text: In the days after commencement, his degree prompted hundreds of congratulatory messages on social media and in person. The support humbled McDonald, who remains an imposing figure at 6-foot-3 and more than 260 pounds.
  “I don’t know that I feel differently. I do appreciate how it made others feel, though,” he said. “There’s tremendous pride and it means so much because I’ve learned there were people who were in my corner, even in my darkest days.”
  When McDonald considered returning to complete his degree, the initial hurdle was financial. He had an outstanding bill with the University. Once that was settled, he worked through his remaining credits, completed an internship, and, this spring, finished his final course, in microeconomics.
  That’s especially relevant because he works to empower others through his business, I-Am-Recycling Inc. (http://i-am-recycling.org). The nonprofit offers programming and support with youth and adult programs in his hometown of Montclair, New Jersey, as well as Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
  In addition, McDonald and former teammate Blair Thomas lead a Penn State football-focused website, Nittany Sports Huddle. Through that, McDonald had actually hired one of his 2019 classmates, broadcast journalism student Jon Gross, to host a podcast.
  He flashed a broad smile regularly at commencement and enjoyed celebrating with Gross and his much younger classmates.
  “I was honored to be up there with those youngsters, and I was honored because I know the prestige of our university,” McDonald said. “I’m proud that I finished something that I set out to do, no matter how long ago it was.”
  
  SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Aug. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AdvancedMD, the pioneer of Rhythm™, a unified cloud platform of smart clinical, billing and patient applications that automate tasks for all roles in the practice and patients, announces AdvancedCQM, to help practices gain more incentives from CMS with better reporting and increased performance rates.
  AdvancedCQM streamlines MIPS Quality Reporting with a comprehensive suite of reporting measures, including 54 measures – all of which are automatically calculated from AdvancedEHR based on the categories the provider chooses. AdvancedMD supports the measures in the categories of adult behavioral health, general behavioral health, pediatric behavioral health, cancer, core, diabetes, eye, adult general practice, pediatric general practice, heart, HIV, orthopedics and pregnancy. AdvancedMD is offering AdvancedCQM to all users of AdvancedEHR at no additional cost. All existing and new clients will also enjoy no setup or monthly fees in 2018 for the 54 reporting measures in AdvancedCQM.
  
  Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a conservative supporter of Trump until recently, called on Trump to resign on Sunday, saying the president could face criminal liability after he praised and egged on his supporters before they laid siege to the Capitol, where lawmakers were certifying the Electoral College vote for Joe Biden.
  On NBC's "Meet the Press" Senator Toomey said, quote, "I think the best way for our country is for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible," calling Trump's behavior since the election "outrageous."
  Toomey's call followed that of fellow Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski -- who also said he should resign -- and came as Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives prepared to move forward with impeachment proceedings for the second time.
  In a preview of a "60 Minutes" interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi said there's support among lawmakers for impeaching Trump - but made it clear impeachment was not Democrats' first choice.
  PELOSI: "Well I like the 25th because it gets rid of him. He's out of office. But there's strong support in the Congress for impeaching the President a second time."
  While lawmakers could vote this week in the house, House Majority Whip James Clyburn suggested to CNN that they might wait to send the impeachment article to the Senate for a trial until after Biden's first 100 days in office, giving Congress time to approve Biden's Cabinet nominees and other agenda items.
  If Trump is convicted in the Senate after he has left office, he could be banned from ever holding public office again as a sentence.
  With just over a week left in White House, it's been reported that Trump has another round of presidential pardons lined up - and a visit to his U.S. Mexico border wall planned for Tuesday.
  On any given weekend, Trump would normally sound off on Twitter to critics of his - but this weekend was different, with the social media company having banished him from its platform.