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Ergonomics Defined

The study of workplace design and the physical and psychological impact it has on workers. Ergonomics is about the fit between people, their work activities, equipment, work systems, and environment to ensure that workplaces are safe, comfortable, efficient, and that productivity is not compromised.

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Local inventor"™s product to launch at computer stores nationwide

Published December 5, 2008, 1:37 am, Fort Bend Sun

Less than two years after being turned down as a contestant on American Inventors, an ABC reality TV show, Richmond resident Gerald Anderson launched his invention in the stores of a major computer retailer nationwide.

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Design Notebook: Seeking a better night"™s sleep

Published December 5, 2008, 12:04 am, The San Luis Obispo Tribune

By Rebecca Juretic -- There was a time when all mattresses were pretty much the same—hard. On the upside, they lasted longer because there was less padding to wear out. On the downside, backs everywhere suffered. In the 1990s, mattresses went to the other extreme — ultracushy pillow-tops that offered little support and were prone to premature sagging.

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The 10 Best Books on User Experience

Published December 4, 2008, 4:13 pm, Usability News

Bookcase not yet groaning enough? You'll find something here for you or the user experience person in your life.

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Office Politics Center Around Seating Comfort

Published December 4, 2008, 3:22 am, Carteret County News-Times

(ARA) - The hallways, lunchrooms â€- and yes â€- even the water cooler are all buzzing with political chatter.

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Pending Enron case delays Enterasys retrial

Published December 4, 2008, 1:14 am, New Hampshire Business Review

New Hampshire Business Review is an authoritative statewide business publication, with a print edition reaching more than 50,000 readers. NHBR is published 26 times a year and packed full of news Granite State businesses can use to grow and flourish.

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The massage message is reaching SA professionals

Published December 3, 2008, 11:36 pm, Independent Online

Massage is not something that's limited to beauty salons. The treatment is, in fact, finding a place in sport and medicine, writes Impti Du Toit.

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The Net Impact of Netbooks? It Depends on Who Uses Them for What

Published December 3, 2008, 4:32 pm, Usability News

Analysts and experts at Wharton agree that netbooks will be disruptive to the PC industry, but it's not clear in what way.

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Adding insult to injury

Published December 3, 2008, 2:18 am, Las Vegas Sun

One of the standard objections to workplace safety regulations is money. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for example, calls the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s rules “a significant burden” for small businesses and it intimates that any more regulation would end with thousands of companies shutting their doors.

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LAPTOP Magazine Names the Best Notebooks of the Year

Published December 2, 2008, 11:01 pm, PRWeb via Yahoo! News

LAPTOP magazine announced the top portable PCs of 2008 in its Best Notebooks of the Year feature. The notebooks that made LAPTOP's list are those that combine sharp design and superior ergonomics with innovative features and excellent performance. This feature appears in LAPTOP's December 2008 issue and on Laptopmag.com.

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Railroad executive lauds Juniata shop

Published December 2, 2008, 9:01 pm, Altoona Mirror

The Juniata Locomotive Shop is a kingdom of grease and heavy steel, but also "one of the crown jewels" of the Norfolk Southern railway, said company Chief Executive Officer Wick Moorman, who was in town Tuesday. When Norfolk acquired part of Conrail in 1997, management didn't know quite what it had at Juniata or what to do with it, said Moorman, who has been CEO for almost three years.

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  • Karen Jacobs, EdD, CPE, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • mStand Laptop Stand - intro: Designed for the Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro, suitable for all laptops, mStand helps you work comfortably and safely every day by raising your laptop to the same ergonomic height as the external display. mStand is made of a single solid piece of aluminum with matching MacBook Pro's sand-blasted and silver anodized finish. mStand transforms your laptop into a stable and stylish workstation.

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