Flight QZ8501, Human's Error?

Flight QZ8501: What we know about the AirAsia plane crash

 

AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea off Borneo shortly after take-off on 28 December 2014 with no survivors.

The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore, was just over 40 minutes into its flight when contact was lost. The jet took off from Surabaya at 05:35 local time on Sunday 28 December (22:35 GMT Saturday). It was nearly halfway into its two-hour flight to Singapore when it disappeared. The pilot contacted air traffic control at 06:12 local time to request permission to climb to 38,000ft (11,000m) from 32,000ft to avoid big storm clouds - the last time contact was made with the plane.

The plane disappeared from radar screens shortly afterwards. It did not issue a distress signal.

A report by the Indonesian weather agency initially said bad weather was the "biggest factor" in the crash.
But an official report by transportation officials released in December 2015 found that a fault in the plane's rudder control system, along with crew action, contributed to the crash. A crack in a tiny electronic module caused the system to send repeated warning alerts to the pilots, who responded by resetting the system. This caused the autopilot to disengage and the plane rolled to the left. The pilots struggled to right the plane, which stalled and crashed. There were 155 passengers, including 17 children and one infant. The seven crew were made up of two pilots, four flight attendants and an engineer. A total of 106 bodies were eventually found, with the rest still unaccounted for. Nearly all the passengers and crew were Indonesians, including six of the crew. One of the pilots was French. Also on the flight were a South Korean family of three, one Briton, one Singaporean and a Malaysian.

 

 Personal Reflection

"Human's error create disaster", this statement should always be remembered because it was true. So, we cannot blame the weather or the big storm clouds because they didn't do anything, we have to have personal reflection why it was always possibilities that human's error could actually create danger. The crew should have checked double times about the conditions of the plane, because it was crucial and we risking so many people's life and that's why double checking is important.

Norwegia Wind Storm

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Storm slammed into Northern Norway

Norwegian Wind Storm Makes it Impossible to Cross Streets

While much of southern Norway was basking in sunshine and relatively warm temperatures on Tuesday, the northern part of the country was being slammed by a severe storm with winds so strong they even toppled a large truck in Nordland. The storm was also battering the coast farther south in Helgeland. Boats capsized in a marina at Mosjøen and several ferry routes were cancelled, including those between Svolvær and Skrova. Connections were also cut between Bodø and the island of Røst, and the Bodø-Moskenes ferry had to halt service from 4:30pm. State meteorologists warned the weather would likely get worse before it got better. Lofoten, Vesterålen, Troms and Finnmark were all getting battered, with warnings sent out for full storm Tuesday evening.“There can be gusts of up to 40 meters per second,” meteorologist Justyna Wodziczo told weather site yr.no. “It can be uncomfortable to be outdoors when raindrops hit your face in storm strength, so it’s the type of weather when it’s best to stay home with a good book.”

In Nordland and Lofoten it was already uncomfortable to be outdoors Tuesday afternoon, when the winds forced bridge closures and frightened motorists stuck inside their cars at either end.
“We’re just barely staying on the road,” motorist. Sea levels were also unusually high, which state meteorologist Mette Skjerdal blamed on the so-called “super moon” of the past few days, that also was covered at one point by a lunar eclipse. The tides were 20 to 30 centimeters higher than tables had predicted. “There are three reasons for that: the moon, the strong low-pressure system and the strong westerly winds that are sweeping the seas into the coast,” Skjerdal told.One of the many effects of Storm Ivar — which left thousands in Scandinavia without power last week — were winds so strong they left people struggling to walk. And we mean seriously struggling.Luckily, police were around to assist those who needed help. But for those who chose to battle it out solo, many ended up essentially walking in place, and a few others ended up looking like they belonged in the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Personal Reflection
It was so funny to read the article and saw the pictures. Actually the event was naturally happened and we cannot resist it. And what the authorities have told civilians were absolutely right because we cannot resist the weather but we can resist what the weather cause. I hope this kind of weather could happen here, I love strong wind and surely want to feel the feelings (lol).

Poor Animals Crushed to Death

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Viral Video - Puppy Crushed to death by Three Girls 

3 girls crush wailing puppy to death

3 Mean Filipina Girls in Puppy-Killing Videos Had Also Tortured Rabbits, Monkeys (MORE ANIMAL TORTURE VIDEOS)

A 20-minute video shows three unidentified girls taking turns in kicking and stepping on a white innocent and helpless puppy. The video titled "Puppy Crushed to death by Three Girls" caused an online outrage and has quickly earned thousands of shares in social networking sites.

MANILA, Philippines—A new “crush video” is making the rounds on social media showing three girls in shorts stomping on a wailing puppy until it died. The barefoot women, whose faces were shown on the video, are allegedly Filipinas. It caught the attention of the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which has launched a search for the women and other people involved in the production of the video. The 3 mean girls are not alone in cruelty to animals. On the same YouTube search for their video, it showed a woman crushing a cat to death using her high heels and another set of bad girls throwing new born puppies in the river.

 According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia-Pacific, these girls have done other videos in which they tortured, mutilated and killed other animals.  Besides crushing puppies with their feet until the animal vomited their internal organs, they have also lit rabbits on fire, skinned them alive, burned a dog with a clothes iron and stabbed a monkey and dogs in the eyes with the sharp end of a stiletto heel. The 3 girls, whose identities remain unknown, are now under the custody of the Department of Social Welfare, while the couple who produced the fetish videos are in jail and waiting trial. The court is expected to release its judgment on the couple in early 2014.

Personal Reflection
THIS CASE SHOULD BE ENDED NOW!! If we cannot catch them, at least don't do whatever they've done wrong. They might be only animals, but they have feelings just like us, imagine if it was you who feel that way, being unwanted and powerless. I hope that they could find the mean people and process them as soon as possible and of course sentence them as bad as possible #meanlidya.

You Care About Them?

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Rural and Urban Water Issues in Africa

Poverty and Water

Africa faces huge challenges with multiple issues that adversely affect public health. One major challenge is the ability for both rural and urban Africans to access a clean water supply. There are limited sources of water available to provide clean drinking water to the entire population of Africa. Surface water sources are often highly polluted, and infrastructure to pipe water from fresh, clean sources to arid areas is too costly of an endeavor. According to the WHO (2006), only 59% of the world's population had access to adequate sanitation systems. Not only is there poor access to readily accessible drinking water, even when water is available in these small towns, there are risks of contamination due to several factors.

Groundwater is the best resource to tap to provide clean water to the majority of areas in Africa, especially rural Africa, and groundwater has the benefit of being naturally protected from bacterial contamination and is a reliable source during droughts. However, the high costs associated with drilling for water, present challenges that limit tapping the resource. Groundwater is not a fail-safe resource, either, when it comes to providing clean water. There may be contamination of the water with heavy metals, and bacteria may be introduced by leaking septic systems or contaminated wells. For these reasons, it is important that groundwater be monitored frequently, which is costly and requires technical abilities. But most of the people didn't test the water quality as often as is necessary, and lack of education among the people utilizing the water source leads them to believe that as long as they are getting water from a well, it is safe.

The implications of lack of clean water and access to adequate sanitation are widespread. Young children die from dehydration and malnutrition, results of suffering from diarrheal illnesses that could be prevented by clean water and good hygiene. Diseases such as cholera are spread rampantly during the wet season.They are also at an increased risk for violence since they travel such great distances from their villages on a daily basis, and are even at risk when they must go to the edge of the village to find a private place to relieve themselves. 

Personal Reflection
I've ever heard from someone ( I forgot who ) he said that this lack of water problem of Africa was because of some people use the water to watering drugs or opium, (if I'm not mistaken) and they got a lot of advantages for themselves. In this case, (if it was truly right) I think the government should stop this act and take the best action to get rid of this problem.. Some country have already helped anyway, so the government should use the help as good as possible, if not, maybe the disease could spread throughout the world and it can contaminate all the water resources as well and by that we all know that we could ended up dehydrated. Overall, I hope government could solve the problem as soon as possible, they're your citizen anyway..

Opium vs Food in Afganistan

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Afghans' addiction to opium ravages adults, infants 
The War in Afghanistan Has Turned a Generation of Children Into Heroin Addicts

One of the many catastrophic legacies left behind by the longest war in U.S. history is that Afghanistan produces 90% of the world’s opium. As with most parts of the world, the most vulnerable pay the heaviest price of war, and the country has faced a harrowing escalation in the number of child heroin addicts. Adding that all levels of Afghan society are involved in the flourishing trade. He claimed the U.S. not only cooperated with warlords but ignored corruption by criminals whose human rights abuses created the conditions that led to the rise of the Taliban in the first place. The problem is only getting worse as American combat troops withdraw amid evidence that U.S. counter-narcotics programs here have failed despite $7 billion in taxpayer funds spent to tackle the source of the problem: poppy fields, people thought that the process is to slow. As a result, Afghanistan now produces twice as much opium as it did in the year 2000, and the booming trade now accounts for 50% of the country’s GDP.  Since then the street price for “powder,” is the cheapest in the world — and it costs less than food in the war-torn country.

 The only treatment centre in Kabul to help children, it was originally set up to treat women. The 20-bed unit, which forces kids off the drugs by making them go cold turkey is, ironically, funded by the U.S. State Department. Naval is introduced to a number of very small children who are at varying stages of the 45-day treatment programme. Claiming that of 130, 000 families in the area, 60% are addicted to drugs, the doctor explained many men pick up their addictions while working in neighbouring Iran and Pakistan that workers use opium for stimulant to work easier, now most Afghans view opium as a medicine that treats everything from a headache to cancer. Often, it's the only palliative available in the rugged country's remote regions. Opium addiction is woven into Afghan culture. It's especially common among women working in the carpet-weaving industry in the country's northern regions to ease their backaches after hours of work. Many also turn to opium to quiet their children, who accompany them to the workplace.

Personal Reflection
I think this article is quite interesting, because this country is the number one biggest opium producer yet they're having a economic problems and malnutrition of their citizen. This opium problem is very harmful, and inflict a financial loss for the consumers, so I think this problem needs immediate act to get rid of. This opium problem not only lead to economic and health issues but also to the behavior and thoughts because of addiction. Majority of people will be otiose or sluggish (lazy) and they will have lack of activities to do and in the end this result will lead to health and economics problems. What I concern the most in this article is the people who addicted were not only adults but also children above 10 age, it was caused by the usage of drugs during pregnancy and for pain killer or as a medicine. This problem is actually already been addressed by the authorities but their suggestion were not effective enough for solving the problem, and they also provide a place for rehabilitation but the room was lack of bed unit. So I hope the government could give more attention to this country and I hope you guys care enough to help or probably  share this article.

Borneo and Sumatera's Issues

'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years'
Borneo and Sumatra are the only places on Earth where tigers, rhinos, orangutans, and elephants live together. The forests are home to marvelous creatures like the proboscis monkey, sun bear, clouded leopard, and flying fox bat, and endangered animals like the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhino, and pygmy elephant.
There are more than 15,000 known plants here, with many more species yet to be discovered. Since 1995, more than 400 species have been identified on the islands, with more than 50 of these species completely new to science. An unknown mammal species—for now dubbed the Bornean red carnivore—was photographed by one of WWF’s camera traps in 2003.The cultural diversity of Borneo and Sumatra is as distinct and varied as its plant life. Rapid economic changes have brought shifts in population and threaten the way of life for communities who have traditionally lived off the forest. In Borneo and Sumatra, the vast wealth of natural resources has attracted large-scale international financing focused on extractive industries, from precious hardwoods and minerals to palm oil, rubber, and coal.

Wildlife trade is a major problem in this region. Rampant poaching, facilitated by the growing number of roads and logging trails, poses a grave threat to Borneo and Sumatra's endangered species like tigers and rhinos. Expanding oil palm plantations and, in Sumatra, coffee cultivation is encroaching on landscapes crucial to species conservation. Indonesia is home to approximately three percent of the world's forests. Yet deforestation in this region represents over a third of the total global carbon emissions from deforestation and land degradation. Heavy demand for plywood, hardwoods, and wood products for the pulp and paper industry leads to both legal and illegal logging. In only a few years, logging and agribusiness have cut Indonesia's vast rainforest by half. The government has renewed a moratorium on deforestation but it may already be too late for the endangered animals – and for the people whose lives lie in ruin.

Personal Reflection
 I think it is wise to create strict regulations to prevent the endangered animals of being extinct and the deforestation issues. The government need to control the industrial productivity to make sure that the civilians are safe in certain way. And it is important to banned the wildlife trade, so that our precious natural resources are not in danger because it was our allure (charm) anyway.

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Illegal Wildlife Trade 

Deforestation

Pests and Diseases Attack India's Coconut Farms

Pest attacks wreak havoc on coconut farms

Kochi, August 16:  Even as 2016 marks a century of coconut research in India, the sector is still fearful about the threat of various diseases. Pests and diseases affected the country’s coconut production (up to June) this year, with output dropping 5 per cent from the 20,440 million nuts produced last year. India’s coconut production, which ranks first and contributes around 31 per cent of global production, has been showing a declining trend in the last three years, dropping from 23,351 million nuts to 20,440 in 2014-15. 

The major villains are root-wilt diseases, which have affected coconut production throughout Kerala and are spreading to the neighbouring States of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Besides, Thanjavur / Ganoderma Wilt, bud rot, leaf rot are also impacting output. Price instability is also a major problem, forcing growers to neglect the coconut crop, which is cyclic in nature. Owing to a high degree of price fluctuation, growers are now exposed to economic risks and uncertainties. High labour costs, unavailability of sufficient land suitable for agriculture due to urbanisation and surging farming costs are other factors making coconut cultivation unviable. The average number of nuts per tree per harvest is only eight nuts, which is inadequate to meet even the harvesting charges. And the application of such practices for effective management of pest and diseases at the farmer level is very low.

Personal Reflection
I think the cost of industrial activities should be decreased if we or especially the government want the production of the nut back in live that could encouraged nuts farmers to be more productive. About the pest and diseases I think it was because of the lack of practices of the farmer to be applied to manage the nut trees development or growth. And by that I think the application of such practices should be reminded and applied throughout the coconut yards or farms, so that no pest or disease could disturb the growth of the coconut and the production of nuts would be increased as well.