Dorm Room Essentials and Accessories for the Perfect Workspace

Dorm room essentials like task lighting, storage solutions and organizers help create a comfortable and efficient workspace. Most college dorms offer a study desk and chair to each to their residents. If you prefer to create an independent workspace, it is important to give careful thought to its specifications. Keep the shape and size of your dorm room in mind when deciding on a desk.

Corner that Workspace Make use of an unused nook with a strategically placed corner desk. These modular desks are designed to fit into a corner, and are great dorm accessories, especially for small single rooms. A collapsible desk is another great fixture. The desk designs often feature a pullout workspace that can be folded onto the desk when you are not working. These great space-saving dorm room essentials also contain electrical outlets for your computer, laptop, printer and other essential electronic devices.

Solo Storage Space for All Your Work Storage for your textbooks, notes and papers is critical for a good workspace. Modify the existing study desk by adding a desk hutch for all your study material. An alternative is to choose independent storage units. Storage bins made of green materials like rattan or recycled papers are a stylish and environment-friendly option. Papers that are not immediately needed can go into canvas storage bins, which can then be stored at the back of the closet or under the bed.

Light Up Right Lighting is another key consideration when deciding on dorm accessories. Choose a good quality task lamp for late night study sessions. The special hinged design allows you to bend or twist these table lamps in almost any direction. This makes it easy to focus the light on the precise spot where you most need it. These practical and stylish dorm room essentials come in several different colors.

Multipurpose task light organizers are cool alternatives to regular task lamps. Opt for these fun and useful desk lamps for a study light that doubles as a handy desktop organizer. Within the organizer section, there are usually deep cup areas for your stationery and smaller trays that can hold paper clips or rubber bands. Choose eco-friendly CFL light bulbs for your table lamps. These tend to be long-lasting and energy-efficient in comparison to incandescent or halogen bulbs.

Start your search today to find the coolest dorm accessories for your study area.

Author Profile: Steffy Roy is a certified interior designer and runs her own interior decoration consultancy. Steffy especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor. Steffy loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here she writes about dorm room essentials and dorm accessories.

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Ween's Former Frontman Addresses Band's Split

'My decision to leave Ween .... was absolutely not made in haste,' Aaron Freeman tells Rolling Stone.
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Last month, much to the consternation of those who worship at the altar of the Boognish, Ween's Aaron Freeman announced — rather matter-of-factly — that he was ending Ween, telling Rolling Stone "It was a good run."

That was apparently a surprise to Freeman's longtime musical partner, Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo, who wrote on his Facebook page that the breakup "is news to me, all I can say for now I guess."

But now, in a new statement to Rolling Stone, Freeman addressed the split — and Ween's fans — letting it be known that his decision was not a rash one.

"I want to thank each and every one of you all for your kind words and support. It means a lot. My decision to leave Ween, however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste," Freeman's statement reads. "It's evolved over a decade's worth of internal and external struggle." Freeman didn't elaborate on those struggles, but did add that he has no bad blood with Melchiondo, whom he founded Ween with more than 25 years ago. And he closed by saying that he'll continue to make music ... minus the Gene Ween moniker.

"Know that I am extremely proud of all that is Ween. And while Mickey and I are going our separate ways, I wish him only the best. I will always have nothing but love and respect for what we created together," the statement reads. "I need to now move on for myself and for my family. I still, as always, look forward to a future filled with music as Aaron Freeman."

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China summit seen as counterpunch to US moves

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Chinese President Hu Jintao greets Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday.

By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Beijing Bureau Chief

BEIJING ? Will an international summit hosted by China that includes major ?movers and shakers? in Asia, including Iran, Russia, India and Afghanistan, lead to an eastern version of NATO??

?Absolutely not,? Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told NBC News.?

Cheng was speaking at a media event as some 16 heads of state and top officials, representing more than half of the world?s population, have gathered as members, observers and dialogue partners of the innocuous-sounding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an economic and anti-terrorist security bloc initiated by China and Russia in 2001.

The meeting comes as China?s rising profile has raised questions about a possible power struggle between the U.S. and Beijing, with the recent Asia tour of U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta highlighting America?s effort to strengthen military alliances and partnerships in the region.

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And as a sign of efforts to dilute U.S. influence, the summit granted observer status to Afghanistan on Thursday, a move should position China and the bloc to cultivate ties and play a greater role in the impoverished war-torn country even before NATO ends its military mission by 2014.

Already, Chinese firms have moved into Afghanistan, with designs on the country?s untapped trillion-dollar mineral and energy resources.?

Granting observer status and inviting Afghan President Hamid Karzai will help to strengthen ?political, economic and civilian cooperation between the SCO states and Afghanistan,? said Cheng at the media event.?

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Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit leaders and observers gather for a family photo, (from left to right)India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Mongolia President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing June 7, 2012.

?No military alliance? but?
When NBC News asked Cheng if the Shanghai Cooperation Organization would become an ?eastern NATO? or a military alliance in the future, he very firmly downplayed the possibility.

?The main purpose is politics, economics and security and under no circumstances will the SCO become a military organization,? he said..?

?But I personally think that, as the international environment becomes more complex, the SCO should enhance its cooperation with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), for the sake of peace and stability in Central Asia,? he added.?

It?s extremely rare for Chinese senior diplomats to offer their personal views?to foreign media, and Cheng?s pronouncements may be China?s trial-balloon for new security thinking.?

The Collective Security Treaty Organization, of which China is not a member, is a defense alliance formed in 1992 by Russia and former Soviet Republics, which Russia has been trying to reinvigorate in recent years, with stronger military contingents to counter the ?eastward?expansion of NATO,? among other threats.?

By using the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a vehicle to coordinate closely with the Collective Security Treaty Organization, China may be hoping to benefit from stronger military ties with Russia, while avoiding the pitfalls of a formal military alignment.?

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao shake hands before a meeting at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing, on Thursday.

?It is my personal view,? Vice-Minister Cheng emphasized to NBC News, ?but I will try to push for it."

?The peace and stability of Central Asia is related to China?s core interests, we will not allow the unrest in West Asia and North Africa to spread to Central Asia,? he said, referring to the threat of Arab-style upheavals.

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?America should not worry?
?I don?t think America should worry about China?s Central Asia strategy,? said Professor Shi Yinhong, a leading international affairs expert at Renmin University, one of China?s top research institutions.?

?There is no possibility for SCO to become a formal military alliance like NATO, but there can be greater security cooperation among SCO?s member-countries,? he told NBC News.?

Nonetheless, Shi conceded there are ?some elements" of counter-balancing strategy in China?s latest moves. ??

?China has neither the?stomach?nor the?power to confront America?s strategic advantage in East Asia, but China has the capability to improve cooperation in Central Asia,? he said.?

?China?s difficulty in East Asia is a motivation for China to do good diplomacy in Central Asia, otherwise things will become very difficult for China,? he explained.?

Researcher Horace Lu contributed to this report.

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Wisconsin recall vote to resonate in presidential race

LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - The battle over whether to recall Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, has sharply divided the state and become a nationally watched test of his party's push to limit government, slash spending and challenge public-sector labor unions.

Tuesday's recall vote also has the attention of two very interested outsiders: Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, who are gearing up for their November 6 showdown for the White House.

Whatever happens when Wisconsin voters decide whether Walker should be replaced by Democrat Tom Barrett, the repercussions promise to echo deep into the presidential campaign.

At a time when national polls show Obama and Romney in a virtual tie, both sides see the wrangling in Wisconsin as a chance to organize and gain early momentum in a politically divided state that could be crucial in determining who wins the presidency.

The recall battle has raged for months, sparked by Walker's elimination last year of most collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions. That led to huge street protests in Madison, the state capital, and to the recall effort that will culminate in Tuesday's vote.

Walker's national supporters see the recall as a referendum on his take-no-prisoners brand of fiscal conservatism, and both sides in the presidential race plan to scour Tuesday's results to gauge the mood of the electorate heading into November's bigger battles.

"The vote here will definitely be seen as a harbinger of things to come," said Wisconsin-based Republican consultant Mark Graul. "The winning side will have tremendous momentum, and there will be implications far beyond Wisconsin."

Wisconsin has not backed a Republican in a presidential election since it went for Ronald Reagan in 1984, but Republicans hope a recall win will demoralize Democrats and sharply boost Romney's hopes.

Most recent polls have shown Walker ahead of Barrett, who is the mayor of Milwaukee, by about 7 percentage points in the recall election. But in a reflection of how difficult it can be to read the political tea leaves in a "swing" state such as Wisconsin, polls have shown Obama ahead of Romney by 6 to 10 points.

Obama easily captured Wisconsin by 14 percentage points in the 2008 election, when he defeated Republican John McCain. Two years later, Republicans in Wisconsin roared back to elect Walker, defeat Democratic U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and take over the state legislature.

"If the governor is successful" in warding off a recall, "it will show the mood of voters is closer to where it was in 2010 than in 2008," Graul said. "And that could portend trouble for Obama here and in other similar states, like Ohio," another Midwestern state that will be perhaps the most significant battleground in the presidential race.

'ROCK STAR FOR THE RIGHT'

Walker's bulldozing approach to cutting state budgets has made him what Barrett derisively calls "a rock star for the far right."

Walker's rising status in the Republican Party has been evident as fellow Republican governors such as Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Chris Christie of New Jersey have appeared with him in Wisconsin.

Former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, campaigned in Milwaukee for Barrett on Friday, attacking Walker's "divide and conquer" approach to governing and warning that Walker's conservative allies will be emboldened if he wins.

The Wisconsin recall has offered another glimpse of how unfettered spending by partisan groups outside the campaigns can drive the conversation in elections - a poignant message as such groups have begun spending what they estimate will be hundreds of millions of dollars on the presidential race.

Conservative groups such as Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire conservative brothers Charles and David Koch, have poured millions of dollars into Wisconsin and plastered the state's airwaves with anti-Barrett ads. It is part of an effort to make a statement for their conservative cause - and set a tone for the presidential election.

Walker has raised $31 million to Barrett's $4.2 million, and by late April about two-thirds of Walker's 2012 donations had come from out-of-state donors, according to finance reports compiled by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks money in state politics.

"If Governor Walker survives this, then national Republican and conservative leaders are going to see him as the spearhead for a movement," said Joe Heim, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Romney and Obama have avoided much involvement in the Wisconsin race, perhaps a sign that the presidential candidates are not willing to risk being tied too closely with either side.

When Romney was in Wisconsin to campaign in the state's April 3 presidential primary he called Walker a "hero." Obama endorsed Barrett in a brief statement after the May 8 Democratic primary but has said nothing publicly.

Even some Democrats think Barrett has run an ineffective, uninspiring campaign with his attack on the governor's leadership that moved beyond Walker's push for anti-union legislation.

Barrett has targeted Walker's record on creating jobs and raised questions about a criminal probe into whether Walker's aides when he was Milwaukee County executive did political fundraising on public time.

But after months of polarized battle over Walker's agenda, most Wisconsin voters seem to have made up their minds. A recent Marquette University law school poll said just 3 percent of voters remain undecided; a Democratic poll this week put the figure at 1 percent.

That makes voter turnout a potentially huge factor in the recall vote. Both sides have promised unprecedented get-out-the-vote operations.

"We've said all along this will be very close and will be decided by turnout, and we think we'll have the most effective turnout operation," Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate said.

While Democrats have a slight edge in voter registration in Wisconsin, Republicans seem to have at least a slight edge in enthusiasm. The Marquette poll found 91 percent of Republicans were "absolutely certain" to vote, compared with 83 percent of both Democrats and independents.

'A DRY RUN'

"When I make calls, I get Republicans who are really angry this is happening. The Democrats are mad too, but I don't think they are as passionate about it," said Chris Johnson, a retired teacher who volunteers at a Walker field office in La Crosse.

Walker has opened 22 offices around the state to direct his turnout operations, and he said volunteers have made more than 2 million calls to voters - more than during his entire 2010 race.

Volunteers made more than 200,000 contacts with voters on a recent weekend day, and other Midwestern state Republican parties are setting up their own phone banks for Walker.

Volunteers with the state Democratic Party knocked on 100,000 doors that same weekend day, and labor groups also have set up their own networks of more than two dozen field offices.

The turnout operations will serve as a test run for November's presidential contest. Tate said there was significant overlap, for example, between the state Democrats' field staff and Obama's campaign.

Some Wisconsin Democrats have grumbled about the lack of support from the national party.

The Republican Governors Association was one of the biggest spenders in the race, pumping in nearly $8 million, while the Democratic National Committee only sent out a late fund-raising appeal last week.

State officials are predicting a big turnout on Tuesday, and Democrats are targeting people who voted in 2008 but not 2010. They are hoping to get 150,000 to 200,000 recall voters to the polls who did not cast a ballot in 2010 - when Walker won by about 100,000 votes.

The risk is that the losers will be demoralized after the intensity of the recall fight, making it harder to get them back to work in the campaigns for November's presidential election.

"It's very easy to burn out the average political volunteer. I'm not sure how easy it will be to get people back through the door in September," said Brian Westrate, the Republican chairman in Wisconsin's Eau Claire County. "But it will be a lot easier if we win."

(Editing by David Lindsey and Vicki Allen)

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