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Concordat Code of Practice
Practice No. 1283
Last modified: 27/10/2011 11:27:32
Institution: The Royal Veterinary College
Researchers are key members of academic staff. They are central to the College's status as the leading centre for veterinary research in England, as well as its global aspirations. Beyond this, the College recognises that researchers make many other important contributions, for example in undertaking valuable research support, teaching and supervision duties, and as a vibrant group within the wider RVC community.
Following the launch of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, the College developed a Concordat Code of Practice and Guide which demonstrates the Colleges commitment to the provision of timely and effective support for Research Staff and their chosen career paths.
Signposting career paths for female researchers
Practice No. 1275
Last modified: 21/06/2011 11:48:57
Institution: University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde has a long standing reputation for education, research and teacher training in science, engineering and technology disciplines. In seeking to further enhance that reputation by achieving an Athena Swan Bronze Award, we wish to demonstrate how the university is allying its search for academic excellence with a concern for equality of opportunity and inclusiveness across the institution. The Athena Swan project has been instrumental in awareness raising across the University, and the engagement of staff at all levels within the institution in considering current and future practice.
Concordat Implementation – gap analysis
Practice No. 1274
Last modified: 21/06/2011 11:40:37
Institution: University of Strathclyde
A UK-wide process enables UK HEIs to gain the European Commission's 'HR Excellence in Research' badge, which acknowledges their alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for their Recruitment. The UK process incorporates both the QAA Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes and the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers to enable institutions that have published Concordat implementation plans to gain the 'HR Excellence in Research' badge. The UK approach includes ongoing national evaluation and benchmarking. This award recognises the positive actions that the University has taken to support the career development of researchers and the actions in place to implement the principles of the Concordat to Support the Development of Researchers.
The document is based on a gap analysis performed in November 2010 which sought to map existing policies and evidence of good practice to the Principles and Clauses of the Concordat. Actions were then identified where further work was required to ensure complete compliance, and responsibilities assigned. Actions highlighted are where new approaches or changes to existing approaches will be developed, identifying how these will happen and setting timescales. These new approaches will then be implemented and reviewed at regular intervals.
Using Social Media in Academic Practice: A Student-led Training Initiative
Practice No. 1191
Last modified: 04/11/2010 15:11:32
Institution: University of Nottingham
The Social Media sessions demonstrated a successful integration of a student-led initiative within a formal graduate training provision. The initiative underlined the importance of engaging PhD students in their own learning and training needs, in both sharing expertise with peers and in contributing to their own professional development. In doing so, it demonstrated to other postgraduate researchers how they might utilise their own areas of expertise to develop further student-led initiatives. -
EPICS-2 - supporting personalised learning pathways for postgraduate research students in a regional context
Practice No. 621
Last modified: 19/12/2008 16:09:35
Institution: University of Durham
As part of a regional JISC-funded initiative, we will build web-based tools to provide a regional web presence which will enable advertising of postgraduate development opportunities accross the northeast region, a means for researchers to electronically book onto activities at other institutions and to provide a means to electronically pass attendence records, etc. back to a participant's home institution.
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2013-14 Scholarships for Transfer Students
The awards listed below are for traditional, undergraduate, domestic students transferring to UE for the 2013-14 academic year and are available only for full-time enrollment. Your Application for Admission serves as the initial application for all UE merit scholarships. No UE scholarship or need-based grant is available to students who already have a bachelor's degree, with the exception of those accepted into the last three years of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program.
A student may receive only one of the awards listed in purple. The scholarship of highest value will be awarded when the student qualifies for more than one. Additional need-based assistance may be added to your merit-based award, as well as one award from the gold and one award from the orange groups below.
The following scholarships are available for transfer students entering UE in the 2013-14 academic year.
Academic Scholarship ($10,500 - 12,500 per year)
- Awarded to students who have maintained a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 at their previous institution(s).
- Renewable with a UE GPA 2.50.
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- Auditions and interviews are required for students applying to the Departments of Music or Theatre. Talent may influence the amount of the student's merit scholarship.
- Office of Admission can assist with scheduling an audition.
- Renewable with a UE GPA of 2.50.
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- For members of Phi Theta Kappa Honorary at their community colleges.
- Renewable with a UE GPA of 2.50.
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- Candidates must have earned the Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout, Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award, Sea Scouting Quartermaster Award, Venturing Silver Award, or the American Heritage Girls Stars and Stripes Award.
- Candidates must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 from previous institution(s).
- Renewable with a UE GPA of at least 2.5.
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Students who hold active membership in Phi Theta Kappa and receive recommendations of endorsement from the chapter's advisor will receive an additional $500 annual merit scholarship from UE.
Aces Award ($4,000 per year)
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Athletics Scholarship
The University of Evansville competes at the NCAA Division I level. All 14 men's and women's sports offer athletic scholarships. Many cannot be combined with our merit awards, due to NCAA rules. Contact the coach of your sport for more information.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The preceding awards listed in purple cannot be combined. Even though you may qualify for more than one, you will be awarded only the one of highest value.
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Students receiving a full-tuition scholarship or athletic aid are not eligible for these additional scholarships.
One of the following scholarships listed in gold may be added on to any University of Evansville merit award. Students receiving full-tuition scholarships are ineligible for these awards.
Legacy Award ($500 per year)
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United Methodist Scholarship ($500 per year)
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Art Major Scholarships ($1,000 per year)
Applicants who will major in the visual arts may submit a portfolio of work to the Department of Art prior to March 1, 2013.
- Recipients will be selected based on talent.
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Music Ensemble Participation Grant
This $500 award is for non-music majors whose talent qualifies them to participate in band, choir, or orchestra. It is based on an audition with the Department of Music, prior to matriculation to UE. The audition must be completed by March 20, 2013. Renewal requires continued participation in an eligible ensemble.
Athletic Manager and Trainer Grants
Awarded at the discretion of UE's athletic manager or trainer to students who assist with UE's NCAA Division I athletic teams.
Sibling Scholarship
Awarded to the older UE student when a younger sibling enrolls. Award is $1,500 per year, while both students attend UE. Entering twins or triplets each receive $1,000 per year.

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Retail employees are finding it harder to stay put this year--forcing employers to focus more on retention.
Employee turnover in the industry is picking up as stores and e-commerce sites report solid first-quarter sales and boost their hiring, according to the latest survey from global consulting firm Hay Group.
Blame the rising turnover on the confidence factor: as more jobs become available, workers feel better about ditching their current jobs for more rewarding work.
Most of the retail turnover has been occurring among hourly workers at stores and distribution centers. The turnover rate among part-time store workers is now at 67%, up from 51% in the first quarter of 2011. The turnover rate among part-time distribution workers is now at 22%, up from 17% in the first quarter of 2011.
Another area of heightened turnover is salaried e-commerce positions. The turnover rate at e-commerce corporate offices has nearly doubled from the first quarter of 2011. The rate is now at 18%, up from 10% in the same period last year.
In the retail business, more available job opportunities inevitably means more turnover, said Maryam Morse, national reward practice leader of Hay Group's retail practice. U.S. retailers added 29,300 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"With more part-time store and more e-commerce jobs becoming available, it's not as scary to jump ship and seek out better employment," Morse said.
For the remainder of 2012, 82% of the retailers surveyed expect to see the most turnover among their hourly store workers. That could lead to a shift to more full-time opportunities in the industry, she said.
Turnover concerns among retailers have led to a greater focus on retention, according to the survey. The majority of retailers surveyed consider improved training and the availability of more career opportunities as a better means of retention than pay increases or other compensation perks.
"Pay is an important factor, but it's a hygiene factor. It needs to be there and feel equitable," Morse said. "Once that's done, pay doesn't really drive engagement. What employees are looking for in the long term is a career promise--'tell me what my opportunities are and how I can grow here.'"
The Home Depot's vice president of talent management, Arlette Guthrie, said the Atlanta, Ga.-based home improvement retailer puts an equal emphasis on training, career opportunities and pay increases to retain talent. In 2006, Home Depot paid its hourly employees a combined $25 million in bonuses as part of its "Success Sharing" program. It increased that bonus program throughout the recession and up to $142 million in 2011.
"One of our core values is taking care of our people," Guthrie said. "We look to connect to them to the organization and make sure there are opportunities for growth. But we also look to make sure we are paying our employees competitively and giving them the best benefits."
Turnover rates among managers and assistant store managers in the retail industry have remained relatively flat in the first quarter of 2012, the Hay Group found. The rate of executive turnover in the retail sector has declined so far this year, now at 3%, down from 5% in the first quarter of 2011.
The Hay Group surveyed 54 major U.S. retailers including OfficeMax, PetSmart, Ross Stores, The Limited and Zale Corporation to determine the rate of turnover for key positions within their organizations.
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Migrating to another country is comparable to surviving a war or becoming a parent: it splits life into two parts — before and after — and changes it forever. The stories collected in this book are told by Croatians who migrated to Australia between 1949 and 1996. Coming from big cities and small villages, and different walks of life, these men and…Read more »
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Sweeping measures to improve transparency and governance are urgently needed to end a scandal that has seen Africa lose an average of $1 billion every week for the past 30 years in illicit financial flows, says Oxfam.
Oxfam executive director Winnie Byanyima will also say today at a special public meeting of political, business and civil society leaders that this hemorrhage of Africa's money - up to $1.4 trillion was lost from 1980-2009 according to recent Africa Development Bank figures[source], or between $50-60 billion each year[source] - requires a global solution, not solely an African one.
Fuel-exporting African countries were hit hardest, losing $732.8 billion in that period, according to the Bank. Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa were the worst affected countries across Africa's regions.
A new surge of illicit flows?
With new mineral discoveries amounting to $11 billion in iron, oil, gas, gold and coal in Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Tanzania and Mozambique alone, according to the Africa Progress Panel[source], there is a worrying potential for a renewed surge in illicit flows from Africa.
Oxfam and the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford are hosting the event with speakers including Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, Ghanaian High Commissioner Kwaku Danso-Boafo and Zimbabwe's former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. The chief economist of the African Development Bank and representatives of Rio Tinto, the Ford Foundation and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice will also speak.
Blueprints for resource-rich countries
Byanyima said: "The resource curse has never been so stark and, with new mineral discoveries happening every day in Africa, has never been so vital to tackle. These huge new finds could mean tens of billions of dollars of taxes to pay for schools and hospitals - but only if this new wealth remains in Africa. Too often it has ended up in Zurich not Zambia, London not Liberia."
"We are at a turning point in genuinely opening the global extractive industries to more scrutiny and cleaning up their tax affairs. Ghana has married its new mineral discoveries with an ambitious new petroleum revenue management law. Regionally, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has begun work on a regional mining code intended to protect the rights of local communities and the Africa Union has adopted its 'Africa Mining Vision'.
"At long last we see some solid blueprints being laid out. This puts us at square one. Now we must push for all of these exciting initiatives to be put to work for African people."
A commitment to extractives transparency
The challenge, however, remains huge. The latest CIVICUS survey reveals that many newly-resource rich African countries remain rooted near the bottom of global governance rankings.
One study of the global extractive industry[source] found that for each extra US dollar in oil exports, an additional 11 to 26 cents leaves the country in illicit capital flight. Globally, extractive industries are currently estimated to be worth around $3.5 trillion a year.
Oxfam believes the G8 made a good start earlier this year by committing to raise global standards for extractives transparency and by endorsing mandatory payment disclosure requirements and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. The EU Transparency and Accounting Directives and US Dodd-Frank Act require oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to host governments down to the project level; Oxfam welcomes the UK government's commitment to implement the EU directives in 2014. Canada's commitment to implement mandatory payment disclosure within the next two years is also good news, and should match the standards set in the EU and US.
"Self-interested policies to the detriment of African people"
The Director of the African Studies Center at Oxford University, Dr Nic Cheeseman, will say that "The importance of natural resources to the African continent is growing by the year. Following recent finds of oil and gas across East and West Africa, an issue that was previously only relevant to a small number of countries is now at the top of the political agenda for many more."
"We are no longer just talking about the classic "resource economies" - DRC, Nigeria and South Africa. In the future, the debate about the impact of oil and the resource curse will focus on Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania," Dr Cheeseman said.
"How well African countries manage their natural resources over the next decade is the single most important factor that will determine whether or not the continent manages to sustain its fragile economic recovery.
"We must redouble our efforts to understand how African countries can best manage their extractive industries. But these efforts should not just focus on what African governments can do. Multinational companies and international governments have often pursued self-interested policies to the detriment of African people," he said.
"Ensuring that the proceeds from oil and gas work for the people of Africa requires a new approach both inside and outside of Africa".
From transparency to accountability
Mark Goldring, Oxfam Chief Executive who will close the event, said: "We now need the US and EU to quickly implement their own extractive industries transparency laws, and for Canada to get its law in place. Mining giants Australia and South Africa have an important opportunity to lead G20 nations by example on this issue too.
"But transparency is only effective when twinned with accountability. Companies and governments equally need to be held to account for managing Africa's mineral riches for the benefit of African people. Foreign companies can't be expected to fix weak governance - but they can exploit it, and many continue to do exactly that," Goldring said.


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"Christians in Pakistan...live under constant fear of persecution by the state and majority Sunni Muslims." Now, why is that? Why do so many Pakistani Muslims misunderstand the love and tolerance of the Religion of Peace that we have to believe in on pain of charges of "Islamophobia"? And why aren't any of the self-righteous, arrogant, ostentatiously "loving" and "tolerant" Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. doing anything to disabuse their Pakistani coreligionists of their misunderstanding?
"A dark Christmas for Pakistani Christians," by Shamil Shams for Deutsches Welle, December 25 (thanks to David):
In many parts of the world, Christmas means a time of celebration. But for Christians in Pakistan, who live under constant fear of persecution by the state and majority Sunni Muslims, there is not much to celebrate.Christians make up about two percent of the 180 million people living in Pakistan. Rights organizations say that like any other religious minority, they face legal and cultural discrimination in the Islamic Republic.
Pakistan's non-government human rights commission, HRCP (Human Rights Commission of Pakistan), reported that the year 2012 was one of the worst years for Pakistani Christians; a number of them were charged with blasphemy, their churches were burnt and houses looted in many parts of the country.
Blasphemy is a sensitive topic in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where 97 percent of the population is Muslim. Controversial blasphemy laws introduced by the Islamic military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s make life for Christians more difficult. Activists say the laws have little to do with blasphemy and are often used to settle petty disputes and personal vendettas; they say the Christians are thereby often victimized.
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On August 16, Rimsha Masih - a Christian girl aged between 10 and 14 - was accused of committing a blasphemous act by a religious cleric in her town. The cleric said she had burnt pages upon which were inscribed verses from the Koran. Masih was promptly taken into police custody.
Pakistani officials claimed the girl suffered from Down's Syndrome, a genetic disorder causing major learning disabilities. Western governments expressed serious concern over her arrest. After numerous protests by rights organizations and Western governments, a Pakistani court ordered her release from custody.
But Asia Bibi has not had such luck. In 2010, Bibi, an impoverished farmer, was sentenced to death after her neighbors accused her of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. She is still languishing in prison. The liberal Pakistanis who chose to support Bibi were also not spared by Islamists.
A few months after Bibi's conviction, former governor of the Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was murdered by his bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri. Qadri said he killed Taseer for speaking out against the blasphemy laws and in support of Bibi. In March 2011, Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's former minister for minority affairs, was assassinated by a religious fanatic for the same reason.
Farzana Bari, director of Center for Women's Studies at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University, believes discrimination will persist until the government reforms its legislation.
"It is high time that Pakistani government reform these anti-blasphemy laws. These laws are even against the spirit of Islam and are a cause of notoriety for the country," she told DW.
In what way are they against the spirit of Islam?
The government of President Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was heavily criticized by domestic and international rights organizations for failing to reform the laws after the assassinations of Taseer and Bhatti.But Karachi-based journalist Mohsin Sayeed does not only blame the government. He told DW in an interview that what used to be a small section of society had now become mainstream.
"The days are gone when we said it was a small group of religious extremists, xenophobes, hatemongers and bigots who commit such crimes. Now the venom has spread to the whole of Pakistani society," he said, adding that those who condemned such "barbaric crimes" were now a minority in Pakistan.
He also criticized the Pakistani judiciary for its alleged sympathetic behavior toward the right-wing. "Asia Bibi is still in jail, while Qadri (Taseer's assassin), is still alive," he said.
Here DW uses "right-wing" to refer to the pro-Sharia Islamic supremacists who want to maintain the blasphemy laws and coddle those who murder opponents of such laws. They would also no doubt use "right-wing" to refer to pro-freedom opponents of Sharia. For the mainstream media, "right-wing" essentially means "people we don't like."
Living in fearBefore the rise of Islamic extremism and religious intolerance in Pakistan, Christians celebrated Christmas with much enthusiasm. They would put stars on their houses and decorate their towns with lights and flags. But many now worry about the risk of being conspicuous.
"We are scared. We are frightened. We cannot sit together, we cannot speak loudly, we cannot celebrate openly. We receive threats," Ashraf Masih, a street sweeper, told AFP. "If we sit together and talk, all of a sudden the Muslim owner of the house will come and ask 'Why are you here, what are you talking about?'"
Aslam Masih, a 37-year-old gardener, told AFP in an interview that previously they used to celebrate Christmas in the town church but now it it had been closed.
Attacks on churches
Experts say that the worshipping places of Pakistani minorities are also being increasingly targeted - not only by Islamic extremists, but also by common Pakistanis.
Of course, what makes a "common Pakistani" become an "Islamic extremist" is such an attack on a church.
Abdul Hai, a senior official of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in Karachi, told DW that while there were also commercial reasons behind the attacks on the minorities' places of worship, most of the time, the temples and churches were attacked for religious reasons. "Religious fanaticism is growing in Pakistan and religious extremist groups are getting stronger by the day. Unfortunately, the government is not doing anything to protect minorities and their places of worship," Hai said.One of the most violent attacks on Christians and their places of worship in Pakistan was carried out in 2009 in the central Gojra town of the Punjab when Muslims burnt more than 70 Christian houses and many churches, killing seven people, after a rumor that the Koran had been desecrated.


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There's little innovation with tower-type CPU coolers these days, barring the odd fancy aluminum fin design or heat-pipe layout. Cooler Master put its engineering muscle to use by developing a new tower-type CPU cooler that takes advantage of vapor-chamber technology. Called the TPC 812, the cooler is just large another aluminum fin tower-type heatsink with six heat pipes feeding head through the fin-stack, till the part where a specially-designed vapor-chamber element finds place. The cooler uses a copper indirect contact base, at which the six heat pipes converge at the lowest level. Above it, is a vapor-chamber plate. From this place, two thin, broad columns arise, passing through the central portion of the aluminum fin stack. The heatsink is ventilated by a 120 mm fan. With its design innovation, the TPC 812 can handle thermal loads of up to 240W. The TPC 812 from Cooler Master will be priced around the $100 mark, and will be competitive with entry-level closed-loop liquid coolers. Source: VR-Zone
Hopefully its not as noisy as their V6 GT. Then I may consider it for some builds (as long as it beats low end AIO liquid cooling and Noctua U12 or D14).
Well my Vapor-X 5870 has never let me down so the tech is sound. 32C idle and never touches 70 under heavy load. Nice to see someone using this tech for CPU cooling. Now where is my Vapor-X 7970....
Yeah this is what I want to see as well ! All this Vapor chamber stuff is so long in the tooth and really old tech . What I would like to see is some real innovation in air tech .
well closed loop systems are great because: 1 they fit in smaller systems and (never have any clearance issues with ram or videocards) 2 are easy and light on the motherboard. 3 you can decide where to locate the radiator (i.e. intake for maximum cooling, or exhaust to lower component temps). 4 - for me they can minimize the number of fans in your system - i.e. exhaust is also rad fan 5 - they make builds alot cleaner and easier IMO. All those PRO's will not be overcome by "competitive" thermal performance from a tower cooler that costs just as much. It better kill closed loop systems on the thermals or its not worth it.
They are all the same any way . How can you really design them any different in the first place ? Only so much you can do with heat pipes and fins .
in Australia a H60 is $99 although the antec kuhler 620 is only $80 and it performs better. Basically the H60 is the poorest performing closed-loop liquid cooler available in Australia as we do not get the H40.
i think 240w is quite impressive for a single 120mm fan cooler. my trusty old tt sonic tower is about the same size yet only rated for 120.
yes but, video cards that have vapour chambers and are used in tower cases are put in upside down so I don't imagine it will affect temperatures too much.
I've always wanted to build something like that, but I would have a hollow column going straight up from the base. Then there would be tubes radiating out from the sides (pitched to drain) which would have the heat fins mounted vertically. The idea was that since the fins are vertical, you might be able to rely just on convection. With that arrangement, you could have literally, a hundred or more pipes feeding the fins. It would also probably be some multiple of the normal surface area. Then, just for kicks, I'd have an ionizer electrode going into the column. It would work just like an air ionizer but with the water vapor. Then you put a positive charge on an insulated plate at the top in order to increase the transfer rate. So you'd have the vapor pressure pushing out and the electromagnetic field sucking the vapor up. I have no idea if it would work with vapor, but it works pretty damn well in air cleaners that have this feature. Hell, if you wanted to get fancy, you could use electromagnets and time them to alternate so that maybe (I have no idea) it would create a slight vortex. Alright. My work here is done. Where's my royalty check? Hmmm?
Let me specify about the cooling potential.... Each vapor chamber is 120W worth of cooling..... Along with the pipes and the fins, this cooler will sell as a 300W+ rating
Who said this was going to be $100. Cm already said this was going to be about $69. Lol who believed this was a $100 cooler. VR-Zone should get its facts straight, before posting.


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I Am Lonely
Feeling alone, lonely or isolated? Welcome to a support group of people that truly understand. 68,078 People
One - No other stands beside this lonely one, day or night
No loving hugs, no playful tugs, nor caring touch so right
There are no glances of compassion, or looks of lustful desperation
Not a loving study of face, no leering of gait, or even a glint of frustration
17 Responses
Jun 3
People think that I am a social and popular guy but I feel lonely all the time
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2 hours ago
I Don't Know - I feel that throughout all my life I've been used, hated, and pushed away from. It all starts from when I was finishing the second grade. After I finished the approximate amount of days and meet all the requirements the School Board saw my medical records and...
18 Responses
Nov 3, 2012
I have always had trouble making friends. Being so shy had really had a negative affect on my life, and I just have nobody to talk too. I've never had a best friend that I could tell everything too, I feel like nobody knows me at all. Being alone isn't so bad, there's no drama...
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18 hours ago
"La seule chose a être impossible, c'est l'impossibilité."
"We accept the love we think we deserve."
"If you stop dreaming, you're just sleeping."
"The rain won't wash your sins away."
I have all those thoughts in my head, but I don't know what to do with them, so I'll just...
1 Response
10 hours ago
Everyday - Everyone thinks my life is so grand based of my looks ... NO !! it really isn't .. DAY TO DAY I'm alone .. I'm the only child .. trying to something with my life .. NONE of my friends are real .. they always end up stabbing me in the back .. I've been physically abused...
70 Responses
Jan 16
I Find It Ironic - I to sometimes feel (like right now) the same as the people here. I used to be a person that didn't fake being happy and could brush off anything...but lately things have been coming down hard and fast that it becomes overbearing and I no longer recognize...
12 Responses
Jul 9, 2012
I always seem to push people away. I don't hav friends and most people don't even know who I am, I hate life to be honest just want to die already
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20 hours ago
The day he left... I felt alone and empty. I knew I wasn't going to see him again. Each night I dream that someday we'll meet again and it'll be like he never left. I just want someone to hold me and tell me they love me, and not just because we're caught up in the moment but...
22 hours ago
Every time I like some one I tell my self to get over it at the beginning because I have no chance to get her this is the worst way to live
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10 hours ago
Sister Love :) ≪3 - My best friend Anna. She was, no is my sister we would do everything together from teasing my siblings to knowing when the other was sad. My family would expect so much from me and all Anna would say is 'Just be the best you can be Maya! Don't let them plan...
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Aug 22
Well I'm finally alone my best friend don't want to talk to me I can't talk to my family because I know they will make fun of me and I tried to trust my closest friend but she's to busy wow my life officially sucks
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4 hours ago
My infertility, my loneliness, my sadness and my pain - My name is Julieanne. I am thirty years old. I was going to be a bride today, but everything had changed. My fiance really wanted to have children. He was truly obsessed with this. He was talking about all the time...
70 Responses
Oct 19
Touch - I want to feel it. Come closer. Fill me with energy. Discover my body again.
Go wherever you want. Nothing is forbidden. I starved all alone for so long.
Once more set me on fire. Cover me with the flames. Change tears into desire.
You know my secrets. You know it all...
16 Responses
May 29, 2012
One of the worst feelings in the world is to be surrounded by a lot of people on an everyday basis, and still be one of the loneliest people in the planet. You can meet a lot of people, talk to them, joke around and even go out with some of them every now and then, but if there's...
1 Response
21 hours ago
Sat in the dark, trying to sleep. Just wondering whether there is a reason I've been put here, is it too suffer? Is it to accomplish things? Or just too see how long it takes me too crack and end everything?
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2 hours ago
It has not been warm here since Thursday. Our city has shut down and I am lonely and cold
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1 hour ago
Sundays are the days I feel the most lonely... Most people who talk to me throughout the day ... Don't message me or call me .. It makes me feel lonely... almost like why am I here...
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5 hours ago
Platitudes And Other Offers - Not been a member long, but I can see already endless postings with responses replete with platitudes and unintended dismissals. While I am no certified expert in offering the following, I feel compelled to offer it, anyhow.
I, too, suffer from a...
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Jun 14
Birthday With White Dress - Today is my beloved girl birthday, she is beautiful and I love her from my heart, but the occasion is so heavy with love and bitterness. Jealous my friends were so they decided to celebrate the memory of nothing with their girl friends, it could be...
10 Responses
Sep 23
First Time Living Alone -
I am in my mid 50s and finalizing a divorce (next week). It was a very emotionally devastating event for me, even though at this time I realize that I can't go back. (still think about it, though). So, here I am in my very nice...
64 Responses
Apr 30, 2010
Well thats a new persnal low makes me feel like ****, unwanted, it hurts as well
3 Responses
5 hours ago
Sitting in my car on my college campus I see rain falling down my windshield
Matching my emotions to a T
Reflecting on the day I left him for cheating on me.
1 Response
20 hours ago
Surrounded And Yet Alone - Surrounded and yet alone
among faces of stone
They speak without a sound
Nor bicker or moan
I consider the face I carved
of the one that stares at me
within the looking glass
I see nothing but lines of time
and memories of shattered dreams
like a shadow...
10 Responses
Nov 30, 2012
Hello everyone this is my first time on here. I am a mother of 1 & I'm a few weeks pregnant I recently lost my job I take care of two other small children.im in an on again off again relationship with my children's father he was a really good man to me until a year ago he cheated...
16 minutes ago
I've always had a path of competitive female friends which always undermined my self confidence via my trust in them, now I've got no friends but a living boyfriend but no girlfriends to chat & coffee with.Im sad that it's come to this , but at times I expect other women to have...
3 Responses
14 hours ago
Being lonely, slightly different from being a loner. Of course I often find myself lonely. I think most people do, at times. But, I know that I have felt this way for my entire life. I do enjoy being alone, and I wish that I really could just truly accept that I enjoy being alone...
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12 hours ago
One Person - Sometimes, one person can give you the strength to get up in the morning.
One person can put a smile on your face. One person can stop you from making the wrong decision. One person can make your life so much better. One person can stop the tears for a day. One...
31 Responses
Nov 10
I Know What It Feels Like. - I feel so sorry for everyone who's lonely out there. When I was a little younger, about 15 and 16, I was so lonely that I became suicidal. I didn't have any friends back then, no one to talk to, I used to walk alone, handle hard times alone and just...
8 Responses
Nov 28
Will It Ever Cease??? - This lonliness....sometimes, I SWEAR I'm dying from the inside out.
I heard about this experiment that was conducted once, in Germany. They took a bunch of orphaned babies and split them into two groups. To the first group, they...
261 Responses
Aug 10, 2006
Someone Please Read. - I'm not sure why I'm doing this or what I hope to achieve..I found myself typing 'I'm lonely' into Google this evening and am wondering if I've finally lost it. I'm typing and constantly stopping to wipe tears away..I think I'm crying because I'm...
490 Responses
Nov 15, 2009
Lonely - i moved 5 years ago to a place were i knew no one and have changed so much. i have no friends still after 5 years yet alone a romantic relationship. i have found comfort in food gaining 100 pounds, my family gets worried about me because i have never been like this...
42 Responses
Sep 12, 2006
Next Door To The Dark - This is the hardest story I've yet had to write. Harder than describing my nightmares or asking questions about my father. Harder even than the first time I wrote a story that I had to limit to adults. Admitting to being lonely irks me. It feels like...
32 Responses
Apr 7, 2012
Venting...!!! - Tonight..... Ive been reading alot of stories this one ladies imparticular.. and WOW.. sh!t makes me think.. I feel alone in the world.. How is that when I'm sharing with millions upon millions of other people...? How is it that i can carry on everyday...
38 Responses
Mar 2, 2008
I am new and don't know how to really participate. I have posted twice and had no replies. I have replied to several posts and see lots of other people responding. Do you have to friend people? I am just looking for others to talk to as I feel so cut off from my family...
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13 hours ago
Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself. You have to know that you're a good person and a good friend. What's meant to be will end up good and what's not – won't. Love is worth fighting for, but sometimes you can't be the only one fighting. At times, people need...
1 Response
7 hours ago
Loneliness Is ... - Loneliness is like a void, a black pit of despair filled with heartache and longing.
Loneliness is a gateway to temptation, it's doors forever guarded by a pair of desires. The desire to be noticed and the desire to be needed.
Loneliness is standing in a...
140 Responses
Nov 24, 2012
Cut Off (not A Pun) - I don't really know how to say this...I'm transgender. This has been weighing on me my whole life and after nearly killing myself I decided to come out. However my being true to myself has resulted ina lot of problems. Since then I've been subjected to...
23 Responses
Sep 22, 2010
I don't have many friends. First year of middle school was popular. And like my group of my home girls. Then months went by and the second year 7th grade I had lost a friend. She was talking about me behind my back. All of them stop talking to me. Leaving me out of things...
3 Responses
4 hours ago
Ever Just Needed Someone To Talk To? - I have spent all day feeling so lonely... This is not a new feeling but today is worse than ever for some reason... I have spent most of the day trying to find someone to talk to... Even played words with friends and said hey to random...
79 Responses
Jan 13
Soul Destroying - Lonliness is a feeling of emptiness,
an alone feeling of helplessness.
No one to give you tenderness,
in wanton times of neediness.
16 Responses
Nov 4, 2012
At A Low Point... - I'm not usually a complainer about being lonely because I always just told myself I'm better off alone than with someone who will hurt me. But now, I'm just at that point where all my friends have found the right person and having a great time and I sometimes...
22 Responses
Nov 24
When Did Loneliness Become A 4-letter Word? - Never tell someone you're lonely. If someone asks you how you're feeling and you say fine, although a bit lonely, be prepared to have them either laugh at you, berate you, ignore you or turn away. Why is being lonely so wrong...
44 Responses
Feb 25, 2012
Well, how do I start, I have been struggling with depression for quite some time now, and I'm also currently going to a therapist, which is not really working that well for me as of now... I feel like I have no friends at all, I mean, I do, but most of them already got married or...
3 Responses
23 minutes ago
Who Am I ? - New day, New beginning, New start,All is possible and everything can be accomplished.
After countless requests from my beloved and faithful fans and friends, especially, from my cats - I decided to publish the most revealing short story about me.
It is the first part...
57 Responses
Oct 17, 2012
How do I pick up where I left off? - I feel that if I try, I will be turned down by my friends and family, as I have been for so long. Even by my classmates who only see me as a quiet loner. I can try, but I wonder if I will ever succeed. I haven't been happy for a while, so...
2 Responses
49 minutes ago
Nowadays i' feeling so lonely. I need someone to talk. Even a stranger. If you want to talk just send me a message
5 Responses
5 hours ago
I have a rather difficult time at making friends. I have three but they are always leaving me out of the loop. At church, I have zero. My family doesn't exactly make it easy for me to talk to. I'm scared that if I talk to my friends they will get upset with me for bringing drama...
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39 minutes ago
Lonely - Hello I am Justin. This is my story about me being lonely alot. Me being lonely goes as far back as high school. When I was in high school, I saw that alot of the people that I thought were my friends would leave me out of alot of things. I would be invited to...
78 Responses
Jul 18, 2011
The thickness of the night as black as the dark starless sky that hangs in the sky tonight, all as if in harmony to the very depths of my soul.
My soul longing for the soothing feeling of love of a man, the touch that could set my soul on fire with desire, kisses that would...
22 hours ago
Ultimate Denial And Absolute Truth - I never thought I would be one to post this story....considering I always believed myself to be alone by choice, but that was a falsified damnation that doomed me into years of denying the truth that I was lonely in my endeavors, lonely in my...
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Dec 26, 2012
I have no friends. I have nobody to talk to. Nobody to keep me company. No one is ever here to cheer me up or make me feel like I mean something. My life is pretty depressing and boring and I'm pretty tired of how it's been the past 23 years.
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21 hours ago
So having no family around me and no real friends to talk to i work go to school and sit at home and i am just wishing i had someone to talk to and share feelings and thoughts with
6 hours ago
I don't like the weekends. For some reason they are harder then the week days. It just seems more empty. Thank Goodness its almost over.
2 Responses
9 hours ago
Isn't It Shocking? - Flipping through the stories on the website, I come across so many lonely people. It makes me sad, because if it were up to me, none of them would have to be alone ever again. I think all lonely people should unite and start talking or mailing each other. I'm...
42 Responses
Mar 10, 2011
I..... - I hate the quiet of the house.
I hate the cold sheets.
I hate the emptiness in the space beside me.
I hate the aching loneliness.
I hate the absence of touch.
I hate the feel of my own hands on my skin.
I hate the way my hair is wet with tears.
I hate the way...
33 Responses
Jan 10
I used to really wish for friends and to go on outings, to lunch with people who understood me to have fun. I realized however that I never wanted those. Over the past year I had experienced immense pain from friendship and I wish to advice others who share the same problem as...
1 Response
46 minutes ago
They Are All Going Away - Ok, this is weird for me but, here it goes... I'm a widowed mother of three great teenagers, my husband and best friend passed a year and a half ago...that was tough. But, now my oldest child is a senior in highschool making plans for college, the other...
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Nearly Published Art #1
ink on paper, color on computer
JESUSZILLA!!! Done for a band's 7" record, but only 3/4 of the members liked it. The 4th said "Jesus was played out." So it never got used. Jesus will never be played out. Never. Plus even if Jesus is overused, I've never seen him as a giant monster terrorizing a city. Of course, if you Google that right now I'm sure you'll find a million similar images to mine. I haven't looked because I don't want to get depressed. I loved this image because it reminds me of those old-school ridiculous punk album covers and flyers.


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