On September 15th, nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) launched a strike, walking out of over 50 General Motors facilities. Workers say GM continues to deny employees’ demands for fair conditions and compensation despite leading the company to record profits following bankruptcy and a federal bailout. The nearly 50,000 full-time and temporary workers represented by the UAW make up about half of its workforce.GM workers say they are pushing for a more equitable contract that will guarantee better wages for new hires, stronger health-care benefits and more job security. Workers are forgoing their paychecks during the strike, though the UAW will pay them $250 a week from its strike fund.
GM has made over $30 billion in the past six years, since recovering from its 2009 bankruptcy. Although they received profit-sharing checks that totaled $52,500 for the same period, workers want pay raises that will show up year after year. They gave up cost-of-living pay raises and made other concessions to keep the company afloat during its 2009 bankruptcy, and now they want to be repaid. Longtime workers have received only two raises since 2010. Workers hired after 2007 still make less than older workers, and the union wants to erase that gap.
The company is facing a global auto sales slowdown and also says health care costs are too high, and it wants to cut labor costs so they are closer to U.S. factories owned by foreign competitors. Senior GM workers now make around $30 per hour, but with benefits, it adds up to $63 per hour. Total labor costs run an average of $50 per hour at the foreign plants. The car giant has moved to close a handful of production facilities in the United States in recent years despite strong profitability margins. GM made $8.1 billion in profit after taxes last year but announced the closure of four factories, scuttling thousands of jobs. GM says it has offered to make $7 billion in investments and create 5,400 jobs, including introducing electric trucks, opening a battery cell manufacturing site and investing in eight existing facilities.
The strike has effectively halted GM’s production in the US and just a day after the strike, GM responded with a letter announcing they had cut off health insurance for the nearly 50,000 people on picket lines across the country. GM spokesman David Barnas said the decision to cut workers’ health care was a standard practice during stoppages, likening it to the cessation of worker paychecks. A spokesperson for the UAW stated that they would cover the striker’s health-care fees under COBRA in the interim from the pool of money it keeps for strikes. Employee dental and vision plans will not be covered during the strike.
The effects of the strike have been felt quickly, when GM dismissed 1,200 workers from an assembly plant in Ontario, Canada just three days after the strike started. GM has said the temporary layoffs were the result of parts shortages in the United States because of the strike. The factory had produced full-size pickup trucks. Analysts say GM could be losing as much as $50 million to $100 million a day from the stoppage. 
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U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced actress Felicity Huffman to two weeks in prison for paying $15,000 to get her daughter into college by having someone correct her answers on the SATs. Huffman also received a $30,000 fine and 250 hours of community service. She had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Her lawyers asked for no jail time, one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and a $20,000 fine. Her sentence likely means other parents who’ve pleaded guilty in the nation’s college admissions scandal will spend time behind bars. It could also mean that others who made significantly larger payments will end up with more lenient prison terms than prosecutors say are fair.
During Huffman’s sentence she told the courtroom she was deeply ashamed. Judge Indira Talwani said, “Ultimately, you knew it was fraud, it was not an impulsive act. Trying to be a good mother doesn’t excuse this.” Talwani added that the sentence she handed down was “the right sentence here,” but also told Huffman “You can rebuild your life after this,” the judge said. “You’ve paid your dues.” Huffman will report to prison in six weeks, on October 25. Where she’ll serve her sentence has not been announced and will ultimately be decided by the Bureau of Prisons.
Fifty-two people have been charged as part of the college admissions bribery scandal known as “Varsity Blues.” Of the 52 people charged in the scandal, 35 are parents. Fifteen, including Huffman, have pleaded guilty in deals with prosecutors, while 19, including actress Lori Loughlin, have pleaded not guilty and are preparing for trial. Rick Singer, the mastermind of the nationwide college admissions scandal, was paid to have cheat on their children’s SAT or ACT while others paid substantially more to get their children falsely tagged as athletic recruits as a way into prestigious schools. Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced and prosecutors sought one month prison time for Huffman. Prosecutors are pushing for longer sentences for other defendants — more than three years in some cases.
The next parent to be sentenced in Boston federal court is Devin Sloane, CEO of Los Angeles-based waterTALENT. He pleaded guilty to paying $250,000 to Singer’s sham nonprofit to falsely designate his son as a water polo player to gain acceptance into the University of Southern California. Prosecutors are seeking one year in prison for Sloane. Sloane’s hearing is scheduling for September 24th. Two days later, Stephen Semprevivo, a former executive at Cydcor, also based in Los Angeles, will be sentenced. He pleaded guilty to paying $400,000 to Singer to get his son admitted into Georgetown University as a fake tennis recruit. Prosecutors have asked that Semprevio receive 15 months in prison.
Both upcoming cases will reveal whether the judge treats the recruiting scheme the same as the testing scam, and whether she comes down harder on parents who paid more to Singer. Longer sentences could be in store for parents who participated in the recruitment scheme because it had a more “direct effect” on the admissions process than test tampering. Such parents, including Loughlin, accused of paying $500,000 to Singer, have argued they made “legitimate donations” to Singer’s nonprofit, which they said had a history of donating to colleges.
Prosecutors have argued parents who paid more money to Singer should receive longer prison terms. An order by the judge released hours before Huffman’s sentencing could cap sentences at six months for parents regardless of their how much they paid. Judge Talwani ruled against the government’s request to sentence defendants under the federal commercial bribery statute, which allows more severe sentences depending on the amount of money paid. Instead, all sentences will be based on fraud statute guidelines, which recommend six months or less in prison for the offense.
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Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas, killing at least 50 people. As the clean-up operation continues, the death toll is expected to rise. About 1,300 people are missing after Dorian, while at least 15,000 are in need of shelter, food and medical care. Compounding the Bahamas’ misery is a massive oil spill that’s begun to spread into the ocean off the southern coast of Grand Bahama island after Hurricane Dorian blew the lids off six giant crude oil tanks.
Dorian was packing Category 5 winds with speeds of 185mph when it made landfall at Elbow Cay on the Abacos on September 1st. It is the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic basin since 1935. Rescue efforts were hampered as Dorian stalled, grinding in place for hours instead of moving back over open ocean. It equaled the highest winds ever recorded for a hurricane at landfall when it struck the Abaco Islands.
On the Abaco island chain, which is less developed than the tourist areas of the country and populated by fishermen and Haitian migrants — thousands of homes are expected to have been damaged or destroyed. A Redcross spokesman said it is believed that 13,000 houses — nearly half of all the homes on Grand Bahama and Abaco — suffered severe damage or were entirely destroyed. During the storm, images showed profound levels of flooding and rainfall, with as much as 30 inches falling in some areas. The Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, the archipelago’s second-largest city, was five feet underwater.
United Nations officials say that over 60,000 people on the two islands need emergency food access, and that around 62,000 need access to clean water. The main hospital on Grand Bahama is reportedly unusable, while the hospital on Abaco desperately requires food, water, and medical supplies. The U.N. estimated that at least 70,000 people are homeless on Abaco and Grand Bahama. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from those islands to New Providence, where the country’s capital Nassau is located. The Minister of Health, Dr. Duane Sands, said 80 people with injuries were evacuated from the island of Abaco and five or six from Grand Bahama island. He said injuries ranged from broken bones to head injuries to “maternity-based issues.” Sands said some among the dead succumbed to their injuries after being evacuated. The Prime Minister encouraged parents to send their kids to school when they are evacuated to Nassau, and said the government would continue to provide food and healthcare.
The devastation wrought by Dorian after its day-and-a-half mauling of the Bahamas, left ravaged infrastructure that has impeded search and recovery efforts. The islands remain a mess of splintered buildings, torn-off roofs, snapped power poles and scattered vehicles. The hurricane destroyed the island’s power grid and severed most communications, although occasional text messages were getting through in Marsh Harbor, the biggest town. Risk modeler Karen Clark & Co. estimates that devastation from the storm could cost the country $7 billion in insured and uninsured losses. The preliminary estimate combines damage to commercial, residential and industrial properties as well as business-interruption expenses, the company said in a report. The figure doesn’t include vehicle losses or damage to infrastructure.
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A 50-year-old Kansas woman became the sixth person in the USA to die of a vaping-related lung illness, an outbreak that has ramped up health concerns nationwide. Kansas State Epidemiologist Farah Ahmed said in a statement that the unidentified patient had a history of underlying health issues and had been hospitalized with symptoms that progressed rapidly. Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said that the patient did have underlying health issues but nothing that would have foretold the fact that within a week after starting using e-cigarettes for the first time, she developed full-blown acute respiratory distress. Doctors say it’s clear the vaping related lung illness is responsible for her rapid deterioration.
Kansas health officials noted six more cases associated with the outbreak, three patients confirmed with the illness and three cases under investigation. Five previous vaping-related deaths were confirmed in California, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Oregon. After the Kansas fatality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied six deaths and more than 450 possible cases of severe lung injury in 33 states and one jurisdiction. The CDC confirmed that investigators narrowed their focus and that the additive vitamin E acetate is a chemical involved in many of the cases, but officials emphasized it is not in all of the cases being reviewed.
People with a history of vaping who experience lung injury symptoms should seek medical care, according to Kansas health officials. Nationally, symptoms include shortness of breath, fever, cough, vomiting and diarrhea. Other symptoms reported by some patients include headache, dizziness and chest pain. Though many patients across the nation have been in their late teens, 20s or 30s, the Kansas death is a warning that older adults may be at particular risk.
Patients tend to arrive at the hospital short of breath and coughing. Many have also had fevers, general fatigue and gastrointestinal problems. It is not unusual for patients to be put into intensive care units, and on ventilators. All reported vaping nicotine, THC or a combination of the two in the days and weeks before falling ill. The CDC has recommended people stay away from vaping devices while investigators work to pinpoint exactly what’s behind the illnesses.
The rapid and worrisome increase has now prompted a Congressional hearing on the matter, after a policy discussion on the matter. The recent death has prompted the U.S. President to call for a ban on thousands of e-cigarette flavors in an effort to get people to give up e-cigarettes. E-cigarette companies have been given years to gather and submit evidence their products are safe and effective ways to quit smoking traditional tobacco. A federal judge has set a May 2020 deadline for companies to do so.
Dr. Norman said “God only knows what all is in there. There should be a moratorium on the sale of these products until we know more.” The American Lung Association also released a statement warning the public that e-cigarettes could cause irreversible lung damage. “No one should use e-cigarettes or any other tobacco product,” Harold Wimmer, national president of the American Lung Association, wrote in the statement. “This message is even more urgent today following the increasing reports of vaping-related illnesses and deaths nationwide.”
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, September 15th, 2019.
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/VISA 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, September 15th, 2019 was:
PAULA M BONDY
Mich.
Winner Of A $25.00 VISA Gift Card
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Trivia Winners and Drawing Entries 9/9/19 thru 9/15/19
9/9/19
Lena Perry
Amber Chandler
Phylicia Phillips
Jessica Steiner
Becky Hartman
MarcyLynn Coull
Melissa Barnes Walker
Paula Johnson
Teena Sierson
Sheila Carvell
Josephine Casey
Marilyn Wall
Leigh Reader
Emily Rice Bowersock
Dean Bruss
Paula M Bondy
Eleazar Ruiz
Sandra Robb
Alana Dimambro
Joanna Hacker
Debbie Garretson
9/10/19
April Ashcraft
Darlene Whyte
Amber Chandler
Kimberly Snyder
Jo Bhagavathula
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Sonali Jain Modi
Amanda Rosario
Brooke Scott
Sherry Lilly
Tom Cavalli
Sheila Carvell
Jessica Steiner
Rhonda Grisham
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Debbie Bloxom
Anna Nichols
Christina Domingue
Dave Miller
Brandi K Chaney
Kim Avery
9/11/19
Brooke Scott
Josephine Casey
Barbara Austin
Tracy Heyer
Margaret Primos
Sherry Killy
Karen Brunet Moore
Janice McKay Donahue
Leigh Reader
Mama Teaches
Shannon Rush
Paula Johnson
Trish Marks
Christy Hawkes
Dawn Raasch
Nacole Patrick
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Eleazar Ruiz
Lori Sexton Leal
Nai Merri
Jenifer Garza
Traci Anderson
9/12/19
Robins Griffitts Pratt
Kimberly Snyder
Dean Bruss
Derek Michelle Polk
Trish Hysell
Kim Avery
Lenis Abshire
Wendi Black
Becky VanGinkel
Meg Marshall
April Ashcraft
Jill Nagel
Barbara Austin
Marilyn Wall
Amanda Rosario
Amanda Brewer
Paula M Bondy
Jill Nauyokas
Sherri Kidwell
Russell Tuggle
Michelle Small
9/13/19
Amber Critchley
Ang Richards
Christina Radcliff
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tabitha Sinks
Brooke Scott
Brittany Light
Abby Noelle
Joanie Waterman
Alicia Johnson
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Paula Gillespie
Steph Lesliebonton
Gricelda Castro
Tracy Heyer
Penny Fisher
Brittany Seiler
Shona Ort
Sheila Carvell
Alana Dimambro
Jenifer Garza
Ruthie Helen Boilard
9/14/19
Jill Nauyokas
Eleazar Ruiz
Jennifer Vega
Amanda Rosario
Alicia Dansby
Be Schwerin
Carol Jean
Jenifer Garza
Melissa White
Kacie Rogers
Anna Nichols
Diane Hamric
Rosanne Clark
LaKishia Wagers
Tonya Velazquez
Marilyn Wall
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Josephine Casey
Leigh Reader
9/15/19
Lisa Bourlier
Kimberly Snyder
Brooke Scott
Thomas Ryan Gan
Alicia Dansby
Annette French
Christina Radcliff
Derek Michelle Polk
Debbie Bloxom
Kristina Rosson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Alicia Carpenter
Wendi Black
Be Schwerin
Alexis Maureen
Karron Redfield
Angel Shearl
Alexis Maureen
Eleazar Ruiz
Kathi Taylor
Shannon Rush
Jane Peterson
Dawn Raasch
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Five deaths in the US have been linked to vaping as health officials continue to grapple with the dangers of e-cigarette use and the exact cause of the deaths. All five died after developing a severe lung illness that is believed to be linked to vaping. The exact cause of the deaths and the dangers of vaping still remain unclear but are being investigated on both the federal and state level.
More than 450 possible cases of respiratory illnesses have been reported in 33 states after use of e-cigarette products, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The average age of those with the illness is 19, which is not surprising considering of the almost 10 million vapers in the US, nearly half of those are under 35, with 18-24-year-olds the most regular users.
Those who have suffered from the lung illness reported experiencing coughing, chest pain or shortness of breath before their health deteriorated to the point of respiratory failure and they needed to be hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Respiratory failure is where your body either can’t break down oxygen, produce carbon dioxide, or both. The result is that your lungs stop working and breathing becomes difficult. Other reported symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, fever and weight loss. Many victims have ended up with acute respiratory distress syndrome, a life-threatening condition in which fluid builds up in the lungs and prevents the oxygen people’s bodies need to function from circulating in the bloodstream.
Those affected used a number of different devices from vaporizers to smaller e-cigarettes and a variety of different brands of liquids and cartridges. Health officials recently said many cases involved products that contained THC, the mind-altering substance in marijuana. The FDA has now collected over 120 samples to test for different chemicals, including nicotine, cannabinoids, additives and pesticides.
They also recently identified a common contaminant in some of the cannabis products used by patients across the country — an oil derived from vitamin E. It remains unclear whether this is the cause or one of the causes of the illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a statement that advised against using electronic cigarettes while it investigates the issue. The agency also said people should stop buying vaporizers, cartridges and liquids off the street or modifying vaping products bought legally.
New York Health officials have focusing their investigation on Vitamin E acetate after they found high levels of it in nearly all of the cannabis-containing vapes tested. At least one vape containing both cannabis and vitamin E has been linked to every patient who submitted products for testing, the New York health department said. Vitamin E isn’t known to be harmful if ingested as a vitamin supplement, but it could be dangerous if inhaled because of its “oil-like” properties. It has not been approved as an additive for New York’s medical marijuana program.
Federal health officials are warning that vitamin E is likely only one piece of the puzzle. The CDC is running its own tests on more than 100 samples for vitamin E, pesticides, opioids, poisons and other toxins. “No one substance or compound, including vitamin E acetate, has been identified in all the samples tested,” Zeller said. “The samples we’re continuing to evaluate show a mix of results.”
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A patient in Illinois is believed to be the first death linked to vaping. Health officials said the patient died after contracting a severe respiratory illness, but did not give details about what the patient was vaping or which device was used. They did not provide details about the patient’s identity, saying only that the person was an adult who had vaped recently and then succumbed to a severe respiratory illness.
This comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified nearly 200 possible cases of lung disease linked to vaping in at least 22 states, including 22 cases in Illinois. The Illinois patients range in age from 17 to 38. Illinois state officials are working with local health departments to investigate another 12 individuals. Officials said earlier this week that many patients, most of whom were adolescents or young adults, had described difficulty breathing, chest pain, vomiting and fatigue. The most seriously ill patients have had extensive lung damage that required treatment with oxygen and days on a ventilator. Some are expected to have permanent lung damage.
Many patients have acknowledged vaping of tetrahydrocannabinol, or (T.H.C.), the high-inducing chemical in marijuana, according to statements from federal and state health agencies. Officials still don’t know whether the ailments have been caused by marijuana-type products, e-cigarettes, or some type of street concoction that was vaped, or whether a contaminant or defective device may have been involved.
The F.D.A. does not regulate what ingredients are used in vaping devices. The e-cigarette market has broadened to counterfeiters and a range of devices that can be packed with different substances, including marijuana, but also various flavors and concoctions that may be mixed inexpertly. Some speculate that people are emptying out commercial nicotine pods and filling them up with a combination of T.H.C. oil and other chemicals. Cannabis liquids and oils have become more widely available online and in many stores. The ingredients may not be disclosed at all so unsuspecting consumers may be exposed to a cocktail of hazardous chemicals.
State health departments are handling most investigations into the respiratory illnesses. So far, public health officials have declined to say if they are seeing a pattern that would make clear whether the problematic products are made by mass-market companies or counterfeiters, or whether the inhalants involved are standard to many vaping products or made or mixed by consumers themselves. Even though cases appear similar, it is not clear whether all these cases have a common cause or whether they are different diseases with similar symptoms.
Dozens of young people with an unidentified lung illness have been hospitalized around the country in recent weeks. It’s unclear if the condition is linked to the vaping devices or what the patients were smoking before they became sick. A recent study says that e-cigarettes impact people’s blood vessels after a single use. Officials said they don’t know why a surge of illnesses is surfacing now since various forms of the battery-powered e-cigarette devices have existed for more than a decade. E-cigarettes have grown in popularity over the past decade despite little research on their long-term effects. Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes, with the greatest use among young adults. Lat year, more than 3.6 million U.S. middle and high school students said they had used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, according to the CDC.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, August 25th, 2019.
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/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, August 25th, 2019 was:
PATRICIA MacLEOD
Halifax, NS
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX Gift Card
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The drawing entries for 8/19/19 thru 8/25/19 are:
8/19/19
Amber Chandler
Nelle Bailey
Janice McKay Donahue
Rhonda Grisham
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Nancy Scharnhorst
Kathleen Hickman
Stephanie Beckwith
Dean Bruss
Amanda Brewer
Alisa Jones
Sheila Carvell
Amanda Brewer
Barbara Austin
Joanie Waterman
Stacy Nelson
Amber Critchley
Brittany Seiler
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Samantha Smith
8/20/19
Paula Johnson
Leigh Reader
Jessica Steiner
Josephine Casey
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Michelle Webb
Karron Redfield
Bea Patrick
Tabitha Sinks
Kari Wagoner
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Shannon Rush
Dean Bruss
Nacole Patrick
Brittany Light
Phylicia Phillips
Edward John
Nelle Bailey
Dawna McKnight
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Lisa Bourlier
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Kimberly Taylor Hall
8/21/19
Kim Floyd
Vickie Gipson
Phylicia Phillips
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Paula Johnson
Samantha Smith
Dean Bruss
Anna Nichols
Marilyn Wall
Nicole Blaha
Leigh Reader
Kimberly Snyder
Kayla Hernandez
Alyssa DiFazio
Lisa Puckett
Sherry Lilly
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Shannon Rush
Jenifer Garza
Josephine Casey
8/22/19
Brooke Scott
Becky Holland
Brittany Light
Bea Patrick
Jill Nauyokas
Jennifer Vega
Demara Peterson Broadus
Wendi Black
Kevin Cusack
Rhonda Grisham
Kathleen Hickman
Michelle Tyler Jeske
Karron Redfield
Tracy Heyer
Kimberly Snyder
Alyssa DiFazio
Adaria Johnson
Nacole Patrick
Alicia Dansby
Beth Cleveland
Vickie Gipson
8/23/19
Brittany Light
Adaria Johnson
Mary Pettiford
Becky Holland
Michelle Webb
Tracy Heyer
Alicia Johnson
Terri Bowen
Nai Merri
Tina Casto-Shafer
Tiffany Borek
MarcyLynn Coull
Holly Cajigas
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Annette French
Ambreen Javed
Jane Peterson
Amber McGrath
Diane Maxwell
Emily Ricee Bowersock
Anniemarie Maria Aikens
8/24/19
Kathleen Hickman
Melissa Barnes Walker
Christine Beckmann
Rhonda Grisham
Kimberly Snyder
Alexis Maureen
Leigh Reader
Shannon Rush
Blanca Carrillo
Paula Gillespie
Ashley Richmond
Alicia Johnson
Jo Bhagavatula
Paula Johnson
Josephine Casey
Jenifer Garza
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jan Peoples
Lisa Bourlier
Alana Dimambro
Christy Hawkes
Patricia MacLeod
8/25/19
Tiffany Greene Elliott
April Ashcraft
Misty Shallcross
Becky Hartman
Nelle Bailey
Carol Jean
Holly Cajigas
Christina Domingue
Michelle Webb
Shannon Rush
Debbie Gremlin
Trish Marks
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Paula Gillespie
Paula Johnson
Aarti DM
Patricia MacLeod
Christy Hawkes
Josephine Casey
Robin Sevetter
Sarah Frank
Trish Marks
Leigh Reader
Cheryl Holstein
Edward John
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Newark, New Jersey’s water crisis is growing worse as authorities temporarily halted their distribution of bottled water to families whose tap water is contaminated with lead. The Environmental Protection Agency told city officials to distribute bottled water “as soon as possible,” after it determined that water filters were ineffective at safely filtering lead from the water supply of thousands of homes. State and local officials began offering free bottled water to 15,000 Newark households, and hundreds of people queued in long lines in the summer heat for their allotment. Officials stopped handing out the water after discovering many of the bottles had exceeded their best-by date.
The levels of lead in Newark, New Jersey’s drinking water are some of the highest recently recorded by a large water system in the United States. City and state officials have been violating the Safe Drinking Water Act in several ways, such as failing to treat its water to prevent lead from flaking off from pipes into residents’ drinking water and neglecting to notify people about the elevated levels and the health risks. For years, the city has had the greatest number of lead-poisoned children in New Jersey. This likely stems from a variety of exposures to lead, including from contaminated tap water and other sources.
One way lead particles get into water is through corrosion in pipes and it’s believed to be the cause in Newark. The metal in lead service plumbing lines starts to tear away and mix with the water passing through. This is often apparent in older pipes; in some affected Newark neighborhoods, pipes are over 100 years old. Citywide tests conducted in June 2017 showed that more than 10% of homes across Newark had twice the amount of lead that is considered safe according to federal law.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental and health advocacy group, sent a letter to officials in Newark later that year saying that they had failed to address the lead contamination issue. After the city failed two more citywide lead tests in December 2017 and June 2018, the city announced in October that year that it would provide over 40,000 water filters to residents. After the city then failed a fourth consecutive lead test in December 2018, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka wrote an open letter to the President asking for federal help to fix the water system in the city.
The city failed another lead test in June 2019 and in August, after testing three homes that were using water filters provided by the city, officials found that two of those homes still had elevated levels of lead in them. After the results of their water filter tests, city officials have begun handing out packages of bottled water to Newark residents, in accordance with guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
There is no safe level of lead exposure and pregnant women and children are most at risk. Even low lead levels are associated with serious, irreversible damage to developing brains and nervous systems. Lead exposure is also linked to fertility issues, cardiovascular and kidney problems, cognitive dysfunction, and elevated blood pressure in otherwise healthy adults.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, August 18th, 2019.
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/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, August 18th, 2019 was:
AMBER CHANDLER
Chesterfield, VA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 8/12/19 thru 8/18/19:
8/12/19
Tina Kaiser
Amanda Rosario
Kim Avery
Becky VanGinkel
Christy Hawkes
Stephanie Beckwith
June Rivera
Rhonda Grisham
Alyssa DiFazio
Sheila Carvell
Rosanne Clark
George Pownall
Shannon Rush
Stacy Nelson
Adaria Johnson
Kacie Rogers
Leigh Reader
Josephine Casey
Samantha Smith
Paula Johnson
8/13/19
Josephine Casey
Shannon Rush
Leigh Reader
April Ashcraft
Rhonda Grishsam
Jennifer Marie
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Tracy Shafer
Be Schwerin
Jill Nauyokas
Paula Johnson
Paula Gillespie
Susan Clarke Jette
Mya Murphy
Jessica Steiner
Melissa White
Kevin Cusack
Amanda Reid
Maria Bouchard
8/14/19
Nicole Ryan
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Lisa Bourlier
Leigh Reader
Don Redfield Jr.
Tiffany Banks
Jennifer Vega
Be Schwerin
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Dean Bruss
Shannon Rush
Diane Hamric
Tracy Heyer
Derelys Peterson
Brandi K Chaney
Debbie Gremlin
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Lori Sexton Leal
Janice McKay Donahue
Alexis Maureen
Dave Miller
Alicia Dansby
Brandi K Chaney
8/15/19
Phylicia Phillips
Jane Peterson
Shannon Rush
Tonya Velazquez
Jennifer Ramlet
Mya Murphy
Sarah Frank
Josephine Casey
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Angela Janisse
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Sandy Nevels
Debbie Gremlin
Carol Jean
Michelle Webb
Gina Germane Gallagher
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Nicole Blaha
Karen Brunet Moore
Andrew W Sauer
8/16/19
David M Still
Jenifer Garza
Leigh Reader
Paula Johnson
Kathleen Marks
Shannon Rush
Josephine Casey
Vickie Gipson
Anna Nichols
Sarah Harrison
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Kacie Rogers
Karen Bondehagen
Lori Capobianco
Jennifer Ramlet
Melinda Poullion
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Tami Sneddon
Christy Hawkes
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Aarti DM
8/17/19
Debbie Gremlin
Maria Bouchard
Helen Williams
Sarah Harrison
Erika Candelas
Tabitha Sinks
Nai Merri
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Brooke Shelby Rae
Sheila Carvell
Sherry Lilly
Joanie Waterman
Rosanne Clark
Tiffany Borek
Brooke Scott
Stacy Nelson
Dean Bruss
Jeremy Mclaughlin
Mya Murphy
Barbara Austin
Kalynnilene Carter
8/18/19
Diana Marie
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Alicia Dansby
Jennifer Vega
Kevin Cusack
Janice McKay Donahue
Holly Cajigas
MarcyLynn Coull
Jodi Stevens
Tina Marie
Amber Chandler
Trish Hysell
Nelle Bailey
Derek Jennings
Vickie Gipson
Paula Johnson
Sheila Carvell
Christina Cannon
Kimberly Snyder
Samantha Smith
Leigh Reader
Carole Jacobs
Jan Peoples
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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