Comments for Andreas Sigurdsson http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog a digital nomad's thoughts and adventures shared Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:12:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Struggle for transportation to Cherchen / Qiemo by Bertil Friberg http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/09/struggle-for-transportation-to-cherchen-qiemo/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 Bertil Friberg Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:12:40 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/09/struggle-for-transport-to-next-destination/#comment-1236 Andreas! Vad intressant att läsa om Dina reseerfarnheter i västerled! Ha det! Bertil Andreas!

Vad intressant att läsa om Dina reseerfarnheter i västerled!
Ha det!
Bertil

]]> Comment on Overnight in Taklamakan Desert by flip http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/overnight-in-taklamakan-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-1223 flip Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:10:44 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/overnight-in-taklamakan-desert/#comment-1223 what ana amazing journey!!! wish i could do this someday! what ana amazing journey!!! wish i could do this someday!

]]> Comment on 27 hours later… by Nathaniel Cook http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/27-hours-later/comment-page-1/#comment-1211 Nathaniel Cook Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:45:13 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/27-hours-later/#comment-1211 There are some things I don't miss when I'm not traveling. Disgusting bathrooms and long bumpy bus rides are two of them. :-) Good luck! -Nate There are some things I don’t miss when I’m not traveling. Disgusting bathrooms and long bumpy bus rides are two of them. :-) Good luck! -Nate

]]> Comment on A new beginning by Pontus http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/a-new-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Pontus Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:27:11 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=368#comment-1210 Tjena mannen Kul att se vad du har för dig. Lycka till med ditt "nya yrkesval". Kör du eget? Hur som helst, det kommer att gå fett bra. Hoppas semestern blir kanon och glöm inte att lägga upp lite sköna pics. //Pontus Tjena mannen

Kul att se vad du har för dig. Lycka till med ditt “nya yrkesval”. Kör du eget? Hur som helst, det kommer att gå fett bra. Hoppas semestern blir kanon och glöm inte att lägga upp lite sköna pics.

//Pontus

]]> Comment on Changes to blog by Andreas http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/changes-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Andreas Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:54:05 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=359#comment-1209 True, the web of links and referrals is good to keep intact. Great looking blog you have now! True, the web of links and referrals is good to keep intact.

Great looking blog you have now!

]]> Comment on Changes to blog by Jonathan Biddle http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2010/08/changes-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1208 Jonathan Biddle Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:02:08 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=359#comment-1208 I did almost the same thing recently, moving my blog from a couple of sub-folders back, onto the front page. I actually kept the old blog location as an archive, since I don't quite have the inclination to hand-recode the links, or the skill to automate it. I did almost the same thing recently, moving my blog from a couple of sub-folders back, onto the front page. I actually kept the old blog location as an archive, since I don’t quite have the inclination to hand-recode the links, or the skill to automate it.

]]> Comment on Now biking in Shanghai/China by Nate http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2009/07/now-biking-in-shanghaichina/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Nate Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:33:39 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=245#comment-350 How convenient! I got a flat on Monday and am still trying to figure out where to get it repaired... How convenient! I got a flat on Monday and am still trying to figure out where to get it repaired…

]]> Comment on the victims of a crisis by Andrew Grimes JFP, JSCCP, M.Sci. Pth http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2009/02/the-victims-of-a-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Andrew Grimes JFP, JSCCP, M.Sci. Pth Tue, 12 May 2009 04:52:09 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=90#comment-112 Mental health professionals in Japan have long known that the reason for the unnecessarily high suicide rate in Japan is due to unemployment, bankruptcies, and the increasing levels of stress on businessmen and other salaried workers who have suffered enormous hardship in Japan since the bursting of the stock market bubble here that peaked around 1997. Until that year Japan had an annual suicide of rate figures between 22,000 and 24,000 each year. Following the bursting of the stock market and the long term economic downturn that has followed here since the suicide rate in 1998 increased by around 35% and since 1998 the number of people killing themselves each year in Japan has consistently remained well over 30,000 each and every year to the present day. The current worldwide recession is of course impacting Japan too, so unless very proactive and well funded local and nation wide suicide prevention programs and initiatives are immediately it is very difficult to foresee the governments previously stated intention to reduce the suicide rate to around 23,000 by the year 2016 being achievable. On the contrary the numbers, and the human suffering and the depression and misery that the people who become part of these numbers, have to endure may well stay at the current levels that have persistently been the case here for the last ten years. It could even get worse unless even more is done to prevent this terrible loss of life. During these last ten years of these relentlessly high annual suicide rate numbers the English media seems in the main to have done little more than have someone goes through the files and do a story on the so-called suicide forest or internet suicide clubs and copycat suicides (whether cheap heating fuel like charcoal briquettes or even cheaper household cleaning chemicals) without focusing on the bigger picture and need for effective action and solutions. Economic hardship, bankruptcies and unemployment have been the main cause of suicide in Japan over the last 10 years, as the well detailed reports behind the suicide rate numbers that have been issued every year until now by the National Police Agency in Japan show only to clearly if any journalist is prepared to learn Japanese or get a bilingual researcher to do the research to get to the real heart of the tragic story of the long term and unnecessarily high suicide rate problem in Japan. Useful telephone number for Japanese residents of Japan who speak Japanese and are feeling depressed or suicidal: Inochi no Denwa (Lifeline Telephone Service)? Japan: 0120-738-556 Tokyo: 3264 4343 Andrew Grimes Tokyo Counseling Services http://tokyocounseling.com/english/ http://tokyocounseling.com/jp/ Mental health professionals in Japan have long known that the reason for the unnecessarily high suicide rate in Japan is due to unemployment, bankruptcies, and the increasing levels of stress on businessmen and other salaried workers who have suffered enormous hardship in Japan since the bursting of the stock market bubble here that peaked around 1997. Until that year Japan had an annual suicide of rate figures between 22,000 and 24,000 each year. Following the bursting of the stock market and the long term economic downturn that has followed here since the suicide rate in 1998 increased by around 35% and since 1998 the number of people killing themselves each year in Japan has consistently remained well over 30,000 each and every year to the present day.

The current worldwide recession is of course impacting Japan too, so unless very proactive and well funded local and nation wide suicide prevention programs and initiatives are immediately it is very difficult to foresee the governments previously stated intention to reduce the suicide rate to around 23,000 by the year 2016 being achievable. On the contrary the numbers, and the human suffering and the depression and misery that the people who become part of these numbers, have to endure may well stay at the current levels that have persistently been the case here for the last ten years. It could even get worse unless even more is done to prevent this terrible loss of life.

During these last ten years of these relentlessly high annual suicide rate numbers the English media seems in the main to have done little more than have someone goes through the files and do a story on the so-called suicide forest or internet suicide clubs and copycat suicides (whether cheap heating fuel like charcoal briquettes or even cheaper household cleaning chemicals) without focusing on the bigger picture and need for effective action and solutions. Economic hardship, bankruptcies and unemployment have been the main cause of suicide in Japan over the last 10 years, as the well detailed reports behind the suicide rate numbers that have been issued every year until now by the National Police Agency in Japan show only to clearly if any journalist is prepared to learn Japanese or get a bilingual researcher to do the research to get to the real heart of the tragic story of the long term and unnecessarily high suicide rate problem in Japan.

Useful telephone number for Japanese residents of Japan who speak Japanese and are feeling depressed or suicidal: Inochi no Denwa (Lifeline Telephone Service)?

Japan: 0120-738-556 Tokyo: 3264 4343

Andrew Grimes

Tokyo Counseling Services

http://tokyocounseling.com/english/

http://tokyocounseling.com/jp/

]]> Comment on Follow the road by Andreas http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2009/03/follow-the-road/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Andreas Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:49:36 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=125#comment-71 Sa,,,,hittade du ratt da? Ga pa "fel" berg...he he he Sa,,,,hittade du ratt da? Ga pa “fel” berg…he he he

]]> Comment on Banking and Finance in China – Crisis next? by Susan Kishner http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/2008/10/banking-and-finance-in-china-crisis-next/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Susan Kishner Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:21:59 +0000 http://andreassigurdsson.com/blog/?p=77#comment-36 Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read! Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read!

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