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He speaks after child dies in hot car- 2 Report examines Va.’s lynchings - 4 Expert on the other side of stress - 14 Feds report of Verizon strike end- 17 Pause on June 4 for cancer survivors

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Health providers spill patient secrets

In trying to respond to critical online reviews, some doctors, dentists and chiropractors appear to be violating the HIPAA privavcy law CHARLES ORNSTEN PROPUBLICA - Burned by negative reviews, some health providers are casting their patients’ privacy aside and sharing intimate details online as they try to rebut criticism.

In the course of these arguments — which have spilled out publicly on ratings sites like Yelp — doctors, dentists, chiropractors and massage therapists, among others, have divulged details of patients’ diagnoses, treatments and idiosyncrasies.

One Washington state dentist turned the tables on a patient who blamed him for the loss of a molar: “Due to your clenching and grinding habit, this is not the first molar tooth you have lost due to a fractured root,” he wrote. “This tooth is no different.”

In California, a chiropractor pushed back against a mother’s claims that he misdiagnosed her daughter with scoliosis. “You brought your daughter in for the exam in early March 2014,” he wrote. “The exam identified one or more of the signs I mentioned above for scoliosis. I absolutely recommended an x-ray to determine if this condition existed; this x-ray was at no additional cost to you.”

And a California dentist scolded a patient who accused him of misdiagnosing her. “I looked very closely at your radiographs and it was obvious that you have cavities and gum disease that your other dentist has overlooked. … You can live in a world of denial and simply believe what you want to hear from your other dentist or make an

educated and informed decision.”

Health professionals are adapting to a harsh reality in which consumers rate them on sites like Yelp, Vitals and RateMDs much as they do restaurants, hotels and spas.

The vast majority of reviews are positive. But in trying to respond to negative ones, some providers appear to be violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal patient privacy law known as HIPAA. The law forbids them from disclosing any patient health information without permission.

Yelp has given unprecedented access to its trove of public reviews — more than 1.7 million in all — allowing them to be searched by keyword. Using a tool developed by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, researchers identified more than 3,500 onestar reviews (the lowest) in which patients mention privacy or HIPAA. In dozens of instances, responses to complaints about medical care turned into disputes over patient

privacy.

The patients affected say they’ve been doubly injured — first by poor service or care and then by the disclosure of information they considered private.

The shock of exposure can be effective, prompting patients to back off.

“I posted a negative review” on Yelp, a client of a California dentist wrote in 2013. “After that, she posted a response with details that included my personal dental information. …

I removed my review to protect my medical privacy.”

The consumer complained to the Office for Civil Rights within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces HIPAA. The office warned the dentist about posting personal information in response to Yelp reviews. It is currently investigating a New York dentist for divulging personal information about a patient who complained about her care, according to a letter reviewed by ProPublica.

The office couldn’t say how many complaints it has received in

this area because it doesn’t track complaints this way. ProPublica has previously reported about the agency’s historic inability to analyze its complaints and identify repeat HIPAA violators.

Deven McGraw, the office’s deputy director of health information privacy, said health professionals responding to online reviews can speak generally about the way they treat patients but must have permission to discuss individual cases. Just because patients have rated their health provider publicly doesn’t give their health provider permission to rate them in return.

“If the complaint is about poor patient care, they can come back and say, ‘I provide all of my patients with good patient care’ and ‘I’ve been reviewed in other contexts and have good reviews,’ ” McGraw said. But they can’t “take those accusations on individually by the patient.”

McGraw pointed to a 2013 case out of California in which a hospital was fined $275,000 for disclosing information about a patient to the media without permission, allegedly in retaliation for the patient complaining to the media about the hospital.

Yelp’s senior director of litigation, Aaron Schur, said most reviews of doctors and dentists aren’t about the actual health care delivered but rather their office wait, the front office staff, billing procedures or bedside manner. Many health providers are careful and appropriate in responding to online reviews, encouraging patients to contact them offline or apologizing for any

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Dad says he’s in shock after baby dies in hot car STAFF & WIRE Memorial Day this week marked the unofficial start of the summer season and with hot weather, comes the risk of heat-related injuries, including those of children left in hot cars. Virginia, like other states across the country has had its share of these preventable injusries and deaths. The latest incident comes from Grenada, Miss., where one father recently spoke out one week after his infant daughter was discovered in the backseat of his hot car.

Joshua Blunt, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Shania Caradine after he left the infant in a car while he went to work.

“I can’t go in the house,” Blunt was quoted in a report highlighting the dangers of leaving children in hot cars. “I went in there. I couldn’t take it.

“I went in earlier, just trying to get something,” he said. “I couldn’t stand to be in there. I miss her smell, her smile. I miss her. She just made me happy.”

Originally in jail on a $250,000 bond, Blunt was released on his own recognizance. A preliminary hearing is scheduled July 26, according to court records.

Since Shania’s death May 19, two other children have died from apparent heat stroke after being left in vehicles as temperatures climbed into the mid-80s, according according to Jan Null, a lecturer at San Jose State University in California who keeps track of heat stroke deaths of children in vehicles. Nine deaths have occurred so far this year, 24 in total in 2015.

An 11-month-old girl died last week in Hialeah, Fla.; an 8-month-old boy also died last week in Wilmington, N.C. No arrests were made in either case.

“It don’t make a difference what

type of day you had. It could be the worst day, but my daughter made my day like a bottle of sunshine. She was my day.”

Hours before his daughter’s wake, Blunt said, “She was my everything.”

“People say they understand, but they don’t," he said. “They don’t understand.”

Blunt’s lawyer, Carlos Moore, advised him not to talk about the case, but he agreed to talk about Shania.

Tears flowing down his face, Blunt choked out words to describe “my gorgeous little Shania.”

“Shania, Shania was the type of girl that just lit up a room,” he said.

“Words could not express when my baby, when my baby looks at you and she just smiles.

“It don’t make a difference what type of day you had. It could be the worst day, but my daughter made my day like a bottle of sunshine,” Blunt said. “She was my day. She was my day. When I was down, she kept me

up.”

Blunt said he has been unable to sleep. He appears barely able to stand as he talks about his daughter.

He sways with the summer breeze.

Pulling a picture from his wallet, Blunt looks at an image of him holding newborn Shania. Folded in a square, framing the infant’s face, the picture is well worn and faded in the creases.

“She was my everything,” he said.

“She was what kept me strong in this world.”

Birds chirp in the background.

Blunt’s chin begins to quiver.

“She loved outside,” he said, taking a deep breath. “I used to take her to the back door and walk around so she could just enjoy life. Everywhere I went, my baby, I kept her with me.

That was my other half,” Blunt said. "I would never wish this on nobody. It’s so much to bear.

Neighbors and family members said Blunt’s girlfriend left town after Shania’s death.

Confusion has surrounded Blunt’s case as his lawyer told multiple media outlets that the murder charge against his client had been dropped.

However, George Douglas, Grenada’s assistant police chief, said the charges still stand.

Grenada City Prosecutor Jennifer Adams-Williams said she will not present the second-degree murder charge in Grenada Municipal Court.

However, the district attorney will present the case to a grand jury.

Despite Moore’s claim that he is representing Blunt, Adams-Williams said Blunt does not have an attorney of record.

Grenada County District Attorney Doug Evans has not returned repeated requests for comment.

However, Evans appeared on TV saying the case will be presented to a grand jury, which will decide whether to indict Blunt.

Standing under the shade of a tree,

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Lynchings: A shameful chapter in Va. history STERLING GILES & BRIAN WILLIAMS CNS - Raymond Bird, a black man accused of having sex with a white woman, was reportedly asleep in jail in the western Virginia town of Wytheville when the mob arrived.

According to historical accounts, there were at least 25 men–all armed, all masked. On Aug. 15, 1926, they rousted Bird from his cell, shot him, tied him to the back of a truck and dragged him for more than nine miles. When the truck stopped along State Route 699 in Wythe County, the mob left Bird’s lifeless body hanging from a tree.

That grisly murder nearly 90 years ago was the last recorded lynching in Virginia. A recent report has shed light on how common such vigilantism was in the South.

Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950, there were 4,075 “racial terror lynchings” in the

region, according to the Equal Justice Initiative.

Virginia shares a piece of this shameful history. Between 1880 and 1926, more than 90 people were lynched in Virginia, according

(from page 2) Blunt is disheveled. His shirt, wet with drops of tears, is untucked and his belt has missed a loop on his jeans.

Wiping his face with his hand, Blunt said Shania was a blessing long prayed for.

“He’s always been a wonderful father, and we can’t imagine that he would ever do anything to harm that baby.”

“I didn’t even think I could have kids,” he said. “The Lord blessed us, and we finally had a kid. Everything was so perfect. I prayed to the Lord for a family. He gave me one of my own.”

Eyes glazed over and eyelashes heavy with tears, Blunt stared into the distance.

“My daughter loved to dance,” he said. “It didn’t make a difference what type of music it was. She was a loving baby. Oh, man.”

Blunt’s boss and owner of the restaurant where he worked said Blunt was a “wonderful father” who was “ecstatic” and “elated” when he found out he and his girlfriend were

Josh Blunt with his daughter expecting a baby.

“He’s always been a wonderful father, and we can’t imagine that he would ever do anything to harm that baby,” Allyson Worsham said.

According to his lawyer, Blunt went to work at 9 a.m. May 19 at 333 Restaurant. He left work at 11 to go pick up his daughter and his girlfriend, drop his girlfriend at work at KFC and then take Shania to a grandmother.

to the initiative’s data and other documented incidents.

Bird was a native of Speedwell in Wythe County. He was married to Tennessee Hawkins, a black woman, and had three daughters–Edith,

But after he dropped off his girlfriend, Blunt went back to work, the baby still strapped in her car seat in the back.

Blunt and a co-worker discovered Shania four hours later, still alive.

His co-workers reportedly wrapped the infant in cold towels until the ambulance arrived.

A Grenada Police Department incident report said Blunt was standing outside the ambulance door crying when police arrived.

Despite efforts to save her, Shania died at University of Mississippi Medical Center Grenada. Grenada County Coroner Jo Morman said the infant had an elevated body temperature because of her time in the vehicle.

Worsham said she and the rest of the staff carry guilt in Shania’s death.

“We all have guilt about it because we were all in the building working, going about our normal work day,” she said.

Throughout his shift, multiple people passed by Blunt’s car. No one saw the baby.

“He parked where he always

Lillian and Hazel. After serving in World War I, Bird worked as a farmhand for Grover Grubb, a white landowner.

According to J. Douglas Smith’s book “Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia,” Bird was accused of raping Grubb’s daughter, Minnie.

However, Minnie Grubb vehemently denied she was raped and insisted that the sex was consensual. Even if consensual, sex between blacks and whites was illegal at that time.

On July 23rd, 1926, Minnie Grubb gave birth to a biracial daughter, Clara. Bird was immediately imprisoned in the Wytheville jail.

Bird’s lynching three weeks later made headlines across the country in publications such as Time magazine and The New York Times. The national exposure prompted Louis I. Jaffé, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-

(continued on page 4) parked, over near the Dumpster,” Worsham said. “During the day co-workers came and went, we took trash out and nobody saw or heard anything, and we didn’t know.

“And so that’s what was so horrible about it,” she said. “Any one of us would have done all we could, but we didn’t know. And he didn’t.”

Since Shania’s death, Worsham said she’s been worried about Blunt’s health.

“Every time I talked to him, he talked about taking his own life,” she said.

In the days following his daughter’s death, Blunt said he’s been dealing with the emotions and the grief by himself, “wishing you could do anything to be with her.”

“When she was born, I was the first one to hold my baby,” he said. “Her first word was ‘Dada.’ Eight months, she was already babbling ‘Dada.’

Every day I would go to work she would cry.”

Blunt has asked for prayer.

“It hit the family so hard," he said.

"That was our only baby. It took years to make that baby. That was our blessing. That was my blessing.”

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(from page 3) Equal Justice Initiative’s report Pilot, to prod state officials to approve an anti-lynching law.

The Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit based in Alabama, spent four years researching racially motivated lynchings in 12 Southern states. “Racial terror lynching was much more prevalent than previously reported,” the group reported.

“Some states and counties were particularly terrifying places for African Americans and had dramatically higher rates of lynching than other states and counties we reviewed,” the report added.

Moreover, “terror lynching played a key role in the forced migration of millions of black Americans out of the South.”

Mississippi had the most lynchings (614), followed by Georgia (595), Louisiana (559) and Arkansas (491), the data showed. Of the 12 states studied, Virginia had the fewest lynchings–88 by the initiative’s count.

Lynchings occurred in at least 50 localities in Virginia, according to W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s book “Lynching in the New South”. Most of these localities counted just one or two lynchings, with some exceptions: Alleghany County had four, Danville five, and Tazewell County 10.

On Feb. 1, 1893, five black railroad workers were lynched in Tazewell County. According to the research of “The Homesick Appalachian”, the railroad workers were allegedly drinking with two white store owners the night before the lynching. The Richmond Planet, a black-owned newspaper, reported that the workers had allegedly robbed and murdered the store owners. In fact, the supposed victims were alive–just injured.

At the turn of the 20th century, racist whites did not need much of an excuse to kill black citizens.

“Many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators (including elected officials and prominent citizens) for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person,” the

said. “People who participated in lynchings were celebrated and acted with impunity.”

On Oct. 17, 1891, three adults and a teenager were lynched in Alleghany County. The victims were AfricanAmerican coal miners: Charles Miller, Robert Burton, and the brothers William and John Scott.

That morning, several black miners reportedly were walking leisurely through Clifton Forge. According to Brundage, the miners’ behavior was “foolhardy black bravado in a region where the definition of acceptable conduct by blacks was very circumscribed.”

A police officer accosted the group.

The men fled back to the mines but were confronted again by the officer, this time accompanied with a group of whites. A gun battle broke out.

The miners were eventually arrested by the town’s police and thrown into jail. Later that evening, a mob of townspeople broke into the jail and seized the men. Hours later, they were shot and hung.

Such incidents continued with disturbing regularity until Bird’s lynching in 1926. Then Jaffé, a crusading newspaper editor and civil rights activist, wrote a letter to Gov. Harry Flood Byrd Sr. (Coincidentally, the governor and the lynching victim had similar names. Some accounts of the lynching spelled the victim’s name as Raymond Byrd.)

The governor was adamant about attracting businesses to Virginia.

That was why, during his term from 1926 to 1930, Byrd paved more than 2,000 miles of roads throughout the state. Jaffé evoked this priority to advocate on behalf of AfricanAmericans: He told Byrd that mob violence only hindered the chances of attracting new industries to Virginia.

Jaffé asked Byrd to support legislation to make lynching a state crime. Byrd initially hesitated, saying such a law might conflict with the Virginia Constitution.

According to Smith’s book, Jaffé sensed Byrd’s reluctance. So he used his editorial pages to call on Byrd and other officials to take action.

“Lynching goes unpunished in Virginia because, deny it as one will, it commands a certain social sanction,” wrote Jaffé, who won a

Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1929. The Pilot editor suggested that the state strip lynch-mob members of their right to vote and hold public office. In addition, he argued for strict fines and punishments for lynching.

Byrd came around. With the governor’s support, the Virginia General Assembly passed antilynching legislation. On March 14th, 1928, Byrd signed it into law.

Among other provisions, the law gave the state the power to enforce stiff penalties against localities that didn’t report vigilante murders.

The Anti-Lynching Law of 1928 was a breakthrough in curbing violence against African-Americans.

“Lynch mobs were generally a group composed of poor whites,” said Dr. John Kneebone, chair of the History Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Elites in the South never favored lynching.

But because race was involved, the majority chose not to stand up and oppose lynching. Byrd changed that.”

After his term as governor, Byrd served for 30 years in the U.S. Senate and continued to exert a powerful influence in Virginia politics. A staunch segregationist, he opposed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Byrd and his allies adopted a strategy called Massive Resistance, forcing Virginia schools to close rather than integrate.

As the 90th anniversary of Bird’s lynching approaches, it is Byrd who is back in the news.

The longtime politician died in

1966. Five years later, Henrico County named a middle school after him. This year, students and others petitioned the county to rename Byrd Middle School, arguing that it should not honor a man who stood for racial segregation.

In March, the Henrico County School Board voted unanimously to rename the school. The board has not yet selected a new name.

Civil rights advocates have pushed for honest discussions about race like the one happening in Henrico County. That’s one of the goals of the Equal Justice Initiative.

Its report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, noted that “there is an astonishing absence of any effort to acknowledge, discuss, or address lynching.”

“Many of the communities where lynchings took place have gone to great lengths to erect markers and monuments that memorialize the Civil War, the Confederacy, and historical events during which local power was violently reclaimed by white Southerners. These communities celebrate and honor the architects of racial subordination and political leaders known for their belief in white supremacy,” according to the report.

“There are very few monuments or memorials that address the history and legacy of lynching in particular or the struggle for racial equality more generally. Most communities do not actively or visibly recognize how their race relations were shaped by terror lynching.”

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Report finds no affordable housing in Va. for minimum wage workers

In order to afford a modest, two- bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent in Virginia, renters need to earn $22.44 per hour. This is Virginia’s 2016 housing wage, revealed in a national report released last week. The report, “Out of Reach 2016”, was jointly released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a Washington, D.C.- based research and advocacy organization, and the Virginia Housing Alliance.

Every year, “Out of Reach” reports on the housing wage for all states, counties, and metropolitan areas in the country. The report highlights the gap between what renters earn

and what it costs to afford rent at fair market value.

“This report is instrumental in helping us all to realize that affordable housing is not just a concern for people with low- income, but rather for anyone who is facing the prospect of increasing rental housing costs and stagnant wages,” said Sim Wimbush, executive director for the Virginia Housing Alliance, a non profit that advocates for an end to homelessness through affordable housing.

The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 an hour without an increase since 2009, generating

‘Griffins’ approved as new nickname for Quioccasin Middle

debate and calls to raise the wage both at the state and federal level.

In no state, even those where the minimum wage has been set above the federal standard, can a minimum wage renter working a 40 hour work week afford a one- bedroom rental unit at the Fair Market Rent.

Working at the minimum wage of $7.25 in Virginia, a family must have 3.1 wage earners working full- time, or one full- time earner working 116 hours per week, to afford a modest two- bedroom apartment.

The typical renter in Virginia earns $16.45 per hour, which is $5.99 less than the hourly wage needed to

afford a modest unit.

“The ‘Out of Reach’ data reflect a grim reality across the nation. There is no place in the United States where a minimum wage worker can afford a two- bedroom apartment,” said Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

“We as a nation must respond by investing in affordable housing for the lowest income households in America.

“The new national Housing Trust Fund is a critical solution, but it must be significantly expanded to address the need.”

school. Previously, the school was named in honor of Harry F. Byrd, a prominent segregationist. It is now renamed for a local historically black village following a petition drive.

Byrd was a politician who fought against the U.S. Supreme Court’s

decision to end school segregation.

More than 1,600 people had suggested that the school be renamed in honor of former student Alysia Burton, who died on Sept. 11, 2001, but the board opted against naming the school after a specific person.

FATHER’S DAY

STAFF & WIRE Henrico County’s newly renamed middle school will draw inspiration from a former school resource officer, as well as lions and eagles. Students at Harry F. Byrd Middle School – which will become Quioccasin Middle School July 1 – have voted to replace the school’s “Senators” nickname with “Griffins.”

The name first was proposed by students as a way to commemorate Neil Griffin, the school’s popular former school resource officer, who died earlier this year. The mythical griffin has the body of a lion, and the head, wings and talons of an eagle.

“The vote shows how important Officer Griffin was to our school community,” said Cheri Guempel, school principal. “This vote is about unity and moving forward.”

An initial online suggestion phase for a new mascot was open to anyone, but the final vote was limited to current and rising students at the school, as well as school faculty and staff members. The suggestions were

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The late Neil Griffin winnowed to three finalists: griffins, bulls and cougars. The winning name earned more than 50 percent of the final vote.

The new name and nickname will begin to appear this summer at the school.

The Henrico School Board voted 3-0 March 10 to rename the school at 9400 Quioccasin Road. The board’s vote followed a series of public input sessions in response to a proposal by community members to rename the

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Do they really have your back?

While black people are bogged down in shallow and meaningless political discourse, our vaunted black organizations continue to be M.I.A. except for their time in front of the cameras with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They say they cannot endorse candidates, but we all know that’s a sham.

In an article written by Freddie Allen of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Marc Morial said the nine Black organizations that met with the candidates wanted to “provide to every candidate who is running for president of the United States, be they Republican or Democrat, the opportunity to hear from us on issues of civil rights, social justice, and economic justice in America, today.” Any real demands made on our behalf?

Al Sharpton said, “For the first time in American history, we will watch a black family leave the White House and we do not want to see the concerns of blacks leave with them.”

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have been hibernating for the past seven years; and all this time I thought Sharpton and the POTUS were taking care of them.

And, I suppose to give comfort to Clinton and Sanders, Morial said the nine historic civil rights organizations represent tens of millions of Americans and that all of their organizations were “multicultural and multiethnic.” Multi-cultural and multi-ethnic? That’s strange; I thought they were Black or at least “colored.”

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The NAACP, known for “Nonstop Aiding and Abetting in Corrupt Practices,” in my opinion, answered the Ferguson issue by walking 130 miles to the Missouri Governor’s office, followed up by a 1,000 mile stroll from Selma to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in search of justice.

Guess they didn’t find it when they got there.

This is the group that practices outright hypocrisy by railing against voter suppression and voter ID laws, while accepting and even promoting those corrupt practices within their own ranks. More specifically, this is the group that has wreaked havoc in Ohio by conducting four elections for State President, two of which were legitimately won by Jocelyn Travis over Sybil McNabb, and two of which were doovers by the national office via its henchman, Gill Ford, to keep their chosen candidate, McNabb, in office.

In the first corrupt election over which the national office presided, children were allowed to vote for McNabb— yes, children! In the second corrupt election, which just took place on March 12, again under national supervision, the same corrupt practice used in Cincinnati was used

by Gill Ford in Columbus.

He suspended Travis three days prior to the election, just as he did the Cincinnati president, whom he suspended the day before the election in an obvious effort to have his chosen candidate run unopposed.

The NAACP’s “Nonstop Aiding and Abetting in Corrupt Practices” is shameful, especially in light of holding themselves up as the national champion for fairness in the voting process. Even more shameful is the fact that only a relative few members, among those who have actually seen these shenanigans take place, are willing to stand up against the NAACP’s corruption.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Justice delayed The ruling by Judge Elizabeth McHugh to proceed with criminal charges against Bill Cosby is a positive step forward for survivors everywhere. It underscores how critical it is that we give victims time and opportunity to heal while leaving options open for them to seek justice.

We know that a delay in the reporting of a sexual assault has no bearing on the veracity of allegations; in fact, delayed reporting is normal and should be expected. It takes an incredible amount of courage for a survivor to come forward, and the level of attention surrounding a high-profile case makes it even more daunting to speak out, as victims fear the negative impact of media scrutiny and retaliation from the public or the accused. Many people who have been sexually assaulted wait months or even years before discussing what happened with anyone, let alone making a formal report to authorities. Giving victims the option to pursue justice, even after years have passed, is such an important way to support survivors and protect community safety.

Sexual assault is a serious and widespread problem. Victims can experience long-term after effects including PTSD, anxiety and depression that may interfere with educational attainment, job performance, personal relationships and other personal and societal costs.

Everyone has a role to play, including our criminal justice system, in giving options to survivors and ultimately preventing sexual assault.

Mark James

was held on June 5, 1988. Use #CancerSurvivorsDay to post on social media.

Cancer survivors

Pause to reflect

We are disappointed by the recent actions of some in the Republican leadership in the Commonwealth of Virginia who have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block the recent executive order issued by our Governor Terry McAuliffe to restore the rights of more than 200,000 citizens. The Virginia State Conference of the NAACP has been persistent in its efforts of advocating for the restoration of rights to those who have paid their debt to society. Despite those who would turn the issues of voter rights and voter suppression into a partisan battleground, we will continue to fight this systematic erosion of enfranchisement.

In this moment, where we find our spirits bolstered by United States Supreme Court decision to dismiss the GOP appeal against the newly drawn Congressional Districts; we will neither ignore, nor will we forget that our progress is still threatened by thinly veiled attempts at voter suppression as a means to partisan political gains. We vow to be unwavering in our commitment to insure that the right to participate in democracy is never suppressed, threatened or denied. And we stand boldly with those who share these views.

Linda Thomas, Va. NAACP

Observed annually on the first Sunday in June, National Cancer Survivors Day has been set aside to “demonstrate that life after a cancer diagnosis can be a reality” Each year on National Cancer Survivors Day, events and celebrations are held and hosted around the United States, by local towns, cities, hospitals and support groups honoring local cancer survivors. Events may include parades, carnivals, art exhibits, contests and testimonies.

United States President George W. Bush and the National Cancer Institute director each included a commencement at the 2008 celebration.

National Cancer Survivors Day, an “unofficial” National holiday, was first announced by Merril Hastings during the second national conference meeting of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivor-ship in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Nov. 20, 1987. Hastings then filed the name as an International Class 042 Service and also registered it with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the name of Pulse Publications. The first National Cancer Survivors Day

Being critical

On online ‘trolling’ Anyone can say anything, often under anonymity. Online reviews, false or true, can destroy a business or someone’s professional credibility.

On the surface it looks like it can be helpful to consumers. But consumers have no way of determining the validity of the review. Is it a disgruntled consumer? Justifiably?

Is the person just angry and vengeful due to their own issues? Is the reviewer’s account accurate?

What about the business’s side? Is it the person’s competition posting ugly things about them? Is it a person hired to write reviews? Is it just a crazy troll who never even frequented the business and has some kind of delusional vendetta?

Is it the person’s ex who wants to get back at them? How about a disgruntled employee?

Medical reviews would be better handled by a professional board/ arbitrator of some type where the result is searchable by the public and not public websites.

Perhaps there is an opening for a professional, objective arbitration site to step in and mediate these types of situations to make sure that both sides are presented fully and fairly.

Can people be sued for libel? Maybe that would make people be more careful about what they post being able to be backed up.

Sunny Jeffries

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Faith & Religion An Olympian’s focus on faith

Gymnast Gabby Douglas already has a gold medal, but it’s her faith that sustains her God’s working.

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Q: You spent close to two years living far from your family to train for the Olympics. You called it your leap of faith but you almost gave up on it.

Why? A: My mom and my siblings came to Iowa to celebrate Christmas with me. It went by so fast and they were ready to go home and pack up and leave and I was wanting to go home. I hadn’t been home for a while. I wanted to quit and leave the sport just because I was homesick.

Four years after she became a gold medalist, Virginia Beach native and gymnast Gabby Douglas is aiming for a second Olympic appearance, this time in Rio de Janeiro. Oxygen premiered a new reality series about Douglas and her family last week.

Below is the RNS 2012 interview with the then17-year-old gymnast (she’s 20 now) about her faith and her fame.

Gabrielle Douglas, who walked away with the gymnastic gold at the London Olympics, is out with her first book: “Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith.” Douglas talked with Religion News Service about her prayer life, her love of matzo ball soup and overcoming homesickness to make it to the Olympics. (The interview has been edited for length and clarity.)

Q: Everyone knows you as a gold medal Olympic gymnast, but how do you define yourself as a young woman of faith?

A: Faith plays a very big role in my life. I don’t know where I would be without it today. I’ve always been praying for everything. And my mom always exposed me and my siblings to being a Christian and the Bible. I was watching back and looking at the Olympics and my mouth is moving — and that’s me praying.

Q: How did your faith get you through preparing for difficult gymnastic maneuvers like the uneven bars?

A: The Scriptures motivate me and I use them to help me overcome circumstances like practices and competitions. If I’m having trouble with a skill: “I can do all things in Christ that strengthens me.”

Or sometimes I get a little nervous: “Do not fear; always believe.”

Q: You saw rain on the day of the all-around competition, and said you saw it as a good sign from God. Why? A: My mom told me that it’s God’s manifestation ready to happen and great things are going to happen. Before the all-around finals, I had a peace in my heart and it was raining and I texted my mom and said, ‘Mom, it’s raining. You know what that means.’ And she said, ‘Yes, I do.’

Gabby Douglas Q: You wrote that your family celebrated Hanukkah when you were 9, and that it has observed the Sabbath and you’ve enjoyed your mother’s matzo ball soup. Are you doing anything to mark Hanukkah this year?

A: No, I am not. But I really love matzo ball soup and I just had matzo ball soup recently and it’s just one of my favorite Jewish meals.

Q: Are you going back to church as an Olympic champion or an average churchgoer?

A: When I go back in church I'm just going to be that same old Gabby Douglas — just praise and worship and listening to the pastor preach. So, it's not going to be any different.

Q: You lived with a churchgoing host family in Iowa. How did that come about?

A: God laid it on Travis [Parton], my host family dad. He was thinking about hosting a gymnast, and he wrote to [coach Liang] Chow and said ‘Chow, If there’s anyone that needs a break and they want to achieve their dreams, I’m opening up my house.’ And a month later I arrived and Chow came back to Travis and said, ‘Well, is that offer still open?’ and Travis said yes. It was definitely

Q: How did you overcome that?

A: My mom and my brother sat me down. They told me to keep fighting and keep pushing. They didn't want me to come home as a quitter but they wanted me to come home as a champion. They also said they didn’t want me to come home and watch the Olympics on the TV and say I wish I would have gone there. They didn't want me to have regret and they knew that I couldn't live with myself if I didn't make the team. So I went back to the gym and I was just determined to push myself.

Q: You’ve also faced personal criticism — from a former coach who thought you needed a nose job to people who questioned your hairstyle during the Olympics. How did you handle that?

A: The whole hair thing I don't really focus on because I was at the Olympics. I was the first African-American to win the gold medal in allaround so I focused on that. The whole bullying part — nobody likes to be made fun of. It was very hard to overcome that and I was very hurt. Now I have a forgiving heart. I forgive them and I move on.

Q: You were on Jay Leno’s show with first lady Michelle Obama, and you’ve received tweets from celebrities. How do you stay humble in the midst of all this adulation?

A: My mom definitely keeps me grounded and I'm thankful. I’m a good giver. I love to give back. I want to give back to the people who always supported me. I want to be that blessing to other people.

Q: What are your next steps?

A: Definitely I hope to attend Rio in 2016 and I think it will be wonderful if I can attend two Olympic games.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF A FILING BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY OF ITS INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN CASE NO. PUE-2016-00049 On April 29, 2016, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion Virginia Power” or “Company”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) the Company’s Integrated Resource Plan (“IRP”) pursuant to § 56-599 of the Code of Virginia (“Code”).

An IRP, as defined by § 56-597 of the Code, is “a document developed by an electric utility that provides a forecast of its load obligations and a plan to meet those obligations by supply side and demand side resources over the ensuing 15 years to promote reasonable prices, reliable service, energy independence, and environmental responsibility.” Pursuant to § 56-599 C of the Code, the Commission determines whether an IRP is reasonable and in the public interest.

According to the Company, the IRP encompasses the 15 year planning period from 2017 to 2031 and is based on the Company’s current assumptions regarding load growth, commodity price projections, economic conditions, environmental regulations, construction and equipment costs, demand side management programs, and many other regulatory and market developments that may occur in the future.

Dominion Virginia Power states in its filing that its objective in developing the IRP was to identify the mix of resources necessary to meet future energy and capacity requirements in an efficient and reliable manner at the lowest reasonable cost while considering future uncertainties.

According to the Company, potential negative impacts and challenges facing customers include commodity price volatility; reliability concerns based on overreliance on any single fuel source; and changing regulatory requirements, particularly regulation by the United States Environmental Protection Agency of carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing electric generation.

As amended in 2015, § 56-599 of the Code requires, among other things, that an IRP evaluate: (i) the effect of current and pending environmental regulations upon the continued operation of existing electric generation facilities or options for construction of new electric generation facilities; and (ii) the most cost-effective means of complying with current and pending environmental regulations. The Company’s filing contains discussion of such matters.

Contemporaneous with its IRP, the Company, by counsel, filed a Legal Memorandum in this proceeding. In its Legal Memorandum, the Company provides, among other things, its position on the legal authority for recovering expenditures associated with the potential North Anna 3 nuclear unit.

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing in this case that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing at 10 a.m. on October 5, 2016, in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, to receive the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness should appear at the hearing location fifteen (15) minutes before the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff.

Copies of the public version of all documents filed in this case are available for interested persons to review in the Commission’s Document Control Center located on the first floor of the Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, between the hours of 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Interested persons also may download unofficial copies from the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

Copies of the public version of the Company’s IRP and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing also may be inspected during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies of these documents also may be obtained, at no charge, by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Jennifer D. Valaika, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219. If acceptable to the requesting party, the Company may provide the documents by electronic means.

On or before September 28, 2016, any interested person may file written comments on the IRP with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Interested persons desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before September 28, 2016, by following the instructions found on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc. virginia.gov/case. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00049.

Any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation on or before July 6, 2016. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be filed with the Clerk of the Commission at the address set forth above. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company at the address set forth above. Pursuant to Rule 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”), any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by Rule 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUE-2016-00049. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

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Repercussions in gov. probe Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe last week canceled plans to appear at an Ohio fundraiser to avoid being a “distraction” as federal investigators probe his personal finances and foreign sources of income.

The governor was expected to be the featured guest at an event next month for former Ohio governor Ted Strickland’s Senate campaign.

“I told him I didn’t want any distractions for him. He’s got a critical Senate race,” McAuliffe (D) told reporters after a radio appearance.

Strickland (D) is challenging Sen. Rob Portman (R).

“I told Ted he needs to focus on his race, and I told him we’ll reschedule in a month or two,” McAuliffe said.

Later, he added, “I got plenty of time to campaign for him in the fall.”

McAuliffe said there have been no other changes­to his political travel due to the FBI and Justice Department investigation, which consumed his public appearances last week and may extend to this week.

In Richmond’s mayoral race, attorney Joe Morrissey challenged opponent Levar Stoney, who was McAuliffe’s secretary of the commonwealth, to not accept outside monet.

Republicans said the canceled event shows McAuliffe is toxic to fellow Democrats, including his friend and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. Her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state is the subject of an ongoing federal investigation.

“Terry McAuliffe is quickly becoming a liability — not just to Hillary Clinton, but to Democrats around the country. In a close race, no Democrat can afford to have yet another person on stage under FBI investigation,” said Garren Shipley, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee.

Federal authorities are looking into whether McAuliffe violated an obscure statute that regulates U.S. citizens’ lobbying of the U.S. government on behalf of foreign governments, his attorney, James W. Cooper, has said.

“I have never lobbied for a foreign government ever,” the governor said.

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(from page 1) perceived slights. Some don’t respond at all.

“There’s certainly ways to respond to reviews that don’t implicate HIPAA,” Schur said.

In 2012, University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City was the first hospital system in the country to post patient reviews and comments online. The system, which had to overcome doctors’ resistance to being rated, found positive comments far outnumbered negative ones.

“If you whitewash comments, if you only put those that are highly positive, the public is very savvy and will consider that to be only advertising,” said Thomas Miller, chief medical officer for the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics.

Unlike Yelp, the University of Utah does not allow comments about a doctor’s medical competency and it does not allow physicians to respond to comments.

In discussing their battles over online reviews, patients said they’d turned to ratings sites for closure and in the hope that their experiences would help others seeking care. Their providers’ responses, however, left them with a lingering sense of lost trust.

Angela Grijalva brought her then 12-year-old daughter to Maximize Chiropractic in Sacramento, Calif., a couple years ago for an exam. In a one-star review on Yelp, Grijalva alleged that chiropractor Tim Nicholl led her daughter to “believe she had scoliosis and urgently needed x-rays, which could be performed at her next appointment. … My daughter cried all night and had a tough time concentrating at school.”

But it turned out her daughter did not have scoliosis, Grijalva wrote.

She encouraged parents to stay away from the office.

Nicholl replied on Yelp, acknowledging that Grijalva’s daughter was a patient (a disclosure that is not allowed under HIPAA) and discussing the procedures he performed on her and her condition, though he said he could not disclose specifics of the diagnosis “due to privacy and patient confidentiality.”

“The next day you brought your daughter back in for a verbal review of the x-rays and I informed you that the x-rays had identified some issues, but the good news was that your

June 1, 2016 • 11 daughter did not have scoliosis, great news!” he recounted. “I proceeded to adjust your daughter and the adjustment went very well, as did the entire appointment; you made no mention of a ‘misdiagnosis’ or any other concern.”

In an interview, Grijalva said Nicholl’s response “violated my daughter and her privacy.”

“I wouldn’t want another parent, another child to go through what my daughter went through: the panic, the stress, the fear,” she added.

Nicholl declined a request for comment. “It just doesn’t seem like this is worth my time,” he said. His practice has mixed reviews on Yelp, but more positive than negative.

A few years ago, Marisa Speed posted a review of North Valley Plastic Surgery in Phoenix after her then–3-year-old son received stitches there for a gash on his chin.

“Half-way through the procedure, the doctor seemed flustered with my crying child. …,” she wrote.

“At this point the doctor was more upset and he ended up throwing the instruments to the floor. I understand that dealing with kids requires extra effort, but if you don’t like to do it, don’t even welcome them.”

An employee named Chase replied on the business’s behalf: “This patient presented in an agitated and uncontrollable state. Despite our best efforts, this patient was screaming, crying, inconsolable, and a danger to both himself and to our staff. As any parent that has raised a young boy knows, they have the strength to cause harm.”

Speed and her husband complained to the Office for Civil Rights. “You may wish to remove any specific information about current or former patients from your Web-blog,” the Office for Civil Rights wrote in an October 2013 letter to the surgery center.

In a new partnership with Yelp, ProPublica has been given unprecedented access to the rating site’s 1.3 million reviews of healthcare providers. One dental chain attracted 3,000 reviews, the vast majority bad. Read the story.

In an email, a representative of the surgery center declined to comment.

“Everyone that was directly involved in the incident no longer works here.

The nurse on this case left a year ago, the surgeon in the case retired

Angela Grijava said details about her daughter’s care were posted online. last month, and the administrator left a few years ago,” he wrote.

Reviews of North Valley Plastic Surgery are mixed on Yelp.

Health providers have tried a host of ways to try to combat negative reviews. Some have sued their patients, attracting a torrent of attention but scoring few, if any, legal successes. Others have begged patients to remove their complaints.

Jeffrey Segal, a onetime critic of review sites, now says doctors need to embrace them. Beginning in 2007, Segal’s company, Medical Justice, crafted contracts that health providers could give to patients asking them to sign over the copyright to any reviews, which

allowed providers to demand that negative ones be removed. But after a lawsuit, Medical Justice stopped recommending the contracts in 2011.

Segal said he has come to believe reviews are valuable and that providers should encourage patients who are satisfied to post positive reviews and should respond — carefully — to negative ones.

“For doctors who get bent out of shape to get rid of negative reviews, it’s a denominator problem,” he said.

“If they only have three reviews and two are negative, the denominator is the problem. … If you can figure out a way to cultivate reviews from hundreds of patients rather than a few patients, the problem is solved.”

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Cancer survivor embraces a career as an artist CAROLINE NEWMAN Sandy Williams IV said he found his niche at the University of Virginia. The fourth-year student spends hours at the school, working on new sculptures or making films with other students. He’s also become a regular on Charlottesville’s vibrant art scene, exhibiting his work in local galleries and festivals.

Five years ago, much of that seemed impossible – and not just because Williams was convinced that he wanted to be an orthodontist.

During his senior year of high school in Virginia Beach, Williams was diagnosed with lymphoma.

Suddenly, he was not just facing a transition from high school to college.

He was facing months of aggressive chemotherapy, as doctors worked to stop the cancer’s spread.

Still, Williams wanted to go to college. Despite his diagnosis and the wearying side-effects of the chemotherapy, he decided to enroll at UVA and continue his treatments at the UVA Medical Center.

“I wanted to go to school, to get out of the house,” Williams said. “It was tough and sort of a bad decision to try to do both at the same time, but I really wanted to just be doing something.”

For several months, Williams managed to keep up with both his classes and his treatment schedule.

Near the end of his first semester, however, worsening side-effects made that balance impossible. Williams withdrew from his classes and took a medical leave of absence to finish chemotherapy during the spring semester.

That round of treatments finally eradicated the lymphoma, freeing Williams to return to UVA with a clean bill of health. His intention of studying biology, however, was replaced by a new dream.

“After doing treatment and all of that, I did not really want to study science anymore,” he said.

Instead, Williams turned to art. He had done some art therapy during his treatments and took two drawing classes during his first summer

Sandy Williams is hard at work. back at UVA. Williams’ drawing instructor, lecturer Elizabeth Schoyer, introduced him to William Bennett, an associate professor of sculpture, and Kevin Everson, a professor of film. He enrolled in both professors’ courses in the fall, and he was hooked.

“I loved the personality of it and the passion that my professors have for it,” he said of his attraction to art.

“It was something that I could do to express myself, to talk about things, to investigate the world in a unique way, but still have an impact on the world.”

He also found that art helped him express some of the emotional turmoil that accompanied cancer diagnosis and treatment.

“Most of my work during that first year was very cathartic and reflective, talking about being sad or dreaming or whatever it was,” he said. “Being able to put that into an object, a form or a film and present it was like a weird way of talking about yourself without actually talking about yourself, or of talking about the world in a way that is not a

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VSU named as one of the Best Colleges for African Americans ESSENCE magazine recently released its listings of the nation’s top 20 “Best Colleges for African Americans” and Virginia State University is on the list.

ESSENCE partnered with Money magazine to create the list of schools in the U.S. that best serve African Americans. Their research considered data compiled by Money Magazine for its annual “Best Colleges” ranking.

The data included graduation rates, net college costs after financial aid, and graduates early-career earnings.

Virginia State University ranked 20 out of all the colleges and universities in the United States. VSU ranked 2nd for all the universities in the commonwealth of Virginia, and 6th among all HBCU’s.

In addition to the Money Magazine criteria, ESSENCE also considered the racial climate on each campus.

The top schools were found to provide black students with the

best combination of: representation, affordability, and postgrad earnings.

For each school on the list, blacks make up at least 10 percent of the student body.

“We pride ourselves in being recognized among the best Universities in the nation,” said VSU President Makola Abdullah, Ph.D. “We are a university of opportunity and excellence; this ranking acknowledges and demonstrates our commitment and success in providing excellent educational opportunities for our students.”

In describing Virginia State, ESSENCE noted that “Whether it’s high ranking for programs in criminal justice and animation or it’s recognition for the academic excellence of student–athletes, Virginia State is a public university that has great opportunities for students across the board. The school developed an emphasis on entrepreneurship and workforce development for all students.”

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Congressman’s support of afterschool activities honored The Afterschool Alliance recognized U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) for his “strong, unwavering support” for afterschool programs and the youth who participate in them.

Scott, who represents Richmond and Newport News, among other areas, was named an ‘Afterschool Hero’ at the Afterschool for All Challenge, sponsored by the Afterschool Alliance. He was presented with a hero’s cape by Kyle Brewer, who attends the After-School All-Stars afterschool program.

At the Capitol Hill showcase, afterschool students demonstrated some of the innovative activities they engage in at their afterschool programs. The showcase featured activities focused on the performing arts, literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), civic engagement, youth leadership and more.

Students from programs in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. participated.

In addition to Rep. Scott, Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Representatives Lou Barletta (R-PA), David Cicilline (D-RI) and Marcia Fudge (D-OH) were also honored as afterschool heroes.

“We have a choice: We can reduce crime and save money, or we can

Kyle Brewer (left) presents Rep. Bobby Scott with ‘hero’s cape’ for his role in supporting afterschool programs. play politics,” Scott said at the event.

“We know that from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. children start to get into trouble. But if we have something constructive [for them] to do, that can help…

We need to make sure afterschool programs are an integral part of … education.”

“The showcase offered a shining

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Stress is giving you more than gray hairs It’s the norm. You go to the doctor; they get your height, weight and check your blood pressure. And when it comes back a little high you assume it’s the fried food you ate last night or the couch time that your favorite televised sporting team demands. There’s another alternative that you may not have considered, but Dr. Debra Barksdale, professor and the associate dean of academic programs at VCU School of Nursing, has.

“Dealing with high blood pressure can be hard, because people may not have any signs or symptoms; so you’re telling someone to do something about something that doesn’t appear real to them,” said

Barksdale in a recently published piece that describes her as a “strong advocate for improved care”.

There is plenty of information out these days about the effects of bad eating habits and a lack of exercise in relation to high blood pressure.

Unfortunately, what people don’t consider are the monstrous effects of stress.

Barksdale started studying the effects of stress early on, she said.

“I remember being a young nurse practitioner and seeing a lot of young black men come in,” she said, “they didn’t come in for blood pressure, but invariably they would have high blood pressure.

“They didn’t have all the

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to partner with other artists.

“You find people, you make connections, you build a community around things,” he said. “That has been a great way to learn about Charlottesville, and it was not until I started doing that that I realized what a large, flourishing community Charlottesville has in the art world.”

Williams met many of his collaborators while working as a waiter and host at the C&O Restaurant in downtown Charlottesville; he even formed a band with some of his coworkers.

He has also exhibited his work at local galleries and worked with internationally renowned artists who have visited UVA as artists-inresidence, including sculptors Patrick Dougherty and Mark Dion.

Williams, who has been in remission for three years now, will remain at UVA after graduation as a McIntire Department of Art Aunspaugh Fifth-Year Fellow, a position that will provide him with a stipend as he continues to develop his portfolio and launch his career as an artist.

“The fellowship gives you a year to work here, get a studio space and a stipend, and work autonomously to keep building your portfolio,” he said. “I am definitely excited to stay in Charlottesville, and it will be an exciting year, I think.”

Facebook post.”

Now, Williams’ portfolio includes a wide range of sculptures, short films and other projects. His inspirations are varied – a conversation with a friend, a question that pops up as he is driving around town or a line from a Franz Kafka novel he read for an English class.

One piece was inspired by the classic philosophy question, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

To illustrate this question, Williams piled his old notebooks, sketchbooks and diaries in a cedar chest and pored molten bronze over the box, sealing it shut.

“If I put these notebooks in a box and seal it shut and no one could read them, do those ideas matter just in their existence?” he wondered.

“It plays with objects and people’s understanding of things.”

In giving form to his ideas, Williams has learned range of new skills, from welding steel or bronze casting to building a brick wall.

He has also learned the value of partnerships, whether that means calling upon Eric Schmidt, the art department’s gallery and studio technician, to teach him about woodcutting or welding, or reaching out to the Charlottesville community

Debra Barksdale traditional risk factors—they weren’t overweight. It just wasn’t adding up.”

Barksdale discovered that stress was the common factor among all of them. “This is a health disparity that is driven largely by the environment people are in, along with the pressure to succeed; either to escape the environment or maintain it,” she said.

“When you add stress on top of negative lifestyle choices that we make, they can all contribute to high blood pressure and other adverse outcomes, like stroke and heart attack.”

Barksdale’s research focuses heavily on stress and cardiovascular disease in African-Americans. Her study titled, “Hypertension in Black Americans: Environment, Behavior, and Biology,” was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

She defines stress as a physiological process.

“When our bodies get to the point that they cannot adjust or accommodate what’s happening, that’s when we see some physiological manifestations, like high blood pressure.” Quite a bit of Barksdale’s research includes a targeted focus on understanding the processes of stress. “We know that just telling people to reduce your stress, just like telling people to eat right, or telling people to exercise doesn’t work,” said Barksdale, “so

we look at hormones and patterns in relation to blood pressure and weight.”

“We also look at mechanisms of coping. There’s a phenomenon called John Henry-ism,” said Barksdale, “it’s based on the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man.” In the legend, John Henry races against a steam-powered hammer. It’s an epic display of strength, efficiency and sheer will to succeed. He wins the race, only to die with his hammer in hand, as his heart burst from the stress. “This coping mechanism is known as Chronic Active Coping and a lot of African-Americans use this,” according to Barksdale, “they are determined to succeed, even if it kills them.”

“At the end of the day, the research is good, but we need to invest in doing some of the things that we know are good and help our cardiovascular health,” said Barksdale.

The American Heart Association recommends 30 to 40 minutes of moderate aerobic activity three to four times a week. “We can do small things,” she said, “like park your car farther away when you go shopping, or take the stairs instead of the elevator.”

One of the things she recommends in the absence of equipment is to dance. “Put on your favorite music and just go for it,” said Barksdale.

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Report: The NFL tried to fund government’s concussion research to influence it EMMA COURT There are a lot of reasons the National Football League might want to influence the findings of government research into brain injuries.

A new congressional staff report found that the league did exactly that when it donated $30 million to the National Institutes of Health to fund such research, then tried to meddle in the process used to choose the recipient of a $16 million grant, as well as influence the recipient who was chosen.

“In this instance, our investigation has shown that while the NFL had been publicly proclaiming its role as funder and accelerator of important research, it was privately attempting to influence that research, said the report. “The NFL attempted to use its ‘unrestricted gift’ as leverage to

steer funding away from one of its critics.”

The NFL said in a statement that it rejected the allegations in the report, saying it had raised concerns about the study and possible conflicts of interest but that they were raised “through the appropriate channels.”

“In this instance, our investigation has shown that while the NFL had been publicly proclaiming its role as funder and accelerator of important research, it was privately attempting to influence that research. The NFL attempted to use its ‘unrestricted gift’ as leverage to steer funding away from one of its critics.”

The scientist at the center of the dispute was Dr. Robert Stern at Boston University, who has been outspoken in this area and has advocated for football players in legal disputes with the NFL over brain damage. Stern got a $16 million

grant to study this subject last year, over the football league’s objections.

Some of the NFL’s Head, Neck and Spine Committee members even applied for the grant money, the report said, citing a February ESPN investigation.

The NFL’s research donation was made back in 2012. Though the group touted it as “unrestricted,” once the NIH decided their concerns with Stern were unfounded, the NFL took back the money in question, the ESPN investigation found, with the research instead being funded by taxpayer dollars.

The NFL said that it had committed $30 million, $12 million of which has already been committed to two studies.

“The NFL is deeply committed to continuing to accelerate scientific research and advancements in this critical area, and we stand ready to support additional independent

research to that end,” the NFL’s spokesman Brian McCarthy noted.

He also said the league found it “deeply disappointing” that the report made accusations towards members of the Head, Neck and Spine Committee without speaking to the members themselves. But the report, put out by the Democratic Committee staff, placed blame squarely on the NFL. “The NFL’s interaction with NIH and approach to funding the BU study fit a long-standing pattern of attempts to influence the scientific understanding of the consequences of repeated head trauma,” the report said, saying those efforts date back to the 1990s.

Ultimately, despite the football league’s best attempts, “NIH leadership maintained the integrity of the science and the grant review process,” the report found.

Hundreds of males from around the country go to Washington D.C. for Black Youth Vote Hill Day More than 400 black men and boys attended the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP)'s program, Black Youth Vote 2016 BYV! Day on Capitol Hill under the theme,”Moving From Protest to Policy to the Polls!”.

The youth from all over the country attended a forum on Capitol Hill which includes speakers such as NCBCP President and CEO Melanie L. Campbell, BYV! Hill Day national coordinator Rev. Tony Lee and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO). They then paid visits to several members of Congress to discuss issues of importance including, jobs, education, criminal justice reform, fatherhood and voting rights. The organization notes that it has placed the importance of increasing incentives and support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to attract more black male teachers and educators on its list of priorities.

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A community council formed to represent descendants of the people whose remains were found in a 19th century well during construction on Virginia Commonwealth University’s medical campus will discuss their recommendations for the best way to honor those remains at a meeting.

The Family Representative Council will share reflections on their learning experience and work process in a community conversation with the East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee in the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Gymnasium, 1000 Mosby St., Richmond. The public is invited to attend.

The East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee, consisting of community and university members, was established in 2013 to select an appropriate decision-making body to help determine what happens to human remains found in a 19th-century well in 1994 during the construction of the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building on VCU’s medical campus. Visit East Marshall Street Well Project for more information.

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The Chesterfield County Public Library will host the Chesterfield Maker Expo 2016—a family-friendly event that will include a variety of makers. The vendors will create or demonstrate everything from robots to printmaking, coding and crafts.

Maker Expo is on Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Central Library, 9501 Lori Rd. The library’s 3-D printers and other high-tech equipment will be part of the Expo. The technology is part of the library’s makerspace—a creative area located in the Central Library. The space provides handson opportunities for collaboration, creating, inventing and learning.

Middle and high school students have used the makerspace to build mechanical hands, some of which were donated to children in need of prosthetic limbs.

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Verizon, unions reach agreement to end strike, feds say

Secretary Thomas Perez WIRE One of the largest work stoppages in recent American history has apparently come to a close, according to the Department of Labor.

Verizon and the unions representing almost 40,000 of its striking workers have reached a tentative agreement to end one of the largest labor disputes in modern American history, according to a high-ranking federal official.

Verizon’s striking employees are expected to be back on the job this week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said in a statement Friday.

The affected workers, members

of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), have been striking since April 13.

“I am pleased to announce that the parties have reached an agreement in principle on a four-year contract, resolving the open issues in the ongoing labor dispute between

Verizon’s workers, unions, and management. The parties are now working to reduce the agreement to writing, after which the proposal will be submitted to CWA and IBEW union members for ratification,” said Perez.

“Throughout the past 13 days of negotiations at the Department of Labor, I have observed firsthand

the parties’ good faith commitment to narrowing differences and forging an agreement that helps workers and the company,” said Perez. “The parties have a shared interest in the success of Verizon and its dedicated workforce. Indeed, these two interests are inextricably intertwined.”

Va. college professor charged with assault on students A math professor at Northern Virginia Community College has been charged by Prince William County Police with sexual assault after two separate students at the Manassas campus accused him of rape.

Youssef Taleb, 27, was charged with rape, object sexual penetration and two counts of sexual battery on May 5, after both alleged victims submitted arrest affidavits.

In the affidavits, one student told school police that Taleb had sexually assaulted her on May 3 after taking her into a conference room to help

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her with classwork and that he had also raped her on March 22. The other woman, who also made a report on May 5, alleged that Taleb sexually battered her earlier in the semester.

The accusers were not in the same class and were not acquainted with one another, police said.

Prince William County Police have searched Taleb’s Fairfax County home and taken clothing, a cellphone, documents and photos in hopes of finding evidence of a sex crime.

Taleb was hired last August to teach at the Manassas campus and was fired on May 12, one week after

the accusations were reported to police. He is now being held in Prince William County jail.

The college said it has alerted students and staff about the incident and have new concerns about safety.

“It’s very shocking because I actually just had him this spring and he was very professional and very supportive in class, so it was very shocking to find out he’s involved in this,” NVCC student Jeannette Amya told the Washington NBC affiliate. “I would never guess to see it coming.”

Taleb’s attorney has not yet responded to the press.

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