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Santa Maria de Montblanc o Santa Maria la Major és una església gòtica del  del municipi de Montblanc (Conca de Barberà), amb la portalada principal considerada del renaixement. Està situada dalt d'un promontori des d'on es domina la ciutat vella de Montblanc. També és coneguda com La Catedral de la Muntanya. És una obra declarada bé cultural d'interès nacional.

Descripció
Planta d'una nau (18 m d'amplada) amb capelles laterals entre contraforts i absis pentagonal també amb capelles. La nau té cinc trams però en el projecte n'hi havia més (dos o quatre segons diverses opinions). Des de la capçalera, els dos primers trams tenen capelles; el tercer i el quart del costat sud són el vestíbul d'entrada cobert amb una magnífica volta de creueria molt rebaixada (al damunt hi ha l'orgue). En una de les capelles de la banda nord es prolonga una capella (capella del Santíssim) de pla de creu del ; el cinquè tram té capelles normals, en la del nord s'hi inicià la construcció que no reeixí d'un campanar octavat amb escala de caragol al contrafort. Les capelles, seguint la tradició, es cobreixen a mitjana altura de la nau per deixar lloc a esvelts finestrals. La nau es cobreix amb volta de creueria ogival i les capelles també. La capella central de l'absis té una ampla rosassa, mentre que les altres tenen finestrals ogivals. Els contraforts exteriors estan foradats simulant arcbotants per permetre un pas de ronda. Tots tenen pinacle amb fronda i floró al cim.

Exterior
A les escales d'accés al temple es pot admirar la reproducció restaurada i, en certa manera interpretada, d'una magnífica creu gòtica del , probablement obra de Pere Joan, amb pedestal esglaonat de set cares i fust helicoïdal.
La plaça de l'entrada principal està pavimentada a base de còdols blancs i negres que dibuixen una composició geomètrica presidida per l'escut de la vila i la data de la construcció (1786).

La façana o portalada principal és del 1590 i presenta una fórmula típica de retaule renaixentista de dos ordres (corinti i compost) superposats, amb fornícules que aixopluguen un apostolat presidit per la figura central del Salvador. L'escultura dels apòstols és obra del tortosí Agustí Pujol (pare). Aquest tipus de façana és un dels pocs exemples d'aquesta època conservats a Catalunya. Era semblant al de l'antiga església del monestir de Montserrat.

El frontispici està coronat per un grup escultòric de poca qualitat, amb l'escut de la vila i dos tenants (nens) i sengles figures atlètiques de les quals manca la de l'esquerra. Segons Palau procedeixen de dos arcs, un d'entrada i altre de sortida del Pont Vell els quals, després que fossin destruïts per una riuada, l'un fou aprofitat per al coronament de la façana de Sta Maria, i l'altre per a restaurar un lateral del pont. Ben diferent, però, és l'opinió de Felipsegons ell el grup s'hauria fet exprés per al coronament; se l'hauria rebutjat després per manca de qualitat i repetit. Finalment, les pedres del "dolent" s'haurien utilitzat per adobar el Pont Vell.

Interior
El temple és d'una nau (de 16,5 metres d'amplada, 30 de longitud i 26 d'alçada) i d'absis poligonal de set costats, ambdós coberts de volta de creueria que divideix la nau en tres trams rectangulars, dels quals el del mig, que és doble, allotja un atri i la porta principal. Les nervadures de la volta carreguen en columnes adossades als contraforts mitjançant capitells esculturats que a l'absis presenten escenes del Gènesi.

Entre els contraforts s'allotgen capelles quadrades, cobertes de creuria, que pugen fins a mitjana altura de la nau. A les capelles i a la nau hi ha finestrals amb vitralls de color. Les claus de volta de la nau són especialment interessants: a l'absis, una Santíssima Trinitat del ; al primer tram, una esplèndida Anunciació del segle XV, probablement obra de Pere Joan; i al segon tram, un sant Cristòfol del segle. XVI.

Absis i laterals

L'absis de l'església de la vila de Montblanc dona fe del gòtic senzill i compacte que caracteritza la resta de l'edifici. Les estructures són sòlides i en un estat de conservació molt bo. Hi trobem contraforts minimament decorats i finestres ogivals totalment mancades d'ornamentació.

Conté molts elements; en primer lloc, les capelles que, amb arcs apuntats, estan conformades per vitralls policromats i ben decorats. Així mateix trobem l'altar major, de senzilla factura, amb un retaule obra de Camps Arnau (quatre relleus) i Frederic Marès (apostols sant Pere i sant Pau). Presidint el conjunt per la Mare de Déu del Cor, talla gòtica del segle XV, policromada i de gran mida; de figura esvelta. L'església data del , que és el període al qual pertany, segurament aquest absis, ja que les reformes posteriors afecten a la portalada i interior de l'edifici.

Els laterals són de gòtic senzill i nu, com es pot comprovar tant a la vista lateral com al detall de la portalada, amb elements de transició des del romànic. L'església està poc decorada i conserva una rigidesa pròpia del gòtic més pur. Les obres es van iniciar en el 1352 amb ajut dels reis i altres nobles. El projecte es va aturar per la crisi econòmica i social posterior a la pesta negra i el 1528 es va realitzar la segona consagració.

Altres
Guarda interessants obres d'art:

 La Mare de Déu del Cor de l'altar major que és una preciosa talla de fusta policromada del , procedent de antic retaule major que fou substituït per un del . És una obra integrant de la declaració BCIN.

 El retaule de Sant Bernat i Sant Bernabé, de pedra policromada del , que és un dels més antics dedicats a sant Bernat i dels primers a representar l'escena de la lactatio Bernardi. Atribuït a Guillem Timor. És una obra integrant de la declaració BCIN.
 El retaule de Santa Anna de la capella del baptisteri que, entre 1601 i 1603, va pintar el montblanquí Cristòfor Hortoneda, per a l'Hospital de Santa Magdalena de la vila.
 L'orgue de 1607, es conserva en la seva reconstrucció de 1752, restaurat el 1977; és un dels millors orgues que es conserven de l'escola catalana del barroc. Obra de dos orgueners (Josep Boscà i Serinyena 1703-1704 i Antoni Boscà i Llorens 1750-1752), ha arribat a l'actualitat amb força reformes. És una obra integrant de la declaració BCIN.
 L'Altar Major, obra de Josep Mª Camps i Arnau, del  i Frederic Marès. És una obra integrant de la declaració BCIN.

Història
La vila de Montblanc és fundada el 1163 per Alfons el Cast i, set anys després, ja es troba documentada una primitiva església romànica dedicada a Santa Maria. L'església quedà petita ja a principis de  a causa de l'augment demogràfic i es projectà construir una gran església gòtica amb més capacitat. Com que la durada de les obres es preveia llarga, es va decidir construir una altra església on poder celebrar el culte cristià. D'aquesta manera s'iniciaren les obres de l'església de Sant Miquel de Montblanc. Un cop s'acabaren els treballs (el 1288 ja està documentada), es procedí a l'enderrocament de la centenària església romànica i s'inicià la construcció gòtica de l'arxiprestal de Santa Maria.

L'església de Santa Maria té aires de catedral per les seves dimensions i cal tenir en compte que Montblanc al  era la setena vila del Principat. Se suposa que vers l'any 1352 s'inicià la construcció sota la direcció de Reinard des Fonoll introductor del gòtic flamiger a Catalunya i un dels autors del claustre de Santes Creus. Substituïa l'anterior temple romànic de petites dimensions que hi havia en el mateix lloc. La Pesta Negra del  va interrompre la construcció. Al  semblava que la vida tornava a la normalitat quan la Guerra civil catalana va esclatar i la vila de Montblanc rebé un cop molt dur. Poc després, i veient que les arques municipals ja no estaven per grans projectes, es va decidir donar les obres per finalitzades; restava per fer la part sud de l'edifici, la façana principal i el campanar, i es va decidir obrir una porta en un lateral de l'església. El 1479 l'església va acollir les despulles del rei Joan el Gran en el seu camí cap al Monestir de Poblet per a ser enterrat allà. El 1505 es va acabar la construcció del presbiteri, amb el qual es donaven per acabades les obres.

Finalment, l'església fou consagrada el 1548 i al final de segle es va encarregar la realització d'una façana renaixentista en un dels laterals de l'edifici. A partir de Palau i Dulcet  s'havia cregut que aquesta façana era gòtica i que fou completament enderrocada durant La General Crema de la Guerra dels Segadors (1651) per les tropes castellanes dirigides pel General Juan de Pallaviccino y Ramírez de Haro i que després se'n va fer una nova en estil barroc, que és la que hi ha. Tanmateix, aquesta hipòtesi de les dues façanes (la gòtica i la barroca) ha estat refutada per Joan Bosch, el qual ha provat que la façana conservada és la primitiva cinccentista, ja que la voladura de 1651 només n'afectà el coronament.

Al  es produïren canvis a l'interior de l'església. A l'altar major es col·locà un excel·lent retaule barroc, obra dels escultors Antoni Costa i Francesc de Vogué, que fou consagrat l'any 1776. Aquest retaule substituïa un altre del  del qual sembla que es conservà l'anomenada "Mare de Déu del Cor", que avui presideix l'altar major. Des de l'any 1793, l'església comptava amb l'anomenat Seny Gros, la campana més gran de tota l'Arxidiòcesi de Tarragona.

Al llarg del  es van realitzar obres de consolidació de la volta i de la capella del Baptisteri i es va obrir totalment el finestral superior. El 9 de setembre de 1906, l'Arquebisbe de Tarragona Dr. Tomàs Costa presidia l'ofici solemne de la coronació canònica de la Mare de Déu de la Serra amb l'església plena de gom a gom.

A principis de  hagué de suportar diversos atacs anticlericals i durant la Guerra civil espanyola, es cremaren o destruïren diveres imatges, altars, l'aixovar sagrat, llibres, mobiliari i campanes (entre elles el Seny Gros). Les parets del temple van quedar nues i fins passat el conflicte bèl·lic no fou possible la recuperació en part de l'església.

Plebà
Des de molt antic, el rector de la parròquia de Santa Maria de Montblanc rep el tractament de plebà. La primera cita coneguda és del . Al , només restaven plebans (i ja com a títol simbòlic) a Balaguer, Montblanc i a Ponts. Més modernament rebé tal distinció el rector d'Oliva, a la comarca valenciana de la Safor. Actualment, el rector de la parròquia de Santa Maria la Major és l'únic de Catalunya que posseeix el títol de Plebà.

Galeria d'imatges

Referències

Bibliografia

Vegeu també
 Agustí Pujol (pare)

Enllaços externs

Patrimoni monumental de Montblanc
Monuments històrics de Montblanc
Esglésies gòtiques de Montblanc

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A cruel April Fools joke, played by Mother Nature, if you will. The weathermen really hyped this storm all week, predicting 14 inches of new snow today. Perhaps an attempt to drive up their ratings. Fortunately we only ended up with about 4 inches here and much of that has melted. So the joke is on the weathermen and for that I am quite thankful.


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Government: 6.7% GDP growth remains a challenge
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Higher growth in remaining quarters must be facilitated for annual target to be met.
by Duy Anh
HSBC: Low Q1 growth no cause for concern
Q1 GDP at 5.1% y-o-y
Vietnam's GDP to grow at 6.3 per cent for 2017-2018
Against a backdrop of 5.1 per cent GDP growth during the first quarter of this year, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tien Dung detailed specific solutions to push Vietnam towards its target of 6.7 per cent for 2017.
"Our economic growth scenario until end-2017 will be 6.26 per cent in the second quarter, 7.29 per cent in third quarter, and 7.49 per cent in the fourth quarter," he told the government's regular press conference on May 4. "This will bring the cumulative GDP growth rate over the final three quarters of the year to 7.1 per cent."
In a move to boost GDP, Minister Dung touched on the exploitation of crude oil, which fell 13.6 per cent during the first quarter. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc authorized the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to handle the matter as it is key to enhancing growth.
The PM also authorized the Minister of Industry and Trade to cooperate with other ministries and authorities to fully handle 12 loss-making projects, hastening construction progress at key national projects.
"From the government's standpoint, the 12 loss-making projects will have to be handled under market mechanisms," Minister Dung said. "The Prime Minister earlier formed a task force, led by Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue and consisting of ministers and officials from other ministries, to provide solutions and scenarios for each specific project."
The 12 slow-moving, loss-making and inefficient projects managed by MoIT include four fertilizer plants, three bio-fuel production projects, two steel production projects, the Dinh Vu polyester fiber factory, the Dung Quat Shipbuilding Industry Company Limited, and the Phuong Nam paper pulp mill.
Six active projects are running at a loss, three have been put on hold because of rising costs and a lack of operating capital, while the other three have ceased production due to exorbitant costs and major losses.
Total initial investment in these projects was some VND43.67 trillion ($1.92 billion), which was later adjusted to VND63.61 trillion ($2.7 billion). Of this, VND14.35 trillion ($630.8 million) was equity, with loans amounting to VND47.45 trillion ($2.1 billion) and the remainder coming from other sources.
Accumulated losses of the ten projects that are operational or had ceased production as at end-2016 total over VND16.12 trillion ($708.6 million), with liabilities of more than VND55.06 trillion ($2.42 billion).
Total disbursed capital of the three incomplete projects is around VND8.61 trillion ($378.5 million) of the estimated VND13.06 trillion ($574.1 million).
Minister Dung emphasized the government's determination to handle these loss-making projects. Those that need to declare bankruptcy will be allowed to do so, while those that need to be sold to either domestic or international investor will be sold. Finally, those that are considered capable of recovering will begin manufacturing and operations once more.
To express its determination to achieve the GDP target, the government will end holding breaking ground ceremonies for all projects, Minister Dung said.
Minister Mai Tien Dung
Ministry of industry and Trade

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Why the zombie banks aren't stressed by stress testing, about Austrian Japanese, and about how difficult life the Spanish banks and especially Spanish bankers have. And that Trichet, even though he uses bad economic theories and non- functioning economic models, doesn't regret anything.
When it comes to solving the crisis in Europe, many people use the example of the USA, where central bank during the crisis provided the whole financial sector with guarantees, which apparently resulted in the local banks being sound and safe today.
This was supposed to be proved by the recent stress test. Out of 19 tested banks only 4 failed the test, which was supposed to simulate the crisis mechanism that surprised the financial system in 2008. Are the American banks fine then? No. This test was a comedy and a PR exercise, in the same way the European versions (remember? Dexia as the most adequately capitalized bank?). American banks keep their heads above the water only because they don't have to price their assets at market prices and therefore they have them in their books at unrealistic inflated prices. For example, the stress test was passed by a zombie bank, which was unable to pay back aid from TARP and in its financial statements' footnotes it can be read that the real value of its assets tumbled by more than what its equity is worth.
The governor of the American FED admitted possibility of the third round of quantitative easing. At the conference of organized by FED in Washington, the Bank of Japan Governor Masaki Shirakawa warned against consequences of extremely low interest rates. "If low interest rates induce investment projects that are profitable only at such low interest-rate levels, this could have an adverse impact on productivity and growth potential of the economy by making resource allocation inefficient". Exactly the same is said by the Austrian business cycle theory. It might come as a surprise that this theory is used in reasoning by a central banker. Also the former ECB governor Jean Claude Trichet warns against the consequences of purchasing state bond by the central banks. He knows what he is talking about, after all he is the father of those purchases in Europe. At the same time, Trichet doesn't regret anything what happened during his career. His only disappointment is the failure of contemporary macroeconomic models. He should have read more "Austrians", as his former Japanese collegue did.
The two rounds of unlimited three-year loans granted by ECB to commercial banks are supposed to "grease the flow of credit to households and businesses". The data from February indicate stagnating volume of loans granted to households and decline in the volume of loans granted to non-financial firms. On the other hand, money flow into sovereign debts is doing well. Italian and Spanish banks purchased government bonds in record volumes (EUR 23 billion and 16 billion respectively) in February. By the way, did you know that the amount of financing from ECB in some of the Spanish banks exceeds 10% of their loan portfolio's volume? And that Spanish luxurious prostitutes refuse to serve the bankers in protest?
When it comes to effects of monetary policy, the price level has to be mentioned as well. European households will spend 11% of their income on the energy and personal transport this year. It is twice as much as the historical average (6-7%).
There was a general strike in Spain a couple of days ago. 9 people were injured, 58 arrested.
The fear of a strike, in this case of truck drivers, is present also in the Great Britain. At first, politicians prudently advised people to supply themselves with fuel before the Easter strike – and then the police tried to solve the panic purchases and roads stuck with rows of cars in front of gas stations by closing them until the situation calms down. Hilarious.
Spanish interest rate rose and is close to the 5.5% level. Mario Monti, Italian (!) Prime Minister put to power by the European technocrats, warns of a threatening fiscal catastrophe, which could exhaust the capacity of existing and planned aid mechanisms. He calls for increasing the agreed capacity of ESM (EUR 500 billion) in the future. Is he afraid that after aiding Spain there won't be enough tokens left for Italy?
He's not alone. Also the group of G20 countries pushes for increasing the rescue fund capacity and suggests replenishing resources of the International Monetary Fund necessary for participation in the aid programmes. Last week also the OECD joined the motion, it wants ESM to have minimal capacity a trillion EUR. France is in favour and nearly all the other EU member states are. But Germany, which guards the European cashbox, is against. Both increasing either the transferred part of the capacity from the disappearing EFSF (theoretically, there are still EUR 240 billion unused out of the total guarantee of EUR 440 billion) or directly increasing the capacity of ESM will have to be approved by the German parliament, which has recently set the maximum of the German share at EUR 211 billion. Now it seems that despite the initial German refusal, some form of its share increase will be sooner or later agreed. According to the latest information, there is a possibility of agreement on ESM at the level of EUR 800 billion.
Poland's central bank chief Marek Belka suggests that Greece should temporarily create a new currency to be used especially for payments within the public sector. Depreciation of this currency would decrease the real value of debts and expenses of the Greek state, without depriving the private sector of its purchasing power. A reasonable idea of parallel currencies was already presented at the beginning of the year 2011.
Nothing should be left to chance. The EU will help reaching the right outcome of the Irish referendum on the fiscal compact by forgiving the March payback of the Irish debt. Retiring Mr. Euro Claude Juncker doesn't see any problem here. At the moment, he is going after the Spaniards' neck, since they don't fulfill the Brussel's targets.
Have a weekend of your life!
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Support Mi'kmaq Treaty Rights And Livelihood Fisheries
October 20th, 2020 4 minute read
The livelihood fishery of the Sipekne'katik First Nation and the Mi'kmaq community continue to face acts of violence and racism by non-indigenous Canadians associated with the commercial lobster fishery in Nova Scotia. The aggressors have put an immense amount of hate and anger towards attacking a peaceful community, rather than investing that energy into educating themselves on treaty rights, facts behind the health of the fishery and the lobster population or addressing the provincial and federal government stakeholders responsible for fisheries management and First Nations relations.
Scout condemns all forms of racism and violence and recognizes the land and resource rights of First Nations across Turtle Island. We have made a donation to a front line organization to assist with the associated costs of activism and supplies required for peaceful protest. As the situation escalates, we wanted to share more about how we are supporting systemic change.
1. Over the last 6 months, we have been in the process of understanding how we can source more of our seafood from First Nations fisheries starting with educating ourselves on the very policies that currently prevent us from doing so. DFO regulations will have to change in order for us to source more of our seafood from First Nations fisheries, otherwise, our products would not be compliant for sale in Canada or abroad.
2. This is policy work that requires lobbying within industry and government, but we are a small company. With the limited resources we have, our support at Scout is centred around two pillars; bringing awareness to these issues by sharing information and resources, and to be an industry ally to First Nations fisheries and their communities (if we are invited to support them) through advocacy.
3. Right now we are gathering our thoughts and seeking advice so we may engage constructively with the DFO on two fronts: first, to encourage swift changes in policy that do not conflict with and confuse treaty rights; and secondly, encouraging policy changes that are needed so that First Nations fisheries can be afforded the same commercial opportunities as their non-indigenous counterparts.
3. Scout is widely open to exploring opportunities with First Nations groups across Turtle Island including sourcing opportunities, processing and joint ventures.
4. Our mandate is to re-invest 1% + of our revenue into First Nations-led environmental and fisheries projects in the regions we source from. We have been laying the groundwork for this model and will have our First Nations advisory board, comprised of community members in each region we operate in, formed by 2021. Our advisors will be compensated and will help guide our mandate.
5. Our production partner for our Pacific operation is majority-owned by five bands of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nation on Vancouver Island. A portion of profits from Scout's tuna product flow back to the five Nuu-Chah-Nulth bands and we are exploring additional partnership opportunities with other First Nations on Vancouver Island and the mainland.
6. Our Lobster is sourced entirely from the MSC certified lobster fishery in Prince Edward Island. There is no conflict in Prince Edward Island between the commercial fishery and Mi'qmak communities of Abegweit and Lennox Island. Both bands are in the consideration stage of their own livelihood fisheries and we have reached out to the organization L'nuey whose focus is to protect, preserve and implement the constitutionally entrenched rights of the Mi'kmaq of PEI. Should you choose to purchase Lobster from Scout, you are supporting the small local PEI fishing community of Abrams village.
We will continue to use the platform we have as a company to bring attention to these important issues in support of a healthier, community-minded spirit of cooperation. We stand in solidarity with the Mi'qmak, and all nations of Turtle Island and we encourage our industry peers to show up to this conversation and to take action with the platforms they have available to them.
Adam Bent
Adam@scoutcanning.com
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Q: Bug: Crystal Report Viewer "document is being processed" modal dialog is not getting closed on HTTP Error Crystal Reports Viewer for ASP.Net:
We have come across a situation where "Please wait while the document is being processed." modal dialog is not getting closed when HTTP Request has failed.
Development Environment:

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*ASP.Net with Target Framework 4.6.1

*Crystal Report 13.0.2000.0, Version: 13.0.19.2312

*Database Oracle

*IIS Server

Problem:
It was found many time that on navigation of pages or while report is being loaded, Crystal Report Viewer shows a modal dialog with message "Please wait while the document is being processed.". Said message will disappear on successful request from the server, but in many case like, Network failed, Server responded with HTTP error code or in any case where ajax request has failed to execute it, in such case this modal dialog box does not get closed and due to this user keep waiting to disappear this dialog but nothing happens, and user can not navigate, they will be forced to refresh the page or reopen the report.
Steps to reproduce:

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*Run the report in browser

*Possibly keep the data of two - three page so that you can navigate

*Once report is loaded, Stop the IIS Server, so that when you press
next page, it can generate a HTTP Error

*if you see network log in Debug mode, request has already failed and
returned but, "Please wait while the document is being processed."
dialog is still executing and user can not navigate in the report
due to modal view. Actually, It should have informed user that last request has failed and you should try again.

Please see the screenshot for reference:

I have posted this question to SAP Forum but yet to get the answer
I have tried to manage this using window.onerror and hiding the modal window, Is there any better solution to this problem?

A: Mine was taking forever in postbacks when I clicked any button of CRV. I guessed the viewer must be waiting for parameters in the background. So I re-used the parameters as follows:
this.crvMain.ReuseParameterValuesOnRefresh = true;

A: I was having the same problem. In my code, I found a refresh statement that was freezing the report, preventing it from being loaded. If I comment out this refresh, the report works correctly.

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FFIX succeeds because of its characters.
The rest of it isn't bad; the plot is solid, the music is quite good, the gameplay is dated-yet-fine, etc. But the characters are some of my favourites from any FF game. They're fun without being just jokes. They're allowed to be both cartoonish and dramatic, even the comic relief ones get surprisingly frequent moments to be insightful, helpful, kind, etc. The end result is that they're hard to dislike and you really want to see them succeed.
I love this game, but hell, I love them all pretty much. The music is fantastic, the easter eggs are charming, the characters are unique and the plot twists around every turn kept me engaged and... ugh. It's a very, very good RPG.
My only spoiler-free gripe: some of the sidequests contain missables, which... really ticked me off. But a lot of RPG's contain missables.
It's just that the ones in FF9 hurt the most.
I am very divided when it comes to missables. In general it is bad since you can miss great stuff, but at the same time... if the main quest gets better by having missables (like towns/areas getting destroyed/whatever) then I don't mind missables. But missables should be avoided as much as possible as long as they don't stand in the way of a great main storyline. That is my stance on that.
Vesperia had tons of missables, so when the day comes when I decide to replay it, I am going to be sure to find almost all stuff... probably by using a guide so it doesn't get too tedious. I don't want to revisit every area everytime I progress the main story one bit lol.
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Nuuuu... I wonder what I've missed so far.
I only just got to the part where you can take optional side quests.
That's at least what I have heard, and when I was at the final area my "status" or whatever you want to call it was pretty lackluster. Perhaps that specifically wasn't part of the missables... but there are a lot of missables apparently. Don't know for sure myself, but strongly doubt that anyone would lie about something like that.
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Always look up missables before you play an RPG.
Unless you want to go in blind, collect two mystical seashells or whatever and then wonder what the heck they're for because you missed your chance on getting the third one so the event never triggered which would've given you some badass glowing armor that made your character look cool the rest of the game.
Once. Turned out a small piece of cellophane from the outer wrapping was stuck to the contacts on the game card.
It is not worth the risk of major spoilers. If you love the game enough to want to collect everything you can just replay it.
For a person like me I am pretty fine with missing stuff during my first playthrough. For me it is all about the main quest when I play a game the first time. The second playthrough is usually the more completionist-playthrough where I want to find and do so much stuff as possible, as long as it's not tedious, boring or frustrating (like too hard/unfair). I can totally see myself picking up Vesperia again in the future, but not in the near future.
Is there a chance that we will see one of Monolith Soft's projects during this Direct? Or will they save it for E3? I totally think they will reveal it this year though, even if it may be a 2020-title.
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So Super Mario Maker 2 eh?
So has the direct already happened or have I not missed it? I slept in too late again. Since I'm hearing about Mario Maker 2 I'm gonna guess I missed it.
I think Oninaki is the only thing that's been interesting to me so far.
Oninaki was it? Like a spiritual successor to 'I Am Setsuna' and 'Lost Sphear', did I got that right?
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Avatar confirmed, prepare your rage guys. By the way the fps of the cutscenes bothers me tremendously.
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Meh, still don't care much about it... on the other hand DAEMON X MACHINA DEMO YAY!
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BITS, Pilani (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) is a world renowned Institution for Engineering and Sciences equal to IITs. Recently, BITS has started campuses at Goa and Hyderabad. These campuses are ultra-modern and catering to the needs of the regions they are located in.
The Govt. of Bihar led by the Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Nitish Kumar jee, and Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister Shri Sushil Kumar Modi jee should please contact the owners / Managing Trustees of BITS Pilani to open Patna campus of BITS. In support, the Bihar Govt. should give atleast 50 acres of land (more if possible)in or around Patna for establishing the infrastructure of the Institution. The people of Bihar sincerley appreciate the efforts put by Shri Nitish Kumar jee in establishing BIT Mesra campus at Patna. Please establish the BITS Campus at Patna which will greatly enhance the credibility of Patna as the Emerging Knowledge City in the Eastern India at the same time prevent the exodus of brilliant Bihari students to other parts of the country for search of better education.
There is no point in blindly establishing Educational institution for higher education Instead we should focus on Primary & secondary school system. Primary education system in Bihar is worst in country. They have not been modernized; they follow the age old system and unnecessarily put the future of Bihar on back foot. Secondly Bihar is most number of uneducated children, which leaves them venerable. They are easily lure by anti social elements leading to law & order problem and unrest in society. Third is child labor statistic issue, most of the child labors are from Bihar hence sending negative feedback to society.
Higher Education institution in Bihar will not improve the condition in fact they worsen the condition as it will stop movement of students from Bihar to other part of country and world stopping people to understand the meaning of development. Other factors are in case Higher education changes the system they Why Kanpur, Trichi, Warangal Surtakhal are not in India's success story.
In my opinion we should encourage private institution to take up primary education in Bihar and in return they should get longer term tax benfit.
To establish an extension centre of BIT Mesra was an initiative of Rabri Devi Cabinet member and Science & technology minister and REC Trichy product engineer turned congress politician Sri Vishwa Mohan Sharma , To provide all facility including finance back up was passed through cabinet but delay was from BIT Mesta management which became fast with JD(U) - BJP government .
But such institutes cater only peanuts of demands while 50 % seats supposed to be reserved for BIHAR . Now License raaj is being eliminated and progressive politicians need to approached big business houses rather than waiting for thier proposals .
There are many south indian educational trusts who are willing to cater the Bihar technical education market ! Just wait till 2009 Lok Sabha election in which NDA victory can bring more faith in present NDA government in Bihar .


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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape, sex crimes
His victims fuelled the global #MeTooMovement
The former movie producer had assaulted and harassed numerous women
AGENCIES, New York: Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinsten has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes and rape. Last month, he was convicted of rape and forcible performance of oral sex on another woman.
His crimes and the victimised women who spoke out are what led to the global #MeTooMovement which spoke up about sexual harassment that women face in workplaces and elsewhere.
He faced a minimum of five years and a maximum of 29 years in prison but the sentence was fixed at 23 years with five years of supervision after release, and the additional condition that Weinstein must register as a sex offender, reports CNN.
The 67-year-old former movie producer said, "I really feel remorse for this situation. I feel it deeply in my heart. I will spend my time really caring and really trying to be a better person." He also said that he was "totally confused" about these issues like other men, according to CNN.
The length of the sentence could effectively turn out to be a life sentence for Weinsten as he is in poor health, evident from his arrival to the New York courtroom in a wheelchair and was even taken to a hospital later as he was suffering from chest pain.
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Green Architecture
How to build a healthy home, extreme dream edition
The way forward is here
Lloyd Alter lloydalter
© Karawitz Architecture, Bessancourt Passivhaus
In a previous post Ten things to do to have have a healthy home I concluded with a promise that the next post would be How to build a healthy house from scratch. It is now many weeks later, because the task is a bit daunting, figuring this out. But if I was still practicing architecture and a client came to me with a request to do the healthiest house possible, a new build on an open site, (which of course we shouldn't do but it is a client, right?) in a temperate to cool climate, this is what I might propose these days.
It will be built of solid wood.
© Nur-Holz
I have been a fan of wood for a long time, but lately have been really impressed with some of the techniques developed in Germany and Austria for connecting and building solid wood panels without glue. TreeHugger has shown Brettstapel, a dowel-laminated wood, Thoma Holz100, a cross-laminated wood held together with dowels, and now here is Nur-Holz, with threaded dowels. Solid wood is an all-natural material, is non-allergenic and is "an open-pored, breathable wood surface catalyzed smells and pollutants. The fine smell of essential oils, the typical wood smell, animated to the deep breath." There is a proven biophilic effect where it has been shown to calm us down and soothe the nerves. Solid wood also moderates the moisture content of the air.
More on Wood and Human Health in a pdf from FP Innovations.
It will be Passive House standard.
© Trent Bell/ GoLogic Passive House
That's because wrapping a house in a blanket of insulation to Passive House standard means that it needs very little heating or cooling, eliminating products of combustion either on site or off. But I have also learned from engineer Robert Bean's Healthy Heating website how important it is to consider the temperature of the walls of a house. All that insulation saves a lot of energy, but as Robert notes,
"Where an energy efficiency approach says adding insulation reduces energy consumption, the indoor climate approach says adding insulation results in higher mean radiant temperatures in winter and lower MRT's [Mean Radiant Temperature] in summer."
Windows built to passive house standard are also comfortable to sit by, any time of year. Passive House design is great for saving energy, but where they really excel are on those other three most important things: comfort, comfort and comfort. And a comfortable house, with no drafts, condensation or cold spots, is a healthier house.
It will be insulated with rock wool.
Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0
TreeHugger has shown some plastic foam systems recently that are effective, but Roxul and other rock wools are totally inert and free of chemicals, non-combustible, inorganic. It will also be wrapped around the outside of the wood structure, much like Susan Jones did in her house in Seattle, and might well be covered in shou-sugi ban like hers was.
More: Does Foam Insulation Belong in Green Buildings? 13 Reasons It Probably Doesn't
What's The Greenest Insulation? It's Getting Harder To Decide Every Day
It will be built on stilts.
© Juri Troy Architects
Le Corbusier did it "to provide an actual separation between the corrupted and poisoned earth of the city and the pure fresh air and sunlight of the atmosphere above it." And Corb didn't know about radon gas. Whether it is moisture or radon or vermin, there are a few good reasons to get up off the ground.
But there is also detailing and insulation. By being built on stilts, the whole house can be wrapped in insulation without using any foam- the same rock wool that is in the walls can be under the floor. There is no issue of the connection of the foundation to the house because there is no traditional foundation. The need for careful detailing of thermal bridges is pretty much eliminated.
The stilts will be helical piles, that are just screwed into the ground; they are the least disruptive foundation and will enable the house to essentially be concrete-free, because Yes, concrete is pretty much as terrible for the climate as we thought. See more on the house shown above at A Passive House is built on stilts; Andrew Michler followed a similar path without stilts here.
It will be heated electrically.
It won't take much; perhaps a few radiant panels. Some might want an air source mini-split heat pump, but that's another fan and AC motor that I would like to avoid. I never used to think this, but now I really do believe that we live better, electrically.
It will have a big honking heat recovery ventilator with a HEPA filter.
Lloyd Alter/ Minotair HRV and heat pump/CC BY 2.0
Passive House designs are so airtight that it is essential that a source of fresh air be provided, so HRVs are necessary. It will take stale air from the bathrooms and deliver fresh air to the bedrooms. Air quality is critically important for a healthy home; with a wood home built to passive house standards, you are not going to get mold, but still need lots of fresh clean air. It might even be a unit like the Minotair, Boreal, an HRV with a heat pump built right in so that it does everything- heat exchange, heating and cooling.
More: Are energy efficient homes making us ILL? No. Lousy ventilation systems are
Is asthma being worsened by energy efficient homes?
Planning: It will have a big vestibule with lots of storage.
Sink in the lobby, Villa Savoye/via
Shoes should never come into the house. I once was in a house where the designer actually put a bench right across the vestibule so that you had to consciously sit down, take off your shoes and then rotate around to the other side to put on your slippers; there was no way anyone was walking into that house with shoes. You want the outside to stay outside.
Oh, and there will probably be a sink in the hall.
It will have a separate kitchen that can be closed off.
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen 1926/CC BY 2.0
I know that this is controversial; everybody loves open kitchens these days. But I am not convinced they are such a good idea. Even with electric instead of gas ranges, air quality is an issue. Robert Bean has written:
Since there are no environmental protection regulations governing indoor residential kitchens, your lungs, skin and digestive systems have become the de facto filter for a soufflé of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, formaldehydes, volatile organic compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, fine and ultra fine particles and other pollutants associated with meal preparation. Toss in the exposed interior design features and what is left behind is an accumulation of contaminants in the form of chemical films, soot and odours on surfaces, similar in affect to what one finds in the homes of smokers.
It is really hard to design an exhaust system that works well; a lot of Passive House designers simply use a recirculating fan (often derided as a forehead greaser) and then have the home's HRV handle the fresh air. I suspect that an exhaust to the exterior is a better idea, but that we then need a makeup air unit to replace what is lost. But always, the idea of having a big open kitchen, with all that stuff going everywhere, is not conducive to good air quality.
Alibaba/ glass kitchen/via
In China, where cooking is fast and smokey, you see a lot of this now in high end homes, modern kitchens with floor to ceiling glass. It is separate in terms of air but not separate visually. Perhaps we will see more of this in North America.
More: Worrying about kitchen fans is exhausting
Hyperventilation about kitchen ventilation
Which is more energy efficient for cooking: gas or induction?
The most screwed up, badly designed, inappropriately used appliance in your home: the kitchen exhaust
The closed separate kitchen makes a comeback
Oh, and the fridge will be very small.
The bathrooms will be very Japanese.
© The Japanese Bath
As shown in the series The history and design of the Bathroom and my own Why am I building such a weird bathroom, the tub and shower will be in their own room, the toilet separate in a separate room and with a bidet seat. It is designed around people, not plumbing. (You can tour my bathroom here, it is designed around these principles).
I am torn about whether it should have a composting toilet or not; A good long-drop foam flush toilet, with air exhausted from below, makes for a better smelling washroom without splashing and without putting bacteria into the air when it is flushed, but it doesn't play well with a bidet toilet seat. Perhaps a traditional bidet, separate from the toilet, is in order.
More: Composting toilets are coming home
Yes, Civilized People DO Have Composting Toilets In Their Homes
The furniture will be vintage.
© Bruce Damonte/ Joanne Koch
All of that mid-century modern furniture is made of solid wood and metal, and if there ever was anything to out-gas, it is long gone. Unlike carpets, rugs can be aired and shaken.
Thonet Chair ad/via
Then there is the earlier modernist furniture, the Thonet chairs, the Miesian tubular metal chairs; it was all designed to be light and easy to move. Mies wrote:
It therefore promotes comfortable, practical living. It facilitates the cleaning of rooms and avoids inaccessible dusty corners. It offers no hiding place for dust and insects and therefore there is no furniture that meets modern sanitary demands better than tubular-steel furniture.
More: Fighting disease with design: Light, Air and Openness
The wiring will be DC.
Lloyd Alter/ The Minihome does it in DC/CC BY 2.0
Outside of the kitchen and laundry, except for our vacuum cleaner, every single electrical device in our house is now powered by direct current, through wall warts, and transformers built into the base of every LED bulb in the house. It is already common in boats, RVs and tiny houses, like the Minihome, to go all DC.
It's time for a residential version of PoE, or Power over Ethernet, now being done in offices. Then we can get rid of all those transformers and run everything more efficiently, can control it more easily. And although the idea of electrosensitivity is controversial, this can eliminate EMF and WiFi from our houses too, with CAT5 plugs everywhere, really at every electrical point in the house.
Another reason for going with CAT5 instead of traditional wiring is that it is available in a PVC free version, a Low smoke zero halogen version designed for plenum use. This makes it possible to go entirely PVC free.
Interestingly, all of the massive wood panel manufacturers claim that their products shield from EMF, blocking up to 95 percent of high frequency radiation like cell phones. The only study I could find indicated that the panels would have to be 18 inches thick to do any good.
More:I converted my home to 100% LED lighting and you should too
Happy Birthday Thomas Alva Edison. You Were Right About Direct Current After All
Is DC Power "slow electricity"?
Wait, there's more
This has been all about the house and the stuff inside it. It is a house that is concrete free, foam free, PVC free, flame retardant free, and made of the greenest and healthiest materials one can find. But there is more that one has to consider; The service stuff is important. Where does the electricity come from? Where does the waste water go to? These are more complex, technical questions, but this stuff is really outside the house rather than in it. I will try to follow up in a separate post.
If I could have it all....
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The Isais Revelations
The Vril Society
The Day X
Dr. Hans Kammler
Imperial German News Network
The child trade
Chat/Forum
Updated on the 10th Jan. 2023
The Vril Society Flag
Left: the dark or iron age. The age of lies and deception, the age of war, destruction and hunger.
Center: The V Lightning flash of Divine Intervention. When the RDs together with Jesus Christ save the world and free it from the dominion of Satan. Right: in purple or violet the new Golden Age of peace and freedom. In this age everyone will be truly free. Everyone will be able to think really free, everyone will know why they are here, and everyone will be able to really actualize themselves in the New Golden Age.
Before 1919, Karl Haushofer, a Gurdjeff disciple and Tibetan traveler, founded a second order, the 'Brothers of Light', in addition to the Thule Society, which was later renamed the VRIL Society. The VRIL Society also united the new Templar formation 'The Lords of the Black Stone' (DHVSS), which had emerged from the Germanic Order in 1917, and the 'Black Knights' of the Thule and SS elite 'Black Sun'.
To make a comparison with the Thule Society, the easiest way to grasp the difference would be to say that the Thule Society was dedicated to material and political things, and the VRIL Society was essentially afterlife-oriented. But there are still numerous points of contact between Vril and Thule Society, such as Atlantis, Thule, the Island of the Blessed Epos of Gilgamesh, the original connection between Germania and Mesopotamia, but also ancient sanctuaries such as the Externsteine, the Untersberg or Stronegg's local mountain. In December 1919, a small circle of Thule, DHVSS and Vril people met in a forester's lodge rented for this purpose in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden. Among them was, in addition to the medium Maria Orsic, another one known only as Sigrun. Maria had received medially transmissions in a secret Templar script - a language completely unknown to the medium - the telepathic messages came, according to the vril scriptures, from the solar system Aldebaran, which is located 68 light years away from us in the constellation of Taurus.
SS E-IV Flying disc development in the Third Reich
Enterprise Aldebaran P 129-130
Within the SS there was a group concerned with the production of alternative energy, the SS E-IV = Development department IV of the Black Sun, whose main concern was to make Germany independent of foreign crude oil. The SS-E-IV developed the 'Thule Triebwerk', later called the 'THULE Tachyonator', from the existing Vril engines and Captain Hans Coler's Tachyon converter.
In August 1939, the first round winged airplane RFZ5 took off. It was a medium-heavy armed flight gyro with the peculiar name "Haunebu I". It had a crew of 8 men, measured 25 meters in diameter, reached an initial speed of 4,800 km/h and later up to 17,000 km/h. It was equipped with two 6 cm KSK (power stream cannons) in turrets and four MK 106 and had a space capability of 60%.
By the end of 1942 the 'Haunebu II' was also constructed. The diameter varied between 26 and 32 meters and the height between 9 and 11 meters. It could carry a crew of between 9 and 20 people, was powered by a Thule Tachyonator and reached a speed of 6000km/h near Earth. It was also space-qualified and had a range of 55 flight hours.
At that time, plans already existed for the VRIL 7 large-capacity ship with a diameter of 120 meters. It was to transport entire crews. A short time later the Haunebu III, the absolute showpiece of all flying discs, was completed with a diameter of 71 meters. It was flown and also filmed. It could transport a crew of 32 men, had a range in flight duration of over 8 weeks and reached a speed of at least 7,000 km/h in the earth's atmosphere (according to documents of the SS secret archives up to 40,000 km/h).
Around Christmas 1943 there was an important meeting of the Vril Society in the North Sea resort of Kolberg. Also present were the media Maria and Sigrun. Main topic of this meeting was the 'Aldebaran Enterprise'. The media had received exact information about the inhabited planets and the sun Aldebaran and they started to work out a trip there. On January 2, 1944, a meeting took place between Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Künkel (Vril Society) and Professor Dr. Schumann, in which the Vril Project was discussed. They wanted to use the Vril 7 large spaceship, named "Odin", to travel to Aldebaran through a dimensional conduit independent of the speed of light. According to the documents of the "Black Sun", the first dimensional conduit test flight is said to have taken place in the winter of 1944. This flight is said to have been close to a disaster, because photos show the Vril-7 after this flight, on which it looked "as if it had been on the road for 100 years". The outer cell skin looked very old and was damaged in several places...
Maria Orschitsch (Orsic) and the Vril Ladies
"Maria Orschitsch (Orsic), the daughter of an official from Croatia and a Viennese woman. Miss Maria Orsic was born in Vienna on October 31, 1895. She joined the German National Movement, which was very strong at that time and whose goal was, among other things, the unification of Austria with the German Reich. In 1919 Maria moved to her boyfriend and later fiancé in Munich and, together with several other women, founded a circle dedicated to the struggle for Aryan culture. From 1922 on, this circle also dealt with completely different things, which were based on quasi-magical vibrational principles, but in fact reached into the technical realm.
After the foundation of the Vril Society or Society for Metaphysics, the media Maria and Sigrun received messages from the star system Aldebaran from the Zodiac Sign of Taurus. They received medially building instructions in an old Templar script. The Antriebstechnische Werkstätten rebuilt these devices and developed a whole series of flying discs between 1922 and 1945, from the Vril 1 fighter to the 120 meter wide flying disc Vril V7 Odin. In Jan van Helsing's book Unternehmen Aldebaran you can read the media messages of the Vril Odin flight to Aldebaran. They use a dimensional conduit to fly to Aldebaran, where they encounter a space cruiser of the Aldebaran Space Forces.
Maria Orsic disappeared from the face of the earth together with SS General Hans Kammler in March-April 1945, with the full intention of ensuring that a future Reich would emerge from technologies that had originally come from the Third Reich.
CHAPTER 14 What testimonies are available for the VRIL 'Odin' flight?
What testimonies are available for the VRIL 'Odin' flight? Again, it should be briefly mentioned that around Christmas 1943 an important meeting of the VRIL society in the North Sea resort Kolberg had taken place. It was about the 'Aldebaran Enterprise'. The Media Maria and Sigrun had exact information about the inhabited planets and the sun of Aldebaran and they started to to work out a trip there. Under what is known as the 'VRIL project', the company one wanted to use the "VRIL-Odin" with a light speed independent dimensional canal to Aldebaran. But before this could happen, another meeting of the highest VRIL-people took place, whereby also the German leadership was informed about it and the seriousness of the enterprise was shown once again.
We have the following presentation by Prof. Dr. Schumann (from the STM archive), which was presented at this meeting:
"Lecture on the secret of the star flight, Dear comrades and comrades, dear guests here today at the 23rd Wolfsberg Meeting, xxxxx I would like to thank you especially, dear xxxxx, for coming to us especially for this day, and you, dear Friend Dornberger, who for these hours has taken you all the way from northeast of the Reich to listen to what those who have to say about the star travel, these devices not to rise into the sky under the otto or explosion motor, but for some under an eerie silence. Now I have called the distance from Peenemünde to Wolfsberg a long way. The proportionality of the concept of distance has already been shown therein. Last year, our guest lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Brützel has described the edges of our own solar system as the highest of achievements in the world.here today at the 23rd Wolfsberg Meeting, xxxxx I would like to thank you especially, dear xxxxx, for coming to us especially for this day, and you, dear Friend Dornberger, who for these hours has taken you all the way from northeast of the Reich to listen to what those who have to say about the star travel, these devices not to rise into the sky under the otto or explosion motor, but for some under an eerie silence. Now I have called the distance from Peenemünde to Wolfsberg a long way. The proportionality the concept of distance has already been defined therein shows. Last year, our guest lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Brützel has described the edges of our own solar system as the highest of our motives, what human reachability with regard to bridging distances one can imagine oneself. As possible, actually goals in space to be achieved within the next two decades he called the moon and perhaps also Mars. These are now in of the deed considerable distances, of which there was talk. But we are talking about distances of completely different dimensions. The Distances we speak of behave in relation to distance Moon-Mars about the same as the distance Peenemünde- Wolfsberg to this. We speak of other solar systems, yes possibly from other milky ways. Do we still stand on reasonable foundations? We are thus more than "clairvoyant", like friend Engel four years ago still said? Or does this make us the "spearhead of a new world generation? as friend Stegmaier said to the H U? We are, in our own judgment, servants of a divine Kraß, whose Gifts to use us mission and mission is. Because looking at the achievements of human technology, we find The greatest part of everything has the divine providence of things. A Example should suffice: Could there be a radio broadcast, without the divinely fused natural conditions? And so think we recognize it in everything: There is such a thing as 'divine Preliminary work' in everything, which makes up about 90%. Only those for use necessary, additional 10% is provided by man. Our basis of thinking is therefore the, after such "divine to keep a lookout for "advance services" in order to use them for humanity tangible. Thus we found and seized the powers of the VRIL!
In the ancient history of Aryan memory, such forces are already mentioned. For example in the Ramayana on the Vimana airplanes.
While working through ancient Babylonian scriptures, Delitzsch stumbled on further traces of such godly knowledge. The Wise Men of the old ones went the way, which we tried to go again are: The way of searching for points of contact to "divine Preliminary work". The silent, profound wisdom of the ancient Orient captured the attention of the in Germany. This was an event whose significance so far only a few fully recorded. In Germany the pure doer of Europe, who sees only the superficial, to the to the "Godly", like the ancients in Babel, Egypt and India were - and probably also our early Germanic peoples forefathers. The " Transcendental" found a new home in German countries. This happened in the first half of the thirteenth century at the Untersberg with the appearance of the Isais, that strange divine being, to whom so much to thank is. The tips of the mind have understood this, the xxxxx is familiar with it. Its recognition thus means also paves the way to the flight to the stars. This brings us now to the center of this consideration: The secret of star flight. The flight of the stars, the true one, reaching into the far distance, the laws of nature seem to oppose. In particular, the limit the speed of light and at the same time limit the flight of the stars. But we say: There is no such limitation! There are no limitation of movement speed! Much is faster than the light! Because it is not only the "physical world but also, and much more significantly, the "spiritual! Already in the Vedas of the ancients have the solution: "The fastest of all Flying is the thought!" Here we come to a foundation of the new, German science. We push the boundaries and free the mind from the confinement.
We overcome the xxxxxxx shackles of limitation, which does not exist in the truth. For too long we have been caught up in the laws of nature of limitation chained. It comes from the xxxxxxx religion, which has no afterlife but is rather quite related to this world, that all conclusions were only physical on this side. The laws of nature on this side have been declared the sole ones. But there is an afterlife! And consequently there are natural laws of the hereafter that are above those of this world!
If we understand this view of everything, it must become clear that we are dealing with a large this-side-beyond overall structure in which the laws of nature on this side and on the other side come together, nested and interwoven. But who can recognizes natural laws of the hereafter, knows the big picture! Our modern rockets achieve astonishing things. But fortune it is not possible to leave the vibrational networks of this world. Therefore, their range of distance is limited. The secret of the distant star flight lies in leaving the earthly vibration nets and in the change of the missile into otherworldly vibration networks! With the change into the hereafter our flying machine is not subject more to the laws of nature on this earth, but to the laws of nature Beyond! But there is another time there! There the fastest thing that flies is by no means light, but thought! The spirit! Is that now, as some may think, occultism? Not at all! The hereafter exists just as really and truly as the This side. It is even the larger, stronger level, in which our universe is to be seen as a relatively small entity. The flight through the hereafter, the flight through the "intercosmos," as Rudolf von Sebottendorff called it, is a strictly scientific technology, like the rockets or any other.
It follows no less exact laws, except that these laws are governed by because they contain physical and spiritual laws that connect. Everything is based on vibrations. Just like, to use an already used Example to reuse the radio waves. The variable capacitor determines the wavelength and thus the transmitter. The transformation of one frequency to the other causes the change. In Higher up it is not much different, basically seen. There are worldly and otherworldly vibrational networks and planes of vibration. If it is possible to evoke a certain oscillation, then the magnetism of the law of affinity (law of resonance, A.d.V.). In the uppermost stage a complete transformation takes place: the transmutation! And this is the technical background of our VRIL devices. On this side they rise into the air and beyond that they leave the direct earth influence area. Then the transmutation begins. The VRIL airplane ceases to be a worldly body. It also disappears for the eye looking outside the VRIL aircraft. The VRIL Aircraft becomes an intercosmic space ship. It has temporarily nothing more to do with the sphere of this world and rushes through enormous distances in the shortest time, in order to transmute back into the universe of this world at the destination! In this way our VRIL 7 (named 'Odin', A.d.V.) will reach the solar system of Aldebaran. And I have no doubt that later German space VRIL ships will be able to reach Andromeda and the most remote areas of space. It is clear to us that this technique probably cannot be immediately described as weapons-grade. It is a technique for possible battles in space. May there never be such! The value of VRIL technology is still low for acute frontal applications today. But even there, there may still be some things that need to be shown.
What can distant star flights bring us? We still don't really know it.not. The union and alliance with cultures of other worlds. If the transmedial connections are not deceptive, there is a related culture in the system of the sun Aldebaran. Perhaps support will come from there, a compensation against the numerical superiority of the enemy on Earth. Now this sounds like something out of a utopian novel, but it has a very tangible background. The transmediale activity was the beginning of VRIL's work and the key to the successes that have taken place so far. From the Untersberg revelation texts of the thirteenth century it was clear how to proceed. But this is not the time to talk about this in detail. The coming period, already the next months, should confirm in an impressive way what the VRIL technology can achieve in its various possibilities.
The secret of the star flight lies therefore in the recognition of the interweaving of this world and the next, in the grasping of the different, but mutually resonating laws of God and nature on this side and the other. We are close to the dawn of a completely new age, in which a new spirit will prevail. It is our spirit, the spirit of the new age.
Photo of the Vril Odin in flight
The source of this picture is the book "Unternehmen Aldebaran" written by Jan Udo Holey. This photo was taken in April 1945.
Vril V7 Odin animation to Aldebaran in 1945
The animation was produced with Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop.
CHAPTER 15 Transmedial Protocols from Mr. X.
The transmedia protocols of his time are certainly among the most unusual texts ever written. "Transmedial" (or also "hypertelepathic"?) received messages from a distant world, far beyond our solar system: Aldebaran (according to the latest scientific findings, this could not be completely ruled out) They report in partly astonishing accuracy about the history of this distant world, about its society and religion, even about small things. Only small fragments of these writings have been preserved. Unfortunately, many passages have become illegible over the decades, as the protocols date from the period between 1919 and 1949. Much of this period was lost or destroyed in the turmoil of war. The transmedia announcements are only a few fragments that remain. Now some information about Aldebaran, as it was passed on through transmedial contact: "The empire of Sumeran (according to earthly star map 'Aldebaran') has been a theocracy for a long time. Today's state system is under the rule of priestesses, but is not as firmly formed as the Irish states. There are semi-free principalities. The preceding, very long granted period is called the "time of the Great Kings". At that time there were emperors who strove for a kind of universal empire and who were able to establish it to a large extent. This empire was - after the transfer of power by a very religious Great King to the priestesses - largely abandoned. This was followed by the "dynasty of priestesses", an epoch of "isolationism", which still continues to exist. Before the "time of the Great King", there were different peoples on the main planet "Sumer", who also waged war among themselves. In the last of these wars, King Derger of Ogre Tdan defeated all other peoples and had them rigorously transported to the neighboring planet "An". Since then there is only one unified people on Sumer. King Derger became the first Great King. Today (about 1943 of the earth time) Aldebaran is at war with two other worlds "Nanut" (probably Regulus) and "Godonos" (probably Kapella). This war has lasted for a very long time, because the "Priest Empresses" considered it sufficient to keep the enemies at a distance. Only recently has this view changed and the war has been waged and ended with full commitment". Allegedly two German space companies from the time of the Third Reich are said to have launched in the second half of April 1945. One of them is said to have been the 71m large spaceship Haunebu III 'Thor' to Mars. The other is the 45m large spaceship 'Odin' to Aldebaran. About the flight to Aldebaran through the dimensional canal a few excerpts from the transmedial protocols of the VRIL society are to be reproduced: Transmedial fragments of VRIL-'Odin'. The following texts can be described as the most important and best preserved transmedial broadcasts of VRIL-'Odin'. They are all fragments which, taken together, certainly represent only a small part of what was originally present.
Transmedial transmission from VRIL-'Odin' No. l
The arrangement is not certain and certainly large passages are missing in many places. Nevertheless, the numbering was done to simplify the further work with the texts. Such numbering is not indicated on the templates. The texts have been translated largely literally - without regard to stylistic aspects. They were certainly formulated by different people and were essentially transmitted in this way by the media. Odin' has left Mother Earth. A sudden feeling of indescribable loss has taken possession of the entire crew, as if at the same time. Little is spoken. The earth does not look like a school globe from the outside, but blue, light blue and white. The clouds are clearly visible and also parts of the land, in strangely familiar outlines. But we fly so fast that the earth soon looks like a ball that is getting smaller and smaller. Circumnavigation of the earth in deep flight is not done, in order not to intensify emotions. Passed the moon relatively close, about 12,000 kilometers. It seems cold. The crew is quiet and thoughtful. It is noticeable that nobody believes in ever stepping on Earth again. Unexpected emotions. Nevertheless, everyone is properly at his post. Home (radio) transmission-reception turned off, that still works well. The crew must be distracted from the retrospective thoughts. XXX gave a good speech. He succeeded in bringing the courageous momentum back into the crew. Earth-Moon now already very far away. Fainthearted sentimentality shaken off. We are approaching the point of entry (into the dimension channel). XXX has made transmed connection to Aldebaran. Crew is hopeful again. Technically everything is smooth.
Transmedial transmission of VRIL-'Odin' No. 2
Odin' flies without any problems. In seven and a half hours entry (to the Dimensional Canal). Meteor swarms ahead (asteroids?). Manned guns for safety reasons. Flying towards "meteor swarm". Avoidance possible, but risky because of computer circuitry for the entry (into the dimension channel). The risk would be very high not to find the entry point again and thus to lose the meeting point with the Aldebarans irretrievably. Therefore fire command on larger meteors. Relief, because they can be shot down easily. The "hail of space", which we now have to fly through, can be withstood by 'Odin'. But still unpleasant. Several smaller damages: Gunnery Berta immovable, Alpha antenna failed, numerous cracks in the bulletproof glass outer layers, lots of dents and dents in the cell body. But nothing serious. The crew was shaken. Interior various minor damages. Maintain course. Computer circuit works perfectly. Transmedial transmission from VRIL-'Odin' No. 4
Transmediale transmission of VRIL-'Odin' No. 5
Entry (into the dimension channel) was very easy. Short feeling like a kind of breath of anaesthesia for all crew members. But only a few moments. Transformation goes much too fast to understand it properly... (approx. 12 lines illegible) greenish shimmer everywhere (...)
In the canal quiet flight. Sometimes we pass lighter or darker places. Not knowing if they mean anything. XXX a strange bubble floated by, like a smelly greenish soap bubble. But quite far away.
176 Transmedial transmission of VRIL-'Odin' No. 6
Everywhere green-yellowish light spirals, in the middle almost orange. Size and distance difficult to tell. Possibly several kilometers total diameter of the spiral, which rotates very slowly. Maybe the structure causes a suction when you come closer. Thinking about whether the spiral structure might unintentionally pull objects flying outside into the channel? The channel is not a tube, just in one direction, it is basically everywhere.
XX in the channel (dimension channel). Flight runs smoothly. Crew got used to the green over cosmos. Due to the cloud and fog-like veils that are common here, strong sensation of speed. Then again only the light of some green sun. Again and again floating objects that look like huge green rocks. Whole floating islands. On some of them you can see buildings, we imagine. It is the hereafter, or at least a kind of borderland between this world and the next. Technically no difficulties. Morally good. None (......)
Transmedial transmission from VRIL-'Odin' No. 11
XXX started. Strange reddish and bluish swaths blend into the green ones. Nausea in several crew members. Some "trans girls" complain of headaches. It will pass soon. It predominates green again and then becomes completely green again. XXX means, disturbing vibration in bell possible.... Noises for the first time. Something like digging at the cell skin. But nothing to see. Then we recognize flickering clouds of dust. We fly through without any difficulties. 177 Transmedial transmission from VRIL-'Odin' No. 12
Transmedial transmission of VRIL-'Odin' No. 13
XXX something has crossed our path. Not a rocket, but something elongated that was perhaps just a natural structure. Is there such a thing as channel crosses/paths ?? (....) The disturbing light-like pink and blue is gone now. XXX complains of headaches again. There is something in the way. Looks like a huge honeycomb, but different. Fire opened. Holes shot into the thing, but it stays. Shot further, held on the center. The structure seems to be elastic. We can try to punch through. Goes without effort. The thing stays behind us. Very strange. XXX on the right side, then also on the left side very bright light spots. Light green. Looks like holes in the canal. But happened without any difficulties.
Since X/XX/XXX sometimes green shining "Flying Stars" come into view. Quite far, distance not estimable. Certainly not other space ships, but natural phenomena. Maybe something like comets buzzing through the "Ka- nal" at this point. For crew a change, because there is something to see.
XXX something like gusts of wind have arisen. Odin' gets into rocking movements. Very funny. By counteracting it, it is kept halfway in position. Strange feeling. Like swell. But no cause recognizable.
Approaching large bright spot, which has no particular shape. Bright yellow-green glow. From there the gusts seem to come. We have to pass close to it. Brightness increases. Some crew members get ringing in their ears, others don't notice anything. The big bright spot now looks like a huge jellyfish of yellowish green light. Apparently pure light. Maybe about 100 kilometers in size. Difficult to estimate. As we approach, it has suddenly disappeared. Or it is no longer perceptible at close range. Then reappears behind us as we pass. Flight again completely calm. The bright structure of light now on the other side. As if our flight path is crossed. Stay back.
....Full silence, the green stars now seem very far away. As if we had taken a leap. Canal space seems darker than before. Stars - but just greenish shining. Space of deep dark green. Impression of boundlessness. In front again brightness. Of course green and greenish here. A concentration of brightness. Flying towards it. Flying into the concentration of brightness. Again typical "channel feeling". Vaporous veils pass by. Wisps sometimes condense and are sometimes almost completely gone...
(....) no change. Eerie feeling. It must have been imagination. The swaths here look different. The strange feeling is still there. Sometimes different colored cloud shreds come. But only inside they look different, because they penetrate somehow. Outside are only green ... XXX fly past something that looks almost like a wreck. It has the shape of an elongated egg with irregular holes, through which you can see something almost like frames.
179 Transmedial transmission of VRIL- Odin No. 19 Transmedial transmission of VRIL-'Odin' No. 20 Transmedial transmission of VRIL-'Odin' No. 21 XXX Silence occurred. We fly again through the already familiar green swaths. Sometimes lights, like stars. Now we slowly approach the exit point. Hope everything goes well. No noticeable disturbances. Exit (from the dimension channel) successful. XXX tries to connect to Aldebaran. Technically not possible due to failure of the alpha antenna. Our old universe again. Lots of foreign constellations - of course. Maintaining the agreed course. Nobody is afraid. The darkness here is unusual. To see stars, but no sun close enough to give light. We see nothing but distant stars. Not even from the edge of our plate. Very remarkable. Everything dark like in a bear's belly. The sun Aldebaran Sumi is still relatively far away. We will fly the rest of the way together with the Aldebarans expected at this position. Hopefully they will come soon. We are slightly too early, but they will probably discover us. Transmedial transmission from VRIL-'Odin' No. 22
The Aldebaran space cruisers are rapidly approaching. Impressive devices. Certainly over 1,000 meters long. They are gigantic, but strangely enough they do not look as strange as we had imagined. Reminiscent of our V2, although they have no rocket engines, and of course they look different. What seems almost human and cozy up close are the illuminated rows of windows. This has a direct promise of cosiness.
Somehow like a heated house in a winter night - if one may become poetic. The crew is in a very good mood. The former submarine people on board compare the moment with a meeting on the high seas, and that's what it is like (...one line destroyed). We are taken in the middle by the two Aldebarans. Their space cruisers are painted dove blue, light blue and purple. A kind of half decoration and half camouflage paint. The Aldebaran emblems are black and silver.
The flagship turns the broadside to us. A large hatch is opened in the rear third of the hull. We steer straight into it. Strangely enough, the great excitement of meeting people from another star world for the first time is not there at all. We have the feeling that we already know each other. Fr. XXX has a connection to an Aldebaran woman on board the flagship. Everything goes incredibly smooth and easy.


February 2, 1917Birth, New York (N.Y.).
1937Obtained SB, City College of New York, New York (N.Y.).
1937 – 1938Tutor in Physics, City College of New York.
1941 – 2000Instructor in Physics (1941-1945); Assistant Professor of Physics (1945-1947); Associate Professor of Physics (1947-1955); Professor of Physics (1955-1976); Director, Center for Theoretical Physics (1967-1973); Chair, Department of Physics (1973-1983); Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics (1976-1983); Institute Professor (1983-1987); and Institute Professor Emeritus (1987-2000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1942Obtained PhD in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (Mass.).
1957Co-founded with Philip Morse, and Chief Editor, Annals of Physics.
1968 – 1975Member, Committee on Nuclear Science, National Research Council.
1969 – 1972Member, Physics Survey Committee, National Research Council.
1970 – 1971Chair, Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society.
1970 – 1972Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Data Compilation, National Research Council.
1973Awarded Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society.
1973 – 1976Vice President, Class I, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1974 – 1978Divisional Councilor, Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society.
1974 – 1987Member, Board of Trustees, Associated Universities, Inc.
1976 – 1982Member, Executive Committee, Council, American Physical Society.
1978 – 1995Member, Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science.
1979 – 1982Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1979 – 1983Member, National Council, Federation of American Scientists.
1979 – 1983Chair, Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, United States Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.
1981 – 1982Member, Committee on Government-University Relationship in Support of Science, National Research Council.
1981 – 1987Member-at-Large (Nuclear Physics), U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, National Research Council.
1982 – 1986President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1984 – 1990Chair, Nuclear Physics Division, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
1987 – 1990Member, Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University.
December 22, 2000Death, Cambridge (Mass.).
Advised by Feshbach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Theoretical Physics.
PhD advisor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on "Relating the Properties of Tritium to Nuclear Forces" and both employed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Both employed at the City College of New York.
Obtained SB and Tutor in Physics.
Obtained PhD in Physics (1942). Instructor in Physics; Assistant Professor of Physics; Associate Professor of Physics; Professor of Physics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics; Chair, Department of Physics; Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics; Institute Professor; and Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Vice President Class I and President.
Chair, Division of Nuclear Physics; Divisional Councilor, Division of Nuclear Physics; Member, Executive Committee, Council; received 1973 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics; and President.
Feshbach and Philip Morse co-founded the Annals of Physics and Chief Editor.
Member, Committee on Nuclear Science; Member, Physics Survey Committee; Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Data Compilation; Member, Committee on Government-University Relationship in Support of Science; and Member-at-Large (Nuclear Physics), U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Chair, Nuclear Science Advisory Committee.
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Andrei Sakharov papers, 1852-2002 (bulk 1960-1990).
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Oral history interview with John G. King, 2009 November 17.
Oral history interview with K. Uno Ingard, 2007 July 19.
In honor of Philip M. Morse. Editors Herman Feshbach and K. Uno Ingard.
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Q: No longer any community in Area 51 proposals Previously we had the comments where it was easy to tell who was still watching a proposal regularly because minor questions asked by new followers were answered by this handful of people.
This small collective I would suggest is very important when setting the site up after going to beta and is more than likely going to be the most active in the closed beta stage and for defining the site.
Now IMO new people who are new to the SE sites and area 51 are not likely to post a "discussion" question as opposed to posting a comment and are even likely to post the wrong type of discussion question.
Furthermore this small group of important members has no public way to stay active. Basically there is no longer any activity and no longer any need for these people to regularly watch the proposal. If it takes 6 - 12 months to get the proposal through the definition phase these people will have done nothing during that phase and may lose interest.
There is this request marked status-planned for adding comments to commitment phase which I guess is no longer going ahead.
Is it important to start building community around sites early and should we have the tools to facilitate open discussion on proposals?

A: I'd argue that the discussions are a step up from the comments.  They're easier to follow because multiple trains of thought are interspersed.  They're first-class citizens in the network, with voting, comments, answers, etc.
I'd also argue that they don't encourage you to stay active.  I don't see how this stops people from regularly watching a proposal and pushing it along.
These are available during the commitment phase as well.


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The Open Epidemiology Journal
Exploring the Likely Effect of the Introduction of Drug Eluting Stents on Requirements for Coronary Artery Revascularisation Procedures in Western Australia: A Use of the CHD/CARP Markov Simulation Model
The Open Epidemiology Journal, 2009, 2: 34-38
Haider R Mannan, Haider Matthew Knuiman
Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Alfred Campus, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia.
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Background: Coronary artery revascularisation procedures (CARPs) include coronary artery bypass graft procedures (CABGs) and the less invasive percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) and they are common surgical interventions for coronary heart disease (CHD). The effectiveness of PCIs increased when stents were introduced and there was also a shift towards doing more PCIs and less CABGs, especially in older patients. More recently, PCIs have been further improved by the use of drug-eluting-stents (DES). In this study we used a recently developed CHD/CARP Markov model to explore the likely effect on CARP requirements due to the introduction of DES.
Methods: This is achieved by considering the population of Western Australia aged 35 to 79 years at the beginning of 2001 (grouped according to history of CHD and CARPs) as the cohort, calculating the mean population risks for CHD/CARP events over three years 1998 to 2000, and using these population risks and certain modifications of them that incorporate the likely effect of the introduction of DES (in 2002) in the CHD/CARP Markov model to explore difference in total requirements for CABGs and PCIs over the period 2001 to 2010. The anticipated likely effect of DES on probabilities of CARP procedures was based on results of meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing DES stents to ordinary stents and an anticipated further reduction in CABGs and increase in PCIs as was observed when (ordinary) stents were introduced.
Results: The simulation results suggest that, over the period 2001 to 2010, the total number of CABGs will decline by up to 19% and the total number of PCIs will increase by up to 6%.
Conclusion: The introduction of DES will have greater effect on the requirement of CABGs as compared to that on PCIs.


Growing perennial herbs is becoming a popular hobby. Imagine making culinary delights with fresh herbs. They make every meal delicious. Planning and creating a garden is a great way to provide your household with fresh herbs each year.
To begin with creating a perennial garden, one must do a quick search of the internet. Using a search engine is an easy way. Type in a term such as "perennial herbs" will bring about a huge list of options. Also there will be a list of seed companies that can help the gardener locate the type of plants they would like to grow. Many companies offer free seed catalogs to give the gardener the winter to decide what they would like to grow.
Once a decision has been made as to the types of plants you would like to grow in your garden, order the seeds. Start this process in the winter. Get peat pots or seed starters at your local hardware store. You may be able to find or locate these products at a do it yourself center during the winter season. Purchase some potting soil and get started. Plant your seeds indoors and keep them there until the danger of frost is past.
Growing herbs indoors is an excellent way to add to your herb garden. It is no more challenging to plant herbs in containers than it is to plant them out doors. They can also be grown indoors in sunny window boxes, hanging baskets or regular pots. Whether in or out doors, herbs need the same basic things.
All plants need three main things in order to grow successfully; sunlight, soil and water. Herbs are no exception. Sunlight is key to growing any type of plant including herbs whether they are grown indoors or in a garden. You should place herbs grown in a kitchen or other room in a south or west facing window to get the best kind of sunlight. Different types of herbs have different light requirements but, for the most part, all need a sunny location. Some home herb growers supplement the light source with "grow lamps" or fluorescent lamps.
Just as other plants grow as annuals, biennials and perennials, herbs do as well. Each herb is a unique variety. Research about the herbs that interest you the most will let you give it the care it needs and use it to the best advantage. This is a basic article to give an understanding of the general differences in herbs and how they are used.
Annuals do not survive frost, but will need to be planted directly from seed or as a small plant, each spring. Herbs in this category are basil, cilantro and summer savory to name a few. Other herbs are perennial and will continue to return each year, even in colder temperatures. Examples of these are sage and summer savory. There are also biennial herbs like parsley and angelica, and caraway. In their first growing season they form leaves, the second season they have flowers and seed and after that they die. To plant these types, start them in the soil outside. First prepare the soil by raking it into a fine texture, sprinkle it lightly. Plant rows of seeds at a shallow depth, just firming the dirt over the top of them. Extra fine seeds can be mixed with sand and planted, thereby making them spread more evenly. Covering the garden bed with wet burlap or paper keeps the soil moist to encourage germination.
Herbs are so beneficial. They can be very beautiful to look at. They taste great and can have medicinal properties that you may not quite understand yet. No body said it would be easy, like going to your local store to pick up your favourite herbs to add to your cooking is part of your shopping chores. To produce your very own herbs from your home herb garden gives you the pleasure and self achievement as well as knowing there are no pesticides or chemical used.
You will need to harvest your herbs before you can actually use them. You have to be very carefull when you pick them to get the most from your herbs. You don't want to damage and strip them of their essential oils. Make sure the weather conditions are correct. A dry and calm day on a midsummer morning will give you the highest concentration of essential oils. Fewer oils are produced on wet or humid days so choose your harvesting wisely. Pick only a portion of your plant approximately a third, you need to leave some of the plant to help it grow again. Always check your herbs incase they are damaged or infested with insects.
Basil herbs are royalty, meaning "King"the name originated from the Greek word basileus. But you new that. Rumour has it that, many years ago, the Romans & Greeks associated the word and the herb became somewhat malicious. And get this… some good citizens believed that the only way to get herbs to germinate was to scream a curse at them. This has since proved to be incorrect but it is difficult to argue against the fact that basil herbs are a 'strongly perfumed' if not too strong.
A bit further down the track, basil herbs represented of all things, love. The Italian stallions in Italy used to hand the girls a small bunch of basil to indicate their interest. In the food arena basil is mainly associated with Mediterranean style food as well as Italian & Thai dishes. But… what would you say if I told you this herb came from India, I thought so, gob smacked? Yep, Vishnu & Krishna ate it at every opportunity.
In some temperate regions, basil is often used as an annual and in tropical areas, it's sometimes grown as a perenial. Wherever it's growing, basil is quite sensitive to temperature and it grows better in warmer climates with lots of sunlight.