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This March 2010 photo provided by Emory University shows Liz Milewicz, former project manager for African-Origins. Researchers using audio recordings of names found in Courts of Mixed Commission records for Havana, Cuba, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, to identify their likely ethno-linguistic origins, at Emory University in Atlanta. The recordings helped connect the sound of the name to its spelling, enabling a more accurate assessment of the name's possible ethnic origins. (AP Photo/Emory University, Bryan Meltz)
This March 2010 photo provided by Emory University shows Liz Milewicz, former project manager for African-Origins. Researchers using audio recordings of names found in Courts of Mixed Commission records for Havana, Cuba, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, to identify their likely ethno-linguistic origins, at Emory University in Atlanta. The recordings helped connect the sound of the name to its spelling, enabling a more accurate assessment of the name's possible ethnic origins. (AP Photo/Emory University, Bryan Meltz)
In this March 2010 photo, provided by Emory University, Nafees Khan, project manager for African-Origins, right, and Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Central Africa consultant and Portuguese translator for the project, review the audio recordings of African names on the site at Emory University in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Emory University, Bryan Meltz)
In this March 2010 photo, provided by Emory University, Nafees Khan, project manager for African-Origins, listens to the audio recordings of names found in Courts of Mixed Commission records for Havana, Cuba, and Freetown, Sierra Leone, to identify their likely ethno-linguistic origins at Emory University in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Emory University, Bryan Meltz)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All they share is a name. But that is exactly the commonality that Emory University researchers hope to build upon as they delve into the origins of Africans who were taken up and sold.
They have built an online database around those names, and welcome input from people who may share a name that's in the database, or have such names as part of their family lore.
"The whole point of the project is to ask the African diaspora, people with any African background, to help us identify the names because the names are so ethno-linguistically specific, we can actually locate the region in Africa to which the individual belonged on the basis of the name," said David Eltis, an Emory University history professor who heads the database research team.
So far, two men named Obama sit among some 9,500 captured Africans whose names were written on line after line in the registries of obscure, 19th century slave trafficking courts. The courts processed the human chattel freed from ships that were intercepted and detoured to Havana, Cuba or Freetown, Sierra Leone. Most of the millions of Africans enslaved before 1807 were known only by numbers, said James Walvin, an expert on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Once bought by slave owners, the Africans' names were lost. Africans captured by the Portuguese were baptized and given "Christian" names aboard the ships that were taking them into slavery.
But original African names ? surnames were uncommon for Africans in the 19th century ? are rich with information. Some reveal the day of the week an individual was born or whether that individual was the oldest, youngest or middle child or a twin. They can also reveal ethnic or linguistic groups.
The president's father was from Kenya, on the eastern coast of Africa, and Eltis said it was rare for captives to hail from areas far from the port where their ships set sail. The unidentified Obamas on the slave ships sailed from west Africa. Walvin, author of "The Zong," a book about the slave trade, said there were Africans who had been brought great distances before they were forced onto ships.
"Often their enslavement had begun much earlier, deep in the African interior, most of them captured through acts of violence, warfare or kidnap, or for criminal activity ..." Walvin said in his book, which chronicles the true story of a captain who ordered a third of the slaves aboard his ship thrown overboard due to a shortage of drinking water.
Obama's ancestors, a nomadic people known as the River Lake Nilotes, migrated from Bahr-el-Ghazal Province in Sudan toward Uganda and into Western Kenya, according to Sally Jacobs, author of "The Other Barack", a book about the president's father. They were part of several clans and subclans that eventually became the Luo people of Kenya, Jacobs writes.
The president's great-grandfather's name was Obama. Obama is derived from the word "bam", meaning crooked or indirect, she said in her book.
But it's also possible that Obama was a name used by other cultural groups in Africa and for whom the name had a different meaning.
The slaves found aboard intercepted ships provided their names, age and sometimes where they were from, through translators, to English and Spanish speaking court registrars who wrote their names as they sounded to them.
Body scars or identifying marks also were recorded. The details were logged in an attempt to prevent the Africans from being enslaved again, which didn't always work.
Emory's researchers are including audio clips of the names as they would likely be pronounced in Africa.
"These people enslaved were not just a nebulous group of people with no place and no name," said Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson, one of the researchers, who has found variations of his name, his brother's and his children's names in the database. He is originally from Ghana. "That's how lot of us view slavery. We don't have names faces to go with it ... It makes them that much more removed from us."
Eltis and his researchers acknowledge the database may not help African Americans with genealogical research because records on the Africans once they were freed from the ships are harder to find, if they exist at all.
However, the project provides another piece in a major jigsaw, and helps put together a bigger picture on slavery, Walvin said.
Before this project, Eltis and others assembled a database of 35,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages responsible for the flow of more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.
Together, the two databases provide some details on the horrific voyages of the Africans, including the Obamas.
The Xerxes, which carried one of the unidentified Obamas, was a 138-foot schooner that began its voyage in Havana with a crew of 44. Five guns were mounted aboard when the ship left on a slave purchasing trip to Bonny on Feb. 10, 1828.
Sailing under the Spanish flag, the ship's captain Felipe Rebel purchased 429 slaves, nearly one third of them children, before setting out on a return trip to the Americas. But on June 26, 1828, the Xerxes was intercepted and forced to dock at an unknown Cuban port. By then, 26 slaves had died.
The other unidentified Obama, 6-foot-3-inches tall, was one of 562 Africans shackled in the belly of the Midas. The vessel was a Brig, a fast, maneuverable ship with two square-rigged masts. It was equipped with eight guns.
Midas' captain J. Martinez and a crew of 53 left Cuba on an unknown date. It left Bonny with 562 slaves but was intercepted. It docked in Cuba July 8, 1829 minus 162 slaves who had died during the voyage.
Some slaves freed from seized ships were returned to Africa, but not always to their original homelands. Some were sent to Liberia or were allowed to remain free in the cities where the courts were located. Some may have been re-enslaved and some died on ships that were returning them to Africa.
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Syrian army tanks in the background as a group of Arab League observers tour the flashpoint central city of Homs on December 27, 2011.
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Teams of Arab League observers begin visiting?three more Syrian cities on Thursday, following controversy when their leader said he had seen "nothing frightening" during an initial trip to the heavily-attacked hotspot of Homs.
The mission, the first international involvement on the ground in Syria since the revolt began last March, is checking?whether government forces are complying with a peace plan following the nine-month uprising against President Bashar Assad.
The observers briefly visited Homs on Tuesday then returned to Wednesday with a Syrian government escort, to the dismay of demonstrators who mobbed their car.
The observers' leader, Sudanese General Mustafa Dabi, initially told Reuters they had seen "nothing frightening" during their visit -- a comment decried by activists who said Homs had been the epicenter of deadly clashes between the Syrian army and rebels.
Human rights campaigners say Dabi is an inappropriate choice to lead the mission, as he?has been?linked to genocide in Sudan for which that country's president is sought by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
Dabi later said he needed more time to make an assessment of the city, which was bombarded by government forces in the days before the visit.
His teams went back to Baba Amr district, one of the worst-hit, to see shattered houses and hear from people who have lost friends and relatives. One family showed them a dead boy, putting his body on the hood of the mission's car.
Images obtained by The Associated Press from the city in the days leading up to the monitors' visit show army defectors inside a bombed-out building, firing machine guns through gaping holes in a wall.
In another, a huge crowd fills the street for a night-time rally behind a giant banner of the uprising's revolutionary flag. A row of women wear the flags and a large sign overhead reads: "All the doors are closed except your door, God."
There are also photos of wounded civilians lying on a floor in pools of blood, and being treated with crude medical equipment. Another shows an alleyway with blood smeared on a wall and pooled on the ground.
The observers on Thursday will visit Deraa, Hama and Idlib, all cities where anti-Assad demonstrations have been violently repressed.
Opposition activists say the government will play for time and bend the mission to its own ends. But Washington urged them to give Dabi a chance.
"We need let this mission get up and running, let them do their job and then let them give their judgment," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in Washington.
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Unless it can establish its credibility by proving it has unobstructed access to all areas and is able to hear uncensored accounts, the Arab League mission may not be able to satisfy all sides that it can make an objective assessment of the crisis.
Most of the 5,000 or more people estimated by the United Nations to have been killed in Syria since March have lost their lives in Homs, to machine gun fire, sniper bullets, mortar blasts and tank shelling, or torture.
What began with peaceful mass protests against Assad has turned into an armed insurrection as thousands of army defectors formed the Syrian Free Army and attacked military and police convoys, bases and checkpoints.
A video shot by rebels showed the ambush of a security forces convoy on Wednesday by eight gunmen who opened fire from a rootfop.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four soldiers were killed in the attack by rebel troops on a road near the southern village of Dael in Deraa province, cradle of the revolt.
Assad says he is combating Islamic terrorism steered from abroad. He says more than 2,000 security personnel have been killed.
Syria resisted outside involvement for months but yielded to pressure from fellow members of the 22-state Arab League last month, agreeing to let the monitors in to witness a withdrawal of forces from the turbulent cities.
But the killing did not stop, before and during the first two days of the monitoring mission, and opposition activists predict it will not cease after the observers are gone in a month. About 200 observers will deploy to witness and interview victims of violence scattered across the country of 23 million.
Amateur video appears to show government trucks leaving Homs, Syria following several days of violence. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
The West has demanded that Assad step down but Russia and China oppose intervention. Syria also has the backing of Iran.
Assad, increasingly isolated, has lost the trust of his neighbor Turkey, which has called for him to quit and which allows the rebel army to launch attacks from its territory.
On Wednesday, the government released 755 prisoners following a report by Human Rights Watch accusing authorities of hiding hundreds of detainees from the monitors. It was the second concession in two days.
Reuters, The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff?contributed to this report.
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FRANKFURT, Germany ? After a turbulent 2011, the 17 countries that use the euro will be quickly confronted in the new year with major hurdles to solving their government debt crisis, just as the eurozone economy is expected to sink back into recession.
With government finances under pressure as growth wanes, the eurozone will find it even more difficult to shore up shaky banks and reduce the high borrowing costs that threaten Italy and Spain with financial ruin.
As early as the second full week of January, bond auctions in which Italy and Spain need to borrow big chunks of cash will start showing whether the eurozone is finally getting a grip on the 2-year-old crisis that has seen Greece, Ireland and Portugal bailed out.
If the auctions go well and borrowing costs ease, the crisis will ease, lending support for the EU strategy of getting governments to embark on often-savage austerity measures to reduce deficits, along with massive support for the banking system from the European Central Bank.
High rates, on the other hand, would feed fears of a government debt default that could cripple banks, sink the economy and, in the extreme case, destroy the 17-member currency union.
Key events early in the New Year:
? Italy and Spain will seek to borrow heavily in the first quarter at affordable interest costs, starting the second week in January.
? The slowing eurozone economy may slip into or already be in recession, lowering tax revenue and increasing government budget deficits.
? Bailed-out Greece must agree with creditors on a debt writedown that will cut the value of their holdings by 50 percent in an effort to start putting the bankrupt country back on its feet.
The task is for the major players ? eurozone governments, the European Union's executive Commission and the European Central Bank ? to convince financial markets that troubled governments can pay their heavy debts and therefore deserve to borrow at affordable interest costs.
Default fears have driven up bond market interest rates and made it more and more expensive for indebted governments to borrow to pay off maturing bonds. That vicious cycle forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailout loans from the other eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund.
A key stress point will be whether Italy can continue to raise money in the markets at affordable rates.
In the first quarter, it has to step up its borrowing to pay off euro72 billion ($94 billion) in bond redemptions and interest payments. Spain, which is expected to sell up to euro25 billion ($33 billion) in new debt, starts a heavy period of auctions on Jan. 12, and Italy begins on Jan. 13.
Overall, Italy has more than euro300 billion ($392 billion) in debt maturing in 2012.
"If Italy manages to auction this debt successfully, then the debt crisis will take a step back from the cliff edge," said analyst Jane Foley at Rabobank. "If it doesn't, it could go over the cliff edge. At the end of the day, whatever the nuances and hours of discussion that have gone on about the sovereign debt crisis, it boils down to whether a sovereign can sell its debt in the open market."
If Italy fails to borrow at affordable rates, the options are few and unattractive. The eurozone's euro500 billion ($653 billion) in bailout funds ? already partly committed to earlier bailouts ? would struggle to cover Italy's financing needs, even if additional help can be found from the IMF. A bigger solution ? commonly guaranteed eurobonds ? faces German resistance and would take time to implement.
The European Central Bank could use its power to buy large amounts of Italian and Spanish bonds with newly created money ? but has so far refused, out of concern that a central bank bailout would remove the incentive for governments to control their spending.
Instead, the bank has focused on pushing credit to banks so they can keep lending to support the economy.
Still, its limited bond purchases have provided essential support to Spain and Italy by helping hold down borrowing costs. And its latest massive infusion of euro489 billion ($639 billion) in cheap, long term loans may help troubled governments borrow, as stronger banks may use some of the money to buy higher-yielding government bonds.
Italy pays an average of about 4.2 percent on its existing stock of euro1.9 trillion in debt, but the crisis has pushed bond yields on the country's benchmark ten-year bonds to over 7 percent.
Italy's new government, led by economist Mario Monti, can probably pay rates that high for a while, analysts think. Italy paid much higher interest rates in the 1990s for several years; rates peaked at 14 percent in 1992 but fell gradually to around 4 percent by 1998 as the country shaped up its finances to join the euro at the beginning of 1999.
Italy and Spain's battle will be even harder if the debt troubles pull the whole eurozone into a recession. Economists at Ernst & Young foresee a mild recession in the first part of the year and only 0.1 percent growth for the year as a whole, with unemployment at 10 percent for several years.
That will make it harder for governments to persuade voters to accept more cutbacks in spending, pensions and government wages while raising taxes.
It's not clear how long voters in Greece, which will have its fourth straight year of recession next year, will tolerate continuous austerity. Yet the cutbacks are the price of getting the bailout loans that have kept Greece from default.
Meanwhile Greece is striving to get creditors to agree to write down some debt and avoid larger losses in case of a default that is not agreed ahead of time. A euro14.4 billion ($18.8 billion) chunk of debt comes due in March.
Guntram Wolff, deputy director of the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, said that governments may get past the early hurdles ? only to confront a souring mood among voters in the second half of the year over continuing cutbacks and sacrifices. New governments in Spain and Italy, currently enjoying political honeymoons, will be pressed to show progress. Greece, with a transitional government and elections expected in April, has seen repeated protests and strikes.
"There will be a point in the summer when people have seen a lot of action from government and no improvement in their living conditions and they will ask, do we have this euro to live with austerity and high unemployment," he said.
Wolff thinks that the determination of political elites to keep the euro together will win out: "I think it's going to survive."
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New York ? Could the biggest anti-Putin demonstrations yet signal the end of the Russian strongman's domination of his country's politics?
Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Moscow over the weekend ? chanting "Russia without Putin!" ? in the biggest opposition demonstrations since Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rose to power 12 years ago. The protest movement has been building since early December, when rival parties accused Putin's United Russia of cheating to win parliamentary elections. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet-era premier, joined the protesters' call for a re-vote, and now says Putin, who has already twice served as president, should get out of politics instead of running for the presidency again next year. Could this really spell the end of Putin's political career?
This is the beginning of the end for Putin: Russia's "love-affair" with Putin is turning "into hate," Alexander Konovalov of the Institute of Strategic Assessment tells Agence France Presse. He still can win the March presidential elections, but his heavy-handed style has lost all legitimacy. Since he's clearly unwilling to heed calls for real democratic reforms, he won't "survive one presidential term, let alone two."
"Russia's 'love affair' with Putin ending: analysts"
Don't believe the anti-Putin hype: "Street protests are nothing new in Putin's Russia," says Kirill Nourzhanov in the Canberra, Aust., Times. As always, he'll deal with these expressions of popular discontent with "a mixture of dialogue, policy change, and repression." This "guided democracy" is "nowhere near as authoritarian, stagnant, and inflexible as its detractors say" ? otherwise Putin would not remain the country's "most popular politician," and a shoe-in to win another six-year term as president.
"Russia won't have a revolution"
The street needs a revolutionary leader to win: "The street will very rarely succeed without icons, like Vaclav Havel, who can speak with legitimacy," says Brian Till at The Atlantic, "and sit down with the ruling regime to negotiate" with the opposition's full weight behind him or her. So far, the Russian protesters don't have such a galvanizing standard-bearer. So the nation remains Putin's, "and will until someone takes it from him."
"Could revolution come to Putin's Russia?"
Putin's fate is in his own hands: Putin is "increasingly out of touch with the masses," says Guy Faulconbridge at Reuters, and he only makes things worse by insisting that the protesters are "pawns financed by a foreign power." Even longtime political allies recognize that it will take "serious political reforms" for Russia to have stability. Putin can allow true democracy, or face a revolution. The choice is his.
"Analysis: Russia's Putin risks losing touch amid protests"
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MEXICO CITY?? Medical officials say five recovering drug addicts died and dozens of others were sickened by soy sausage served for Christmas dinner at a rehabilitation center in western Mexico.
Authorities were investigating whether the poisoning at the center in the city of Guadalajara was accidental or intentional. Drug cartels have taken over rehabilitation centers in parts of Mexico, forcibly recruiting addicts as hit men and smugglers. The invasions have led to mass shootings at the centers that have left dozens dead.
Alhy Daniel Nunez is a spokesman for the Red Cross in the western state of Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located. He said Monday that 37 people remained hospitalized, three of them in serious condition.
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Henry Barthe said the blessing before his fellow volunteers started serving a full-course Christmas meal at Union Mission?s Grace House shelter to those in need on Sunday. Barthe, who moved to Savannah from Pittsburgh after retiring in 1992, said he volunteered because he wanted to help others. ?But for the grace of God, you and I could be sitting out there,? he said. Volunteers Cheryl Hunt and Kayla Huggins then began passing out trays of food, donated by Gulfstream, to a line of homeless and unemployed. Huggins said she was not able to visit her family, who live out of state, so she decided to lend a hand. Joining them in the kitchen were Boston residents Paul and Wendy Feldman, who decided to help out by washing dishes and doling out desserts during their five-day vacation in Savannah. Someone had told them about the dinner at Temple Mickve Israel on Friday night. ?We wanted to give back to the community,? Paul Feldman said. Anthony Mouzon, who said he has been homeless for about 12 years, was one of the first to sit down with a tray of turkey, green beans, mashed potatoes, stuffing and pecan pie. ?I always come on Thanksgiving and Christmas,? Mouzon said. Many of those eating had their attention on the flat-screen television mounted high on the wall that was showing the Miami-Dallas basketball game. Tony Wiggins, 53, was rooting for the Mavericks because he lived in Dallas for about six years ? where his wife and three adult ...
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Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released.
"It is a terrible, terrible day for the city of Stamford," Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia told reporters at a news briefing at the scene of the fire. "There probably has not been a worse Christmas day in the city of Stamford."
Acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte said attempts by firefighters to rescue the house's occupants were pushed back by intense flames and heat.
He said fire officials do not yet know the cause of the blaze and will not likely get clues for a few days until fire marshals can enter the house "and figure out what happened."
Conte said he did not know the conditions of the two survivors.
"We had our hands full from the moment we arrived on the scene," he said.
A neighbor, Sam Cingari Jr., said he was awakened by the sound of screaming and that the house was entirely engulfed by flames.
"We heard this screaming at 5 in the morning," he said. "The whole house was ablaze and I mean ablaze."
Cingari says he does not know his neighbors, who he said bought the house last year and were renovating it. Power also was out in the neighborhood, he said.
Charles Mangano, who lives near the scene, told The Advocate of Stamford he saw a barefoot man wearing boxers and a woman being led out of the house.
The woman said, "`My whole life is in there,"' he said. "They were both obviously in a state of shock."
The 3,349-square foot, five-bedroom home sold for $1.7 million in December 2010, according to the Stamford assessment office's website. It's located in Shippan Point, a neighborhood that juts into Long Island Sound.
Tony Low-Beer, another neighbor, said he was awakened by a neighbor after 4 a.m. who told him about a "raging fire" next door.
"Cinders were flying all over the place," he told The Associated Press.
He said he secured his three dogs and put his iguana in a carrying case because he was concerned he might have to evacuate. As of Sunday afternoon, he was still at his home.
Stamford, a city of 117,000 residents, is about 25 miles northeast of New York City.
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Delhi 71, Hilmar 66
Hilmar 17 12 21 16 ? 66
Delhi 12 22 16 17 ? 71
Hilmar ? O'Brien 7, McFaddin 29, Barros 13, Burke 2, Jericoff 5, Tyler 5, Mattos 5
Delhi ? Ramirez 13, Hernandez 28, Vargas 6, Quimbao 20, Santana 4
3-pointers ? Hilmar 4 (Barros 3, McFaddin), Delhi 5 (Hernandez 2, Quimbao 2, Ramirez). Total Fouls ? Hilmar 21, Delhi 15. Fouled Out ? O'Brien (Hilmar)
JV: Hilmar won. Frosh: Hilmar won
Oakdale 63, Pacheco 38
Pacheco 10 9 8 11 ? 38
Oakdale 16 24 17 6 ? 63
Pacheco ? Dominique 1, Tavron 3, Lakhan 8, Edgar 12, Daniel 2, LeAndre 8, Austin 2, Paul 2. Totals: 9 5-8 38
Oakdale ? Vincent Fauria 2, DeWayne Finney 16, Josh Watts 6, Manny Hernandez 12, Marcus Hernandez 9, Nathan Van Ryn 10, Justin Martinez 8. Totals: 28 7-10 63
3-pointers ? Pacheco 5 (Tavron, Lakhan 2, Edgar 2).
Patterson 59, Hughson 42
Patterson 20 12 15 12 ? 59
Hughson 16 11 8 7 ? 42
Patterson (7-2) ? Sanchez 15, Cortez 6, Dinu 5, Lemon 6, Pressley 5, Williams 12, Job 10.
Hughson (3-7) ? Austin Pimentel 6, Trent Damas 2, Hayden Genzoli 5, Jorge Ayala 8, Dyllon Sill 4, Julian Farhoud 3, A.J. Rose 9, David Lopez 5
3-pointers ? Patterson 2 (Sanchez, Williams), Hughson 4 (Pimentel 2, Genzoli, Ayala)
Championship Bracket
West 80, Enochs 46
Enochs 12 13 10 11 ? 46
West 24 14 22 20 ? 80
Enochs (4-8) ? Jake Borges 9, Kaden Johnson 8, Jimmy Ifeanyi 6, Gavin Weltmer 6, James Lee 4, Efrem Grimes 4, Curtis Porter 4, Jozef Whitehurst 2, Austin Grant 2, Brian Reinhardt 1. Totals 17 12-18 46.
West (9-2) ? Jordan McIntosh 27, Jaylen Sanders 10, Robert Mason 8, Damon Sloan 7, Kenneth Daye 6, Abraham Graham 4, Kenny Silva 3, DeAndre Thomas 3, DeAndre Thompson 3, Hayden Ordone 3, Michael Young 2, Justin Saar 2, Ernest Turner 2. Totals 29 12-18 80.
3-pointers ? Enochs 0, West 10 (McIntosh 4, Sanders 2, Sloan, Silva, Thomas, Ordone). Total fouls ? Enochs 15, West 21.
Consolation Bracket
Los Banos 45, Livingston 31
Livingston 6 8 4 13 ? 31
Los Banos 13 18 4 10 ? 45
Livingston (3-9) ? Gavin Abraham 10, Aaron Calderon 6, Gabe Deol 6, Luis Santa Cruz 3, Manvir Singh 3, Brian Perez 3, Kujit Atwal 2. Totals 13 2-8 31.
Los Banos (7-2) ? Dylan Soares 10, Jake Martin 9, Tommy Wright 8, Gary Dunn 6, Garrett Guilford 4, Joey Bennett 3, Tramane Moore 2, Jourdan Grissom 2, Javier Garcia 1. Totals 18 7-14 45.
3-pointers ? Livingston 3 (Santa Cruz, Singh, Perez), Los Banos 2 (Martin, Bennett). Total fouls ? Livingston 16, Los Banos 13. Fouled out ? David Mercado (Liv)
Central Valley 78, Delta Charter 59
Central Valley 19 25 12 18 ? 78
Delta Charter 12 15 17 15 ? 59
Central Valley (3-7) ? Diego Sanchez 17, Miguel Rodriguiz 17, Jordan Sek 11, Jaron Dickson 10, Camron Thornton 10, Hawk Duarte 6, Jaquan Gardner 4, Salvador Venegas 3. Totals 30 13-28 78.
Delta Charter (0-9) ? Chris Woods 32, Corey McClendon 20, Torian Montalvo 4, Jordan Thornton 2, DeAndre Ragsdale 1. Totals 24 2-12 59.
3-pointers ? Central Valley 5 (Dickson 2, Venegas, Duarte, Sanchez), Delta Charter 3 (McClendon 2, Woods). Total fouls ? Central Valley 14, Delta Charter 24. Fouled out ? Thornton.
Johansen 65, Franklin 52
Johansen 14 24 12 15 ? 65
Franklin 16 9 11 16 ? 52
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) ? Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused France of genocide in Algeria in the 1940s and 50s, in his latest response to a French parliament vote to make it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey was genocide.
Erdogan also said President Nicolas Sarkozy's father might have direct knowledge about French "massacres" in Algeria.
"In Algeria from 1945, an estimated 15 percent of the population was massacred by the French. This is a genocide," Erdogan said on live television.
"If the French President Mr Sarkozy doesn't know about this genocide he should go and ask his father, Paul Sarkozy.
"His father served in the French Legion in Algeria in the 1940s. I am sure he would have lots to tell his son about the French massacres in Algeria," the Turkish premier said.
Parliamentarians in France's lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a draft law outlawing genocide denial Thursday, which the Senate will debate next year.
If passed, the bill would make it illegal to deny the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide. The issue has caused outrage in Turkey, which argues killings took place on all sides during a fierce partisan conflict.
Erdogan condemned the bill shortly after the vote, recalled Ankara's ambassador to France for consultations and cancelled all joint economic, political and military meetings. Friday, he vowed to take more steps.
"We will take gradual measures as long as the current (French) attitude is maintained," he said, without elaborating.
"The vote in the French parliament has shown how dangerous racism, discrimination and Islamophobia have become in France and Europe."
Although nearly a century has passed since the killings in the middle of World War One, successive Turkish governments and the vast majority of Turks feel the charge of Armenian genocide is an insult to their nation.
(Reporting by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ? The owner of an exotic game reserve in South Africa has taking a drastic step in a bid to prevent rhino poaching: he has injected his rhinos' horns with poison.
Damian Vergnaud, owner of?Inverdoorn reserve near Cape Town, said he approached scientists and a vet to work towards finding a substance that would deter poachers.
A record number of rhinos have been killed for their horns this year in South Africa, which has more rhinos than any other country.?The poaching is fueled by demand for rhino horns in Vietnam?and other Asian countries, where they are used in traditional medicine despite the fact that experts say they have no medicinal value.
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Vergnaud told the South African Press Association that he decided not to dehorn his rhinos, like some game reserves have done, because it is "very painful" and "traumatizing" for the animals.
"I really wanted to create a different defense system," he told SAPA.
In tests,?Vergnaud injected his rhinos' horns with ?a combination of three non-lethal substances: one with a terrible taste, one to make a horn visible on an X-ray machine, and one that is a dye, the same dye used to foil cash-in-transit robbers.?
"We hope that it will inform poachers, it [poaching at the reserve] is going to be a waste of time," Vergnaud said.
Vergnaud has offered to share his home-brewed poacher repellent with other game reserve owners looking to protect this endangered animal.
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It's the week of Prometheus! While Fox appears to have successfully pulled the bootlegged trailer offline, Empire Magazine has landed an exclusive new photo that depicts Michael Fassbender as what they call "a paranoid android".
"Ridley Scott, director of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner,' returns to the genre he helped define. With 'Prometheus', he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race."
In theaters June 8 (shot in 3-D nonetheless!), Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Guy Pearce, Kate Dickie, Rafe Spall, Logan Marshall-Green, Benedict Wong, Emun Elliott, Ben Foster, Patrick Wilson all star.
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During the handful of visits that Kim Jong Il made to Russia throughout his life, he never once stopped by his birthplace, the dirt-road village of Vyatskoye in the Russian Far East. Frozen for much of the year and reduced now to a population of mostly geriatric farmers, the village lies a short train ride from Russia's border with North Korea, the hermit state Kim ruled for 17 years until his death this Saturday, Dec. 17. According to Soviet records, Kim was born there as Yury Irsenovich Kim, the son of a rank and file officer of the Red Army, Kim Il-Sung, whom Stalin later nominated to lead North Korea.
"When we were alone together, of course we talked about the place of his birth," says Konstantin Pulikovsky, the Kremlin's former envoy to the Far East, who would escort Kim during the visits he made to Russia on his armored train. "I told him a bit about it. I told him that his father's house is preserved and that many of the villagers remember him. He listened carefully and never denied a thing. But he asked me never to publicize it, and he never asked to go there," Pulikovsky tells TIME. (See photos: "Mourning the Dear Leader.")
Publicizing Kim's beginnings, especially with a visit from the North Korean tyrant himself, would risk shattering the lie that the Kim family has been telling its subjects for decades. As the official legend has it, Kim was born atop a sacred mountain in Japanese-occupied North Korea, under a double rainbow that rose to greet the infant Kim and a new star that began shining in the sky. "This was all hogwash, of course," says Pulikovsky. "It was meant for internal consumption, and we respected that."
The real story of Kim's birth, however, seemed to be at the root of the personal and political connection he always felt toward Russia, one of the few allies that North Korea kept through its decades of isolation. Kim's last foreign visit, which he made on his armored train this August, just a few months before his death, was to Siberia, where he met with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. It was seen as Kim's latest effort to balance against China's influence by nuzzling up to Moscow, and at the time, Kim was also busy grooming his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to succeed him. Many Russian officials expected Kim to bring his heir along to help ensure that the bond between the two countries would not be broken after Kim's death.
But he did not, and the future of that relationship, like so much of North Korea's future, is now up in the air. Pulikovsky, who formed a closer friendship with Kim than any other Russian official in modern times ("We are both Aquarius, so we would always call to say happy birthday and try to meet up."), only met Kim's youngest son once, during a holiday he took with his family to Pyongyang a few years ago. The older Kim introduced him as his heir, Pulikovsky recalls, "But the boy didn't say a word." (See "The Koreas: To Reunify or Not?")
Kim Jong Un's personality, and even his exact birth date, remains a mystery, while Korea watchers have harped on his reported love of American basketball to suggest that he might take a softer line than his father in relations with the West. But this is all guesswork so far, and experts in Moscow are convinced that the younger Kim will stick to Pyongyang's traditional older brothers, Russia and China. "North Korea simply has nowhere else to turn," says Alexander Lukin, the head of the East Asia department at the Russian Foreign Ministry's institute of diplomacy. "Economically it is totally dependent on China, because it doesn't really produce anything of its own," Lukin says. "And in the last years of his life, Kim Jong-Il did his best to cozy up to Russia more and more, mainly to show that his dependence on the Chinese is not so one-sided."
That is the double-game that North Korea will likely continue to play, because it is practically the only one the Kim family knows. Russia, for its part, seems ready to keep playing along. When news of Kim's death broke on Monday, the Kremlin sent its condolences to his heir, and on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited the North Korean embassy in Moscow to pay his respects. (Tellingly, Russia extended no such gesture to the Czech Republic after that country's former president, Vaclav Havel, died on Sunday. In the late 1980s, Havel led Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution against Soviet rule. His death did not warrant so much as a word on the Kremlin website.)
But it is far from clear what Russia has to gain from its doting relations with North Korea, which still owes Russia $11 billion in debt from the Soviet era. "In terms of trade, I know they import our celluloid visors to put on their military caps, which tells you something about their industrial relevance," says Georgy Kunadze, Russia's former ambassador to South Korea. "But the fact that we have a paranoid regime on our borders should not make us temper our assessment of North Korea," adds Kunadze, who led a Kremlin mission in 1993 to re-establish relations with Pyongyang after the fall of the Soviet Union. "We need to remember that North Korea has never made good on its agreements with Russia, has never consulted us before jumping into one of its adventures," including its testing of nuclear weapons in 2006 and 2009, or its decision to shell a South Korean island last year. (See TIME's Person of the Year: The Protester.)
So for Russia, North Korea remains almost as much of a nuisance as it is for the West, and in some ways an even more dangerous one, because a nuclear accident in North Korea would inevitably spill radiation onto Russian territory. Yet Moscow shows no sign of toughening its stance. It has long supported United Nations sanctions against North Korea's nuclear program, but has also gone out of its way to make the regime feel loved. In August, when Medvedev flew to Siberia to meet with Kim Jong Il, he again pledged to build a gas pipeline and a railroad to North Korea. The state news agency KCNA described their meeting as "overflowing with friendship." This allowed Pyongyang to send a familiar message to both China and the West: if you cross us, we still have a powerful ally in Moscow. As Pulikovsky recalls, this has long been Kim's favorite diplomatic trick.
Soon after U.S. President George W. Bush branded North Korea a member of the "axis of evil" in 2002, Kim travelled to Russia to meet with then President Vladimir Putin, and he asked Pulikovsky to do him a peculiar favor. "He told me, 'Konstantin, when the official meeting [with Putin] is over, I want to sit down with him in private for ten minutes, with no one in the room, not even interpreters. I need to tell him something." That evening, the private meeting was arranged, and as Pulikovsky escorted Kim back toward the border afterward, his curiosity got to him. "I asked him, 'Comrade Kim, if it's no secret, why did you need these ten minutes?'" Pulikovsky says. "And he smiled at me and said, 'What's the difference? The point is for Bush to wonder what we were talking about.' For me that was classic Kim. He always found some way to get snagged in your thoughts, to make himself into a mystery."
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