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WEDNESDAYS • Aug. 8, 2018

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Why do white nationalists love Corey Stewart?

WOODBRIDGE — Corey Stewart stands at the end of a long driveway that leads back in time, to his 18th century plantation manor hidden in woods behind a modern housing development. Stewart, the Republican Senate nominee from Virginia, treats the brick home like a living museum, complete with buttons from Redcoats, a Civil War soldier’s belt buckle and a room dedicated to George and Martha Washington, who were once visitors.

Both Stewart and his opponent, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, were born in Minnesota, which makes it all the more unusual that Stewart has styled himself as a champion of the Confederacy and its statues, and, as he puts it, “taking back our heritage.”

This has made him a popular figure with white nationalists, much to the horror of many Virginia Republicans.

While Stewart has disavowed some on the extreme right, interviews with dozens of his friends, colleagues, supporters and fellow Republicans yielded a portrait of a political opportunist eager to engage the coarsest racial fringes of his party to advance his Trumpian appeal.

Some white nationalists volunteer for Stewart’s campaign, and several of his aides and advisers have used racist or anti-Muslim language, or maintained links to outspoken racists like Jason Kessler, the organizer of last year’s violent rally in Charlottesville Stewart has not distanced himself from those aides.

For mainstream Republicans in Virginia and nationwide, a profound political dilemma of the Trump era is whether to support the growing number of candidates like Stewart who make racially divisive remarks — particularly about immigrants — and back causes that are championed by white nationalists. President Donald Trump’s own language and policies have energized Stewart and other far-right candidates, and Trump has high approval ratings from Republicans, but it is not clear how many rank-and-file voters will embrace like-minded politicians like Stewart.

Trump has enthusiastically

Corey Stewart said he sees virtue in being provocative. PHOTO: Jason Lappa endorsed Stewart — tweeting in June: “Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!”— and the candidate is comfortable defending the president’s most controversial comments. Sitting in the living room of the historic brick home he bought in 2012, Stewart praised Trump’s statement that there were “very fine people on both sides” at the Unite the Right white nationalist protests in Charlottesville last August.

“I don’t think he said anything bad there,” Stewart, 50, said during a 90-minute interview last month. “In fact I was one of the few people in the country that actually said pretty much the same thing.”

He does not accept that slavery was at the heart of the Civil War. “We can debate about the causes of the Civil War,” he said, adding, “But the causes of it were much more complex” than only slavery.

“The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.”

He said the term “white supremacist” was a concoction of the left.

“This term they literally resurrected, ‘white supremacist,’ which hadn’t been used in 100 years,

or whatever it was,” he said, adding that “there’s clearly a coordinated effort to — because they know the term ‘racist’ has been overused — they’ve come up with another one which is ‘white supremacist,’ an equally ridiculous term.”

“I don’t have a racist bone in my body,” Stewart said during a recent appearance. “Not one. I challenge anybody to find a single racist statement that I’ve ever made.”

In an extraordinary sign of discomfort with Stewart, some Republicans have been eager behind the scenes to provide opposition research aimed at discrediting him, with disaffected party members circulating racially inflammatory tweets and Facebook postings authored by one of Stewart’s advisers.

Shaun Kenney, former state party executive director, lamented that “the alt-right has taken over the Virginia Republican Party.” After Stewart secured the nomination in June, John C. Whitbeck, Jr., the party chairman who once accused Stewart of “racist” language, resigned.

But many Republican leaders haven’t publicly disavowed Stewart, mindful that Trump is supporting him, and that the president has strong influence with the party base — many of whom supported Stewart in the primary.

Virginia has not elected a Republican statewide since 2009 and voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump in 2016. With its strong economy and elite public university system, Virginia has become a symbol of Southern moderation and tolerance, but the far right sees an ally in Stewart who will push back against the leftward drift and demographic changes underway in the state.

For his part, Stewart said he sees virtue in being provocative.

“I think you need to be edgy,” he said.

“Controversy is not necessarily a bad thing, because it does give you more media attention and that’s necessary, especially when you’re in a position like mine,” said Stewart, who is running well behind Kaine

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109th NAACP Annual Convention closes with call to vote and to increase millennial engagement LAUREN POTEAT Thousands of people from across the country gathered in San Antonio, Texas for the 109th Annual NAACP Convention.

The daring theme of this year’s convention (“Stop Hate, Vote”) was right on target, given that the 2018 midterm elections are just a few months away. Panels and breakout sessions also focused on social justice and civil rights in the Trump Era, conversations that NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson deemed “highly necessary.”

“As we begin to look at the critical landscape—with the increase in intolerance and hatred—we realize that the 2016 elections resulted in a new level of boldness for racists to display their racism,” Johnson said.

“The only way to counter that is to vote…Vote on the midterm elections, so that we can hold elected officials accountable and make sure that they implement positive change.”

The convention also included a diverse career fair, educational seminars, workshops on public

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NAACP President Derrick Johnson speaks at the civil right organization’s annual convention in San Antonio. policy, and a special hip-hop summit.

Johnson also spoke about the importance of millennials and their community and political engagement.

“Millennials should understand that their role in democracy is the same as everyone else’s,” Johnson said. “We are African Americans first and we owe it to our communities to use all of the tools necessary to better impact our society.”

Championing this effort, NAACP Chairman Leon W. Russell shared his own ideas during his annual convention address.

“In this new era of xenophobia, neo-Nazism, White nationalism, and current efforts to take our nation back to a darker and more dangerous time, I have come to San Antonio, Texas to say to the NAACP and our allies, ‘the time has come to defeat hate.’

“We call on voters, especially millennials of color, to stand against the face of bigotry and divisiveness.”

Acknowledging that nearly 63 million Americans voted for the current president and that black voter turnout declined, Russell still expressed hope for the future.

“Our hope is to vote out the hate and

we need everyone to vote,” said Russell.

The NAACP also honored Willie Brown, San Francisco’s first black mayor, with the “Spingarn Medal,” the organization’s most prestigious award; the award was in recognition of his years of civil rights work and dedication to the betterment of the black community.

Former President Bill Clinton presented the award to Brown and paid tribute to the civil rights activist. Brown said that the Spingarn Medal represented his dedication to public service and the community.

Dozens of millennials attended this year’s convention, much to the pleasure of former NAACP President and current National Newspaper Publishers Association President Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. “The NAACP is just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago,” Dr. Chavis said. “The potential that the organization has with these millennials is even greater. The NAACP literally has the opportunity to embrace these young lives and thus be embraced, to create an even better, bolder organization for the lives of all people.”

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(from page 1) in the polls as well as fundraising. “I can’t self-finance my race. And I don’t have the support of the establishment.

So I have to be my own guy.”

‘I wanted more’ Even as a teenager growing up in Duluth, Stewart was known for his ambition.

“I had many kinds of debaters,” his high school debate coach, Jack Armstrong said. “Corey was a street smart debater,” he said, adding, “by the time he was a senior he was ranking with some of the best in the state.”

He came from a family of Democrats.

His father was a longshoreman who couldn’t vote because of a felony conviction, Stewart said, adding it was “probably manslaughter” stemming from a fatal car accident.

The younger Stewart was the first in his family to graduate from college, initially attending St. Olaf College in Minnesota, then transferring to Georgetown.

“I wanted more,” he said. “Nothing wrong with it, but I just wanted to see more.”

He eventually became an international trade lawyer and moved to Virginia, working at Foley & Lardner, a prominent firm. In 2006 he was elected chairman of the Prince William County Board, a county outside Washington, D.C., that has become majority minority in recent years.

In his politics, Stewart embraced expediency over ideology. He was initially anti-development, riding concerns about the pace of growth, then later allied with developers. Amid the county’s shifting demographics — its Hispanic population tripled rapidly — he picked up on immigration as a hot button. “I changed my focus to address what people were telling me their concerns were,” he said. “That’s how you get elected.”

Prince William County began questioning arrestees about their immigration status, then turning them over to federal agents.

Frank Principi, a Democrat on the board, said the county began to “detain people who did not look like us — different skin, different clothes, different language” and became known as Condado del Diablo, the devil’s county.

Many found the ease with which Stewart adopted hard-line views unsettling, starting with colleagues at work.

“Some of the partners at the firm didn’t like that very much,” Stewart said of his immigration stance, adding, “it became uncomfortable.”

He left in 2009 and began doing international trade work largely on his own. He also refashioned himself

Corey Stewart questioned why left-wing protesters shouldn’t share equal blame with white nationalists who held a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last August where one person was killed.PHOTO: Edu Bayer as a booster of the Confederacy, especially in his unsuccessful 2017 race for governor. He has appeared at the Old South Ball, an antebellumdress event in Danville, and likened his own political crusade to that of Confederate rebels.

“You’ve got this guy who is a transplant coming into Virginia trying to out-Southern folks who’ve been here for 400 years,” said Brian Schoeneman, a Fairfax Republican and former legislative candidate.

Stewart was aware of, but brushed aside, Robert E. Lee’s prophetic warning that Confederate monuments could “keep open the sores of war.”

“The monuments weren’t contentious until the left started taking them down,” Stewart said, adding that “thankfully those efforts seem to have subsided.”

He claimed that “the ones who were most vehement in terms of taking down the monuments were not black.

They were white liberals.”

But Kevin Chandler, president of the state’s NAACP., called Stewart “treasonous” for his embrace of the Confederate flag.

“It symbolizes hate. It symbolizes white supremacy,” the Rev. Chandler said. “And something such as that should not be displayed openly in the public.”

Over the years, Stewart became increasingly outspoken. He dismissed one Republican rival

as a “cuckservative” and assailed David Hogg, the teen gun control activist, as “that punk” who has “been brainwashed.” He became an ardent defender of Alabama’s Roy Moore amid allegations of sexual misconduct with underage girls. “I think they all disappeared since, didn’t they?” he said of Moore’s accusers. (They have not.)

At a board meeting this summer, one that Stewart did not attend, several speakers blamed him after Klan fliers landed on local lawns.

“This isn’t a coincidence that this happened in my neighborhood,” said Maggie Hansford, a local teacher who has decided to run for a board seat.

“Our chairman can’t stop talking about the Confederate flag.”

Stewart later issued a statement condemning the Klan.

The company he keeps A “Corey Stewart for Senate” sign flanks the gravel driveway leading to George and Donna Randall’s southern Virginia home.

An avowed secessionist, Randall is eager to explain himself, welcoming a visitor onto his porch.

“I’m a secessionist because the federal government is anti-Christian and we’re different culturally,” explained Randall, a retired heavy equipment operator whose forebears include Confederate veterans. “The government never surrendered, only the Army. We’re still under

Reconstruction.”

Interviews with Randall and his twin brother Gregory helped explain Stewart’s appeal to his die-hard supporters.

“I liked Corey because he’s a Trump supporter,” said Gregory Randall, who plays Stonewall Jackson in Civil War re-enactments, in an interview at his home in Fredericksburg.

“He’s for low taxes, he’s a big second amendment rights guy, he’s against MS-13 and all these illegal people coming here that are committing crimes.”

George and his wife Donna have helped organize “meet and greets” for Stewart. The 60-year-old brothers have been seen frequently with him and are known to provide volunteer security for Stewart at public events, a task they both confirmed, though Stewart denied it, saying “that was one of those crazy rumors.”

Both brothers took part in the Unite the Right rally and also belong to the League of the South, a Southern nationalist organization that honors John Wilkes Booth “for his service to the South” and seeks to secure “a future for white children.”

Gregory was asked about antiSemitic chanting that took place at the rally.

“The only thing that I think I heard somebody say was that ‘Jews will not replace us,’” said Randall. “Wow, is that killing somebody?”

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Virginia launches first program to connect emergency rooms statewide WHSV — Virginia has launched a new program connecting all emergency rooms to a new program designed to streamline and speed up doctors’ access to patient information.

Officials said the Emergency Department Care Coordination Program is the first of its kind in the country.

It’s a single, statewide technology solution connecting all emergency departments in Virginia, which will be used to provide near real-time communication from department to department, allowing collaboration between health care providers, health plans, and clinical and care management personnel.

Gov. Ralph Northam said at a news conference last week that the program is a “huge step in the right direction.” Northam, a pediatric neurologist, said the program will give doctors the tools to improve care while cutting unnecessary costs.

“Virginia continues to be at the forefront of health care innovation, and the ED Care Coordination Program marks an important step forward in making sure Virginians in every part of the Commonwealth have access to the highest quality of care,” said Northam. “With this secure technology, we can provide emergency medical personnel with access to a patient’s critical medical information in a timely way, which will increase effective and efficient care, avoid duplicative tests, reduce

unnecessary costs, and improve health outcomes.”

The program will incorporate the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program and Advance Healthcare Directive Registry to give doctors real-time information about patients drug history and their preferences for end-of-life care.

The General Assembly established

the program within the Virginia Department of Health in 2017, and extensive collaboration since then has helped make the new system possible.

Next steps include the participation of the State Employee Health Plan and all non-ERISA commercial and Medicare health plans operating in the commonwealth by June 30, 2019.

Additionally, the EDCC program will

expand to include other downstream providers, including primary care physicians, case managers, nursing homes, community service boards, private behavioral health providers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), who will have the ability to use the technology solution to receive alerts and contribute to patients’ care coordination.

VCU to lead evaluation of Virginia Medicaid expansion

health systems.”

Cunningham will lead the evaluation with Andrew Barnes, Ph.D., also from the Department of Health Behavior and Policy, and Alex Krist, M.D., from the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health.

The evaluation team will assist the Department of Medical Assistance Services with the development of online dashboards that will track key measures of Medicaid enrollment, utilization of services, and treatment for certain conditions, including behavioral health and addiction disorders. “Tracking key measurements of coverage and access in real time is crucial for informing policymakers and the public on Medicaid expansion progress,” Barnes said.

The evaluation will include assessing the impact of Medicaid expansion on health systems. A particular focus will be the capacity of the primary care and behavioral

health system to accommodate the expected increase in demand for care from Medicaid expansion.

“We already know there are shortages of primary care and behavioral health care providers in some parts of the state, so it will be important to assess whether providers are ready for Medicaid expansion and to advise the state on the steps they should take to increase capacity,” Krist said.

In addition to evaluating Medicaid expansion in the state, VCU is leading evaluation of two Medicaid programs — Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services and Commonwealth Coordinated Care Plus.

“Through the Medicaid expansion evaluation project and others, VCU has developed a strong partnership with the state that demonstrates our leadership in informing policymakers and legislators on crucial health and health policy issues,” Buckley said.

The Department of Medical Assistance Services has selected a team of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine faculty members to lead a multiyear evaluation of Medicaid expansion in the state. In June, Virginia expanded Medicaid coverage for up to 400,000 low-income Virginians.

“Leading the evaluation of this landmark state health policy is an acknowledgement of VCU’s multidisciplinary expertise in health care policy and clinical care research, and it supports our core mission of being of service to communities across the commonwealth,” said Peter Buckley, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine.

Through the analysis of Medicaid

claims data, patient surveys, and other state and national data sources, VCU faculty members will assess changes in health insurance coverage, access to care, and diagnoses and treatment of chronic medical and behavioral health conditions among patients following the expansion.

“The 2018 Medicaid expansion was the largest expansion of health insurance coverage in Virginia’s history,” said Peter Cunningham, Ph.D., professor in the VCU School of Medicine’s Department of Health Behavior and Policy. “We are wellpositioned to assess and document the profound impact that the expansion will have to health care access for Virginians, and on Virginia

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Free deaf & hard of hearing effective communication emergency kit To communicate with individuals that are deaf and hard of hearing in an emergency situation can be challenging if not prepared.

Therefore, Here2Hear, a local 501(c)3 organization, has developed an emergency kit that will address communication needs when in an emergency situation. This kit will include items such as an emergency communication wallet and car visor card, emergency bracelet, flash lights, Text to 911 information and more.

Here2Hear will provide free effective communication emergency kits for Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals at one of the following distribution locations: • Saturday, Aug. 25: Virginia Depart. For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 1602 Rolling Hills Dr # 203, Richmond; 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Saturday, Sept. 22: Petersburg Freedom Support Center, 32 W Washington St, Petersburg, 10 a.m.

– 1 p.m.

• Saturday, Oct. 13: Richmond Fire Department Head Quarters, 201 E Franklin St, Richmond; 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

• Saturday, Nov. 3: Chesterfield County Health Department, 57 Lucy Corr Circle, Chesterfield; 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Each kit distribution event is free and open to the public. Each event will include vendors, and Question and Answer sessions regarding emergency preparedness. There will be a session that will include a panel of first emergency responders from each locality that will address questions from attendees.

Individuals must show proof of Virginia residency and hearing loss at the distribution event to receive a free kit.

Kits will be provided to those individuals that register prior to the event by visiting us online at here2hear.org, calling (804) 774-8311 or sending an email here2_hear@aol.com. Sign language interpreters will be available as well as light refreshments.

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County Health Department offering appointments for school physicals, immunizations The Henrico County Health Department is offering appointments for school physical exams and backto-school immunizations in August.

Students in preschool through fifth grade can get physicals performed on Aug. 9 and 16. Immunizations will be offered Aug. 27, 29 and 31 to students in preschool through 12th grade. Services on these days are by appointment and will be at the Henrico County Health Department’s West Clinic at 8600 Powers Drive.

If needed, immunizations required for school attendance can be given during physicals. The immunization

clinics will offer students the Tdap vaccine, which can protect against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, as well as the vaccine for HPV, which can protect against cancers caused by human papillomavirus. The Tdap vaccine, a booster, is required for school attendance.

Students younger than 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, with a photo ID. Students getting vaccinated should bring immunization records, if available.

If a participating student has health insurance, the accompanying parent or guardian should bring insurance or Medicaid cards. There is no

Henrico residency requirement for the appointments. There will be no out-of-pocket costs to participating families for school-required immunizations. For physicals, uninsured or underinsured Medicaid clients (eligibility group A) will have no out-of-pocket costs. Other Medicaid clients or clients with other insurance may be charged a percentage of the cost for physicals.

School physical exams are by appointment only at Henrico County Health Department West Clinic, 8600 Powers Drive, Henrico, Va. To make an appointment, call 804-5014651.

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Op/Ed & Letters

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When white people get welfare nobody seems to notice: Why then are black people targeted?

BILL FLETCHER, JR I was in the car when I heard the news that President Donald Trump was proposing to provide $12 billion in assistance to farmers, who may be hurt by his tariffs—I almost ran off of the road.

It sounded like ‘welfare’ to me.

Republican farmers are getting very upset about the tariffs and so they should. The Trump administration seems to know little about the economy and quite curiously, suggested that trade wars were easily won. I am not quite sure what history books the administration has been reading.

However, the piece that was the most striking for me, was that the administration was providing assistance, that in other circumstances, would be considered welfare.

Yes, that “ugly” word that supposedly suggests that people are getting something for nothing. After all, we have been told, time and again—especially since the Reagan era—that we should put our hopes in the market and let things take care of themselves.

Well, Trump wants to adjust the market. Using the logic that has battered black America for decades, he should simply let the white, republican farmers, fend for themselves (and yes, white farmers, since only 1.4 percent of USA farmers are black).

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Let the market take care of them. If they fail, well, as the bumper sticker says, “things happen,” right? I mean, that’s what black America has been told time and again.

We are periodically reminded that when it is politically convenient, circumstances can be arranged such that white people “respectfully” receive assistance from governmental bodies, but that such assistance should not be considered ‘welfare.’

The fact that 43 percent of recipients of Medicaid are white, never seems to be discussed—43 percent! What’s more, 36.2 percent of those receiving food stamps are also white, which again, never appears to be discussed.

Yet, whenever the word ‘welfare’ or the term ‘government assistance’ are raised, a black, brown or Native American face is presented to the public and not the millions of white people who are surviving, because the government intervened.

Why is it not ‘welfare?’ Because the (white) recipients are considered by the Establishment to be legitimate citizens, who are entitled to help.

As for the rest of us, well it appears that we should eat cake, or maybe, eat nothing at all.

Fletcher is a talk show host, writer, activist and former president of TransAfrica Forum. Follow him on Twitter @BillFletcherJr, Facebook and at www.billfletcherjr.com.

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An apology to my husband’s ex-wife I had an affair with your husband, to whom I am now married, and I am so, so sorry. If there is one decision in my life I could undo, it would be this.

Because of what it did to you, because of what it’s done to me, and because it was just plain wrong.

I won’t take full responsibility for the breakdown of your marriage.

The myth of the homewrecker is just that — a myth. No one can wreck someone’s home against his will. You two wrecked your home on your own, before I ever came on the scene. And anyway, you had an affair too, so I know you understand.

However, I still owe you several apologies beyond the apology for my original sin.

I am sorry I believed the things he said about you.

He told me that you were dumb. He said it without malice or animosity — just presented it as a fact; you weren’t that smart and therefore he was bored with you.

Now I’m the stupid one; he tells me regularly. But I know I’m not stupid, and now I know that you aren’t, either. I’m sorry I didn’t challenge him when he said that you were.

He told me that you were too lazy to work, too much of a prima donna. I admit this caused me to look down on you since I’m such a worker myself, since I’ve always been self-sufficient. But I find myself calling in sick more and more these days, asking my boss if I can work from home on others.

Not because I want to spend time with him, but because I’m afraid to leave him in charge of our two children during the day (he works from home, and you know how he can snap when he’s angry, when someone irritates him or argues with him about nearly anything). Now, finally, it occurs to me that you may have wanted very much to work — especially since it could have been your ticket away from him — but you had three young children you probably (wisely) did not want to leave in his care. I’m sorry that you were in that situation. You must have felt so trapped.

He told me that you were selfish, that you didn’t “get” him, that you didn’t care about what he needed from you. I now understand that there is no caring in the world that is great enough to accommodate his needs.

They are endless, and they are very, very important. I’m sorry that your needs were probably never met, and I sincerely hope you are now with someone who meets them.

I am sorry I ever believed any of these things. I am sorry I was even there to hear the words. I am sorry that I didn’t shut them down the second I did.

I am sorry if you ever still miss him. I hope you don’t find it patronizing for me to assure you that you are too good for him, that you were always too good for him, and that you are (continued on page 7) better off without him.

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P.T. Hoffsteader, Esq.

Avoid colon cancer

I had my fourth colonoscopy recently. The best part of the procedure is when it’s over.

Honestly, it’s not that big of a deal but it’s always easier to say that when it’s over!

When I was in my gown five minutes before the test I thought about the inconvenience of the colonoscopy but then quickly remembered the inconvenience of colon cancer.

My father was 60 when he was told that the large mass inside his colon was cancer.

Under the instruction of our family doctor Bob Hall in Paintsville, Kentucky he underwent surgery to remove a large section of his colon that also resulted in a colostomy in the right side of his stomach. He would wear a bag on his side for three months. I vividly remember the pain and sickness of that surgery in 1980. Three months later the doctor did another extensive surgery and reconnected his colon. Seemed to me he was sicker after that surgery than the one before. Eventually he regained normalcy once again, never had radiation or chemotherapy and lived 25 more years. He was one of the lucky ones. He had one really bad sick year but he lived.

My mother in law had colon cancer and had most of her colon removed in her forties. She spent the rest of her life with a stoma. A stoma is where a section of the bowel is brought out through the stomach area. However, she didn’t wear a pouch but irrigated her colon every other day. It was

one awful surgery but she lived forty more plus very active years of life.

A high school friend not long ago went to the doctor and found out he had stage four colon cancer. He couldn't beat it and died recently. A dear minister friend at the peak of his ministry in his early 50s found out he had colon cancer. He fought it hard but it didn’t take long and he soon died.

Something will take us all out. We are all going to die. My dad used to say; “None of us will get out of this world alive.” This is a true statement.

However, a colonoscopy is not that big of a deal. The routine procedure, two hours at the hospital might prevent you from having your colon cut out. Now, that would be good, right? Or, maybe it might prevent you from dying in your 60s or even 50s or late 40s. It happens a lot.

I had my first colonoscopy at the age of 50 and they cut out three polyps. If I had never had that procedure done I would probably be dead by now from colon cancer. I had another one three years later.

Another one five years after that and came out with four large polyps and one looked very precancerous. Thus, recently three years after the last one I had my fourth and for the first time ever the doctor told me I had no polyps in my colon. Hallelujah! I was so glad. I’ve been eating daily fruits and vegetables. Going for the broccoli, the asparagus, fruit, peppers, etc. I'm convinced fruit and vegetables are the ticket. I would recommend you make fruit and vegetable a part of your daily life. If you remember, they told us this stuff in health class in elementary school.

It’s true.

The day before your procedure you will have to drink some nasty tasting stuff. At least I did. I was allowed to eat a little bit as late as 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Very little but I didn’t starve by any means. Two o’clock in the morning I was drinking more nasty stuff. Plus I drank about a

gallon of water to flush the nasty tasting stuff down. From about 2 a.m. in the morning until 4:30 a.m. I was in the bathroom almost constantly.

At 6:30 a.m. I was at the outpatient center of the hospital. The people were great and explained everything.

By 7:45 a.m. I was receiving propofol, which puts you to sleep almost instantly. By 8:45 a.m. I was leaving the hospital with my good news of no polyps. My wife had to drive. You must have a driver with you. By 9:30 a.m. I was having a Greek omelet and four large pancakes. I felt like I had earned every bite.

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in America. Over 50,000 people die from colon cancer every year. Let’s all get routine colonoscopies and at least try to avoid dying from colon cancer.

Good luck!

Glenn Mollette

Undue punishment?

congressional Republicans doubled down on their tax scam for the rich and corporations introducing Tax Scam Round 2, which if passed, would be used as an excuse for further attacks on critical services.

But this is not the only attack on programs that support working families. Earlier this year, President Trump issued an executive order that allows states to attach work requirements to Medicaid, effectively ripping health care away from those most in need.

And now, House Republicans are also seeking to attach work requirements to SNAP benefits food stamps for hungry children and families. If enacted, this would take food away from millions of families in need.

EPI just released a new report which shows that work requirements do nothing to raise employment.

Instead they harm working people struggling to carve out a living in low-paying jobs with often-erratic work schedules.

With no help from Republicans

in Congress or President Trump, the economy continues to slowly improve along many margins, but it is still not providing stable, decent employment with standard hours and employer-provided health insurance to all working-class people.

SNAP and Medicaid help ensure that all families have access to decent nutrition and health care, which are crucial supports to work, not barriers. Help us fight Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ work requirements, which are nothing more than an attack on low-income families.

Josh Bivens

(from page 6) For what it’s worth, and I’ve never met you so I don’t know where you stand on karma or schadenfreude or revenge, I can assure you that I am paying dearly for my betrayal of you, for my own moral weakness and my selfishness.

Also for what it’s worth, I can tell you that he now compares me unfavorably to you, the way he used to compare you unfavorably to me; this is what men like him do — I understand that now.

I am sorry for myself, for what I’ve let him do to my life. I know I have no right to be, but I am. I don’t know how I’m going to weather him, and in some ways I know I deserve all this.

He told me recently that you have found someone new, that you are getting married. He scoffed at this, of course, muttered something about “the poor guy.” I turned away from him before I smiled, for you.

Ironically, it’s now you — the one over whom I’ve felt guilt-ridden and regretful and maybe even pitied— it’s you who’s become my hero and my hope.

Maggie Haukka

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Faith & Religion

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Houses of worship mobilize for back-to-school time

Volunteers organize supplies during an event with the Islamic Circle of North America's back-to-school drive. PHOTO: Shahid Farooqi RNS — On a recent weekend, Pamela Jennings brought her 7-year-old granddaughter, Amara, and 4-year-old grandson, Trend, to People’s Church, an evangelical congregation. But though Jennings is a Christian, the family didn’t come for worship.

Instead, they were drawn by the church’s Day of Hope — an annual Saturday event where volunteers give away 3,200 backpacks filled with school supplies and offer free services such as medical exams and haircuts.

“It’s just awesome because some people really can’t afford to get school supplies or get a haircut,” Jennings said. “This is a real blessing for a lot of people.”

From the National Council of Jewish Women in Southfield, Mich., to the Islamic Center of Northridge, Calif., religious groups nationwide organize back-to-school events in the late summer and early fall to serve needy families.

Christy Watson, communications director for the Oklahoma State School Boards Association, said she has noticed a definite uptick in engagement between houses of worship and public schools throughout Oklahoma. Since much of the activity occurs at the grassroots level, though, it’s difficult to quantify, Watson said.

Houses of worship and schools “are both places people turn to and gather at in times of celebration and need,” she said. “So it makes a lot of sense that they would join forces to serve

their communities.”

The Oklahoma State School Boards Association gives an annual award for outstanding community partners, and each year, school districts nominate faith groups, Watson said.

Emmaus Baptist Church, in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, has received the award. The Southern Baptist congregation not only buys school supplies and provides mentors for students, Watson noted. It also served as a temporary school location for an entire year after a tornado devastated the community.

“I don’t have any baseline data, so I’m reluctant to claim there is a trend of any sort,” said Lallie Lloyd, director of All Our Children, a national network that promotes church-school partnerships as a way to address social justice. “However, our organization was formed because we noticed that these ministries were emerging.”

Lloyd, whose organization is affiliated with the Episcopal Church, said church-school partnerships typically have two purposes. “One is to provide direct services to the children … and that’s where the school supplies would come in,” she said.

“But the second purpose, and really the motivating aspiration and dream behind All Our Children, is taking a more systemic approach to the realities of educational inequity.”

According to the National Retail Federation, families with children in elementary through high school will spend an average of $684.79 on back-

to-school shopping this year.

But for the poor, buying crayons and pencils, much less shoes and jackets, can be a major financial burden, which has inspired many houses of worship nationwide to get involved, said leaders of faith groups doing back-to-school work.

“Islam teaches that you cannot just sleep at night if your neighbor is hungry next door,” said Wassalam Shahid Farooqi, national coordinator for Islamic Circle of North America’s back-to-school drive. That principle applies to children who need school supplies, Farooqi said.

This year, the ICNA drive is distributing 50,000 backpacks in 34 states. Both numbers have increased every year since the project’s launch six years ago, he said. The Northridge, Calif., mosque is among the participants.

Sandi Matz, co-president of the National Council of Jewish Women in Southfield, Mich., said her organization aims to help women, children and families.

Before school starts, the group will welcome 600 Detroit schoolchildren to a shopping spree, Matz said. “They will come and shop — but they don’t pay — for a complete set of clothing, jacket, hats, mittens, pants, shirt, shoes, underwear and a backpack that will be filled with supplies and a book.”

Some of the children never have owned a new pair of socks and light up at how soft they feel, she said, “just like you gave them the biggest candy bar in the world.”

Andy Wynn, People’s Church’s director of communications, said it’s easy to forget how costly a new school year can be.

“You’ve got to get new clothes for your kids. You’ve got to get school supplies, immunizations, haircuts, shoes and things of that nature,” Wynn said. “So when you multiply that across having four or five kids, and maybe being a single parent and having only one job, it can really add up to where it’s not possible.”

In addition to school supplies, People’s Church regularly dispatches remodeling, painting and landscaping crews to public school buildings.

“It’s just another part of being part of the community … and just showing the love of Christ,” Wynn said.

At Day of Hope, bounce houses and “Veggie Tales” screenings on big screens welcomed children and parents. Volunteers wore bright red T-shirts with the message “How may I serve you?” on the front.

Member Keyona Thompson’s 3-year-old grandson, Isaac, was helping stuff the backpacks.

Thompson said she was motivated to volunteer “by that one smile, that one parent that’s struggling, that one kid that any other day wouldn’t be able to have any type of supplies.”

A fellow volunteer, La Keena Carter, agreed. “The community needs to know the church is there for them, no matter what the situation, that there’s always going to be an open door.”

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Why fewer Americans attend religious services RNS — Fewer adults are attending religious services in the United States, but not necessarily because they don’t believe.

Many cite practical or personal reasons for skipping weekly services, according to new Pew Research Center data released last week.

Most notably, nearly 4 in 10 say they simply practice their faith in other ways and remain “fairly religious by a number of measures,” according to Pew Associate Director of Research Gregory A. Smith.

For nearly 3 in 10 Americans, the reason they don’t attend religious services is because they do not share religious beliefs.

But more people say it’s because they find another outlet for their faith (37 percent) or dislike certain things about services (37 percent): They haven’t found a place of worship that they like, they don’t like the sermons at their place of worship or they don’t feel welcome.

Of those believers who rarely or never attend services, 6 in 10 identify as Christian, and 44 percent say they pray every day.

Top reasons U.S. adults give for choosing to attend or not attend religious services. Graphic courtesy Pew Research Center It’s unclear from the survey results how those respondents practice their faith instead. Smith said those who rarely or never attend services don’t seem to be joining community organizations instead.

In fact, regular attendees still are more likely to join groups like a club or charity.

The new data follows previous surveys suggesting that the number of Americans attending religious services at least once a week is dropping. According to Pew’s 2014 Religious Landscape Survey, those who say they go to church or another house of worship at least once a week fell from 39 percent in 2007 to 35 percent in 2014.

In that same period, the number who say they “seldom or never” go to church, mosque, synagogue or another service inched up, from 27 percent to 30 percent.

The recent survey shows nonetheless that many of those who don’t regularly attend services remain “at least moderately religious,” Smith noted. Nearly all (94 percent) of those who attend services at least once a month and well over half (61 percent) who rarely or never attend for reasons other than nonbelief say religion is at least somewhat important in their lives.

Of those who attend services at least once a month, most (81 percent) say they do so to grow closer to God, but they also cite giving children a moral foundation (69 percent), becoming a better person (68 percent) and receiving comfort in times of trouble or sorrow (66 percent). Ninety-one percent are Christian and 71 percent pray every day.

Pew surveyed more than 4,700 people on its American Trends Panel, recruited from telephone surveys.

Panelists participated in a selfadministered web survey between Dec. 4 and 18, 2017. The margin of error for all respondents is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points, according to Pew.

Environmental justice leaders lauded Communities in Richmond recently joined together from across the state for the first-ever celebration of women of faith fighting for environmental justice.

The roles of women and women of color have traditionally been underrepresented in the environmental movement. “We see that in Virginia and all over the nation, women, especially women of color are leading environmental social movements at the grassroots level. This celebration is to recognize all the women who have been leaders in their communities, fighting for safety, equity and justice in their communities.” said Kendyl Crawford, director, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light.

Women from northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and central Virginia were recognized. One of the Richmond awardees, Aliya Farooq, Chair of the Refugee Committee of the Islamic Center of Virginia, said “Women are the backbone of our society. We have the power to create change within our personal, family and community life. It’s time for us to take the lead on climate justice and save our dying planet”. The event centered women’s experiences and engagement with the climate crisis.

Kidest Gebre, University of Richmond student, said, “I grew up in Ethiopia and moved to Washington, DC eight years ago.

Growing up in Ethiopia, I was exposed to the dangers of climate

change early on. I grew up with droughts and food shortages being a regular occurrence and never thought about climate change as the culprit.

However, I never thought to connect my two experiences. I know now that it’s no coincidence that poor people of color in the U.S as well as globally are the ones that suffer the most from the consequences of climate change.”

Awardees also emphasized the connection between the environment and health. “Our health is our wealth. Without our health, our quality of life and socio-economic advancement is at risk!! The civil rights implications of environmental and climate injustices are innumerable, and we must work together to find sustainable growth and energy solutions while improving our quality of life and health” said Karen Campblin, chair AICP, Virginia State Conference NAACP, Environmental and Climate Justice Committee.

Leaders called for Gov. Ralph Northam to prioritize addressing environmental justice issues around the state, such as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and compressor station in the Union neighborhood Hill in Buckingham County. They also called for the meaningful engagement of low-income communities and communities of color in the creation and monitoring of environmental safeguards.

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Man wears ‘Caucasians’ T-Shirt to ‘expose racism’ A black man who has been wearing a T-shirt with a “Caucasians” logo in New York to make fun of the Washington Redskins logo says he's stirred up some negative reactions from white people -- and he argues it has revealed the racial bias deeply ingrained in America.

According to published reports, 29-year-old Frederick Joseph, who founded the New York-based market agency We Have Stories, tweeted a photo of himself wearing the T-shirt, along with a number of stories of his interactions with people on the street. The Redskins logo is controversial for both the name and its depiction of Native Americans that many feel are racist.

“I wanted to see how people responded to the shirt — while there’s nothing derogatory about the word ‘Caucasian’, there’s a certain privilege among some white people who haven’t been challenged on certain aspects of racism,” said Joseph.

Joseph tweeted that while walking around with the shirt on, he had many interesting reactions, including an older white woman who told him wearing it was “disrespectful”.

When asked why the Redskins name and logo weren’t disrespectful to Native Americans, Joseph said she responded, “because that’s the logo!"

He said many people seemed to make comments to themselves or roll their eyes or have some sort of reaction -- reactions they wouldn't have to someone walking around in a Redskins shirt. And that, he says, indicates that racial bias is alive and well in America. Also, these reactions come despite the fact that neither the term caucasians nor the logo on his shirt were offensive to white people, he said.

“Basically, I was being shamed as a black person for wearing a nondisrespectful shirt with a white person logo on it,” Joseph tweeted.

“But people wear apparel and jerseys with logos depicting things such as

VCU receives $3.29m grant to study ways to improve children’s problem behaviors in elementary schools A Virginia Commonwealth University researcher has received a $3.29 million grant to test a program in Virginia and Florida elementary schools that aims to address children’s problem behaviors in the classroom.

The grant from the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education will support a study of a program called BEST in CLASS-Elementary at eight elementary schools in Richmond Public Schools and eight in Alachua County Public Schools in Florida over four years.

The program — developed by Kevin S. Sutherland, Ph.D., a professor in the VCU School of Education, and Maureen A. Conroy, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Florida — trains teachers in behavioral and instructional practices that reduce students’ problem behaviors, increase positive teacher-student interactions, improve teachers’ sense of self-efficacy, enhance the quality of teacher-child relationships and improve the overall classroom environment.

“The overarching aim of BEST in CLASS is to help teachers better

meet the needs of some of our most vulnerable children and students,” said Sutherland, a professor in the Department of Counseling and Special Education and the ClarkHill Institute for Positive Youth Development in the Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences. “Through improvements in teacher-student relationships and interactions, BEST in CLASS can help improve the likelihood of students' success, both in the near term as well as in later years.”

The study will involve 192 kindergarten to second-grade teachers across the four years.

Ninety-six teachers and their students will receive BEST in CLASS training and coaching, while 96 teachers and their students will be in a business-as-usual condition. In each classroom, the study will focus on up to three students identified as being at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders, with a total of 576 students and families involved.

The prevalence of emotional and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents is estimated to be

a Native American and call them ‘redskins’... whew chile, the hypocrisy and privilege.”

“A Redskin is our fans, the Washington Redskin fan base.

It represents honor, represents respect, represents pride, hopefully winning,” said Twitter commenter Paul Bjarnason. “We already have Caucasian team names....Vikings, Fighting Irish, Cowboys, etc. The term redskin is offensive to some and outdated in this politically correct

era, but it’s usage as a team name is not intended as pejorative, quite the opposite actually. The Caucasian logo created by Joseph was expressly used with provocative intent. Personally I could care less, in fact it’s kinda funny.

Redskins owner Dan Snyder has steadfastly refused to change the name of the team over the years, even attempting to convince actual Native Americans to openly support the team, Snyder said in a 2014 ESPN interview.

between 9 percent and 16 percent of the total school population. Research has shown that students who exhibit problem behaviors early in school often fail to fully benefit from early educational experiences.

Over time, when children present problematic behaviors, their relationships and interactions with teachers get worse, and research indicates these early relationships and interactions predict later problems or successes in school, Sutherland said.

“If I'm a teacher and I've got a child in my classroom that I struggle with behaviorally, I'm less likely to ask that child questions. I'm less likely to work to keep that child engaged. I'm less likely to spend time developing a warm relationship with that child,” he said. “So that over time, that child doesn't have the same learning opportunities as other kids, in large part because of their behavior and their relationship and interactions with me as the teacher.”

BEST in CLASS identifies — with parental consent — two or three children in a classroom who are most likely to exhibit problematic behavior and then works to change their interaction patterns with the teacher.

Teachers in the program receive a BEST in CLASS manual and attend a one-day workshop. Following the training, they receive 14 weeks of individualized coaching to provide them with guidance and support in implementing the program’s

strategies.

Additionally, the program trains teachers in being culturally responsive and in listening skills, and the coaches help facilitate meetings with the students’ families.

“The focus of the intervention is not only helping the teacher improve her interactions with the students in her classroom, but also the relationships with those children's families,” Sutherland said.

The goal of BEST in CLASS is not only important for the educational success of the children with emotional or behavioral problems.

It is also important for improving the overall classroom environment, benefiting all students.

“When the teachers can improve their relationships and interactions with these two to three children per classroom and those children's problem behavior reduces and their engagement increases, which we found, the overall classroom atmosphere improves,” Sutherland said. “It has a larger impact, a broader impact on the classroom climate and classroom quality.”

A pilot study of BEST in CLASSElementary took place at three schools in Richmond last year. In that study, the researchers worked with 30 teachers and their children, with 15 teachers in a randomly assigned treatment group and the other 15 assigned to a business-asusual group.

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Planning for 11th Annual African Landing Day Honor the First Africans who arrived in English Occupied North America at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe) at the 11th annual African Landing Day Commemoration, a program being presented by Project 1619 in cooperation with the Hampton 2019 Commemorative Commission, the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation, and the National Park Service, August 24-25.

This year’s program will include a Project 1619 African Diaspora Film Festival; Annual African American Heritage Jazz Concert featuring a tribute to Reverend Ron Myers Sr. MD, jazz legends Todd Ledbetter and Herman Burney, and vocalist Karla Krump; the 8th annual World Day of Reconciliation & Healing from the Legacy of Enslavement Prayer Service; and African Landing Day Commemoration program featuring a libation, drumming, and dancers.

The events will take place at The American Theatre and Fort Monroe.

The cost for each activity varies from free to $20.

African Landing Day Commemoration 2018 Schedule Friday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m.

7th annual Project 1619 African Diaspora Film Festival Screening of the movie “I Am Not Your Negro,” a 2016 American documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, Remember this House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin’s reminiscences of civil rights leader

Medgar Evers, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King.

Adults $10 Children under 16 $5 The American Theatre 125 E. Mellen Street Hampton, VA 23663 Saturday, Aug. 25, 11:30 a.m.

Traditional African Naming Ceremony (Continental Park, Fort Monroe) Experience the traditional African Naming Ceremony performed by an African spiritual leader based on the individual’s spirit and social consciousness of their ancestry.

A name is one’s direct line to one’s history, culture, and thus to one’s psychological bearings and awareness. FREE.

Noon 8th annual Pilgrimage Prayer World Day of Reconciliation & Healing from the Legacy of Enslavement (Continental Park, Fort Monroe) All clergy, congregants and public are welcome to join in the prayer service. FREE. (Continental Park, Fort Monroe) 12:30 p.m.

Annual African Landing Day Commemoration includes Libation

by Ogunjimi; African Dancers and Drummers; Ceremony to honor the arrival and legacy of the first Enslaved African’s brought to English Occupied North America in 1619. FREE. (Continental Park, Fort

Monroe) 1:30 p.m.

Musical Mosaic, Genesis Advance Performing Arts Society, Fortresses Live, Letitia White Academy of Dance, and local youth dance groups, spoken word, and poerty.

3 p.m.

Procession to water to throw flower petals to honor ancestors and lives lost. (Continental Park, Fort Monroe); 7 p.m.

African American Heritage Jazz Concert featuring a tribute to Reverend Ron Myers Sr. MD, Founder of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation; jazz legends Todd Ledbetter and Herman Burney, Noble Jolley, Jr., with Elmer Smith, Junie McDonald, and vocalist Karla Crump. (The American Theatre, Phoebus) The American Theatre 125 E. Mellen St. Hampton Continental Park, 4 Fenwick Rd Fort Monroe, HamptoN For further information on the African Landing Day Commemoration, contact Calvin Pearson at 757/380-1319. Those looking for accommodations should contact the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina Hotel at 1-866-727-9990 or 757-727-9700. Additional information can be found at www.project1619.org.

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MC Lyte on her role as spox for NNPA’s Discover The Unexpected HBCU Journalism Program TYVAN BURNS Hip-hop pioneer MC Lyte is the national spokesperson for the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Discover The Unexpected (DTU) Journalism Fellowship program.

Her passion about education and her desire to create opportunities for HBCU students are two of the many reasons she partnered with the NNPA and Chevrolet, the program’s sponsor.

As she continues her acts of philanthropy, MC Lyte said that music and journalism are much alike, as they are both used to tell stories.

MC Lyte became great friends with Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., the president and CEO of the NNPA, through his work in hip-hop and civil rights.

When she got the call about the NNPA’s DTU program, she said that she was happy to help out; she said that representing the DTU program is a great fit.

When it comes to her philanthropic work that grew out of her music career, MC Lyte said that she always wanted to give back. That sense of altruism manifested early on in her music career with her hit single “I Cram to Understand U,” which included a strong anti-drug message, geared towards the Black community.

MC Lyte made it her responsibility to advocate for young people and to shed light on the deluge of heroin and crack cocaine that flooded her Brooklyn neighborhood in the 70’s and 80’s.

“I don’t think that I really do anything for me, per se,” MC Lyte said. “It’s about getting out there, [using] the MC Lyte name, to form partnerships with bigger entities and to gain access to resources and sharing those resources with the people who need them the most.”

Hip-hop pioneers like Salt-N-Pepa and Rakim inspired MC Lyte to partake in the music industry at such an early age. MC Lyte also vividly remembered how the Bronx-born, hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five helped to shape her storytelling rap style.

MC Lyte said that “The Message,” the Furious Five classic featuring Melly Mel, painted a picture of life in the Bronx that was very different from her life in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised. “The Message” influenced MC Lyte to gravitate towards the storytelling aspect of hip-hop. MC Lyte

From left: Tyvan Burns (Norfolk State University), Diamond Durant (Morgan State University) and Denver Lark (North Carolina A&T University) are 2018 Discover The Unexpected Journalism Fellows representing #TeamOptimistic. described “Lyte as a Rock,” her first album, as “a book of poems and short stories.”

“It was easy to get into a [creative] space and just write,” MC Lyte said. “My mother made me write an essay for whatever I wanted to do.”

MC Lyte said that young artists, who are pursuing careers in the entertainment business, should educate themselves about royalties, build a trustworthy team and seek legal advice when necessary.

“Never sign anything without counsel and always sign your own checks,” MC Lyte advised.

Reminiscing about her career in the music industry, if given the opportunity to change or do anything different, MC Lyte said that she would have said “yes” more often and been more open to trying new music genres and collaborating with unexpected artists.”

Although, MC Lyte is often credited as a pioneer in hip-hop culture, her passion to ignite change on a greater scale was alive from the very beginning.

She was one of the first female rappers to speak out against sexism and misogyny in the industry. Her voice shook up the male-dominated hip-hop scene and helped pave the way for female MC’s that followed in her footsteps, like Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott.

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Record pay out in unclaimed property

Aug. 8, 2018 • 13 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF PETITION OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF A PLAN FOR ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION GRID TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS PURSUANT TO § 56-585.1 A 6 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA CASE NO. PUR-2018-00100 On July 24, 2018, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) filed a petition with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) for approval of a plan for electric distribution grid transformation projects (“Petition”) pursuant to § 56-585.1 A 6 (“Subsection A 6”) of the Code of Virginia.

Specifically, Dominion seeks approval of the first three years (“Phase I”) of its ten-year Grid Transformation Plan (“GT Plan”). The estimated total proposed investment associated with Phase I is $816.3 million in capital investment and $101.5 million in operations and maintenance investment.

Pursuant to Subsection A 6, the Commission is required to issue its final order on the Petition within six months of the filing date.

The Company states that Phase I will focus on seven components of the overall GT Plan including: (i) smart meters; (ii) customer information platform; (iii) reliability and resilience; (iv) telecommunications infrastructure; (v) cyber and physical security; (vi) predictive analytics; and (vii) emerging technology.

The Company proposes to fully deploy smart meters and their supporting network infrastructure across its service territory, which the Company asserts is a foundational component of the GT Plan. During Phase I, the Company estimates that it will install approximately 1.4 million smart meters across its service territory.

The Company also proposes to develop and deploy a new customer information platform (“CIP”) to replace its twenty-year-old customer information system. The Company asserts that the CIP will be a framework of technologies and applications that together deliver comprehensive customer information and streamlined transactions, as well as multi-channeled engagement between Dominion and its customers.

The CIP will include, among other things, a customer information system supporting processes such as metering, billing, credit, service orders, and revenue reporting.

Aubrey Layne, left and Gov. Ralph Northam

$79m in unclaimed property returned in 2018 The Virginia Department of the Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Program returned a record $79 million in property to owners during the 2018 fiscal year, $16.6 million more than the previous highest return in 2015. Over 139,000 asset accounts were paid out during the 2018 fiscal year, representing a 77 percemt increase over the previous fiscal year. Any citizen who has had a Virginia address is encouraged to check the free search site for unclaimed property in their name.

“The primary mission of this important consumer protection law is to protect citizens’ property rights by returning property to the rightful owners,” said Governor Northam. “I am proud that our efforts on behalf of Virginia citizens have resulted in the largest amount the department has returned to beneficiaries in its history.”

Over $760 million has been paid out to Virginians since this program started in 1961. Unclaimed property can be generated in nearly every business or financial transaction with any type of organization. This can include utility deposits, customer refunds, unpaid wages, money from insurance policies, securities and investments, bank accounts, and tangible property. Property becomes unclaimed when the holder company has not had contact with the owner of the property for a specified period of time.

Virginians can easily search the State unclaimed property database by visiting www.vaMoneySearch.org. It is also important for consumers to be aware of unauthorized or unsolicited offers and make sure you are working with an authorized state representative.

“I encourage every Virginia citizen to check for any unclaimed property at least once a year. Claim forms can be downloaded immediately and submitted to the Treasury,” said Secretary of Finance Aubrey Layne.

“The owners or their legitimate heirs can claim the funds at any time; there is no statute of limitations. We proactively attempt to locate owners through newspaper advertising, a free online search, and targeted outreach efforts,” said Virginia Treasurer Manju Ganeriwala.

The Office of the Treasurer’s Unclaimed Property Program is a consumer protection initiative to benefit all citizens. No commissions or fees are charged through this free service.

The Company states that to improve reliability and resilience, the Company proposes to (i) deploy intelligent grid devices; (ii) implement operations and automated control systems; (iii) perform grid hardening activities; and (iv) implement physical security measures at certain substations. The Company also states that it proposes to deploy a foundational, forward-looking telecommunications strategy and solution as a critical and interdependent component of the GT Plan, in addition to a comprehensive strategy for predictive analytics.

The Company states that it will also monitor emerging technologies and propose investments where reasonable and prudent. As part of the Petition, the Company is proposing to begin its Smart Lighting Initiative and to deploy a streamlined net metering application process. Through the Smart Lighting Initiative, the Company states that it intends to mount intelligent grid devices on certain Company-owned streetlights.

The Company asserts that Phase I of the GT Plan is reasonable, prudent, and in the public interest, and states that it will provide benefits to customers in three primary categories: (i) increased reliability and resiliency; (ii) improved customer experience; and (iii) reduced components of cost of service.

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 November 14, 2018, 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. Any person desiring to testify as a public witness should appear at the hearing location fifteen (15) minutes prior to the starting time of the hearing and contact the Commission’s Bailiff. A public hearing will convene on November 15, 2018, at 9:30 a.m., in the same location, to receive the testimony and evidence offered by the Company, respondents, and the Commission Staff on the Company’s Petition.

The Company’s Petition and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing are available for public inspection during regular business hours at each of the Company’s business offices in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Copies also may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Sarah R. Bennett, 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.

Copies of the Petition and other documents filed in this case are also 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.

On or before November 7, 2018, any interested person wishing to comment on the Company’s Petition shall file written comments with Joel H. Peck, Clerk, State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Any interested person desiring to file comments electronically may do so on or before November 7, 2018, by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Compact disks or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2018-00100.

On or before September 11, 2018, any person or entity may participate as a respondent in this proceeding by filing a notice of participation. If not filed electronically, an original and fifteen (15) copies of the notice of participation shall be submitted to the Clerk of the Commission at the address 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. PUR-2018-00100. 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.

All documents filed with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice may be viewed at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. A printed copy of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and an official copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing in this proceeding may be obtained from the Clerk of the Commission at the address above.

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Army invention traps things that go buzz in the day Some mosquitoes aren’t merely a nuisance. They transmit serious and even deadly maladies to humans through their bites. That’s why Army entomologists invented a device that entices, traps, and then kills two types of adult female mosquitoes and their larvae.

The device is known commercially as Trap-N-Kill. The World Health Organization has recommended it to lower the risk of disease transmission by reducing mosquito populations.

Designed for outdoor use, the trap targets the mosquitoes responsible for spreading dengue and yellow fevers as well as the Zika and chikungunya viruses, among others.

Those mosquitoes –Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus – are common throughout eastern and southern portions of the United States, South America, and other parts of the world, said Tom Burroughs, chief of the Entomological Sciences Division at the U.S. Army Public Health Center, or APHC. Trap-N-Kill works by mimicking the mosquitoes’ natural breeding

sites. (Courtesy photo) Trap-N-Kill works by mimicking

the mosquitoes’ natural breeding sites.(Courtesy photo) The mosquitoes bite during daytime hours and breed in outdoor containers with standing water, including flowerpot saucers, birdbaths, and trash can lids. “They can breed in something as small as a bottlecap with a few drops of water in it,” Burroughs said.

Trap-N-Kill works by mimicking the mosquitoes’ natural breeding sites. Users place a plastic pesticide strip inside the approximately 8-inch-tall, cylinder-shaped device and then fill with water. Mosquitoes looking for a place to lay their eggs enter through a small hole in the front. The pesticide strip fatally poisons them and any larvae that hatch from the eggs, Burroughs said. The trap is reusable, but the pesticide strip should be replaced every month and a half.

It takes seven to 10 days for mosquitoes to develop from egg to adult, but Trap-N-Kill’s development cycle was significantly longer, Burroughs said. Two Army

entomologists – Brian Zeichner, from APHC’s precursor, the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine; and Michael Perich, Ph.D., with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, or WRAIR – spent more than two decades working on their invention.

Originally, it was used to monitor the type and number of mosquitoes in a specific area.

Trap-N-Kill became available to Department of Defense personnel through the military supply system starting in 2014. It’s also available through a commercial licensing agreement at civilian retail locations.

APHC and WRAIR jointly hold the patent on the device, Burroughs said.

“We encourage installations and public health staffs to use it in combination with other mosquitocontrol strategies,” Burroughs said.

“The trap reduces the amount of pesticide used and easily integrates into mosquito-management programs, and it can be removed when mosquitoes are no longer a problem.”

Study: More breast cancer patients can safely skip chemotherapy treatments A federally funded study has found that many women with the most common type of early stage breast cancer likely do not need chemotherapy after surgery. The study was presented recently at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, and simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is likely to change the way many newly diagnosed breast cancer patients are treated.

“With results of this groundbreaking study, we now can safely avoid chemotherapy in about 70 percent of patients who are diagnosed with the most common form of breast cancer,” said Kathy Albain, MD, a co-author of the study. “For countless women and their doctors, the days of uncertainty are over.”

The Trial Assigning IndividuaLized Options for Treatment (TAILORx) study involved more than 10,000

women with hormone receptor (HR)positive, HER2-negative breast cancer that had not spread to lymph nodes. The women’s tumors were tested with Oncotype DX, the brandname of a gene expression test that can help predict if some early stage (stage 1 or 2) breast cancers are likely to come back after initial treatment.

The test looks at a set of 21 genes in cancer cells from tumor biopsy samples to get a “recurrence score” between zero and 100. The higher the score, the greater the chance the cancer will come back. Previous studies have found that women with scores of 10 or lower did not need chemotherapy, while women with scores higher than 25 did benefit from chemotherapy. But for the large group of women with intermediate scores (11 to 25) and their doctors, the need for chemotherapy has been less clear.

Most women in the mid-range can avoid chemo The new study looked at the 6,711 women from the trial who fell in the mid-range of 11 to 25. The goal of the study was to find out if these women could safely skip the chemotherapy.

Following surgery, the women were randomly assigned to receive chemotherapy followed by hormone therapy, or hormone therapy alone.

The study was intended to measure invasive disease-free survival, the

proportion of women who had not died, or had their cancer return, or developed a new cancer. Results were very similar between the two groups.

Five years after treatment, the rate of invasive disease-free survival was 93.1 percent for those who had chemo and 92.8 percentfor those who did not.

Nine years after treatment, the rate of invasive disease-free survival was 84.3 percent for those who had chemo

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Herring joining suit to block 3D-printed firearms Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring is joining a lawsuit in federal court to prevent the creation of untraceable, undetectable 3D-printed guns that would skirt background check laws.

The suit, filed last week in the Western District of Washington, seeks an injunction to prevent the distribution of detailed plans for printing plastic guns using 3-D printers. Such weapons could be undetectable by metal detectors, untraceable because of a lack of a serial number, and sought out by criminals and domestic abusers who cannot legally possess a firearm or pass a background check. The company that wants to distribute the plans online does not require proof of age or proof of eligibility before allowing a customer to download the plans.

“Home-printed, untraceable, undetectable guns are just about

the worst idea I’ve ever heard,” said Herring. “We’re going to keep pressing the Trump administration to abandon this foolish plan, but in the meantime we’re also turning to

Governor announces $480k award for revitalization Newport News and the Economic Development Authority have been awarded a $480,000 Industrial Revitalization Fund grant in support of the rehabilitation of 2506 Jefferson Avenue. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced a total of $1.44 million in awards to three Virginia localities— the other awards, each totaling $480,000, went to Middlesex County and to the city of Norton.

The Newport News grant will help offset project costs associated with the rehabilitation of 2506 Jefferson Ave., which includes a complete overhaul of the interior of the building and preservation of the existing building façade. 2506, a two-story, 5,419 square-foot building, is owned by the Economic Development Authority and is the future location of the coworking space identified as a Critical Community Improvement through the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.

It is included in the Transformation Plan for the Marshall-Ridley Choice Neighborhood. The coworking space will be a location where small businesses and entrepreneurs can obtain technical assistance, attend business management workshops, and receive expert advice on various topics including business planning, industry research, accounting, and capital sources.

“Strong infrastructure is key to any successful economic strategy in the Commonwealth, and with this funding we are supporting the revitalization of vacant buildings that will bring new life, new business, and new opportunities to these communities,” said Northam.

The Industrial Revitalization Fund provides gap funding for construction projects aligned with local and regional economic development strategies and is managed by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.

the courts to help protect Virginians.”

Herring previously joined a bipartisan coalition of 21 attorneys general in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary

of State Mike Pompeo objecting to the Trump administration’s plan to allow the print-at-home gun plans to be made available online.

In the letter, Herring and his colleagues argue that publicly available information on 3-D printed weapons will enable the production of firearms that are untraceable and undetectable by magnetometers in places such as airports, government buildings and schools. Additionally, unrestricted access to this kind of information will increase illegal trafficking of weapons across state and national borders.

The posting of the print-at-home gun plans was set in motion by a recent settlement between the Trump administration and Defense Distributed, a Texas-based online company that was previously ordered by the U.S. Department of State to remove downloadable files for firearms from its website.

Fake NNFD letters seeking donations from citizens The Newport News Fire Department wants you to be aware that letters being mailed out from the Volunteer Firefighter Alliance are not from NNFD and are not associated with the department.

The letters solicit volunteers for area fire departments, as well as monetary donations. As an all professional fire and EMS department, NNFD does not recruit volunteers nor solicit donations for the department.

The departments is reminding citizens of some ways they can become involved with NNFD, including: Joining the NNFD team as a firefighter/medic recruit. The NNFD recruit hiring process is open through Aug. 17. Learn more at nnfdcareers. nnva.gov.

Serving on the Community Emergency Response Team. CERTs receive important training that allows them to help themselves, their families, neighbors, and colleagues during a disaster/emergency.

Applications are now being accepted for the next class, which starts Sept.11.

Participating in the Citizen Fire Academy. This 14-week interactive program gives participants firsthand knowledge about the fire and emergency medical services functions of the department, as well as training in first aid, CPR/AED, and use of fire extinguishers.

Helping save lives through PulsePoint. NNFD participates in this program that utilizes a mobile app to alert CPR trained citizens when someone nearby is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.

While the department does not solicit donations, members of the Citizen Fire Academy Alumni Association do solicit donations through the Virginia Peninsula Chamber Foundation to support fire department activities that are not included in the operating budget. Any unsolicited donations received by the department are placed directly in the Safe House Fund. The department notes that 100 percent of any funds received go directly to public education outreach, predominately for school age children and senior citizens.

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Join Newport News Mayor McKinley Price at TowneBank Athletic Park to play ball as part of the United States Conference of Mayors continued support of Major League Baseball’s “Play Ball” initiative.

The “Play Ball” initiative focuses on the fun nature of baseball and encourages widespread participation in related activities.

Mayors all across America are implementing the initiative throughout the summer with the goal of strengthening the connection between communities and the national pastime.

Attendees will enjoy free fun including baseball drills/contests, free hot dogs and chips, face painting, giant slide and obstacle course, Newport News Police Department and Pals activities, and a dunk tank with Price. TowneBank Athletic Park is located next to the South Morrison Family Education Center at 741 Adams Dr., Newport News. A rain date is scheduled for Aug.15.

8.10, 11 p.m.

As part of the Valentine’s “Pandemic: Richmond” exhibition, the Valentine has partnered with the American Red Cross to host a blood drive. The need for blood donations is urgent, and you can help. The Red Cross is currently down 61,000 units from expected donors and has issued an emergency call for donations.

Visit redcrossblood.org and use the sponsor code VALENTINE to sign up. If you have questions or need help scheduling an appointment, call Ashley Burch at 804-649-0711 ext. 339. All presenting donors will recieve free day-of admission to the Valentine and will be entered to win a 4-pack of King’s Dominion tickets!

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Guided bicycle tour through the trails of Petersburg National Battlefield Petersburg National Battlefield will provide a ranger-led bicycle event on Aug. 18 as part of its “Bike the Battlefield” summer cycling series. The free two-hour tour will begin at 9 a.m. at the park’s Eastern Front Unit Visitor Center parking lot beside the bike rack.

Riders should plan to arrive early to receive a safety briefing and then mount their bicycles for a six-mile roundtrip trek through parts of the battlefield where some of the heaviest fighting occurred during the Siege of Petersburg. No less than three quick stops are planned, so be ready to learn a little history and to smile for the group photo. This ride is geared towards intermediate riders comfortable on a mountain bicycle and with terrain which features wooden bridges, tree roots, loose gravel, and some hills.

If you go The Eastern Front Unit Visitor Center is located at 5001 Siege Rd. in Petersburg. Participants should dress for the weather, wear reflective cycling gear, and bring drinking water. Helmets are mandatory. If you have questions, contact Ranger Maggs Vibo by email at Margaret_Viboolsittiseri@ nps.gov or call 804-732-3531 x222.

NAMI education program The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Central Virginia will sponsor a Free Family-to-Family Education Program specifically for families of persons diagnosed with serious mental illness. The 6-week series of classes take place on Wednesday and Thursday of each week starting on Aug. 29 from 5:30 - 8 p.m., at Poplar Springs Hospital, 350 Poplar Dr, Petersburg.

The course will cover information about schizophrenia, the mood disorders (bipolar disorder and major depression), panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder; coping skills such as handling crisis and relapse; basic information about medications; listening and communication techniques; problem-solving skills; recovery and rehabilitation; and self-care around worry and stress. The curriculum has been written by an experienced family member mental health professional and the course will be taught by NAMI family member volunteers who have taken intensive training as course instructors. The co-teachers will be Sarah Smoot and Jennifer Giles.

“This course is a wonderful experience!” says program director Kathy Harkey, “It balances basic psycho-education and skill-training with emotional support, self-care and empowerment. We hope families with relatives who have a serious mental illness will take advantage of this unique opportunity.”

The course is designed specifically for parents, siblings, spouses, teenage and adult children, and significant others of persons with severe and persistent mental illness. The course is not appropriate for individuals who themselves live with one of the major mental illnesses. NAMI-CVA offers a separate course, Peer-to-Peer education, for individuals who live with one of the major mental illnesses.

The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Course is free. For more information or to register, call the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program Coordinator, Jeff Conley at 804-285-1749 or email jeff.conley@ namicentralvirginia.org.

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VCU Health will hold an educational seminar on breast cancer intervention at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in the Kelly Education Center, 1800 Lakeside Ave. The seminar, “When Less is More: Minimizing Breast Cancer Intervention” is free and open to the public, but registration is recommended.

According to experts, breast cancer is one of the most common, but most survivable, cancers in the U.S. Join Kandace McGuire, M.D., surgical oncologist and chief of breast surgery at VCU Massey Cancer Center, as she discusses the numerous developments in breast cancer research that achieve excellent outcomes while minimizing the effects that treatments have on overall health and lifestyle.

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(from page 3) “Come on, it’s a chant,” he added.

“The left chants stupid stuff all the time.”

Such associations have dogged Stewart. He called a Wisconsin Congressional candidate, Paul Nehlen, “one of my personal heroes,” long after Nehlen suggested American Muslims should be deported. Anti-Semitic rants finally prompted Stewart to disavow Nehlen.

“There’s a guy that everybody supported before we all found out that he was a lunatic,” Stewart said.

“And many people said very kind things about him, even President Trump and Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin and Laura Ingraham.”

But there are other ties.

Stewart’s press secretary also worked on Nehlen’s campaign.

Through a political action committee, so has his media adviser, Rick Shaftan, who is himself known for racially disparaging postings on social media. In an email, Shaftan called questions about his past remarks on race “absurd.”

Stewart’s associations with Kessler, the Charlottesville rally organizer, and Kessler’s ties to a Stewart aide, Brian Landrum, have raised the most serious questions.

In February 2017, during his governor’s race, Stewart appeared at a news conference with Kessler to oppose the Charlottesville City Council’s decision to remove a Robert E. Lee statue from a park.

By then, Kessler’s website included views associated with the so-called alt-right, a racist, far-right movement. During the news conference, Stewart said he had “nothing to do with that,” but accompanied Kessler to deliver a court petition. Kessler also participated in a Charlottesville rally in support of the Lee statue sponsored by Stewart, and was alongside him at another event, where Stewart said Kessler “just happened to show up.”

Stewart backed away from Kessler before Unite the Right last August.

But afterward, in a Facebook video, he questioned why left-wing protesters shouldn’t share equal blame.

One of Stewart’s paid county staff members — Landrum — has maintained ties with Kessler, according to court documents.

Landrum recently took part in a Facebook chat with about 20 people, including violent racists, planning a second Unite the Right rally later this month.

Landrum, who also worked in Stewart’s campaigns, commented

Gregory, left, and George Randall, right, are known to provide volunteer security for Corey Stewart, center, at public events. The Randalls have been linked to noted white supremacy groups. only once on the chat, on May 17, with smiley emojis and profanity.

In a July deposition in a dispute with the city over a proposed rally this month in Charlottesville, Kessler described Landrum as a friend. “Have you had discussions with him in the last couple months?”

Kessler was asked. “Yes,” he answered.

Stewart declined to comment, referring questions to Landrum, who did not return messages seeking comment. An attempt to reach him at his Woodbridge apartment resulted in a police complaint that a reporter entered his dwelling unlawfully, an allegation that has been denied.

Stewart brushed off questions about the company he keeps, and returned repeatedly in the interview to his love of his adopted state’s heritage, and his admiration for the president.

“All these attacks, on all this Kessler stuff and everything else like that, most people are just, they don’t believe it,” he said. “They are so used to the left calling Trump and other conservatives as racists and bigots.”

“I’m not going to back down from my controversial positions,” he added. “If I were to do that my base would be gone. And so my strategy is just, continue to speak the truth, even if it is controversial.” - NYT

(from page 14) and 83.3 percent for those who did not.

Rates of overall survival were also very similar between the two groups.

Five years after treatment, the rate of overall survival was 98.1 percent for those who had chemo and 98.0 percent for those who did not.

Nine years after treatment, the rate of overall survival was 93.8 percent for those who had chemo and 93.9 percent for those who did not.

“Until now, we’ve been able to recommend treatment for women with these cancers at high and low risk of recurrence, but women at intermediate risk have been uncertain about the appropriate strategy to take,” said Jeffrey Abrams, MD, a co-author of the study.

“These findings, showing no benefit from receiving chemotherapy plus hormone therapy for most patients in this intermediate-risk group, will go a long way to support oncologists and patients in decisions about the best course of treatment.”

Age as a factor Chemotherapy did appear to have some benefit in women who were age 50 or younger with a recurrence score of 16 to 25. For this age group, there were 2 percent fewer cases of cancer returning for recurrence scores between 16 to 20, and 7 percent fewer cases for scores between 21 to 25.

The authors conclude that the new findings suggest chemotherapy may be avoided in about 70 percent of women with HR-positive, HER2negative, node-negative breast cancer. They say this applies to women who are: older than age 50 and with a recurrence score of 11–25 any age with a recurrence score of zero to 10 and age 50 years or younger with a recurrence score of 11–15.

The findings suggest that chemotherapy may be considered for the remaining 30 percent of women with HR-positive, HER2-negative, node-negative breast cancer – those who are: any age with a recurrence score of 26–100 age 50 years or younger with a recurrence score of 16–25.

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