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I think it was in a music theory lecture that I heard Italian has the ideal ratio of vowels to consonants for singing. French supposedly has vowels too often, and German and perhaps English has consonants too often. Anyway, here are some Reich and Glass minimalist gems from my lost tape archives:

I almost forgot the artistry because I focus on the demeanor of the statues and what it tells about their can-do and pragmatic culture. But it is wild that they for example popularize pillar decorations by skillfully turning stone into tendrils like acanthus leaves, and based on a heart touching story as wikipedia says:

3) Blueberry Melt. For a flavor packed healthy dessert, half fill a bowl with frozen blueberries. Then pour in apple sauce with a bit of grape or cranberry juice so that it can all flow between the berry spaces. Stir and set aside for maybe 15 minutes until the berries are about 3/4 thawed. They will be releasing intense flavor but not yet mushy - yum! P.S. For turbo cola above, I just found adding lemon lime Mio flavor drops are wonderful. I dunno why I find this counterintuitive since long ago when self service dispensers first became common I used to mix cola, lemon lime soda, and a dash of root beer. I think I mentioned another cola additive somewhere which is a squirt of box red wine.

Getty Villa at Malibu 7m California: National Archaeological Museum 8m Naples: Palatine Museum 5m Rome:

What are your favorite videos for museums of ancient Rome? I love the Roman sculpture in these places, especially depictions of real people usually in meditative poses. Scholars warn us that the identity of such sculptures is fairly speculative, and may even have been re-sculpted to change identities over the ages. Note the first video has already been posted under my archeological site thread because it is both site and museum (a great uncrowded one near Rome train station): Baths of Diocletian Museum 8m Rome: Palazzo Massimo 9m Rome: Pio-Clementine Museum 10m Vatican: Uffizi Roman Galleries 8m Florence: Antalya Museum 44m Turkey: Capitoline Museums 22m Rome: Palazzo Altemps 5m Rome: Gregorian Profane Museum 3m Vatican: Profano Museum (misidentified?) 6m Vatican:

Here goes an answer, whose very feebleness may inspire better ones from others. First of all, I especially have a problem (re)finding things in an audio file, like an interview or an audiobook. Am I missing some player feature that can mark points or find things inside? I guess videos have a similar problem, but there is some structuring like chapters becoming popular. I do have a trick for structured reference material I return to again and again. I create tables on a web page which may have headings for rows and columns. They are filled with data cells using dl and dt tags and furthermore may have structure and color codes inside. I tend to use words with perhaps every other letter being a live link. I edit it in a simple code editor that mainly indents and checks syntax, but still allows raw html input. It is labor intensive, but wonderful to switch to and take links out of the soup of bookmark lists. I throw such pages on both local files and free web hosting sites. For the rest I have that soup of bookmark lists. You can keep a number of them. I used to have near photographic memory, but that faded out midlife. Also when young I learned to speed read by just reading the first 5, 4, or 3 letters of every word depending how predictable the text - this useful for localized searching. I find it surprisingly easy to do blind searches in e-books like within kindle. Obvious search strings may be too numerous, but I try unusual strings that are probably near the section that I am interested. Fun fact: this post is my first under Win11 which took countless failed attempts to install over months. Umpteen hours were and will be spent to maintain it. Mean while my Mac discreetly updates itself over and over with little fuss.

What tasty food or drink have you discovered and obsess about? Especially the quick and simple stuff we can also make: 1) Greco Indian Mexi Pizza, made in 3 minutes! Start with flat naan bread which is surprisingly easy to find. Toast even the frozen version which will both puff and crispen, then spread a THIN layer of salsa on it ("picante" sauce is better which is thinner due to retaining healthy tomato liquid). Then sprinkle high quality tangy Feta cheese crumbles over it. Best to fold it over to eat, but it's not like a soggy calzone inside since you have toasted all sides of the crust for a crazy good wood-oven-like mouth feel. If it drips on you, your sauce wasn't spread thin enough and is drowning the crust. I am allergic to cheese, but feta is light enough to not cause much suffering. 2) Turbo Diet Cola. This is a satisfying snack substitute and anyway I always crave the bite of a cola. But it gets monotonous even when switching among major brands, so I use the flavor enhancer drops normally intended for water. Most brands aim at juvenile tastes, but Mio is fairly adult and complex. For Coke I find the purple berry flavors are best. For Pepsi it needs more kick and the flavors combining lemon with some other fruit excel. These are better quality than the mixtures that some fancy coke machines give, like artificial peach or raspberry cola. But it almost has to mix in a plastic bottle of cola and then slowly tumble and maybe sit a while. You can't really mix in an open can.

Thanks; they didn't even mention the benefits for a common terminal illness considered incurable in the US but apparently routinely treated with these shrooms in China with 18% improvement. My enthusiasm for these supplements doesn't extend to committing to their recommended doses, but I take just over one pill per week which will empty the bottle by expiration time. I take a shotgun approach of a variety of these somewhat suspect unregulated potions at timid rates. P.S. I once complained to you of a preventative health program which tended to be bullying, inflexible and micromanaging. For anyone ready to join such a program starting with adv****** I would say that one company that seems to implement this in a tolerable way is spelled w***c***, in my modest experience

I had a bias against supplements until I developed a major vitamin b12 deficiency, and even my first pill gave a real wow effect. Long ago the wealthy would seek frequent b12 injections, but now folks turn up their nose at artificial boosts even by pill. Attention vegans, you have no natural sources of this stuff which is vital for nerve functionality! Maybe vitamin d is a similarly common deficiency. Anyway in more recent times I tried magnesium supplement because folks are apparently commonly short of this and up to a point more is better. Seemed to benefit in unquantifiable ways so I tried others, mainly antioxidants such as alpha lipoic acid. In respectable web sites, that last one had a claim of helping what I thought was a genetic condition which affected my mother and me. I had no expectation for help (therefore no placebo effect) but it seemed to pretty much vanquish it! Various supplements had respectable claims of moderating blood pressure, but I noticed on days I took L-arginine there was a dramatic improvement. Someone pointed out supplements can cost more than BP pills, but the latter tend to have noticeable side effects. Next I am gonna experiment with a supplement not even blessed by Mayo Clinic or WebMD sites: cordyceps fungus. There is amazing speculation about it from NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7104994/ and in China it appears to be a very mainstream treatment for conditions that are undertreated in the US. I am getting the same brand as in your picture because one source said it is the only one that is reliable to properly process what is normally an insect fungus!

Prego Crispina. I think I will be adding mainly to the alternate list version of this at https://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/19385-list-version-favorite-archeo-tour-videos/ because it is in a more easy to find and maybe more proper location in the forum. Also it is easier to choose from or tell what is already there or what is missing. And easier to recover from vanishing videos; some content creators don't like being embedded and can withdraw permission for that. Time will tell. It lacks some of the secondary info like those related 3 videos, but if you check before youtube advances to another video it should display related videos including new ones or popular ones. It annoys me when youtube or any videos autostart despite having autoplay turned off in youtube or in my browser. For the record, here is a nerdy way to tame Firefox into never being tricked into autoplay: You can look at these prefs on the the about:config page to see what settings work for you to block autoplay. media.autoplay.default = 5 [0:allow;1:blockAudible;2:Prompt;5:blockAll] media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2 media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue. (It should add that you can bring up these options by searching "autoplay" within about:config and usually click them to toggle settings)

Seaside Villa of Sperlonga, Italy 7m from Darius Arya Digs Baiae near Naples 12m from Darius Arya Digs

Here I repost a list of videos in a more streamlined form and maybe in a more proper place than https://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/19211-favorite-archeo-tours-by-video/. It is supposed to show a favorite video per Roman archeological site, hopefully intros with a bit of sparkle that will entice folks to go into more depth. Sorry I over represented Pompeii, but feel free to post more in either location. Circus Maximus in Rome 29m from Walks inside Rome Rome's Aqueduct Park 26m from Walks inside Rome Ostia Antica 64m from Walks inside Rome Rome's Ancient Bridges 29m from Walks inside Rome The Colosseum 40m from Walks inside Rome Hadrian's Villa 48m from Walks inside Rome Pompeii 28m from Walks inside Rome Castel Sant Angelo 31m from Walks inside Rome Via Appia Antica 30m from Walks inside Rome Tomb of the Baker 10m from Walks inside Rome Newest Discoveries at Pompeii 9m from Ancient Rome Live Secret Sites Near Pompeii 9m from Ancient Rome Live Discover Pompeii from Above 17m from Ancient Rome Live Volterra (forum) (20m) from Prowalk Tours Pompeii Walking Tour 91m from Italy Together Circo di Massenzio e il Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella, Rome 4m from Andrea Quintili Villa, Rome 3m from Viagga e Impara Life and Death in Herculaneum BBC 59m from Cardo Maximus Baths of Diocletian, Rome 8m from Ancient Rome Live Ephesus Turkey 12m from Kara and Nate Baths of Caracalla, Rome 7m from RomeWise Tunisia Coliseum 9m from Alvaro Garnero - Alem das Fronteiras Rome's Wall 25m from Daniele from Rome Capua Amphitheater 39m from Prowalk Tours Pozzuoli Amphitheater 23m from Prowalk Tours Amphitheater Pula Croatia 16m from TWR Music Baalbeck Lebanon 4m from Anthony Rahayel Pont du Gard, France 4m from LiewerLine Villa Jovis, Capri, Italy 2m from ProFlights Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia 15m from Darius Arya Digs Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily Italy 4m from Samuel Magal Rome's Forum 51m from Prowalk Tours Segovia Aqueduct 8m from moomoo away Theater of Marcellus, Rome 7m from Darius Arya Digs Nimes, the French Rome 12m from France 24 English Beit Shean, Israel 12m from Sergio and Rhoda in Israel Nero's Golden House, Rome 5m from RomeWise Leptis Magna, Libya 5m from Drew Binsky Djemila, Algeria 4m from Drew Binsky Jerash, Jordan 4m from Votocek Art Company Rome's Pantheon 15m from Italy4Real Sagalassos Turkey 3m from Dunyanin Renkleri / Polo / İnBinGez Seyahatleri Villa Oplontis near Naples 3m from Samuel Magal Trajan's Market, Rome 3m from Jacek Mroz Hippodrome Constantinople 6m from The History of Byzantium Podcast

Hippodromes were the supreme entertainment. Unlike amphitheaters, the racetracks in Rome and Constantinople (below) were actually integrated with the emperor's palace: Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZ2iPXjqtA Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9rMbCocKBw Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZuLZLXmP8Y

Nothing other than the couple I posted, and live versions can be the best. I thought I was running out of ideas (I listen to a lot of silence now), then realized many of the obscure gems I have on deteriorated tape may be discoverable on youtube. Cue at 16m31s:

That album cover above is familiar because I just heard a bunch of video interviews of musicians either on that album or on it's promotional tour. Top session musicians were seduced away from their other projects, even after saying no a bunch of times. They have a lot to say now, since albums often missed crediting them before. Anyway I'm kind of reposting this song queued up at a display of singing skill 2:12. Bowie was having trouble getting this song up the charts, so he recorded a different version with less fuzzy affectational sound that he would sing to in promo venues. At the start of this vid they have an embarrassing long pause getting the music tape started. Unfortunately it lacks the majestic fade out and in of drone guitar at the end; I think that could have been drawn out to embody the encore at concert endings instead of the usual awkward stop and starts.

Three minutes each in Sagalassos Turkey, Villa Oplontis Naples, Trajan's Market Rome: (See various videos of this mountainous place under snow) (The supposed connection to Poppaea merely being a pot fragment down the road had her name) (Mary Beard wrote an article claiming this was wrongly reconstructed as a market under Mussolini)

Jerash, Jordan ("Pompeii of the east"), and Rome's Pantheon:

The catchiness of above Clarksville guitar part is often compared with I guess the short lived Brian Jones in these early Stones hits... Prominent in this last video is a bandmember who retired to become an amateur archeologist

Here is the UNRV site feedback section, for which he may have some notification to himself rigged up. Or at least a starting point for gathering views on changes. I think I first advocated the "like post" feature there, which was later implemented. https://www.unrv.com/forum/forum/31-renuntiatio-et-consilium-comitiorum/

Thanks; some may disappear like about a quarter of my "song" posting videos, so I try to finish viewing at least one a day. I tried to choose especially entertaining or artful examples and 1 per archeo site. It's too bad the thumbnails don't show what the runtime is. Others may want to add omitted sites like Trajan's market, Pantheon, Hadrian's wall, and others for which I didn't find charismatic videos (yet). I was reminded the cost of putting off viewing things by my recent loss of 80 hours of DVR recordings due to an expired cable TV box. At least I had seen and deleted a Roman chariot racing series, which y'all might find in the "on demand" part of CaTV. But "Greek Odyssey" and "Aerial Greece" series was lost altho now rediscovered on youtube. I also lost 80+ episodes of the funniest sitcom Reno 911 which is still trickling out on channel Mtv2. Series is under revival but will probably be as terrible as their movie due to cancel culture trends, etc.

An alternate way of accessing new stuff here is to visit https://www.unrv.com/forum/discover/ once or twice a day. I forget how RSS works, but it must be why folks seem to check my posts before I am done with important edits. About 90 minutes after I make a post, I often realize with horror how something may be taken the wrong way and correct it. Then I check online users at the bottom of https://www.unrv.com/forum/ to find my premature version seems to already have been read.

I wasn't aware of "Battles of Imphal and Kohima", recently named one of the greatest British victories ever, maybe a bigger turning point than Waterloo or Normandy. I will let interested folks google their preferred video or text media for more info, but here's what made it interesting to me. Apparently it was a calculated withdrawal, baiting Japanese (and some Indians) beyond Burmese supply lines for the tempting prize of India (none too pleased with Brit rule). In very grueling combat the large Japanese force was unable to capture British supplies, and the few that weren't killed or starved began the long walk home. The British as depicted below used interesting equipment and had less trouble supplying their beleaguered multinational troops with air supplies than did Mr. Goering for Stalingrad. I am glad that WW2 British campaign in SE Asia showcased some of their famous ingenuity, in contrast with botched muddles such as their premature surrender of Singapore. ‘When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’ 'Kohima Epitaph', John Maxwell Edmonds, 1944

Libya: Algeria: Whew, I hope that is it from me. Find more lesser-known sites in https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/70876/roman-ruins-roman-sites-around-world . There are well known ones I am skipping over so far due to whim or weak videos...