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Obama starts new year with basketball game


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POSTED: Friday, January 01, 2010

President Barack Obama is starting the new year with a game of basketball.

The president is playing at the Semper Fit gym this morning on the grounds of Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay near his rented vacation home in Kailua.

On Thursday, the president worked out at the gym, took his daughters to see the sci-fi film “;Avatar”; at Windward Mall, and played golf at Mid Pacific Country Club.

His security chiefs also briefed him about missteps in the lead-up to the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing.

The Honolulu-born president and his family arrived in Hawaii on Christmas Eve and play to leave early next week.