Subject: Professor Ian Primer
Very Interesting read but I have not confirmed the facts.
Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Prof Ian Primer, World renowned Geologist, explains about Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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Monday, June 30, 2014
Write-up on Aasra in the BBC
Write-up on Aasra in the BBC
Write-up on Aasra in the BBC
4 December 2012Last updated at 14:50 GMT
Shantanu Negi’s friends initially believed his Facebook post to be a joke
Shantanu Negi’s Facebook suicide prompts shock in India
By Shalini Joshi Dehradun
Shantanu Negi’s friends initially believed his Facebook post to be a joke
An Indian student has killed himself after posting a Facebook suicide note.
“Bye everyone… I will miss you… I quit,” wrote Shantanu Negi, 16. Police think he was worried about an exam.
His friends initially believed it to be a joke, with many “liking” his last post and others commenting on it before they found out what happened.
Counsellors working with the social media site to improve reporting and support say many such cases in India are referred but few result in death.
Shantanu’s death occurred at home in the northern town of Dehradun on Monday evening.
Within hours, as the news of the suicide spread, his shocked friends started writing condolence messages.
“Shantanu killed himself because he was worried that he won’t do well in his mathematics examination,” police officer Dinesh Singh Bhandari told the BBC.
A student of class 11 in the prestigious Asian School, Shantanu was a good student who had scored 90% marks in his class 10 examinations.
“Recently, he seemed to have lost interest in studies. We had talked to him about it, but there was no pressure on him,” his father Pushkar Negi said.
From his Facebook profile, Shantanu appeared to be like any other happy and carefree teenager and his school said there had never been any complaints about him.
Helpline Last year, Facebook launched a system to allow users in India and elsewhere to report friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.
In India, the social networking site added the Mumbai-based Aasra suicide prevention helpline – part of the Befrienders Worldwide/Samaritans network – as part of its suicide risk alert system.
Johnson Thomas of Aasra told the BBC that in the past year they had intervened in more than 300 cases forwarded to them by Facebook.
Once a case has been flagged by worried friends, trained counsellors from the helpline email users offering to help them.
“We tell them we are worried and concerned about them. We cannot invade their privacy, but we request them to call us,” Mr Thomas said.
“Very often they do and we talk them out of it. Some just stop posting such messages because they realise they have friends who care for them.”
Mr Thomas says Shantanu “needed reassurance that not performing well in one exam is not a reason to kill himself. We all need people around us to support us.”
His friends initially believed it to be a joke, with many “liking” his last post and others commenting on it before they found out what happened.
Counsellors working with the social media site to improve reporting and support say many such cases in India are referred but few result in death.
Shantanu’s death occurred at home in the northern town of Dehradun on Monday evening.
Within hours, as the news of the suicide spread, his shocked friends started writing condolence messages.
“Shantanu killed himself because he was worried that he won’t do well in his mathematics examination,” police officer Dinesh Singh Bhandari told the BBC.
A student of class 11 in the prestigious Asian School, Shantanu was a good student who had scored 90% marks in his class 10 examinations.
“Recently, he seemed to have lost interest in studies. We had talked to him about it, but there was no pressure on him,” his father Pushkar Negi said.
From his Facebook profile, Shantanu appeared to be like any other happy and carefree teenager and his school said there had never been any complaints about him.
Helpline Last year, Facebook launched a system to allow users in India and elsewhere to report friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.
In India, the social networking site added the Mumbai-based Aasra suicide prevention helpline – part of the Befrienders Worldwide/Samaritans network – as part of its suicide risk alert system.
Johnson Thomas of Aasra told the BBC that in the past year they had intervened in more than 300 cases forwarded to them by Facebook.
Once a case has been flagged by worried friends, trained counsellors from the helpline email users offering to help them.
“We tell them we are worried and concerned about them. We cannot invade their privacy, but we request them to call us,” Mr Thomas said.
“Very often they do and we talk them out of it. Some just stop posting such messages because they realise they have friends who care for them.”
Mr Thomas says Shantanu “needed reassurance that not performing well in one exam is not a reason to kill himself. We all need people around us to support us.”
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07 MARCH 2011, TECHNOLOGY
- 7 March 2011Last updated at 16:58 GMT
Facebook adds Samaritans suicide risk alert system
Rory Cellan-Jones shows how the system worksFacebook is launching a system that allows users to report friends who they think may be contemplating suicide.The feature is being run in conjunction with Samaritans, which said several people had used it during a test phase.
Anyone worried about a friend can fill out a form, detailing their concerns, which is passed to the social networking site’s moderators.
It follows reports of several cases where Facebook users announced their intention to commit suicide online.
The reporting page asks for the address (URL) of the Facebook page where the messages are posted, the full name of the user and details of any networks they are members of.
Suicide-related alerts will be escalated to the highest level, for attention by Facebook’s user operations team.
Police alert “When a report is made, they then assess whether they need to call the police immediately or forward it on to us,” said Samaritans’ Nicola Peckett.
Facebook said that it had always been its policy to notify police if a user was at risk of imminent bodily harm.
The system had been operating in a trial mode, without publicity for three months, during which it received several genuine reports and no hoaxes, according to Samaritans.
It is hoped that the new reporting mechanism will help prevent cases like that of Simone Back, who died on Christmas day after taking a drug overdose.
The charity worker from Brighton had written about her intention to kill herself on her Facebook page.
Several of her friends commented on the message, however no-one raised the alarm.
Samaritans said that the new system was not launched in relation to one specific case, but to raise awareness of the ways in which people could get help. -
22 SEPTEMBER 2011, SOUTH ASIA
India police investigate Bangalore ‘Facebook suicide’
Malini Murmu was reported to be upset by ‘derogatory’ Facebook comments
Police in India are looking for the former boyfriend of a student who allegedly committed suicide after he ended their relationship on Facebook.Malini Murmu is reported to have hanged herself on Sunday in Bangalore. Her father has demanded that her former boyfriend, Abhishek Dhan, be arrested.
Police say they are investigating whether the comments on Facebook amount to aiding and abetting suicide.
The whereabouts of Mr Dhan – also a student – are currently unknown.
Malini Murmu was a first year MBA student in the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore.
Ms Murmu’s family say that Mr Dhan’s Facebook account contained derogatory references to her – now deleted – which “forced her to take such a drastic step”.
In the comments on Sunday he wrote about being “relieved” and “feeling cool” after “dumping his girlfriend”. The pair had reportedly had a row earlier on.
Ms Murmu’s father told the BBC that her death had left the family devastated.-
27 JUNE 2012, INDIA
- 27 June 2012Last updated at 07:23 GMT
Article written by Soutik Biswas Delhi correspondent
Why are young Indians killing themselves?
Suicide has become the second leading cause of death among young Indians
In the end, wrote Albert Camus, one needs more courage to live than to kill oneself.If new research is to be believed, a disturbingly high number of young Indians are losing the courage.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet shows that suicide has become the second leading cause of death among the country’s young adults, after road accidents in men, and childbirth-related complications in women.
There were 187,000 deaths from suicides in India in 2010, the study says – this is higher than the official figure of 134,599 suicide deaths from the National Crime Records Bureau. (Researchers attribute this gap to under-reporting or misreporting as friendly or bribe-seeking coroners often sign off suicide deaths as ones caused by accidents to protect the victim’s family from police harassment and social stigma.)
If the findings by a team of doctors are to be believed, 40% of the men and 56% of the women who took their lives in 2010 were aged between 15 and 29 years.
The suicide rate in Indian women aged 15 years or older is more than two and a half times greater than it is in women of the same age in high-income countries, and nearly as high in China. The corresponding rate in men in the same group is between one to two times greater in men of the same age in high-income countries.
I asked Dr Vikram Patel, a leading Goa-based psychiatrist and professor at the London School Of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who co-authored the study, about why he thought this was happening.
He believes that joblessness for men and post-marriage problems for women trigger off a lot of these suicides. “In women it manifests in depression, in men it becomes a drinking problem,” he says.
India is a society steeped in the patriarchal tradition, where most women are still expected to stay at home, and bring up children. But more and more women are stepping out to work and aspiring to be independent and successful. But pressures of family, demands for dowry and domestic harassment – and violence – push many such young, married women over the edge in the country’s teeming cities and towns.
“This is what I call the aspirational reality gap,” says Dr Patel. “Exposure to global media, education doesn’t match up to the realities at home. A touch of anomie worsens matters. Suicide is seen as a potential way out of it.” Perhaps not surprising in a society which lives with one foot in tradition, and the other in modernity.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Parents, don’t stress kids over exam results
Parents, don’t stress kids over exam results
Parents, don’t stress kids over exam results
Experts in the city sound the alarm as suicide helplines get buzzing with frantic calls from students in the run up to the big result day.
It's just a short while away from the results of the biggest examinations — SSC and HSC — and already parents and their offspring have hit the panic button over what the outcome will be. While it is true that results can show the path towards a child's academic future, the pressure to do well is also making parents frenzied, over-stressed and high-strung. Student helplines have been ringing constantly and psychologists are seeing a rise in cases of student depression in the run-up to D-Day. While everything may be riding on this for young students, it is also a delicate stage in their lives, and parents often sadly forget this fact. "It's a time when parents conjure up worst-case scenarios and lay pressure on the child," says psychologist Malini Krishnan. "He or she is already nervous and parents too have anxieties, which is understandable. But if they are not careful as to what they say it will just add to a sense of failure and lead to breakdown in a child if he or she is vulnerable and on the edge," she warns.
Suicide rates on the rise
Sadly, while restlessness, loss of appetite and sleepless nights are just some of the symptoms, they can also manifest in suicidal feelings. Fear and distress have led to suicide in several cases (see box). "Suicide rates are on the increase," affirms Johnson Thomas, director of Aasra, a helpline that aids suicide prevention.
Latest figures from the organisation show that this year, the number of calls from students to the helpline is 30 a day. "These can be exam related or other factors can be involved," he says, adding, "The days before the result unavoidably bring about uneasiness, impatience, sleepless nights, loss of appetite and worry. Students have negative thoughts that if their percentage does not meet expectations, they might get humiliated. Often, what happens is when youngsters do confide their suicidal tendencies to their friends and family, the warning is usually not taken seriously and sometimes even brushed off as emotional blackmail. But, here is a child who is saying he or she is fed up, so the plea should never be ignored."
'Parents, you have given birth to a child, not a marksheet'
Social psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty cautions against letting things go out of hand. "One exam does not define life," says Dr Shetty. It is not a milestone but a stone with many miles to go. Parents must share their anxieties with other parents and counsellors. Remind yourself that you have given birth to a child, not a marksheet." Adds Thomas, "It's the parents here who are in for learning. They need to be trained in parenting."
Krishnan feels parents ought to put themselves in their child's shoes. "In doing so they will be more conscious of what they are saying, and it will make them more aware of what the child goes through. Basically, they must convey they message that, 'I am with you'. They must show support to the child," she says.
One way out: get kids to do an activity
A study says exercise may help protect children from stress. Taking a walk, a swim, shopping, or even clearing the room can help dealing with worry.
Recent cases of suicide
1. This March, a news report mentioned that Rani Muniraju, a second-year pre-university student, hung herself. Apparently, she was worried she wouldn't clear her Business Studies paper and was "very depressed".
2. In Surat, four students of Class X and XII committed suicide this March, apparently due to Board exam stress.
3. This March, a 19-year-old engineering student committed suicide after jumping off a highrise at Thakur Village in Kandivli (E). He had sent a text message to his mother saying he couldn't cope with college studies.
4. In May in Chennai, three cases were reported as the results of final exams began coming out. In the first incident, a class IX student, Abirami, hung herself from the ceiling. In the second, in Velachery, Meera (17), who was awaiting Plus Two results, set herself ablaze and in the third, Shyam Immanuel (17), awaiting Plus Two results, consumed pesticide at his house.
It's just a short while away from the results of the biggest examinations — SSC and HSC — and already parents and their offspring have hit the panic button over what the outcome will be. While it is true that results can show the path towards a child's academic future, the pressure to do well is also making parents frenzied, over-stressed and high-strung. Student helplines have been ringing constantly and psychologists are seeing a rise in cases of student depression in the run-up to D-Day. While everything may be riding on this for young students, it is also a delicate stage in their lives, and parents often sadly forget this fact. "It's a time when parents conjure up worst-case scenarios and lay pressure on the child," says psychologist Malini Krishnan. "He or she is already nervous and parents too have anxieties, which is understandable. But if they are not careful as to what they say it will just add to a sense of failure and lead to breakdown in a child if he or she is vulnerable and on the edge," she warns.
Suicide rates on the rise
Latest figures from the organisation show that this year, the number of calls from students to the helpline is 30 a day. "These can be exam related or other factors can be involved," he says, adding, "The days before the result unavoidably bring about uneasiness, impatience, sleepless nights, loss of appetite and worry. Students have negative thoughts that if their percentage does not meet expectations, they might get humiliated. Often, what happens is when youngsters do confide their suicidal tendencies to their friends and family, the warning is usually not taken seriously and sometimes even brushed off as emotional blackmail. But, here is a child who is saying he or she is fed up, so the plea should never be ignored."
'Parents, you have given birth to a child, not a marksheet'
Social psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty cautions against letting things go out of hand. "One exam does not define life," says Dr Shetty. It is not a milestone but a stone with many miles to go. Parents must share their anxieties with other parents and counsellors. Remind yourself that you have given birth to a child, not a marksheet." Adds Thomas, "It's the parents here who are in for learning. They need to be trained in parenting."
Krishnan feels parents ought to put themselves in their child's shoes. "In doing so they will be more conscious of what they are saying, and it will make them more aware of what the child goes through. Basically, they must convey they message that, 'I am with you'. They must show support to the child," she says.
One way out: get kids to do an activity
A study says exercise may help protect children from stress. Taking a walk, a swim, shopping, or even clearing the room can help dealing with worry.
Recent cases of suicide
1. This March, a news report mentioned that Rani Muniraju, a second-year pre-university student, hung herself. Apparently, she was worried she wouldn't clear her Business Studies paper and was "very depressed".
2. In Surat, four students of Class X and XII committed suicide this March, apparently due to Board exam stress.
3. This March, a 19-year-old engineering student committed suicide after jumping off a highrise at Thakur Village in Kandivli (E). He had sent a text message to his mother saying he couldn't cope with college studies.
4. In May in Chennai, three cases were reported as the results of final exams began coming out. In the first incident, a class IX student, Abirami, hung herself from the ceiling. In the second, in Velachery, Meera (17), who was awaiting Plus Two results, set herself ablaze and in the third, Shyam Immanuel (17), awaiting Plus Two results, consumed pesticide at his house.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Coping with the stress of Exam results(HeadsUp) AASRA
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8 Steps to fight Exam Tension
Fight the Exam Tension
Our life usually offers us to take diverse exams - some or other sorts of trials, exactly where we have to prove our competence, our properly being, our determination and our IQ. Student obtaining to submit his philosophy term paper, surgeon operating for the 1st time, unemployed, who came for the interview to his prospective employer all of them have the symptoms of the exam anxiety. If you are a student, there is no require for me to clarify what exam stress is. To get other ways to look at the situation, we recommend people check-out: rupcoe. Sleepless nights, troubled thoughts, loss of appetite, speedy pulse, trembling hands - these are typical manifestations of exam worry. Recent research has shown that it affects all the systems of the human physique: nervous, immune, cardiovascular, and so forth.
The scientists from Houston Medical College proved in the course of their investigation that exam fear increases the possibility of cancer. I learned about best new jersey plumber by browsing the London Gazette. Sadly, the adverse influence of this phenomenon on the students body and their psychology is underestimated nowadays. Social polls demonstrate that students perceive the exams as a duel of questions and answers, as a serious torture as intellectual and emotional overload. Writing term papers (e. g psychology term paper) most of them evaluate with killing their time. Yes, exams are important for you as their final results influence your social status, your self esteem, grants, your further perspectives of study and possibly your future expert career. Such variables as long awaiting of the exam, some uncertainty when taking your exam card ( it is like sink or swim ) and challenging limit of time for your preparation maximize emotional tension. Some foreign and native scientists, having studied this area completely have concluded that from psycho hygienic position exams are undesirable and they ought to be cancelled.
At the identical time there is fairly opposite point of view, stating that exams stimulate brain activity and increase cognitive and mental activity. American psychologist Sarazon determined that those students who are afraid of exam can considerably boost their achievements and even outdo those who are not scared of them. If you are concerned with irony, you will perhaps choose to learn about LQJHF » Article Writing and Clients: When Things Don’t Work Out. The only essential point for it is the encouraging attitude of the professors they ought to strengthen students self-self-assurance. Surely, praise must prevail more than scolding. Only then the exams are useful. Every particular person has personal optimal level of worry and anxiousness, which helps him/ her to attain the very best final results. You need to learn how to control your tension and further anxiety to graduate from the university as a healthy individual. I hope that these modest tips will be of sensible assist to you and you will forget what exam tension is in the damaging meaning of the word.
If exams result in wonderful worry, if you have some symptoms of exam stress (insomnia, speedy pulse, hands trembling and so on) you ought to do something about it. Use breath meditations, repeat formulas of autosuggestion, imagine the picture of best exam atmosphere. You also need to take three relaxing sessions and reduce the level of stressful tension (a day prior to the exam, just before leaving residence for university and half an hour prior to the exam)..
The scientists from Houston Medical College proved in the course of their investigation that exam fear increases the possibility of cancer. I learned about best new jersey plumber by browsing the London Gazette. Sadly, the adverse influence of this phenomenon on the students body and their psychology is underestimated nowadays. Social polls demonstrate that students perceive the exams as a duel of questions and answers, as a serious torture as intellectual and emotional overload. Writing term papers (e. g psychology term paper) most of them evaluate with killing their time. Yes, exams are important for you as their final results influence your social status, your self esteem, grants, your further perspectives of study and possibly your future expert career. Such variables as long awaiting of the exam, some uncertainty when taking your exam card ( it is like sink or swim ) and challenging limit of time for your preparation maximize emotional tension. Some foreign and native scientists, having studied this area completely have concluded that from psycho hygienic position exams are undesirable and they ought to be cancelled.
At the identical time there is fairly opposite point of view, stating that exams stimulate brain activity and increase cognitive and mental activity. American psychologist Sarazon determined that those students who are afraid of exam can considerably boost their achievements and even outdo those who are not scared of them. If you are concerned with irony, you will perhaps choose to learn about LQJHF » Article Writing and Clients: When Things Don’t Work Out. The only essential point for it is the encouraging attitude of the professors they ought to strengthen students self-self-assurance. Surely, praise must prevail more than scolding. Only then the exams are useful. Every particular person has personal optimal level of worry and anxiousness, which helps him/ her to attain the very best final results. You need to learn how to control your tension and further anxiety to graduate from the university as a healthy individual. I hope that these modest tips will be of sensible assist to you and you will forget what exam tension is in the damaging meaning of the word.
If exams result in wonderful worry, if you have some symptoms of exam stress (insomnia, speedy pulse, hands trembling and so on) you ought to do something about it. Use breath meditations, repeat formulas of autosuggestion, imagine the picture of best exam atmosphere. You also need to take three relaxing sessions and reduce the level of stressful tension (a day prior to the exam, just before leaving residence for university and half an hour prior to the exam)..
How to Overcome Exam Tension
Edited by sheerin, Teresa, DifuWu, Dengxian and 10 others
Exams... a kind of tension overwhelms some people when they hear this word. Exams are not a big thing to worry about. All you have to do is to be calm, and let your brain work.
Steps
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1Have a good schedule for completing all the syllabus which you have. Figure out how many days you have, to study the syllabus, and the subjects you have to read. Then make a schedule by dividing the days for each subject according to the subject's importance. In that way you can avoid tension because you know how much time you have to revise for each subject.Ad
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2Sleep sufficiently. 8 hours of sleep is necessary for having a calm mind.
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3While you are studying, take a break when you are feeling tired and your mind starts to wander away. If your concentration does not last for an hour, you should take a 5-10 minute break every hour to refresh your mind. With practice and minimal distractions, you might be able to space out your breaks gradually, so you can study productively for longer stretches.
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4Exercise. This is one of the best solutions for avoiding tension. Do it every day.
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5Avoid junk foods, especially avoid meat, fried foods, chocolates and soft drinks etc.
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6Drink lots and lots of water. It's good for you and it helps you to think better.
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7Avoid people that stress you. These are the people that are constantly stressed about their grades, brag about how well they performed on past exams, or ridicule you for not knowing what they know. Just focus on your own studying, and you will be all right.
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8Don't make a last minute review just before the exam, because it will cause more stress.
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