Morning Metro: Sidewalk Sale, Kickstarter for E.S.G. Doc, and How We Die
Decatur Metro | July 6, 2012
- Decatur sidewalk sale this weekend [Decatur Minute]
- Brick Store bartender’s Kickstarter campaign for E.S.G doc [Kickstarter]
- Are craft beer prices out of control? [CL]
- Sound familiar? Smynings creates petition to lure Trader Joe’s [Patch]
- T-SPLOST preamble being criticized as biased [WSB]
- Another ITP Walmart proposed, this time near Lindbergh [CL]
- Causes of death in the U.S. 1900 vs. 2000 [WaPost]
Chart courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine
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RE Sidewalk Sale: Didn’t even know Taste still existed as a store. That business keeps resurrecting itself.
I was in Taste last week and apparently they have changed hands– the woman I met said she was the new owner. I was surprised because I don’t recall seeing anything mentioned or discussed on DM, unlike their previous reorg.
They were in a bit of disarray and seem to be working out their niche, so not sure how similar or different they will be, but still kitchen or food-oriented, I believe.
Good morning Decatur residents,
Thank you all so much in advance for your support of a fellow Decaturite in the final day of his Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a feature-length documentary about one of the most interesting stories in the history of music.
Thank you to DecaturMetro for posting the link to the Kickstarter campaign this morning. I appreciate living in a community that will take the time to support one of its own.
Please visit the fund-raising site D.M. linked to above, and when you find yourself intrigued by the story of the band, donate a little something to help make sure their story can be told. We have less than 24 hours and just under $2,000 more to go.
We can do this, Decatur, and we thank you in advance for helping to make it happen.
I do think a market correction is in order for draft beer prices, especially with the rise in the number of growler purveyors.
Re causes of death–impressive what a difference can be made by clean water, sanitation, vaccines, quarantine, and disease protection.
I know. When you look at it that way, the industrial food system that also grew alongside these advances seems like a small price to pay, doesn’t it? Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be looking at refining the food complex…just goes to show that most of the advances in the 20th century were huge boosts to health/lifespan. I think that’s easily overlooked in modern, yuppie discourse.
And you have to die of SOMETHING eventually. So now our vices of choice play a larger role and factors beyond our control play less of a role. Until global warming hits big time………..
Industrial food production seems like a small price to pay (aka: the poisoning of our land) until you look at how much the cancer rate has grown between then and now (as shown in your graph). Where will that stop?
I’m not an apologist for industrial food production but the cancer rate is due to many causes, smoking still being one of the biggest. And part of the increased cancer rate is due to people living longer, long enough to develop cancer which takes years to develop after exposure to a carcinogen. People used to die more commonly in childhood or as young adults from infectious diseases and injuries before they had the opportunity to age and develop cancer. Better sanitation, safe water, safer workplaces, good vaccines, etc. have protected against those previously common causes of death, allowing folks to die of the cancer or heart disease they develop from smoking, poor diet, inadequate exercise, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stress, etc.
BTW, I doubt suicide was not as common a cause of death in 1910 as it is now. Wasn’t Durkheim’s “Suicide” written way back then? Suicide just was less recognized or admitted so it didn’t show up on death certificates and in national statistics.
Noted. But the death totals are still way down overall.
But I would like to know more about that “cancer” deaths from back in 1900. How do they vary from today. Net and %.
the average american man in 1900 only live to be about 40 years old . I bet the data is not very good on incidence of cancer and specific subsets of cancer at that time.
So what happens to the other 99,400 out of 100,000? Natural causes? Zombie-fication?
No, they just didn’t happen to die that year, right? That rate is deaths due to a certain cause per 100,000 persons, I believe, not deaths due to a certain cause per 100,000 deaths.
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…and he achieved enlightenment. Thank you, AHID!
Three Hours to go and the Kickstarter project is less than $400 away!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/998767628/closure-the-esg-story
They made it!!