The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

Well, someone had to stop us invading the stage.

What goes wrong in security design

The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

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Used for the 'I spy' game in the 'Colorful World' group. (28 Mar 2009)

Annandale, Sydney, Australia

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drawings based on the working process of -and in collaboration with- oshin albrecht.

Proto-KGB agents, amidst preparations for Obama’s speech today.

We are staying the same hotel as Obama, and the security detail is fascinating in its detail. Watched the motorcade arriving at midnight last night as we happened to be returning from dinner at the same time.

No-one's going to be a-shimmying up this drainpipe. No way.

In the Michigan Welcome Center, near the Bagley Pedestrian Bridge.

Mexican Town

Detroit, Michigan

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Comparative vulnerability of national economies to climate impacts on fisheries. Vulnerability of national economies of potential climate change impacts on fisheries (which integrates exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity) under IPCC scenario B2 (local development, lower emissions).

For any form of publication, please include the link to this page:

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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Giulio Frigieri

I don't think he like me taking this photo.

Minolta Maxxum 9 - Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm 1:1.7 - Kodak Tri-X 400 @ ASA-800

Ilford Microphen (Stock) 11:00 @ 20C

Scanner: Nikon Coolscan V ED

Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC

The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

I take comfort in knowing that our art galleries are secure and in the hands of the best trained security staff the government budget can buy.

Rumblemumbles has worked for the state government for 18 months now, and currently is bored stiff, just like her friend here.

The BOUNCERS

Bogotá-COLOMBIA.

One is carefully checked before being allowed to enter the Houses of Parliament.

G4S Security

Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Photo by Asher Heimermann/Incident Response

Dieses Bild wurde für die HappyShooting-Aufgabe "Sicherheit" aufgenommen.

This picture was taken for the HappyShooting assignment "security" ("Sicherheit").

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The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

2014 AGENDA

OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.

Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"

The Honorable Robert O. Work

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.

I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability

Jim Dyer

Principal, Podesta Group,

and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations

Charles J. Houy

Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Robert F. Hale

Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer

Sid Ashworth

Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Moderator:

Clark A. Murdock

Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS

II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International,

and former Deputy Secretary of State

Kurt Campbell

Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,

and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Bonnie S. Glaser

Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Website Presentation:

Mira Rapp Hooper

Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS

Moderator:

Michael J. Green

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,

and Associate Professor, Georgetown University

III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan

Mark Perry

Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command

COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)

Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College

Eliot A. Cohen

Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State

Moderator:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

IV. Health and Security in Fragile States

Gayle Smith

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council

Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin

Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross

Jason Cone

Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Nancy E. Lindborg

Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

Talia Dubovi

Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.

I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense

William J. Lynn III

CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,

and former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Robert J. Stevens

Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Clayton M. Jones

Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins

Pierre Chao

Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS

Moderator:

Andrew P. Hunter

Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS

II. Iraq in the Balance

VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)

Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moderator:

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS

III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War

Arati Prabhakar

Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.

Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Moderator:

Maren Leed

Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS

IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa

Tom Frieden

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne A. Witkowsky

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs

Ambassador Donald Lu

Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State

Jeremy Konyndyk

Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID

Moderator:

J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS

LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.

MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.

I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World

Jeremy Bash

Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta

Kori Schake

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign

Moderator:

David E. Sanger

National Security Correspondent, New York Times

CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M

I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Michèle Flournoy

Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

General James E. Cartwright (ret.)

Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

John E. McLaughlin

Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

James B. Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State

Charles B. Curtis

Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy

Joshua B. Bolten

Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff

Moderators:

Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS

Heather A. Conley

Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS

*Please note that this session is off-the-record

Contributing CSIS Experts:

Frank A. Verrastro

Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS

Sarah O. Ladislaw

Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

Edward C. Chow

Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS

James A. Lewis

Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS

Andrew C. Kuchins

Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Jeffrey Mankoff

Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

Juan Zarate

Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS

Programs

GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM

Topics

DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Regions

AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA

Security Envelope Button

found on Roncesvalles Streetcar

March 29, 2009

blogged:

sweetiepiepress.blogspot.com/2009/03/security-found-on-la...

Disney Security K9 Unit ,Florida

Iraqi Army soldiers check weapons seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (

After some bombings in Bali and Jakarta, security checks are a part of daily life. People are be subjected to a check at every hotel and major shopping complex, but don't worry, some security guards were very friendly. Like the one above, they politely asked me to take their picture after checking my backpack, right after they found a camera inside of it. haha.

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*I test pocket film Pentax PC35AF-M a friend has lend me, and goofily ignore 'picture area frame' inside the viewfinder. Most of the result using this camera were tragically cropped!

*and since it was a try out, I attached expired Venus 800 negative film. See that fantastic grain? ;)

*Flash fired. It was about 7:30 PM.

*I happen to sharpen this a bit. (I don't know why the exif data does not appear here)

18/02/2022. Munich, Germany. The Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss talking to the Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolyat the Munich Security Conference. Picture by Tim Hammond / No 10 Downing Street

Good to know my period is secure.

My new apartment has a team of security guards who, still, as I remember from before, have a pretty mellow workload. Here's the one guarding my group of buildings this afternoon - utterly and peacefully asleep. I'm soon going to be asleep too. I spent part of the day getting the place ready for an intense day of cleaning tomorrow. I've hired some help.

The IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (left) at the 50th Munich Security Conference during a panel discussion on Iran with HE Mr Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran (left centre), HE Mr Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden, (middle) and Senator Christopher Murphy, United States of America. (right)

Photo Credit: Cornel Feruta / IAEA

Make nice seats for tired tourists to take the sun.

I don't think the concrete barriers are there because we afraid of car bombs - it's the start of the Tour de France tomorrow and much of central London is being prepared. We've had some events here but this is going to be a big one.