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 16th, 2017 was:
KARRON REDFIELD
Manchester, CT
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift. Card
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook “fan” on either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/10/17
Jennifer Marie
Christina Domingue
Amanda Rosario
Jane Peterson
Amanda Peters
Diane Hamric
Sarra Baptist
Judy Custer
Kelly Jo Francisco
Chris Maxwell
Jennifer Mason
Tiffany Bank
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Jill Nauyokas
Misty Shallcross
Tabitha Sinks
Jessica Davis
Christy Hawkes
Anggie Marie
Kayla Hernandez
Sheri Boydston
7/11/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Tabitha Sinks
Isis Sample
Jamie Nash Lewter
Jill Nauyokas
Karen Bondehagen
Cheryl Hall
Jodi Stevens
Amber McGrath
Valerie Kuehn
Sarah Harrison
Dean Bruss
Judy Custer
Teena Sierson
Emily Rice Bowersock
Shameka Barnes
Christy Hawkes
Sheri Boydston
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Kim Avery
7/12/17
Sheri Boydston
Jennifer Mason
Christina Montes
Krissy Brislin
Jane Peterson
Kelly Jo Francisco
Michelle Webb
Kayla Hernandez
Joe Nemeth
Alexandria Fields
Crystal Young
Sherri Kidwell
Jan Lehman
Chrissy Kim
Taschia Miller
Judy Custer
Jennifer Lang
Deborah Farris
Marilyn Wall
Tonya Velazquez
7/13/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Sheri Boydston
Diane Hamric
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Alisa Jones
Crystal Hazelwood
Kristina Harris
Debbie Burke Garretson
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Sherri Kidwell
Kimberly Snyder
Dean Bruss
Morgan Alexandra
Adaria Johnson
Natasha Berry
Marilyn Wall
Brian Fulop
Zack Sudler
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Kim Avery
Amanda Peters
7/14/17
Isis Sample
Khadijah Carter
Judy Custer
Sherri Kidwell
Kendra George
Bea Patrick
Tina Marie
Anna Ashley Pinder
Candy Dyer
Amanda Peters
Kristina Harris
Jessica Davis
Josh Francisco
Katt Keane
April Ashcraft
Tiffany Green Elliott
Misty Shallcross
Sheri Boydston
Beth Mason
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
7/15/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Laura Myers
Amanda Rosario
Sheri Boydston
Diane Hamric
Sherry Lilly
Rebecca Fauteux
Cheryl Hall
Karron Redfield
Jill Nauyokas
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Dean Bruss
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Eleazar Ruiz
Tonya Velazquez
Misty Dawn Moores
Danielle Muniz
Trish Musgrave
Adaria Johnson
7/16/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Sheri Boydston
Sherry Lilly
Rebecca Fauteux
Cheryl Hall
Peggy Burdick Buchanan
Laura Myers
Karron Redfield
Diane Hamric
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Kayla Clemons
Dean Bruss
Jill Nauyokas
Tonya Velazquez
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Eleazar Ruiz
Marilyn Wall
Misty Dawn Moores
Trish Musgrave
Amanda Peters
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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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 9th, 2017 was:
TRISH MUSGRAVE
Howard City, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of 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.
SPECIAL NOTE: This week 16 of the contestants listed below had posted their answers, but had not “liked” one of our business pages. Their names WERE NOT included in the computer drawing for the gift card this week.
Here are the daily contestants from last week’s Trivia Contest that were entered into the Sunday drawing:
7/3/17
Jennifer Marie
Deborah Farris
Beth Epley Minton
Cheryl Hall
Michelle Abbott
Jakara Jackson
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Mary Achio
Lauren Bradley
Sandra Sue Blanton
Cyndi Jansheski
Tina Mimick
Brittany Whitley
Nancy Scharnhorst
Trish Marks
Chris Maxwell
Shameka Barnes
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
7/4/17
Sherri Kidwell
Sheila Carvell
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Lauren Bradley
Deborah Farris
Joanie Waterman
Katrina Worford
Kayla Clemons
Kristina Rosson
Tonya Velazquez
Trish Marks
Don Redfield Jr.
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Alicia Smith
Amanda Saltsman
Rebecca Honey Graham
Tina Marie
Tera Wardrip
Phylicia Phillips
Mary Achio
Abby Cox
Karen Brunet Moore
Amanda Rosario
7/5/17
Deborah Farris
Nelle Bailey
Kelly Jo Francisco
Diane Hamric
Samantha Brwn
Mary Achio
Nai Merri
Pamela White Brearley
Amanda Rosario
Lauren Bradley
Tina Mimick
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Brandi K Chaney
Joanie Waterman
Melissa White
Mya Murphy
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Dawna McKnight
Mary Pettiford
Megan Rhyne
Kimberly Foster
Candy Dyer
Alicia Smith
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Laurie Griffith
Jade Good
7/6/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Brandi K Chaney
Mal Rivera
Sherri Kidwell
Heather Jacques
Amanda Rosario
Geri Rus
Katrina Worford
Tiffany Becker
Christine McKinnon
Rebecca Fauteux
Joanie Waterman
Cheryl Hall
Amanda Peters
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Beth Cleveland
Laurie Griffith
Sheri Boydston
Meg Tucker
Michelle Rayeske-Jeske
7/7/17
Cheryl Hall
Jennifer Marie
Crystal Young
Amanda Rosario
Brian Fulop
Sheila Carvell
Karen Bondehagen
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Tracy Shafer
Barbie Sundy
Kim Floyd
Kristina Rosson
Jonnalyn Gates
Isis Sample
Nikki Parker
Luis Vazquez
Christy Hawkes
Samantha Brwn
Tera Wardrip
Kimberly Snyder
7/8/17
Danielle Muniz
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Abby Cox
Annette French
Deborah Farris
Tera Wardrip
Nitasha Shank
Chris Maxwell
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Chrissy Kim
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Michelle R. Carlino
Mary Achio
Dale Fish
Samantha Brwn
Joanna Robles
Karen Brunet Moore
Rondi Clark-Conn
Krissy Brislin
7/9/17
Christy Hawkes
Tera Wardrip
Mya Murphy
Deborah Farris
Joanie Waterman
Tonya Velazquez
Holly Cajigas
Brooke Scott
Katrina Worford
Amanda Peters
Abby Cox
Melissa White
Laurie Griffith
Tracy Shafer
Trish Musgrave
Anne Delos Reyes-Villafuerte
Karen Brunet Moore
Melinda Dreier
Eva Biggs
Amanda Rosario
Shaye Van
Kalyani Nam
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jessica Davis
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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At Health Insurance 4 Everyone, we not only want to improve our customer service but also interact with our customers on a social media level that wasn’t available before. Interested in connecting with us? Look us up on….
Twitter: Healthinsurane4 (Follow Us On Twitter To Receive Faster Notifications When Daily Trivia Questions Posted, & To Be Immediately Notified When Weekly AmEX & HI4Eshop Gift Card Winners Are Announced!!)
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking an indefinite leave of absence amid a scandal over sexual harassment. Billionaire David Bonderman also resigned from Uber’s board, after making disparaging comments about women at a board meeting intended to address sexual harassment in the workplace. Uber has fired more than 20 employees as part of its own internal probe into what multiple sources have described as a culture of sexism.
The fallout continues four months after former Uber engineer Susan Fowler came forward with allegations that Uber’s human-resources team systematically ignored her reports of sexual harassment during the year she worked for the company. Fowler detailed her year working for Uber in a February 2017 blog post which went viral and kicked off an internal investigation into her claims of sexual harassment.
Fowler claimed that just days after completing her training, she was clearly propositioned for sex by her new manager over a string of messages over company chat. She immediately took screenshots of the messages and sent them to Human Resources. She was told by the HR Team that the manager in question would receive only a verbal reprimand since it was his first offense. She was then given the option of leaving the team which would give her no contact with the manager in question or stay on the team knowing that he could give her a poor performance review. She was told a negative review would not be considered retaliation because she had the option to leave.
Fowler left the team and while working with other female engineers within the company, learned that the manager had been reported for inappropriate behavior by multiple women prior to her interaction with him. She claims that despite having a perfect performance score, a request for transfer was blocked and the reasoning was “undocumented performance problems”. Her blog post also revealed instances of blatant sexism, the dwindling number of female engineers still with the company and chaotic political games within upper management as well.
CEO Travis Kalanick sent a company-wide email the day after the blog post which addressed the allegations published the day before. The company launched two internal investigations, hiring the law firm Perkins Coie to investigate Fowler’s claims – which resulted in the firing of 20 people after investigating 215 reported claims of discrimination and harassment, among other issues. The company then brought on former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Tammy Albarran, both partners at law firm Covington & Burling, to conduct a separate investigation into Uber’s overall culture.
At the end of May, Uber received Eric Holder’s recommendations for change. The board met for more than six hours Holder presented the findings of his firm’s report. A representative for Uber’s board said it voted unanimously in favor of adopting all of Holder’s recommendations.
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The gunman who killed three men at a UPS facility in San Francisco and then killed himself has been identified as 38-year-old Jimmy Lam. The victims were Wayne Chan, 56, and Benson Louie, 50, both of San Francisco; and 46-year-old Michael Lefiti of Hercules, California. Two others were shot but survived the Wednesday morning shooting at the UPS San Francisco Customer Center.
Officers responded to a report of an active shooter about 8:55 a.m. local time at the UPS package sorting and delivery facility. When officers entered the building, they found the suspect armed with an assault pistol. The suspect immediately killed himself and no officers fired their weapons during the incident.
Lam, had worked as a driver for the Potrero Hill facility which employs 350 people. He was wearing his uniform during the shooting spree and opened fire on coworkers during a morning meeting for UPS drivers. Joseph Cilia, with a local Teamsters union that represents UPS workers in San Francisco has stated that Lam filed an internal grievance in March saying he was working excessive overtime. Cilia told the Associated Press that Lam did not seem angry when he filed the grievance.
A police official said it appears that Lam felt disrespected by co-workers, but it’s not clear if that was the motivation for the bloodshed. Lam appears to have targeted the three drivers he fatally shot. Shaun Vu, a senior UPS driver, has said Lam also struggled with personal issues and was depressed a few years ago. Vu said that Lam had shown improvement but seemed troubled a few weeks ago-which was around the time he filed the grievance.
Another UPS driver Leopold Parker, who witnessed the shooting, said that he was standing a few feet behind Benson Louie during the morning meeting when Lam walked up and shot Louie in the head. Lam then glanced at Parker but walked the other way so Parker jumped into the cab of his truck and later ran to the roof of the building.
Parker said drivers at the warehouse generally got along and didn’t mind working there. If they did have a problem with colleagues, they would talk to them or ignore them. He also stressed that drivers spent much of their time alone in their trucks, so they had limited interaction with their colleagues. He recalls that Lam sometimes complained about the workload but he never suspected that he would turn violent.
Other witnesses said that Mike “Big Mike” Lefiti was fleeing from the building as Lam followed him into the street and shot him. Mike McDonald, an area resident was walking home from work when he found Lefiti face down, bleeding profusely from the back. McDonald stayed with him and tried to comfort him until help arrived. McDonald said that in his final moments, Lefiti spoke lovingly about his three children. “He said he loves his family, he loves his children and that he didn’t do anything to this man.”
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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, June 18th, 2017 was:
CHRISTY HAWKES
Tremonton, UT
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of 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:
6/12/17
Brittany Marie Thompson
Hollie Jahnke
Becky VanGinkel
Lotorya Patrick
Melissa Barnes Walker
Anggie Marie
LaKishia Wagers
Taschia Miller
Sarah Harrison
Brandi Kerr
Janice Cash
Kayla Clemons
Anna Nichols
Isis Sample
Tera Wardrip
Brittany Witley
Karen Bondehagen
Chris Maxwell
Brittany Michelle
Tina Marie
Jamie Suttle
6/13/17
Kelly Jo Francisco
Eleazar Ruiz
Heather Marocco
Carla S-Paige Williams
Priscilla Shimp
D Shanel Collins
Kathleen Hickman
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Lisa David Carr
Rebecca Fauteux
Cheryl Hall
Sheila Carvell
Penny Fisher
Joanie Waterman
Kathi Taylor
Heather Jacques
Michelle Hughes
Tabitha Sinks
Jade Good
Andrea Timms
6/14/17
Missyn Haselby
Kelly Jo Francisco
Tera Wardrip
Alicia Smith
Jenifer Garza
Crystal Young
Samantha Brwn
Christina Montes
Amber McGrath
Morgan Alexandra
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Brittany Michelle
Kendra George
Wendi Black
Kristen Raia Bowman
Stephanie Beckwith
Kathi Taylor
Allyson Becker
Myranda Medlin
Carole Jacobs
Valerie Kuehn
Vickie Gipson
6/15/17
Brittany Whitley
Misty Shallcross
Hollie Jahnke
Lotorya Patrick
Christy Hawkes
Sheila Carvell
Krissy Brislin
Jennifer Leffler
Cheryl Hall
Sammi Palacios
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Wendi Black
Angela N Dustin Turner
Trish Musgrave
Sandra Sue Blanton
Kim Avery
Dena Baji
Christina Radcliff
Michelle Abbott
Barbie Sundy
Michelle Hughes
Karyn Koehler
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Belinda Haas
Michelle Cervantes
6/16/17
Christy Hawkes
Jodi Stevens
Deborah Farris
Sammi Palacios
Juanita Williams-Jones
Lotorya Patrick
Sandy Nevels
Valerie Kuehn
D Shanel Collins
Kim Floyd
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Nelle Bailey
Brooke Scott
Paula Rousseau
Tina Mimick
Bea Patrick
Jade Good
Eleazar Ruiz
Nitasha Shank
Megan Rhyne
Marcia Hutcherson
6/17/17
Valerie Kuehn
Sheila Carvell
Kristina Rosson
Brian K Henson
Sammi Palacios
Ashley Stamey Phillips
Michelle R. Carlino
Chris Maxwell
Sarah Harrison
D Shanel Collins
Cassandra Berholtz
Amber Chandler
Samantha Maxwell
Susanne Killion
Kristina Harris
Tiffany Banks
Brandi K Chaney
Kimberly Snyder
Vickie Gipson
Christina Domingue
6/18/17
Melissa Turner Baker
Joanie Waterman
Ashley Agner
Judy Custer
Shelly Ann Peoples
Jade Good
Jacqlyn Gummert
Kelly Jo Francisco
Michelle R. Carlino
Deborah Farris
Althea Thomas
Lisa Puckett
Diane Hamric
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Sara Biason
Tracy Shafer
Jennifer Ramlet
Kayte CookWatts
Jodi Stevens
Ashley Stamey Phillips
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. 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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According to state and county data, drug overdose deaths surged in 2016, killing nearly 60,000 Americans last year. It is an alarming 19% increase over the 52,404 recorded in 2015 and the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States. All evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017. The epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse means that for Americans under the age of 50, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death.
The New York Times compiled estimates for 2016 from hundreds of state health departments and county coroners and medical examiners. The initial data points to large increases in drug overdose deaths in states along the East Coast, particularly Maryland, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Maine. The Times analysis suggests that the exponential growth in overdose deaths in 2016 didn’t extend to all parts of the country. In some states in the western half of the United States, overdose deaths may have leveled off or even declined.
The Times data showed that heroin and fentanyl-related deaths are still increasing across the United States – particularly in the Northeast and Midwest. The death rate from synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, surged 72% in 2015, and heroin death rates increased nearly 21 percent.
In Ohio, overdose deaths increased more than 25% in 2016, largely driven by Cook County, where 1,091 of the state’s 3,310 overdose deaths were reported. Last week, the state of Ohio filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry, accusing drug manufacturers of aggressively advertising opioids and lying to both doctors and patients about the dangers of addiction.
The Drug Enforcement Agency wrote in a 2016 report detailing what the organization calls a global threat “The United States is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis, with law enforcement reporting and public health data indicating higher availability of fentanyls, increased seizures of fentanyls, and more known overdose deaths from fentanyls than at any other time since the drugs were first created in 1959.”
California had the largest total number of overdose deaths at 4,659 in 2015, followed by OH with 3,310, which like West Virginia has been hard hit by the epidemic. The Drug Abuse Warning Network estimated that misuse or abuse of narcotic pain relievers were responsible for more than 420,000 emergency department visits in 2011, the most recent year for which we have data.
Experts warn a key factor of the surge in deaths is fentanyl, which can be 50 times more powerful than heroin. Fentanyl has been popping up in drug seizures across the country. It is usually sold on the street as heroin or drug traffickers use it to make cheap counterfeit prescription opioids. Fentanyls are showing up in cocaine as well, contributing to an increase in cocaine-related overdoses.
Research suggests that since heroin and opioid painkillers, (including prescription ones) act similarly in the brain. Opioid painkillers are often referred to by some doctors as “heroin lite” and taking one (even “as directed”) can increase one’s susceptibility to becoming hooked on the other.
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The recent cyber-attack has reignited the debate over whether or not governments should disclose vulnerabilities they have discovered or bought on the black market. Privacy experts are also calling the recent global ransomware attack that hit 150 countries a prime example of why requiring tech companies to create backdoors into computer programs is a bad idea. The danger of those digital keys being stolen has the potential to wreak havoc.
The global computer hack that used a cyber-weapon developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), disrupted hospitals, universities, government offices, gas stations, ATM machines and more than 300,000 computers worldwide. Less than 10 U.S. organizations reported attacks to the Department of Homeland Security. The attack caused the most damage in Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine and India.
It’s the first time a cyber-weapon developed by the NSA has been stolen and released by hackers. The NSA has neither confirmed nor denied that they developed the cyber-weapon. Elements of the malicious software used in the attacks were part of a treasure trove of cyber-attack tools leaked by hacking group the Shadow Brokers in April. One of the tools contained in the leak, codenamed EternalBlue, proved to be “the most significant factor” in the spread of the ransom ware used in the attack.
The ransom ware was transmitted by email and then encrypted thousands of computers, locking people out of their data and then threatened to destroy it unless a ransom was paid. The cyberattack locked medical workers out of the computer systems at dozens of British and Indonesian hospitals, disrupted train schedules in Germany and froze government computers from Russia’s Interior Ministry to police stations in India.
The cyber-weapon used exploits weaknesses in Microsoft software. The U.S. government have known for years about this weakness in the software but only told Microsoft about the vulnerability recently. Microsoft had fixed the problem a month prior to the EternalBlue leak on April 14th but many high-profile targets had not updated their systems to stay secure.
The cyber-attack eased but the group who released the global WannaCry “ransomware” attack warned it would release more malicious code. ShadowBrokers said they would release more recent code to enable hackers to break into the world’s most widely used computers, software and phones. A blog post written by the group promised to release tools every month to anyone willing to pay for access to some of the tech world’s biggest commercial secrets. It also threatened to dump data from banks using the SWIFT international money transfer network and from Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean nuclear and missile programs. “More details in June,” it promised.
Cyber security researchers around the world have said they have found evidence that could link North Korea with the WannaCry cyber attack but that it is too early to confirm a definitive connection.
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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 28th, 2017 was:
LAURIE GRIFFITH
Novi, MI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans of 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:
5/22/17
Cheryl Hall
Deborah Farris
Brandi K Chaney
Teena Sierson
Alexandria Fields
Tiffany Banks
Tabitha Sinks
Marcy Coull
Karen Bondehagen
Kristina Harris
Nai Merri
Darlene Whyte
Valerie Kuehn
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Leslie Wagner Hobson
Jacqlyn Gummert
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Anna Nichols
Kimberly Snyder
Jessica Jenry
Cassandra Berholtz
Misty Dawn Moores
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
5/23/17
Jonnalyn Gates
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Kristina Harris
Chrissy Kim
LaKishia Wagers
Annette French
Terri Llexxes
Andrea Timms
Joanie Waterman
Kristina Rosson
Jennifer Downing
Carla S-Paige Williams
Tiffany Banks
Priscilla Shimp
Anna Nichols
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Lauren Bradley
Brandi K Chaney
Alisa Jones
D Shanel Collins
5/24/17
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Mark Shuster, Owner/Partner, has a distinguished sales and management background and has been in the insurance industry for over 26 years.
He is licensed in 43 states, and has sold over $36 million in personally produced business, making him the highest producing health insurance agent in the history of a major Fortune 500 company, and at each of the companies he has recently been employed.
As the founding member of Health Insurance 4 Everyone, and as the owner/member of Health & Life Solutions, LLC, Mark oversees the sales, recruitment, and strategic planning needs for the company’s nationwide direct and telemarketing sales teams.
He has been instrumental in the start up and development of offices throughout the country, and has served as an industry spokesman and sales trainer, at each of the Fortune 500 companies where he was employed throughout his career. Mark’s experience and leadership provides his company with the skills and resources needed to set and achieve the highest sales and management goals in the industry.
His training and selling philosophy focuses on ensuring a “value package” of insurance products, keeping the customer’s needs in mind, which then results in increased long term customer retention standards.
His demonstrated success at providing unprecedented customer satisfaction, through the team he manages and leads, is unmatched within the industry.
Prior to entering his career in the insurance industry 26 years ago, he managed cable television and broadcast systems throughout the Midwest and the East Coast. He is a former aide to U.S. Senators, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and holds a Political Science Bachelor of Arts degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Corinne Kolasienski
Corinne Kolasienski, Owner/Partner, served as the Regional Team Leader at the company headquarters based in the Hartford, Connecticut area. She has a varied career in sales and management that spans close to 25 years in the insurance industry. She has served in positions of sales management, as Vice President of Sales, and just prior to joining the Health Insurance 4 Everyone team, served as the CEO of a company which she founded that provides corporate recognition programs, human resources, and customer service consulting in numerous industries around the country.
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She is recognized for her success in developing customer service support initiatives and in the training and development of sales teams throughout the United States. Corinne initially joined the company’s headquarters office as the Director of Personnel and Recruitment. She quickly moved up and became a founding member of the company’s new headquarters, providing the recruitment, training and development of the company’s fastest growing sales team, as awarded in 2008, 2009 and year-to-date in 2010.
She recently became a founding member of the management team for the new Health Insurance 4 Everyone Company which was restructured and incorporated in early 2010. She has distinguished herself as a role model in personal sales production, and has demonstrated her successful leadership skills in moving the newer team members quickly through the training process, and on to become “top closers” in the business. Corinne brings to the company a level of enthusiasm and professionalism that inspires her team members to set and then exceed their own personal production goals. She is one of the company’s most dynamic managers in bringing the sales teams a level of success unmatched by others in the industry.
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Health Insurance 4 Everyone (Hi4e.org), is positioned to capture the impending surge of growth from the recent national health care reforms.
A new portfolio of supplemental life insurance, disability, long-term care and Medicare supplement products ensure that the company can offer “insurance plans for everyone”.
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President Donald Trump announced the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the man who is responsible for the bureau’s investigation into whether members of the Trump campaign team colluded with Russia in its interference in last year’s election. The administration attributed Comey’s dismissal to his handling of the investigation into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server, but many suggested the reason behind his dismissal was that Comey was getting too close to the White House with the Russia probe.
The news caught Comey by surprise as it flashed on television screens in the room as he spoke to FBI agents at an event in Los Angeles. His firing is the first dismissal of an FBI chief since 1993 when President Clinton ousted William Sessions as FBI director after Sessions refused to voluntarily step down amid ethical concerns.
President Trump stated in a letter to Comey that he agrees with his Department of Justice’s assessment that Comey is “not able to effectively lead the Bureau.” Those findings, specifically from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, stem from Rosenstein’s belief that Comey mishandled the Clinton investigation.
Trump’s actions were a turnaround from his stance just seven months ago on the campaign trail, when he repeatedly praised Comey for reopening the investigation into the scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Just days away from the election, Comey sent a letter to Congress stating that the FBI had reopened its investigation into Clinton. The decision was made because of its investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who is married to Clinton confidant Huma Abedin. Comey followed up days later with another letter, informing Congress that the FBI didn’t find anything and continued to believe Clinton’s practices were reckless but did not merit any criminal charges.
After Clinton’s loss, former President Bill Clinton blamed Comey for it. Hillary Clinton herself told CNN “I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me and got scared off.”
A senior white house official said that a replacement will be announced in the coming days. Some possible candidates include Ray Kelly, Chris Christie, David Clarke, Trey Gowdy. Ray Kelly has a 47 year career within the NYPD. He served as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2013. Chris Christie is the current governor of New Jersey and is a former Republican-appointed United States attorney in New Jersey. David Clarke is currently serving his fourth full term as the sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, a position he has held since 2002. Trey Gowdy is a Replublican U.S. Respresentative for South Carolina and a former federal prosecutor. He led the House committee investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi investigation.
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