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I thank Science for the gift of a reliable friend who lifts me up and escorts me down with just one button push. Elevators take people, as well as their baggages to wherever it is programmed to go.

Elevators are enclosure or platforms that are operated by cables, motors and other equipment or accessories enabling the vertical shaft to go up and down, and transport people, freight or both.

Elevators have a movable surface which takes full control of the horizontal stabilizer that produces the upward and downward motion.

Elevators have not only been helpful to people, but also to business and industries which thrives mainly on the freight services, the vertical transportation in mines, buildings, and as well as in large ships.

Elevators are also used to carry equipments and machineries that have belts or chains attached to buckets for the easy and convenient transporting of bulk materials.

Elevator Discography

In the ancient times, elevators had buckets attached to the conveyor that is used in simple hoisting of materials. Steam operated elevators are used to convey materials in warehouses, mines and factories back in the 19th century.

But during the time of the American inventor Elisha G. Otis in year 1853, safety devices were produced to support and prevent cables from breaking or falling off. In 1856, due to the burning desire to improve the quality of technology that will be of a great help in the industry,

Otis put up a manufacturing company where steam elevators are patented. And shortly, after 5 years, during the time of invention of Sir William Artstrong’s hydraulic cranes, steam powered elevators are slowly replaced by hydraulic machines.

>From then on, hydraulic elevators were widely used in the business industry as it is supported by a heavy piston, gradually making motion inside a cylinder and is powered by water or oil pressure which one produced by pumps.

After years of expertise, people have developed the new generation of electric elevator which are operated by electric motors – successfully leading to the truth birth of semi and fully automated elevators. Now, modern elevators are proven to speed up the quality of work, and its design.

Elevator codes and construction

In US and Canadian jurisdictions, standard model codes for elevator construction is required in compliance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This is said to answer forth all the inspection of elevators, security and maintenance, as well as the elevator installation.

For safety measures, elevators are built under the strict supervision of the Building Codes, and are expected to comply with the standards and requirements stated by local authorities having jurisdiction.

The an elevator lasts to up to more than 30 years. They are sold in packages that are withheld as non-proprietary, and usually comes with microprocessor controls.

Purchases with non-proprietory systems embarks a higher cost and face value on the elevator, but letting buyers or owners take over that responsibility or ownership may lower and even off-set the elevator’s long term cost.

Over the years, people continue to develop the quality and abilities of such elevators.

Today, the most widely used elevators in all known business field and industries are powered by microprocessors and are fully controlled by computer generated devices, thus making the elevator system run as smooth as it can in the roughest times of the operation.

This task is referred to as the “traffic studies.” Where elevator experts and consultants uses a high-tech device to control and allows access to different floors. Access to elevators are successfully aimed through the use of access codes, keys and card readers.

Elevator Safety

1. To maintain the quality of elevators, and to ensure that it is on a good working condition all the time, seek for regular schedule of renovation. The need to replace doors, interior cab finishes, hoist machine, hoistway, car doors, floor landing doors, hall fixtures, hydraulic pistons, and so on may arise.

2. Moreso, an additional code compliance states that renovation and other related issues shall be reviewed with a professional elevator consultant when it comes to buying new materials.

3. Elevators are the safest vehicle system the world has ever known. However, in 1972, it has been reported that hydraulic elevators tend to show possible events of danger, as there may be a risk in hydraulic oil leak.

Whatever machine or equipment you use for whatever purpose they serve, machine are like people who needs to visit their doctor to monitor their body operations and functions.

Regardless of what type of gadget you use, science continue to discover and improved high-tech equipments to improve the quality of life, and not to put them in great risk.

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These days the word quantum seems to be everywhere, at least that seems to be the case in my universe. Especially as I have just finished reading the ‘Quantum Doctor’ by Amit Goswami.

To understand what a Quantum doctor might be let me explain first some traditional healing approaches.

The major approach to healing in our western world is called allopathic medicine. It is based on the premise that disease is due to external bacteria and viruses or a mechanical malfunction of an internal organ of the physical body. A treatment is done by addressing the symptoms of the disease until they disappear. All of the treatments are applied external in form of pills, drugs, radiation and other techniques.

Than we have eastern medicine which includes acupuncture, ayurveda, chinese herbs and many other more spiritual healing methods. These healing techniques have a different approach as they address the mind, the soul and other energy regions of the body.

Another very interesting approach is homeopathy. The basic idea behind this technique is that ‘like cures like’ and ‘less is more’. In a high potency of homeopathic remedy you won’t find a single atom of the original formula anymore, the potency is greatly diluted. From a strict point of western science there is ‘nothing’ in the substance anymore. However, homeopathy works in many cases, so there must be something that acts as a healing agent which is non physical.

The strangest of all healing techniques is the placebo effect. A patient is given a new medication that the doctor subscribes as a cure for the patient’s disease. In many cases the patient is cured by just believing in the healing power of the new medication.

However, from the experience we also know that there is no formula whatsoever that applies to every disease the same way. In some cases an operation helps, sometimes not. Sometimes acupuncture helps, sometimes not. Also if you talk to a doctor each one seems to have their own concept about healing.

Some people go as far to think that all diseases are created ultimately from the mind and from the consciousness behind it. Thus consciousness of course is also responsible for the healing. Just tell this to someone who is in pain and cannot think about anything else besides the pain.

Is there a Difference between Disease and Illness? Disease could be described as a malfunction of the organism that can be diagnosed by machines & tests. Illness is more subjective, more the inner feeling of the malfunctioning. That means disease belongs to the physical body as it is external. Illness is internal and therefore tells us something about the malfunction of the correlated subtle body.

What happens on a Quantum Level When We Get Sick? Amit Goswami says consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness. When consciousness converts these possibilities in a collapse event of actual experience, some of the possibilities are collapsed as physical and some as mental.

The events collapse of the waves of possibility are the result of conscious choice, downward causation. For this no mathematics exists, no algorithms. The choice of downward causation is free, unpredictable.

This leads us more to the understanding that we need to look at different levels of our being to find the origin of the ‘disturbance’ that later manifests into a disease or illness.

So where does the Quantum doctor come in? A quantum doctor would investigate the patient to understand on which level the ‘disturbance’ manifests. Amit Goswami devides consciousness into five levels:

- Physical – Vital – Mental – Supra-mental Intellect – Bliss (Limitless)

We need to look at all these levels to get a better picture. If for example someone had a car accident and broke a leg, that person needs to be treated on a physical level first. You simply need to take care of the bone and bring it back to the original position where it can heal and grow back together.

However, this may not be the end of the story. Investigating this person may reveal some hidden surprises. It could be that this person is not satisfied with a relationship, and anger & frustration has lead to aggressive driving. This would correspond to the vital level.

It maybe the case that this person has negative thoughts about themselves. For example ‘life is boring, I am boring, I am worthless’. Could that lead to an accident? You bet, and here we are talking about the mental level.

We also experience that a disease may originate from one level and than spread to other levels. It works in both directions, from the physical up-wards over the vital to the mental level and down-wards from the limitless bliss level over the mental and vital to the physical level.

One more important thing that Amit Goswami points out. The concept of unconscious is important for the subject of health and healing in connection with psychosomatic disease. We suppress the memories of certain traumatic experiences so deep that consciousness seldom collapse them, delegating them to what is called unconscious processing. The memories of these experiences are processed by producing somatic effects of disease, but we are not aware of them, because we never collapse these memories in our conscious thoughts.

Quantum healing even works with prayer as it is nonlocal and takes place outside space & time. But to explain this you better get a hold of Amit Goswami’s book ‘Quantum Doctor’.

The aerodynamics of the human body are very interesting indeed. This may sound somewhat funny, because human beings can’t fly, however our desire to fly has enabled us to adapt and innovate to achieve the same purpose. Man has always dreamed of being able to fly like the birds. The aerodynamics of the human body are quite serious in many sports. To confirm this, just at Lance Armstrong in a tour to France.

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Bicycle racing aerodynamics against the relative wind are quite serious. In most bicycle races the riders are doing in excess of 60 mph for a large part of the race and the aerodynamics of the human being are as serious as they are in it modern day automobile performance, fuel economy and directional control. Wind Tunnel testing for bicycle racing gear such as helmets, racing frames, racing attire are coming place. We know that NASA material science is also used in modern sports from everything from skies to golf clubs, Jamaican Bobsleds to swimming suits and from marathon running shoes to those bicycle components.

Aerodynamics, material sciences and human geometry (biometrics, ergonomics) are as common in the Olympics as they are in Auto Racing, Dick Rutan and the X-Prize, Reno Air Races, Space Flight and in modern military equipment operation. In the Wright Brothers first aircraft the pilot laid out on the wing so he was fully part of the aerodynamics from the first flight.

Now we have parachutes, parasailing, ultra-lights, Gyro-Copters, Jet packs, etc, where the aerodynamics of the human being is a huge factor. Having had the chance to race competitively street motorcycles in my day, I can tell you it is a huge component to performance. The human body is what it is, the bike is already quite aerodynamically designed, how the body is placed when you accelerate the motorcycle to 185 plus mph makes a huge difference. Whether you are shooting a man out of a cannon or jumping off the pier into the Annual Human Powered Flight Contest into the Hudson Bay, this is no joking matter, aerodynamics of the human body is just as important in racing, sport as it is for the birds in the sky or the fish which fly.

The aerodynamics and fluid dynamics of many species especially species of prey will ultimately decide their survival, if they fail to have the adequate speed, then they will not be able to eat. If a species, which is hunted cannot dodge or move fast enough then it will have no other option than to massively reproduce to avoid extinction or maintain tight formations, swarms, herds or social order to use the safety in numbers principle. The fastest bird, the peregrine falcon was clocked at 217 mph in Germany while in a dive. Most Falcon’s can catch their prey in midair are at speed of around 100 mph, although usually much less. No wonder the Military named the F-16 the Falcon?

The spine-tailed swift has a maximum speed a high of 106 mph in level flight. Thus the Falcon might have a tough time extending it’s wings at that speed for the proper speed to catch it, thus it can live near Falcons without being eaten and the Falcon will then go after lesser prey with better odds of eating. If you look at the F-14 it has the ability to bring it’s wings out for slow flight and keep them swept for accelerated and sustained cruising speed, very similar to the bird. The first moveable winged jet aircraft was the well-known X-5, which variable in-flight wing configurations as did the F-111, B-1 and several others. Many aircraft have been designed to change various other configurations for many reasons, the F-8 Crusader changed it’s angle of attack and the SST and Concorde change it’s nose on take offs.

Most modern fighters have speed brakes to slow them down. All techniques stolen from nature, as birds adjust their heads in flight for visibility, adjust their angle of attack when approaching relative wind for faster climb, adjust wings for diving and stick out their feet to slow down. Well, yes these techniques were stolen from nature alright, that is pretty much the case, yet we have obviously improved on natures designs in this dimension. After all we are now building aircraft capable of Mach 5 and others, which can carry many hundreds of tons in payloads. In skydiving you learn quickly how to maneuver your body to achieve your intended path. A bird would do much the same only be 100 times better at it since it practices all day long everyday.

Most ordinance, which is delivered, such as bombs need to be dropped well under the speed of sound so that they do not in fact create their own new trajectory as they fly away from where they are pointed and need to be delivered. Having been employed washing cars in my day, I can tell you we may in fact have stolen that idea too. Aircraft like birds do lots of adjusting and playing around with configurations to allow them to take advantage of various situations as needed, thus aerodynamically speaking man has copied the observations he has witnessed from birds since his first flight. How about another example, the Bald Eagle, the United States of America’s official mascot? Well it has a souring level flight speed of around 50 mph, which is quite fast in bird terms. While souring The adult Eagle’s wing span is between 6 and 7 feet.

Largest discovered was 7.9 feet, but the wings folded back can allow the eagle to dive at very fast speeds of around 75 mph as it would be most difficult to attain significant speed with such large wings extended. Different configurations and methodologies can also be applied to human body aerodynamics with a little bit of modification. All the while having an incredible accuracy in it’s vision, which would make military intelligence proud indeed as the F-15 Eagle relies enhanced equipment and the human component, which is 3-4 times less adapted than the eagle’s eyes, yet with the newest technology we again have adapted to better nature. If we look at the aerodynamics of nature and the process of evolution we see the most adapted species in the air as the Eagle and Falcon, which are truly marvels of 100’s of millions of years, we begin and appreciate our ominous task of re-engineering. As we look to build aircraft, MAVs, UAVs to serve mankind’s needs we should make a note of this. As we develop smaller technologies and demand versatility we will definitely be looking at the best nature has to offer in the way of suggestions.

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A human parachutist in a dive has been clocked also 217 mile per hour, the maximum speed for the Falcon. We might ask ourselves, is the organic aerodynamic speed limit for evolution on this planet 217 mph? This presently includes our knowledge of the flight speeds of our most adapted species on the planet presently. Is this figure correct for previous periods? What was the speed of the Pterodactyl? Was the air thinner or thicker under 10,000 ft. back then? Would it have needed to go faster? Maybe, but if so from what? Once you are the fastest and have no higher food chain component to go after, why would you evolve into a higher performing animal? Well if you played, had contests and displays of agility for procreation, pecking order, competed for territorial rights with your fellow species, then you might evolve to be better and have greater performance, developed higher cognition, hunting skills, defense skills and evolved to fly faster too. This would be inline with current animal and human behavior in our current period and the writings of the past 10,000 plus years of written recorded history and observational study of species on earth.

We know from the study of aerodynamic, hydrodynamics and racing that there are also issues with ROI or issues with diminishing returns. For instance if a Pterodactyl were to fly faster, it would need to develop more muscle, lose weight, spend more time developing flight skills.

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However this takes time away from hunting. It would cause issues with its ability to fight off other pterodactyls and would mean more food intake was needed. So a happy medium would eventually be reached for continuation of the species, social order, etc. So then, is that compromise or happy medium 217 mph? A man falling in freefall from an aircraft fully tucked and using the BMPs for rapid decent max’ed out at 217 mph, like the Falcon. It is highly interesting that these organic matter speeds that the highly evolved Falcon is so similar to the diving speed of a human being. We can learn a lot about how the human body interacts with the elements and the study of aerodynamics has lots to still learn from nature.

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“Volunteers, like employees (and children), need proper guidance and training in order for them to be a success in their job.” Heidi Richards

Recruiting volunteers is only half the challenge in any endeavor. You must properly train them so they will work out to be true assets. As we help volunteers recognize the rewards of their service, we must also acknowledge that there may be a downside. Volunteering takes time away from the family or personal pursuits. Good leaders” tell it like it is,” being careful not to understate what is expected. Let your volunteers know up front exactly what is involved in their tasks and what is expected of them, and they will appreciate you for it. Personal contact is the key to more effective recruiting. While volunteers will respond to public invitations such as media announcements and ads, they respond more easily to personal invitations to become involved. Be careful that the persons being recruited are the right fit and not just saying yes to a good “sales pitch.” Motivating volunteers means that they feel they are wanted and needed, are an important part of the organization, are accepted by the group and that they are contributing to the heart of the community. Enrolling new volunteers selectively with long-term commitment as the primary criteria will ensure that they are “motivated” from the outset. People like being appreciated. We all want to be recognized for our contributions. It makes us feel good when we are thanked for our efforts. Appreciated volunteers are more likely to continue to serve. Recognition should be commensurate to what the volunteer has achieved; it must be earned. False praise can be counter-productive and even offensive to some.

Service to others and a sense of achievement are other key components to motivating volunteers. There is a special satisfaction that goes along with making life a little less difficult for someone else. It makes us feel better about ourselves. When volunteers achieve their goals, telling them is only the beginning. Telling others in newsletters, press releases and conversation goes along way with enhancing a volunteer’s commitment. Community volunteerism is about service to others. Leaders help volunteers recognize that their contributions of time, talent and treasure improve the quality of life of others as well as themselves.

In order to help your volunteers truly be a success, good leaders must help them to feel a sense of security, adventure and belonging. Volunteers must feel “safe” to make mistakes without feeling embarrassed or being harmed. We must make every effort not to put volunteers in situations that make them feel insecure, ill at ease or unprepared. The proper training programs will give volunteers the sense of security necessary to carry out their roles.

Many volunteers need new experiences and challenges in order to hold their interest. They like to be on the “cutting edge” of innovation and experiences. If we ask our volunteers to do the same old thing in the same way we’ve always done them, we may lose them. Some volunteers are natural joiners. The need to belong is so strong that sometimes we “bite off more than we can chew.”However, most volunteers have a deep sense of satisfaction when they belong to organizations they can identify with. Leaders who continually remind volunteers that their involvement is worthwhile and valued will keep volunteers involved. Volunteers must feel that they are doing something important and that they are accepted. This produces motivated, committed volunteers.

© 2005 – Heidi Richards

About the Author

Heidi Richards is the author of The PMS Principles, Powerful Marketing Strategies to Grow Your Business and 7 other books. She is also the Founder & CEO of the Women’s ECommerce Association, International www.WECAI.org (pronounced wee-kī) – an Internet organization that “Helps Women Do Business on the WEB.” Basic Membership is FREE. Ms. Richards can be reached at Heidi@speakingwithspirit.com or heidi@wecai.org.

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Hotels Lucerna has entered into an agreement with HMC (Hospitality Marketing Concepts), the leading solution provider of loyalty membership programs. As a result is Hoteles Lucerna is now part of the HMC global networks of CLUBHOTEL(TM) and VOILA Hotel Rewards(TM). Hoteles Lucerna, a Mexican hotel group with five-star properties in Tijuana, Mexicali, Culiacan, Ciudad Juarez and soon opening Hermosillo, has signed agreements with HMC for its full spectrum of services.

All five Hoteles Lucerna properties will be active participants in CLUBHOTEL and VOILA Hotel Rewards to capture international business, and will also launch a private-label membership programme to build regional patronage. Designed and operated by HMC, Lucerna Limited Edition is a paid membership programme, designed to build a foundation of loyal patrons in the hotels’ local markets.

The 12-month membership provides the member with unlimited complimentary dining at any of the participating hotel restaurants when accompanied by one or more paying guests. Members also enjoy member-only room rates, complimentary nights, room upgrades, special offers, and more; benefits that are tailored to encourage repeat business and increase brand loyalty.

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge
is limited to all we now know and understand, while
imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever
will be to know and understand.”

Albert Einstein, Physicist, 1879-1955

This one quote alone is a pretty compelling reason to learn
how to turn our imaginative genius loose.

All of us have a fairly vivid imagination, but
unfortunately, we do not control it. It controls us. It
runs willy-nilly on its own, painting pictures in our minds
of things that we do NOT want to materialize.

What’s even more alarming is the fact that the same reel of
pictures keeps playing over and over again. There are
statistics that indicate that of the many thousands of
thoughts that we have in the course of a single day, the
vast majority of them are the same old, tired out,
uninspired thoughts that we had earlier in the day, and the
day before, and the day before that, ad nauseum.

Here are some simple visualization exercises that will help
you train your imagination to flex its muscles. You can
perform these anytime, anywhere, and in just a matter of
seconds.

Exercise 1 – Color Me Beautiful

Focus on any object in your immediate vicinity. Mentally
change its color. Some people try to be too literal-minded
about this and claim that they cannot “see” the different
color. Just get a flashing “sense” of it being this
different color. That’s all that is needed.

Run through several colors in rapid succession. Change the
finish from a high gloss to a matte finish. Make it fuzzy.
Make it wet. You can graduate to seeing multi-colored
patterns: plaids, stripes, polka dots, animal prints, etc.

Exercise 2 – Bend Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me

Once again focus on any object. Increase its size, more,
more, even more. Now shrink it back again. Make it so tiny
that it all but disappears. Make it fat and puffy and then
skinny and sunken. Pull it like taffy and make it stretch
and twist and bend and fold. Now turn the object inside
out.

Again, you do not need to “see” every single detail. The
idea is simply to get your imagination to come out and play.
You want it to break free of its well-worn, literal rut, and
more importantly, you want to get comfortable seeing things
that are not yet in your physical world. Let’s do one more…

Exercise 3 – Mental Aroma Therapy

Our sense of smell is by far the strongest sense that we
have. A single aroma is enough to unleash a flood of vivid
memories. Also, olfactory sensations are the first ones to
reach the brain. So not only does smell provide a powerful
link to our recall. It can also serve to stimulate and
excite our imagination.

This exercise consists of simply “recalling” certain odors
that are most pleasant to you. What aromas make you feel
calm? Smell them now. What scents make you feel powerful?
Train yourself to mentally whiff that scent when you’re
feeling small.

Think of smells that make you feel confident, free,
intelligent, rich, kind, playful, or anything else that
occurs to you.

As you go through different odors that cause you to
experience these pleasurable sensations, take note of what
pictures each aroma conjures up for you. What aspect of
these mental scenes pleases you most? (This is a great way
to engage your mind during lost, odd moments.)

These pictures and odors should be remembered and
incorporated into visualizing your goals. The point of
these exercises is to get your logical mind to loosen up, to
release its choke hold on your creative spirit.

Why is this so important? Because the fastest, most
efficient way to achieve any goal is to SEE it in our mind’s
eye. We are to act, feel and give heartfelt thanks as if it
were already a done deal. Some authors call this
“Thinking from the end.”

Giving our imaginations a workout will help us accomplish this.

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you
everywhere.” Albert Einstein

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