credit risk control technology, Tongdun also provides a one-stop solution encompassing anti-fraud modeling, a real-time monitoring platform and cloud services deployable in both public and private sectors.
During the discussion segment, Mr Zhang also shared some of his observations and analysis of user behavior in the anti-fraud scenario with Grab Financial Group. Touching on Tongdun's extensive industry experience, he highlighted an example of establishing a globally unique device ID for all devices that a user owns (laptop, mobile phone, etc). In combination with its leading big data processing technology, industry knowledge and AI algorithm, Tongdun will be able to create a device-based user profile. This allows the real-time monitoring of the business activity and risk, prior to, during and after any activity; identifying if there is abnormal behaviour or indication of non-human interference. Moreover, Tongdun's technology is also able to remotely detect the user's identity with voice recognition and other technologies.
Tongdun has also served customers across Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. In 2019, Tongdun won the the OJK digital finance innovation challenge becoming one of the first few Chinese enterprises to enter Indonesia's regulatory sandbox. Earlier this year, Tongdun secured partnership with Indonesia's state-owned commercial bank, BRI, to support their foray into the digital economy.
Digitalizing enterprises and financial institutions through Natural Language Processing and Robotic Process Automation
Data Grand is a national hi-tech enterprise that focuses on developing intelligent operator robots. Through Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and intelligent document review, Data Grand improves the automation of business processes. The company is a recipient the 'Wu Wenjun Award for Artifical Intelligence', China's most prestigious award within the AI field. Additionally, Data Grand is also the global champion of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management's algorithm competition and the EMI data Hackathon.
Chief Technology Officer, Gu Jiasheng introduced the company's core technology in artificial intelligence development, focused on the construction and analysis of knowledge maps, intelligent document processing platform IDPs and RPA. Mr Gu explained that due to the highly abstract and general characteristics of language, text semantic understanding is the most difficult and complex field in the field of artificial intelligence — requiring both optimism and deep cultivation.
Data Grand uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology for automatic reading, such as reviewing content, the validity of materials, analysing sentence intention, distributing work orders intelligently, answering questions as well as helping enterprises and financial institutions improve work efficiency and reduce error rate.
Data Grands's products can significantly improve the efficiency and versatility of RPA, and is equipped with cross platform capability and integrations. Ultimately, better meeting the business needs of credit inquiry, bill identification, form filling, document entry and more.
During the Q&A segment, Grab Financial Group and Data Grand discussed the relationship between the various technical services that the company provides. Mr Gu stated that Data Grand's proprietary technology is the key foundation for building a knowledge map. He likened NLP and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to human brains and eyes, and the RPA operating system to a pair of hands. Working together, NLP and OCR can reduce 70% of the time and 50% of the labor cost burden for enterprises, in the tedious text processing and produce highly accurate ticket audit work.
Intelligent valuation of SMEs enabled by science and technology
Luo Xinyu, the Marketing Manager of Fuyou group, introduced ModGo as one of the leading financial service system for small and medium-sized enterprises in China. Established in December 2019, ModGo tackles pain points such as the inability to track valuation data of small and medium-sized enterprises.
ModGo is able to generate enterprise self-service online valuations, enterprise value management, as well as investment and financing information with its industry-recognised asset evaluation model. ModGo utilises artificial intelligence, machine learning, web crawlers and natural language processing. The company currently services the data of more than 10,000 enterprise customers.
Instead of being a stand-alone product, ModGo positions itself as a data dashboard that integrates enterprise data within the primary market. Through the accumulation of mass data, ModGo's evaluation intelligence model can develop risk identification and credit query systems, gradually forming networks and build a credible ecosystem whilst promoting the docking of investment and financing. Ultimately, helping entrepreneurs, investors, parks, and governments make more accurate and efficient decisions.
To date, ModGo has formed close partnerships with the government of Shanghai, Jilin and Dunhuang.
36Kr Global's cross-border innovation team, AIRP, will be organizing further sharing sessions with Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB) and other large Singaporean companies. Stay tuned for more updates!
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Asia has surpassed other regions to become the largest economy in the world. As mentioned, each region has its advantages and characteristics. We have observed an increasing number of big corporates deploying their innovation strategies without geographic limitation and trying to find best-fit solutions across regional markets like China, SEA, India, and Japan. However, it is challenging for corporates to reach outside of the organization to scout for technology and collaboration partners.
AIRP (Asia's Innovation Resource Platform), a cross-border consulting team under 36Kr Global, has been committed to connecting large enterprises and start-ups in various regions, helping them realise innovation transformation and finding potential partners. Whether you are a large enterprise or a startup, if you are interested in being part of our network or have any enquiries about AIRP, please fill in the form, we will contact you soon!
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Communication: Despite the Bright Lights, Little is Clear from Kelly
September 5, 2016 by Bayou Irish
You just knew that this second meeting between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Texas would be one for the ages. As Notre Dame fans, we expect such moments to go our way. As it is, at the end of two overtimes, the Irish fell just short and their season's trajectory is less than apparent. From the quarterback position, to the defense, to the meaning of "targeting," nothing is clear about what comes next.
Head football coach Brian Kelly, now in his seventh season, stuck to his scripted indecision regarding the quarterback program and played both Malik Zaire and DeShone Kizer into the second half. This, despite Kizer being far-and-away the better performer. Kizer finished the day with a QB rating of 206.5, a 62.5 percent completion percentage, 215 passing yards, 77 rushing yards, and five touchdown throws. Zaire was largely ineffective and, in a game that came down to double overtime and three points, any one of his wasted series could have decided the game for Notre Dame.
But "wasted" is far too harsh a word. As of late evening on Monday, Brian Kelly, at least publicly, had not made any decisions as to who, if either, had earned the position to himself. I'd like to think that Kelly is refusing to let anything play out in the press before he communicates directly with his players, but there's a part of me that fears the premature consignment of Malik to permanent QB2-status could cause a revolt among the team.
At Monday's telephone conference, Coach Kelly urged everyone to "tap the breaks and relax," a phrase which may become his epitaph. How the phrase is ultimately read will depend in large part upon how DC Brian Van Gorder's defense responds to its dismal performance yesterday. It wasn't just that the corners and safeties got burned and gave up the big plays. It was that no one tackled and the line was porous as cheesecloth. The Irish surrendered 517 total yards. And yet, there they were, so close to winning it in the fourth quarter, much less in one of the overtimes.
Somehow, Van Gorder's charges found a way to stone Texas after they kicked a field goal with 9:14 left in the third quarter. On Texas's next series, Shaun Crawford picked off Shane Buechele and returned it 22 yards to the Texas six, which set up an Irish touchdown. Then, two Texas punts.
The Irish were denied if not a decisive touchdown, then at least a shot at one. With thirty seconds left in the third quarter, DeShone Kizer hit Torii Hunter Jr. in the end zone, where he was separated from the ball and control of his bodily functions by a Texas player's helmet and/or shoulder. It was clearly targeting and it was neither called nor reviewed.
The ACC has already declared it a missed penalty. Somehow the Big12 has not. They must be too busy counting their ESPN blood money. 11.1 million people watched the ABC broadcast/ESPN live-stream, making the game the most-watched opening game ever.
So much more needs to be written about last night's game. Hopefully, with time, will come clarity.
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