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Minneapolis Police Officers Won’t Be Charged In Shooting of Thurman Blevins

 

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Minneapolis prosecutors have announced there will be no charges filed against Ryan Kelly and Justin Schmidt, the two Minneapolis police officers who fatally shot 31-year-old Thurman Blevins as he was running away.  His death on June 23 led to protests across the city as activists decried the killing of yet another black man at the hands of white police officers.  The incident was captured in body-camera footage released by the city of Minneapolis a little over a month after Blevins was killed.

The officers were responding to a 911 call of a man who looked intoxicated, firing a gun in the air and at the ground.  The description given in the call was of a black male with a black backpack and a bottle of gin. Six feet tall, 180 pounds, tapered hair, wearing a white-and-gray tank top.  One video begins as Officers Kelly and Schmidt drive through a neighborhood in northern Minneapolis looking for the suspect.  “That’s kind of a really good description for that to be an actual legitimate call,” Schmidt says in the video. “But . . . then again.”

A few blocks from where the caller reported seeing the man, they spot Blevins sitting on the curb with a gray dog.  “He’s got a bottle of gin,” Schmidt says. “Is he . . . black tank top, tapered hair . . . yeah.” Then, with considerably more urgency in his voice, Schmidt says, “He’s got a gun.”  The car comes to an abrupt stop and both officers jump out.  Blevins springs from the curb and starts running, dropping the dog’s leash and nearly knocking over a woman with a stroller.   “Put your hands up! I will f—ing shoot you!” Schmidt yells.

Both officers chase after Blevins, shouting at him to stop and put his hands up.  “Come on, man. Come on, man. I didn’t do nothing, bro,” Blevins says as he runs.  “You’ve got a gun,” Schmidt responds.  “I don’t,” Blevins calls back.  “Yes, you do,” Schmidt replies “Put it down.”  Sprinting past a white picket fence, Blevins rounds a corner and turns down an alleyway.  “Homie, please,” he pants. “Please, don’t shoot me. Leave me alone.”  About 45 seconds into the chase, Schmidt starts firing and Blevins collapses. When the officers get closer, what appears to be a small handgun is lying on the ground near Blevins’s right hand.

In addition to the two officers’ body-camera videos, the city also released an “enhanced” version of the footage in which the gun police say he was carrying has been circled. The object is visible in Blevins’s pocket when the officers arrive at the scene, then in his hands when Schmidt opens fire.  Reactions to the video were mixed. Some argued that the officers had been justified in shooting Blevins, because he appeared to have a gun and had refused to drop it despite multiple warnings. Others argued that police should have done more to de-escalate the situation when they arrived at the scene.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced the decision at a news conference that was interrupted by protests.  In Freeman’s prepared remarks, which were released by his office, the prosecutor said there was “no basis to issue criminal charges against either officer,” because Blevins “fled from the officers with a loaded handgun, refused to follow their commands for him to stop and show his hands, and then took the gun out of his pocket and turned toward the officers.”  Freeman’s office also released a 21-page report further explaining the decision and concluding that Blevins “posed an immediate threat to the officers’ safety.”

The report outlined the findings of a state investigation, which included analyzing the body-worn cameras, forensic analysis of the gun and interviews with officers involved, along with witnesses. The findings were sent to Freeman, who reviewed it with three senior prosecutors to make the decision not to charge the officers.

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, August 5th, 2018.

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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, August 5th, 2018 was:

         

 

KIM AVERY

Waterloo,  NY

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:

 

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7/30/18

 

 

April Ashcraft

 

Mike Adamski

 

Mary Pettiford

 

Be Schwerin

 

Brandi K Chaney

 

Tabitha Sinks

 

Mary Ann Cody

 

Vinessa Vasquez

 

Betsy Brandon Riddle Smith

 

Paula Johnson

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Ashley Agner

 

Brooke Scott

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Isis Sample

 

Becky Holland

 

Keith Ruff

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Deborah Farris

 

Tracey Smith

 

Angela Janisse

 

Tiffany Borek

 

Lauren Bradley

 

Tracey Heyer

 

Jennifer Lang

 

 

 

7/31/18

 

 

Sarah Bellestri Shih

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Sherri Kidwell

 

April Ashcraft

 

Naomi Whitlatch

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Dale Fish

 

Mike Adamski

 

Paula Johnson

 

Anna Nichols

 

Ashley Stamey Phillips

 

Penny Fisher

 

Christine McKinnon

 

Be Schwerin

 

Alyssa DiFazio

 

Debbie Gremlin

 

Britta Brown Lawson

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Angela Janisse

 

Dustin Lawson

 

Wendi Black

 

 

8/1/18

 

 

Tonya Velazquez

 

Ashley Agner         

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Naomi Whitlatch

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Kelly Jo Francisco

 

Becky Holland

 

Vinessa Vasquez

 

Debbie Gremlin

 

Amanda Peters

 

Alexis Maureen

 

Samantha Brown

 

Karen Rimiller Presley

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Brandy Marie Williams

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Lynn Gibbs Gann

 

Christy Martinez

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Marcy Coull

 

 

8/2/18

 

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Be Schwerin

 

Brooke Scott

 

Paula Johnson

 

Kayla Hernandez

 

Heather Marocco

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Christina Domingue

 

Kristina Harris

 

Deborah Farris

 

Brianna Ketchum

 

Dean Bruss

 

Chrissy Kim

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Mary Achio

 

Sherry Lilly

 

Karen Goodwin Delaney

 

Brittany Light

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Dale Fish

 

Tracy Heyer

 

 

 

8/3/18

 

 

Brittany Light

 

Darlene Whyte

 

Deborah Farris

 

Cheryl Hall

 

Dena Baji

 

Paula Johnson

 

Joann Tompkins-Winborn

 

Sarah Bellestri Shih

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Amber Chandler

 

Angela Janisse

 

Brandy Marie Williams

 

Lenis Abshire

 

Tabitha Sinks

 

Brianna Ketchum

 

Tina Auth

 

Myranda Medlin

 

Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett

 

Rosanne Clark

 

 

 

8/4/18

 

 

Amanda Peters

 

Jessica Miller

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Nacole Patrick

 

Dave Miller

 

Brooke Scott

 

Samantha Brwn

 

Chuck Derr

 

Bea Patrick

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Lisa David Carr

 

Amy Chavis

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Rosanne Clark

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Alexandra Vindiola

 

Kathi Taylor

 

Kim Avery

 

Sheila Carvell

 

Alexis Maureen

 

Christina Domingue

 

 

 

8/5/18

 

 

Tracey Smith

 

Darlene Whyte

 

Brooke Scott

 

Christy Martinez

 

Vickie Gipson

 

Cheryl Hall

 

Angela Janisse

 

Andrew W Sauer

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Michelle Tyler Jeske

 

Geri Rus

 

Don Redfield Jr.

 

Pamela Garner Sloss

 

B M Armstrong

 

Brandi K Chaney

 

Heather Lynn Rood

 

Lisa Bourlier

 

Alexandria Fields

 

Diane Hamric

 

Nicole Blaha

 

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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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Death Toll In Laos Dam Collapse Could Be Far Higher Than Initial Reports

 

 

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Aid groups say the toll from the collapse of a billion-dollar hydroelectric dam in Lao’s is far higher than the official figure of 27 dead and 131 missing. Despite a government ban on foreign media covering the disaster, the BBC reports the death toll could be closer to 300. Another 3,000 people are still stranded in homes surrounded by floodwaters and over 6,000 people have been displaced.  The dam collapse occurred around 8 p.m. on July 23rd and caused immediate flash flooding through the villages of Yai Thae, Hinlad, Ban Mai, Thasengchan, Tha Hin, and Samong, all in Sanamxay district.  Homes, roads and bridges were swept away.

The disaster has revived the debate about plans by the Laos government to boost the economy by building dozens of dams to export hydroelectricity to neighboring countries.  The South Korean company that is the main builder of the hydroelectric project has admitted that it knew the dam was deteriorating a day before it failed but the reason for the collapse remains unclear.  There are conflicting reports on when damages to the dam were first noticed, raising more questions on whether the order to evacuate villagers from their homes should have been issued earlier.  The portion of the dam that collapsed was reported to be a saddle dam—its official name was “Saddle ‘D’, an auxiliary structure used to hold water beyond what is held by the main dam”.

Emergency teams in southern Laos are continuing to search for survivors following the collapse of a dam, which released five billion cubic meters of water.  As floodwaters in began to recede, official sources said eight bodies had been recovered, while an official has suggested more than 1,100 people may still be unaccounted for.  Homes were swept away and farmland submerged when an auxiliary dam at the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy hydroelectric project collapsed.

An overwhelming amount of mud left behind is hampering search operations.  Some areas are inaccessible by boat, with helicopter flights being the only way to reach some communities.  Rescue efforts are further complicated by the fact that the area is densely forested with no mobile-phone coverage.  Roads that previously existed were washed away in the floods and thousands of people who fled their homes are packed into makeshift shelters.

Officials in northern Cambodia have ordered the evacuation of 25,000 people downriver of the collapsed dam, due to heavy flooding and rising water levels.  The Prime Minister of Laos, Thongloun Sisoulith, suspended his immediate meetings and travelled in person to the site.  Sisoulith also called in both the police and the army, declaring the area a disaster zone.  The local government requested emergency aid from neighboring communities.  The neighboring countries of China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have offered to provide any assistance needed by Laos.

 

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Satellite Images Show North Korea Dismantling Nuclear Site

 

 

 

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Satellite images show North Korea has taken the first steps toward its commitment to nuclear disarmament.  Images show they have begun dismantling a missile-engine test site, fulfilling one of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s promises during the historic summit in Singapore in June.  The site is believed to play a role in North Korea’s development of liquid-fuel engines, although it’s unclear how much the site’s facilities were still being used.

Images published by a leading think-tank on North Korea show activity at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, located among dense forest and hills close the northern border with China.  Workers are believed to be dismantling a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles, the 38 North think-tank said.

The work started at some point in the past two weeks, after the last visit to North Korea by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.  White House officials have stated that the trip made by Pompeo to Pyongyang went “as bad as it could have”.  Jenny Town, the managing editor of 38 North, which is based at the Stimson Center in Washington DC, said the work at Sohae could be an important move to keep negotiations going.  “Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence-building measure on the part of North Korea,” 38 North said in a report.

South Korean officials have also said they detected dismantlement activities at the site, though didn’t specify the exact nature of the activities.  The South Korean foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha, at a briefing in London, said its reports suggested North Korea was preparing for disarmament in return for a lifting of economic sanctions.  The satellite image analysis leaves it unclear whether North Korea planned to demolish the entire Sohae site, which has been vital to its space program. Other important facilities such as fuel bunkers, a main assembly building and the gantry tower appear untouched.

Senior US officials called on Mr Kim to act on his promise to give up his nuclear weapons and said the world, including China and Russia, must continue to enforce sanctions until he does so.  The US State Department issued an advisory together with the departments of Treasury and Homeland Security alerting businesses to North Korea’s sanctions-evasion tactics.  It said they should “implement effective due diligence policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure compliance with applicable legal requirements across their entire supply chains.”

While the images are encouraging, experts urge caution until the North completely abandons the area.  “If North Korea goes further and dismantle the entire Sohae site, that would meaningfully reduce the country’s long-range missile capability by eliminating a facility where it could fire multiple ICBMs in succession,” said Lee Choon Geun, a missile expert at South Korea’s Science and Technology Policy Institute.  He added, however, that while the first steps in dismantling the site are important, in reality, Pyongyang is giving up little as it appears the country is content with the current long-range weapons in its possession.

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, July 29th, 2018.

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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 29th, 2018 was:

         

 

JENNIFER LEE CLACK

Flowery Branch,  GA

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:

 

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7/23/18

 

 

Lori Capobianco

 

Brittany Light

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Angela Hendricks

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Sarah Harrison

 

Jennifer Lee Clack

 

Hunter Coffey

 

April Ashcraft

 

Chris Maxwell

 

Dean Bruss

 

Cassandra Berholtz

 

Kayla Hernandez

 

Ally Martiz

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Joann Tompkins-Winborn

 

Tina Mimick

 

Brooke Scott

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Kendra Lynne Ramsey

 

 

7/24/18

 

 

Jennifer Lang

 

Paula Johnson

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Garrasi Kimberly

 

Chrissy Kim

 

Karen Bondehagen

 

Geri Rus

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Jane Peterson

 

Heather Marocco

 

Sajida Hasham Salemohamed

 

Debbie Gremlin

 

Sandy Nevels

 

Kristina Harris

 

Lori Capobianco

 

Mya Murphy

 

Diane Hamric

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Marcia Hutcherson

 

Brianna Ketchum

 

Cheryl Hall

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Jennifer Lee Clack

 

 

7/25/18

 

 

Naomi Whitlatch

 

Christy Martinez

 

Amy Chavis

 

Jessica Miller

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Karen Goodwin Delaney

 

Kayla Hernandez

 

Deborah Farris

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Alyssa DiFazio

 

Cheryl Hall

 

Brooke Scott

 

Brittany Light

 

Christy Hawkes

 

Wilma Mast

 

Lori Capobianco

 

Be Schwerin

 

Misty Shallcross

 

Paula Johnson

 

Angela Janisee

 

France Camer

 

Beth Cleveland

 

Dave Miller

 

Kathleen Marks

 

Ashley Agner

 

Meg Marshall

 

 

 

 

 

7/26/18

 

 

Sunney Michelle Johnson

 

Jennifer Vega

 

Jodi Stevens

 

Patricia Oehlert Vazquez

 

Samantha Brwn

 

Amber Chandler

 

Jessica Miller

 

Debbie Smith

 

Nicole Blaha

 

April Ashcraft

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

Kristy Lynn Ballard

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Angela Janisse

 

Dave Miller

 

Kacie Rogers

 

Karen Goodwin Delaney

 

Be Schwerin

 

Crystal Young

 

Tracey Smith

 

Stevie Rosson

 

 

 

7/27/18

 

 

Nacole Patrick

 

Be Schwerin

 

Chuck Derr

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Cassandra Berholtz

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Debbie Gremlin

 

Beth Embrey

 

Gina Taylor

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Mary Mcmenamy

 

Tonya Velazquez

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Stephanie Beckwith

 

Lenis Abshire

 

Dale Fish

 

Stacy Lynn Nelson

 

Meg Marshall

 

Bea Patrick

 

Amber Chandler

 

 

7/28/18

 

 

April Ashcraft

 

Trish Musgrave

 

Wilma Mast

 

Mike Adamski

 

Debbie Gremlin

 

Brittany Light

 

Nicole Blaha

 

Keith Ruff

 

Karen Brunet Moore

 

Angela Janisse

 

Rondi Clark-Conn

 

France Camer

 

Amanda Peters

 

Alisa Jones

 

Ashley Agner

 

Phylicia Phillips

 

Jill Nauyokas

 

Jenifer Garza

 

Jan Lehman

 

Jennifer Downing

 

 

7/29/18

 

 

April Ashcraft

 

Kathleen Hickman

 

Maria Bouchard

 

Tracy Heyer

 

Sherri Kidwell

 

Heather Marocco

 

Marcy Coull

 

Cheryl Hall

 

Murphy Mya

 

Christy Martinez

 

Aarti DM

 

Tracey Smith

 

Diane Hamric

 

Alexis Maureen

 

Lenis Abshire

 

Dena Baji

 

Brandi K Chaney

 

Paula M Bondy

 

Stevie Rosson

 

Kimberly Snyder

 

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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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BodyCam Footage of Harith Augustus Shooting Released

 

 

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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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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018.

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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

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:

 

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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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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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Three Year Old Refugee Girl Killed At Birthday Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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Thailand Soccer Team Rescued From Cave

 

 

 

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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New Charges For Harvey Weinstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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