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JMS Custom Homes proudly welcomes you home. This home is currently under construction awaiting for you to complete all the finishing selections! You will fall in love with the main floor that is flooded with light through many over sized windows. Gorgeous kitchen with ample storage, large island, granite counters and walk-in pantry. This is an entertainer's dream kitchen. Large mudroom and gear closet just off the kitchen. Upper level features large master bedroom, amazing Junior suite, an extra large vaulted 4th bedroom which shares a Jack and Jill bathroom with the 3rd bedroom for a total of 3 full baths. The en suite master bathroom boasts a large walk-in closet, spa-like free standing tub and tiled shower. You will love living in this beautiful home located on a very private and wooded half acre lot. All of our homes are build to Green Path Energy Standards. Home also features a finished walkout lower level.
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PTCL Privatization Dues – Ishaq Dar Raises Pending $800m Issue With UAE Govt
Seeks early release of much-delayed amount owned by Etisalat against privatisation of PTCL
Dubai-UAE (Daily The Nation Lahore / February 06, 2014) – Pakistan has once again raised the issue of pending $800 million against the privatisation of Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) with top functionaries of United Arab of Emirates (UAE) government, as Islamabad badly needed amount to raise its reserves.
Sources informed that Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, who is in Dubai currently, has asked the UAE government for early release of much-delayed $800 million owned by Etisalat against the privatisation of PTCL. Sources were of the view that both sides would reach on consensus in next few months. Meanwhile, an official handout also stated that Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar has asked the Dr. Anwar Mohammad Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in UAE Parliament for disbursement of $800 million. Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar had asked the Etisalat delegation in December 2013 to immediately release $600 million to Pakistan, as more than 60 properties have either been transferred or in the final stages of transfer to PTCL. However, the delegation sought time to consider the Pakistan's proposal. Therefore, government has once again raised the issue with UAE govt.
It is worth mentioning here that an Etisalat consortium bought a 26 percent stake in PTCL for $2.6 billion in 2005 that also gave Etisalat majority-voting rights. The UAE firm paid an initial $1.80 billion as per the deal terms, which also included transferring ownership of the properties to PTCL from the government. Etisalat was to pay the remaining $800 million it owed in six twice-yearly installments of $133 million, but has withheld payment as the transfer of some of these properties stalled. At the time of privatisation of PTCL, there were a total of 3,248 properties to be mutated in favour of PTCL. Of these, 3117 have been transferred till date leaving 131 outstanding properties, which include 32, public and 99 private.
Sources said that 60 properties have either been transferred or in the final stages of transfer to PTCL. Details of the remaining properties in the process of transfer include nine in Punjab, 45 in Sindh, four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, five in Balochistan and eight in the Federal Government.


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Friday, April 2, 2010
12 Miles Then and Now...
January 31, 2010
Temperature: 17* (feels like 2* according to weather.com)
Running Gear: Underarmour tank top, Underarmour long sleeve shirt, lined Ashland University Women's Cross Country windbreaker, my "I feel like a ninja mask", Underarmour tights, Nike dry fit pants, Underarmour gloves, and socks, shoes, and my Garmin
Finish Time: 1:59.50 (9:59/mile)
Major Annoyance: icicles forming on my eyelashes.
April 2, 2010
Temperature: 70* (feels like 70* according to weather.com)
Running Gear: Underarmour tank top, Nike Dry Fit capris, socks, shoes, Undearmour headband and my Garmin
Finish Time: 1:56.16 (9:36/mile)
Major annoyance: sweat running down my face and hitting the sidewalk in front of me.
Don't get me wrong, I loved running in the beautiful weather today, however, I think I should have left a little earlier since it was probably about 75* by the time I finished. Overall, it was a great run and my body seemed to adjust to switching my long run this week.
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These rolls are a great base for any kind of sandwich. They also go very well with soups, salads and steaks. Leftovers can be used for bread crumbs or croutons.The rye flour will give all these items a different touch.
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Animal Career Secrets Explores Elephant School. All content copyrighted 2007 by Diana L Guerrero. Some rights reserved.
There are many people who are enamored by elephants. The future is bleak for these massive creatures due to habitat loss, poaching, and other challenges. Of all the careers with elephants there are not too many places where you can get hands-on experience. One of those places is the Riddle's Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary.
Riddle's Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary was established in 1990. Located in the
The Riddle duo have extensive elephant experience. Scott has worked with a variety of elephants since 1965. His work has encompassed zoological management, private sector performances, and elephant consulting.
Heidi started her career with elephants back in 1981. She has worked with both sexes of Asian and African elephants, oversees the activities of the place, and serves in the Elephant Manager's Association.
The sanctuary always has a variety of activities and projects going. Past activities include an intensive semen evaluation project, a veterinary training program for ultrasound and elephant examinations, behavior studies, and much more.
In addition to their elephant experience opportunities, one of their most popular programs is The
The curriculum is vast and includes: Anatomy, Behavior, Physical Maintenance, Chaincraft, Ropecraft, Medication and Disease, Handling of Difficult or Dangerous Elephants, Elephant Training Techniques, and Elephant Breeding.
The top elephant experts from all over the world can be found instructing. Students come from all over the
Students and instructors stay on the premises. Although space in the school is limited, the bunkhouse is very comfortable and can hold over twenty people. It is quite nice and has both shower and toilet facilities. I visited in the summer and it was comfortable and very clean. The big social interactions took place in the cook house which is not just a place to dine.
When we drove into the place the first thing we saw was three elephants meandering down by a natural pool. It isn't something you see every day and the girls were having a good time. They get walked out in the am and then walk trunk to tail on their way back to the barns for the evenings. Elephants on parade!
Sadly, Heidi emailed me to say that the school has temporarily suspended the two week training opportunities at the elephant school. I didn't ask why yet but assume it has something to do with the fact that they have two elephant calves due in the near future.
At the moment the opportunities include a Elephant Ultrasound and Veterinary Procedures Workshop for professionals, with the elephant specialist vet, Dr. Dennis Schmitt, once year around May.
AND the newest addition for the general public is an elephant experience weekend. You arrive on Friday and spend that evening and the next two days under supervision to get a taste of hands-on work with elephants. Heidi told me that these weekends are really popular and usually run April through June and then again in September and October.
If you live in the area, or plan to travel through, they also have a visitors day on the first Saturday of every month when the facility is open to guests. So, if you think you want to work with elephants, or if you are interested in getting a first hand look and feel for what it is like–try this program.
For more information visit the Elephant School section of the Riddle's website.
On a side note, when I visited they were collecting semen for an artificial insemination program for elephants. Now, I've been an associate of a clinic that was a cryobank for dogs–but collecting from elephants takes the process to a whole new level!
Diana L Guerrero is an animal career specialist and has extensive experience in many areas of the animal world. A well known animal expert, she has worked professionally with animals for over thirty years. Guerrero is the author of several books and the host of the syndicated, Ark Animal Answers.


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Over a five-day weekend that included my wife's birthday, I had a chance to take photos in Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory still struggling to recover from the effects of a devastating 2017 hurricane that has claimed almost 3,000 lives.
Most of our time was spent in the capital city of San Juan, which has rebounded faster than other areas because of the tourism dollars it brings in. Like New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, hotels, retail, and restaurants were the first to be rebuilt and are mostly back in operation.
But off the main streets, many buildings that once housed smaller non-franchised businesses are vacant and covered in graffiti. The primary city park still has not reopened due to lack of running water. Blue tarps still cover roofs of homes in many areas east of San Juan.
Puerto Rico, which has petitioned repeatedly to become the 51st state, has been a U.S. territory since 1898. Its residents have been granted U.S. citizenship since 1917. However, the territory has been in a freefall financially, and its recovery efforts have become part of an ongoing political battle at the federal level.
The beauty, culture and artistry that are hallmarks of the island cannot be denied. The people we interacted with, almost to a fault, were unfailingly nice and grateful for those who were putting money into the economy. Hundreds of thousands have moved to the states rather than rebuild, however, and despite the resilience of those still remaining, vulnerability can be seen at every turn.
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Background Zapier Ontraport And Salesforce
When a CRM matches an intelligent You get ONTRAPORT. It is an all round marketing automation tool that provides great features like powerful CRM, email marketing, membership sites, one-click WordPress integration, payment processing, affiliate management and much more. Zapier Ontraport And Salesforce
We analyzed ONTRAPORT nearly two years ago, however Since then, the software has evolved considerably, and they have added some wonderful new capabilities. It's time. They have added several new features that were important, but also haven't actually fine-tuned some older ones although at first. Let's explore it in depth.
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Company Overview
ONTRAPORT founder and CEO Landon Ray created ONTRAPORT while running yet another company, when he could not find a CRM that would let him run his business on a single stage. Conceptualized in 2006 and launched in 2008, ONTRAPORT has grown tremendously during the last few years and they have over 100 team members that run the show. They have won several awards such as #2 nationwide for CareerBuilder's'Big Strides at Small Business', #102 on the Inc 500 list of fastest growing companies in the country, a spot on the 50 Most Engaged Workplaces list, a Red Herring Top 100, along with a Forbes Most Promising Companies list.
Who is it not for?
It is not even midsize or ideal for big companies. And if you have thousands and thousands of customers, and send a great deal of emails every month, ONTRAPORT could prove to be somewhat costly. Businesses that do not really need autoresponder and marketing automation and run sales models, can find cheaper alternatives.
Who's it for?
If you sell info products, offer coaching services, Instruction or instruction, or conduct any sort of paid membership site, you love ONTRAPORT. It makes your life easy by automating almost everything other CRMs will force you to do manually.
The Same as any other applications, ONTRAPORT has its Pros and cons. It is not ideal, and there are things that its competitors can perform better. But it's among the best — if not the best — marketing automation software solutions available for small companies, especially if they sell their products or services online. Zapier Ontraport And Salesforce
Getting started
Getting started with ONTRAPORT is not as complicated as it was two Years ago. It does not provide a trial version just like most other CRMs, but does provide a 90-day money-back guarantee. If you believe the product isn't best for you or you are not prepared for this yet, you are going to get whole refund, no cancellation fee, no questions asked.
Signing up for ONTRAPORT is a little complicated and you can only import Contacts in CSV format. Many CRMs allow you to import contacts in various formats, or perhaps straight from third party sources such as Gmail, social media channels, Yahoo, Highrise etc.. The import method is simple and compact, you can even add new areas to fit from the same page.
You can add new custom fields instantly while importing contacts
Also, there is no setup fee and you also get 2 hours and implementation. If you would like to take a look at the system you can also receive a free demo.
Workspace and consumer experience
The software sounds somewhat less responsive than Infusionsoft, and also their Main dashboard — although customizable — is not very intuitive. The dashboard displays a bunch of boxes which display the metrics you choose, but it can be somewhat confusing.
Many CRMs such as Salesforce, Groove, Nimble, Sprout offer strong Social networking integration to give you a better comprehension of your clients, ONTRAPORT is missing this feature. Likewise, when we analyzed ONTRAPORT last time, they had an app nor a mobile-friendly site. Although, they have an app for the two iOS and Android now, none of these is updated. We tested the latter and struck too many problems to list here.
Aside from the Aforementioned qualms, we actually liked things Concerning the workspace: the interface is customizable, so the menus are laid out, practical and regular naming conventions are utilized, and there are quick add/manage buttons for every module. You can add up to 150 custom fields and custom columns to customize the work place according to your business requirements.
Probably the feature that is most impressive and unique in the entire workspace Is a fast menu which appears at the peak of the page when you click on the small button at the top right-hand corner. This fast menu comprises your own workflows, any unedited items, and pinned items. You can easily pin any object by clicking the trap button highlighted in the screenshot below, so you can instantly access your favourite types contacts, landing pages or any other menus.
When you want to go, the work area excels Beyond contacting and simply managing your clients. By way of instance, you could create landing pages, sales cart, web forms and a whole lot more by simply dragging and dropping items.
When we compare the job area of ONTRAPORT and Infusionsoft, it turns Out that despite InfusionSoft having some added features and bells and whistles, what you can do, another may also do. A notable difference is Infusionsoft's campaign builder, which can be more intuitive than its counterpart in ONTRAPORT.
Powerful API
Apart from integration with several third party programs Such as WordPress, Facebook, WISTIA, Twilio, KAJABI, EVERGREEN, GoToWebinar, Authorize.Net, Elavon, eWay, UltraCART, 1ShoppingCart, and ClickBank, ONTRAPORT has an API that allows you integrate it with virtually any computer software.
How hot is it?
Short answer is we're not sure. They weren't Exactly forthcoming about their customer base, other than it expands to over 63 countries around the world. Zapier Ontraport And Salesforce
Best value for money — you receive a CRM, an autoresponder, a shopping cart, WordPress membership sites, affiliate management and task automation for just a couple of hundred dollars. To the contrary, one of the main rivals Infusionsoft costs $1,999 kickstart charge.
Fantastic rule-based email marketing / business procedures
Highly scalable and customizable CRM
On-demand postcards and voicemails
Extremely affordable two-way SMS text messaging
Powerful analytics, analytics and monitoring
Split testing capacity
Full WordPress integration, membership Websites, self-hosted order forms and landing pages
You don't even need your site because ONTRAPORT may also host your website as their sub-domain
Great customer support
- Pricing — The most obvious advantage of ONTRAPORT is the worth of the services. At $297/month without the setup fees and 2 hours of complimentary onboarding calls, they're positioned very competitively. What's important to consider with Ontraport is they offer you access to all of their features, and the capacity to store 25,000 contacts and send 100,000 emails. While a few other tools might begin at a lower entry cost, you'd likely pay 5-10x the cost of ONTRAPORT for the exact same level of contacts & features. They are scalable so that as your company grows, they can develop together with you so you do not need to worry about switching systems later. The offer of a 90 day risk free assurance is practically unheard of these days together with month-to-month or discounted yearly pricing option following the 90 day risk guarantee period.
- Great community — ONTRAPORT has award winning customer service through telephone, chat, and email during most business hours. They're clearly dedicated to the success of their customers, holding a 97% satisfaction rate and each of their reps work from one central place for easy communication between support and development. They updated all their servers for redundancy, spent in a content delivery network to ensure the fastest speed globally and are continuously on the lookout for ways to make their app responsive and quick. They also have a fantastic community of users in their Facebook user group, an instruction site that's totally free to ONTRAPORT clients, a quarterly bootcamp and certified consultant course and an yearly business construction event in Santa Barbara, CA.
- Unified system — ONTRAPORT is your automatic engine behind your marketing campaigns, seamlessly integrating your emails, landing pages, ecommerce and more with your CRM so you can hyper-target your prospects and convert them into customers. Your information is strewn about, when you have separate systems managing all these surgeries and it's hard to be able to make intelligent, data-driven decisions about your business. ONTRAPORT unites your advertising efforts into a single so that you have ONE place to phone for assistance and ONE place to check out your business data.
- Custom objects — ONTRAPORT offers the ability to build custom items that's only accessible business systems such as SalesForce, Marketo or even Eloqua. Custom made items permits you to create connections between databases. Unique to your organization.
- ECommerce features — ONTRAPORT has a massive range of impressive ecommerce features including automatic credit card payment collections and the capacity to add upsells, cross-sells, cart abandonment and credit card expiry notification automation.
Lacks some traditional sales modules such as opportunity management
No social media integration
Weak mobile program, not regularly upgraded
With all the e-commerce and membership website features, ONTRAPORT ought to have a customer care module where clients can raise a ticket
No visual sales funnel
Both packages allow 25,000 contacts with 100K mails and 100K contacts with 100k mails. Meaning if you hit the top limit for your contacts, you can just send four or one email per contact per month respectively, and buying email bundles can be expensive
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The learning curve could be a bit steep, especially when you want to use the innovative attributes
Dashboard user interface — Even though you are able to create virtually any metric you'd like, their reporting dashboard is not particularly visually attractive as it doesn't have charts and graphs. Zapier Ontraport And Salesforce
Automation effort builder — Even though Ontraport's effort builder is simple to use and sufficiently powerful, it operates by adding text-based rules one beneath another. We locate the visual'flowchart' style campaign builder used by some of Ontraport's competitors intuitive to use.
Features of ONTRAPORT
Before we delve into the features of ONTRAPORT, Let us first talk about the added features: ONTRAforms, ONTRAPORT market, and ONTRAPORT projects, throughout the event named ONTRApalooza, in 2015.
ONTRAPORT Projects
Another interesting and powerful attribute is ONTRAPORT Projects. It's an training program that lets you have your company up and running immediately. Some data collects and suggests projects according to your business requirements. When you select a job, the training module walks you through the remaining part of the procedure. You even keep using other features of this CRM, or can pause your project and resume it later.
Let's say you need to sell a product for a monthly And you're using ONTRAPORT for your very first time, you have no idea what to do and where to get started. This is where Projects menu comes to a rescue; it will guide you to look after everything from establishing a product to choosing subscription fee and so on.
ONTRAPORT Marketplace
Like an app shop, the ONTRAPORT marketplace lets you ONTRAmail, Discuss ONTRApages and ONTRAform templates with the ONTRAPORT community. You can use templates or discuss.
When you can select them to Share for free, free for certain clients or you can even bill for your designs as well as content either a one-time fee or recurring subscription fee. The intelligent software system deals with everything, and you get 90% of the fee. Than most will realise this is of a higher value.
This is Produce a set of follow up actions i.e. email, SMS, tasks, rules as well as fulfillments. These sequences could be triggered by clients through your blog, email or any other supply, and the client's request will be processed by ONTRAPORT as per the rules you defined, even while you're sleeping.
ONTRAPORT allows you to store Many Different significant details Clients as well as prospects in a single, highly customizable screen. While viewing a contact, you can send them an email or a text message, then log a telephone call, handle their credit card, then add a task… and the list continues on and on.
To upgrade any area, just click on the value in the Particular area, hit save button that appears right alongside the area and enter the new value. Adding sequences and tags can also be an issue of a few clicks. In short, the contact menu is straightforward yet comprehensive.
ONTRAPORT allows you to send normal emails, complete colour, text messages Postcards, and last but not least, professionally equipped email templates called ONTRAmail. Depending on the pricing plan you choose, you may send a certain number of emails per month, and in case you have a very large clientele, you might wind up having to buy expensive additional messages. For text messages, you want to pay 2 cents per message — that ONTRAPORT asserts is the cheapest in the industry. Likewise, ONTRAPORT charges a little .
The best thing about messages is They are Two-way messages i.e. the reply from the client can trigger a sequence. Additionally, you can automatically insert merge fields to mails in addition to text messages i.e. original name/last title or any other info of the contact.
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Dr. Khan has completed his specialized and sub-specialized training successively in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. He is certified in both specialities from the Royal College of Physicians in Canada, as well as the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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5 Coolest Public Bathrooms & Urinals
People sometimes don't pay much attention, but a bathroom is the most important room in a building. Meet five amazing and seriously cool bathrooms we've found.01
One-Way Glass Bathroom
Outside vs Inside
Artist Monica Bonvicini created this minimalist glass cube containing a usable loo to stand opposite the Tate Britain gallery in London.The work, called Don't Miss A Sec, is made out of one-way glass which means you can see out but not in. The public sculpture was exposed at the former Royal Army Medical College in Millbank, and was meant for public use.
A spokeswoman for the project said: "It will arouse curiosity because people can just come and use it, although there is a question of whether people will feel comfortable doing so."
I'm cool with that.
Surely it will bring me a very special "invisible" experience!02
Shark Urinal
Visitors at Jack Astor's in Toronto relieve (or terrify) themselves at a shark-shaped urinal, which comes equipped with two rows of pointy teeth.
Even though we know they're not real, the choppers on this urinal dredge up disturbing images of sitting in a shark's mouth, like that unfortunate guy in Jaws 4.
There is even a sign that warns
Sound advice there :)
Matakana's Sculptured Public Bathrooms
Every town has public toilets but rarely are they the source of so much civic pride as this entry in our list. The sculptured Matakana toilet blocks took seven years to complete.
The city started a competition for the building's design and received 25 entries, 12 of which were from commercial architects and designers. The winner was a Matakana local, Steffan de Haan.
The half-faces at the entrance to the toilets are molded concrete. The rest of the structure is "shotcrete" over wooden molds. The facades of each room are recycled kauri with copper edging and the sculptures cost a total of $400,000.
Aquarium Bathroom
Like many beach-side bathrooms, the Mumin Papa Café in Akashi, Japan, is decorated with deep-sea creatures. But the live three-wall aquarium envelops the stall one-ups standard wallpaper by a large margin. The underwater restroom costs $270,000 to build and is ladies-only, except for the giant sea turtle swimming around.
The surrounding aquarium was designed to mimic the feeling of relieving yourself while swimming in the ocean.
There's no chance for a diver's interference, right?
Vertigo Bathroom
Are you brave enough to use this loo suspended 15 floorsground over a lift shaft?
if the toilet is as comfortable & intelligent as the one in JOMOO M5,
there should be no fear at all!
JOMOO M5 Intelligent Bathroom
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When the sun was almost below the hills, I saw the banks grow even more populated and I was thankful for the dusk so I could slip by unnoticed. The darkness became more profound, and the increasing settlement turned into a glow on the horizon ahead of me. I was coming into a city and began to get excited. As I washed towards the city in the increasing dark, I began to formulate a dim plan. Inspired mostly by hunger, I decided to find a place to hide my raft so that I could buy food. The forgotten money in my pocket suddenly swelled with the coming purchase. The city became a sprawling twinkling and amongst the lights of moving cars were toweringalthough they realistically could not have been more than six stories highbuildings. Behind the secretive lights, thousands of domestic scenes were unfortunately combined with a flickering blue glow. High on the hill, I saw the bright lights of the strip malls, the simplistic shapes and primary colours of their gaudy signs promising food, essential goods, and finally, happiness. I saw the austere buildings of the university and how its high brick walls and pleasant lanes were crowded with students, who were, from this distance, insect small and scurrying on this summers evening.
As I drifted under the immense pylons of the bridge, their blank concrete faces swirling with a deceptively fast current, I heard voices and saw, under the lights of the well-lit walkway upon the bank, couples strolling arm in arm. I saw the morose silence of the solitary walker, wrapped in the black clouds of their thoughts. Small groups of teens, too young to attend the bar, brought their yearning to the shore, where in groups they whooped garbled sentences only they understood. I saw a lone guitar player, his long hair falling over his guitar as he strummed, the sounds coming plaintively across the water to be lost in the distance on the rivers other side. When I saw a brightly lit gas station, that beckoning image in every modern travellers eye, I began to think about coming to shore. As I paddled, I was swept past the pylons of an older destroyed bridge and tried to decipher their graffiti. The shore was packed with buildings. Some half-mile later, just as I was growing desperate, I found a place to temporarily tether the raft. I inserted my raft carefully amongst the thick bushes behind an ominous public building. Nearby, a discontinued railway bridge, which the local authorities had wisely allowed to be made into a walkway, was cluttered with pedestrians, but the bushes hid me as I began to prepare for my night in public.
I hitched my jeans a bit higher and tightened my belt, for I had grown still thinner on this diet of apples, and buttoned my coat. I laid my knife amongst my luggage and suddenly felt naked without its constant presence by my side. I slicked back my hair with river water until I was as presentable as I could be, and thrashed through the bushes to step out into the open. Nearby, a number of people looked politely away. I walked up the wide boulevards on the even concrete slabs, and my feet were surprised to find they didnt have to step over a downed log or rock. I had landed at the lower part of town and had to walk the entire length of its waterfront on a street whose only traffic was pedestrians.
I was enjoying the bustle and was nearly to the western part of the town when I sensed rather than sawalthough I quickly confirmed the sensation with my sightthat I had attracted the attention of the police. I looked into a plate glass window as I passed and confirmed that, in this safe town of clean-living people, I was an outsider. That, combined with my wild appearance, made me ripe for questioning. I almost halteduntil I reminded myself that standing still would not allay their suspicionsand abruptly found myself in the middle of a crowd of middleclass bar people drunkenly singing around a lone guitarist. I forgot the slowly approaching police car for a second and looked curiously to see if this was the same guitarist as on the river, but this man was more slight, and his unruly hair was not as long.
Many years ago, when I was driving my motorcycle without a license, I was confronted by a similar situation. Driving up to a street, I saw a police car unnecessarily waiting instead of turning towards me. There was no oncoming traffic, so the only reason the police would wait was to get a closer look at, and then possibly question me. Acting on that belief and the contingency of the moment, I drove up to the cops window and began to chat. I pointed out my motorcyclefor to ignore its presence would merely call attention to my concernsand mentioned I had recently acquired it. The cop reminisced briefly about motorcycles he had driven, and when another car came behind him and was patiently waiting to drive past, he waved goodbye.
I sat down beside the guitar player, reasoning I would then be allied in the cops mind with this other unusual-looking person. As his new friend, I listened to his thin voice attempt a version of Neil Youngs Heart of Gold. The bar people were leaving when another louder, drunken couple approached and demanded the same song. The man loudly proclaimed this song to be his favourite and said he would pay twenty dollars to the busker if he would play. I began to move awaysince the police had leftbut the drunken man, weaving even while he stood and only partly supported by the inebriated woman on his arm, demanded I sing as well, for in his stupor he believed me to be a fellow singer. I knew my singing voice was best kept to the wilds or the raft, so I protested. But he would brook no opposition, insisting that if I didnt sing nobody gets nothing.
I glanced at the busker and he shrugged, so I sat again and sang, to the best of my ability, the opening bars of the song. Luckily, the drunks quickly chimed in and my terrible rendition was blessedly drowned by the bellowing of a man who in the day was probably that student loan officer who denies a student a loan, the stuffed shirt at the bank, or the officious twerp at motor vehicle registration. I relaxed and began to enjoy the irony. When the drunks walked away I turned to the busker to introduce myself.
Hey, sorry about that.
No, that was fine, I can always use some help, he replied kindly. Here, half this is yours, and he held out the twenty.
No, forget it. I just came along. Anyway, you were the one busking. My names Joe, I said and even as extended my hand I had a momentary vision of Dans first greeting.
Bruce. Where you from? He reluctantly stuffed the bill into his pants.
I just came down the river. As I spoke the truth I felt a social weight lift from my shoulders.
What do you mean, down the river? Hey, are you one of those boat people, the ones down by the docks? Ive seen them.
No, I came by raft and just came in for some food.
Everythings closed now except for the malls uptown. You could go for the convenience, though.
Yeh, thats where I was going.
Ill walk with you, if you dont mind. Ive got to get some more smokes. Out. And he held up his empty package as a form of proof. Bruce was a small, gentle man who, despite his obvious lack of comfort with social interactions, had turned to busking. He scarcely looked me in the eye while we walked, but I could feel his acceptance of others in his occasional sidelong glimpses at my face through his thick glasses and in the way he talked about his fellows.
That was quite the drunk, I offered, in order to break the silence.
We were walking up the sidewalk now and Bruce said, Yeh, when they get drunk, they get generous. Wake up the next morning and have no idea where their money went. Hes a guy that might have been a good guy if he wasnt drinking. Crazy what they do. Good thing you didnt run out, though. I didnt make all that much tonight, and the twenty sure helps.
Yeh, no problem. Glad to do it. Although Im not really much of a singer, as Im sure you noticed.
Not so good myself. But I like to play. Sometimes I just play classical, but they all want to hear the songs they heard when they were kids. Want me to take them back, but I cant keep them there. I take them back for a couple of minutes for the cash, but thats it.
Youre a good player. You learn by ear?
I can read music, but yeh, I learned by ear. And I use tablature as well.
How long you been busking?
About a year. Was going to wait until I was good enough, but then how long was that going to be? And they dont give a damn anyway.
We had arrived at the convenience store. As we turned to enter, Bruce asked, What are you going to get?
I had given the matter a lot of thought as my raft swept past the town and had decided to look for a staple, like rice or flour, that would combine well with another amino acid to give me a complete protein.
I think flour. And I rounded the three long aisles to arrive at the small baking section. The paper bag of flour was three dollars for a tiny, three-pound bag, but it was a welcome sight. The rest of the food seemed impossibly remote from appetite to me, and I looked with interest at the glossy labels of the packages, which described their contents in a positive light that seemed unlikely. The delightful labels represented food you might eat on a long space voyage. Tricked by the label, you would open another coloured tube only to find, by a telling first taste, you were again eating the same mix of chemical nutrients and resin someone, somewhere in a lab had decided was healthy. I did see a bottle of peanuts, whose sales were unusually dependent on the sight of the peanuts themselves through the bottles clear glass, and took it from the shelf. I could use the bottle as a canteen, for water was getting difficult to find on the banks of the river and I didnt trust the river water, especially after I had passed the dam.
When we approached the till and paid for our separate purchases, I felt the bored tellers eyes light with interest as he looked at us. He didnt respond with the suspicion and surliness I expected, however, and wished us a good night when we left. When Bruce and I stepped back onto the sidewalk, we fell into conversation again, and I realized Bruce would come right to the raft with me if I asked, and would step upon it to go with me, talking all the while in his humorous, self-deprecating way and peering curiously through his mane of hair.
Hey, how you going to cook flour on a raft? Is it one of those rubber rafts, more a boat, I guess?
No, its a wooden one. I made it myself. Ive got a fire on it. Want to see it?
Yeh, sure, I was just going to walk around anyway, dont feel like going home. Lets go by the house, though, and drop this off, and he indicated his guitar with a shrug of its shoulder strap.
We walked through the quieting city streets. Bruce smoked and talked about busking and how he had worked at an outdoor restaurant but the job had ended. I gradually discovered that this restaurant was the last place Bruce had worked, and that had been many years ago. He remembered his work fondly, so I asked him more questions. When we arrived at his house, I could see by the low-slung porch and the roofs uneasy tilt that this older building was likely one of those chopped up into apartments. Sure enough, as we entered, I could see the banister of the stair went directly into a wall on the second floor.
Hey, Bruce said to his roommates and they nodded, except for one thin, greying man who followed us to the kitchen. Bruces room was a small, dark alcove beside the kitchen, ripe with unwashed laundry. As Bruce placed his guitar against the bed with the strings pressing into the dishevelled blankets, I could see the ritualistic behaviour of an established habit.
Hey, you play chess, I said, noticing the chessboard on the bed and the various pieces tangled in the sheets.
Sometimes he never even leaves the house, plays it all day, his roommate said, not unkindly.
Ive done it for a whole week before, Bruce added. Here, lets go.
Where you going? the older man asked.
Just walking around, Bruce replied and stepped past the kitchen to wave to his roommates watching the television. They said goodbye as we passed and the older man followed us to the front door, talking all the while.
Its a warm night tonight, but its going to get cold soon.
See you later, Doug, Bruce said, and we left Doug standing in the doorway peering after us. Hes a nice guy, but hes always around, Bruce said. I took his statement as both an explanation of Dougs behaviour and Bruces desire to avoid home.
He seems like a nice enough guy.
He doesnt have any kids, and I guess he wants some, or needs someone to worry about anyway. So where you going on the raft?
Bruce had already sensed I was not the typical boater, like the type that had harassed me in the mill town, but he had no idea how far these differences went.
Downriver. Not to not answer, but I really dont know. You go on the river and the river decides, especially in a raft.
Why especially?
You cant really paddle all the time, too much work. So you have to lay around and hang out.
Hey, lets go in here, just be a sec, and Bruce indicated the local doughnut shop, one of those twenty-four hour places where locals sat and chain-smoked the night away while they nursed cold coffees and argued about politics.
Hey, Bruce, a number of them called out, and then turned back to their smoky conversations.
I know a woman who works here.
Bruce, said the woman behind the counter. She said his name like it was a statement rather than a greeting, although she appeared happy enough to see him. She was about Bruces age and had the same crazy long hair, although hers was pulled up in a net from which a few strands, whitened by flour, had escaped.
Hey Deb, said Bruce, whatre you up to?
Bruce asked his question without really expecting an answer for he immediately introduced me.
This is Joe.
Hey, Joe. You guys want something?
Can I have one of those doughnuts over there? Bruce gestured towards the one he wanted with more a flourish than a point, but Deb knew what he meant and handed it to him without its accustomed paper bag.
Avoids the trash, Deb said, referring to the wrapping and I understood that both Bruce and Deb were cognizant of our responsibility to the world I had discovered on the river.
What you want?
I dont really need anything, I said, for now that I had flour and peanuts I was unwilling to part with my hard-earned money for food with so little nutritive value.
Deb leaned close and said, Its ok, its free.
I took her at her word and said, maybe a muffin, for I assumed those would have the most food value. As she handed it over I could feel myself salivating.
Everyone like muffins, Bruce said in what was obviously a private joke. Both he and Deb laughed.
We went over to the till to pay. Deb rang the register and we pretended to give her money. This transaction did not escape the observing eyes of the patrons, but they occupied themselves in their conversations and ignored us.
Thanks, Deb, I said, and Bruce and I went out into the street to eat as we walked.
Where are you from, Bruce?
Mom and Dad live in the bush about sixty miles from here, and he named some towns he felt I might know.
Do you ever see them?
I was there for Christmas. Thats where I got these new glasses. Kinda funny. I had my old ones and broke them on this camping tripwe went down to the bayand my friend Bear fixed them. He had to wind some wire around he had from the car, but they were still pretty screwed up.
So they got you new glasses?
Yeh, I was lying there on Christmas day and I woke up and they were there. My old ones were gone, so I put them on. They are the old prescription, but I can see okay. I guess my family got sick of seeing me go around with the wired up ones. They were falling apart anyway and I had to keep wiring them.
As Bruce spoke I saw the small house in the country, where kids played in the yard and parents worried about their strange son. I saw the debate over the expense required for the welfare frames that housed Bruces thick lenses, and the pleasant anxiety as they wondered if he knew about the surprise, the parents standing in the door of his tiny room while the other kids jumped on him to wake him for the present.
This is it, I proclaimed, and pointed to the brush that hid my raft from the back of the unlit ministry of justice.
You hid it.
Yeh, I wasnt sure if anyone would be around.
I parted the branches, stepped into the thicket and Bruce followed until we stood on the swampy shore. I waited for Bruce to clamber up onto the platform of the raft.
Hey, this is great.
Yeh, this is where I live.
So what are you doing on a raft? Where you going?
We sat on the rafts edge by the fire pit and I tried to think about how to answer Bruces question.
I thought I knew when I first left, but now Im not so sure. I guess I wanted to do something different, I wanted to leave where I was.
Yeh, Ive done that before.
But its not really that, either. I left in the middle of the night, and I guess I wanted to start over, start from nothing, so I took nothing with me and gave it a try.
And what happened?
The living was easier than I thought, but Im not sure about going back anymore. I had a job I didnt really leave, I guess, but Im not sure I want to live that way again. Im aiming for something like the no-packaging thing you and Deb do at the doughnut shop. And something different, too. I want to live as though life had meaning, and I see people all around me, always did anyway, who arent doing that.
I dont know what life with meaning is. I just kind of do my own thing and let other people go.
I was grappling with the problem as I spoke and wasnt making a lot of sense, but something Bruce had said was similar, in part, to my general goal.
Yeh, thats it too. I want to be able to live in a way that makes sense, in a non-damaging way, as much as possible anyway. And I want to add something so when its over I leave something positive and maybe not just a pile in the dump.
Deb really thinks about that a lot and got me into it. Shes really cool, and I can see where shes coming from.
Shes nice. Hey, so maybe I better get going. I should be long gone when the sun comes up.
Ok, man, it was nice talking, and I like the raft. Maybe I should do that sometime, well have to see.
Take care, Bruce. Im glad I stopped.
Yeh, and it got the cops off your back too, huh?
You noticed that?
Yeh, take care, man. Bruce parted the bushes and I heard him stumble back to the trimmed grass bordering the parking lot in the rear of the building.
I waited while Bruce walked away and thought about my attempt to articulate my thoughts. As I pushed off the shore carrying my new acquisitions, my flour and my peanuts, I thought about Bruces life, how the police let him alone and the other patrons in the coffee shop let him have his understanding with Deb. There are so many ways to make a living. Bruce has his friends, roommates, which I guess is a kind of family, and a job, on the street playing guitar. He wasnt the guitar player I had seen on the way into town, with the long smooth hair and carefully appropriate tie-dyed t-shirt, for Bruce didnt come from the middle classes where life looks pleasant. That guitarist went home to the silent parents sleeping upstairs, and if pennies fell when he shook out his bag, he let them lie.
As I swung out into the current I thought about how Bruce peered through his warped lenses at a world that gave people like him little space, but he would say he didnt need much anyway. He would continue to play, even in the winter when he wore fingerless gloves to partially cover his freezing hands. He would move his chess pieces there in his sour room while Doug protectively hovered in the background. Bruce would continue to ask questions and to greet his newfound friends with a generosity of soul Id seldom seen.
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Dr. Anthony Bared, a fellowship trained facial plastic surgeon who studied at the University of Miami and University of Illinois at Chicago, also performs state of the art hair transplants as well as a variety of non-surgical therapies. He has presented at national meetings on his research into laser light therapy and PRP (platelet rich plasma).
An Effective Development in the Treatment of Hair Loss
Over the past few years, cell therapy – in the form of growth factors, cell multiplication, and stem cells – have been the hottest area of potential innovation in many areas of medicine. Hair transplantation is no exception, and we are at the forefront in developing these applications.
Platelet rich plasma (PRP) therapy, using the patient's own blood which is centrifuged to separate out this growth factor-containing component, is being actively used in the treatment of hair loss, both as a solo treatment and in conjunction with hair transplantation. Rich in growth factors and platelets (one of the human body's most potent mediators of healing), PRP is applied to the scalp in several ways to help in the treatment of hair loss. Using our state of the art system, the most technologically advanced way to obtain PRP, we eagerly recommend PRP as an often effective therapy to help slow down and even reverse progressive pattern hair loss, and as part of a hair transplant procedure to improve outcomes.
The majority of our patients do show a positive response to PRP, including the slowing down or even the stopping of hair loss. In addition to being used as a stand-along treatment, PRP performed with a hair transplant has shown several possible advantages: to enhance the percentage take of the grafts and enhances healing, as well as reduces the chance of shock hair loss by strengthening the patient's existing hair, and applied to the donor site it seems to speed up and improves healing. It can also provide several months of slowing down the ongoing hair loss process. Given our positive outcomes, PRP is routinely recommended at the time of a transplant, where it is performed for a small additional fee. As a stand-alone therapy, we usually recommend PRP to be repeated at two months, then every four to six months after that.
PRP with ACell
One way to potentially improve the outcome of PRP is with the addition of ACell, a regenerative matrix product derived from porcine bladder (the bladder has the ability to regenerate when damaged) that has been specially treated so that it is safe and pure. This PRP/ACell combination is injected into the anesthetized scalp in areas of hair thinning. We then recommend the therapy be repeated two months later, then every four to six months.
Here is where we insert this photo (slide 1) with the caption A patient in her 50s with female pattern hair loss. She is shown before and just three months after undergoing a PRP with fat transfer procedure. Read below to learn more about this procedure.
Purified Fat Transfer with PRP (PFTP)
In our FDA-approved study on the use of stem cells for the treatment of male and female pattern androgenic (pattern) hair loss, the source of the stem cells was the patient's own fat. This fat, or adipose tissue, is obtained using liposuction, most commonly along the belly and hips, then manipulated using highly specialized devices that then separate the fat from the stem cells. At this point in time, the FDA prohibits the use of these purified stem cells to the treatment of just a few medical conditions, including scleroderma and heart damage, where its effects can be dramatic. However, one of our early observations is that fat alone, once purified then injected into the scalp with PRP, can promote hair growth.
We are currently recommended fat, added to PRP, to treat hair loss in certain patients in whom we feel it may be more effective than just PRP alone. This purified fat transfer with PRP (PFTP) is a proven effective way to pretreat scalp scars to improve the hair regrowth from a transplant, and we are also now using it as a stand-alone therapy to treat hair loss and are encouraged by the results.
With this PFTP procedure, a small amount (20 to 80cc) of fat is harvested using liposuction, then filtered to purify it. It is then injected along with PRP into areas of hair loss. The combination makes perfect sense: the PRP with its growth factors "turns up" hair follicle activity, while the purified fat supplies the energy for that growth. The entire procedure is performed under local anesthesia and oral sedation (if desired), and patients are presentable the next day without any noticeable changes to the appearance of the scalp.
To learn more about PRP as well as other innovations the Foundation doctors are bringing to their work, please contact us.
PRP is obtained from a small amount of the patient's blood by spinning it in a centrifuge at such high speeds that it isolates the platelets (the body's mediator of healing) and growth factor proteins. The PRP and growth factors can then be utilized in several ways to enhance the results of the hair transplant procedure:
- Added to the scalp where hairs are transplanted, decreasing bleeding and bruising, accelerating healing, and reducing shock hair loss, meaning patients look better sooner after the procedure
- Speeding up and increasing the percentage of transplanted hair growth
- Better healing of the donor site incision and FUE donor sites – this is where PRP seem to be particularly effective
Pictured above are results of a PRP with ACell stand-alone procedure. This patient underwent one session of PRP therapy in our office and the photos were taken 8 months apart. Note these results may not happen in all patients, but are becoming more and more common.
As part of our commitment to state of the art care, PRP is now provided with the hair transplant procedure for any patient who desires or is appropriate for it. Furthermore, as the addition to the scalp of PRP can thicken thinning hairs and help reawaken dormant hairs, PRP is also offered as a stand-alone procedure as a treatment for male and female pattern hair loss, where it can be effective in slowing down shedding or active hair loss. Your doctor and/or patient advisor can answer any questions you have about this therapy.
What is PRP?
PRP stands for platelet rich plasma. Blood, in addition to red and white blood cells contains platelets, rich in growth factors and are the most potent healers of the body. Growth factors promote healing by restoring the normal architecture and strength of the tissue. In a PRP injection, the patient's own blood is processed at high speeds (we use a state-of-the-art system), resulting in higher concentrations of the patient's own platelets with growth and healing factors, which are then injected to promote healing, increase local blood flow, and stimulate hair follicles to grow healthier.
Is PRP new?
No, the technology has been used for years in surgical applications and wound care, initially as a healing adjunct to open heart surgery. The use of PRP for the scalp is fairly new and evolving into a promising treatment for use both as an adjunct to a hair transplant and as a way to reverse hair loss. It is generally accepted that there is a significant response rate to PRP of approximately 70-80% in certain regions of the body, although this data mainly involves multiple studies with small population groups.
How is PRP used to treat hair loss?
Based upon the anecdotal reports of colleagues and our own work, we have been using PRP and mixing it with ACell, a regenerative matrix product derived from porcine bladder (the bladder has an ability to regenerate when damaged) that has been specially treated so that it is safe and pure. This PRP/ACell combination is injected into the scalp after the scalp has been anesthetized into areas of hair thinning or falling out. We then recommend the therapy be repeated after six months and then once every year.
How is PRP used to help the result of a hair transplant?
We see three potential benefits in PRP/ACell when a patient is having a hair transplant. First, it is injected into the FUE or FUG/strip donor area to promote healing and reduce scarring. Second, it is injected into the recipient areas of the scalp (where the grafts get placed) to accelerate healing and potentially improve graft regrowth, particularly in scalps that have scarring whether from a prior transplant or another injury, and also in the crown region where hairs have a tendency to have a lower percentage of regrowth. Third, the PRP/ACell is used to treat hair loss in other areas of the scalp not being transplanted, much as it is used as a stand-alone therapy.
Do I have to worry about the use of blood products?
No, your own blood is used for the PRP procedure so there is no transfusion risk.
What do I have to do prior to and after having the procedure?
The patient should avoid all anti-inflammatory medications for seven days prior and three days after the procedure. This includes prescription anti-inflammatory medications as well as over the counter naproxen, aspirin, and ibuprofen (cardiac patients should continue taking aspirin). It is fine to take pain relievers like Tylenol (acetominophen) and narcotics like codeine (if a hair transplant was performed at the same time). Patients on blood thinners (Coumadin/warfarin/Plavix/Pradaxa) are not candidates for PRP injections. Right after the PRP procedure, the patient is fully presentable.
How long does it take?
The entire process takes about 90 minutes. The majority of the time involves drawing and processing the patient's blood for the injection. The patient is then ideally seen at two and six weeks to access for healing and early results.
What can I expect during the procedure?
Using sterile equipment, approximately 80cc of the patient's blood is drawn from a vein and placed in a specialized tube to be centrifuged. As the PRP is being processed, the scalp will be anesthetized using nerve blocks- since local anesthetics can inhibit the PRP, local anesthetics cannot be injected into the actual areas of the scalp being treated. It then takes several minutes to inject the PRP with ACell into the affected areas of the scalp. To activate the PRP, the scalp is then treated with a roller or tiny needles with hundreds of tiny microdots made. If the PRP is being performed with a hair transplant, at the onset of the procedure the blood is drawn, then the PRP is prepared then injected into the recipient and donor areas that are already anesthetized, as well as any other areas experiencing hair loss.
Are all PRP treatments the same?
No, after much research we have chosen to use the state of the art Angel® PRP system, made by Cytomedix. This system produces the most pure, correct concentration of PRP due to its sophisticated computer technology. In addition, we also mix the PRP with ACell which helps promote the regenerative activity of the PRP, so it is added to the treatment to improve the chances of a positive response. Your patient advisor or doctor can answer any other questions you may have.
Having your PRP performed by us means that it is being done by doctors who truly specialize in hair loss so are able to properly treat you, and also that it will be a painless, easy experience. You read more about PRP here.
PRP is very much a real procedure, where proper technique can make the difference in the outcome. We perform hundreds of PRP procedures every month for hair loss, and have learned how to achieve the best outcomes. In addition, whether combined with fat transfer or the addition of ACell, the treatment potentially has a better chance of having a positive response. Dr. Epstein, Kuka, or Bared can answer any other questions you may have.
Platelet Rich Plasma complications/Risks:
There are very few risks with the procedure, and all rarely occur. These can include temporary bruising in the area where the blood was drawn or the PRP was injected, and a temporary worsening of hair loss. After the procedure, any usually mild discomfort or headache can be effectively treated with a simple analgesic like Tylenol. You will be presentable right after the treatment.


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