The Traversalist

Is it possible to stop a swarm of locusts or bees using sound waves? Could this be tested in your garage? Does your garage have enough power outlet to do it? How could you test to see if you could stop a swarm of insects using basic tools for your experiment and doing it in your garage?

Well perhaps in such a minor experiment you could set up a confined area like a child’s crawl tube, the kind you buy at Toys R Us or Wal-Mart? On a larger scale you could try this in a bigger confined area such as Osama bin Laden’s cave.

You use an acoustic device to send wave after wave build up and if that cave stops, god help the person standing at the dead end of that cave, their head would explode and their ears would bleed. We know there is sound build up because kids in lowered cars with massive stereo speakers can blow the windows right out and at car shows even cause the whole car to bounce.

If you hook the garage experiment up to a 220 outlet to speakers which can take the amps and set your circuit breakers on a high tripping point in your garage well you should be able to get the power you need directed inside a kids toy tunnel. If you have bees in the little tunnel toy for kids most of the sound would stay inside the tunnel mostly and if the sound was directional in nature, the special device you are talking about then it would build up.

But back to your minor experiment if you have these bees flying thru a tube and you use directional sound in that tube with pulses, the sound on top of the sound waves on top of the sound waves will affect the bees don’t you think? And if you put it down the center they would avoid it flying around the edges and if you put it to the right, well bees are not stupid; they would fly to the left and adapt. Or bee controlled into a direction of flight of your choosing avoiding the sound waves. Perhaps this is how to test an acoustic sound device on an insect swarm? Consider all this in 2006.

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The main objective is to create an ROI calculator that helps the sales professionals in your company sell a lot more of your product or service. The ROI calculator will only be valuable to your sales professionals if it is deemed meaningful by prospective customers. These prospective customers must be able to quickly specify and change variables that are important to them. The best way to accomplish this is to use several dynamic sliders to change variables that should be measured, such as:

- Number of records processed. This is a practical measure of productivity.

- Number of sales made, a practical measure for increased sales effectiveness.

- Length of customer support calls, a practical measure for more efficient customer service.

Other variables that are unique for each business is salary of target employees, number of employees, and the number of transactions.

CLOSE THE DEAL AT ANY POINT IN THE SALES CYCLE

A well designed ROI Calculator can be effectively used at any point in the sales cycle. A calculator is a great tool to attract prospects and qualify them. Put flash based version on your website or on your laptop so that you can walk the prospect through the model while you collect and save their preliminary thoughts. At the end of the session you will have excellent insight and a preliminary ROI figure that you can use to judge the value of the prospect.

THE SERIES OF TASKS THAT SHOULD BE COMPLETED

1. Select the target customer segments and understand their needs
2. Select the financial metrics that you will use (ROI, NPV, IRR, etc)
3. Quantify the value of “features & benefits” into calculations
4. Determine the assumptions and inputs
5. Determine default values for assumptions
6. Determine default values for inputs
7. Determine the appropriate high and low limit range for each variable
8. Develop a very professional looking calculator

9. Test and refine the calculator

10. Train sales and customer facing employees on how to use the tool

ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL REPOSITORY OF INFORMATION

Use the ROI Calculator as part of your sales process and make sure that all of the information from customers is saved. You can use the saved information to refine the customer segmentation and improve the customer qualification process. The saved information also provides the foundation for excellent customer case studies.

ROI Basics:

Return on Investment (adjusted for the time value of money)

Return on Investment (ROI) is the most popular financial metric when you need to compare the attractiveness of one business investment to another. Your return on investment equals the present value of your accumulated net benefits (gross benefits minus ongoing costs) over a specific time period divided by your initial costs. It is expressed as a percentage over a certain amount of time; for this example we will assume that the product will be effectively obsolete after 3 years. The equation for a 3-year ROI is:

(net benefit year 1 / (1+discount rate) + net benefit year 2 / (1+discount rate) + net benefit year 3 / (1+discount rate)) / initial cost.

So if the initial cost for your product is $100,000, your annual benefits minus annual costs are constant at $50,000 for the next three years, and the discount rate is 10%, your 3-year ROI would be:

($50,000 / (1 + .1) + $50,000 / (1 + .1)^2 + $50,000 / (1 + .1)^3)/$100,000 = 124%

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If you think of intrusion detection as you would for intrusions into your home, you will find that once someone ‘breaks in’ they have destroyed much of your hard work, both physically and emotionally. They have done damage and invaded your space. Effectively detecting whether or not these ‘break ins’ are happening is very important for your business. Effective intrusion detection can protect confidentiality, integrity and availability resources.

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When something is found by the IDS, it will alert you that a possible intrusion has occurred. This can be done through sending an email alert, by logging relevant information or even by contacting via mobile phone or pager. It will be up to you to determine what has happened and how it happened though. Usually, intrusion detection does not prevent intrusion, nor does it fix any problems that arise due to it. But, effective intrusion detection is still necessary and relying on an automated system will make sure you are up to date as needed.

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Foreign invaders are undertaking a siege of Britain’s waterways, leaving respectable domestic species reeling beneath their imported terror. In an attempt to raise awareness about the problem of non-domestic species in the waterway system British Waterways- the people in charge of maintaining the country’s waterway system – have produced a list of the twelve animals and plants that, the agency says, pose the greatest threat to our native fish, water plants, towpaths and very way of life. The agency, who currently spend around £1million pounds a year on alleviating the problems caused by this group of unscrupulous flora and fauna, hope that their finger-pointing will make people more aware of the negative effects that allowing pets and ornamental garden plants into the natural ecosystem can have. So far the listing of the twelve miscreants has not prompted the formation of militant, Wild West style vigilante environmentalist groups, but the fear that this may happen is very real. Whilst the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976 caused wide-scale, many would say credible, speculation about big cats being released in National Parks by owners too timorous to give the creatures up to either the zoo or to the infinite pen in the sky, so too did the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie of the early 1990’s lead to a spate of impulsively purchased red-eared terrapins being released into canals and rivers. Each terrapin can live for 25 years or so, and feasts upon insect larvae and bird egg. Their legacy has long outlasted the appeal of the anthropomorphised, smart-Alex film characters, a fact that any caring environmentalist must rue each day. Another animal up to no good on Britain’s once pure 2,200 mile inland water network is the American mink. The mink was brought to Britain the early 1930’s with the noble intention of industrial scale slaughter for the fur trade. However, some of the animals either escaped – their planned final destination as a scarf, hat or coat being sinfully abandoned – or have been set free via an underground network of turncoats. Now free to roam the banks and planks of our waterway system, this American import will willingly make dinner out of creatures that would otherwise have had a nice documentary made about them.

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Dr. Prices supposed that dentists would know if
any changes took places in a patient’s blood when
a dental infection was present, but found no
reports in scientific literature on that subject.
This led him to do exhaustive blood studies of
patients and animals to determine the side effects
of root canal infections.

Thousands of blood tests on patients and animals
Infected by root filled teeth showed?
Lymphocytes(white blood cells) increased in
humans and increased 58 percent in rabbits.
Polymorphonuclear leukocytes, a form of white
blood cells, decreased in humans and in animals
to 33 percent less than normal.
Hemoglobin changed very little, either up or down.
Hemophilia, a tendency to hemorrhage, occured
frequently in rabbits.

Increased amounts of sugar were found in the blood.
In some rabbits, higher amounts of ionic calcium
were found; but in most rabbits, calcium was lower.
resulting in 15 to 20 different pathologic conditions.
There was increased uric acid and nitrogen retention.
Alkaline reserves decreased, resulting in acidosis.
Some patients and all animals lost weight.

Patients suffering rheumatic disease often
experienced a withering away of their tissues.

Patients with pyorrhea pockets loaded with pus
suffered severe weight loss, as did animals ino-
culated with diluted solutions of the crushed
pyorrhetic teeth that had all the bacteria filtered
out. This demonstrated dramatically that the
toxins of the bacteria, rather than bacteria itself,
caused the weight loss and death of the animals.

Should you think this may have been an accidental
or occasional occurance, this study involved 667
rabbit inoculations.

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research program, conducted by Weston A. Price, DDS, under the auspices of the American Dental Association’s Research Institute, was buried by disbelievers of the focal infection theory.
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In the last two weeks, two non-senior US officials indirectly called on Israel to start planning on cancelling its nuclear weapons programs. Even though they said this is not intended for ‘the foreseeable future’, their publicly terming Israel a nuclear power on a par with India and Pakistan might be a sign that the US perceives of nuclear issues as too serious to condone the double standards it employs freely on other issues.

US-Israeli relations at high level are however unlikely to be subject to much change over the issue. Much to the chagrin of the rest of the international world, which wants the US to apply pressure on Israel to actually make good on its signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention by ratifying it. Israel might also be called up to sign the Biological Weapons Convention, which it would do if it were serious about its endorsement of the objective to creating a nuclear free zone in the Middle East.

At the highest level, the US tends to avoid the Israeli nuclear issue as an element of its foreign policy toward the rest of the Arab world, but perhaps the Iranian developments no longer render this position indefinitely tennable.

Israelis, always on their guard for potential threats of size, appear a little bit nonplussed at the US’ officials remarks. An article in the daily Haaretz newspaper, where diligent reporters make note of two instances -as if they are in need of counting- of official comments by US policymakers that might indicate the end of bilateral hush hush on this core issue.

Referring to a the five yearly NPT review conference next month, Jackie Wolcott Sanders, who is the ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament and the special representative of the president for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, wrote in the State Department’s electronic journal that the goal of universal NPT adherence ought to be highlighted. She said that it should be ‘reaffirmed that India, Israel and Pakistan may join the NPT only as non-nuclear-weapon states.’ Thereby implicating that Israel is a nuclear power, something the US officially doesn’t do very often.

This instance might have be brushed aside as clumsily worded, but the rest of Sanders’ words leave nothing to the imagination; ‘Just as South Africa and Ukraine did in the early 1990s, these states should foreswear nuclear weapons and accept IAEA safeguards on all nuclear activities to join the treaty. At the same time, we recognize that progress toward universal adherence is not likely in the foreseeable future. The United States continues to support the goals of the Middle East resolution adopted at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, including the achievement of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.”

Almost concurrently, another State Department official, Mark Fitzpatrick made similar comments Fitzpatrick speaking at a security conference of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Both spokespeople made it look as if the US is starting a harsher line on Israel. US official recognition of its nuclear arsenal is certainly a fact now. At least, that’s how the message is taken in Israel, where the Al Haaretz newspaper reports a ‘[contradiction] in the custom of senior administration officials to avoid any possible confirming reference to Israeli nuclear weapons. Instead of referring to Israel’s ‘nuclear option’, officials placed the country on par with the similar nuclear powers of India and Pakistan, thereby bluntly referring to Israel’s estimated arsenal of an estimated over 20 nuclear bombs as its ‘nuclear capability’.

The officials though low and mid level ranking, could very well be indicating a change in stance by Washington. The call on Israel to ‘accept international Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all nuclear activities’ lacks any urgency, but then it would. If the US foreign policy were to clearly steer in this direction, possibly to reduce Iranian risks, its early start would only be very subtle like this.

Applying pressure on Israel now does make sense because it would capitalize on the momentum achieved in Iraq and Libya, which has direct bearings on the credibility of telling Iran to stop what it is doing. Both Libya and Iraq have recently disarmed, Libya voluntarily in what’s cited as a major coup d’etat for the International Atomic Energy Agency and UK and US diplomats. Israel’s nuclear weapons also are the pretext for Arab nations to continue their efforts to create a nuclear device and their disposal would create trust.

The US, keen to see Iran get rid of its entire arsenal, is under criticism all round because of its perceived double standards on this issue. The US has long been seen to be taking clauses of the NPT only seriously as and when they suit its international program and so shortly after the Iraq debacle could’t for shame be seen to be careless in Iran. An Iran as a nuclear power doesn’t fit in the US picture of the wider world one single bit however. The dilemma now is how to contain Iran -which is not cooperating adequately with international weapons inspectors and therefore not fulfilling its obligation as an NPT signatory- and not to create a situation of urgency.

Next Monday, EU negotiators and Iranian officials are meeting up to continue negotiations they started late last year. The US is not taking part in them, but is carefully watching over the backs of the three European countries conducting the talks, France, Britain and Germany. Iran has indicated it has warm feelings for the French. Discussions will center on a proposal that the Iranians have drawn up.

Meanwhile, the US’ Israel policy will have to be seen to be somewhat in tune with its wider efforts in the region during the key five year NPT conference in May. US comments that it is working on making the Middle East nuke free are conditioned by the statement that this is not going to be happening in the foreseeable future. This makes sense; the biggest threat to destabilising the Middle East region is Iran’s acquiring of nuclear weapons (which it might well be in the process of or have completed) and Israel’s non compliance to treaties it has signed. Both issues require patience and tact.

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz, Iranian born, recently said that the Jewish state would follow Europe in adopting diplomatic measures to ensure that Iran does not obtain nuclear capabilities, opening the way for diplomacy rather than going along US lines that might be tougher.

Angelique van Engelen is a freelance writer who has lived for over three years in the Middle East. She runs http://www.contentClix.com and also contributes to http://www.clixyPlays.blogspot.com. You can email her on angeliqueve@contentclix.com.

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