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Next Asian crisis arrives: Chinese soldiers make military incursion into India- India considers response
Posted on May 2, 2013	by The Extinction Protocol
May 2, 2013 – INDIA – A platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection. They finally reached their destination and pitched a tent in the barren Depsang Valley in the Ladakh region, a symbolic claim of sovereignty deep inside Indian-held territory. So stealthy was the operation that India did not discover the incursion until a day later, Indian officials said. China denies any incursion, but Indian officials say that for two weeks, the soldiers have refused to move back over the so-called Line of Actual Control that divides Indian-ruled territory from Chinese-run land, leaving the government on the verge of a crisis with its powerful northeastern neighbor. Indian officials fear that if they react with force, the face-off could escalate into a battle with the powerful People's Liberat ion Army. But doing nothing would leave a Chinese outpost deep in territory India has ruled since independence. "If they have come 19 kilometers into India, it is not a minor LAC violation. It is a deliberate military operation. And even as India protests, more tents have come up," said Sujit Dutta, a China specialist at the Jamia Milia Islamia university in New Delhi. "Clearly, the Chinese are testing India to see how far they can go," he said. That is not China's stated view. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Thursday that Chinese troops had been carrying out normal patrols and had not crossed the boundary. "China is firmly opposed to any acts that involve crossing the Line of Actual Control and sabotaging the status quo," she said at a daily briefing in Beijing as she was repeatedly questioned about the dispute. Hua said talks to defuse the dispute were ongoing and that it should not affect relations. "As we pointed out many times, the China-India border issue is one which was left over from the past. The two sides reached important consensus that this issue should not affect the overall bilateral relations," Hua said. Local army commanders from both sides have held three meetings over the crisis, according to Indian officials. India's foreign secretary called in the Chinese ambassador to register a strong protest. Yet the troops did not move, and even pitched a second tent, Indian officials said. The timing of the crisis, weeks before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is to visit India, has surprised many here. The Chinese leader's decision to make India his first trip abroad since taking office two months ago had been seen as an important gesture toward strengthening ties between rival powers that have longstanding border disputes but also growing trade relations. Manoj Joshi, a defense analyst at the New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation, said the timing of the incursion raises questions about "whether there is infighting within the Chinese leadership, or whether someone is trying to upstage Li." Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Wednesday that while he had no plans to cancel a trip to Beijing next week to prepare for Li's visit, the government could reconsider in the coming week. Indian politicians accused the scandal-plagued government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of floundering in fear before China. "China realizes that India has a weak government, and a prime minister who is powerless," said Yashwant Sinha, a former foreign minister from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. He demanded a stronger response. "A bully will back off the moment it realizes that it's dealing with a country which will not submit to its will," Sinha said. Former Defense Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav called the government "cowardly and incompetent." He warned that China was trying to annex more territory to add to the spoils it took following its victory over India in a brief 1962 border war. Defense Minister A.K. Antony countered that India is "united in its commitment to take every possible step to safeguard our interests." –Yahoo News
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12 Responses to Next Asian crisis arrives: Chinese soldiers make military incursion into India- India considers response
I give up. Someone, somewhere is determined to start a war. I think I'm going to sit on my front porch swing with a nice, cool drink, and watch one of these time-bombs go off; either in the Middle East or the Far East. I will also be praying for God to have mercy on us all. Maranatha
I hope that India stands it's ground and i hope that the US would back India.They have been good friends to us in the past.Love their culture and they are so polite.
Interesting…………it seems that the chinese are getting ready to make significant well planned military
moves on several fronts…..
A King of the East to flex its military muscle?
Joseph t Repas says:
So the big business people of the world not only stole jobs from the United States but used the funds to feed a beast and it is about to come back a hundred fold…What are the other countries going to do? Put sanctions on China? They need China just to survive. The beast has now been unleashed and just like in WWII when Hitler stretched the Nazi German borders the world is scared that it might become a powder keg so they tried to appease him but his lust for more power and dominion was not satisfied…neither will China be satisfied.
Puma says:
China stole Tibet and now China is stealing more lands from India, isn't it?
If this wasn't so serious, the ridiculous Chinese denial of the existence of their troops on Indian territory would be comical. Kind of like they're pulling an Obiwan Kenobi: "Our troops are not there…Move along…Move along…" And the longer the Indians allow them to stay, the more they will dig in, to the point that military force will have to be used – that will have dire consequences, to put it mildly…
This world is a mess in so many ways. Sad
Magenta says:
Hi Alvin, I hope all is well. Do so enjoy reading the comments here and wondering where they went? Maybe no one has anything to say? Anyway, thanks for all the work you do here. Blessings to you Alvin.
The Extinction Protocol says:
Same to you, friend.
Martin Gustavsson - The Olive Green Party says:
Do you know any other countries invading the world little by little… 😉
The Olive Green Party
Thanh Doan says:
LOL…that's good. I like it and Chinese will take all the land from India and call it "United China". LOL
Mayela Mabel says:
Well Chinese soldiers" had been spotted around Mexican cities, towns and even small villages from US borders to Guatemala's borders, they're scatter and very discreet…Government doesn't talk about! Regular citizens had noticed it and they just wondering without answer…


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CHANGES to some bus services in Sheffield will take place next month (3 September 2017) to improve punctuality, reliability and access to employment, following customer requests.
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A Sheffield Bus Partnership spokesperson, said: "Sheffield Bus Partnership continues to work together to make changes to the city's bus network for the benefit of our passengers.
Sheffield Bus Partnership is made up of South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, Sheffield City Council, and bus operators First South Yorkshire, Stagecoach Yorkshire, Sheffield Community Transport and TM Travel.


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Telecom Stock Roundup: Ciena Partners BT Group, Qualcomm Secures Approval & More
Supriyo Bose
In the past week, the U.S. telecom stocks' trajectory was relatively flat as positive results from the experimental COVID-19 vaccines were offset by fresh rise in coronavirus cases. With the industry pinning hopes on an updated policy framework by the President-elect, high expectations of a mass vaccine hitting the markets in early 2021 based on high efficacy results in the trials acted as tailwinds. However, renewed lockdown measures by local administrative authorities owing to the latest bout of the deadly virus attack triggered uncertainty within the sector, fueling speculations of a sedate overall economic growth.
Amid this scenario, the Senate passed the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act that is aimed to boost the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices. The Act mandates all private sector entities supplying such devices to the federal government to conform to minimum security recommendations issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and notify the government about possible vulnerabilities of the devices against cyber-attacks. The House also unanimously passed the USA Telecommunications Act that apportioned $750 million for the deployment of 5G network across the country. With representatives from the FCC and other federal agencies, the advisory committee formed by the bill would advise on the grant funding in order to spur innovation within the domestic market and thwart the hegemony of China-based telecommunications companies.
Meanwhile, Huawei is reportedly mulling to divest its budget smartphone brand Honor to safeguard its smartphone business in the face of stiff U.S. sanctions. The company is aiming to separate the Honor brand from its network equipment and other business operations that have largely faced the wrath of stringent export restrictions on accusations of data intrusion and cyber espionage. However, the company is likely to retain its flagship Huawei smartphones post the likely divesture to Shenzhen government-owned tech enterprise firm.
Regarding company-specific news, strategic collaborations, deals and government approval for export to China primarily took the center stage over the past five trading days.
Recap of the Week's Most Important Stories
1. Blue Planet, an operating business division of Ciena Corporation CIEN, has secured a contract for undisclosed amount from British multinational telecommunications firm BT Group plc to augment the digital experience of end users. In particular, the state-of-the-art automation software from Blue Planet is likely to enhance the speed for enterprise customers for a seamless access to BT Group's cloud-based collaboration tools.
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2. Qualcomm Incorporated QCOM has secured green signal from the Trump administration to supply 4G chips to China-based Huawei Technologies, paving its way to provide some key raw materials for 4G mobile devices despite stringent U.S. trade restrictions.
Although the details of the government license is yet to be divulged, the approval marks a softer stance by the authorities against the communist nation-backed telecommunications equipment manufacturer. The fresh supply of Qualcomm chips is likely to offer some respite to beleaguered telecom firm, even though these 4G chips are not expected to have a significant overall impact as consumers tend to shift to newer 5G models.
3. In a concerted effort to improve the operations of enterprise customers, US Cellular Corporation USM recently enhanced its self-service IoT portal ConnectHQ by leveraging the 5G and edge capabilities of Nokia Corporation. In particular, the new ConnectHQ platform will be powered by Nokia WING (Worldwide IoT Network Grid) to better manage large-scale IoT deployments and optimize investments.
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4. Nokia Corporation NOK has secured an exclusive contract for an undisclosed amount from Swisscom AG to deploy its FastMile 5G receivers in rural areas of Switzerland for improved superfast broadband connectivity. The extensive use of the solution is likely to enable the carrier to meet the high demand for fast Internet access across the rural communities as consumers tend to consume more bandwidth-intensive applications.
Riding on industry-leading signal gain capability, it is likely to help Swisscom address the exponential growth in bandwidth demand of its residential and business customers. Combining a high-gain antenna and modem in a small form-factor, the FastMile receivers connect the home network with a simple Power over Ethernet connection.
5. BlackBerry Limited BB has collaborated with a self-driving truck technology provider, Plus, to integrate its much-acclaimed QNX technology in the latter's Class 8 self-driving trucks. Plus is the first automated truck developer to capitalize on the QNX software for its revolutionary autonomous driving systems.
The company will particularly leverage the QNX Operating System for Safety software solution as part of the collaboration. Notably, the innovative offering from BlackBerry is likely to not only bolster Plus' product development endeavors but also advance the global deployment and commercialization of self-driving trucks with highest safety standards.
The following table shows the price movement of some of the major telecom stocks over the past week and the six months.
In the past five trading days, Lumen Technologies has been the best performer with its stock gaining 2.7%, while Motorola was the biggest decliner with its stock falling 1.4%.
Over the past six months, Qualcomm has been the best performer with its stock appreciating 45.9%, while Juniper was the sole decliner with its stock falling 6.4%.
Over the past six months, the Zacks Telecommunications Services industry has rallied 9.5% on average and the S&P 500 has gained 20.1%.
What's Next in the Telecom Space?
In addition to the 5G deployments and product launches, all eyes will remain glued to how the administration continues to safeguard the interests of domestic telecom firms from perceived Chinese threats.
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(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump granted clemency to dozens of people on Tuesday, including his former strategist Steve Bannon, the rapper Lil Wayne and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, in one of his final official acts as president.A list of pardons and commutations the White House released early Wednesday, Trump's last day in office, does not include the president himself. Trump had discussed pre-emptively pardoning himself and associates, but some advisers had cautioned the president against what would have been an unprecedented action, according to people familiar with the matter.Trump granted a pardon to the rapper Dwayne Carter, known as Lil Wayne, who pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge last year, and commuted the sentence of the rapper Bill Kapri, known as Kodak Black, who is serving time for falsifying paperwork to obtain a firearm.He pardoned a former top fundraiser for the Republican Party, Elliott Broidy, who pleaded guilty in October to illegally lobbying on behalf of a Malaysian businessman seeking to end a federal investigation into the 1MDB scandal.Other clemency grants include:A commutation for Sholam Weiss, who is believed to be serving the longest white-collar sentence in U.S. history, 835 years, for money laundering and other charges stemming from the failure of the National Heritage Life Insurance Co. He fled while on bail and partied with prostitutes at a luxury hotel before the authorities tracked him down in Austria. "He regrets doing that," Weiss' nephew, Hershy Marton, said in an interview in December.A pardon for Broidy, a fundraiser for both Trump and the Republican National Committee in 2016. Fugitive businessman Jho Low initially paid $6 million to Broidy and promised $75 million more if he succeeded in persuading the Justice Department to walk away from its civil forfeiture case. The back-channel efforts failed and Low was indicted in 2018 on charges of conspiring to launder billions of dollars embezzled from 1MDB. He has denied wrongdoing.A commutation for Kilpatrick, who was convicted in 2013 on 24 counts of racketeering conspiracy, extortion, bribery and tax evasion and sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008; prosecutors alleged his corruption contributed to the city's bankruptcy five years after he left office.A commutation for Salomon Melgen, a Palm Beach retinologist who was serving a 17-year sentence for Medicare fraud after billing the government to treat people for eye disease they didn't have. Melgen's commutation was supported by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a Democrat whom prosecutors alleged pressured federal agencies to help Melgen after receiving gifts and campaign contributions. Charges against Menendez were eventually dropped after a New Jersey jury was unable to reach a verdict.A pardon for former Google executive Anthony Levandowski, an autonomous driving engineer who was ordered in August to spend 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets from Google as he defected to Uber Technologies Inc., in one of the highest-profile criminal cases to hit Silicon Valley.A conditional pardon to Duke Cunningham, a former congressman from California, who in 2005 plead guilty to bribery and other charges arising out of the scandal revolving around the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Cunningham, a Republican, was released from prison in 2013.A pardon to Todd Boulanger, who had worked with Abramoff and pleaded guilty to conspiring to "commit honest services fraud." He admitted to providing to public officials "all-expenses-paid travel, tens of thousands of dollars-worth of tickets to professional sporting events, concerts and other events, and frequent and expensive meals and drinks at Washington, D.C.-area restaurants and bars," according to a 2009 Justice Department press release.A pardon for former Representative Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican who served three years in prison on corruption, money laundering and other charges. He was convicted in 2013 of using his congressional seat to make companies buy his former business associate's land so the associate could repay a debt to Renzi. Prosecutors also said he looted a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 campaign.A pardon for Aviem Sella, an Israeli indicted for espionage in connection with the Jonathan Pollard affair. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested Sella's pardon, the White House said in its statement.(Corrects spelling of Melgen's first name in eighth paragraph.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. equity futures rose Wednesday, buoyed by earnings and hopes for more stimulus, while Asian stocks were mixed. The dollar extended its retreat.Chinese firms trading in Hong Kong saw the bulk of gains, and the Hang Seng Index approached the 30,000 level, but stocks slipped in Japan. Nasdaq 100 futures outperformed, with Netflix Inc. surging in after-hours trading as it added more customers than expected. European contracts edged higher.Investors in Asia weighed comments suggesting a tough line from Joe Biden's incoming administration toward China. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surged after billionaire Jack Ma resurfaced from months out of public view amid escalating scrutiny over his internet empire.Treasuries were steady, with the yield on 10-year notes trading around 1.09%. Crude oil and gold advanced.Investors are showing signs of returning to the reflation trade, betting that the incoming U.S. administration will use its legislative firepower to propel economic growth. Still, Janet Yellen encountered early Republican resistance to Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan in her confirmation hearing to become Treasury secretary.Yellen -- who could be confirmed as soon as Thursday -- said that help for the unemployed and small businesses would provide the "biggest bang for the buck." She urged lawmakers to "act big" in efforts to rescue an economy battered by the coronavirus. She also said the U.S. is prepared to take on China's "abusive" trade and economic practices, and that the Biden administration won't pursue a weak dollar."Yellen is a positive," said Mohit Kumar, strategist at Jefferies International. "We should have greater co-operation between the Fed and the Treasury, with both the monetary and fiscal policy working together and supportive. This is a good backdrop for risk sentiment."Donald Trump is in the final hours of his term, with Biden to be sworn in at noon Wednesday in Washington. On the virus front, Germany suffered record daily deaths and authorities in Beijing sealed off part of the city to guard against a flareup of cases in northern China.These are some key events coming up in the week ahead:Earnings come from companies including Morgan Stanley, Procter & Gamble and Intel.Joe Biden takes office as U.S. president on Wednesday.Policy decisions are due Wednesday from central banks in Brazil, Malaysia and Canada. The Bank of Japan and the ECB deliver decisions Thursday.Here are the main moves in markets:StocksS&P 500 Index futures rose 0.2% as of 6:42 a.m. in London. The gauge jumped 0.8% on Tuesday.Japan's Topix index dipped 0.3%.Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.8%.Shanghai Composite added 0.4%.Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index advanced 0.4%.Euro Stoxx 50 futures climbed 0.1%.CurrenciesThe Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index declined 0.3%.The euro bought $1.2154, up 0.2%.The offshore yuan rose 0.3% to 6.4638 per dollar.The yen traded at 103.74 per dollar, up 0.2%.BondsThe yield on 10-year Treasuries was little changed at about 1.09%.Australia's 10-year yield was at 1.09%.CommoditiesWest Texas Intermediate crude advanced 0.8% to $53.41 a barrel.Gold rose 0.7% to $1,853.50 an ounce.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
Joe Biden's inauguration is just hours away and more than 25,000 National Guard have been drafted in for the swearing-in ceremony. President-elect Mr Biden last night made a sober entrance to Washington ahead of his inauguration, as he paid tribute to the country's coronavirus victims. In the final hours of Donald Trump's last full day as US leader, the country's Covid death toll has passed the grim milestone of 400,000.
Mr Assange's partner Stella Moris had previously urged Mr Trump to pardon the Wikileaks founder.
Donald Trump has pardoned his former chief strategist Steve Bannon and rapper Lil Wayne as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people. The outgoing president issued a raft of 11th-hour pardons and commutations in the final hours of his White House term. Several controversial names appear on the list, including Mr Bannon.
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Gold prices rose on Wednesday as the dollar weakened after U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen underscored the need for a huge stimulus to help the economy recover from the coronavirus jolt, bolstering bullion's appeal as an inflation hedge. Yellen at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday urged lawmakers for large coronavirus relief spending, adding that the benefits outweigh the expenses of a higher debt burden. "With more rounds of fiscal stimulus expected under the Joe Biden administration, further championed by Yellen's call to "act big", such measures could well pump up U.S. inflationary pressures while boosting gold prices in tandem," said FXTM market analyst Han Tan.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for stealing a trade secret on self-driving cars months before he briefly headed Uber Technologies Inc's rival unit. Anthony Levandowski, 40, was sentenced in August to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in March. The White House said Levandowski was "an American entrepreneur who led Google's efforts to create self-driving technology."
When he assumes office on Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden will inherit a stock market near all-time highs, along with a gaping budget deficit, a weakening dollar, elevated economic uncertainty and a Federal Reserve that may have less ammunition to fight the next crisis. The S&P 500 is up about 68% since President Donald Trump took office. Ultra-low Treasury yields - which plunged after the Fed cut interest rates to near-zero - have also increased the allure of stocks.

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When I began my this project I started looking at some basic facts about Penguins and jotted them down on a large sheet. Visualising facts helps me to remember them. However, none of this research involves climate change.
Now I know more about climate change I need to begin to look at the effect on Penguins. I want to focus on Antarctica where there are only two species of the bird; the Emperor and the Adelie. This will ensure that my information graphic will remain concise.
Putting restrictions in place means that I will be forced to focus on small areas of information, which will hopefully make a more pleasing and understandable design. So, what are my restrictions?
The research I have already conducted on Antarctica has clearly indicated that it has been affected in more ways than one. So how does this affect it's wildlife?
The Antarctic Peninsular (shown below) is a good place to start looking at how climate has affected penguins as there is already evidence of entire Emperor colonies being wiped out. Dion island off the West coast of the peninsular was home to a small colony discovered in 1948 consisting of just 150 breeding pairs and until the 70′s seemed stable but in 1999 there were just 20 pairs and in 2009 they were gone. Data collected by a station roughly 25 miles away suggests that the air temperature in this area has increased dramatically as well as the sea ice developing later and receding much more rapidly. Information published in 2007 from the Journal of Geophysical Research found that between 1979 and 2004 in this region, sea ice began advancing about 54 days later and retreating 31 days earlier although this trend does not continue throughout the entire continent. If the sea ice develops late and melts early it often means that the breeding cycle isn't fully completed. Emperor chicks have to lose their down before they can swim, if the ice which they grow up on disappears the chicks will drown.
In the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, the study found a 36% chance that shrinking Antarctic sea ice could cause emperor penguin populations to drop by 95% or more by 2100.
Stephanie Jenouvier a researcher from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Centre has recorded 3,000 Emperor breeding pairs in Terre Adelie but believes that this could drop to roughly 500 – 600 breeding pairs by 2100.
An article from 2009 called An Emperor Penguin Population Estimate: The First Global Synoptic Survey of a Species from Space, discusses what they believe the current population to be. The researchers used various methods to find this out from the air. They describe finding 4 new colonies and confirming 3 previously believed to exist bringing the total to 46 total Emperor colonies that are mapped below.
From this image it is clear to see that the Antarctic Peninsular is home to very fe emperor colonies and this is where climate change appears to be affecting the most.
'We estimated the breeding population of emperor penguins at each colony during 2009 and provide a population estimate of ~238,000 breeding pairs (compared with the last previously published count of 135,000–175,000 pairs). Based on published values of the relationship between breeders and non-breeders, this translates to a total population of ~595,000 adult birds'. From this it appears that the populations have risen but this could just be to do with the technology that has been used.
Below, each colony has been mapped by size. Each circle's size determines the number of breeding pairs in each location.
National Geographic released back in 2001 mentions that penguin population has declines by 50% in 50 years. In the 80′s there was evidence to suggest that the population number were falling but it is only in recent years that we have discovered that this is an affect of a change in the normal climate.
This is the trend of an Adélie Penguin colony at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (see map below; data from Bill Fraser in Ducklow et al. 2007). It is located at the extreme northern (warm) edge of where this species occurs on Earth. The air temperature in this area has been warming rapidly (several degrees in the last 50 years), resulting in sea ice failing to form during winter and spring. Because Adélie Penguins are especially adapted to the cold conditions associated with sea ice and do not compete favorably with other penguins which are less adapted to the cold, the overall population has been declining at this and nearby colonies, and any young produced have chosen to nest farther south where sea ice remains. Eventually, Adélie Penguin colonies in this area will disappear, leaving only nest stones and mummies behind. Other species of penguins (such as Chinstrap penguins), if fisheries do not deplete their prey, may move in to replace the Adélies. If global warming begins to influence the more southern reaches of the Antarctic continent, then the entire world's population of Adélie Penguins could be at risk.


Burundi's ruling party has accused Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, of seeking to export genocide, as relations between the two neighbours deteriorate further.
In a statement releaed on Sunday, the head of the CNDD-FDD party said Mr Kagame had previously "experimented" with genocide, referring to the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 people were killed, mostly ethnic Tutsis.
"The genocide laboratory is in Rwanda because President Kagame, having experimented there, (wants) to export it to Burundi (to) play a minor imperialist," wrote Pascal Nyabenda, party president.
Ties between the Great Lakes region nations are already at a low ebb, withBurundi and the United Nations both accusing Rwanda of supporting Burundian rebels.
Mr Nyabenda also claimed that some European governments supply arms and funds to the Rwandan leader, who he said was responsible for "recruiting and training young Burundians in refugee camps in Rwanda, so that they can return home to commit acts of genocide".
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Mr Nyabenda also condemned foreign journalists for taking up the cause of "terrorists", the term used by the ruling party to refer to opponents of the government, both armed and peaceful.
Burundi has been in political crisis since April last year when President Pierre Nkurunziza controversially decided to run for a third term, which he then won in a July election.
The subsequent unrest has left 400 people dead, while some 250,000 have left the country and violent attacks have become a daily routine, raising fears of a return to the civil war fought between 1993-2006.
Concerns have been raised that more radical elements in Burundi's ruling party are gaining influence.
"The Hutu extremist faction of the CNDD-FDD was marginalised until the start of this crisis ... it is clear that they are now in control of the country," a concerned diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The diplomat noted that Mr Nyabenda, as well as being ruling party head, is also president of the national assembly and the number two figure in the Burundian state.
"It is feared that there would be dire consequences if the crisis worsened or if there was a serious incident like the death of a senior party official," he said.
The CNDD-FDD party was formed from the main Hutu rebel group that fought against the formerly Tutsi minority-dominated army during the Burundian civil war.
The movement initially had close ties to President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front party but relations have soured in recent years.


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The key characteristic of living systems is that they operate "far from equilibrium" and yet are capable of producing stable, self organizing structures. Ilya Prigogine (nobel prize winner in chemistry in 1977) realized that systems far from equilibrium must be described in nonlinear equations.
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In Prigogine's theory, the second law of thermodynamics (the law of ever-increasing entropy/disorder) is still valid, but the relationship between entropy and disorder is seen in a new light. At bifurcation points, states of greater order may emerge spontaneously without contradicting the second law of thermodynamics. According to Prigogine, dissipative structures are islands of order in a sea of disorder, containing and even increasing their order at the expense of greater disorder in their environment.
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Will Chamberlain – Thinking Structurally About Government
Will Chamberlain's talk at the second annual Seasteading Conference, "Thinking Structurally About Government", is now available online here.
"Everyone is frustrated with the fact that government never seems to work the way it should… that reform seems impossible."
Will Chamberlain, research fellow for the Seasteading Institute and co-author of Let A Thousand Nations Bloom, asks the root question of modern governance, applicable to individuals around the world of every background and belief: why is there so much broad-based dissatisfaction with the way things are run?
Chamberlain presents his answer, and it is wholly non-partisan in nature — indeed, it can be seen as an emergent natural phenomenon irrespective of political system or cultural tradition. With the help of public choice theorists such as Mancur Olson, Chamberlain describes the environment of human activity that leads time and again to intransigent governments of all descriptions that incite their neglected citizenry to dissent and revolt.
In an environment that provides no internal or external pressures on government to stay competitive for citizens — in other words, to practice "good customer service" to prevent loss of citizenry — the ostensible stability of the system cascades into sclerosis. Special interest groups, once they are formed, are nearly impossible to break apart. The system develops more and more to serve the special interest groups, who in turn control the legislature. Reform then becomes impossible, as the laws reinforce the entrenched groups and disregard (or even criminalize) those who long for reform.
Revolution becomes the only recourse, but expecting any coup to happen in a peaceful and nondestructive way is a naive and highly unlikely outcome. The powerful tend to want to stay powerful; even if the power rests in abstract administrative groups rather than individuals, all entrenched entities are motivated by self-preservation. "Nobody ever gives up," quips Chamberlain, echoing the observation that has been made of tyranny many times over since classical Greece.
In Chamberlain's view, Seasteading has a real shot at solving these large, intractable government problems. Rather than a doctine of direct reform, of fixing what can't be fixed, the multi-micro-nation "strategy" (if the emergent system resulting from many independent actors striving for their own benefit can be said to have one) embodied in unleashing thousands of new governments into the world, all with a far greater Power of Exit than afforded by a traditional nation, has the most probability of producing social structures subjected to enough competitive stress to exist in "bloodless instability". In such a scenario, dynamic reorganization becomes necessary to stay competitive for citizens, inducing change in governments when and where needed, but without the danger and destructiveness of revolution.
Referring back to Mancur Olson in his first book, the Logic of Collective Action, Chamberlain observes that "smaller groups are more effective than larger groups". Perhaps here is an advisory towards the future of seasteading, where it may be wise to resist agglomeration even when there may be gains in security and stability. Keeping tension between dynamism and stability will be key to the avoidance of a future in which seasteads could become sclerotic nations full of entrenched special interests just as the traditional land-based nations that came before them.
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4 thoughts on "Will Chamberlain – Thinking Structurally About Government"
i_is_j_smith 2010-01-29 at 10:17 pm
I still don't understand how the Power of Exit will be greater with a seastead than with a traditional nation. The social and economic bonds are just as strong in both situations.
Also, look to enlightened absolutism as a cure for the power of special interest groups. The reason special interest groups can impose their will on politicians is because those politicians need to get re-elected. For that they need money. If you have a permanent leader who does not have to answer to the shifting whims of the masses, and can instead do what is "best for the country" then the power those special interest groups has goes away.
Of course you have to couple this with ease of exit so that people can "vote with their feet" and act as a check against the leader.
nthmost 2010-02-04 at 11:27 pm
Enlightened dictatorship sounds excellent. I vote you set yourself up a seastead and go for it.
For what my vote's worth, anyway. 🙂
jhogan 2010-02-05 at 1:42 am
The cost of exit will be reduced because water is a fluid medium, making it possible to "vote with your house" (or community, or office, or factory) and physically move your platform to a neighboring seastead city-state.
There will definitely still be a strong cost of exit in terms of social networks and other things — but it will be significantly reduced. (And with regards to social networks in particular, the internet is helping reduce that cost of exit…)


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Ülker, Turkey's leading food company, wins gold awards for its exemplary applications in 2 categories at the 'Boc International Brilliance Awards', an international award platform.
Ülker, Turkey's leading food company, won 2 gold awards from the 4 categories it was nominated for at the 'Boc International Brilliance Awards', an international award platform. The Ülker Human Resources team won in the category of "Excellence in Employee Engagement" thanks to its employee-focused, innovative approach during the pandemic period; and its ONE application, the first digital assistant for all factory employees, won in the category of "Excellence in Use of Technology for Internal Communication".
Ülker's CEO Mete Buyurgan said he was pleased their HR projects had been awarded at an important platform such as the Boc International Brilliance Awards. "Like every institution, Ülker's priorities include optimizing its business processes as the times require, in light of the company's needs and the possibilities of rapidly developing information and communication technologies. Our company shows how it values its employees with its innovative applications that includes them all. With the responsibility of being a leader and the awareness of people needing access to safe food during this difficult period, we focused on our employees in their work environments in all our factories during the pandemic. We won the excellence award for employee engagement for the employee-focused, innovative approach we showed during the pandemic; and won the excellence award for the use of technology for internal communication by integrating the ONE application into the work processes of all our factory employees. The two gold awards from the Boc International Brilliance Awards showed us once again that we are on the right track on our sustainable HR journey."
Ülker's globally - awarded HR practices contain many innovations that are also firsts in the sector. During the pandemic, Ülker expanded the 14 basic Covid-19 measures published by the Ministry of Health and implemented them in all workspaces titled "14 + 14". After rapidly applying these measures and actions, all Ülker factories earned the "COVID-19 Safe Production Certificate" issued by the Turkish Standards Institution.
Also, the "ONE" application, which collected many processes on a single digital platform, was quickly adopted by production employees thanks to its convenience. A closed-circuit mobile application specific to employees, ONE brings many applications together, meeting all the employees' needs. Employees can track their processes such as weekly work plans, payroll, and personnel affairs and they can instantly access any document they need. The application also reduced both personal contact and the extra workload during the pandemic.
Ülker buys Önem Gıda
Ülker has bought Önem Gıda – one of their suppliers of semi-finished goods – from Yıldız Holding. By gathering all their chocolate and bakery products' production processes within its corporate structure, Ülker has taken another major step in its sustainable growth strategy....
Two awards for Ülker…
Ülker Bisküvi was the only Turkish company to rank first in two categories at the 2021 Turkey Bonds & Loans Awards – which recognize companies' outstanding financial/banking achievements...
Ülker Sponsors National Football Teams
Ülker supports various sports, namely soccer and basketball. It recently signed an agreement with the Turkish Football Federation. For five years, it will become the official sponsor of the Men's National Football Team as well as the main sponsor of both the Women's National Team and e-National Team. ...
Ülker's first quarter 2021 turnover was 2.7 billion TL
Ülker Bisküvi increased its sales in the first quarter of 2021 by 13 percent compared to the same period of 2020, reaching 2.7 billion TL. Export and international operations grew by 19 percent....
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The SAHRC has opened Pandora's Box.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on the 27th of March 2019 opened up Pandora's Box. They came out and stated that none of the five complaints against the EFF and Julius Malema that was laid between 2016 and 2018 constitutes hate speech. This after the organisation and its leader not only sang songs about killing white people, slitting their throats and driving them into the sea but also making racist and hurtful stereotypical statements about the way Indian people treat black people.
According to the SAHRC announcement you can say that you will "slit the throat of whiteness", "Kill the Boer" and that You will "drive white people into the sea" and it's not considered hate speech. The SAHRC today has shown that it's an institution of double standards and is absolutely toothless at fighting racism and hate speech in this country.
What is also concerning is that one of the panellists came out and publicly stated that there are a different set of rules depending on the colour of your skin... if you don't believe me watch my latest video on this topic!
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Why is anyone surprised ?
abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation.
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Q: Check to see whether loginName already exists or not in Database What I want to achieve: a check to see whether the "name" already exists in one of my rows.
Problem: It keeps on adding rows even though they already exist.
I have been looking around on StackOverflow, but haven't really found something that could possibly be causing the same problem.
Yes, I have checked my type in mysqli_db, it's a VARCHAR (255). So the type I am passing on is a "string" (I am using prepared statements).
I have already checked the variable $loginName, this one is also correct (as in the right variable im passing on).
I have also checked whether I made a typo in my $sqli statement relating to the table or row (loginName), but the sqli statement is correct.
How my code looks like:
include_once 'dbConn.php';
 $loginName = $_POST['loginName'];
 $userName = $_POST['userName'];
 $pwd = $_POST['pwd'];
 $confirmPWD = $_POST['confirmPWD'];

            $sqli = "SELECT * FROM registerandlogin WHERE loginName = ?";
            $stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($conn);

            if (!mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $sqli)) {
                header('Location: index.php?prep=failed');
                exit();
            } else {
                mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, 's', $loginName);
                $result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);
                $resultCheck = mysqli_num_rows($result);

                if ($resultCheck > 0) {
                    header('Location: index.php?loginName=taken');
                    exit();
                } else {
//do something else
}

A: I forgot the following piece of code: mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);.
Therefore the if statement never fired.
Wrong:
            mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, 's', $loginName);
            $result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);
            $resultCheck = mysqli_num_rows($result);

Right:
            mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, 's', $loginName);
            mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
            $result = mysqli_stmt_get_result($stmt);
            $resultCheck = mysqli_num_rows($result);

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Freemont O. Plambeck
8 Feb 1908 - 9 Nov 1988
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Freemont O. Plambeck was born on 8 Feb 1908
Freemont O. Plambeck was 4 years old when The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. It was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, her architect, died in the disaster.
Freemont O. Plambeck was 13 years old when The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in America. The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was adopted on August 18, 1920.
Freemont O. Plambeck was 32 years old when World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
Freemont O. Plambeck was 34 years old when World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
Freemont O. Plambeck was 48 years old when Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through its Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products division. Opened on October 5, 1955, as a motor inn owned and operated by Jack Wrather under an agreement with Walt Disney, the hotel was the first to officially bear the Disney name. Under Wrather's ownership, the hotel underwent several expansions and renovations over the years before being acquired by Disney in 1988. The hotel was downsized to its present capacity in 1999 as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion.
Freemont O. Plambeck was 56 years old when John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One as the 36th President of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. As a member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate prior to becoming president.
Freemont O. Plambeck was 69 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.
Freemont O. Plambeck died on 9 Nov 1988 at the age of 80
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Alliance Laundry To Be Acquired by Ontario Teachers'
RIPON, Wis., Dec 8, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Alliance Laundry Holdings LLC, parent company of Alliance Laundry Systems LLC, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the sale of the company to an entity established by Teachers' Private Capital, the private equity arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, for approximately US$450 million. Alliance Laundry Holdings is being sold by private investment firms Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. and Bain Capital, as well...


Church architecture – ancient and modern -has always fascinated me. Today I'm writing about four modern churches in England. It's encouraging to see that new church buildings are still being built. There are now so many churches that have been turned into everything from bingo halls to private homes. Personally I could never sleep in a deconsecrated church, no matter how "decorative and spacious" it might be. It used to be God's house – enough said!
There is a church that has met in a school for over 20 years. They now have plans passed and approved for a building of their own, and they have a growing building fund. It is the GLENEAGLES ANGLICAN CHURCH and is not in Scotland as one might suppose but in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The congregation is not large but evangelistic and alive.
The proposed church is beautiful - simple, elegant, original and symmetrical with a lovely curving roofline. The imposing glass entrance is framed by two slender columns which are a feature of the design as are the long narrow windows. In the front is a white spire-like cross. There is another white cross on the wall. I like the white – it reminds me of purity and that is what Christ's cross gives us fallen sinners. Both crosses stand out in contrast to the red-brown brick and grey plastered walls. Do have a look at the pic on the building plans.
www.gleneaglesanglicanchurch.co.uk Under Welcome>Building for the Future>click Church Building Fund.
THE GREAT NOTLEY CHURCH in Braintree, Essex held its first service in the church that had been planned and fundraised for 13 years in August 2010. An ecumenical church with partners from various other local denominations, its vision is to show Christ's love in action in the community. The Revd Beth Bendrey is the Priest-in-Charge.
The church is very different from Gleneagles Anglican Church but, like it, is simple, symmetrical, with an interesting roof and soaring cross. The church is long and rectangular with a central entrance. The red-tiled roof is steeply pitched, high and dominant. Above the central door is a large projecting upside down V shape with an inset window. On either side are two similar projections which are much smaller. At one end a substantial, rather stark cross rises from the ground like a spire. See www.greatnotleychurch.org.uk/history.html Scroll down to "To Here" and click on church pic to enlarge. Another very beautiful English church.
THE EDMONTON BAPTIST CHURCH in London was built in 1976 when, because of redevelopment in the area, the church had to move. Now on a busy thoroughfare surrounded by high rise buildings as well as Victorian ones, there is no doubt what it is because its name in large white lettering stands out against the brown brick walls. It is an active very local church with a congregation of up to 400 coming from many different nationalities.
I could not find any description or floor plans of the church, so from the Google images this is what it looks like… It is hexagonal, the brown brick topped by a broad white band. Coloured glass windows, set in white frames, rise in large rectangular blocks from ground to top. The green tiled roof slopes up to a two-part spire – a rectangular plinth inset with a white cross on two sides topped by a soaring needle-like structure. What I really like about this church is the spire. Spires are uncommon on non-conformist churches. This spire with the cross, positioned as it is, tells me that the cross is the way to heaven symbolized by the needle-like structure pointing up to the sky.
Google: images of Edmonton Baptist Church London. Click on photo which takes you to the church website: www.edmontonbaptist.org.uk and on the Google images page under "Related images" click second photo to see the spire and the one beneath it to see the area.
Scargill Chapel is a Grade 11 listed building designed by George Pace and erected from 1958-61. Using local materials it blends beautifully into the landscape. Basically a simple A frame supported on the inside by massive wooden beams. The tiled pitched roof, starting with a curve before soaring up is its dominant feature. On either end a huge clear glass window follows the roofline bringing the beauty of the outside in. The windows are surrounded by a wooden band also following the roofline as well as reaching to the ground. The side walls of stone –inside and out – appear small compared to the roof. A white cross stands at the front some distance from the Chapel. Both ends have stone additions. This very beautiful and evocative chapel is best seen from Google: Images of Scargill Chapel. Click on the first picture to enlarge it and then follow all the other images to view it and to see the surrounding countryside. One or two images of other churches have crept into this – just continue.
Good Cause. I would suggest prayer for deliverance from Ebola: that its spread may be curtailed, a vaccine or cure found, and those suffering as a result of it may turn to our merciful heavenly Father for comfort in their distress.
KEPT (on Other Writing – see Menu) is an allegory of the last times.


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Xun Huisheng () ( - , province du Hebei) était un des quatre plus grands artistes de l'opéra de Pékin du  dans le type de rôle dan avec Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu et Shang Xiaoyun. Xun est principalement connu pour ses interprétations des rôles huadan, c'est-à-dire des femmes qui ont tendance à être des personnages enjoués et discutables.

Voir aussi
 Opéra de Pékin

Références

Naissance en janvier 1900
Décès en décembre 1968
Opéra chinois
Décès à 68 ans
Victime de la révolution culturelle
Naissance dans la province du Hebei
Décès à Pékin

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Here's One Thing You Didn't Know About Disney's Origin Story
December 10th, 2015 | Posted by admin in Uncategorized
Walt Disney will have been dead for 50 years next December, but given that his eponymous company continues to ubiquitously engage the popular imagination, retrospectives on his life certainly aren't few and far between.
Just last week, the movie "Walt Before Mickey," which tells the story of Disney's early life, debuted on the cartoonist's birthday, Dec. 5th. In the very first shots, the movie tackles a question children and adults alike who have voraciously consumed Disney's main cast of animal characters have likely often wondered. Why did the original Disney universe largely feature creatures?
Although what follows is far from the whole story behind iconic characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, part of the answer is certainly that Walt spent his early years living on a 40-acre family farm in Marceline, Missouri, from April 1906 to December 1910. It was there that he originally developed a fondness for drawing -- and his earliest subjects were the animals around his home.
According to Disney historian Jim Hill, Walt would often tell press that his first ever paid illustration gig was from a neighboring farmer named Doc Sherwood, who commissioned the boy to draw his prized stallion, Rupert.
Another Disney expert, Lou Mongello, also told The Huffington Post that this leap -- that the original Disney characters were rooted in Walt's initial love of drawing farm animals -- checks out. "Yes, while Walt was growing up on the farm in Marceline, he often passed time by drawing -- usually of nature and the animals he had seen and tended to," said Mongello, continuing, "This would continue to influence his later years and career, as you can see his love of animals and nature animation and film ('Bambi,' 'Jungle Book,' 'True-Life Adventures,' etc.)."
All of this said, Hill did point out to HuffPost that this narrative has been heavily pushed by Walt and his company since the business' inception. "Farm animals have always played a significant role in the 'How-Walt-became-Walt-Disney' narrative," Hill explained. "That said, when talking about Walt Disney's early history, you always have to keep in mind that Walt was a storyteller."
"As they say, history is written by the victors," Hill noted.
Hill warned that, over the years, the branding of Disney has, naturally, compromised the narrative we generally link to Walt's biography. Walt would "sometimes 'bend the truth' to make an already good story better," Hill claimed, and noted the example for the true inspiration for Mickey Mouse:
There's this story that Walt would sometimes tell about how the inspiration for Mickey Mouse came from this tame mouse who he used to feed crumbs to while working alone late at night in the offices of Laugh-O-Gram Studios in Kansas City, Missouri. But the hard reality is that Mickey was invented on the fly in 1928, when Walt found out that Charles Mintz had basically weaseled Oswald the Lucky Rabbit out from under him, and [then] Disney needed a new character to start animating ASAP.
Walt and fellow cartoonist Ub Iwerks co-created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but lost the rights to Universal. The early version of Mickey Mouse looks nearly identical to this character, save for shorter ears, a shorter nose and no bunny tail.
"Why Mintz and/or Universal Pictures didn't turn around and sue Walt & Co. for ripping off Oswald as they launched Mickey in 1928, I'll never know," Hill joked.
But despite all these caveats, the seeds of Walt Disney's love of drawing animals indisputably began in Marceline, where you can still visit the Walt Disney Hometown Museum. As it's operated outside of the Disney corporation, if you don't trust all the details, but still believe in magic, consider making a pilgrimage to the only true Disney Town.
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We arrived at around 10am and parked in the car park which was around a 5 minute walk away. On arrival plenty of birders around, but had been told it had just gone into the garden to feed, using this opportunity we went around the back to find even more birders! The light was alot better this way and after a short wait the BRT popped up onto the rooftop which was in full sunlight.
After around 20 minutes it flew off and done a full circle of other nearby roofs, with even better light!
After around an hour, it flew over onto the conifer tree and perched there for a few minutes. It then flew back into the garden to feed again, we left shortly after this as out plan was to spend the rest of the day at Slimbridge.
Shame it's out of focus!
When the BRT disappeared, there were plenty of other birds to photograph including this Starling.
We saw and we conquered! A stunning bird, what a way to start 2017!
After what seemed like forever we arrived at Slimbridge to a full car park and even cars parked out on the road.
We headed straight for Rushy and the Martin Smith hides, hoping they would be slightly quieter, but it seemed they would all be pretty full today!
From the Martin Smith hide the resident Buzzard was on the fence as always, but today it was alot closer so proved for some nice shots!
The Wigeon flock were very flighty today.
The Bittern showed briefly for us late afternoon from the Kingfisher Hide, but unfortunately no images.
With everything starting to roost, a last drop-in to the Rushy proved successful with more flight shots, but with the light fading we got a few of the Bewick Swan's and headed home.
A very successful day with a finally some decent sunshine to try out our new camera kits!
A lovely start to 2017 and with hopefully plenty more trips planned!
Happy New Year to All our Readers, Thanks for all your support!


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Regis Students Participate in NSLI-Y Program
This past summer, six current Regis seniors had the opportunity to take place in the highly selective NSLI-Y (National Security Language Initiative for Youth) program. Per the program's website, it is 'part of a U.S. government initiative that prepares American citizens to be leaders in a global world.' Given the program's rigor and incredibly competitive admissions process, it is quite an achievement for these six young men to have been accepted.
While at their various locations, the students spent their days in intensive language classes in an immersive environment. On days off, the students had opportunities to both familiarize themselves with the local culture and visit tourist sites.
Alex Lee '19, who traveled to Chișinău, Moldova, raved about his time there. While abroad, he lived with a host family, who he still keeps in touch with. "It was an amazing way to immerse myself in both the language and the culture," he said.
Alex was often struck by the scenery of his host-country. "It was like living in the Soviet Union," he opined. "Everything was so old-fashioned. It really was like heading back to the 1950's. They're very proud of the Soviet history there. It was incredible to experience that."
Alex was one of two students to study Russian, along with Jack Delaney '19 (who spent his time abroad in Russia). They spent five days a week in class. "At first, I wasn't really able to converse with my host family at all," Lee said. "But by the end of my time there, we were talking quite frequently. I still keep in touch with them."
Besides Russian, three students also had the opportunity to travel to study Chinese. Terence Coyne '19 and Daniel Wolfe '19 spent the duration of their NSLI-Y program in China. They had the opportunity to travel to see such wonders of the world as the Great Wall of China. Like Alex, they also spent a significant time in language courses, noting a profound improvement in their speaking ability.
Raymund Lee '19 traveled to Kaohsiung, Taiwan. While there, he lived with a host family that had two children close to him in age. "I still keep in touch with them," he said. He also noted his family's querulous attitude towards American culture and politics. "It was an amazing opportunity to live there. I learned so much about Taiwanese culture, and I also was able to share a lot of my own culture. They were really curious about the political situation in the U.S. It was definitely interesting to consider from a new perspective."
Raymund was thrilled to be in a smaller city, in order to see a more "traditionally Taiwanese" setting. He remarked that there is not as much Western influence there, which was incredibly beneficial both for his language immersion and cultural exposure.
The final student, Morgan McCordick '19, had the opportunity to travel to Amman, Jordan to study Arabic. While there, he lived with a host family. "It was incredible to be in such a new place. Even just walking around the city was an exciting time," McCordick said.
He relayed that a great deal of the enjoyment and interest came from hearing what Jordanians thought of Americans. Likewise, he recalls being asked over and over what American think of Jordan. "The cultural exchange was such a unique experience. Apart from being in a new place, I was invited to consider my own culture, as well."
While there, Morgan had the opportunity to visit Petra and the Dead Sea. He also fondly recalled the splendor of the night sky in the desert there.
The students all saw significant improvement in their language abilities. Interestingly enough, they all also conveyed that the culture shock upon returning was far greater than the shock when they arrived. "It was really bizarre to come back," Terence Coyne quipped.
Each student expressed a great deal of thanks for the program. "It was amazing. I already miss it," said Alex Lee. "It was a truly humbling experience. I wouldn't trade it for the world."
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