Barak Obama (President) Called A Meeting For Homeland Security On First May In 2009!

Barak Obama (President) Homeland Security Council meeting in Cabinet Room of the White House to discuss the H1N1 flu on May 1, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House. The meeting was called to order by Vice-Chair Alan Radcliffe at 10:14 a.m. Alan announced that Sheila Meggison would be the proxy for Douglas County. Alan advised the Council the he and Pat Collins attended a meeting with the State on how the State would spend grant monies. They were the only regional council members present and members can go the datacounts website to see the amounts. Funding areas are:

• KHP Capital Complex Security Enhancements
• Safe Schools Funding
• Crisis City
• GIS Project (NE Region not spending near the monies that other regions are spending)
• Fusion Analyst at the Fusion Center
• State Accountability System
• Animal Health Dept. for Exercises
• KBI Fusion Analyst
• Fire Marshal - State Bomb Squad
• KDOT - Radio Tower Upgrades

Lance Royer Motioned to approve minutes from previous meeting. Doug Schmidt seconded the motion. One vote against approval with the rest voting to approve minutes. Motion passed. John Cyr provided the fiscal report. FY07: Surveillance platform We have received a $7000 rebate from Dell. Even with that we are about $540 in the red on the project. John asked if we could transfer excess funds from the CBRNE account.

Owner of Sunk Tanker Fined on Karnaphuli River!

Environment Department on Monday (06/06/2011) fined the owner of the oil tanker, which sank at Chittagong port jetty Saturday night, which price is Tk 10 lakh. Enforcement department unit Director Munir Chowdhury, visited the area in Karnaphuli river where the oil was spilling into the water till Monday (06/06/2011) morning. The investigation team found that, the Oxygen dissolved in water which is 6% less than the normal level, which is harmful for the sea fish. The authorities fined Eastern Banker Service, owner of the ‘Oil Tanker Moon’ Tk 10 lakh for spilling oil into the water. While loading fuel, the local tanker which loads fuel from tanks in the jetties to supply by the sea going vessels. On Saturday night, the tanker started sinking slowly around 11:30pm.

Nine High Court (HC) Judges Sworn By Md Muzammel Hossain (Chief Justice)!

The High Court (HC) of Nine judges, who were regularised on second June, were sworn in on Monday. Md Muzammel Hossain (Chief Justice) administered them oath at the Judges Lounge of the 'Supreme Court' on the morning. The nine judges are Justices Md Moazzam Husain (Chief Justice), Soumendra Sarker, Abu Bakar Siddique, Md Nuruzzaman, Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury, Obaidul Hassan, Md Enayetur Rahim, Naima Haider, Md Rezaul Hasan and others. Judges of the Appellate Division and the High 'Court' Division were present at the oath taking ceremony. The nine judges were appointed as additional (HC), Judges for a period of two years on 23th June 2009 and they were sworn in on 30th June on the same year. Zillur Rahman (President) confirmed their services as per the Article 95 of the constitution.

From: The Daily Star!

Hartal Ends Quietly But BNP Announces 2-day Agitation!

"People travel on a rickshaw van during yesterday's countrywide hartal as public transports were off the roads. The photo was taken from Moghbazar area in the capital. Photo From: The Daily Star" The BNP Political lieder Begum Khaleda Ziya said: Our Hortal is approved Yesterday. If present Government PM Begum Shekh Hasina change the police rule we called Hortal again and again. Police scuffled with protesters and arrested over 100 people yesterday during a daylong hartal called by the main opposition BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami to protest what they said moves to scrap the constitutional provision of holding parliamentary elections under a non-partisan caretaker government. Most of the office, market and schools remained closed and traffic was disrupted during the dawn to dusk nationwide hartal, that otherwise passed off without any major violence or clashes. Six home made cocktails went off in parts of the capital, including three in front of BNP's central office at Naya Paltan. More than 100 police detained are pickets on the capital of Dhaka and elsewhere as opposition activists attempted to take to the streets to enforce the hartal, the fifth such shutdown by BNP since the Awami League-led grand alliance won the parliamentary polls held on December 29, 2008.

From: The Daily Star