Rendering - Week 11.

Green Construction and Retrofitting Creates More Jobs

This article was published on the 2th of November, by Dell Richards, in the EPOnline.com , which tells us about green building and energy efficiency retrofits of affordable housing not only help struggling families find decent places to live, but also help create more jobs for the economy than traditional building methods . It is undeniable fact for the author, that according to an Apollo Alliance study, 21.5 new jobs are created nationally for every $1 million invested in energy efficiency programs. He also admits , that green building increases employment by shifting resources from energy spending toward design and construction, efficiency, renewable energy and recycling. What is more, Mr. Richard adds, that energy efficient retrofitting and renovations at older Mutual Housing communities such as Norwood Estates, Greenway and Twin Pines also help the economy in different ways, and gives such examples, as a very $1 invested in construction, nearly 82 cents is produced for the local economy in induced and indirect activities. The author can't deny the fact, that the role of affordable housing construction in the industry and the role it has played in keeping people employed and small businesses solvent while the rest of the housing market crashed. Furthermore, one should not forget that the author emphasizes the idea, that Mutual Housing has plans for more affordable housing communities on the drawing boards. The multifamily developer has plans to build a community for agricultural workers and other low wage families in Yolo County and is expanding its footprint to meet the need in other counties. From these arguments Dell Richards draws the conclusion, in which he give a final word that , through Mutual Housing’s focus on leadership, the nonprofit also provides training and mentoring as well as educational programs, community-building activities and services for residents and neighbors.
  So , I'd like to say that of course, I fully support the idea of ​​building such a model of  ecological housing, as the main three pillars, on which  the true benefit of this idea stays are efficiently using energy, water, and other resources. Moreover, it's a good way of protecting occupant health and improving employee productivity and  in addition to it -  reducing of waste, pollution and environmental degradation at all. So, according to those ideas I think I made a message to all in my conclusion,  and that  mass introduction of this idea of Eco-housing and reproduction of it  in real life - the purpose of the present day, for it's not an impossible mission, but it's necessary to remember that the fragility of mortal world can be fully broken by madness of people.


http://eponline.com/articles/2012/11/02/green-construction-and-retrofitting-creates-more-jobs.aspx

Rendering - Week 10.

The arcitle was published  in NATURE.com site,   , by Richard A. Lovett, on the 19th of November ,2012 and discusses the theme, which states " How birds are used to monitor pollution."
The first thing that needs to be said is , that Nesting birds that feed on insects that hatch in lake or stream-bed sediments may make good biomonitors for pollution. The author adds the explanation of these words ,because any contamination in the sediment will make its way into the birds and into their eggs and young. Lovett can't ignore the fact,  that tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor), which still showed "significant quantities" of toxic chemicals called polychlorinated biphenols in its eggs and chicks seven years after remediation efforts started at a former capacitor-manufacturing plant in Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in southern Illinois. The author points out the fact, that advantage of using swallows for such work is that they are known to forage over fairly small distances, rarely more than 500 metres from their nests. Analysing the situation, it's neccessary to admitt, that researchers can attract them to areas of interest simply by putting out nesting boxes on poles, because nesting sites are the birds' most important environmental limit. It wouldn't be unfair for Lovett not to say, that  it can even help the birds, because the presence of nesting boxes improves the birds' habitat and the loss of a few eggs and nestlings to researchers isn't likely to hurt the species. It's a noticeable fact that, that swallows are not the only birds being used for such purposes, because the usage  of homing pigeons to monitor air quality is also a very efficient way of monitoring. To draw the conclusion, the author says that, he lungs and livers from the birds from Beijing contained three or four times more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, common by-products of fossil-fuel burning, than did those from areas with better air quality.  
In conclusion, I'd like to say, that this superb method of monitoring differen pollution changes in  the environmental sphere is fairly effective. Birds were used for many ages in delivering of important messages ,  either the bad news or good one. But even now, after several centuries of technological development and the evolution of the whole world and world of communication particulart,  the birds are used in the same way - they will either maintain positive or negative information for humanity.

http://www.nature.com/news/how-birds-are-used-to-monitor-pollution-1.11848

Rendering : Week 9 .

Does Global Warming Cause Severe Weather? “Global Weirdness” Excerpt. 

This article was published by Climate Central Jul 21, 2012 in the Daily Beast and tell us about fundamental questions about climate change and answer the question of whether droughts, heat waves, and other extreme weather are due to global warming. The author points out , that reason for more heat waves is pretty obvious and if you define a heat wave as an extended stretch of days when the temperature is well above what we now think of as normal in a month when temperatures are already high  then a generally warmer world will have more stretches like this.  In  addition to that, the author adds, that  in a warmer world, more water evaporates from the oceans and other bodies of water, and also from the soil. So the land will tend to be drier—but when it does rain or snow, there’s more water vapor stored up in the atmosphere, so precipitation should be heavier.   Analyzing the situation it’s necessary to admit, that  it could lead in turn to a higher risk of flooding and even more -  it’s difficult to prove definitively that extreme weather events have increased, unless we’re talking about averages over the entire globe, or at least over very large regions. Moreover, the reader should not forget that author clearly gives us a thought, that  today, with much better monitoring, it’s a challenge for scientists to gather enough information to draw firm conclusions about long-term trends over large regions. It’s more difficult still to say anything concrete about the role of climate change in single events. It's necessary to admit the fact, that what scientists can say is that events like this should happen more often in a warmer world. If our planet continues to warm as scientists expect—and as our record of observations gets longer and more comprehensive—scientists will be able to make more definitive statements.It would be unfair for the author , not to mention , that using special statistical techniques designed to look at extreme events, scientists have done studies, published after the last major IPCC report on global climate, in, to look at changes in extreme temperature and precipitation events over large areas of the world.The article draws the conclusion that it’s still very hard to say anything definitive about the human fingerprint on specific, local types of extreme weather.

In conclusion, I'd like to say , that all of  chemical and physical processes , associated with global warming will always have a huge effect on status of our planet as a whole system and organize  - the world's iternal moving and  global  warming - is a non-breaking process of one structural patter - the Earth  And here, the main aim of scientists today -not to try to prophesy  some disasters, but to monitor all the current changes of a layer of  our Earth and atmosphere, to observe the movement of tectonic masses and study further some of global warming - in order not to  obtain unique knowledge ( but it's also really important for next generations ), but to  prepare the whole  humanity mentally and physically for different future major changes.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/21/does-global-warming-cause-severe-weather-global-weirdness-excerpt.html

Individual Reading . Tom Clancy : Rainbow Six. p. 1- 241 .

The story begins with the flight of  John Clark  ( with wife Sandy and his  pregnant daughter
Patsy, who is married to Domingo - our second main character ),   Domingo Chavez  ( John's son in law) and Alistair Stanley  across the North Atlantic area.  All these three men were united not only by their familiarity and flying on the plane - all these people were "employees" of  U.S. Defense Ministery, John Clark, was ex-Navy SEAL, and two other characters, Alistair Stanley was the executive commander of Rainbow Six group, and Domingo "Ding" Chavez was the leader of Team 2 - one of the two constituent links of Rainbow Six agencie. Keen mind and military experience helped John to identify  4 terrorists in the plane and with help of his companions, the terrorists were successfully brought under  their control,  with non-fatal way of operative actions .So, the military forces had been informed and the plane made the nearest landing in England, the terrorists were put into the hands of of special organizations, and the boys went on their way further. The destination point was Hereford, England and John Clark had become the commander and in charge of starting a new European  anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six was splitted into two main parts - Team 1 and Team 2 - their main aim was to eliminate the threat of terrorism in any part of the world in somt anonymously form -  only  100 people knew about its foundation , even for the CIA and the FBI the  information about this department was at the edge of "top secret" mark, strictly classified. The unit consists of a highly effective and cohesive pair of operational squads, supplemented by intelligence and technological experts from the SAS .
  A group of scientists, apparently working on a terrorist organization, held the secret of some biological experiments on people - the homeless people, caught at night on the streets of New York. The test is to keep of twenty test people in the building (they were washed and shaved, got new clothes and were allowed to choose any type of alcohol - these scientists  facilitated the ability to monitor drunken men. Scientists  main aim - the creation of the  immune system virus,  based on the separation of cancer cells of the colon and their fast parasitic effects.
  After two difficult weeks of hadrcore training in Hereford, either Team 1 and Team 2 were ready to execute any mission - their bodies were in perfect shape, reaction to any action - lightning fast, they fired without misses, and they could struggle against bear or tiger  in the melee battle - the best professionals around the world . The first inciden thad happend in a Swiss bank, where terrorists had taken absolute control. They also had citizenas  hostages .Team 2 successfully took them out, with only one hostage killed, but he was killed before they had gotten there. The first mission helped them to  organize themselves and fix a few holes in their planning. And after killing of these terrorists , reader could also know the main main villain of this story - unbeknownst to them, radical eco-terrorists from a biotechnology firm called the Horizon Corporation have orchestrated the previous attacks, having hired ex-KGB officer Dimitriy Popov to foment the incidents.

Rendering - Week 8.

                            Terrorism won't stop education of Pakistani girls.
The article was published in  SCMP, on Tuesday, 30 October, 2012, by Shahid Javed Burki and its main issue is connected with an attempt to kill 14-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan whose active involvement since the age of 11 in campaigning for the rights of girls in her region to be educated was well known. The author admits, that it is a well-known fact that Malala's efforts, while applauded by the West and some segments of Pakistani society, were deeply resented by the obscurantist forces that go by the name of the Taliban. Burki also adds , thatthe choice of name is ironic, for Taliban means those seeking to be educated, whereas the Taliban's principal aim is to keep Muslim societies backward so that they can be persuaded to adopt a seventh-century version of Islam. The author is convinced that several religious leaders joined the chorus of condemnation that followed the attack on Malala. A council of Sunni Muslim scholars in the eastern city of Lahore issued a fatwa, signed by 50 clerics, saying that the justifications cited by the girl's attackers were "deviant" and had no basis in Islamic law. Moreover , analysing the situation in the word it is necessary to emphasize that extremists wanted to silence the majority that was waking up to the existential threat that radical Islam poses to their country. It would be unfair for Burki, not to mention that fact that Pakistani women have made extraordinary education progress in recent years. Their share of total college enrolment has increased from 36 per cent to 57 per cent over the last couple of decades. The article draws the conclusion that Malala's survival - and possible full recovery - provides a vibrant symbol for a troubled country. She will begin to be identified with the change that is already under way.
  In my opinion, an armed attack against a  young child, girl - an awful sin and dread event in todays Pakistan. Firmly believe in thier own faith, and using a firearm to  ruin Malala's lively bright mind, so young and innocent, in order to to plant the seeds of terror in minds of citizens - these actions of Taliban rebel warriors will be punished by the hand of God.

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1072535/terrorism-wont-stop-education-pakistani-girls

Rendering : Week 7.

Three Wars on Terror
Ronald Reagan and the battle for Obama's strategic soul.

The article  was published on the website of the newspaper " FP: The National Security" on September 10 2012, by John Arquilla. The author of the article writes about  Barack Obama's earliest acts as president, connected with the discarding of the  phrase "War on Terror"
. Author of the article clearly separates three different stages of presidential periods of the US  ( Reagan, Bush W and Obama)  .
It's necessary to point out, that author tells us, that Obama's counter-terrorism strategy has extended to other malefactors as well, from madmen like Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army to the Libyan state terrorist, Moammar Qaddafi.
Arquilla emphasizes the fact, that the difference in the approaches taken by our two most recent presidents really speaks to there being two different wars on terror and Bush chose to attack other nations in his attempt to create a less permissive international environment for terrorist networks, whereas Obama has decided to take the more direct approach: going straight after the networks.
Furthermore, one should not forget that author clearly gives us a thought, that  Bush's strategy proved exceptionally costly and highly problematic in Iraq, and even his initial success in "going small" in Afghanistan was all too soon overtaken by a stalemate-inducing impulse to send large numbers of troops there.
Moreover, Arquilla proves the fact, that Obama's concept of operations, on the other hand, has been working well, and will never break the bank or exhaust our military.
In addition to that, the author can't deny the fact, that In the weeks and months after the October 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 242 Americans, Reagan and his team became deeply concerned about the terrorism problem and the signal success of this first war on terror came in a campaign against the Abu Nidal Organization - which was conducting terrorist hits for hire on behalf of Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Some of the network's hidden finances were detected and, instead of freezing or seizing these funds, they were covertly moved about in ways that convinced Abu Nidal that many of his operatives were embezzling.
The author tell us, that the other side of the coin is the fact, that despite this success, and for all of Reagan's enthusiasm and Shultz's support, little else came to pass and this was because many senior military leaders worried about the ethics of Reagan's war on terror -- specifically that the use of paramilitaries and special operators would lead to what then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger called an "unfocused revenge approach" that would lead to the deaths of innocents.
Besides, the Pentagon preferred more conventional uses of force -- like the massive air raid on Libya in 1986 in retaliation for the bombing of a Berlin discotheque frequented by GIs.
It's necessary to admit the fact, that  Obama did allow senior military advisers to talk him into surging large numbers of conventional forces into Afghanistan -- at great cost and, at best, with mixed results. He also acceded to a status-of-forces agreement made by his predecessor, allowing senior political advisers to talk him into living with the consequences of a complete withdrawal from Iraq.
  The authors draws a conclusion that,  saying that in the battle for Reagan's Strategic soul, the conventional thinkers won out because they convinced hive that there was for too much of the "dark side" in the Shultz-inspired plan. In the battle for Barack Obama's strategiс soul, the "overwhelming force" approach hasn't yet carried the day - and with luck it won't.
  I should say, that my personal opinion is, that the US country isn't the most powerful tool in the combat fight against terrorism.  The U.S. believes that only their An Eagle of Justice may destroy this disaster of the 21st century. But it is not truth - the world of terror has a great number of branches in the war history at all, but nowadays  most of this terrorism is at the junction of politics and religion and has its own unique features, as well as the dangerous virus has the same cellular structure of itself. And this cure the whole world anti-terrorist community should find together.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/10/three_wars_on_terror

Rendering: Week 6

 Al Qaeda planned to hijack cruise ships and execute passengers, reveals 'treasure trove of intelligence' embedded in XXX video.

This article was published by Eli Lake in The Daily Telegraph , on May 02, 2012 and discusses the situation about war conflicts with  al Qaeda and it secret mission , consisting of  hijacking cruise ships and posing footage of passengers being executed online to pressurize governments.  Analyzing the situation it’s necessary to admit, that this audacious plan is just one of several plots discovered by investigators who decrypted the hardware found in the underpants of a suspected terrorist arrested in Berlin last year. The author says, that one should, however, not forget that it reveals the organization is using a 'twin-track strategy' - using 'low-cost, low-tech attacks' to keep security services preoccupied as other 'operatives' plan large-scale 9/11 type atrocities. Eli Lake points out that the  46 page document outlines how and why the liquid explosive plot took shape and explains how counter-surveillance measures by the 21/7 bombers threw security officers off their scent.   In  addition to that, they reveal the impact that military drone strikes and infiltration by intelligence agencies are having on al Qaeda's numbers and behavior. To draw the conclusion, Eil Lake points out, that It took German investigators several weeks to decrypt the file, but when they did they found an inside track on some of the terror group's most audacious plots and a road map for future operations. So, in my opinion , it's a very convenient and clever way of transmitting hidden information. Billions of tapes and discs with adult video are circulating around the world and the best way to hide something extremely banned and seriously top secret in the sin of humanity.

http://www.news.com.au/world-old/terror-plot-horror-hidden-in-porn-film/story-e6frfkyi-1226344377892