McCarthy meets with Rep. Greene; GOP faces Cheney decision
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has met with hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Their session on Tuesday night came as Republicans wrestled over how to handle a bipartisan outcry over her embrace of outlandish conspiracy theories like suggestions that mass shootings at the nation’s schools were staged. Aides to McCarthy and Greene offered no immediate comment after the two spent around 90 minutes together in his Capitol office. The GOP is facing unrest from opposing ends of the Republican spectrum over Greene and Rep. Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump. Both situations underscore GOP fissures as the party seeks its pathway without Trump.
View Comments Here’s a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.Bette Midler’s New AlbumStage and screen star Bette Midler is set to release It’s The Girls, her first studio album in eight years. According to Billboard, the record will span seven decades of famous girl groups, with the honorary Tony winner belting classic tunes including “One Fine Day,” “Mr Sandman” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.” Out on November 4, we now know what we will be asking for in our Christmas stocking!It’s a Drag for Jackie Burns & Daniel TorresThe Green Room at New World Stages is currently presenting the fifth season of So You Think You Can Drag and this week’s competition features none other than Broadway favorites Jackie Burns (Wicked and Idina’s current standby in If/Then) and Daniel Torres (Beautiful). Hosted by Paige Turner, So You Think You Can Drag features ten pre-cast queens competing for a $1,000 grand prize and the chance to headline their own show at The Green Room. Burns and Torres will join resident judge Justin Luke of BoiParty on the panel on September 25.OITNB’s Uzo Aduba Returns to VeniceMiss the fusion of musical styles from hip-hop to anthems of love and hope in off-Broadway’s Venice last year? Never fear, Orange Is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba, Jennifer Damiano, Leslie Odom, Jr. and more can be heard in the tuner’s original cast recording. Directed by Eric Rosen with a book by Rosen, music by Matt Sax, and lyrics by Sax and Rosen, as well as additional music by Curtis Moore, the album has just been made available on Ghostlight digitally and will be in stores December 2. Another item on our Santa wish list!Broadway Community Will Celebrate Seth PopperThe Broadway community will celebrate the life of Seth Popper on September 30 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Popper, who died on May 26, 2014, was Director of Labor Relations for The Broadway League, the trade association representing commercial theater producers, theater owners, and presenters on the Great White Way and around the country. Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of the League commented: “Our dear friend and respected colleague Seth Popper was a special person who we will always remember. Our industry wishes to commemorate Seth’s exceptional passion for life and love of Broadway with musical tributes and the sharing of memories.” Bette Midler
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A paddler pushes through the wild whitewater of the Green River narrows. Leaves are changing. Temperatures are dropping. The crisp air means it’s time to race. Here are eight fall classics every Southern adventurer needs to experience.All Night Long24 Hours of Georgia Conyers, Ga. • October 8-9 Grab a crew or ride solo on the trails that held the 1996 Olympic cross-country race and the epic battle at the 24-hour solo world championships between pro riders Chris Eatough and Craig Gordon. While this year’s course was still being established at press time, expect some steep climbs and wheel-stumbling rock gardens, along with the all-night delirium that comes with 24-hour racing. Teams of two, three to five, and six to ten riders are welcome. 24hoursofgeorgia.comOdyssey Fall Finale 24-Hour Adventure Race Buchanan, Va. • October 15 The course curators at Odyssey Adventure Racing, lead by pioneer Ronny Angell, long ago set a standard for epic multisport challenges in the Blue Ridge and beyond. The final event in their annual series is a 75-mile backcountry maze in the Southwest Virginia woods traversed by foot, boat, and pedal. Soloists and teams of up to four tackle off-trail bushwhacking, steep singletrack riding, and class II paddling during a day-long challenge that tests navigational wit as well as endurance. A shorter sprint version of the course will also be offered for novice racers. oarevents.comMarathon MadnessMarine Corps Marathon Washington, D.C. • October 30 Let’s start with the bad news. This year’s Marine Corps Marathon sold out in a record-setting 28 hours and four minutes, so you won’t be joining the massive field of 30,000 runners who flock to the nation’s capital every fall. The marathon is extremely popular for its scenic 26.2-mile course that moves from Arlington into Georgetown and eventually enters the National Mall, where it passes a handful of famous landmarks including the Lincoln Memorial.The good news is the Mid-Atlantic has two more top-quality marathons that take place every autumn. On October 15, runners can take on the Baltimore Marathon’s challenging course through the city’s best areas, including the Inner Harbor waterfront, Federal Hill, and Fells Point. Also try the Richmond Marathon, where you can run the mellow grades of the historic Southern city’s downtown streets with most likely cooler temps on November 12.Best Boulders in DixieHorse Pens 40 Bouldering CompetitionSteele, Ala. • November 5This is the final event in the Triple Crown Bouldering Series, which brings elite climbers to the South for three comps every fall. The unique boulders at Horse Pens 40 Park, located atop Chandler Mountain in Alabama’s Appalachian foothills, feature unique sandstone routes with tough top-outs that are often compared to Fontainebleau in France. Owned by a climber-friendly couple, the park is also a well-known bluegrass venue, so it’s able to hold the biggest comp in the series with a hearty crowd of climbers coming out to the crag every year.triplecrownbouldering.org Steep Creek ActionGreen River Narrows Race Saluda, N.C. • November 5At high noon on the first Saturday of November, the best in boating meet at the Green River for this now-famous creek competition in Western North Carolina. It’s indisputably one of the most extreme river challenges in the world—a fast and steep run of class V craziness that includes huge drops and hairpin turns on epic rapids like Go Left or Die and the infamous Gorilla. Despite international attention, the race is still the same free homespun affair that was started by local paddlers back in 1996. If this kind of creek boating is above your pay grade, it’s still fun to join the rowdy batch of spectators that has increased in size every year as the comp has become more popular. Watching the action requires a decent hike into the woods, so get there early and join the pack.greenrace.amongstit.comUltra HistoryJFK 50 Miler Boonsboro, Md. • November 19This is where ultrarunners come for fast times and a chance to celebrate the history of their sport. Approaching its 49th year, the JFK 50 Miler was started just months before Kennedy’s assassination, as part of the president’s push for improved nationwide physical fitness. It still remains one of the country’s most cherished ultra races, beloved for its scenic setting in the mountains surrounding the Potomac River and a stint on the Appalachian Trail. With a long stretch along the flat C&O Canal Towpath, the race also produces some of the ultra world’s fastest times. While popularity has already filled the race this year, you can still enter the field by purchasing one of the 100 specially reserved charity spots for an extra donation.jfk50mile.org
continue reading » 13SHARESShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr It’s not uncommon when sorting through a pile of résumés to come across a familiar name. If a former employee applies for a position with the organization they once left, is rehiring them a stroke of luck or a terrible mistake?One of the biggest advantages to hiring a previous employee is that they are a known commodity: You know their personality, work ethic and skills. That knowledge goes both ways: They know the company’s procedures, culture and goals. If a good fit for rehire, they can offer significantly reduced retraining cost. But how do you decide if they are a good candidate? We offer some criteria to evaluate.1. What was their past performance? The single most important thing for you to consider is their previous track record. What was their performance while at your credit union? Did they bump along the bottom or continually exceed expectations? Did their coworkers enjoy working with them, or did they sow workplace strife and frustration?
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Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD has said that Indonesia is heading toward reinstating guidelines on the implementation of a Pancasila course in educational institutions, a practice that occurred during the New Order regime.The course, known as P4, was an obligatory subject taught during student orientation in junior and senior high school as well as at the collegiate level.Mahfud, however, said that the new P4 course would be an updated version. The P4 course was based on a People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) decree issued in 1978. The decree elaborated Pancasila’s five main ideas into 36 points of practical guidelines to internalize and implement Pancasila values to citizen’s daily lives. In 1999, however, the MPR issued another decree that put an end to the P4 course. Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Tjahjo Kumolo said he agreed with the plan as it would strengthen nationalism.“I recommend that Pak Menko have the course be delivered over a shorter amount of time per session. In the old days, the course was given over rather long hours,” he said, referring to Mahfud. (gis)Topics : “Before I left [my post] at the Agency for Pancasila Ideology Education [BPIP], [we had decided] that we would organize more [P4] courses.”So [the reintroduction of the courses] basically has started,” Mahfud, a former member of the BPIP steering committee, said in Jakarta on Monday as quoted by tempo.co.He went on to say that several people had received a training-of-trainers session on P4. They were expected to teach the course once the program is fully run nationwide, added Mahfud.“Earlier today I asked the BPIP secretary [who said] there were already some people who took the course. However, it’s just the beginning – we don’t have enough [trainers]. We plan to have more trainers that master Pancasila values,” Mahfud said.
Mnuchin downplayed a question about a possible recession, calling it a “technical question” that was not “terribly relevant” in the current situation since the government was effectively shutting down large parts of the economy to slow the virus.”“When people focus on recessions, it’s normally because of a prolonged economic environment,” Mnuchin said. “This is a very unique situation that we’ve never had before. This is the government has self-imposed shutting down large parts of the economy. And as soon as we can get the medical situation under control, we’re going to reopen it.”Mnuchin declined to comment specifically about a Washington Post report that the Trump administration did not act on repeated warnings about the potential impact of the coronavirus from the U.S. intelligence community, but said no one expected the crisis to escalate as quickly as it had.“I don’t think that anybody should second guess the government’s actions,” Mnuchin said. “This has been moving very quickly and I think we’ve responded appropriately.”Many critics have said the administration has been slow in both its preparation and response to the crisis as President Donald Trump for weeks played down the situation before changing his tone more recently. The coronavirus economic relief bill being finalized by the US Congress will include a one-time US$3,000 payment for families and allow the Federal Reserve to leverage up to $4 trillion of liquidity to support the nation’s economy, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday.Mnuchin, speaking on the “Fox News Sunday” television program, said the additional liquidity measures would allow the US central bank to help a broad base of businesses to get through next 90 to 120 days.Trump administration officials hoped to finalize the legislation on Sunday and see a vote on Monday, Mnuchin said, adding that further steps could be taken if the crisis did not abate in 10 to 12 weeks. Mnuchin said the US economy would clearly take a hit from the health crisis, but should rebound once the new coronavirus has been contained.“We need to get the money into the economy now. If we do that, we think we can stabilize the economy,” he said.Read also: ‘Desperate times, desperate measures’: Calls grow for flexible state budget amid virusNearly one in four Americans, or 80 million people, were under orders to close up shop and stay home as New York, California, Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey instituted statewide lockdowns to try to contain the rapid spread of the highly contagious respiratory illness.
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“However, the evidence needs to be gathered and interpreted, and we continue to support this.”Any change in the WHO’s assessment of risk of transmission could affect its current advice on keeping 1-meter of physical distancing. Governments, which rely on the agency for guidance policy, may also have to adjust public health measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus.Van Kerkhove said the WHO would publish a scientific brief summarizing the state of knowledge on modes of transmission of the virus in the coming days.”A comprehensive package of interventions is required to be able to stop transmission,” she said.”This includes not only physical distancing, it includes the use of masks where appropriate in certain settings, specifically where you can’t do physical distancing and especially for healthcare workers.” The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people.”We have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission and aerosol transmission as one of the modes of transmission of COVID-19,” Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead on the COVID-19 pandemic at the WHO, told a news briefing.The WHO has previously said the virus that causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease spreads primarily through small droplets expelled from the nose and mouth of an infected person that quickly sink to the ground. Topics :
But in an open letter to the Geneva-based agency, published on Monday in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, 239 scientists in 32 countries outlined evidence that they say shows floating virus particles can infect people who breathe them in.Because those smaller exhaled particles can linger in the air, the scientists are urging WHO to update its guidance.Speaking at Tuesday’s briefing in Geneva, Benedetta Allegranzi, the WHO’s technical lead for infection prevention and control, said there was evidence emerging of airborne transmission of the coronavirus, but that it was not definitive.”…The possibility of airborne transmission in public settings – especially in very specific conditions, crowded, closed, poorly ventilated settings that have been described, cannot be ruled out,” she said.
Peter Batley has sold the last remaining Esplanade beach house. Picture: Jerad WilliamsBRISBANE man Jason Hague snapped up the last house on the famous Surfers Paradise Esplanade for a red hot figure of $6.55 million on Saturday.In what could be described as the most competitive bidding war on the Gold Coast, 32 The Esplande lasted a total of 10 minutes before it cracked at auction.Owner Peter Batley converted the apartment block which was four apartments into a seven bedroom, six bathroom home in Surfers Paradise. Peter Batley with his daughter Sabrina Batley, 6. Picture: Jerad WilliamsNine bidders including Chinese buyers, local hotel owners and Brisbane investors battled it out to secure the iconic house on The Esplande.The auction started at $5 million but within 30 seconds of auctioneer, Nigel Long calling for more bids, the price jumped to an eye-watering $5.8 million.Three and a half minutes later the price was at $5.96 million.Video Player is loading.Play VideoPlayNext playlist itemMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 2:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -2:00 Playback Rate1xChaptersChaptersDescriptionsdescriptions off, selectedCaptionscaptions settings, opens captions settings dialogcaptions off, selectedQuality Levels720p720pHD540p540p360p360p270p270pAutoA, selectedAudio Trackdefault, selectedFullscreenThis is a modal window.Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window.TextColorWhiteBlackRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyOpaqueSemi-TransparentTransparentWindowColorBlackWhiteRedGreenBlueYellowMagentaCyanTransparencyTransparentSemi-TransparentOpaqueFont Size50%75%100%125%150%175%200%300%400%Text Edge StyleNoneRaisedDepressedUniformDropshadowFont FamilyProportional Sans-SerifMonospace Sans-SerifProportional SerifMonospace SerifCasualScriptSmall CapsReset restore all settings to the default valuesDoneClose Modal DialogEnd of dialog window.This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.PlayMuteCurrent Time 0:00/Duration 0:00Loaded: 0%Stream Type LIVESeek to live, currently playing liveLIVERemaining Time -0:00 Playback Rate1xFullscreenHow leverage works02:00Bidder no. four took the lead as the auction was beginning to wrap up and commented that this ‘wasn’t their first rodeo’.A five minute pause saw a buyer from New South Wales up the bid to $6.545 million.Crowds of about 50 people gathered around as bidder no. four and no. twelve went head-to-head until the Brisbane bidder had the final bid, offering $45,000 more.The home is dwarfed by high-rises. Picture: Jerad WilliamsThe winning bidder, Mr Hague had his mind set on buying the property but said he isn’t sure what he will do with it.More from news02:37Purchasers snap up every residence in the $40 million Siarn Palm Beach North5 hours ago02:37International architect Desmond Brooks selling luxury beach villa1 day ago“I have had my eye on it for the past two months and I spend every second weekend or so holidaying on the Coast,” he said.“I’m not sure of the future plans just yet.”Prestige property agents principal Amir Mian marketed the property and said the site garnered a lot of attention from Chinese buyers and big hotel owners.“This block is a perfect opportunity for developers who want to create a boutique development in Surfers Paradise,” Mr Mian said.“No one is really building that boutique style in this part of the Gold Coast, it is mostly high-rises.“A private boutique building would be perfect here.”It was rumoured that a large hotel business would snap up the property.“The hotel who was interested in the block is well established in Surfers Paradise and they have a lot of monopoly here.”The iconic beachfront property owned by former commercial property owner Peter Batley is nestled between the The Sands and Grosvenor towers, a short walk from the 77-level Soul skyscraper and Cavill Mall.Mr Batley bought the Driftwood apartments block four years ago and spent $400,000 on a transformative renovation to turn it into a retro-style house reminiscent of the 60s.The three-level property now features seven bedrooms, six bathrooms and nine car spaces, five with enclosed garaging.Mr Batley said the move to sell was for his six-year-old daughter Sabrina.“My wife Sammi and I want to give her a backyard and a neighbourhood where she will be able to make some friends,” he said.“Sabrina and I play hide-and-seek in the house and we love the beach but the road is very busy and there are a lot of tourists.”On the same block as Cavill Avenue, the one title property spans 433sq m and comes with no height restrictions.