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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

8-Year-Old Girl 195,000 Christmas Cards And Letters In A Day

She was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames. Above she is pictured before the fireIn 2013, Sa’fyre Terry lost her father and three younger siblings in an arson fire which also left her with burns over 75 percent of her body and claimed her right hand and left foot.
The now 8-year-old told told her family the only present she wanted for Christmas was cards and that she “couldn’t wait” to fill up a thrift storeChristmas tree stand with them.
Her aunt, Liz Dolder, didn’t want to get her hopes up, so she simply replied that they might “get a few.”
Hundreds of thousands of cards, letters and packages later, little Sa’fyre has experienced a true Christmas miracle, fueled by social media and made possible by the kindness and generosity of those affected by her story.
“’Wow’ is the general reaction in my family,” Dolder told ABC News today, adding that the cards and gifts are arriving from all over the world.

 

Opposition In Kosovo Releases Tear gas In Parliament

Lawmakers react as opposition lawmakers release tear gas canisters disrupting a parliamentary session in Kosovo capital Pristina on Monday Dec. 14...Opposition lawmakers released tear gas Monday in Kosovo's parliament as they once again tried to pressure the government into renouncing deals with Serbia and Montenegro.
Clouds of smoke from two tear gas canisters forced lawmakers out of the debating chamber.
The parliamentary session restarted later in another room with most opposition lawmakers barred from entering. It had to be temporarily suspended again when another tear gas canister was opened there too, after four opposition lawmakers were let in.
An opposition political party, the Alliance for Kosovo's Future, said one of its lawmakers, Pal Lekaj, was arrested, allegedly for using tear gas.
Meanwhile, police dispersed about 150 opposition supporters throwing stones and paint outside parliament. Windows were broken and some were covered in red paint. There were no reports of any injuries.
Three protesters were arrested.
Clashes continued in other streets in the capital where at least one protester was arrested. Six cars were damaged and one of them burnt, police said, adding protesters tried to block streets with garbage containers.
Lawmakers react as opposition lawmakers release tear gas canisters disrupting a parliamentary session in Kosovo capital Pristina on Monday Dec. 14...Over the past three months, the opposition has blocked Kosovo's parliament with tear gas, pepper spray, whistles and water bottles to protest the deals and their supporters have held violent protests in Pristina.
One of the deals gives more powers to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo while the other demarcates the border with Montenegro.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, an act that Serbia still rejects. The two countries have been holding European Union-mediated talks to overcome their differences.
U.S. Ambassador Greg Delawie, who was at parliament, criticized Monday's incident.
He repeated the warning from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who visited two weeks ago, that parliament is "where meaningful debates on public policy are conducted, where people can listen to each other peacefully."
If the government refuses to halt the deals, the opposition wants a referendum on the issues or a new election. The government, the president and the international community have called for dialogue.

The deal on Serb minority rights is suspended until Kosovo's constitutional court rules on its legality. The government, which accuses the opposition of trying to seize power by force, has said it will ask international experts to decide on the border demarcation with Montenegro.

Monday, December 14, 2015

Made In Ghana Cars Go On Sale


"Any import items we buy as Ghanaians constitutes an export of jobs in this country, especially in respect of the items for which we have comparative advantage to produce," he said at the time.
For Kantanka some key components such as glass, tyres and brake callipers are imported, AFP was told on a visit to the company's technology research centre west of Accra last year.
But local sourcing is a key component of Kantanka's vehicles, whose radiator grilles feature Ghana's five-pointed star emblem.
Wood from Ghanaian forests is used to make dashboards while the cream-coloured leather seats in the black SUV were made in the country's second biggest commercial city, Kumasi.
Akan -- a language widely used in Ghana -- is written alongside English on the electronics.
- 'The next Toyota'? -
Kantanka's son was adamant about the uniqueness of the cars, which have all been approved for safety by Ghana's Drivers Vehicle Licensing Authority.
The Made in Ghana label means that "if you have any problems with the vehicle, you wouldn't have to import from India or China or America. All the parts are right here and we have a 24-hour service," he said.
Six months ago, Ghana's police service received one of the pick-up trucks, potentially paving the way for other government agencies to place orders.
Kantanka junior is upbeat about the way ahead.
"The future of Kantanka for the next 10 years is to try as much as possible to increase our lines," he said.
To the curent three lines, he said, "we intend to increase by next year January, February and add two more lines to it. We intend to go into more lines like buses, mini-vans and all that."
For Ghanaians, the cars could put their West African nation on the map.

"We must believe in the Ghanaian just like Toyotas and Hyundais," said Murtala Mohammed, who lives in Accra.

The Language of Nigerian Money

The obverse of Nigeria’s old hundred-naira banknote, at top, and the reverse of its replacement, above.Last year, the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a new hundred-naira note to commemorate the union, in 1914, of the predominantly Muslim North and the predominantly Christian South. The redesigned bill includes a digital code that smartphone users can scan to see a timeline of currency used in the region, set against images of cowrie shells, which were used as currency in Nigeria before 1700, and manilla, a horseshoe-shaped metal bracelet that was historically adopted by Europeans to acquire slaves. These features of the new design were overshadowed, though, by an adjustment to the way the denomination was presented. On past banknotes, the words “Naira dari,” Hausa for “one hundred naira,” had appeared in Arabic script. Now, the Hausa was printed, like the Yoruba and Igbo, in small Roman letters, to the right of the larger centered text in English, the country’s official language. The change proved controversial.
The new bill, which was conceived under former President Goodluck Jonathan, an evangelical from the South, tapped into a deep historical divide and provoked strong reaction from Nigeria’s two major religious groups. Some Christians supported the move as a step toward de-Islamizing Nigeria, while many Muslims called it Islamophobic. Cletus Alu, a member of the Christian Association of Nigeria, in Abuja, told me that he would like to see the script removed from all of the country’s banknotes. “Nigeria is a secular nation,” he said. “It’s not good to give prominence to one religion or another.”

The country’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim from the North, has thus far stayed clear of the controversy. And so, this October 1st, on the eve of the fifty-fifth anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, the Lagos-based organization Muslim Rights Concern publicly demanded that the government reinstate the Arabic script. In a statement published on the group’s Web site, its director, Ishaq Akintola, described the change “as an act of hostility taken to spite Muslims” and claimed that some Christians had been “secretly agitating” for it. (Previously, the organization had accused Jonathan of replacing the Ajami with a symbol resembling the Star of David, in a bid to promote Zionism.)
On a drenched autumn evening, I met with Musa S. Muhammad, an archivist in his fifties, at a building in the Arewa House complex, beside the grand Sultan Bello Mosque in the northern city of Kaduna, to get a sense of the historical currents underlying the controversy. Arabic script, he told me, had been printed on nearly every note since the naira was introduced, in 1973, and on previous currency as well. To demonstrate, he instructed a colleague to remove a tenth-of-a-penny coin from a vivid twist of fabric. The piece was minted in 1945, under the British colonial regime, and three languages were stamped on its silvery face: King George VI’s name appeared in Latin, and the coin’s value was spelled out in both English and Hausa, with the latter spelled out in Arabic.
“This is politics between South and North,” Muhammad said, of the current dispute. He spoke with careful deliberation, his deep, raspy voice softened by a lisp. As he ran a finger over the Arabic script on a five-hundred-naira note sitting before him, the evening call to prayer rang out from the mosque, muffled by the rain. The letters on the currency, he said, are as secular in origin as the Roman alphabet used in modern Bibles. “Any non-Arab language written in Arabic script we call Ajami,” he said. “They feel that this is religious, but it’s not.” He leafed through the loose pages of an old manuscript written in Ajami, one of thousands that he is currently digitizing.
Muhammad is the chief archivist of Arewa House, which hosts a collection of thousands of manuscripts, some of them hundreds of years old. The national archives building, a short drive away, holds many more. Collectively, these manuscripts form a record of pre-colonial scholarship stretching from Timbuktu to Khartoum. Arabic script was first brought to Hausaland, as Muhammad calls his part of the North, by traders and itinerant scholars from across the Sahara, and was cemented by the establishment of the Sokoto caliphate in the North, long before Nigeria existed as a nation. He listed the indigenous languages that were first written down in Ajami: Hausa, which is spoken by more than thirty million people across West Africa; Fulfulde, which is spoken by the Fulani, nomadic herdsmen spread across the Sahel; Nupe, spoken by the Nupe people in Nigeria’s Middle Belt; and Yoruba, the language of Nigeria’s second-biggest ethnic group, which is religiously mixed and based mostly in the South.
Ajami later figured prominently in the North’s resistance to European colonialism. At the national archives, some of the earliest transliterations of Hausa Ajami into Roman script were completed by Major Frank Edgar, a British political service officer in northern Nigeria. They date at least as far back as 1911, and their paternalistic overtones are unmistakable. In the margins of “Litafi Na Tatsuniyoyi Na Hausa,” Edgar’s handwritten collection of his Hausa folklore and tales, the phrase “educated Hausas,” for instance, is crossed out with a line and replaced with “words by natives.” Still, despite efforts by the British to move toward Roman script, Muhammad told me, Ajami continued to be used to document everyday life: for tax documents, receipts, correspondence. He recited a few lines for me from a poem, written in Hausa Ajami circa 1917, which warned that Ankwai women from the central Plateau State were “very proud,” and would “chop” a man’s money.

The recent shift away from Ajami began in February, 2007, when the Nigerian government removed Arabic script from some lower-denomination notes; at the time, Mohammed Yusuf, the preacher who founded Boko Haram, had returned from Saudi Arabia and was growing his movement. The Central Bank released a statement that year saying that it had removed the Ajami in order to foster national unity, and to conform to Nigeria’s constitution, passed in 1999, which recognizes four languages for conducting government business, all of them written in Roman script. It also argued that Ajami was no longer necessary, because most Nigerians could now “easily read and write the Roman letters.” But Muhammad told me that millions of children in the North lack access to Western-style schools and can only read and write in Ajami. “How can we tell our children that we are knowledgeable people, that we are literate, if you remove this?” he asked.
“There are some local ulama”—learned people—“still corresponding in Ajami,” Muhammad said, adding that he sees the removal of the script from the naira as an erasure of Nigeria’s literary and scholarly heritage—one that risks helping Boko Haram to exploit the country’s divisions and further alienate disadvantaged Muslim youth. Though the words “Boko Haram” are often translated to mean “Western education is forbidden,” “Boko,” a Hausa word, can also be interpreted as “Roman script.”
Not long after meeting with Muhammad, I heard a similar message at a public forum held every evening near Unity Fountain in Abuja. The day I attended, about twenty people formed a circle by a tree. Some of the men were dressed in traditional, knee-length shirts, with embroidered prayer hats propped on their heads; others wore polo shirts and baseball caps. A well-heeled woman in a colorful kaftan checked her smartphone as another woman in a strappy black dress, her sunglasses pushed back on her head, spoke emphatically to the crowd. The event is run by the Bring Back Our Girls campaigners, who have been working for the return of the more than two hundred girls abducted by Boko Haram from a school in Chibok last April. These daily vigils have evolved, over time, into a platform for citizens to discuss the issues of the day. Raising their voices above the low hum of early evening traffic, the event’s three speakers all emphasized the need to set aside ethnic and religious divides.
Afterward, I spoke with Aisha Yesufu, a mother of two in her early forties, who wore a red abaya printed with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. “This country is full of people from different religious backgrounds and different languages,” she said. “People will always say it will not be easy for Nigerians to be united, but Bring Back Our Girls, we proved that wrong, we’ve been a united force.”
Yesufu is a Muslim from the South, but she’d lived in Kaduna in 2008, as Boko Haram was gaining support. She told me that she was concerned about the implications of Ajami’s removal from the country’s currency. “They took it off, maybe due to fear of Islamization, but that’s just hypocrisy as far as I’m concerned,” she said. “If you still have the English and it’s not Christianizing, why is the one in the Arabic Islamizing?”



Thursday, December 10, 2015

Trump products Banes From Stores In Dubai

A major retailer in the Middle East is dumping Donald Trump after he called for Muslims to be banned from traveling to the United States.
Lifestyle, a home decor chain based in Dubai, is removing all Trump-branded products from the shelves of its 195 outlets across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Tanzania.
"In light of the recent statements made by the presidential candidate in the U.S. media, we have suspended sale of all products from the Trump Home décor range," said Lifestyle CEO Sachin Mundhwa. Lifestyle is a subsidiary of Landmark Group.
The Trump Organization was not immediately available for comment.
Others from the Middle East business community have also expressed dismay with Trump's remarks.
Related image"It was a shocking comment," Dubai property mogul Khalaf Al-Habtoor told CNN. "These Muslims -- they are investing billions and billions in the United States and creating jobs for the Americans."
Trump has made millions through his multiple holdings -- golf resorts and other luxury properties -- in countries where Islam is the main religion.
"I think he damaged all his brand in all the Muslim countries ... nobody will accept him," said Al-Habtoor, who initially had supported Trump.
Still, some of Trump's biggest business partners are refusing to take sides.
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Luxury developer DAMAC Properties, which is building the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, said it would keep business and politics separate.

"Our agreement is with the Trump Organization as one of the premium golf course operators in the world and as such we would not comment further on Mr. Trump's personal or political agenda, nor comment on the internal American political debate scene," said Niall McLoughlin, senior vice president at DAMAC Properties, in a statement.

Madonna And Son Gives A Surprise Street Performance In Place De La Republique

Madonna stepped off the stage after her Paris concert on Wednesday night and headed to another performance.
But unlike her sold-out show at the AccorHotels Arena, this one had just a small crowd of onlookers, swaying and snapping photos with their cell phones.
It started with an announcement the Material Girl sent to fans on Twitter, inviting them to the Place de la Republique, the site of a memorial to victims of the November 13 terrorist attacks.
It wasn't long before a crowd gathered, and social media posts showed up featuring video and photographs of the singer belting out her own songs and other classics, such as John Lennon's "Imagine."
In an Instagram post, Madonna said she was singing "songs for peace" with her son David Banda and guitarist Monte Pittman.
Video and photos from the scene showed the singer standing in front of a makeshift memorial in the plaza honoring the victims of the Paris attacks.
At a concert in Stockholm, Sweden, after the Paris attacks, Madonna teared up as she explained why she'd decided to continue her "Rebel Heart Tour" in Europe.
"I feel torn, like why am I up here dancing and having fun when people are crying over the loss of their loved ones?" she said. "However, that is exactly what these people want to do. They want to shut us up. They want to silence us. And we won't let them."
That night, she led the crowd in a moment of silence before leading them in a rendition of her song "Like a Prayer."

She sang the same song Wednesday night on the streets of Paris. Afterward, the singer blew kisses at the crowd and shouted out the word "peace."

'I'm doing good for the Muslims' Trump Said

Donald Trump's empireFacing harsh criticism for his proposal to temporarily halt Muslim immigration to the U.S., Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was acting in the Islamic community's best interests.
"I'm doing good for the Muslims," Trump told Don Lemon in an interview for "CNN Tonight." "Many Muslim friends of mine are in agreement with me. They say, 'Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so brilliant and so fantastic.'"
Among those reaching out to thank him, the Republican front-runner said, was "one of the most important people in Middle East" — Trump didn't reveal the name — who called on Wednesday to say, "Donald, you're doing a great service."
"I have many friends who are Muslims," Trump told Lemon. "They're phenomenal people. They are so happy at what I'm doing."
The feeling, he said, is mutual.
"I love the Middle East," Trump declared. "I love the people of the Middle East."
Trump also said his plan had been misrepresented and explained that the immigration ban may not last long.
"It could go quickly, but it's a subject that has to be discussed," he said, adding that there would be exceptions for Muslim athletes and diplomats.
Trump pinned the fierce backlash that followed his call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" on Republican establishment figures and his primary opponents.
"The group that is not criticizing me," he said, "is the public. The public agrees with what I said. They saw those two animals last week go out and shoot people (in San Bernardino)."
Trump said he was not likely to wage a third-party candidacy, but the billionaire businessman would not rule it out.
"I think it's highly unlikely unless they break the pledge to me, because it's a two-way street," Trump said. "They said they would be honorable. So far, they, I can't tell you if they are, but the establishment is not exactly being very good to me."
He added, "If they don't treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect. If they don't treat me as the front-runner...If the playing field is not level, then certainly all options are open. But that's nothing I want to do...I'll know that over a period of a couple months. We'll go through the primaries. We'll see what happens, and I'll make a determination."
Trump said the comparisons, which have become increasingly direct, did not upset him.

"You know where things bother me?" he asked. "If things are true. If that were true, it would bother me tremendously. But of course if you were a racist you probably wouldn't care. But if things are true, it would bother me. But if it's so false, and honestly I don't hear it often."
Trump was harshly critical of the President's strategy for fighting ISIS.
"We have a president who is a stupid person," Trump said, slamming Obama for making public his plans to send special forces to Kurdish-held territory in Syria near the Iraq border.
The White House announcement put a target "on their hearts," he said. "If I win, I want to be unpredictable."
"I didn't say that, no," Trump said when asked if he would be meeting the Israeli leader. "I have respect for him. I actually did a commercial for him, for his campaign....I like him a lot. I'm going to Israel, I'm not saying who I'm meeting with."
The comment marked a departure from last week in Virginia, when Trump told supporters at a rally, "I'm going to Israel, and I'll be meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, who's a great guy." CNN also reported Wednesday that the two would be meeting later this month, according to an Israeli official.
Earlier Wednesday, Netanyahu's office criticized Trump for his comments about Muslims.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects Donald Trump's recent remarks about Muslims," the office said in a statement. "The State of Israel respects all religions and strictly guarantees the rights of all its citizens. At the same time, Israel is fighting against militant Islam that targets Muslims, Christians and Jews alike and threatens the entire world."

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Couple Who Quit their Jobs For Life On The High Seas

A couple decided to follow their dreams of quitting the rat race to sail round the world - despite never living on a boat before and having limited nautical experienceA couple decided to follow their dreams of quitting the rat race to sail round the world - despite having never lived on a boat before and having limited nautical experience.
Charlie Smith, 29, and her fiancé, who goes by the name, Captain, 34, made the choice to sell their house and put their wedding plans on hold to embark on a new life in May this year. 
Leaving behind everything they knew, the thrillseeking couple departed their home in Jersey, Channel Islands and so far have sailed their way round the west of the Mediterranean, France, Spain, Italy, Elba, Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. 
From the mesmerising blue Maddalena Islands in Sardinia to the imposing Calanques in France the explorers have experienced some of the most beautiful nautical locations in Europe.  
Typical days for the engaged sailors include sunbathing in hammocks, reading books, listening to music, coming ashore to explore new towns and get fresh fruit, paddleboarding and snorkelling.
Charlie Smith, 29, and her fiancé, who goes by the name, Captain, 34, made the choice to sell their house and put their wedding plans on hold to embark on a new life in May this year'The kitchen is always to hand to whip up a meal and the fridge keeps the drinks cool. 'We can sit in the cockpit for hours, discussing all manner of things.' 
Before their trip Captain worked as an architectural designer, and along with New Zealand-born Charlie flipped residential properties around the world.
Charlie previously worked an ITV Regional Weather presenter and model, but the lure of the high seas proved too strong for the adventurous couple. 
'We had been pondering further travel for years,' Charlie said. 
'After years living on building sites the prospect of lugging backpacks around the world sleeping in hostels didn’t seem like the break we wanted. 
'The sailing idea was a way to travel but take our ‘nest' with us.'
Despite having limited experience sailing, the pair set their heart on a seafaring life and took every RYA skipper, sea survival and first aid course to prepare. 
For Captain his favourite part of his life is arriving in a new port and the the sense of adventure and exploration which awaits as you pull inThey sold their house to buy their new floating home, a 38.5ft Dufour sailing boat named Silver Paws, and instead of signing straight back onto a new mortgage handed in their notices and left their jobs.
'It was a risk, we've met a few people who have an opinion about taking a career break at this stage of our lives,' Charlie said.
'So many people wait until retirement to go cruising. The way we see it; There is little reward without a little risk. 
Captain and Charlie, who met through mutual friends in 2010, are still living off the money raised from decluttering and selling all the possessions they didn't need from their house. 
'We got engaged in 2013 but so far wedding plans have been put on hold as we spent the wedding budget on a boat!' Charlie admitted. 
Their minimalistic lifestyle allows them to travel on a small budget as anchoring is free of charge and as their boat is less than 39 feet long marina fees are kept low. 
Friends have flocked to experience their new exotic life on the ocean and learn about how to sail their vessel. 
Charlie previously worked an ITV Regional Weather presenter and model, but the lure of the high seas proved too strong for the adventurous couple'Guests can learn as little or as much about sailing as they want to, paddle boards and hammocks are available whenever they want and siestas are positively encouraged!' Charlie said. 
'We are all about play here; sunshine, nourishment, gratitude and jumping off everything we can find into the sea!'
Although it sounds like an idyllic existence luxuries many take for granted are missed by the couple.  
'We were told most marinas have wifi, which they do but it doesn't work the majority of the time,' Charlie said. 
'This makes weather forecasting and updating our blog a bit niggly. We knew the weather was never going to be a cinch, but with a few years as a forecaster for ITV Regional behind me we had a head start.
'We buy a pay-as -you-go sim card in each country with internet access to make certain we can readily get weather information.
Before their trip Captain worked as an architectural designer, and along with New Zealand-born Charlie flipped residential properties around the world'Another aspect I underestimated was 'keeping house' chores such as laundry and food shopping take hours longer than at home, at home the washing machine was downstairs, I knew where the eggs were in the supermarket and where the super market was and had a car to get the shopping home. 
'With cruising it's all a time eating mystery.'
Although Charlie and Captain are desperate to see as much of the world as possible, they are in no rush. 
'We are 'fair weather sailors’, we are in no hurry and therefore if the weather looks dicey, or even marginally uncomfortable, we don't take risks we stay put and wait for change.
'We have only had a couple of 'incidents' on board. A close shave with a mooring rope shearing through, a lesson learned. 
'And a potential theft of our folding bikes in Barcelona which were locked on the bow, he boarded the boat and woke us up. There was little confrontation, he was passive and apologetic, but it got the adrenaline pumping.'
Despite having limited experience sailing, the pair set their heart on a seafaring life and took every RYA skipper, sea survival and first aid course to prepareFor Captain his favourite part of his life is arriving in a new port and the sense of adventure and exploration which awaits as you pull in. 
And despite their close proximity, they don't argue as much as you would expect.  
'So many people ask us what it’s like to be together 24/7 and really, we are just very lucky to be able to share this adventure with each other. Thirty-eight foot is too short to hold a grudge!' Charlie said. 

The sea mates are currently in Barcelona but will head home to see family in Jersey for Christmas.
They sold their house to buy their new floating home, a 38.5ft Dufour sailing boat named Silver PawsInstead of signing straight back onto a new mortgage after selling their home they handed in their notices and left their jobs



Captain and Charlie, who met through mutual friends in 2010, are still living off the money raised from decluttering and selling all the possessions they didn't need from their houseSoul mates: And despite their close proximity, they don't argue as much as you would expect



Girl, 5, Who Lost Her Entire Family In An Act Of Arson Just Wants Cards For Christmas

She was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames. Above she is pictured before the fireA sweet little girl in New York has only one wish for Christmas this year and is asking people to help make it more merrier. 

Two years ago in Schenectady, New York, Safyre Terry, her father, 32-year-old David Terry, and three younger siblings, three-year-old Layah, two-year-old Michael and 11-month-old Donavon, were in a house fire caused by arson.
She was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames. 
The arson still remains unsolved, even though a federal jury convicted one man in November for lying to a grand jury investigating the fire, according to the Daily Gazette
The five-year-old girl suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body. 
Her aunt, Liz Dodler, told BuzzFeed that her niece, who she has sole custody over, has had numerous surgeries. 
'Safyre has had multiply operations, over 50. She had lost her right hand, three months after the fire and lost her left foot in March,' Dodler told BuzzFeed.
She was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames. Above she is pictured in November'She continues to have problem with her mouth due to the scar tissue tightening up. Her next operation is on January 5th.'
A family friend started a YouCaring Compassionate Crowdfunding campaign to raise money to help assist her aunt with the cost of Safyre's medical care. 
More than $13,700 has been raised of the $15,000 that is requested. 
Dodler, who is already the mother to four young children with her husband Mike, shared that she bought a tree to hang Christmas cards on for this holiday season, and that Safyre instantly got excited when she saw it.
''I can't wait to fill it up' my response was 'Hunny, that's probably not gonna happen. We maybe get 10 cards a year, and the card tree holds 100,'' she shared with BuzzFeed. 
Dodler decided to do something and posted a request on Facebook: 'I wonder how many of my friends would take the time to write and send Safyre a Merry Christmas card that she can hang on her card tree....' 
Since posting the request December 3, hundreds of people have shared in the comments that they will send the little girl a card.
Dodler shared a heartwarming photo Monday of a happy looking Safyre holding a pile of cards that she received in the mail. 
Tragic: Safyre Terry is pictured above with her father, David Terry, who died in a house fire caused by arson along with her three younger siblings 'Can someone say GLOWING...Safyre got mail today,' the caption on the post reads. 

Christmas cards for Safyre can be sent to: P.O. Box 6126 Schenectady, NY 12306, USA 
The five-year-old girl suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body in the fire








Her aunt, Liz Dodler said: 'Safyre has had multiply operations, over 50. She had lost her right hand, three months after the fire and lost her left foot in March'Dodler said: 'She continues to have problem with her mouth due to the scar tissue tightening up. Her next operation is on January 5th'

Donald Trump Claims Met Police Are Terrified In Radical Areas Of London

Donald Trump is RIGHT about London being radicalised, serving officers claimServing officers today claimed Donald Trump is right to say London's police are frightened in Muslim areas of London despite Scotland Yard saying the tycoon 'couldn't be more wrong'.
Several Met officers have said 'Islamification' of the capital is happening and revealed they do need to be 'extra vigilant' and even abandon using uniforms on some estates.
The US presidential contender Donald Trump caused worldwide consternation after a string of incendiary remarks, including in Britain when he said: 'We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that police are afraid for their own lives.'
Scotland Yard hit back last night but one serving officer has said: 'Islamification has and is occurring', adding: 'You have to have extra vigilance in certain parts when you are working'.
It came as more than 100,000 people - five people every second - signed a petition demanding Mr Trump is banned from Britain for being a 'hate preacher'. 
Mr Trump has said the US should close its borders to all Muslim migrants. MPs responded by calling for the property tycoon to be stopped from entering Britain, where he owns several golf courses.
Scotland Yard said last night Mr Trump could come to the UK for a security briefing after his comments.




Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Kurds Battle ISIS Under The Cover Of Fog

Image result wey dey for Kurds Battle ISIS Under The Cover Of FogAt 4 a.m. Wednesday, fog rolled over Ayn al Issa, a desolate stretch about 30 miles outside Raqqa, Syria, the city that ISIS has named its capital.
The Kurdish fighters had not slept. They held their guns and kept watch from the sandbag berm they'd built. They could not afford to lose focus. The enemy, they knew, would likely use the bad weather to their advantage.
Part of the United States-led coalition,  Ayn al Issa is vital. The terrorists depend on its main road to transport supplies. The Kurds have won and lost and won the area in the past. They know that to take it fully, they must be relentless.
"We are waiting all the time, we are ready for them," the unit's commander said. He wanted to be called Rubar, but would not, for his own security's sake, give his last name or age to CNN.
In a brief interview conducted over the phone with U.S.-based reporters, the commander recounted what happened.
When the first pop of gunfire from ISIS fighters came, it was clear the militants had used the cover of the fog to rush the Kurds, to shoot at them within a few yards. The fighting was so close, ISIS fighters dove behind trenches the Kurds had constructed.
Image result wey dey for Kurds Battle ISIS Under The Cover Of FogAt one point, a coalition airplane roared overhead, but had to hold fire because of the risk of killing Kurds, Rubar said.
How long could a close fight like this last? 20 minutes? 45 minutes? Time is hard to measure when you're fighting for your life. Rubar said it felt like three hours.
None of his fighters died, he said. And he was weary, but proud to say they killed at least a dozen ISIS fighters. Some managed to escape, disappearing into the fog.
The Kurds did the work of every battle's end with ISIS. They stretched the enemy's corpses' on the ground and, carefully, removed their shirts to make sure none were wearing suicide belts. Then they quickly buried them. For the Kurds, even an enemy who bastardizes a beloved religion, who kills your family and friends and threatens your country, gets to be buried.
Hours after the fight, Rubar doesn't say he is exhausted. His ragged voice does that for him.
Rubar told CNN that his soldiers don't have adequate supplies and weapons. He worries about that. But he's going to keep fighting. His unit plans to head into Raqqa.
He said he's unafraid. He knows he could die.

"I know that it's a big possibility," he said. "It's a choice I make. I am ready for death and I accept it."