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This is stitched together from 4 different photos.
This is from the June 14, 2008 game. The mighty Cleveland Indians fell in extra innings to the San Diego Padres in an interleague game, 7-2.
Photo taken from Section 572, Row X, Seat 14.
Progressive Field / Cleveland, OH
Warner Bros Studio Tour London: The Making of Harry Potter
Warner Bros Studio, Aerodrome Way, Leavesden, Watford, Herts, WD25 7LS
A great day out for every fan of the boy wizard.
The Making of Harry Potter studio tour, covering 150,000 square foot, on two soundstages opened on the 31st March 2012, with stars galore at the red carpet launch at the Leavesden Studios where all eight movies were produced.
The home for many film productions, including several James Bond features, before a relatively new production company arrived there to make a film about a young boy who on his 11th birthday discovers he is a wizard.
Over the next ten years, the cast and crew of over 4,000 in total used more and more of the studios as the popularity of the books and films grew. The three young stars lived, grew up, went to school and turned into adults there on those stages.
Your tour begins in the foyer, with a flying Ford Anglia hanging from the ceiling and the walls adorned with huge photos of the cast, along with a few props.
Passing by the set of the cupboard under the stairs, you enter a room with a number of vertical TV screens showing Potter movie posters from around the world, followed by a short video sequence showing the rise of Harry’s popularity, the production teams discovery of the stories and the enormous worldwide success of the books and films.
Moving into the cinema, a short film introduced by Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, talking about their experiences growing up on a film set for ten years, with clips from all eight films. The film ends with them standing in front of the main doors to the Great Hall and they walk in through the doors and invite you to follow them.
The screen at this point slowly rises to reveal the actual main doors to the Great Hall, surrounded with stone statues and carvings. What a wizard way to start the tour.
Walking through into the Great Hall we are told that we were now walking on the actual stone floor used in the films and seeing the actual tables where the actors ate their feasts. Dummies down each side of the hall wear the actual costumes used in the films. At the far end of the hall is the teachers’ table area, with more amazing costumes worn by Professors Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, Moody, Trelawney and Flitwick, as well as Hagrid and Filch too.
Leaving the Great Hall you enter the first of two vast sound stages. This includes sets for the Gryffindor Common Room and Dormitory, Dumbledore’s Office, Potions Classroom, Hagrid’s Hut, Burrow’s Kitchen and parts of the Ministry of Magic, also Umbridge’s gaudy pink, feline office. Each filled to the brim with props and costumes.
Props can be seen everywhere, with a massive cage in the centre, chock-a-block with goblets, chandeliers, wands and armour. A huge glass case contains the wands of 24 of the major characters – less than 1 percent of the total number of wands made for the films. The ornate doors to a Gringott’s vault and to the Chamber of Secrets are seen after passing a wall dedicated to the paintings produced to decorate the walls of Hogwarts.
Below the giant swinging pendulum of the Hogwarts castle clock there are several huge touch screens containing an interactive Marauders Map.
There are sections of the soundstage dedicated to various movie-making crafts. The hair and makeup section, costumes section, animal department, graphic design and production.
The final section in this first soundstage is dedicated to the Special Effects department with three huge video screens showing all the tricks and techniques, including greenscreen footage and CGI. Props attached to their motion rigs, include the Gringott’s Vault Cart and Mad-Eye Moody’s Recumbent Broomstick.
In separate room you can have a go on a broomstick or drive the Ford Anglia yourself, using the greenscreen technology.
The Backlot about half way round the tour is an open air section between the two soundstages where refreshments are available, including Butterbeer the popular wizarding beverage.
Also featured on the backlot are the Knight Bus, another Ford Anglia, Hagrid’s motorbike/sidecar, the Riddle family tombstone, a section of the rickety wooden Hogwarts Bridge, Potter’s burnt out cottage from Godric’s Hollow and Number 4 Privet Drive.
Entering the second soundstage you pass some of the giant chess pieces from the first movie. A number of video screens here progressively show what it was like to work in the creature shop, cleverly leading you from one screen to the next, past models of Fawkes, a snapping Monster Book of Monsters and a giant animatronic head of Hagrid. The next room has the life size (i.e., ENORMOUS!) model of Aragog the spider and one of three animatronic Buckbeak models.
Walking around the corner (WOW) you are transported into another world entirely. The dark lighting and cobbled street can only mean one thing – you have entered Diagon Alley. The shops using the original sets have been rebuilt– Flourish & Blotts, Eeylops Owl Emporium, Potage’s Cauldron Shop and of course Ollivander’s Wand Shop, each and every one them is crammed full of detail. At the other end of the street is Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, with the bright orange shopfront standing out from the crowd of blackness and featuring a moving model of one of the red-haired twins doffing his hat.
At the end of Diagon Alley you move onto the Art and Design department with walls covered with architectural drawings and detailed plans, accurate down to the millimetre, for many of the props and sets already seen. A draftsman’s table serves as a projection screen for another video about the work of the art department.
Moving on, up the ascending path are walls full of concept paintings and artwork, also intricate cardboard models of Hogsmead and the Hogwarts.
You are only looking at a model of the model though, as entering the next room, there, spread over at least 15 square metres is the most amazing, complex and elaborate model built to a 1:24 scale. It has a bigger footprint than the average house.
The last part of the tour is a fitting tribute to the crew and cast of the most popular film franchise of all time. A much tidier recreation of the interior of Ollivander’s Wand shop, with over 4,000 wand boxes lining its shelves – one for every single person who worked on the films.
Exit through the Gift Shop.
On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
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SD45m #43 on their Wisconsin Northern operation at Norma, WI on July 17, 2021, started life as a Union Pacific unit. (misc 60910b)
With the sun setting, BabyDoll Bre wanted some silhouetted shots, she got them. You can see the progression of the sun setting in each of them.
©2002-2013 FranksRails.com Photography
With some obvious mechanical issues, Progressive Rail switcher #36 (Ex-Soo 1400) sits in a parking lot next to the Progressive Rail Distribution facility in Bloomington, MN
Forty years ago this month (September 1972), the British rock band Family released their sixth album, Bandstand.
Bandstand was a straightforward rock album with some tough soul-based numbers and some intense ballads. It's more conventional that its predecessor, the superb and innovative Fearless, but the musicianship remained first-rate and enjoyable. Roger Chapman continued to make good use of his growling vibrato, while Charlie Whitney took a more pensive, nuanced approach to his guitar on lighter numbers and offered up some crunchy riffs on others. Poli Palmer's flute and vibraphone remain highlights on the record, as well as the tight rhythms of drummer Rob Townsend and bassist John Wetton.
Bandstand opened with “Burlesque,” a fun, gut-busting tune about a nightclub of that name in Chapman and Whitney's hometown of Leicester, and features some punchy tunes such as "Ready To Go," a jab at the band’s detractors with some inspired drum work from Townsend. "Broken Nose" may be one of the most terrifying songs Family committed to disc, full of sexual and class politics between a hapless working-class bloke and his rich girlfriend. The biting music is complemented by the angry voice of Roger Chapman competing with his backing vocalist, British soul singer Linda Lewis, for attention. "The day that I stopped loving you was the day you broke my nose," the lyrics go. (Chapman sings them. She broke his nose!)
Bandstand offers some nice ballads as well, with the hopeful, optimistic acoustic ballad "My Friend The Sun" that promises better , sunnier days ahead, much like the Beatles’ "Let It Be" does, while the short "Dark Eyes" is a gentle harmonic song reminiscent of Crosby, Stills and Nash." Only "Bolero Babe" and "Top of the Hill," the closing cut, fall short of the rest of the LP by meandering a bit, but not by that much. The worst things you can say about Bandstand is that John Wetton, having been a vital presence vocally on Fearless, doesn't sing lead anywhere here, and that there's no instrumental track on the record - Bandstand is the only Family LP not to have one - to pique your interest.
The cover artwork didn't disappoint, showing the band in the studio listening to a playback in an image on an antique television screen. The outer sleeve, cut in the shape of a TV cabinet, is a gatefold that opens up to reveal the inner workings of a TV set underneath. John Kosh, who designed the innovative layered-paging cover of Fearless, also designed the Bandstand cover, with pictures of the band from photographer Peter Howe.
For more on Bandstand, go to my Family page - A Family Affair - and the fan Web site Family Bandstand.
Family in 1972 was:
Roger Chapman (vocals)
Charlie Whitney (guitar)
John Wetton (guitar, bass, vocals)
Poli Palmer (keyboards, vibraphone, flute, vocals)
Rob Townsend (drums)
The Faith Community of Saint Sabina's African American Speaking Series will present Susan Taylor, Editorial Director of Essence Magazine on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM:
Tickets are $15.and are on sale now at the Church Office 1210 W 78th St. , Chicago IL, 60620, phone: 773-483-4300
Susan L. Taylor is editorial director of ESSENCE magazine. Taylor has been the driving force behind one of the most celebrated African American owned business success stories of the past three decades. She oversees the editorial operations of the magazine and writes the popular In the Spirit column each month.
A fourth-generation entrepreneur, Taylor was the founder of her own company, Nequai Cosmetics, before becoming ESSENCE’s fashion and beauty editor and, in 1981, its editor-in-chief. She is the author of three books: In the Spirit: The Inspirational Writings of Susan L. Taylor, Lessons in Living and Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives, the latter co-authored with her husband, Khephra Burns. She is also a greatly sought-after speaker, delivering inspiring messages of hope and possibility.
In 1999 Taylor became the first African-American woman to receive The Henry Johnson Fisher Award from the Magazine Publishers of America, the magazine industry’s highest honor. In 2002, Taylor was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ (ASME) Hall of Fame, which celebrates the career-long records of excellence, creativity and impact of a select group of highly influential magazine journalists. Taylor's visionary leadership was acknowledged when NAACP President Bruce presented her with his first President's Award in 2006. She is an avid supporter of a host of organizations dedicated to moving the Black community forward. Her passion and focus are on creating equity in education and turning around the nation's failing schools, which, she says are "the pipeline to prison."
Taylor has received more than a dozen honorary degrees from numerous colleges and universities, including Lincoln University, Spelman College, Dillard University, Bennett College for Women, the University of Delaware and her alma mater, Fordham University.
Most recently Taylor has been focusing her attention on the ESSENCE CARES initiative. She launched this call to action to the African American community at the 2006 Essence Music Festival. It is a massive mentoring campaign that asks every able adult and our leadership—elected and appointed officials, educators, business, religious and secular leaders and college students—to rally their communities to guide and secure our vulnerable children who are crying out for help. The goal is to create the largest mentoring campaign in the history of the nation and increase high school graduation rates among African American students by 10 percent annually.
Taylor is also a cofounder of The Future PAC, the first national political action committee devoted to providing progressive African American women opportunities to hold more federal- and state-level political offices by creating a network of support and funding. In addition, Taylor and Danny Glover cochair a capital campaign to raise money to build housing in the rural areas of South Africa. She serves on the board of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C., and is an official on the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which she joined to assist the devastated people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region.
BWMC employees participate in a falls awareness campaign. Departments created a poster to educate and inspire patients, employees and visitors to do their part to prevent patients from falling and secure their safety.
class of '74 progressive dinner, reunion weekend, slavin atrium, smith center for the arts, 5-30-14, Ashley McCabe
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Lincoln, Nebraska, Progressive Party Convention Ribbon, 1912
Political Party: Progressive
Election Year: 1912
Date Made: 1912
Measurement: Ribbon: 7 x 2 5/8 in.; 17.78 x 6.6675 cm
Classification: Costume
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/60jm
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
Engaging panel discussion on how to continue the political revolution with Michael Lighty, Jim Hightower, Steve Cobble, Mary Ellen Balchunis.
Taken during the third inning of the August 22, 2011, Indians vs. Mariners game.
This is the view from Section 169, Row U, Seat 9.
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Along the way to Progressive Field, the Guardians Of Traffic Statue Stands 43 feet tall above the Hope Memorial Bridge in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The Hope Memorial Bridge, which spans across the Cuyahoga River, was built in 1932. Two towering pylons flank each side of the bridge with winged figure statues carved from Berea sandstone by the Ohio Cut Stone Company in Little Italy. Each guardian holds a different vehicle in his hand, representing the history of ground transport. Prints are available at DaleKincaid.com.
A.S. Cooley cover, The Progressive Grocer, October 1929.
Good Illustration art adorned even the trade magazines. This pup knows there's something good from the grocer.
NMS, grabbed with only very quick minor edits from eBay. Flickr seems to have the good sense not to blow the low res images up too much.
This wonderfully cramped, cluttered branch of Disk Union sells mainly electronic and progressive LPs and CDs, plus some DVDs and even Blu-rays. Folks wanting to fill up holes in their Kraftwerk collection will want to check this place out. Let the rummage begin! ;-)