DC -- House of Sweden -- Event: Seminar on Challenges in Northern Europe and How to Face Them Together:
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Description of Pictures: Welcome to a Seminar on Challenges in Northern Europe and How to Face Them Together
Join us for a public conversation on challenges facing Northern Europe and the scope for cooperation and collaboration across the Atlantic.
Welcome Remarks:
* Björn Lyrvall, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States
Introduction:
* Urban Ahlin, Speaker of Parliament of Sweden (Riksdagen)
Panel:
* Julie Smith, Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, Centre for a New American Security (Moderator)
* Ināra Mūrniece, Speaker of Parliament of Latvia (Saeima)
* Olemic Thommessen, President of Parliament of Norway (Stortinget)
* Derek Chollet, Executive Vice President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
* Kurt Volker, Ambassador, Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership
Seated (left to right) for the panel: Urban Ahlin, Julie Smith, Ināra Mūrniece, Olemic Thommessen, Derek Chollet, and Kurt Volker.
Several northern European ambassadors and representatives were present including Rolandas Kriščiūnas, Lithuania's ambassador to the United States.
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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