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Most athletes are known for pushing themselves to thelimits and Maarten is no exception.

Recently the swimmer attempted to swim the entire 200 kilometers (120 mi) long track of the Elfstedentocht in the Netherlands.

The sole reason behind the event was to raise funds for cancer research, a cause close to Maarten’s heart.

From a young age, Maarten van der Weijden from the Netherlands was known as a promising swimming talent.

However, before his career could begin he faced a challenge that could have ended it all.

At only 19 years old Maarten was diagnosed with cancer.

But the resilient swimmer beat cancer and 7 years later he became a gold medalist at the Olympic Games in 2008 Beijing.




https://www.boredpanda.com/olympic-medalist-cancer-survivor-swimming-200km-maarten-van-der-weijden/?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C7853301666

cococandy:
omg I want

I will DHL yours

cutiereborn:
Please can I bring my spoon too?

Sure please

Asaro with crayfish, diced beef and zobo.

MistadeRegal:


Only your comment make sense here.
Can't someone just at least reason that something must have made him react that way.
All I see there and here are lopsided comments.
Africans and white slavery mentality.
Shior!

There are more civilized ways to handle issues like this, the insult or anything thrown at him that led to his action.

Here, we know our SARS, most of them finds it so easy pulling the trigger on unarmed citizens.

So it will be very foolish of me resisting arrest and punching about four SARS men with weapons because of one insult thrown at me.

That's suicidal and that's the issue here.

For years now in U. S., cops have shot many civilians most especially blacks (even teens) based on minor issues like step out the vehicle, stay on the ground, show me your ID or papers and the cops getting away with it.

Forget about the insult or anything that led to that, he shouldn't have acted that way.


He should try that with SWAT when they are operating.


JasonScoolari

hisgrace090:
The white police don't shoot anyhow, that's the different.

Says who?

Reactions.

Please dont try this at home.




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gulfer:
Explorers, please remember to mention Ayo Fayose's interchange o

Lol.

Ishilove:
High cost of maintenance, I guess

Don't think so, maybe upgrade.

Motherlands:
Onnly other middle east eccentric oil billionaires can buy this white elephant.

That's the most important , not necessary airline.

dfrost:
Explorers, don't let me get angry with you. Why post outdated information? Just dialed now. I asked about the wheel nuts and they are telling me it has finished.

Wo, ogbeni be careful

Lol.... U can't even buy a single nut bro.

Sorry

giftedheart1:
i just dialed the number, and the guy that spoke with me said I'm about the 3rd Nigerian that have called to ask how much the front wheel will cost..

Lol..... Even that will run into millions, enough to get a portable apartment in Lekki.

B3sty:
How much last is it going for? I called the Number but no one is picking up...or are they scared of picking calls from Nigeria?

Lol.....

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Rotentina:
Oga Explorer, how much last?

₦230 billion last


akosh005

jazzyjazz:
Thank God o
Thank you my brother. God will bless you

Cc Zaynie

Amen, thanks.

The aircraft is powered by four GE GEnx-2B67 engines serial numbers 959424, 959114, 959427, 959428 OR 959429, 959424, 959427, 959428 depending on which listing you check.

These practically-new engines have a list price of $22.5 million each, making this aircraft a tempting purchase for any airline looking to pick up a few spares for cheap.

Bathroom.

On board the jet, the medical/surgical room.

One of the plane's luxurious lounges.

The sofa pictured is fitted with seatbelts in case there is a spot of turbulence.

One of several lounges on board the jet, which has a selection of rooms set over two floors.

The luxury jet's stunning bedroom suite, fitted with a double bed and decked out with wooden decor.

The plane's stunning dining room which doubles up as a boardroom is kitted out with 14 luxury blue chairs.

The Boeing 747-8 is decked out in blue, white and gold and can seat 76 passengers and 18 crew.




The plane was originally designed to carry 467 people, but the Qatari royal family had most of the seating ripped out to maximise space.

It now has room for 76 passengers and 18 crew, and has been flown for a total of 403.2 hours.

World's largest business jet.


Qatar's royal family has put its luxury jet up for sale and it could sell for an eye-watering £500million.

The Boeing 747-8 has a staggering 10 bathrooms, several lounges spread over two floors and a stunning bedroom suite.

Decked out in blue, white and gold, it also boasts a medical centre and an enormous dining room which doubles up as a boardroom.



How To Purchase.



How much are you going to have to shell out for the blinged-out bird?

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Comtem2011 sent her greetings.



https://www.nairaland.com/4688037/comtem2011-fine-she-sent-greetings#70467158?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4273681555

Ive been getting lots of pm from some nairalanders about her.

This is to inform everyone, most especially on the newborn thread that Comtem2011 is fine and ive spoken to her this morning saturday, 21st August, 2018.

She's presently in Ekiti to deliver.

Sometimes back, her phones were stolen from her home and that's why she can't connect to the internet at the moment.


''Help me to greet all of them, tell them i appreciate them and ive missed everyone."

"Tell all the expecting/pregnant ladies in the house that am not online at the moment to give my support, but am praying for all of them. I wish them all safe and sound delivery.''



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Katie with her parents, who live with her near the clinic, after the operation.

The 31-hour operation began on May 4, 2017, three days after Adrea had died.

It involved 11 surgeons and several other specialists who had been practising for months on cadavers, one team removing the face of the donor and the other attaching it to the recipient.




Adrea's body on a ventilator to keep her organs and tissues supplied with oxygen and blood was in an adjoining operating room.

(Her liver, kidneys, lungs and heart were also being donated.)

Dr Gastman made the first incision on the donor's face and, over the course of 16 hours, three to four surgeons bent close over Adrea for their painstaking work.


After removing her eyes so the corneas could be donated to another recipient, the surgeons delicately dissected the main nerves controlling the muscles governing facial expression, and the sensory fibres that provide taste to the tongue and to glands allowing salivation and tears.

Next, they cut into bone the upper and lower jaw, most of the cheekbones and bones near the eye sockets.

All of these would be transferred to Katie.

The blood vessels were removed last, to reduce the time the face was without a blood supply, and 'tagged' so they could be matched to what remained of Katie's vessels.

Shortly after midnight on the second day of the operation, Adrea's face was finally removed and placed on a surgical tray, floating in preserving solution.

Its eye sockets empty, mouth open and the skin turning pale as it was deprived of blood, it resembled a rubber Halloween mask.

The face was immediately transferred to the adjacent theatre where surgeons placed it on Katie and immediately started to connect up arteries and veins.

As soon as they unclamped Katie's veins and arteries, the blood rushed in and the face 'blushed'.






Katie walks down the hospital hallway days after the surgery as she endures a long recovery.

Katie now has the face of a mother of a one-year-old who died of drug overdose.


There was a team of 15 specialists who came together to get a new face.

They put new skin, blood vessels, bone and nerves on her.