Ex-President George H.W. Bush may leave hospital soon: spokesman

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized in Houston since November, may be released from the facility in the coming days, a family spokesman said on Sunday.

"We are hopeful that the president can be discharged this coming week, but we're still taking everything one day at a time," spokesman Jim McGrath said in an email.

Bush's son, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, said on Saturday that his father was expected to be released from the hospital on Monday, according to TCPalm.com.

The former president, 88, who led a coalition that pushed Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in 1991, was admitted to Methodist Hospital on November 23 for bronchitis and then transferred to intensive care in December after coming down with a persistent fever and other complications. He was moved to a regular patient room after his condition improved last month.

Bush has lower-body parkinsonism, which causes a loss of balance, and he has used a wheelchair for more than a year.

The 41st president, who is also the father of former President George W. Bush, served as a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, envoy to China, CIA director and as vice president for two terms under President Ronald Reagan.

(Reporting By Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Paul Simao)

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Saturday Night Card Game (Calling Obama ?Obama? is racist) - Le ...

Posted by Joel Engel ?? Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 6:15pm

Henceforth every mention of our president must begin with ?His Eminence?

Remember when then Illinois-state-senator Barack Hussein Obama appeared on national television for the first time and told us that there is ?no black America and white America? There is only the United States of America?? Sure you do.

Remember when Kanye West said ?George Bush? doesn?t care about black people??? Sure you do.

Remember when then U.S. Senator Barack Hussein Obama said of the then-current president, ?The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it for the last eight ways, is to take out a credit card from the bank of China in the name of our children??? Sure you do.

Remember when President-elect Barack Hussein Obama was going to be the country?s first ?post-racial? president?? Sure you do.

Remember when the MSNBC ?host? Tour? accused Mitt Romney of engaging in the ?niggarization? of President Barack Hussein Obama?and then denied that that was racist?? Sure you do.

Here?s another canard to add to your memory banks (via Mediaite):

On Friday, MSNBC?s The Cycle investigated the outrage directed at cohost Steve Kornacki, as well as other journalists, for referring to President Barack Obama simply as ?Obama? after the first reference. ?

?We?re touching on something really deep here,? Tour? opined. ?[People] feel very defensive as well, because of the very racist ? very nakedly racist ? attacks on him that we see constantly.? He noted that the word policing was ?silly,? but a sense of defensiveness about the ?hatred? Obama faces is legitimate and justified.

Remember when Tour? said that only by reelecting President Barack Hussein Obama will America prove that it isn?t a racist country?

Surely you don?t care anymore.

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Source: http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/01/saturday-night-card-game-calling-obama-obama-is-racist/

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South Union Township government reorganizes for 2013

By Tribune-Review

Published: Saturday, January 12, 2013, 12:16?a.m.
Updated 9 hours ago

South Union

Township government reorganizes for 2013

Supervisor Thomas Frankhouser was elected as chairman of the board of supervisors in South Union Township this week.

He was also named assistant treasurer, Southwest Regional Tax Bureau representative and Fayette County Tax Collection Committee delegate.

Supervisor Rick Vernon was elected as vice chairman, treasurer, alternative representative for the Southwest Regional Tax Bureau, alternative delegate with the Fayette County Tax Collection Committee and a delegate and voting delegate to the PSATS? Annual Educational Conference.

Supervisor Bob Schiffbauer was elected as secretary, alternative representative for the Southwest Regional Tax Bureau and alternative delegate with the Fayette County Tax Collection Committee.

All three supervisors were appointed as roadmasters.

Shauna Frankhouser was appointed as assistant secretary; James Davis with Davis & Davis was appointed as the township solicitor for a retainer of $6,000 per year plus $200 per hour; Simon John was appointed as the zoning hearing board solicitor at an hourly rate of $17; Charles Scott was appointed as a member of the vacancy board; United Bank was appointed as the depository for township funds.

Connie Belle was elected as the chairwoman of the board of auditors. Marty Reagan was elected as secretary.

Surety bond of township funds was set at $1 million; compensation for Schiffbauer as secretary was set at $8,500 per year; compensation for Vernon as treasurer was set at $8,500 per year and compensation for Frankhouser as assistant treasurer was set at $8,500 per year.

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Nexus 4 Powered with Android JellyBean 4.2.2 Ready to be Shipped?

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The next batch of Nexus 4 shipment is on the way and each unit will deploy with Android JellyBean 4.2.2, fresh blog reports said. ...

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Flu means extra precautions for older people

Jan. 11, 2013 ? We've all read about the severity of the current flu season. Boston declared an emergency, hospitals are seeing patients in tents outside their emergency departments and we all probably know someone who has been laid up for a week with fever and aches and generally feeling lousy.

But the flu could be especially severe for the 39.6 million older adults in the United States. Defined as 65 years or older, the group makes up almost 13 percent of the total population. Add to that the number of people who care for an aging person -- patient, parent or friend -- and the impact on older people is even greater. What's an older person or a caregiver to do?

The three biggest rules, according to Andrew Duxbury, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics and Palliative Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine, are:

? Get a flu shot -- it's not too late and it could help reduce severity of an illness

? Wash your hands regularly

? Avoid crowds

All human immune systems weaken with age, says Duxbury, also a member of the UAB Center for Aging. "So when older people get the flu and get knocked down further they are more likely to get other infections, such as pneumonia. Just being knocked into bed for as little as three or four days can, in a very frail older person, make it so they lose the ability to walk and do for themselves. It can cause a spiral in disabilities and increase chances of falls and injuries."

If you or an older person you know has flu symptoms, Duxbury says, "Pay more attention to things like staying hydrated. Appetite and thirst mechanisms are different for older people; they can tip over to dehydration in less than a day if they don't keep fluids up."

Older people also need to get out of bed at least a minimal amount and sit up. "It's better for lungs and helps avoid pneumonia," he says.

Call your doctor if you have a productive cough, fever higher than 101 or if you're feeling short of breath.

Caregivers are an important link to the outside world for older people, which means they could also be vectors for the flu virus. "Caregivers need flu shots just like older people do," Duxbury says.

Now is a good time for caregivers to create a Plan B," Duxbury says. "One way to make yourself sicker and make an illness last longer is to try to push through it," he says. "Caregivers may feel obligated, but it's a good time to think about your plan B. If you can't do it for a few days how's it going to get done?"

This flu season is the worst in recent memory, Duxbury says, but it's not bad enough to be called a pandemic. And while older people are more susceptible, they've already lived through worse flu seasons.

"The current elder population lived through 1957 and 1968 pandemics. They've seen a lot. Even the baby boomers lived through it," he says.

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Giant squid filmed in ocean depths for 1st time

In this television image made from video recorded in the summer of 2012 provided by NHK and Discovery Channel, a giant squid swims in the deep sea off Chichi island, Japan. (AP Photo/ NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel ) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, MANDATORY CREDIT

In this television image made from video recorded in the summer of 2012 provided by NHK and Discovery Channel, a giant squid swims in the deep sea off Chichi island, Japan. (AP Photo/ NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel ) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, MANDATORY CREDIT

In this image made from video recorded in the summer of 2012, provided by NHK and Discovery Channel, a giant squid takes bait in the deep sea off Chichi island, Japan. (AP Photo/ NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel ) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, MANDATORY CREDIT

(AP) ? After a hundred dives deep into the Pacific, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat deep in the ocean for the first time.

The three-meter (nine-foot) invertebrate was filmed from a manned submersible during one of 100 dives in the Pacific last summer in a joint expedition by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Discovery Channel and Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science.

NHK released photographs of the giant squid this week ahead of Sunday's show about the encounter. The Discovery Channel will air its program on Jan. 27.

The squid, which was inexplicably missing its two longest tentacles, was spotted in waters east of Chichi Island about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo, NHK said. The crew followed it to a depth of 900 meters (2,950 feet).

Little is known about the creature because its harsh environment makes it difficult for scientists to conduct research. Specimens have washed ashore on beaches but never before have been filmed in their normal habitat deep in the ocean, researchers say.

Japanese zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera, who was on board the submersible at the time of the encounter, was able to lure the giant squid with a one-meter (three-foot) -long diamond squid.

All the lights from the submersible were turned off while they waited. At a depth of 640 meters (2,100 feet), the giant squid appeared and wrapped its arms around the bait, eating it for over 20 minutes before letting go.

"What we were able to gain from this experience was the moment of the giant squid attacking its prey ? we were able record that," said Kubodera, who has been researching the giant squid since 2002.

Other scientists involved in the expedition this summer, which logged 400 hours of dives, were American oceanographer and marine biologists Edith Widder and Steve O'Shea from New Zealand.

NHK said a high-definition camera was developed for the project that could operate deep in the ocean and used a special wavelength of light invisible to the giant squid's sensitive eyes.

Kubodera said scientific research, technology and the right lure all came together to make the encounter possible, and that this case will shed more light on deep-sea creatures going forward.

After more than a decade of going out to sea in search of the giant squid, he relished the moment he came face-to-face with it.

"It appeared only once, out of 100 dives. So perhaps, after over 10 years of some kind of relationship I've built with the giant squids, I feel, perhaps, it was the squid that came to see me."

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Associated Press writer Emily Wang contributed to this report.

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Russians protest against ban on adoptions by Americans

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators gathered for a march in Moscow on Sunday to protest against a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, saying President Vladimir Putin's government had made orphans pawns in a political dispute.

Kremlin critics and other opponents of the ban converged on a central boulevard in freezing temperatures, some chanting "Shame!" and "Putin is a scoundrel!" or holding banners condemning lawmakers who backed the law prohibiting adoptions.

The ban has deepened a chill in Russian-American relations in the first year of Putin's new term and compounded the bitterness between his government and opponents who have been mounting street protests for over a year.

The ban, which took effect on January 1, was rushed through parliament in retaliation for the Magnitsky Act - U.S. legislation that denies visas to Russians accused of human rights violations and freezes their assets in the United States.

Critics say the ban punishes Russian children instead of the U.S. government, decreasing their chances of getting out of a system of state homes plagued by overcrowding.

"Without adoption such children have no chance," said Dmitry Belkov, an organizer who said his wife's friend had adopted a child who had been taken away from his jailed mother.

"Watching her life, we can see that this law is a worse thing to do to those children than the treatment animals get in other countries."

Russian lawmakers have said the adoption ban was justified by the deaths of 19 Russian-born children adopted by American parents in the past decade, and what they perceive as lenient treatment of those parents by U.S. courts and police.

The law is named after Dima Yakovlev, a boy who died after his adoptive American father left him locked in a sweltering car, but Kremlin critics call it the "scoundrels' law".

PETITION FOR REPEAL

Protesters held banners saying "against the scoundrels' law" and signs with photographs of some of the pro-Kremlin lawmakers who backed the bill, bearing captions such as "Shame!"

Organizers gathered signatures on a petition calling for the law's repeal, saying it was in violation of Russia's international obligations and took the private lives of individuals hostage to a political dispute between countries.

The protest march, which was permitted by authorities, followed the same route Kremlin opponents have trod in some of the demonstrations they have held since Putin's party won December 2011 parliamentary election marred by fraud claims.

The route was fenced off by metal barriers manned at intervals by police.

Kremlin foes hope the adoption ban will help breathe new life into the protest movement, which has lost strength after failing to prevent Putin's election to a six-year presidential term last March.

The ruling United Russia party, which submitted the law and which Putin uses as a source of support, has retaliated by branding opponents of the ban as unpatriotic.

Americans have adopted more than 60,000 Russian children since the 1991 Soviet breakup, more than parents from any other nation, and the ban has dashed the hopes of hundreds of couples who were in the midst of the process when it took effect.

The issue has always been a sensitive one for Russians, particularly in government, playing into a rivalry that reaches back to the Cold War and a sense of humiliation at the idea that Russia might be unable to care for its own children.

When Putin signed the law on December 28, he also issued a decree aiming to improve conditions for orphaned children, and his ally, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, urged Russians to adopt in a Christmas message.

(Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russians-protest-against-ban-adoptions-americans-101720706.html

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