Kim Kardashian's Movie Role In Tyler Perry's 'The Marriage Counselor'

Now that she dominates reality television, fashion and nightlife coast to coast, Kim Kardashian has set her sights on the biggest spotlight of them all: the big screen.

The reality star/designer/businesswoman/HuffPost Game Changer has joined the cast of Tyler Perry's next film, "The Marriage Counselor," she tweeted Friday night. Based on one of Perry's plays, the film tells the story of a marriage counselor whose own marriage begins to fall apart when her husband's parents move in. She begins to cheat on her husband, and Kardashian will play a co-worker who takes her to the big city for a makeover.

The role dovetails well with her recent, televised marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries. The announcement was also a great birthday gift for Kardashian; she turned 31 on Friday.

Kardashian has featured in small parts in two films in the past, "Deep in the Valley" and the spoof, "Disaster Movie." She also featured on a number of episodes of the surf show, "Beyond The Break," as well as an episode of "CSI: NY" in 2009.

She, of course, is best known for her multitude of TV shows, including "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" and "Kourtney and Kim Take New York."

The co-star of that latter series, her older sister Kourtney, guest starred on the soap opera "One Life To Live" in March, while another Kardashian sister, Khloe Kardashian Odom, guested on "Law and Order: LA." All three sisters have made a multitude of appearances as guests on TV talk shows.

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Argentine president looking at landslide victory

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez gives a speech during her closing campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Fernandez is seeking a second term on the Oct. 23 general election.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez gives a speech during her closing campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Fernandez is seeking a second term on the Oct. 23 general election.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez reacts during her closing campaign rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Fernandez is seeking a second term on the Oct. 23 general election.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ? President Cristina Fernandez could rest easy ahead of Sunday's elections in Argentina, with polls suggesting a landslide victory over six rivals.

Not that she did: An irrepressible multitasker, she campaigned so hard that blood pressure problems repeatedly forced her to cancel events.

If she does win, she'll be the first woman president re-elected in Latin America. But it also will be a bittersweet victory for Fernandez, her first in a lifetime of politics without her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, who died of a heart attack last Oct. 27.

Since his death, Fernandez has reversed her negative numbers and proved her ability to govern on her own, ensuring loyalty or respect from an unruly political elite.

Many Argentines in pre-election polls said they would vote for her because their own financial situations have improved as the country's economy continues its longest spell of economic growth in history. Voters also said they supported Fernandez because she's best able to govern, which in Argentina often requires keeping union, corporate and social movement leaders in line.

Fernandez can win with as little as 40 percent of the vote if none of her rivals comes within 10 percentage points of her, but the latest polls suggested she could capture between 52 percent and 57 percent of votes. The surveys had error margins of plus or minus three percentage points.

If those trends hold, Fernandez could receive a larger share of votes than any president since Argentina's democracy was restored in 1983, when Raul Alfonsin was elected with 52 percent. She could even approach the 60 percent of ballots that her populist hero, Juan Domingo Peron, won in his last two elections. Her Front for Victory coalition also hoped to regain enough seats in Congress to form new alliances and regain the control it lost in 2009.

Fernandez, 58, chose her youthful, guitar-playing, long-haired economy minister, Amado Boudou, as her running mate. Together, the pair championed Argentina's approach to the global financial crisis: Increase government spending rather than impose austerity measures, and force investors in foreign debt to suffer before ordinary citizens.

Argentina has been closed off from most international lending since declaring its world-record debt default in 2001, but has been able to sustain booming growth ever since.

The country faces tough challenges in 2012, however. Its commodities exports are vulnerable to a global recession, and economic growth is forecast to slow sharply in the coming year. Declining revenues will make it harder to raise incomes to keep up with inflation. Trade with the economic powerhouse of Brazil is all important, but with the Brazilian real rising and the Argentine peso falling, there will be more pressure on Argentina's central bank to spend reserves to maintain the currency.

If his ticket wins, Boudou could win attention as a potential successor to Fernandez, but navigating these storms will require much skill and good fortune.

The president's rivals are Hermes Binner, 68, a doctor and socialist governor of Santa Fe province; Ricardo Alfonsin, 59, a lawyer and congressional deputy with the traditional Radical Civic Union party and son of the former president; Alberto Rodriguez Saa, 52, an attorney and governor of San Luis province whose brother Adolfo was president for a week; Eduardo Duhalde, who preceded Kirchner as president; leftist former lawmaker Jorge Altamira, 69; and Elisa Carrio 54, a congresswoman who came in second behind Fernandez four years ago but trailed the field this time.

Also at stake in the election are 130 seats in the lower house of congress, 24 senate seats and nine governor's offices as well as hundreds of local races.

Voting is obligatory in Argentina, and nearly 29 million citizens among the 40 million population are registered.

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Paper maker Stora Enso reports Q3 $70 million loss (AP)

HELSINKI ? Paper maker Stora Enso Oyj on Friday fell into a third-quarter net loss of $70 million (euro50 million) from a profit a year earlier as it was hit by high costs and negative exchange rates.

The Finnish-Swedish company said revenue grew more than 4 percent in July through September to euro2.74 billion, from euro2.6 billion a year earlier. Net profit in the same period last year was euro194 million.

CEO Jouko Karvinen described the quarter as "solid," but cautioned that measures "to fight the economic reality" would continue and increase.

"It is clear that going into the fourth quarter our customers, as well as ourselves, will reduce inventories and therefore we will further step up the manufacturing curtailments which we already increased significantly in the third quarter," Karvinen said Friday, hinting of more layoffs.

Stora's share price bounced up more than 2 percent to euro4.40 ($6.08) in afternoon trading in Helsinki.

Stora said demand in the fourth quarter, compared to last year, would be "weaker" or "significantly weaker" for newsprint, magazine papers and wood products, while prices would remain stable or be slightly weaker.

Like many forest product companies, Stora has been struggling with persistent overcapacity in European paper markets. It has been forced to cut production, close mills and lay off thousands of workers.

In May, it announced some 300 more job cuts in Europe in a move to cut costs by euro20 million, to further improve efficiency and competitiveness in fine paper production. Earlier, it had announced an annual cost cutting target of euro29 million by the end of the second quarter 2012.

Last year, the company cut paper volumes by 700,000 tons, closing four paper-making machines in Europe.

Helsinki-based Stora Enso is one of the world's largest forest product companies making magazine paper, newsprint, fine paper, pulp and packaging boards. It employs 28,500 people worldwide.

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Think Finance Debuts Consumer Electronics Retail Site For The Unbanked

a href="http://www.thinkfinance.com/">Think Finance, a company that helps serve the banking needs of the "unbanked", is unveiling Presta, a new consumer electronics retail site that gives customers the option to lease-purchase electronics. Think Finance caters to the 60 million "unbanked," individuals in the U.S., which designate consumers who don't have traditional bank accounts or cannot qualify for credit cards. The company says that 25% of Americans have FICO scores less than 600 and are facing dramatically reduced access to credit and banking services. Think Finance provides this population with pre-paid debit cards, online installment loans, financial literacy tools, and more. The company has served more than 1 million customers through its existing products.

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Cheaper and easier isn't necessarily better in new colon cancer screening procedures

ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2011) ? Eventually, colon cancers bleed and so tests for blood in stool seem an inexpensive and noninvasive alternative to traditional colonoscopies. In fact, a recent article in the journal Cancer Prevention Research showed that fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) is an accurate predictor of colorectal cancer and can provide a low-cost screening alternative for medically underserved populations.

However, Tim Byers, MD, MPH, associate director for prevention and control at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health, says that despite its ease, low cost, and one-time accuracy, FIT remains inferior to colorectal cancer screening the old-fashioned way, by colonoscopy.

Here's why.

"Testing for blood in the stool can find cancer and advanced adenomas, but it does not work well for finding most adenomas, therefore creates many missed opportunities for cancer prevention," Byers says. In other words, by the time a colorectal cancer bleeds, the window for successful treatment may be closed -- proverbially, this is discovering the barn door is unlocked after the horse has run away.

To shorten the time before a bleeding colorectal cancer sees treatment, proponents of FIT testing recommend using the procedure yearly, rather than every five-to-ten years as recommended for colonoscopies. Frequent screening, they hope, will allow treatment to follow closely on the heels of the discovery of blood in stool, perhaps with the same timeliness of a colonoscopy, which due to the long time between screenings may catch a cancer that has been on the move for years between checks.

However, "We are very bad in our health care system and as individuals in doing anything yearly, so practices that use FIT testing perform poorly with repeat testing over time -- the poor performance of FIT testing gets even worse as people forget to do the annual tests," Byers says.

In a recent editorial in response to the findings in the above journal, Byers points out that insurance companies have strong incentive to promote the less expensive alternative, but in this case the cheaper alternative may, in fact, lead to fewer colorectal cancers identified in their early stages.

"Tests designed to identify occult blood in the stool are better for detecting colorectal cancer, whereas direct endoscopic visualization of the colorectum [colonoscopy] is better for prevention," Byers writes.

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1. T. Byers. Examining Stools for Colon Cancer Prevention: What Are We Really Looking for? Cancer Prevention Research, 2011; 4 (10): 1531 DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0410

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