US team stresses for int’l aid agency access to Myanmar

US deputy assistant secretary Kelly Clements addresses a press briefing along with Ambassador Dan Mozena at American Centre in Dhaka on Thursday. Photo courtesy by American Embassy

The US State Department delegation, which visited Rakhaine state of Myanmar on Thursday, said a serious insecurity, tension, persecution and displacement of people continued there and stressed for access of international aid agencies in the country.

The delegation strongly recommended for immediate humanitarian assistance and access to international aid organisation to supply emergency relief to the victims.

“Tension is very much in evident and displacement continues. A large number of people continue to displace, so challenge is very much grave there,” said Kelly Clements, US deputy assistant secretary for Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

Two members of the four-member delegation gave their impression at a press conference at American Centre in Dhaka after visiting the worst affected Sittew and Mongdu area following…

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FOREX: Dollar Suffers Worst Week in 8 Mo

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BROUK Welcomes British Parliamentary Debate on Rohingya

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BROUK welcomes the Parliamentary debate on Rohingya at Westminster Hall yesterday. About 25 MPs attended the debate. MPs pointed out that this is an issue of human rights, justice and desperate humanitarian need, to which they must respond. They also mentioned that in the violence in Arakan state, security services have also been directly engaged in violence towards the Rohingya, with allegations of mass killings, mass arrests and looting. Days after the violence started, security forces began targeting predominantly Muslim areas and arrested many Rohingya men and boys, who have not been heard of since.

MPs also mentioned that the horrific violence of the summer has brought the outrageous 1982 citizenship law into sharp focus. Surely now is the time for greater international pressure to be put on the Burmese Government to repeal that law and to replace it with a new law based on human rights, which recognizes…

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Benghazi airport shut down as heavy anti-aircraft fire targets U.S drones

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Ames Bell X-14 Test Pilot’s Fred Drinkwater & Neil Armstrong, February 1964

We lost Fred Drinkwater as well this year in March…

Fred was a Marine Corps aviator and a pioneer of experimental aviation. He began his flight career as a Corsair pilot in Korea, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Upon returning home, he took a position as a test pilot at NASA Ames Research Center. He continued as a pilot in the Marine Corps Reserves, commanding a squadron of A-4s at Alameda NAS. He retired from the Marines in 1986 as a full colonel, and from Ames in 1988 as Chief, NASA Ames Research Aircraft Operations.

During his career at Ames Fred worked on a wide variety of flight programs. He developed flying techniques for the VTOL jet X-14, and worked with fellow Navy pilot Neil Armstrong developing techniques for landing the LEM on the moon. He was in the vanguard of developing landing systems for extreme low L/D flight, precursor to the space shuttle landing scheme; he worked on many V/STOL aircraft and rotorcraft, including the Tiltrotor, precursor to the Marine V-22 Osprey. Other aeronautics projects included numerous flight simulations, aviation safety, accident recreation, etc. Fred also flew NASA airborne sciences projects in high-altitude astronomy, advanced radars, sea ice dynamics, arctic mammal surveys, hurricane formation, and many others.

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SCIENCE! Aliens on Mars!

SCIENCE! Aliens on Mars!
Posted on September 15, 2012 by Bosstiger
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I know what you guys might be thinking but no you are absolutely incorrect sir. I stumbled upon a article that may prove that there could be alien lifeforms on mars. The zinger about it is…..we put them there. A mistake made at N.A.S.A. about putting on the drill of the Mars Rover Curiosity, could have broken containment and let hundreds of thousands microbial stowaways on board.

Watch Live: Astronauts, Scientists, and Engineers Discuss NASA’s Future

Watch Live: Astronauts, Scientists, and Engineers Discuss NASA’s Future
Posted on September 15, 2012 by Bosstiger
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Join astronauts, scientists, and NASA officials as they discuss the U.S. space agency’s history and its plans for the future, during a Google+ hangout starting at 12 p.m. Pacific/3 p.m. Eastern.

The illustrious crew at the hangout will include Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator for NASA Human Exploration; Ron Garan, an astronaut who has spent 178 days on the International Space Station and delivered tons of amazing images from space; John Grunsfeld, a physicist and former astronaut who helped repair the Hubble space telescope, now the associate administrator for NASA’s science division; and Michael Lopez-Alegria, astronaut and president of the