Troy Gentry, of country duo Montgomery Gentry, has died at the age of 50, following a helicopter crash in Medford, New Jersey. The crash took place around 1pm on Friday September 8th at Flying W Airport where bandmate Eddie Montgomery waited. Pilot James Evan Robinson, 30, died on the scene and Troy Gentry was taken to nearby Virtua Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. Montgomery Gentry was scheduled to perform that night at the Flying W Airport & Resort in Medford but the show was immediately cancelled.
Medford police said first responders received news of a helicopter in distress that was returning to the Flying W Airport. A police statement said “Initial reports were the helicopter was going to attempt to crash land.” “Emergency crews arrived at the airport and shortly thereafter, the helicopter suddenly crashed in a field just south of the airport runway.” The Federal Aviation Administration has said that the Schweizer 269 helicopter crashed into a wooded area off the Runway 1 at the airport.
Brian Rayner, senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, described the flight as a “spur of the moment” helicopter ride. Rayner explained “Not long after takeoff, the pilot announced over the airport frequency – which was being monitored by a number of people – that he was having difficulty controlling engine RPM.” “A couple of different responses to that challenge were discussed, and he was performing an auto rotational descent to runway one. The helicopter landed short of the runway in low brush, it was substantially damaged and the occupants were fatally injured.”
Friends long before they made it big, the Kentucky-based duo formed in the late ’90s. They produced a number of country music hits, including “My Town,” “Headlights” and “Hillbilly Shoes.” They were named duo of the year by both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association in 2000, and were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2009.
The duo’s recent years were marked with loss and struggle. In 2014, Gentry grieved the death of his brother, Keith. In 2015, Hunter Montgomery, the 19-year-old son of Eddie Montgomery died from an accidental overdose. Gentry was also by Montgomery’s side as he battled prostate cancer in 2010. A few years later Troy Gentry’s wife, Angie McClure Gentry, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was eventually declared cancer-free in 2015. Troy Gentry also lost his father Lloyd Gentry on August 13 of this year. Troy Gentry leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
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Summer is winding down and the kids are back to school which means many will be spending more time indoors whether it’s because of the weather cooling off or all that homework that needs to be finished. There are plenty of reasons to maintain outdoor activities into the cooler months for yourself and your family. If you find that you are one of the many people that spend little time outdoors once summer is over or this sounds like someone you know – you may want to keep reading.
Sunlight hitting the skin begins a process that leads to the creation and activation of vitamin D. Studies suggest that vitamin D helps fight certain conditions, from osteoporosis and cancer to depression and heart attacks. Limited sun exposure is a good regimen and shouldn’t just be limited to the summer months.
Light also tends to elevate people’s mood and there’s usually more light available outside than indoors. Getting some sunshine or daylight can improve your mood and ease symptoms of depression. It will also make you more alert and focused to get some natural light on a daily basis. When you are outside you are usually getting more physical activity which has been shown to help people relax and cheer up. If you tend to feel more tired or depressed once summer is over – spending a little more time outdoors may improve this.
If you make getting outside a goal, that means less time in front of the television or computer screen and more time walking and doing other things that put the body in motion. Exercise keeps the body healthy and in motion as well as elevates your mood. Those who get exercise also tend to improve their quality of sleep. Taking a walk during your lunch break or a family walk after dinner can help burn off that extra energy that keeps you up at night. There is a reason kids fall asleep quicker after a day at the park versus a day spent indoors.
While there are plenty of outdoor activities to choose from during the summer – inactivity doesn’t have to start once the pool closes. Throwing an extra layer on in the fall to take a walk or bike ride will help you feel better and can become a family or social activity you’ll look forward to. A short 15 or 20 minute walk with the family can also be a great time to talk to your kids about how their day at school went without just getting a one word answer in between commercial breaks.
Being active outside more often can help kids with health issues such as obesity, reduced symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, increased vitamin D production, which may help protect a child from future bone problems, heart disease, and diabetes; and improved distance vision. It can also familiarize them with their local neighborhood and outdoor environments, boosting their self-confidence.
For adults, spending more time being active outdoors can help with weight management, reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (cognitive function is enhanced by physical activity), increase opportunities for social interactions, an increase in energy and improved immunity and reduced risk of diabetes, heart attack and some forms of cancer.
Adults and children can all benefit from outdoor activities and special times with family and friends that will create memories that last a lifetime!
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Hurricane Irma made its first landfall in the northeast Caribbean early Wednesday after growing into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded over the Atlantic Ocean. The storm is one of three (Irma, Jose and Katia) hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the first time since 2010 that three active hurricanes have been in the Atlantic. Jose, in the open Atlantic far to the southeast of Irma, became a hurricane. Katia, in the Gulf of Mexico, also became a hurricane.
Irma has maintained intensity above 180 mph longer than any storm in Atlantic basin history. Late Wednesday night, Irma’s core was spinning about 85 miles northwest of San Juan, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. In the US Virgin Islands, Gov. Kenneth E. Mapp ordered a 36-hour curfew.
Irma’s core slammed the tiny island of Barbuda before moving over St. Martin and Anguilla and parts of the British Virgin Islands. Its maximum sustained winds of 185 mph were well above the 157 mph threshold of a Category 5 storm. Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne said that the telecommunications system in Barbuda, where 1,800 people live, was wiped out and cell towers were knocked over. Both of the island’s hotels were demolished, he added. There is also no way to land airplanes on the islands, Browne said from Antigua, whose 80,000 people comprise most of the two-island nation’s population.
French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said Irma destroyed four of the most solid government buildings on the French-administered portion of nearby St. Martin, an island of about 75,000 people. Puerto Rico and Storm surge is a concern for the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Central Bahamas (up to 20 feet), as is heavy rain (up to 20 inches in the Virgin Islands, and up to 20 in parts of Puerto Rico).
Computer models show that on Thursday the storm will move very near or over the Turks and Caicos, with catastrophic damage likely. The storm will also pass just north of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, bringing hurricane force winds to northern sections of the island, with flooding and mudslides probable.
In the Bahamas, emergency evacuations have been ordered for six southern islands — Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island. “This is the largest such evacuation in the history of the country,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said.
It’s too early to tell whether it will make landfall on the US mainland but models show it could hit near Florida’s east coast by late Sunday, and forecasters warn the core still could hit the Florida peninsula.
Emergency management officials are requiring visitors to the Florida Keys to begin evacuations by sunrise Wednesday due to incoming Hurricane Irma; resident evacuations begin 7 p.m. Wednesday. Floridians should heed any evacuation order, Gov. Rick Scott said. “A storm surge could cover your house. We can rebuild homes — we cannot rebuild your family,” he said.
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Prosecutors have asked the FBI to assist in an investigation into the rough arrest of a Utah nurse after video of her being dragged screaming from a hospital drew widespread condemnation. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is overseeing a criminal investigation into officers involved in the handcuffing of nurse Alex Wubbels. He is asking for FBI help in part because his office can’t prosecute possible civil rights violations like wrongful arrest.
The incident happened on July 26 but bodycam footage that was released last week sparked national outcry. That night, a man named William Gray was taken to the hospital after suffering severe injuries from a car crash. Gray, a reserve police officer with the police department in Rigby, Idaho-who works as a truck driver, had been injured after being in the fiery head on car crash with a truck that was fleeing from Utah State Highway Patrol.
In the video, Salt Lake City Detective Jeff Payne is seen squaring off against Utah nurse Alex Wubbels, the charge nurse working the night shift on the burn unit at Utah University Hospital. Wubbels was following hospital protocol and the law when she calmly refused to allow a blood draw on an unconscious patient without consent or a warrant. She presented the officers with a printout of hospital policy on drawing blood and said their request did not meet the criteria.
Hospital policy specified police needed either a judge’s order or the patient’s consent, or the patient needed to be under arrest, before obtaining a blood sample. “I’m just trying to do what I’m supposed to do. That’s all,” Wubbels tells the officers, according to the body camera video. She put her supervisor on speakerphone who told Payne “You’re making a huge mistake because you’re threatening a nurse.” “No, we’re done,” Payne said. “We’re done. You’re under arrest.”
Salt Lake City police detective Jeff Payne insisted on drawing the blood, maintaining in his report that he wanted the sample to protect the man rather than prosecute him. He was supported by his supervisor, Lt. James Tracy, who said the nurse could be arrested if she didn’t agree. The dispute ended with Payne handcuffing Wubbels and dragging her outside while she screamed that she’d done nothing wrong. She was detained for 20 minutes and later released without charge.
Payne, who has worked for the department for over 20 years, and a second unidentified officer were put on full paid administrative leave by Salt Lake City police after the video emerged. Lt. James Tracy’s actions are also under review. Payne has also been fired from his part-time job as a paramedic following comments he made on the video about taking transient patients to the hospital as retaliation.
The Rigby Police Department said they hope the incident will be investigated thoroughly and “appropriate action” will be taken. “The Rigby Police Department would like to thank the nurse involved and hospital staff for standing firm and protecting Officer Gray’s rights as a patient and victim,” “Protecting the rights of others is truly a heroic act.” “It is important to remember that Officer Gray is the victim in this horrible event, and that at no time was he under any suspicion of wrongdoing,” the statement said, adding that Gray “continues to heal.”
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help William Gray and his wife with expenses while he recovers at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. https://www.gofundme.com/BillGray
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Do You Have a Small Business Disaster Recovery Plan? 
The recent devastation of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma highlight the vital importance of disaster planning. Our hearts go out to all of those who were impacted by these disasters. Even those who live outside of regions that typically experience hurricanes need to prepare for other types of natural and man-made disasters. Small businesses face a particularly challenging recovery process. It is estimated that 40 percent of businesses never reopen after a disaster. Developing a solid recovery plan will give your business a chance to bounce back. The following information will help you create the right plan for your business.
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- Understand the most common threats to your business. Many disasters are difficult to predict but you are probably more likely to encounter certain types of disasters based on where you live. For example, if you run an online business you may be more likely to experience a data loss or cyber extortion. If you live in a coastal region you may be more likely to face a major storm or flood damage. Consider the types of disasters you may face and take care in evaluating how to protect and recover your business.
- Develop a disaster recovery plan. Your priority is the safety of customers and employees. Your plan should include evacuation or shelter-in-place guidelines in the event of a disaster. You should develop a plan for communicating with employees, customers and vendors during and after a disaster. You will also need to identify your critical business functions and set a plan for getting them back online. Your plan should be a path towards temporary short-term recovery and ultimately sustained long-term recovery. Keep copies of the plan, both physical and electronic, in multiple locations. Review and revise your plan every year or whenever your business undergoes major changes.
- Train employees on your disaster plan. Your plan is useless if your employees do not know what to do. Everyone in your business should understand his or her role in the recovery process. Train all new employees and periodically review procedures with existing staff. Personally manage the most vital recovery aspects or assign them to your most trusted employees.
- Familiarize yourself with IT threats and back up your business data. Cyber security is a critical component of disaster planning. The FCC offers a free tool to create a custom cyber security guide. Visit www.fcc.gov/cyberplanner to start your plan. Use offsite computer backup and storage to make sure all of your vital data is recoverable in the event of a cyber-attack or natural disaster. Keeping your data in only one location is asking for trouble. Offsite cloud backup allows you to easily retrieve your data if your main office or data storage is destroyed.
- Evaluate your business insurance. Not all business insurance covers natural disasters and some types of coverage can be prohibitively expensive. It is important to consider the needs of your business and the likelihood of a disaster affecting your business. Many victims of Hurricane Harvey’s flooding did not have flood insurance, because they were not in a floodplain. Visit FEMA online to learn more about flood insurance and risk. You may also consider purchasing data breach insurance, which may provide coverage if your business is hacked or your systems are sabotaged. The loss of client data could be a public relations nightmare and may lead to fines or expensive litigation.
- Review your lease and talk to your landlord. If your business rents office or retail space it is important to understand the responsibilities of the landlord and their plan for recovering from a disaster.
- Talk to your vendors. Without key vendors, many businesses would quickly sink. You should keep an open line of communication with your vendors and understand their own disaster recovery plan.
- Make sure you have access to the necessary capital to recover. Many businesses fail after a disaster because they do not have the money to make it through even a brief shutdown. If your business needs assistance after a disaster you may be eligible for a short-term low interest business recovery loan. Learn more about disaster recovery loans by visiting the Small Business Administration website. For Hurricane Harvey victims, the SBA also has a section devoted recovery questions and loans.
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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, September 10th, 2017 was:
NIKKI HUNSACKER
Victorville, CA
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:
9/4/17
Brittany Marie Thompson
April Ashcraft
Darlene Whyte
Crystal Marie
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Valerie Kuehn
Kelly Jo Francisco
Jennifer Kinner
Jade Good
Christy Hawkes
Jennifer Marie
Crystal Young
Sherry Lilly
Dawn Raasch
Jenny Merritt
Michelle R. Carlino
Nai Merri
Jennifer Setsor Mallon
Karen Rimiller Presley
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Nikki Hunsacker
9/5/17
Anna Nichols
Mya Murphy
Heather Victoria Graves
Sheila Carvell
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Kelly Jo Francisco
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Hayley Cordaro
Benjamin Odell
Mary Mcmenamy
Tonya Velazquez
Dale Fish
Brian Fulop
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Alicia Johnson
Mary Ann Cody
Bea Patrick
Cassandra Berholtz
Amanda Rosario
Emily Rice Bowersock
Lisa A Mazola
Deborah Farris
9/6/17
Melissa White
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Kristina Rosson
Alexis Maureen
Paula Rousseau
Mya Murphy
Jennifer Marie
Darbie Brown
Cheryl Hall
Beata Tybor
Christina Radcliff
Belinda Haas
Deborah Farris
Karen Bondehagen
Samantha Brwn
Kendra George
Trish Musgrave
Dawn Raasch
Dale Fish
Katt Keane
Stephanie Beckwith
Bethany Henry
Diane Hamric
Beth Epley Minton
9/7/17
Sheila Carvell
Kimberly Snyder
D.b. Snyder
Jan Lehman
9/8/17
Melissa Barnes Walker
Jennifer Marie
Sherri Kidwell
Alicia Smith
Deborah Farris
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
Beth Embrey
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Joe Nemeth
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Amy Conyers
Shameka Barnes
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Charlotte Dennis
Mya Murphy
Carole Jacobs
Katherine Oliveira
Christy Hawkes
Brigette Oster
Allison Frederick
9/9/17
Katrina Worford
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Michelle Cervantes
Kristina Harris
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Tiffany Banks
Cheryl Hall
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Sherri Kidwell
Jenifer Garza
Trish Musgrave
Susanne Killion
Alexandra Vindiola
Steve Hardy
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Priscilla Shimp
Beth Cleveland
Joanie Waterman
Brandi K Chaney
9/10/17
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Tonya Velazquez
Kathleen Newell
Cheryl Hall
Amanda Peters
Trish Musgrave
Kelly Jo Francisco
Brian Fulop
Helen Robinson
Brandy Williams
Crystal Young
Sheila Carvell
Sheri Boydston
Becca Holland-Cowling
Kristina Harris
Chelcie Malow
Emily Rice Bowersock
Wendy Messer-Brinnon
Stephanie Beckwith
Althea Thomas
Marilyn Wall
Adaria Johnson
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North Korea carried out a missile test directly over Japan that prompted the government in Tokyo to warn residents in its path to take cover. After a flight of nearly 1, 700 miles, the missile flew over the northern island of Hokkaido, broke into three pieces and landed in the sea. Public television programs in Japan were interrupted announcing the missile’s flight over the country and warned citizens to take cover in a sturdy building or basement.
North Korea has fired projectiles over Japanese territory twice before. Once in 1998, prompting a minor diplomatic crisis in Asia, and once again at the beginning of the Obama administration in 2009. In both those cases, the North said the rockets were carrying satellites into orbit but they made no such claim in this case.
The missile was launched from a site near Pyongyang’s international airport, not the usual launch site in the northeast, according to the South Korean military. They are still trying to determine what type of missile was launched but it’s believed to be a Hwasong-12, a newly developed intermediate range weapon. North Korea’s usual launch sites are in remote areas, where there would be little concern about civilian casualties. A strike near Pyongyang would risk many civilian deaths, suggesting that the real goal was to strike at the regime.
The commander of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s Air Defense Command said that the armed forces did not try to shoot down the missile from North Korea because they did not detect a threat to Japanese territory. They warned citizens in its path to take cover in case any parts fell on Japan. This latest launch appears to be the first of a missile powerful enough to potentially carry a nuclear warhead.
North Korea’s ambassador to the UN, Han Tae-song, defended his country’s actions saying they were a response to military drills carried out by the US and its allies in the region. “Now that the US has openly declared its hostile intention towards North Korea by raising joint aggressive military exercises despite repeated warnings… my country has every reason to respond with tough counter-measures as an exercise of its rights to self-defence.”
US and Japanese forces have just finished a joint drill in Hokkaido while another annual exercise involving tens of thousands of South Korean and US military personnel is still under way in South Korea. China warned that tensions on the Korean peninsula had reached a “tipping point” but said the US and South Korea were partly to blame. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying criticised the two countries for their repeated military drills, which North Korea perceives as practice for an invasion.
North Korea has been working on its missile program for decades, with weapons based on the Soviet-developed Scud. While it has conducted short and medium-range tests on many occasions, the pace of testing has increased. Experts speculate that North Korea has made significant advances towards its goal of building a reliable long-range nuclear-capable weapon. Though, no one knows how close North Korea is to miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to put on a missile.
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As the flood waters left behind from Hurricane Harvey recede, the search continues for victims not yet counted in the death toll. The number of confirmed deaths attributed to Harvey has reached 63 and that number is expected to rise as Houston emergency officials continue to search flooded homes. Emergency officials have said the number of calls for service and rescue has been steadily diminishing.
Hurricane Harvey hit Corpus Christi, Texas on August 25th and continued to batter cities and towns along the Gulf of Mexico with rain. Some areas got as much as 50 inches of rain. Some climatologists are calling Harvey the worst rainfall event in the country’s history. Officials have estimated the damage to be as much as $108 billion but it’s too early to know the full scope of the Texas disaster.
Across Southeast Texas, police, firefighters, the National Guard, the Coast Guard and other agencies responded with immense force trying to help those in need. With hundreds of miles of heavily flooded area to cover and days of rain- no government response could have been enough.
As first responders were overwhelmed with calls for rescue, emergency lines were jammed and people were posting desperate pleas for help on social media. Many had been stranded for days with no electricity, food or water. Civilians with boats, high water vehicles and small watercrafts, took to the murky waters to help save lives. Texans hours away-loaded up fishing boats, kayaks, canoes and flat-bottomed skiffs and headed to areas inundated with flood water and over the next six days, rescued hundreds of people and animals.
Others without boats stepped up to help as well. Stories of people who were out of harms way using social media apps such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Nextdoor and Snapchat along with google maps to connect civilian rescue boats with people who posted pleas for help from their smartphones. Boaters used Zello, a free “walkie-talkie” app to help each other navigate through rescues.
Three friends created the website “Houston Harvey Rescue,” in under 3 hours, in a leaky office, with intermittent power. The site allowed users to drop a pin on a Google map to alert rescuers to people in trouble. The color of the pin could be changed to indicate the degree of urgency, and the pin could be removed when the rescue was completed, giving rescuers a real-time view of needs across the city.
While it’s too soon to know how many of the more than 37,000 heavily damaged homes in Texas are salvageable. Officials say some will be submerged in water for up to a month and the longer a house is under water, the greater the damage. Thousands have already been destroyed in the state and evacuees are slowly returning to their homes to try to assess the damage and gather any salvageable belongings.
At least 33,000 people in Texas have fled to more than 230 shelters, with 11,000 people inside Houston’s largest sports stadium. Churches and many businesses have opened their doors to evacuees as well. Hundreds of thousands could seek some kind of disaster assistance, officials said. It will likely take years for some areas of Texas to rebuild while other areas will never be the same. The power of social media and people compelled to help others saved hundreds of lives during this disaster. The heroes that emerged to help those in need remind us all that our country is not as divided as it sometimes seems.
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The US Navy released the names and hometowns of the 10 sailors who went missing after the USS John S. McCain, a guided-missile destroyer, collided with a merchant ship near Singapore, east of the Malacca Strait on Monday. Initial reports indicated that the destroyer sustained damage to her port side aft, the left rear of the ship, in the collision that left five injured and 10 sailors missing. Authorities said four of those injured were medically evacuated by a Singapore navy helicopter with non-life threatening injuries and the fifth injured sailor stayed on board with minor injuries.
The collision was reported at 6:24 a.m. Japan Standard Time, while the ship was en route to a routine port visit in Singapore. The ship headed to port under its own power after the collision. The other ship, the Alnic MC, is a 600-foot oil and chemical tanker with a gross tonnage of 30,000 and is about three times the size of the McCain. The USS McCain is based at the fleet’s homeport of Yokosuka, Japan. It was commissioned in 1994 and has a crew of 23 officers, 24 chief petty officers and 291 enlisted sailors, according to the Navy’s website.
The US Navy confirmed they recovered the remains of two sailors — Kenneth Smith, 22, and Dustin Doyon, 26 but suspended the search for the sailors who are still missing after “more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts,” the statement said.
Those lost in the collision have been identified as Kenneth Smith, 22 of Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Dustin Doyon, 26, of Suffield, Connecticut; Kevin Bushell, 26, of Gaithersburg, Maryland; Jacob Drake, 21, of Cable, Ohio; Timothy Eckels Jr., 23, of Manchester, Maryland; Charles Findley, 31 of Amazonia, Missouri; John “CJ” Hoagland III, 20 of Killeen, Texas; Corey Ingram, 28 of Poughkeepsie, New York; Abraham Lopez, 39, of El Paso, Texas and Logan Palmer, 23, of Decatur, Illinois.
The incident is the second serious collision for a Navy vessel in two months and fourth since January. The USS Fitzgerald collided with a freighter off the coast of Japan on June 17, leaving seven sailors dead. The Navy last week relieved the Fitzgerald’s skipper and two top sailors of their command for losing “situational awareness” in the hours leading up to the collision. About a dozen sailors in all are facing some punishment, including all of the destroyer’s watch, the Navy said.
The Navy is preparing to conduct an extremely rare suspension of ship operations worldwide for a day or two in order to review safety and operational procedures. Navy officials are also investigating the role that training, manning and crew communications may have played in the accidents. Vice Adm. Joseph P. Aucoin, the head of the Seventh Fleet, the Navy’s largest overseas, was removed Wednesday in connection with the four accidents since January, according to a statement by the Navy.
Admiral Aucoin had been expected to retire in the coming weeks, but his superiors pushed up his departure date after losing confidence in his leadership. Admiral Aucoin is being replaced by Rear Adm. Phil Sawyer, “who has already been nominated and confirmed for the position and promotion to vice admiral,” the Navy statement said.
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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, September 3rd, 2017 was:
JENNIFER DOWNING
Clarksville, TN
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:
8/28/17
Ashley Agner
Tina David Konegan
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Laurie Griffith
Cheryl Hall
Kelly Jo Francisco
Jennifer Lang
Kimberly Snyder
Abby Fletcher
Jenny Merritt
Jennifer Marie
Jennifer Ramlet
Amanda Saltsman
Tina Mimick
Kendra George
Becky Hansen
Alicia Smith
Priscilla Shimp
Kristi Cervantes
Joanie Waterman
8/29/17
Melissa White
Juanita Wiliams-Jones
Valerie Kuehn
Jill Nauyokas
Trish Musgrave
Deborah Farris
Michelle R. Carlino
Jennifer Leffler
Shelley LaClear
Jennifer Merritt
Anna Nichols
Diane Hamric
Chris Blythe
Dustin N Angela Turner
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Joanie Waterman
Sheri Boydston
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Tina Mimick
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Kathleen Newell
8/30/17
Dana Dilaura
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Tera Wardrip
Kendra George
Anna Nichols
Jonnalyn Gates
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Brittany Marie Thompson
Hollie Jahnke
Andrea Workman
Kayla Clemons
Jennifer Marie
Carole Jacobs
Jill Nauyokas
Helen Robinson
Kelly Jo Francisco
Mya Murphy
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Kimberly Snyder
Phylicia Phillips
Cheryl Hall
8/31/17
Priscilla Shimp
Kayla Hernandez
Sherri Kidwell
Stephanie Griffith
Brandi K Chaney
Diane Hamric
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Kim Floyd
Penny Fisher
Brittany Marie Thompson
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
April Ashcraft
Michelle R. Carlino
Timothy Simpson
Alisa Jones
Khadijah Carter
Dana Dilaura
Juanita Williams-Jones
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