Sentences with phrase «after a family friend»

Lifelong resident Michael Hickey lost his father to kidney cancer in 2013 and soon after that a family friend died from the same disease.

I had seen a few scattered reports in a few blogs, but I wrote the post here after a family friend's Elite card was closed.

I had already seen a few scattered reports in a few blogs regarding the closures, but I wrote the post here after a family friend's Elite card was closed.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Say 80 percent of revenue historically comes from initial wedding packages sold to couples, 10 percent from additional sales after the wedding to the couple, and 10 percent from post-wedding sales to friends, family, etc..

According to E! News, Chyna gave birth to a girl named Dream Renee at Los Angeles» Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, and not long after, friends and family members, including Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, and Chyna's BFF Amber Rose.

Our friends and family thought it was an awesome idea, and, after all, we raised a cool million to get it started.

Why you should care: After seeing friends and family members battle with cancer, Flatiron Health cofounders Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg sold their advertising tech startup Invite Media to Google for $ 81 million.

Nearly three hours later, at 8:45 p.m. on Friday evening, five days after he and his brother had blown apart men, women, children, friends, and families near the finish line of Boston marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was finally in custody.

Many discussed these issues with their friends and family after watching the programs.

«I had friends and family, but I still had to go through a lot of the same adjustments to life outside of prison after so many years away.

After his dad left the family, Shawn, only 10, bounced from one father figure to another, showing a talent for both rhyming and street hustling, and eventually moved in with a friend's family in New Jersey.

After experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who died shortly after bAfter experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from home and bore a child at age 14 who died shortly after bafter birth.

After that time, if at all possible, disconnect and enjoy time with family or friends, decompress, engage in hobbies, or catch up on your rest.

After working with some of my peers for (almost) 11 years, they have become close friends and even family.»

INSIDER's sources deny there's any resulting friction between the two after Shepherd left the company and pointed out that Shepherd was at Kardashian West's intimate dinner party for her 37th birthday on October 27, which was only attended by about 20 close friends and family.

They wanted to raise $ 50,000 in 30 days, but after a week they had only $ 5,000 from friends and family — making Frayne increasingly nervous.

He raised a second friends - and - family round shortly after opening.

After seeing friends and family battle cancer, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg decided to sell their advertising tech startup to Google for $ 81 million and use the proceeds to launch Flatiron Health about two years ago.

From the day after Frazier's resignation (Aug. 15) through the following Saturday (Aug. 19), word of mouth about Merck sharply rose «from 2 % of U.S. adults having spoken about the drug brand with family or friends, to 5 %,» according to YouGov BrandIndex's interviews of more than 1,400 adults.

Zuckerberg said that Facebook could move far beyond its roots as a network for friends and families to communicate, suggesting that it can play a role in five areas, all of which he referred to as «communities,» ranging from strengthening traditional institutions, to providing help during and after crises, to boosting civic engagement.

Hours after the rampage ended, family members and friends were in the neighborhood trying to locate loved ones who were missing and believed to have been at the club.

Bellow you'll find some other common funding alternatives for the cannabis industry, which might either come in handy when raising seed capital or when looking for additional funds for your business after a friends and family round.

«After Jordan's two brothers, Vidal and Kevon, along with their two friends, were forced to experience this tragedy up close as occupants of the car, they were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay dying in the front seat,» a statement released by the Edwards family said.

After a big sprint, let the team take a day off to catch their breath, and spend time with their friends and family, away from the office.

This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

In January, Facebook tried to soothe investors after announcing changes to its News Feed that demoted news in favor of updates shared by users» friends and family.

After months of criticism over the harmful effects of the social network, Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook wanted to emphasize more «meaningful» content, such as photos and posts that friends and family have interacted with, and would play down articles from publishers.

People use Safety Check to let their friends and family know they are safe; people support one another through Community Help, which enables them to ask for and offer recovery assistance; and people raise money for causes they care about and to help communities rebuild after a crisis.

Zachary Cruz, who lived with a family friend after his mother died last year, was also involuntarily committed for a psychiatric evaluation days after the shooting.

The friend was likely Rocxanne Deschamps, a former neighbor of the Cruz family who had moved to Lantana in Palm Beach County and agreed to take in the boys after Lynda's death.

On a personal note, I am back home after taking a cross country road trip and visiting family and friends for the past three weeks.

After his mother died, Cruz moved in with a friend, whose family in Broward took him in and even gave him own bedroom.

After you've gathered names and contact info from your friends, family or real estate agent, look them up.

Other red flags have also surfaced, including calls to the FBI about Cruz's potential to become a school shooter and numerous visits by county law enforcement officials to his home - both before his mother died in November and after, when he lived briefly with a family friend in Palm Beach County.

At the end of the experience, teams combined their individual projects to reveal a series of video game levels that they could share with family and friends — and continue to work on in their own time after the event.

Biden's first presidential run was derailed by a plagiarism scandal, and the former vice president will face much more scrutiny after the publication of Breitbart News Editor - at - Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.

After all, not everyone has family or friends who can loan them money, and banks are currently sitting on a lot of cash — looking for businesses that appear to be a smart bet (although the lending climate can change in a heartbeat).

An angel investor will usually invest after a company raises money from friends and family (the first money a startup raises from outside investors) during a company's Seed or Series A round (or an intermediate round known as a «Bridge» round).

My objections would have more to do with the lengths some might go to cut their taxes under such a system; selling stocks in droves right before tax season, giving gifts out to family and friends (perhaps with the intent to take them back after the tax man leaves), and of course, owning more assets outside of America.

On Wednesday morning, the suspect was staying with a friend's family, which had taken him in after Cruz's mother died last year.

After that, we let [them do a test run] with friends and family for a week, who we don't charge.

we invest alongside other angel investors or seed funds, usually after a startup has already raised some friends and family investment.

O ye CatholicMom and friends and family of said possessed soul, bow your heads and repeat after me:

«We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations.

I'd be interested to see how his friends / family treat him during and after this.

Today we also remember in prayer the friends and family of Richard Twiss, who passed into the eternal kingdom of the Creator this week after a massive heart attack.

As a young man in 1840, abandoning the upstate New York towns to which his family retreated after his father's bankruptcy and death, he visited Manhattan with his friend Eli Fly.

I've known families who have had to manage the incredulity of non-Catholic friends and family after «admitting» that the reason for a move to a less «highly sought after» area is to be closer to a good priest.