Lohan late to Day 1 of community service at morgue (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Lindsay Lohan arrived late to her first day of community service at the county morgue Thursday and was turned away, another hiccup in the actress' effort to prove to a judge that she is complying with terms of her probation.

Lohan had been told to arrive at 8 a.m. for an orientation session but arrived 40 minutes late, spokesman Craig Harvey said. The actress was told to try again on Friday, but will have to arrive at 7 a.m., he said.

Steve Honig, Lohan's spokesman, said in a statement that the actress was late because she didn't know which entrance to report to and "and confusion caused by the media waiting for her arrival."

The "Mean Girls" star's tardy arrival at the morgue came a day after she was scolded by a judge for being terminated from a community service assignment at a women's shelter. The hearing ended with Lohan's probation being revoked and her being led from court in handcuffs.

She later posted $100,000 bail and was released.

She remains on probation for a pair of drunken driving arrests in 2007 and a misdemeanor theft case filed earlier this year after she was accused of taking a $2,500 necklace without permission. She pleaded no contest in that theft case.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner ordered Lohan to complete 16 hours of work at the morgue before a Nov. 2 hearing. The judge will determine whether Lohan violated the terms of her probation by being terminated from the Downtown Women's Center after being late several times and not showing up for her service.

The actress had done community service in recent days with the American Red Cross, but Sautner said Lohan would not get credit for that work as part of her court case.

A probation officer noted in a report filed Wednesday that Lohan told her that the work at the shelter was "not fulfilling."

Lohan will be doing mostly janitorial work at the morgue, Harvey said. Her duties will include cleaning and stocking restrooms, mopping floors and washing sheets that the facility uses, he said.

The actress will have to surrender her cellphone while working at the morgue and will have to bring her own lunch, Harvey said.

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Latino Votes Could Be Casualty of Romney-Perry Sparring (The Atlantic Wire)

Republicans have an opening to steal some of the Latino vote, given that President Obama's approval rating among them has hit a new low, but the candidates will have a hard time winning them if they keep throwing red meat to their anti-immigration base. The candidates referred to illegal immigrants as "illegals" ten times in the Las Vegas debate Tuesday, most notably when Mitt Romney responded to Rick Perry's accusation that he'd hired undocumented workers by saying, "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals." Romney "can make as many trips to Florida and New Mexico and Colorado and other swing states that have a large Latino population, but he can write off the Latino vote ... He?s not going to gain it again," Republican strategist Lionel Sosa told The New York Times' Trip Gabriel. Sosa advised George W. Bush and John McCain on winning over Latinos.

PERRY: ... but we have a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, and the fact is we have a huge number of illegals that are coming into this country.?

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And they're coming into this country because the federal government has failed to secure that border. But they're coming here because there is a magnet. And the magnet is called jobs. And those people that hire illegals ought to be penalized.?

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And Mitt, you lose all of your standing, from my perspective, because you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year ...

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ROMNEY: Rick, I don't think I've ever hired an illegal in my life. And so I'm afraid -- I'm looking forward to finding your facts on that, because that just doesn't --?

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PERRY: And they want to hear you say that you knew you had illegals working at your --?

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ROMNEY: ...?When you were governor, you said, I don't want to build a fence. You put in place a magnet ...

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You put in place a magnet to draw illegals into the state, which was giving $100,000 of tuition credit to illegals that come into this country, and then you have states -- the big states of illegal immigrants are California and Florida. Over the last 10 years, they've had no increase in illegal immigration.?

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PERRY: You stood here in front of the American people and did not tell the truth that you had illegals working on your property. And the newspaper came to you and brought it to your attention, and you still, a year later, had those individuals working for you.?

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ROMNEY: OK.You wrote an op-ed in the newspaper saying you were open to amnesty. That's number one.?

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Number two, we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn, and they had illegal immigrants that were working there. And when that was pointed out to us, we let them go ...

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So we went to the company and we said, look, you can't have any illegals working on our property. I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals.

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HP's chief strategy officer to retire next month, won't have a successor

Remember Shane Robison, the HP exec who advocated for the survival of webOS following the company's decision to dismantle its hardware unit? Yeah well, he's about to make an exit. HP confirmed yesterday that Robison will retire from his position as executive VP and chief strategy and technology officer on November 1st, after spending eleven years at the company. In a statement, HP praised Robison for spearheading much of its R&D and several high-profile mergers during his tenure there. "In his role, he was responsible for shaping HP's corporate strategy and technology agenda," the company said. "He was instrumental in steering the company's multibillion-dollar research and development investment and has led many of the company's largest merger and acquisition activities." Newly minted CEO Meg Whitman, meanwhile, described Robison as a powerful innovator and lauded his role in guaranteeing "that innovation continues at HP." Perhaps the bigger story, however, is the fact that the firm doesn't plan on filling Robison's shoes. In the announcement, HP confirmed that his position will be dissolved as part of "an effort to drive strategy, research and development closer to the company's businesses." The implications, of course, remain to be seen. Full PR after the break.

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Asia's growth to slow, no China crash seen: Reuters poll (Reuters)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) ? China's economic growth will probably cool next year to the lowest annual rate in a decade, setting the pace for an Asia-wide slowdown as global demand fades, a Reuters poll released on Thursday showed.

But economists saw little risk of a severe slump. The slowdown should be modest and Asia's policymakers have room to ramp up government spending or lower official interest rates in case the outlook worsens.

Although China's 2012 growth will probably dip below 9 percent, none of the 30 economists surveyed thought it would breach the 8 percent line seen as the minimum for assuring sufficient job creation to keep up with urban migration.

"Contrary to what appears to be the dominant view among investors, we don't see recession anywhere in Asia," Deutsche Bank's Asia economist Michael Spencer said.

"Asia is heading into a period of six to nine months of below average growth, reflecting mostly the deceleration of activity in the advanced economies," he said.

Weak growth in the United States and Europe is already crimping exports across Asia, and economists have penciled in a sharper slowdown in the coming quarters.

Slower growth should bring inflation relief. The consensus view among economists now shows India as the only country in the polling region likely to increase interest rates in 2011.

In the previous quarterly poll, conducted in July, economists had predicted more rate rises by the end of 2011 in India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia and South Korea.

The Reserve Bank of India will probably raise rates at its meeting next week, but that is widely expected to be the last move in its aggressive tightening cycle. Economists expect two quarter-point cuts in 2012.

Indonesia already lowered rates in a surprise move on October 11, and the poll shows economists expect one more trim in 2012. New Zealand is the only country in the survey where economists expect a rate increase in 2012.

AS GOES CHINA

China is the linchpin. If its 2012 growth slows to 8.6 percent, as the consensus forecast predicts, the rest of Asia would feel a modest ripple. If China's growth falls more sharply, Asia could take a direct hit.

A 1 percent decline in China's GDP reduces growth in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand by 0.7 percentage points, and in Indonesia by 0.3 points, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economist Hak Bin Chua said.

"The scale of the impact has almost tripled over the past two decades," he said, because China now imports far more than it used to from its Asian neighbors.

"The impact of a China slowdown is still estimated to be less than that of a U.S. slowdown or recession, but the two are converging and are likely to be comparable within the next decade," Chua added.

Compared with the July poll, economists lowered 2012 growth forecasts across the board. Among the sharpest cuts were those for Malaysia and Singapore, two of the countries most closely tied to the global economy.

The forecasts show annual growth rates accelerating in 2012 in Australia, New Zealand, India, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines. Next year's growth rate will likely trail 2011's in Indonesia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

(Editing by Ramya Venugopal)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111020/bs_nm/us_economy_poll

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Chavez says he's free of cancer ? The Greenroom

posted at 11:07 am on October 21, 2011 by Fausta Wertz
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That?s the headline today, but first, a fable,

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.
?A great big monster,? said one of them, ?stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!?

?Big, was he!? said the old Frog, puffing herself up. ?Was he as big as this??

?Oh, much bigger!? they cried.

The Frog puffed up still more.

?He could not have been bigger than this,? she said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Back to the headline, Hugo Ch?vez Says His Cancer Is Gone, Sim?n Romero, writes,

President Hugo Ch?vez of Venezuela declared on Thursday that he had beaten cancer, less than five months after he stunned Venezuelans by revealing that he had undergone emergency surgery to remove a tumor while in seclusion in Cuba.

This is not the first time he?s said that. Back in July he was saying exactly the same thing; now he continues to assert,

?No abnormal cellular activity exists,? said Mr. Ch?vez in comments broadcast on state media while on a visit to western Venezuela, where he was preparing to visit a Roman Catholic shrine. ?I?ve begun to exit the cave,? said the president, dressed in a green military uniform.

Despite Mr. Ch?vez?s announcement, which he made after a brief trip to Cuba for a checkup, mystery still shrouds his condition.

Clearly, Hugo is sick ? no doubt about it. Whatever condition he has is manifesting itself in many clear ways that he can not hide. Obviously it is a severe medical condition. Rumors have been flying on the nature of the illness(es), the most recent include kidney failure and medullary aplasia.

Is it cancer?

He?s the one who?s saying it?s cancer, he?s the one saying he?s cancer-free. However, as I pointed out in the past, ?cancer? is a good smoke screen (there are some 200 types of cancers), elicits compassion ? we all have family/friends who have been devastated by it ? and explains a multitude of therapies and absences (and trips to Cuba).

Ask yourselves, with the decades-long propaganda on ?Cuba?s excellent health care?, if Cuban doctors had actually cured Ch?vez?s cancer, wouldn?t both regimes (Cuba?s and Venezuela?s) be parading a team of oncologists on innumerable press conferences confirming this ?cure??

He has never publicly revealed what type of cancer afflicted him. Altogether, Mr. Ch?vez, 57, underwent four chemotherapy treatments, including three in Cuba and one in Venezuela, according to the government.

Physically, he still looked like a changed man on Thursday, appearing bloated and with a green military cap covering a bald head. Spiritually, Mr. Ch?vez also seems to have acquired a more religious air. ?I?m more Christian every day,? he said Thursday. ?Socialism is the road to Christ.?

Hugo must think that having close ties to Iran and moving Venezuela?s gold to Caracas may bring him closer to heaven, then. Hugo also spent some time beating up on the rich and mangling Biblical parables (video in Spanish)

Salvador Navarrete is the only physician who has dared to speak about Ch?vez?s medical condition (emphasis added),

a prominent Venezuelan doctor who describes himself as the president?s former personal surgeon, said this week that Mr. Ch?vez had less than two years to live, attributing his illness to a ?very aggressive? tumor in the pelvic area.

Dr. Navarrete, a former militant in Mr. Ch?vez?s political movement, said he drew his conclusions from recent discussions with Mr. Ch?vez?s family.

It?s not clear if Navarrete has treated Ch?vez during this ?cancer? occurrence ? and, from a public-relations point of view, Navarrete?s statement that Ch?vez has been treated for bipolar disorder may be more damaging than a ?cancer? (yet another reason for Ch?vez to bang the ?cancer? drum loudly).

What is clear is that Navarrete has had to leave, along with his family, Venezuela suddenly (apparently going to Mexico) because of the fallout. Romero reports,

agents from the Sebin, Mr. Ch?vez?s secret intelligence police, had appeared at Dr. Navarrete?s office this week to question him.

Navarrete?s private practice and his teaching position are ended.

The moral from the fable at the start of this post? Take everything coming out from Ch?vez?s mouth as so much puffery, particularly when it comes to his health.

Cross-posted at Fausta?s blog

Source: http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/10/21/chavez-says-hes-free-of-cancer/

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CSM: Chile calls up students to fill military

Chile's armed forces has announced an aggressive new call for military recruits, announcing that 56,793 youngsters, all born in 1993, have to report within a month for medical and aptitude tests to see if they will be drafted.

This year's mega draft is blamed on Chile's student protests, which the military says has caused a drop in recruitment of 30 percent, Santiago newspaper El Mercurio reported.

Public high schools up and down the country have been shut by student sit-ins for the past five months. Many have gates barricaded with piles of desks and chairs. Some bear hand-painted signs calling them "self-managing schools" or mocking the president and his cabinet. It's all part of a protest demanding an end to profiteering in education. Apparently, such schools aren't hospitable for military recruitment.

The military needs to find 11,340 qualified candidates, the AP reported, citing the military's web site. The draft lottery is annual but military slots are usually filled up with volunteers. It already has over 14,000 volunteers, but only 40 percent of applicants make the cut. To reach its goal, the armed forces are calling up almost 57,000 youths, which the AP notes seems high.

Brig. Gen. Gunther Siebert, who directs Chile's military draft, also blamed the student movement in an interview published Monday in the El Mercurio newspaper, and said that 2.5 candidates are needed for every spot because many can't serve for physical or other reasons. But Chile's military also had a shortage last year, before the movement began, and at that time they called up fewer than 39,000 for the draft.

To have 2.5 candidates for each spot, the military would need to call up only 14,223 more youngsters. Instead, so many more have been told to report that Chile could have more than six candidates for each position. The Associated Press asked Chile's national draft office in writing for an explanation, as requested by its spokesman, and did not immediately receive a response.

Could the draft be punishment for the protests that have put the government on the defensive and caused presidential popularity to plummet? The draft has provoked a lot of commentary on Facebook, Twitter, and newspaper websites. But it might be a fight playing out more intensely on the Internet than on the ground.

Valparaiso should be a crash-point for such a conflict. It's the headquarters of the Chilean navy, and also home to one of the country's biggest concentrations of radical university students. Posters around the city promote violence against the government and insult the police.

But yesterday, a perfect sunny spring day, it was hard to find 18-year-olds who seemed concerned. One, who declined to give his name, said he had a medical condition that would exempt him from service, so he wasn't worried. Most people who don't want to enlist can find a way out of the draft, he says.

Israel Herrera says that while he is 18, he was born in 1992, and wouldn't get called up at this point. He was happy last year when his ID number wasn't on the list of draftees, as he wants to continue studying to be a mechanic. Students who are drafted can defer their service, but must enlist upon graduation, he says.

Getting drafted is probably a good thing, as military service can help keep a youth from getting involved in drugs and crime, says Luis Aranda, who is about to graduate from the Instituto Superior de Comercio high school. He is among those who voluntarily signed up for service.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44951204/ns/world_news-christian_science_monitor/

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Social Security increase coming in 2012 (AP)

WASHINGTON ? After two years without an increase in benefits, 55 million Social Security recipients will finally get a raise next year.

Experts project the increase will be about 3.5 percent. The Social Security Administration is scheduled to make it official Wednesday when the government releases an inflation measure that determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA.

Monthly Social Security payments average $1,082, or about $13,000 a year. A 3.5 percent increase would amount to an additional $38 a month, or about $455 a year.

There was no COLA in 2010 or 2011 because inflation was too low. Those were the first two years without a COLA since automatic increases were adopted in 1975.

It's been a long two years for the millions of retirees and disabled people who have been struggling through the economic downturn, said Web Phillips of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

"If you've been at the grocery store lately and remember what you used to pay for things, see what you're paying for things today," Phillips said. "The cost-of-living adjustment makes sure that the Social Security benefit that you qualify for when you retire or you become disabled continues to stay current with prices so that the buying power of your benefit does not decline over time."

Some of the increase in January will be lost to higher Medicare premiums, which are deducted from Social Security payments. Medicare Part B premiums for 2012 are expected to be announced next week, and the trustees who oversee the program are projecting an increase.

Most retirees rely on Social Security for a majority of their income, according to the Social Security Administration. Many rely on it for more than 90 percent of their income.

"For people at that income level every dollar makes a difference, particularly coming in this economic downtown," said David Certner, legislative policy director for AARP. "None of them feel as if their cost of living was not increasing in the last couple of years."

Federal law requires the program to base annual payment increases on the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Officials compare inflation in the third quarter of each year ? the months of July, August and September ? with the same months in the previous year.

If consumer prices increase from year to year, Social Security recipients automatically get higher payments, starting the following January. If price changes are negative, the payments stay unchanged.

Social Security payments increased by 5.8 percent in 2009, the largest increase in 27 years, after energy prices spiked in 2008. But energy prices quickly dropped and home prices became soft in markets across the country, contributing to lower inflation in the past two years.

As a result, Social Security recipients got an increase that was far larger than actual overall inflation. However, they can't get another increase until consumer prices exceed the levels measured in 2008.

So far this year, prices have been higher than in 2008, said Polina Vlasenko, an economist at the American Institute for Economic Research, based in Great Barrington, Mass.

Based on consumer prices in July and August, the COLA for 2012 would be about 3.5 percent. Vlasenko estimates the COLA will be from 3.5 percent to 3.7 percent.

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Online:

Social Security Administration's COLA site: http://www.ssa.gov/cola/

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111019/ap_on_go_ot/us_social_security_cola

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Camera ball lets you toss your way to the perfect panorama (Yahoo! News)

You might go to?great lengths to get the perfect shot, but the idea of throwing your camera is a cringe-worthy thought for (almost) any photographer. But a clever new invention would have you do just that: meet the panoramic ball camera, which is actually designed to be lobbed into the air, where it then can take a true 360 degree image thanks to its spherical design.

The ball is studded with an array of 36 2MP mobile phone cameras and an accelerometer, and is designed to snap a shot when it reaches the highest point of a throw (making it stable enough to get somewhat clear pictures). Its heavy 3D-printed padding makes it toss-friendly. The separate images can then be stitched together to form a true 3D panorama from on high.

While the ball panorama camera looks like a lot of fun, it's not on sale yet. According to creator Jonas Pfeil, the cam's developers are currently shopping around for the cash to make their dream a reality. Want more panoramas in the mean time? Explore seven exotic locales in panoramic 3D, thanks to Google Earth.

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