In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, December 31st, 2017 was:
CRYSTAL YOUNG
Dallas, PA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
12/25/17
Brittany Light
Jill Nauyokas
Jenifer Garza
Aaron Chambers
Alicia Johnson
Katrina Worford
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Eleazar Ruiz
Anggie Marie
Jennifer Lee Clack
Paula Rousseau
Kelly Ann Hammond
Amanda Peters
Abby Cox
Kelly Hanley
Melissa White
Betsey Riddle
Dale Fish
Sheila Carvell
Sunney Michelle Johnson
12/26/17
Siobhain Perez
April Ashcraft
Alysia Jackson
Amanda Saltsman
Christina Montes
Anna Fruzzetti-mcdearmond
Beth Cleveland
Tina Mimick
Amanda Peters
Kathy Rubio
Rondi Clark-Conn
Crystal Gipson
Jade Good
April Walrath
Katrina Worford
Amanda Rosario
Mikey Mellor
Luis Y Katie Santos
Deborah Farris
Christina Domingue
Diane Hamric
Maria Bouchard
Sheila Vives
Dawna McKnight
12/27/17
Alexis Maureen
Jenifer Garza
Kathleen Hickman
Alysia Jackson
Cheryl Hall
Amanda Peters
Alisa Jones
Althea Thomas
Sheila Carvell
Heather Jacques
Kimberly Snyder
Wayne Gallas
Holly Cajigas
Michelle R. Carlino
Marcia Cruz
Summer Brown II
Phillip Jimenez
Betsey Riddle
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Geri Rus
12/28/17
Kim Floyd
Sheila Carvell
Paula Rousseau
Betsy Riddle
Diane Hamric
Jill Nauyokas
Tina Kaiser
Jenifer Garza
Stephanie Beckwith
Carole Jacobs
Brittany Light
Kathleen Marks
Tracy Smith
Tammy Dolby
Sherry Lilly
Crystal Young
Amber Chandler
Wendy Messer-Brinnon
Mary Alice Ford
Crystal Gipson
12/29/17
Jill Nauyokas
Annette Broxton
Teena Sierson
Deborah Farris
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Nicole Blaha
Brian Fulop
Jennifer Vega
Eleazar Ruiz
Christina Montes
Kayla Hernandez
Amber Chandler
Diane Hamric
Stephanie Beckwith
Isis Sample
Joanie Waterman
Lori Capobianco
Nitasha Shank
Alicia Johnson
Tina Kaiser
12/30/17
Kathi Taylor
Deborah Farris
Dean Bruss
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Luis Y Katie Santos
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Sarah Harrison
Jenifer Garza
Jill Nauyokas
Nai Merri
Katrina Worford
Chris Maxwell
Taschia Miller
Anggie Marie
Lauren Bradley
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Kayla Hernandez
Melinda Dreier
Jennifer Leffler
Hayley Cordaro
12/31/17
Michelle Cervantes
Brittany Light
Darlene Whyte
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Isis Sample
Krissy Rouse Higgins
Mary Alice Ford
Abby Cox
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Bethany Henry
Crystal Young
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Robin Brewer Porter
Mike Adamski
Russell Henninger
Damrie Nylin-Terrell
Adaria Johnson
Nicole Banks
Patti Wolf
Anggie Marie
Paula Rousseau
Kelsey Staples
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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Two men have been arrested in the grisly murders of a same-sex couple and two children in Troy, New York. James White, 38, and Justin Mann, 24 have been charged with one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder. The victims were 36-year-old Shanta Myers, her partner 22-year-old Brandi Mell and Myers’ two children, Jeremiah, 11, and Shanise, five. Myers’ oldest son, 15-year-old Isaiah, was not home at the time of the murders.
Their bodies were discovered in their basement apartment around noon on Dec. 26th by the property manager while doing a well-being check. According to family members, the Myers family moved in with Brandi Mells following an eviction earlier this year but because of apartment’s small size, Isaiah stayed with a relative.
Mells’ cousin, Sharonda Bennett said she last spoke to Brandi on Dec. 19 to discussed holiday plans The couple were deciding between celebrating in Troy or in Paterson, New Jersey, where the Mells family lives, she said. She said that the couple became unreachable around 11 p.m. on Dec. 21st, after Mell’s mother couldn’t reach her by phone and no one answered at the apartment. Bennett said her calls to Brandi went straight to voicemail and she assumed maybe they had decided to spend Christmas in New Jersey.
Two days later, Isaiah stopped by to deliver Christmas presents to his siblings but no one answered the door, which was locked. He left for a basketball tournament, thinking they’d stepped out for a bit. After still not being able to reach them the day after Christmas, Mells’ mom called the property manager and asked the manager to see if her daughter was home. The manager found the bodies and immediately called cops.
The motives of these murders have not been revealed but Troy Police Chief James Tedesco said these victims were targeted and confirmed that the victims were killed late in the evening of Dec 21st. He called the slayings the worst “savagery” he’d ever seen in his 42-year career. Police did not detail how they caught the suspects, and a family member of one of the victims said that she had never heard of the men and knew no reason why the women and children would be targeted.
Police have said Justin Mann was “acquainted” with Brandi Mells. He said that both suspects have a criminal history and that Justin Mann was on parole. Department of Corrections records show Mann was released on parole in June 2017 after serving time for a first-degree robbery conviction in 2014. Both men, from nearby Schenectady, were apprehended without incident Friday night and arraigned Saturday. Both are being held without bail in the Rensselaer County Jail with a preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 4th.
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A fire at an underground electrical facility caused an 11 hour blackout that brought the world’s busiest airport to a standstill. The blackout at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport led to the cancellation of more than 1,500 flights and stranding tens of thousands of people in darkened terminals or on the tarmac, where some passengers sat for more than five hours on grounded planes.
The power outage began shortly after 1 p.m. leaving passengers in dim and overcrowded terminals as afternoon turned to evening. Frustrated travelers lighted their way through smoky corridors with cellphones. On Twitter, passengers reported waiting on the tarmac for more than five hours as the lack of power at the terminals made it hard to de-plane. Getting out of the terminals quickly became difficult as traffic snarled access roads and MARTA trains ran at capacity to downtown.
The train between terminals was shut down and elevators, escalators, automatic doors and baggage carousels stood still. Screens went black and the intercom for flight updates was silent. No one could get reliable phone or internet service to access texts, email, flight apps or social media. With a lack of information, travelers were too nervous to leave their spots, fearing the power might soon return at any moment and they’d lose their place in the line they were in.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed later said the fire was so intense that it damaged two substations serving the airport, including the airport’s back-up power system and prevented emergency crews from accessing the site for two to three hours. Paul Bowers, Georgia Power’s president and CEO said there was a failure in the switchgear that caused the fire and the fire was contained by 3:30pm. An estimated 30,000 people were affected by the power outage.
Delta bore the brunt of the impact, cancelling approximately 900 flights and diverting 48 more. The carrier said about 300 flights would also be cancelled on Monday, as the chaos spilled into one of the busiest air travel weeks of the year. The blackout led the Federal Aviation Administration to declare a ground stop at the airport, preventing Atlanta-bound flights in other airports from taking off and causing inbound flights to be diverted. The ground stop in Atlanta disrupted air travel across the United States.
Some power was restored just before midnight but stranded travelers were still sleeping on the floor the day after the outage. Long ticket and security lines were moving slowly as normalcy began returning to the airport Monday. Volunteers in shirts that said, “Ask Me,” tried to allay concerns and passed out doughnuts to those in line, many of whom shared horror stories about the night before.
Some travelers said airline and airport employees did their best to take care of stranded passengers, handing out blankets, beverages, even slices of pizza. Others reported a lack of communication, widespread rumors, the strong smell of fire near baggage claim and a taxi line that amounted to “pandemonium.” While some fortunate passengers were able to board the flights departing Atlanta the day after the outage, other passengers were being told they’d have to wait hours or days. One airline was telling passengers it would be five days before they could get a flight out.
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Facing mounting evidence that Puerto Rico has vastly undercounted the number of people who died because of Hurricane Maria, Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló ordered that every death on the island since the devastating storm be reviewed. Officials will look review all deaths attributed to natural causes after the hurricane, which made landfall Sept. 20 and knocked out power to 3.4 million Puerto Ricans and to their hospitals and clinics.
Roselló made the order to the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry, which is the island’s vital statistics bureau, and to the Department of Public Safety following the investigative media reports on the death toll and after residents claiming deaths of their loved ones were caused by Maria. The governor also said he’d create an expert panel to review the island’s death certification process.
The Puerto Rican government has put the official death toll at 64 but several investigations have revealed that nearly 1,000 more people died. The prolonged blackout hampered critical medical treatment for some of the island’s most vulnerable patients, including many who were bedridden or dependent on dialysis or respirators. But if they died as a result, the storm’s role in their deaths may have gone officially unrecorded.
Several news organizations, including The New York Times, conducted independent analyses and found that the number of deaths traceable to the storm was far higher than the official count. The Times’s review, based on daily mortality data from Puerto Rico’s vital statistics bureau, found that 1,052 more people than usual had died across the island in the 42 days after Maria struck. The analysis compared daily figures for 2017 with an average of figures for the corresponding days in 2015 and 2016.
The leading causes of death on the island in September were diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, Puerto Rican government data show. There was a sharp 50 percent spike in the number of recorded deaths from sepsis, a complication of severe infection that can be tied to delayed medical care or poor living conditions. Reports emerged of people being unable to use oxygen and dialysis equipment, unable to refrigerate insulin, evacuated from hospitals that lost emergency power and other problems.
Reviewing the circumstances surrounding each death will require interviewing family members and doctors who signed death certificates to find out if, for example, a heart attack might have been brought on by stress from the hurricane, or might have been fatal because an ambulance could not get through debris-blocked streets in time to help.
The governor’s announcement comes as the Center for Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico reported that nearly three months since the storm, 45 people are still listed as missing and efforts by Puerto Rico’s police to locate them have been minimal or almost nonexistent. Parts of the island are still without power leaving many to celebrate Christmas in the dark. The power grid is only operating at 70 percent of capacity and officials say power won’t be fully restored until the end of May.
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Officials say three people are confirmed dead and 70 injured in the derailment of an Amtrak passenger train that plummeted off an overpass in Washington state. Part of the train was left dangling over a busy freeway between Olympia and DuPont at the height of the Monday morning commute. The high-speed passenger train was on a trip from Seattle to Portland when it derailed. Federal investigators say the Amtrak train was traveling at 80 miles per hour when it barreled off the tracks in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. The accident sent some of the train’s cars tumbling onto the highway below.
The train, identified by Amtrak as the high-speed Train 501 from Seattle to Portland, was carrying 77 passengers and seven crew members when it derailed just after 7:30 a.m. local time. All but one of its cars and engines jumped the tracks and at least one fell to the roadway below. Multiple vehicles on the roadway below were struck by train cars that left the train tracks. Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency to aid the response to the crash, which also clogged one of the state’s busiest roadways, used by some 60,000 people every day.
Amtrak Cascades trains began using a faster, more direct route that day, making this its inaugural trip. Previously, it used to snake along the edge of Puget Sound, which was a slower route but began running on tracks known as the Point Defiance Bypass, which are owned by the Sound Transit agency. The Washington State Department of Transportation says the Federal Railroad Administration funded and reviewed recent upgrades to the tracks. All told, the project’s budget was nearly $181 million.
The change in route was met with criticism from some residents in the area after it was announced. Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson even predicted a deadly accident. “Come back when there is that accident, and try to justify not putting in those safety enhancements, or you can go back now and advocate for the money to do it, because this project was never needed and endangers our citizens” Anderson said.
The National Transportation Safety Board says it’s too early to tell what caused the derailment and that its investigators would spend a week or more scouring the wreckage for clues. Ahead of the crash, the mayor of the city of Lakewood raised safety concerns about the new rail line, predicting earlier this month it could lead to multiple deaths. The train was not utilizing positive train control—a technology mandated by Congress, but rarely operating in Amtrak trains—which could have prevented the crash.
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, December 24th, 2017 was:
SONDRA USELTON
Bruceville, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
12/18/17
Nicole Blaha
Kristina Harris
Karen Brunet Moore
Paula Rousseau
Helen Robinson
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Pamela White Brearley
Cheryl Golden
Nikki Hunsacker
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Lee Clack
Amanda Rosario
Amy Chavis
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Sheila Carvell
Diane Hamric
Stephanie Beckwith
Marcy Coull
Sheri Boydston
Mandy Agnello
Trish Hysell
Christy Hawkes
Annette Broxton
Crystal Gipson
Emily Rice Bowersock
Megan Hackworth
12/19/17
Brittany Light
Misty Shallcross
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Cheryl Golden
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Tiffany Patrick
April Walrath
Kathleen Marks
Sheila Carvell
Holly Cajigas
Deborah Farris
Teena Sierson
Cheryl Hall
Adaria Johnson
Kate Stacy
Geri Rus
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Amanda Saltsman
Chelcie Malow
Alysia Jackson
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Helen Saez Deverter
Nitasha Shank
Amanda Peters
Coolmom Patrick
12/20/17
Christy Hawkes
Brittany Light
Jill Nauyokas
Lori Capobianco
Jennifer Ramlet
Coolmom Patrick
Crystal Gipson
Amanda Rosario
Deborah Farris
Trish Hysell
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Marcia Hutcherson
Michelle Webb
Lisa Puckett
Sheila Carvell
Bea Patrick
Paula Rousseau
Tiffany Patrick
Megan Rhyne
Amber Chandler
Alexis Maureen
Allison Frederick
12/21/17
Trish Musgrave
April Ashcraft
Amy Conyers
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Terri Llexxes
Priscilla Shimp
Betsey Riddle
Nicole Banks
Len Nylanna
Charlotte Dennis
Sondra Uselton
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Katrina Worford
Brandi K Chaney
Jill Nauyokas
Alisa Jones
Michelle R. Carlino
Ann Patrick
Clever Lyon
Carla M. Williams
12/22/17
Carole Jacobs
Cheryl Hall
Jenifer Garza
Kathleen Marks
Brittany Light
Nicole Blaha
Priscilla Shimp
Dale Fish
Paula Rousseau
April Ashcraft
Jill Nauyokas
Carol Scheive
Misty Shallcross
Hayley Cordaro
Christina Radcliff
Trish Musgrave
Sarah Haught
Jennifer Kearney
Shelby Lynn
Sondra Uselton
12/23/17
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Cheryl Hall
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Dawn Moores
Jade Good
Kelly Jo Francisco
Ashley Agner
Dean Bruss
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Brittany Light
France Camer
Brooke Scott
Sheri Boydston
Traci Anderson
Deborah Farris
Kellie Lacy
Marcy Coull
Jodi Stevens
Hayley Cordaro
Eleazar Ruiz
Michelle Hughes
12/24/17
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
Christina Radcliff
Lauren Bradley
Kassi Krick-King
Deborah Farris
Brooke Scott
Lisa David Carr
Jenifer Garza
Shelley LaClear Colby
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Pamela Gonzalez
Abby Cox
Kathy Rubio
Sheila Carvell
Pamela Gonzalez
Karen Ann
Misty Shallcross
Adaria Johnson
Priscilla Shimp
Kalynnilene Carter
Michelle Hughes
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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Disney is set to buy a major part of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. Both sides have said it will likely take 12 to 18 months to complete. They will still have to sell the deal to government regulators, who must review the merger to determine its effects on competitors and consumers. That task will likely fall to the Justice Department, which weeks ago took the rare step of suing companies in a different blockbuster deal: AT&T’s bid for Time Warner.
Members of Congress have already stated that they want to hold hearings on Disney’s billion dollar bid to buy 21st Century Fox. Key voices on competition and consumer protection fear the deal will only solidify Disney’s dominance in entertainment — granting it too many major box-office franchises and too much power over regional sports networks and streaming video services. Lawmakers don’t actually have a say in major mergers but they tend to scrutinize them anyways since the Department of Justice investigations happen outside of public view. Hearings-sometimes featuring testimony from major chief executives — can ultimately shape public opinion about the companies’ plans.
If the deal goes through, Disney will own the rights to everything from the Avatar movies to FX’s The Americans. They will also own the film rights to the Marvel comics characters associated with the X-Men and Fantastic Four, which Marvel sold off to Fox long before either was a Disney subsidiary. Federal Communications Commission regulations state that no one company can own more than one broadcast network and since Disney already owns ABC, Fox broadcast network was off the table.
Fox, will maintain the rights to Fox News, Fox Sports 1, the Fox broadcast network and the Fox studio lot in Los Angeles. Fox broadcast network is home to everything from The Simpsons to New Girl to The X-Files. The network launched in 1986 and by the mid-’90s, it was a mainstay in most American homes, competing with ABC, CBS, and NBC.
The massive deal would consolidate two of the biggest players in Hollywood and would reshape the media and entertainment industries. Disney will also get Fox’s 30 percent share of ownership of Hulu in this deal. Disney already owns a 30 percent share so Fox’s share will now make Disney the majority shareholder in Hulu. NBC still owns a 30 percent stake and Warner Bros. owns the remaining 10 percent.
Disney already announced plans for its own streaming business in 2019, which will feature films from Disney and Pixar, content that specifically won’t be available on Netflix. Hulu already has 12 million subscribers so it remains to be seen whether Disney will piggyback their own streaming business with Hulu or just convert Hulu into Disney’s streaming service. Disney’s Marvel and Lucas film franchise will still appear on Netflix as part of a multiyear agreement, but that runs out in a few years and will almost certainly be exclusive to their own streaming service.
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Around 1,500 people including, bereaved family and survivors of the deadly Grenfell Tower fire gathered at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London for a memorial service, along with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and the royal family. The fire killed 71 people when it swept through a poorly built public housing tower and was the worst fire in Britain since World War II. The memorial ceremony lasted just over an hour and at the end of the service, a Grenfell banner was carried out of the cathedral, followed by mourners, who held white roses and photographs of their loved ones.
Of the 293 people believed to be in the 27 story building, 222 escaped; 65 of those survivors were rescued by firefighters. Some residents appear to have moved up the building to escape the flames, only to become trapped in the apartments of friends and neighbours on the upper floors. Twenty one people died on the top floor of the tower block and the fire to raged for 60 hours before finally being contained.
Two days after the disaster, the Prime Minister promised families would be rehoused within three weeks. Six months after the fire, according to a report published by the government, of the 395 households displaced by the fire, 300 were living in hotels, 75 were in apartments, nine were living with friends and family on a temporary basis and only 11 had found new permanent accommodation by the end of September.
Maxine Holdsworth, the official responsible for rehousing the people who lost their homes in the Grenfell Tower fire says Theresa May made and unachievable commitment in the aftermath of the fire. The current promise is that everyone will be rehoused within a year. The number of staff working on rehousing Grenfell tenants has increased since the summer from five to 20. They have been given a budget of $235 million to replace the homes lost in the tower. They are currently in the process of buying 300 new homes, at a rate of two a day, and hope to have done that by Christmas.
A review of building regulations ordered after the Grenfell Tower fire found the system is “not fit for purpose” and open to abuse by those trying to save money. The report into building safety called for an overhaul of the construction industry to put safety above cutting costs. The report called for an end to cost-cutting on materials. It is suspected that an attempt to drive down the price of refurbishing the tower in west London led to cheaper, flammable material being installed on its exterior.
The tower was built in 1974 but was remodeled in 2016. Fire safety experts have pointed to cladding on the building as a possible reason the blaze spread so quickly. New cladding was fitted as part of the refurbishment of the tower in May of last year. Footage has shown the fire travelling up one side of the building, before engulfing the entire block.
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New York City police have identified the suspect in the bombing attack in a Midtown Manhattan subway station that took place during the busy Monday morning commute. The accused attacker was identified as 27-year-old Brooklyn resident and Bangladeshi immigrant Akayed Ullah. Ullah was carrying a pipe bomb strapped to his body with Velcro and zip ties whe he detonated it in a tunnel connecting the busy Port Authority and Times Square terminals. Five people were treated for minor injuries at area hospitals, while the suspect was said to be seriously injured.
Investigators have been pouring over surveillance footage of the area. Ullah was first spotted on a security camera as he climbed the subway station stairs to the 18th Avenue F. train platform in Brooklyn at 6:25 a.m. He then switched to the A train at Jay St./MetroTech stop in Brooklyn before exiting the train at the Port Authority Bus Terminal stop in Manhattan.
The blast detonated around 7:20 a.m. in an underground walkway connecting two subway lines beneath the Port Authority Bus Terminal, near Times Square, which accommodates 220,000 passenger trips a day. Surveillance footage shows commuters walking through a tunnel when a burst of smoke erupts into the hallway, quickly filling it. Commuters flinch and take cover, and when the smoke clears, an injured man, Ullah, can be seen lying on the ground in the hallway.
Law enforcement officials say Ullah was inspired to set off a bomb in retaliation for U.S. attacks against ISIS in Syria. He faces five federal terrorism-related charges and three state terrorism-related charges after he allegedly detonated the homemade device made of a battery, wires, metal screws and a Christmas tree lightbulb during the busy morning commute. According to Department of Homeland Security, Ullah is a Bangladeshi immigrant who has been living in the United States since 2011 on an F43 family immigrant visa. He is a legal permanent resident living in Brooklyn and has no criminal record in the United States.
According to a federal complaint, Ullah admitted to investigators that he built and detonated the device and said he was inspired to do so by ISIS. He said that he was prepared to die and told investigators he was motivated in part by pro-ISIS Christmas attack propaganda circulated about a month ago online with an image of Santa Claus over Times Square. Investigators recovered a passport in his name with a handwritten message: “O America, die in your rage.” Investigators say Ullah’s ISIS radicalization began in 2014 and he began researching how to build improvised explosive devices about a year ago. He began collecting the necessary items to make the device two to three weeks ago, and built the bomb in his home a week ago.
According to law enforcement officials, Ullah had two homemade devices with him but they did not elaborate on the second device. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview that the device was an amateur, “effectively low-tech device” that partially detonated. The explosive chemical ignited, but the pipe itself did not explode, lessening its impact. Cuomo added “Fortunately for us, the bomb partially detonated, he did detonate it, but it did not fully have the effect that he was hoping for.”
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In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, December 17th, 2017 was:
CRYSTAL DOUGHERTY MERRILL
Brighton, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
12/11/17
Jennifer Marie
Jenifer Garza
Tina Mimick
Trish Musgrave
Brittany Light
Trish Hysell
Jakara Jackson
Kathleen Marks
Nicole Blaha
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Michelle Hughes
Kathleen Hickman
Helen Saez Deverter
Chelcie Malow
Brooke Scott
Dawn Raasch
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Sheila Carvell
Debbie Burke Garretson
Wayne Gallas
Paula Rousseau
Vickie Gipson
12/12/17
Mary Ann Cody
Jodi Stevens
April Ashcraft
Angie Cantrell Jenks
Rosalee Jacklin
Kaitlyn Rutherford
Kassi Krick-King
Sheri Boydston
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Teena Sierson
Althea Thomas
Anggie Marie
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Brittany Light
Amanda Nicole Young
Cheryl Reagin Burns
Adaria Johnson
Debbie Burke Garretson
Marilyn Wall
Mikey Mellor
12/13/17
Lisa Garrett
Emily Rice Bowersock
Paula Rousseau
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Jennifer Leffler
Wayne Gallas
Lisa David Carr
Brian Fulop
Preeti Chand
Kristina Rosson
Eva Biggs
Wilma Mast
Adaria Johnson
Alicia Johnson
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Trish Hysell
Anggie Marie
Ambreen Rouf
Sheila Carvell
Marcy Coull
Bea Patrick
12/14/17
Carla M. Williams
Jennifer Downing
Paula Rouseau
Mary Ann Cody
April Ashcraft
Jenn Anthony
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Amanda Rosario
Pamela White Brearley
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Katrina Worford
Sherry Lilly
Jennifer Ramlet
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Alicia Johnson
Hayley Cordaro
Minta Boggs
Sheila Carvell
Kellie Lacy
Diane Hamric
12/15/17
Dean Bruss
Hayley Cordaro
Brittany Light
Alexia Maureen
Cheryl Golden
Kim Floyd
Wilma Mast
Alexandria Fields
Jenifer Garza
Brian Fulop
Michelle Cervantes
Marilyn Wall
Jenn Hess
Jessica Miller
Chelsie Nicole
Misty Shallcross
Vickie Gipson
Darlene Whyte
Adaria Johnson
Emily Rice Bowersock
Rondi Clark-Conn
Cassandra Berholtz
Kendra George
12/16/17
Christy Hawkes
Cheryl Hall
Teena Sierson
Jill Nauyokas
Brittany Light
Lori Capobianco
Crystal Young
Mary Mcmenamy
Jenifer Garza
Adaria Johnson
Michelle Hughes
Trish Musgrave
Mary Alice Ford
Amanda Peters
Nyeasia Pippin
Sandy Nevels
Chelcie Malow
Amanda Rosario
Dawn Raasch
Carla M. Williams
Melissa White
12/17/17
Chelsie Nicole
Trish Musgrave
Kathy Rubio
Jill Nauyokas
Kathleen Marks
Georgiann D’Angelo
Misty Shallcross
Amber Chandler
Cheryl Golden
Adaria Johnson
Sheri Boydston
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Nikki Hunsacker
Michelle R. Carlino
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Karen Brunet Moore
Diane Hamric
Megan Landor
Jenifer Garza
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Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better. Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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