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.

Antlantic Slave Trade

AFRICAN HOLOCAUST : Not Just History, But Legacy

The African Holocaust is a pan-African discourse on the global historical and contemporary genocide against the mental and physical health of African people. The effects of this genocide impacts all areas of African life; religion, heritage, tradition, culture, agency, self-determination, marriage, identity, rites of passage, and ethics. The African Holocaust or Maafa, is a crime against humanity and is recognized as such by scholars, who have documented the primary culpability of mainly, Europeans in the ongoing Holocaust against African people. Slavery, corrupted and stripped both the enslaved and the slave master of their humanity and dignity. The African Holocaust represents an existential threat to the peoplehood and agency of African people for the last 500 Years of world history. Africa is the most exploited continent in the history of humanity; more human victim's have been procured from Africa than all the continents of the world combined. The consequences of this drain in human and mineral resources is one of the major factors in the global condition of African people.However, this history would be incomplete and distorted, without also reflecting on the acquiescence; collaboration, rape, genocide, slavery, corruption, and warfare that Africans, as free agents, as members of nations and native religions, have also engaged in. Moreover, it would be morally reprehensible to neglect the contemporary trade in Africa and across the globe.

It is also experienced in the academic and political value the Maafa receives compared to the Jewish genocide. While African people are told to "move on from slavery", Jewish holocaust is a stample of World history. However, It is estimated that 40 -100 million people were directly affected by slavery via the Atlantic, Arabian and Trans-Saharan routes. Some historians conclude that the total loss in persons removed, those who died on the arduous march to coastal slave marts and those killed in slave raids, exceeded the 65–75 million inhabitants remaining Africa at the trade's end. Over 10 million died as direct consequences of the Atlantic slave trade alone. But no one knows the exact number: Many died in transport, others died from diseases or indirectly from the social trauma left behind in Africa. Not only was Transatlantic Slavery of demographic significance, in the aggregate population losses but also in the profound changes to settlement patterns, epidemiological exposure and reproductive and social development potential.

Personal Reflection:
Slavery was not only an aspect of history, today Slavery is still a World wide problem.. Millions of people are trapped in domestic slavery, and that's our job as new generations to make it better, to stop the slavery, and not to do the slavery itself. And the last but not the least, we have to encourage other people especially government to stop the slaverians. 

Red-Nickel River Rusia

Source: RUSSIANS are fearing the next world war could be about to break out after a river started running blood red near the city of Norilsk.

Nickel pollution has reportedly caused this river to turn crimson.

The Daldykan river has been snapped looking almost bloodlike in colour, and there is concern what others think could be the result of an industrial accident, is going to spread to other waterways across the country.
The spot where the colour was first seen is close to a metal factory, the Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, which is owned by Norilsk Nikel. The remote city lay inside the Arctic Circle and more than a quarter of the city’s 210,000 population work for the factory. It mines a fifth of the world’s nickel and more than half of its palladium, a metal used in car exhausts and jewellery. Many residents took to social media and said they were concerned about the colour of the river, — some said they thought it was down to run-off coming from a smelting plant nearby, while others believed mineral ore had leaked into the water.

This region, in northern Siberia, mines a fifth of the world’s nickel.Source:Supplied

 Evgeny Belikov, who claims to be a former factory worker, said a reservoir by the plant was a similar colour and was called “the red sea” by employees. He said “In winter, the snow’s also red. On the one hand, it’s beautiful, but on the other it’s chemical.” Checks are underway to determine why the river has gone red, and production has been reduced.

Personal Reflection
I think the government already did the right thing by investigate the case and causes and reduce the production to prevent another bad event to happen in the future. And for the factory I think they have to completely check the safety of their production so it would not effect especially harm others.

Dogs and Cats Eaten as a Festival

Source: Yulin dog meat festival begins in China amid widespread criticism

About 10,000 dogs and cats are expected to be killed and eaten during the controversial 10-day festival in Yulin. Activists say the event is cruel, and this year a petition calling for it to be banned collected 11 million signatures. The local government says the festival does not have official backing but is staged by private businesses.

The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival sees people gathering in Yulin to sample dog meat hotpot, lychee fruits and local liquor. A tradition of eating dog meat dates back some 500 years in China, South Korea and other countries, where many believe it wards off the heat in summer months. The Yulin festival, celebrated during the summer solstice, is a relatively new one, beginning only in recent years. Residents and vendors in Yulin say the animals are killed in a humane way. But critics say animals are killed brutally and publicly, and are sometimes beaten to death or cooked while still alive. Ahead of the festival, dogs are often kept in small, cramped cages. Some photographs show animals wearing collars, suggesting they may have been stolen pets. Many dogs are transported from other cities in cramped lorries and unsanitary conditions, allowing diseases to spread easily. According to campaign group Stop Yulin Forever, dogs are denied food and water for days during their trip.

Personal Reflection
After babies, I found this article talking about dogs and cats eaten in China as a festival. Human cruelties are now no longer a secret, they even show to the public. This could indicate that people nowadays don't have any humanity left, for they already got what they want and they don't care about the rest. I think we as a human should have respect other creatures, maybe we could at the least eat those domestic pet silently or not-to-eat them at all, they should be a pet anyways. If this keep on happening I could assume that animals are all going to extinct, not only the wild but the tame as well... Hope they would realize what they had been doing and repent to not to do the same despicable things.

A Mother Set a Fire to Kill Herself and Her Children

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She Sent Her Kids To Bed and Then Set The House On Fire! What Is Her Disturbing Explanation

Mother-of-two set fire to home as her children slept upstairs ‘because voices in her head told her to’

Mother tried to kill herself and her children in Ruabon house fire

 A MOTHER tried to kill herself and her two children when she set in motion an horrific fire at their home in the middle of the night.

Aimee Griffiths, 30, of Ruabon, Wrexham, told her two children to lie down and go to sleep as she started the blaze. She tried to kill herself and her two children by burning down the house she was being evicted from. But her 10-year-old daughter was the one who managed to save the family, she ran out of the house as the fire began to spread and screamed for help. Their neighbors, both in their sixties, managed to pull Aimee and her son out of the house despite Griffiths fighting to stay inside with the boy. She was 'grabbed by the scruff of her neck' and dragged out - and even then tried to get back in. According to investigators, the British woman was drunk at the time. The woman was hospitalized in a mental hospital until trial, where she told psychiatrists that she heard “voices” telling her to burn down the house. 

Four possible seats of fire were found inside by firefighters and more than £50,000 worth of damage was caused to the semi-detached property. Griffiths told how she had eviction looming, she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, her benefits had been stopped, her relationship with her mother and sister had broken down and she was drinking excessively. Griffiths has now been jailed for five years and four months at Mold Crown Court after she admitted arson. The judge said that she was a young woman who had been psychologically damaged by a range of life experiences. He told the court it was a sad and tragic case and Griffiths had endured an appalling childhood.

Personal Reflection
As a mother, we have to take a good care of our family especially our children. In this case, I think the mother (Griffiths) did not care enough about her children and avoid to respect their rights to live. She was drunk that time because of her traumatic problems and stressfulness, I think if that might happen to us we have to hand over our children to our close siblings or neighbor to prevent bad thing to happen and that's a professional way of being a parent.

To Kill or Not-to-Kill in Bullfight

Source: What happens to the defeated bull after a bullfight?
Wikipedia: Bullfighting


Bullfighting (Spanish: corrida de toros [koˈriða ðe ˈtoɾos] or toreo [toˈɾeo]; Portuguese: corrida de touros [kuˈʁiðɐ ðɨ ˈtoɾuʃ] or tourada [toˈɾaðɐ]), also known as tauromachia or tauromachy (Spanish: tauromaquia. Portuguese: tauromaquia; from Greek: ταυρομαχία "bull-fight"), is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, parts of southern France and some Latin American countries (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru), in which one or more bulls are fought by humans in a bullring. Although it can be defined as a blood sport, it is considered a highly ritualized cultural event and art form which some see as deeply tied to Hispanic culture and identity.

Usually the bull is killed in the arena by the matador, and then it is chained to a train of mules, and taken out the arena.  The bullfighter usually kills the bull ideally by a single sword thrust, which is called the estocada. Sometimes, the life of the bull is spared due to his braveness (indulto); once the animal has been treated, it is returned to live in the dehesa. Such pardons are nevertheless rare. The dead bull is then brought to the “desolladero” (literally, skinning place), a place in the arena compound where butchers skins it, then make parts of it. These parts are sold to specific restaurants. There is (almost) a myth, that the bull can exit the arena alive if he has shown bravery in the fight. This happens once in a blue moon, maybe one or two times a year, on an average of 70.000 bulls killed in Spain in each season. Sometimes the bullfighter is not able to kill the bull for whatever reason (for instance, because he has been injured by the same bull). A bull could not get back to its cage because it learns fast that the “muleta” (the piece of cloth that the bullfighter handles) is a lure, and rapidly it goes for the bullfighter, so, it must be killed in the arena.

Personal Reflection
In my opinion, although the bulls is meant to be killed or else you will the one that could be killed by them, it is still not right to kill the bull in spectacles for pleasure. And even though it is considered as a culture, it still can be changed by only sport not bloody one by not killing it.

Nuclear Radiation Effects in Japan

 Source: Wikipedia - Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

The radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a release of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Radioactive isotopes were released from reactor containment vessels as a result of venting to reduce gaseous pressure, and the discharge of coolant water into the sea. Nuclear plant could cause 130 deaths from cancer globally and 199 cancer cases in total, most of which are estimated to occur in Japan. Radiation exposure to workers at the plant was projected to result in 2 to 12 deaths and there are 167 Fukushima plant workers received radiation doses that slightly elevate their risk of developing cancer.Trace quantities of radioactive particles from the incident, including iodine-131 and caesium-134/137, have since been detected around the world.The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report that estimates an increase in risk for specific cancers for certain subsets of the population and it was predicted that for populations living in the most affected areas there is a 70% higher risk of developing thyroid cancer for girls exposed as infants, a 7% higher risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants, a 6% higher risk of breast cancer in females exposed as infants and a 4% higher risk, overall, of developing solid cancers for females.

Thirty workers conducting operations at the plant had exposure levels greater than 100 mSv It is believed that the health effects of the radioactivity release are primarily psychological rather than physical effects. Even in the most severely affected areas, radiation doses never reached more than a quarter of the radiation dose linked to an increase in cancer risk. (25 mSv whereas 100 mSv has been linked to an increase in cancer rates among victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) However, people who have been evacuated have suffered from depression and other mental health effects.

The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation is expected to release a final report on the effects of radiation exposure from the accident by the end of 2013.

 Personal Reflection
The owner of this business should have prepared better, especially this case related to people's health. They should have have double-or-maybe-triple or more protection to prevent this disaster to happen. I suppose they should think about the worst effect and make a way out to prevent those effect so it would not happen in the future. If it did happen, they should take care of the problems they have made immediately. The main point is to prevent rather than conquer, because it is harder to take control than prevent it to happen I guess.

Baby Eater - China

Source: Chinese Eat Baby Soup for Sex One Baby Policy Blamed for Killing Babies in China

 

Some Chinese people are known to be eating babies, and the news, which has been circulating through the internet and via email, is shocking the world. That news with several vivid and appalling pictures of human embryos and fetuses being made into a soup for human consumption. The report went on. A town in the southern province of Canton (Guangdong) is now in focus. Chinese folks there are enjoying baby herbal soup to increase overall health and stamina and the power of sexual performance in particular.


The cost in Chinese currency is approximately Rs 2,000 (which is about US$4,000). Dead babied can be purchased in Taiwan for 70 US dollars for being used as grilled delicacies. It is a delicacy whereby expensive herbs are added to boil the baby with chicken meat for eight hours. After waiting for a couple of weeks a reporter walked by to the restaurant when he was informed by the restaurant manager that the spare rib soup (local code for baby soup) was now available. This heinous crimes rise from the fact that majority of Chinese people prefer to have male babies and the poor families end up selling their female babies.

Personal Reflection:
I thought that human trafficking is the worst crime ever, but I change my mind since this news came up. This is disaster!! We ate our own beings, not being that proper cannibals but we ate babies, it is probably their own babies. Jesus Christ! What had happened to us, how come they did not even have a little humanity for those fetuses. I know this is probably because of China's authorities that let us to have only one child or maybe because China's people more likely to want a baby-boy, but at least you don't have to eat them! Why don't they just send it to the orphanage or maybe a family that always wanted a baby but they are sterile, not by eating them (the fetus). The government should have made the more orphanage too, or if it is to crowded send them to another city or maybe country to flatten the population and reduce this kind of problems.

Jesica Santillan's Malpractice

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17-Year-Old Girl Given Organs With Wrong Blood Type

Jesica's Story One mistake didn't kill her--the organ donor system was fatally flawed

Jesica Santillan's condition steadily deteriorated after the botched operation 7th Feb 2003.  Jesica, who is from a small town near Guadalajara, Mexico, needed the transplant because a heart deformity kept her lungs from getting oxygen into her blood. She suffered a heart attack (Feb. 10) and a seizure on Sunday, and was in critical condition with a machine keeping her heart and lungs going. Mahoney said she would have died within six months without a transplant. A family friend said the girl has only a few days left.

A 17-year-old girl, Jesica Santillan, lay near death Tuesday (Feb 12) after mistakenly receiving a heart and lung transplant from a donor with the wrong blood type. She died as the victim of an elementary and inexcusable medical mistake: her heart-lung transplant had gone wrong because her blood type and the donor's did not match. The girl has type O-positive blood but was given organs from a donor with type-A blood during the operation at Duke University Hospital. Hospital spokesman Richard Puff said he could not specify how the mistake was made. But he said that the hospital staff believed the organs were compatible and that compatibility had been confirmed. Jesica's body was rejecting the new organs because of the different blood types. Antibodies in her blood attacked the organs as foreign objects. Jesica Santillan's death, on February 22, was clearly due to surgeon and hospital error, but the entire national organ-transplant system also played a major role. The same process that found Jesica a heart and lungs and moved them to the operating room failed to protect her. Jesica's tragic death made headlines. But there have been other cases, many unreported, of accidentally mismatched organs.Given the basic flaws in the system exposed by Jesica's story, it's remarkable that there have not been more deaths.

Personal Reflection:
Jesica's case are likely to happen in my country because there are no strict regulation that organize the practice of a doctor. So anyone could be a doctor, without any title and open their own business illegally, I think because it is so hard for the cops or government to find out those malpractice doctors. But this case must be taken care as soon as possible, because the doctors deals with life and what are we without life right?

Orang Utans are Burnt to Death :(

Source: Orang utans burnt to death in Indonesia

Three female orang utans, including a baby, were burnt to death in central Indonesia after being caught in a fire believed to have been started illegally to clear land for farming. The charred bodies of the endangered Bornean orang utans, believed to be a mother and her two daughters, were discovered among fire-blackened remains of trees, their limbs outstretched and grimaces of pain on their faces. They were found in Bontang, in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, close to Kutai National Park. No one has been arrested yet, but if convicted, a perpetrator could face up to five years in jail for breaking wildlife protection laws. Environmental group the Centre for Orang utan Protection (COP), believe the fire was illegally started by a farmer to clear a small area of land for cultivation. Slash-and-burn forest clearance, mostly to make way for palm oil plantations, is common across Indonesia and environmentalists say it has contributed to the destruction of many endangered species’ natural habitats. It was also blamed for causing huge forest fires that cloaked Southeast Asia in acrid smog last year. Many orang utans had to be rescued from the blazes.

COP carried out an autopsy on the apes after they were discovered last month. The group found they were all female, and aged around 20, 10, and less than one year. Protection group the International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the Bornean orang utan as endangered. Besides destruction of their habitats for agriculture, the primates face other threats. They are sometimes targeted by villagers who view them as pests, and caught by poachers who want to sell them as pets.

In this undated picture taken late on February 2016, shows the bodies of an adult (L) and a baby (C) orangutans after a forest fire at Kutai National Park in Bontang, East Kalimantan province.






Personal Reflection:
It's so ironic that we (human) are so cruel I mean SO cruel, the bible told us to take care of the world and what I got here they (the farmer) don't even care at all, they just care about themselves and their life without knowing some creatures are suffering from what they've done. I hope from this article the readers, whoever you are, could help to stop this.. Or at least, try to protect the utans by not destroying their habitats or even kill them. We live with them, we had the command, we have to respect them and their life, even though they're sometimes disturbing just scare them and they're likely to move away. If you don't want them to be in your land, just fence your land, not to kill.

Unhumanity in a Gay Bar at Mexico

Source: 7 people were killed in a Mexico gay bar, but it’s not big news

At least seven people are believed to have been killed in a mass shooting at a gay bar in Mexico last four month in 22nd May 2016. The shooting took place three weeks before last Sunday’s massacre 49 people were killed in a gay bar in Orlando but was not reported on by Western media.The crime was originally reported as drug-related, with authorities in the country claiming it was “territorial”. In the early morning May 22, gunmen entered La Madame, a gay club in Veracruz, and proceeded to fire into the crowd of approximately 180 people, In total, seven people were killed and at least 12 injured in the attack. Despite this, LGBT activists in the country say authorities continue to ignore the “homophobic aspect” of the crime.

A 24-year-old employee of the club told reporters at El Noreste that she witnessed an armed group enter the bar and open fire into a crowd of more than 200 people.
One of the victims – Luis Donaldo Rivera Calderon – had gone to the bar with his uncle, Luis Manuel Rivera Aguilar.
“They opened the doors violently and drew their guns. There were shouts,” Aguilar told local media.
“They had no mercy. Bullets ricocheted everywhere,” he added.
“The white tiles were stained red. Those who wanted to escape slipped in puddles of blood.
‘It was a slaughterhouse.”
Police said they launched a search for the gunmen, but no arrests were made.

Personal Reflection:
Even though it's a gay bar, it was not a gay criminality included there and the crime was originally reported as drug-related. So, there's no relation between LGBT and these cases. Overall, I don't really  understand why it seems like the police and authorities does not even care about these cases, it looks like they're already gave up and do nothing just a general searching, they did not even report it to the media. I hope they can actually caught those gunmen and arrest them as well and it needs a real action as soon as possible or else they will do the same thing later, and I'm pretty sure no one gonna like that.

Human Being Became Extinct!!!!

Source : When Sex Trafficking Goes Unnoticed in America


The Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a “modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain.” In 2012, the International Labor Organization estimated that there are 20.9 million human trafficking victims worldwide. There are more than 4,000 cases of sex trafficking were reported. And as a whole human trafficking is a lucrative industry that around the globe rakes in $150 billion.

But it’s unclear whether the numbers are an accurate representation of the problem, because many cases aren’t reported. The problem with human trafficking is that of course the victims are silenced, so reporter couldn't find any information.Traffickers also play into the narrative by telling victims, who are exploited for sex, that they are offenders, threatening to call the police and report them for prostitution if they push back. Between the fiscal years 2001-2007, there was a 360 percent increase in convictions compared to the seven previous years. Despite an enhanced approach from the government, the process can still be grueling for victims. A lot of these traffickers, particularly on the sex side of things, have developed dysfunctional relationships with their victims.

Personal Reflection

The human trafficking is a serious problem, because the human traffickers sells "human" and we are humans - the highest level in food chain.If we cannot save ourselves how can we live in the world? We could also extinct like the other creature and there's would be no more living thing in the world. So, as human itself we have to take a serious action to conquer this problems and save our own population. The government's regulations are crucial and vital for this kind of problem. But first it comes to us, how we think about human being and its rights, because as we knew the seller is actually humans too! We think about humans (our being) and we respect each other by not do the trafficking or even violence.

The Whales Extinct!

Source: Whale Facts Marine Mammal Facts & Information

The blue whale is not only one of the most well-known species of whale, it’s also the largest known whale in existence growing to lengths of over 100 ft and weighing more than 150 tons; although 60 – 80 ft. is more common. In the past (pre whaling era) blue whales were extremely abundant (150,000 – 200,000 before whaling began) and found swimming in all of the major oceans of the world, however today it is estimated that there are now only between 1,500 – 2,500 blue whales left in existence.

 There are a number of factors contributing to the current endangered status of whales such as overfishing (it is when a company do the fishing at the area of a particular population of fish which is the whale or other creature's food), aquatic construction (The construction of bridges, dams, waterways), pollution (chemical pollution in the ocean combined with oil spills and garbage), private/commercial boating (ocean become more congested with boats and ships) and commercial whaling (whale hunting), but out of these contributing factors commercial whaling has had the largest affect on the endangered status of today’s existing whale populations. In fact the hunting of whales (by humans) has existed for thousands of years; as far back as prehistoric times. In the past blue whales were hunted for: oil (ex: lamp oil, soap, perfume, candles and cosmetics), food (ex: cooking oil, margarine and whale meat), clothing (ex: corsets and umbrellas), and various other products including tools such as fishing hooks.

Personal Reflection

I think the government have to take a real action and make strict laws to overcome the extinction of whales. He or she should make regulations for fishing, aquatic constructions, boating, and for the disposal or waste of factory especially the one that throw into the oceans, so that the extinctions causes could be controlled. And as human, we have to remember that we given this world and its content to be maintained not to be undermined. It is okay to fishing but not to overfishing, it is okay to hunt but not too much, and it is okay to construct but not to fill up the whole world with constructions. At the least, love our world because it is where we live and protect them from extinctions before we are become extinct too.

Asphalt Melted in India

Asphalt melting: India heat wave kills over 1,400 people 

With roads melting right before your eyes, the heat has become lethal in India, killing at least 1,412 people in May. India's two southern states, Andhra Pradesh and nearby Telangana, are the worst affected areas. The heat has raged for over a week and the death toll there is said to be more than double the toll from last year's heat wave. In Andhra Pradesh alone, it has reached 1,020.The two states have so far recorded over 800 heat-induced deaths, the Indian Express reported. Hot, dry winds have swept across the capital and most parts of north and central India. City residents have been desperate to buy iced water and cold fruit. The heat wave in India is so intense that streets are melting. High temperature of 122°F. Over 1,100 people dead.

May and June are usually the two hottest months in India, with temperatures easily soaring to 40 Celsius and higher. But according to meteorologists, the number of days when temperatures hit 45 Celsius has increased in the past 15 years. Meteorologists say the scorching spell of weather is most likely to continue for at least another week, with soothing monsoon rains expected to arrive in the southern state of Kerala in the first week of June.

I don't think we understand how hot it is in India. Roads are melting and people are doing all they can to stay cool. The heat occurs from the sun and usually our planet earth doesn't got burned because of the ozone. The ozone nowadays is thinning because of the greenhouse effect, and the greenhouse effects are occur mostly from industrial company. What I got here is that in India there're so many industrial building that made India's ozone (obviously) thinner and let the heat pass over the land. That is why I think the government need to take action to decrease those building to save India from heat wave attacks.