Apr. 10th, 2012

gwydion: (Etherite)
* North Korea has not only announced an ICBM test which they are claiming is not an ICBM test and therefore not breaking the food for disarmament agreement they just made, but they say that if it goes over South Korean air space and the South Koreans shoot it down as a security threat, they will consider that an act of war. How dare they balk at letting a hostile neighbor use them as nuclear weapons target practice! (That was sarcasm).

* There will be no Grand Jury in the Trayon Martin case.

* Ancient Roman Celebrity recruiter: http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-martial-arts-celeb-120330.html

* Irish torc find: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1154300--treasure-hunter-finds-ancient-gold-jewellery-in-bog-in-northern-ireland

* "Skye cave find western Europe's 'earliest string instrument':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147

* Archeology in Cölln: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,824797,00.html

* Looks like a study of Tudor peasant death matches up fairly well with the medieval ones with which I'm already familiar. It's not a surprise, but confirmation is good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17601616

Basically, medieval peasant men died of accidents most often in plowing and harvest seasons because as the article points out, agricultural equipment is often sharp and heavy, and farm animals are often big and dangerous. People who are tired have more accidents and those are the times they were most tired, but the accident rates were higher across summer as opposed to winter. In case you are curious, female accidental death tended to be fire related (open fire pits) with drowning a distant second. Really though, chld birth and disease way topped accidents. Men tended to die in their mid thirties. with women you get a lot of deaths clustered around childbearing years, but if you survived that, you were way more likely to live to see grand kids than your husband. (There were a lot of remarriages: a man needing a wife as a helper especially when there were young children. An olde woman taking a young husband to do the plowing. You also get a lot of widowed mother in laws living in lofts or other additions.) Children surviving disease burned and drowned a lot. Toddler hood is extra dangerous with open fire pits, open wells, streams, and watery ditches. You also get a whole genre of stuff fell on them freak accidents involving things like hayricks, interior walls of houses and the like. Admittedly, Medieval folk were less likely to die from horses, particularly before the murrains and the plague. (Cows took longer to rebuild numbers after the cattle murrain, then plagues hit, so more people could afford horses and started using them for things they might have previously used oxen for, so the late medieval stats are more in line with the Tudor study than earlier stats. The big difference is a lot more tree/wood cutting accidents. I mean they happened, but not as often. I'm thinking a comparison of strictness of regulation and enforcement on forest use might be in order. I know in medieval times you needed specific permission to cut anything, and it was mostly stuff like house and furniture building. They did a lot of gathering of fallen branches and the like, but the fire in your house tended to be dung or turf. Similarly, there was a lot of using hedges or ditches for boundaries, and depending on local conditions, building the occational stone thing out of the little rocks you pulled out of feilds during agriculture. Hedges and ditches were more likely though. There was the occasional archery accident or "accident." (I remember one where the husband "accidentally" shot his wife and her lover while they were having sex in a feild and he was "hunting." Riiiight.)

* The livingroom TV no longer turns off. It's not the remote, as if I push the off button on the front, the TV goes mute, just as it does with the remote. I am worried if I unplug it to turn it off it will never turn on again. Gah. It goes against a life time of habit to leave a TV on when I'm not watching it.

* Today was a real struggle. I'm just so tired. I skipped a big errand, but still went to the Doctor and did a bunch of smaller errands. I also filed my taxes. I used to be the files as soon as the documents arrive sort of person, but not being legally required to file sucks the urgency out of it. Why do I do it? 1. I feel safer with taxes filed. 2. Sometimes I need to produce tax returns to prove my poverty to various agencies. Next year it's going to be different and a lot more complex.

* I turns out the hyacinth does have a scent, just not as much of it. I discovered this when I took the black cats out for another explore. It was late in the day and there were too many cars for them.

* One day, no bids: THE LADY OF LAKE RONKONKOMA 2010 (New York Comic-Con, LE): (Company says:. Balsamic, reedy water, sweetgrass, algae, loosestrife, and lady’s slipper.) To label top. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300690104582

* I'm rather enjoying the Long Look. I my head, I pretend Peter Dinklage is playing Seb.

* "John Mullan's 10 of the best: emperors:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/06/john-mullan-ten-best-emperors
gwydion: (Nef)
* North Korea has not only announced an ICBM test which they are claiming is not an ICBM test and therefore not breaking the food for disarmament agreement they just made, but they say that if it goes over South Korean air space and the South Koreans shoot it down as a security threat, they will consider that an act of war. How dare they balk at letting a hostile neighbor use them as nuclear weapons target practice! (That was sarcasm).

* There will be no Grand Jury in the Trayon Martin case.

* Ancient Roman Celebrity recruiter: http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-martial-arts-celeb-120330.html

* Irish torc find: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1154300--treasure-hunter-finds-ancient-gold-jewellery-in-bog-in-northern-ireland

* "Skye cave find western Europe's 'earliest string instrument':" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17537147

* Archeology in Cölln: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,824797,00.html

* Looks like a study of Tudor peasant death matches up fairly well with the medieval ones with which I'm already familiar. It's not a surprise, but confirmation is good: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17601616

Basically, medieval peasant men died of accidents most often in plowing and harvest seasons because as the article points out, agricultural equipment is often sharp and heavy, and farm animals are often big and dangerous. People who are tired have more accidents and those are the times they were most tired, but the accident rates were higher across summer as opposed to winter. In case you are curious, female accidental death tended to be fire related (open fire pits) with drowning a distant second. Really though, chld birth and disease way topped accidents. Men tended to die in their mid thirties. with women you get a lot of deaths clustered around childbearing years, but if you survived that, you were way more likely to live to see grand kids than your husband. (There were a lot of remarriages: a man needing a wife as a helper especially when there were young children. An olde woman taking a young husband to do the plowing. You also get a lot of widowed mother in laws living in lofts or other additions.) Children surviving disease burned and drowned a lot. Toddler hood is extra dangerous with open fire pits, open wells, streams, and watery ditches. You also get a whole genre of stuff fell on them freak accidents involving things like hayricks, interior walls of houses and the like. Admittedly, Medieval folk were less likely to die from horses, particularly before the murrains and the plague. (Cows took longer to rebuild numbers after the cattle murrain, then plagues hit, so more people could afford horses and started using them for things they might have previously used oxen for, so the late medieval stats are more in line with the Tudor study than earlier stats. The big difference is a lot more tree/wood cutting accidents. I mean they happened, but not as often. I'm thinking a comparison of strictness of regulation and enforcement on forest use might be in order. I know in medieval times you needed specific permission to cut anything, and it was mostly stuff like house and furniture building. They did a lot of gathering of fallen branches and the like, but the fire in your house tended to be dung or turf. Similarly, there was a lot of using hedges or ditches for boundaries, and depending on local conditions, building the occational stone thing out of the little rocks you pulled out of feilds during agriculture. Hedges and ditches were more likely though. There was the occasional archery accident or "accident." (I remember one where the husband "accidentally" shot his wife and her lover while they were having sex in a feild and he was "hunting." Riiiight.)

* The livingroom TV no longer turns off. It's not the remote, as if I push the off button on the front, the TV goes mute, just as it does with the remote. I am worried if I unplug it to turn it off it will never turn on again. Gah. It goes against a life time of habit to leave a TV on when I'm not watching it.

* Today was a real struggle. I'm just so tired. I skipped a big errand, but still went to the Doctor and did a bunch of smaller errands. I also filed my taxes. I used to be the files as soon as the documents arrive sort of person, but not being legally required to file sucks the urgency out of it. Why do I do it? 1. I feel safer with taxes filed. 2. Sometimes I need to produce tax returns to prove my poverty to various agencies. Next year it's going to be different and a lot more complex.

* I turns out the hyacinth does have a scent, just not as much of it. I discovered this when I took the black cats out for another explore. It was late in the day and there were too many cars for them.

* One day, no bids: THE LADY OF LAKE RONKONKOMA 2010 (New York Comic-Con, LE): (Company says:. Balsamic, reedy water, sweetgrass, algae, loosestrife, and lady’s slipper.) To label top. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300690104582

* I'm rather enjoying the Long Look. I my head, I pretend Peter Dinklage is playing Seb.

* "John Mullan's 10 of the best: emperors:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/06/john-mullan-ten-best-emperors

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