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In 2019, Bolivia lost more than 6 million hectares of forest and grassland to forest fires.
When the country requested support with its response to the crisis last summer, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism helped mobilise a specialised French firefighting team to assist Bolivian authorities in fighting the fires.
The EU also supported the Bolivian firefighters by providing items such as tents and water pumps to enable them to do their job. A team of 6 Swedish experts established a remote basecamp facility which could shelter 200 people in tents with electricity and water.
In addition, the EU team built an operation centre and trained the local forces how to use it in the future.
The response helped protect houses, communities and several national parks from the danger.
©2019 European Union (photographer: Ruth Silva)
In a university production, I'm country bumpkin Tony Lumpkin in Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" The guy on the left stuck with acting and went on to modest success in various TV series. The year was 1963.
Concentration piece #10 (for now)
An old pipe.
I'm not sure where this pipe came from, nor whom it came from. Heck, I don't even know who the face is supposed to be. I do know, however, that it is one awesome looking pipe, so I felt the urge to get some shots of it! Something about it just seems magical in my eyes...
Shot with a Canon EOS 60D and a Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS lens.
A Manhattan-bound Q train arrives at Beverley Rd station, sporting the diamond Q bullet used during the Manhattan Bridge reconstruction, when the Q was the only train running on the Brighton Line. Since it was both a local and express service operating at the same times it fit the criteria for a diamond bullet to differentiate the two. This is the current criteria for a diamond bullet, which is why the <6> and <7> are currently in use, but not the <5>.
R68 < Q > (Westinghouse-Amrail, 1986-1988)
Beverley Rd station
Brighton Line - BMT
Metra's first F40PH wears a temporary wrap commemorating its original colors and Metra's 40th Anniversary. It is about to lead BNSF train 1261 to the western suburbs.
This week we are going back sixteen years to 2009, and to AV 134 in Donnybrook arriving with a service on route 47 from Belarmine.
The modern route 47 started running between Donnybrook Church and Belarmine in 2008. It operated via Sandyford with the intention of providing a connection between the Luas tram system and the new development in Belarmine near Stepaside. In 2010 it was extended into the city centre as part of Network Direct, going via Ballsbridge, and acting as partial replacements for routes 46B, 63 and 84. In 2012 it was rerouted again under Network Direct, this time reaching the city centre via Nutley Lane, Sandymount and Ringsend. This was a partial replacement for routes 2 and 3.
AV 134 was new to Dublin Bus in 2000. It was withdrawn around 2013 and sold on to an operator in the United Kingdom.
09/04/2009
This week we are going back nine years to 2014 and to DM 2 on Rosie Hackett Bridge. DM 2 was a Wrights demonstrator bus on a Volvo B5LH hybrid chassis. It entered service with Dublin Bus in July 2014 for initially a six month trial period. It was the second hybrid bus Dublin Bus had trialled, although WH 1 had arrived in 2008 and left in 2012. DM 2 lasted with Dublin Bus well into 2015, leaving in the second-quarter of 2015. It then went on to National Express West Midlands in the UK, arriving there around September 2015, but was returned to Volvo in November of that year. It was then sold on to Go-Ahead London and is still in service there today as WHV 111 - flic.kr/p/2pejr1S.
The bus is operating a service on route 151 to Foxborough. This route started in 2007, initially operating between Docklands Station and Grange Castle, although it was soon extended to Adamstown. In 2009 it moved its Docklands terminus to East Road, providing an interchange with route 53. Under Network Direct in 2010 the route was moved to terminate at Foxborough instead of Adamstown, and still does so today.
The bus is crossing Rosie Hackett Bridge which opened in May 2014.
05/12/2014
This week we are going back forty-two years to 1983 and to KD 90 with a service on route 41C at Dublin Airport.
Route 41C started running between the city centre and River Valley (in Swords) in 1981. In 2005 it was extended through Swords to Swords Manor. Certain departures on route 41C served Dublin Airport up until the route was extended to Swords Manor.
KD 90 was new to CIE in 1982. It was withdrawn by Dublin Bus around 1997.
The background has changed a lot during the last forty years. The car park has become a multi-storey car park, as well as the location of many bus and coach stands for services to the city and to around the country. Buses no longer serve the road KD 90 is seen on.
01/10/1983
How I wish this was still everyday power for road trains. P76 heads to East Point with an old school consist, with only the Sadmiral cab 4th out as a spoiler.
Throwback Thursday ist zurück!
Wir starten unseren Flickr #TBT mit einem Motto, das wohl jeder liebt: Haustiere (#Pets)! Teilt eure Fotos der Gegenwart und Vergangenheit von Haustieren in unserem Facebook-Post mit uns (einfach den Link zu eurem Foto im Kommentarfeld unterhalb des Posts hinterlassen). Die schönsten Fotos präsentieren wir dann nächste Woche hier im Blog!
Viel Spaß!
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This week we are going back seventeen years to 2007 and to RA 322 on O'Connell Street with a service on route 121 to Cabra.
Route 121 started operating between the city centre and Drimnagh Road in 1997. It was a City Imp route, and replaced previous route 22A. In 1998 the route was extended north to Cabra, initially terminating on Faussagh Road, before being extended to Ratoath Road in 1999. The route ceased to operate in 2011 under Network Direct changes. Part of the route on southside was replaced by route 150, but other roads lost their bus service when the route ended.
RA 322 was new to Dublin Bus in 1996. It was withdrawn in December 2007, and sold on to another operator in the United Kingdom.
This bus stop outside Easons is no longer present, having been removed during the Luas Cross City construction works. It was once served by a variety of high-frequency routes, and was a very busy stop.
06/11/2007
This week we are going back thirty-seven years to KC 3, parked in Phibsborough Garage.
This bus was new to CIE in 1984. Whereas KC 1 was built by FFG in Hamburg, and KC 2 was built in Bombardier, KC 3 was the first KC built by GAC who also build the rest of the fleet, up to KC 202. KC 3 was initially allocated to Cork, before moving up to Dublin Although the bus did operate in passenger service, it did spend some time as a driver training bus. As a result it gained a second mirror behind the door for the instructor to use. The bus was withdrawn by Dublin Bus from service in the late-1990s.
Phibsboro Garage opened in 1971, built on part of the old railway yard at Broadstone Station. That station closed to passenger traffic in 1937, and closed completely in 1961. The station complex is currently home to the Bus Eireann main depot, and more recently a Dublin Bus depot.
20/06/1987
A U.S. Marine with Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, swabs the breach of an M777A2 Lightweight Howitzer Lightweight Howitzer after firing as part of Eager Mace 13, aboard Forward Operating Base Sword, Kuwait November 14, 2012. The purpose of the exercise is to expand levels of cooperation, maritime capabilities, as well as promote long-term regional stability and interoperability between U.S. forces and regional partners.
Photo by Cpl. Bobby J. Gonzalez
This week we are going back fourteen years to 2009 and RV 479 on Eden Quay. The bus is dressed for route 15F. This route started running between the city centre and Kiltipper in 2001 (until 2003 the terminus was listed as Aylesbury and then Ellensborough). This was a peak-time only route that went via the Tallaght QBC and Rathmines, with one service in each direction a day. The route ceased to operate in December 2011 under Network Direct changes in the Rathmines area.
RV 479 was new to Dublin Bus in 1999. This Volvo Olympian was withdrawn in late-2011 and was sold on to another Irish operator. 27/10/2009
"Watch over the Rhine," which was the first National Guard Heritage Painting to feature an Air National Guard mission, was unveiled in early 1967 by Maj. Gen. Winston Wilson, Chief, National Guard Bureau (second from left) and presented to the Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown (third from left). The painting shows ANG missions flown over Germany in 1961 during the Berlin Crisis. Adjacent to the generals on the extreme left, Brig. Gen. Robert Akin, Adjutant General of the Tennessee National Guard, the state from which the "Starfighter" unit was based, and on the extreme right, Gen. John P. McConnell, the Air Force Chief of Staff. Published in the April 1967 edition of National Guardsman magazine.
DeGrazia once said, “I remember when I painted murals. I’d paint the whole wall–all the walls of a room. I’d paint all day for twenty-five dollars.” DeGrazia started painting murals after his two-year apprenticeship under Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco in 1942. Happy Throwback Thursday!
The old tower at LAX is still a great looking building. It just makes the airport feel so much a 50's feeling of the future.