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by MikeGeneSince Nick Matzke has been back with his "ID=Creationism" talking point, I thought I would offer some one-stop shopping for those interested in this ID = Creationism meme. So bookmark this blog for future reference. After all, it's free.
ID101 outlines the proper starting place for thinking about ID. You'll notice that creationism is neither assumed nor concluded from such an approach. ID102 walks you through a specific example, clearly highlighting the fact that creationism is but one possible perspective that can exist within the larger teleological approach to biotic reality. The Birth of ID takes a historical look at the development of the modern ID concept. What we see are ideas that track back to Watson and Crick and express themselves in the context of the origin of life. Francis Collins and Intelligent Design outlines one way in which ID can be used to argue against creationism. The Creationist Fabrication outlines the way many critics employ the vague term 'creationist' in a way that is analogous to painting targets around arrows. Creationism and Propaganda effectively builds on this by documenting the propagandistic essence of the "ID = creationism" meme. Finally, Intelligent Design Creationism is the golden oldie that outlines many other problems with the "˜creationism' label. Enjoy.


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It's been a long time coming. More than 80 years, in fact, since viable electric cars were offered to U.S. car buyers.
Now, finally, at long last, it's happened. The 2011 Nissan Leaf is the first practical, five-seat electric car—a full plug-in, running solely off grid electricity—that you have been able to buy since the late 1920s.
Sure, there was the General Motors EV1, subject of the much-discussed Who Killed the Electric Car? Sure, a handful of early-2000s Toyota RAV4 EV crossovers are still whirring around after almost a decade.
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They no longer matter. They're now incremental steps along the road. The next new thing is here, produced by a none-of-the-above carmaker. It's really, truly, absolutely, positively a real car.
A real electric car.
The 2011 Nissan Leaf is our GreenCarReports Best Car To Buy for 2011 because it is the sole vehicle offered to U.S. buyers (this model year, by an established global automaker) that uses absolutely no gasoline.
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Just to be clear—because this question comes up often, as it should—even if you run your 2011 Leaf on the dirtiest coal-fired power grid in the U.S., its overall "wells-to-wheels" carbon footprint is significantly lower than any 25-mpg car in the market.
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Those hoping for an HTC One smartphone with 64 GB of internal storage may have their carrier options very limited in the U.S. A promotional YouTube video shows the higher storage capacity handset as an AT&T exclusive, although there haven't been any official carrier announcements to confirm or deny. However, the video, found by Droid Life, is posted on AT&T's official YouTube account, lending credibility to the information.
In most cases, this exclusivity on storage wouldn't be a big deal, but the HTC One has no expandable memory slot. That means you'll always be limited to the internal storage that comes with the handset; there's no microSD card. Presumably then, all other U.S. carriers will get the 32 GB storage version of the HTC One.
I've been using a Galaxy Nexus with 16 GB of non-expandable storage for over a year without any issues as I lean heavily on the cloud. Even with my reliance on cloud storage, there are times when I can't load a large app — typically a game — on the phone because there isn't enough storage available.
Personally, I'm still not a fan of exclusives on handsets or specific configurations of them: I see no benefit to the consumer, just to the carrier with the exclusive. I'm guessing that some folks won't be happy about this news as they'd prefer to have the option between a 32 GB and 64 GB HTC One on the network operator of choice.
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While not something any site owner likes to see, it's unlikely that Amazon has targeted you specifically. More likely, you've appeared on a keyword list that Amazon has paid for or otherwise acquired, and this has been built into their marketing campaigns. It's in the same vein as Ebay often get called out for generated ad text that - without vetting - can be silly or inappropriate.
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I'm just back from 10 days in Singapore, where I ran a two-day Finance & Strategy workshop for Micron Technology. That's a version of Income/Outcome with a disruptive technology factor, a very appropriate dynamic for the ever-innovative Singapore, as well as for Micron's semiconductor industry. This was followed by a two-day Train-the-Trainer process for five of their personnel, followed by a three-day conference for our own regional Distributors at our annual Income/Outcome University.
Singapore is my favourite city anywhere for business. Some people say it feels a little limiting after four months or so, and Indonesian forest fires can be a major irritant when the wind blows from the southwest. But children and teens seem to love it, as do expats who prefer year-round warm weather. The forecast offers a normal range from "32 and sunny" to "32 and rain", although there is an occasional cold snap that slashes the day's high to 31, or an occasional heat wave that hits 33. That's my kind of perfect. (32'C = 90'F for the less international).
There is one disadvantage, from my point of view: Singapore is the opposite side of the world from our North Carolina head office. Forty hours it took to get home, door to door. But again, that just reminds me that I am living on a planet (not a flat earth), and living on an actual planet is very cool. Which has its own complications, such as trying to figure out when to try and reach people on the other side of the world. Here is the best link yet: http://xkcd.com/now
The link gives you a clock that clicks on every few minutes, showing the world rolling always up towards midday and down into the night. It's a planet. I tell my kids not to worry overly about things like career risks - don't worry, because you're just going round the sun on a planet, and you can't fall off.
When we brought our Distributors together from Singapore, Thailand, China, New Zealand, Australia, Kenya (and even a very brief appearance from the reticent Japanese), I had another global epiphany. I've grown up staring at maps and always thinking of Australia and Nw Zealand as being tucked away in the bottom right, far from everything else.
But now I realise that they are the English-language centre of business training for the whole Asia-Pacific region. Facilitators fly from Australia to China to teach, HR managers fly from Australia to Japan to monitor a workshop. But Australia and New Zealand are also very closely tied to both the UK and the US. In effect, given that English, per Schumpeter in the Economist, is the primary lingua franca of global firms (well, after the language of finance, of course), that makes ANZ+S the best business node on the planet.
It feels like the business world isn't just moving east from the US towards China, but also in some ways moving south. Singapore, Australia, New Zealand - developing as a (the?) centre of global business.
(And if you would like to develop your own global business, just contact me.)
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We are slowly changing over from the old logo (left) to a new one (right).
You can see certain similarities - the blue/green which are prominent in our game boards and our pieces, the I and O with a slash between them.
The biggest visual change is the feel from round and fluid to square and blocky. There was an original sense of money coming down the Receivables track into the Green Cash circle, which was nice. But we have now redesigned the board, flipping the Income Statement and Balance Sheet (as well as changing the color of the Receivables).
But the biggest practical change is this: now when we introduce the game board we draw a rectangle on a flip chart or whiteboard, and make a vertical slash on it: "This on the left is the Income Statement, and this, centered on the Cash Circle, is the Balance Sheet."
We have a series of little videos being produced for our facilitators, to show how many fundamental accounting lessons can be taught right on the board itself: key ratios, cost structure, leverage, the difference between managing for profit and managing for cash flow, and more.
The same conceptual structure is in the gameboard and in the Visual Finance app:
And at the end, as a reinforcement, we remind people that your Sales come down through the Costs and Expenses of the Income Statement, and what is left at the end is your Net Income. (And that line comes straight down the Income Statement side of the logo.)
And your Balance Sheet shows you the Outcome of all your activities, focused on your Cash.
The summation of the workshop is the logo itself. The logo may not mean much to someone who hasn't played the game, but everyone who goes through an Income/Outcome workshop from now on will see the new logo and remember and reexperience the key insights they developed, the key learning that they took away.
The clarity of the representation that we developed in 1996 continues to give new benefits. It remains the cleanest, clearest, simplest illustration of financial statements that you can find in the world. And the thanks for that goes to Eliza, who insisted that the board we were going to create had to have everything on it that financial statements have on them, and nothing on it that isn't a financial statement line item - and the items should be structured to reflect the structure of the statements as well.
The new logo is simply a new manifestation of that original drive. And it is very, very useful! Check the videos as they become available.
Robin Helweg-Larsen, Director, Andromeda Simulations International
We all know the world is changing, and that the speed of change is increasing. Or at least, we say we do.
But not everyone embraces change. If you are already at the top of the heap, you might prefer things to stay the way they are. If you are a believer in a fixed world view - whether religious or scientific - the discovery of new facts and the destruction of old paradigms will be unsettling.
And for those of us who enjoy change - who like diversity, who enjoy learning something new even if it means we have just lost an argument - for us, technological change is as exhilarating as travel to an unexpected landscape in a new country.
Here's a new manifestation of an idea that is pointing the way to a barely conceivable future:
As reported in FastCoDesign, the Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab has developed a way of tracking the movement of objects such as hands in 3D, and replicating those moving objects through a grid of posts, allowing them to manipulate another object that the real hands can't reach.
To look behind the scenes is to see someone moving their hands in isolation, as though playing a theremin, or a Wii without a controller. You move your hands here, but you can impact the world as though your hands were somewhere else. Now the phrase "Reach out and touch someone" attains a new reality. The implications for all industries can only just be glimpsed: warfare, search and rescue, surgery, construction, space exploration, gaming - let alone pornography - all will be revolutionized with the blending of robotics, AI and distance manipulation.
It hasn't happened yet, but you can see it coming. My belief is: Anything that anyone can imagine, at some point will be attempted by someone - and, given enough time, achieved. That's just what humans do.
So how can you lay plans for the future, business plans or personal plans, when the future is shifting under your feet in seismic fashion? As in our Income/Outcome business simulations, there is no certainty, and there is no predetermined correct path. The answers are:
Our world has neither the apparently unchanging existence of previous millennia, nor the steady and gradual improvements of recent centuries. Our world is one of disruptive technologies and unpredictable change, of limitless opportunities for creation and destruction, of an ever-expanding big picture understanding of the universe.
So in our business acumen workshops we don't teach predetermined answers. We provide foundational thinking and visualization of key concepts and driving factors of business. What you do with your enhanced insights and understanding is up to you.
For the fifth year, Andromeda has been a Corporate Member of the Executive MBA Council with a presence at the annual global conference. The event was held this week at the Omni Galleria in Houston (with a side trip to the Armadillo Palace for an evening of increasingly complicated line dancing).
Eliza and I were joined by Helmut Hergeth, the business prof from NC State University who has been using Income/Outcome for over ten years and is our preferred facilitator for academic clients. Helmut co-presented a session with Robyn Blilie and Matthew Goode of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management on the growing use of experiential learning within the academic curriculum - Carlson too has been using Income/Outcome for over ten years.
We also had Leon Grandy visiting from New Zealand. As a Director of Armillary Private Capital, a corporate financial services firm, Leon uses Income/Outcome to raise the financial and business acumen of his clients, and has sold Income/Outcome into Auckland University.
The event was a huge success for us. As well as co-presenting a session, Helmut was in the Shark Tank on our behalf; all of us attended sessions and various Regional meetings; and the level of acceptance of experiential learning was higher than ever before. This acceptance was coupled with an understanding of the academic environment's unique use of Income/Outcome as a team-builder and a way to overcome the Fear of Finance of incoming students... and the use of our Visual Finance app for ongoing discussion of real-world companies.
Experiential learning is growing dramatically each year in its use throughout the academic world. Our new clients in the past couple of months range from Cornell University in the heart of the US, to Tromsø University north of the Arctic Circle in Norway.
This year in Houston we renewed friendships, made new acquaintances, and expect new academic clients. (And we appreciate the hospitality we are shown!)
In the past two weeks Eliza and I have worked with professors in Aalborg, Denmark and Tromsø, Norway to help run three Income/Outcome workshops. Scandinavia has a justifiable reputation for innovative designs that are interesting, elegant and functional (as in the Tromsø housing below), so we wanted to know how our foray into their universities would be received.
At Aalborg University we ran two 1-day workshops for Danish engineering undergraduates, while training and accrediting a group of business professors to take over from us. The first workshop ran all day from 8:15 to 5 pm. The students, most of whom had no business background, were exhausted by the end, and a lot of their comments were about the workshop being too long.
The profs restructured plans for the second workshop - they work in a very flexible environment - so that the first half ran in the afternoon, and the second half ran the next morning. A lot of the comments this time were that the workshop was too short!
This was a unique opportunity for us to have an experiment that compared two virtually identical groups of undergraduates. We have often suggested to clients that more learning occurs in situations where the participants can sleep on the first part of the learning, process it, and come back fresh the next day to review it and use it. Otherwise, if all the learning is crammed into one day, the participants may become exhausted.
With Income/Outcome people are learning to play a new game... learning new concepts about business management... picking up new terminology and definitions... working in a team with people they haven't worked with before... constantly making decisions... and, in this case, doing it all in a second language. No wonder they get tired!
At the University in Tromsø we ran a slightly shorter workshop for a group of 15 MBA students aged 29 to 39. They came from China, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, as well as Norway and a mix of Eastern and Western European countries. Here the students already had both business experience and business English; the workshop was a refresher for them, rather than being brand new information. We ran it over two short half-days, and again the suggestion was that the workshop should have been longer. The Russian (who had presented in class as someone who understood all this already, seeing as he had two businesses of his own back home) advocated a four-day workshop.
When we run a workshop in the corporate world, we may be providing the only finance education the participants will get for the next ten years. For a day or two, we are their university. What we don't teach them, they don't get taught.
But when the workshop runs in an actual university, we are only a small piece of their studies. Income/Outcome is best positioned as foundational learning. We provide a big picture of how all the pieces of business fit together - how the Income Statement and Balance Sheet tell you different things, how you need to think to understand the business, how you have to manage separately for cash flow and profit, how to visualize cost structure and working capital and depreciation... And then the university takes over and teaches business and finance and accounting for the next semester or year or more, and goes into far more detail than we did.
But we have provided a single big picture that the university can't provide. That is our strength. Our workshops, in an academic setting, are foundational. And thanks to us, the institution can then teach more, and faster, and in more depth, and have it all understood and remembered.
Learning occurs best when you have a clear big picture understanding of what you are learning - as well as when you have a good night's sleep to process it.
Christchurch, New Zealand, was hit very hard by an earthquake in February 2011, with 185 deaths. Its cathedral was damaged so badly that it had to be replaced. The beauty of towering stone is not always a good thing. So how can you safely create a beautiful and monumental place of worship? Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has done it with cardboard. Here is Christchurch's brand new cathedral:
Monumental cardboard, incorporating stained glass, and expected to last 50 years. That is interesting in itself, but I am particularly intrigued by Ban's focus on humanitarian activities, and his sense that architecture - to the extent that it only serves the needs of the rich and powerful - has lost its way as a profession. He embodies a social conscience within practical considerations of cost, speed, and the needs of his end clients. This is a marriage of idealism with the purest business acumen.
Much more of his work, and a link to a TED Talk, can be seen here.
The New Zealand Distributor for our Income/Outcome workshops, Leon Grandy of Armillary Private Capital, combines the banker's prudence with the risk of living in prime earthquake territory. He lives in the capital, Wellington, which has been rocked by a couple of magnitude 6.5 earthquakes in the past month alone. Please stay safe, Leon!
Business acumen is a subject that we normally teach within Fortune 500 companies like HP, Abbott Labs, Heinz and Ashland, or in academic programs like the Executive MBAs at Cornell-Queen's, Kennesaw State and Villanova.
However we also provide pro bono workshops for Acumen of New York, and they have sent Eliza and me to work with start-up entrepreneurs in Kenya and, last week, in Pakistan. Here we are with a remarkably diverse group of start-up entrepreneurs who are on a year-long Fellowship from Acumen in Pakistan. (No prizes for guessing which one is the assertive artist among them.)
This week-long retreat was held in Murree, 7,000 feet up in the hills above Islamabad. Looking down through the trees, sometimes you saw hills and valleys below you, sometimes - as in this photo - you saw only clouds. Murree was at one time the summer residence of the Governor and administration of the Punjab, and its main street, The Mall, was built for the shops and offices, churches and cafes of the summer inhabitants. When we were there, it being Ramadan, everything was open and the streets were alive even at 12:28 at night.
The Pakistanis are a naturally entrepreneurial people, but Pakistan sometimes feels like an old train with the steam up, but going nowhere. The people are full of hustle and bustle but low on organization and maintenance. A prosperous country, like a good business, needs both sets of characteristics - and Pakistan seems to need not an engine, but an engineer. This is probably why the military interventions always lead to economic and social progress (at least for the first few years), while the restoration of full democracy always seems to lead to chaos, corruption and decline. This is not a viable system in the modern world.
But the good news is that Pakistan as a whole has the qualities of energy and entrepreneurship which are virtually impossible to teach. It is only lacking a sense of order - which can be instilled, as the army demonstrates. And this, in a sense, is exactly what Acumen is doing.
Acumen provides seminars in such topics as Adaptive Leadership, Ethics, and (via our Income/Outcome business simulation) two days of business literacy and business acumen competency, as part of developing successful entrepreneurship competencies. We don't need to provide the drive - but we can help clarify the thinking about business dynamics and processes, and the Fellows have been universally enthusiastic about gaining a clean, logical and orderly way of visualizing financial analysis and planning.
And the Fellows, if they are successful, will have enormous impact on their society: starting online export businesses, specialized universities, microfinance institutions - all with a social aspect, all with a viable business plan, all with an entrepreneurial drive.
We are proud to be associated with Acumen, and with the people of Pakistan. Good luck to all of you!
Cornell-Queen's is one of a growing number of parterships for providing an Executive MBA, earned from two top universities in different countries. Cornell may have the higher international recognition, but that is more than balanced by the innovative technology that Queen's brings to the partnership and makes it unique, its multipoint videoconferencing that links Boardroom Learning Centers in major cities across the US and Canada.
Of course, Cornell is no slouch in innovation either: here's the $60 million Gates Hall under construction, to be the new home of Computing and Information Science:
This month I ran another workshop for a new intake of EMBA students at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. Again 80 students, divided into two groups of 6 large teams each, again assisted by John and Paul. And a week later, our long-time colleague Helmut Hergeth - yet another Associate Professor of Business, but this time from the College of Textiles at NC State - went back to Cornell to teach yet another 80 students.
John and Paul say that the biggest benefit of the workshop, and one that justifies the whole day, is that no student will ever again confuse issues of profit with issues of cash flow. I acknowledge this in the workshops, but I also believe the greatest benefit is that we provide everyone with a way to visualize all the business issues that they will deal with throughout the EMBA, and see them in the context of the activity of the whole business - understand their value, their limitations, their impact on other aspects of the business, etc. This holistic understanding will also increase retention of learning, because all the learning will be contextualized and interconnected, rather than being largely isolated and apparently irrelevant pieces of information.
John and Paul have stated that it seems more effective to continue to bring Andromeda in for the lead facilitation, rather than trying to manage that experiential class themselves. They happily run the game's market competition, and help with payments and loans and improvement options... but they value having a highly skilled facilitator in charge. After all, Nikolai, Helmut and I have all been teaching Income/Outcome in universities and Fortune 50 companies for well over ten years.
And almost simultaneously, Aalborg University in Denmark has booked us for the same thing: two 1-day EMBA workshops (though only 30 people in each) in September, with two days of Train-the-Trainer.
I am delighted by the growth of our workshops in academia as well as the corporate world, and internationally as well as in the US. (And we have our own innovations underway, to reach even larger audiences.) Why not give us a call, and find out what's so exciting!
In the last post Ana Leiderman talked about the reason teams will oversell their capacity, and how that becomes a teachable moment in the classroom.
Here are a few more teachable-moment scenarios we noticed this week. The events occur spontaneously (if somewhat predictably from the way the game is structured), but we also work to encourage the discussions.
1) If it ain't broke, it might need fixing.
In an under-supplied market it is easy for all teams to make money. Which leads to an interesting question: If you are already profitable, is it necessary to improve your business?
This is not just a classroom question. There are lots of real world companies and divisions who are making money, so they are willing to live with the status quo rather than deal with the hassle of change. But is this a sustainable option? The reasons why not are apparent to everyone, as soon as the question is asked.
2) ROI is Subjective
In spite of the above thinking teams do implement changes to their businesses. Ask them to calculate the ROI of an improvement, and two teams who have made the same changes will come up with vastly different answers. They see the costs differently, they value the opportunity differently... and there is a time lag between making the change and reaping the benefit, so they value the results differently.
Again it is not just a classroom question. Every sales person has to argue the case for the ROI of the product or service they sell, so it is helpful if they understand how their customer measures ROI. In order to gain that understanding, they need to develop their general business literacy, and the ability to talk the language of finance.
3) What is the Cost of Capital?
Most senior executives know the Cost of Capital for their business, but do they know what it means? In the simulation, this translates to a question: Sell the building (and pay rent) or take a loan? This is a great opportunity to ask them to calculate the Cost of Capital, and watch the aha! learning happen. Executives are amazed to see that what they thought was an obvious solution has a cost of capital of 60%! They start off knowing that the Cost of Capital for their real-world org is 7.8%, they finish up by truly understanding what it means.
(A side note... Nikolai Usack says he offers 'bonus points' to the first person to correctly calculate the Cost of Capital in an Income/Outcome game. He says he gets lots of wrong answers, and it is almost always someone from Canada who answers correctly. I have no idea why this should be, but it is an interesting observation on his part. Just because the simulation was designed by Canadians...)
Give us a call, eh?
Eliza Helweg-Larsen, Chief Creative Officer, Andromeda Training Inc.
Business simulations provide golden opportunities to make connections to the real-world business. Here, Ana Leiderman talks about how game dynamics lead to insightful decisions about sub-contractors.
In a business simulation teams will push the limits, such as deciding to sell more product than they know they can deliver. But why? Sometimes it is an honest mistake, they get caught up in the excitement, and an error happens. But often it is a deliberate move on their part, and a facilitator needs to watch for the teachable moment and/or control the game.
Some teams develop an early strategy for taking large orders early and securing sales, thinking that their strategy can be supported in their forward-thinking process. They are the ideal candidates for reinforcing the lessons in the Cash Flow Financing and Budgeting tools, and they will usually see their strategy pay off if they manage expansion correctly.
Other teams are all about the game, they care more about beating the other teams in the room and not so much about doing well themselves. This energy usually appears later in the simulation; teams will try to win customers at any price, just to take the sales away from other teams; and it is difficult to dissuade them from their approach. Here the only option the facilitator has is to set strict rules for the last markets that do not allow undeliverable sales. Many teams will back off on their own once they realize that late sales will not show up as added income until they deliver, therefore not improving their winning chances.
Both scenarios illustrate the concept of late delivery of orders; and both provide the opportunity to talk about subcontracting or producing through a third party, as many brands do today.
Subcontracting is an attractive option in the real world, as it can help lower costs and move the burden of inventories and other capital expenditures off the balance sheet, all in exchange for giving up a fraction of the margin.
In general, companies who subcontract their work minimize their risk through tight control of their subcontractors. Establishing and managing the relationship takes time and money, requiring the subcontractor to jump through many hoops in order to win the business. This process includes the disclosure of financial reports, making multiple audit visits, and closely watching capacity, on time in full (OTIF) KPIs, and other indicators.
However on occasion companies will find a profitable opportunity and will push their contractors beyond the limits that they have already established through the audit and control process. Because the contractor values the relationship with the company/brand, they will scramble to meet demand by expanding capacity rapidly and often will fail to deliver. This means the company now has to turn around and not meet its customer´s expectations. The repercussions quickly flow down the supply chain when the customer cancels, the company cancels on its contractor, and the contractor is left holding the inventory and a large debt caused by the expansion. The company loses as well, as many times the contractor will go out of business and the company must go through the process of identifying a new subcontractor and certifying it.
This scenario highlights the importance of working in partnership with subcontractors, viewing them as stakeholders in the company´s success or failure and not just another resource to be managed.
Income/Outcome is a cartoon version of the real world, with the important aspects and relationships highlighted and small details rounded or ignored. But even if a particular item is not modeled in all the detail of the real world, the mindset of the participants will provide clues to their real-world decision-making processes. The difficulties that they get into in the game provide opportunities for them to consider real-world practical problems, and for the facilitator to guide the whole class through a discussion of how these issues are playing out in reality in their company.
It's only a game, so it's safe to take a risk and experiment to see "What Happens If..." Go ahead - the whole class will learn (even if they laugh)...


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Senator Stephen Conroy officially opens Primus Telecom's 430 seat Call Centre in Melbourne
Thursday, 01 May 2008 00:00
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, today officially opened Primus Telecom's new 430 seat Call Centre in Melbourne. Primus has invested significantly in this state-of-the-art Call Centre in the heart of Melbourne's CBD.
"By investing in Australia's telecommunications industry, Primus is continuing to play an important role in delivering competition for the benefit of Australian consumers. The Australian Government welcomes investments such as the new Primus call centre in Melbourne," Senator Conroy said.
Primus has established itself as one of Australia's leading providers of telecommunications and broadband services to business and consumer segments. Due to increased demand, Primus had outgrown its former facility and has invested significantly in its new Call Centre on Flinders Street in Melbourne. The new call centre is a fully integrated facility that offers high quality total customer care encompassing all aspects of customer contact including inbound and outbound sales, service delivery, provisioning, billing, customer care and technical help desk functions. The new facility also incorporates a training and development centre that provides specialised skills required for managing complex high technology services.
Apart from state of the art technology, Primus Melbourne Call Centre offers ergonomic and pleasant work environment for staff with plenty of natural light and easy access to multiple modes of public transport, major factors that contribute to staff productivity.
Ravi Bhatia, CEO Primus Telecom, said: "Instead of shipping this major facility offshore, Primus believes that our Australian workforce delivers a superior standard of customer care, therefore we have decided to locate our new Call Centre here. We believe this aptly demonstrates the importance Primus attaches to genuine customer care."
Primus Telecom has contributed directly to creating 700 to 1000 jobs in Australia and indirectly another 1000 jobs across the country. The investment in this new call centre is testament to Primus' faith and confidence in Australia.
Primus was one of the first operators to obtain a carrier license in Australia in 1997, and was one of the first companies to successfully compete with the incumbent Telstra. Since inception, Primus has played a big part in introducing genuine competition into the industry for the benefit of Australian consumers and businesses. The impact of this competition can be seen in the pricing and choice of innovative services available to consumers today.
"Primus was one of the first ISP's to introduce high speed broadband into Australia in 1999. One of the other big benefits of competition where Primus is leading the way is the increased importance given to customer service and care," said Ravi Bhatia.
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Primus Telecom is one of Australia's largest fixed-line telecommunications carrier. The Company offers a comprehensive range of voice, data, Internet and web hosting products, servicing both residential and business sectors. The Primus network offers nationwide coverage through its own backbone network with facilities across Australia. The network enables the Company to provide high speed broadband, and voice and data services. Primus operates its own fibre network in the five major capital cities, delivering a range of business direct-connect services including ISDN, frame relay, ATM, telephone line and broadband DSL, as well as telephone line and broadband DSL services direct to residential customers. Primus Australia news and information are available at the Company's Web site at www.iprimus.com.au/.


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Premier League to use Hawk-Eye goal-line tech
Updated: April 11, 2013, 9:29 AM ET
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LONDON -- The English Premier League is the first major domestic competition to approve a goal-line technology system to help referees with close calls.
Hawk-Eye, the camera-based ball-tracking system, will be used next season. Tennis and cricket use Hawk-Eye, which was chosen ahead of three FIFA-sanctioned products.
Hawk-Eye sends a signal within a second of the ball crossing the line to the referee, who has the power to make the final call on a disputed goal.
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The Evoker is a gun-esque item that appeared in Persona 3. It functions as a summoning medium for members of SEES to invoke and control their Personas. Evokers are created and manufactured by the Kirijo Group. Evokers prove to be traumatizing and tiring, as the Evoker still retains the shape of a gun.
While human members use gun-esque evokers to summon their Persona, there are several unique cases. Koromaru, a dog, utilizes a collar-shaped evoker to summon his Persona. Moreover, Aigis, as an Anti-Shadow weapon, possesses a built-in Evoker. Takaya Sakaki, an artificial Persona-user, is able to summon his Persona without the use of an Evoker.
To summon their respective Personas, users would press the evoker to their head and pull the trigger, emitting a pale blue fog that covers them while giving out the shape of their Personas. As seen in the Persona 3 concept art, Tarot Cards were originally planned to be used as the summoning medium for invoking Personas, similar to the summoning sequence in the Persona 2 duology (the concept was later continued in Persona 4), but it was later changed to a gun motif to fit the game's themes.
Although the actual method that the Evoker summons a Persona is vague and unclear, it is always reiterated that the main purpose of the Evoker (and summoning a Persona in general) is provoking a sense of terror and thus, inducing extreme stress which is one of the prerequisites for summoning a Persona.[1]
The Evoker returns in Persona 4 Arena, carried by Akihiko Sanada and Mitsuru Kirijo. Mitsuru only uses hers during her Instant Kill, while Akihiko also uses his during his Instant Kill or whenever he casts Maziodyne. However, with other skills involving their Personas, they no longer use Evokers to summon them to perform attacks. In terms of the story, the TV World's influence on a person's thoughts are much stronger and thus merely the thought of summoning a Persona can call it out. One can also summon a Persona in the real world if they condition and train themself to concentrate at extreme levels.
In the Persona 3 Manga chapter 20, it is revealed that if a Persona user gets scared, they cannot summon their Persona but along with the manga being uncanon, this detail is rendered contradictory when a female researcher in the canon Persona 4 Arena reveals that a feeling of fear and self-preservation are key to summoning a Persona as seen in other Persona related media.[2]
Role in Persona 3Edit
The JourneyEdit
An Evoker is first seen being held by Yukari Takeba, prior to the protagonist moving into the dorm, and she appears to have problems pulling the trigger. Upon entering the dorm, Yukari sees the protagonist. Thinking him an intruder, she prepares to fire her Evoker, but is stopped by Mitsuru Kirijo.
Later, when a Shadow attacks the dorm, Yukari attempts to fire her Evoker in hopes of fending off the Shadows. Unfortunately, she fails and her Evoker is knocked aside by the looming Shadows. The protagonist sees the young child whom he met when he first entered the dorm. The child promptly encourages the protagonist to pick up the Evoker and fire it. The protagonist complies, pulls the trigger, and summons his persona, Orpheus. The protagonist is subsequently called to the meeting room, where he becomes a member of SEES and receives his own Evoker.
Throughout the story, the Evoker serves as a summoning tool for SEES, though later a group of individuals named Strega is revealed to possess their own Evokers. The members of SEES appear to be surprised of seeing them having Evokers, though Strega simply brushes off their questions. Later, one of the members of Strega, Chidori Yoshino is subdued by SEES. Upon learning that her Evoker has been taken away by SEES, she becomes emotionally unstable, constantly pleading SEES to return it to her.
It is later revealed that, in order to learn more about Tartarus, the Kirijo Group rounded up children in the streets, gave them Evokers, and used them as part of their experiments about Shadows and Personas. In the end, only three of these children survived. Those three children later grew up to become Strega.
The AnswerEdit
In the epilogue of Persona: 3, titled The Answer, it is revealed that Aigis kept the protagonist's Evoker after his death as a memento. Mitsuru would later regroup the remaining SEES members to see the dorm's closing. However, after witnessing the strange events surrounding them, the remaining members of SEES are forced to take up their Evokers once again and investigate the Abyss of Time.
The door to Akihiko's past reveals that the Evoker existed as a gun as early as 2005, when Mitsuru and Akihiko were both 3rd-year Junior High students. In the scene, Mitsuru approaches Akihiko and offers him a new way of fighting. She presents an Evoker to him immediately in an effort to grab his attention, and Akihiko evidently accepts.
In the end, after knowing the protagonist's efforts and motive of sealing Nyx, Mitsuru scraps her plan of recollecting everyone's Evoker; instead, she advises them to keep them, as a remembrance that they will live and making the most out of their own lives, never looking back of their grief. Aigis would later make a vow in hopes of changing the world so that someday, people will not long for Nyx's advent and The Fall, so that the protagonist may be freed from his bonds.
- The appearance of the Evoker is based on the Ruger Mk. III semi-automatic pistol.[3]
- In 2013, Happy Kuji company released a 1/1 scale Evoker watergun to celebrate Persona 3 The Movie #1: Spring of Birth.
- ↑ Researcher with a tie: "Well, at least this proves that mental stress is the key to activating a Persona."
- ↑ Female researcher: "The fear impulse and self-preservation instinct seem to be the key to activating a Persona."
- ↑ Persona 3: Official Design Works


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In Bergen you have all the time something to see; on every step. It such an unbeliavably many-sided city that don't know many others in the world:
Bergen has the world's best fjords, it has mountains. Then it has a nice market place with Norwegian things like pullovers and whale clothes. It has a famous fish market with lots of various fish and other seafood which you can buy and taste and eat on site.
Bergen has the very special old town area with the old coloured and different sized wooden houses.
It has the Bryggen hansa house (historical) area and the harbour.
Some streets are so narrow that you cannot take a car/taxi there. Also it is difficult to find them from the map; and even if you find, you have to be careful as many of the streets look similar. Check the scale of the map espcially well in this case.
This building style wouldn't go through in my country (unfortunately). I enjoyed maybe the most just looking and picturing the houses and walking the narrow streets slowly.
Bergen gives so much to your eyes to see that it takes a long time to absorb it. All seen things change to a calm feeling with open, sensitive feeling. Like all your senses would become stronger.
You can even hear better after the silence by the fjords. Though on the other hand you hate the noice if any; after that.
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If someone shakes hands - it feels warmer. Even the sense of touching is changed. Almost weird but in a nice way.
I will definitely go back to Bergen to ENJOY and relax.
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Researchers working on the latest Cochrane Collaboration meta-analysis of the evidence on oseltamivir (Tamiflu) have claimed that the drug's manufacturer is still denying them access to full trial data. This is despite Roche, the Swiss company behind oseltamivir, pledging in the BMJ two years ago that it would make "full study reports" available.1 As a consequence, confusion still surrounds the evidence on oseltamivir and guidance on how doctors should prescribe it.
The latest Cochrane review on oseltamivir, a drug on which governments around the world have spent billions of pounds, is published today (18 January). But the Cochrane reviewers have received only part of the clinical study reports—the summary of the study methods and the results. The company says this is enough for the Cochrane group to conduct their review, but Cochrane denies this.
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richmondsteve - 4:32 pm on Aug 21, 2003 (gmt 0)
That would be nice, though I imagine that if they did implement it they'd limit it in some way. Otherwise it would be trivial to create an infinite # of tracking IDs to suit any possible need. As in if I felt it was important I could generate a tracking ID for every page view and store the ID in a database with the URL, userid, ad type, date/time, etc.
I need several tracking ID's on one site - I wish to monitor how different sections perform


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I would go with the MVP/ZMK stack (or atleast did, and will in the future). The MVP is a very well rounded formula and has no binders and fillers (Which is surprisingly hard to find).
I would go with the MVP/ZMK stack (or atleast did, and will in the future). The MVP is a very well rounded formula and has no binders and fillers (Which is surprisingly hard to find).
Which brings up another good point and question I had, favorite/best multi. I believe we know what steveoph likes! How does the mvp compare to animal pak and orange triad?
Thanks steve, i guess you send me all the old stuff......lol
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Im going to let someone else tackle that question, but I just wanted to say that I think you'd really enjoy Mvp365. It's set for 2 doses of 2 pills each time so a total of 4 pills a day...but even on days where I lift in the morning and play tennis at night, a lot of the times if I am using zmk at night....I only need 2 mvp during the day and I am feeling great!
I've been taking ZMK for a while and, besides deeper sleep, I haven't experienced anything from this supp. I keep taking it because I know, theoretically, it has a lot of benefits. What exactly is one supposed to feel from ZMK?
ZMA is a staple for me....but im going to make the switch to ZMK! thanks guys
Oooooh, I like that idea. Cost efficiency is a must for me, and that is an excellent point. With all the added goodies in ZMK, one serving of MVP probably is enough. I know these both look like great products, gonna have to test 'em out and I could definitely for see them becoming staples.
Does anybody else concur with the idea of only a split dose needed if ZMK is taken as well? I really love all the info I am getting in here! Thanks everyone!!!
Sounds like a smart choice! Trust me...you won't regret it
Honestly no matter what I or anyone else say...your body will determine that factor really. On most days I only take 2 mvp as well as 2 zmk and I am on cloud 9 feeling wonderful. some days I take the full 4 zmk when I really wanna be knocked out, or I take the 4 mvp if I have a REAL heavy/long day.
One quick question, I thought I had read that ZMA is supposed to be those exact ratios, can't recall them now, but I thought they had to be dialed in pretty closely. Does a half dose of ZMK not give you the testosterone and recovery benefits that ZMA studies have shown?
The typical zma blend reads something like this :
20-30 mg zinc, 400-500 mg magnesium, and 10mg B6
If you take a half dose (2 pills) of ZMK, it reads like this :
15mg zinc, 250mg magnesium, 12.5mg B6
So I guess you'd be right huh?...........
OR....you can think about some other things
ZMK has Krebs Cycle chelated Zinc and Magnesium which makes it twice as bioavailable as your normal zma product. It also 3078mgs of krebs cycle intermediates which in turn, boost ATP production. Let's not forget that it has 72 naturally occuring trace minerals, which is an area in which ALL athletes are almost always deficient.
like I was saying.....I feel safe taking 2 ZMK over 4 zma
Exactly the kind of info I was hoping I would get back! Thanks CTD!
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