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This month marked a major milestone for suicide prevention when the Golden Gate Bridge board of directors approved the first funding toward construction of a suicide barrier on the San Francisco landmark. Since its opening in 1937, the bridge has become the single most frequently used suicide spot in the United States and second most used site in the world, with nearly 1,600 people estimated to have died from jumping off the bridge. The $76 million construction of a steel net that was approved last year is just what is needed to prevent future deaths. A contract to begin building will likely be awarded in March.
This historic decision was of particular meaning to Kevin Hines. Kevin is one of only 34 people known to have survived a jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Like every other survivor of this typically fatal attempt, Kevin reported regretting his decision the moment he leapt from the bridge. I first met Kevin when making the documentary Understanding and Preventing Suicide. In his interview for the film, Kevin remembered, "At the split second I hit freefall, I didn't want to die. What did I just do? The voices were gone. I was right there, facing ultimate death ... I said God, please let me live."
Kevin is not alone in his experience of having severely self-destructive thoughts (or actual hallucinatory voices) telling him to end his life. These thoughts are familiar to people at risk for suicide, and they represent a dangerous "anti-self" that can cloud a person's thinking and judgment, disconnecting them from reality and their natural desire to live. Like so many others, Kevin reconnected to his real self only a split second after acting on the will of this vicious anti-self. His story has since become living proof that the suicidal state is transient and temporary, and the will to live can persevere. He has gone on to become an international speaker, author and powerful advocate for mental health and suicide prevention.
Kevin's experience further exemplifies the necessity of restricting means for suicide. A 1978 study by Dr. Richard Seiden from the University of California, Berkeley showed that people who were stopped from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge rarely went on to die by suicide. Bridge barriers erected in suicide hotspots like the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England not only reduced the number of deaths by suicide on the bridge itself, but did not show an increase in suicide jumps elsewhere in the area. Similar conclusions have been drawn from restricting other highly lethal suicide means like firearms. A study published this year showed that hand gun laws were associated with significantly lower firearm suicide rates as well as a lower overall suicide rate.
Research has consistently debunked the myth that restricting suicide means in one area will only show a spike in suicide in another. As Dr. Seiden noted at the conclusion of his study, "The major hypothesis under test, that Golden Gate Bridge attempters will surely and inexorably 'just go someplace else,' is clearly unsupported by the data. Instead, the findings confirm previous observations that suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented and acute in nature."
Making a method unavailable at the moment in which someone is in a suicidal crisis can keep them alive. Again, suicidal states are transient and temporary; they fluctuate over time. Making it more difficult for someone to access the means for suicide can provide them the time and space necessary to awaken from the trance of the anti-self, to get to the help they need and, ultimately, save their lives. So, how can we get people to the help they need? What can we do on an individual level to help prevent suicide? With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up on Sep. 10, we can all take a little time to learn how we ourselves can act as a suicide barrier for someone in trouble.
The campaign Take 5 to Save Lives is doing a great job of informing people of how taking just five minutes to get informed and involved can make you part of a larger movement to save lives. The campaign lists five steps we can all take right away to become more empowered in the fight to stop suicide. The steps include:
- Learning the warning signs to spot in someone who may be suicidal.
- Joining the movement by signing up to "Take 5" and sharing their message on social media.
- Spreading the word by telling five people about World Suicide Prevention Day.
- Offering support by learning what to do if you encounter a person in trouble.
- Reaching out if you or a friend needs help. Learn who you can talk to and where you can go.
Warning Signs for Suicide Can Include:
- Disrupted sleep
- Isolation
- Loss of interest in activities
- Extreme self-denial, lack of pleasure
- Extreme self-hatred
- Feelings of not belonging
- Thinking of self as a burden to others
- Sudden positive mood change
- Suicidal talk
Suicide is often swept under the rug and not talked about out in the open. Yet, almost 1 in 5 people have been personally impacted by a suicide. The most recent data shows that suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States and has been on the rise for eight years in a row. We can all do our part to remove any stigma by taking the subject out of the shadows. I urge everyone to find a way to get involved and welcome anyone to join me along with Kevin Hines on Sep. 9 for the free suicide Webinar, "Help Save a Life: Understanding and Preventing Suicide." When it comes to suicide, one moment can make a difference, and a little knowledge can be the light that saves a life.
If you or someone you know is in crisis or in need of immediate help, call 1-800-273-TALK (8255). This is The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a free hotline available 24 hours a day to anyone in emotional distress or suicidal crisis.
Learn more about the warning signs for suicide and the helper tasks that can save a life on PsychAlive.org.


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In the epoch of the golden age there was a transfer of power. The Church had for a long time had the most power. Now the citizens were allowed to govern.
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Hugo de Groot in Europe was known as a great scholar and jurist. He played an important role in the Government of the Republic of the seven United Netherlands. But Prince Maurice accused him of treason and shut him up. He escaped through a bookcase.


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The International People's Tribunal (IPT) in Den Haag is the Communist Political Infrastructure to Survive
On July 20, 2016 in Den Haag, The Netherlands, Zak Yacoob, Chief of Council of the International People's Tribunal, read the Decision of IPT of 1965 on Indonesia. The Decision of IPT of 1965 on Indonesia in general are to support the remnant of the members of the Communist Party of Indonesia to survive : Indonesia is responsible to the cruelty on human right done by the Military through the Command System. Those action was done against the Indonesian Citizens silently but widely.
IPT describes those human right cruelty as the so called "Ten Heavy Human Right Violation" done in the period of 1965-1966 in Indonesia, namely the massacre, demolishment, jailing, slavery, torturing, kidnapping, sexuality by force, separating away from the community, false information, foreign involvement and genocide. IPT describe all of those cruel human right violation are the part of total attack against the Communist Party of Indonesia (CPI) and its branch organizations comprising of all the Organization leaders, the members, its supporters and their family included those of the CPI's sympathizers and those who have no any relation with the CPI. The Indonesian Government was mistaken not to stop preventing the situation to go on. The similar cruel actions done by those non-Government apparatus were the Government responsibility to stop and brought them to Court.
IPT recommended three decision of Court, namely : the Government of Indonesia should ask for pardon to all the Victims(Communist Party of Indonesia). To detect all the actors and bring them to Court (TNI and the Government Officials. The Government should pay the compensation proportionally to the victims (the remnant members of the Communist Party of Indonesia)
The Background Situation of Indonesia in the year 1965
The year of 1965 Indonesia was seriously under the Communist threat which is believed supported by the foreign communist power prepared to launch military action to take over the national leadership from President Soekarno.
Utilizing a group of TNI officers and soldiers influenced by the Communist ideology, on September 30, 1965 Communist Party of Indonesia tried to take over the political power of the Indonesian Government, started with the killing of Six Generals of the Army Leadership in Jakarta, one Captain the ADC of General AH Nasution who was safe from the kidnapping and also brutally killed Colonel Katamso, The Commander of the Military Regional Area Command of Yogyakarta. The Army was considered as the main enemy of the CPI.
Major General Soeharto, the Commander of the Army Strategic Command being the professional military strategist urgently based on various valid information ordered the Special Force unit to control all the strategic position in Jakarta especially the Centre of the Communication System and Radio Station
The Communist Party was felt seriously danger and it was resulting the national consensus among the Non and Anti Communist group that the Communist Party of Indonesia (CPI) should be dismissed and its power should be crushed. The year of 1965 was definitely the year of War against the Communist Power. General Soeharto based on the special authority to create the peaceful situation of the country from President Soekarno decided to dismiss the CPI.
In 1966 the Peoples Consultative Assembly decided that Marxism, Leninism, Communism, Maoism are teaching and ideology that are forbidden to be spread off in Indonesia and the Communist Party of Indonesia (CPI) and all its mass followers are dismissed and forbidden to exist in Indonesia.
However now (50 years latter) utilizing the political issue of human right and democracy the remnant members of CPI has utilized IPT in Den Haag for her effort to survive.
Accordingly, the firm political response of the Indonesian Government, who is rejecting the IPT decision in Haag is definitely very true. The continuous alertness against Communism and Communist Party is clearly important.
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs General (ret) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan firmly said the Government of Indonesia will not pay any attention and follow the statement of IPT Council to ask for pardon to the victims of the so called the human right violation that happened in Indonesia in 1965.
The Government of Indonesia does not care to the activity of IPT, there is no any Indonesian interest to the IPT Council and IPT Council has not any authority to the Government of Indonesia. There is no any administrative or command line between IPT Council and Republic of Indonesia. Republic of Indonesia is sovereign Country and no one could command the Indonesian Nation." General (ret) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said to the Press on Wednesday July 20, 2016 in the Compound of the Indonesian State P:alace.
Lieutenant General (ret) Luhut firmly said Indonesian is a great Nation that could solve her problem by her own capability. Not any one out of the Country should try to intervene the Indonesian problem. "Indonesia will solve the Indonesian problem with Indonesian way of solving but in line with the universal value." General (ret) Luhut added his statement. General (ret) Luhut also rejected the IPT statement that human right violation caused by the genocide happened in Indonesia in 1965. "There was never any genocide to take place in Indonesia, what is the number of victims in the case of genocide. The accusation of the genocide should be legally approved." General (ret) Luhut said. "The decision of IPT would never become any consideration of the Government of Indonesia. IPT is not world accepted institution " General (ret) Luhut ended his statement.
Meanwhile Mohammad Mahfud MD, the former Chief of the Constitutional Court said, IPT Council's decision will never influence the Indonesia authority.
Mohammad Mahfud said, IPT is not world official Court. Its decision has no any legal power. According to the Indonesian Legal System, Republic of Indonesia recognizes two Criminal Courts, first the Criminal Court within the Country and International Criminal Court of Justice, Mohammad Mahfud said.
The Political Movement of the Remnant of the Members of CPI
he doctrine of the Communist Party of Indonesia (CPI) says that the CPI cadres should try what ever the situation is faced to survive and constitute another organization as the legal political party again.
CPI had been dismissed in 1966 and Marxism, Communism and Maoism are forbidden teaching and ideology in Indonesia. But definitely the remnants of the members of CPI though they are old enough but actively to organize themselves in various social activities.
The issue of human right and the existing of the National Commission of Human Right has been manipulated by the remnant members of CPI too revive.
Supported by the National Commission of Human Right and one member of the Presidential Adviser Council who is likely the CPI sympathizer had successful to conduct the Symposium on the National Tragedy of 1965 in June 20, 2016 that concluded there has been massacre among the CPI members in 1965 scattered in various mass graves in all around the Country.
Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs has been ordered by President Jokowi to check whether or not the issue of massacre and mass graves is true . The Government is demanded to ask for pardon to the victims of the national tragedy in 1965. However Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs believes the issue of the massacre and the mass graves is not true.
All of those gigantic issue on massacre and mass graves will be clearly only the political issue created by the remnant of the CPI member and sympathizers to have chance to officially reorganize themselves to fulfill their human right to involve in the political activities.
It is the idea of the remnant of CPI cadres to organize all the remnant members of CPI in Social Organization but gradually they could embark to political organization based on Marxism and Communism philosophy.
The Conclusion
One of the important Communist Party of Indonesia's doctrine that we must put continues attention is the compulsory of every Communist Party cadre to try to survive whatever the situation they are facing.
It has been detected that the remnant members of the Communist Party of Indonesia are trying to organize themselves in various social organizations to maintain their spirit and the possibility to survive again in the political activities.
They never stop to try for the survival and presently the National Commission for Human Right likely has given chance to them for the possible survive.
The success of the Symposium on the National Tragedy in 1965 organized by the National Commission for Human Right and one of the member of the Presidential Adviser domestically has opened the chance for the remnant members of CPI to be active socially.
Surprisingly internationally the chance for the remnant members of the CPI to survive has been opened and helped by the International Personal Tribunal in Den Haag to wake up those still alive the remnants of CPI cadres to start their struggle for the survival.
It is important to note that to prove that the CPI is the evil traitor, President Soeharto has ordered the State Secretary Moerdiono to compose the background situation of The Movement of September 30 in 1965 in official book published by the Government of the New Order.
It is not easy mission but the special Team formed and successfully finished its mission and officially The State Secretary Office on October 1, 1994 published the book in two edition, in Indonesian and in English. The title of the book is "The Movement of the September 30, the CPI rebellion and the way to crush them", with the Introduction by Minister Moerdiono as the State Secretary. The book has been also considered as the White Book on the Background of Crushing and Demolishing the Communism and CPI in Indonesia.
The book could definitely be found in the Office of the State Secretary or in the Library of maybe BIN or in TNI Historical Centre or owned by the a number of people personally .
This kind of books is important to be reprinted and distributed among young generation within and outside the Government Office and TNI. The coming young generation has to know that the Communist are not human, democratic and openness group. They are extremist, radical and brutal. The Communist is the devil.
Based on the facts as printed in this book the decision of the IPT in Den Haag, the Netherlands can easily be rejected and neglected.
*) Toas H is a social and political observer at Galesong institute, Jakarta


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Here is what the seller has to say about this home:
When you first saw this home, what was the one thing that stood out the most?
We enjoyed the tree lined pecan farm orchard that you drive through to get into the subdivision. It is next to Valwood k-12 college prep school where many neighborhood kids attend. The floorplan with 4 bedrooms and only 2 bathrooms to clean, big island workspace with no sink or stove in it, and the extra bonus room that could be used as a playroom, office, formal dining room, sunroom, or nursery.
After living in the home, what do you love most about your home?
The yard was very easy to maintain. Last year we watered it twice and the rain kept it green all year. The backyard is shaded in the afternoon and evening by the "neighbors" 2 trees so you don't have to maintain/trim the trees, but you get to enjoy their shade. Inside the house, the farmhouse sink was a favorite because it is very large. We used the bonus room as a playroom and the kids enjoyed it immensely and could be easily supervised while cooking or doing laundry.
What have you enjoyed most about the neighborhood and location?
Friendly neighbors, kids are always outside playing, active lifestyle neighborhood always people out walking, pecan grove, access in and out of neighborhood on a dirt, country road if you want to take it, or a planned road if you are in a hurry.
What will you miss the most?
This house has a dream kitchen. It is just the right distance away from Valdosta & restaurants, but in the small town of Hahira. We enjoyed watching the kids run through the sprinklers in the backyard afternoon shade. The saltwater pool is the nicest pool I have ever been in. The community events are fun to participate in. Our favorite was the fourth of July fireworks. The master bathroom soaking tub and dual showerheads will be greatly missed.
Are there any unusual plants, etc?
We planted an azalea bush in the backyard. The house has new pine bark. The bushes in the backyard had new curbing put in.
What improvements have you made?
We upgraded the security alarm on the home so if a window or door is opened, or if a window is broken, the alarm goes off.
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Midlands Connect unveils "20-year vision" to relieve congestion on motorways
Midlands Connect – the pan-regional transport partnership for the UK's Midlands region – has unveiled its "bold 20-year vision" to relieve congestion on the motorways.
The 'Midlands Motorway Hub' report, completed in collaboration with Highways England, outlines 10 measures which it believes will both help "decongest" the motorway network and grow the regional economy.
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- Identifying opportunities for a Strategic Park and Ride scheme as an alternative to short motorway journeys
- Examining the economic case for a Western Strategic Route linking M5/M6
- Widening the M42 from Junction 3A to Junction 7
- Creating an A46 Expressway
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- Targeted improvements on M6 Junction 2, 3 and 4
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- Developing a smart motorway on M6, M1 to Junction 2.
- Test the potential for an HGV Platooning trial in the Midlands (Post&Parcel has written about this initiative previously).
Sir John Peace, chairman of Midlands Engine and Midlands Connect, said: "Consumer behaviour and habits have changed enormously in recent years, spurred on by growth of the digital economy. This continues to have a major and growing impact on our transport infrastructure which historically has failed to keep up with the demands being placed on our road and rail networks. By working closely with businesses and their representatives, we therefore want to ensure that Midlands Connect's long-term strategy for the Midlands Motorway Hub leads to lasting investment that maintains the Midlands' place as the beating heart of the British economy."


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Differing Market Requirements: 35%
Fuel Efficiency: 31%
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Tire pressure monitoring systems are already standard on new vehicles in the U.S. and EU and we know that similar legislation is in the process of being implemented in S. Korea (roll-out to be completed by 2015). The BRIC countries are important emerging markets for the automotive industry. We asked what timeframe the experts believe that TPMS will become standard in these markets.
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53% believe that TPMS will be standard on new vehicles in the BRIC countries in 3-5 years. This is represented in the chart above. A further breakdown of the numbers reveals that 70% of OEM and Vehicle Manufacturer respondents agree. The component suppliers themselves are not as optimistic as 44% of them believe it will take 6-8 years for TPMS to become a standard in the BRIC markets.
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Our survey revealed that 78% of respondents' companies are investing at least as much as last year in the Asian tire market. 24% are investing more.
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Dear High Representative Mogherini,
We are writing to convey our profound concern about Azerbaijan's brutal, sweeping crackdown on civil society and human rights work, and to urge you to provide the necessary leadership to forge a robust, principled and coordinated response by the European Union (EU) and its 28 member states.
The EU has largely stood by as Azerbaijan has forged ahead with the most devastating clampdown on human rights in its 24 years of post-Soviet independence. With the notable exception of the European Parliament, the EU's voice in the face of Baku's relentless repression has amounted to little more than occasional statements about individual cases.
The EU and its member states have yet to mount a firm, collective response to Baku's shocking trajectory, and articulate a clear, common stance on its implications for the country's relations with the EU – something the European Parliament also called for. Such a common position, committing all member states and EU institutions to a single, coherent policy approach vis-à-vis Azerbaijan, is acutely needed to exert maximum pressure on Baku to end its crackdown and release those it has imprisoned on wrongful charges.
Azerbaijan's human rights record, long marked by repression and abuse, reached crisis levels in the past year, with the authorities imprisoning most of the country's leading human rights defenders and journalists on politically-motivated charges, and driving others into exile or hiding; freezing the bank accounts of independent civic groups and their leaders (including those funded by the EU's European Endowment for Democracy); denying them access to funds by refusing to register foreign grants; and adopting new, draconian legislation that has made it all but impossible to carry out independent human rights work in the country. Taken together, these developments have fundamentally transformed Azerbaijan's human rights landscape, to the point that it must now be considered through the lens of a closed country. Indeed, in late March, our senior researcher covering Azerbaijan was barred from entering the country, the first time in Human Rights Watch's long history of working on Azerbaijan that we were denied access.
The shocking, but sadly predictable, unfounded convictions and jailing of leading human rights defenders in recent weeks should spur the EU into long overdue action: on April 16, Rasul Jafarov, a well-known outspoken human rights activist, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison, and a week later Intigam Aliyev, among Azerbaijan's most prominent and respected human rights lawyers, was sentenced to 7.5 years. Statements by the EU rightly raised questions about the legality of these rulings but failed to call for the two men's convictions to be set aside as unsound and for their immediate release. The EU's unequivocal position should be that these activists ought never have been imprisoned in the first place, and should be unconditionally released.
At least 35 others are similarly behind bars on bogus charges. They include Leyla Yunus, a veteran of Azerbaijan's human rights movement and her husband, Arif Yunus, a well-known historian; Khadija Ismayilova, a leading investigative journalist; and Anar Mammadli, the head of an independent election monitoring group.
The imprisonment of most of Azerbaijan's high-profile human rights defenders, journalists and other independent voices has come in the lead-up to the inaugural European Games, which Baku will host in June. The human rights leaders arrested in recent months had planned to use the games to draw international attention to abuses and secure tangible human rights improvements.
Indeed, the weeks leading up to Baku's hosting of the Games focus the international spotlight on Azerbaijan and provide a unique opportunity for the EU and its member states to collectively press Baku to release wrongfully imprisoned human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists and to take other steps to rectify its abysmal record.
The Azerbaijani government is determined to use the games to boost the country's global standing and President Aliyev's personal prestige. It is difficult to underestimate how profoundly the Azerbaijani leadership values the expected images of President Aliyev, flanked by European government dignitaries in his capital city, presiding over the opening of a major international sports event. From this the Azerbaijani leadership no doubt expects to reap political benefits, at home and abroad, for years to come. For this reason the government is likely to be extremely eager for EU member states to commit to sending high-level government delegations to the opening of the Games.
We urge you to seize this moment by supporting and actively working to secure a strong and unified response by the EU and its member states to the appalling state of human rights in Azerbaijan. This response should challenge President Aliyev's apparent calculation that the imprisoning of human rights defenders, peaceful activists, and government critics will come at no price. Such a response should:
- Make clear that no EU member state will be sending high level government delegations to the opening ceremonies of the European Games in Baku unless those wrongfully imprisoned are unconditionally released and the crackdown underway is brought to an end.
- Underscore in the strongest possible terms the EU's and its member states' collective concern about the government's crackdown, and call on Baku urgently to reverse course. Specifically, the EU should press the government of Azerbaijan to release, immediately and unconditionally, all those wrongfully imprisoned and drop the politically motivated charges against them; end its crackdown on civil society and human rights work, including by unfreezing bank accounts of NGOs and their staff, and allowing civil society organizations to receive foreign funding without unnecessary restrictions; and repeal recently adopted legislation that further restricts rules for foreign funding of NGO work.
- Make clear that the prevailing situation is wholly unacceptable and that it cannot be business as usual until the government takes the above steps. In practice, this approach would involve putting on hold negotiations toward a "Strategic Partnership Agreement" which the EU has been pursuing with Azerbaijan until Baku heeds these calls. Any future advancement in relations between the EU and Azerbaijan should be clearly linked to concrete measures on the part of the government to improve its abysmal record including the release of imprisoned activists, lawyers and journalists.
The EU has repeatedly pledged to place human rights at the core of its relations with third countries and stand up for those who defend human rights and rule of law. When adopting the EU's Strategic Framework for Human Rights and Democracy in June 2012, EU foreign ministers pledged that the EU will continue "to throw its full weight behind advocates of liberty, democracy and human rights throughout the world," and in June 2014, they promised to "intensify" the EU's "political and material support to human rights defenders and step up its efforts against all form of reprisals." It is time for the EU and its 28 member states to give these welcome pledges practical meaning by applying them in a firm, principled and committed policy approach to Azerbaijan.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this pressing matter.
Lotte Leicht Hugh Williamson
EU Director Director, Europe and Central Asia Division
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This post is all about dorm gifts.
There are so many things you need to get when you move in/live in a dorm room that it can be hard to decide on what is really the most important stuff.
Throughout the years of living in a dorm room, I have really found what is the most essential dorm room products.
So many of the gifts I received were very appreciated, but I never touched them and they just sat collecting dust in my room.
This post is all about dorm gifts.
Dorm Gifts for College Students:
1. Memory Foam Pillow
Beds in college are known for being uncomfortable.
While a mattress pad does help a ton, having a nice memory pillow makes those little hours of sleep you get better.
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2. Twin Sheets with Pocket
Did you know they even sold dorm sheets like this?!
This dorm room gift is perfect for those bunked beds where you need to hold something but just don't have the space up there.
The sides of these sheets hold a pocket where you can store your phone, headphones, and anything else that you want to be close to you.
3. Fuzzy Blanket
Getting a blanket is a great present in itself but especially for a college dorm room gift.
Dorm rooms are either on two ends of the spectrum-- freezing cold or boiling hot. When your room is freezing cold, there is nothing more that you want to do than wrap up in a nice fuzzy blanket.
I always prefer to get my blankets in a queen so I can really wrap myself up in it.
4. Mattress Pad
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5. Clip-On Fan
Repeat from above: dorm rooms are either freezing or miserably hot!
These fans that you can stick onto your dorm bed are the only way you will be able to comfortably survive sleeping in such a hot room.
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6. Mesh Shower Caddy
In my dorm essentials list, this is the most sold item.
I highly recommend getting a mesh shower caddy (I've used both plastic and mesh) because the mesh releases the water better.
When I had a plastic shower caddy, I would come back to my dorm and ten minutes later there would be a huge puddle from the water retained in my plastic shower caddy.
7. Makeup Mirror
This is such a good dorm gift for girls.
Lighting in dorm rooms are terrible and it can make it really hard to put makeup on.
This mirror is the best because you can move it around your room and it makes the makeup applying process way easier.
This is also nice for if the college student has to get up early while the other roommate is sleeping. It gives just the right amount of light that they can get ready but don't disturb the roommate.
8. Customized Towel Wrap
Another high priority item on the dorm packing list!!
My mom has given these out as high school graduation gifts almost every year because everyone RAVES about them. Including me, I might actually be the biggest fan of them all :).
My friends and I use these shower wraps on the daily when we walked from our dorm room to the showers. I even use it when I come home because they are so nice.
These towel wraps are an awesome dorm gift because they can be customized to have the girls initials!
9. Futon
Best. futon. ever!
I am telling you, this futon is the best you will find without spending an arm and a leg.
The college student receiving this gift will so appreciate how it is (fake) leather instead of clothe!
It makes all those dorm spills so much better.
{RELATED POST: 17 Genius Gifts for College Students}
10. Cute Hangers
These are a fun dorm gift that will add a little flair to a regular college closet.
Plus, these velvet hangers are the best at maximizing space in the basically nonexistent dorm closet.
11. Jewelry Organizer
This jewelry organizer is a great dorm gift for girls because it gives them a mirror AND a way of organizing their jewelry!
It can be really hard to find space to put your jewelry so this is a perfect way to do it.
12. Rain Coat
I forgot my rain jacket freshman year of college, and boy was those few weeks wet!
These rain jackets are by far the most popular on campus and even make a great dorm gift for guys.
13. Coffee Machine
If the future/current college student you are gifting is a coffee lover, they need a Keurig.
Not only do they make killer coffee, they also are perfect for heating up ramen and mac n' cheese (ya know, dorm essentials ;).
14. Hot Water Heater
If you don't want to spend the amount of money that a Keurig costs, these hot water heaters are amazing for tea and food that requires hot water.
I decided to go this route because I don't like coffee. I am a huge tea drinker though and use this daily!
15. Sound Machine
This is the best thing ever!!
With this on, you don't hear any of the dorm sounds and can sleep or work on homework in piece.
16. Charger Cords
Something us college students ALWAYS need??
More phone chargers.
Help us out!
17. Picture Frames
Picture frames are a great dorm gift for college students because it brings a little piece of home there.
Add a picture of you two and you've got a cheap dorm gift!
18. Laundry Supplies
Laundry is not fun, but let me promise you. It is not something college students want to spend any money on.
Getting us stocked up on laundry supplies will be so appreciated!
Also, stay away from the laundry pods. Most college washing machines don't get hot enough to melt the plastic and the plastic ends up getting stuck on clothes and ruining them (been there, done that).
19. Downy Wrinkle Eraser
This stuff is like magic!!
It really does remove wrinkles from clothes.
I purchased this and soon after a ton of girls on my dorm floor did as well because it works so well!
20. North Face Backpack
One of the only backpacks I know that can withstand the weight of all the books you carry around as college students!
Also, the most popular backpack by far for college students.
This backpack will be a dorm gift that will last them all four years (or more) of college.
21. Day Designer Planner
It is essential for college students to stay organized or they will start missing homework assignments and test.
This is my favorite planner and the one I have been using. I also love how cute it is!
22. Small Vacuum
The dorm vacuums they offer to you are TERRIBLE.
Most of the time they are 30 year old vacuums that make your room smell worse than actually cleaning anything.
I love (!!!) my small vacuum that I got for my room. I got the cheaper version so it doesn't pick up everything but it does work pretty well.
They Dyson version is a BIG gift... but, it will last years and years (and it's cordless!).
23. Tapestry
Tapestries are a great addition to any dorm room.
They are super easy to decorate with and easy to hang up
Flags are also a great idea for guys!
24. Alexa
An Alexa is such a great idea for college dorms!
The Alexa allows you to play music without even having to get up! (because college students are lazy)
Saying "Hey Alexa, play pop music" is a lot easier than the hassle of connecting your phone to a bluetooth speaker
25. Water Bottle
Plastic water bottles cost money which college students don't always want to spend.
These are by far the most popular water bottles seen on campus and keep your water cold for more than 24 hours (true story, I have them!).
26. Tile - Key Finder
College students lose things a lot.
And guess what? If you lose your key to your dorm it can be more than $80 dollars to replace.
27. Laptop
Want to get the college student a gift that they will use every single day throughout their whole college career?
Get them a laptop.
No, it's not cheap. But having a laptop is by far the most important dorm gift you can purchase for them.
Also, most colleges recommend Apple computers. Once again, they are not cheap. But they last SO long.
28. Tool Kit
This is something we definitely don't think about until we NEED it and it's not there!
A toolkit is a practical gift that will help them with decorating or anything else they might need (like a screw for putting batteries in something).
29. AirPods
The most popular college gift right now?
And believe me, college students WANT THESE! From everyone I know that has them, they say it was the best gift/purchase they have ever received.
30. Large Duffle Bag
This Lululemon bag is the perfect duffle bag for those weekends you go home or go and visit a friend.
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31. Travel Mug
College students are constantly on the go and a travel mug is used all the time.
YETI's are a great dorm gift because they will keep the drink hot (or cold) throughout the day.
32. Hammock
If you go to any college campus while the weather is nice you are almost guaranteed to see people in these hammock.
They are very popular and a great gift for college students.
33. Clothes Steamer
There are many moments in college where students will be running down the hallway going room to room to see if anyone has something that can get wrinkles out.
The Downy Wrinkle Releaser is amazing but require some drying time. This steamer works really fast and will get all the wrinkles away.
34. Refrigerator Cart
In a dorm room, you've got to utilize every square inch available to you!
This refrigerator cart gives you storage below to put snacks and other food related items you might need.
Talk about a practical dorm gift!
35. Shower Speaker
How fun is this dorm gift?!
This waterproof speaker allows college students to listen to music while showering.
36. Phone Battery Charger
College students phones are almost always guaranteed to be dead.
Having one of these in your purse can help solve a lot of possible issues if your phone was to die (especially at a party!).
Really, this is a great safety precaution.
37. Rug
To make a dorm room feel cozy you need to have a rug.
This rug is super popular among college students because it is A) really cute and fluffy and B) neutral so it matches with both roommates colors.
For dorms, I recommend getting a 5 ft x 7 ft rug.
38. Lingerie Bag
College students can be pretty reckless when it comes to washing clothes.
These lingerie bags can help keep their delicates from getting ruined.
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39. Bedshelf
These bed shelfs are awesome for giving you a place to put things in your bunk bed.
40. Photo Collage Frame
This cute photo collage holder gives the college student some place to hang pictures from home or with their new college friends.
41. Amazon Prime Student Account
Did you know that you can gift Amazon prime accounts?!
Students might utilize Amazon more than anyone so having their Prime membership paid for for a year is pretty amazing.
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text: A while back I had the opportunity to visit Cape Royds. This is where Shackleton's Hut is located. It was built for the 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition led by Shackleton who sailed down on the Nimrod. Robert Falcon Scott lost a little respect for Shackleton during their Discovery Expedition partly because Shackleton became very ill with scurvy. Shackleton had asked Scott if he could use the Discovery Hut for his expedition and Scott said no as he was planning on using it for another expedition of his own. This forced Shackleton to build his own hut at Cape Royds. During this expedition, Shackleton and his men were the first to make it to the South Magnetic Pole and they were a mere 97 miles from making it to the South Geographic Pole! They were also the first to climb Mt. Erebus, the Southernmost active volcano in the world. Erebus rises right out of the Ross Sea to an altitude of 12,448 feet and is covered in dangerous glaciers and deep crevasses. In addition to Shackleton's hut, there is an Adelie Penguin rookery at this spot. During the time I visited, the Adelies had young chicks. Cape Royds has a lot of volcanic features such as a black sand beach, and ventifacts which are rocks that have been sculpted into cool shapes by thousands of years of wind.


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HouseSitter; Comedy, USA, 1992; D: Frank Oz, S: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, Peter MacNicol
Architect Newton Davis built the house of his dreams and proposes his fiance Becky, but she refuses. Three months later Davis, by following a friend to a bar, meets waitress Gwen who claims to be Hungarian, even though she isn't. Even though she constantly lies to Davis, he still likes her and they spend the night together. The next morning he is gone. But Gwen discovers where he lives and moves into his house, telling everyone they are married. When Davis returns and finds out, he is infuriated at first, but agrees to play the game in order to make Becky jealous and make her return to him. Those lies also have advantages: the parents praise him, the boss promotes him. During a party, Gwen hires actors to play her parents, but suddenly feels disgusted and leaves. Davis follows her and truly falls in love with her, while she admits her name is actually Jessica.Good and sympathetic low key comedy "HouseSitter" offers the recognizable handwriting by Frank Oz: unusual plots, absurd humor and burlesque scenes. Still, this is one of his weaker attempts due to stiff characters, routine execution and overall mild tone. Also, it seems some moments are too abstract for viewers to enjoy them if they are not Steve Martin fans, yet the story has it's moments: for instance, Goldie Hawn's character of Gwen, a woman who lies non stop, ignites a few good gags like the one where she starts telling wild fairy tales about her wedding with Davis in a hospital, even adding such shrill "details" like that he took the bandage instead of the veil from her face when he kissed her. Davis goes to see his boss and finds Gwen there who already persuaded him that he fought with her father on the Pacific. Thus he tells her at one point: "Why don't you tell truth for a change, as a joke".


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Tesla's Imprint
by Kimberly Adkins
Some things just can't be erased.
Simon's visions of a little girl are the only memories he has. Like an imprint on his heart, the visions cling. Who is she? Who is he for that matter? Tracked and hunted across the world, and in possession of a device that sets him apart from time and space, danger follows him at each turn.
He never meant to drag Tess into his drama. But with one slow, seductive dance in a candlelit nightclub, that's exactly what he's done.
Tesla's own heritage is a mystery in itself. Born of wealth into a corporation with no paper trail, she's called back to take the helm. But what's the nature of the business she's supposed to lead? And how does it connect her to Simon?
Tess didn't know what was real at the moment, but she knew what she wanted it to be. Disregarding their image she turned to her dance partner and faced him. With careful, calculated movements she stood on tiptoe to feel the front of his thighs against hers and she lifted her face to his, lips parted as she settled a delicate kiss on his smooth chin.
His smoky eyes were dark, his lids half hooded as he endured her innocent attempt at seduction. Her heart was pounding and she knew he had to feel it against his chest because she was as close as she could possibly be to him.
With slow determination he reached both of his hands behind her back and laid them on her shoulders as if he were going to pull her away, but at the last second he slid them down the curve of her spine until they came to rest on the small of her back.
"I should not do this," he whispered, though she wasn't sure if he was telling her or himself as his large hands spread out across her back, pressing her against him with an all encompassing hold that she had never experienced before in her life.
The air was forced from her lungs in a startled gasp. The moment her mouth opened he found her lips and kissed them with such deep, unrestrained passion that she responded to him on the most primal level of her being and returned to him the most ardent kiss her soul had to offer.
Tess was lost to the world during that moment where there seem to be no time, no place, nothing but the perfect harmony of the Universe for the two of them to exist in; and it was perfection. It was so perfect that when he released her she lost her balance and stumbled on the dance floor.
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Data suggest that Klan organizing in the South played a significant role in moving white voters into the GOP, a new study reveals. Not surprisingly, Republicans tell a different story. (More)
The KKK and the GOP: Data vs. Stories
The study, published in this month's American Sociological Review, examined data from a 1992 Southern Focus Poll as well as county voting data in ten Southern states. The results were surprising:
The researchers studied county voting records in 10 southern states in which the KKK actively recruited members in the 1960s. The analysis of five presidential voting outcomes, between 1960 and 2000, showed that southern counties with KKK activity in the 1960s had a statistically significant increase in Republican voting compared to counties with no established KKK chapter, even after controlling for a range of factors commonly understood as relating to voting preferences. They also found that conservative racial attitudes among voters in the 1992 election strongly predicted Republican voting, but only in counties where the KKK was organized in the 1960s.
"Encouraging white southerners to prioritize white supremacy"
Since the midterms, people have written endlessly about the Democrats' problems with white working class voters. The National Journal's Alex Roarty wondered if Hillary Clinton can win them back in 2016. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told National Public Radio the Democratic Party has "not made it clear that they are prepared to stand with the working-class people of this country, take on the big money interests," and Salon's Michael Lind echoed that thesis.
But all three ignore the white in "white working class." Consider this map from Andrew Gelman's 2009 book Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do:
That pattern continued in 2012, when President Obama won by a 60-38 margin among voters with household incomes under $50,000. Democrats still win "working class" voters. Just not "white working class" voters.
And the Klan study offers a reason:
"The Klan played an active role in encouraging white southerners to prioritize white supremacy over party loyalty," wrote the study's authors.
"The wedding of the Klan's mainly working-class constituency to the Republican Party was no simple feat in light of the strong appeal that Republican candidates hold for wealthy and upper-middle-class white southerners," the authors argued.
White working-class southerners were more receptive to Republican economic policies because they had already broken ties to the Democratic Party due to its position on civil rights, they argued.
"The Ku Klux Klan did not succeed in defending Jim Crow, but, through its similarly polarizing character, played a role in linking its working-class constituency to a political party that strongly opposes proactive intervention of the federal government to produce greater racial and class-based equality," the researchers said.
"The official party of the KKK"
Not surprisingly, Republicans tell a different story. Consider this reader comment to the Raw Story article:
Most hilariously preposterous story ever seen on Al Gore's Internet. The official party of the KKK, i.e. the Democrat Party, tries to spin the Klan off as integral to Republicans winning elections.
That's not merely anonymous internet spewage. Conservative talk show host Dan O'Donnell pontificated at length about the history of Democrats and the KKK, and last year Virginia State Sen. Stephen Martin (R) said Democrats "founded" the Klan, a claim that PolitiFact rated as False:
Carole Emberton, an associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, wrote in an email that various "Klans" that sprung up around the South acted as a "strong arm" for many local Democratic politicians during Reconstruction. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest – believed to be the KKK's first Grand Dragon – even spoke at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, said Emberton, author of Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and the American South after the Civil War.
But Emberton added a major caveat:
"The party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today," she wrote to us. "Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white 'Dixiecrats' flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of 'reform,' supporting a variety of 'liberal' causes, including civil rights, women's rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."
"When God has drawn a line of distinction"
Of course, Republicans end their story of Democrats being "the official party of the KKK" before that inconvenient switch. And this excellent Vox article offers 23 maps that track the history of the Democratic Party. One map shows how evangelical Protestants anchor the GOP base and Vox's Andrew Prokop explains that in terms of school prayer and abortion. But those weren't the issues that spurred Jerry Falwell to form the so-called 'Moral Majority,':
If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made…. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.
In Blowing Smoke, Michael Wolraich laid bare the white evangelical response to Brown v. Board of Education:
But with the IRS proposal [to deny funding to religious schools that discriminated on the basis of race], Carter seemed to mutate almost instantaneously in the minds of many evangelicals from good Christian father to anti-Christian autocrat. What made the transformation plausible to them was the appearance of a new villain on the American political landscape in the late 1970s, an ideological network that had cunningly invaded Carter's government in its fiendish bid to indoctrinate Christian youth with atheistic, immoral, and unpatriotic ideas. It was called secular humanism.
As Wolraich documents Republican strategists told Falwell that segregation was a losing issue for the GOP, and offered abortion as a politically palatable pretext for religious outrage. What's more, the GOP strategists said, that would ally the fundamentalist right with conservative Catholics.
"South Carolina will soon be black and white. Isn't that brilliant?"
Redistricting increasingly embedded race in Republican Party politics, as State Rep. Mia MacLeod (D) testified by affidavit this year in Backus, et. al. v. Haley:
As the conversation turned to redistricting, [Rep. Thad Viers (R)] told me that race was a very important part of the Republican redistricting strategy. Rep. Viers said that Republicans were going to get rid of white Democrats by eliminating districts where white and black voters vote together to elect a Democrat. He said the long-term goal was a future where a voter who sees a "D" by a candidate's name knows that the candidate is an African-American candidate…. Then he chuckled and said, "Well now, South Carolina will soon be black and white. Isn't that brilliant?"
South Carolina was just one of many states where Republicans carried out "a concerted Republican strategy to paint the Democratic Party as the 'black' party." Indeed the Sailer Strategy's premise is to turn the GOP into "the GAP, Generic American Party" … where "generic" means white, playing on a rhetorical pattern we discussed last week.
I don't think we can make that assumption
Democratic strategists Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin say the party can win back white working class voters with stronger appeals to economic populism. But Slate's Jamelle Bouie is skeptical:
Implicit in all of this is the assumption voters will believe the pitch. That they'll hear the case for stronger programs, higher minimum wages, and higher taxes on the rich, and believe Democrats are advocating for them, and not some other group.
The problem is I don't think we can make that assumption.
After all, working-class whites didn't leave the Democratic Party over insufficiently populist policy and rhetoric. The liberal economic reforms of 1960s – and Medicare in particular – paid benefits to white working-class families throughout the 1970s and '80s, even as the group moved to a decisive break with the Democrats. No, the proximate cause of the break was the Democratic Party's close identification with black Americans, who – after the riots of the late '60s and '70s – became identified with urban disorder and welfare.
Bouie offers a narrative that isn't entirely about race. He argues that working class whites also distinguished the federal benefits they 'earned' – like Social Security – from 'handouts' given to loafers and looters.
Maybe so, but data in the Klan study suggest otherwise:
The Klan's efforts to link voting behavior to its social agenda in the 1960s disrupted long-established voting patterns in the South," [study author David] Cunningham explains. "The fact that such efforts continued to predict partisan allegiances decades later demonstrates how the impact of a social movement can endure long after the movement itself has declined, as well as providing a new explanation of political polarization in the U.S."
After the FBI exposed the KKK's role in a wave of bombings and assassinations during the 1960s, open association with the Klan became politically toxic. At least in public, the Klan has been defunct for over 40 years. Yet voting patterns in KKK-active counties compared to KKK-dormant counties revealed the lingering effects of the Klan's message to white voters.
If you believe that data, you're probably a Democrat. If you reject that data in favor of stories, you're probably a Republican … and we'll discuss that topic more tomorrow.
Happy Wednesday!


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