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For Libby Smith, 65, it was the frustration that her political involvement didn’t seem to influence anyone.
For Andrew Tuttle, 23, it was the homeless family living in the bus stop near his Wallingford house.
Garth Donald, 27, was inspired by protests in the Middle East where young people sparked revolutions through protest.
The 50-or-so individuals who turned out for an Occupy Seattle protest against corporate control of government had different motivations but agreed that taking to the streets was necessary to change the country.
The local protest at Westlake Park Saturday morning was one of dozens echoing across the country in response to weeks-long protests in New York City by a youth movement called Occupy Wall Street.
Like those in New York, Seattle protesters were largely young. A few wore dollar bills taped across their mouths.
Those who helped organize the protest said it drew all kinds of people who want more control over their own government.
“It’s amazing the diversity and the singular voice that we have,” said Albert Postema, of Snohomish.
He and his daughter traveled to New York to participate in protests there, and he helped bring the cause back to Seattle. On Saturday, he wore a noose around his neck, taping and un-taping a dollar-bill across his face as needed so he could arrange the protesters into a circle.
“Banks got bailed out, you got sold out!” they chanted.
Jon Ramer, 53, said he wanted to show protesters on Wall Street that they aren’t alone, though their protests are most visible.
“A lot of people feel as if we’ve lost a legitimate way to govern ourselves,” he said.
Older people in the group said they wanted to show that it was more than just a young person’s movement.
Smith has been politically involved for years, she said, but the last time she joined a protest was during the Vietnam War.
ARIES
A lot to look forward to this month, new beginnings, good for you! Sometimes in life we need to step back and see the whole picture, not just what we want to perceive. Finances will improve, just don’t overspend. Hold your mouth at work, not yet you will get your chance to have your say. Stop looking for love, love yourself, and the rest will come like a bonus!
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TAURUS
Hold on there Mr/Ms Taurus the best is yet to come. Sometimes your stubborn behavior can be hindrance to your persona. Try loosing some weight, at least start some type of health improvement this month. The time is right to make health changes. If not in the winter you will regret not taking care of some important health issues. Know who you are Taurus and stop playing games with yourself, you don’t even understand why you do the things you do sometime, so friggin stop the bullshyt please!
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GEMINI
Talk about a busy summer and early fall programs. You are up to initiated something new at work. Think about it a little bit more, and then present your ideas or platforms to your boss, you will not regret this one bit. Gemini start learning to love you, you have a generous heart of gold, that sometimes you were on your sleeve. Do something in September that truly makes you happy, smile because we love ya Gemini!
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CANCER
Cancer stop pussy footing around, and take care of busy. You have been blessed this summer to proceed in the direction of change. Believe in yourself, and it can be accomplished. Stop feeling depress all the time, look around you and see all the many blessings that have come your way. In other words either shyt or get off the pot!
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LEO
Take one step at a time. Patience is a virtue no doubt. But all will turn out as it i suppose to be. Put self on the back burner for a minute. Are you clear what it is you really want – make sure dear Leo, because your decisions this month will effect you for the rest of the year. It is better to give than receive and I don’t mean that in monetary way either Leo.
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VIRGO
Money, money, money will be your issues for September in a good way. Now Virgo make sure you put some money back for a rainy day fund. Nothing beats an understanding in anything in life. As we grow so does our understanding regarding life, spiritual, mental, and physical. Saying that, some folks will grow with us, and some folks will be left behind, – oh well……………..
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LIBRA
September is your birthday month Libra, so Happy Birthday Libra! Are you all geared up for future success? For the time being you will still have to put some more hard work in to accomplish your goals. By November things should begin to settle down for you. Stay in good health. Don’t let mental stress get you down, you are better than that. Celebrate your birthday with family and you just might get a few surprises, lol lol.
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SCORPIO
Well damn here we go again. Who did you have to cuss out one more time, they just don’t get it uh Scorpio. Folks should be forward about the Scorpio sting, oh well they will learn, lol. Finances should be good for the next few months until the end of the year. You may have to assist with the care of an elderly family member or close friend of the family. There will be a lot of paperwork coming your way, so sit down have a glass of wine and get it done! A child will excel in school this year and make you very proud. For those of you in relationships, communication and understanding is the norm……
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SAGITTARIUS
My oh my you can’t get a break if you tried. Sorry Sag it has been one of those years for you. So many changes going on internal and external. Job improvements in the future, promotion or lateral move is forthcoming. Seems your love life has been put on the back burning. Well………time to turn that sucker on to high, your fire is hot and burning – make it happen Sag do what you do best, lol!!!!! Possibility of family members moving, which is a good thing in your case. Just don’t get to happy you know, some folks return home(?). Take time this month Sag and enjoy “YOU”, been missing that person.
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CAPRICORN
Decisions have been make to benefit all concern. Thank you Cappy for sticking to your guns of choice. Sometimes folks will take your kindness for weakness, and forget the goat will bump your head (call bringing you to awareness). It’s your time now to enjoy your life and many blessings. Don’t be stubborn about what it is you want, announce your preferences and enjoy.
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AQUARIUS
Thank you for giving us the gift of humanity. You are a highly intelligent person, even if you don’t always show it, and that is fine. Because you also have the gift of being a azz hole, of course that has never stop you! Your family will be expanding so look to hear some good news! Don’t forget to organize all details for holiday traveling. Prices and time of departures could change abruptly, so be aware.
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PISCES
All your hard work has finally paid off Pisces, about damn time uh?! lol This month will be about to continue to line up all your ducks if you will, for future happiness. Take care of business and don’t delay a lot is coming your way. You are being notice, so put the medal to the pedal and go for it, you deserve it!
September 2011 Horoscopes – Straight Talk!
Boxing Legend Oscar De La Hoya is coming clean. After leaving rehab, he is telling all. De la Hoya has admitted the photos that came out of him dressed in women’s lingerie were him. The photos came out in 2007, and were released by an angry ex-girlfriend. De La Hoya says he took the photos under the influence of alcohol and cocaine. De La Hoya has been sober for the past three months.
It looks like Prince is gonna have to fork over some serious funds to a perfume company that’s holding him responsible for stifling their efforts to market a perfume name after his “3121? CD (see photo below).
The AP says a court referee recommended that approximately $3.95 million be awarded which would have to be confirmed by another judge.
Prince’s lawyer told the New York Law Journal the singer and songwriter will do what’s necessary to keep the suggested award from being confirmed.
Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania based Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics Inc. says it licensed Prince’s name and likeness along with the album title “3121? to market its fragrance in 2006. However, the company claims Prince broke his promise to help in the promotion of product after its July 2007 launch.
Washington, D.C. — Continuing their mutual commitment to the lives of Black women, on September 21, 2011, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), the National Action Network (NAN), I Choose Life Health and Wellness Center (ICL), and members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will present The Women’s Health Summit:
“Harnessing Our Power: “Mind, Body, and Soul” with a special focus on “HIV/AIDS and African American Women: The Forgotten Population” during the Annual Legislative Caucus (ALC) in Washington, DC. WHUR 96.3 FM-Washington is the official media sponsor.
The Women’s Health Summit will assemble a cohort of experts to discuss the myriad of health concerns and disparities that impact Black women, while also providing insight, valuable information and actions for healthy living.
“There are a plethora of diseases and health issues that continue to disproportionately affect Black women when compared to our counterparts,” says Avis Jones-DeWeever, PhD, author, policy analyst, and Executive Director, NCNW. “As organizations that are invested in the lives of Black women, we wanted to band together to encourage a holistic dialogue that’s solution-based and helps Black women to lead mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy lives.”
Not only are African American women more at risk for heart disease, cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes, Black women also have the highest rates of obesity, are mostly likely to die during childbirth and mostly likely to suffer the tragedy of infant mortality. Regarding other areas of concern, African American women are less likely to receive accurate mental health diagnoses than their Caucasian counterparts. Additionally, African-American women experience domestic violence at a rate that’s 35% higher than Caucasian women and thus account for a disproportionate number of intimate partner homicides.
AIDS still remains a devastating killer of Black women, yet they continue to be relegated to footnotes in national dialogues. The rates of new HIV infections for Black women is nearly 15 times as high as that of Caucasian women and AIDS diagnosis for African American women is at a rate of 20 times higher. HIV/AIDS-related conditions are now the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25-34 years.
The Women’s Health Summit will “host a panel focused on overall health to tackle domestic violence/sexual assault, sexual health and reproduction, mental health, infant mortality, and obesity.” And in efforts to reduce the continued impact of HIV/AIDS on Black women, the summit will also convene “HIV/AIDS and African American Women: The Forgotten Population,” a special focus panel, that will look back on the thirty years of the pandemic. The range of experts who will serve as summit panelists include: Gail Wyatt, PhD, University of Southern California; Tony Wafford, President & CEO, I Choose Life; Laura Meyers, PhD, President & CEO, Planned Parenthood-Metropolitan; Willie J. Parker, MD, MPH, Former Medical Director, Planned Parenthood-Metropolitan; Jamila Perritt, MD, Present Medical Director, Planned Parenthood-Metropolitan; Debra Fraser-Howze, Senior Vice President of Government and External Affairs, OraSure Technologies, Inc.; Dazon Dixon-Dialo, MPH, SisterLove; Monica Sweeney, MD, New York City Health Department; Cynthia Davis, MPH, Board Member, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences Institute, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
Panel moderators will be: WHUR 96.3 FM news reporter Molette Green; Jeff Johnson, award-winning journalist, social activist and political commentator; Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Executive Director, NCNW, and Dr.Tricia Bent-Goodley, Chair of the CAPS Sequence, Howard University, School of Social Work.
“We’re coming together to show Black women that despite these devastating facts, they are not alone,” says Tony Wafford, President & CEO, I Choose Life. “As a unified force, we can develop solutions to enhance, preserve and protect the lives of Black women.”
The Women’s Health Summit will take place on Wednesday, September 21 from 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm at the National Headquarters of NCNW, 633 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004. Spacing is limited; please RSVP at
ncnwprograms@gmail.com.
This summit will be sponsored by the following; Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI), AIDS Healthcare Foundation, (AHF), Office of Minority Health, (OMH), Office on Women’s Health (OWH), and Vitas.
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, which analyzes mammography images and marks suspicious areas for radiologists to review, has been widely hyped and pushed on women as a way to insure invasive breast cancer is spotted on mammograms. And it has grown into a huge industry, adding millions of dollars to the cost of healthcare.
The problem is, CAD simply doesn’t work — at all. That’s right. Despite the fact CAD is now applied to the large majority of screening mammograms in the U.S. with annual direct Medicare costs exceeding $30 million (according to a 2010 study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology), new research by University of California at Davis (UC Davis) scientists shows the expensive technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors.
But it does something extremely well. It causes enormous stress by greatly increasing a woman’s risk of being called back for more costly testing following a CAD analyzed mammogram.
The new research, just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, used data from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium to analyze 1.6 million mammograms. Entitled “Effectiveness of Computer-Aided Detection in Community Mammography Practice,” the study specifically looked at screening mammograms performed on more than 680,000 women at 90 mammography facilities in seven U.S. states, between the years of 1998 and 2006.
The results are being hailed as the most definitive findings to date on whether the super popular mammography tool is effective in locating cancer in the breast. The findings? CAD is a waste of time and money.
The false-positive rate increased from 8.1 percent before CAD to 8.6 percent after CAD was installed at the medical centers in the study. What’s more, the detection rate of breast cancer and the stage and size of breast cancer tumors were similar regardless of whether or not CAD was used.
*”In real-world practice, CAD increases the chances of being unnecessarily called back for further testing because of false-positive results without clear benefits to women,” * Joshua Fenton, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Family and Community Medicine, said in a statement to the media. “Breast cancers were detected at a similar stage and size regardless of whether or not radiologists used CAD.”
This isn’t the first time the CAD technology has been questioned by researchers. The current study follows a previous study of the computer aided mammography tool that was published by Dr. Fenton in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007.
That examination of mammography screening results in 43 facilities, including seven that used CAD, found that CAD was actually linked to *reduced accuracy* of mammogram screenings and produced no difference in the detection rate of invasive breast cancer.
“In the current study, we evaluated newer technology in a larger sample and over a longer time period,” Fenton noted in a statement to the press. “We also looked for the first time at cancer stage and cancer size, which are critical for understanding how CAD may affect long-term breast cancer outcomes, such as mortality.”
CAD software was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration back in 1998, but its use only skyrocketed after Medicare began covering it in 2001. According to 2009 Medicare data, using CAD adds another $12 to the costs of having a mammogram (about $81 for film mammography and $130 for digital mammography), representing a 9 percent to 15 percent additional cost for CAD use.
Finally, a publication has taken responsibility for its actions…after a nudge from readers!
Normally, people talk a good game about weighing in on an issue, protesting, revolting, but this time the people really took it to the online streets and stood up against for an instrumental cause … BLACK WOMEN!!
Psychology Today admitted being in error for putting up the article they dismantled almost as soon as they posted it to their site called, “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women? Why black women, but not black men?”
Color Of Change.org, who define themselves as the nation’s largest African-American online political organization, spearheaded a campaign to have the author removed and/or an apology submitted to the public.
We reported the nonsense May 17, the day they posted it and it was met with contempt and shock, especially when we know that a lot of women that are not black try to enhance their beauty with attributes of black women (i.e. botox, tanning beds, butt implants). Color Of Change posted the disciplinary action that was taken on their site. Most importantly, Satoshi Kanazawa will not be writing for them again. He’s fired! Check it out here.
Maybe we can get together and make it so he’s unable to get published anywhere ever again. United we stand, divided we fall!
Lately, we’ve been reporting on similarities of race relations in this country today as opposed to that of old. But, now there are reports that interracial marriage between African Americans and whites are on the rise. Other minority groups aren’t seeing a significant difference in their rate of marriage to whites.
USA Today reports that the study, published in the October edition of the Journal of Marriage and Family, found that in 2008, that of all black marriages, 10.7% were, in the past year, married to whites. The measure they use to show a significant increase is that in 1980, there were only 3% of said marriages.
But, Roderick Harrison, a demographer at Howard University and the Joint Center for Political and Economical Studies pointed out that we are still the least “assimilated.” The numbers show that Asians in 2008, married whites at the rate of 34% and Hispanics to non-Hispanics at 28%.
But none of this so-called benchmark of integration has done anything to remedy the lack of opportunities for black America. As the director of the Cornell Population Center and the study’s co-author, Daniel Lichter, put it, “This doesn’t imply that we’ve moved into a post-racial society.” The number of black and white marriages still remain very low.
The lead author on the interracial marriage study, Zhenchao Qian, a sociology professor at Ohio State University, suggests that the more opportunities African Americans experience by way of “higher levels of education” and in the workplace, the more interaction they have with whites on those levels, thus suggesting that African Americans have made more economical and social progress since 1980.
But as Harrison stated in the report, it still suggests ”that the divide in this country remains between blacks and everybody else.” There has not been a major exodus into opportunity for African Americans. The majority of interracial marriages between blacks and whites, by Qian’s admission, in at least the last 10 years, can probably be found between the more wealthy of the two groups.
The insinuated element of the report is that integration shows more progress, but we’re still watching the first African American President be told on the Congressional floor during his speech that he lied, we watched Troy Davis be put to death based on speculation, and our children still lag behind in educational resources.
The interracial marriage shouldn’t be weighed against opportunity and/or integration, but the report’s significance in those areas is insinuated. We are happy for those who can find happiness with anyone. That’s the hot commodity of the day. Who cares who you’re married to as long as you’re happy.