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By Diana Cosby
While attending a writing retreat several years ago, Sir Stephan MacQuistan woke me up, told me that he was a Knights Templar, and demanded that I write his story. Stephan's story turned out to be, "Forbidden Legacy," the first of five books in The Forbidden Series.
As I began my research, incredible events began to happen, the first, discovering it was the 700th Anniversary of the Scottish victory of the Battle of Bannockburn, which was rumored to be aided by the Knights Templar. In addition, information about Knights Templars appeared in numerous articles as well television programs.
Regardless if hundreds of years have passed, questions remain of where the Knights Templar fled, what treasure they took, and how so many valiant knights were able to disappear without a trace.
As a major plotter, I enjoyed weaving in my character's journey, where they face challenges and in the end fall in love, around the mystery of where the Knights Templar fled, along with my speculation as to where their fleet and many of the Brotherhood could have escaped to prior to the arrests beginning in France on the 13th of October, 1307.
While creating The Forbidden Series, the most incredible thing happened. Whenever I struggled with writing one of the Templar stories, I'd see a 'sign' of a cross in nature that I interpreted as encouragement.
For the price of honor, he must walk away from the woman he loves…
Orphaned young, a childhood of loneliness and brutality led Sir Ronan O'Connor to join the Knights Templar and vow never to return to Ireland. But now a mission to transport a cache of Templar armaments for King Robert the Bruce forces the knight back to his homeland. Under his protection on the journey is an Irish nobleman and his daughter, Lathir McConaghy. Trained in combat, Lathir will bend to no man . . .
After the death of her betrothed in battle, Lathir guards her heart fiercely. Until an attack at sea forces her and Ronan to rely on each other for their survival. In the storm-filled days adrift at sea, a passionate bond forms between Lathir and the fierce warrior. In a realm torn by treachery and turmoil, they fight for their future even as secrets threaten to destroy their mission, and any chance
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About the Author: A retired Navy Chief, Diana Cosby is an international bestselling author of Scottish medieval romantic suspense. Books in her award-winning MacGruder Brothers series have been translated in five languages. Diana has spoken at the Library of Congress, Lady Jane's Salon in NYC, and appeared in Woman's Day, on USA Today's romance blog, "Happy Ever After," MSN.com, Atlantic County Women Magazine, and Texoma Living Magazine.
After her career in the Navy, Diana dove into her passion – writing romance novels. With 34 moves behind her, she was anxious to create characters who reflected the amazing cultures and people she's met throughout the world. After the release of the bestselling MacGruder Brothers series, The Oath Trilogy, and the first four books of bestselling The Forbidden Series, she's now preparing for the 14th of April, 2020 release of Forbidden Realm, the fifth book in the series.
Diana looks forward to the years of writing ahead and meeting the amazing people who will share this journey.
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Q: Knockoutjs ObservableArray Keeps Doubling in Size I am trying to understand some slightly odd behavior I am seeing in a page I am making using KnockoutJS.  An observable array seems to get duplicate items every time I clear and reapply bindings.  The quickest way to understand the problem is to look at this JSFiddle demo.  Just click any edit button several times, and watch this list grow!
The heart of the code for this demo is in the following method:
var _bindItemDetail = function (jsonData) {
        //clear existing bindings
        ko.cleanNode($("#itemdetails").get(0));

        // observables in selected item.
        _viewModel.SelectedItem(ko.mapping.fromJS(jsonData));

        // Apply Bindings
        ko.applyBindings(_viewModel.SelectedItem, $("#itemdetails").get(0));
    };

The essence of what I am trying to achieve is to create a list and details page in one.  The list JSON is fetch on initial page load, and the detail JSON is fetched and bound to the "detail" html whenever an edit link is clicked.
In addition to solving the problem, I am trying to understand the behavior, and learn some lessons about how to clean up stale resources properly when using knockout.
Thanks for any help

A: The problem is that in your _bindItemDetail function, you are reapplying the bindings on your modified view where you already had replicated the elements.
var _bindItemDetail = function (jsonData) {
    //clear existing bindings
    ko.cleanNode($("#itemdetails").get(0));

    // observables in selected item.
    _viewModel.SelectedItem(ko.mapping.fromJS(jsonData));

    // Apply Bindings
    ko.applyBindings(_viewModel.SelectedItem, $("#itemdetails").get(0));
};

ko.cleanNode() merely removes bindings from the elements, it doesn't revert the view back to its initial state.  In general, you should only ever call ko.applyBindings on a set of nodes once.  Doing it more than once, is just asking for problems.
Frankly you're not really making good use of knockout.  The majority of your code is using jquery to handle all the low-level details.  The point of using knockout is to not have to worry about those lower level details.
I've adjusted your fiddle a bit to make better use of knockout with less emphasis on using jquery.
In the view:

*

*Used the click binding to handle your Edit click events.

*Used the with binding to conditionally show the editor fields.  The stopBindings handler is not needed.

In the view model:

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*Added the click handler editClicked to the view model.

*Removed jquery event bindings.

*Removed the ko.cleanNode/ko.applyBindings combo you had when binding items.  You shouldn't do that and you just don't need it, knockout will handle all that for you.

Updated fiddle

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Robert Malinow, MD, PhD, professor of neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been named the first recipient of the Shiley-Marcos Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research in Honor of Dr. Leon Thal. Malinow, a respected physician-scientist whose work focuses on the neurological connections at the foundation of memory and memory loss, was recognized at a reception in his honor hosted by Darlene Shiley at the La Jolla Country Club on November 12.
Robert Malinow, MD, PhD, named first recipient of the Shiley-Marcos Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research.
Darlene Shiley and her husband, Donald Shiley, funded the chair in honor of her late mother, Dee Marcos. The chair was also named in honor of the late chair of neurosciences and director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Leon Thal, MD, a renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher who died in a single-engine airplane crash in early 2007.
"We are delighted that Dr. Malinow accepted our invitation to join the UC San Diego Department of Neurosciences and serve as our first Shiley-Marcos Endowed Chair recipient," said Doris Trauner, MD, interim chair of the department of neurosciences. "We are very excited about his past research accomplishments as well as the opportunity for him to make significant new contributions to Alzheimer's disease research in the future."
Malinow came to the UC San Diego School of Medicine in March 2008 from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private, non-profit research institution in New York, where he held the Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Endowed Chair of Neurosciences since 1998. His research focuses on synaptic transmission and plasticity, learning and memory. He received his medical degree from New York University and his PhD degree from UC Berkeley. Malinow has received numerous awards including the MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research and has been keynote speaker in several venues including the Einar Hille Memorial Lecture, KAC Elliot Lecture and Gordon Conference on Synaptic Transmission.
"For the past 20 years, I have studied the very basic properties of synapses – the connections between neurons in the brain – and how they change in strength when you learn something new or retrieve a memory," said Malinow.
Because synapses and the underlying molecular signaling are critical to memory, Malinow and his research team study how exactly they work and what role synapses play in the memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease. They are looking at how beta amyloid – a protein fragment that may cause Alzheimer's – affects synapses and could weaken them, preventing memories to be formed.
"We believe beta amyloid taps into the normal processes used by synapses in order to modify their circuitry," Malinow said. "Too much beta amyloid likely weakens synapses, preventing them from forming new memories and eventually leads to lost synapses."
His second area of interest is depression and its relationship to synapses. Synapses in the part of the brain called the "disappointment center" are abnormally strong in depressed animals, according to Malinow, and this might offer clues to the cause and treatment of depression.
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European Union citizens have the right to be elected as mayor, the MPs members of the special commission for the drafting of electoral legislation decided on Tuesday.
According to an amendment proposed by the commission chair, PNL MP Mihai Voicu, and completed by his colleague, Ioan Oltean, EU citizens have the right to be elected as mayor, local councillor and county councillor.
'At this moment there are only three countries in EU that do not permit the election of EU citizens, including as mayor. There is a directive that recommends the opposite (…). My proposal is for us to exit this group of three countries. The Constitution allows EU citizens to accede even to the office of mayor', was M. Voicu's argument.
The senators and deputies amended the draft law on local election that had already been adopted by the Senate, as first notified chamber. Among other things, it introduces the election of mayors in a single round, the election of county council presidents by county councillors and keeps the electoral threshold for political parties at 5%.
The electoral code commission members on the other hand unanimously rejected an amendment introducing the election of deputy mayors by direct vote.
President Iohannis participates in ceremonies celebrating end of WWII in Poland
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I blinked twice and this week is almost over.
It has been an easier week for me and slowly, I have been finishing some of the projects I had half way done and enjoying a very much needed "me time".
Today's post is about our back porch pillows that I had to remake about six weeks ago.
I finally have more than ten extra minutes to be able to sit down and write a post. Life has been so busy around here and it looks like it will continue being for a while.
The house and vehicle repairs have been ongoing without a break in between and although a huge part of it is finished, we still have a bit more to go.
I can honestly say this year I have not made any significant changes to our home decor or decorate for the different seasons. Just not enough time in my days for everything, but at the beginning of summer, I managed to make a few small changes in our living areas.
Today I am sharing with you our kitchen. Come on in!
Last week we had another party full of wonderful inspiration.
It is easy to see everyone is on "summer mode". :) Lets visit some of those bloggers!
Penny at Penny's Vintage Home made some summer changes to her bedroom. Gorgeous!
Mega at Nepa Mom shared a wonderful recipe for angel food cake with yogurt cream.
Erin at Delightful E Made shared how to make a Grilled Pork Loin with Sugar and Spice Rub and Grilled Peaches.
Susan at Oh My! Creative made Festive Summer Mason Jar Vases.
Lemon Berry Mini Bundt Cakes.
I have my family off from work, so we have been enjoying some nice family time.
I am late posting this party so, enough talking and lets take a look at some of last week most viewed posts.
Lynzy at Lynzy & Co shared her newly remodeled kitchen.You just have to see the before and after pictures!
Jenn at Clean & Scentsible restained her back deck and decorated it beautifully.
Terry at Forever Decorating made gorgeous changes to her front porch.
Tanya at Lemons for Lulu shared an amazing recipe for peach pie.
Kathryn at The Dedicated House made delicious bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers.
Debbie at Butterflies and Baubles gave her china cabinet a beautiful makeover.


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Mark Kaniela Saito Ing (born December 24, 1988) is an American politician and community organizer who was a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from the 11th District, representing south Maui from November 7, 2012 until November 6, 2018. He unsuccessfully ran to represent Hawaii's 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 federal election. Ing currently serves as Climate Justice Director for People's Action where he leads national campaigns to combat climate change. He serves on various coalitions including the Green New Deal Network, the United National Frontline Table, Climate Power Advisory Board, and the Hawai'i Community Bail Fund's board of directors.

Early life

Ing was born and raised in Hawaii. Ing attended Kamehameha Schools Maui, Maui Community College, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and American University in Washington D.C. Ing served as UH student-body president, as a neighborhood board member, and has worked in various capacities with Hawaii's business, government, and the non-profit sectors prior to assuming public office.

Ing's father died when Ing was a child. Ing worked as a harvester in the pineapple fields as a young teenager.

Hawaii State House of Representatives

Ing was elected to serve the 11th House District (South Maui: Kihei, Wailea, Makena) as a first-time candidate in 2012. Ing won the Democratic primary election, and overtook three opponents, carrying 43% of the vote. Ing then defeated Republican incumbent George Fontaine in the general election with 61% of the vote to the incumbent's 35%.

Ing was re-elected in the 2014 primary and general elections. In 2016, Ing faced Primary challenger, Deidre Tegarden, an aide to former Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie. Ing prevailed with 61% of the vote to his opponent's 34%.

Marriage equality and LGBT rights
In November 2013, then-Governor Neil Abercrombie convened a special election for the purpose of conducting public hearings to consider the adoption of a law that would legalize marriage for same-sex couples in Hawaii. Ing supported the legislation, delivering a speech during the final floor vote in the House in which he spoke about how the murder of Matthew Shepard impacted him as a young man and led to his eventual recognition of the need for equal rights for LGBT Americans despite his Christian background.

Same-day and automatic voter registration
In 2013 and 2014, Ing introduced a bill to provide for a same-day voter registration law. With the support of Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, and Faith Action for Community Equity (FACE), the revised bill passed and was signed into law on July 1, 2014. The law has allowed voters to register and vote during a single visit at all early-polling places in Hawaii starting in 2016, and at all polling places on election day starting in 2018.

Mark Zuckerberg's quiet title action
In 2016, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg purchased 700-acres of beach front land on the island of Kauai. Zuckerberg initiated quiet title and adverse possession lawsuits against a number of Native Hawaiian families who held "Kuleana" land rights within his 700-acre Kauai property. Ing called for mediation and community outreach and quipped that "in Hawaii... we don't initiate conversation by filing a lawsuit against our neighbors." Ing argued that the legal mechanisms Zuckerberg attempted to use were predatory by nature as they have been used historically to "displace Native Hawaiians from their ancestral lands." Zuckerberg ultimately dropped the lawsuits and offered an apology.

2016 arrest
In January 2016, Ing was cited for failure to produce proof of insurance for a vehicle he owned. On July 16, he failed to appear in court in this case and was subsequently arrested. A subsequent court date was scheduled.

Campaign spending violations
On June 20, 2018, the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission approved a $15,422 administrative fine based on allegations that Ing filed inaccurate reports during the period of 2011 to 2016.

One commissioner sought to refer the matter to criminal prosecution, the other four commissioners disagreed and voted that the violations were not criminal and did not require prosecution, stating "there are not enough good politicians" and that criminal prosecution would have been fatal to Ing's political career.

On July 20, 2018, Ing fired his accountant after determining his accountant inadvertently filed the wrong version of his campaign finance report on July 15. The original report, which was quickly corrected on July 16, identified a $262,830 cash balance. The corrected report corrected the balance to $100,847. The accountant confirmed his mistake in a subsequent release.

Campaign for Hawaii's first congressional district

In November 2017, Ing announced his intention to run for Hawaii's 1st congressional district, where incumbent Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa was retiring to challenge Governor David Ige in the Democratic primary for Governor of Hawaii. Ing's candidacy received widespread attention and support from the left, receiving the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America, Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, the Democratic nominee for New York's 14th congressional district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, California Congressman Ro Khanna and Washington Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. He received attention for his campaign ads and his pledge for universal housing.

Ing finished fourth in the Democratic primary, won by former Congressman Ed Case. He drew 7,531 votes, or 6.3%.

See also
List of Democratic Socialists of America who have held office in the United States

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Democratic Socialists of America politicians from Hawaii
Democratic Party members of the Hawaii House of Representatives
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
American University alumni
21st-century American politicians
Hawaii politicians of Japanese descent
Hawaii politicians of Chinese descent
Native Hawaiian politicians
Maui Community College alumni

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One of the solitary essential concepts in business is the sales funnel. Sales funnels can boost your revenue online by automating your organisation. They offer a path of the very least resistance to expanding and scaling your business on auto-pilot. Yet after hanging out with some of the globe's ideal marketing experts, I can tell you with near assurance, not only how sales funnels will certainly enable you to make more money online, but which specific funnels you ought to apply.
Now, if you're anything like me, you could be averse to specific funnels. As an example, I'm not at all an e-commerce guy, but I do understand that free-plus-shipping funnels are absolutely crushing it. In fact, just this past week, while attending the Closing Table Mastermind with Perry Belcher as well as Roland Frasier, I obtained more insight right into the alluring "tripwire" funnel, supposedly created by Perry Belcher.
Nevertheless, Belcher didn't design the concept. He drew that from an old Columbia House advertisement that offered 13 CDs or tapes for the big price of $1.00. Remember it? Yet most of us know that this tempting offer (aka tripwire) had method much more to it than just the $1.00 price tag. In the background, there was a connection program at the workplace. In Columbia House's' model, this was called negative choice billing. That indicates, you instantly get normal monthly shipments (along with a bill) unless you specifically state otherwise.
So why is this so powerful and also what does it have to do with sales funnels? In fact, what you'll notice is that Columbia House's sales funnel was fairly basic. You just chose the CDs or tapes you wanted for a dollar, after that received a regular month-to-month delivery each and every single month at a pre-defined rate. They would continuously bill you for those CDs or tapes every single month. There were variations of this offer too where you might get hold of 11 CDs or tapes for one cent then obtain the 12th complimentary.
Either way you look at it, these were all alluring deals. This was also good to miss. However what Columbia House and also various other companies realized was that, although they would certainly shed money out of the gate, they would, on average, in time, generate income hand over initially. Which is the power of the sales funnel. Before automation, this is how sales funnels worked. And also, if you called in, you would get an online person effectively strolling you with the funnel.
The Columbia House instance supplies deep understanding right into the psychology of an offer that's alluring. By very first determining the life time worth of a consumer and their retention rate, Columbia House identified that it might spend a certain quantity of loan getting customers and also still be very rewarding. That's basically what's made with sales funnels today. And what truly makes those sales funnels so effective are tripwires.
Today, it's the tripwire that develops the irresistible deal. Although Columbia House didn't fairly have major up-sells or down-sells in their funnels, they produced a basic 2 step funnel that functioned. It worked because the tripwire was so attractive. It appealed deeply to the customer. Nevertheless, just how can you resist an offer like that for 12 or 13 CDs or tapes for $1 or 1 cent when they were retailing at around $10 each at the time.
An additional powerful example of this was via Sports Illustrated. In fact, Sports Illustrated was effectively on the decline at the time it introduced its advanced tripwire. There's something concerning concrete items that individuals simply connect with. Even when you're offering an electronic info product on the back end, by sweetening the handle a concrete good, you can quite essentially send your conversions through the roof.
In the example of Sports Illustrated, take yourself back to 1990 when magazine registration rates were beginning to drop off. Because period, Sports Illustrated experienced a 7% decrease in their flow in the very first half of the year. Currently, whatever they did, they were incapable to get the registration prices up. Also by using deep price cuts on registrations, consumers weren't grabbing it. And also, if they discounted as well steeply, it would certainly affect their ability to get marketers paying costs rates without showing that consumers were paying near the full cover rate of the magazine.
Sports Illustrated, had by Time, Inc., wasn't the only publication that was suffering under the business's umbrella. Individuals magazine had likewise experienced an extreme decrease of 5%. Time, Inc., knew that it required to do something quickly. So it started to use a tripwire that included sports slips on VHS. Nonetheless, the expense was excessively high and also there were just a lot of bungles it can supply. So, they relied on the football phone as the new tripwire.
Why the football phone? Initially, it interested the target audience. As well as, it was special and also interesting. Far more amazing than a boring publication subscription. The football-shaped phone principle was conceived by Sports Illustrated's supervisor of flow at the time, Michael Loeb. At that time, advertising and marketing on cable television was likewise really inexpensive. Plus, the phone, which was sourced from China, just set you back a few bucks "landed". So it all made good sense.
Loeb dealt with the logistics of this offer for numerous months. Nevertheless, that wasn't the only offer. They likewise devised an offer that contained a sneaker phone. If you'll think back to 1990-1991, it was both supplies that were running virtually concurrently. Speak about an early-on split-test, right?
So, what were the results of all this? Over 1 million new subscribers. That's right. As well as those deals only ran for a limited time. Yet it efficiently saved the company. That's the power of a tripwire offer. It's a substantial item that obtains individuals excited concerning whatever else the core deal is. Actually, some people will just buy what you're selling only for the novelty of the tangible tripwire offer.
Sales funnels are just one of the solitary most powerful principles in service today for a really certain reason. It's not simply the instance of the tripwire that's powerful. It's the whole kitty play dirty, so to speak. There are so many parts and also components to what make a sales funnel job so well that I wished to break it down and also give some even more examples to offer a much deeper understanding to just how you can utilize them to enhance your income online.
Currently, if you're not utilizing a sales funnel right now, or if you're just uncovering what a sales funnel is, after that there are a few means you can rapidly leverage this effective principle in your business to develop explosive results. Most importantly, if you don't have a ClickFunnels account, go below as well as register for the 14-day totally free test. Once you've arrangement your account, get a custom domain name and also start building your funnel. If you need assistance, see a few of the on-boarding videos included with ClickFunnels.
It doesn't matter if you have an existing organisation or you're working to configuration a new service, funnels are the secret to growing and also scaling regardless of where you're beginning with. Nevertheless, there are 5 certain means you can make use of sales funnels to boost your income today. It does not matter what organisation you remain in or what you're marketing, you can utilize these today, right now, to produce explosive results.
At the Inner Circle mastermind today, Russell Brunson studied the hook-story-offer strategy that precedes building the funnel. Can you develop a sales funnel prior to you have a hook as well as a tale? Yes. However you might have problem obtaining grip, particularly if you're contending in a red ocean. Red oceans are entrepreneur-infested waters completing for the very same swimming pool of consumers, whereas blue oceans are a location where couple of entrepreneurs are swimming in.
What does that inform you? Invest the time responsible and the story. Yes, the deal is likewise crucial. However it's the hook as well as the tale that's mosting likely to reel leads in. As an example, Brunson used the narrative of fit-to-fat-to-fat founder, Drew Manning. Manning, that was in terrific shape, went out there as well as got a number of weight over a 6 month period to much better understand what it seems like to be fat. Yet after that he went out there as well as lost all the weight.
That right there is an amazing hook as well as tale. It's distinct. And, as a result of that, Manning has experienced a speedy rise, although his offer isn't that good. Yet when the hook and the tale is so excellent, the offer is almost unimportant. Efficiently, you can sell nearly anything when the hook and also the story just squash it. One more instance is the tale of Robert Allen who would always say he can be decreased in any kind of city in the country as well as acquire a home no loan down within 60 days. Which's precisely what he did. His brand has actually corrected a billion bucks in sales due to it.
Those are all terrific hooks and also stories. Without that, your offer will struggle. If you can generate a special means to develop your hook and also story, the remainder will certainly form. Given that there is a lot red ocean around, this is probably one of the most crucial points to make before you release any kind of sales funnel.
Tripwires are fantastic low-barrier-of-entry products that make leads use their bank card. Often, these are too-good-to-pass-up items that are provided at an unbelievable price. Simply think about the tripwire used by Columbia House or Sports Illustrated, as an example. Tripwires assist make it easier to get new customers, and then to ascend them up your worth ladder.
Anything that makes customer purchase harder, such as a costly service or product out of eviction, is mosting likely to make expanding and also scaling your organisation harder. The fact is that it sets you back 5 times as much to attract a brand-new client as it does to maintain an existing one. That's why tripwires are so powerful. They lower the barrier-of-entry into your service. And anything that can decrease the obstacle of entry is always excellent.
One more great means to introduce a sales funnel and also conveniently raise your earnings whatever organisation you remain in is through a lead magnet. The lead magnet needs to add genuine worth. However it can be in numerous formats such as a PDF digital book, checklist, rip off sheet and more. After the download, you can offer an one-time deal. This implies a three-step funnel. You can also develop an up-sell if they take the single offer and even a payment-plan down-sell if they decline it.
Why do a lead magnet with lots of worth? First, you're establishing yourself up as a specialist. If that content is genuinely workable, as well as it includes a massive amount of worth to the prospect's life, after that they're going to perceive you as the authority. But it does something much more than that. It refers micro-commitments. The concept? Get a person to agree to do three tiny things for you and the 4th one is quickly a yes.
Among the most powerful sales funnels you can develop is based around the webinar. Actually, it was the webinar that saved Brunson's service from bankruptcy a number of times. It was a combination and conclusion of expertise that bring about the excellent webinar manuscript, which develops the basis for the utmost sales funnel. Some of it originated from Jason Fladlien, while other pieces originated from somewhere else in Brunson's trip.
Nevertheless, all that info integrated right into the format of an ideal webinar as well as funnel, has actually literally transformed the businesses of many entrepreneurs who have actually taken their expertise as well as monetized it with the exponential pressure of webinars. Constructing a webinar is just one of the best courses to success with a sales funnel. Actually, the webinar funnel is rather possibly the most transformative funnel you could introduce for any type of service, new or old.
The application enables you to extract those that aren't major. And, on the telephone call, you can close the deal. Currently, this kind of sales funnel jobs if you have actually already had outcomes with customers. Otherwise, work for cost-free up until you get outcomes for individuals. Then, collect endorsements as well as utilize those as component of the pitch for the mentoring.
Most likely one of the most significant and most popular sales funnels nowadays is the free-plus-shipping offer funnel. It makes a wonderful access point right into any type of funnel by producing a single offer or up-sell after the deal, similar to a tripwire funnel. However, the difference here is the power of words free. Yes, tripwires, which are very low-cost product and services, work well. But there is genuine power in the word free.
In fact, people will jump up and also down for a totally free offer, also if they need to cover the shipping and handling, instead of taking a deal that they also have to pay a little amount of loan for.


There is a prediction or two that there will be a future shortage of doctors (physicians). And others? Why is the question. Here are some figures: 100,000 shortage by 2030 (Association of American Medical Colleges); 89,904 medical enrollees in 1917 (a decline from 2016 2.6%); Average time of 14 years of schooling: 4 years college, 4 years of medical school, 3-8 (11-16) years of specialization, residency, fellowships; A large number of specialists compared to years past; Challenges in other fields; High costs in Physician visits, hospitalization, medical clinics, emergency room, medicines, treatments all affect prospect visitors to physicians as well as the website informational outlets.
As an illustration, let me share a recent true story. A person experienced minor disabilities and after several weeks, visited a physician. Several visits and tests were suggested some of which took weeks to schedule. A visit to the same physician resulted in nothing serious from all the tests and three more visits were suggested. After a second opinion, a suggestion was rendered as a prescription and the third visit never occurred (no call from the medical facility). One office did make an appointment but four months into the future.
Hospitals and physicians consolidate quite readily these days and it seems as though those with potential emergency illnesses also must get in line but not as long. One article suggested that the way physician shortages might be shortened is to Change the way Doctors are Educated. If 14 years is the average for specialists (4+4+8 maximum years), specialization is lengthy but may be partly a culprit since the experience mentioned above involved several medical visits with no solution after many weeks.
Now does this clergyman with 4+3+2 post high school years of education rank with other professions? Some may reach 16 years but hardly in sequence of the initional objective. We too and other vocations may see a shortage in 2030 as well.
People now are living longer (but that may change). Science (medical and theological) is making new discoveries, at times abandoning ancient wisdom that is essential when recognized and advocating more by trial and error. I remember lying in my bed at home when my father and my physician visited me after my surgery. No specialists. My first grade teacher kept me after school for weeks to make up for my six weeks recovering at home so I could keep up with my classmates. I did. How far have we progressed, personally and professionally is a good question.


Bourbon Street may be a playground for adults, but there are also plenty of things to do with kids in New Orleans. While it may seem like a good idea to drag your young 'uns to Jazz Fest or Preservation Hall, it's important to remember that it's their vacation, too. Believe it or not, the Big Easy is an actual functioning city that offers a plethora of entertainment for kids of all ages. Here's a list of some of the best, including critiques and numerical ratings (on a scale of 1 to 10) from my favorite kids– 11-year-old Drew, 9-year-old Remy and 6-year-old Cole.
The Audubon Aquarium is located right on the bank of the Mississippi River, just steps away from the newly renovated Riverwalk Outlet Mall. The most popular attractions include the Penguin Exhibit, with its 32 African black-footed penguins; the 400,000-gallon Gulf of Mexico tank, which is full of sharks, stingrays and other aquatic animals; and the Amazon Rain Forest, where kids can climb the rocks and frolic among the tropical birds. Tickets cost $23.95 for adults and $17.95 for children. The Entergy IMAX theater shows an array of entertaining yet educational films every hour Tue-Sun, from 10am to 5pm. Tickets cost only $5.00 with Audubon membership or Aquarium ticket.
Louisiana's largest zoo is nestled between the grand oak trees in Audubon Park and the passing barges floating down the Mississippi River. For years, visitors were content with the intimate exhibits, featuring alligators in the Louisiana Swamp, jaguars in the Jaguar Jungle and pink pelicans greeting guests near the entryway. Over the past five years, the Audubon Society has been adding more interactive activities, including the Cool Zoo Waterpark, the recently renovated Watoto Walk Petting Zoo and the grand opening of the Lazy River in April 2015. The zoo is open Tue-Sun at 10AM, but closes at 4PM on weekdays and 5PM on weekends, so make sure to go early and enjoy the day. Tickets cost $18.95 for adults and $13.95 for children. Admission for the cool zoo and lazy river is $10 for members and $12 for others.
North America's largest museum dedicated to insects of all shapes and sizes is the latest concept from the Audubon Nature Institute. Opened in the Old Custom House on Canal Blvd in 2008, the Insectarium features creepy crawly spiders, bugs and butterflies, both dead and alive. Sit and watch the Bug Awards—a 4-D interactive film— or test your taste buds by munching on the latest bug creations from their team of chefs. The last stop at the Insectarium is the wonderful butterfly garden, where you can sit and relax among hundreds of fluttering butterflies of all types and sizes. The peace and tranquility makes for quite the juxtaposition from the hustle and bustle of Canal Street. Tickets cost $16.95 for adults and $11.95 for children. If you're planning on visiting all three Audubon museums, save money and buy the Audubon Experience Package, which is $41.95 for adults and $29.95 for children.
What was once just a strip mall and movie theater is now also home to a number of entertainment venues for children of all ages. For the youngest tots, Kids Sports (ages 7 and under) at the Elmwood Fitness Center offers a two-story maze, jungle gym and space walk. A few doors down, Adventure Quest Laser Tag (ages 5 and up) offers four great activities, including bumper cars, indoor mini golf, an outdoor maze and, of course, laser tag. There's also a full game room available. BooKoo Bounce (age 8 and under) has 8,500 sq. feet of inflatables and slides for kids to run, jump and bounce on. And the newly opened Sector-6 (all ages) features 12,000-sq. feet of connected trampolines for kids to work up a sweat. Space is limited, so make sure to purchase tickets in advance.
Here, families can spend the entire day in one of the country's largest urban parks. Start out with some delicious beignets at 24-hour Morning Call. For children with an interest in the arts, make your way over to the New Orleans Museum of Art, which is home to works by Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Monet and southern folk art favorite Georgia O'Keefe. But you don't have to be an art-lover to appreciate the Besthoff sculpture garden, located just behind the museum. The 60 enormous sculptures, valued at over $25-million, perfectly harmonize with huge oak trees dripping with hanging moss. At the boathouse, you can rent paddleboats and paddle on the Big Lake or bicycles to explore the natural beauty of the 1600-acre park. The newest attraction is City Putt, a side-by-side, 18-hole mini golf course, which is located behind a huge open lawn that's perfect for families to toss around a football or picnic. The Botanical Garden may not seem ideal for children, but when the lights go up in December, it transforms into a world-class Christmas light show called Celebration in the Oaks.
These two attractions are also in City Park, but listed separately because they're more appropriate for younger children than the others. The centerpiece of the 16-ride Carousel Gardens Amusement Park is the antique wooden carousel, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The rest of the pint-size amusement park features a ferris wheel and rides like the tilt-a-whirl, bumper cars, wacky shack and the newly renovated ladybug roller coaster. Tickets are $4 per ride or $18 for unlimited rides. Next door to the amusement park is Storyland, featuring slides and climbing trails set amongst larger-than-life characters from your favorite classic fairytales. From Jack and Jill Hill to Captain Hook's pirate ship, children five and under will love to play here. Tickets are $4 per person and free for kids under 36".
Opened in 2011 just 20 minutes from downtown New Orleans, NOLA Motorsports allows adventure enthusiasts to rev their engines in a world class racing facility. The attraction features the country's largest karting track, offering three different courses for kids 52" and taller. The 40-acre facility offers 25-mph karts for youngsters and 50mph carts for teens and adults 60" and taller. Prices range from $15 per ride on Mondays to $25 on weekends, and the park is closed on Wednesdays. NOLA Motorsports is fun for the whole family. But if mom or dad wants to get really crazy, they can also take their own car for a spin around the world-class Indy track. Check the calendar for special weekend racing in a Mustang or exotic sports cars like a Lamborghini or Ferrari.
Mardi Gras is a larger-than-life event. At Mardi Gras World, visitors can take a tour of Blane Kern's Studio, where world famous floats have been constructed since 1947. Tours are offered every half hour and take approximately one hour. But what makes the place even more special is the little lagniappe– like a piece of Mardi Gras king cake– at the beginning of every tour. During the tour, you'll learn about the history, costumes and traditions of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. After the tour, visitors are welcome to wander the working studio and take as many pictures as they like. Located in an old warehouse on the Mississippi River, Mardi Gras World is in walking distance to the French Quarter for most people, but a free shuttle is also available. Tickets are $12 for kids 12 and under and $19 for adults.
Jean Lafitte's National Park is actually six parks spread throughout Louisiana. But, for the purposes of taking your children on an outing relatively close to New Orleans, let's focus on the Barataria Preserve. Located approximately 30 miles from downtown, this nature preserve offers spacious trails through the Louisiana swamps and wetlands. The nature center includes an overview of the park as well as a Hurricane Katrina exhibit, and the guides will point you in the direction of the best trails for that day. The lush vegetation is home to plenty of alligators (yes, you'll see some), swamp rabbits, snakes and many other small creatures. For the family that likes the great outdoors, this is the perfect place (when it's not too hot out) to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Kids will certainly enjoy the close-up encounters with the alligators. The best part is that because it's a national park, it's free!
Since 1986, the Louisiana Children's Museum has been located in a 30,000 sq. ft. building in the heart of the warehouse district. Best for children 3-10 years old, the museum offers an array of educational activities made fun through interactive play. Kids can go grocery shopping in the mini-Winn Dixie, cook meals in the model café, or play captain of a Mississippi River cargo ship. Recently announced plans call for a new Louisiana Children's Museum Early Learning Village, a 58,000 sq. ft. facility located in City Park. Scheduled to open in 2017, the museum will house a nature center, literacy center, parent and teacher resource center, childcare center, performing arts center, edible garden, kitchen and café. Developers see the new museum as an opportunity for locals and visitors to explore the wonderful ecosystem that New Orleans has to offer.
This looks so much fun! Great read. Thanks.
Great list! Looks like a lot of fun for everyone. Thanks for sharing!


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Oklahoma Connection | Boyd came to Norman on September 15, 1892, after riding the Santa Fe train from Kansas to Guthrie in August of 1892.
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Hired by mail, Dr. Boyd arrived in Norman to join three other faculty members to organize the University of Oklahoma. In the first year, they enrolled 69 students and held classes on the second floor of an office building on West Main Street.
"Having seen [the campus] for the first time, [Boyd] looked around him and said…'What possibilities! What possibilities!' That is the spirit of the University of Oklahoma. It is an institution that believes in possibilities." - David L. Boren
Dr. David Ross Boyd was born in Ohio and served as superintendent of schools in Ohio from 1880 to 1888 before moving to Arkansas City, Kansas where he became superintendent of schools from 1888 to 1892. Upon his arrival in the Oklahoma Territory to organize and serve as the first president of the University of Oklahoma in Norman (1892-1908), he planned the reservation of 400,000 acres in the Cherokee Strip and Kiowa-Comanche territories for support of state schools of higher learning. He also organized 300,000 acres on which to erect public buildings. He was appointed as superintendent of education for the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions in 1908 and later became the president of the University of New Mexico. He returned to Norman as president emeritus of the University of Oklahoma in 1930.


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The Christians' Polytheism and Its Impact on the Muslim Nation
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the one Allah sent as a mercy to the Worlds; and on his family, companions and fellow brothers till the Day of Recompense.
The creed of people of the truth about the Messiah (Jesus) عليه السلام
Verily, Jesus صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم, son of Mary is a Servant and Messenger of Allah, a Word of Allah sent to Mary and a Spirit coming from Him. Allah تعالى made of the birth and the education of Jesus عليه السلام and his mother a sign and a Revelation. Jesus عليه السلام was the last Prophet and Messenger of Allah تعالى to the Children of Israel who deviated and turned away from the Legislation of Moses عليه السلام; they were kept under material covetousness and they lost the right and pure spirit of the religion. Therefore, Allah تعالى sent the Messiah to guide those who went astray of the Children of Israel, he revived their religion and restored it to them and cleared up its features.
Meanwhile, Allah تعالى, as it is the tradition, accomplished through the Messiah, His Servant, evident miracles; thus, he brought the dead to life, healed the blind and the leper, informed people of what they ate and what they stored in their homes. He called also to worship Allah Alone, without ascribing any partner or associate to Him. Besides, he denied all worship to the false deities and thoughts. He followed the tradition of his brothers the Messengers, confirmed those who preceded him and gave glad tidings of the one coming after him(1). However, they belied him and made him an enemy. They charged him, and his mother, of the greatest blasphemies and conspired to murder him. Nevertheless, Allah purified Jesus and raised him عليه السلام up unto Himself. His call spread thanks to what Allah accomplished through the helpers of the Messiah. They called people to his religion and to his legislation until they made it victorious over its antagonists and things got conformable to the Truth(2).
This is the belief of those who are on the right path about the Messiah, son of Mary.
However, his message was faced to a so hard resistance and persecution, mixed to polytheist doctrines and pagan philosophies that it ended by loosing its fundamental principles. This is what favored its falsification, which generated doctrines and convictions in Christianity that deviated and distorted the Revealed Message to Jesus عليه السلام.
The reality of God to the Christians
Amongst the most important philosophical convictions and pagan doctrines on which Christianity is founded: Preaching the Trinity and the divinity of the Messiah عليه السلام and the Holy Spirit. Christians believe that the three are one God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; they are one in essence and equal in glory and power. None got ahead to life. All the Christian sects believe in the incarnation of Allah in the Messiah عليه السلام -which means the act of God coming to earth in human form as Jesus عليه السلام-, but they diverge on the manner of this union and this incorporation. One group believes that it is a streak of light on the transparence of the body. Another believes that it is the reflect of the candle's engraving, another one also thinks it's the appearance of the spiritual in the corporal, a fourth one thinks that the divine is contained in the human, a fifth group considers that the word of Allah is mixed with the body of the Messiah as well as milk is mixed with water.
So, for the Christians, and according to their falsified religion, Allah is one in essence, impartial and without dimension, moreover He is independent, absolute, and one in essence and three in people!(3). Since these pretensions are wrong, it was not easy for them to understand them(4). Thereby, Christians diverged on this matter very clearly and the different sects charge one another of disbelief. Allah عزَّ وجلَّ treated all of them as disbelievers and their destiny is torment if they do not cease their sayings. Allah تعالى said:
﴿لَقَدْ كَفَرَ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا إِنَّ اللهَ ثَالِثُ ثَلاثَةٍ وَمَا مِنْ إِلَهٍ إِلاَّ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَنْتَهُوا عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَيَمَسَّنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ﴾ [المائدة: 73].
﴾Surely, disbelievers are those who said: 'Allâh is the third of the three (in a Trinity)'. But there is no Ilâh (god) (none has the right to be worshipped) but One Ilâh (God – Allâh). And if they cease not from what they say, verily a painful torment will befall on the disbelievers among them﴿ [Al-Mâ'ida (The Table Spread With Food: 73)].
In addition to their wrong convictions: The invention of the story about redemption and crucifixion. Christians believe that the Messiah عليه السلام is dead crucified for the atonement for the sins of humankind. They pretend that he is the unique of Allah sent to save the humankind from sins and those of their father Adam عليه السلام(5).
All the Christians agree also on the fact that the son is united with the person whom they call the Messiah, that person showed himself to people, and then he was crucified and killed. However, they disagree on the form of this crucifixion; wondering whether death would have happened on the divine part of Jesus عليه السلام, or on the human one, or on both of them?(6). Then, they pretend that after his crucifixion, he was buried and then brought to life three days later on Sunday; he is raised up to the heavens after overcoming death.
Allah denies the vanity of their pretensions and reveals the truth on the events that happened and denounces their lie. Allah عزَّ وجلَّ said:
﴿وَقَوْلِهِمْ إِنَّا قَتَلْنَا الْمَسِيحَ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ رَسُولَ اللهِ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ وَمَا صَلَبُوهُ وَلَكِنْ شُبِّهَ لَهُمْ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ لَفِي شَكٍّ مِنْهُ مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِلاَّ اتِّبَاعَ الظَّنِّ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ يَقِينًا. بَلْ رَفَعَهُ اللهُ إِلَيْهِ وَكَانَ اللهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا﴾ [النساء: 157-158].
﴾And because of their saying (in boast), 'we killed Messiah îsâ son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allâh', - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of Îsâ (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. Îsâ (Jesus) عليه السلام, son of Maryam (Mary)]. But Allâh raised him [Îsâ (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself (and he عليه السلام is in the heavens). And Allâh is Ever All-Powerful All-Wise﴿ [An-Nissâ' (The Women): 157-158].
The foundation of the Christian religion and the aspects of their polytheism
This is the Christian religion, founded on the blasphemy of Allah, disparaging Him and associating other false gods to Him, pretensions based on vain doctrines and corrupted convictions that are, most of them, extracted from the previous religions. This is what makes it loose its purity and its fundamental and correct form and conformity to the one revealed to Jesus عليه السلام son of Mary, Messenger of Allah the Lord of the Worlds. Eventually, the falsified Christian religion gathers both an imperfect divinity and the association to Allah, either at the level of His Rubûbiya (Lordship) or at the level of His Ulûhiya (Worship).
Among the aspects of the Christians association to the Rubûbiya of Allah: what we have already mentioned above; the exaggeration in the veneration of the creature. In other words, the personality cult, up to make of that creature associated to the Creator, a part of Him, and even another divinity with Him, denying of course the fact that he is a Servant(7). In addition, other cases of association to Allah in His Lordship, to some of them is the unity between the divine and the human in the person of the Messiah. For others, the thought which consists of the incarnation of Allah in the person of Jesus عليه السلام, which means that Jesus عليه السلام is a divine man; human in his outside form and divine in inside nature. Therefore, he is composed of two natures incorporated one into the other and thus they become one, like fire and iron or milk and water. Another case of association to Allah in His Rubûbiya, the pretension that Jesus عليه السلام will judge people for their deeds in the Hereafter(8), and from that derives the right to legislate granted to the spiritual leaders in their clerical organization and the right of forgiveness and repentance attributed to the monk and the priest(9).
Concerning the aspects of the Christians' association to Allah in His Ulûhiya, it is revealed through the worship of the Messiah عليه السلام in their prayers and the worship of sculpted images and statues in their churches(10). Some of them also worship the Virgin Mary, believing she is the mother of God, the same as for the glorification of the cross, which is their symbol, as well as the glorification of the Prophets' graves. It is for this reason that the Last of the Prophets صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم had cursed the Jews and the Christians who considered the graves of the Prophets for places of worship. This is because the origin of the association to Allah and the worship of the statues are due to those who stayed by the graves and considered them as places of worship. Thus, Christian community has gathered, at once, polytheism and an imperfect lowered divinity. They are, therefore, more misguided and more polytheists than the Jews(11).
The impact of the Christians' polytheism on the Islamic nation
The impact of the Christians' polytheism on the Muslim community is very evident. Amongst the most dangerous pretensions that influenced the Sufis and the worshippers of Al-Jahmiyah sect is the pantheism that we have already talked about; this idea of the falsified Christianity dictates that Allah is incarnated in the Messiah. Some Sufi extremists and their alike pretend that Allah, the Truth, has chosen human bodies where He, by His Lordship, incarnates. He removes the human meaning to these bodies, which are chosen to be the beloved of Allah, they will be the choice of His obedience and His service, they will be adorned with His guidance, and their position is elevated and honored in comparison to His other creatures(12).
What Al-Hallâj sings, illustrates well this matter, in saying:
Glory to the one who manifested person,
The penetrating secret of his divine direction.
Then, in the universe, is visible,
In the shape of eating and drinking.
Even seen by his creation,
As the eyebrow sees the other!(13).
Similar to their polytheism, what happened to many sects affiliated to Islam who are mistaken by what learned people find inside their heart by the effect of the faith in Allah, of His knowledge, His Light and His Guidance. The adepts of these sects end to believe that these blessings are Allah Himself(14).
The effect of the falsified Christianity on the Muslim community is an undeniable factor; the proof is the existence, in the nations of Islam, of the doctrine of the personality cult or the overestimation of the Prophets, in the beloved of Allah and righteous people. With the Sufis, Ar-Râfidhah and Al-Jahmiyah and their alike who have exaggerated in the Messenger صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم esteem, and the Shiites have exaggerated in the person of Ali Ibn Abi Tâlib رضي الله عنه and other personalities less important. Therefore, they have exaggerated in their glorification and they have elevated them from servants and worshipers position to the worshiped one. The Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم said: "Do not exaggerate in praising me as the Christians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a slave. So, call me Allah's Slave and Apostle"(15). The Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم also said: "Beware of exaggeration in matter of religion. Verily, those before you, have perished because of the religious exaggeration"(16).
It is also found out in these sects and others, of those who stay by the graves and consider them as places of worship. Whereas, the Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم said: "Verily, those of the earlier generations used to take the graves of their Prophets and righteous people as places of worship. Do not take graves as places of worship. I forbid you to do so"(17). He صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم also said: "The most evil people are those who remain alive when the Doomed Hour comes, and those who take graves as places of worship"(18).
Also, among the aspects of influence, the Christians' pretension that the Messiah is a light(19). Likewise, some of the Sufis pretend that the Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم is a light of Allah's Light. In this way, they exaggerate in his glorification. Besides, it is almost usual to find in the church the picture of the Messiah, Mary, Georges and Peter; and most of them pray for the pictures and worship them apart from Allah. Likewise, some Sufis and tombs worshipers put the picture of their Sheikhs right in the direction of the Ka ̀ba (destination of prayer) to bend and prostrate themselves before them. They take these pictures with them or hang them on the wall imploring a cure or a blessing. In fact, it is reported in the Sahîh (authentic narration of Al-Bukhâri) that `Âisha رضي الله عنها narrated that Um Salama رضي الله عنها mentioned a church she had seen in Abyssinia in which there were pictures. She told the Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم about it, who commented: "If any religious or pious man dies amongst those people, they would build a place of worship at his grave and make these pictures in it. They are the worst creatures in the sight of Allah"(20). Among other aspects of influence, the Christian spiritual leaders are granted the power to legislate, whereas this power is exclusively reserved to the Lord عزَّ وجلَّ. In this way, Christians have worshiped these leaders by obeying them while they made the lawful illicit and the illicit lawful. According to `Adiy Ibn Hâtim رضي الله عنه who heard the Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم reading this verse:
﴿اتَّخَذُوا أَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ أَرْبَابًا مِنْ دُونِ اللهِ…﴾ [التوبة:31].
﴾They (Jews and Christians) too their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allah (by obeying them in things which they made lawful or unlawful according to their own desires without being ordered by Allah)…﴿ [At-Tauba (The Repentance): 31], I told him then: "We did not worship them", he said: "Did not they forbid what Allah permitted and you forbade it, too? And did not they permit what Allah forbade and you permitted it, too?" I answered: "Yes, It was the case", he said: "Hence, that is their worship"(21).
The character of this influence, also, appears clearly on stubbornness blind followers of their schools and their own scholars, even if they are preaching in opposition with the texts of the revelation. This issue is visible in some Muslim countries where the power to legislate, to change, and to modify in matter of religion is granted to the parliament and the rulers, not even wondering if these legislated texts are in accordance with the prescriptions and the texts of the Revelation.
As we can find Christian influence on the Sufis at the level of notions, such as monasticism, renunciation of the world, hermitage, giving up with marriage and the purification of the soul by torturing the body with firm and harsh exercises. Moreover, organizing trips around the country, imitating the monks in their sermons, in their exercises and their spiritual retreats(22).
What have been presented above are the most important effects of Christian polytheism on the Muslim community. In fact, the Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم was telling the truth: "You will follow the wrong ways of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a mastigure, you too will go there". We said: "O Allah's Apostle! Do you mean the Jews and the Christians?". He replied: "Whom else?"(23).
(1) See: "Majmû ̀ Al-Fatâwa" by Ibn Taymiyya (28/606-607).
(2) See: "Ighâthat Al-Lahfân" by Ibn Al-Qayyim (2/682).
(3) See: "Majmû ̀ Al-Fatâwa of Ibn Taymiyya (28/607). See also "Madhâhir Al-Inhirâfât Al- ̀Aqadiyya" by Idrîs (1/75).
Ibn Taymiyya said: "The meaning and form of Hypostases do not exist in the words of the Prophets. Rather, is it said that it is a Roman word; sometimes, they interpret it by the origin, the person or the essence and attribute. In some other times, they interpret it by the private or the attribute" [Al-Jawâb As-Sahîh Liman Baddala Dinal Masîh (2/222)].
(4) See the different Christians' declarations of the irrationality of the trinity, a question that can neither be understood nor accepted by reason in: "An-Nasrâniyya Mina At-Tauhîd Ilat Tathlîth" of Muhammad Ahmad Al-Hâj (207).
(5) See: "Ighâthat Al-Lahfân" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (2/696). See also: "Al-Mausû ̀a Al-Muyassara" supervised by Al-Juhanî (2/575).
(6) See: "Al-Milal Wan-Nihal" by Ash-Shahrastâni (2/33-44).
(7) See: "Ighâthat Al-Lahfân" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (2/694).
(8) See: "Al-Mausû ̀a Al-Muyassara", supervised by Al-Juhani (2/575). See also: "Hidayat Al-Hayâra" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (168) and the following.
(9) See "Hidayat Al-Hayâra" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (28).
(10) See: "Ighâthat Al-Lahfân" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (2/698-704-705).
(11) See: "Majmû ̀ Al-Fatâwa" of Ibn Taimiyah (7/226). See also: "Hidayat Al-Hayâra" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (165).
(12) See: "Madhâhir Al-Inhirâfât Al- ̀Aqadiyya" by Idrîs (1/76).
(13) See: "Talbîs Iblîs" by Ibn Al-Jauzî (224).
(14) See: "Hidayat Al-Hayâra" of Ibn Al-Qayyim (182).
(15) Reported by Al-Bukharî, chapter of "The hadiths of the Prophets" (hadith 3445), Ahmad (hadith 156) and Al-Humaydi in his "Musnad" (hadith 30), from the hadith of `Umar Ibn Al-Khattâb رضي الله عنه.
(16) Reported by An-Nasâ'́i, chapter of "The rituals of haj" (hadith 3070), Ibn Mâjah, chapter of "The rituals" (hadith 3144), Ahmad (hadith 3305), Al-Bayhaqi (hadith 9806) and Ibn Al-Jârûd in "Al-Muntaqa" (473) from the hadith of Ibn `Abbâs رضي الله عنهما. It is authenticated by Al-Albâni, in his book "The pilgrimage of the Prophet صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم" (p.78), and in "As-Silsila As-Sahîha (5/177).
(17) Reported by Muslim, chapter of "The mosques" (hadith 1216), from the hadith of Jundub رضي الله عنه.
(18) Reported by Al-Bukharî, chapter of "Afflictions" (hadith 7067), Ahmad (hadith 3921), from the hadith of Abd `Allah Ibn Mas`ûd رضي الله عنه.
(19) See: "Majmû ̀ Al-Fatâwa" of Ibn Taymiyya (2/316-317).
(20) Reported by Al-Bukhâr, chapter of (The prayer) (hadith 434), Muslim, chapter of "The mosques" (hadith 1209), An-Nasâ'i, chapter of "The mosques" (hadith 712), Ahmad (hadith 24984) and Al-Bayhaqi (hadith 7471), from the hadith of `Ấisha رضي الله عنها.
(21) Reported by At-Tirmidhi, chapter of (Interpretation) (hadith 3095), Al-Bayhaqi, in "As-Sunan Al-Kubra" (10/115-2). Ibn Taymiyya judged it Hassan (good) in his book "Al-Îmân" (p.64) and Al-Albâni in "Sahîh Sunan At-Tirmidi" (3/247).
(22) See the example of "Ihyâ' `Ulûm Ad-Dîn" of El-Ghazâli. It presents the Sufis aspiration to benefit from the priests practices. The author's book was full of narrations attributed to Jesus عليه السلام. See: "Ihyâ' `Ulûm Ad-Dîn" (1/266-3/343).
(23) Reported by Al-Bukhâri, chapter of "Holding Fast to the Koran and the Sunna (hadith 7320), Muslim, chapter of "Knowledge" (hadith 6952) and Ahmad (hadith 12120), from the hadith of Abu Sa ̀îd Al-Khudri رضي الله عنه.


All Princeton students pledge to adhere to the Honor Code in the conduct of all written examinations, tests, and quizzes that take place in class. However, much of your work at Princeton — from papers to problem sets to the senior thesis — will be produced outside of class, whether in the library, your dorm room, or elsewhere. Such work is governed by the University's academic regulations, which are designed to ensure the integrity of your academic work. These regulations fall under the jurisdiction not of the Honor Committee, but of the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline.
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Do you know how much collaboration is permitted in your courses? What's allowed can vary from course to course—and even from assignment to assignment—depending on the learning goals. In the video below, students and faculty discuss examples of collaboration that might fall into the gray area or in fact cross the line.
Before you work with a classmate on a problem set, paper, laboratory report or computer coding assignment, make sure you understand the specific course policies. When in doubt, ask your faculty member or AI for clarification.


Today, I had an excellent talk with Aida and Negar at the Software Engineering & Management Program at the Department of Applied IT at the Gothenburg University. Aida and Negar has started to work on a project where they will explore the idea of a work-domain specific app-store for crisis response. Such type of an App-store is to some extent i sharp contrast to the platform specific App-stores developed by Apple. Google, RIM, Nokia, SonyEricsson, and LG. Aida and Negar presented their results from an initial survey of the different platforms and it was evident in the discussion that followed, that Iphone and S60/Nokia platforms are to underlying complexity and the need to have a "certified/signed" application.
In their work, they will instead focus on the Android platform and Windows Mobile. Android feels very fresh, but Windows Mobile is from my perspective not the hottest platform for innovative design. But there are many many Windows Mobile devices out there, especially among higher ranking managers in organisations dealing with crisis management. The installed base should always be considered.
Aida and Negar is now moving forward with their project and the next step will be to learn more about Android and Android Market. Insights from the platform and the App-store( or market) will provide valuable input for requirement specification and design. During the autumn, the perhaps provoking plan is to open up a small but working App-store for the Swedish Crisis Response Community. Anyone that would like to contribute in this work are welcome to join in this exciting effort.
In the last few weeks, I have started to become more and more interested in how the whole App-store phenomena might be used in the emergency and crisis response domain. Would it be possible for a consumer oriented business model work in our domain? What are the key issues that must be solved in order to provide a US or European Crisis Response App-store?
Or if we shift perspective, Why would it fail? I would be more that happy to hear your insights on this topic.


I am the tool and servant of his will.
And who will say 'tis wrong?
No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal. Few of these were attached to him from inclination, and none from personal regard. It was therefore necessary, that Fitzurse should open to them new prospects of advantage, and remind them of those which they at present enjoyed. To the young and wild nobles, he held out the prospect of unpunished license and uncontrolled revelry; to the ambitious, that of power, and to the covetous, that of increased wealth and extended domains. The leaders of the mercenaries received a donation in gold; an argument the most persuasive to their minds, and without which all others would have proved in vain. Promises were still more liberally distributed than money by this active agent; and, in fine, nothing was left undone that could determine the wavering, or animate the disheartened. The return of King Richard he spoke of as an event altogether beyond the reach of probability; yet, when he observed, from the doubtful looks and uncertain answers which he received, that this was the apprehension by which the minds of his accomplices were most haunted, he boldly treated that event, should it really take place, as one which ought not to alter their political calculations.
These, and many more arguments, some adapted to the peculiar circumstances of those whom he addressed, had the expected weight with the nobles of Prince John's faction. Most of them consented to attend the proposed meeting at York, for the purpose of making general arrangements for placing the crown upon the head of Prince John.
It was late at night, when, worn out and exhausted with his various exertions, however gratified with the result, Fitzurse, returning to the Castle of Ashby, met with De Bracy, who had exchanged his banqueting garments for a short green kittle, with hose of the same cloth and colour, a leathern cap or head-piece, a short sword, a horn slung over his shoulder, a long bow in his hand, and a bundle of arrows stuck in his belt. Had Fitzurse met this figure in an outer apartment, he would have passed him without notice, as one of the yeomen of the guard; but finding him in the inner hall, he looked at him with more attention, and recognised the Norman knight in the dress of an English yeoman.
The meditations of the statesman were here interrupted by the voice of the Prince from an interior apartment, calling out, ``Noble Waldemar Fitzurse!'' and, with bonnet doffed, the future Chancellor (for to such high preferment did the wily Norman aspire) hastened to receive the orders of the future sovereign.


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All-Area Football: Temecula Valley's Bert…
All-Area Football: Temecula Valley's Bert Esposito is The Press-Enterprise Coach of the Year
Temecula Valley's head coach Bert Esposito during the game against San Jacinto High School at Temecula Valley High School inTemecula Friday, September 14, 2018. Photo by FRANK BELLINO, Contributing Photographer.
By Eric-Paul Johnson | ejohnson@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
PUBLISHED: December 21, 2018 at 6:58 p.m. | UPDATED: December 21, 2018 at 10:25 p.m.
All-Area football will be published in the Tuesday, Dec. 25 edition of the Press-Enterprise.
Bert Esposito has earned a reputation for being able to breathe life into high school football programs that have fallen on tough times.
Esposito worked magic at Ramona and Paloma Valley, but he faced his biggest challenge when he took over the program at Temecula Valley.
The Temecula Valley football program once was the model of stability under Bud Kane, who coached the Golden Bears for 22 varsity seasons. However, the program saw four coaches come and go during the decade that followed Kane's departure. Temecula Valley was a combined 1-19 between the 2016 and 2017 seasons, including 15 consecutive losses.
Esposito made an immediate impact on the program, leading the Bears to a 6-6 record and the program's first playoff victory in 13 years. Esposito managed the turnaround without benefit of impact transfers. And for that, Esposito is The Press-Enterprise's Coach of the Year.
"I have to give the credit to those kids who stayed in the program and bought into everything that needed to be done," Esposito said. "This was a great group of kids. They were downtrodden but decided to stuck things out and help change the culture at Temecula Valley."
Esposito has been a resident of Temecula for more than two decade. He has been receiving compliments around town for his first season.
"It surprises me a little bit. I tell them that we were only 6-6," Esposito said. "Then they remind me of some of the previous years and tell me how they could see all the positive changes happening."
Temecula Valley snapped that 15-game skid by winning its first three games of the season. The Golden Bears finished tied for third place in the tough Southwestern League and were competitive in every game.
The Golden Bears also won the Riverside County academic championship with a combined grade-point average of 3.54.
"That's the thing I'm most proud of to tell you the truth," Esposito said. "These kids were getting the job done in the classroom as well as on the football field."
Eric-Paul Johnson | Reporter
Eric-Paul Johnson has been covering high school sports for The Press-Enterprise since 1999, specializing in football, girls volleyball, girls water polo and softball. He is a stat junkie who created and maintains a record book for high school sports in the Inland Empire. Eric-Paul is a lifelong resident of Riverside and graduated from Bethel Christian and Cal Baptist. Eric-Paul enjoys going to concerts and twice has worked as a photographer at the Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival.
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WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT TO BE?
elocal Magazine, ed. 261. 3 January 2023
As we look into the New Year, there are a lot of crucial issues facing the country – how do we deal with the ongoing unaffordability of housing (notwithstanding the recent fall in house prices); how do we increase our rate of productivity growth so that we can afford the good things of life that wealthier countries take for granted; how do we improve the serious problems in our education and health sectors; how do we deal with the longer-term fiscal crisis caused by our ageing population.
But of all the problems we face, perhaps none is as important as this: do we want to continue to be one of the few democracies in the world where every citizen has equal political weight, or do we want to become a society where political influence is determined by who our ancestors were?
Put another way, what did the Treaty of Waitangi really say, whether in the Maori language or in English?
Increasingly, perhaps since the late 1980s when the Court of Appeal referred to the Treaty as creating something akin to a partnership, the Treaty is being understood to mean that those with a Maori ancestor have some kind of preferential constitutional status.
In early 2021, the current Government was forced to acknowledge that they had commissioned a report in 2019 on how the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) should be implemented. That report, He Puapua, envisaged the New Zealand state being essentially divided into two by 2040 (the bi-centenary of the signing of the Treaty in 1840), with different health systems, different legal systems, different education systems, even different Parliaments, one for those with some Maori ancestry and the other for the rest of us.
"Not Government policy", the Prime Minister insisted, but continued on an aggressive programme to make that segregated society a reality: the division of the taxpayer-funded health system on racial grounds; strong pressure on local government to create Maori wards; handing effective control of the country's entire water infrastructure to Maori; mandating the appointment of unelected Maori to the Canterbury Regional Council; making it easier for those with a Maori ancestor to switch to the Maori electoral roll; and more.
And this commitment to creating two kinds of New Zealander – those with a Maori ancestor and those without – has recently infected the entire public sector – our schools and universities, the public service, the Reserve Bank, state-owned media (RNZ and TVNZ).
A few months ago, there was a petition signed by thousands of university academics demanding that seven Auckland University professors who had dared to cast doubt on whether matauranga Maori was equivalent to science be disciplined.
Not long ago, the Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank gave a speech entitled "The Future is Maori".
The mainstream media has been offered substantial financial support on condition that the recipients of that largesse sign up to the Government's view of the Treaty, that it created two kinds of New Zealander in partnership.
I'm told that a few weeks ago somebody who hoped to migrate to New Zealand from Ireland was told by Immigration New Zealand to submit a 1000-word essay on the Treaty as part of his application.
The Resource Management Act has long required local councils to consult with Maori before they make planning decisions, and that requirement has been progressively strengthened to the point where Maori tribes are effectively given a veto power over many local council decisions. In Tauranga, a much-needed expansion of the Port of Tauranga has been held up for years by tribal intransigence.
Late last year, there was an uproar when the mayor of Kaipara denied a newly-elected councillor the right to open a council meeting with a Maori prayer (karakia). I strongly suspect that had a Christian with no Maori ancestry asked to open the council meeting with prayer, she would have been told that the council was a secular institution and a prayer would be inappropriate.
I recently attended the first meeting of a newly-elected council. Male councillors sat in the front row; women councillors sat in the row behind. There were four speeches in the Maori language, with no translation provided, even though the great majority of the councillors and of the members of the public in attendance had not the faintest clue about what was being said. It struck me that this would have been entirely appropriate on a marae, where Maori should clearly be free to determine whatever ritual they choose. But it was grossly inappropriate in a ratepayer-funded facility to rank men ahead of women, and simply rude to give speeches in a language which very few of the audience understood.
The increasing use of Maori words in official documents, on signs and in taxpayer-funded media is nuts if it is intended that most of the population understand what is intended. I have always supported taxpayers' funds being used to support the teaching of the Maori language to those who wish to learn it. But it is crazy to imagine that the Maori language will ever be more than a curiosity, in much the same way that some Catholics still hanker after the continued use of Latin. New Zealand is hugely fortunate that English is our primary language, as it is the nearest thing there is to a truly international language. Using taxpayers' funds to teach kids who can't read and write English effectively how to speak a few words of Maori is crazy.
Much of our problem stems from a failure to understand the Treaty of Waitangi, or the context in which it was signed. Before Europeans arrived in New Zealand, Maori society was very basic by any standard – no written language, no wheel, no metal tools, no concept of legal ownership, widespread cannibalism and female infanticide. The inter-tribal Musket Wars of the early part of the nineteenth century resulted in a massive loss of life – more deaths in the few decades before 1840 than in all the subsequent wars that New Zealanders have been involved in.
The Treaty of Waitangi was intended to put an end to that, and was eagerly sought by many of the tribal leaders as a way of ending those inter-tribal wars (and perhaps as a way of fending off a French conquest). It involved the chiefs accepting the sovereignty of the Queen, and being guaranteed in return the full possession of their property and "the rights and privileges" of British subjects. In other words, the Treaty unambiguously guaranteed all New Zealanders equal rights.
Indeed, if it had not guaranteed equal political rights, we would now have to discard it and start afresh because there can be no lasting peace in any society where some citizens have a preferred political status by virtue of birth.
As we look to the election, it seems clear that Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party all subscribe to the view that those with a Maori ancestor should have a preferred constitutional status as compared to the rest of us.
Christopher Luxon has said that National rejects "co-governance in public services" and that is certainly a good start. But it was National that signed New Zealand up to UNDRIP in 2010 (something which the Helen Clark Labour Government had refused to do) and created the Marine and Coastal Area Act, which the courts are now interpreting to give tribes customary title over potentially huge amounts of the coast. Too often, National has railed against a Labour Government policy when in Opposition, only to continue that policy largely unchanged when in Government. As a former Leader of the National Party, and somebody with many friends in the National Party caucus, I regret that I don't feel terribly optimistic about National's willingness to reverse the racist nonsense we now see all around us. I hope that between now and the election they can give me more confidence.
Winston Peters has been vague on many issues, but on the issue of race he has been consistent throughout his political career. He is strongly of the view that all New Zealanders, no matter their ancestry, should have equal political rights. The question which hovers over New Zealand First, however, is whether they can again get back above a 5% share of the Party Vote: if they don't, then a vote for New Zealand First would be a wasted vote.
Which leaves ACT and David Seymour. I admit that I have a strong preference for ACT for a whole lot of other reasons also, but on the issue of race, and whether New Zealanders should all have equal political status, David Seymour has been absolutely unambiguous. He favours the repudiation of the UNDRIP on the grounds that we already have in Article III of the Treaty a guarantee that all New Zealanders have equal political rights. He is surely right: there can be no basis for treating some New Zealanders as having any kind of constitutional preference to any other New Zealander. Any other path leads eventually to disaster. We owe it to our grandchildren to get it right.
Copyright © 2023 Don Brash.


Toshiba plant to make LCD panels for Apple: report | Reuters.
Apple will invest in a portion of the investment for the factory, the Nikkei said.
This is one of the more interesting news items I've seen for a while.
That went all the way through to the systems when he built the Macintosh factory. It was supposed to be the first automated factory but what it really was a final assembly and test factory with a pick-to-pack robotic automation. It is not as novel today as it was 25 years ago, but I can remember when the CEO of General Motors along with Ross Perot came out just to look at the Macintosh factory. All we were doing was final assembly and test but it was done so beautifully. It was as well thought through in design as a factory–a lights out factory requiring many people–as the products were.
During the 90s the manufacturing function moved outside Apple's ownership umbrella. It was more economical, more flexible and more scaleable to outsource manufacturing to Asia. The time has come to rethink this.
For the past few decades outsourced manufacturing has grown in scale and scope as prices fell and quality increased. However there are signs that this global web of suppliers and assemblers is reaching a point of disruptive change.
Press attention has focused on labor practices, pay structures and the enormity of factory towns where literally millions of workers are employed and housed. As is often the case press attention only hints at some causality and as such misses the point. Journalists looking for a story about child labor or suicidal workers might serve us better by putting the spotlight on the fact that factory towns are not competitive.
The real problem with Chinese factory towns is that they are not flexible enough. By concentrating facilities and workers, electronics manufacturers have improved on measures of scale and quality but are still only able to ramp up and down on individual products once or twice per year. This does not meet the need to increase responsiveness to markets and the pace of development and design. It also reaches some critical overweight mass. Capacity cannot double or triple again to meet the need of six billion consumers. There are signs that the business model must change.
Typically a product is born in Product Marketing, progresses through Design, R&D and then to Manufacturing and finally to Sales. Each of these stages of development has to be re-started for each new product, often in a pipeline fashion. However, some of these stages are increasing their cycle times while others are at their limits. This limits the throughput of the whole chain. If, for example, R&D can put out two product designs in the space it takes for one Sales cycle then they need to be tasked with different product while they wait for "capacity" in Sales to catch up.
My contention is that the bottleneck in device product development is now manufacturing. The evidence is that Apple (among many others) cannot meet demand. Sometimes it's a lack of components, but often there is a forecast error and capacity is simply not allocated. What I also see is that this bottleneck is not solvable with the current value chain architecture. When there are 5 billion consumers of platform devices, centralized factory town manufacturing does not match the cycle time of either design or of consumption.
The answer to low capacity is more investment in more lines of production, more workers and more suppliers. However the problem is that this takes time. The window of opportunity for a product is less than six months.
Consider the iPhone product cycle. A new variant goes into development 18 months to two years before it's launched. It's ready for manufacturing a few months before launch. The R&D team is off making the next version long before the product hits any shelves. The cycle time for R&D changes unpredictably. Sometimes it slips, sometimes it may be shorter because the changes are minor. Perhaps marketing sees the need to react to changing market conditions. However, manufacturing plods along at an inflexible rate.
I'm not an expert in this area, but as a student of disruption I see signs of opportunity to re-engineer the manufacturing business model. The patterns from history are plain to see: Centralized systems get broken down and re-aligned with new bases of competition. Value chains disintegrate and re-integrate as profit algorithms change.
The new algorithm says you need to ramp production quickly (up and down) and to increase "product turns" from one to two each year. Each ramp needs to be even bigger than they are now. Maybe by a factor of two. Products should be built closer to where they are consumed to drive costs and delays out of transportation and tariffs. Carbon footprints need to be reduced.
All this requires capital. Lots of it. Apple has it. I see no better use for it than to re-define production as a synchronized development module.
It's time to look at owning factories again.


A team from the Vision Research Centre at Waterford Institute of Technology has discovered that patients with Alzheimer's disease have significantly worse vision than others in their age group and are more likely to be seriously deficient in carotenoids, key nutrients in the eye.
Providing an exciting basis for further research, the multidisciplinary Waterford study also shows that it is possible to improve the vision of patients with Alzheimer's disease by providing supplements that include the macular pigment they have a deficiency in.
Published in the internationally-respected Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and funded by the UK-based Howard Foundation, the research was led by the Centre's Prof John Nolan and Prof Stephen Beatty and Prof Riona Mulcahy, Age-Related Care Unit, University Hospital Waterford. Other members of the research team include Dr Alan Howard, Howard Foundation, Cambridge and creator of the 'Cambridge Diet'.
Further phases of the research will follow a cohort of patients with early signs of cognitive decline over a three-year period to investigate whether taking specific supplements can arrest the decline in and improve their cognitive function.
Prof Nolan, Principal Investigator at the Vision Research Centre and a Fulbright Scholar, Howard Foundation Chair and European Research Council (ERC)-funded Fellow, said: "Alzheimer's is one of the most prevalent diseases of older age and the single most common form of dementia which affects an estimated 48,000 Irish people. In the absence of a cure for Alzheimer's, it is vital that we look at risk factors and establish patterns between Alzheimer's disease and other conditions.
"What our research has found is that patients with Alzheimer's disease not only have lower cognition but also considerably poorer vision compared to their peers of the same age without Alzheimer's. Furthermore, we have found that those with Alzheimer's are significantly lacking in lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin. These nutrients are known as dietary carotenoids and at the back of the eye where they are vitally important, they are referred to as macular pigment.
Prof Beatty added: "This research is recognised as having tremendous potential to help a great many people as it is further developed and it is particularly exciting to see clinically meaningful improvements in the eyesight of those Alzheimer's patients who received supplements with carotenoids for six months.
Prof Mulcahy said: "From my perspective as someone working at the hospital every day with older people – and indeed younger patients – with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, it is very encouraging to see the outcomes of this research and I'd like to acknowledge the tremendous generosity and openness of those who have participated in the studies to date.
Committed to studying links between human nutrition and wellbeing, the Vision Research Centre is based at WIT's West Campus in Carriganore. While it will be commencing further research programmes towards the year-end, it is not currently recruiting trial patients.
Ends – April 8, 2015.
Photography: Dylan Vaughan, +353872569929, dylanvaughan@mac.com.
Background – The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease is an international multidisciplinary journal to facilitate progress in understanding the etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, genetics, behavior, treatment and psychology of Alzheimer's disease. The journal publishes research reports, reviews, short communications, hypotheses, ethics reviews, book reviews, and letters-to-the-editor. The journal is dedicated to providing an open forum for original research that will expedite our fundamental understanding of Alzheimer's disease.
The Howard Foundation is a charitable trust established in 1982 that provides funding for research in the fields of obesity, nutrition and other key areas of health as well as means of alleviating malnutrition. The Foundation has also supported the construction and maintenance of a number of buildings at Downing College, University of Cambridge.


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but no luck. Whenever I tried to install cpan modules the following error comes on the screen:
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again no luck. The screen again shows a cpan yaml exception error. Can anyone please help me out here?
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Join the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Conservative for Social on the Dock at the Ladysmith Maritime Society.
This evening will be by donation where like minded people with join together to listen to potential Nanaimo-Ladysmith Candidates will speak.
Gourmet Burgers will be served along with the famous Ladysmith Cinnamon Buns. There will also be a cash bar.
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Getting an internship at Google is not an easy task. Still, it is not impossible too. With the right amount of knowledge and hard work, you can crack the interview easily. The most important thing to succeed is to be prepared for what you are about to do. This article will help you to prepare for Google Business Internship 2017.
Before you even start, you should be completely aware about what you are applying for. Collect as much as information about Google Business Internship 2017 and try to understand everything in detail.
Try also to read the experiences shared by people who have worked as Interns at Google and understand how it is to be an intern at Google. I would suggest this blog post by Evan Carmi in his blog as a good start.
Do you know that most recruiters spend only an average of seven seconds glancing at your resume? What does it mean? You have to make it brief and relevant. Try not to fill your resume with all the unnecessary information that recruiters do not even care to read. Go through the job description and pick the keywords used in it. Use the same keywords in your resume. Your resume should reflect what you are capable of and how you can be the perfect choice for the position you are applying for.
During the past few years, applicant's online presence has emerged as one of the top deciding factors in job interviews. Maintain a good online presence and you will have more chances to get selected. Use Social Media creatively and effectively. Actively use your twitter and Quora accounts. Start and maintain a blog. Keep your LinkedIn profile up to date. All these can be the deciding factor in getting your dream internship at Google.
Be involved in as many projects as you can while you study. Your GPA is important, but it is of no use if you haven't used your knowledge and skills in some challenging projects. Also, try to give importance to such projects in your resume.
If you want to get your Google Business Internship 2017, or any other internship for that matter, how you perform at the interview plays a crucial role. Practice for your interview. Prepare a list of expected questions and get your answers ready. A great number of articles are available which will help you to prepare for the interviews. Go through them and choose what you think will work. After all, it is you who have to perform at the interview.
This is very important. Don't fake. Don't lie. Show who you really are. If you don't know something, admit it. Show them that you are passionate about what you do and that's all it needs.
I hope this article was helpful. Start preparing for your Google Business Internship 2017 now and I wish you all the very best.