A deadly shooting at a Waffle House restaurant in suburban Nashville in the early morning hours of April 22, 2018 ended with four people dead and another four wounded before a heroe patron wrestled the gun away from the shooter. After being disarmed, the shooter, identified as 29-year-old Travis Reinking, fled on foot. Reinking was taken into custody the next day not far from his apartment complex, after an intense 34 hour manhunt.
Reinking reportedly arrived at the Waffle House naked, except for a jacket, armed with an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle just after 3am. He fatally shot two people just outside the Waffle House, 20 year old Joe Perez and 29 year old waffle house employee Taurean C. Sanderlin before entering and continuing his rampage. Once inside, he killed DeEbony Groves and shot 23 year old Akilah DaSilva, who was rushed to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he later died.
DaSilva’s 21-year-old girlfriend Shanita Waggoner and 24-year-old Sharita Henderson were also shot and wounded in the shooting. Two other people were wounded by breaking glass during the shooting. Twenty-nine year old James Shaw Jr., who suffered a bullet graze wound, has been hailed a hero for ending the bloodshed. Shaw hid near the restaurant’s bathrooms when the shooting began but when he saw an opportunity, he rushed the shooter and wrestled the rifle away. The gunman then fled on foot, leaving behind his rifle and ammunition.
Reinking was from Morton, Illinois but moved to the Nashville area in the Fall of 2017. He has had a history of erratic and delusional behavior. In May 2016, Tazewell County police responded to a call from Reinking’s parents in the parking lot of a drugstore, where a paramedic said Reinking had delusions that Taylor Swift was stalking him and hacking his phone. Reinking had previously lived in an apartment above his father’s crane rental business in Tremont, Illinois. In June 2017, an employee of the business called police, saying Reinking had come downstairs carrying a rifle, wearing a pink dress, and using an expletive before tossing the rifle in his trunk and leaving the building. On another occasion around the same time, a public pool director called police to report Reinking had come to the pool in a “pink women’s housecoat” and then exposed himself to lifeguards.
In July 2017, the U.S. Secret Service arrested Reinking near the White House after he crossed a barrier and refused to leave. The Secret Service said Reinking had said he “wanted to set up a meeting with the president.” Reinking was charged with a misdemeanor, unlawful entry and entered into a deferred prosecution agreement in July 2017. Reinking performed 32 hours of community service and was ordered to stay away from the White House. Reinking successfully completed the program in November 2017 and the court dismissed the case.
A month after his arrest, Illinois authorities revoked his state firearms authorization and seized four of his weapons, including the AR-15 used in the Nashville shooting. Two additional rifles and a handgun were also seized. The sheriff of Tazewell County, Illinois, said that Reinking’s father, Jeffrey Reinking held a valid state authorization card and asked sheriff’s deputies whether he could keep the guns. They allowed him to do so after he assured them he would keep them secure and away from his son. Reinking’s father now could face criminal charges after he admitted that he eventually gave all four guns back to his son which is potentially a violation of federal law.
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One person was killed and seven others sustained minor injuries on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas when an engine exploded in midair. The explosion occurred about 20 minutes into the flight, shattering a window that passengers said partially sucked a woman out of the aircraft. The Southwest plane, a two-engine Boeing 737, made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport at about 11:20 a.m. Flight 1380 was on its way from La Guardia Airport in New York to Dallas Love Field with 144 passengers and five Southwest employees on board.
It quickly lost altitude after the explosion and violently depressurized after shrapnel from the explosion burst through the window. Passengers said the window burst and the woman, identified as 43 year old Jennifer Riordan, was partially sucked out of the 10-by-14-inch window head first. Firefighter Andrew Needum, of Celina, Texas, said he heard a “loud pop” moments after flight attendants had begun to take drink orders. Needum, seated next to his father and son, turned back to see that oxygen masks had deployed in the cabin and there was a commotion a few rows behind him. When he rushed to row 14, passenger Tim McGinty was trying to pull Riordan back inside the plane. Needum helped McGinty pull Riordan back inside the plane but she was unconscious and seriously injured.
Passenger Peggy Phillips, a retired nurse and an emergency medical technician onboard laid the woman down and immediately began administering CPR, while the pilot urged everyone to brace for an emergency landing. They continued CPR for the entire 20 minutes until the plane landed safely and airports EMT’s took over. Philadelphia Department of Public Health spokesman James Garrow said Jennifer Riordan, a mother of two and Wells Fargo executive from Albuquerque, died of blunt force trauma to her head, neck and torso and that her death was listed as an accident.
For that terrifying 20 minutes, passengers and flight crew unsuccessfully tried to plug the hole with luggage and clothing, which was just sucked out of the broken window. Finally, another brave passenger stood in front of the broken window with his lower back covering the hole to help maintain cabin pressure. Other terrified passengers spent those minutes thinking they were their last. Many were scrambling for phones and other electronic devices to record their final goodbyes or purchase wifi to contact loved ones.
Southwest captain Tammie Jo Shults, a former fighter pilot with the U.S. Navy, on her final approach to an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport calmly described conditions on the craft to the air traffic controller:
“Southwest 1380, we’re single engine,” said Shults,. “We have part of the aircraft missing, so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.” She asked for medical personnel to meet the aircraft on the runway. “We’ve got injured passengers.”
“Injured passengers, okay, and is your airplane physically on fire?” asked the air traffic controller.
“No, it’s not on fire, but part of it’s missing,” Shults said, pausing for a moment. “They said there’s a hole, and, uh, someone went out.”
The National Transportation Safety Board has said the principal culprit of the explosion was a fracture — most likely because of metal fatigue — of one of the 24 fan blades in the engine. When that blade broke away at the fan’s hub, it carried with it parts of the engine cowling and related engine parts.
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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, April 29th, 2018 was:
AMANDA PETERS
Poplarville, MS
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:
4/23/18
April Ashcraft
Amanda Peters
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Katrina Worford
Sarah Haught
Amanda Saltsman
Michael Flagg
Dale Fish
Wendi Black
Nicole Flynn
Darlene Whyte
Jessica Davis
Alexandria Fields
Dawn Raasch
MaryAnn G. Ball
Kim Minton
Marie Beauregard
Amy Conyers
Jill Nauyokas
Angela Hendricks
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
4/24/18
Kathleen Marks
Brittany Light
Dawn Raasch
Diane Hamric
Sajida Hasham Salemohamed
Samantha Rentschler
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jenifer Garza
Chrissy Kim
Kelly Jo Francisco
Christy Hawkes
Ally Martiz
April Ashcraft
Brenda Hartwig
Vickie Gipson
Brooke Scott
Sandy K High
Anggie Marie
Jill Nauyokas
Kimberly Taylor Hall
4/25/18
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Trish Musgrave
Samantha Rentschler
Be Schwerin
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Karen Bondehagen
Missyn Haselby
Deborah Farris
Jessica Davis
Geri Rus
Kathleen Marks
Jenifer Garza
Becky Holland
Beth Meemo
Anna Nichols
Mikey Mellor
Diane Hamric
Tonya Velazquez
Priscilla Shimp
Isis Sample
4/26/18
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Kayla Hernandez
Be Schwerin
Trish Musgrave
Diane Hamric
Susanne Killion
Jenifer Garza
Samantha Rentschler
Kayte CookWatts
Helen Saez Deverter
Isis Sample
Chrissy Kim
Alysia Jackson
Sandy K High
Kiki Roberson
Paula M Bondy
Ashley Agner
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Dean Bruss
Ann Patrick
Jennifer Ramlet
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Paula Rivers
4/27/18
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Karen Brunet Moore
Brittany Light
Samantha Rentschler
Misty Shallcross
Jill Nauyokas
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Haught
Vickie Gipson
Chris Maxwell
Kim Floyd
Theresa Sigourney
Dale Fish
Tracy Shafer
Trish Musgrave
Diane Hamric
Mikey Mellor
Isis Sample
Debbie Gremlin
Jennifer Leffler
Melissa White
4/28/18
Tonya Velazquez
Nicole Blaha
Trish Musgrave
Sheri Boydston
Jill Nauyokas
Carla M. Williams
Mary Achio
Wendy Messer-Brinnon
Maria Bouchard
Kimberly Snyder
Christy Martinez
Mike Adamski
Keith Ruff
Naomi Whitlatch
Becky Holland
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Eleazar Ruiz
Brenda Hartwig
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Samantha Rentschler
4/29/18
Jill Nauyokas
Trish Musgrave
Kathleen Marks
Amanda Peters
Jenifer Garza
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Anna Nichols
Diane Hamric
Tracy Shafer
Deborah Farris
Dawn Raasch
Nicole Blaha
Lauren Bradley
Jennifer Cameron
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Stephanie Beckwith
Jessica Davis
Tiffany Borek
Beth Meemo
Anggie Marie
Jennifer Ramlet
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A federal jury convicted three Kansas militia members were for their role in plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees. The plot was thwarted by another member of the group who tipped off federal authorities about escalating threats of violence. Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen were convicted of one count of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of conspiracy against civil rights. Wright was also convicted of a charge of lying to the FBI. Sentencing is scheduled for June 27.
An FBI informant said they were plotting to use guns and car bombs to mass murder Somalis. The three men belonged to a militia called the Crusaders which was a splinter group of the militia Kansas Security Force. Testimony and recordings indicate the men tried to recruit other members of the Kansas Security Force to join them. The men were indicted in October 2016 for plotting an attack for the day after the presidential election in the town of Garden City, about 220 miles west of Wichita.
According to prosecutors, Stein was recorded discussing the type of fuel and fertilizer bomb that Timothy McVeigh used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. The men discussed obtaining vehicles and filling them with explosives and parking them at the four corners of the apartment complex to create an explosion that would level the entire complex. They downloaded recipes from the internet and they experimented with and tested those explosives. Stein was arrested when he delivered 300 pounds of fertilizer to undercover FBI agents to make explosives. Wright is captured in one recording saying he hoped an attack on the Somalis would “wake people up” and inspire others to take similar action against Muslims.
Defense attorneys argued that the FBI set up the men with a paid informant and all the talk about violence wasn’t serious. They said the men had a right to free speech and association under the U.S. Constitution. Prosecutors argued that the plot was more than just words and presented enough evidence to convince the jury of a conviction.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the verdicts a significant victory against domestic terrorism and hate crimes. “The defendants in this case acted with clear premeditation in an attempt to kill people on the basis of their religion and national origin,” Sessions said in a news release. “That’s not just illegal — it’s immoral and unacceptable, and we’re not going to stand for it.”
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The federal government, along with state regulators have halted the demolition of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation until a safe plan can be developed after the discovery that dozens of demolition workers have inhaled or ingested radioactive particles in the past year. The Hanford site is a plutonium processing plant from the 1940s located Richland, Washington that took liquid plutonium and shaped it into hockey puck-sized disks for use in nuclear warheads. The plant helped create the nation’s nuclear arsenal and made key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan that ended WWII.
Plutonium production ended in the 1980s and by 1989, the site switched its focus to cleanup of nuclear wastes. The contamination is a discouraging delay in a massive $2 billion a year cleanup effort that started in 2016. Hanford is the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site. The Energy Department, which owns Hanford, has launched an independent investigation into the spread of radiation at the plant.
Hanford officials issued a report in late March that said a total of 42 Hanford workers inhaled or ingested radioactive particles from demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant when they were exposed during contamination events in June and December of last year. Radioactive contamination was also found outside plant offices and inside two dozen vehicles, the report said. Seven workers’ homes were checked for radioactive contamination, with none found, the report said. The report concluded Hanford officials placed too much reliance on air-monitoring systems that failed to pick up the spread of radioactive particles.
According to the report, managers of the private contractor performing the demolition work for the federal government were caught between maintaining safety and trying to make progress toward project deadlines. The risk escalated as walls of the plutonium plant were knocked down and the rubble was stored in piles. The report stated that fixatives sprayed on the rubble to keep radioactive particles from blowing away may not have been effective. This theory seems to be backed up by the the state Health Department’s findings of very small amounts of airborne radioactive contamination near Highway 240 in the past year that is believed to have come from the plant demolition 10 miles away.
The amount of radiation involved was reportedly low, lower than naturally occurring levels of radiation people are exposed to in everyday life. The amounts of radiation that have escaped are considered too small by state experts to pose a health risk. All the contamination was found on lands that are closed to the public. The project was not supposed to exposed workers to any contamination but in June radioactive particles escaped and traces were found inside 31 workers. In December, eleven more workers were found to be contaminated which prompted the government to shut down demolition.
The state Health Department said there is presently no threat to public health from the releases. “However, we are concerned if work resumes without better controls, a risk to the public may develop,” the agency said in a recent letter to Hanford managers.
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Mark Zuckerberg spent two days on Capitol Hill seeking to placate angry lawmakers by saying he would be open to some sort of regulation to protect the privacy of users on his global social-media platform. The hearings are the result of revelations last month that a company called Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of 50 million Facebook profiles. This information was allegedly used to map out voter behavior in 2016 for both the Brexit campaign and the US presidential election.
Cambridge Analytica is a British company that helps businesses “change audience behavior”. Back in 2015, a Cambridge psychology professor called Aleksandr Kogan built an app called “thisisyourdigitallife” and Kogan’s company Global Science Research had a deal to share info from the app with Cambridge Analytica. The app was a personality quiz that asked Facebook users for information about themselves and an estimated 270,000 Facebook users signed up and took personality tests. The app collected the information of each user’s Facebook friends, who had not provided consent.
The company used the data to build psychological profiles of 87 million Facebook users in order to tailor ads that could sway their political views. Since the breach was revealed Facebook has stated that Kogan’s app picked up information in “a legitimate way” but that their rules were violated when the data was sold on to Cambridge Analytica. Around the same time the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, news that Facebook has been collecting and storing call records and SMS data from Android devices for years.
Facebook has been requesting access to contacts, SMS data, and call history on Android devices to improve its friend recommendation algorithm and distinguish between business contacts and personal friendships. Facebook appears to be gathering this data through its Messenger application, which often prompts Android users to take over as the default SMS client. Facebook has, at least recently, been offering an opt-in prompt that prods users with a big blue button to “continuously upload” contact data, including call and text history. It’s not clear when this prompt started appearing in relation to the historical data gathering,
The hearings were held to determine whether Washington will create regulations that address increasingly widespread concerns about digital privacy. During Mr. Zuckerberg’s two days of testimony, he repeatedly said that he had learned the lesson of the recent data-breach scandals, saying he thought it was inevitable that there will need to be some regulation but warned that poor regulations could leads to unintended consequences.
Following Wednesday’s hearing, House Commerce Chairman Greg Walden described it as “a wake-up call for Silicon Valley and the tech community that if you let these things get out of hand, having grown up in a very lightly regulated environment, you could end up with a lot more regulation than you seek.” “I don’t want to rush into regulation minutes after having the first hearing of this magnitude. But certainly if they can’t clean up their act, we’ll clean it up for them.” He said lawmakers would consider calling other tech CEOs.
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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, April 22nd, 2018 was:
ASHLEY MALONEY
Baddeck, NOVA SCOTIA
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:
4/16/18
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Shallcross
Naomi Whitlatch
Hayley Cordaro
Karen Bondehagen
Edward John
Beth Embrey
Becky Holland
Heather Marocco
Nicole Blaha
Amber Chandler
Aaron Chambers
Kacie Rogers
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kathleen Marks
Samantha Rentschler
Carol Jean
Alysia Jackson
Tonya Velazquez
Desire Kightlinger Swarm
4/17/18
Amber Chandler
Jill Nauyokas
Sherry Lilly
Deborah Farris
Jodi Stevens
Wendi Black
Jennifer Leffler
Jenifer Garza
Kathleen Marks
Brittany Light
Diane Hamric
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Jennifer Ramlet
Be Schwerin
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Lisa A Mazola
Kayla Hernandez
Nikki Hunsaker
Amy Conyers
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Sheila Carvell
4/18/18
Jill Nauyokas
Ashley Agner
Diane Hamric
Kelly Jo Francisco
Alisa Jones
Amanda Peters
Tabitha Sinks
Naomi Whitlatch
Rebecca Fauteux
Amy Conyers
Priscilla Shimp
Eleazar Ruiz
April Ashcraft
Deborah Farris
Mary Achio
Ashley Maloney
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Leah Denton
Chrissy Kim
Dawn Raasch
MaryAnn G. Ball
Stephanie Beckwith
4/19/18
Rachel Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Jennifer Ramlet
Samantha Rentschler
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Harrison
Tanya Mattox
Chris Maxwell
Eleazar Ruiz
Jackie Hicks
Lindsey McCoy
Kiki Roberson
Nicole Blaha
Kristina Rosson
Rondi Clark-Conn
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
Heather Marocco
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Wilma Mast
Jennifer Lee Clack
Misty Dawn Moores
Georgiann D’Angelo
Lisa Jimenez
Dean Bruss
4/20/18
Tonya Velazquez
Misty Shallcross
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tabitha Sinks
Kathleen Marks
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Stephanie Marie Walls
Beth Meemo
Ambreen Rouf
Be Schwerin
Mary Pettiford
Eleazar Ruiz
Brooke Scott
Bea Patrick
Cheryl Hall
Debbie Gremlin
Sherri Boydston
Joanie Waterman
Melissa Barnes Walker
Wilma Mast
Jennifer Kearney
Nacole Patrick
4/21/18
Lori Capobianco
Michelle Hughes
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Jenifer Garza
Jill Nauyokas
Preeti Chand
Wendi Black
Ashley Agner
Diane Hamric
Jane Peterson
Eleazar Ruiz
Anggie Marie
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Stephanie Marie Walls
Ally Martiz
Kim Avery
Alexis Maureen
Crystal Young
Mary Pettiford
April Ashcraft
4/22/18
Trish Musgrave
Lori Capobianco
Mikey Mellor
Anggie Marie
Brittany Light
Jill Nauyokas
Anna Nichols
Jenifer Garza
Bea Patrick
Debbie Gremlin
Heather Marocco
Marilyn Wall
Nacole Patrick
Tracy Shafer
Jennifer Kearney
Myranda Medlin
Melissa White
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Wendi Black
Kathleen Marks
Cassandra Berholtz
Kiki Roberson
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!!
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The crude oil spill from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota last November has turned out to be nearly twice as big as first reported. Around 407,000 gallons spilled onto farmland when the pipeline broke near Amherst in Marshall County on Nov. 16th. TransCanada had originally put the spill at 210,000 gallons but the new number would make the spill the seventh-largest onshore oil spill since 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
TransCanada had shut down the 590,000 barrel-per-day pipeline, one of Canada’s main crude export routes linking Alberta’s oil fields to U.S. refineries, immediately following the spill. Repairs were made and TransCanada resumed using the pipeline 12 days after the leak. Immediately after the leak was reported South Dakota regulators said they could revoke TransCanada’s permit for the Keystone Pipeline if an investigation concludes that the company violated its terms. If that happens, the company would have to correct any issues—in the worst case, even replace part of the pipeline—before oil shipments could resume.
A preliminary report indicated that the pipeline might have been damaged during its’ construction in 2008, though the investigation is ongoing. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is expected to release its final report on the leak in the next few weeks. The federal agency has estimated that the leak cost TransCanada $9.57 million. The Keystone Pipeline carries oil more than 2,600 miles from Alberta, Canada, to Oklahoma and Illinois.
In February, TransCanada Corp. reported that the cleanup of the massive oil spill was halfway finished. TransCanada spokeswoman Robynn Tysver said work at the Amherst site has transitioned from excavation to remediation. She stated that all of the excavation work has been completed and most of the impacted soil has been removed. In late March, Tysver said the company had replaced the last of the topsoil and have seeded the impacted area.” The company also agreed to restore the roads used by trucks transporting equipment and soil.
A spill and activity report on the agency’s website shows that TransCanada has installed groundwater monitoring systems, which haven’t yet detected any contamination. The pipeline runs through both Dakotas and two other states and drew fierce resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota, the tribe’s allies and environmentalists. Opposition to the pipeline sparked month’s long protests, with as many as 10,000 people participating during the peak of the demonstrations.
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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, April 15th, 2018 was:
KATHLEEN MARKS
Houston, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
4/9/18
Brittany Light
Jade Good
John Hardy
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Eleazar Ruiz
April Ashcraft
Shelby Howke
Trish Musgrave
Michael Flagg
Cyndi Jansheski
Deborah Farris
April Denise Council-Redmond
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jennifer Ramlet
Alexis Maureen
Kristina Rosson
Rebecca Honey Graham
Ashley Agner
Jennifer Lee Clack
Adaria Johnson
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Amanda Saltsman
4/10/18
Kathleen Marks
Trish Musgrave
Brenda Hartwig
Eleazar Ruiz
Adaria Johnson
Brittany Michelle
Belinda Haas
Marcy Coull
Ambreen Rouf
Kelly Jo Francisco
Amanda Peters
Jennifer Ramlet
Desire Kightlinger Swarm
Dale Fish
Dawn Raasch
Stephanie Beckwith
Be Schwerin
Lindsey McCoy
Amanda Saltsman
Lia Jill
4/11/18
Cheryl Hall
Jenifer Garza
Lia Jill
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Tiffany Borek
Sheri Boydston
Stella Methvin
Stephanie Beckwith
Amanda Peters
Be Schwerin
Tammy Dolby
Kathleen Marks
April Ashcraft
Christy Martinez
Rebecca Fauteux
Holly Kay
Lisa David Carr
Teena Sierson
Samantha Rentschler
Anggie Marie
Jessica Massaway
4/12/18
Trish Musgrave
Alicia Johnson
Jenifer Garza
Megan Rhyne
Jennifer Leffler
Tonya Velazquez
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Georgiann D’Angelo
Becky Freeman
Sherry Lilly
Kim Floyd
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Jessica Miller
Sarah Haught
Adaria Johnson
Sean Stover
Brooke Scott
Amber Chandler
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Michelle Bartley
4/13/18
Eleazar Ruiz
Sherrie McQueen Gilstrap
Beth Clevelan
Nacole Patrick
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The wave of teacher protests in recent weeks has shown no signs of slowing down. School districts in Oklahoma and Kentucky were forced to close due to statewide teacher sickouts. Thousands of Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers rallied Monday at their state capitals, demanding more education funding for students. Many say they’ll keep fighting until lawmakers meet their demands.
The state of Oklahoma has the lowest average teacher salaries in the US with many teachers saying they have not received a pay raise in 10 years. Many say that the lack of funding and low wages keep new teachers out of their districts which have seen classroom sizes swell to 40 kids because of teacher shortages.
The Oklahoma teachers union wants $10,000 raises for teachers, $5,000 raises for support staff such as janitors and cafeteria workers and $200 million in education funding. Ultimately, the governor signed legislation last week granting teachers’ pay raises of about $6,100, raises of $1,250 for support staff and $50 million in education funding. The state’s two largest school districts, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, announced that schools would be closed Monday as the strike enters its second week.
In an effort to produce for state revenue so more can be allocated to education funding, the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), working in collaboration with lawmakers, is seeking to end the strike by Tuesday following Friday’s passage of a revenue and tax bill that is expected to raise $20 million from an internet sales tax and $24 million from the legalization of “ball and dice” gambling in the state. The union praised the senate’s action on Friday and called for two additional measures of removing capital gains exemptions, saying that this would add an additional $100 million in revenue, and for Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin to veto the repeal of a tax on guests at hotels and motels—another regressive measure.
Meanwhile, more than 30 Kentucky school districts had schools close after massive teacher call outs. Educators were furious after the state Legislature approved changes to their pension the day before. Kentucky teachers have opposed changes to their pension, which was in Senate Bill 1 that proposed reducing benefits. But in a surprise move, elements of Senate Bill 1 were tucked into another bill, Senate Bill 151, which had been about sewage services. The nearly 300-page Senate Bill 151 passed both the state House and Senate on Thursday.
The Kentucky Education Association, which represents teachers and other education professionals, slammed the maneuver as a “classic legislative bait and switch.” “It stripped all the ‘local provision of wastewater services’ language out of SB151 and replaced it with many of the harmful provisions of SB1,” the association stated.
Under the new pension bill, new hires will have to use a hybrid cash balance plan, rather than a traditional pension, which will drive new teachers to leave the state. Other elements of the bill include limiting the number of sick days teachers can put toward their retirement and no changes to the annual cost of living adjustments, which will remain 1.5%.
Gov. Matt Bevin supports reforming the system and says it’s critical to fix the pension crisis, which ranks as one of the worst in the US. He said a wider demonstration like a teacher strike would be “illegal.” “I would not advise that,” Bevin said during a Capitol news conference. “I really wouldn’t. I think that would be a mistake.” In Kentucky, public employees are prohibited from striking.
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