It is amazing how fast her run times are at her age:
At 76 years old, Jeannie Rice is still setting age group world records and altering what we thought we knew about aging and running. She currently owns the world record for every distance between the 1500 meters and the marathon. It’s not just that Rice is fast for her age—and just plain speedy, full stop. She’s also not seeing the decline in speed you’d typically expect for a septuagenarian runner. That’s why, when UK-based researchers learned that Rice would be racing the London Marathon last April, they pounced on the opportunity to study what biomarkers and physical characteristics set her apart from her peers.
Six days after she set a new age-group world record in the marathon, running a time of 3:33:27 (averaging 8:08 miles), Rice agreed to visit an exercise lab in England where she underwent body fat measuring, treadmill testing, and other running and jumping assessments. In the resulting case report, which was published last month in the Journal of Applied Physiology, the authors shared that Rice has the highest V02 max (47.8) ever recorded for a woman aged 75 years or older, and a surprisingly high max heart rate of 180.
You can read more at the link, but even more amazing is that she started running at age 35 to lose weight after a visit to her native South Korea. Since then she progressed to being able to run 50 miles a week to maintain her current fitness level.
Pope Francis like many other leaders before him found out that achieving peace on the Korean peninsula is not easy:
The death of Pope Francis, who had long yearned for peace on the divided Korean Peninsula, triggered deep mourning among South Koreans on Monday.
The pontiff was regarded by the country’s Catholics and non-believers alike as a spiritual leader who showed deep compassion and a special affection for the country.
He chose South Korea as his first destination in Asia after becoming pope in 2013 and appointed two of the four Korean cardinals to date. Under his leadership, Seoul was selected to hold the 2027 World Youth Day, making the country the second Asian country to hold the global event after the Philippines in 1995.
He also maintained close communication with South Korean presidents, consistently showing a strong interest in peace on the Korean Peninsula and inter-Korean relations.
As we have seen with just about every immigration case the media brings up there is always more to the story they leave out. In this case it is hard to say what happened, but it appears he may have had a visa to be a researcher at Ohio State University and then took a job to teach at the University of Houston instead which might have been in violation of his visa:
As the second Trump administration expelled illegal immigrants, a Korean scientist, a professor at an American university, suddenly canceled his visa and left for Korea.
U.S. media, including the University Herald, the Houston Chronicle and the Daily Cougar, reported on the 15th (local time) that Korean assistant professor Cho Hyung-sun, who works at the University of Houston’s mathematics department, is preparing to leave for Korea after her visa was abruptly canceled. Jeon served as a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University in the U.S. from September 2022 to June 2024, and began teaching as an assistant professor at Houston University last fall.
Jeon is known to have been notified of the cancellation of his visa because he is working on a doctoral program at another institution. He was virtually kicked out after failing to finish the course he was in charge of this semester to go back to Korea and solve his identity problem.
You can read more at the link, but this guy appears to be handling things correctly by going back to Korea and reapplying for the appropriate visa to teach at the University of Houston. It sounds like a lot of visa holders had been able to cut corners for a long time in regards to what their visas could be used for and ICE is now cracking down on it. Anyone that has a visa in the U.S. should fully understand what their allows them to do and comply by it because clearly ICE is strictly enforcing immigration laws now.
In my opinion if kids leave school without permission they should be given detention or some other form of punishment. If the DODEA schools allow these kids to protest without punishment than what is too stop students from leaving class to protest other hot button topics?:
Parents and students say that administrators initiated an unannounced lockdown drill to stop a planned walkout at Netzaberg Middle School on Thursday, a claim school officials dispute. The incident has raised concerns in the U.S. military community near Grafenwoehr and Vilseck that the school deliberately kept students from speaking out against the removal of material deemed to support diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the shuttering or reorganization of groups with gender, racial or cultural affiliations. (…….)
Parents and students say that administrators initiated an unannounced lockdown drill to stop a planned walkout at Netzaberg Middle School on Thursday, a claim school officials dispute. The incident has raised concerns in the U.S. military community near Grafenwoehr and Vilseck that the school deliberately kept students from speaking out against the removal of material deemed to support diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the shuttering or reorganization of groups with gender, racial or cultural affiliations.
You can read more at the link, but if you want to be an activist go do it outside of school hours. However, I am willing to bet it is probably the parents pushing these kids to go and protest during school.
