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Fix your position when work at your desk

Are you experiencing neck or back strain while sitting at your desk? This may be because your posture is wrong because of lack of proper seating position. Here are some simple ways to improve your posture is wrong when you’re working with a computer:

1. Adjust Your Monitor Position. The first step is to realize that there uncomfortable ness about your working position when seated in front of the computer. Are you sitting hunched in a chair or bending while looking at your monitor? This increases the risk of muscle tension and lead to neck pain, back pain, and sore shoulders. If you’re craning your neck while sitting in front of your computer, your position may be too high to monitor. Ideally, the top of the monitor should be at eye level to keep your body aligned properly. Most people have their monitors are too low. Try lifting by placing piles of books on the bottom until you no longer look down at your monitor or enforce. Similarly, you do not need to stretch muscles to look at your monitor properly.

2. Select the appropriate chairs. Do not skimp too much on the type of seat that you used to sit at the computer. Selection of the wrong seat and you will make your posture when sitting at the computer for the worse. If possible, buy an ergonomic chair. Ergonomic chair may be worth a bit more expensive, but if you will use it to sit on it for a long time, will be able to reduce the risk of muscle strain. Choose a chair that has a backrest that can be adjusted in both height and angle that lies in your back. Your spine will be easier to adapt to the curvature of the chair of this ergonomic chair. Chair with armrest will further renew your sitting position. Swivel recliner chairs will help you

3. Determine the Sitting Position. When sitting in a chair, practice keeping your back in touch with the chair’s backrest. The seat height and arm rests should be adjusted so that the arm can relax in the comfortable lie when you’re not typing. Of course, you want to have the seat padding is comfortable enough to make your ass in a long time. Swivel chair is also especially well able to make you can easily redirect your body on the screen

4. Do not Cross your legs. When sitting at your computer chair, try to keep both feet on the floor without crossing your legs. When your legs are crossed, you mean reduced circulation to the lower extremities and can lead to varicose veins worse.

Marries Beauty And Durability With New Tropical Colors For Horizon™ Decking

Fiberon, a leading manufacturer of composite decking, has created the ultimate marriage of beauty and durability with its new tropical hardwood colors for Horizon™ composite decking. These new colors have the dramatic wood tones of highly desirable tropical hardwood, and Fiberon offers the industry’s first 10-year Stain and Fade warranty, demonstrating the products ability to provide lasting beauty.

“This is hands down the best composite decking product I’ve ever seen,” said Tom Kraeutler, a nationally syndicated radio host for The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show (www.moneypit.com) and the Home Improvement Editor for AOL. “I’ve reviewed many composite decking products over the years and none have been able to achieve both the natural look and top performance of Fiberon’s Horizon.”

“This additional tropical hardwood look for Horizon decking represents the marriage of the highest beauty to the best performance, clearly demonstrating Fiberon’s commitment to bringing innovative products to the marketplace,” said Chris H. Beyer, Vice President of Marketing for Fiberon. “Homeowners are looking for products that are an extension of their home, raising their interest in the appearance of ipe or mahogany, but know they need an easy-to-maintain composite decking product. This perfectly provides that exotic look but with the best stain, fade, mold and scratch resistance in the wood alternative and composite decking category.”

Charged with creating the ultimate in beauty and long-lasting performance, Fiberon’s product development team united the exceptional stain-, fade-, mold- and scratch-resistant attributes of their leading Horizon composite decking, made possible through its PermaTech™ surface technology, with the multi-chromatic tropical hardwood look of its composite decking with stunning tropical colors.

Horizon is now available in two exotic hardwood colors, Ipe and Rosewood. Horizon decking will continue to be available in four solid colors, including Sand, Brick, Bronze and Slate. Boards can be ordered in square edge or grooved profiles. Grooved boards allow for the optional Phantom™ hidden fastener system for fastener-free deck surfaces.

Fiberon Horizon composite decking is sold to professional contractors and dealers through a national network of distributors. To learn more, visit www.fiberondecking.com, call 800-573-8841 or send an email to info@fibercomposites.com

About Fiberon

Fiberon is a leading manufacturer of composite and PVC decking, railing and fencing products used in homes and light commercial construction across North America. Part of the Fiber Composites, LLC family, the Fiberon brand product line is designed specifically for professional contractors. Fiberon’s polymer chemists and extrusion professionals employ the latest technology to constantly innovate, using the finest raw materials coupled with leading manufacturing processes to ensure best-in-class quality. The company was founded in 1997 and is privately owned with manufacturing operations in North Carolina and Idaho.

Lightline® Door Canopies Win Top Honors At Design Journal’s ADEX Awards

The winners of the 2009 Awards for Design Excellence (ADEX) have been announced, and Lightline® door canopy products from Feeney, Inc. have been selected for the top level Platinum award. ADEX, sponsored by the international trade publication Design Journal, is the largest and most prestigious awards program for product design of furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade. Every year a judging panel of professionals representing a cross section of the design industry selects the best product designs from a field of over 1,200 entries submitted by over 400 companies.

“We were thrilled to hear that the Lightline® canopies had won a Platinum ADEX 2009 award, especially given the depth of the product entries,” said Del Leutbecher, Director of Business Development at Feeney, Inc. “Since it was first introduced in the United States, the Lightline® product has inspired an incredibly enthusiastic response from the design and construction communities, and this award is a gratifying acknowledgement that we’re on the right track.”

Lightline® canopy products are manufactured by Polymer Kunststoffe GmbH of Germany and distributed in the United States by Feeney Inc., Oakland, CA. These products have been widely used in Europe to shield people from the elements when they leave their homes or businesses. The manufacturer has taken an old concept of over-door canopies and awnings and created new, modern designs using innovative materials: stainless steel support arms, integrated aluminum gutters and UV resistant acrylic visor panels in a variety of finishes.

“Lightline® canopy products require no custom design or one-off fabrication,” said Del Leutbecher. “Each canopy comes in an easy-to-assemble kit with all the hardware necessary to assemble and install; plus, a patented Click-Lock pane attachment feature makes installation a breeze without drilling holes through the acrylic visor panes. Simply insert the panes into the frame, lower the support arms, and snap the Click-Lock ends together. These canopies offer eye-catching designs that are easy to use, durable, low maintenance and sized to fit almost any standard doorway.”

Lightline® canopies are available in a variety of styles. The Gable Canopy looks best on a pitched roof configuration; the rounded Arch Canopy works well with both modern and traditional designs; and the simple, versatile Curve Canopy complements virtually any doorway.

Kits also come in several standard widths ranging from 5 feet to 9 feet, and the Curve style even has an extended, multi-panel model that allows for continuous widths, a useful design for commercial storefronts.

For additional information on the ADEX award or Lightline® canopies, please contact Andrew Penny or visit www.designjournalmag.com or www.lightlinecanopies.com. Detail drawings and 3-part specifications for the Lightline® products are available for downloading from the website. Members of the media can get the latest news from Feeney at www.feeneyarchitectural.com/media

ABET’s Serigrafia Raises The Bar On Design Excellence

ABET LAMINATI, a leading manufacturer of High Pressure laminates, continues its tradition of daring, innovative design with Serigrafia — now in a raised Longline finish. The 16 new designs, produced by ABETs special silk-screening techniques, emulate exotic fabrics with a slightly raised surface of vertical lines. In addition to wallcovering, this laminate can also be used on furniture or any application that does not require a horizontal surface.

When combined with the already existing Serigrafia line of 21 dazzling designs in a smooth surface, the new silk-screened patterns bring the total number of choices to 37. Each sheet of postforming Serigrafia is individually silk-screened and measures 51 inches by 120 inches.

ABET LAMINATI continues to be the leader in high pressure laminate design. As with all our products, the Serigrafia line is in stock at ABET’s U.S. distribution centers as well as local distributors across the country. For further information call 1-800-228-2238 or 201-541-0700, fax 201-541-0701.