Long Beach school shaken over girl's death

A photo of Joanna Ramos, 11,with a note, is left at a memorial outside Willard Elementary school in Long Beach, Calif. on Monday Feb. 27,2012. Ramos, who died after a fight with another 11-year-old in an alley near their elementary school underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain before her death, her sister said Monday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

A photo of Joanna Ramos, 11,with a note, is left at a memorial outside Willard Elementary school in Long Beach, Calif. on Monday Feb. 27,2012. Ramos, who died after a fight with another 11-year-old in an alley near their elementary school underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain before her death, her sister said Monday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Silvia Mancia, grandmother of elementary school student Joanna Ramos,10, who died after a fight with another student on Friday Feb. 24,2012 arrives at a makeshift memorial at the Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, Calif. on Monday Feb. 27, 2012. The Los Angeles County coroner's office has ruled that the death of a 10-year-old Southern California schoolgirl after a fight was a homicide. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Photos with notes are left at a memorial outside Willard Elementary School for Joanna Ramos, 10, in Long Beach, Calif. on Monday Feb. 27,2012. The Los Angeles County coroner's office has ruled that the death Ramos a Southern California schoolgirl after a fight was a homicide. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Students and parents arrive past a memorial, left, outside Willard Elementary School for student Joanna Ramos, 10, in Long Beach, Calif. on Monday Feb. 27,2012. Ramos, who died Friday night after a fight with an 11-year-old in an alley near their elementary school underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain before her death, her sister said Monday. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Alexandria Martinez, 12, lights a candle for her best friend Joanna Ramos, 11, at Williard Elementary in Long Beach, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. After getting her nose bloodied in a fight with another girl near their Southern California elementary school, Ramos told her mother on the way home she felt sick. Hours later, she was dead. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Barbara Davidson) NO FORNS; NO SALES; MAGS OUT; ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER OUT; LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS OUT; VENTURA COUNTY STAR OUT; INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN OUT; SAN BERNARDINO SUN OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT, TV OUT; INTERNET OUT

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) ? Ten-year-old Joanna Ramos died from blunt force trauma after emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain, investigators and family members said.

As far as police can tell, the blow did not come from a weapon, or a wall, or a windshield, but only the fists of another young girl whom she fought hours earlier.

While the specific circumstances of Joanna's death are especially tragic and extremely unusual, medical experts said a blow in just the right spot can often prove fatal.

"This is rare, in that I've never seen it in a female, certainly not in a female adolescent," said Dr. Keith Black, a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Black, who was not involved in Joanna's medical care, sees such injuries all the time among older patients and said a blow to the head from one young girl to another could "absolutely" be sufficient to cause enough trauma to lead to death.

Punches to the head can often lead to delayed bleeding if a vein is torn, and that can lead to a clot when blood collects on the surface of the brain.

Coroner's Lt. Fred Corral said Ramos died of blunt force trauma to the head and said her death has been ruled a homicide, but he didn't immediately have further details about her injuries.

The finding rattled the already shaken school community at Willard Elementary, where Joanna attended the fifth grade. She died Friday, about six hours after a brief fight with another girl in an alley near the school in a working-class neighborhood in the port city of Long Beach.

Joanna, who would have turned 11 on March 12, was unconscious by the time she arrived at the emergency room and underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain late Friday after she began vomiting and complained of a headache, her older sister, 17-year-old Vanessa Urbina, told The Associated Press.

"After surgery the doctor said she was still alive, and then a few minutes later he comes back and tells us that her heart stopped and they couldn't bring her back," Urbina said, crying as she sat on the steps of the school near a memorial of flowers and balloons.

Police said they have made no arrests and were conducting an investigation that will be presented to prosecutors when it's completed.

Worried parents lingered as they dropped off their children Monday in a light rain and wondered aloud how the school, tucked a few blocks off a major city street, could have become the scene of such unexpected violence.

"I'm just so confused at this moment, thinking should I take my daughter out of this school," said Victoria Pyles, whose daughter started classes at the school last week. "If this is what is going on, I don't like it. It's very scary."

School officials believe the fight occurred near the school in a 15-minute window between the time school let out and the start of Joanna's after-school program at 2:30 p.m., said Chris Eftychiou, a spokesman for the Long Beach Unified School District.

Joanna didn't have any visible injuries or show any signs of distress for about an hour, but she eventually told staff she felt unwell and was picked up by a relative, he said.

Urbina, the older sister, said Joanna's cousin picked her up. After her mother retrieved her, Joanna vomited in the car all the way home and told her mother she felt sleepy and wanted to go to bed.

Symptoms ? such as headache, nausea, lethargy ? may not set in for hours and people can mistakenly think that they're fine, Black said.

Typically, he said, the hit to the head would have to be fairly significant to cause a blood clot and often involves the head hitting walls or the ground, but a punch is enough.

"You can certainly get enough of an impact to get enough movement in the brain by a fist to tear a vein, if it's in the right location," Black said.

Police have said the fight lasted less than a minute, did not involve weapons, and no one was knocked to the ground.

A friend of Joanna's saw her as she reported to the after-school program after the fight and said she had blood on her knuckles from wiping at a bloody nose, said Cristina Perez, the friend's mother.

Perez said her daughter, who is 10, heard about plans for the fight, apparently over a boy, during recess earlier in the day and knew to stay away from the alley after school.

Fights involving young children, including girls, are increasing nationally, in part because of the wired world children now live in, said Travis Brown, a national expert on bullying and school violence.

Children used to have a disagreement at school and would have a night or a weekend to cool down, but social media and text messaging mean students can continue their dispute 24 hours a day, he said.

"There was a time when a kid had a way to escape the things at school, but now there's no escape," Brown said. "That stuff just escalates to a point where it gets out of hand. This is an everyday occurrence."

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Associated Press writers Robert Jablon, Alicia Chang and Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Meego 1.2 arrives for Nokia N9 users today

Nokia N9 users, if you've yet to activate your beloved device today, then do so post-haste. It looks like our army of faithful tipsters found PR 1.2 ready to roll this morning. The 284MB update should be available worldwide, although a few users in Saudi Arabia are yet to see any goodies. Video calling, folder functionality and copy and paste should all be available in this release, but we'll let you get elbows-deep in the update and stop spoiling the surprises that are in store for you.

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Dying Rich: Feds Give You 2 Ways to Offer 401(k) Advice

By offering investment advice to their employees, companies can improve worker saving habits and grow the value of their retirement plans. And the feds just finalized the rule on what?s allowed when offering such advice.

In a nutshell, it says plans sponsors can offer investment advice to 401(k) and IRA participants in two ways:

• The plan sponsor can offer advice as long as it?s based on a computer model that applies generally accepted investment theories and is certified as unbiased, and
• A third-party adviser can be hired as long as the adviser is compensated on a ?level-fee? basis, meaning the compensation does not vary based on investments selected by plan participants.

Detailed guidance on this rule, which takes effect Dec. 27, 2011, can be found in the final regulation, here.

Regardless of which option a plan sponsor chooses, the party, computer model or people providing the advice must use generally accepted investment theories that are based on historical risks and the performance of different asset classes over a defined time frame.

What does this mean?

For years, many plan sponsors wanted to give participants investment advice. But they feared doing so would violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), particularly the part that protects workers from falling victim to conflicts of interest among the parties managing the plan.

An example of a conflict of interest: Some plan sponsors get a cut of revenue from certain funds. A plan sponsor?s adviser could then recommend one of those funds to plan participants. If that were to happen, it would be clear the parties involved weren?t looking out for plan participants? best interests.

The new rule gives employers a way to ensure the advice given does not cause a conflict of interest and violate ERISA.

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Rick Santorum: Obama Is 'A Snob'

Rick Santorum took a swipe at the president's higher education push on Saturday.

"President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college," Santorum said. "What a snob.?

The GOP candidate was speaking to a crowd of Tea Party activists in Troy, Michigan.

?Not all folks are gifted in the same way,? he explained. ?Some people have incredible gifts with their hands...there are good decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren?t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his."

His comments echoed remarks he made on Friday, calling colleges "indoctrination mills."

As the Washington Post points out, Santorum's criticisms are curious considering his three advanced degrees. He holds a Bachelor's, a law degree and an M.B.A.

Obama is currently pushing a plan to make college more accessible by reforming federal student aid and providing incentives for colleges to keep their tuitions under control. He first introduced the initiative in his State of the Union speech.

Watch Santorum's full remarks (h/t the Washington Post):

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Gevey Ultra S will unlock your GSM iPhone 4S, no jailbreak required

The new Gevey Ultra 4S is now available for pre-order and will unlock your iPhone 4S without the need for a jailbreak. Your order will come complete with one Gevey SIM tray and an Ultra S SIM which should be plug and play and require no emergency dialing for it to work.

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Grand jury indicts Patton Village mayor, city employees

A grand jury indicted Patton Village's mayor and several city employees Friday.

Grand jurors indicted five employees and two former police officers for theft and using criminal databases to look up information about private citizens for personal use.

The city's mayor, Pamela Munoz, is under investigation and facing charges on 10 different counts ranging from abuse of official capacity to theft by a public servant.

An investigation was launched in October 2011 when officers seized several boxes of records and computers from City Hall.?

"It is a small city and it is a small city government and we've arrested a significant portion of that government and I think the citizens of Patton Village need to be aware that this is going on in their city limits," said Phil Grant, Montgomery County's first assistant district attorney.

Grant said it wasn't one case that involved all the employees, but it was multiple unrelated crimes over a several year period.

"All of these allegations revolve around misuse of official property and funds," Grant said.

Grant said investigators found a paper trail that proves Munoz took out loans using city police cars as collateral and that she used city funds to pay for services at her home.

Investigators said employees made a record of the loans as if they didn't know it was illegal.

The mayor's bond has been set at more than $200,000. If she bonds out, she could come back to work while awaiting trial.

Patton Village is located northeast of Houston in Montgomery County.

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Eating citrus fruit may lower women's stroke risk

ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2012) ? A compound in citrus fruits may reduce your stroke risk, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Eating higher amounts of a compound in citrus fruits, especially oranges and grapefruit, may lower ischemic stroke risk. Women who ate high amounts of the compound had a 19 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke than women who consumed the least amount.

This prospective study is one of the first in which researchers examine how consuming flavonoid subclasses affects the risk of stroke. Flavonoids are a class of compounds present in fruits, vegetables, dark chocolate and red wine.

"Studies have shown higher fruit, vegetable and specifically vitamin C intake is associated with reduced stroke risk," said Aed?n Cassidy, Ph.D., the study's lead author and professor of nutrition at Norwich Medical School in the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom.

"Flavonoids are thought to provide some of that protection through several mechanisms, including improved blood vessel function and an anti-inflammatory effect."

Cassidy and colleagues used 14-years of follow-up data from the Nurse's Health Study, which included 69,622 women who reported their food intake, including details on fruit and vegetable consumption every four years. Researchers examined the relationship of the six main subclasses of flavonoids commonly consumed in the U.S. diet -- flavanones, anthocyanins, flavan-3-ols, flavonoid polymers, flavonols and flavones -- with risk of ischemic, hemorrhagic and total stroke.

As expected, the researchers didn't find a beneficial association between total flavonoid consumption and stroke risk, as the biological activity of the sub-classes differ. However, they found that women who ate high amounts of flavanones in citrus had a 19 percent lower risk of blood clot-related (ischemic) stroke than women who consumed the least amounts.

In the study, flavanones came primarily from oranges and orange juice (82 percent) and grapefruit and grapefruit juice (14 percent). However, researchers recommended that consumers increase their citrus fruit intake, rather than juice, due to the high sugar content of commercial fruit juices.

A previous study found that citrus fruit and juice intake, but not intake of other fruits, protected against risk of ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage. Another study found no association between yellow and orange fruits and stroke risk, but did link increased consumption of white fruits like apples and pears with lower stroke risk. An additional study found that Swedish women who ate the highest levels of antioxidants -- about 50 percent from fruits and vegetables -- had fewer strokes than those with lower antioxidant levels.

More studies are needed to confirm the association between flavanone consumption and stroke risk, and to gain a better understanding about why the association occurs, the authors said.

The National Institutes of Health funded the research.

Co-authors are: Eric B. Rimm, Sc.D.; ?ilis J. O'Reilly, Sc.D.; Giancarlo Logroscino, M.D., Ph.D.; Colin Kay, Ph.D.; Stephanie E. Chiuve, Sc.D.; and Kathryn M. Rexrode, M.D., M.P.H. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.

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HP reports Q1 2012 financials: $30 billion net revenue, $1.5 billion net earnings, big drop in PC sales

HP reported results for its first fiscal quarter of 2012 this afternoon, including $30 billion in net revenue (down seven percent from the previous year), and net earnings of $1.5 billion (down a full 44 percent). Partly contributing to that drop is a slump from its Personal Systems Group, which saw revenue slip 15 percent year-over-year, and total desktop and notebook units decline a rather drastic 19 and 18 percent, respectively. The company's Imaging and Printing Group also saw a seven percent decline in revenue, with the total number of printer units slipping 15 percent. HP's services business managed to eke out a one percent growth with revenue of $8.6 billion, though, while its software business saw the biggest growth in any one area at 30 percent (that includes results from the recently-acquired Autonomy). The company's full rundown can be found in the press release after the break, with additional numbers available at the source link below.

Update: On the company's earnings call, CEO Meg Whitman laid some of the blame for PSG's decline on hard drive shortages, but also said that HP has under-invested in the business in the past few years and been late to market too often -- something she says she intends to change.

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Unions gearing up to spend big in 2012 election (AP)

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Finding the Best Online Marketing Strategies

You can have to most expensive and highest quality tools for doing anything, but if you are not competent with using them then your results will be substandard.

How many people do you think have a hard time with easy loans, and they do not execute it well? Some people do things better than you and many do it worse; so we think it is a great idea to want to do it the best ? pass them all.

Perhaps so many get too concerned with the competition and others, and that causes them to lose focus and forget they have to tend to matters at home in their own business. Everything you will ever do in business does not exist in isolation and draws from different directions.

Your ability and willingness to test all you do in business is one thing that will give you leverage.

There are many ways to market online; however, your main goal is always to either sell something or collect the email addresses or other contact information of prospects. You often hear that internet marketing is a fast and simple way to generate income. We are also told that this income can be passive, meaning it comes to us with hardly any effort. This might make you wonder if online marketing is really this simple. Is online marketing really this easy, or is there a catch we haven?t been told? The catch is simple ?you need to work hard, put in the effort and give dedicated time to it to get real results. Many people start off in online marketing expecting to make large sums of money in a few short weeks. What such people need to understand is that this is a real business, not an automated money-printing machine. Like any business, this one deals with real products (or services) sold to real people for real money. Those who think that this is a fast and effortless way to get rich quick are in for a rude awakening. One great advantage of internet marketing is that you can begin with almost nothing and take your business to great heights. Not many people really understand how this works. The fact is, all of the most successful companies you see online ?think of Google? are really examples of successful internet marketing. People buy ads and rent virtual space from them on a huge scale. This goes on to show how big Internet marketing actually is. Like any business, you need to follow a systematic course of action, be willing to take calculated risks and work towards your goals. This article will focus on some ways to get targeted website traffic, one of the first things you need to do business online.

You can have an advantage in some respects by learning why business on the web is so different from the offline world.

It really all depends on who you talk to, and some would go so far as say it can be unpredictable. What has been working for months or even years can suddenly change radically or even just disappear. You are reading about these methods in this article including aspects of loans online, but you still need to, or should, give some thought to how they fit in overall. However, you really should look at all things in terms of what you can do with them in the future, or if there could ever be anything that could possibly be a negative. Yet, life is full of uncertainty, and so that means you should never be hesitant to test some idea that is completely foreign to you or anything like that. One of the most tried and true ways to market online is by participating in forums. Find forums that are centered around your niche; this means you will be around people who are likely to be interested in what you are offering. Keep in mind that you can?t just appear on a forum and start selling something; there is a better way to use forums for your marketing. If the posts you make and the threads you start are informative in nature and are helping the other members on the forum, then you can easily add your website?s link in your signature. This is a place where you can promote your site without being blamed for spam.

You don?t want to violate the rules of many forums by placing links in forum posts; in many instances, you will be banned outright from the forum. So be careful to only utilize the signature for your promotion. Forums can be a great opportunity to get targeted traffic, so don?t risk losing this resource by spamming them. Use them, but don?t abuse them.

Social marketing is an IM tactic/strategy that is just on fire right now. Social networking marketing uses the incredible power of social media sites to funnel traffic to where ever you want. That sounds really easy. Yes? Because it is simple. Search engines love social sites. So you?ll be able to easily rank by using them. The traffic you receive is targeted and the conversions can be fast. If you are willing to put in the time and effort, there are few businesses that can be as lucrative and rewarding as internet marketing. Selling products and services to people around the world on autopilot turns out to be a highly lucrative business to be part of.

Today, our introduction to quick loan has been relatively short, but you should have a solid idea of what is possible.

It is not necessary to use everything in this article, and in fact it may be best to take one thing and do a preliminary test. These methods can work hand-in-hand with paid for ads, for example, and that is possible even on a small budget. We want to mention an important aspect of marketing when dealing with new methods. You can apply it to a small segment of an existing campaign and observe the results. There are enough things that we do not always have a complete picture about, so no need to make it worse than it needs to be. If this is your first business venture on the web, then you would best be advised to take it to heart.

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Step Into The World Of Internet Marketing With These Useful Tips ...

It is amazing that nowadays you can use internet marking to make your business soar. Having some small articles can help a business double there profits. You don?t even have to know that much about marketing or have excellent english to get started. This article will give you some tips on how to use the internet to make your business grow.

If you are able to, consider offering the option to purchase items wholesale or retail. For businesses that would take a hit by offering wholesale prices, a yearly membership to the wholesale program may help ameliorate the loss in revenue. Offering wholesale options can help you network to a greater variety of customer bases.

When is the last time you clicked on a screeching, neon flashing banner ad with an animated cartoon animal that had absolutely nothing to do with the product it was advertising? Exactly. Banner ads can be a highly useful and economical internet marketing tool, but your business will be better served by a professional-looking ad that entices and informs the viewer.

Include a catalog with any items you ship from your company of related product that is available. Include a coupon for 25% off the first add-on they buy, and you?ll be able to upsell your customers after they?ve receive their purchase! This will draw them back to your website so many sure they also get to see any other promotions you might have going on.

Be sure that you are using meta and title tags wisely. It is a general rule that you should not repeat any more than 20% of description and meta tags on each page. Also, do not use too many characters in your title tag ? it will put the reader off.

An important tip regarding Internet marketing is to be sure that you announce it when you add new or updated content to your website. This is important to your credibility because it will help to prove to customers that your site provides information that is updated, accurate, and relevant.

When you are actively promoting your website, get banners and advertise your site. You will want to choose sites on which to advertise that are related to your site. If your site is about games, you should advertise your site on game sites. People will naturally be drawn to your site that way.

To make sure your website appeals to the audience you?re marketing it to, make it all about them. Focus on their wants and needs and develop content specific to them. Doing this will make the marketing process much easier, and will encourage visitors to your site to share your content with others.

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MILWAUKEE ? In a shocking turn of events, a crushing kick from WWE Champion CM Punk left Chris Jericho unable to continue in the Raw Elimination Chamber Match. (PHOTOS)

For Jericho ? now a seven-time Elimination Chamber veteran ? it was a disappointing night, especially compared to his last Chamber appearance in 2010, when he captured the World Heavyweight Championship.

The WWE Universe is buzzing about what Jericho has to say regarding his departure at the hands of The Straight Edge Superstar. Although he was unable to comment earlier, WWE.com is attempting to locate him in Milwaukee?s Bradley Center tonight to get his thoughts on the Raw Elimination Chamber Match and CM Punk.

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Stuffed rat head tests how to scan a waking brain

Wendy Zukerman, reporter

You might expect to see a taxidermied animal head on a wall, but in this video a stuffed rat's head is attached to a moving robot. The futuristic mount is being used by researchers Andre Kyme and Roger Fulton at the University of Sydney to test a new motion tracking device that will allow an animal's brain to be scanned while it's awake.

To study diseases in detail, scientists often probe rodents with PET scans before progressing to humans. Typically, rats are put under before a scan since results can be skewed if they move around. But anaesthetics can affect results since they can change how the brain works.

To get around this, Kyme and Fulton turned to motion tracking, which allows rats to be scanned while awake. In their first trials, they used a device that follows physical markers placed on a rodent's forehead (see video above). Although the tracking was accurate, the markers caused problems. "Rats don't like having things stuck to their fur and will generally attempt to remove them," says Kyme.

The team therefore created a new system that tracks distinctive natural features on the surface of a rat's head. A computer algorithm detects unique landmarks, like a glitch in the rodent's skin or the corner of an eye, based on visuals received from four cameras. "When the same feature can be seen from multiple views, its 3D location in space can be determined," says Kyme. "We do this for many features on the head at around thirty frames per second."

The device, which was successfully tested with taxidermied specimens, can estimate the movement of a rat's head with ten times the accuracy of designs using markers. The team is now testing the system on live animals. If successful, the method could be scaled up for use in larger animals, such as monkeys and humans. "It would be feasible to image a person while they were on a treadmill," says Kyme.

For more brain-related videos, check out the first brain movie of a mouse thinking or see (and hear) some brain soundtracks.

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American Idol Touts Past Success, Slams The Voice?

Did American Idol just take a jab at The Voice?

In an ad that aired last night, the Fox series hypes this evening's two-hour episode by recounting its past success stories, which includes nine Grammy Awards, one Oscar and artists such as Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert, Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry, Scotty McCreery and Jennifer Hudson.

The Voice, of course, has only been on for one season, but finalists Javier Colon and Dia Frampton haven't left much of an impression on the music world.

Watch the promo now and decide: Cheap shot? Desperate shot? Or a perfectly fair salvo to fire off between two similar shows?

American Idol Bashes The Voice?

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GOP Nomination May Hinge on Michigan (Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)

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Obama budget sees recovery gaining speed

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer

President Barack Obama is feeling upbeat about the economic recovery,?maybe too upbeat.

As part of his $3.8 trillion spending plan for 2013, the president included an economic forecast that shows the nation?s gross domestic product moving ahead by 3.6 percent this year and 4.4 percent in 2013. Obama and his advisors also see the unemployment rate falling to 7.5 percent next year, with an inflation rate holding steady at about 2 percent through the rest of the decade.

The administration also predicts the recovery will produce strong growth in 2014 before the pace of growth begins slowing in 2015.

While typical of the rosy scenarios outlined by White House budgets in an election year, the president added a note of caution to his economic outlook.

"We are seeing signs that our economy is on the mend,"?Obama said in his budget message to Congress. ?But we are not out of the woods yet.?

The president?s numbers are higher than forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office and the Blue Chip survey of about 50 private business economists. One reason for the discrepancy, according to the White House, is that its forecast assumes the president?s budget proposal will be enacted as written.

The odds of that happening in an election year are slim to none.

?I don't think that anyone is satisfied with this?budget,? said Roger Altman, founder of Evercore Partners and a senior Treasury official in the Clinton administration. ?It confirms the dire debt and deficit outlook. And, of course, no major tax and spending changes, whether they come from the president or they're proposed by congressional leaders, are going to be enacted before the election. ?

The White House budget proposal calls for some $4 trillion in deficit cuts over the next 10 years. Under Obama's plan, the deficit would fall to $901 billion in 2013 and continue to shrink to $575 billion in 2018. In the short term, though, the administration wants to raise spending on some programs that it argues will help the recovery continue to gain momentum.

?We must transform our budget from one focused on speculating, spending and borrowing to one constructed on the solid foundation of educating, innovating and building," the administration said.

According to the administration, that means spending an additional $476 billion on transportation projects, including inner-city rail services; another $30 billion to modernize?35,000 schools; and $30 billion more to help cash-strapped states?hire more teachers,?police, rescue workers and firefighters. The White House said Monday that the president will also ask Congress to approve an $8 billion fund to support a joint effort between business and community colleges to train workers in high-growth industries.

Congressional Republicans wasted no time attacking the plan, saying increased spending was exactly what the economic recovery doesn?t need.

?There's a number of reasons why we're looking at the slowest, weakest recovery since the Great Depression, but frankly, this debt is a huge drag on our economy,? said Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas)?who was co-chair of the ?super committee? on deficit reduction. ?We got to quit spending money we don't have.?

Some Democrats argue that, with the recovery just beginning to take hold, many voters are more concerned about their own household budgets than whether the government begins to take meaningful steps to manage its own.

?For most people, according to what they tell pollsters, what they really care about is jobs and growth: Deficit is actually?ranked pretty low,? said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden. ?There?s going to be a lot of discussion today about the deficit issue. But from the perspective of the economy that's still climbing out of recession, I think at this point adding to the deficit in the interests of short-term economic boost actually makes a lot of sense.?

The administration is hoping that the latest improvement in the job market may deflect some criticism of its failure to forge a bipartisan solution to shrink the federal deficit. On the job front, the White House forecast was only slightly more optimistic than either the CBO or Blue Chip forecasts. Although all three see job growth as remaining weaker than normal for the next several years, the White House is a bit more optimistic in projecting a jobless rate of less than 6 percent by the end of 2017. (The administration?s current thinking may be even more upbeat: Because the projections were made in November, they don?t factor in the much better-than-expected jobs numbers for the last two months of 2011.)

Notably absent are any broad proposals to revise the tax code. The plan includes some changes, including the so-called ?Buffett rule? that would close a tax break for investment income that lets billionaires like Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett pay a lower percentage of income than his secretary. But the budget sidesteps the much thornier issue of comprehensive reform of the complex, bloated tax code that has been widely criticized by members of both political parties.

?Fundamental tax reform has been agreed upon across the spectrum from the left to the right as something that is necessary,? said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former CBO director and chief economist in the George W. Bush administration. ?The president has never put forward a single serious proposal on fundamental tax reform despite saying he wants it. If he wants it, put it in your budget.?

The White House may yet get a chance to oversee one of the biggest changes in the tax code in nearly a decade. With Bush-era tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, the White House has a chance to raise taxes by doing nothing, or issuing a veto on any bill to extend them.

That gives Obama leverage in the debate over how much taxes should be raised to balance the budget.

?I think it's a golden opportunity to start fixing the deficit problem,? said Altman. ?You have $3.6 trillion of revenue over?10 years to work with.?

Are the Obama administration's projections too rosy? Share your thoughts on Facebook.

President Obama will send his 2013 budget proposal to Congress today, with Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, fmr. White House chief economist. "This is a campaign document," says Holtz-Eakin.

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