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My "travelin' kid", freight train hoppin', "homeless" daughter and her 11 month old Rott mix Pippen were here for a 2-week visit. One evening near the end of her stay I got the bright idea to do a portrait of her and Pipps. ha! I set up lights and a funky backdrop, but neither she nor the dog were really into a modeling session. Not very cooperative. We all gave up after less than 15 minutes.
Photos from Matt & Kate's winter rowboat engagement session near Prince George British Columbia.
We changed outfits after the rowboat portion of their session, and headed out onto the dock. Her blue dress really stood out against the dark lake and snowy trees - some of our favourite photos we have taken this year.
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ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 01: Kieran Tierney of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on December 01, 2021 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
14 October 2013 Loban Siarhei,BLR, red, vs Butdee Chatchai,THA,blue. Men's.(52kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 2B,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
Sammie Abbott, publicity director of Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), makes a point opposing new freeways in the District of Columbia November 25, 1967 at an informal session of the appointed city council.
“We’re not going to let I-95 come into the District of Columbia if we have to lay down in front of the bulldozers with our bodies,” Abbott said. “There are going to be whites with our black brothers on this.”
Thirty-five members of the ECTC attended and universally opposed more freeway construction instead favoring a system of syubways and other rapid rail transit, serving the predominantly black inner city.
Rev. Joe Gibson of Nash Methodist Church in Brookland charged that freeways are “instruments of planned ghettosim.”
The ECTC put forward a number of demands including an immediate halt to all freeway construction, an end to seizure of homes in proposed highway right-of-ways, and implementation of the Arthur D. Lyttle report (which called for no more freeways) for future rapid transit planning.
The ECTC held a rally at the District building the previous hearing where only council member Joseph Yeldell attended. A number of speakers criticized other council members for not attending the rally and for the sparse participation of council members in the informal session with the ECTC.
While Chairman Walter Fauntroy termed the session “useful and productive” in informing the council members, Abbott blasted the meeting saying, “This is no excuse for a public hearing.”
Abbott biography:
Sammie Abdullah Abbott waged a lifelong struggle against economic and social injustice. Abbott was studying architecture at Cornell University when he was radicalized by the economic catastrophe that was called the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Abbott became active with the Communist Party and his father’s grocery business failed when a local bank pulled financing because they felt threatened by the younger Abbott’s radicalism.
Abbott ran for Congress in 1934 in New York’s 37th District on the Communist Party ticket.
Abbott became an organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in Buffalo’s steel mills and met his wife Ruth when he was jailed for picketing. They married and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1940 where he worked as a hod carrier on construction jobs and later worked for a local union.
When the US entered World War II, Abbott joined the Air Force where he received a Bronze Star. After the war, Abbott worked as a commercial artist for the Henry J. Kauffman agency.
During this time he was head of the local committee that gathered thousands of signatures demanding the US never use nuclear weapons again.
In 1954, when members of the Communist Party were being sentenced to prison for their beliefs (not for any acts), Abbott was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).
Abbott stood up to the committee and refused to “name names” and wouldn’t even confirm the license plate number on his automobile.
He was fired from the Kauffman agency for being a “red.” To his friends, Abbott described himself as a marxist, but not a communist.
After being blacklisted, he worked as a freelance commercial artist and later started his own firm that operated out of the Dupont Building at 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW.
He remained active in the civil rights and peace movements throughout the 1950s and 1960s and was repeatedly questioned by the FBI and local police about his politics.
When the District of Columbia proposed building a new freeway that would slash through African-American neighborhoods, Abbott lay down in the path of the proposed Northeast Freeway.
At that time, planned freeway routes had largely been moved out of white neighborhoods and pushed into black neighborhoods. Abbott joined a young African-American civil rights activist named Reginald Booker to head the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis.
Abbott designed a number of the great anti-freeway posters including the “White Man’s Roads Thru Black Man’s Homes” posters.
Together Booker and he led demonstrations, sit-ins and mass protests at Washington, DC city council meetings and other local and federal government sites that stopped the North Central Freeway and Three Sisters Bridges and instead diverted the funds toward building the Metrorail system.
Abbott continued his activism against the Vietnam War and helped young students in Maryland publish the “Radical Guide to the University of Maryland.” Later he was active in the anti-apartheid movement.
He started the Takoma Park Folk Festival that continues today and ran for mayor of the town in 1980 and won. Abbott led the fight for rent control in the city, offered sanctuary to undocumented workers and established the town as a “nuclear free zone.”
Abbott died in 1990 and his wife Ruth carried on their activism until her death in 2009.
Sammie Abbott was arrested more than 40 times for his activism and was quoted once saying, “I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.”
His own favorite quote was from Dante’s Inferno, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.”
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Photo by Joseph Silverman. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
25 October 2013 Mammadov Teymur,AZE,red, vs Russo Clemente,ITA,blue. Men's.(91kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 21A,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
14 October 2013 Touba Hamza,GER, red, vs Neto Juliao,BRA,blue. Men's.(52kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 1B,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
Some of my favourite photos from their Engagement session at Golden Ear's Park in Maple Ridge, near Vancouver BC.
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ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - APRIL 10: of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on April 10, 2019 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
15 October 2013 McCOMB Sean,IRL, red, vs Mai Briga Almog,ISR,blue. Men's.(60kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 3A,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
Martin Frick, Senior Director for Policy and Programme Coordination, UN Climate Change speak at Can we walk the talk? Why landscape approaches struggle to grow – and how to give them a boost interactive session, Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019.
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF
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One of the main objectives of the European Union is to promote economic, social and territorial cohesion between regions. The reformed EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 comes at a pivotal moment. Recent years of austerity have seen rising unemployment and widening inequality, especially in peripheral regions, with youth, women and ethnic minorities worst affected.
Making over €350 billion available to invest in Europe's regions, cities and the real economy, the reformed Cohesion Policy is the EU's principal investment tool to deliver the Europe 2020 goals: creating growth and jobs, tackling climate change and energy dependence, reducing poverty and social exclusion. Once member states’ national contributions and the leverage effect of financial instruments are taken into account, the impact is likely to be over €500 billion.
Launching a new partnership with the European Commission, with the participation of the OECD, Salzburg Global’s program is timed to help key stakeholders understand the rules and results-oriented focus of the reformed Cohesion Policy and ensure maximum impact for these investments. It will build on our longstanding European program which has featured over 15 sessions devoted to the EU’s development and expansion, grounded in our location at the crossroads of East and West.
The 2014 program will focus on ways in which regional development policy and complementary instruments can enhance competitiveness and effective governance at local, regional and transboundary levels.
Participants will examine tools for environmentally sustainable innovation, human capital development, creation and financing of SMEs and the transition to a low carbon economy. They will compare practical projects and mechanisms that have delivered successful outcomes for competitiveness and inclusive growth, in and beyond Europe, in order to identify transferable tools and connect stakeholders who are leading cutting-edge work around the world.
The program will be held from May 17 to May 22, 2014 in Salzburg, Austria, with a one day, high-level pre-session meeting on May 17-18, focusing on European competitiveness, the shift to low carbon economies, and the role of sustainable cities.
22 October 2013 Bosnjak Dzemal,BIH,red, vs Mamazulunov Oybek,UZB,blue. Men's.(81kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 17A,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - MARCH 17: Nicolas Pepe of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on March 17, 2021 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
18 October 2013 Wang Xuanxuan,CHN,red, vs Calic Marko,CRO,blue. Men's.(91kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 9B,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - JUNE 05: of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on June 05, 2020 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 28: of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on December 28, 2018 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
This picture series is made during our first photo session of the newly founded photo club "Fototreff TELEFUNKEN-Park". The foto shot took place at an old and abandoned train yard.
25 October 2013 Butdee Chatchai,THA,red, vs Aloian Misha,blue. Men's.(52kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 21B,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov
17 October 2013 Arro Kaupo,EST,red, vs Abaka Nickson,KEN,blue. Men's.(75kg)
AIBA World Boxing Championships,Session 7B,Almaty 2013.
Picture: Nikita Bassov