NFL owners have unanimously approved a new national anthem policy that requires players to stand if they are on the field during the performance but gives them the option to remain in the locker room without penalty if they prefer. The vote was made by team owners without involvement from the NFL Players Association. The policy subjects teams to a fine if a player or any other team personnel do not show respect for the anthem. That includes any attempt to sit or kneel, as dozens of players have done during the past two seasons to protest racial inequality and police brutality. Those teams also will have the option to fine any team personnel, including players, for the infraction.
The previous policy required players to be on the field for the anthem but only that they “should” stand. When former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling in 2016 as a protest against racial injustice in the United States, the league had no rule it could use to prevent it. The movement grew with other players kneeling and drew increasing criticism with many who believed it was a sign of disrespect toward the flag and country. As the movement grew, the negative responses included suggestions that players who protest should be fired.
Others displayed their disapproval of players’ protests by leaving the stadium immediately after the protests or refusing to watch games at all. Owners had been divided on how to extricate the league from criticism. Some owners, including the Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones and the Houston Texans’ Bob McNair, wanted all players to stand. Others, such as the New York Jets’ Christopher Johnson, wanted to avoid any appearance of muzzling players. Some suggested clearing the field prior to the anthem but the idea was rejected by some owners who thought it would be interpreted as a mass protest or a sign of disrespect.
After spending months in discussions, and another three hours over two days at the leagues spring meetings, owners said they found a compromise that will end sitting or kneeling with an edict that stops short of requiring every player to stand. In a statement accompanying the announcement, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league wanted to eliminate criticism that suggested the protests were unpatriotic. “It was unfortunate that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic,” Goodell said. “This is not and was never the case.”
Goodell added “All 32 clubs want to make sure that during the moment of the anthem and the flag,that that is a very important moment to all of us, as a league, as clubs, personally and to our country, and that’s a moment that we want to make sure is done in a very respectful fashion. And that, that was something that was very strongly held in the room.”
As for the man who started the movement, on March 3, 2017, Kaepernick officially opted out of his contract with the 49ers, becoming a free agent at the start of the 2017 league year. Kaepernick went unsigned through the offseason and 2017 training camps, leading to allegations that he was being blackballed because of his on-field political actions as opposed to his performance. Many players, including New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and former teammate Alex Smith, have stated that they believe his sporting ability is competitive in the NFL and they are incredulous of his prolonged unemployment. Kaepernick and former 49ers safety Eric Reid have both filed collusion cases against the league after failing to find jobs as free agents.
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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, May 27th, 2018 was:
Pickerington, OH
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Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/21/18
Dawn Raasch
Susanne Killion
Mikey Mellor
Brandi K Chaney
Sarah Haught
Jill Nauyokas
Be Schwerin
Kelly Prestenbach
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Mandi Smith
Barbara Lucas
Heather Marocco
Holly Cajigas
Maria Bouchard
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Trish Musgrave
Eleazar Ruiz
Tracey Smith
Traci Anderson
Jennifer Ramlet
Nicole Flynn
5/22/18
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Anggie Marie
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Deborah Farris
Kristina Rosson
Amanda Rosario
Jade Good
Beth Cleveland
Christy Martinez
Michael Flagg
Jennifer Alice Duran
Jenifer Garza
Lori Capobianco
Justin Griffis
Britta Brown Lawson
Priscilla Shimp
Jennifer Ramlet
Hayley Cordaro
Dustin Lawson
Lenis Abshire
Tina David Konegan
Amber Chandler
5/23/18
Be Schwerin
Trish Musgrave
Vickie Gipson
Anggie Marie
Heather Marocco
Becky Holland
Amanda Rosario
Kathleen Marks
Stacy Giacosa-Bauer
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Lori Capobianco
Nicole Blaha
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Michael Flagg
Melissa Maestas
Mary Murphy
Alicia Johnson
JoBeth Butcher
Nacole Patrick
Jill Nauyokas
Wendi Black
Mary Bubel Smith
5/24/18
Trish Musgrave
Jenifer Garza
Geri Rus
Sherri Kidwell
Jill Nauyokas
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Paula M Bondy
Michelle Webb
Rebecca Honey Graham
Jennifer Cameron
April Ashcraft
Lori Capobianco
Lenis Abshire
Mary Murphy
Amanda Peters
Hunter Coffey
Jessica Ownby
Alexis Maureen
Debbie Gremlin
Diane Hamric
5/25/18
Trish Musgrave
Tonya Velazquez
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Jill Nauyokas
Mary Murphy
Amanda Peters
Priscilla Shimp
Alexis Maureen
Wendi Black
Karyn Koehler
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Be Schwerin
Dean Bruss
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Cameron
Kacie Rogers
Brianna Ketchum
Karen Brunet Moore
Kimberly Snyder
Marcia Hutcherson
Eleazar Ruiz
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Ambreen Rouf
Anggie Marie
Wilma Mast
5/26/18
Misty Shallcross
Jill Nauyokas
Samantha Brwn
Brittany Light
Amanda Peters
Thomas Ryan Gan
Amber Chandler
Jenifer Garza
Dean Bruss
Kathleen Hickman
Ashley Weaver
Lenis Abshire
Diane Hamric
Kari Reed
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Melissa White
Cassandra Berholtz
Wendi Black
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Jen Freese
5/27/18
Karen Brunet Moore
Sheila Carvell
Jennifer Leffler
Jill Nauyokas
Jade Good
Brandy K Chaney
Amanda Rosario
Tina David Konegan
Priscilla Shimp
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Wendi Black
Nicole Blaha
Jenifer Garza
Diane Hamric
Christina Domingue
Amanda Peters
Chrissy Kim
Brooke Scott
Ashley Weaver
Marcy Coull
Hayley Cordaro
April Ashcraft
Penny Fernandez
Jen Freese
Annette Broxton
Billie Jo Hale
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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, May 20th, 2018 was:
SUZIE MIZE LOCKHART
Arlington, TN
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
5/14/18
Lori Capobianco
Hayley Cordaro
Misty Shallcross
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Jill Nauyokas
Vickie Gipson
Anna Nichols
Amanda Peters
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Christy Hawkes
April Ashcraft
Brianna Ketchum
Melissa Maestas
Amber Chandler
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Melissa White
Be Schwerin
Nicole Blaha
Aaron Chambers
Jenifer Garza
Jennifer Ramlet
5/15/18
April Ashcraft
Rachael Dakota-Two-Feather Smith
Jill Nauyokas
Tracy Shafer
Tonya Velazquez
Brooke Scott
Jade Good
Jenifer Garza
Naomi Whitlatch
Mikey Mellor
Anna Nichols
Justin Griffis
Deborah Farris
Marcy Coull
Traci Anderson
Megan Rhyne
Tom Cavalli
Trish Marks
Martha Balderson
Isis Sample
Amy Chavis
Samantha Rentschler
5/16/18
Trish Musgrave
Vickie Gipson
Jenifer Garza
Jill Nauyokas
Tina Mimick
Jennifer Marie
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Diane Hamric
Christy Hawkes
Brooke Scott
Amanda Peters
Britta Brown Lawson
Kacie Rogers
Stephanie Beckwith
Maria Bouchard
Kristina Rosson
Rondi Clark-Conn
April Denise Council-Redmond
Shelly Ann Peoples
Sheri Boydston
5/17/18
Jill Nauyokas
Kelly Prestenbach
Vickie Gipson
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Isis Sample
Misty Shallcross
April Ashcraft
Beth Cleveland
Hayley Cordaro
Diane Hamric
Nicole Blaha
Mary Mcmenamy
Sherri Kidwell
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
Tonya Velazquez
France Camer
Alicia Johnson
Amy Conyers
Pheobe Gerou
Marcy Coull
David M Still
Sheri Boydston
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Morgan Fam
5/18/18
Deborah Farris
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Chrissy Kim
Diane Hamric
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Stephanie Marie Walls
Jenifer Garza
Murphy Mya
Bre Kershaw
Be Schwerin
Eleazar Ruiz
Amber Chandler
Geri Rus
Jennifer Ramlet
Eve Marie Dutkiewicz
Maria Bouchard
Christy Martinez
Cassandra Berholtz
Britta Brown Lawson
Marie Beauregard
Trish Musgrave
5/19/18
Misty Shallcross
Kelly Prestenbach
Kimberly Snyder
Samantha Rentschler
Jade Good
Jennifer Cameron
Geri Rus
Deborah Farris
Cassandra Berholtz
Beth Meemo
Amy Chavis
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Helen Saez Deverter
Mary Ann Cody
CharlesNbrenda Staten
Traci Anderson
Nicole Blaha
April Ashcraft
Jill Nauyokas
Tracie Duffield
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Sherrie McQueen Gilstrap
Eleazar Ruiz
5/20/18
Kelly Prestenbach
Misty Shallcross
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Jennifer Ramlet
Deborah Farris
Jenifer Garza
Wilma Mast
Christy Martinez
Kristina Rosson
Melissa White
Lisa Jimenez
Mikey Mellor
Brandy Williams
Kayte CookWatts
Laura Del Robertson Dougherty
Kayla Clemons
Tracie Duffield
Tracey Smith
Tina Mimick
Suzie Mize Lockhart
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A 58-year-old convicted murderer has been charged in the road rage stabbing death of a Missouri Air National Guard member that occurred around 7:30pm on May 5th in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Nicholas M. Webb is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Cody Harter, 23, of St. Joseph, Mo. The killing appeared to stem from a dispute over a lane merge as Webb and Harter both drove along northbound Missouri 291 at the merger of Interstate 470 in Lee’s Summit according to Webb’s statement to police in court documents.
At the scene, multiple drivers called police to the area after seeing Harter stumbling into traffic.
By the time EMT’s arrived, Harter had collapsed in the median and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Lee’s Summit Police Department. Witnesses told police they had seen a vehicle stopped in front of Harter’s truck and that he was arguing with another person with his hands in the air when the person swung at Harter. Police believe that that the swing was when Harter was actually stabbed once in the chest before he stumbled back into the lanes of traffic and later died.
Police asked for the public’s help in finding the killer who fled north on I-470 or anyone that may have seen the confrontation. “Literally hundreds of cars would have passed by and possibly saw the actual incident along 470. What we’re asking people to do is come forward and help this family get closure and help us bring them justice in this case,” Sergeant Depue told reporters. Harter’s family also made a tearful plea to the public in finding the suspect. Police identified Webb as the suspect after viewing nearby security footage of the vehicles stopped along the highway from over 40 businesses in the area and through statements of 51 witnesses who came forward with information.
Webb was taken into custody around 6 p.m. Wednesday at his home in Pleasant Hill. Webb was previously sentenced to 35 years in prison in 1981 for the strangling death of a 15 year old girl in Belton, MO in 1980. He served 15 years for that murder and was released in 1996. In 1997, he was sent back to prison for violating parole and was released again in 2003. In 2005, Webb was taken back into custody and remained in prison until his most recent parole in July 2017. Police say Webb had several convictions including some for assault. He was arrested in Liberty for drug possession and DUI on the same day of the deadly confrontation with Harter. Information from that arrest said Webb had a knife in his pocket at the time of his arrest.
After the arrest, Cody Harter’s family and his girlfriend Shelby Berkemeier said they were thankful to the people who rushed to his aid, held his hand and prayed with him as he passed. Harter’s mother Kerrie said her son was a loadmaster with the Missouri Air National Guard’s 180th Airlift Squadron who served a tour in Iraq and was in Quatar. He also helped with hurricane relief in Houston and Puerto Rico. He was one semester away from completing his degree in technical engineering from Missouri Western State University. During a press conference, his loved ones shared several stories about the kindness Cody showed people every day. His sister Kylee spoke of a time he was driving with his girlfriend when he stopped to shovel the driveway after seeing an older woman outside in the snow. Another time he was at the dirt bike track and took time away from his own riding to fix a little boy’s bicycle chain after it broke. “He had the biggest heart and would do anything to help anyone at the drop of a hat,” said Kylee Harter. “It was senseless. He’s been to war and back and to die because someone was angry, for someone to just take everything from him… They didn’t know him. He didn’t deserve this and we don’t deserve the pain that came with it.”
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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, May 13th, 2018 was:
NAOMI WHITLACH
Grant, 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:
5/7/18
Amy Conyers
Ashley Agner
Brandy Williams
Tabitha Sinks
Alisa Jones
Jade Good
Mike Adamski
Keith Ruff
Gina Taylor
Pheobe Gerou
Be Schwerin
Holly Cajigas
Hunter Coffey
Naomi Whitlatch
Brandi K Chaney
Kelly Jo Francisco
Nai Merri
Stacy Lynn Nelson
Wendi Black
Anggie Marie
5/8/18
Melissa Maestas
Jodi Stevens
Kimberly Necolie Garrasi
Samantha Rentschler
Kristina Rosson
Wilma Mast
Jill Nauyokas
April Ashcraft
Michael Flagg
Jade Good
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jenifer Garza
Amanda Peters
Anna Nichols
David M Still
Sandra Chesney
Adaria Johnson
Christy Martinez
Trish Musgrave
Meg Marshall
Lenis Abshire
5/9/18
Mary Ann Cody
Michael Flagg
Dawn Raasch
Hunter Coffey
Cheryl Hall
Cheyenne Shaw
Jenifer Garza
Christy Hawkes
Jill Nauyokas
Amy Marie Wilkinson
April Ashcraft
Nicole Blaha
Amber Chandler
Wendi Black
Traci Anderson
Christy Martinez
Marcy Coull
Tina Mimick
Debbie Gremlin
Laura Del Robertson Dougherty
Becky Holland
Jennifer Vega
Lindsey Willard
5/10/18
Kristina Rosson
Jill Nauyokas
Cassandra Berholtz
Jenifer Garza
Misty Shallcross
Kacie Rogers
Lori Capobianco
Mary Ann Cody
Kari Reed
Nancy Pfirrman Schools
Diane Hamric
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Becky Holland
Jen Freese
Anna Nichols
Kayla Hernandez
Toi Minnifield
Jennifer Alice Duran
Amber McGrath
Be Schwerin
Christy Martinez
5/11/18
Jodi Stevens
Karen Brunet Moore
Brianna Ketchum
Allison Anderson
Helen Saez Deverter
Isis Sample
Jennifer Ramlet
Amanda Peters
Cassandra Berholtz
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Kimberly Snyder
Kimberly Kay
Jenifer Garza
Wendi Black
Dawn Raasch
Maria Bouchard
Tracy Shafer
Anna Nichols
Paula M Bondy
Elena Davis
Charlotte Dennis
5/12/18
Maryann G. Ball
Deborah Farris
Dawn Raasch
Beth Cleveland
Joanie Waterman
Amanda Peters
Eleazar Ruiz
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Alisa Jones
Stephanie Beckwith
Andrew W Sauer
Sherry Lilly
Marcy Coull
Maria Bouchard
Eva Biggs
Heather Marocco
Carla Williams
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Karyn Koehler
Suzie Mize Lockhart
5/13/18
Jennifer Alice Duran
Lesa Moats
Joanie Waterman
Christy Martinez
Veronica Hay
Jenifer Garza
Helen Saez Deverter
Chrissy Kim
Stephanie Beckwith
Jill Nauyokas
Diane Hamric
Traci Anderson
Vickie Gipson
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Be Schwerin
Amber McGrath
Naomi Whitlatch
Maryann G. Ball
Eleazar Ruiz
Audessa Vaught
Wendi Black
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Officials have identified nine Puerto Rico Air National Guard airmen killed when their plane crashed shortly after taking off in Savanna, Georgia. The plane, a C-130-type cargo plane from Puerto Rico’s 156th Airlift Wing, had been in Savannah for several days for routine maintenance. It took off about 11:30 a.m on Wednesday morning heading to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Arizona, where it was set to be decommissioned since it was one of the oldest such aircraft still flying—at more than 60 years old.
The plane made it about a mile from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport before it nose-dived toward a state highway intersection and exploded into a ball of fire and black smoke. Witnesses say the aircraft, with four turboprop engines on its overhead wing, banked left as it rapidly descended. The plane then plummeted behind trees. Seconds later, a fireball and thick black smoke erupted from the tree line. The wreck left a debris field of 360,000 square feet — about the area of six football fields. Chatham County officials said that Georgia Highway 21 will remain closed indefinitely as investigators examine the crash site and debris field.
Those killed in the crash have been identified as the pilot, Maj. Jose R. Roman Rosado from Manati, who left behind a wife and two sons; co-pilot, 1st Lt. David Albandoz from Madison, Alabama who left behind a wife and daughter; navigator, Maj. Carlos Perez Serra from Canovanas, who left behind a wife, two sons and a daughter; Senior Master Sgt. Jan Paravisini from Canovanas who left behing two daughters and son; Master Sgt. Jean Audriffred from Carolina who left behind a wife and two sons; Master Sgt. Mario Brana from Bayamon who left behind a daughter; Master Sgt. Eric Circuns from Rio Grande who left behind a wife, two stepdaughters and son; Master Sgt. Victor Colon of Santa Isabel, who left behind a wife and two daughters and Senior Airman Roberto Espada, from Salinas, who is survived by his grandmother.
An investigation into the cause of the crash is being carried out by the National Guard Bureau and the Air Force including whether it could be related to maintenance performed on the plane shortly before it took off or the craft’s age. A team from Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina is conducting the investigation, while a team from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was sent to recover the airmen’s remains.
The destroyed C-130 and all nine crew members killed had helped with the hurricane recovery effort. The plane had been used to rescue Americans stranded in the British Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma hit the Caribbean late last year. Days later, Hurricane Maria slammed into the 156th Airlift Wing’s home base in Puerto Rico, and the plane subsequently transported supplies from the U.S. mainland to the ruined island. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Roselló declared nine days of mourning for the crew, during which flags in the territory will fly at half-staff, according to a statement from his office.
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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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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!!
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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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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Three people were shot Tuesday at the Silicon Valley headquarters of YouTube when a woman opened fire before turning the gun on herself. The violence broke out just after noon in a courtyard outside YouTube’s main building in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno. Police have identified the shooter as 39 year old Nasim Najafi Aghdam.
Aghdam was a frequent uploader to YouTube who’d had videos banned from the streaming service for “multiple or severe violations” of its policy. Beginning in 2010, she posted more than 500 videos, a total of 17 hours about fitness, veganism and animal rights. About a year ago she started expressing her anger with YouTube’s censorship. “My new videos hardly get views … so this is because I’m being filtered,” Aghdam said in one video.
In one online video, Aghdam accused YouTube of censoring her and depriving her of income from advertising. The woman’s grievances against YouTube appear to focus on censorship and revenue. “There is no equal growth opportunity on YOUTUBE or any other video sharing site, your channel will grow if they want to!!!!!” one post reads. “Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” Another post accuses “close-minded” YouTube employees of putting an age restriction on videos, saying it’s aimed at reducing views and discouraging the woman from making new videos.
On April 2, 2018, Aghdam was reported missing by her family. On April 3rd at 1:40 AM, police officers found her sleeping in her car in a Walmart parking lot in Mountain View, 25 miles south of YouTube’s headquarters. After speaking with her for 20 minutes they did not identify her as a threat or have any reason to detain her. They notified her family that she had been found.
Later that morning Aghdam practiced shooting her legally purchased 9 MM Smith & Wesson at a gun range in San Bruno. She then parked near YouTube headquarters and entered the campus on foot. After walking through a parking garage into a courtyard she opened fire with a handgun, wounding three people before killing herself. Police say she had no connection to her victims her motive was apparently a grievance with YouTube’s practices and policies. Two of her victims have been released from the hospital and one was listed in serious condition.
More than 1,100 people work at the YouTube campus in San Bruno, south of San Francisco. Employees there include engineers for the site and sales teams that work with advertisers and content creators. The company said Wednesday it will increase security at its headquarters and offices around the world.
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