The Best Way to Set Up and Organize Your Desk [Workspace]

A cluttered, unorganized desk can sap your energy and make you less productive. To get more out of your workspace, check out the in-depth guide to setting up your desk (including what to put on your desktop and in your desk drawers) from What's Best Next.

We've covered setting up a healthy, usable, clean, and ergonomically optimized workspace before (even if you have little desk space). This series of posts from What's Best Next is a great basic guide, with writer Matt Perman detailing the method that works best for him.

It covers the basic principles of setting up a functional desk, such as thinking of your desk like a cockpit: The things you use most often should be at your fingertips and only permanent stuff that you regularly need should be stored on your desk or in drawers. Use the P-L-A-C-E system to clean out and organize your stuff: Purge unnecessary items, group Like with like, place groupings according to your Access needs, Contain loose items, and Evaluate how well your system works.

In parts four and five of the series, Perman discusses four ways to configure a desk (rectangular, parallel, L-shaped, and U-shaped) and where in the room to place your desk. Unfortunately the images aren't working any more, but you still get the gist from the article that L- or U-shaped desks are preferable and having the desk perpendicular to the door gives you more control. Of course, your needs and space will be a big factor.

The most interesting tips are in posts six and seven about what to keep on your desktop and in your drawers. Perman advises a left-to-right workflow approach: Put everything (inbox, phone, paper) on the left side and leave the right open.

The workflow goes from left to right. When new input comes, it goes into your inbox on the left. When it's time to process those items, handle the items in the middle, right in front of you. Any piles that need to be taken somewhere else go on the right side. [...] The system is that you kept your desk clear so that it is available in this way when you are working on things. And so when you are done or at a point where you won't be able to get back to the project for a while, but the reference materials away and the support items back into files, so that the desktop remains clear for whatever is next.

There are a lot of ways you can set up your drawers. One useful way may be to set aside a drawer for each main purpose: temporary storage (wallet and keys when you get to work), office supplies, labeler and other tools, finance/mailing drawer, and file drawer for active and pending files.

Obviously, there's no one correct way to set up your desk, since we all work differently and use different tools to get things done. If you're looking for ideas, though, this guide is full of them.

How to Set Up Your Desk | What's Best Next

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French man held over Mohammad cartoon revenge plan

PARIS/MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Police detained a young man in southern France on Thursday on suspicion that he was planning a revenge attack on the staff of a satirical magazine which published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

Anti-terrorism magistrates near the Mediterranean port city of Toulon questioned the 18-year-old after he threatened in a message on Facebook to cut the throats of anyone he could find at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a judicial source said.

The magazine's publication of cartoons ridiculing Mohammad added to the anger of Muslims already outraged over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States and posted on the Internet.

The suspect had no police record but he was already known to security services, the source said, without giving further details.

Police in France are on high alert for attacks by Islamist militants. They were criticized for failing to stop an al Qaeda-inspired gunman shooting dead seven people in March, including three Jewish children, in the southern city of Toulouse.

The shooter, Mohamed Merah, had been interviewed by police after returning from a visit to Afghanistan and had a violent criminal record.

The government, which has criticized the cartoons, plans to shut schools and diplomatic offices in 20 countries on Friday as a precaution against protests after attacks on U.S. and German embassies, some of them deadly.

Police have refused a request to hold a protest against the film in Paris, after some 150 participants in an illegal demonstration near the U.S. embassy were arrested on Sunday. France has Europe's largest population of Muslims.

"People in the suburbs are very upset over the publication of these cartoons," said Mohamed Mechmache, head of the ACLEFEU association for urban youths, created in the wake of riots that swept French suburbs in 2005.

"They feel there is a double standard when it comes to free speech: it's okay to mock the Prophet, but we can't protest against it ... All it would take for things to spiral out of control is a police check that goes wrong."

In another incident which might exacerbate strains, an 18-year-old young French woman was sentenced to two months in jail for refusing to comply with a police identity check while she was wearing a banned full-face veil in public.

The woman resisted police when they asked to check her identity in front of a mosque in central Marseille in July, during the holy Muslim fasting period of Ramadan.

Under a French law from 2010, a person wearing a "burqa" or "niqab" style full-face veil can be stopped by police. If she refuses to remove her veil, she can be fined or sentenced to community service. Repeat offenders face jail.

In addition to being jailed and receiving a six-month suspended prison sentence, the veiled woman was ordered to pay damages of 1,000 euros ($1,300) to a female police officer whom she bit during the altercation.

Two young men who were accompanying the woman were also sentenced to two months' jail for fighting with police when they tried to carry out the identity check.

(Reporting By Gerard Bon and Jean-Francois Rosnoblet; Writing by Nicholas Vinocur; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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Nutrient in eggs and meat may influence gene expression from infancy to adulthood

ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2012) ? Just as women are advised to get plenty of folic acid around the time of conception and throughout early pregnancy, new research suggests another very similar nutrient may one day deserve a spot on the obstetrician's list of recommendations.

Consuming greater amounts of choline -- a nutrient found in eggs and meat -- during pregnancy may lower an infant's vulnerability to stress-related illnesses, such as mental health disturbances, and chronic conditions, like hypertension, later in life.

In an early study in The FASEB Journal, nutrition scientists and obstetricians at Cornell University and the University of Rochester Medical Center found that higher-than-normal amounts of choline in the diet during pregnancy changed epigenetic markers -- modifications on our DNA that tell our genes to switch on or off, to go gangbusters or keep a low profile -- in the fetus. While epigenetic markers don't change our genes, they make a permanent imprint by dictating their fate: If a gene is not expressed -- turned on -- it's as if it didn't exist.

The finding became particularly exciting when researchers discovered that the affected markers were those that regulated the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal or HPA axis, which controls virtually all hormone activity in the body, including the production of the hormone cortisol that reflects our response to stress and regulates our metabolism, among other things.

More choline in the mother's diet led to a more stable HPA axis and consequently less cortisol in the fetus. As with many aspects of our health, stability is a very good thing: Past research has shown that early exposure to high levels of cortisol, often a result of a mother's anxiety or depression, can increase a baby's lifelong risk of stress-related and metabolic disorders.

"The study is important because it shows that a relatively simple nutrient can have significant effects in prenatal life, and that these effects likely continue to have a long-lasting influence on adult life," said Eva K. Pressman, M.D., study author and director of the high-risk pregnancy program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "While our results won't change practice at this point, the idea that maternal choline intake could essentially change fetal genetic expression into adulthood is quite novel."

Pressman, who advises pregnant women every day, says choline isn't something people think a lot about because it is already present in many things we eat and there is usually no concern of choline deficiency. Though much more research has focused on folate -- functionally very similar to choline and used to decrease the risk of neural tube defects like spina bifida -- a few very compelling studies sparked her interest, including animal studies on the role of choline in mitigating fetal alcohol syndrome and changing outcomes in Down syndrome.

A long-time collaborator with researchers at Cornell, Pressman joined a team led by Marie Caudill, Ph.D., R.D., professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell, in studying 26 pregnant women in their third trimester who were assigned to take 480 mg of choline per day, an amount slightly above the standard recommendation of 450 mg per day, or about double that amount, 930 mg per day. The choline was derived from the diet and from supplements and was consumed up until delivery.

The team found that higher maternal choline intake led to a greater amount of DNA methylation, a process in which methyl groups -- one carbon atom linked to three hydrogen atoms -- are added to our DNA. Choline is one of a handful of nutrients that provides methyl groups for this process. The addition of a single methyl group is all it takes to change an individual's epigenome.

Measurements of cord blood and samples from the placenta showed that increased choline, via the addition of methyl groups, altered epigenetic markers that govern cortisol-regulating genes. Higher choline lessened the expression of these genes, leading to 33 percent lower cortisol in the blood of babies whose mom's consumed 930 mg per day.

Study authors say the findings raise the exciting possibility that choline may be used therapeutically in cases where excess maternal stress from anxiety, depression or other prenatal conditions might make the fetal HPA axis more reactive and more likely to release greater-than-expected amounts of cortisol.

While more research is needed, Caudill says that her message to pregnant women would be to consume a diet that includes choline rich foods such as eggs, lean meat, beans and cruciferous vegetables like broccoli. For women who limit their consumption of animal products, which are richer sources of choline than plant foods, she adds that supplemental choline may be warranted as choline is generally absent in prenatal vitamin supplements.

"One day we might prescribe choline in the same way we prescribe folate to all pregnant women," notes Pressman, the James R. Woods Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. "It is cheap and has virtually no side effects at the doses provided in this study. In the future, we could use choline to do even more good than we are doing right now."

In addition to Pressman and Caudill, several scientists and clinicians from the Division of Nutritional Science and the Statistical Consulting Unit at Cornell and the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N. Y., participated in the research. The study was funded by the Egg Nutrition Center, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the Nebraska Beef Council, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the President's Council of Cornell Women. The funding sources had no role in the study design, interpretation of the data, or publication of the results.

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TuneUp Doesn?t Just Clean Up Your Music Library ? Now It Provides Lyrics, Too

TuneUp, the iTunes plug-in that improves your music library by fixing mislabeled songs, adding missing cover art, and the like, is introducing a fun new feature today ? the ability to view the lyrics of whatever song you're playing.

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Fatwa Flashback

TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 09: Writer Salman Rushdie arrives at the 'Midnight's Children' Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 9, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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The timing of Salman Rushdie?s memoir is almost uncanny. Joseph Anton: A Memoir lands amid the ongoing Islamic furor over a video trailer that insults the Prophet Mohammed, calling to mind the fatwa placed on Rushdie by Iran?s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 following publication of The Satanic Verses.

Rushdie?s memoir delves deeply into his experience of living for nine years under a death sentence and the havoc that wrought on his family and his personal freedom. The title derives from the literary alias Rushdie adopted at the behest of the British police who were looking out for him during the fatwa period. ?Joseph? comes from Joseph Conrad and ?Anton? from Anton Chekhov.

Rushdie sat down recently with Slate?s Jacob Weisberg to talk about his new book and why he chose to write a memoir in the third person.

In part two of the interview, Rushdie reflects on how the fatwa changed him and shares an amusing encounter with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.? And in the third segment, he answers Slate reader questions, including his take on the 2012 election and how he came to be a nonbeliever.

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Liable entities to be better informed in carbon ... - Eco-Business

Australia?s peak body for carbon market professionals has announced that a consortium led by Baker & McKenzie and ClimateWorks Australia with additional support from Seed Advisory Pty Ltd and ClimateMundial has been commissioned to undertake its latest research project.

Carbon Decision Making and Risk Management: A Guide for Business is the latest project to be added to the Carbon Market Institute?s comprehensive suite of publications which are designed to take liable entities along a journey to becoming sophisticated carbon market participants.

?The recent introduction of Australia?s carbon pricing mechanism presents a new range of issues to be managed by liable entities,? says Carbon Market Institute markets and research manager Lloyd Vas.

?For the first time, these businesses are compelled to examine their operations to determine how they can meet their emissions compliance obligations at least cost,? he says.

?What?s important about this research project is that it highlights strategic decisions not just at management level, but raises key questions about managing carbon exposure for boards. There is an opportunity in this new market for liable entities to outperform their sector peers through least cost compliance, which will in turn enhance shareholder value,? says Vas.

This research project aims to provide liable entities with a decision-tree type framework to analyse their business operations from a carbon cost perspective.

It will also assist liable entities with what is essentially a ?make or buy? decision. Performing a carbon price sensitivity analysis against a range of scenarios, the research will provide the reader with the methodology and a software tool to assist in making carbon management decisions.

?Liable entities will have the opportunity to see the software tool first hand at Carbon Expo Australasia in Melbourne,? says Vas. ?A practical workshop on 7?November will showcase the tool and delegates will be provided with a better understanding of the ?make or buy? decision and the risks involved.?

As 34 local governments are liable under the carbon pricing mechanism, the report will include a chapter specific to local government with a particular focus on CFI landfill projects.

The report will conclude with an in-depth analysis of the risk management options where business has decided to employ a ?buy? strategy.

Carbon Decision Making and Risk Management: A Guide for Business is the first in a new suite of three CMI ?Guides for Business?. In the coming months, the Institute will also publish An Analysis of Carbon Units: A Guide for Business and Carbon Procurement and Trading: A Guide for Business.

This latest project builds on the success of the Institute?s 2011-12 program of research:

• Australia?s Clean Energy Legislative Package: A Guide for Business, authored by Baker & McKenzie
• Implementing the Carbon Farming Initiative: A Guide for Business, authored by Norton Rose and RAMP Carbon
• Carbon Market Integrity: A review of the Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism, authored by Bond University and peer reviewed by Baker & McKenzie
• Reporting and Accounting Requirements for the Australian Carbon Market: A Guide for Business, authored by Ernst & Young and the University of Melbourne
• Evolution of the Australian Carbon Market: Lessons from commodity and financial markets, authored by PwC

Source: http://www.eco-business.com/press-releases/liable-entities-to-be-better-informed-in-carbon-decisions/

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