Thank you, Mr. Moderator.

Esteemed dignitaries, fellow entrepreneurs, and colleagues: Thank you for allowing me to address you and, hopefully, entice you to help me launch this E:P:N project ... to benefit straggling schools and progressive companies such as yours, through using ... the “power of the atom,” so to speak.

(To help me address the right group at the right time: which of you are the governors and mayors? CEO’s? The educators? Thank you.)

During the next ten minutes, I will tell you what E:P:N is, what it does, and how to use it. A short summary ... in case you have to leave early ... :-)

"E:P:N is a science-based—an atom-based—trinity concept that role models cooperative behavior. It has four components: (1) a soul-level ... a sort of stem-cell level ... analysis, (2) a unique two-part seating arrangement to better facilitate communicative learning, (3) Europe's well-researched C-Test (a sample of which is in this handout), and (4) some researched "Book Flood" procedures that bring the craft of tailored training into schools with poor report cards and, of course, companies who wish to improve their cross-training process."

So, first: On the issue of soul-level differences: Have you ever had a power struggle with an infant? ... Then you know it is long before a baby has learned to walk and talk, that it has definite personality traits. ... An electron-like infant can usually be sold on something (like eating spinach). Neutron-like souls, left alone, would probably try spinach out of curiosity. And proton-like babies, you guessed it, might press their little lips so close together that nothing can pry them apart.

(if appropriate) I can see that some of you have tried. :-)

E:P:N is innovative, owes no allegiance to any country or religious group; and E:P:N has the advantage of dealing with words that are not restrictive label. The terms "electrons, protons, and neutrons" may not as yet be household words, but they will be. ... They are nature's only building blocks!

My website states: "E:P:N analysis helps pinpoint the nature of the inner self in the vernacular of particle physics; it uses the characteristics of electrons, protons, and neutrons to describe human differences. It is a new process for analyzing one's abilities and planning one's future."

The page finishes with, "E:P:N classrooms provide a unique way of facilitating communicative learning." ... This refers to the classroom project conceived three months ago in Beijing during a symposium on computer-assisted language learning. (The two unique seating arrangements are also in this handout.)

For schools, E:P:N is an effective way of motivating and training stragglers. For the workplace, it is a new profile analysis and cross-training aid. That's what E:P:N is.

What E:P:N does:

Simply stated, it promotes trinities. It focuses on the cooperative environment that is role modeled by all but the first of the elements. E:P:N draws attention to how teams of two—the hydrogen groups—compare to teams of three, six, and nine (the deuterium, helium, and lithium groups) ... a competition that favors the larger groups on some but not all group tasks. Here, E:P:N helps determine how many workers to hire for what types of jobs.

Isn't it a fact that our sages, both religious and secular, have been trying to tell us for many centuries that we should focus on trinities? Of course. And I think it is becoming literally imperative that we start heeding their advice ... somewhere! Yes, let us use hydrogen (nature’s simplest and most abundant atom) as a role model for explosive fuels ... where its characteristics are needed, but let's keep hydrogen-like thinking to a minimum. Oh! We must keep two-party thinking alive. It is charming and much needed in specialty schools, developing nations, and primitive rural areas, but hydrogen is too explosive a role model for inner-city schools and global enterprises. Am I overly dramatic? Probably. Are trinities worth pursuing? Absolutely!

For now, E:P:N's most practical component is tailored training ... often called the art of selling, marketing, coaching, or simply parenting. This training component, by whatever name, has always been more of an art form than a science. Well, E:P:N analysis, if it does nothing else, it will bring at least the vocabulary of science to this delicate process of planning careers and lifestyles.

I know that social scientists have done a superb job in developing all kinds of sets of definitions for describing human needs and differences. The word soul, alone, has over four full pages of definitions in the Oxford unabridged dictionary, but none of our current terms are as universally the same, as is the vocabulary of particle physics. Most ethnic groups have their own terms for personality traits, but only a few have native substitutes for “electron, proton, and neutron.” I strongly suggest, therefore, that we jointly take advantage of this … maybe under the auspice of this alliance.? We could have workshops for trainers during every summit … which would allow us to collect valid data rapidly and impressively. Remember, international cooperation is no longer a choice. It is an imperative mindset. And E:P:N can help us (and our successors) acquire it.

E:P:N analysis leads learners to look inward … to decide, for themselves, how they want to live … to lead them to contemplate their abilities and choices in order to arrive at a productive, satisfying, or worthy reason for living and learning … before choosing a specific role … and starting to train its associated habit patterns.

The outcome: the learners responsibly contract for a specific role (a specific seat), for a specific period, in order to learn the skills they, personally, chose to learn. …

Manufacturing, marketing, and management (like electrons, protons, and neutrons) are interdependent, but they each have their own set of skills. E:P:N classrooms facilitate the process of exploring and developing their respective differences.

How to use it?

For you, the governors and mayors, I recommend that you start by budgeting for the purchase, staffing, and upkeep of 45-seat portable E:P:N labs … that can be parked on or near low-performing schools. (I have a double-wide layout of an ideal E:P:N classroom on the last slide of my PowerPoint presentations in the Beijing folder.)

Once one set of schools has improved, these portables could be moved to other schools, or they could be used as mixed classrooms for career-seeking freshmen during the day and adults in the evening—for adults also wishing to improve their station in life, which brings me to you, the CEO’s and educators.

What I have to offer is a new vocabulary and a new process and, of course, seminars for training trainers to use it. |_| Most of the details are addressed in this handout. Feel free to ask me about the rest. I will be … (location in hotel) …

If your focus has not been on tailored cross-training, I propose that you try it. If you have an ongoing program, allow me to propose that you add E:P:N to the process and monitor the results.

Innovation is our summit theme. I hope you agree that E:P:N was an appropriate and innovative project to bring to it.

This handout is for you to take with you. This sheet is a feedback request. May I humbly ask that you comment in some fashion? Your input is likely to help shape the development of this project. The intent is to lead youngsters and workers to discover, for themselves, that conventional “right-wrong” concepts, regardless of their labels, are not the best of role models for a global society. . . . That they would do well to consider E:P:N’s atom-based trinity model for analyzing their relationships to life and work.

May both instinct and reason lead you to offer your support as a sponsor, a consortium member, or at least a provider of one of the research groups. E:P:N training is a much-needed project. Come and talk to me.

Mr. Moderator.