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They also serve who only stand and wait sing and dance
Military service may not prevent BTS from performing, the South Korean defence minister has said.
Normally, all men in the country must serve in the military between the ages of 18 and 28, for about 20 months.
In 2020, exceptions were made for BTS members to delay their service until they were 30.
With the oldest member of the K-pop band, Jin, turning 30 next year, the issue has come into focus in South Korea.
There is parliamentary debate in the country over shortening service to three weeks.
And speaking about BTS, minister Lee Jong-sup said: "There would be a way to give them a chance to practice and perform together."
Today's Best Golfer in the World
Tiger Woods turned down an offer worth approximately $700-$800 million to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, according to the tour’s CEO Greg Norman.
During an interview on Fox News that aired on Monday, former world No. 1 Norman was asked by Tucker Carlson if it was true that Woods was offered $700-$800 million to join the LIV Golf series.
It Costs a Lot to Eat for Two
Georgia residents can now claim embryos as dependents on their state taxes, the state's revenue department announced Monday.
"In light of the June 24, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the July 20, 2022, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Sistersong v. Kemp, the Department will recognize any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat ... as eligible for the Georgia individual income tax dependent exemption," the department said in a statement.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that "Georgia’s prohibition on abortions after detectable human heartbeat is rational."
The state's Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act "defines a 'natural person' as 'any human being including an un-born child,'" the court ruled.
More Russian "Victory"
Ukraine’s map is full of little towns that led unremarkable, mostly agricultural lives until war was foisted on them. I previously wrote about Dovhen’ke, which stymied Russian forces pushing down from Izyum for two months before finally surrendering its remaining rubble to Russia on June 4. Yet in the nearly two months since, Russia hasn’t been able to advance past the town—a pattern we see time and time again: Russia runs itself ragged capturing some insignificant point on the map, and is then left with little in the tank for further gains.
Bohorodychne, pre-war population 794, is one of those towns, not too far from Dothan’ke.
The Next Battles in the Abortion Wars
One, Republican states intend to follow up their new abortion bans with laws that make it illegal to mail abortion-inducing drugs into their states, regardless of FDA approval or a physician's prescription. Two, Republican states are looking to block the possibly pregnant from traveling to states where they are still able to obtain abortions.
Where Do They Find These People? There's One Under Every Rock.
Where do they find these people? Seriously, is there some kind of Republican hiring hall out there somewhere, at which tables full of bad and/or deranged candidates sit, playing with their toes or with 48-card decks, until somebody calls their number and they run for something? With the U.S. Senate on the line, Georgia Republicans have lined up behind a former running back who is forever being horse-collared by the English language. The Pennsylvania Republicans are running a refugee from Oprah’s House O’Quacks who’s being trolled into a fine mist by his Democratic opponent. And the Ohio Republicans are running a hedge-fund bot last seen campaigning in Israel and telling women to stay in violent marriages.
And the further you go down the ballot, the further afield the derangement goes. Arizona’s Republican ballot is thick with election truthers. And in Missouri, there is a candidate for Congress who is that rarest of birds, the George Floyd truther.
Of course, when you spend 40 years telling people that government is the problem, it's not hard to turn politics into a carnival act whose only purpose is to be a spectacle of public amusement.
There's Something Happening Here. What It is, Is Exactly Clear.
The significant movement towards DEMS keeping the Senate continues with 538.com putting the chances today at 57D/ 43R up from the reverse 57R/43D just over two weeks ago!
Margins are wider in PA, NV and GA , even though GA is still close which is mindbending.
Even the QOP Can't Stand This Heat
Senate Republicans are reversing course on a veterans health care bill, signaling they’ll now help it quickly move to President Joe Biden’s desk after weathering several days of intense criticism for delaying the legislation last week.
Schumer is expected to force another vote on the veterans bill this week, vowing Monday that he would bring it up “in the coming days.”
“We’re going to give Senate Republicans another chance to do the right thing,” he said.
China: California of the East
China has water shortages due to some inconvenient truths. Their water has been overused, polluted with deadly toxins, and large populations live in areas with water scarcity. Facts and Details noted that China uses 40 billion cubic meters of water each year, "five to seven times the amount used in Southern California, more than its resources can sustain." Water shortages are most acute in China's north, where 42 percent of the population resides. Massive urban areas such as Beijing and Tianjin also have water shortages. Over the past twenty years, China has lost 28,000 rivers and other surface water sources; they just vanished. The northern rivers have low flow or disappeared altogether.
No Music? Aw, Shoot!
Organizers canceled a music festival in Atlanta on Monday in part due to Georgia’s “open carry” gun laws, sources told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Music Midtown, which was scheduled to take place over two days in September and feature artists such as Jack White, Future and Fall Out Boy, posted a tweet on Monday saying the festival was canceled “due to circumstances beyond our control”:
Refunds will be provided for tickets that have already sold.
According to the AJC, the organizers’ decision involved a 2014 law that expanded the areas where gun owners were authorized to openly carry firearms. The 2014 Safe Carry Protection Act gives gun owners the right to carry firearms in most public areas without restrictions. The law even allows school districts and religious leaders to decide whether to allow openly carried firearms on school grounds and religious sites.
The festival, which draws tens of thousands of music fans to the Piedmont Park venue, has historically prohibited all weapons. Festival organizers were reportedly worried they’d by sued by gun owners and that musicians would bail if guns were allowed on site.
Don't Forget to Exercise or You Will Forget to Exercise
New research hints that even a simple exercise routine just might help older Americans with mild memory problems.
Doctors have long advised physical activity to help keep a healthy brain fit. But the government-funded study marks the longest test of whether exercise makes any difference once memory starts to slide — research performed amid a pandemic that added isolation to the list of risks to participants' brain health.
Researchers recruited about 300 sedentary older adults with hard-to-spot memory changes called mild cognitive impairment or MCI -- a condition that’s sometimes, but not always, a precursor to Alzheimer’s. Half were assigned aerobic exercises and the rest stretching-and-balance moves that only modestly raised their heart rate.
Another key component: Participants in both groups were showered with attention by trainers who worked with them at YMCAs around the country -- and when COVID-19 shut down gyms, helped them keep moving at home via video calls.
After a year, cognitive testing showed overall neither group had worsened, said lead researcher Laura Baker, a neuroscientist at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Nor did brain scans show the shrinkage that accompanies worsening memory problems, she said.
By comparison, similar MCI patients in another long-term study of brain health -- but without exercise -- experienced significant cognitive decline over a year.
Today's Dumb Headline. No One Knows Why Stocks Move Over a Few Hours
Stocks dip as Pelosi's Asia trip rattles investors
Family Values
The Biden administration has reunited 400 children with their parents after they were separated as migrants crossing the southern border under the Trump administration, said Michelle Brané, the executive director of the Family Reunification Task Force.
More than 5,000 families were separated under Trump’s 2018 “zero tolerance” policy and a 2017 pilot program and advocates estimate over 1,000 remain separated. Because the Trump administration did not keep records of which children were separated and where they were sent, the task force and lawyers working on behalf of separated families have had a difficult time identifying families to offer them the chance of reunification.
In the majority of recently reunited cases, Brané said, the parents were deported while the children remained in the U.S. Now, parents are given the opportunity to come to the U.S. on paid travel, bring other members of their family who are dependent on them, and live and work in the U.S. legally for three years.
Prosecutor Who Got Defendant Pregnant and Had Affair With Juror Is Now Running for Judge
An elected state’s attorney in Kentucky who admitted to getting a criminal defendant pregnant is now running to become a circuit judge.
Matthew Leveridge, commonwealth’s attorney of Russell and Wayne counties, was never disciplined for having sex with with Latisha Sartain in 2014. After Sartain told Leveridge’s wife about the affair, Leveridge moved to rescind Sartain’s pretrial diversion agreement.
Eight years on, he wants to be elected to higher office.
Ken Upchurch, a Republican for the 52nd District in Kentucky’s House of Representatives, told the Louisville Courier Journal he was shocked to hear Leveridge was running to be a judge. “It’s like the church head deacon having an affair with the choir director, then wanting to be the preacher,” Upchurch said.
Although concerns were raised that Leveridge’s actions may have constituted a breach of the Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers, he has never been sanctioned by the Kentucky Supreme Court or charged with a criminal offense. Leveridge was the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly having sex with jurors, however, court documents show.
Military service may not prevent BTS from performing, the South Korean defence minister has said.
Normally, all men in the country must serve in the military between the ages of 18 and 28, for about 20 months.
In 2020, exceptions were made for BTS members to delay their service until they were 30.
With the oldest member of the K-pop band, Jin, turning 30 next year, the issue has come into focus in South Korea.
There is parliamentary debate in the country over shortening service to three weeks.
And speaking about BTS, minister Lee Jong-sup said: "There would be a way to give them a chance to practice and perform together."
Today's Best Golfer in the World
Tiger Woods turned down an offer worth approximately $700-$800 million to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, according to the tour’s CEO Greg Norman.
During an interview on Fox News that aired on Monday, former world No. 1 Norman was asked by Tucker Carlson if it was true that Woods was offered $700-$800 million to join the LIV Golf series.
It Costs a Lot to Eat for Two
Georgia residents can now claim embryos as dependents on their state taxes, the state's revenue department announced Monday.
"In light of the June 24, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the July 20, 2022, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Sistersong v. Kemp, the Department will recognize any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat ... as eligible for the Georgia individual income tax dependent exemption," the department said in a statement.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that "Georgia’s prohibition on abortions after detectable human heartbeat is rational."
The state's Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act "defines a 'natural person' as 'any human being including an un-born child,'" the court ruled.
More Russian "Victory"
Ukraine’s map is full of little towns that led unremarkable, mostly agricultural lives until war was foisted on them. I previously wrote about Dovhen’ke, which stymied Russian forces pushing down from Izyum for two months before finally surrendering its remaining rubble to Russia on June 4. Yet in the nearly two months since, Russia hasn’t been able to advance past the town—a pattern we see time and time again: Russia runs itself ragged capturing some insignificant point on the map, and is then left with little in the tank for further gains.
Bohorodychne, pre-war population 794, is one of those towns, not too far from Dothan’ke.
The Next Battles in the Abortion Wars
One, Republican states intend to follow up their new abortion bans with laws that make it illegal to mail abortion-inducing drugs into their states, regardless of FDA approval or a physician's prescription. Two, Republican states are looking to block the possibly pregnant from traveling to states where they are still able to obtain abortions.
Where Do They Find These People? There's One Under Every Rock.
Where do they find these people? Seriously, is there some kind of Republican hiring hall out there somewhere, at which tables full of bad and/or deranged candidates sit, playing with their toes or with 48-card decks, until somebody calls their number and they run for something? With the U.S. Senate on the line, Georgia Republicans have lined up behind a former running back who is forever being horse-collared by the English language. The Pennsylvania Republicans are running a refugee from Oprah’s House O’Quacks who’s being trolled into a fine mist by his Democratic opponent. And the Ohio Republicans are running a hedge-fund bot last seen campaigning in Israel and telling women to stay in violent marriages.
And the further you go down the ballot, the further afield the derangement goes. Arizona’s Republican ballot is thick with election truthers. And in Missouri, there is a candidate for Congress who is that rarest of birds, the George Floyd truther.
Of course, when you spend 40 years telling people that government is the problem, it's not hard to turn politics into a carnival act whose only purpose is to be a spectacle of public amusement.
There's Something Happening Here. What It is, Is Exactly Clear.
The significant movement towards DEMS keeping the Senate continues with 538.com putting the chances today at 57D/ 43R up from the reverse 57R/43D just over two weeks ago!
Margins are wider in PA, NV and GA , even though GA is still close which is mindbending.
Even the QOP Can't Stand This Heat
Senate Republicans are reversing course on a veterans health care bill, signaling they’ll now help it quickly move to President Joe Biden’s desk after weathering several days of intense criticism for delaying the legislation last week.
Schumer is expected to force another vote on the veterans bill this week, vowing Monday that he would bring it up “in the coming days.”
“We’re going to give Senate Republicans another chance to do the right thing,” he said.
China: California of the East
China has water shortages due to some inconvenient truths. Their water has been overused, polluted with deadly toxins, and large populations live in areas with water scarcity. Facts and Details noted that China uses 40 billion cubic meters of water each year, "five to seven times the amount used in Southern California, more than its resources can sustain." Water shortages are most acute in China's north, where 42 percent of the population resides. Massive urban areas such as Beijing and Tianjin also have water shortages. Over the past twenty years, China has lost 28,000 rivers and other surface water sources; they just vanished. The northern rivers have low flow or disappeared altogether.
No Music? Aw, Shoot!
Organizers canceled a music festival in Atlanta on Monday in part due to Georgia’s “open carry” gun laws, sources told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Music Midtown, which was scheduled to take place over two days in September and feature artists such as Jack White, Future and Fall Out Boy, posted a tweet on Monday saying the festival was canceled “due to circumstances beyond our control”:
Refunds will be provided for tickets that have already sold.
According to the AJC, the organizers’ decision involved a 2014 law that expanded the areas where gun owners were authorized to openly carry firearms. The 2014 Safe Carry Protection Act gives gun owners the right to carry firearms in most public areas without restrictions. The law even allows school districts and religious leaders to decide whether to allow openly carried firearms on school grounds and religious sites.
The festival, which draws tens of thousands of music fans to the Piedmont Park venue, has historically prohibited all weapons. Festival organizers were reportedly worried they’d by sued by gun owners and that musicians would bail if guns were allowed on site.
Don't Forget to Exercise or You Will Forget to Exercise
New research hints that even a simple exercise routine just might help older Americans with mild memory problems.
Doctors have long advised physical activity to help keep a healthy brain fit. But the government-funded study marks the longest test of whether exercise makes any difference once memory starts to slide — research performed amid a pandemic that added isolation to the list of risks to participants' brain health.
Researchers recruited about 300 sedentary older adults with hard-to-spot memory changes called mild cognitive impairment or MCI -- a condition that’s sometimes, but not always, a precursor to Alzheimer’s. Half were assigned aerobic exercises and the rest stretching-and-balance moves that only modestly raised their heart rate.
Another key component: Participants in both groups were showered with attention by trainers who worked with them at YMCAs around the country -- and when COVID-19 shut down gyms, helped them keep moving at home via video calls.
After a year, cognitive testing showed overall neither group had worsened, said lead researcher Laura Baker, a neuroscientist at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Nor did brain scans show the shrinkage that accompanies worsening memory problems, she said.
By comparison, similar MCI patients in another long-term study of brain health -- but without exercise -- experienced significant cognitive decline over a year.
Today's Dumb Headline. No One Knows Why Stocks Move Over a Few Hours
Stocks dip as Pelosi's Asia trip rattles investors
Family Values
The Biden administration has reunited 400 children with their parents after they were separated as migrants crossing the southern border under the Trump administration, said Michelle Brané, the executive director of the Family Reunification Task Force.
More than 5,000 families were separated under Trump’s 2018 “zero tolerance” policy and a 2017 pilot program and advocates estimate over 1,000 remain separated. Because the Trump administration did not keep records of which children were separated and where they were sent, the task force and lawyers working on behalf of separated families have had a difficult time identifying families to offer them the chance of reunification.
In the majority of recently reunited cases, Brané said, the parents were deported while the children remained in the U.S. Now, parents are given the opportunity to come to the U.S. on paid travel, bring other members of their family who are dependent on them, and live and work in the U.S. legally for three years.
Prosecutor Who Got Defendant Pregnant and Had Affair With Juror Is Now Running for Judge
An elected state’s attorney in Kentucky who admitted to getting a criminal defendant pregnant is now running to become a circuit judge.
Matthew Leveridge, commonwealth’s attorney of Russell and Wayne counties, was never disciplined for having sex with with Latisha Sartain in 2014. After Sartain told Leveridge’s wife about the affair, Leveridge moved to rescind Sartain’s pretrial diversion agreement.
Eight years on, he wants to be elected to higher office.
Ken Upchurch, a Republican for the 52nd District in Kentucky’s House of Representatives, told the Louisville Courier Journal he was shocked to hear Leveridge was running to be a judge. “It’s like the church head deacon having an affair with the choir director, then wanting to be the preacher,” Upchurch said.
Although concerns were raised that Leveridge’s actions may have constituted a breach of the Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers, he has never been sanctioned by the Kentucky Supreme Court or charged with a criminal offense. Leveridge was the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly having sex with jurors, however, court documents show.