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Monthly Archive for September, 2009

What Do You Think?

Where do you receive most of your information about what’s happening in the industry?(poll)

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United in Orlando — Wednesday

Most of the United action came to an end this afternoon as the exhibits closed. In addition to various individual association meetings throughout the day, nearly as many educational sessions were held today as yesterday. The day was kicked off with the annual awards breakfast, some highlights of which are as follows: Frank Musholt of [...]

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Today proved to be United’s biggest day yet, starting with a concurrent educational session, and National Association of Elevator Contractors and Canadian Elevator Contractors Association meetings. The exhibits then opened, while educational sessions continued until late afternoon. The aforementioned associations then met behind closed doors in board meetings until the evening’s reception and swanky dinner [...]

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Today was the busiest day yet at United in Orlando, with some starting early with the Annual Fun Run at 6:00 a.m. The rest of us started our days with the opening breakfast, which saw excited welcomes from the presidents of each United participating organization. The keynote speaker was Scott Kress, who had a lot [...]

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It’s a beautiful day in the Sunshine State, and United in Orlando 2009 had a great kickoff. The first big day of this mega elevator event began early at 7:00 a.m. with a golf tournament that, according to his friends at the Canadian Elevator Contractors Association, your reporter heard was a lot of fun. Next was [...]

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 EW’s Lee Freeland will be covering United in Orlando this year, and in addition to a feature story in the magazine, he will be blogging throughout the coming week. Depending on his schedule, he will attempt to have news about the various events …and meetings each evening while he’s in Orlando. 
Check back for updates!

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Phishing

For those not familiar with the term, “phishing” is a type of online scam, in which the perpetrator sends e-mails to a large number of e-mail addresses (spam) and attempts to obtain information from the recipient. The phisher uses an official-looking return e-mail address but has used some sort of technical process to disguise its [...]

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Win a Wii at United in Orlando!

On September 22nd, theme parks won’t be the only place kids of all ages will be having fun. Visit Elevator World, Inc. at Booth 1515 and play a Wii to win a Wii! Simply drop your business card, play home run derby, record the best score and you could walk away a winner.
Who says trade [...]

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What Do You Think?

Please feel free to vote for more than one category or add your own answer in the “other” box:

What type(s) of articles would you most like to see in ELEVATOR WORLD magazine in the future?(survey software)

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Escalator Plays Role in New Movie

It’s not a movie I plan to see (horror is not on my list of favorite film genres by a long shot), but a recently released movie does have two things of interest to the staff at ELEVATOR WORLD.
With a plot based on a series of dramatic deaths, The Final Destination includes a scene [...]

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