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This must be the best white noise soundtrack, which even when played on a tiny device avoids the usual hiss and manages to mask lower frequency distractions. It's almost like floating down rapids on a river of heavy cream:

More for the Rome video than the unrelated song, this really takes you back. Wiki sez Roman Holiday is "considered one of the most romantic films in cinema history ... nominated for multiple accolades, including 8 Academy Awards, with Hepburn winning for Best Actress; Peck also scored a BAFTA nomination for Foreign Actor." The bearded Albert was "nominated for his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor" and later became legendary on TV (Green Acres cult screwball sitcom). Actors of this period had interesting WW2 experiences, with Audrey Hepburn having fascist activist parents but almost starving in occupied Holland. Eddie Albert "toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors" then "was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa". The film has a nice spirit but it's royalty worship doesn't age very well, and your classics streaming dollars would be better spent towards "The Seven Hills of Rome."

I posted Arya's youtube on that 10 days ago. At this moment the media you posted has a protocol error. Several times you have reposted my items, but I don't think you are blocking me (even if I deserve it). https://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/19852-notable-videos-of-roman-misc/?tab=comments#comment-133116

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Towards the end, there were joint Japanese/German efforts to share critical, blockaded materials like rubber. 90% of such Japanese cargo subs were sunk on the way to or returning from Germany. In around the middle of this video, there are graphic recordings of a submerged Japanese sub (also containing a few Germans) being hit by a torpedo and spewing bubbles and crunching for many minutes. It was in the Atlantic by the same type of torpedo plane the first prez Bush flew, this time at night from a junior size aircraft carrier. It is conventional to pity the noble enemy targeted by this nerdy bomber channel, but I am more in awe of the technical learning applied in a high risk altruistic effort by ex farm boys:

Another outstanding fall asleep album. It shares the advantage of my hurricane soundtrack pick, which grabs your attention rather than just lullaby's. Lullaby's let your mind continue to race, but a slightly annoying property here diverts focus and tires your mind. Meditation bells:

Wasn't gunfire quite infrequent due to slow loading time? Also weren't the gunners the least intimidating looking folks, since normal soldiers had conventional weapons which were more effective with skill. The guns were given to ragamuffins who might draw attention for being rushed when reloading, unlike ww2:

New museum, digs, and displays in Roman Rome:

Couple of subarctic surgeons give humorous wisdom on supplements and more: (subscribe!)

Thanks; I had already just revamped my approach to skip the super-combo approach which limits the number of pills but proliferate the number of supplements. I will look into reishi and lion mane, but may have the neurological angle covered by my wild success with Alpha Lipoic Acid. Steady use is eliminating peripheral neuropathy and who knows what other beneficial side effects for nerves. I had very low expectations, so there was no placebo delusion. Vit B12 also cured motor nerve issues; I am strangely unconcerned whether benefits extend to my brain With at least 3 smashing successes, here is my very latest way to experiment without going overboard. I keep 3 tiers, with new experiments in the middle to be promoted up or demoted. Top tier is proven and urgent taken about daily. Middle core tier is taken about once weekly so pills run out by expiration. Bottom wind-down tier taken about once per month just because the money was spent and it may have some undetectable benefit. Do not renew those in bottom and dispose when expired. I scour the middle core so as not to take so many pills per week. Promote or demote ruthlessly. Try to introduce one new one at a time to be able to assign blame or benefit, maybe at a higher rate at first. Also manage cost. My insurance plan lets me order a few things for free. I wish the beta-sitosterol could be prescribed for me; it seems to only be available added to premium prostate remedies. Expensive on Amazon, and on ebay there are hints some of it is counterfeit. In rigged cases like this, the club warehouses give the only (modest) discount. P.S. I realize the above system falsely equates urgency with frequency, while a supplement may be urgent but only needed infrequently. So I have exceptions, for example vit B12 which most bodies recycle for months internally. But in general I strive to take things in less than recommended doses, unless really needed such as to pass pesky lab tests required by insurance.

Darn it, I just lost $30 worth dancing out of my shopping cart thru the toddler leg holes. Now my obstinacy may prevent me from investing more into them. I tried cordyceps without apparent results, and same for the NAC family of "life extending" supps, so am thinking of reprioritizing. On one hand I want to focus on supps that made a big difference to me, like vit b12, ALA, and now "naturally derived phytopin" beta-sitosterol (not just for prostrate). I may be adding retinol cream to that after more skin tests. Furthermore I have a couple of ones to address medical lab test results. On the other hand, I want to prevent proliferation of less obvious winners. One way to prune my supplement list is to take a multi one. By a search typo in preparing this post I noticed a combo of about 50 vitamin/supplements that covered more than I need. It was for a very embarrassing men's condition where they threw every conceivable otc treatment at it, but at far less cost of the several I wanted covered. So that would substitute for the inessential supps, and may let me reduce if not end purchases for items that come highly recommended but seem to have little effect, like magnesium, L-arginine, berberine. The beta-sitosterol normally comes combined with vit D and weird minerals, but even for this non prostate sufferer of a certain age it can immediately slash restroom visits by 2/3. Now I can go to recreational areas with the ever more vandalized or shut down rest rooms and do carefree stuff like this:

I am reposting 2 outstanding pieces that have had problems in their earlier forms. Will see if a playlist format works this time. First is the world's best fall asleep album from Eno (new space music) and then Club des Belugas song miss spelled as Quite Dawn:

A manhunt has been conducted in Germany for members of the Last Generation (Letzte Generation) radical climate activism organization resulting in the charging of seven people with the founding or supporting of a criminal organization.

Club des Belugas - 3 hours of best instrumentals (unembedable)

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1741/top-5-roman-sites-in-southern-spain/

I've mentioned this before, but don't miss the chance to try rose petal gelato or better yet sorbetto in Italy. I usually have visited in May, so maybe they mainly offer it this month. Walk around the right hand side of Pantheon and continue past it's rear almost a block. I think it shows up in google maps. Their gelato seems less flavorful than others in neighborhood, so also look for rose elsewhere. In Cefalu Sicily I had rose petal gelato that just launched my tastebuds into orbit. It was on the main square with twin towers:

I wonder if there is any evidence how Romans tied their sandals - the final knot rather than the lacing. Was it a common bow tie? Maybe you have seen recent videos on how most folks naively tie shoelaces into a slipknot rather than proper one. The slipknot tends to make the bows sit crooked as below, but you can tell best by grabbing the non-loose lace side of the knot and seeing if it slips. Instead of tying the bows an additional time, (ugly and hard to untie) you can just retie it with the initial overhand knot reversed. For more security, I hereby mandate the easy variation "Parisian knot"; maybe the Romans called it the Gaul knot. After making the first bow, wrap it along with your finger twice instead of once before pulling the second bow thru. You may have to adjust it slightly so the double clenching of the bows sits tidy in the middle (check for slip too). Of a dozen bow knots I think it is the cleanest extra grip one, especially worth the effort when you leave it always tied:

Here is an amazing Iberian channel of largely Roman archeo re-creations and explanation, sort of documentary fragments usually dubbed in english. See the vast Roman structures under Lisbon, or the aqueduct siphons pushing water uphill in Gaul for instance: https://www.youtube.com/@imageen2030/videos

The underappreciated racetrack and golden house

"the documentary promotes the kind of Afrocentrism which aims at distorting and obliterating Egyptian identity and contradicts the country’s history." P.S.: Speaking of televised afrocentrism, the reason U.S. commercials have turned 85% into depictions of afro american life (15% of audience) is ESG. Pensions and other investments have been de-linked from their owners and weaponized for ideology. It used to be that investors would vote for company board members and policies, but this has recently been taken over by institutions who mandate Orwellian Social Good policies. Free markets with their "invisible hand" adapting to consumers are increasingly sabotaged.