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8 years ago · by · 0 comments

John McCain Diagnosed With Brain Tumor

Longtime Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain has been diagnosed with primary glioblastoma, a malignant form of brain cancer.  Senator McCain’s office said the diagnosis came after McCain had surgery last week to remove a blood clot above his left eye at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. Lab results from the surgery confirmed the presence of glioblastoma.

McCain is reportedly weighing whether to undergo an aggressive treatment of radiation and chemotherapy, and has not said when he might return to Capitol Hill. Glioblastoma is the most common of all malignant brain tumors, representing 15.4% of all primary brain tumors, according to the American  Brain Tumor Association (ABTA), who estimate there will be over 12,000 cases before the end of 2017.

With the permission of McCain’s family, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke to doctors involved in the senator’s care.  Gupta learned McCain had felt tired over the last few months and had a bout of double vision, but blamed it on his intense travel schedule.  Doctors ordered a CAT scan and an MRI scan of McCain’s brain that revealed the tumor.

The symptoms of glioblastoma are usually a result of increased pressure on the brain.  The ABTA lists headaches, nausea, vomiting and drowsiness as symptoms for the tumor. Depending on where the tumor is, however, weakness on one side of the body, memory and speech difficulties and visual changes can all be developed as a result.

The ABTA labels the prognosis for glioblastoma survival in terms of median survival — the length of time at which an equal number of patients do better and an equal number of patients do worse. Depending on the type of glioblastoma and treatment used, this can range from 14 months to three years.  The association also cites a 2009 study that found 10% of patients with glioblastoma may live five years or longer.  The average survival time for malignant glioblastoma is around 14 months with treatment.

There is no specific treatment used for glioblastoma but there are a few different approaches doctors can take.   Gupta said “This is a malignant cancer, what that means in this case is that you operate on this,” “It needs to be treated as well with chemotherapy and radiation.”

When a cancer is malignant, cells are dividing uncontrollably and can invade nearby tissues. The cancer cells may also spread to other parts of the body through the blood stream or lymph system in the body.  Gupta added because of the nature of the tumor, McCain will likely need more procedures in the coming weeks.  “The concern is that it will come back. That’s the big concern with these types of tumors,” he said. “In order to try to give him the best chance at that, it is likely he’ll undergo further treatments over the next several days.”

McCain’s cancer is the same form that claimed the lives of Senator Ted Kennedy and Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau Biden.   This is not McCain’s first battle with cancer; in 2000 he underwent a procedure to remove a type of skin cancer called melanoma from the left side of his face.  McCain, 80, also had a melanoma removed from his left arm in 2000 and another removed from his nose in 2002. Both were determined to be the least dangerous types of melanoma.

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8 years ago · by · 563 comments

CA Teen Livestreamed Fatal Car Wreck That Killed Sister

A Stockton,CA teen livestreamed a gruesome video of the fatal car wreck that killed her 14 year old sister Jacqueline Sanchez.  Obdulia Sanchez, 18, filmed herself singing along to a song and dancing while at the wheel.  Her sister Jacqueline and a pal, 14, can be briefly seen in the back seat.

The video, which was livestreamed to her Instagram, shows Obdulia turning the camera from herself to the roadway a few times before losing control of the car.  With the camera still rolling, screams can be heard as the car swerved across both lanes, crashed into a barbed wire fence and overturned in a field just off of Highway 165 in Los Banos, California.

Still filming, Obdulia exited the vehicle where she filmed her sister’s bloodied, fatally injured body.  She is seen shaking her sister’s lifeless body, saying: “I killed my sister, but I don’t care…I killed my sister. I know I’m going to prison, but I don’t care. I’m sorry baby.  I’m a hold it down.”

Obdulia Sanchez was arrested and booked at the Merced County Jail, charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and causing bodily injury and with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. She is being held on a $300,000 bond.

Sheriff Vern Warnke said Jacqueline Sanchez was not wearing her seat belt at the time and was ejected as the vehicle was rolling over.  She died of severe head injuries.  Her friend who was also not wearing her seatbelt, suffered severe but non-life threatening injuries.

Officials said they believe the July 21st crash was caused when Obdulia Sanchez over corrected a turn which caused the vehicle to swerve across both lanes, crashing through a wire fence and overturning into a field south of the road.  The highway patrol said alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.

The girl’s parents, Nicandro and Gloria Sanchez say they believe their 18 year old daughter is still in shock and that they both are numb and unsure of what to feel.  Jacqueline Sanchez was heading into her sophomore year of high school and was about to celebrate her Quinceanera.  Instead, her parents have to bury one daughter while the other is in jail.

A California Highway Patrol officer told the media that Obdulia became combative at the scene of the accident while screaming that her sister was dead.  He was quoted as saying “The video is very disturbing,” “It’s very disturbing to us because of the callous nature of her actions, both leading up to this tragedy and in the immediate aftermath.”  The highway patrol said it is still looking into whether Obdulia Sanchez dialed 911 to report the crash.

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Sixteen Servicemen Killed In Mississippi Plane Crash

 

 

Sixteen service members were killed after a military transport plane that was being used on a training flight crashed in Mississippi, prompting an urgent rescue effort in one of the South’s most rural regions, the authorities said.  A Marine Corps spokeswoman at the Pentagon, Capt. Sarah Burns, said that one of the service’s KC-130 aircraft had “experienced a mishap.” The Marines use KC-130s for aerial refueling.

The cause of the crash, in an unincorporated part of Leflore County, was not immediately clear.  The plane crashed along County Road 547, a dirt road that connects acres of farmland between Itta Bena and Moorhead.  Military aircraft are a common sight in the skies of rural Mississippi.  Witnesses described the plane as disintegrating in the air as it neared the ground, leaving a debris field about five miles in diameter.  Many speculate that the plane experienced an explosion mid-air because of the large debris field.

The air tanker was based at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, and was on its way from a Marine installation at Cherry Point, North Carolina, to a naval air field at El Centro, California, when it went down, officials said.  The planes final destination was Yuma, AZ.  The plane vanished from air traffic control radar somewhere over Mississippi before the crash that killed all fifteen marines and a navy corpsman on board.

Six of the Marines and the sailor were from an elite Marine Raider battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C.. Nine were based out of Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., home of a Marine Aerial Refueling and Transport Squadron.  The service members were identified as Cpl. Dan Baldassare, 20; Staff Sgt. Robert Cox; 28, Capt. Sean Elliott; 30, Maj. Caine Goyette; 41, Gunnery Sgt. Mark Hopkins; 34, Sgt. Chad Jenson,; 25, Gunnery Sgt. Brendan Johnson; 46, Sgt. Julian Kevianne; 31, Staff Sgt. William Joseph Kundrat; 33, Sgt. Talon Leach; 27, Sgt. Owen Lennon,; 26, Sgt. Joseph Murray; 26, Cpl. Collin Schaaff;  22, Sgt. Dietrich Schmieman; 26, Staff Sgt. Joshua Snowden; 31 and Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Ryan Lohrey, 30.

Witnesses reported hearing a loud bloom around 4pm  and then the plane began spinning down to the ground.  Eyewitnesses recall hearing ammunition exploding after the crash.  The Marine Corps acknowledged that ammunition was on board the flight without specifying what kind. Due to the presence of the ammunition, restrictions were placed on who could initially approach the scene of the crash, officials said.

The force of the crash nearly flattened the plane and witnesses said there were bodies across a highway, more than a mile from the crash site.  Firefighters tried to put out the fire but withdrew after an explosion forced them back. The fierce blaze produced black smoke visible for miles across the flat region and continued to burn after dusk, more than four hours later.  The fire department used about 9,000 gallons of foam to extinguish the blaze.

Marine Corps officials are being aided in their investigation by a number of different agencies, including the Mississippi Management Association, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

 

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8 years ago · by · 215 comments

Two Men Charged After Bodies of Four Missing Men Found

  

 

The bodies of four young Pennsylvania men who went missing last week have been found.  Hours after finding a fourth body buried in a farm here, authorities charged two men with multiple counts of homicide in what authorities said were marijuana deals that turned murderous.  Cosmo Dinardo and his cousin Sean Kratz, both 20, were denied bail in preliminary arraignments.  Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub announced that the bodies of the young men who went missing last week had been found buried on a farm owned by Dinardo’s parents in Solebury Township.

The victims were identified as 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro, Mark Sturgis, 22, Tom Meo, 21, who disappeared together and Jimi Tar Patrick, 19.  The defense attorney for Cosmo NiNardo, 20, said his client admitted to killing the four in three separate shootings, and told authorities the location of the bodies.  DiNardo is ready to plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in order to take the death penalty off the table.

Jimi Patrick was the first to go missing and days later- the three other men disappeared.  Investigators had focused their search on a property a few miles from the Delaware River, a farm owned by the parents of Cosmo Dinardo, the man who has been identified as a “person of interest” in the case.

Dinardo was initially charged with trying to sell Meo’s car, a 1996 Nissan Maxima and was being held in jail on $5 million cash bail after being deemed a flight risk.  Dinardo confessed his involvement in the disappearances, implicated Kratz, and gave information about the location of the fourth victim, police say.  Dinardo has a history of unspecified mental illness, and he was previously involuntarily committed to a mental health institution after firing a shotgun, authorities said.

In the arrest affidavit Dinardo told police that on July 5 he agreed to sell four pounds of marijuana for $8,000 to Jimi Patrick.  Dinardo picked Patrick up at his home and drove him to the farm but Patrick only had $800, the affidavit states. Dinardo then offered to sell Patrick a shotgun for that amount.  Dinardo took Patrick to a remote part of the property and gave him a shotgun. Dinardo then shot and killed Patrick with a .22 caliber rifle and buried his body six feet deep using a backhoe.

Two days later, Dinardo said he and Kratz, decided to rob Dean Finocchiaro during a drug deal. Dinardo told police he gave Kratz his mother’s Smith and Wesson .357 handgun for the robbery.  They met at Finocchiaro’s home and went to the farm.  Dinardo told police, Kratz shot Finocchiaro near a barn and the put his remains in a metal tank.   Kratz’s account of the killing describes Dinardo as the shooter.

Dinardo had a deal in place that same night to sell marijuana to Thomas Meo.  Dinardo met Meo and his friend Mark Sturgis and the two followed him to his farm where Kratz was waiting.  Dinardo and Kratz described Dinardo shooting Meo in the back and shooting at Sturgis as he tried to flee. According to the police affidavit, Dinardo said after he ran out of ammunition, he drove a backhoe over Meo’s body. Afterwards, they put the bodies in the metal tank, poured gasoline inside and set it on fire.  They returned the next day to bury the tank 12 feet deep using a backhoe.

 

 

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Philando Castile Settlement Reached

The city of St. Anthony, Minnesota will pay nearly $3 million to the family of Philando Castile to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, less than two weeks after officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted on manslaughter charges for killing Castile during a 2016 traffic stop.  Castile, a 32-year-old elementary school cafeteria worker, was shot five times by Yanez during a traffic stop after Castile told the officer he was armed.

The settlement is to be paid to Castile’s mother Valerie Castile, who is the family’s trustee.  The $2.995 million settlement will be paid by the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust, which holds the insurance policy for the city of St. Anthony. The plan for distribution of funds requires approval by a state court.

Attorney Robert Bennett, who is representing Valerie Castile, said a decision was made to move expeditiously rather than have the case drawn out in federal court, a process that would “exacerbate and reopen terrible wounds.” The settlement will also allow the family, the city and community to work toward healing, Bennett said.

The settlement will help benefit the Philando Castile Relief Foundation.  Bennett said the foundation’s mission is to provide financial support, grief counseling, scholarships and other help to individuals and families affected by gun violence and police violence.

The Philando Castile Relief Foundation hopes to continue to award an annual $5000 scholarship.  Through donations and part of the settlement, organizers hope to establish a permanent endowment to fund the annual $5,000 scholarship.  In May, 18-year-old Marques Watson was announced as the first recipient.

Watson intends to study mechanical engineering. He’ll take advantage of a tuition-free offer at St. Paul College this fall and hopes to complete his four-year degree at a historically black college or university.  Watson has participated in AVID, a school-based program that prepares underrepresented students for college, since seventh grade. He said he’ll be the first in his extended family to attend college.

Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting and posted video seconds after, is not part of the settlement. Reynolds has also hired an attorney, but it’s not clear if she is still planning a lawsuit or has any standing for a federal claim.

A claims manager with the League of Minnesota Cities, said St. Anthony’s insurance coverage is $3 million per occurrence. If Reynolds were to file and win a claim, the city’s remaining $5,000 in coverage would be paid to her and St. Anthony would have to cover any additional money awarded.

 

 

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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, July 9th, 2017.

      

 

 

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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Minnesota Officer Acquitted in Philando Castile Shooting

 

 

 

 

After five days of deliberations, a jury has acquitted the Minnesota police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, of all charges in shooting death of Philando Castile.  Officer Yanez, an officer for the suburb of St. Anthony, had been charged with second-degree manslaughter and endangering safety by discharging a firearm in the shooting.  Yanez and the 12 jurors were quickly led out of the courtroom after the verdict was announced.

In July 2016, Castile was pulled over for a broken tail light and was shot within 62 seconds of his encounter with Officer Yanez.  Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who was in the passenger seat, began Facebook livestreaming less than a minute after the shooting as her 4 year old daughter hid in the backseat and Castile slumped over dying.

Dash cam footage shows Officer Yanez approach the vehicle and exchange greetings with Castile and informing him of a brake light problem. He asks for Castile’s driver’s license and proof of insurance.  Castile who had a concealed carry license hands the officer his insurance card and says “Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me.” Officer Yanez replies, “Okay” and places his right hand on the holster of his gun and says “Okay, don’t reach for it.” Castile responds “I’m not pulling it out,” as Officer Yanez continues to yell “Don’t pull it out.”  Yanez pulled his gun and fired seven shots in the direction of Castile.  Reynolds yelled, “You just killed my boyfriend!”  Castile moaned and said, “I wasn’t reaching for it”, which were his last words.

Reynolds started live-streaming onto Facebook about 40 seconds after the last shot.  In a shaky voice she explains that the officer has just killed her boyfriend and that he was licensed to carry.  Yanez can be heard shouting “I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand off of it.” Reynolds replies “He had, you told him to get his ID, sir, and his driver’s license. Oh my God. Please don’t tell me he’s dead.”

Officer Yanez’s recollection of the events was that Castile told him he had a gun at the same time he reached down between his right leg and the center console of the vehicle.  Yanez stated “He put his hand around something,” and said Castile’s hand took a C-shape, “like putting my hand up to the butt of the gun.”  Yanez said he then lost view of Castile’s hand.  “I know he had an object and it was dark,” he said. “And he was pulling it out with his right hand. And as he was pulling it out, a million things started going through my head. And I thought I was gonna die.”  Yanez said he thought Castile had the gun in his right hand and he had “no option” but to shoot.

Officials in St. Anthony, Minn., released a statement saying that Yanez will not return to the police department after the trial. They said they have decided “the public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city.”  “The city intends to offer Officer Yanez a voluntary separation agreement to help him transition to another career other than being a St. Anthony officer.”

Shortly after the verdict was announced, several hundred protesters amassed around the steps of the state Capitol in St. Paul.  Police said about 500 activists later moved to Interstate 94, one of the main highways in the Twin Cities area. A few dozen people briefly moved onto the road itself while facing police in riot gear, but most of the protesters soon dispersed.

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Uber CEO Takes Leave of Absence Amid Scandal

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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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, June 18th, 2017.

      

 

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

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US Backs Out Of Paris Climate Agreement

To the surprise of other world leaders, President Trump announced that the US will pull out of the Paris global climate pact.  Abandoning the pact would isolate the US from international allies that spent years negotiating the 2015 agreement to fight global warming and pollution by reducing carbon emissions in nearly 200 nations.

The decision means the US will join only Nicaragua and Syria as UN-member countries that aren’t aboard.  The US emits more carbon into the atmosphere than any country except China.  Abandoning the pact was one of Trump’s principal campaign pledges and the decision reverses one of the Obama administration’s signature achievements.  Still, America’s allies have expressed alarm about the likely consequences.

“The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris accord or an entirely new transaction in terms that are fair to the United States and its workers. So we’re getting out. We’ll see if we can make a deal. If we can’t, that’s fine,” Trump said to cheers during a ceremony in the Rose Garden.

A White House spokesperson said “The accord was negotiated poorly by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation. The US is already leading the world in energy production and doesn’t need a bad deal that will harm American workers.”

The Paris climate agreement sets a goal for its signatories to keep warming below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), compared with preindustrial times, by 2100, with a goal of keeping global warming to a mere 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.  Each country sets its own voluntary goals for emissions cuts, pledging to become stricter as time goes by and there are no binding rules about how the countries should meet those goals.

When the agreement was signed, the US agreed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to between 26-28% of 2005 levels by 2025. The agreement does not officially go into effect until 2020, but meeting those goals would require all countries to take steps preemptive steps before 2020- like setting standards for vehicle emissions, appliances and power plants.

Critics of the decision to abandon the Paris agreement believe the likelihood of international cooperation on carbon-cutting goals past 2025 is on far shakier ground, and that the US will be forfeiting a seat at the table to shape the climate future.

They also feel it does enormous damage to our international credibility as withdrawal from international negotiations is becoming a pattern.  The United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal under Trump’s first executive order.  Trump is also hostile to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), in which members pledge military cooperation with one another.  Many feel it will be harder to negotiate other international issues without trust from other nations.

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