24-hour curfew in Nigeria city in military push

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) ? Nigeria's military has declared a 24-hour curfew in several neighborhoods of a northeastern city as its campaign against Islamic extremists in the region continues.

A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas of Maiduguri were people must remain inside their homes until further notice. Musa said it was part of the military's push since President Goodluck Jonathan issued an emergency decree Tuesday allowing soldiers to arrest people at will and take over buildings suspected to house extremists in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.

Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, is the spiritual home of the extremist network known as Boko Haram. Bombings and gunfire have remained common there despite a heavy police and military presence. Soldiers are stopping trucks from entering the city.

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The Best of the Boogie Down: Artist Spotlight ? Ohene Cornelius ...

Ohene Cornelius ? A movement and a force all on his own

BY Jenni Ruiza (@RuizaJenni)

The Boogie Down is known for revolutionary artists in Hip-Hop ? but think about the most recent artists who?ve come from the Bronx and changed the face of music: Fat Joe, Swizz Beatz, Slick Rick, KRS One, Mary J. Blige. It?s not until recently has the borough started to pick back up again with its birthing of unique artists the way it used to. Ohene Cornelius, a movement and force, proves that nontraditional style and a strong building of one?s brand is all you need to get a little attention. With his signature experimental sounds and work [also an actor and writer], Cornelius is working on the debut of his album, ?American Idle?, due June 6th.

Q. What part of the Bronx are you from?

A. I was born in Harlem, but grew up for a large amount of my time on Cypress Ave.

Q. When did you first realize you were meant to be an artist?

A. Meant to be an artist is a loaded statement. I am an artist. I don?t know if I was meant to be one. That gets into issues of destiny and fate, and for me, each person has, on a basic level, control over their destiny. I?ve made an active choice as an adult to stay in the arts, through the thick and thin.

I want my purpose in life to be an adjunct result of my commitment to the arts community at large. Some people have an amazing talent to do things and don?t pursue it. Were they any less meant to be an artist than me, no, but I am an artist because I choose to live through my creative work.

Q. Describe your art ? both acting and music.

A. My acting is open. I?m about being transparent in whatever role I?m cast in. I?m terrible at auditions, this much I know. I?m great at recreating a moment, I have amazing comedic timing and I?m interesting to look at being still. I feel my acting can be described as truthful living, even in absurd circumstances. I use my knowledge for obscure facts and my high propensity for words and syllables to my advantage. And I?m all about fun on stage and in front of camera.

Musically I am the same acting wise, transparent, comedic and interesting to look at. I feel acting many times is music, it?s about beats, timing, and reactions. The only thing with my music is I make my best attempt at having my own voice. In acting I can slip away in the writer?s voice and perspective and sounds of the character, but in music I am the character, I am the writer, so I am telling the story. The story I want to tell is one that is of truth/lies, valor/cowardice, triumph, failure? the polar opposites, because somewhere in the middle of those opposites is me.

Q. Do you feel that the Bronx is making strides in the music and entertainment industries? What do you think will make it a greater presence with artists?

A. The Bronx has had already a large impact on the music industry. We think of Hip Hop, Jenny?from the Block to indie artists today that rep the BX. The Bronx will have a greater presence with artists when there is a scene for the arts. When there are artists? lofts. When there are local festivals that promote globally and pay. When the government subsidizes festivals for artists to perform and be relevant in their own town. Right now the only relevancy the Bronx has is its history and the artists that have risen from the area, but there?s no scene. There are a limited number of lounges, art galleries, and open spaces, and the one?s that are there are usually priced out of the range of the indie artist, geared to specific audiences which marginalize the artists of the community [i.e. a recent venue told me they didn't want to do hip hop because the crowds get rowdy]? Being in the Bronx and not catering to hip-hop is like being in Mecca and not catering to Muslims.

Q. What sets you apart from what?s currently out there?

A. I call myself the Steve Jobs of music. The Frederick Douglass of Rap. I am an innovator with technology; the people whom I work with are usually smarter than me and in a different circle, I serve the purpose of the community without having to be the center of attention, but still know when to take the center stage and be apart of the happenings. I?ve spent the first years of my career, just getting my talent in order. I know I?m not a child prot?g? so, I don?t act like I know everything. I listen and speak with dignity and want to see the world changed for the better. And that is the forefront of my mission statement. Some artists want change, but are not willing to move or speak about it in a public venue. I?m not afraid to be?silly, incorrect, straight to the point, or foul-mouthed. I feel if they blended the genes of Eddie Murphy and Will Smith and that person had a baby with Chuck Berry and Madame CJ?s Walker baby, that would be me.

Q. If you could change the focus of the arts in the Bronx, what would you do specifically?

A. If I could change the focus of the Bronx arts community, I would create more festivals sponsored by legit venues and brands and start to bring in local and national acts to perform. I would create more arts grants for older people wanting to learn about the present technology. I would do a meet and greet program between indie filmmakers and governmental officials [in the past we've understood that who you are attached to in trying and successful political times has a direct effect on your success rate and following]. I would create low income/free housing lofts for artists, and they?d have to produce a certain amount of work and present to do so, so there is already a built in audience.

Q: Any final words for Uptown Collective readers? This is a great place to promote your upcoming shows!

A. Ohene Cornelius is currently working on an ALBUM ?AMERICAN IDLE? due out 6.6.6. (June 6th 2013)? Click here to Tweet your support for #AmericanIdle?http://clicktotweet.com/lp9u1.

Ohene?s next show is MAY 24th @ Public Assembly. The facebook invitation is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/614568325237822.

Ohene also asks for your support by voting for him as your suggested artist for the AfroPunk Battle of the Bands: http://offerpop.com/FacebookContestEntry.psp?c=359010&u=18152&a=255558194495800&p=47016231622&rest=0&id=1497044&rest2=0.

Find out more about Bronx contributor, Jenni Ruiza, at?http://www.jenniruiza.com/. Follow her on Twitter @RuizaJenni.

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Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped

BAGHDAD (AP) ? A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.

The shootings and bombings follow three days of attacks that killed 130 people in both Shiite and Sunni areas in scenes reminiscent of retaliatory attacks between the two groups that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in 2006-2007. The spike in bloodshed in recent weeks has raised fears the country may be heading toward a new round of sectarian conflict.

Tensions have been worsening since Iraq's minority Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government, including random detentions and neglect. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.

Majority Shiites control the levers of power in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Wishing to rebuild the nation rather than revert to open warfare, they have largely restrained their militias in the past five years or so as Sunni extremist groups such as al-Qaida have frequently targeted them with large-scale attacks. But the sharp jump in attacks on Sunni areas, including bombings on Friday that killed at least 76 people, has fueled concerns of renewed retaliatory killings.

In Saturday's deadliest attack, gunmen broke into the house of an anti-terrorism police captain in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing the officer and his family in their sleep. Police officials identified the dead as Cap. Adnan Ibrahim, his wife and two children, aged eight and 10.

The attackers fled the scene, and killed another policeman who tried to stop them at a nearby checkpoint.

Meanwhile in the western Sunni province of Anbar, gunmen kidnapped eight policemen who were guarding a post on the main highway linking Iraq to both Jordan and Syria, according to two police officials.

Earlier in the day, security forces and gunmen clashed in the area after police tried to arrest a Sunni tribal sheik suspected of being behind the killing of three army intelligence soldiers stopped by gunmen near a protest site in the city of Ramadi last month. Iraqi authorities had offered a bounty for the arrest or information leading to the arrest of the sheik, Khamis Abu Risha, and two other people they say were linked to the killings.

The fighting near Abu Risha's house north of Ramadi left three people wounded. No arrests were made. Later, gunmen deployed near the main entrance of Anbar Operations Command headquarters in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad.

Hours later, Ramadi police said a bomb placed under stalls in a small stadium exploded, killing four people who were watching a local soccer match.

Shortly before sunset, a car bomb went off near a small market in in the town of Latifiyah south of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 12.

Elsewhere, in the predominantly Shiite city of Basra in southern Iraq, gunmen shot and killed a Sunni cleric, Assad Nassir, as he was leaving his house, police said.

Two Iraqi soldiers were also killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb struck a group of soldiers arriving to inspect the scene of a blast that took place earlier in the northern city of Mosul.

A security official said a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the northern suburbs of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding two others.

Health officials confirmed the death tolls. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/attacks-kill-16-iraq-8-police-kidnapped-171906002.html

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New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

Friday, May 17, 2013

Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture ?before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region.

Current archaeological thinking is that it was the advent of rice cultivation along the Lower Yangtze River that marked the beginning of agriculture in southern China. Poor organic preservation in the study region, as in many others, means that traditional archaeobotany techniques are not possible.

Now, thanks to a new method of analysis on ancient grinding stones, the archaeologists have uncovered evidence that agriculture could predate the advent of rice in the region.

The research was the result of a two-year collaboration between Dr Huw Barton, from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, and Dr Xiaoyan Yang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing.

Funded by a Royal Society UK-China NSFC International Joint Project, and other grants held by Yang in China, the research is published in PLOS ONE.

Dr Barton, Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, described the find as 'hitting the jackpot': "Our discovery is totally unexpected and very exciting.

"We have used a relatively new method known as ancient starch analysis to analyse ancient human diet. This technique can tell us things about human diet in the past that no other method can.

"From a sample of grinding stones we extracted very small quantities of adhering sediment trapped in pits and cracks on the tool surface. From this material, preserved starch granules were extracted with our Chinese colleagues in the starch laboratory in Beijing. These samples were analysed in China and also here at Leicester in the Starch and Residue Laboratory, School of Archaeology and Ancient History.

"Our research shows us that there was something much more interesting going on in the subtropical south of China 5,000 years ago than we had first thought. The survival of organic material is really dependent on the particular chemical properties of the soil, so you never know what you will get until you sample. At Xincun we really hit the jackpot. Starch was well-preserved and there was plenty of it. While some of the starch granules we found were species we might expect to find on grinding and pounding stones, ie. some seeds and tuberous plants such as freshwater chestnuts, lotus root and the fern root, the addition of starch from palms was totally unexpected and very exciting."

Several types of tropical palms store prodigious quantities of starch. This starch can be literally bashed and washed out of the trunk pith, dried as flour, and of course eaten. It is non-toxic, not particularly tasty, but it is reliable and can be processed all year round. Many communities in the tropics today, particularly in Borneo and Indonesia, but also in eastern India, still rely on flour derived from palms.

Dr Barton said: "The presence of at least two, possibly three species of starch producing palms, bananas, and various roots, raises the intriguing possibility that these plants may have been planted nearby the settlement.

"Today groups that rely on palms growing in the wild are highly mobile, moving from one palm stand to another as they exhaust the clump. Sedentary groups that utilise palms for their starch today, plant suckers nearby the village, thus maintaining continuous supply. If they were planted at Xincun, this implies that 'agriculture' did not arrive here with the arrival of domesticated rice, as archaeologists currently think, but that an indigenous system of plant cultivation may have been in place by the mid Holocene.

"The adoption of domesticated rice was slow and gradual in this region; it was not a rapid transformation as in other places. Our findings may indicate why this was the case. People may have been busy with other types of cultivation, ignoring rice, which may have been in the landscape, but as a minor plant for a long time before it too became a food staple.

"Future work will focus on grinding stones from nearby sites to see if this pattern is repeated along the coast."

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