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Not a Good Career Leverage
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Although Overnight Talent (OT) has been in showbiz since she was a child, the movie (TM) that paired her with Comeback Performer (CP) propelled her into instant fame. The management of OT and CP took a big risk in producing TM, which was based on a popular publication (PP), and the gamble paid off. Thus, OT and CP are believed to be the next popular loveteam and producers hoped that their partnership would consistently reap box office hits.
As TM was based on PP, OT and CP are sometimes required to attend promotional tours, such as book signings and other related events. Naturally, they are introduced to the authors of the works from which their movies are based. Thus, it is expected that OT and CP should acknowledge these authors to give a little respect. However, that is not how OT saw it.
During a concert of an all-female Asian group, the author (TA) of the book, which the pair made into a movie, called OT as they were supposed to know each other. Instead of acknowledging TA, OT turned her head away and snubbed TA. The reaction of OT shocked TA, who could not believe that OT was not even friendly.
Now, when the snubbing incident reached the fellow authors of TA, they resorted to a united action whenever OT would show up for promo events. Thus, when the latest movie of OT was being promoted, the authors staged a walkout in support of TA. Someone even commented that OT, who has yet to go beyond her one-hit wonder, has the gall to act like a prima donna.
Did OT really not recognize TA during the concert, which prompted her to not return the smile? Or is OT really snotty and uncaring of anything but her career? While rumors are already circulating about the negative personality of OT, she should be oriented as to how to behave properly. Perhaps, someone might remind her that TA and the other authors have a huge fanbase, and that their novels can be made into movies even without OT playing the lead female role.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. – Charles R. Swindoll
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Tweet Scoop: Malaysia Airlines Sends Prayers to Passengers of Missing AirAsia Flight
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AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Loses Contact with Air Traffic Control
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An AirAsia plane with 162 people on board lost contact with ground control on Sunday while flying over the Java Sea after taking off from a provincial city in Indonesia for Singapore. The two countries immediately launched a search and rescue operation but there was no word on the plane's whereabouts more than six hours after it went missing.
AirAsia, a regional low-cost carrier with presence in several Southeast Asian countries, said in a statement that the missing Airbus A320-200 was on the submitted flight plan route. However, it had requested deviation due to weather before communication with the aircraft was lost while it was still under the control of the Indonesian Air Traffic Control.
"We don't dare to presume what has happened except that it has lost contact." Djoko Murjatmodjo, Indonesia's acting director general of transportation, told reporters. He said the last contact between pilot and the air traffic control was at 6.13 a.m. "when he asked to hinder cloud by turning left and go higher to 34,000 feet."
He said there was no distress signal from Flight QZ8501.
The contact was lost about 42 minutes after the single-aisle jetliner took off from Indonesia's Surabaya airport, Hadi Mustofa, an official of the transportation ministry told Indonesia's MetroTV. It was about an hour before it was scheduled to land in Singapore.
Air tracking service Flight Radar 24 tweeted this image showing AirAsia Flight QZ8501's last known location.
Image courtesy of Twitter: @Flightradar24
The plane had two pilots, five cabin crew and 155 passengers, including 16 children and one infant, AirAsia Indonesia said in a statement. Indonesian officials had earlier said there were 161 people on board, presumably because the infant was not counted.
The AirAsia statement said there were six foreigners — three South Koreans and one each from Singapore, Malaysia and France. The rest were Indonesians.
It said the captain in command had a total of 6,100 flying hours, a substantial number, and the first officer a total of 2,275 flying hours.
Pilot requested change in altitude
At Surabaya airport, dozens of relatives sat in a room, many of them talking on mobile phones and crying. Some looked dazed.
Murjatmodjo, the Indonesian official, said the plane is believed to have gone missing somewhere over the Java Sea between Tanjung Pandan on Belitung island and Pontianak, on Indonesia's part of Kalimantan island.
He said the pilot contacted Jakarta air traffic control 6:12 a.m. reporting clouds and asking to go higher from 9,700 metres (32,000 feet) to 10,303 metres (34,000 feet), the usual cruising altitude for jetliners.
The Singapore statement said search and rescue operations have been activated by the Indonesian authorities. It said the Singapore air force and the navy also were searching with two C-130 planes.
Relatives of the passengers of AirAsia flight QZ8501 comfort each other at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014.
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'We have to reserve judgment'
Flightradar24, a flight tracking website, said the plane was delivered in September 2008, which would make it six years old.
The Malaysia-based AirAsia, which has dominated cheap travel in the region for years, has never lost a plane before. AirAsia Malaysia owns 49 per cent of the Indonesian subsidiary.
A Changi Airport staff holds up a sign to direct possible next-of-kins of passengers of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 from Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, at Changi Airport in Singapore December 28, 2014.
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This is the third major air incident for Southeast Asia this year. On March 8, Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a wide-bodied Boeing 777, went missing soon after taking off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. It remains missing until this day with 239 people in one of the biggest aviation mysteries. Another Malaysia Airlines flight, also a Boeing 777, was shot down over rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine while on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17. A total of 298 people on board were killed.
The crew's request for an unusual route is curious since the weather "didn't seem to be anything unusual," said William Waldock, an expert on air crash search and rescue with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.
Severe weather is the reason pilots usually request a different route, but in this case the "winds were light, there were a few thin clouds, but that's about it," he said in an interview.
Waldock cautioned against drawing comparisons to the disappearance of Malaysia flight 370.
"I think we have to let this play out," he said. "Hopefully, the airplane will get found, and if that happens it will probably be in the next few hours. Until then, we have to reserve judgment."
The circumstances bode well for finding the plane since the intended flight time was less than two hours and there is a known position at which the plane disappeared, he said.
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