Violent protests erupted in Chicago after police officers shot and killed a 37-year-old African-American man on the South Side of Chicago. Harith Augustus was a well-known barber and the father of a 5-year-old daughter. Hundreds took to the streets to protest his killing. Protesters and police clashed with protestors throwing rocks and bottles, some filled with urine at officers. Four people were arrested, several officers were treated for minor injuries and two patrol cars were damaged.
The day after the protests, police released a 30 second clip with no sound of an officer’s body-cam footage. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said it was the quickest he had ever ordered such video released and that he hoped to dispel rumors Harith Augustus, 37, was unarmed. He also said he hoped making the 30-second clip public would prevent another violent confrontation between residents and officers. “The community needs some answers and they need them now, we can’t have another night like last night.” Mr Johnson told reporters. He said Mr Augustus’s family was in favor of releasing the video for the same reason.
The edited clip of body camera video shows at least three officers approaching Augustus as he is talking to another officer outside a store in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. The first officer points at his waistband and Augustus backs away while reaching into his back pocket. As Augustus pulls his wallet from his pocket, three officers try to grab his arms. Augustus tries to get away, backing into a police cruiser as his shirt flies up, showing the gun. The footage pauses and zooms in on the weapon, which police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said was done to ensure a semi-automatic handgun in its holster and two bullet magazines tucked into Mr Augustus’s waist could be seen clearly.
Augustus then runs into the street as a police SUV drives up. He spins away from the SUV and darts between the SUV and the police cruiser as he reaches towards his waist. At that point, an officer opens fire, hitting Augustus multiple times. Augustus did not fire his weapon and the footage does not show him pulling the gun out of its holster. Police also released a 50-second, slow-motion clip showing Augustus reaching towards his waist. It was not clear if he was going for the weapon but it does appear he was grabbing for something at his waist.
Records show Augustus had a legal permit to carry a firearm and no recent arrest history. Augustus was known in the Grand Crossing neighborhood as “Snoop” — worked at a barbershop and had a five-year-old daughter. A police spokesman said more videos will be released within 60 days but declined to say how many different angles exist or whether any of the officers’ cameras captured audio.
While the snippet of video released seems to have calmed some tensions, some pointed out that Augustus, a quiet man with only a few minor arrests from years ago, appeared to be trying to show the officers some sort of identification during the street stop, possible his firearm permit. Experts on use of force have focused on how Augustus tried to evade arrest, twisting away from officers and fleeing into the street with his right hand hovering near his holstered gun. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the city agency that investigates police-involved shootings, will try to determine if the officers followed policy and if any training issues need to be addressed.
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On July 19th, seventeen people died after a Missouri duck boat capsized and sunk on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri. The boat, with 31 people aboard, sank around 7pm Thursday evening after it left for a ride on the lake that was hit by a thunderstorm generating near-hurricane strength winds. Witnesses captured video of two of the Ride the Ducks vessels being tossed around by waves as they struggled to make it back to land, only one made it back safely. One video shows water from the waves entering the craft before it capsized (rolled over onto its side) and then sank below the waves. It is believed the boat sunk in 40 feet of water, rolling as it sank, before landing on its wheels in 80-feet-deep lake water.
Duck boats are amphibious vehicles equipped with wheels and propellers that can be driven on roadways or on water. With a push of a lever, the vehicle can switch from being wheel-driven to relying instead on the rear-mounted propeller. Originally built to transport troops during WWII, they are now popular in many tourist areas with large bodies of water. The 17 victims in the tragedy ranged in age from 1 to 76 years with nine victims from the same family. None of the victims were wearing life jackets when found. There were life jackets on the boat but passengers weren’t required to wear them.
The National Transportation Safety Board recorded wind readings of 73 mph which were estimated to cause waves that rose to around 4 feet, with a possibility of 6-foot crests. An investigation into the cause of the tragedy and why the Ride the Ducks boat entered the lake despite severe thunderstorm warnings for the area. Branson is about 200 miles from Kansas City, and is considered a major family vacation destination. The town was under a severe thunderstorm warning issued about half an hour before the boat capsized.
Tia Coleman and 10 of her relatives were on a family vacation from Indiana. Her husband, her three children and five other members of her family died in the accident. Their names were: Angela, 45; Arya, 1; Belinda, 69; Ervin, 76; Evan, 7; Glenn, 40; Horace, 70; Maxwell, 2; and Reece, 9. Only Tia and her 13 year old nephew Donovan survived when the boat sank. The other victims included the driver of the duck boat, Robert Williams, 73; Steve Smith, a retired teacher from Osceola, Arkansas, and his teenage son, Lance; William and Janice Bright, a married couple from Higginsville, Missouri; William Asher and his partner, Rosemarie Hamann from Missouri; and Leslie Dennison from Illinois.
Tia Coleman, one of the 14 survivors, said passengers were told there was a storm coming before the trip and that they would alter their route to tour the lake before the storm hit. During an emotional interview from her hospital bed she said that the captain mentioned the life jackets before they went on the lake but said, “you won’t need them so we didn’t grab them, nobody did.”
She described the amphibious vessel being hit by waves and taking on some water. She said that immediately after a large wave went over the vessel, they were plunged under water where she couldn’t see or hear anything but felt her head hitting the top of the craft. Passengers were unable to make an immediate escape as the craft sank because the sides of the craft are windows with a canopy top. Once the canopy top gave way, some were able to swim to the surface as the craft continued to sink in the murky later water.
Vacationers and employees of a nearby dining showboat immediately began throwing life preservers, and life rafts into the water. Others jumped in and pulled people out of the water. Several people nearby with medical training tried unsuccessfully to revive unresponsive victims. Rescuers searched late into the night for survivors before calling it off due to poor visibility. The searching resumed the next morning until the remaining victims were found.
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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, July 22nd, 2018 was:
TRISH MUSGRAVE
Howard City, MI
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Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/16/18
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Terry Bellender
Trish Musgrave
Christina Domingue
Hunter Coffey
Dustin Lawson
Christy Hawkes
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Tina Auth
Holt SarahJames
Karen Brunet Moore
Kendra George
Sarah Frank
Alyssa DiFazio
Nicole Blaha
Kayla Hernandez
Cyndi Jansheski
Alexis Maureen
Britta Brown Lawson
Ashley Stamey Phillips
7/17/18
Christy Hawkes
Trish Musgrave
Andrea Workman
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Jodi Stevens
Jill Nauyokas
Tanya Holmes
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Stevie Rosson
Kathleen Marks
Charlotte Dennis
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Melissa Maestas
Mary Ann Cody
Becky Holland
Nicole Blaha
Tom Cavalli
Jennifer Lang
Tiffany Borek
Nancy Pfirrman Scholls
Jade Good
Brittany Light
Alexandria Fields
Alyssa DiFazio
7/18/18
Jill Nauyokas
Angel Shearl
Kelly Jo Francisco
Pheobe Gerou
Don Redfield Jr.
Priscilla Shimp
Nicole Blaha
Helen Saez Deverter
Amber Chandler
Ashley Agner
Brandi K Chaney
Nacole Patrick
Bea Patrick
Derelys Peterson
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Tracy Heyer
Kathi Taylor
April Denise Coucil-Redmond
Veronica Hay
Heather Marocco
Tracey Smith
7/19/18
Brittany Light
Jenifer Garza
Wilma Mast
Ashley Oshler
Christy Hawkes
Jill Nauyokas
Kathleen Marks
Nicole Blaha
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Johann Landsaw-Davis
Mary Murphy
Brandi K Chaney
Diane Hamric
Sandy Nevels
Wendy Messer-Brinnon
Andrew W Sauer
Charlotte Dennis
Mikey Mellor
Jennifer Lee Clack
Jennifer Kinner
Britta Brown Lawson
April Ashcraft
7/20/18
Bea Patrick
Jenifer Garza
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Tonya Velazquez
Jill Nauyokas
Christy Hawkes
Marie Beauregard
Kathleen Marks
Tiffany Borek
Teena Sierson
Sarah Harrison
Jennifer Downing
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Trish Hysell
Jen Freese
Tina Mimick
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Meg Marshall
Deborah Farris
Nacole Patrick
Wilma Mast
Kathi Taylor
Trish Musgrave
Brittany Light
7/21/18
Be Schwerin
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Anggie Marie
Deborah Farris
Chrissy Kim
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Carol Jean
Nikki Hunsaker
Nicole Blaha
Christy Martinez
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Angela Janisse
Tracey Smith
Maria Bouchard
Hunter Coffey
Jennifer Marie
April Ashcraft
Jennifer Downing
Ally Martiz
Brooke Scott
Marcy Coull
Debbie Gremlin
7/22/18
Trish Musgrave
Cheryl Hall
Kim Avery
Amber Chandler
Derelys Peterson
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Angela Hendricks
Dean Bruss
Tanya Holmes
Teena Sierson
Crystal Dotson
Beth Cleveland
Darlene Whyte
Mary Pettiford
Mary Mcmenamy
Eleazar Ruiz
Cassandra Berholtz
Sheri Boydston
Jennifer Lee Clack
Mikayla Oakes
Priscilla Shimp
Heather Marocco
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A 3-year-old child refugee from Ethiopia attacked at her birthday party by a knife-wielding man has died of her injuries. Ruya Kadir died at a trauma center in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was flown for treatment. Police said five other children and three adults were wounded in the stabbing attack. Police have arrested a 30-year-old man from Los Angeles who had been staying in the same apartment building. Seven of the other eight victims remain in the hospital, many with serious or critical injuries, and one child was treated and released. The wounded children ranged in age from 4 to 12 years old.
The suspect, Timothy Kinner, 30, was initially charged with nine counts of aggravated battery, and six counts of injury to a child. Kinner was arraigned in Ada County Court in Boise when a judge informed him that the charges had been amended and that he’s now facing one count of first-degree murder. Kinner has an extensive criminal record spanning multiple states and has spent time in prison for previous violent offenses. If convicted, Kinner could be eligible for the death penalty under Idaho law. Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts said her office has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty, saying those “high-level decisions” are made only after all the facts are in.
Boise Police Chief Bill Bones said during an emotional news conference that the suspect’s motive was “vengeance” for being asked to leave an apartment in the complex due to his behavior. Bones said Kinner had been invited to stay for a few days at the apartment of a renter who had shown him compassion but was asked to leave on Friday due to his disruptive behavior. According to Police Chief Bones, Kinner returned to the apartment where he had been a guest on Saturday and found nobody home. Around 8:45 p.m. Kinner went a few doors down to where the party was going on and allegedly stormed the apartment, stabbing the people with a folding knife.
Zine Mutlack, the 8 year old boy who was treated and released from the hospital said he first saw Kinner hiding near the party. “Then he popped up and I was in front of my aunt,” Zine said. “He just came to me and stabbed me in my belly. Then he went to her, made her fall on the ground, then he stabbed her lots of times and I heard her yelling.” In the chaos that followed, Zine said his mother was stabbed in the neck and his father told him to run home and call the police. “I said, ‘Somebody is stabbing people in the apartment,'” Zine said. “They said they were already on their way.”
The attack took place at an apartment complex that is home to refugee families. Kinner is not a refugee but he temporarily lived at the complex until he was asked to leave the day before his attack. The chief said the victims were all refugees from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia who had escaped violence in their homelands only to be confronted with it in America. The victims were placed in Boise as part of the refugee resettlement program. International Rescue Committee CEO David Miliband said his group settled Ruya and her mother in Boise from Ethiopia in December 2015. Her father is in Turkey.
Monday evening, around 1,500 people turned out at a vigil honoring members of refugee families targeted in the stabbing. People wept, sang and shouted their support for the refugee community, and many brought bouquets of white flowers intended to symbolize peace. By the end of the rally, hundreds of bouquets filled dozens of baskets on the steps of Boise’s City Hall.
A 3-year-old child refugee from Ethiopia attacked at her birthday party by a knife-wielding man has died of her injuries. Ruya Kadir died at a trauma center in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she was flown for treatment. Police said five other children and three adults were wounded in the stabbing attack. Police have arrested a 30-year-old man from Los Angeles who had been staying in the same apartment building. Seven of the other eight victims remain in the hospital, many with serious or critical injuries, and one child was treated and released. The wounded children ranged in age from 4 to 12 years old.
The suspect, Timothy Kinner, 30, was initially charged with nine counts of aggravated battery, and six counts of injury to a child. Kinner was arraigned in Ada County Court in Boise when a judge informed him that the charges had been amended and that he’s now facing one count of first-degree murder. Kinner has an extensive criminal record spanning multiple states and has spent time in prison for previous violent offenses. If convicted, Kinner could be eligible for the death penalty under Idaho law. Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts said her office has not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty, saying those “high-level decisions” are made only after all the facts are in.
Boise Police Chief Bill Bones said during an emotional news conference that the suspect’s motive was “vengeance” for being asked to leave an apartment in the complex due to his behavior. Bones said Kinner had been invited to stay for a few days at the apartment of a renter who had shown him compassion but was asked to leave on Friday due to his disruptive behavior. According to Police Chief Bones, Kinner returned to the apartment where he had been a guest on Saturday and found nobody home. Around 8:45 p.m. Kinner went a few doors down to where the party was going on and allegedly stormed the apartment, stabbing the people with a folding knife.
Zine Mutlack, the 8 year old boy who was treated and released from the hospital said he first saw Kinner hiding near the party. “Then he popped up and I was in front of my aunt,” Zine said. “He just came to me and stabbed me in my belly. Then he went to her, made her fall on the ground, then he stabbed her lots of times and I heard her yelling.” In the chaos that followed, Zine said his mother was stabbed in the neck and his father told him to run home and call the police. “I said, ‘Somebody is stabbing people in the apartment,'” Zine said. “They said they were already on their way.”
The attack took place at an apartment complex that is home to refugee families. Kinner is not a refugee but he temporarily lived at the complex until he was asked to leave the day before his attack. The chief said the victims were all refugees from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia who had escaped violence in their homelands only to be confronted with it in America. The victims were placed in Boise as part of the refugee resettlement program. International Rescue Committee CEO David Miliband said his group settled Ruya and her mother in Boise from Ethiopia in December 2015. Her father is in Turkey.
Monday evening, around 1,500 people turned out at a vigil honoring members of refugee families targeted in the stabbing. People wept, sang and shouted their support for the refugee community, and many brought bouquets of white flowers intended to symbolize peace. By the end of the rally, hundreds of bouquets filled dozens of baskets on the steps of Boise’s City Hall.
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In Thailand, rescuers raced to free 12 members of a youth soccer team and a coach who had been trapped in a flooded cave for nearly three weeks. Divers found the teammates and coach alive, but had been unable to rescue them. In the last 18 days, a local search for the missing 13 turned into a complex rescue operation, involving hundreds of experts who flew in from around the world to help in the rescue efforts. The rescue has been a race to extract the boys and their coach ahead of monsoon rains that could haved flooded the cave completely. Cave experts grappled with the problem of how to free the young, malnourished boys, some of whom couldn’t swim, from a flooded cavern as monsoon rains threatened to raise water levels even further. The boys received a crash course in swimming and the use of SCUBA gear.
The final boy and his coach rescued Tuesday are still being treated at an on-site medical center, while three other boys have been transported to a nearby hospital where eight of their teammates are recuperating after being rescued Sunday and Monday. Nineteen divers entered the cave at 10 a.m. local time Tuesday (11 p.m. Monday ET), many on their third mission in three days, with the aim of bringing everyone inside the cave out. Tuesday’s rescue efforts took nine hours from the time the divers entered the cave to bringing out the boys and their coach.
Divers involved in the rescue described dangerous conditions involving fast-moving shallow water passing through very narrow passages. Poor visibility, razor sharp rocks and narrow passages made the rescue very tricky. As rain threatened to hamper what was already a complicated rescue mission it became clear the boys were going to have to dive out Officials scrambled to find full-face oxygen masks small enough to fit the boys and experts were sent in to teach them how to use scuba gear.
Two days before the first four boys were rescued, officials warned that oxygen levels within the cave had fallen to 15%. The “optimal range” of oxygen needed in the air a person breathes in order to maintain normal function is between 19.5% and 23.5%. Such low levels creates the risk of hypoxia, a condition that causes altitude sickness.
During the hours-long trip out of the cave, each boy was accompanied underwater by two divers helping them navigate the dark, murky water. The most dangerous part required the divers and boys to squeeze through a narrow, flooded channel. Rescuers had to hold the boys’ oxygen tanks in front of them and swim pencil-like through submerged holes. Once they completed this section, the boys were then handed over to separate, specialist rescue teams, who helped assist them through the remainder of the cave, much of which they can wade through.
All the boys rescued are being treated in an isolation ward in a Chiang Rai hospital. Medical officials told reporters that they’re healthy, fever-free, mentally fit and “seem to be in high spirits.” They will remain in insolation until the risk of infection has passed. Parents of the boys have been able to see their children through a glass window and talk to them on the phone. They’ll be allowed to enter the room if tests show the boys are free of infection.
The permanent secretary of the Thai Health Ministry, said the first group of boys taken out on Sunday were aged 14 to 16. Their body temperatures were very low when they emerged, and two are suspected of having lung inflammation. The second group freed on Monday were aged 12 to 14. Authorities will look for signs of Histoplasmosis, also known as “cave disease,” an infection caused by breathing in spores of a fungus often found in bird and bat droppings. They are all likely to stay in hospital for seven days due to their weakened immune systems.
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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, July 15th, 2018 was:
KELSEY BROOKE VINSON
Russellville, KY
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:
7/9/18
Lori Capobianco
Kristina Harris
Nicole Blaha
Jenifer Garza
Amber Chandler
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Mikey Mellor
Kayte CookWatts
Be Schwerin
Angel Shearl
Melissa White
Crystal Moyer
Maria Bouchard
Karen Bondehagen
Lindsey McCoy
Laura Del Robertson Dougherty
Alyssa DiFazio
Christy Hawkes
Tonya Velazquez
Christina Domingue
Debbie Jensen
7/10/18
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Jill Nauyokas
Wendi Black
Kelly Jo Francisco
Karen Rimiller Presley
Traci Anderson
Nicole Blaha
Kimberly Snyder
Alicia Johnson
Tracey Smith
Heather Marocco
Misty Dawn Moores
Jill Broder
Diane Hamric
Jennifer Lee Clack
Be Schwerin
Naomi Whitlatch
Jennifer Kinner
Alyssa DiFazio
Alexandra Vindiola
7/11/18
Christy Hawkes
Trish Musgrave
Christy Martinez
Jennifer Kinner
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jennifer Lee Clack
Jill Nauyokas
Jessica Ownby
Kimberly Snyder
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Charlotte Dennis
Diane Hamric
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Tonya Velazquez
Brittany Light
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Harrison
Carol Moore
Jane Peterson
Vickie Gipson
Amber Chandler
Michael Ingelido
Geri Rus
7/12/18
Jennifer Lee Clack
Trish Musgrave
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Marie
Jen Freese
Charlotte Dennis
Jill Nauyokas
Mikey Mellor
Vinessa Vasquez
Mary Ann Cody
Jennifer Ramlet
Kathleen Marks
Diane Hamric
Ambreen Rouf
Nicole Blaha
Traci Anderson
Crystal Young
Brittany Light
Trish Hysell
Suney Michelle Johnson
Nai Merri
Lindsey McCoy
Mary Achio
Alisa Jones
Brianna Ketchum
Dee Washington
7/13/18
Amanda Peters
Traci Anderson
Beth Embrey
Kimberly Snyder
Maria Bouchard
Crystal Dotson
Deborah Farris
Angela Janisse
Sherry Lilly
Tina Auth
Lenis Abshire
Jan Lehman
Dale Fish
Ashley Agner
Marcy Coull
Jennifer Zarafino-Griffiths
Alexis Maureen
Joanie Waterman
Tonya Velazquez
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
7/14/18
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Tabitha Sinks
Ashley Agner
Brooke Scott
Carla Williams
Alexis Maureen
Sheri Boydston
Angela Hendricks
Alyssa DiFazio
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Sherry Kidwell
April Ashcraft
Britta Brown Lawson
MaryAnn G. Ball
Dean Bruss
Dustin Lawson
Holt SarahJames
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Kimberly Snyder
Dawn Raasch
7/15/18
Wilma Mast
Deborah Farris
Teena Sierson
Brianna Ketchum
Priscilla Shimp
Alicia Dansby
Christy Martinez
Alyssa DiFazio
Tracey Smith
Laura Bernard
April Denise Council-Redmond
Traci Anderson
Be Schwerin
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Ashley Agner
Marcy Coull
Tracy Heyer
Amy Chavis
Hunter Coffey
Sheri Boydston
Pheobe Gerou
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Media mogul Harvey Weinstein is seen leaving the NYPD 1st Precinct after surrendering himself in New York, NY on May 25, 2018. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones)(Sipa via AP Images)
The Manhattan district attorney has announced new criminal charges against 66 year old film producer Harvey Weinstein that could have the disgraced Hollywood mogul spending the rest of his life in prison. In May, Weinstein was arrested on charges related to sexually assaulting two women. The new allegations involve a forcible sex act on a third woman that occurred in 2006. Experts believe he could take a plea bargain to avoid facing 25 years in a criminal case that may hinge on actresses providing “prior bad acts” testimony, a key contributor to the Bill Cosby guilty verdict.
More than 100 women have accused him of sexual misconduct spanning decades. Weinstein denied all allegations of nonconsensual sexual activity. In early June, he pled not guilty on two counts of rape and one first-degree criminal sex act charge. He remained free after he turned in his passport, paid $1 million bail and agreed to wear a monitoring device while under house arrest. Those charges stem from allegations from two women — one involving an incident in 2004, and one in 2013 — according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
As more women came forward with allegations against Weinstein, the New York Police Department and the Manhattan DA’s Office launched a joint investigation culminating in the charges. A grand jury indicted Weinstein on three felony counts on May 30.
Weinstein surrendered to authorities, seven months after The New Yorker and The New York Times published accounts from several women accusing him of various forms of sexual misconduct. The New Yorker article contained on-the-record accounts from 13 actresses who reported Weinstein forcibly received or performed sexual acts on the women. The accounts unleashed a flood of accusations of sexual harassment, assault and rape against Weinstein.
Among his accusers are some of Hollywood’s most well-known actresses including Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Rosanna Arquette, Kate Beckinsale, Daryl Hanna, Salma Hayek, Lena Headey, Lauren Holly, Natasha Henstridge, and Heather Graham. He was also accused of retaliating against women who refused his advances by discouraging studios from working with them. Harvey Weinstein’s wife of a decade, Georgina Chapman, announced in a statement that she was leaving him. Chapman received primary custody of their two children in their divorce.
The scandal emboldened women around the world to accuse powerful men of sexual harassment as part of the #MeToo movement and led to the ousting of many of them from their positions. It also led a great number of women to share their own experiences of sexual assault, harassment, or rape on social media under the hashtag #MeToo. The scandal’s impact on powerful men in various industries came to be called the “Weinstein effect”. The Times and the New Yorker jointly won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their reporting on Weinstein.
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For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a cannabis-based drug. The drug, Epidiolex, has been approved to treat two types of epileptic syndromes. The drug’s approval comes as an increasing number of states have approved medicinal and recreational marijuana use. Epidiolex was recommended for approval by an advisory committee in April, and the agency had until this week to make a decision.
The twice-daily oral solution is approved for use in patients 2 and older to treat two types of epileptic syndromes: Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic dysfunction of the brain that begins in the first year of life, and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a form of epilepsy with multiple types of seizures that begin in early childhood, usually between 3 and 5.
FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said in a statement “This is an important medical advance because of the adequate and well-controlled clinical studies that supported this approval, prescribers can have confidence in the drug’s uniform strength and consistent delivery.”
The drug is the “first pharmaceutical formulation of highly-purified, plant-based cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabinoid lacking the high associated with marijuana, and the first in a new category of anti-epileptic drugs,” according to a statement from GW Pharmaceuticals, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company that makes Epidiolex. Justin Gover, chief executive officer of GW Pharmaceuticals, described the approval in the statement as “a historic milestone.”
He added that the drug offers families “the first and only FDA-approved cannabidiol medicine to treat two severe, childhood-onset epilepsies.” “These patients deserve and will soon have access to a cannabinoid medicine that has been thoroughly studied in clinical trials, manufactured to assure quality and consistency, and available by prescription under a physician’s care,” Gover said. He said Epidiolex will become available in the fall would not give any information on cost, saying only that it will be discussed with insurance companies and announced later.
Cannabidiol is one of more than 80 active cannabinoid chemicals, yet unlike tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, it does not produce a high. The FDA has approved synthetic versions of some cannabinoid chemicals found in the marijuana plant for other purposes, including cancer pain relief.
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, up to one-third of Americans who have epilepsy have found no therapies that will control their seizures. With this approval, Epidiolex could be a new option for those patients who have not responded to other treatments to control seizures.
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Summer is here and with it comes higher temperatures and an increased amount of time outdoors.
Staying hydrated is an important part of being healthy and feeling good. Our bodies need hydration to run properly and at optimal levels on a daily basis. Every single cell in the human body needs water to function properly. We need water to regulate our temperature, to cushion and protect joints and organs and to help digestion move smoothly. Most of us drink at least some water every day, but now that it’s summer, it’s important to be more vigilant than ever.
For many years, it’s been recommended that you drink eight 8ounce glasses of water every day. That’s a daily total of 64 ounces daily. While this may be an easy task for some, many people never seem to achieve this.
Numerous reports over the years have stated that the old “eight 8 oz glasses a day” recommendation is an outdated myth. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends men get roughly three liters (99 ounces) of total beverage intake every day, and women get 2.2 liters (70 ounces), while others say there’s no need to force water consumption if you’re not thirsty.
The more recent suggested intake levels include more than just water alone, it includes all fluid. Coffee, tea, fruit juices, even sweetened beverages provide your body with more water,though the latter is not recommended for hydration purposes. Even food adds to our fluid intake with about 20 percent of the average person’s water intake coming from food. Foods with high water content such as watermelon and cucumbers give our water intake count a boost.
While you don’t have to give up your iced coffee or sweet tea as a summer favorite, these shouldn’t be the only thing you drink. One or two cups of coffee or tea will not dehydrate you but if it’s all that you drink throughout the day then it will lead to dehydration because of their diuretic effect. So how much is too much? More than 500 mg a day of caffeine will dehydrate you and your average coffee or tea contains 40 and 120 mg of caffeine, depending on the strength of the brew.
If you are exercising or planning to be outdoors in the sun, you will perspire and the need to replenish the lost fluid increases. If you’re working out for less than an hour, drinking more water will do the trick. Anything over that, you should grab a sports drink that will help balance your electrolyte levels or eat something high in potassium like bananas, which will help balance your electrolyte levels. You don’t deplete electrolyte and glycogen reserves until you’ve been exercising intensely for over an hour.
Again, staying hydrated in the summer is especially important with the rising temperatures and increased activities. You can still enjoy your favorite beverages as long as water is a primary source of hydration – So drink up!
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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, July 8th, 2018 was:
TINA AUTH
Madison VA
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:
7/2/18
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Melissa Ann Stura-Basset
Jill Nauyokas
Karen Rimiller Presley
Ashley Agner
Jeanine Jones
Mary Bubel Smith
Nicole Blaha
Jessica Miller
Annette Broxton
Amanda Peters
Laura Del Robertson Dougherty
Jessica Davis
Be Schwerin
Diane Hamric
Christy Martinez
Debbie Gremlin
Helen Saez Deverter
Audessa Vaught
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
7/3/18
Debbie Gremlin
Jenifer Garza
Marie Beauregard
Vinessa Vasquez
Deborah Farris
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Lee Clack
Diane Hamric
Audessa Vaught
Ashley Agner
Tonya Velazquez
April Ashcraft
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Melissa White
Jennifer Cameron
Jane Peterson
Nai Merri
Dawn Raasch
Kathleen Marks
Amanda Nicole Young
Wilma Mast
Becky Holland
7/4/18
Karen Brunet Moore
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Nacole Patrick
Deborah Farris
Pheobe Gerou
Jessica Massaway
Bea Patrick
Sheila Carvell
Jennifer Downing
Jennifer Marie
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Be Schwerin
Christina Domingue
Jessica Miller
Tiffany Borek
Alexis Maureen
Sandra Chesney
Andrew W Sauer
Wilma Mast
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Sandra Chesney
Ann Patrick
7/5/18
Brittany Light
Jennifer Lee Clack
Alyssa DiFazio
Trish Hysell
April Walrath
Deborah Farris
Wendi Black
Ang Richards
Kathleen Hickman
Lindsey McCoy
Toi Minifield
Brandi K Chaney
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Trish Musgrave
Tony L Smoaks
Nacole Patrick
Jill Nauyokas
Melissa White
Debbie Gremlin
Cyndi Jansheski
Tracy Shafer
Bea Patrick
7/6/18
Ann Patrick
Jenifer Garza
Hunter Coffey
Maria Bouchard
Brooke Scott
Rhona Nicholson
Brittany Light
Jennifer Marie
Kristina Harris
April Denise Council-Redmond
Susanne Killion
Murphy Mya
Marie Beauregard
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Beth Embrey
Mary Pettiford
Lori Capobianco
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Angela Janisse
April Ashcraft
Kiki Roberson
Amanda Saltsman
7/7/18
Jennifer Zarafino-Griffiths
Brittany Light
Beth Embrey
Bre Kershaw
Samantha Brwn
MaryAnn G. Ball
Lori Capobianco
Trish Musgrave
Priscilla Shimp
Angel Shearl
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Alyssa DiFazio
Christy Martinez
Eleazar Ruiz
Stephanie Beckwith
Christy Martinez
Wendi Black
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Kristina Rosson
Tanya Holmes
Jennifer Lee Clack
Kimberly Taylor Hall
7/8/18
Trish Musgrave
Alicia Dansby
Ashley Stamey Phillip
Sheri Boydston
Mike Adamski
Susanne Killion
Stephanie Girard
Teena Sierson
Kimberly Snyder
Tina Auth
Brenda Hartwig
Pheobe Gerou
Nai Merri
Hunter Coffey
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Ashley Agner
Heather Marocco
Deborah Eikenberry Nickelson
Marcy Coull
Angela Janisse
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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