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It was a rough 24 hours for leading barbecue practitioner Thomas Boemer. On Sunday afternoon, the chef and co-owner of Revival and Revival Smoked Meats discovered that his 3-year-old, custom-built portable smoker, which is roughly the size of an SUV, had been stolen from the parking lot of his former Corner Table restaurant in south Minneapolis.

A man who has been separated from his three children in Malaysia for the past 20 years was found in a home here after they made an appeal on Facebook. Mr Ali Jais, 84, was admitted to Bukit Batok Home for the Aged in 2018. He lost contact with his family prior to admission and was unable to share information about them, so the home was unable to assist him in contacting his family members. But earlier this month, his youngest daughter, Ms Khazimah Ali, 37, made an appeal on Facebook for information on him. The post included the only...

COVID-19 Alert No. 2 March 24, 2020New ICD code introduced for COVID-19 deaths This email is to alert you that a newly-introduced ICD code has been implemented to accurately capture mortality data for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on death certificates.Please read carefully and forward this email to the state statistical staff in your office who are involved in the preparation of mortality data, as well as others who may receive questions when the data are released. What is the new code?The new ICD code for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is U07.1, and below is how it will appear in formal...

The Donald J. Trump for President Campaign Legal Team today announced that the State Legislatures in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan will hold public hearings on the election beginning tomorrow and next week in an effort to provide confidence that all of the legal votes have been counted and the illegal votes have not been counted in the November 3rd election.

Google is bringing its political ad reporting to Australia — and for the first time, we will see how much money parties and other groups spend to target us with ads on its search engine, YouTube, and elsewhere in its network. This change will bring more transparency to how parties run their online campaigns, including how much is spent on ads targeting certain groups of voters. A Google spokesman has confirmed the system, which the US has had since 2018, will be running in Australia "early next year". Political communication experts have welcomed the news, saying they expect the system...

Newsmax is naming Joe Biden the winner of Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania after those states officially certified their election results. Newsmax has not yet called the entirety of the 2020 presidential race for former vice president Joe Biden, but expects to make a determination shortly after reviewing legal challenges made by the Trump campaign.

“Silver Spoons” actor Ricky Schroder on Tuesday defended his role in getting Kenosha, Wisconsin, killer Kyle Rittenhouse freed on a $2 million bond, saying he was “infuriated” when he saw the teenager being vilified in the press. Schroder, an avid supporter of gun ownership and 30-year NRA member, said during an exclusive telephone interview with The Post that he’s putting up “hundreds of thousands” of dollars for the bond and the 17-year-old’s legal defense as he awaits trial on murder charges in the deaths of two protesters and the wounding of a third on Aug. 25. “It made me mad,”...

Shark eventually swam away leaving swimmer unharmed, McIntosh saidEveryone knows sharks fill the water off Florida’s coast and many choose to get in the water anyway. What you might not expect to find though is a 10-foot long hammerhead shark circling an unsuspecting swimmer. A drone video taken by Jason McIntosh on Nov. 15 in Miami Beach, Florida shows just that. If you were already afraid of going into the ocean you really won’t want to get in after watching this video. The terrifying video captured the giant creature circling in shallow water just below a man that is clueless...

Another Large NYC Group is ignoring the COVID19 lockdown and mask orders by Comrade Mayor DeBlasio and Granny Killer Gov. Cuomo. Millions of NYC resident rats (rodents, not Progressives) are not staying at home, ignoring curfews and mask orders. Sheriffs and other local authorities have stated that they will not apprehend these offenders as it would be too difficult to differentiate between them and politicians or Progressives. On a lighter note, demonstrating that the rats did possess some sense of civic responsibility, it has been shown that at least 75% of the rats possessed an "I Voted" sticker.

During a tense town hall, staff cried and expressed dismay with the publishing giant's decision to publish 'Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.'Several Penguin Random House Canada employees confronted management about the company’s decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson at an emotional town hall Monday, and dozens more have filed anonymous complaints, according to four workers who spoke to VICE World News. On Monday, Penguin Random House Canada, Canada’s largest book publisher and a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, announced it will be publishing Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Peterson,...

A Queens parking spot dispute exploded into a wild road rage rampage, with one driver sucker-punching the other before crashing his car through the glass storefront of a newly-opened bakery, police said Tuesday. An enraged Jie Zou jumped from behind the wheel of his white Audi as another vehicle angled for the coveted space, slugging the other driver in the face before ruining the grand opening of the Rainbow Bakery by plowing his vehicle six feet inside the fledgling business, cops said. Terrifying cellphone video captured Zou making a U-turn and slamming his car into his rival, who went bouncing...

Severe cases of Covid-19 have been known to lead to a mysterious condition whereby the body's immune system goes haywire and starts attacking healthy cells, rather than just those that are infected. This prolonged state of self-sabotage is known as a 'cytokine storm' and can be fatal, but researchers have struggled to understand how it works and how to treat it. Now new research has looked at the progression of a coronavirus infection in mice and found the cytokine storm is a vicious cycle, which leads to the overproduction of two signalling proteins called tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interferon...

A family of a man who died from Covid-19 at Watsonville Post Acute Center (WPAC) has sued the facility.

Let me get right to it.We need a real *audit* of this election, and that looks nothing like the farce that was just concluded in Georgia, which did not involve any attempt to identify fraudulent votes or verify any of the election records, including something as basic as matching signatures on absentee ballot envelopes or even just making sure precinct registers tally with their vote counts.Given the numbers and forensic skills involved, this would be a huge undertaking, and, unfortunately, it's clear this is not part of the Trump team's strategy.Then it occured to me; why does it have to...

"These discrepancies were a direct result of Wisconsin election officials’ willful violation of state law” – Amistad Project's Phil KlineThe national conservative group Amistad Project filed an emergency petition Tuesday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s unofficial results in the 2020 presidential election, saying it has identified over 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots.Results from the Nov. 3 balloting in the state show Democratic candidate Joe Biden defeated President Trump by a roughly 20,000-vote margin.Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, said the number of potentially fraudulent ballots identified are “more than enough to call...

Another Thanksgiving gift!John Solomon reported on Tuesday that a group in Wisconsin is filing an emergency petition in Wisconsin after finding 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots:BREAKING: Group files emergency petition in Wisconsin after finding 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots | Just The News https://t.co/MTivqIuH2L— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) November 24, 2020Solomon writes at Just the News:The national conservative group Amistad Project filed an emergency petition Tuesday with the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s unofficial results in the 2020 presidential election, saying it has identified over 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots.Results from the Nov. 3 balloting in the state show Democratic candidate Joe Biden...

Would your day be better organized if you woke up with a plan every morning? Once given that plan, would you review it thoroughly to make certain there are no errors within it? If you needed resources, would you want the best and brightest to share your plan and implement the various activities needed to be successful? Would you do a risk analysis, SWOT Plan, PEST analysis, Gap analysis? This plan is so important that if one "t" isn't crossed the plan will fall apart. Are you committed to it and have a major stake in it? OK, I am...

Spain has brought in new rules requiring travellers arriving in Spain by air or sea from countries deemed high risk to prove they have tested negative, here's a look at the rules and who they apply to. Details of the new rules are published in Spain’s Official State Gazette (BOE) and come into force on November 23rd. Spain doesn’t have a blanket testing requirement for all travellers but requires those flying in from high risk countries to provide a test before they will be allowed to fly. The threshold that determines whether a country falls into the “high risk” category...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping wants other nations to adopt a coronavirus tracking system that uses QR codes to track travel during the pandemic.Speaking at the virtual G20 leaders’ summit Saturday, Xi said that nations need to “harmonize policies” to track those infected with the coronavirus, according to a transcript of Xi’s speech from a state-run news agency Xinhua.“China has proposed a global mechanism on the mutual recognition of health certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of Internationally accepted QR codes,” Xi said, according to Xinhua. “We hope more countries will join this mechanism. We also support...