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Enyeama shines despite language barrier

Super Eagles goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama has revealed that one of the biggest problems he’s had to face in France is mastering the French Language.
The 31-year-old has been in great form this season with Lille OSC where he has conceded in just three of the club’s 17 league games this season.
Enyeama reckons his French will improve remarkably in the coming days but admitted that he still struggles to communicate in the language.
“I am not yet fluent in the (French) language. I am still learning the language and by the help of God, I should be fluent by the end of the season,” he exclusively told supersport.com.
Enyeama will return to Ligue 1 action on Sunday when Lille welcomes Bastia to the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on match day 18.
It would have turned out to be a historic day for the Nigerian as he was expected to break Gaeten Huard’s long standing record by keeping a clean sheet against Bastia for 52 minutes.
He lost the chance to break that record last Sunday when Lille lost 0-1 to Girondins Bordeaux at the Stade Jacques Chaban-Delmas on match day 17.
The former Enyimba goalkeeper did not however let his head drop and stated at the post-game press conference that failure to break the record did not represent the end of the world to him.
"Honestly, I was never even thinking about the record,” he said.
He also maintained that enjoying life on the pitch during matches is most important to him.
“When I'm on the pitch I just enjoy myself. If I concede a goal, it's ok.
"I knew everyone had been waiting (for me to concede), so it made me smile.
“I think my teammates wanted to see me beat the record, but I will go into the game against Bastia only thinking about winning. This defeat is just what happens in football, life goes on," he said.
Enyeama is fast carving a niche for himself as one of Africa's best goalkeepers ever.
He won back-to-back Caf Champions League titles with Enyimba and then spent six years in Israel with Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Tel Aviv before joining Lille.
At the 2010 Fifa World Cup finals in South Africa, he was one of Nigeria’s finest performers.
In the Super Eagles’ opening game which the team lost 0-1 to Argentina, the official match report on the Fifa website said, the South Americans "might have won by more but for Enyeama."
Argentina’s talisman, Lionel Messi who was denied time and again by Enyeama’s cat-like reflexes described him as "phenomenal" in that match.
He added to his growing collection of accolades by helping the Super Eagles win the African Cup of Nations trophy in South Africa.
Previously, Wolfsburg sporting director Dieter Hoeness turned down the chance to sign him because, at 5ft 11in, he was too small.
His frame again counted against him earlier in his career as Sam Allardyce also opted against signing him for Bolton in 2004.
Enyeama is now living the dream with Lille OSC in France and has ensured that the Mastiffs have the meanest defence in the division after letting in a paltry five goals in 17 league games this season

 

83 Dead In Governmental Aerial Bombardments, Syria

At least 27 children and eight women were among the dead, the group said; it reported that 50 more people had sustained injuries in the bombardments.
Helicopters dropped barrel bombs on 12 neighborhoods in the city, where people have strongly backed rebels opposing the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
The opposition organization says it is not the first time the Syrian regime has dropped barrels filled with explosives on Aleppo neighborhoods.
The LCC said 135 people died in total in the conflict on Sunday.
The United Nations estimates that more than 100,000 people have died since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have also been injured.
It began when government forces cracked down on peaceful protesters during the Arab Spring movement, and slowly spiraled into a bloody, full-blown civil war.
More than 2.3 million people have fled Syria, and another 4.25 million Syrians have become refugees within their country since the civil war began, according to an Amnesty International report released on Friday.

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Why This Man Had His Hand Attached To His ANKLE For A Month

Xiao Wei said: "I was just shocked and frozen at the spot, until co-workers unplugged the machine and retrieved my hand and took me to the hospital."
At his local hospital in Changde, in China's Hunan province, doctors said they were unable to save his hand. But they suggested that doctors at the larger regional hospital may be able to help.
Mr Wei said: "I am still young, and I couldn't imagine life without a right hand."
Seven hours after the incident, he arrived at the other hospital in Changsha. Doctors here were hopeful they could re-attach the hand, but not right away. So, in order to stop the severed hand from dying, they attached it to his ankle
One of them explained: "His injury was severe. Besides ripping injuries, his arm was also flattened. We had to clear and treat his injuries before taking on the hand reattachment surgery."
Nearly a month after his hand was severed, Xiao had recovered enough to undergo re-attachment surgery. While he will need to undergo several other operations, doctors are confident he will regain full use of his hand again

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Why 6-Yr-Old Girl Dragged Parents To Court?

The girl’s father, Tawanda Gumbo, 30, a commuter omnibus tout, and her mother Constance Hukuimwe (27) appeared before Chitungwiza magistrate Kudakwashe Jarabhini, who sentenced them to four months and five months in prison, respectively, for child neglect.
Tawanda’s sentence was suspended on condition that he does 140 hours of community service, while Constance’s sentence was suspended for five years on condition that she does not commit a similar offence.
The court heard that between June and November this year, the couple, who stay in Manyame Park, always left the complainant with her two younger sisters aged four and three years without adequate food as they went to their different chores.
As a result, the complainant resorted to begging for handouts from neighbours to feed her siblings and herself.
To add to their predicament, the house had no ablution facilities, which forced the complainant and her siblings to relieve themselves in dishes and plates.
The court was told that at one time when the couple was away, the children’s blankets were accidentally destroyed by a burning candle while they were asleep.
A concerned neighbour eventually alerted police, leading to the couple’s arrest.
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Funeral Guests Remember Mandela’s Life

Nelson Mandela’s coffin was escorted to the funeral hall on Sunday. Watch highlights of the coffin making its way to the hall, where guests included Oprah Winfrey, Prince Charles and Richard Branson.


 

The most amazing plant - Chinese bamboo

In the Far East, there is a tree called the Chinese bamboo tree. This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate. In fact, in a period of just five weeks, a Chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet. It’s almost as if you can actually see the tree growing before your very eyes. Well, I’m convinced that life often works in a similar way. You can work for weeks, months and even years on your dream with no visible signs of progress and then, all of the sudden, things take off. Your business becomes profitable beyond your wildest dreams. Your marriage becomes more vibrant and passionate than you ever thought it could be. Your contribution to your church, social organization and community becomes more significant than you have ever imagined. Yet, all of this requires one thing – faith. The growers of the Chinese bamboo tree have faith that if they keep watering and fertilizing the ground, the tree will break through. Well, you must have the same kind of faith in your bamboo tree, whether it is to run a successful business, win a Pulitzer Prize, raise well-adjusted children, or what have you. You must have faith that if you keep making the calls, honing your craft, reading to your children, reaching out to your spouse or asking for donations, that you too will see rapid growth in the future. This is the hard part for most of us. We get so excited about the idea that’s been planted inside of us that we simply can’t wait for it to blossom. Therefore, within days or weeks of the initial planting, we become discouraged and begin to second guess ourselves. Sometimes, in our doubt, we dig up our seed and plant it elsewhere, in hopes that it will quickly rise in more fertile ground. We see this very often in people who change jobs every year or so. We also see it in people who change churches, organizations and even spouses in the pursuit of greener pastures. More often than not, these people are greatly disappointed when their tree doesn’t grow any faster in the new location. Other times, people will water the ground for a time but then, quickly become discouraged. They start to wonder if it’s worth all of the effort. This is particularly true when they see their neighbors having success with other trees. They start to think, “What am I doing trying to grow a bamboo tree? If I had planted a lemon tree, I’d have a few lemons by now.” These are the people who return to their old jobs and their old ways. They walk away from their dream in exchange for a “sure thing.” Sadly, what they fail to realize is that pursuing your dream is a sure thing if you just don’t give up. So long as you keep watering and fertilizing your dream, it will come to fruition. It may take weeks. It may take months. It may even take years, but eventually, the roots will take hold and your tree will grow. And when it does, it will grow in remarkable ways. We’ve seen this happen so many times. Henry Ford had to water his bamboo tree through five business failures before he finally succeeded with the Ford Motor Company. Richard Hooker had to water his bamboo tree for seven years and through 21 rejections by publishers until his humorous war novel, M*A*S*H became a runaway bestseller, spawning a movie and one of the longest-running television series of all-time. Another great bamboo grower was the legendary jockey Eddie Arcaro. Arcaro lost his first 250 races as a jockey before going on to win 17 Triple Crown races and 554 stakes races for total purse earnings of more than $30 million. Well, you have a bamboo tree inside of you just waiting to break through. So keep watering and believing and you too will be flying high before you know it.