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Disgruntled union workers put their fight against Cablevision over the fight against cancer at a Times Square protest last night.
About 50 members of the Communications Workers of America Local 1109 disrupted a benefit for cancer research at the Hard Rock Cafe, carrying signs and blaring music as attendees streamed in.
Cablevision CEO James Dolan, whose rock band performed at the event, told The Post that the workers? actions are ?despicable.?
?They think being disruptive for their personal gain is more important than beating pancreatic cancer,? he said. ?Their values are twisted. I?m surprised at the depth of their lowness. Everyone who deals with them should take note. It?s shameful.?
The benefit was expected to raise $1.75 million for the Lustgarten Foundation, which funds pancreatic-cancer research.
The foundation is named for Cablevision exec Marc Lustgarten, who died of pancreatic cancer in 1999. Cablevision pays all the foundation?s administrative costs, and the foundation says that all the money raised last night will go to research.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House says Republicans should come clean about how much they're willing to raise tax rates on the rich. Republicans counter that President Barack Obama's latest plan is a joke that avoids tough decisions on the nation's biggest entitlement programs, including Medicare.
It's a game of political chicken as the clock ticks closer to the end-of-year deadline, when George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic, across-the-board spending cuts kick in, sending the nation over a proverbial "fiscal cliff" that some economists say could plunge the fragile economy back into recession.
But based on the partisan rhetoric of those in charge of negotiating a deal, there's not going to be a solution any time soon.
"They have to tell us what makes sense to them, and then we can take a look at it," Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said of Republicans on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''But what we can't do is try to figure out what makes sense for them."
House Speaker John Boehner countered that Republicans have plenty of ideas, even if he doesn't want to discuss the specifics publicly.
"There are a lot of items on the table," Boehner told "Fox News Sunday." ''The president knows what they are. The question is what are they willing to do?"
Last week, the White House delivered to Capitol Hill its opening proposal: $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade, a possible extension of the temporary Social Security payroll tax cut and heightened presidential power to raise the national debt limit.
In exchange, the president would back $600 billion in spending cuts, including $350 billion from Medicare and other health programs. But he also wants $200 billion in new spending for jobless benefits, public works projects and aid for struggling homeowners. His proposal for raising the ceiling on government borrowing would make it virtually impossible for Congress to block him going forward.
Republicans said they responded in closed-door meetings with laughter and disbelief.
"The administration has put something out that polls well: taxing the wealthy," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. "What they haven't done is anything to deal with entitlements, which is painful, and you're not going to have a deal until that happens."
Geithner called the back-and-forth "normal political theater," saying all that's blocking a timely deal is the GOP's reluctance to higher tax rates on the wealthy.
"It's welcome that they're recognizing that revenues are going to have to go up. But they haven't told us anything about how far rates should go up ... (and) who should pay higher taxes," Geithner said.
Republican leaders have said they can accept higher tax revenue overall, but only through what they call tax reform ? closing loopholes and limiting deductions ? and only coupled with tough measures to curb the growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"If we gave the president $1.6 trillion of new money, what do you think he'd do with it?" asked Boehner. "He's going to spend it. It's what Washington does."
Geithner appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation," NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "State of the Union," ABC's "This Week," and "Fox News Sunday."
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Associated Press writers Mark S. Smith and Michele Salcedo in Washington, and Erik Schelzig in Nashville contributed to this report.
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In this second part of ?The Power of Positive Affirmations? Series, we are going to dig a little deeper and see What truly are Positive Affirmations, How to make your own positive affirmations and How they can be used to create success and inner wellbeing. I will also share some of my favorite affirmations here with you.
I was initially introduced to the idea of a Positive Affirmation just by chance. After completing my Reiki masters and Silva Mind control courses I began reading a lot of Deepak Chopra. I was only 18 then and in one of his books he spoke of Affirmations and in the praises the name Louise Hay of ?You can Heal Your Life? came up. I was obviously intrigued and began reading some of her work. To say I was in ?awe!? is putting it mildly. I loved her work and still do. Even though I might have two Masters degrees and One Doctorate?what she shares is truly LIGHT. No amount of degrees can give you that insight. Its then that I started using and experimenting with Positive Affirmations only to realize I was affirming myself all my life?
Very simply, they are positive statements or sentences, you say to yourself to subtly heal your negative beliefs and create positive success.
On any given day, in any given moment, we are swimming in a sea of affirmations. We walk out of our house in the morning thinking, ?This is a great day? (positive affirmation) or ?Such bad weather, I hate it.? (negative affirmation). ??I cant do it.? (negative affirmation) or ?I can do it? (positive affirmation).
Positive affirmation is positive self-talk. Making use of affirmations changes the way you think, feel and behave. You become what you say to yourself most of the time. Your affirmations must be positive and in the present tense. When you make an affirmation to yourself, you are confirming the truth of the statement. By saying it repeatedly to yourself, you are making a direct impact on your subconscious mind which eventually accepts it as a command and implements it.
Again, and the importance of this simply cannot be overstated; everyone constantly creates their own realities whatever that may be. Positive affirmations help to create a positive reality. They are an integral part of being a Positive thinker.
Creating your very own positive affirmations is pretty simple.?Think about each area of your life one by one and write down a few positive statements summing up how you would like this area of your life to be. Please make sure that the statements are in the present tense and are positive, focusing on what you DO want rather than what you DON?T want.
Let me illustrate this with a few examples about how you can change negative thoughts to positive affirmations:
Negative thought: ?I will never get a promotion in this job?
Positive Affirmation:??I am so pleased with my excellent job promotion?
Negative thought: ?I will always be short of money?
Positive Affirmation:??I have all the money I really need?
Negative thought: ?my relationship will never improve and become a happy one?
Positive Affirmation:??my relationship has never been better or happier?
Positive affirmations must always be stated in the present tense, and most importantly charged with as much feeling, positive Energy and emotion as possible, as if the result has already manifested into your life as an absolute reality; a fact that you should have absolutely no doubt in your Mind. You should intensely feel the joy, happiness and all other emotions involved, which will generate the corresponding positive vibrations in you and around you.
Its best to write your own in accordance to your situation.
The more often an affirmation is repeated, consciously or otherwise, the more quickly and effectively it will manifest into your observable, individual, experiential reality.
An excellent time to repeat affirmations, with as much sincerity and emotion as possible, is just before drifting off to sleep at night, and just after waking in the morning before arising. At these times your conscious Mind is most in communication with your subconscious Mind and therefore the inner causal spheres of Energy.
Repeat the affirmation throughout the day, write down the affirmation on notepaper and place copies of your affirmation around your home, repeating the affirmation frequently, and whenever you are reminded to do so. If you make use of a personal computer for long periods of time, it is a very good and effective idea to have a copy of your affirmation on your PC desktop?utilizing?some appropriate software. You might not always notice the affirmation, but it will still be integrated into your subconscious Mind where it can begin its effect.
Affirm with love, faith, feeling and interest, and feel and believe that your desire has already been fulfilled. This kind of thinking will accelerate its fulfillment.
It is natural for the mind to bring up doubts and negative thoughts, especially if your current environment and situation are very different from what you want to achieve. Persevere, and do not let your negative thoughts and doubts conquer you.
In the next(part three) article in this ?The Power of Positive Affirmations? series I?ll share with you different difficult situations I was in and how ?Positive Affirmations? helped me come out of them and heal PLUS some surprise guests
Stay tuned!
What are your thoughts on this Positive Affirmations article? Do you have any favorite affirmations and how do you use them in your life?
With Immense Love & Gratitude,
~Zeenat~
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Holistic Healer/Writer
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Published: Saturday, December 1, 2012, 7:58?p.m.
Updated 6 hours ago
Sylvia Lowery-Lewis knew what she faced.
Diagnosed with breast cancer, she understood the triple-negative strain attacking her body could be especially aggressive and deadly. The cancer shocked and frightened her, she said, but she drew strength from her tight-knit family as she underwent a partial mastectomy in January and two rounds of chemotherapy.
Many cancer patients turn inward, but Lowery-Lewis of Highland Park made public her plight in order to bring awareness to triple-negative breast cancer and the importance of cancer screening.
Married and a mother of six, Lowery-Lewis told her story in ?Journey for Recovery,? a Tribune-Review special report published Sept. 30 that spotlighted breast cancer among black women.
She died on Oct. 22 at age 60, about 17 months after her diagnosis.
?For me, (cancer) made me stronger because it has made me a fighter to get information out,? she said about two months before her death. ?If I can turn the light on three people about this, I have done my job.?
Lowry-Lewis?s daughter, Jamine Lewis, said her mother worried that women coping with breast cancer might be hesitant to talk about it. Her mother wanted to put them at ease with asking questions.
?She wanted to make sure that people were more inclined to speak up, rather than keep it a secret, especially in the African-American community,? said Lewis, 35, of Highland Park.
National studies show death rates from breast cancer are 41 percent higher for black women than white women, even though fewer black women develop the disease.
Lowery-Lewis built a website, triplenegativebreastcancerawareness.com, and aimed to work through churches to foster conversation about the disease.
?I know that she wanted to dialogue and put all of this on her website,? Lewis said. ?She always felt a need to hurry up and get that information on there.?
As many as 30 percent of breast cancers in black women are triple-negative, while the percentage in all patients is 14 percent to 20 percent, according to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
The death risk from triple-negative cancer can be three times higher than those of more common cancer types, the journal Cancer reported. This cancer lacks three hormone receptors that are a key conduit for treatment.
?Cancer in many ways is disarming and disempowering ? that diagnosis alone,? said Dr. Dwight Heron, Lowery-Lewis? oncologist and the director of radiation oncology services at UPMC Cancer Centers. Lowery-Lewis ?was the kind of person, just with her own personality, who faced it head-on, looked it in the eye and said: ?I want to beat you. I?m going to beat you.? ?
She pledged to ?arm other people to carry on the mission because we?ve got to beat this thing,? Heron said.
The Rev. Barbara Gunn said no one expected Lowery-Lewis to die so soon. Her memorial service was conducted Oct. 30 at Unity Baptist Church in Braddock.
?She never hinted in any way that she was not going to make it through this,? said Gunn, a friend and the pastor at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in North Versailles. Yet, ?I think she always knew there was more of a possibility that she wouldn?t (make it) than if she would. That?s why she was in such a hurry to get something done? for public awareness.
The women met at a Staples store in the North Hills where Lowery-Lewis worked as a supervisor, Gunn said.
Lowery-Lewis reconnected there with Sharon Herring-Turner, 61, a childhood friend from Braddock who was diagnosed with breast cancer. Herring-Turner?s cancer is in remission.
?I?ve never seen Sylvia in a bad mood ? never ? not even with the cancer,? said Herring-Turner, of Perry Hilltop in the North Side. ?If she could do anything for you, she would go out of her way to do it.?
But, she said, ?Her passing makes me think: Is (my cancer) coming back??
In an August interview, Lowery-Lewis spoke glowingly about her husband, Johnnie Lewis, 70, who survives at home. She was very much ?still in love,? she said.
?I don?t know what tomorrow?s going to bring,? she said, ?but I try to live my days to the fullest that I can.?
Adam Smeltz is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-380-5676 or asmeltz@tribweb.com.
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School counselors can be a vital piece of the college-readiness puzzle for high school students, but many counselors are bogged down with tasks that don't allow them to put their skills to work.
"[In] our district, we are typically given every fundraiser, every party committee ... any need that there is, counselors are given it," says Kathy Smallwood, a guidance counselor at Mobile County Public Schools in Alabama.
Nearly 70 percent of high school counselors say they are tasked with administrative and clerical duties, according to a report released Wednesday by the College Board, a nonprofit organization that administers the SAT college entrance exam and oversees the AP program.
[Learn to weigh the benefits vs. stress of AP courses.]
Another 60 percent of high school counselors count test coordination as one of their job responsibilities, the report notes. The annual survey included responses from 806 middle school and 2,084 high school counselors.
Tasking counselors with testing duties is a waste of highly trained resources, says Pat Martin, assistant vice president of College Board's National Office for School Counselor Advocacy.
"School counselors ... are required to have a master's degree, teachers are not," Martin says. "To assign the kinds of clerical, low-level duties that school counselors are doing across the country is a terrible underutilization of a really, really critical force of people that could be redeployed to do meaningful ... things for students."
Among those things: Encouraging students to take AP courses, helping students through the college application and financial aid process, and connecting students with community resources to help them succeed both during high school and after graduation.
William M. Raines High School in Florida more than doubled the number of students taking AP exams between 2006 and 2010, largely due to the efforts of the school's counselors, according to the report.
[Read why high school students need to think, not memorize.]
At Chicago Public Schools, a retooled counseling model helped boost college enrollment rates for CPS students from 44 percent in 2004 to 60 percent in 2011, the report notes. The new approach put a greater emphasis on data--school attendance rates, AP enrollment, SAT scores, FAFSA completion, and college application completion--and the district used the information to tailor action plans to each school's needs, according to the report.
Leveraging data to improve student achievement can help counselors elevate their status from fundraisers and test proctors to leaders, says Smallwood, the guidance counselor in Mobile.
But counselors can't effect change from behind their desks, says Peggy Hines, director of the Education Trust's National Center for Transforming School Counseling.
"They really need to be out of their office ... teaming and collaborating to help the school better meet student needs," Hines says. "That means that school counselors are leaders and advocates, who use data to help the school figure out where, really and truly, they need to focus their school reform efforts and school improvement projects."
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