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A rare case of brothers who turn paralyzed after sunset has baffled the doctors, Who are clueless about this medical condition.

This photo, captured in 1961, documents probably the most famous appendectomy in the world, performed by Dr Leonid Rogozov. He was stationed in Antarctica as the only doctor on the team, and couldn't be evacuated when he developed appendicitis. He enlisted a meteorologist and a driver to hold tools and mirrors while he braved the procedure himself through waves of pain and nausea. But it went well, and Rogozov made a full recovery.
What an incredible story!

Zoharariel:
Your brain must be leaking kerosene. Russia & Amerika being on the same page?

Wait! What has light got to do with darkness?

You encircled me with NATO - pointing all your nukes at me, violated every single treaty we've ever had in curbing proliferation of nukes, instigated coup in my backyard (Ukraine) & colour revolutions on my allies (Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria & now - South Afrika) just to cripple me.

You even attempted to instigate a colour revolution in my land - which is the reason Putin banned all protests.

You framed me for downing Malaysian MH-17 and you instigated Turkey in blowing off my fighter Jet out of the Syrian airspace - and you expect me to be on the same page with you?

What happens to the saying - “The enemy of my enemy - is my friend” ?

Look - The North Koreans have taken note of the experiences of Yugoslavia, Iraq, & Libya - and then arrived at the conclusion that a small nation relying on conventional arms alone has no chance of deterring attack from the belligerent & evil empire of Amerika.

And if Amerika tries shiit - Booom! You dig?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC0t7gP3m2g

you nailed it

Motivated by poverty



Poverty and the lack of job opportunities in Nigeria led them into sex work in the first place, she argues. “And they don’t understand how bad it will be for them in Italy,” she says.
Says Sorgoni: “The women don't understand 35,000 euros is lot of money. When they get here they have to stay on the streets for 14 hours a day and they get something like five or 10 euros for sex. They then realize they’ll have to be on the streets for years — forced to go with everyone, forced to have sex without a condom because many clients here demand that.”



He adds: “Many are very young, they come from rural areas and are unschooled. They don’t understand their own bodies or the infections they can get and they think all they have to do is pray, or ward off sickness with voodoo rites.”



In Castel Volturno, local doctors say nearly a quarter of the Nigerian women they treat have sexually transmitted diseases. “They fear they’ll be arrested when they arrive at the hospital,” says Dr. Beniamino Schiavone, director of Clinica Pineta Grande, a cutting-edge private hospital the government subsidizes to provide care for migrants in the area. “So they wait until their problem is terribly serious.”

Anti-migrant rage



With anti-migrant rage mounting in Italy and populist parties demanding tough action to halt the record influx of asylum-seekers, charity and outreach workers fear speaking too openly about the motives and backgrounds of the Nigerian women arriving in Italy. They don't want to erode what’s left of public compassion for asylum-seekers.



“The pattern has changed a lot,” says Maureen, a Nigerian migrant who arrived in Italy 20 years ago, starting life here as a housemaid. Working her way through school, she’s now a case officer for the charity Associazione Jerry Masslo.
“A few years ago, yes, the women were duped by the traffickers’ and expected ordinary jobs. But those days are over…the position has changed.” Partly so, she says, because of the effectiveness of outreach programs in Nigeria warning women of the dangers.



She says many of the recently arrived Nigerian women were sex workers before in Nigeria. “Some families, often mothers, sisters and aunts urge them to make the trip, arguing it’ll just be for a few months and then they’ll be rich,” she explains.

African women in traditional dress running to catch a bus in Castel Volturno. The decaying coastal resort is home to an estimated 20,000 African migrants.e

Threat of violence



But the picture is more complicated, according to charity workers and migrants themselves, who suspect most of the Nigerian women who’ve arrived in the past two years — and the ones setting out now to complete a highly dangerous journey through strife-torn Niger and Libya — were not tricked by unscrupulous recruiters but knew they’d be engaged in sex work in Italy.
They say the women, most in their teens or early twenties, don’t understand how harsh their conditions will be and how vulnerable they will be, prey to violence and manipulation in a culture they struggle to understand. Breaking free isn't easy — the voodoo blood oaths traffickers make them take back in Nigeria weigh heavily on many of the women, the threat of violence is ever present and some fear their families will be harmed.



“The reality is that some of them, I would say most of them, know they will be involved in prostitution,” says Pescara-based Fabio Sorgoni, an official with the Italian charity On the Road, which helps prostitutes get out of sex work. “Some of them think they’ll be working in factories or cleaning. But a large proportion of them know they’re coming to do sex work,” he adds.

Like the Italian authorities, IOM argues the Nigerian women are forced unwillingly into prostitution, tricked by traffickers, who charge the women as much as 35,000 euros for the trip to Europe. The traffickers terrify the women into submission, using violence, voodoo religious rites and threats to harm the women’s families back in Nigeria, say authorities.

For the last few years Appiah has been working for an Italian charity in Castel Volturno, a decaying seaside town north of Naples that’s become home to thousands of his fellow countrymen and migrant women from Nigeria. Another charity in the area says that since 2010 about one hundred Nigerian women have sought its help to break free from sex work.



Italian and European authorities estimate as many as 16,000 Nigerian women, some as young as 16 or 17-years-old, have been trafficked into Italy in the past two years by Nigerian racketeers and crime gangs, the most notorious a syndicate known as .



The number of unaccompanied Nigerian women sailing to Italy from Libya has risen each year from 1,454 in 2014 to more than 11,000 last year and the International Organization for Migration estimates as many as 80 percent of them work once they arrive as street prostitutes for traffickers often in brutal conditions and for little pay.

CASTEL VOLTURNO, ITALY —
Italian outreach workers say there has been a significant shift in the migration pattern from Africa with many more young Nigerian women coming. And they add that many, if not most, of the young Nigerians arriving on Italian shores know they will be expected to engage in sex work.


But the women have little idea how harsh their living conditions will be and how long it will take for them to pay off the debts they owe the traffickers who recruited them and got them to Italy.



Few of them break free from the work, according to Appiah, a 37-year-old Ghanaian migrant. “I know of four women in the last few years,” he says forlornly. “Two of them had been working for years and managed to pay back what they owed the traffickers; the other two were young and fled to Germany.”

Nigerian streetwalker on the main street in Castel Volturno plying her trade. Italian authorities say one out of every two sex worker on the roads of Italy are Nigerian.

https://www.voanews.com/a/prey-to-violence-vulnerable-nigerian-women-struggle-on-italian-streets-/3972244.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

simplyhonest:
smart leader... keep giving USA sleepless nights

for sure, the deep state would not like this.

DanseMacabre:
My man.

chief, your boy loyal o.

DanseMacabre:
The original rugged man. Fayose needs to take a course in Advanced Putinomics, him show-off dey learn work.


Though Putin has a short person's typical penchant for ostentatiousness and larger-than-life portrayal, he's indeed your modern day Renaissance Man, or what's left of the term anyway.

you nailed it sir.

During his short trip to Siberia, Putin also took part in a ceremony to release omul fry into the Baikal lake to restore and maintain the biodiversity of the world's deepest lake. However, it was not all play, Putin squeezed in some business too, staging an investment meeting in the city of Blagoveshchensk which lies close to the Chinese border.

He was accompanied by defense minister Sergey Shoigu, Tyva leader Sholban Kara-ool and the head of the Republic of Khakassia, Viktor Zimin.

On the surface, Putin had to flex some muscle to lure additional catches out of the lake. Apart from demonstrating a master class in fishing, the all-action president also spent time hiking in the taiga and riding rafts on a mountain lake in southern Siberia.

“He was chasing a pike for two hours and just couldn’t hit it, but he managed to get it in the end,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

Putin spent two hours searching for the perfect catch at the bottom of the Siberian lake. Clad in a wetsuit and snorkel mask while armed with a harpoon gun and a GoPro camera, the Russian president endured the cold waters of the lake to capture some incredible footage of his fishing expedition.

Vladimir Putin has spent more than two hours chasing a giant pike in one of the lakes in Tyva Republic during his brief Siberian vacation in the form of an intense 2-day hiking and camping trip, where the Russian president once again showcased his bare torso.

https://www.rt.com/viral/398699-siberian-adventure-putin-fishing/

And finally, along with the AquaDom, the Berlin Sea Life Center has about 40 different tanks showcasing various other marine life including, eagle rays, catfish, sharks, and octopus. There is also an Interactive Rock Pool where the visitors could touch and interact with crabs, anemones, and starfishes.

A spectacular view of the AquaDom through the door of one of the hotel’s rooms.

The AquaDom lit up at night.

The aquarium forms the centerpiece for the hotel’s atrium style lobby. It also is part of the ambiance for those who wish to dine, have drinks, or spend time lounging in the lobby.

Each day the fish require around eight kilograms of food, and the tank needs to be cleaned at least three to four times a day. Visitors like to visit during the feeding times to watch the divers swim among the fish.

The Aquarium is home to over 1,500 tropical fish and even corals. From paddlefish with their Pinocchio-like long nose to the orange and white striped clownfish, the aquarium has over 110 different species of fish.

The outer cylinder has 26 acrylic panels and the inside cylinder, through which the elevator moves, has 15 acrylic panels. The panels are 16 centimeters thick at the top and 22 centimeters thick at the bottom.

The aquarium is filled with over one million liters (260,000 U.S. gallons) of salt water. Weighing a total of two tons, the massive aquarium is supported by a nine-meter (30-foot) tall foundation. It cost a whopping €12.8 million ($13 million) to construct the aquarium.

At a height of 82 feet (25 meters) and a diameter of 36 feet (11 meters), the AquaDom is the largest, freestanding, cylindrical aquarium in the world. Since its opening in 2004, it has become the central attraction at Radisson Blu and Berlin Sea Life Center.

Located in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Berlin-Mitte, Germany, the AquaDom is a tall, cylindrical structure of acrylic glass with a built-in, transparent elevator. Visitors can take the elevator that travels through the center of the cylinder to view various aquatic creatures.

As they say, the marine life on Earth is as rich and numerous as the stars in our universe. Where we can’t go, we find means to go, be it infinite space or the vast expanses of seas and oceans. And though we cannot bring the stars to us, we certainly can bring the oceans, especially if you cannot dive deep into the oceans. A hotel in Berlin did just that. They built one of the largest aquariums there and an elevator to travel through its center to let you experience marine life up close. The aquarium has become a popular tourist attraction and is very popular among children. Here are more details about AquaDom.

Turkey participated in the Korean war, despite not having any political conflicts during the cold war. Nevertheless; they sent soldiers to help the U.S. because they desperately wanted to be a member of the NATO and their previous membership requests were denied.