Aid reaches drought victims in Islamist area of Somalia

The Red Cross says it has delivered food into one of Somalia's worst hit drought areas, controlled by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
Working through a local committee, the Red Cross delivered by lorry food for 24,000 people.

The badly needed aid was distributed to families in the town of Baardhere, north-west of the capital Mogadishu.

But the World Food Programme says it cannot reach 2.2m people inside Somalia.

The food was delivered by the Red Cross was sent in from Mogadishu and given to locals and others who had come to the town to escape the famine.

The delivery took place on Saturday, and the Red Cross are now moving on to other areas.

The aid consisted of beans, rice and oil - enough rations to last a family one month.

This indicates that although al-Shabab has halted food aid by some agencies in areas they control, other agencies can operate in their territory.

Banned aid
This is vital, if the flow of Somalis into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia is to be reduced.

The World Food Programme is among the agencies banned by the Islamists.

Executive Director Josette Sheeran, who is in the area, says this is limiting the aid they can provide.

"The epicentre of this famine and the drought is in Somalia," says Ms Sheeran.

"We are able to reach about 1.5m people in Somalia but there is about 2.2m million that are not being able to be reached directly by humanitarian workers."

But while the World Food Programme is on the banned list, others like the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontiers, are still working in al-Shabab territory.

The fruit of buildings set in London

Britain's most famous buildings in the capital, located in London, using the same copies of the fruits of his crew in London in 2009 .
The artistic work, for making 26 kinds of fruit and vegetables are using several hundred pieces.Have carved out a very careful manner.Challenge that must be just
like the original copies were taken.To meet the artists will take note, there are only three weeks.
They were amazing places the viewer in terms of appearance.Fruits, vegetables and food should be included in the awareness campaign, which was originally designed for.Providing information for tourists to know we are going to London

Final tour of Space Shuttle Atlantis: Spacecraft era is over 30 years

Space Shuttle Atlantis with the end of the journey as the past 30 years, America has come to an end of the signal to run program. Own understanding of the universe of sky and earth, humans have changed space Atlantis Commander Cruz said Ferguson.

In the United States produced a total of five spacecraft. Eva telescope helped hundreds of satellites in the hub.
As the first U.S. astronaut in 1983 otattai AGILE celancar. Until space players - paid for satellites launched by a rocket that can be used only once. Its unique space that can be used again and again otattai.

Kalpana Chawla

135 missions have been undertaken so far by spacecraft.

At the same time two spacecraft in space by a bomb, killing 14 people, including Indian-born Kalpana Chawla.

The other two have already produced a total of 5 spacecraft Given to museums. Atlantis shuttle is placed in a museum.

Next to this project coming to an end and the U.S. space station, NASA pataviyilapparkal 4 thousand employees.

At the same time to retire the spacecraft, NASA determined that the claims paid by the U.S. space research tataipatatu.

But the rockets made by the private sector for use in the United States until the missions of the United States held by Russia's coyas rockets.

Artificial liver in mice by the body and Adventure!

Threatening people all over the world have created new diseases. Their task is to detect the drug at the same time. In general, new drugs are tested on mice. It will get success, failure analysis is carried out exclusively with men.

However, these studies involving mice with human cells were developed for testing of new drugs by the liver.

The quality of the drugs, researchers say will know instantly and accurately. By this time, it is possible to get a disease, medical researchers hope the drug will soon settle.

Alice Chen, chief of medicine at the University of Massachusetts in the U.S. This is a record of clinical research faculty too rakes.

Information in this release are as follows: the human cells and mouse lung hepatocaitas new drug for testing with the artificially created liver cells, adapted for mice.

After it was confirmed that human liver-like functions of these new drugs were experimental. It would be perutavi of genes for clinical studies.

The anticipated success of these efforts is yet unavailable.

The ball is flying at a speed of 37Kmph

Pantutan flying around town doing some changes in the size of a basketball! Japanese inspired design engineer called Futuristic Circular Flying Object flying ball!
This control by electromagnetic waves, which flies without any special sensor motamal using the designer
itself consists of a Micro-hole camera.. It thus deals with the free trip, its mass is only a mere 340grams ...!

Penguins take to the air

Penguins can’t fly. But they can get airborne.

In fact, taking to the air, for even a brief instant, is actually a vital strategy penguins employ to avoid being eating by predators such as leopard seals or orcas.

Now scientists have worked out the secret technique that penguins use to get airborne. It involves wrapping their bodies in a cloak of air bubbles – and it turns out to be the same technique that engineers use to speed the movement of ships and torpedoes through water.

Another interesting aspect of the discovery is that it was made by scientists examining in minute detail footage shot for the progr

amme Blue Planet, a landmark natural history series filmed by the BBC’s own Natural History Unit.

Wales' first solar park powers up in Pembrokeshire

The first solar park in Wales is expected to start converting sunlight into electricity later at the Rhosygilwen estate in Pembrokeshire.
Almost 10,000 solar panels have been imported from the United States and are placed in 12 lines in a six-acre field.

The £2.5m investment will be onstream three weeks before the UK government lowers the subsidy for large-scale solar energy investors.

The site's owner Western Solar still hopes to double its size.

It is run by Dr Glen Peters who owns Rhosygilwen mansion and art centre with his family.

He said: "There are 10,000 panels here. They are very cutting edge from the States.

"They are thin film, particularly suited to our climate here of largely cloudy skies."

He has planning consent for a development twice the size but had to rethink his plans.
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"There was no bank financing available. I then had to take a total act of faith and said 'okay, we will halve the scheme, we will do one megawatt initially' and I basically raided my pension fund."

The development would be enough to power 300 homes.

Other applications for three and five megawatt solar parks at Cynheidre and Ffos Las in west Wales are said to be still in planning.

But while Rhosygilwen has beaten the government's closing of a lucrative loophole, developers like Nigel Payne of Allied Renewables in Swansea are setting their sights lower.

His company hopes to complete three much smaller, 50 kilowatt, solar parks by September.
Expansion concern

Another 10 are in the planning stage and, by reducing the size of the output, will still be able to generate a return of 30.7p per kilowatt hour.

"It spreads the feed-in tariff to what it was designed for - not supporting large-scale solar farms where subsidies would be absolutely gobbled up," he said.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has said from 1 August tariffs would be reduced for large solar panel investors.

Any large-scale solar farms above 250 kilowatts, and up to 5 megawatts, will be able to claim 8.5p per kilowatt hour.

Schemes between 150 kilowatts and 250 kilowatts will be able to claim 15p per kilowatt hour and schemes ranging from 50 kilowatts to 150 kilowatts 19p per kilowatt hour.

Solar installations below 50 kilowatts are unchanged.

The average household installation, less than 4 kilowatts, will still be claiming the highest bracket of 43.3p per kilowatt hour.

With the solar industry increasing over the past 12 months from generating 4 megawatt of power in Britain to 96 megawatts, Dr Owen Guy, Swansea University's senior lecturer in nano technology, said there were some concerns that expansion could slow down.

"It's still available for the small-scale projects. Individuals will be able to install four kilowatt systems on their homes and will still be able to get a good return on their investment," he said.

"But the large scale companies wont be able to make the profit they have been."