What is up everybody welcome back to the channel you guys shout out to my boy Ben Ben is on a mission to build a freakin affiliate marketing business and internet marketing business And he's super fired up about a book an e-book that he just got Actually, he's he's he's writing it as we speak He he's almost done with it and he'll be using that as his bait to capture leads right to build an email list and and really provide Value to a specific niche Health wealth just different hacks when it comes to the body and really educating people on on nutrition and really taking care of themselves Shout out to Ben and so I had a strategy call with him if you go back In fact, I'll tie that I'll tie that call in the description You'll see a link you'll see a link for that in the description and if you stay to the end You'll see it pop up at the end But that was a long Strategy call that with that I did with him and what I do man is For any of any of you guys who are who are setting up your your cartridge account? All right so for any online entrepreneur that's into landing pages capturing leads email automation for those of you that are building digital courses and Selling it right selling your knowledge Cartura is is the one software for all of that so if you've been following me for a while It's kind of all I teach on this on this YouTube channel is just really online entrepreneurship and when it comes down to it It's landing pages and email automation That's as simple as it gets like so if you're trying to build something online You absolutely need software like this and and and I keep talking smack about all the other competitors because every single software out there Is its own individual component? You got click funnels for landing pages You got schedule once for your calendar or Calendly you got freakin Infusion software can or or more like confusion soft Or active campaign or send lane or Mailchimp for your email automation You have freakin kajabi or teachable for your membership course You got all these different random softwares, right? So if you've been following me for a while I'm always talking smack about Having a juggle all these multiple softwares to try to build something online Where inside a cartridge? Everything's in one so I always tell people if you if you click on my link in the description Profit with cartridge online and simply set up a 14-day trial I encourage people to do that first so you can compare it to everything else you got going on So you don't have to commit to a hundred bucks a month right now at all. There's a 14-day trial Take the trial come compare it to whatever you got going on Hit me up and let's jump on a strategy call. So I always tell people. Hey, man, if you set it up Through my link, I will give you my time. I will teach you. I will coach you. I'll mentor you through it I'll help you get to a fast start and most importantly I'll freakin give you my funnels and so in this case with Ben I have a ton of funnels that are already set up for for my social media clients And that's what I encourage you guys to do man if you're an agency if you're a freelancer Start building some funnels for your clients and as you bring on new clients Give it to them. You can easily build a business out of just creating funnels and building funnels for people But if you don't want to, you know necessarily do that, which is what I don't you know, I don't do that I don't Build funnels and then sell them to people that's a business model for sure But it's not part of my business model What I do is I just bring on clients every day as social media clients I start them small then we scale up But part of the deal is that You're hiring me to run paid traffic. You're hiring me to consult you You're hiring me to run these ads every month and you're hiring me to manage your landing page and email automation And as a bonus, I have all these funnels that are already done for you All I have to do is import them into your account and you have them all So when I can transfer you guys five different funnels like for example, these are all ones that I have set up for real estate agents As they're paying me And then on the back end I say hey and by the way, john I already have every funnel you could possibly need an open house a listing funnel a buyer guide a seller guide As an added bonus john As long as you set up your carture account, I'll be able to manage it all for you But I'm going to import all these funnels that are already done and we could start running ads right away And of course you can edit it. Of course you can put a different image color headline, whatever But at least the damn template is already done that saves a lot of people a lot of time It justifies what I'm charging them up front for my social media services And and and everybody wins, right? So I I send them my affiliate link. I went on that end I sent them a share code where they import my my entire funnel where where I could have easily sold it to them But now I'm just adding adding more value and they appreciate me even more and they're like damn dude Okay, david You're going to run my facebook ads and you're going to manage my carture account And all I got to do is just pay for it and you're going to you're going to you know pay for the account For example, and you're going to run all of it for me Yes, and so This is my whole affiliate marketing side of the business you guys All I care about is that monthly residual income I don't care to sell you the funnel like if I can help you succeed If I can help you end up keeping it because you're going to know the importance of it for your business I'm going to receive a monthly residual commission And that's what I'm in it for so in this case with ben He clicked on my link. He hit me up and he said david I just set up a 14 day trial. I clicked on your link profit with carture dot online Let's jump on a call. And so that's the call that you'll see in the description That's a call we did a couple days ago Pretty long call. So you guys, you know, I'm just preparing. It's not your 10 minute, you know, youtube video It's we really go in depth on on social media marketing and cartra. So I told him I said, hey man your whole strategy offering a book offering an ebook As bait to capture leads is what I've already been doing And so I said, hey man as an added bonus and you can see on the call The call we did a couple days ago, man, click on the link in the description Look at how appreciative he is dude. Shout out to ben Look at how in the video. Look at how freaking he was just like blown away.  I'm like, yeah, dude I can easily package it up and just send the share code over to you And and so again, man, when you can do that to people that that either you're bringing on as a client Or they're clicking on your link to set up an account through carture and you're making affiliate commission It's like dude that person Has no choice, but to freaking succeed like you're giving them All the freaking arsenal you're you're giving them all the fighting power They can possibly need to succeed and they will succeed. So that's how I support my people, man Give them my time. I'll give them funnels And just help them get off to a fast start. So again, shout out to ben.  So obviously he set up the 14 day trial that happens first, right? So send your people your affiliate link have them set up carture first, okay And then this is how how you do it from actually, you know, what I'm going to show you right now Is I'm going to show you how I do it how I package it all up And then I'll show you how he has to Import the share code. Okay, and I'm going to include my entire funnel. This is my book funnel. Okay I'm going to include everything everything This is a book that I wrote in 2018. Okay, and it was for my social it's for my social media clients And it's how I capture leads. It's one way I capture leads now Now I'm now I'm running Facebook. Well now I'm going to be running mid 2020 depending on when you're watching this I'm going to be running facebook ads to get them to a webinar so I can now offer them my training course That's where I'm at now with my career But when I first started and going and when I first started going after that market It was a book like I wanted to to to create that authority figure I wanted it to to create that credibility, right and I wanted to be that author when in reality everybody can man You could be that you could be that author put together a freaking few pages of your knowledge and and use that as bait So now it's it's a pdf It's it's tied to my landing pages my sales funnel And it's what I used in the beginning to capture a ton of leads And to really solidify my offer really make sure that the that the that the market wants this and make sure that the market You know is really really relating and filling what i'm what i'm providing and so My ebook allowed me to get the attention of the market allowed me to really analyze the market and and really really really Justify what i'm about to roll out which I knew I had the vision i'm like dude I want to eventually turn this into a course I eventually want to start charging people a lot of money and and so that's where it all started with with my with my ebook and so I have the entire You know Freakin blueprint the pages the freaking lists the sequence the freaking all that do the landing page the thank you page The calendar all that i'm going to package everything up right here in this call you guys And you're going to see how I do it. Okay, so again We click on my my campaigns over here on the left right that brings me into all of the ones that I've created Okay, that I packaged it up and again for those of you that want to turn this into a business This is how you do it. You can literally get good at kartra start building these funnels and selling selling them to people You can easily do that But again, what I do is I charge them up front on my social media and facebook advertising services And then I just use this as an added bonus to to create more value I give it to him. Okay, and that's what i'm going to do with ben i'm going to literally just give it to him Okay, so here's what i'm going to do I come over here I click on campaign the green button and then i'm going to name it. Okay. I'm going to name it T s r e a Book funnel Okay, so i'm going to name that and i'm going to leave it inspired digital campaign description I'll go same as um I'll go same as the campaign name. That's fine and then i'll click i'll click create Okay, so now i'm in the builder now i'm going to be seeing here's the thing about click funnels What may and I and I always bring up click funnels because I love click funnels I love russell brunson shot to freaking that whole community and that whole movement um He completely changed the game five six, you know, seven years ago with with click funnels, but um This is one one one huge way that they exploded They exploded because of the affiliates because you can build a funnel And then share it with people and in order for that person to use the funnel. They have to obviously create an account That's how how click funnels blew up So russell brunson being the freaking character and being the the cheerleader of the brand him for sure Helped the movement explode But it was the affiliates being able to to to give people commission for referring it to others And and and what a lot of people would do and what they did is they just simply would create funnels Give it to people and that person would have to activate an account And and and that account would be under that affiliates name and that affiliate would make a commission, right? So Very very simple, but in this it's way more because in click funnels All that is the funnel landing page Thank you page And pretty much it But what about the list? What about the email sequence? What about a calendar? What about multiple pages? What about um the form?  You saw the images of the homes. I'm going to create an image real quick for this 286 by 156 286 by 156 286 286 156 okay cool. So here's what i'm going to do i'm going to get that that dimension real quick I'm going to upload This image real quick And this is canva canva's free.  I don't even know how to do the damn thumbnails As far as design I keep it simple man And because I do I know you guys can too man So when you start looking at these youtube income deposits that i'm getting it's like shit, man You don't got to be fancy with this so I keep it super basic super super simple I'm going to come over here. I'm going to hit this upload And i'm going to grab the image that I want for That Thumbnail it's it's really a thumbnail. It's a thumbnail for my for my funnel Or my for my campaign or for my freaking package or whatever. So here's what i'm going to do. I'm going to grab this and make sure it's it's that size So that's that Okay, perfect. And then i'm going to just name this book Okay, cool. So that's that And then i'm going to come over here hit publish hit download hit download And that's that Okay, so let's x out of that. Let's x out of that. Let's go back and we're going to add that image right here That way it looks all fancy and shit, you know, I can make it look a little cool So there's that image and you'll see that image pop up at the end. So we got that we hit save Save and next Now i'm going to grab all the assets.  So here's what i'm going to do Products i'm going to include a product. So it's going to be This one right here. That's the product So i'm telling you man Once he imports this share code He's going to have the entire shebang now. Obviously he's going to go in and edit change the name Change the pictures the image all that the title of the page like a different link like you're You're gonna you could change all that but but but what's so powerful about this is that it's the blueprint So just follow the damn blueprint, right? You don't have to worry about freaking creating multiple pages or thinking of all these other random You know things you need to include i'm including the whole damn thing right here if it worked for me It's going to work for you, you know what I mean, so When he gets this and he imports it into his account He'll see where everything is at and then boom he could just go my communications and see the list My pages and see the pages my forms and see the form and that that will give him the vision to just simply go in Okay, cool. That's that that's that that's that and all I gotta do is edit and and and and that's the blueprint man So it's powerful So i'm gonna include the product because I I have my books selling at five bucks And then I also have a page where people can download it for free So i'm including everything dude everything everything so list let's go to list and we're gonna go to Because I think I have a couple list. Let's go to um Free book customers and I have paid book customers. So i'm gonna go paid book customers That's the list so everyone who buys my book for five bucks goes to that list Everyone who gets it for free Goes to that list Everyone who schedules an appointment because when you go to my book page my landing page whether you buy it Or it's a free one whatever you enter your name and number or name and credit card and boom you go to a thank you page Right. So after you process you go to a thank you page on that. Thank you page. It's me on video Getting you to schedule an appointment when you click on that call to action button on the thank you page It takes you to my calendar, which i'm gonna include And once you schedule an appointment it takes you And and it well Once you schedule an appointment it puts you on a list So now I have a list for my for my paid book customers I know who paid they're on that specific list I have a list for my free book customers. So if I have a free book boom They're on that list and then for people who actually scheduled an appointment Those people are on a list as well. So i'm gonna go down and i'm gonna i'm gonna look for um It's i'm pretty sure I I know I have it under Is it this yeah, it is a scheduled appointment. It's this one. Okay, perfect. So i'm gonna click add And that's that man. So That right there you guys Crazy crazy powerful. I'm also going to include some tags So i'm going to come down to free book And i'm going to include Free book customers bam I'm going to come down to paid book I'm going to include Paid book customers. So as i'm searching through the system, I can search by tags and pull all these leads. Okay Let's see if there's any other Tags I can include the cart abandonment Let's let's include that too. Let's include that too because again, I have a sales page So you're either getting the book for free or you're buying the damn thing, right? When you go to my sales page and you go to check out it's five bucks and You don't check out I still captured your email. So I have a cart abandonment tag, which is tied to an email sequence A.k.a email auto responder.  Hey, john, what happened? Hey, john, what what's going on? Hey, john, you better get back and check out So I have three three not a ton just three emails that are set up over the next Six hours to go out and say, hey, john, what happened, dude? You better click here to freaking check out I can't you know offer that five bucks forever go back and check out bro, right? Like I have three emails that are set up to go out. So I'm going to include that tag The pages Bam, and that's why it's so important to keep everything In categories so you can really You know segment everything but it's not showing me categories here and that's fine So now I'm going to just go down to the pages So the pages it's actually Let's go to It's going to be I'm including all those pages step one. I'm going to include all those too, but let's go back to Okay, so we got free book But I got paid free book. Thank you. Okay, let's go with let's go. Let's start here Okay, so that's the free book page And then let me go to the paid book page That's the book checkout Let's we're going to include that one too, but let me find the um Okay, that's free book. Let's go free book. Thank you page two. We're going to include that one There's the video me getting you to schedule an appointment, right? So that's the free book and then the free book. Thank you And then let me also include um Okay, there we go. So we got paid book Thank you There's the sales page ban. That's what I was looking for. Okay, so That's the sales page and then I want the um paid book the paid book. Thank you As well, which is paid book. Thank you. Bam Okay, do you guys understand man?  I'm not joking.    It's made me money It freaking captured a ton of leads for me. It made me a ton of money through my email sequence And the back end of it all it's like do you understand dude? Like I can freaking I can I can I can just do it I'm telling you dude. This is a whole business in itself, man but again Set up a 14 day trial And I'll help you as much as I can and that's what I'm doing with ben so Right here dude free book paid book. Thank you or free book. Thank you sales page paid book think or freaking paid book. Thank you. Here's what I'm also going to include Okay As that person comes into my funnel, right? You enter into my world from the free book or the paid book You go to the thank you page. I'm telling you. Thank you.  There's a button right there on the thank you page takes you straight to my calendar But in my emails that I have set up. I have only had a handful In my emails I'm educating that person on the book Next day. Hey, john. Just wanted to follow up. Hey man member on page, you know nine freaking step one Here's what I was talking about click here. I did a video for you That video I have hosted on a cartridge page So when they get email number two, they click to watch the video talking about the book, right? It takes them to a cartridge page. It doesn't take them straight to youtube It takes them straight to a cartridge page where I have my video On that page and the reason why I do that is so I can put my facebook pixel on that page Create a custom audience and now start tracking all that data as well, right? So here's what I'm going to do I'm also going to include all the pages. So all the pages that Are part of the email sequence step one of five bam Step two of five bam step three of five bam step four of five bam And then the last one step five of five bam, okay That's that what i'm also going to include Is the thank you the confirmation page for scheduling. Okay, so let's go down and let's look for that one um This one right here. So call confirmed. So as they go and schedule an appointment Okay They click on my calendar link They go schedule the call They click 2 p.m central center time submit It takes them to a thank you page that thank you for scheduling page is what I also use to facebook pixel them To create a custom audience and to even create a custom conversion that confirmation page Is that one right there? Okay, so i'm going to include that one right there and that's pretty much all of the pages So what i'm going to do is i'm going to now come down to sequences The sequence is the email auto responder when they come and download my book um They're now in my funnel. So over the next few days, they're going to receive an email. That's my drip system That's my email auto responder.   Carter is all you need. All right, so click on my link set up your 14 day trial And i'll freaking hook you up too, man um, so let me look for the sequence it is This one right here. So tsra book five steps That is my email sequence. Okay the form now we need a form for the um The free book so we got the free book right there Now we don't need a form for the paid book because the paid book is not a form the paid book is a product And that's what I included. So as they go and buy the product that person is then on a list Okay, so there's no form for that. They click on the button. It straight takes them to a checkout They check out through a product page, but the free book they have to opt in to a form To download the book right so that's the free book form What I also i'm going to include Is the form for the calendar So it's going to be This one. Yeah, it's this one right here So that's the form for the calendar as they go to my thank you page Hey, this is david. Thank you so much for freaking downloading my damn book just wanted to introduce myself and Tell you what to expect check your email read the damn book And click the button below to schedule the call When they go and schedule that call They're scheduling through a separate form. Okay, it's not the same form that they opted in for the book It's a different form now Now i'm able to track them whoever schedules an appointment through that calendar form is on its own list That form is tied to a different list Which is what I included up here. So the list is this list right here Okay, so whoever fills out this form is on that list There's the freaking forms Okay, now i'm going to go down to the calendar And i'm going to include the calendar It's that one right there bam Okay, so that's that calendar right there and then what I can include is I can include The videos So here's sections for all the damn videos. I have five videos and it's in the book category, okay, so it's going to be Well, that's the video that goes on the actual thank you page Which I can include that I can include that and then let me see if I can find the here's the email sequence Perfect. So those are the five The five emails The five videos step one step two step three step four step five I'm going to include all of them. Did I'm going to hook the brother up? And just and and again All this is the template He'll be able to look at all of it and say, okay, boom. That's where my video goes. That's where my video goes That's where my form goes. That's that's what the purpose of all this is for Um, and and everything is laid out. It's all you got to do.  It makes it super super simple dude. Again.  All right, so Go back to email sequence. Let's go step two email sequence step three email sequence step four email sequence step five Bam and again what these are Is those are part of my email so you go and download my book I'm telling you in the video on my thank you video To check your emails over the next few days. I'm going to be sending you some training videos teaching you what's in the book That's my funnel. Okay, and again These are five videos that I put together That are educating them on that book that they'll see a link in their email to click on they click on it It takes them to a page which are which are these pages up here Right, it takes them to to step one step two step three and again The reason why I don't take them from my email click on a link and go straight to youtube because before you know it Five seconds later. They're looking at freaking car chases and I don't want that. I need the attention on a page I need one video boom and on that page. There's a call to action Click the button takes you to my calendar click the button You can buy some buy whatever affiliate offer i'm offering So there's you know different strategies strategies you can apply But i'm taking them to a page so I can keep their attention and have a call to action I couldn't do that on youtube With sending them to a youtube video right so i'm including all that stuff dude There's the videos and then what else And that's it dude. That is it.  I hit save save and next I can list this in the kartra marketplace.  Why not? There's over 17 000 people in kartra now not all of them are users, but over 17 000 has set up an actual account And how do I know that because there's over 17 000 in the facebook group And you cannot get access to the facebook group unless you have a damn account, right? So over 17 000 people have set up an account who knows how many people are actually on the system for for whoever is Has access to this marketplace and they can come in and just see different offers They can either buy it themselves or they can come in here and promote different offers and make a commission So That's what this is over here. I can list in the marketplace Your campaign will be publicly publicly available to other kartra members and you may opt to charge For it or give it out for free. So that's powerful, man. I'll keep it private for now Save a next and we're finished now Check it out There is my book funnel. So all I have to do is come over here Click share Yes, I have read the freaking terms click next Generate a share code. I can share with a specific kartra user. So he is already a user I could for sure do that and just pop in his email and then boom it's over there But what I'm going to do is I'm going to just generate this share code hit copy And then boom close this out And now I have a share code Here's what ben's going to do next Ben is going to come into his account. He's going to click on campaigns Okay, he's going to click on available campaigns And then he's going to see all these funnels that kartra has already built for you You can come over here hit the three dots and deploy You can come over here hit view assets and watch a video or actually it No, it just shows you all the different assets that are included But if I click play I can watch a mini video of the entire freaking funnel So before I deploy it, I can watch the video and say, okay damn. That's what I'm looking for We're talking the entire funnel you guys.  We're talking the entire shebang Kartra has a ton of these that are already done for you Okay, now in this case He's going to be importing mine So I'm going to email him the share code right now He's going to come in. He's going to click my campaigns to the left. He's going to click available campaigns He's going to click the green button and he's going to import that share code Once he imports the share code He'll see he'll click next and he'll just see it. He'll he'll see it right here And then and if he doesn't see it right here, just go ahead and refresh And then you'll see it right there and all you're going to do is click on the three dots and deploy That's it and then give it a few seconds. You'll instantly have it Three four seconds and then you can come over here. So here's what you're going to do been you're going to click on my products And boom, you'll see the product right there. You're going to click on my communications You'll see the list right there. You can hover over sequence communication. Click on sequence You'll see the sequence right there. You'll click on pages.  You'll see that form right there. Click on videos. You'll see those videos right there You click on my calendar You'll see the calendar right there And that's pretty much it. That's what he's getting.  So for those of you out there, man that Haven't cracked the code On capturing leads one great way to do it is to give away something of value For free and the easiest thing to do is a pdf Create some author authority create some freaking credibility And go put your name on some pdf and in a lot of times look dude, you can go to fiver You can go to fiver. Here's here's two things.  Let me just hover over freaking um It's actually writing so writing I can come over here and I can go to Book and ebook writing And boom dude, I can set the budget and I could say okay Um, I'm looking for a ghostwriter Bam, and then I could set the budget right here.  So I'm not logged into this account, but um I would change the budget and I would just go okay. I'm searching for 25 to 50 dollars And what I would do if I were you guys man again real estate agent insurance agent Whatever chiropractor yoga Put together a freaking ebook Put your name on it put your picture on it put your contact information reach out to someone on fiver Spend 50 bucks and have them do a few pages for you Get that template back that word document back and add to it add some images add your two cents Turn the seven pages into freaking 17. Now you have a pdf Now you have a freaking free book and that's what you use to start running paid traffic to capture Leaves don't think you can just run an ad and all of a sudden people are going to give up their information drop their Pants and give it all to you. No, it doesn't work that way. You got to give away something for free You got to give away some something of value and the easiest thing to do for both parties involved you and the and the consumer Is something of value something of an educational type of asset? And the simplest thing is a damn download a pdf like do that simple Fiverr is a great way to find a ghost writer. Okay, another site is id Id plr. Yeah id plr id plr.com This right here is super super powerful as well, dude You can come over here click on products and you can see all these different ebooks That you could pick up For literally some of them are free and some of them are freaking a few bucks Type in your niche and you can find an ebook put your name on it Your picture completely rebrand it to you and offer it to your audience That's a great way man a great way to capture leads It's all about bringing people into your funnel the top of the funnel offer them something low ticket offer them something for free Give them value up front once they're in there once they're in your funnel Then you can monetize the back end from there. You can nurture that list build that relationship Email them different affiliate offers email them different value based content to get them a schedule an appointment with you Email them whatever and at that point you don't got to pay for ads anymore You paid for the ad up front to capture the lead And then on the back end is when you monetize And that's why a lot of the times people think that they can run ads to get people to buy buy buy buy buy It's like dude, especially when you're running ads to a cold market.    You're in yoga. Why don't you give me a 10 page on the best yoga positions? You're in fitness. Why don't you give me a 10 page download on the best nutritional facts and and different things I can implement to to to drop my blood pressure, right? You're in freaking insurance Why don't you give me a pdf of the best insurance policies? To look out for in 2020 you're in real estate. Why don't you give me a free seller guide? 10 pages on strategies on selling my property A buyer guide so many different don't matter what what niche you're in man Create some something of value and a best the best the best thing is some type of pdf Especially on on a smaller scale to begin with all right, so those are two sites right there for you guys um Now that we got that share code that's all ben's going to do hit my campaigns hit available campaigns and import that Share code that's all he's going to do um And he'll have the entire blueprint Done for him all he has to do is go in there and edit And get that bad boy out to start building his business So you guys profit with cartridge dot online the link is in the description All right, set up a 14 day trial comment below hit me up message me email me do whatever We'll set up a call and i'll give you everything i got all right guys, so i'll see you on the next one over and out


So I'm Christopher Ricks, I'm one of the first-year residents. I'm going to talk about active fever, visual pathway, and glaucoma. So a quick question I want to address is how extensive is neurological damage from glaucoma? Is it end of the optic nerve with a large cup to disc ratio? Or does it go farther back and how far back? So to start with the case, 87-year-old woman referred to both retina and glaucoma, past medical history of glaucoma, hypertension, diabetes, hyperecademia, as well as a few other things. Her past doctorial history, so glaucoma has been very well treated. Diagnosed back in the 1980s, astute exfoliation glaucoma. She had feco-travel and right eye, SLT in the left eye, 713. There may have been more things that happened in between there and when the epic records started kicking in. We had a trav done. And the left eye says 14, SLT in the right eye, blood revision in the right eye. A lot of different drop regimens over the 30-plus years she'd been treated for glaucoma. And in April 2016, it was felt that her visual acuity and her visual fields were stable. Vision was 20 over 30 and 20 over 20, and IOP was well-controlled. Then in December, she started feeling that her visual was worsening, so she was referred to both retina and neurochromology. So you can see her visual fields from 2013 when we first had access to the visual version. And then in 2016, some minor changes, specifically the left eye and the super nasal field and then centrally in the right eye. So she was seen in retina in April 2017 and it was felt that she had macular degeneration, very, very mild, not enough to explain the changes. And they agreed with the neurochromology referral. You can see her OCT vermiculitis, generalized thinning of the entire macula. So then in May, she was seen in the neurochromology clinic. Chief complaint was that her vision was worse. She would say her own self-visual acuity check, which she'd walk out every morning and she'd see the mountains from her front porch. And I felt like the tops were sort of blurry and that was kind of the main thing she had noticed. So visual acuity had dropped to 20, 15, 30. IOP was still well-controlled and no APD. Color vision was not good at all. And then stereo vision was poor. Enter your segment was relatively normal. She had cataract surgery. Post-ear segments, she had quite a bit of cupping in her optic nerves and then some RPE changes throughout the retina. She can see the visual field that was done. Regression of that superior nasal field and then the central area in the right eye. And OCT of the RNFL was done. It showed generalized thinning as we'd expect. And in neurochromology service, like we said, we'd lift the MRIs, could always do. And we noticed that her chiasm was very, very small compared to a normal patient's optic chiasm. You can see quite a bit of thinning there. So if you can see the optic tract, what a very, very thin and tenuated versus the normal optic tract is quite a bit more robust than in the normal control patient. So our impression was that she had atrophy of the visual pathway secondary to her chronic glaucoma. We recommend to continue to treat the glaucoma and then also managing her vascular risk factors. Remember, she had all of them essentially. So what does the literature say about this? In a paper by Kashiwagi et al. in Journal of Glaucoma 2004, they did a study on 31 patients with advanced glaucoma, 26 healthy controls, the age and gender matched. And their conclusion was that MRI and the anterior visual pathway may be a good tool to for evaluating glaucoma and its damage objectively. Specifically, they measured smaller optic nerves in glaucoma patients. The height of the optic chiasm was thinner in glaucoma patients. Although they did say in their study that the height of the optic chiasm had a low correlation with the cup-to-disc ratio. In the British Journal of Radiology study by Kitsos et al. 26 patients with advanced glaucoma, 26 controls. Their conclusions were that PoEG leads to optic nerve atrophy and degeneration of the entire optic pathway. The finding of increased numbers of white matter and hyperintensities in the brain of patients with PoEG suggests that hypoprefusion due to microangiopathy may play a role, basically suggesting that maybe there's other things besides just increased the eye findings attributing to this atrophy of the entire pathway, including the optic nerve. So they found optic nerve atrophy, degeneration of the chiasm, and they even found degeneration of the occipital cortex, white matter, and then all the microvascular changes. In a study done by Zeng et al. They found that patients with normal pressure glaucoma have an HGestive reduced optic nerve diameter, optic chiasm height, and LGN volume as measured at MRI, and this correlates with the reduced RNFL thickness. So you can see a graph here of some of their data showing 15 millimeters behind the optic nerve. There's a great correlation between the RNFL thickness. And then different measurements, 5, 10, and 15 millimeters behind the eye. There's quite a bit of difference in the optic nerve diameter. They suggested even that MRI may be applied to examine the optic nerve in patients with glaucoma with opaque optic cancer, suggesting that's another way to monitor their glaucoma. In a way at all, it suggested that they saw widespread CNS abnormalities based on the diffusion tensor imaging. Basically, all these studies are coming to the conclusion there's damage throughout the whole entire system of the optic, the visual system. So a few questions that I want to address and to quite a few experts in the room. First one is what role does glaucoma play in actually the visual pathway behind the optic nerve? I'd be curious to hear some of your thoughts. I know Dr. Roscoff talks about how glaucoma is felt to be a vascular disease in some patients. I mean, I think your level of damage will be proportional to the amount of, the gain in the cell goes a little bit to the body. So we've always kind of had this theory that in the nervous system that if the disease is in cell system packs, that everything else kind of stays there. I call it the light socket theory of vision. The bulb is gone and everything else is ready.  And frankly, the core work that's been done on this, that the Saint Peter Manchin recognizes our own brother Mark and Brian Jones who sat there and shown, no, the wreckages doesn't sit there. If you knock out Bob Rods and Combs, the wreckages say, okay, all right, we're ready for some of the Rods and Combs. It generates extensively, and it continues to do so. It works itself into an atrial-fig, self-stimulating series of cycles. And the very work now done shown that that continues on through the process, the visual process, that the nervous system likes to be stimulated, and I'm part of an example of that is why patients with macrogenerations get these formal hallucinations. Those are self-stimulatory type processes that are ongoing, and that's part of the whole system. So I think, again, it's amazing how that still is out there. And there's still people pushing that room-nice pigmentosa that the retinas otherwise just say, ready to be wired up. And yeah, you can get it. First sex, you can stimulate with enough energy to get something, but you don't just have the system sitting there ready to go. And that work now is for those who understand core physiology is not well accepted.  And the rest, I remember Jean Duvall, when that was first presented, I was sitting next to him and he just said, well, I find that very offensive. And there is, there isn't. So we gotta be careful about how we get involved. So I don't see this as any problem. I, here's my thought in regards to this work about the fact that umber scan is a good way to tell the virus to glaucoma. It's about the same as saying, death correlates very well with big deal. If you need an MR scan to know, you've got glaucoma. You've been missing some really serious things for a long time. And so, you know, is there enough damage done if you're knocking on the gang in the cell as you can probably see after the award? I'm sure. And that's, that shouldn't surprise anybody. If you're knocking on the entire stimulatory pathway from the eye, that results in changes. I think from Brian, from Grodner, Mark, from Landry, the answer to that is yes. That the visual pathway itself is gonna be impacted. So I don't, you know, I think it's a kind of, what would you expect more than, well, this is a head scratcher. And it's amazing how continuing people don't realize how the nervous system responds in a very aberrant way. It's not getting the stimulation. I was just gonna say, it also is very interesting because it shows the presence of cell-cell interactions. So there's the neural to neural or probably the questions I get for you, and would you find any evidence to the treatment of it? I didn't find anything about that, no. It's a good question, no. Well, there are certain conditions like, for example, diabetes is metabolic memory. You have where if glucose is out of whack for a long time, then even when you get it back into control that there was damage done, it doesn't seem to be the treatment of it. So it would be interesting to know what happens if there is an ability to sort of reverse some of it. Yeah. Just got to my friend, he's going to just kind of prefer this about the MRI, it's kind of a call combination. I could say, typical situation, the nerves don't follow my book. It feels like there's a pretty straightforward, so $2,000 MRI scan, but where are you going to give us the same indication or?  We just happened to have access to it. Sorry, this is the very beginning of your case, but this has become a not terribly uncommon neuro ophthalmology consult request. That somebody gets a scan for some of the reason and the radiologist says this person looks like they might have high internal pressure or this person has dilated nerve sheath or the optic nerves are asymmetric. And so the person who ordered the scan gets that report and it causes somewhat of a hullabaloo and then nobody puts all the pieces together and says, well, could somebody just sort of think about how this might actually just be the case? Yes, they had a traumatic optic neuropathy 30 years ago and their right optic nerve is atrophic and thank you very much radiologists for letting us know, but we kind of knew about that. Thanks a lot. It's like when the radiologist calls to tell me that somebody's got papillodema and I say, thank you, that's very helpful, that's kind of why I ordered the scan, but yes, thank you very much, I'm glad you can see that. But there's been this intersection of radiology has improved phenomenally in the last 10 years and they can actually see this now. I mean, you wouldn't have gotten any calls like this 10 years ago because they wouldn't have been able to see the subtle finding and so now it's just something that we're having to kind of understand as almost like a technological advance. This is not, obviously, how you diagnose glaucoma at all, at all, because it's completely nonspecific. Every optic atrophy will cause the optic nerve to look small, but in case you want to... And it's an advanced finding, I mean, this is something that happens after one thing. And I answered one of these questions, by the time the optic nerves are looking small in the MRI scan, I don't think that anybody in the glaucoma world at current treatment capacity feels like that's anything even close to reversible. What you would hope is perhaps that you could stop it from getting worse. I put that to the key there is current, because there's a lot of research in this area and I think there's holes in the future. I don't think anybody's got any good optic nerve regeneration stuff yet, but boy, that would be nice. So, kind of the fall-up for question is, what about from the other direction? Is a lot of microvascular disease and quadratrophy play a role in what we're calling just pure glaucoma? Any specific thoughts on that? I think we definitely will see the atrophy of the whole visual pathway and is that going to correlate with what we consider glaucoma as changes? A retrograde atrophy, I guess. Well, the regeneration work that Robert Martin had shown definitively in the rep and now starting to show elsewhere through the system would seem to be something that you generally can expect. The interesting thing is how severe that degeneration continues down along the system, which is really relevant, because quietly there's been a group working here for a long, long time. Alessandra's not here, but Alessandra Angelucci and others and we are going to have, I've heard this before, but I'm pretty confident, the first of the Moran cordillus array implanted in the visual cortex in humans this summer. And we're going to find out, it's a place where you can actually get very robust, heavy density. They already have an array that'll stimulate 625 points. The original one's going to be 100. And this is going to be the first time we're going to answer.  The ones they're looking for, that they've wind up with people who then had trauma and lost all vision, but have had a fully formed system but they've lost their vision within a period of a few years, is that a time where you don't have enough, you don't have so much atrophy in the cortex to get usable vision. Theoretically, you could get excellent vision, you get better vision there than you can certainly in retina. And in the optic nerve, the optic nerve is so tight that you get crossover signals, you've got room for it to potentially get some very usable vision. So we're going to start answering that question about what's left of the circumstances. But if you give it enough time, obviously this rewiring is important. If there is microvascular disease that is beyond just what's happening in the optic nerve and scatters you there, then I think we would have seen more obvious signs of it in regards to elsewhere now. Imagine anything, just the visual system, not the rest of the brain, that just has not popped up as a clinical entity. So I think that that's unlikely. That would be, I just think it's unlikely that we would not have picked up on that in some other clinical signs in regards to all the glaucoma patients. Thank you. And then the last question, MR imaging playing a role in glaucoma research versus patient care. I think it's pretty clear that it's not a useful measure for monitoring patients. When that one study suggests if someone has opaque optic media, but in research it could be something interesting down the road. I want to thank Dr. DeGree for helping this presentation. And thank you.


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Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. And here comes our star-studded show train. The Association of American Railroads presents the great Broadway musical hit, Revenge with Music. Starring Gordon MacRae and his guest star from the Metropolitan Opera, Nadine Conner. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another great musical success is brought to you by the American Railroads.  And now, here is our star, Gordon MacRae. A happy treat for you tonight. In the Arthur Schwartz Howard Deets musical triumph, Revenge with Music. Nadine Conner will be the lovely senior Ate Maria and I'll play Carlos, the lucky cabaretero who's in love with her. But of course, everyone is in love with Maria. When they watch her dance at Manuelo's Tavern and especially when she dances the Tarantella. Maria, my darling, I've never seen you dance with such excitement. Why shouldn't I? My future husband is watching.  In all of Spain is there anyone lovelier than my Maria? Say that about me, Carlos, when we have been married 50 years. Oh, sweetheart, I will always say it. When anyone to know I'm the governor of the province. Oh, tell me something, Manuelo. Who is this peasant puppy who makes love to your dancer? He is Carlos, the local miller, a friend fellow. He and Maria are going to be married tonight. It is all arranged. Then it must be unarranged by you. But why do you want to spoil their wedding? You are very dense tonight, Manuelo. I think you have been drinking your own wine. Me? Me drink that stuff? You think I'm crazy? Frankly, Manuelo, why should this beautiful and talented dancer throw her life away on a peasant? When the governor of the province is interested in her. But your excellency is married. My wife is married. See what it's done to her. Manuelo, we must save your pretty dancer from such a fate. Stop this wedding tonight. All right, your excellency. But I'm going to hate myself in the morning. And where should we go for our honeymoon, Maria? To Andalusia? Pyrenees? Oh, why should we go looking for our love, Carlos? We found it. Oh, all my life will be a honeymoon, Maria. Married to you. Maria will never be as Maria. May long it's singing me a song of love to my Maria. Maria. Never set me free. Carlos, may I ask you to do me a little favor? What is it, Manuelo? It's just a teensy-weensy little thing, really nothing. Well, name it, my friend. Isn't this my wedding day? What favor can I do for you? Don't get married. What? This fool of a tavern keeper asks us not to be married. But why? My lady, the governor of our province has taken a fancy to you. The governor is a dog. What did you say? May I trouble you to repeat that statement? I'll be delighted. The governor of this province is a flea-bitten, mangy and disrepectable dog. I admire your courage, my boy, but I'm afraid you will suffer for this. Who's going to suffer for what? Oh, my wife. Sugarcrum! Sugarcrum, me. Now, somebody tell me why this trapping young fellow called my husband a dog. Which he is. Well, if you forgive me, your ladyship, it's because your husband wants to stop my wedding to Carlos. Is that true? Now, sugarcrum. Sugarcrum, my foot. My friend, the governor apologizes to you. For interfering in your personal affairs. I do? You do. In fact, he will perform your marriage ceremony himself. I will? You will? Now, perform. You believe it, Maria, that the governor himself actually married us? Carlos, will we always be as happy as we are tonight? As long as there is starlight, my sweet, in the music of guitars, how can anything ever come between us? I'll be back before you know it. Come, Carlos, with music in just a moment. 80 key railroad officials from 12 Western European countries have just completed an intensive six-week study of American railroad methods and equipment. They have inspected railroad facilities of every kind and in every part of the country. In summing up what he and the other members of the European group have seen, here transcribed is Dr. Klaas Fung, spokesman for the delegation and directory in the Ministry of Transport of the Netherlands. Dr. Fung. Thank you. In my country, and I guess in the United States, some people have a simplified idea of rewarding. Something like this. You take a track, put a locomotive and some calls on it, and there it goes. However, it is not as simple as that. These people do not realize what tremendous effort, technical inventiveness and both administrative skills are required for the realization of a modern railroad network on which a nation's life depends. But many people in big cities and friendly towns we have visited all over the nation do realize the vital importance of railroads to industry, agriculture, trade and commerce. Without railroads, you would not have your housing, your food and countless other necessities and luxuries. It is because of these vital contributions which railroads make that our European mission came to America. We have seen how vital and important the railroads are in this country. The same is true for Europe. Our welcome was to receive the invitation of the Economic Cooperation Administration to come to the United States, to study your railroads and to see how you handle your vast amount of transportation by railroads. Deeply we were impressed with the enormous daily tasks performed, powerful locomotives, heavy trains, extensive switching yards. They all demonstrated to us how your railroads help to make it possible and to maintain the high economic level in the United States. Now it is up to us to see what incentives we found to European railroads and European economy, a technical and economic task of great importance. Certainly, that's still more important is the fact that we Europeans and Americans did and will do our part in mutual understanding. May your trains continue to run through plains and woods and over mountains in this land of great distances. And may they continue to interconnect the multitude of things which make up the American way of life. Here is Act 2 of Revenge with Music starring Gordon Macrae as Carlos and Nadine Connor as Maria. You understand Carlos. I do not want to take you to jail.  You're my friend. I am? Why don't we stop at your tavern on the way to jail and then I'll tell you what a fine fellow I really think you are. Oh, mucho gracias. That fellow, Manuelo, he's the most important person in town. I am? Manuelo, is that fellow can bring anybody down? That fellow, Manuelo, he's a recipe for curing a frown. Let me know. Worry if you hurry to his tavern in the town. Manuelo's free body of grief. How can I enjoy your party with these handcuffs on my wrists? All right. I take off the handcuffs. But Carlos, you will not run away? Run away? Manuelo, how could I even think of such a thing? Lady waiting. Index finger on the east ring. You may be sure that the pass and escape from you. But I trailed him here. I would be turned to Maria, he's bright. Oh, that faithless rude, he cares nothing for Maria. Now I am off for the palace to offer my love to the governor's wife. Cata, Cata, Cata, your Excellency, that doesn't sound like the governor somehow. May I help you, madame? I'm the governor.  I just said goodbye to his Excellency.  I'm my Excellency. Well, your Excellency's clothes just went that way. An imposter has stolen them.  Eh, what a repulsive thought. I better hurry to the palace and straighten things out. I've heard everything that happened. I am confused, Maria. I'm not confused anymore. Carlos promised to love me forever. But he leaves me on our wedding night to offer his heart to the governor's wife. It's me just now. I didn't know your Excellency was so... What the woman's talking about? Forgive me, Maria. I thought you'd been unfaithful to me. I forgive you. Maria. You kissed me. I mean, I did. Rumble me, sugar crumb. Man kisses his own wife. I don't see much point in that. Well, anything to keep peace in the family. Sugar crumb. You know, a thing like this could catch on for our entire company. Revenge with music with book and lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz was dramatized for the railroad hour by Lawrence and Lee. The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American Railroads. Well, dear friends, next week we're repeating one of the best of all the shows we've ever done. It's the current Hammerstein masterpiece, Show Boat with our original all-star cast, Ms. Dorothy Kirsten and Ms. Lucille Norman. I'll take a ticket for that, Gordon. It sounds like a wonderful show. Good night. Good night, Nadine. Well, it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next week, goodbye. It was presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark Music Library. Gordon McRae will soon be seen starring in the Warner Brothers production, The West Point Story. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroads and I'll keep tuned to your Monday night of music on NBC. Grace speaking, voice of Firestone.


My fellow Americans, one week ago we showed the world what it means to love liberty. A spectacular celebration of our independence and Miss Liberty's centennial will likely be described by historians as a reflection of the goodwill, joy, and confidence so apparent in our country. Instead of focusing on problems, America is looking for solutions. Instead of fretting about this or that shortcoming, we're out creating, building, and making things better. Instead of lamenting dangers, we're putting our best minds to work, trying to find ways of making this a safer, more secure world. And that's what I want to talk with you about today. Our major research effort called the Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI, which is aimed at ridding this planet of the threat of nuclear annihilation. Back in 1983, we enlisted some of America's top scientists and set in motion a research program to see if we could find a way to defend mankind against ballistic missiles, an anti-missile shield, if you will. Our SDI research is searching out a more effective, safe, and moral way to prevent war, a deterrence based on defenses which threaten no one, a deterrence that will be viewed as a success not by the threat of deadly retaliation, but instead by its ability to protect. And never was a purely defensive system so sorely needed. Since the early 1970s, the Soviet Union has been racing forward in a vast and continuing military buildup, including the expansion of their offensive nuclear arsenal and an intense effort to develop their own strategic defense. And as described in a publication issued last October by our State and Defense Departments, the Soviets also have deployed the world's only anti-ballistic missile system. These Soviet strategic defense programs have been termed Red Shield in an article in this month's Readers' Digest. They were confirmed in an open letter issued last month by a group of 30 former Soviet scientists now living in the United States. In stark contrast, we are defenseless against the most dangerous weapons in the history of mankind. Isn't it time to put our survival back under our own control? Our search for an effective defense is a key part of a three-pronged response to the Soviet threat. We also have been moving ahead to modernize our strategic forces and simultaneously to reach fair and verifiable arms reduction agreements with the Soviet Union. The Soviets have yet to agree to arms reduction despite the strenuous efforts of several U.S. administrations. However, our SDI research to make nuclear missiles less effective also makes these missiles more negotiable. And when we talk about negotiations, let's be clear. Our SDI research is not a bargaining chip. It's the number of offensive nuclear missiles that need to be reduced, not the effort to find a way to defend mankind against these deadly missiles. And reliable defenses could also serve as insurance against cheating or breaking out of an arms reduction agreement. All this makes it ever more important to keep our strategic defense research moving forward. We've set up a well-managed program, which in just over three years has already accomplished much. Even faster progress than expected has been made in developing the system's eyes. Scientists call them sensors and its brains, which guide an interceptor toward its target, and methods of stopping incoming missiles, especially with non-nuclear means. Technological advances now permit us to detect and track an aggressor's missiles in early flight. It is in this boost phase that missiles must be intercepted and knocked out to achieve the protection we're looking for. There have been some major achievements in the diplomatic field as well. Great Britain, West Germany, and Israel have signed agreements to participate in the research and talks with other major allies are expected. Nothing of great value, of course, comes cheap, but a defensive system which can protect us and our allies against all ballistic missiles, nuclear or conventional, is a prudent investment. I'm sorry to say, however, that some members of Congress would take a short-sighted course deeply cutting the funds needed to carry out this vital program. So it's imperative your voice is heard. In the weeks ahead, it would be a tragedy to permit the budget pressures of today to destroy this vital research program and undercut our chances for a safer and more secure tomorrow. President Eisenhower once said the future will belong not to the faint-hearted, but to those who believe in it and prepare for it. I agree with that, and I know you do too. Until next week, thanks for listening. God bless you.