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I'm fascinated by borders...those areas where one thing edges up against a different thing, and a step or two in either direction can change everything. Social borders, geographical borders, legal borders, ethical borders, temporal borders, religious borders, borders of taste; they all intrigue me. Borders are always in dispute, never completely stable. I like that.
I've been thinking about the concept of "boundaries" lately, which got me to examining the borders and boundaries in my own yard.
Remains of Customs buildings at the border between Germany and The Netherlands.
Pictures all taken through the windows using a Leica R8 with digital back DMR.
One of our dogs Sam, who is a beautiful Border Collie (Sheep dog).
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Border Collie Sez sayings distill all the doggy wisdom imparted to me over the years by my canine companions - whooshed into my face on their charming dogsbreath.
With Tunisia in the news lately I thought I'd put this old photo up. This is looking back at the Algerian border post from the no-man's land between Tunisia and Algeria. It's something like 10 km between the two posts, much farther between the nearest towns (El Oued and Nefta), and it's all sand dunes and desert.
The Algerian border guards wouldn't let me take a taxi or bus, they said foreigners have to walk. Fortunately there were three Mercedes tour buses by the side of the road, filled with refrigerators which were in turn filled with cold German beer. Four Germans were driving down to Nigeria where they intended to sell the buses, refrigerators, and what was left of the beer before flying back to Germany to do it all over again. They saved my life!
photo Dec 2, 1988 - I can't figure out how to change the date in the new, dysfunctional Flickr
BOARDS ACROSS BORDERS
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1. Moderator: Pattie Sellers, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune; Executive Director, MPW/Live Content, Time Inc.
2.Alice Au, Co-head, Board Practice, Asia Pacific, Spencer Stuart
3. Wei Sun Christianson, Managing Director and Co-CEO, Asia Pacific and CEO, China, Morgan Stanley
4. Ambassador Linda Tsao Yang, Chair, Asian Corporate Governance Association
Skeena District Commercial Vehicle and Safety Enforcement (CVSE) officers participated in a multiagency commercial vehicle safety check in the Yukon, just over the BC border.
CVSE staff were providing technical support and advice to The Yukon CVSA and RCMP. The event took place May 17 and 18th.
In 1938 Czechoslovakia mobilized against the German threats of war, but hat to give in to the Munich Agreement and withdraw from the border fortifications, even if the army was fully capable to stand against the Wehrmacht. After this not only Germany, but also Poland and Hungary ripped pieces of land from the country, and there were also extensive fights with insurgents, which cost lives of many Czechoslovak soldiers and gendarmes. Today it´s a tradition to reenact how the situation could be, when we would have defended ourselfs. It´s a fact that Hitler was affraid of the Czechoslovak military, which at that time had better tanks, more heavy guns, and a very effective fortification system. Of course we win in the reenactments :-)