Sunday, June 30, 2013

Obama sees no threat in China rivalry for Africa business

By Jeff Mason and Mark Felsenthal

PRETORIA (Reuters) - The United States does not feel threatened by the growth of trade and investment in Africa by China and other emerging powers, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday.

Suggestions that he has allowed China to steal a march over the United States in doing business with Africa have dogged Obama's three-nation swing through the continent, but he said the increased Chinese engagement was beneficial for all.

"I don't feel threatened by it. I feel it's a good thing," Obama told a news conference during a visit to South Africa.

The more countries invest in Africa, the more the world's least developed continent can be integrated into the global economy, the first African-American U.S. president said.

"I want everybody playing in Africa. The more the merrier."

China has greatly expanded its reach in Africa since the start of the new century. It overtook the United States as Africa's largest trading partner in 2009, a February report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed.

China's advantage in trade stems mostly from how much it sells to Africa. Chinese exports to the continent in 2011 were almost triple the level of U.S. exports.

When it comes to investment flows, however, the picture is different. Data for 2007-2011 suggest U.S. foreign investment flows to the region were larger than China's, the GAO said.

"China's role as an investor, aid donor and financier is not outsized," Johns Hopkins University China scholar Deborah Brautigam wrote recently.

"Although Western countries fret about China's growing role in Africa, the United States alone disbursed more official finance to African countries than China did in 2010."

Still, China's influence looms large over the continent, partly because it has been so aggressive in its courtship.

Beijing and Washington should be partners in Africa to foster development and peace, said an official Chinese commentary after Obama's made his remarks.

Obama's stops in South Africa and Tanzania mirror a visit in March by then newly named Chinese President Xi Jinping, which could be seen as rivalry between the two superpowers on the African continent, state-run news agency Xinhua said.

"This mentality belongs to the past. It results from the West's biased perception of China's role in Africa," Xinhua said. "It also misses the bigger picture in which Beijing and Washington, instead of being competitors undermining each other's efforts, can actually work as partners in promoting Africa's development."

RESTING ON ITS LAURELS?

Obama's visit to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania will bring to four the number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa that the U.S. president has visited in the last four years. He stopped briefly in Ghana in his first term.

In contrast, Chinese presidents and vice presidents have visited 30 African countries over the same period, said Mwangi Kimenyi, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

There is also a sense that the United States may be resting on its laurels.

"There hasn't really been a presence of U.S. companies since 1994, taking advantage of the new opportunities," Haroon Bhorat, a professor at the University of Cape Town said recently, speaking of South Africa.

"So, you've seen new emerging markets entering into other emerging markets like South Africa and taking advantage of economic opportunities in a way where the U.S., already with a foothold, arguably hasn't done enough."

Obama's aides have argued that he has had two wars and a deep economic crisis to deal with since he took office in 2009.

Obama has also said that U.S. interactions with Africa have included goals of social and political development, unlike those of China, which he said were more narrowly focused on commercial benefits.

"A lot of people are pleased that China is involved in Africa," he told reporters travelling with him on Friday.

"On the other hand, they recognize that China's primary interest is being able to obtain access for natural resources in Africa to feed the manufacturers in export-driven policies of the Chinese economy."

That relationship makes Africa an exporter of raw materials but does not create jobs in Africa and is not a sustainable model over the long-term, he added.

In Pretoria on Saturday, Obama urged African nations to be tougher negotiators in accepting investments from abroad.

"You produce the raw materials, sold cheap and then all the way up the chain somebody else is making the money and creating the jobs and the value," he said.

"Make sure that whoever you're dealing with ... you're getting a good deal that's benefiting the people here and that can help to spur on broad-based development."

(Additional reporting by Terrill Yue Jones in Beijing, Writing by Pascal Fletcher and Mark Felsenthal, Editing by Gareth Jones and Michael Perry)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-sees-no-threat-china-rivalry-africa-business-031602563.html

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Shoptiques: The Perfect Summer Dress for Your Body Type

We have all been "that girl," the delusional dresser, as some may call her. Standing in the mirror of the dressing room, trying on the dress that looked killer on the mannequin, and hey, it kind of looks like that on you, too, right? Next thing you know, you're confidently pulling out your credit card and then slipping into the dress for a night out on the town. The second you step out of your apartment, all of your presumptuous thoughts on this "killer" (so-you-thought) dress are turning into insecurities, as you tug and pull at every hemline and body-hugging area. No one wants to be "that girl," and you don't have to be. Summer is the prime time to wear a dress and show off your favorite parts of your body. It's all about figuring out what looks good on your shape, accentuating what you love about yourself, and feeling confident in what you chose to wear!

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Athletic

When you have an athletic build, the greatest thing you can do for your body is to create the illusion of curves. Your straight and narrow shape can be easily feminized with the use of cinches and ruffles. Try choosing a dress that is cinched at the waist or even tie an oversized dress with a belt. The overflow of fabric will create a Marilyn-esque figure. The hemlines are rising with the temperature this summer, show off those athletic legs too!



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A full-figured woman has so many beautiful attributes to play up: a big bust, curvy figure, and a little junk in the trunk. Sometimes, this can make for a difficult time in the dressing room, trying to figure out how to accentuate the right areas while making the waist look small. Finding the perfect summer-time dress for your body should be fairly easy though. Balancing your top half with your bottom half to create an hourglass look is key. Try a dress that nips, or is banded around the waist to form a slim mid-section, while hiding any tummy insecurities you may have. A sexy neckline works wonders for you, especially during the summer. A V-neck will help emphasize your bust, or let your collarbones show with an off-the-shoulder neck.

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Petite

5'4' is the magic number that draws the line at 'petite'. Dressing for your petite body doesn't necessarily mean trying to make yourself look tall, it's more about dressing yourself in a way that is ideal for your height and shape. The main rule when it comes to petite women wearing a dress is to make sure you don't chop yourself in half. Always use the 1/3 rule. If there is a belt, cinch, or hem, make sure it is either 1/3 of the way from the top, or 1/3 of the way from the bottom of the dress. Maxis look fabulous on you because they cause the eye to move up and down, creating length. The same thing goes for vertical stripes. In the summer, no one wants a ton of fabric hanging all over them, lucky for you, as a petite woman, you want to stick with the least amount of material you can get away with. Too much causes you to look like you are swimming in fabric.

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Hourglass

How lucky are you to have a body that allows you to wear so many different styles! The hourglass shape is what every woman is going for when they are getting dressed. There are only a few rules you need to remember when looking for an amazing summer dress. Steer clear of lots of bulk, embellishments, and heavy patterns. You have such a great bod, but, wearing something really busy can throw off your proportions, and make you look unbalanced or heavier than you actually are. A-lines and bodices are styles that are perfect for you to accentuate your feminine shape. Strapless dresses are made for hourglass figures, which is a major plus for you in the hot months of summer!

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Saturday, June 29, 2013

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Government plans to boost roads, rail in infrastructure plan

By William James

LONDON (Reuters) - The government promised on Thursday to upgrade roads and carry out what it said was the biggest rail investment in more than 100 years as part of its strategy to get the economy growing again while also keeping a tight lid on spending.

A day after Chancellor George Osborne announced cuts to government budgets worth 11.5 billion pounds in the 2015/16 fiscal year, his deputy Danny Alexander detailed the Conservative-led coalition's infrastructure plans.

Alexander described them as "the most comprehensive, ambitious and long-lasting capital investment plans this country has ever known."

Alexander announced 28 billion pounds would be spent by the government on improving roads from 2014 to 2020 and it would support 30 billion pounds in rail investments.

He also announced a multi-billion pound guarantee designed to help build a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point and details of energy prices that the government will guarantee for offshore wind power developers.

The overall plan, worth a total of 100 billion pounds, put some flesh on the bones of 300 billion pounds in capital spending commitments set out until 2020.

The announcement did not amount to a new injection of cash as the government battles to eliminate a large budget deficit.

The Conservative party is seeking to set out its stall for the 2015 general election which is likely to be won or lost on how well the economy is performing. Thursday's announcement aimed to draw in private sector cash by instilling confidence in the government's commitment to infrastructure.

The opposition Labour party, which has previously urged more short-term spending to revive the economy but has been wary about committing itself to increased borrowing, kept up its criticism of the government for doing too little on investment.

"When is the government going to pull its finger out and actually start to build some of these things?" said Chris Leslie, a Labour lawmaker and a party spokesman for economic issues.

(Additional reporting by William Schomber, Rosalba O'Brien)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/government-pledges-invest-roads-boost-power-101016515.html

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Student loans: Despite new proposals in Congress, no fix as deadline looms

Interest rates on some subsidized student loans could double on July 1. A bipartisan Senate group and a sextet of Senate liberals both put forward proposals Thursday, but a deal is elusive.

By David Grant,?Staff writer / June 27, 2013

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa (l.) standing with Sen. Jack Reed (D) of Rhode Island, discusses a graph and legislation to try and prevent the increase in the interest rates on some student loans, Thursday, June 27, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Congress is deadlocked over what to do with student-loan interest rates, meaning rates on some subsidized student loans will double come July 1.

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This is despite a flurry of proposals, including at least two on Thursday alone. Nevertheless, Congress is set to break for 10 days away from Washington without a fix, meaning students looking to finance their college education will be uneasily waiting for Congress to get its act together before the fall semester.

But so far, there?s little prospect of compromise even when lawmakers return after the Independence Day recess. Congressional Democrats, for example, are posturing that they won?t bend to a bipartisan proposal that would stabilize rates now but could lead to higher rates in the future.

?Students around this country would rather have no deal than a bad deal,? said Sen. Jack Reed (D) of Rhode Island, a sponsor of the main Democratic proposal to fix student-loan rates.

The clash on the Hill illuminates a deep policy divide between the two parties with heavy political overtones.

In May, House Republicans passed a measure that, like President Obama?s budget proposal, calls for a long-term student-loan fix that pegs interest rates to the cost that the federal government incurs to borrow money.

In general, House Republicans and a bipartisan Senate group want to solve the student-loan problem once and for all ? and solve it now.

This bipartisan Senate group consists of three Republicans and two Democrats, and they offered a student-loan compromise on Thursday: It would affect all federal student loans, pegging subsidized and unsubsidized undergraduate student-loan rates to the 10-year treasury note, plus 1.85 percent, and adding 3.4 percent for graduate loans and 4.4 percent for additional ?PLUS? loans.

Interest rates would, unlike the House proposal, stay fixed for the life of each loan and could be consolidated at 8.25 percent when a student leaves higher education.

The five senators backing this proposal are among the most exasperated with the Senate?s current state of deliberation ? patching many programs year after year without solving problems. (The student-loan issue has been punted down the field each of the past two years.)

?We?re notorious for not fixing anything. We?re notorious for kicking the can down the road,? said Sen. Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia on Thursday. ?We?ve said, enough is enough.?

Such a fix would be ?the only thing that?s certain up here,? said Sen. Tom Coburn (R) of Oklahoma, ?other than chaos.?

This bipartisan proposal appears to hold appeal for the GOP-held House. Rep. John Kline (R) of Minnesota, the chair of the Education and the Workforce Committee and shepherd of the student-loan bill that the House passed last month, stayed engaged with the bipartisan group?s talks and was ?encouraged? by the final product, according to a spokesman.

But Senate Democrats, among them some of the body?s leading liberals, want a one-year extension of current rates because they see student loans as an integral piece of a bigger problem: the skyrocketing cost of higher education and the crushing student-loan burden those costs have impressed on young people.

A one-year fix, they reason, would pave the way for student loans to be reconsidered along with the forthcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in the fall.

As such, a sextet of liberals unveiled their own, one-year fix on Thursday. It would keep subsidized student loans (40 percent of all federal loans) at 3.4 percent for the coming year and offset the cost by changing tax rules on some retirement accounts ? something sure to rile up Republicans. (The proposal would do nothing to lower the other 60 percent of loans, which are reduced in the bipartisan proposal, compared with current interest rates.)

Democrats feel they?ll be able to pressure their Republican counterparts to come around to a short-term fix, coupled with the promise of long-term reform, for reasons of both policy and politics. First, the bipartisan proposal, they say, will make things more expensive for students in the long run.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D) of Iowa called the bipartisan proposal a ?classic bait and switch,? pointing out that the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that under this proposal, all three classes of federal student loans would rise above 6.8 percent by 2016 ? the level to which subsidized rates would double without a fix.

Also, while votes on similar bills from both sides failed earlier in June, Democrats feel that they?ll eventually corner the GOP politically into a one-year extension of loan rates because conservatives will eventually bend on a high-profile pocketbook issue.

?This is a reasonable proposal that last year, in an election year, the Republicans went for,? said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) of Massachusetts.

But even some in the Democrats? own caucus just can?t stand the thought of kicking the can one more time.

?It?s another delay,? said Sen. Angus King (I) of Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats and who is a co-sponsor of the bipartisan loan package. ?What will we know in a year that we don?t know now? So let?s solve the problem.?

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PFT: Full coverage of Hernandez murder investigation

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During the week of the NFL?s Rookie Symposium, where life lessons are taught to the incoming class of rookies, there hasn?t been a shortage of conversation.

But the conversation keeps coming back to one guy, Aaron Hernandez.

Troy Vincent, the NFL?s senior vice president of player engagement, said it?s a topic that?s impossible to avoid.

?You know, there?s this pink elephant in the room .?.?. the Hernandez situation,? Vincent told players, via Rick Maese of the Washington Post. ?The media has every right to ask you a question about that situation. And you have every right not to engage in that conversation. It is what it is. ?

As part of the opening session for NFC rookies Wednesday night, a group of second-year players were on hand to tell the new guys about the transition. But the topic of Hernandez was never far away.

?A lot of people are afraid of the words, ?Oh man, you different,??? Colts tight end Dwayne Allen said. ?You damn right I?m different. You damn right I?m different. I got a lot more money in my pocket, and a lot more sense. That?s the way you got to go about it.

?If you just turn on your TV to ESPN, this is a brotherhood. This is a brotherhood. One of our brothers in trouble right now. It really hurts me, man. But one of our brothers is in trouble right now because he didn?t want to be different. You got to make a choice right now. .?.?.

?You?re not the same dude you was when you grew up. You different now. That doesn?t mean you can?t hang out with your boys, do things you used to do with your boys. You still do those, but you got to be smart about it, smart about your decisions, man.?

At that point the room of rookies fell silent.

With the Hernandez situation unfolding in front of them ? along with former Browns linebacker Ausar Walcott being arrested for attempted murder and Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent going back to jail for failing drug tests while awaiting trial for killing a teammate in a drunk driving crash ??the league doesn?t need many words.

They have examples, hopefully too many of them for the point to be missed.

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NKorea likely to get cold shoulder at Asia forum

A reporter works in media room at Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei, Friday, June 28, 2013. Foreign Ministers from ASEAN countries gather in Brunei for the 46th ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting starting June 29. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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(AP) ? The upcoming regional security summit in this tiny Southeast Asian sultanate is the sort of venue where North Korea has often managed to open up sideline discussions with Seoul and Washington. This time, while there will be plenty of talk about Pyongyang, there is little chance of substantive talk with it.

North Korea has sought negotiations with the U.S. and South Korea but has ignored their demands that it first honor prior commitments to move toward nuclear disarmament. At high-level diplomatic talks beginning this weekend, it can expect the cold shoulder from those countries and others frustrated by Pyongyang's insistence on developing nuclear weapons.

After a December long-range rocket launch, a February nuclear test and weeks of threats to launch nuclear strikes against South Korea and the United States, North Korea earlier this month made a surprise offer for separate talks with its rivals. Government delegates from the two Koreas met and agreed to hold senior-level talks on non-nuclear issues, but the agreement collapsed because of a protocol dispute. The United States responded coolly to Pyongyang's appeal for direct negotiations, which some analysts view as a familiar effort to win aid in return for ratcheting down tensions.

"While it is certainly preferable for North Korea to pursue diplomatic rather than missile or nuclear tests, all of North Korea's neighbors by now are well aware of North Korea's history of diplomatic initiatives as just another tool through which North Korea has sought to consolidate gains following periods in which North Korean brinkmanship has driven political tensions to high levels," Scott Snyder, a Korea specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank, wrote in a blog post.

He added that agreeing to hold talks with the North "and come back to the table as though nothing has changed since the last six-party talks were held in 2008 would imply acceptance" of Pyongyang's rocket launches and nuclear tests.

Whether Washington and its allies ignore Pyongyang's diplomats or not, North Korea's atomic aspirations will top the agenda in talks surrounding the 27-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum, which takes place Tuesday in the Bruneian capital of Bandar Seri Begawan.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterparts from South Korea, China and Japan will attend the forum and could hold private meetings that touch on Pyongyang. North Korea is expected to send its longtime foreign minister, 80-year-old Pak Ui Chun, to the meeting, according to South Korea's Foreign Ministry.

Because the ASEAN forum gathers diplomats from all six countries involved in long-stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations ? the United States, China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas ? it has previously provided a chance to use informal, sideline talks to break stalemates over the nuclear issue.

In 2011, top nuclear envoys from the two Koreas met on the sidelines of the forum in Bali, Indonesia, and agreed to work toward a resumption of the dormant six-nation talks, though the negotiations remained stalled. The Koreas' foreign ministers held sideline talks in 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2007, and top diplomats from Pyongyang and Washington also met privately in 2004 and 2008.

North Korea will likely seek similar talks in Brunei, but South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young told reporters Tuesday that officials from Seoul aren't considering meeting the North Korean foreign minister on the sidelines. In Washington, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Monday that he knew of no discussions planned between Kerry and Pak in Brunei, and that such talks would be "fairly unusual."

Analysts said North Korea appears to be repeating its pattern of following aggressive rhetoric with diplomatic efforts to get outside aid and concessions.

Chang Yong Seok, an analyst at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, said Pyongyang must do something to show it's refraining from continuing nuclear activities, such as announcing some disarmament steps, if it wants to have talks.

Despite its recent bid for diplomacy, North Korea has raised renewed worries about a nuclear program that outsiders estimate to include a handful of crude nuclear bombs. Pyongyang followed up its February nuclear test, its third since 2006, with an announcement that it planned to restore all its atomic bomb fuel producing facilities. The February test drew widespread international condemnation and tightened U.N. sanctions, which subsequently led the North to issue a torrent of warlike threats and sharply raise tensions on the divided peninsula.

Recent satellite photos show signs of new tunnel work at North Korea's underground nuclear test site, the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said in an analysis Tuesday. The analysis said it doesn't appear to indicate another atomic blast is imminent but suggests the country has continued to work on its nuclear weapons program even as tensions eased.

Other issues expected to draw keen media attention in Brunei include South China Sea territorial disputes and relations between the U.S. and China, the world's two biggest economies.

China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia over the South China Sea and its potentially oil- and gas-rich islands. Several claimants want group discussions to create a legally binding "code of conduct" to prevent clashes in the sea, but China prefers one-on-one negotiations.

Southeast Asian countries believe that "having bilateral negotiations with a strong guy would be a losing game," said Bae Geung-chan, a professor at the state-run Korea National Diplomatic Academy in Seoul.

Analysts say China and the U.S. probably won't have sensitive talks in Brunei that could change their relations. Their leaders recently held an unusually lengthy informal summit in California, during which both countries expressed optimism that the closer personal ties forged between the leaders could stem the mistrust between the world powers.

During the summit, President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, were in broad agreement over the need for North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials.

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AP writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Reports: Retired general target of leaks probe

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to media reports.

Retired Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright has been told he is a target of the probe, NBC News and The Washington Post reported Thursday. A "target" is someone a prosecutor or grand jury has substantial evidence linking to a crime and who is likely to be charged.

The Justice Department referred questions to the U.S. attorney's office in Baltimore, where a spokeswoman, Marcia Murphy, declined to comment.

The investigation of the leak about the Iran cyberattack is one of a number of national security leak investigations that have been started by the Obama administration, including ones involving The Associated Press and Fox News.

In June 2012, the New York Times reported that Cartwright was a crucial player in the cyber operation called Olympic Games, started under President George W. Bush.

Bush reportedly advised President Barack Obama to preserve Olympic Games.

According to the Times, Obama ordered the cyberattacks sped up, and in 2010 an attack using a computer virus called Stuxnet temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges that the Iranians were using to enrich uranium.

Congressional leaders demanded a criminal probe into who leaked the information, and Obama said he had zero tolerance for such leaks. Republicans said senior administration officials had leaked the details to bolster the president's national security credentials during the 2012 campaign.

The Times said Cartwright was one of the crucial players who had to break the news to Obama and Vice President Joe Biden that Stuxnet at one point had escaped onto the Internet.

An element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it out on the Internet, the Times reported. After the worm escaped onto the Internet, top administration officials met to consider whether the program had been fatally compromised.

Obama asked if the program should continue, and after hearing the advice of top advisers, decided to proceed.

Cartwright, a four-star general, was cleared in February 2011 of misconduct involving a young aide. An anonymous accuser had claimed Cartwright acted inappropriately during a 2009 overseas trip on which the aide traveled as a military assistant. Several sources confirmed that the former aide was a young woman.

The Pentagon inspector general quickly cleared Cartwright of the most serious allegations, which involved claims that he may have had an improper physical relationship with the woman. The report did find that Cartwright mishandled an incident in which the aide, drunk and visibly upset, visited his Tbilisi, Georgia, hotel room alone and either passed out or fell asleep on a bench at the foot of his bed. Cartwright denied any impropriety and was later cleared of all wrongdoing.

Cartwright, once considered the leading candidate to become Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, resigned from the military in August 2011.

NBC said Cartwright did not respond to request for comment and that his attorney, former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, said he had no comment.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/reports-retired-general-target-leaks-probe-020959907.html

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Monday, June 24, 2013

President's son says Uganda not a monarchy after succession row

KAMPALA (Reuters) - The son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said he would not inherit power like a monarch, after a general accused Uganda's veteran leader of grooming his son to take over.

But son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who commands an elite military unit, did not rule out standing for election for the post in the future in comments published by his spokesman on Facebook.

Speculation has been growing that Museveni, in office since 1986 and one of Africa's longest serving leaders, is lining up his son to take power at the end of his term in 2016, although some say that, aged 68, the president could continue for years.

The issue, often a subject of private discussion, erupted into a public debate last month when a newspaper published a confidential letter by General David Sejusa referring to a plot to kill those opposing a plan to hand power from father to son.

Now in London, Sejusa accused Museveni of creating a "political monarchy" in a BBC interview.

"He says that he has not declared that he wants to stand for presidency," spokesman to Kainerugaba, Edison Kwesiga, wrote on Facebook. "He says that Uganda is not a monarchy where leadership is passed on from father to son."

"However, he is a Ugandan who qualifies to stand for any elective position of his choice. This would require him to retire from the army, offer himself to the electorate who would either vote him in or choose not to," the spokesman added.

Museveni won international accolades during his early years in office for stabilizing the nation and introducing a raft of economic measures that delivered strong growth.

Critics say he has turned into the kind of African strongman many hoped he had replaced and was cracking down on dissent.

In what critics said was part of another move to silence them, opposition leader Kizza Besigye, repeatedly detained in recent years, was briefly arrested on Thursday over accusations he had held an unsanctioned a rally, a charge an aide denied.

(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Edmund Blair and Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/presidents-son-says-uganda-not-monarchy-succession-row-190942113.html

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Zimmerman jurors begin life in sequestration

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? The six jurors and four alternates who will hear opening statements Monday in George Zimmerman's murder trial are beginning their time together in a sequestered bubble: They won't return to their homes for weeks, contact with family and friends will be limited, and Internet and phone usage is restricted.

Court officials are keeping mum about the details of the jury sequestration, which begins this week. But if past cases are any example, the Zimmerman jurors won't be able to tweet or blog. They'll read only newspapers that have been censored of anything dealing with the case. They will do almost everything together as a group. In their hotel rooms, TV news channels will be inaccessible and landline telephones likely will be removed. Deputies will keep the jurors' cellphones and give them back once a day so they can call loved ones and friends.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys say the sequestration is necessary to eliminate jurors' exposure to outside influences as they consider whether the neighborhood watch volunteer committed murder last year when he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. After spending almost two weeks picking a jury, the attorneys will make opening statements Monday.

"Your contact with the outside world will be severely limited," prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda warned potential jurors last week.

Potential jurors looked surprised and glum as the details sank in. One potential juror, a woman who wasn't picked, asked whether court sessions would be held seven days a week during the trial since jurors weren't going to go home. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson said, "No."

"So everyone else will get to go home on weekends but us?" the potential juror asked.

The judge answered "yes" and tried to reassure potential jurors that they wouldn't be cooped up in hotel rooms when not at the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford. Nelson explained that their meals, transportation and personal needs would be taken care of.

"There will be planned activities for you," the judge said.

The Seminole County's Clerk of Courts has budgeted $150 per person per day to cover room, board and entertainment for the length of the trial, said Maryanne Morse, the clerk. Given that it could last from two weeks to a month, the total cost of sequestration could range from $21,000 to $45,000. That doesn't include the cost of keeping deputies assigned to the group for security.

Court spokeswoman Michelle Kennedy wouldn't comment on the details or logistics of sequestration, or even how jurors will be spend the Fourth of July.

"Their comfort is going to be our top priority," Kennedy said.

A 2007 survey for the National Center for State Courts said that about a quarter of state trials have sequestered juries. But NCSC analyst Gregory Hurley said that number is unreliable since "sequester" wasn't clearly defined, and there was some confusion about its definition. Some respondents defined the term "sequestered" to include deliberations in which the jury was kept together during routine breaks but not overnight.

The six jurors and four alternates in Zimmerman's trial were whittled down from a pool of 40 candidates who had made it into a second round of interviews after questions about their views on firearms, self-defense and crime. The jurors are all women, and the alternates are two men and two women. Their identities are not being released to protect their privacy.

Zimmerman, 29, says he acted in self-defense in shooting Martin in the central Florida community of Sanford, where Zimmerman lived.

Martin's shooting death on Feb. 26, 2012 ? and the initial decision not to charge him ? led to public outrage and demonstrations around the nation, with some accusing Sanford police of failing to thoroughly investigate the shooting.

Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, while a neighborhood watch volunteer for his community, profiled the black teenager as Martin walked back from a convenience store to the home of his father's fiancee. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic.

In 2011, just about 20 miles from the court in Seminole County, the Orange County Courthouse in downtown Orlando sequestered jurors in another high-profile case: the Casey Anthony murder trial. Jurors were sequestered for six weeks in 2011 as they listened to testimony about the young mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter. Anthony was acquitted of murder.

The Anthony jury was almost twice the size of the Zimmerman jury. The trial went on twice as long as the Zimmerman trial is expected to last. In Florida, 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, when the death penalty is on the table if there's a conviction.

In picking a hotel for the Anthony jurors, court officials in Orange County wanted laundry facilities, a gym so jurors could exercise, and a private dining area where they could eat most meals out of the public's view, said courts spokeswoman Karen Levey. When jurors went to local restaurants for lunch or dinner, it was only at places with private dining areas. Televisions were turned off, and newspapers were removed.

Jurors were allowed to watch movie DVDs in their hotel rooms, but the movies had to be approved by prosecutors and defense attorneys. The crime thriller "Primal Fear" didn't make the cut. Neither did Ice Cube's "Are We There Yet?" The cable provider to the hotel reconfigured the televisions in the jurors' hotel rooms to eliminate news programs. But as attention to the trial grew, promotions about trial coverage started popping up on channels that previously had been deemed safe and those also were removed from jurors' selection, Levey said.

By the end of the trial, only one channel remained: the Home Shopping Network.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimmerman-jurors-begin-life-sequestration-134044980.html

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Bulger asks for gag order to be lifted amid trial

BOSTON (AP) ? James "Whitey" Bulger wants to tell his side of the story ? outside the courtroom.

Defense attorneys in Bulger's high-profile racketeering trial filed a motion Saturday saying a gag order is infringing on their client's Constitutional rights of free speech effective assistance of counsel.

The defense asks federal Judge Denise J. Casper to lift the gag order, citing "personal attacks" against their client in the media and "an enormous degree of media attention and public discourse."

"The defendant has no voice in this discourse. He is a prisoner of the federal government," Bulger's attorneys wrote.

"The defendant is a mere bystander in the heated public conversation surrounding his life and trial."

The 83-year-old Bulger is accused of playing a role in 19 murders during the 1970s and '80s while allegedly running the Winter Hill Gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

In a response filed Sunday, prosecutors called Bulger's request strange and note he is free to tell his story by testifying.

Bulger can "exercise his actual voice from the witness stand if he so chooses ? subject of course to cross-examination," prosecutors wrote.

The response notes that Bulger spent considerable time before the trial trying to bar some reporters from the courtroom but now complains he has no voice in the media.

Bulger's attorneys said the gag order should be lifted so their client can more easily respond to negative coverage.

"Prominent local newspapers have launched personal attacks against him on a regular basis," they wrote.

Meanwhile, press conferences involving prosecution witnesses have become a common occurrence, according to Bulger's attorneys, including one featuring a retired Massachusetts State Police colonel, Thomas Foley.

"Colonel Foley was one of the lead investigators pursuing Mr. Bulger and is for all practical purposes a member of the prosecution team," they wrote.

The government's response said lifting the gag order would foster a "carnival atmosphere" during trial. It also noted that the website for Bulger's lead attorney, J.W. Carney Jr., calls him an expert in using enhanced media attention for his client's benefit.

"The jurors in this case have been repeatedly warned by the Court to avoid media accounts of the pending trial," prosecutors wrote. "Yet Bulger's motion essentially seeks to influence the jury by creating positive press coverage ? something the jurors are duty bound to ignore!"

It was not clear when Casper would rule on the request.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bulger-asks-gag-order-lifted-amid-trial-220027289.html

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It's scrap, not trash, and it's also one of America's top exports

International scrap dealers educate our reporter on the language of our leftovers.

By Peter Ford,?Staff Writer / June 19, 2013

One thing you learn quickly if you hang around scrap merchants is not to refer to the materials in which they trade as "trash" or "garbage" or "junk."

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At a recent convention here of the Bureau of International Recycling (essentially the global forum for scrap dealers) I drew some very sharp looks and a reprimand or two before I got the message.

Of course, the traders are right. If scrap was indeed trash it would not be worth anything. And scrap is certainly worth something. In fact, according to a recent Bank of America-Merrill Lynch report, the global waste and recycling business is worth $1 trillion a year. And it could be worth double that by 2020.

"Where there's muck, there's brass," runs an old Yorkshire adage.

People in the know at the conference told me that a lot of the participants were millionaires at least. But they work in the shadows of the world economy, attracting little attention.

Did you know, for example, that trash ? I mean scrap ? was America's top export to China in 2011? (Though maybe not for long, because of new Chinese regulations.)

There is one synonym for "scrap" that its devotees more or less allow ? "waste." But, as I was reminded by Surendra Borad, an Indian businessman whose company, Gemini, handles more scrap plastic than any other firm, "waste is not waste until it is wasted."

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Cat Health Problems Pet Owners Often Overlook (PHOTOS)

From Vetstreet's Dr. Marty Becker:

Cats have a reputation as low-maintenance pets, perfect for people who don?t have the time to care for an animal. That?s not true, of course, but it can be difficult to convince some people otherwise. "Cats take care of themselves," is something I hear a lot, and it makes me wince every time.

What?s largely happening is not that our cats are fending for themselves ? as so many people assume ? but rather that because they?re so good at hiding signs of illness, we don?t realize how sick they are until they?re very sick indeed. And sometimes when I do see cats as a practicing veterinarian, I see not only what people brought them in for ? an abscess, perhaps, or a limp or a chronic cough ? but life-threatening issues the cats' owners hadn't even noticed.

These are serious problems that seem painted in the boldest hues to my eye, yet appear to be invisible to many cat owners. And it happens all the time.

Are You Missing the Big Picture?
Sometimes, even when I point out these problems, cat owners don?t think they?re as important as I do. They may accept my diagnosis, for example, but not follow up or follow through on treatment plans. It really saddens me to think of the misery these cats are in. Don't be guilty of neglecting your cat's health; check out these five feline health problems people don?t worry about as much as they should ? and talk to your veterinarian about any that sound familiar.

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  • Feline Obesity

    Many of us are living in glass houses when it comes to weight (both ours and our pets'), which may be one of the reasons your veterinarian is reluctant to bring it up. And many veterinarians are doubly sensitive when it comes to discussing an overweight pet with an overweight owner, not wanting to hurt any feelings. But you need to take a good look at your cat, and you need to know what you are allowing when you let him get and stay overweight. Let me be blunt: Fat kills. And even when it doesn?t contribute to the development of a disease or condition that leads to euthanasia, it makes your cat?s life miserable.

  • Hyperthyroidism

    You might think it?s wonderful how much energy your senior cat has, but if hyperthyroidism is at the bottom of all this activity, it?s really not a good thing at all. And while obesity is a problem, as I?ve noted, an increase in energy ? coupled with extreme weight loss ? is often due to <a href="http://www.vetstreet.com/dr-marty-becker/my-older-cat-is-losing-weight-should-i-just-feed-her-more" target="_blank">hyperthyroidism</a>, the overproduction of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland. Hyperthyroidism is easily treated or managed, which makes ignoring the symptoms even more tragic for your cat.

  • Urinary Tract Disease

    Litterbox problems are one of the most common reasons why cats are given up for adoption. Many people don?t realize that these problems may stem from health issues, such as infections or stones in the urinary tract, rather than bad behavior. If you think your cat is missing the box ?for no reason? or ?out of spite? or even ?because he?s stupid,? you need to reassess ? and talk with your veterinarian. Don?t give up your cat, and don?t resolve to ?live with? the mess. Find out if an illness is causing the problem, and then take care of the problem. You and your cat will both be happier.

  • Dental Disease

    Letting a cat live with dental disease is nothing less than a form of animal cruelty, in my opinion. That?s because of the constant pain your cat is in: Think about what you go through when you break a single tooth, then imagine having a mouthful of rotted teeth and infected gums. Imagine the pain of trying to eat! A comprehensive dental examination is an essential part of <a href="http://www.vetstreet.com/dr-marty-becker/what-is-stomatitis" target="_blank">diagnosing feline dental problems</a>, which may not be as obvious as those in dogs, in part because cats are so good at hiding signs of pain. Once you know what the problems are, work out a plan for treatment ? which may include extractions ? to end your cat's suffering.

  • Achy-Breaky Joints

    Arthritis may be incurable, but pain from those aching joints can be treated. We understand this when it comes to our own discomfort and pain. When we hurt, we see a doctor and ask for solutions and treatments. Your cat can't tell you where it hurts or ask you to make an appointment with the vet, but I guarantee you she's suffering all the same. The aches and pains of old age can be managed, but only if you talk to your veterinarian.

"Chronic" Doesn?t Mean "Untreatable"
Ongoing problems with your cat?s health sometimes start slowly and get worse over time. In other words, these issues can creep up on us, so we may not pay much attention to them, or we might overlook them entirely. That?s why I want you to step back right now and look at your cat. Be brutally honest: Are you ignoring chronic health issues that are making your cat miserable? Are you sure you aren?t?

If your cat hasn?t seen a veterinarian in a while, it?s time to schedule that comprehensive exam. And take heart: For every one of these often chronic conditions there are things that can be done to stop, treat or even reverse the damage. All you need to do is recognize the problem and work with your veterinarian for your cat?s better health.

Also on Vetstreet:
5 Health Problems Dog Owners Ignore
How Old Is My Pet in People Years?
Looking for a Cuddly Cat? Here Is a Breed You'll Like
Why Does My Cat? Meow at Me?
5 Reasons Cats Are Given Up for Adoption ? and How to Avoid These Problems

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Lenny Dykstra released from prison

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Former All-Star outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been released from a California prison after serving time for bankruptcy fraud.

Dykstra, 50, who had a 12-year career with the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, was freed, according to federal Bureau of Prisons records, but no other details were available. A message left for his attorney Christopher Dybwad was not immediately returned Friday.

Dykstra was sentenced in December to 6 ? months in prison for hiding baseball gloves and other heirlooms from his playing days that were supposed to be part of his bankruptcy filing. He already had served seven months in custody awaiting sentencing.

The prison term ran concurrently with a three-year sentence for pleading no contest to grand theft auto and providing a false financial statement.

Dykstra, who bought a mansion once owned by hockey star Wayne Gretzky, filed for bankruptcy four years ago, claiming he owed more than $31 million and had only $50,000 in assets.

After the filing, Dykstra hid, sold or destroyed at least $200,000 worth of items without the permission of a bankruptcy trustee, prosecutors said.

He pleaded guilty last summer to one count each of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets and money laundering.

Dykstra is now on three years' probation and must complete 500 hours of community service, participate in a substance abuse treatment program and pay $200,000 in restitution.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lenny-dykstra-released-prison-182754350.html

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Obama nominates campaign donors to be ambassadors (Washington Bureau)

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Take a Hypnotic Trip on Tokyo's Automatic Rails

You are not watching CGI. Despite the kaleidoscope of colors and shapes rising from the infinite horizon, this is all real footage of the 12-mile Yurikamome line in Tokyo. Hold onto your butts.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

LA Galaxy 0-0 Portland Timbers: Portland extends unbeaten run to 14 (Goal.com)

Jordan Harvey and Camilo scored goals within 82 seconds of each other in first-half stoppage time to propel the Whitecaps to a 3-1 win over Chivas USA Wednesday night at BC Place.

Jordan Harvey and Camilo scored goals within 82 seconds of each other in first-half stoppage time to propel the Whitecaps to a 3-1 win over Chivas USA Wednesday night at BC Place.

Former Everton star Peter Beagrie welcomes the first round draw of the Capital One Cup and discusses his old club Bradford City's run to the final last term. ?

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HIV-derived antibacterial shows promise against drug-resistant bacteria

June 19, 2013 ? A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has developed antibacterial compounds, derived from the outer coating of HIV, that could be potential treatments for drug-resistant bacterial infections and appear to avoid generating resistance. These new agents are quite small, making them inexpensive and easy to manufacture.

The research was published in the June 2013 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

The first of many probable applications will likely be the chronic bacterial infections in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients "that frequently develop resistance to all standard antibiotics, and are the leading cause of death in these patients," says senior author Ronald Montelaro.

The lead compound shows powerful antibacterial activity against clinical isolates of diverse pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to most antibiotics. These agents, called engineered cationic antimicrobial peptides (eCAPs) "may be applicable to treatment of other respiratory infections, topical infections, and systemic infections," says Montelaro.

The genesis of the new agent was basic research on HIV envelope protein structure and function, says Montelaro. As part of this research, "we identified highly conserved unique protein sequences that were predicted by computer modeling to assume structures characteristic of natural antibacterial peptides. Since antibacterial peptides specifically target and disrupt the integrity and function of bacterial membranes, we thought that these similar peptide sequences in the HIV envelope protein might contribute to toxicity and death in infected cells by altering cell membranes."

The team engineered the original HIV peptides for greater effectiveness and smaller size, the latter to reduce manufacturing expenses. The engineering involved modifying amino acid content (they contain just two different amino acids), peptide length, charge, and hydrophobicity. The current paper describes the third generation peptides. The lead agent contains just 12 amino acid residues.

"Another potential application is biodefense, where eCAPs may be used as a rapid postexposure aerosol treatment in individuals after exposure to aerosolized pathogens, where the goal of immediate treatment would be to rapidly reduce bacterial dose from a lethal to a nonlethal or subclinical level," says Montelaro.

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Obama to renew calls for nuclear reductions

BERLIN (AP) ? President Barack Obama will renew his call Wednesday to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, the White House said.

Obama will make his case during a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. His address comes nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous Cold War speech in this once-divided city.

The president has previously called for reductions to the stockpiles and is not expected to outline a timeline for this renewed push. But by addressing the issue in a major foreign policy speech, Obama is signaling a desire to rekindle an issue that was a centerpiece of his early first-term national security agenda.

The president discussed non-proliferation with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they met Monday on the sidelines of the Group of 8 summit in Northern Ireland. During Obama's first term, the U.S. and Russia agreed to limit their stockpiles to 1,550 as part of the New START Treaty.

It's unclear whether Obama will seek further reductions through a new treaty or a non-binding agreement that would not require congressional ratification. Republicans on Capitol Hill are likely to resist any further cuts to the U.S. stockpiles.

The Arms Control Association, a Washington-based policy group, urged Obama not to wait for a formal treaty, arguing the U.S. and Russian leaders could move more quickly by taking parallel steps to reduce warheads.

"Today's address is a good start but it is only a beginning," said Daryl Kimball, the group's executive director. "In the months ahead, President Obama must sustain the nuclear risk reduction enterprise and overcome petty partisan politics to help address today's grave nuclear challenges."

Obama's calls for cooperation with Moscow come at a time of tension between the U.S. and Russia, which are supporting opposite sides in Syria's civil war. Russia also remains wary of U.S. missile defense plans in Europe, despite U.S. assurances that the shield is not aimed at Moscow.

Also in Wednesday's speech in Berlin, Obama will press Congress to pass a nuclear test ban treaty, the White House said, seeking to revive an effort that has stalled in recent years.

Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, is a strong advocate of nuclear disarmament and has long called for the removal of the last U.S. nuclear weapons from German territory, a legacy of the Cold War. The Buechel Air Base in western Germany is one of a few remaining sites in Europe where they are based.

Under an agreement drawn up when they formed a coalition government in 2009, Merkel's conservatives and Westerwelle's Free Democratic Party agreed to press NATO and Washington for the nuclear weapons to be withdrawn, but did not set any timeframe.

Nuclear stockpile numbers are closely guarded secrets in most nations that possess them, but private nuclear policy experts say no countries other than the U.S. and Russia are thought to have more than 300. The Federation of American Scientists estimates that France has about 300, China about 240, Britain about 225, and Israel, India and Pakistan roughly 100 each.

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Associated Press writer Frank Jordans contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-renew-calls-nuclear-reductions-052502414.html

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Twitter Buys Boston-Based Spindle, Team Heading to S.F.

Curt Woodward6/19/13

Twitter?s gone shopping in Boston again.

Spindle, a Boston-based startup that culls social-media messages to give consumers a view of what?s happening nearby, announced today that it has been acquired by Twitter.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It appears to be a ?talent acquisition,? since the Spindle service is shutting down and its team relocating to San Francisco.

Spindle had raised $2.3 million in seed funding?from a long list of investors:?Polaris Ventures, Greylock Partners, Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, Atlas Ventures, Broad Beach Ventures, and Project 11, along with former Microsoft technical chief Ray Ozzie and Raman Narayanan.

Twitter?s other two Boston-area acquisitions?advertising data service Bluefin Labs and mobile-app analytics startup Crashlytics?have both stayed in Boston, forming the basis of Twitter?s office here. We reported that Twitter spent more than $100 million (in cash and stock) for Crashlytics, and around $100 million for Bluefin Labs.

Spindle was founded by former Microsoft employees, including CEO Pat Kinsel. The startup was among the?software companies trying to perfect local search on mobile devices by tapping into the flood of information being generated by companies and everyday people.

At the base of this problem is a pretty basic behavior for the smartphone age: A consumer whipping out their sensor-laden mobile device, trying to figure out where to eat or what to do for fun when they?re out on the town.

Nobody?s really hit on the solution yet, although some big names have tried for years?Google, Foursquare, Yelp, Facebook, and quite a few startups. By buying Spindle, you can assume that Twitter is hoping to get more serious about local search, too.

?By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, timely, and useful information about what?s happening around you,? Spindle said in its blog post.

Earlier this year, CEO Kinsel told me that Spindle believed its technology was solid enough to create plenty more applications beyond aggregating social-media streams for mobile users. ?We really believe strongly in this app. But on the technology side, we?re trying to do much more,? Kinsel said.

Curt Woodward is a senior editor for Xconomy based in Boston. Email: cwoodward@xconomy.com

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