Click Here to download ERS-2009-12-30 #186

Happy New Year! Fewer news stories on the show today as we end the year. I’ve got to do a year in review show. I say that every year but forget about it until December. That will be my new year’s resolution for 2010.  Today on the show we’re giving away some more hard cold cash plus some great goodies from the following companies. Looking back it’s been a fun year. Have fun celebrating the end of a decade!

Thanks to the following companies who have donated goodies to our end of the month prize pack! Fujitec America, GAL, The National Association of Elevator Contractors, The National Association of Elevator Safety Authorities, The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation, COMPANY SRL, Peelle, C.J. Anderson, Truxes, EMS Group, Elevator Bob’s Elevator Pictures, Minnesota Elevator, ElevatorGear.com, ElevatorShack.com, ElevatorU.org, Elevator World Magazine, Elevator Cab Renovations & The Elevator Preservation Blog.

News Links:
Access issues trip up stairs project, St. Paul MN
Commission approves elevator for clerk office
Idiot takes video of elevator prank
Courthouse to close for three days
Dana Point’s Beach elevator open this weekend
There are crazier people out there than me
Elevator down at complex for elderly despite $5 million in stimulus
Giving Metro escalator a rest could curtail failures
Happy Holidays From EW, fun game link too
Hey Metra, fix my elevator
Teen who fell over escalator, still in coma
Cool Old C.J. Anderson elevator equipment on Flickr
Basically the biggest elevator in the world….
NY Lawsuit: Disabled woman must slide down stairs
Teen in hospital after fall from railing
Are broken elevators against the law…interesting
Short and Sweet elevator update
EU Forum Back Online!
Delhi Metro Rail Website teaches how to ride escalator
Is there a chance of surviving in an elevator during a tornado
Lowville Academy project falls behind schedule
New CTA Elevators to go into service
Parents must use caution with kids on escalators
School urged to install elevator
Toddler slips out of grandfather’s arms, dies
Stuck in elevator and missed flight….
SearchMedia Holdings Limited announces repurchase program

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-14 #176

 Another busy week at work as our shop has the flu bug going around which means double duty for a few of us here so remember to wash your hand’s everyone and as often as possible. I’m pretty sure that I’m catching it as well as I’m tired and feel the onslaught of being tired and having a sore throat. Another week filled with article’s everyone. You’ll enjoy the one written by Jim Collet, from Elevator Man Stories. I think it’s important to remember those who we worked with who may have passed on. Jim does an excellent job at doing this.  Also on the program today a story covering what I believe to be the worst elevator mine accident I’ve every read about, in which 26 miners in China where killed.  All I can say I’m glad that I live in the USA where codes and regulations are there to protect workers and the general public. (Pictured: Forty-one Cooper Square, in NY,  is being developed so that the elevator only stops at floors 1, 5 and 8. With the intent to make students use the stairs more often. I suspect a lawsuit addressing ADA will soon be in the news.)

News Links:
A Different Kind of Larry
7 Sickened Near OC Federal Building Elevator
A sheltered life by design, without TV on the elevator
Space Elevator Official Poster
Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?
Chinese mine elevator plunges workers to their deaths
Fulton Public Library’s elevator project continues
Half Baked Idea – Liquid Only Counterweight for Elevator, no motor required….
Hospitals, Healthcare Providers award bid to Otis
Alliance Elevator Consultants – What’s that grinding noise?
JIA’s central corridor getting $9 million makeover
Can you change the direction of an escalator without a key?
Project to take elevator down
Shabbat Elevator ban is height of controversy
Camden to reopen escalator station
The big exercise boost
Boarding the Chinese Economic Elevator
Elevators being installed in more homes  
Hydraulic Residential Elevator
Space Elevator Games are on!
Jobs for Filipino Elevator Project Manager Abroad
Space Elevator and Lunar Industrialization Conference set for December
Student Ignites Elevator Door
This would keep people off the escalators!  
Crazy building with crazier elevator service
Freight Elevators now allow bicycles on them in NY  - Bike Access Law?
Student Ignites Elevator Door
Escalator mishap injures 13 people at Blues Game  
How to avoid catching the swine flu

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-08-05 #168

It’s August already and we are really light on content this week. I have a feeling there are a lot of people going on vacations as summer winds down. There were two articles that are worthy of printing and saving on this weeks show. The first was a tragic news story in which a child was killed in a residential elevator which turns my stomach just thinking about it.  The other article talked about a man who was injured back in 2002 by a hydraulic elevator when he tried to figure out why it was leaking hydraulic fluid in the pit.  The guy was NOT an elevator mechanic, stupid is as stupid does.  Thanks for listening today everyone, be safe out there.

Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar
NCEIG Calendar

Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Elevator Man Stories Blog
Elevator Radio Show Facebook Page – Become a Fan!
ElevatorBob.com

News Links:
Man survives being crushed by elevator
The old elevator in Broadway Street is gone
Sibley’s offered more than clothes
Twitter post: my kid was almost an elevator accident statistic today
World’s greatest elevator rides – Vote Here www.oobject.com
Man breaks bones riding in crazy elevator
Hyundai Elevator widens market share
Girl dies in residential elevator accident
Sushi, Anyone….yuck!
Space Tethers and Space Elevators Book Out
KONE Acquires Brown Elevator
Escalator back on track
Chino Valley Firefighters rescue people in elevator
Peach Memorial elevator repairs postponed
Keep away from Tube lines or die a horrible death
Faulty elevator plagues retirement community
Donations will aid library elevator – Thanks goodness no one was hurt! (The reason for A17.3)
Federal Tax Incentives for Historic Building Restoration…Including Elevators
Microsoft looking up, hosts Space Elevator Conference

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Click Here to download ERS-2009-05-20 #159

Lots to cover here on the show today everyone! We’ll chat about the week’s worth of elevator news that I found online. We’ll also talk about the Inaugural Toronto Boat Cruise to benefit the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation of Canada that’s fast approaching, June 4^th, get your tickets today everyone! And I’ll cover my thoughts on the NAEC Sponsored Webinar, which covered the NEII ® Code finder Database that was held last Thursday.  This show is filled to the brim with extra elevator fun! Our Prize pack giveaway is next week and we’re giving away a toolbox, filled with goodies.

For those of you listening here in the United States, Monday is Memorial Day. More than just a three day weekend, this is our opportunity to remember those who have died while fighting for our freedom.  Take a moment to remember a family member for their service to our country. Share a story about them so that they will be remembered by our younger generations. And thank a Veteran for serving!

Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar
NCEIG Calendar

Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Inaugural EESFC Toronto Boat Cruise! Sign Up Today!
ElevatorPreservation.com

News Links:
Captivate Network goes up, down and now across the web
DC Metro Union forces unwanted exercise program onto customers
Elevator at housing complex needs to be replaced
Searching for old elevator part
Grandmother, boy hurt in church elevator
Dr. Gridlock tackles your traffic and transit issues
Deep hypothetical fly/elevator question….makes you go hmm.. More on last week’s boy stuck in elevator story
Questions surrounding elevator death
Elevator etiquette…
Smart Escalators…Coming Soon
Seguin lawmaker collapses at Capitol
Sioux City Elevator Operators Keep History Alive
Going Up? BOMA’s Response, Way To Go!
Historic Buildings or Parking Spaces…
MacDonald wants action on elevator issue
Elevator World Then and Now
LPC, elevators hinder disabled students
Should high school press boxes have elevators?
Elevator enthusiast, speaks my language
Two elderly patients seriously injured in 20ft hospital fall
Woman cuffed for not holding escalator rail
Another malfunction today at Hoboken’s automated garage
Who should condo owner complain too about poor elevator condition?
Contracts awarded for major infrastructure upgrades at LAX

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