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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...

Wow, here is Beit Shean in Israel, and for a longer unnarrated saunter see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_e4-wJevI or for a shorter view of overall travel experience see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaVzbXXG0vk Nero's Golden House:

So hard to choose among very diverse videos of this villa in Sicily: My spring visit to this forum was punctuated by an apocalyptic hailstorm where shelter was scarce, exit paths went under water, and a grueling flu was hatched. "Science" insists you can't get infections from wet and cold, but after experiencing about a 98% correlation I can surmise bugs must always be in us waiting for weakness. The only good video on Segovia aqueduct deserves more than it's current 7 likes! You can now live in/on Theater of Marcellus: Roman Nimes:

No new items to report since the above consumed a couple years acquisition budget. But this triggered a few reflections from long history of owning laptops (usually refurbished, and in need of lengthy software upgrades). Basically even new windows consumer machines appear to be great values with a lot of function for the price. But their software has exasperating requirements of babysitting updates thru at least twice a month, and is intrusive in other ways. They have a feel of cheapness, and hardware features seem to fail after the warranty expires. I normally have a mostly working one, a partly working backup, and a bad cripple for emergencies. So in future I will say good riddance to the above, and will pay up or sacrifice features for the following. I think the cheap stuff may not even be sold in EU which enforces implied quality standards. One good experience was a business grade windows laptop, which has a solid feel, premium software/driver access, and a long warranty. It was an affordable refurb due to a fault showing in self-test, which recently disappeared years later. The other good buys were MacOS which only has 6% market share and I was about to abandon. But I had a worn out 2013 Apple laptop that was still transparently upgrading software and had a slick physical feel, so I plunged in with Macbook pro. As usual the refurb had last generations screen resolution, but it can approximate 4k and look nearly as good in 2k where my router isn't so overloaded when hopping around in a stream. The physical feel of it all (keyboard, hinge, huge trackpad, etc) and the fabulous speakers seem so luxurious that I can tolerate the drawbacks like no touchscreen. I learned a lot from configuring away the quirky defaults and making both my Macbook and BizWin appear as similar Firefox machines. P.S. My definition of "refurb" isn't used but immediately returned by first buyer, maybe without a cord or a manual. It used to mean an agent would fix supposed problem and renew the warranty, but now it means wipe fingerprints, storage, and reinstall base software. The seller should explain the history. However I often get fooled about how long it has sat obsolescing on the shelf. Also it pays to check forums to see if that model had a pattern of chronic failures.

This is by far the best way to experience Diocletian's Palace, near dawn before it's multipurpose commercial uses overwhelm the place. Next maybe I will take a break from google's world of media, and search my CATV system for "rome" or "roman" or "ancient".

Short glimpses:

Only a few of these are long and atmospheric like those in https://www.youtube.com/c/ProWalks/playlists . Many are 30 minutes or even a punchy 10. One approach is to click on all the "watch later" symbols on these thumbnails so youtube makes it easy to navigate the list at leisure. I suspect Prowalks may be a history teacher for the large US Navy base near Naples, lucky guy. He used to film a bit more intrusively, but with success and higher profile he films or edits gentlemanly to a fault now.

Maybe "Historia in Universum" next time? As for a Roman connection, isn't there a downside to ruins being drenched with cat pee at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Argentina_Cat_Sanctuary

(Don't miss the previous 2 videos which due to their lively spirit I sneaked in with a later edit)