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Two months seems brief to me. Here is Hawaii's volcanos, where pink zones over the decades are labeled "essentially continuous activity". Granted it is an unusually slow and steady example: What I do for viewing is visit on a calm night. Then should develop a catabatic gravity wind flushing fumes downslope and offshore. Night means less officialdom to shoe away visitors and easy ID of hot glowing rock that just looks dull grey in daylight. My biggest fear was falling thru crust over a receding magma channel. So I only did this once in my life, and in a super vigilant state like a cat burglar. Carry backup flashlights, and don't stray far from other crazy visitors. In fact, simply watch a 4k youtube video by a daring intruder; I know some show floating, glowing bubble lava reaching Hawaii waters. I watch a couple sail cruising channels that visit these Canary isles for provisioning. One passed thru just as the eruption was starting and only experienced thicker than usual cloud cover. Now my favorite such channel is approaching there with a little toddler. I wonder if they will be bold and visit, maybe letting the little one get close in a lesson of Swedish self sufficiency, or?

Worth checking out if the museum is financially healthy enough to not only buy, but protect coins over time. I killed an idle hour just to the east of that museum in Portsmouth or Southhampton in the town museum and it was hardly more than a collection of historic postcards. Probably small gov't funded museums may be on a shoestring budget. Private museums at least in the US can often be seen in liquidation auctions, especially lavish displays in small towns with low attendance, a dead founder, and amateur trustees. A huge tank museum in northern California lost their zillions of private bankrolling by mistiming the 2009 investments crash, and never really opened to the public. Hope that never happens to the UK's fabulous Bovington tank museum.

I thought the Roman practice was to water down wines just before drinking. The alcohol served as a preservative in long term storage or transportation, then you use your local source of reliable water to take the hangover edge off it and maybe hide off tastes of water. I also hate water, maybe after seeing our untreated well uncovered to see slimy yuck vegetation inside. I cannot get excited about wine and only use one of the better boxed variety to squirt an ounce of red into resealable bottles of diet cola to mask the fake sugar taste. After you reseal, do a slow head over heels tumble of the bottle and you can usually reopen the bottle without volcano of foam. Yummy and supposedly healthy, although I can't understand how red wine antioxidants can be more healthy than those in tangy grape juice which I stir into applesauce. I have one weakness in the alcohol realm, which is non-Bailey Irish Cream Whiskey. Bailey is so overpriced and candified (I once found an eyeball sized lump of hopefully caramel in their bottle). Carolans for example has a better, clean taste at half the price and is avail in large 1.75l pirate jugs with large handles. If the Roman alkies had access to this velvety way of pickling their brains, maybe fewer monuments would have gotten done.

Here is a poor quality substitute for the fantastic video that seemed to have just been removed above. It depicts early rehearsals/arrangement for the Stones sympathy for the devil. In youtube comment section you can jump to various sections, such as an unrelated live concert of the song near the end. They mercifully omit the 35 takes needed for the actual recording. For some reason I am more interested in historical human drama than the song, and will yak a bit about it below the video. The docu-filming was by famous Jean-Luc Godard for a dud movie. It's amusing to see some of the stones and their girlfriends self consciously overdressed for the occasion. The session piano-god Nicky Hopkins seems dressed and haircutted for church instead of his usual homeless look (partly from digestive disease that would kill him). The blond founder of the stones seems disengaged and patronized with possibly guitar mike switched off, and on his trajectory towards being fired and subsequent death. Too bad because in early songs he contributed really catchy embellishments. The girlfriends who kiss and cuddle while helping with the chorus aren't just bystanders. The caped one inspired the lyrics due to a Russian novel she gifted to Mick. The other girl has famous involvement with the founder - was she the one he chronically beat up and had to be kind of re-assigned to another stone? Anyway the caped one suggested the signature woo-woo chorus, and that and conga drums finally elevated a kind of limp lamentation song to brash pop immortality.

I gather that last couple years of archeo digs have found evidence of admiration of Nero by everyday Romans, and perhaps his golden house was intended to serve public as well as selfish purposes. Has this revisionist view held up recently? One of the more articulate examples of this view found in https://www.thecollector.com/emperor-nero/

What if he didn't enforce the Nicaea decision on holy ghost/spirit, aside from any resulting combat? Altho he didn't influence the decision, he wanted to stifle untidy disagreements. It strikes me as a committee type compromise - would history be much different if alternatives naturally rose to dominance? I hear a US cult church (tarzan piloted plane crash church) used the trinity structure to assign their leader to holy ghost/spirit status over worshipers.

Here I try to use the cue-up option to skip the first 39 boring seconds of this song. It is a pleasant digression into psychedelic music by the normally bad boys of the rolling stones. I am following K. Richards (latest?) bio audiobook on youtube, and started reflecting on Jaggers usual angry tone, which is absent here. It was odd since they started as evangelists of US blues, but added the twist of maze-smart white boys who were prepared to go beyond regret and kick down the walls of a stifling establishment. It seemed to surprise them that teen girls became excited to the point where Stones feared for their lives. I guess the girls gravitated to bad boys who could offer an alternative to stifling 1950's father figures shaped by WW2 even on the home front. Stones songs more literally pandered to males neanderthal side, and maybe promoted that except in a few songs like this...

It may be possible to deal with this, as does Hawaii with tons of active volcano tourists over decades. As a last crazy feat of my teflon youth, I made a night hike along a lava flow and followed it to the ocean where it actually floated glowingly due to bubbles! I was right next to the flow with no worry of fumes due to a reliable catabatic offshore flow of wind which I was very familiar with having waited to paraglide off a 13000+ volcano there for day after day. I flew and survived a violent collapse that day, so had leftover adrenaline to deal with collapse of cold lava crust with an instant leap to safety. In between the flight and lava walk, I think I also swam with giant manta rays, an expenditure of energy and danger avoidance that seems inconceivable to my existence now. P.S. I follow various sail cruising channels, and it is odd that none quite ran into the volcano timeframe. It is a common last resupply stop for European boats to follow favorable winds and currents to the Caribbean, and seems somewhat backward in terms of services the sailors can call on for repairs or whatever.

A good video on the so called pirates of the Mediterranean is posted below, although they were really state sponsored privateers or coastal raiders. In the pursuit of Roman sites on the Italian coast you are constantly encountering lookout towers or hill towns fortified for these "pirates" which came after the pax romana or mare nostrum dissipated. They are actually part of what I suppose you would call client states of Ottoman empire. Let us appreciate what the Romans accomplished, although I am not sure if they allowed non-Romans free passage thru the Med. The pirate name is I think a euphemism for organised warfare (with actual raid investors) that came before and after the Romans, and didn't really vanish until north Africa was colonized again in 1800s.

Interesting how above example shows you can cue up a video to an intermediate point with &t=, which is typically unsupported by forum software. Anyway I throw in vids of maybe only personal appeal with too many words a red flag. First is a translation of an opera aria I had posted earlier. I like how it contains reflections rather than banal narrative. It's remarks on the flighty illogic of love somehow reminds me of a poem Hadrian wrote for his tomb on the elusive fate of souls upon death. Next a couple of go to sleep videos. First is unlike the typical efficient train video, but it reminds me of old fashion trains in Europe. Their progress could be so uncertain that you had cathartic relief when they resumed progress on uneven tracks after being sidelined by an oncoming train or strike or whatever. Maybe sigh that at X hours late, at least we are moving. Journeys typically started or ended in quaint Luxembourg (now a ritzy tax haven?) due to the only discount transatlantic flights connecting there with Iceland. Lastly sleep by the sounds of a rainy lake. I don't know if this does full justice to the 3 dimensional soundscape of a large lake being splattered on a still night. There is pleasing light hiss, punctuated by torrents of throaty downpour here and then there. It can be like an orchestra with different sections rising and falling in dominance, as upper air still pushes clouds around.

In case some hadn't subscribed, the series continues with better resolution on a slave who apparently bought his freedom and extravagantly embellished Rome's wall. Other freed slaves left proud memorials behind such as on the Via Appia.

Here, in this awkward topic fit, is praise of a high quality video course. It used to cost $hundreds https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/rome-and-the-barbarians but now can be found for little as used disks on ebay, or streamed for free from your library. My library streams a rotating selection of "Great Courses" from an app called Kanopy. It's best to access video rather than just audio due to good maps, etc. Anyway the professor is very knowledgeable and engaging even tho a bit stiff and a pirate accent (making everything sound like "rrrr"). I avoided it for a while due to not wanting to dwell on Rome's sad end. But it has a rich focus on Roman ways and comparisons with my barbaric ancestors.

I paste in only the URL, optionally press enter, and wait a few seconds for the picture to emerge with an option to revert to clickable link which I ignore. BTW my opera video above is for fellow opera haters. All the 90% songs we can't stand are at the end of the video, so that leaves 9ish reasonable ones at the front. Sorry for the multiple posts, but I keep thinking this is the last from my "watch later" list.

A bare bones version and a super embellished version of Lou Reed's Rock 'n Roll track: This version features embellishment by cult guitar maestros Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner who only worked briefly with him, then he reverted to less accessible "cool" style. He cultivated an image of unconventional sexuality, but I saw him in a first class line at Rome airport after a concert and he had the most conventionally stylish and stunning girl companion I have ever seen even in rockstar photos.

I don't know which narrative is more truthful, like for example Diocletian's treatment of Christians. One lecture went thru his long proclamation to meticulously give accused Christians a chance to repent and be released. Others demonize him for aggravated ruthlessness. It used to be common for attacks on Roman ethics to be a proxy for attacks on current western culture. But I think that utopian demographic is now redirected onto a coordinated elitist movement for woke-ness, such as pollutes nearly all television in the US now. Maybe I should change my provocative avatar to one of those emperors who were depicted as calm and cogitating which is so admirable to me vs egoistic or threatening like mr. bootikins. I think they had switched over from realism to stereotypical stern propaganda then. However I don't want to appear as a wimpy Marcus A., who mentally fiddled while his demonic son burned with evil. As for music I have no affinity for classical, except I like the tuneup chaos. The internet has allowed me to get tired thru overplay of all my niche interests. Maybe I will revive a music youtube thread here, with Indian santoor music for instance. The Shostakovich episode was memorable since it is so unlikely from my extremely remote and unworldly background. I have an even more surprising personal connection re: Mick Jagger, so with the recent death of a bandmember I am reviewing early Stones concerts on youtube. Not to admire the music so much but the human element becomes tangible. They cultivated an edgy theme sort of like various lookalike contrived Caracalla busts, but I get the background drama trying to tame bandmembers, public image, etc.

Some software (firefox?) keeps urging me to patronize their "VPN" or similar feature to bypass firewalls or regional restrictions imposed for copyright restrictions or whatever. But I haven't been able to even get a local archeo lecture by zoom to work, or at least don't want to grant them requested permissions.

May be some ambiguity on definition of a martyr. I faintly recall a professor characterizing many christian deaths as like modern suicide bombers, that is killed more by their own agency. The Romans might give christians every out to avoid punishment for their "crime", which was refused. Like just go thru motions of traditions without even needing to believe in them, but many christians seemed drawn to being martyred. The professor depicted some Romans dreading having to bring numerous christians to "justice". Digression alert: This reminds me of similarly ambiguous types of suicide. Who is and isn't a kamikaze in the case of admiral Ugaki, who didn't know how to fly. He heard the emperor declare surrender on the radio, so asked the pilots he commanded to fly him as a passenger into an enemy ship. No ships were recorded as attacked that day, and in fact his diary depicts the kamikaze gig as quite safe under his command. This because most of their ramshackle aircraft would leak oil or otherwise fail halfway to a target and glide to a nearby island or friendly ship. P.S. coincidental to your profile. Can you believe Dmitri Shostakovich jr once phoned me with a blur of Russian words? I remembered the words for goodbye "do svidaniya", which he thought was a funny response. Turned out he had met a relative of mine and was skeptical of their claim I had studied russian. I was invited to Maxim's house once later on, and saw him conduct.

Last observation. I thought I would demonstrate how you can investigate a pet hypothesis, so put "doctor" in kathryn's search box. Instead of a tidy list of recent cases I had followed, it randomly dredged up old reports in a wordy forrmat with freakish doctor pilot deaths, such as in jail or by suicide. It would take me forever to page to the newer more data filled stuff. So I fell back to conventional google to check for where this stereotype came from. It dredged up several articles by doctor pilots about how their death rate used to be 4 times higher than other pilots, but not so much any more. They mentioned the classic stereotype of a "doctor killer" favorite airplane (V tailed Bonanza), and even whether it was an "overconfident surgeon" issue. Well the articles blather on and on about factors without hard statistics. The best I found was from old FAA Office of Aviation Medicine "Physician P.I.C. Fatal Flight Accidents" which covers 4x deaths getting worse 1966-70 while non doctors trending for the better https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oamtechreports/1970s/media/AM71-09.pdf Alternatively I wanted to research frequency of crashes from circling back to the runway in the wrong direction, but I've run out of ideas to set up keywords. Anecdotally it seems you are supposed to turn away from the side of your dead engine, which is counterintuitive since the good engine yaws you the other way. Apparently the good engine overpowers a turn into the dead engine and it is very hard to level out and quit the turn rather than spin and crash. I give up...

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/ has absolutely amazing ways to break down global historical crashes, such as by body count or maps or wacky causes. https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/monthly.aspx US gov't tabulation by month. https://aviation-safety.net/statistics/ has much the same, but I land you on a page of re-assuring graphics on almost vanishing death rate for airlines altho small planes have a much worse rate which seems to be increasing over time: Here I will riff a bit on anecdotal impressions I got from months following Kathryns; your's may wildly differ. The easy rupture of fuel tanks can turn a minor crumple crash into a delayed action horror. A rough landing can crimp the exits closed, and if you can't get out eventually that leaking fuel can blowtorch you into a Pompeii like figure. Another good reason to start flight lessons with a no-fuel sailplane. Also you will learn how to unexpectedly land almost anywhere safely if your lift disappears. No more oops my engine quit so we gotta crash; you will be used to spotting potential landing sites with a confident feeling of how far you can glide. Sailplanes do break a lot of backs on rough landings because they have little springiness, so maybe use an extra cushion. A lot of young women are appearing in crashes recently, often as instructors. This seems to be due to a huge demand for airline pilots in the light of mass retirements, and women are an under-tapped demographic. In the US a brief phase of small plane instruction is the norm on the path to becoming an airline pilot, so they are more present to show up in incidents. There are some cases where small stature or body strength or fighting experience could have been an issue. Take the case of a large student freezing up on the controls in a spin. You might think that an instructor could simply beat the students skull with fists or a cabin fire extinguisher to regain control. But it seems that males confide with one another that the cockpit doesn't have room for the windup/backswing to apply much force. You have to go for their throat or eyes (don't try this, I am leaving out details). In some areas spin training is banned because of the hypnotic freezeup issue; I was lucky I did it in a sluggish forgiving aircraft. Oh, here is my completely novel idea for the famous problem of doctor crashes ('another day, another doctor" was the comment on a crash log). It is thought their lack of time to get muscle memory on expensive new aircraft comes to a crunch in unexpected bad weather. But our now easy ability to listen or read transcripts of their radio chat up to the moment of crash gives thought to another factor. They actually have training and certificates for the conditions and unforgiving planes they fly, but I detect they aren't assertive enough under the micromanagement that air traffic control imposes in cloudy weather. Docs are collegial and unused to challenging authority/bosses. The atc has little knowledge of the doctor's snazzy aircraft abilities, but rather airliners and modest little planes. The atc bullies them over mountains and out of airliner ways, when the doc needs to assert noncompliance with legally recognized keywords like "unable". In other words give me the priority I need in this very work-overloaded condition.

Here is the Italian Guide experience with some unique perspectives. Suitable for small screens due to tragically low resolution. Poor audio quality benefits by turning CC on. https://youtu.be/EiDVvxXCmQ8 (less interesting) Or you can just subscribe, and various old items will now and then sprinkle into your recommended list.

That and several other eye popping stories seem to have been removed from the above site. Even some youtube accounts have been hacked in order to delete the story. An amateurish version is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixX9KOBQIU which depicts a diet pill empire crashing with an unqualified ex Tarzan actor at the controls of the cult church jet. Much data on Katherine's site is factual in the sense that air traffic control conversations with any particular plane is now immediately downloadable, as is their exact flight paths and altitude. This is archived automatically, and no need for any gatekeeper to ask for it. So that is indexed by tailnumber NXXXX, and with the pilot name you can download all sorts of certification info from gov't sites. By cross checking folks can often detect fraud, and check for repeat patterns of misbehavior and accidents. Hmm, someday much the same info may be available for car drivers, for better or worse.

We've often seen coverage of airliner crashes, but what happens almost every daylight hour are small plane crashes. There is a site http://www.kathrynsreport.com/ that tabulates these for US and maybe Canada almost the day it happens. Then it sort of crowdsources amazing info over a week or two, months or years before dry gov't reports are released. The backstories are often extreme and worthy of a TV docudrama. We see patterns unfold, like the doctors who get themselves killed in the first family flight outing in their brand new airplane and new license. Over and over with an unforgiving snazzy plane into sketchy weather. At least they tend to be legal, but another common wildman segment has no license or registration or insurance and kills innocent passengers or folks on the ground. An amazing example of this emerges in the far-down pages of http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/06/fuel-exhaustion-piper-pa-22-160-n9227d.html where a ne'er-do-well in debt for a million takes a million life insurance on his girlfriend and kills her but not him on an avoidable forced landing. He had her sell her house to buy the plane of course, and on goes the hollywood ready plot. There are various tricks to navigate, such as the "most read: today" column which hits the major fatal stories, or click on todays date archive to view them all together (probably too new for comments). Sometimes the site hides a lot of stuff for a while probably due to complaints from victim families, but even unkind but informed speculation can be a lifesaver. Sometimes the exact same kind of accident repeats because the gov't reports are waiting years to dot the i's, like parking brakes that don't fully release in a certain bizjet. I can't pick out by eye the most epic story of a church owned bizjet recklessly crashing to make many kids orphans, which is already in process of I think an HBO series.