Ethiopia released its’ preliminary findings from its investigation into last month’s fatal crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which killed all 157 crew and passengers on board. Ethiopia’s transport minister said the pilots of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet followed normal procedures but were unable to overcome a flaw in the plane’s software that automatically pushed the plane’s nose down. The preliminary report found similarities in the technical failures experienced by pilots of October’s Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610, which also crashed just minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board. The report, which could change in the coming months when it’s completed, doesn’t rule out the potential for pilot error in the Ethiopian crash.
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all 737 MAX aircraft while Boeing works on fixes to the planes’ software. Boeing said this week that it needed more time to finish a software update and training, which will be necessary before the planes can fly again. Lawmakers and regulators are scrutinizing Boeing and the process for certifying the 737 Max. The families of passengers and crew killed in the two crashes have hired lawyers to pursue claims against Boeing. Boeing is working on an additional software fix for another problem which is related to aircraft flaps and other flight control hardware. These issues are reportedly classified as critical to flight safety.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg released a video apology “We at Boeing are sorry for the lives lost in the recent 737 MAX accidents. … From the days immediately following the Lion Air accident, we’ve had teams of our top engineers and technical experts working tirelessly, in collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration and our customers, to finalize and implement a software update that will ensure accidents like that of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 never happen again.”
Boeing dismissed concerns about a powerful new anti-stall system on the 737 Max for months, insisting that pilots could deal with any problems by following a checklist of emergency procedures. The preliminary findings from the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash have raised speculation of the sufficiency of those instructions. The findings show that the pilots on the Ethiopian Airlines flight initially followed the prescribed procedures he was trained on after the anti-stall system malfunctioned. They shut off the electricity that allows the automated software to push the plane’s nose down and took manual control of the jet. They then tried to right the plane, with the captain telling his co-pilot three times to “pull up.”
Unfortunately, they could not regain control and about four minutes after the system initially activated, the plane hit the ground at high speed, killing all 157 people on board. The report’s findings are not yet final but the initial evidence suggests that Boeing’s procedures may not have worked well when a plane was flying at a high speed. The system, according to the investigators’ findings, appears to have forced the nose of the plane down several times in less than three minutes leaving pilots with a very short window to react before going into an irrecoverable nose dive.
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Autopsy results have been released in the case of murdered 21-year-old USC student Samantha Josephson, showing she died of “multiple sharp force injuries.” Police believe the University of South Carolina senior and aspiring lawyer was kidnapped and killed after she mistakenly got into a car she believed to be her Uber ride after leaving a bar around 2am Friday morning in Columbia, South Carolina. The suspect, Nathaniel Rowland, was arrested Saturday and charged with murder and kidnapping.
The investigation began after friends of 21-year-old Josephson filed a missing person’s report around 1:30 p.m. Friday. They told police they were separated from her the night before in the Five Points district and had not been able to get in touch with her after she did not return to The Hub, an apartment complex on Main Street where she lived with friends. Clarendon County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a body found in a rural area 70 miles from Columbia, around 4pm Friday. Turkey hunters found a body, later identified as Josephson, in a field near a wooded area about 40 feet off a dirt road.
Around the same time, Columbia police publicized Josephson was missing and shared details of a related vehicle. Surveillance video shows Josephson standing near the road of a crowded street corner, on her cell phone, reportedly trying to find her Uber driver. A black Chevrolet Impala pulls up into a parking spot next to where she’s standing and she’s seen getting into the back seat of the vehicle. Prosecutors said 24-year-old Nathanial Rowland, who is not a driver for Uber or Lyft, activated the child locks on his car when Josephson got in, trapping her.
Rowland was arrested around 3 a.m. Saturday, after a Columbia canine officer on patrol spotted the black Chevrolet Impala that matched the description of the vehicle involved in Josephson’s disappearance, two blocks from the Five Points area. When the officer stopped the vehicle and asked Rowland to step out of the vehicle, he fled on foot. The officer took him into custody after a foot chase and returned to the vehicle, where a large amount of blood was discovered in the trunk of the vehicle.
Investigators would later find her cell phone, bleach, window cleaner and more blood in the vehicle. Investigators also discovered that the child locks were enabled so Josephson would have been trapped in the back seat of the car. Police say that there was a woman in the car with Rowland at the time of his arrest, she has been described as a friend of the suspect and is co-operating with the investigation.
Arrest warrants say Josephson had “numerous wounds evident on multiple parts of her body to include her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot.” Josephson was a senior at USC majoring in political science, according to Jeffrey Stensland, a USC spokesman from the communications department. Josephson would have graduated this spring and had planned to start law school in the fall.
Samantha’s father, Seymour Josephson, said he would dedicate himself to improving the safety of ride-sharing services. Her mother Marci Josephson described her daughter as bubbly, loving, kind and full of life. In her comments to the judge she said “There are no words to describe the immense pain his actions have caused our family and friends. He’s taken away a piece of our heart, soul and life.” She also described Rowland’s alleged actions as senseless and vile.
Rowland has not appeared in court and the date of his bond hearing has not yet been set but he will remain in jail until then. If convicted, Rowland could face up to life in prison or the possibility of the death penalty. Under South Carolina law, kidnapping carries up to 30 years in prison.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, April 14th, 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 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 14th, 2019 was:
JESSICA STEINER
Maumee, OH
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 and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries 4/8/19 thru 4/14/19 are:
4/8/19
Kimberly Snyder
Karen Brunet Moore
Kim Avery
Tracy Heyer
Misty Shallcross
Alicia Johnson
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Amber Chandler
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Rosanne Clark
Andrea Ayala
Sheila Carvell
Kathleen Marks
Sarah Frank
Samantha Brwn
Brittany Doerfler
Kristina Rosson
Tina Casto-Shafer
Christina Montes
Tonya Velazquez
Amanda Saltsman
Karen Rimiller Presley
Edward John
Jennifer Vega
4/9/19
Amanda Saltsman
Karen Brunet Moore
Phylicia Phillips
Jill Nagel
Andrea Timms-Hill
Nicole Blaha
Rhonda Grisham
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Amy Chavis
Althea Thomas
Amber Chandler
April Walrath
Morgan Fam
Lena Perry
Be Schwerin
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Brandi K Chaney
Samantha Smith
Tiffany Greene Elliott
4/10/19
Jessica Steiner
Dave Miller
Anna Nichols
Josephine Casey
Kristina Rosson
Brittany Doerfler
Tina Mimick
Melissa White
Jessica Massaway
Alyssa DiFazio
Rhonda Grisham
Tiffany Patrick
Alicia Dansby
Stephanie Marie Walls
Jennifer Lang
Melissa Turner Baker
Kris Adams Paull
Michelle Webb
Kim Avery
Carole Jacobs
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Brittany Light
Tonya Velazquez
Erica Hansen
4/11/19
Rachael Smith
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Shannon Schleif
Jenifer Garza
Nikki Hunsaker
Katie Santos
Jennifer Lang
Jennifer Marie
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Ashley Agner
Dean Bruss
Nikki Bankert
Crystal Young
Adaria Johnson
Tina Herrin
Katie Santos
Dawn Raasch
Rhonda Grisham
Jessica Massaway
Amber McGrath
Tracy Heyer
Kathleen Marks
Sheila Carvell
4/12/19
Alicia Johnson
Brooke Scott
Jennifer Vega
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Kacie Rogers
April Ashcraft
Anna Nichols
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Be Schwerin
Nikki Hunsaker
Rhonda Grisham
Crystal Young
Hunter Coffey
Carrie Vucinaj
Jennifer Lang
Lena Perry
Becky Holland
Wendi Black
Kathleen Hickman
Jennifer Garza
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
4/13/19
Dale Fish
Brooke Scott
Derek Michelle Polk
Tracy Shafer
Sheila Carvell
Jenn Smith Jackson
Nikki Hunsaker
Christina Radcliff
Stephanie Beckwith
Shannon Rush
Brittany Doerfler
Phylicia Phillips
Keith Ruff
Paula M Bondy
Mike Adamski
Christina Radcliff
Beth Cleveland
Jeanne Marie Rousseau
Jill Nagel
Amy Chavis
Jennifer Vega
Brandi K Chaney
Karen Brunet Moore
4/14/19
Kristina Rosson
MarcyLynn Coull
Christina Domingue
Alexis Maureen
Kimberly Snyder
Brandy Marie
Hunter Coffey
Leah Denton
Kizzy Alvarez DeSantis
Tracy Heyer
Emily Rice Bowersock
Kathleen Hickman
Marie Bouchard
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Brandi K Chaney
Kristina Harris
Amy Marie Wilkinson
Chantel Bell
Jill Dollarhide
Dawn Raasch
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, March 31st, 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 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, March 31st, 2019 was:
SEAN STOVER
In PENNSYLVANIA
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 and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries 3/25/19 thru 3/31/19 are:
3/25/19
Samantha Brwn
Hunter Coffey
Jenifer Garza
Cheryl Hall
Be Schwerin
Phylicia Phillips
Nicole Blaha
Kathleen Marks
Melissa Mae
Summer July
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Rhonda Grisham
Audessa Vaught
Brandi K Chaney
Stephanie Beckwith
Toi Minnifield
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Sheila Carvell
Amanda Sue
Katherine Oliveira
Amanda Otis
Stephanie Marie Walls
3/26/19
Nacole Patrick
Trish Musgrave
Michelle Webb
Derek Michelle Polk
Michelle Bartley
Traci Anderson
Bea Patrick
Emily Rice Bowersock
Cheryl Hall
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Harrison
Lisa Puckett
Debbie Bloxom
Audessa Vaught
Tina Mimick
April Ashcraft
Jill Nauyokas
Tabitha Sinks
Dale Fish
Pamela Gonzalez
Kristina Rosson
Misty Shallcross
3/27/19
Christy Hawkes
Nacole Patrick
Karyn Koehler
Brittany Light
Kim Avery
Amber Chandler
Jenifer Garza
Kimberly Necolie
Andrea Ayala
Christy Marie
Bea Patrick
Annette French
Wilma Mast
Lori Capobianco
Nicole Blaha
Jenn Smith Jackson
Taschia Miller
Katherine Oliveira
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Tracy Heyer
Jill Nagel
Eva Biggs
Sheila Carvell
3/28/19
Bea Patrick
Traci Anderson
Brittany Light
Beth Epley Minton
Derek Michelle Polk
Kara Kilhoffer
Nacole Patrick
Michelle Webb
Sean Stover
Maria Bouchard
Phylicia Phillips
Annette French
Jennifer Saavedra
Jenifer Garza
Amie-Lee George
Lori Sexton Leal
Alicia Johnson
Kacie Rogers
Karen Brunet Moore
Jennifer Lee Nalley
Karyn Koehler
3/29/19
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Christy Hawkes
Sheila Carvell
Dave Miller
Vickie Gipson
Beth Cleveland
Dale Fish
Eleazar Ruiz
Shona Ort
Wilma Mast
Tonya Velazquez
Joanna Hacker
Tiffany Borek
Jessica Steiner
Jennifer Ramlet
Carrie Vucinaj
Tabitha Sinks
Rhonda Grisham
Amanda Otis
Steph Mitchell
Lisa Puckett
Kathi Taylor
Ashley Agner
Sarah Harrison
3/30/19
Trish Musgrave
Jill Nauyokas
Amanda Sue
Marilyn Wall
Andrea Ayala
Kristina Rosson
Melissa Mae
Amber Chandler
Lori Sexton Leal
Tabitha Sinks
Amber Chandler
April Ashcraft
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Althea Thomas
Jane Peterson
Cyndi Jansheski
Carrie Vucinaj
Abby Noelle
Sherry Barnes
Thomas Ryan Gan
3/31/19
Martha Prescott
Alicia Dansby
Jenifer Garza
Amy Chavis
April Ashcraft
Amber Chandler
Kim Avery
Christy Hawkes
Tina Auth
Tracy Heyer
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Brittany Doerfler
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Paula M Bondy
Nancy Scharnhorst
Beth Cleveland
Nicole Flynn
Stephanie Marie Walls
Karen Brunet Moore
Poonam Gosain
Andrew W Sauer
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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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 Ethiopian transport minister has announced that early investigations have revealed clear similarities between the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and October’s Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia. The Transportation Department has launched investigations into regulators’ approvals of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, as well as into the development of the aircraft. Just after take-off, both flights, which killed all crew and passengers on board, experienced unpredictable climbs and descents before crashing. Both pilots immediately recognized a problem and tried to return to the airport.
The United States and many other countries have grounded the Max 8s and larger Max 9s as Boeing faces the challenge of proving the jets are safe to fly amid suspicions that faulty sensors and software contributed to the two crashes in less than five months. Both Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 lacked an optional safety feature that could have saved the lives of 346 people. The safety feature, called an “angle of attack indicator” and an “angle of attack disagree light”—are indicators that Boeing offers only at an additional cost. Another similarity believed to have played a role in both crashes is that the planes’ automated “anti-stall” systems inadvertently pushed both planes’ noses downward.
Pilot training requirements on this software came under scrutiny in the days after the March 10th crash with reports that the pilot and co-pilot had never received updated training on a Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator, even though the airline had the technology available since January. A cockpit recording indicates that the pilots of the doomed Flight 302 were referencing safety manuals but were unable to fix the problem before they crashed. Officials are probing why pilot manuals did not address the feature. Reports are now emerging that the Lion Air flight almost went down the day before the deadly accident, but an off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit knew how to disable a malfunctioning flight control system, which was likely pushing the nose of the plane down.
U.S.-based manufacturer Boeing, which is now under heightened scrutiny around the world, has said previously pilots who have flown earlier models didn’t need additional training. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao ordered an audit of the training and certification process for Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft. U.S. prosecutors are also looking into the development of Boeing’s 737 Max jets and a Justice Department probe will examine the way Boeing was regulated by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Boeing has said it has “full confidence” in the planes’ safety. Engineers are making changes to the system designed to prevent an aerodynamic stall if sensors detect that the jet’s nose is pointed too high and its speed is too slow. American Airlines pilot and spokesman for their union, Dennis Tajer said that airline officials told the unions that Boeing intends to offer pilots about a 15-minute iPad course to train them on the new flight-control software on Max jets that is suspected of playing a role in the crashes. He called that amount of training unacceptable. “Our sense is it’s a rush to comply — ‘let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,'” Tajer said. “I’m in a rush to protect my passengers.”
These disturbing updates come as families of victims of last October’s Lion Air crash say they were pressured by the airline to sign a pledge not to pursue legal action against the company, in exchange for about $90,000 in compensation which was the minimum amount the families were entitled to under Indonesian law.
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On the day Nicholas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School he killed 17 classmates and teachers and wounded 17 others. Many students escaped with their lives but have emotional wounds that they’ll carry with them for the rest of their lives. For Sydney Aiello, 19, the grief of losing her classmates and teachers, including close friend Meadow Pollack, weighed heavily on her. A little over a year after the shooting took place, she took her own life on March 17th. Heather Galvez of the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office said Aiello died from a gunshot wound to the head. Aiello’s funeral was held Friday and she was buried at Temple Beth El Memorial Gardens in Davie, Fla. She is survived by her parents, Cara and Joseph, and older brother Nick.
Aiello was a senior and on the high-school campus the day of the mass shooting but was not in the freshman building where the shooting occurred. Many said she was never the same after the February 14th shooting claimed the lives of her classmates. After graduating, she enrolled at Florida Atlantic University but her mother, Cara Aiello said she struggled to attend class because she was afraid to be back in a classroom. She said her daughter was consumed with survivor’s guilt and recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder from the massacre. She said Sydney couldn’t shake the devastating trauma of the mass shooting last year and the death of her longtime friend, Meadow Pollack. She seemed sad in recent days, her mom said, but never asked for help before taking her own life. Cara Aiello said that she hopes Sydney’s story can help save others who are struggling with their mental health in the aftermath of the shooting.
The horrific circumstances of Meadow Pollack’s death show the unrelenting savagery of shooter Nicolas Cruz that day and would understandably haunt anyone who loved her. Meadow was shot 4 times in the hallway on the third floor. She crawled down the hallway to another student, Cara Loughran and covered her to shield her from the bullets. Cruz pointed his assault rifle at Meadow’s back and shot her four more times. The bullets pierced through Meadow and into Cara beneath her, killing both students. Cruz then shot Meadow once in the head.
Pollack’s father, Andrew Pollack, who has become an outspoken activist for more security at schools across the country since his daughter death, retweeted a photo of Sydney Aiello and his daughter posing together in fancy gowns with the heartbreaking caption, “A little more than a year after this photo was taken, both are gone.” Pollack said his heart goes out to her “poor, poor parents. It’s terrible what happened. Meadow and Sydney were friends for a long, long time,” he said. “Killing yourself is not the answer.” Pollack added “If anyone feels like that they have no one that can understand their pain, if there’s any student out there that’s having a hard time, please reach out to me on Twitter. I understand you. You aren’t alone.”
Meadow Pollack’s brother, Hunter, also weighed in on Aiello’s death on Twitter. “Beautiful Sydney with such a bright future was taken from us way too soon,” he wrote. Ryan Petty, who also lost his daughter Alaina in the Parkland shooting, stressed the importance of suicide prevention for Stoneman Douglas students. “It breaks my heart that we’ve lost yet another student from Stoneman Douglas. My advice to parents is to ask questions, don’t wait.”
Cruz, 20, has pled not guilty and his lawyers have said he’ll plead guilty in return for life in prison but prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. His trial is tentatively scheduled for next year.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, March 24th, 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 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, March 24th, 2019 was:
KRISTINA ROSSON
Lawrenceburg, 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 and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries 3/18/19 thru 3/24/19 are:
3/18/19
Misty Shallcross
Nikki Hunsaker
Hayley Cordaro
Tera Wardrip
Marcy Coull
Priscilla Shimp
Kristina Rosson
Jeanne Marie Rousseau
Brandy Marie
Christy Marie
Mya Murphy
Mary Ellen Laferriere
Vickie Gipson
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Krystal Larsen
Mary Achio
Kim Avery
Rosanne Clark
Trish Musgrave
Michelle Cervantes
3/19/19
Amber Chandler
Sherry Lilly
Be Schwerin
Jennifer Vega
Jessica Steiner
Shannon Rush
Nacole Patrick
April Ashcraft
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Trish Musgrave
Dave Miller
Karen Brunet Moore
Karen Bondehagen
Taschia Miller
Christy George
Bea Patrick
Brittany Doerfler
Katherine Oliveira
Debbie Gremlin
Trish Hysell
Lenis Abshire
3/20/19
Stephanie Beckwith
April Ashcraft
Angela Janisse
Be Schwerin
Eric Sanders
Jill Nauyokas
Eleazar Ruiz
Kimberly Snyder
Amanda Sue
Ashley Agner
Stacy Nelson
Tonya Velazquez
Derelys Peterson
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Samantha Smith
Becky VanGinkel
Phylicia Phillips
Barbara Austin
Alyssa DiFazio
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
3/21/19
Adaria Johnson
Tonya Velazquez
Jennifer Ramlet
Jennifer Lang
Jessica Davis
Kristina Rosson
Taschia Miller
Edward John
Brittany Doerfler
Ambreen Rouf
Trish Musgrave
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Trish Hysell
Jade Good
Melissa Mae
Amanda Sue
Cheryl Hall
Lisa David Carr
Samantha Smith
3/22/19
Dean Bruss
Brooke Scott
Lisa A Mazola
Brandy Marie
Lisa Puckett
Beth Cleveland
Lisa David Carr
Priscilla Shimp
Andrea Ayala
Alyssa DiFazio
Jeremy Mclaughlin
Jillian Dollarhide
Nikki Hunsaker
Kari Wagoner
Jenifer Garza
Christina Radcliff
Kim Avery
Brittany Doerfler
Mary Pettiford
Patricia Goodman
Debbie Smith
Karen Brunet Moore
3/23/19
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Brittany Doerfler
Misty Shallcross
Samantha Brwn
Natasha Berry
Be Schwerin
Martha Prescott
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Nicole Blaha
Christy Hawkes
Lisa A Mazola
Beth Cleveland
Jill Nauyokas
Tracy Heyer
April Ashcraft
Marcy Coull
Amber McGrath
Audessa Vaught
Derelys Peterson
Alison Giffune Paige
Laurel Klem
Andrea Ayala
Priscilla Shimp
3/24/19
Be Schwerin
Alysia Jackson
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Debbie Bloxom
Rhonda Grisham
Brooke Scott
Amber Chandler
Brandy Marie
Jenifer Garza
Karen Brunet Moore
Amy Chavis
Diane Hamric
April Ashcraft
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Tonya Velazquez
Nicole Blaha
Amanda Sue
Eric Johnson
Kathleen Hickman
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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Hollywood actresses and a slew of chief executives are among 50 wealthy people charged in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.
At a news conference, Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts said “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud. There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and, I’ll add, there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.” Lelling said “The parents charged in the case are a catalog of wealth and privilege. They include, for example, the CEOs of private and public companies, successful securities and real estate investors, two well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer and the co-chairman of a global law firm.”
The ringleader of the scam is William Singer, owner of a college counseling service called Key Worldwide Foundation and a company called Edge College & Career Network. Singer allegedly accepted bribes totaling $25 million from parents between 2011 and 2018 “to guarantee their children’s admission to elite schools.” Singer, of Newport Beach, California, pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court on charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
Steven Masera, 69, the accountant and financial officer for the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation, was also indicted. Mark Riddell, a private school counselor in Bradenton, Florida, and Masera allegedly worked closely with Singer in the scam, according to the indictment. According to the indictment, Mikaela Sanford, 32, of Folsom, California, another employee of the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation, and David Sidoo, 59, of Vancouver, Canada, were also indicted for allegedly working closely with Singer to facilitate the scam.
Singer would allegedly instruct parents to seek extended time for the children to take entrance exams or obtain medical documentation that their child had a learning disability, according to the indictment. The parents were then told to get the location of the test changed to one of two testing centers, one in Houston and another in West Hollywood, California, where test administrators Niki Williams, 44, of Houston and Igor Dvorskiy, 52, of Sherman Oaks, California, helped carry out the scam, the indictment alleges. Riddell, 36, allegedly took ACT and SAT tests for students whose parents had paid bribes to Singer. Singer typically paid Riddell $10,000 for each student’s test.
Singer also allegedly bribed school coaches to give to his clients’ admissions slots reserved for student athletes in sports including crew and soccer. He went as far as to stage fake photos of his student clients engaging in sports they never played, or to digitally place the faces of his clients onto images found online of athletes.
Others charged in the probe include nine coaches at elite schools, two SAT and ACT exam administrators, one exam proctor, a college administrator and 33 parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Robert Zangrillo, 52, of Miami, founder and CEO of the private investment firm Dragon Global; Bill McGlashan, 55, of Mill Valley, California, a businessman and international private equity investor; Gordon Caplan, a New York attorney; and Gregory Abbott, 68, founder and chairman of International Dispensing Corp., a New York food and beverage packaging company, and his wife, Marcia Abbott, 59.
Huffman’s husband, actor William H. Macy, was not indicted, but according to the court document he and Huffman were caught on a recorded conversation with a corroborating witness in the case, allegedly discussing a $15,000 payment to ensure their younger daughter scored high on a college entrance exam. Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 to USC to have their two daughters falsely designated as crew recruits, though neither daughter ever participated in the sport.
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An Ethiopian Airlines flight traveling from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board. The Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner was carrying passengers of 35 different nationalities, including eight Americans and 21 United Nations staffers. Sunday’s crash triggered a global grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 jets after data suggested similarities between the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash and the Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 crash in October that killed 189 people.
The pilot of the Boeing 737 jetliner that crashed Sunday immediately noticed trouble as the plane accelerated wildly after takeoff. Within one minute of Flight 302’s departure, Captain Yared Getachew calmly reported a “flight control” problem. “Break break, request back to home,” the captain told air traffic controllers as they scrambled to divert two other flights approaching the airport. “Request vector for landing.”
Air traffic controllers knew the plane was in trouble even before the pilot radioed in that he wanted to turn the plane around. They noticed the plane’s speed accelerated inexplicably and it oscillated up and down by hundreds of feet. Radar showed the aircraft’s altitude was well below what is known as the minimum safe height from the ground during a climb. The plane appeared to stabilize and climbed to a higher altitude, but then began to speed up again in a way that is deemed unsafe. The plane then sped up even more just before it disappeared from radar screens and crashed six minutes after takeoff.
The ill-fated flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu, about 39 miles southeast of Bole International Airport. The plane’s crash left a large crater and debris from the Boeing 737 jet was broken into hundreds of small pieces, making the task of recovering each part complex. The largest engine piece on the site was around the size of a small table. Several dozen forensic investigators and Ethiopian Airlines employees slowly combed the crash site in search of any evidence, raising their hands when they come across anything significant.
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders were sent to Paris where French aviation authorities will probe the heavily damaged black boxes for clues to the tragedy. Preliminary conclusions will take several days and aircraft accident investigations can often take years to complete. Senior Transportation Correspondent David Kerley said investigators will look into the MAX 8’s autopilot functions and the training of the pilots who flew the plane, as well as a mechanical part of the control system that alters the up-and-down movement of the plane’s nose. The mechanism, called a “jackscrew,” is a threaded rod in the tail section of the aircraft that affects the plane’s stability.
Data from the “black boxes,” devices will provide further guidance for investigators as well as some answers for the families of the victims. The National Transportation Safety Board, an independent U.S. agency that investigates transportation accidents and issues widely-respected safety recommendations, also sent three additional investigators to assist in the analysis.
Many speculate whether the software in the plane’s autopilot system might have played a role in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, as it seemed to have done in the fatal crash of an Indonesian Lion Air 737 MAX 8. In the October 2018 Lion Air crash, it appears the pilots failed to disengage the autopilot when the plane’s nose began pitching up and down. It’s possible they were unaware of how to do so since some pilots have complained that the information to disengage autopilot was not readily available, and others have raised concerns about the adequacy of the training process.
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The Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that makeup products from two popular brands of cosmetics contain the carcinogenic substance asbestos. FDA tests of three powdered makeup products from Claire’s, and one from the brand Justice, tested positive for asbestos, which can cause cancer. Both retailers market their products to young girls and teens.
Asbestos is believed to cause mesothelioma, a type of cancer affecting the lining of the chest and abdomen, and is linked to an increased risk of other forms of cancer and lung disease. The FDA released a safety alert about the products and called for more expansive authority to regulate cosmetics, saying the law about its role has not been updated since it first entered into force in 1938. Americans spend some $60 billion a year on cosmetics, though the industry is largely unregulated.
“The current law does not require cosmetics to be reviewed and approved by the FDA prior to being sold to American consumers,” it said, adding that total responsibility for the safety of these products now rests with the companies that make them. “To be clear, there are currently no legal requirements for any cosmetic manufacturer marketing products to American consumers to test their products for safety,” the FDA said. Because of the lack of regulation, the agency says that in this case, it did not have the authority to force Claire’s to pull the potentially dangerous products off store shelves. The F.D.A. called on the industry to be more forthcoming about its safety procedures, especially in relation to how it sources and tests talc. The agency said it had used the most sensitive methods available to test 34 cosmetic products from four talc suppliers in 2010 and found no traces of asbestos.
The FDA said the Justice product, a shimmer powder, had already been recalled from the market in 2017. Claire’s says that “out of an abundance of caution,” it has removed the three products — eye shadows, compact powder and contour powder — from stores and is also removing any remaining talc based cosmetic products (talc sometimes contains asbestos). Claire’s disputes the test results, saying they “show significant errors” and claims its “products are safe.” The retailer says the tests “have mischaracterized fibers in the products as asbestos.”
Independent testers dispute Claire’s claim that these products are safe. Consumer advocacy group, the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, released results last March that said its testing showed that the same three Claire’s products contained asbestos. After the U.S. PIRG report, the Dutch government said they also found asbestos in two of Claire’s products.
Regulators are trying to keep a closer eye on companies after the New York Times and Reuters reported late last year that Johnson & Johnson had known for decades about the risk of asbestos contamination in its popular baby powder and other talc-based body powders, but tried to keep negative information from reaching the public. The company received subpoenas for more information last month from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department.
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