These ringed seals, these are the fatsicles of the Arctic.

The moment I stopped, half a dozen other people immediately ringed the same guy.

These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle associated and connected to sea ice.

The town of some 19,000 people consists of wooden houses ringed by bamboo fencing, corrugated iron roofs transformed by rust into varying tawny shades.

In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded. Known as Depsang, the plateau lies astride an ancient silk route connecting Yarkand in Xinjiang to India s Ladakh region through the Karakoram Pass.

Burma s strategic importance reflects, first and foremost, its geographic location between India, China, Thailand, and Southeast Asia. Ringed in the north by the southern ridges of the Himalayas, to the east by foothills of dense teak forests, and to the west and south by the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, Burma s geography has always shaped the country s history and politics.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s corruption tainted government tottering on the brink of collapse, there has been no official explanation of how India was caught napping in a militarily critical area where, in the recent past, China had made repeated attempts to encroach on Indian land. In fact, the government inexplicably replaced regular army troops with border police in 2010 to patrol the mountain ringed plateau into which the PLA has now intruded.