June 2002 - Advent Resources, Inc.

IN THE NEWS
Data from
Powergram©
NUMMI To Build Toyota Voltz
NUMMI, the Toyota and General
Motors joint venture plant in Fremont,
CA, has begun producing the new
Toyota Voltz, a right-hand drive
version of the Pontiac Vibe that will be
exported to Japan and sold through a
Toyota dealer channel, according to
Automotive Intelligence News. The
Voltz is the third new vehicle to be
launched at NUMMI this year following
the Vibe and new Corolla. First-year
production will be about 11,000 units.
German Carmakers Study Fuels
DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Ford, General
Motors’ Adam Opel unit, major
German energy firms and the German
government will team up to develop
alternative fuels for cars, trucks and
buses to meet stricter environmental
requirements, Bloomberg News reports.
Participants will supply a fleet of
30 vehicles by next year to test fuels
and boost consumer acceptance.
Ford Drops Wingcast Venture
Ford has pulled out of Wingcast LLC,
the automotive telematics joint venture
it had with Qualcomm Inc., say media
reports. Wingcast will be dissolved,
according to a statement from
Qualcomm, which owns 15% of the
venture, and some 200 employees will
lose their jobs. A company representative
said Ford decided to stop
funding the business due to changing
technology and changing customer
preferences.
GM Raises Earnings Outlook
Despite posting lower sales in May,
General Motors raised its secondquarter
profit forecast and production
plans due to strong demand for new
models including the Chevrolet
TrailBlazer. Its sales more than
doubled in May from last year,
according to the J.D. Power and
Associates Sales Report. SM
Data for this column is courtesy of The
PowerGram, published by J.D. Power and
Associates. Copyright 2001 by J.D. Power
and Associates. All rights reserved. A free
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June 2002 Advent Resources Inc. (310) 241-1500 Volume 2, Number 12
Advent Welcomes
Advent Resources Inc. is pleased to
announce that we have completed
the changes to the Advent Application
required for use in the Canadian
Automotive retail market. In addition, we
would like to welcome our first two Canadian
clients to our ever-growing Advent
client base. A warm welcome to Kramer
Mazda and North Hill Mazda in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. Vinay and Asheet
Ruparell visited with us and some of our
clients here in California, and felt that the
Advent High Performance Sales System
could help them better manage their
business and assist with their goal of
moving to another level.
Again, welcome to Kramer and North
Hill, our Canadian pioneers!
Power User of the Month
Kathy Blackley
Garff Enterprises
Our Power User for this month is
Kathy Blackley, MIS Director for
Garff Enterprises which consists
of 34 franchises at 18 locations in Utah. In
the last 4 years of her 16 years with Garff
Enterprises, she has been the software
specialist for Advent HPSS support.
(Her teammate, Mike Poulson, the
Network/System Administrator, is quite
helpful, too – but that’s another story.)
Kathy is so good at what she does that
we’ve nominated her a second time as
Power User! Lately she’s been learning
how to be even more self-sufficient by
taking on some of her more complex
accounting distributions. Our hats are off to
you, Kathy!
Advice for June Grads
In a speech to a crop of recent high
school graduates, some real world
advice was offered to a generation
raised on a feel-good, politically correct
curriculum:
Rule 1. Life is not fair – get used to it.
Rule 2. The world won’t care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to
accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.
Rule 3. You will NOT make $40,000 a
year right out of high school, and you won’t
be a vice-president with a car phone until
you earn both.
Rule 4. If you think your teacher is
tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5. Flipping burgers is not beneath
your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger flipping – they
called it opportunity.
Rule 6. If you mess up, it’s not your
parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your
mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7. Before you were born, your
parents weren’t as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you
talk about how cool you are. So before you
save the rainforest from the parasites of
your parents’ generation, try delousing the
closet in your own room.
Rule 8. Your school may have done
away with winners and losers, but life has
not. In some schools, they have abolished
failing grades and they’ll give you the test
as many times as you want to get the right
answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest
resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9. Life is not divided into
semesters. You don’t get summers off and
very few employers are interested in
helping you find yourself. Do that on your
own time.
Rule 10. Television is NOT real life. In
real life people actually have to leave the
coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are
you’ll end up working for one.

Not Adding Up?
When Weight Fees Don’t
Calculate Properly
If you ever find that your DMV
weight fees don’t calculate properly,
use the following checklist to
troubleshoot the problem:
1) In the manufacturer model screen,
for all models, “Type” should be set
properly for inventory types 2-5
(everything but cars).
2) The “Weight” field must have the
weight entered.
3) The “Wt fee” must = “Y”.
Finally, there’s one more thing to
look for and it applies mostly to used
vehicles:
4) Press ‘Additional Functions,’
then choose “4 Miscellaneous Info”
and be sure “Eligible for weight
fees” = “Y”. This last item will only
affect new vehicles if “Wt fee” is set
incorrectly (to “N”) for new vehicle
models.
Keep Traffic Moving
Don’t Stop those Reports!
Whenever a report is scheduled
to print using Advent’s Time
Scheduler, it is very important
that the printer on which the report is
scheduled to print be left on. In addition,
if this is not a stand-alone printer, the
computer that the printer is connected to
must be left on as well. The Advent
system will only spool the report for
printing when the computer/printer is
turned on.
So, if you are having trouble getting
your scheduled reports to print, first
check to see if the appropriate computer
and printer were left powered up at the
time the report was scheduled to print.
Life Lessons
Classes for Men
W
e heartily support adult education
and are pleased to highlight
the following courses for
adult males offered at our local learning
center. Sign up by June 15. Note: Due to
content complexity and difficulty, each
course will accept a maximum of eight
participants.
Topic 1: How to Fill Up the Ice-
Cube Trays
Step-by-step, with slide
presentation.
Topic 2: The Toilet Paper Roll – Do
They Grow on the Holders?
Round table discussion.
Topic 3: Fundamental Differences
Between the Laundry Hamper and
the Floor
Pictures and explanatory graphics.
Topic 4: The After-Dinner Dishes
and Silverware – Can They Levitate
and Fly into the Kitchen Sink?
Examples on video.
Topic 5: Loss of Identity – Losing
the Remote to Your Significant
Other.
Help-line support and support
groups.
Topic 6: Learning How to Find
Things, Starting with Looking in the
Right Place Instead of Turning the
House Upside-Down While
Screaming.
Open forum.
Topic 7: Health Watch – Bringing
Her Flowers is Not Harmful to Your
Health.
Graphics and audio tape.
Topic 8: Real Men Ask for
Directions When Lost
Real-life testimonials.
Topic 9: Is It Genetically Impossible
to Sit Quietly as She Parallel Parks?
Driving simulation.
Topic 10: Learning to Live – Basic
Differences Between Mother and
Wife.
Online class.
Topic 11: How to Be the Ideal
Shopping Companion.
Relaxation exercises, meditation
Topic 12: How to Fight Cerebral
Atrophy – Remembering Birthdays,
Anniversaries, Other Important
Dates, and Calling When You’re
Going to Be Late.
Cerebral shock therapy sessions
offered.
Who Done It?
Well of Course
T
hree engineering
students were
gathered together
discussing the possible
designers of the human body. One said,
“It was a mechanical engineer. Just look
at all the joints.”
Another said, “No, it was an
electrical engineer. The nervous system
has many thousands of electrical
connections.”
The last said, “Actually, it was a
civil engineer. Who else would run a
toxic waste pipeline through a
recreational area?”
Real Life Heroes
and Heroines
Congratulations to all our Team
members for their participation in
the 9 th Annual Revlon Run/Walk
on Saturday, May 11 th . The Advent
Team was small this year but that
didn’t stop us. We raised over
$3200.00 for the fight against breast
and ovarian cancer.
Team Advent would especially
like to thank Mary McLachlan and
Joseph D’Asaro for their fundraising
efforts.
Team Advent encourages
everyone to participate in this event.
See you in May, 2003!
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