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Some people laid coins along the tracks that wound through small town Texas so a 420,000-pound locomotive pulling the nation's first funeral train in nearly half a century could crunch them into souvenirs.


Steven Lowry, 7, picks through the rocks underneath the train tracks moments after the memorial train for President George H.W. Bush had passed through Pinehurst, Texas, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Many people who watched the train pass by took rocks or coins that were flattened by the train as keepsakes.

Firefighters also paying their respect.

Dying wish, final journey home.



People pay their respects as the train carrying the casket of former President George H.W. Bush passes through Navasota, Texas Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

The flag-draped casket of former president George HW Bush is carried by a joint services military honour guard at Ellington Field in Houston.

His final resting place is alongside Barbara Bush, his wife of 73 years, and Robin Bush, the daughter they lost to leukaemia aged three.



Going on a train ride.

George H.W.'s casket was taken to Joint Base Andrews after the service to be boarded onto Air Force One and flown home to Texas.

Wednesday was declared a national day of mourning in the former president's honor.

The Bush family told before Wednesday's service how touched they had been by the public outpouring of support and sympathy.

Thousands of people stood out in the street to pay tribute to the former president as he was driven past them towards the cathedral.

The hearse was driven slowly past the White House on its way to the National Cathedral from the US Capitol.

President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton with their wives, and Jimmy Carter with his wife Rosalynn.

Charles sat quietly throughout the service next to former Prime Minister John Major. The pair were sat behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other mourners.


Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama embrace as they prepare to take their seats inside the National Cathedral before the Trumps' arrival.

George W. Bush broke into sobs at the end of his touching eulogy to his father on Wednesday.

He paid tribute to him as the 'best father a son or daughter can have' and honored his service to the country as both the 41st president and during the war.


As he made his way back from the pulpit, George W. placed a loving hand on his father's flag draped casket as he cried.

TheShopKeeper:
...very very very true about the bolded...similar situation is happening right now to a relative i know...he's extremeely wealthy but he's the only one at home right now as none of his children wants to relate with him and his wife is happily visiting all her children in different countries staying in each place between 2 - 3months...the only time his wife is home between Dec - Jan...He was just to harsh to the children when they were growing up...the Army Cantonment in Ibadan would have been a better place to stay compared to his household...

Hmmm....... Lesson.

Lalasticlala let men learn from here.

The U.S. flag above the White House flew at half-staff in Bush's honor on Monday, along with flags at all other federal buildings.


As Monday's motorcade procession took up the southbound lanes of Interstate 45, drivers on the northbound lanes pulled over in a miles-long show of respect.





The locomotive chosen for his final journey was customized in Bush's honor in 2005 and painted with the number '4141' in his honor.


He marveled at its unveiling that year and asked to take it for a ride.

On Thursday his casket will be in a train car with Plexiglas windows to allow people to see it during the trip.

The 41st president died at his Houston home on Friday night, seven months after his wife Barbara passed away.


Bush will be laid to rest alongside his wife of 73 years and Robin Bush, their daughter who died of leukemia in 1953 at age 3.

The Lincoln catafalque, a wooden platform that once supported the coffin of America's 16th president, was placed in the center of the Capitol Rotunda in preparations for the arrival of Bush's casket.


Pallbearers, all members of the U.S. Secret Service, brought Bush's casket out of a Houston funeral home Monday morning and loaded it into a hearse for a motorcade-drive to Ellington Field, where the presidential Boeing 747 awaited.

Joint service members rehearsed on Sunday for the arrival of Bush's remains at the U.S. Capitol, where he will lie in state in the Rotunda.

Members of the military played 'Hail to the Chief' and accompanied a 21-gun salute with a long drum roll at Ellington Field.

Sully, the yellow Labrador retriever service dog of former President George H.W. Bush, walked thorugh Joint Base Andrews after the arrival of 'Special Air Mission 41'.



Sully, the late President Bush's service dog, lay in front of his casket at the funeral home in Houston on Monday.

Former President George W. Bush (left) emerged from the same plane that ferried him around the world from 2001 to 2009, with his first lady at his side.


Former President George W. Bush (center) and former first lady Laura Bush (right) joined brother Neil Bush and his family deplaning from the jet that serves as Air Force One.


Jeb Bush (right of center, front row) joined the rest of the family at Joint Base Andrews from Florida; his wife Columba is to his left.


The Texas-based Bush clan including George Wl, Laura and Neil stood with hands on hearts during Monday morning's departure ceremony.

Along with a military band and honor guards arrayed like parade-ground marchers without a commander to review them, a contingent of 114 crew members of the USS George H.W. Bush stood at attention while the jumbo jetliner touched down and taxied.

Aboard the plane with the former president's remains were his sons George W. and Neil and their families.

George W. Bush was America's 43rd president. Former first lady Laura Bush also made the trip from Houston.

From Airforce One To 'Special Air Mission 41'




The remains of the late U.S. President George H.W. Bush reached an airbase near Washington, D.C. on Monday, finishing one leg of a round-trip journey from Texas back to the capital where he served four years in Congress, one at the helm of the CIA, eight as vice president and four in the White House.


'Special Air Mission 41' the aircraft known as Air Force One when living presidents are aboard touched down just before 3:30 p.m. at Joint Base Andrews, where a Cadillac hearse flying the U.S. flag and bearing the Seal of the President of the United States waited on an expansive tarmac.







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Lalasticlala, Mynd44

SMH

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday quashed a rumour stemming from his ill health that he had died and been replaced by a lookalike impostor from Sudan, his spokesman said.

Buhari tweeted on Sunday that he addressed the reports while at a meeting in Poland.

'One of the questions that came up today in my meeting with Nigerians in Poland was on the issue of whether I've been cloned or not,' Buhari said.

'The ignorant rumors are not surprising, when I was away on medical vacation last year a lot of people hoped I was dead.'

'It's real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong,' Buhari said as he met with the Nigerian diaspora in Poland, where he is attending the UN COP24 climate summit in Katowice.

He was answering a question from the audience about repeated claims spread via tweets, Facebook posts and YouTube videos that the leader of Africa's most populous nation was an imposter called 'Jubril'.

'A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the Vice President to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead,' Buhari said, according to a statement signed by his spokesman Garba Shehu.

He referred to those who started the rumour as 'ignorant' and 'irreligious'.


'It's real me, I assure you. I will soon celebrate my 76th birthday and I will still go strong,' Buhari said as he met with the Nigerian diaspora in Poland, where he is attending the UN COP24 climate summit in Katowice.

He was answering a question from the audience about repeated claims spread via tweets, Facebook posts and YouTube videos that the leader of Africa's most populous nation was an imposter called 'Jubril'.

'A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health.

Some even reached out to the Vice President to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead,' Buhari said, according to a statement signed by his spokesman Garba Shehu.

He referred to those who started the rumour as 'ignorant' and 'irreligious'.





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6453417/Nigerian-president-denies-rumours-surrounding-ill-health.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C8403225372

Meanwhile, Air Force One arrived in Texas on Sunday to transport Bush's body to Washington for a state funeral.


Bush spokesman Jim McGrath tweeted a photo of the presidential plane on a tarmac Sunday afternoon.

The aircraft will be temporarily renamed and redesignated as 'Special Air Mission 41' as it is only referred to as Air Force One whenever the sitting President is on board.



Trump will send his presidential plane to pick up the remains of George H.W. Bush in Texas.

Air Force technicians will rip out a cabin full of seats to make room for the former president's casket.


Flags are flying at half-staff at all federal buildings, and Trump has declared Wednesday a day of mourning.

A heartbreaking image shows George H.W. Bush’s service dog lying next to the 41st President’s coffin in Houston on Sunday.

The image shows ‘Sully,’ a specially trained golden lab, mournfully lying down as Bush’s flag-draped coffin is seen a few feet from him.





Baker said Bush had been fading over the last week spending most of his time sleeping and not eating.

He refused to be taken to the hospital as friends and family members flocked to the house to say goodbye.

Bush's final words were 'I love you' on a speakerphone call with his son, George W. Bush.



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Lalasticlala, Mynd44

With what?

The Nigerian Army has challenged its Special Forces to prove that they have better training and tactics than terrorists by making the difference and positive impact in the ongoing counter-terrorism operations.


The Chief of Army of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, gave the charge in Maiduguri on Sunday, while addressing the Armed Forces Special Forces and Army Strike Group deployed in the North-East.

“You are selected specially and deployed here in the North East.

You are given special training and that is why you are called Special Forces.

“I am here to tell you that you have a great job to do and you must do it properly.

“You are deployed in the North-East to make a difference because of your special training.

If there will be any challenge in terms of capacity, I believe you will fill that gap and you have all it takes to do that.

“If you apply the training that you are given, we all have cause to be proud to belong the armed forces of our great country,’’ Buratai said.

He warned them against exhibiting cowardice, saying “we do not have time for the chicken-hearted, the cowards.

“You all must brace up and be brave.

We have done the greatest job so far in the North-East; the greatest in terms of degrading the terrorists.


“We are better trained, better equipped.

We know tactics better than them and what is remaining for us is to dominate everywhere and dominate our areas of responsibilities.


“We must dominate the whole of the North-East.’’

He added that “the terrorists must no longer be allowed the freedom to move about and commit heinous crime and escape.

“They must be dealt with squarely.

We must say no to their vain and invalid threats.

“Henceforth, there should be no dull moment in our operations.

There should be no gap, but make a difference.’’


https://punchng.com/prove-you-are-better-than-boko-haram-fighters-buratai-tells-special-forces/

DanXplore:
Is it compulsory to go shopping with her? I don’t get

Maybe she's pregnant, she cannot drive or she's still learning and she asked you to take her to the market/mall.

Are you going to say no?

Fed up men.

More

Photos of husbands and boyfriends shopping with their significant others and the all-consuming agony they endure.

Men spending hours waiting, sitting on a bench.










I can relate well, so annoying.

Only God knows what they're looking for, from one store to another, or checking 10 stores without buying anything.

But i prefer moving around with them than staying in the car in the sun.

After going for about 3hours, she will come back to the car with stuffs, you thinking she's done, then 'Oh God i forgot something something, please give me a minute to get it'.


Thats another 1hour.



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Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Earlier this month, November, 2018, we shared with you about Allyn Pierce, a brave nurse who risked his life, limb, and truck to save his patients and colleagues form the deadly California wildfires.

After Pierce posted photos of his burnt Toyota Tundra on social media, Toyota applauded his heroic actions and offered to replace his truck.


Toyota has made good on its promise and delivered a new 2018 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro to Pierce.


Pierce's last Tundra was lightly customized to meet his needs. But Rockstar had offered to build Pierce's new Tundra in any configuration that he would want.



The nurse's old truck had been burnt into its crispy marshmallow-like color after Pierce drove it through the California wildfires (not once, but twice) to shuttle patients from his hospital's ICU to safety.

In fact, the entire hospital staff worked diligently to set up a triage in the parking lot of the facility as it became engulphed in flames, protecting the patients until emergency crews could carve out a safe a venue away through the blaze for the workers to whisk away the remaining patients in a convoy of their own personal vehicles.




Earlier thread :


https://www.nairaland.com/4845890/california-wildfire-toyota-tundra-saved?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4354864698




http://www.thedrive.com/news/25079/toyota-delivers-new-tundra-to-hero-nurse-who-sacrificed-truck-in-california-wildfires

Willis Chung Abandoned His Camera When A One-Ton Bison Came After Him.



Willis Chung was another wildlife photographer who found himself at the mercy of a charging animal.

This time, it was a one-ton bison.

Chung was taking photographs at Yellowstone National Park when the animal suddenly ran toward him.

Chung continued taking pictures while the bison charged.

At a certain point, the animal was getting too close.

So the photographer finally fled and left his tripod-mounted camera behind.

A Gorilla Almost Punches Christophe Courteau.



Photographer Christophe Courteau was almost punched by agorillathat he was photographing at Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda.

He and some other photographers were taking pictures of the gorilla troop when the leader, a 250-kilogram (550 lb) beast called Akarevuro, charged at Courteau without warning.

A Warlord Declared Ron Haviv Wanted For Exposing War Crimes.



Photographer Ron Haviv almost lost his life for taking pictures that implicated fighters in the Serbian

Tigers unit of war crimes during the 1992 Bosnian War.

The most iconic was the picture of a fighter kicking the body of a woman whom his colleagues had just killed.

Haviv was with the paramilitary members at the time of the killings.

He watched the fighters drag a man out of his house before shooting him on the street.

They later shot his wife and her sister. Haviv secretly took photographs of the shootings, although the Serbian paramilitary members were not captured in the frames.

One Serbian fighter soon walked up to the dead family and kicked their bodies.

Haviv took this picture, too.

However, the fighters heard his camera click and looked at him.

Their commander, Zeljko Raznjatovic (aka Arkan), later collected the film from Haviv and promised to return the processed photographs.

Arkan did not realize that Haviv had swapped the roll of film and hidden the one containing evidence of the war crimes. Later, Haviv published the pictures.

This angered Arkan, who vowed to kill Haviv.

Some of his fighters later arrest other photographers after mistaking them for Haviv.

James Akena Was Beaten By Ugandan Soldiers For Taking Pictures During An Anti-Government Protest.




On August 20, 2018, photojournalist James Akena was attacked by Ugandan soldiers as he took pictures during an anti-government protest.

A chilling video shot by another person shows one soldier approach Akena and start whipping him with a cane.

The soldier is joined by two others, one of whom also has a cane.

As the three men beat Akena, the soldier without a cane spots the person shooting the video.

He barely pulls away from Akena and his colleagues when he aims his rifleat the individual making the video and fires a shot.


The video stops at this point, although it does not seem like the person was killed.

Akena was taken away after the assault.

Later, the Ugandan army stated that the soldiers involved would be disciplined.


However, this was probably a save-face gesture as they were only responding because the video went viral.

Human Rights Watch observed that Ugandan police and military officers had often beaten journalists who took photographs during anti-government protests and those officers had faced no consequences.

Tracey Shelton Was Almost Killed After An Armored Tank Fired At Her Position.




In 2012, Tracey Shelton was covering theSyrian Civil Warwhen she was almost killed by a shell fired by a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) tank.

The SAA is the official army of the Syrian government.

Their primary opponent is the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a group of rebel factions that want Bashar al-Assad to step down as president of Syria.

The rebels involved here were from the Noor Den al-Zenke battalion.

Shelton was with them before the tank arrived and had been taking their photographs as they cleaned their position.

The pictures showed them joking and laughing.

The rebels soon received information that there was an SAA tank in their area.

They rushed to their weapons and tried engaging the tank when the combat vehicle fired.

Shelton took the photograph the moment the shell hit the rebels.

The picture shows three rebels in front with a fourth behind them.

Shelton was behind the fourth rebel.

The rebels could not take cover before the shell exploded.

All three in front were killed.

The rebel behind them survived with injuries.

Shelton was unhurt, though she was covered in dust and smoke.

The bodies of the three dead rebels were recovered and taken away while new fighters were drafted to replace them.

Mark Laita Took A Picture Of Himself As He Was Bitten By A Deadly Black Mamba.



The black mamba is one of the world’s most deadly venomous snakes.

A bite will kill a human in a few hours.

Not many people have lived after a bite from this type of snake.

Photographer Mark Laita became one of those few when he survived a bite in 2012.

Interestingly, Laita took a picture of the snake the moment it bit him.

At the time, Laita was working on a book about snakes.

He had traveled to Central America where hetook pictures of some snakes held by a collector.

The collector had removed the venom glands of most of the snakes but not the mamba.

The mamba continued moving closer to Laita during the photo shoot.

Then it attacked when the collector hit Laita’s camera cable while trying to capture the snake.

The mamba got scared and lunged at Laita, biting him in the leg.