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During the peanut harvest off-season, specialized trailers are parked where they are attached to a pump ducted fan that forces heated air through the peanut load to continue the drying process that starts with sun drying in the fields of Rogers Farms in Wakefield, VA, on Dec. 20, 2015. In this area, producers grow peanut, cotton, wheat, soybean, corn and other commodities on the many farms that are approximately 40 miles southeast of Richmond VA. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) photo by Lance Cheung.
This picture is taken when we met some of the locals in the village by the riverbank by the Mekong River. This is puffed rice, which was some of the products the locals made from rice. As rice is the locals main commodity, they have developed many different ways of exploiting the rice for different purposes.
With it's headboard & wreath 55017 made good progress north with 1L44 the 1603 King's Cross-York on Thursday 31st December 1981 but all was not well after leaving Peterborough. A broken rail at Barkstone & the consequential single line working caused thereof, conspired to terminate the 1L44 at Grantham in platform 4. After a protracted wait Deltic 17 ran round it's stock & is seen here at the south end of the station as the train crew perform the coupling up process, illuminated by a trusty Bardic Lamp ready to return as the 1G26 1858 additional service back to King's Cross. With departure imminent we all clambered back aboard-I don't recall seeing any normal passengers but I'm sure there were a few-it seemed to be all cranks not surprisingly. One of the first class coaches was compartments so that was purloined, can't remember if it was de-rated to 2nd Class or not but such matters were of little consequence as we headed south. The loco then failed at Knebworth & the train was terminated so that was that.
This was one of 3 shots taken as I skidded around on the ice rink but far & away the best, I think I was using a luggage trolley as a makeshift tripod. A little bit of me died that night, it would no longer be possible to go out at any time of the day or night whenever the mood took you, year in, year out & have a Deltic for haulage. Something hitherto taken for granted had now become a very precious commodity indeed & so 1981 ended with the curtain falling on BR service train Deltic operation, at least for the foreseeable future-my life had been changed forever.
Commodity Quay at St. Catherine's Dock, London with more wonderfuly expensive boats moored up. I want one!!
8203 - 8230 - 8237 - 8218 using their Dynamic brakes to hold back their coal train as they slowing make it through Lawson with CA70.
Lawson, NSW.
Tuesday 12 November 2013.
Vagón tolva TT3 - Año 1968 - Tara/tare 24 t. - Carga máxima/maximum load 56 t. - Capacidad/Capacity 35 m3 - CAF
Los vagones tolva pueden ser abiertos o cerrados. Los primeros se utilizan para el transporte de minerales, carbón, piedra o balasto. Los cerrados se utilizan para el transporte de productos que no pueden estar expuestos a las inclemencias climáticas: productos alimenticios, cereales y derivados, productos industriales como abonos, o productos para la construcción, como el cemento. Los vagones tolvas tienen bocas de descarga en la parte inferior.
A finales de los años 60, Renfe decide aumentar su parque de vagones tolva para el transporte de minerales. A consecuencia de ello, se reciben en 1968 un total de 110 tolvas. Poco después, Renfe recibió un total de 220 nuevas tolvas de idéntico diseño, pero la capacidad de carga se aumentó hasta 35 m3. De este lote, 180 unidades disponían de cubierta basculante que evita la pérdida de la carga y la humidificación de la misma por causa de la lluvia. La que se expone en el Museo pertenece a este lote. Actualmente no circulan. Transportaban mineral de las Minas del Marquesado (Granada).
A hopper car is a type of railroad freight wagon used to transport loose bulk commodities. There are Two main types of hopper car: covered hopper cars, which are equipped with a roof, and open-top hopper cars, which do not have a roof. Covered hopper cars are used for bulk cargo such as food, grain, fertilizen cement, and other building materials, that must be protected from exposure to the weather. Open hopper cars are used for commodities such as coal, ore, grain, and track ballast which can suffer exposure with less detrimental effect Hopper cars have opening doors on the underside to discharge its cargo.
In the late 1960s, Renfe commissioned new units to increase its fleet of ore hoppers. In 1968,110 brand new units were built Later on, 220 units more were delivered with the same design but a larger loading capacity of up to 35 m3. As much as 180 units had a swinging roof to prevent loss of load and humidification because of the rain, like the one being displayed. They used to transport iron ore from Minas del Marquesado (Granada) but nowadays they have been discarded.
KSB Chairman Larry Thomas presented Bailey McKay, Hunter McKay, Dakota McKay, Brad McKay, Billy Carter and Conner Ragmond with the Ky Soybean Contest State Champion Award at the 2022 Crop Production Awards Banquet held at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
July 14, 2012: Clear Lake - Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada
I grew up in Manitoba - the keystone province of Canada. Manitoba has a land mass of 261,000 sq miles with 49,000 of that being fresh water in it's rivers but mostly in it's 100,000 lakes. Great Britain, in comparison, has a land mass of 93,800 sq miles and 650 of that being fresh water from lakes and rivers. One day the world will come begging for fresh water from Manitoba. (that's an insider tip) ;-]
In the foreground, a CN train of ore pelletts will shortly commence discharge at 'Dock 5', Duluth, Minnesota. On the far side of Saint Louis Bay, a BNSF train of coal, probably from the Powder River Basin, is discharging at the Midwest Energy coal dock in Superior, Wisconsin. September 9th, 2017.
It actually took us the better part of two months to meet up, weird and occasionally busy-ish as our schedules are.
Danielle's juggling work and a baby and classes, I'm juggling...well, not all that much, really, but the fates continued to put work in my way right before we were planning to meet...several times...so it took awhile.
Didn't matter, we have a good time together, me and Danielle and my cameras.
It was hot, we stayed under the rooftop umbrella, for the most part, my cameras were all malfunctioning in weird ways (turns out the battery door on my Canon wouldn't close right, got that figured out, and one of my Polaroid cameras had a bad light meter...but that ended up being me just putting the wrong film in...so everything's fine! Except I still have that one other Polaroid camera that definitely needs repair...), I threw a little haze filter on my Canon, I'd purchased it years ago, never got around to really playing with it, that's why this image has that glow, see.
We had fun, that's what it's always been about, having fun and making friends. Seems to be those are precious commodities, these days.
One of the Elite Brethern of the Monastic Disorder of Delightful Dance, Hans “Skully” Sloan, better known as the Traveling Transactioner has been sent by the Monastic Disorder of Delightful Dance, M3D, to negotiate a deal… cough, cough… ‘sales transaction’ for that most important resource of all, ready cash! Dame Darkla is in desperate need of several Gene Sequence Analyzers necessary for her ‘Big Secret Project’ and with the cash from this deal... cough, cough… ‘sales transaction’, she will be able to purchase them. Now, the commodity the M3D is selling is… ‘special’ mushroom magic pellets… street name, M&M’s! Small time deals… cough, cough… ‘sales transactions’ made with small time Marauder factions have been the past norm. But this time M3D Marauder, Skully, is meeting with high level Aurelian representatives in Havana. It is rumored that one of these ‘high level Aurelii’, before the shift, was a member of the infamous international criminal organization, known as the, Motley Villians of Crime Association, MVCA for short. That MVCA member is Anonomous Bucks. The other Havana Aurelii present are Ramon Romero and his ‘girl-Friday’, former model/statuesque show-girl, Rosalita Rodrigues. It seems the Aurelii have their own plan for GI disruption in which M&M’s will play a key role.
Tiaan Moolman, Partner, Bain & Company, South Africa at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
KSB Chairman Larry Thomas presented Bailey McKay, Hunter McKay, Dakota McKay, Brad McKay and Billy Carter of McKay Farms with the Ky Soybean Contest State Champion Award at the 2022 Crop Production Awards Banquet held at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
"The Gardner–Pingree House is a historic house museum at 128 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts. It is judged to be a masterpiece of Federal architecture by the noted Salem builder Samuel McIntire, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972 for its architectural significance. It is owned by the Peabody Essex Museum as part of its architectural collection, and is open to the public for guided tours.
The house is a three-story brick structure, rectangular in shape, with a three-story ell extending the rear. The brick is laid in Flemish bond, and the trim is white marble. The roof is surrounded by a low balustrade above a modillioned cornice, and is pierced by two interior brick chimneys. There are marble trim bands separating the floors, and the third floor windows are shortened. All windows have black shutters, and are topped by lintels with a keystone. The main entrance is sheltered by an elliptical portico supported by four Corinthian columns. The doorway is framed by sidelight windows and an elliptical fanlight, with pilasters rising to the base of the portico top. The house interior features lavishly-carved woodwork in the public spaces on the first floor, including fireplace mantels, cornices, internal window shutters, and the stairway balustrades.
The house was built in 1804 by Samuel McIntire in a Federal style for John and Sarah (West) Gardner. John bought the lot from his father (John Gardner, Sr) whose cousin (John Gardner III) was the grandfather of John Lowell Gardner I. John and Sarah sold the house to her brother, Nathaniel West, to cover shipping losses related to events leading up to the War of 1812. The house was sold, in 1814, to Capt. Joseph White. David Pingree bought the house in 1834. In 1933 descendants of David Pingree gave the house to the Essex Institute, which merged with the Peabody Museum of Salem to form the Peabody Essex Museum.
The house was the site of the notorious 1830 murder of Capt. Joseph White, whose death prompted a famous trial prosecuted by Daniel Webster. The trial inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The house was one of the filming locations for the 1979 Merchant Ivory film adaptation of Henry James' novel The Europeans.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is a contributing property to both the Essex Institute Historic District and the Salem Common Historic District.
Salem (/ˈseɪləm/ SAY-ləm) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 with English colonists. Salem would become one of the most significant seaports trading commodities in early American history.
Today Salem is a residential and tourist area that is home to the House of Seven Gables, Salem State University, Pioneer Village, the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Salem Willows Park, and the Peabody Essex Museum. It features historic residential neighborhoods in the Federal Street District and the Charter Street Historic District.The city's population was 44,480 at the 2020 census.
Salem is widely noted for the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. Some of Salem's police cars are adorned with witch logos, a public elementary school is known as Witchcraft Heights, and the Salem High School athletic teams are named the Witches. Gallows Hill is believed to have once been the site of many public hangings, including of persons convicted as witches. It is now a park and used as a playing field for various sports." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
An eastbound NS coal train rolls east through the upper reaches of the Ohio River Valley on the Fort Wayne Line, passing under classic Pennsy position lights at Haysville, Pennsylvania.
The weekly market of Yanonge - DRC.
Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR
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Renfroe Farms focuses on utilizing conservation practices developed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to balance land stewardship and production in Carroll County, TN, on Sept 17, 2019. The Water and Sediment Control Basin (WASCOB) (Practice Code 638) is one of the practices seen here. WASCOBs are earthen dams built across a drainage way where
ephemeral or classic gullies form due to concentrated flow of water. It traps water and sediment
running off cropland upslope from the structure and reduces gully erosion by controlling flow within the
drainage area. These structures are usually completed in a series or system approach to control the
grade and head cutting (gully erosion) in drainage ways or along creek and stream channels.
Renfroe Farm uses WASCOBs to reduce erosion sediment in surface water and are leading to improved land use and crop production. ¬Additionally, Underground Outlets (UGOs) (Practice Code 620) are used to carry water to a safe and stable outlet thus reducing the amount of sediment in surface increasing water quality.
In general, a UGO is a conduit (transport) installed beneath the surface of the ground to carry runoff to a suitable outlet. The purpose of the UGO is to carry excess water to a suitable outlet from terraces, water, and sediment control basins (as described above), diversions, waterways, subsurface drains, surface drains or other similar practices without causing damage by erosion or flooding.
NRCS has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.
As the USDA’s primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.
And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.
Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and services supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), NRCS, and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
For more information please see www.usda.gov
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Date: November 7, 2008
Contacts: Manilatown Heritage Foundation
Release Until: January 10, 2009
Phone: (415) 399-9580
Email: mhf@manilatown.org
Website: www.manilatown.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chasing Commodities concludes “Globalization: Response & Responsibilty” Series
San Francisco, CA – November 2008 - Photos taken of sisal, cotton, seaweed and coffee farms and factories will be showing in an exhibit entitled “Chasing Commodities” at the I-Hotel Manilatown Center in San Francisco. Documented in Tanzania, India and Mexico the photos tell the stories of communities struggling in the global economy. This will conclude the 2008 series on “Globalization: Response and Responsibilty” presented by the Manilatown Heritage Foundation.
In every corner of the world there is a story about how the local community is suffering from the global economy. Documentary photographer and community organizer, Angela Angel followed just a few of these communities and found hundreds of untold stories: sisal farming growing rapidly for fiber optics in the technology industry, the plight of Indian cotton farmers who have committed suicide by the thousands because of farm monopolies and bio-piracy, seaweed grown in Zanzibar strictly for export and shipped to Asia and finally, the coffee industry that begins in Africa and Central America and is dictated by world market prices.
From 2006 to 2007 Angel set out on a global exposure trip to find answers for the disconnections between the consumer and the producer, from the local to the global: “We always talk about this entity that is ‘larger than ourselves.’ That is what I had set out to see. Really, you don’t have to travel to find the truth but there is much that we are being lied to about—how globalization has come to be for humanity and the earth and how communities are trying to deal. There is much disconnect from the food we consume and how it gets to the table. This is a glimpse into the local realities of the earth that produces these raw materials, of the farmers and the choices they have to make and of the systems that turn them into cash crops for our benefit in this global economy, other wise known as, commodification.”
Opening Reception for the exhibit is on December 12, 2008 from 5pm to 9pm at the I-Hotel Manilatown Center. The reception will also include a program from traveling activists Yoreb Ku Ba and Jean Melesaine of Debug in Brazil on Hip-Hop Semana & Quilombo, Vicente Garcia and Cory Aguilar of H.O.M.E.Y. & HUAXTEC in Guatemala on Los Desaparacidos & HIJOS and Erica Benton of Famoksaiyan in Guahan on the Chamoru Cultural Center.
Chasing Commodities will be showing at the I-Hotel Manilatown Center from December 12, 2008 to January 10, 2009.
What: Exhibit Opening Reception
Who: Manilatown Heritage Foundation and Angela Angel
When: Friday, December 12, 2008 at 5-9 pm
Where: I-Hotel Manilatown Center, 868 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
For more information visit: www.manilatown.org
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The mission of Manilatown Heritage Foundation is to promote social and economic justice for Filipinos in America by preserving our history, advocating for equal access, and advancing our arts and culture. We envision an inspired and self-sustaining organization that effectively and creatively enhances the Filipino community’s capacity to shape social, political and economic policies. Our community will be one that has equitable access to resources and opportunities, as well as pride in our culture, history and traditions. Our core values are bridging cultures and generations, maintaining organizational integrity and respect, and encouraging critical conversations within our community. We strive to create community across generations by developing contemporary approaches to issues and by fostering a culture that is both grounded in its historical roots and guided by our love of community.