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Technically Speaking, the Operation IS Brain Damage
Today’s movie came as a suggestion from a coworker named Eric. When he suggested this movie, I found myself getting a little worried because, though this movie stars one of my favorite actors, it’s a total artsy fartsy movie. I generally hate artsy fartsy movies. And what made it worse (and perhaps a little apt) was that I have seen this movie before, I own this movie on DVD, but I really don’t remember anything about it beyond the fact that one of the actresses has blue hair in it. I’m going into this movie fresh because I don’t remember anything about it, but trepidatious because I don’t remember liking it. Let’s see what I think now in my review of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, co-written by Charlie Kaufman, co-written and directed by Michel Gondry, and starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, David Cross, Jane Adams, and Deirdre O’Connell.
Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) wakes up one day in a mood. A mood that is not helped when he goes downstairs and realizes his car has, inexplicably, been damaged. He decides at random that he’d liked to ditch work and go to Montauk. Here, he meets a lady with blue hair named Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). At first, the emotionally withdrawn and nervous Joel is put off by Clementine’s free spirit, but she pretty much forces him into a relationship with her. As he waits for her to come out of her apartment, Patrick Wertz (Elijah Wood) knocks on his window and asks what he’s doing there. We start to unravel that Joel and Clem had once been in a two year relationship with each other, but had a messy break up. So messy, in fact, that Clem decided she wanted to have her memory of Joel erased completely. Joel hastily elects to undergo the same procedure, going to Lacuna, Inc and meeting receptionist Mary Svevo (Kirsten Dunst), Doctor Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), and technician Stan Fink (Mark Ruffalo). Joel starts undergoing the procedure and we watch him walk through his quickly disappearing memories, but he starts regretting his decision to forget Clem and tries to fight it, but he can’t because he’s asleep.
Though I find it very appropriate that I forgot everything about this movie, I wonder why I did. I actually kind of liked this movie even though it included many things I hate in movies. I’m not a fan of artsy movies because I think they mostly like to be confusing and absurd in order to claim they are meaningful. I don’t like movies that confuse me because it’s usually a sign of piss-poor writing. And, above all, I don’t like movies where Jim Carrey isn’t raucously funny throughout! But this movie is pretty touching, even for a guy with little to no experience in what the movie is about. The only time I’ve ever broken up with someone was a joyous occasion for me, but the story is a concept that normal people (who don’t consider their Xbox their girlfriend) have experience with: wishing you could forget someone you once loved. The movie starts off a little bit grating, before you realize why the movie is being conducted in the manner it is, with it’s quick cuts and constant blur over the movie, but when you find out that they underwent this memory loss procedure, it kind of makes sense. The fact that the middle part of the story was told in flashback (with no real indication that it was a flashback), did make the story a little hard to follow for me. It only becomes really clear around the end of the movie why it started with the beginning of their relationship and instantly jumped to the end. And all the little flashbacks within the bigger flashback did start to make me lose track of where I was in the story. It did manage to bring it all together so that I knew what was happening by the end.
The effects of this movie were pretty trippy, but also pretty interesting. When we were inside Jim Carrey’s memories, they reminded us of our location and showed us how these memories were dissolving around us. Jim Carrey would walk seamlessly from a book store into his friends’ living room with no discernible cut, he would be following Kate Winslet towards the bathroom and she would suddenly be in the kitchen, people’s faces would be missing, scenery would be disappearing behind him as he ran away from it, and then other memories would just be downright warped, like turning Elijah Wood’s eyes upside down on his head. A little disconcerting? Sure, but the effects told a story in and of themselves by showing what was happening to his memories.
The performances were one of the best parts to this movie. Though I prefer my Jim Carrey’s to come in Ace Ventura-like forms, I understand his need to do a more reserved, emotional role every now and then. Actor’s don’t like to be typecast, even if it’s for doing something you’re amazing at. Though I found her character to be pretty tedious, I didn’t blame Kate Winslet. I know she’s a good actress, but that character was just written to be the type of person I don’t ever want to be around. She gets all up in Jim Carrey’s Kool-Aid on the train, and they don’t even know each other. I’m too nice to tell her to fuck off, but she would’ve worked on my nerves by getting into my business, and then overreacting and jumping down my throat because I said “nice” too much. Well go back to YOUR seat then, bitch! Also, just because you’ve decided to call yourself an impulsive, free spirit does not give you cause to use that as an excuse for being a twat. But, again, I was annoyed by the character and not the actress. Winslet pulled off some great moments of manic-depression as her memory loss procedure hadn’t gone too well. She’d be crying one second, then happy the next, as if she didn’t remember what she was supposed to be feeling at the moment, and she pulled it off very well.
I didn’t love this movie, but I found myself pretty fond of it. The story is good and relatable, but gets kind of confusing in the flashbacks and double flashbacks. The effects of the movie are well done and do their part to tell the story instead of being there instead of having a story, but some of them were kind of off-putting. And the performances were all very well executed, but I know I would’ve hated that Clementine. I own this movie, so I didn’t bother checking to see if you could stream it or not, but I do assume it’s available to rent on Netflix. I don’t feel confident in saying that everyone will like this movie, especially as I apparently only half liked it myself. I found it to be a pretty interesting (albeit confusing) story about the moments that happen right after love with good meaning, and it was pretty endearing. I will recommend you at least give it a shot. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind gets “It’s going to be gone soon. What do we do?” out of “Enjoy it”.
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Shaked was born in 2000 in Haifa, Israel. She started dancing classical ballet and contemporary dance in “Tnuot” studio under Pninit Etorg and Galina Cherniak. in 2018 she graduated from the dance department in “Reut School for the Arts” – Haifa, led by Mrs. Michal Bardas Hason and Mrs. Racheli Shapira. In addition, she trained at the “Haifa Center of Excellence in Dance” under the artistic direction of Michal Bardas Hason.
In 2016 she was granted with a scholarship and participated in the summer course of the American Academy of Ballet (AAB), which took place in New York, NY. In 2018 she performed a solo from Mats Ek’s “Sleeping Beauty” for her recital examination and was chosen to take part in a competition for excellent dancers held by the ministry of education.
Shaked will serve in the IDF as dancer of excellence, and is currently dancing with the Israeli ballet company.
She was rewarded with AICF’s Scholarship for classical ballet and contemporary dance for 2018/19.

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Last month I spent some in depth time with Microsoft at a Press Event where we learned quite a bit about using Windows 8 and how there are quite a few apps worth checking out. The apps that interested me the most will pump up the volume in my photo editing skills. Last week I showed you an app called Adobe Photoshop Express, and this week I want to share with you the Windows 8 Fotor App, it’s free.
With Fotor you can create collages and priceless photos with the greatest of ease. To make a collage all you have to do is open the app and then choose the photos you want in your collage. Keep the number of photos small, if you go too large Fotor will tell you that you’ve selected too many fotos. For my first collage I kept it simple and only selected six photos. I used some photos from my press trip to Arizona for the Bloggers Go Girls. If I wanted to share it all I have to do is slide over from the right of the screen and the share charm will pop up and then I have my options of how to share it on-line. EASY!
Switching out photos and moving them to different frames within the college was so easy, and since Windows 8 is all touch you can do it all with your fingers, or a combination of the keyboard and touch screen. With editing photos, this app is amazing and so much more impressive than instagram. I made this photo of my daughter just by pumping up the color a little, adding a boarder and a little text.
Then I took a picture of myself and used the Effects and a few of the scenes to create these looks.
The original photo:
Angel’s Kiss, B&W Comics, and Concrete Wall.
Within the Black and White photo options there were about five different ways to turn your photo black and white. I chose the B&W Comics, because I liked how it made the light on my face look, I found it to be perfect out of the options.
These photos are Cool Blue, Cool Summer and Dawn Light
And these photos are Deep Blue, Kraft Paper, and Mini Oven
Some of the photos look so similar and it’s amazing how the lighting and color changes the feeling of the photo. I love this app because it’s so easy to edit in so many different ways and I can add text with different fonts and colors and it even has pop up windows that I can put the text in. You could use the Fotor app to create your own comic book stories.
The final six looks from top left to bottom right are nostalgic, my own creation using a combination of scenes and Nostalgic, Sepia glow, sparta, Vintage, and yellow wash. I think my favorites are these bottom six. The combinations of what you can do with a photo with Fotor is endless because like my own creation, you can change the degree of each effect, and then the hue, saturation, lighting, contrast. The Fotor app really does give moms endless creativity with photos.


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text: Amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide misfolds into fibrillary aggregates (β-sheet) and is deposited as amyloid plaques in the cellular environment, which severely damages intraneuronal connections leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Furthermore, neurons are rich in tubulin/microtubules, and the intracellular network of microtubules also gets disrupted by the accumulation of Aβ fiber in the brain. Hence, development of new potent molecules, which can simultaneously inhibit Aβ fibrillations and stabilize microtubules, is particularly needed for the efficient therapeutic application in AD. To address these issues, here we introduced an innovative fusion strategy to design and develop next generation anti-AD therapeutic leads. This unexplored fusion strategy entails design and development of a potent nonapeptide by taking into account both the hydrophobic core (17-21) of Aβ peptide and the taxol binding region of β-tubulin. In vitro results suggest that this newly designed peptide interacts at the taxol binding region of β-tubulin with a moderate binding affinity and promotes microtubule polymerization. It has the ability to bind at the hydrophobic core (17-21) of Aβ, responsible for its aggregation, and prevent amyloid fibril as well as plaque formation. In addition, it interacts at the CAS site (catalytic anionic site) of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and significantly inhibits AChE induced Aβ fibrillation, stimulates neurite branching, and provides stability to intracellular microtubules and extensive protection of neurons against nerve growth factor (NGF) deprived neuron toxicity. Moreover, this newly designed peptide shows good stability in serum obtained from humans and efficiently permeates the blood-brain barrier (BBB) without showing any toxicity toward differentiated PC12 neurons as well as primary rat cortical neurons. This excellent feature of protecting the neurons by stabilizing the microtubules without showing any toxicity toward neurons will make this peptide a potent therapeutic agent of AD in the near future. © 2019 American Chemical Society.

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Nato leaders meeting for a summit in Brussels have warned of the military threat posed by China, saying its behavior is a “systemic challenge”.
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg warned China was “coming closer” to Nato in military and technological terms.
China, they said, was rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, was “opaque” about its military modernisation and was co-operating militarily with Russia.
But he stressed the alliance did not want a new Cold War with China.
Nato is a powerful political and military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. It was established after World War Two in response to the threat of communist expansion.
In recent years, the alliance came under strain as leaders debated its purpose and funding.
Tensions grew during the presidency of Donald Trump, who complained about his country’s financial contributions to the alliance and questioned the US commitment to defend European partners.
It is his successor Joe Biden’s first Nato meeting since taking office, and the new president has sought to reassert American backing for the 72-year-old alliance.
“I want to make it clear: Nato is critically important for US interests,” Mr Biden said.
The Nato leaders also agreed to keep Kabul airport running as the US and its allies withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
His country, he said, had a “sacred obligation” to observe Article 5 of Nato’s founding treaty, which commits members to defend each other from attack.
Why is Nato focusing on China?
According to the summit’s communiqué (concluding statement), China’s “stated ambitions and assertive behaviour present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to Alliance security”.
“We remain concerned with China’s frequent lack of transparency and use of disinformation,” it says.
Mr Stoltenberg told reporters: “We’re not entering a new Cold War and China is not our adversary, not our enemy.”
But, he added, “we need to address together, as the alliance, the challenges that the rise of China poses to our security”.
China is one of the world’s leading military and economic powers, whose ruling Communist Party has a tight grip on politics, daily life and much of society.
Nato has become increasingly concerned about the growing military capabilities of China, which it sees as a threat to the security and democratic values of its members.
In recent years, the alliance has also grown wary of China’s activities in Africa, where it has set up army bases.
What is Nato?
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as Nato, is the world’s most powerful regional defence alliance
- It was set up in 1949, after World War Two, to counter the threat of communist expansion
- It was founded on the principle of collective defence between allies
- It originally had 12 members, but now has 30
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: “When it comes to China, I don’t think anybody around the table wants to descend into a new Cold War with China.”
Nato’s tough message on China followed criticism of the country by the G7, a group of major economies that met for a summit in England last week.
In a communiqué G7 leaders criticised China for alleged human rights abuses and demanded a transparent investigation of the origins of Covid-19 in the country.
In response, China accused the G7 of “lies, rumours and baseless accusations” in a statement through its embassy in the UK.
What was agreed about Afghanistan?
America and its Nato allies have been withdrawing troops from Afghanistan since President Biden announced in April that all US forces would leave the country by 11 September.
They have been deployed there for nearly 20 years, initially in response to the 9/11 attacks on America.
In the communiqué, Nato says it will provide “transitional funding to ensure continued functioning of Hamid Karzai International Airport”, “recognizing its importance to an enduring diplomatic and international presence, as well as to Afghanistan’s connectivity with the world”.
Since the announcement there has been a surge in violence across the country which the government, the US and Nato blame on the Taliban, a hardline Islamist movement.
Alliance member Turkey has offered to guard and operate the airport after other troops leave.
The alliance also promises to continue to provide training and financial support for Afghanistan’s security forces.
Climate change, cyber-security and Russia were also on the agenda for the Brussels summit.

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Lea Van Rossum
“In high school I also had a sense of comfort and security that allowed me to be myself and stand out from my peers at the same time; UWFox offered me the same opportunity.”
Hometown: Wrightstown, WI
Current residence: Wrightstown, WI
When attended UWFox: Fall 2011 - Spring 2013
Background before UWFox
I attended Wrightstown HS and graduated in spring 2011. While I was in high school I played on the women’s soccer team, was in the National Honor Society, was a volunteer at the Brown County Library and was in the marching band. I worked daily on my parents’ farm, feeding and caring for hundreds of veal calves.
Why did you choose UWFox?
I enjoyed growing up on a farm in a small town because of the support I received from everyone. On the other hand, this also worried me while I was deciding what college to attend after high school because I was afraid I would lose that feeling of support from my peers and teachers. However, I was surprised to find that at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley the feeling was not lost. I was able to meet many people who actually cared about how I was doing. In high school I also had a sense of comfort and security that allowed me to be myself and stand out from my peers at the same time; UWFox offered me the same opportunity. While at UWFox I was never under pressure to be someone other than myself, and I loved that feeling.
Have you chosen a major?
What are you learning that you find interesting and rewarding at UWFox?
In high school I also had a sense of comfort and security that allowed me to be myself and stand out from my peers at the same time; UWFox offered me the same opportunity. While at UWFox I was never under pressure to be someone other than myself, and I loved that feeling. All of the professors at UWFox knew how to push me to do better without me realizing it; that’s how good they are. I truly appreciated how the faculty and staff, even the dean, would stop and talk to me on a personal level.
What are your career plans after UWFox?
Upon graduation from UWFox with my associate degree I’m transferring to UW-River Falls to major in biology. After I earn my bachelor’s degree at River Falls, I then intend to transfer to UW-Madison to attend the Veterinary School there. After graduation from UW-Madison, I hope to become employed at a veterinary clinic as a large animal veterinarian.
Other interesting things about yourself that you’d like to share?
I’ve been involved throughout the UWFox campus while pursuing my associate degree. I’m a math and chemistry tutor at UWFox. I’ve received scholarships as a result of the efforts of the UW-Fox Valley Foundation’s annual fundraiser, e.a.t.s. (educational assistance through scholarships) and it’s important to me to volunteer my time at this annual event so others have an opportunity to partake in a college education through the assistance of scholarships like I have.
I’ve also been volunteering at the UWFox GEMS program (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science) event held at UWFox. That allowed me to help engage younger girls in science related activities. For me, this was an important event to volunteer at because some girls don’t realize that women are able to partake in occupations in the math, science, and engineering fields. When I was younger, I thought occupations in those fields were for men, not women, which is why I want girls to understand that they can be a part of those fields as well.
Being active throughout the community is also important to me. I was involved in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for three years. I enjoyed being involved in this program because it allowed me to be a role model to my “little sister.” Furthermore, I volunteered at the Kindergarten Round Up program during summer school in Wrightstown to assist the teachers in their class rooms and to help the children work on their projects. I work in the bakery at the grocery store in Wrightstown on weekends and at my family’s farm before and after classes (both of these jobs require me to be at work by three am). Working and volunteering has allowed me to develop skills, such as time management and responsibility, which enable me to be involved in multiple volunteering opportunities and jobs while pursuing my associate degree at UWFox. Even though I’m helping others when I am volunteering, I’m also learning from them; I am able to learn about different cultures and am able to hear about the different experiences people have had. Overall, I believe that in order for myself to mature as a young adult I need to be exposed to different cultures and people, which both occur when I volunteer throughout the community and on the campus at UWFox.

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Published: 2018-11-20 12:04
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Agriculture and Ajloun Forestry Directorate said on a statement that cadres of the Directorate are carrying out intensive field campaigns to monitor, inspect and protect forest resources from illegal logging, especially in winter time.
Ra’ed Al Shurman, Director of Ajloun Agriculture told Petra News Agency on November 20, 2018, that there has been 47 violations and 16 man-made fires that were dealt with in cooperation with the Directorate of Civil Defense (CDD), amounting in hundreds of tree damage.
Shurman pointed out that the Directorate in coordanation with the CDD are implementing measures in order to reduce risk of forest violations, in addition to increasing pumps and reservoirs to collect water to be used in case of fires.
In turn, the Director of the CDD, Colonel Hani Smadi, said that the biggest challenges facing forest resources are man-made fires, which take more effort and need more time to put out; especially that the topography of the area is mountainous and difficult to manoeuvre, noting that the CDD dealt with more than 85 fires during the past 3 months.


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One of the many factors that put people away from cryptocurrencies is the fact that these exist out of a physical form, and aren't really backed by a tangible asset like gold reserves. Understandably, this creates a state of uncertainty which scares people since they tend to believe cryptocurrencies are just a cloud or a bubble with no real backing or existence. The bridge between these worlds looks like it's going to be Sparkle Coin.
Sparkle Coin offers the first cryptocurrency backed by physical assets: in this case diamonds. And not only that, but it is also aimed at the complete revolution of the crypto market as we know it, by setting up an entire platform in which to trade, including e-tail stores and exchange environments.
An always existing concern from newly emerging crypto enthusiasts is the fact that cryptocurrencies have no backing and "real" value insurance other than offer and demand, which is great for stabilization and decentralization of the market but is the biggest difference it has with fiat currencies, and whenever explaining someone what cryptocurrencies are, this is the topic that generates the most insecurity and worries from the listener.
However, SparkleCoin looks to bridge the gap between fiat and cryptocurrencies by establishing a diamond backing to their tokens, which allows for the stabilization and value reassurance of paper money.
This is because paper money consists of a guaranteed percentage of a country's gold reserve contained on a single bill.
However, cryptocurrencies don't hold true to this concept and their value is only set by its utility and demand (which SHOULD be based on utility). And this is what Sparkle Coin looks to solve.
Besides this, the company wishes to set up a new exchange platform available on every phone through an upcoming app. Which lets you both trade currencies and spend them on online stores without having to close a single app.
With this, Sparkle Coin is pretty much looking to change how we use cryptocurrencies altogether.
But this huge project needs huge backing as well. And they're resorting to the most popular fundraising method today: Initial Coin Offering.
ICOs are a fundraising method in which a company sells a large percentage of tokens meant to be used to pay for their services or as a new, independent cryptocurrency.
The Sparkle Coin website explains how the ICO pricing will be decided:
"In this shopping site, eighty (80) blocks of coins are displayed, each containing inventory of 50,000 coins. The first block will be priced at $5 per Sparkle Coin. Each subsequent block of 50,000 coins will have a price increase of $2.00. The last block of the coins will be priced at $163.00. This is to allow supply and demand to determine the price at which Sparkle Coin is sold."
The ICO starts on the 20th September and will allow for everyone to purchase the coins in order to gain access to its benefits before anyone else. And the best part of this ICO is that, like every other, is not regulated by outsiders so the terms are established by the company and the investors, and every profit will be kept by both parts.

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In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, this week’s Self-care Sunday installment focuses on the power of art as a way to help caregivers take care of themselves. Self-care for caregivers is vitally important to helping us thrive during our self-care journey and come out stronger on the other end. Last week’s article addressed the need for mental self-care during caregiving seasons.
An Unusual Gift
Most of the gifts that poured in to our home during Pedro’s illness were all about him. Someone gave him a PlayStation. People brought food to tempt his appetite. They brought flowers and plants to keep the walls from closing in. I got it; I understood all of those gifts and appreciated them so very much.
At some point during his illness (I lost track of time, and sometimes even where our kids were), our friend (and chaplain at the local hospital) showed up with a gift for ME. Shocked, I mumbled, “Oh, you really shouldn’t have!” as I opened the gift bag.
“You’ll need this,” she assured me.
I don’t know what I anticipated, but I know my blank face must have mirrored my confusion when I pulled out a book on watercolor painting and a set of paints.
“You mentioned wanting to learn to paint,” she reminded me.
I searched my brain for when I may have shared this dream with her, and came up blank. But by this stage of caregiving I had already started to experience chemo-brain by proxy (also known as caregiver stress-related forgetfulness).
I hugged her, thanked her with a cheery smile, and turned the conversation to something else. My usual coping mechanism when my memory failed me with increasing regularity.
The book and watercolors ended up holding my dresser down for years. Each time I saw them, I shook my head a little at my friend’s extravagant gift. Who had time for learning to watercolor paint when one’s husband circled the drain?
Seasons of Caregiving
I entered my season of cancer caregiving right as our daughters had gained new levels of self-sufficiency. They did their own laundry, made their own lunches, kept their rooms tidy, and knew the rudiments of cooking. Pedro and I worked full time, so the girls made an important contribution to the household.
Unfortunately, I hadn’t developed good self-care habits when our girls were young. When I got out of the house, I usually defaulted to retail therapy. I rarely stretched my mind with learning new skills. Losing weight and deepening my spiritual life could wait until things settled down after our recent move.
Those bad self-care habits only worsened during the year of cancer. Caregiving felt like wandering through a stress-filled haze with a giant dose of denial. I wrote in my journal in fits and starts—usually when I felt at the end of my abilities to cope. Support groups for cancer caregivers didn’t exist (or maybe they did, and no one bothered to tell me). I had no healthy outlets for the tremendous barrage of stress that assaulted me on a daily basis.
Taking care of my artistic and academic needs fell to the bottom of my priority list—unless you counted researching chemo combinations and stem-cell transplant statistics. I quickly assimilated a cancer-as-a-second language vocabulary that allowed me to sound intelligent whilst conversing with specialists.
Exercise? Dashing to catch elevators and speed-walking between airport terminals counted, right? Healthy eating? Managing to eat three times a day stretched my powers of self-care. It didn’t matter what I ate.
My spiritual life felt strong-ish. Tossing prayers at God and gulping down a Bible verse on the go probably didn’t count as strong spiritual self-care habits.
By the time Pedro finally came home from the hospital, I was a mess.
Power of Art to Heal through Flow
It took me about eight years to recover from Pedro’s cancer. In retrospect, I wonder if leaving those watercolor paints on the dresser had been such a smart move. What I desperately needed during that season of life was the ability to enter into flow.
You may have heard of flow before—some people describe it as the subliminal place where time seems to stop as you work to create something. Gioia Chilton, in an article for Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, says that “In flow people are often so engrossed that they are not aware of their emotional state until the activity is almost complete and positive feelings such as joy or pride emerge.”
Art (and I don’t mean just painting or drawing, but rather any creative expression) acts as a powerful medium through which we can experience positive emotions that we then store up. We can access those positive emotions during times of stress. Since I hadn’t nourished my creativity on a regular basis (who has time for creative projects whilst working full-time and caring for a family), I had little to draw on during my times of great stress.
Because I stopped all artistic endeavors during my caregiving season, I had cut off a valuable means of making sense of the chaos around me.
Chilton goes on to say that, “The execution of artistic behavior provides access to information that the brain retains but which cannot come to consciousness any other way.” The success of art therapy proves the power of art to heal.
If I would have pulled out the watercolors and dabbled, perhaps I would have healed more quickly from the stresses of caregiving. Instead, it took five years and a photography class to find flow.
The Importance of Self-care for Caregivers (and EveryoneElse, too)
When I entered my second season of caregiving, this time for our daughter as she struggled with an undiagnosed mental health problem, I had learned my lesson. I had discovered the importance of nurturing my creativity through photography. The stress of not knowing how to help our daughter had the potential to drown me. But this time, it didn’t.
I journaled on a daily basis. When I felt the pressure building up, I would escape to photograph birds, flowers, bugs, or scenery—anything to enter the flow of creativity. This time, I maintained my exercise routine and consciously avoided comfort eating. My long conversations with God kept me centered and focused on learning to trust him, even if I didn’t understand.
In October, while camping with our students in Zion National Park, I finally tried my hand at watercolor painting. My colleague and the school’s art teacher showed me the rudiments of what to do and set me loose. I stared at a beautiful vista, trying to interpret it on heavy paper with pigment and water. Snatches of conversation from students and tourists wafted around me.
“Time to head back to camp,” the teacher announced, startling me.
“Already?” I glanced at my watch. Sure enough, our two hours had flown by. I snapped a few photos and resolved that I wouldn’t let another fifteen years go by before I try watercolor painting again.
God and Art
God created us in his image. As a creative being, he created us to need the outlet of creativity. When we recognize that need and develop our creativity, we honor him. And by honoring him, we gift ourselves with the power of art to heal and soothe the things we find difficult to express with words.
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The heating system is one of the most significant parts of your house. Your boiler gives you heat and hot water all through the year and the odds are you take little notice of it. Why would you if it’s churning out warmth all through the year with no problem?
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Unreserved – During the holy month of Ramadhan, Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sunset. One of the best places to indulge in a Ramadhan feast is at a hotel buffet. Here UNRESERVED rounds up some of the buffet offerings this Ramadhan.
EQ’s diverse Ramadhan spread offers over 100 delectable traditional Malay dishes. The perfect buffet for families, Nipah offers a cosy setting within bustling KL. For starters, dig into crowd-pleasing classics such as the Urap Pucuk Manis dan Taugeh, Kerabu Limau Bali, Udang Harimau dan Kacang, as well as the tantalising seafood on ice section which includes fresh selections of mussels, tiger prawns, baby scallops and more. The carving station features succulent Kambing Golek, heartier favourites can be found at the main buffet area with dishes like Gulai Lemak Cili Padi Daging Salai, Assam Pedas and the signature Nipah Kari Laksa.
BUKA PUASA WITH SOUTH-EAST ASIAN CLASSICS AT EQ’S NIPAH
Kam Eat With Me – To mark the holy month of Ramadan, EQ’s Citarasa Nipah has a dizzying selection for Buka Puasa, extending the hospitality to include dishes from the neighbouring South-East Asian region too. Executive chef Hafizzul Hashim revealed his prowess at cooking up an amazing range that one would be hard-pressed to say ‘Can’t find what I like’. The buffet spread has a decidedly home feel to the dishes as you feel you’ve been invited to someone’s home rather than a commercial establishment.
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The Star – Malaysia is a melting pot of cultures and traditions, and nowhere is this more apparent than in our food. Arab, Indian, Chinese, Thai and Javanese are just a few of the influences that make Malaysian food truly unique. Diners can now experience a variety of dishes at Nipah in EQ Kuala Lumpur, where a diverse buffet spread of over 100 delectable traditional Malay and South-East Asian dishes await.
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DELHI: The new BJP government will soon spell out clearly its position on foreign direct investment (FDI
) in multibrand retail even as it formulates the contours of the FDI policy
on defence, railways and construction.
The government is also looking at making it easier for companies to do business rather than be bogged down by various requirements, such as those stipulated in the new Companies Act, minister for commerce and industry Nirmala Sitharaman
told ET in an interview. The state of the economy
requires mending and the budget to be announced on July 10 will attempt to give out the right signals, particularly to revive manufacturing, she said.
Sitharaman, who has independent charge of commerce and industry, said FDI in retail will not be allowed.
“We are absolutely clear that we do not want FDI in multi-brand retail… We have to see how best to execute it and will work on the nitty-gritties and come up with a way out in the coming few days,” she said.
The United Progressive Alliance government had opened the multi-brand retail sector to FDI but the Bharatiya Janata Party is strongly opposed to it. “Barring the multi-brand retail sector, FDI will be allowed in sectors wherever needed for job and asset creation,” BJP said in its manifesto.
Sitharaman said the decision was imposed on the people of the country and the government will stick to the election promise. “There is no question of us talking about FDI in multi-brand retail trading,” she said. British retailer Tesco recently invested $110 million in partnership with the Tata Group’s Trent to open front-end stores in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
“There are people in the sector self-employed for generations. What authority do we have to take their jobs? Even when the executive order was passed by the previous government, we had very clearly said opinion is divided. This came through even as the Parliament session was on, almost through the backdoor… pushed on the people of India,” she said.
However, Sitharaman, who is also minister of state for finance and corporate affairs, made it clear that the new government was open to allowing FDI in other sectors on which comprehensive discussions were being held.
“Some sectors need money, some technology, some both, etc. So, on FDI we want to have a complete and thorough discussion. We have started talking about defence, construction, railways,” she said.
On increasing the FDI cap in insurance to 49%, Sitharaman said, “Discussions are on more from the point of view of ‘can you do it’? If yes, then by how much and then take it to Parliament.” Sitharaman said that the gov-ernment was looking at action and reforms beyond the Union budget.
“Different ministries are engaging with various stakeholders to address concerns at different levels. All the action points required are being compiled. Budget gives the direction and resource allocation, but we are looking at 360 degrees to address issues ailing various industries and sectors… Budget will be a statement of where our conviction lies and in which direction we want to move,” she said, without giving details.
As manufacturing contracted 0.7% in 2013-14, she said the government is working towards simplification of regulations and compliance norms for companies, which will ease doing business and improve investor sentiment.
The new government has started reviewing the Companies Act, 2013 to make it simpler for business. “Are you going to make manufacturers concentrate on the core activity or make them spend more time complying and reporting, changing auditors, etc. We are looking at the Companies Act… How we can we review it, simplify it, does it require amendment to that effect or just change the rules and regulations. Work on that has already started,” she said.
On the free trade pacts, the minister noted that the agreements already signed are being reviewed to be better prepared to negotiate new ones and not to renegotiate the existing ones.
Sitharaman said the new Land Acquisition Act, which has affected projects across the country, was being discussed to be suitably amended.
The social impact assessment should not be required for government for public private partnership projects, she said.
“If you look at it conservatively, social impact assessment is going to take three to five years by the time the term of one government is over. In five years, how much can you do if you are waiting for a small feasibility study to come,” said the minister.
The new Act, which requires the consent of 70% of land owners for PPP projects and higher compensation, has stalled various highway projects and raised the cost for industrial corridors.


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Activating Your Inner Powers - Totems of the Path
“When you reach the upper chakras, you don’t do without the first three. You don’t destroy the first three floors of the building when you get to the fourth.”
~ Joseph Campbell
The beginning legs of the spiritual path can be difficult and exhausting, but the struggles of these first three stages are the foundational blocks that will support our progress as we continue on our path. In the eastern spiritual traditions, the first three chakras represent our “lower nature,” our human experiences and aspects, our physical, emotional and mental bodies. As we work with the first three chakras, we face our fears, explore our emotional stories and confront the thoughts and beliefs that control the way we see ourselves and the world. Metaphorically we clean the closets of our past and prepare to move forward with a lighter load and with more of our energy available for the journey.


WASHINGTON (Oct. 5)
The State Department said today that it was investigating the case of Jonathan Bates, a NY graduate student being secretly tried by a military court in Damascus for alleged espionage. Bates is reportedly of Jewish origin and reportedly spent some months in Israel before he was arrested in Syria last Feb. 9.
State Department spokesman John King said the Department learned only in recent days of Bates’ arrest and trial. The US has no diplomatic relations with Syria. American interests are handled by the Italian Embassy in Damascus. King said Bates is the son of Prof. Ralph Bates of New York, whom he described as a British subject.
The Bates case was linked to the arrest by Syrian authorities a month ago of Maj. Robert H. Barrett, assistant military attache of the US Embassy in Amman. Maj. Barrett was seized by Syrian police while in transit from Jordan to Lebanon.
King disclosed today that Deya Fattel, an official of the Syrian Mission to the United Nations, has been served notice that his US visa has been revoked as of Oct. 2. The Department spokesman refused to disclose the reason for revocation of the visa. He said the notice was served on Fattel either in Rome or Damascus.
It was reported meanwhile that US authorities acting on the administration’s promise to protect Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks after the Munich massacre of 11 Israeli athletes, has begun a major effort to identify possible terrorists among Arabs residing in this country and to screen travelers from Arab lands. The State Department estimates there are about 6300 Arab students in the US.


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BACK TO HEADLINES
Saturday, 29 June,
Milburn is preparing to cook the figures of consultant shortage by introducing a sub-consultant grade. Naturally the consultants committee of the BMA is angry and will resist. It is typical of the character of Milburn - and this government -that the BMA has learnt of the plans from lobby correspondents rather than directly from the bookseller.
In another panic book-cooking measure to "achieve" the ludicrous NHS Plan bookseller Milburn is encouraging foreign medical companies to set up in business in the UK. Dr Bogle says that the BMA would not wish to stand in the way of the measures unless they stand in the way of long term measures to build capacity in the NHS. So, it seems that Dr Bogle does not have a closed mind after all on funding the NHS.
The Consultants' committee is to attempt to persuade colleagues to accept their new contract. According to postings on doctors.net.uk there is an overwhelming feeling that they have been stitched up.
Dr Peter Holden, after advising government on "red tape" has said it must be cut. The government committee of which he was a member has suggested that GPs write long-term prescriptions for stable conditions. Wait till the chemists hear about that one, then! One prescription = one dispensing fee.
A BMA "snapshot" belies what medical newspapers and web-sites seem to show by indicating limited approval for the consultant contract. For another view doctors should visit www.doctors.net.uk.
Academic medicine is in jeopardy, says a BMA Report. No it isn't, says Milburn, we've committed resources for it. Let's see who's right.
In another fairly typical stick reaction, rather than carrot, this autocratic government is planning to fine social services departments which fail to meet delayed discharge targets. The consistent and rather stupid attitude of the Blair government seems to be, to hell with recruitment and morale, just so long as you all know we're the bosses.
A full page and a half is devoted to the Consultants' contract in a question and answer form. The misleading statement is made that "most doctors representatives have welcomed the new consultant contract". Councilo has yet to be asked, GPC has yet to give its verdict and who knows who else has yet tp speak. If, however bmanews means most consultants reps have supported it, then, of course, they would because they negotiated it. However, the next generation, who the consultants committee will ignore at their peril, have rejected it. Half a page is devoted to leading members of the "Juniors" committee explaining why.
Elsewhere Geirge Rae gives a eulogy on next week's BMA ARM. A report will appear on site shortly afterwards.
In Second Opinion physician Philip Welsby claims it is a brave fool who criticises government publications. I disagree. Government publications are there to be criticised by all but the sycophants and fellow travellers. If the critic has to be brave then that implies some sanction by government and if that is the case the editor of this site must be on a Milburn hit-list. Dr welsby continues his piece and shows that he, too, is brave but not a fool.
Saturday, 22 June, 2002
The Lead item is a eulogy about the consultants' contract about which the Juniors have reservations not supported by the consultants' committee.
There is a small piece claiming that NHS Direct provides a poor service out-of-hours for GPs. Independent, retired consultant, MP Dr Taylor took on Milburn telling him that GP co-ops were better.
In the latest way to cook the figures GPs in south Wales have been told that their patients will be removed from hospital waiting lists unless the doctors inform the hospitals that they should remain on them. The LMC objected.
This year's BMA ARM will be reported on-line by bmanews staff but readers prepared to wait until it's all over will find an independent report on this site, as they did for the past two years.
In a no-news story Simon Fradd says he is pressing government over locum pensions. He said that some weeks ago so the item must be a filler.
Those "GP leaders" have been at it again. This time Chisholm has added another wish to his list, that there must be parity between GPs and consultants. I believe one insurance company presently has an advertisement on television featuring pigs - one of them is called John.
The Juniors' conference rejected a sensible suggestion that the training of consultants should include a period as a GP registrar. So they will continue to pontificate in ignorance about what life is like in general practice.
His grin is even wider because even after seven years consultants must work an extra 4 hour session before they may see their private patients.
In effect, Milburn has screwed a 48 hour week out of young consultants and a 44 hour compulsory week out of older consultants. No wonder the Juniors dislike it. The almost equally unpleasant Mr Kenneth Clarke did something similar to GPs in 1989 and many of us played him at his own game and rigidly worked the set hours and no more. The voluntary work in our own time vanished. If young or elderly consultants want to see their families and have a social life they are advised to do the same.
On another point, is there not a human rights issue here? Contract or no contract.
Dr Louise Warburton (GP) has published an admirable piece on the nonsense of promoting nurses to do the jobs of GPs when there aren't sufficient nurses to do the caring job of nurses. Sadly, your editor says, just as pharmacists no longer like their core profession, dispensing, nurses don't like nursing and both want to be doctors without, of course, having put in the years of hard graft first. They are supported by a careless, thought-bereft Milburn who thinks a quick fortnight at the Poly is sufficient to bring them up to scratch - and hang patient safety.
There are no other features directly relating to general practice in this edition. Next week, however, will be a different matter as the negotiators crow over their victory at a rather sycophantic LMC Conference. CLICK HERE for the report
Saturday, 15th June, 2002
Headlines are given to the consultants' contract which had not been announced when bmanews went to press. After publication the Juniors rejected the contract.
A comment about the GP Roadshows said that they told "family doctors how the new contract would affect them." Not a word about any of the spin from the negotiators and fellow travellers. Nothing about the dire threats following a NO vote. How many of the Roadshows were simply an explanation exercise?
Violent patients and
Med School job cuts
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Northern Ireland GPs
reject primary care plans
Spinning the contract
Will it reduce workload? Trust me, I'm a negotiator. We will monitor "creep". (Tony Blair had better watch out, then).
What about allocations? We are negotiating on that.
Where is clinical responsibility? Where it's always been - with you.
What about statutory certification? We'll pass it to nurses and chemists - if there are enough of them.
Patients come too often. We are working on schemes to educate them. Oh, and nurses and chemists can help (if there are enough etc.)
What about increasing consultation times? Go on, you can manage it! We are looking to put this in the quality framework so you'll have to.
What about temporary residents and asylum seekers? Well, we've cocked the TR system up but you'll manage, believe me, I'm a negotiator. Treating AS's is an opt-in so you won't have to do it (oh, yes?).
What about out-of-hours? It will be the PCOs problem not yours - unless the PCO can't find anybody. Then it's your problem.
Are we not handing control to PCOs? Funny you mention that but we don't have a clear answer but you can opt to provide out-of-hours cover.
Can all practices opt out of out-of-hours? Yes, if there's an alternative - otherwise no. We think PCOs will be able to do it but we don't know but we do know you will if they won't/can't.
What about 48 hour access? Well, um, we don't accept it but government isn't giving way. Anyway, this is such a wonderful contract that you'll be able to do it. Trust me, I'm a negotiator
BMA View - Peter Holden
Peter Holden's piece exhorts GPs to stop underselling themselves. Does that mean that as a negotiator he will go for a very realistic pay scale? The BMA has valued GP time at £100/hour. Even I would vote for a contract which paid that and allowed me to opt out of all the crap. However, no such luck. The item is disappointing in its vagueness. Peter says that some colleagues argue that patients might suffer. In a burst of characteristic bluntness he replies "not as much as they will with current retention and recruitment trends". Telling politicians to put their money where their mouth is he instructs doctors not to be "so feeble. Stand up and be counted and stop underselling yourselves." Start by voting NO to this contract, I say.
MAJOR ARTICLES WORTH GOING ON-LINE TO READ
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Saturday, 8th June, 2002
As this was Jubilee week bmanews is rather a small edition.
The Headline piece, not surprisingly, covers the vote on the GP contract and urges GPs to vote Yes. Being very fair to Dr Chisholm he does not tell GPs to vote for the contract but he does suggest that a No vote will not be helpful. Which almost comes to the same thing considering he stresses that the importance of voting cannot be overestimated. So, is telling GPs that a No vote would be bad, the same as commending a Yes vote? That, however, is what Dr Chisholm has said many times he will not do.
Contrast with the abilities of GP negotiators and Consultants' negotiators is well demonstrated by the very simple fact that they are going to their members at their conference, this week, with a priced contract.
The GP negotiators' excuse that they had to present a contract in April is pure patronising crap unworthy even of them. They have failed in that they have produced only a skeleton contract with no indication of its worth.
Apparently doctors' leaders are "angry" that the private sector regulatory body has the power not only to regulate and control private health premises but, also, it has now been found out, the doctors who work there. How can this be? Dr Bogle and other "doctors' leaders" welcomed the National Care Standards Commission when it was announced - just as they have shot from the hip and welcomed just about everything from Milburn. As your editor told Council a couple of months ago, anything from Milburn or this government should be sent to the legal department of the BMA and examined carefully paragraph by paragraph and word by word for hidden meanings. Then it should be sent for a second opinion and only if there are none should the Chairman or GPC Chairmen open their mouths and comment. You'd think they would have learnt that by now.
BMA view, on the following page consists of John Chisholm commending a vote but carefully not saying outright, vote Yes.
Saturday, 1st June, 2002
The lead article discusses the fears over Foundation Hospitals. These, readers will recall, are the super hospitals which reach all government targets and which will be given total freedom from Whitehall interference over their expenditure - just so long as they continue to meet targets (which Milburn has set). A kind of ersatz freedom, indeed. Doctors believe that they may be paid more to work in Foundation hospitals, thus creating a tow tier system over colleagues not in the ersatz hospitals. Bogle does not want a two-tier system although he also says, about incentives to work in these hospitals "Any local incentives must be in addition to national agreements on pay and conditions". Surely, Dr Bogle, "additional incentives" will create that very two-tier system you dislike. Is it very painful to sit on the fence?
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The Bartholomew Chapel dates back to 1349 and today it houses a clubhouse of the Lutheran Church.
A small peculiarity of the town of Parchim can be found in the Mittelstraße - the Bartholomew Chapel. This was donated in 1349 in gratitude for being saved from the plague and is thus an impressive witness to Parchim's town history. It, which used to be called the "Old Church", has experienced a varied history. The Gothic brick building was used as a church until about 1560. After the Reformation, it served as a poorhouse, and in 1829 it was sold to a grain merchant and served as a storehouse. Around the turn of the century, the building was established as a "hostel to the homeland". Since 1918 the chapel has been a Protestant clubhouse.

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NICK JONAS has admitted that he is enjoying going solo with his band, Nick Jonas And The Administration.
The youngest Jonas sibling has played his first show without his brothers and described it as "great".
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Cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty is on a mission to build 5,000-bed “health cities” across India, encouraged by the success at his nine-year-old Narayana Hrudayalaya hospital in Bangalore. He has contained costs by tweaking processes, driving hard bargains and negotiating creative partnership deals, but faces challenges in replicating that model on a bigger scale. Shetty wants to make quality health care accessible and affordable using economies of scale, or the cost advantages businesses obtain due to expansion. His hospital in Bangalore focuses on cardiac medicine but he wants to extend the model to other specialties, in addition to other locations.
Shetty believes his success could lead to a new health care model not only for India but perhaps also for the world. “The first heart surgery was done over a hundred years ago but even today only 8% of the world’s population can afford heart operations,” Shetty notes. “In India, around 2.5 million people require heart surgeries every year but all of [the country’s doctors] put together perform only 80,000 to 90,000 surgeries a year…. We clearly need to relook and change the way things are being done.”
At his Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Bangalore, the 56-year-old Shetty is doing just that. Patients at his hospital get cardiac care at a cost lower than any other hospital in the country and at a fraction of what it would cost elsewhere in the world, a feat accomplished through what Shetty refers to as “process innovation.” Shetty, who has been in the medical profession for close to 25 years and worked at Guy’s Hospital in London, the Birla Heart Research Foundation in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and the Manipal Heart Foundation in Bangalore before branching out on his own, was formerly personal physician to Mother Teresa. His interactions with her, he notes, not only offered the opportunity to closely observe the famed humanitarian’s charitable work but also caused the doctor to begin thinking about how quality health care could be made widely accessible and affordable.
That was how Shetty came to the conclusion that the health care industry needs more process innovation than product innovation. The industry “does not need a magic pill or the fastest scanner or a new procedure,” he states, but instead requires improvements that lower the cost of medical attention and make it more widely available. Shetty’s premise of economies of scale is not radical; in fact, the doctor describes his way as “the Walmart approach.” What sets him apart, however, is that he has successfully adapted the method to a field as complex and costly as cardiac care. “There is no doubt that he has created a very distinct model to take cardiac care to the masses,” notes Vishal Bali, chief executive officer of Fortis Hospitals, a prominent Indian healthcare group.
Now Shetty is ready to aim higher. India currently has around 0.7 hospital beds per thousand people; the key to better aligning those numbers with the population, he states, is creating a chain of large “health cities” across the country. To set the ball rolling, Shetty spearheaded the creation of a 1,400-bed cancer and multispecialty hospital — the largest cancer hospital in the country — at the Bangalore campus. A women and children’s hospital and another for nephrology are also in the works. In addition, the Bangalore facility — which is set to expand to a total of 5,000 beds over the next three years — includes a 500-bed orthopedic hospital, an eye hospital, research facilities and room for about 50 training programs.
Over the next five years, Shetty wants to build similar 5,000-bed health cities across the country. An expansion at his Kolkata hospital is currently underway, and new hospitals in Hyderabad and Jaipur are expected to open for business later this year. Construction is starting on a 1,400-bed hospital in Ahmedabad; additional locations have also been identified. “We want to have around 30,000 beds over the next five years,” Shetty says. “As our volumes increase, we will get further economies of scale. In the next five years we want to be able to do a heart operation for US$800 from point of admission to point of discharge. We believe it is possible.”
Shetty has reason to be confident. Over the years, the Bangalore heart hospital he opened in 2001 grew to 1,000 beds; the facility has added advanced technology and doctors there perform some 30 surgeries a day — the highest number of cardiac surgeries done by any hospital in India. Other hospitals in India, including Escorts, Apollo, Wockhardt and Fortis, perform about half that number. In addition, Shetty’s staff has the capability to do a large number of different cardiac procedures. The hospital’s mortality rate of around 2% and hospital-acquired infection rate of 2.8 per 1000 ICU days are comparable to the best hospitals across the world, Shetty asserts. In an article in Forbes India, the University of Michigan’s C. K. Prahalad said the mortality rate in Narayana Hrudayalaya is “much lower than in New York State for similar kinds of heart disease.”
Serving the Poor
Cardiac surgeries in the United States can cost up to US$50,000. In India, they typically cost around US$5,000-US$7,000. Depending on the complexities of the procedure and the length of the patient’s stay at the hospital, the price tag increases. At Narayana Hrudayalaya, however, surgeries cost less than US$3,000, irrespective of the complexity of the procedure or the length of hospitalization. About 45% of Shetty’s patients pay even less. Of these, about 30% are covered under a micro-insurance plan for health care called Yeshasvini that reimburses Narayana Hrudayalaya at about US$1,200 a surgery. Conceptualized by Shetty and run by an independent trust, Yeshasvini was launched in 2002 in association with the Karnataka state government.
For those who are not part of the insurance plan and can’t afford the hospital’s regular charges, Shetty offers concessional rates. The discounts depend on patients’ financial capacity and are funded either by the hospital’s charitable trust, individual donors or by the hospital itself. Almost 15% of the hospital’s patients benefit from these concessions. In addition, Shetty and his team reach out to patients through a network of rural clinics and via telemedicine facilities. Patients come to the Bangalore facility from more than 50 countries. Shetty’s instructions to his team are clear: No one who comes to Narayana Hrudayalaya will be denied treatment due to a lack of funds.
To ensure the viability of the project, Shetty has devised a hybrid pricing model. Apart from the regular package of US$3,000 a surgery, he also offers semiprivate and private rooms for those who want and can afford better personal amenities. The medical facilities are the same for every patient, however. The upgraded rooms, which comprise around 20% of the total available at the hospital, are priced at US$4,000-US$5,000 and “offset the losses incurred from treating the poor,” Shetty notes.
The managing team at Narayana Hrudayalaya follows the unique accounting practice of studying the profit and loss account on a daily basis. “By monitoring the average realization per surgery and our profitability on a daily basis, we are able to assess how much concession we can afford to give the following day without adversely impacting our profitability,” states Sreenath Reddy, the hospital’s chief financial officer. Reddy expects revenues of US$80 million for the year ending March 2010 and to generate US$200 million annually over the next two years. The hospital has been profitable from the first year. JP Morgan and PineBridge Investments (formerly known as AIG Investments) each hold a 12.5% stake in the company. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman and managing director of biotechnology firm Biocon owns a 2.5% stake, and Shetty and his family own the remainder of the company. Shishir Jain, executive director at JP Morgan believes Shetty has shown that “it is possible to fulfill a great social need without compromising on the profitability.” Santosh Senapathy, managing director of PineBridge Investments adds that “Narayana Hrudayalaya will change the way healthcare is delivered across the world.”
Innovations in Operations
Indeed, Shetty has already turned some standard industry practices on their heads. One of his first innovations when he set up Narayana Hrudayalaya in 2001 was in the way doctors are compensated. Typically, cardiac surgeons are paid per surgery and their costs constitute a significant proportion of a hospital’s total expenses. Shetty invited his staff physicians to work for fixed salaries; he did not pay them less than what they would have normally taken home at the end of the month, but he required doctors to perform more surgeries, bringing down the cost per procedure. This approach continues to be one of the core savings areas at Narayana Hrudayalaya.
In addition, Shetty’s father-in-law — who was in the construction business — built the first hospital for him, keeping costs to the minimum. Shetty claims he passed on those savings to patients, and maintains that, even today, construction costs at his hospitals are less than half of that for others. “The way we design the hospitals and our close monitoring of our projects help us to keep a very tight control of our construction costs,” notes Shetty’s son Viren, an engineer and director at the hospital. Shetty’s two other sons are studying medicine.
In the initial days of Narayana Hrudayalaya, patients came because of Shetty’s skill and his reputation. The cost savings he offered started attracting customers in greater numbers. Apart from the surgeries, the Bangalore campus treats about 2,500 people daily in its out-patient department. The increasing volumes in turn have helped lower costs in many ways, staff says. Instead of buying surgical gloves in India, for example, Narayana Hrudayalaya saves about 40% by importing them in container loads from Malaysia. The hospital has moved to digital X-ray technology, saving on the recurring cost of film. Most hospitals use their CT scanners, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and other machines for only eight hours a day, but Narayana Hrudayalaya uses them for 14 hours and offers these tests to the patients at lower rates in the late evenings. As volumes increase, per unit costs naturally come down.
For procedures like blood gas analysis, Shetty’s team convinced the equipment vendor that, instead of selling the machine to the hospital, he could simply park it there and make his money by selling the chemical reagents required for the test. The hospital saves on the cost of the machines while the vendor also profits. For the past six months, another vendor has parked his catheterization laboratory equipment at the hospital free of charge. The deal came together because the vendor wants to use Narayana Hrudayalaya as a referral, Shetty notes, with the idea that if he can show that his equipment can cope with the patient volumes at Narayana Hrudayalaya, it can work anywhere, he adds.
The high patient volumes help Shetty drive a hard bargain with vendors when negotiating prices for everything from basic supplies to sophisticated medical equipment. The new cancer hospital, for example, purchased two linear accelerators (for producing X-rays) that typically cost US$6.4 million each for the price of one machine. The cost of the machines was spread out, interest-free, over seven years. “Given [the hospital’s] volumes and Shetty’s own credibility, every negotiation is as tough as it can be. He certainly gets his pound of flesh,” notes V. Raja, president and CEO of GE Healthcare South Asia, who has been associated with Narayana Hrudayalaya from the beginning. With Shetty now on an expansion drive, Raja is in discussions with him to see how they can structure deals that enable Shetty to achieve economies of scale while bringing more business for GE Healthcare.
Testing an Untested Model
Shetty’s model of 5,000-bed health cities has its share of risks and challenges. It remains to be seen if the doctor can replicate his success in volume-based cardiac care across specialties and cities. He is also considering setting up health care facilities in the Cayman Islands and Malaysia. Observers say to succeed, Shetty needs to build organizational and management bandwidth; create teams of medical professionals that share his vision and are willing to work hard; put in place robust processes, and raise the required funding. “The scalability of any model is based on the creation of an organizational structure,” says Bali, of Fortis. “One does not see this at Narayana Hrudayalaya. It has been around for many years and by now the structure should have emerged. One will have to wait and watch if Shetty can indeed scale [his model] beyond one or two institutions.”
Amit Varma, president, healthcare, at Religare Enterprises, a financial services group and director of critical care medicine at the Fortis Escorts group of hospitals, raises another concern. Varma was part of Shetty’s team at Manipal Hospital and at Narayana Hrudayalaya. “The intention is absolutely right but there is a base cost to any procedure and you can bring that down only to a certain level,” he notes. “There is a tipping point beyond which the volume that you do will have an adverse impact on the quality. What that tipping point is remains to be seen.”
But Girdhar Gyani, CEO of the National Accreditation Board for Hospital and Healthcare Providers believes a commitment to delivering quality service is part of the culture of strong teams. “Shetty’s team in Bangalore is top-of-the-line in terms of quality and I am confident that the rest of the facilities that he builds will be the same too. Shetty is a transformational leader who can bring about a sea change in this industry.”
Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon, who owns a stake in Shetty’s company, says the doctor brings a missionary work ethic to his efforts and has attracted a talented and committed team of doctors, nurses, paramedics and professionals. She credits Narayana Hrudayalaya with consistently focusing on training and developing specialized skills. “I have no doubt that Narayana Hrudayalaya is scalable in India and Shetty’s concept of 5,000-bed health cities is the way to go. India’s medical talent pool is vast and can certainly sustain this growth.” Raja of GE Healthcare also adds his vote of confidence: “This is a pretty much untested model across the world but Dr. Shetty is fully committed to it and, if anyone can, he can.”


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- November 15, 2023
Comprehensive systematic review of 25 studies over 25 years reveals consistent evidence of associations between insecticide exposure and lower sperm concentration.
- Mason’s Virginia Climate Center delivers vital research knowledge and resources for Mason and the commonwealthOctober 12, 2023
The new Virginia Climate Center (VCC) at Mason is leading research on tackling climate-related challenges, such as energy, vector-borne illnesses, and extreme weather and flooding in Northern Virginia and throughout the commonwealth.
- September 20, 2023
A George Mason University multidisciplinary research team recently received $5,000 in funding from the VentureWell Accelerator to continue to develop their app iCONNECT SUD.
- Innovate for Good: Mason Professor continues study of social media intervention for Chinese American caregivers with grant from NIH National Institute on AgingSeptember 1, 2023
With the grant,College of Public Health professor Y. Alicia Hong and an interdisciplinary team aim to improve caregiving skills, reduce social distress, and improve quality of life for caregivers.
- Social Work associate professor registers U.S. patent to reduce substance use relapse, the department’s first patentMay 8, 2023
Substance use disorder affects more than 40 million Americans according to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Recovery can be a difficult path, but an interdisciplinary team led by Holly Matto, associate professor in the Department of Social Work, aims to make it a little easier through a recently patented technology-based therapy.
- Nurses trained via virtual reality performed better than those trained by inpatient clinical trainingApril 13, 2023
This promising preliminary research comes from a new pilot study by Bethany Cieslowski, Associate Professor of Nursing in Mason’s College of Public Health.
- Mason researchers connect with community members to develop an app for individuals recovering from opioid use disorderMarch 30, 2023
Mason graduate student Rebecca Leung is part of a team finding ways to use smart technology in order to help those who are struggling with or recovering from substance use disorder (SUD).
- Professor receives nearly $500,000 National Institutes of Health grant to study children born with congenital eye diseaseApril 3, 2023
Chair of the Department of Global and Community Health Carolyn Drews-Botsch continues her study of unilateral congenital cataracts by studying the risks and benefits of prolonged patching in preschool-aged children.
- $1.1 Million HRSA grant to create interprofessional health care learning lab in the College of Public HealthNovember 8, 2022
Professor of Nursing Rebecca Sutter, along with faculty and students across colleges, will lead the creation of an interprofessional Learning Laboratory for Community Health.
- Building support for endometriosis, the invisible condition that will affect 1 in 10 biological femalesSeptember 30, 2022
After a diagnosis of stage 4 endometriosis, Mason doctoral student Julia Mandeville co-founded the organization Barbados Association of Endometriosis and PCOS to raise awareness, support, and research efforts for the condition.


HighPoint Tecchnology Inc, introduces the industry's first first 40-Port SATA 6Gb/s HBA – the Rocket 750, featuring HighPoint's SATA Aggregation Technology to the storage marketplace – this revolutionary architecture allows a single host adapter card to support up to 40 SATA hard drives, and represents the industry’s lowest-cost mass SATA storage solution. See More
Not too long ago, that having a wireless network around the home or office may have been perceived as 'cutting edge' and may have been considered a luxury. These days the mainstream home may have up to eight or more WiFi devices, and previously have to come to rely on the market leading products from NETGEAR, especially when it comes to the next-generation 802.11ac wireless products. See More
For those that sit behind professional creative digital content creation workstations, time is certainly money while tackling many of today's most challenging and demanding projects, Fusion io integrates Fusion ioX into HP current professional workstations with Intel Xeon processors, providing the accelerated performance that is missing from conventional systems.See More
Calling all gamers! This edition of MSI Newsletter features the New! MSI Z77 Gaming Motherboards, MSI gaming cards R7790-1GD5/OC, and N650Ti TF 2GD5/OC BE, mobile gaming with the MSI GX Gaming Notebooks, AMD Fan Day 2013,highlights of PAX 2013, and the inside scoop with MSI's Trade in Program for GT683 and more! See More
Certainly most PC gamers and enthusiast alike would definitely say that the GTX TITAN is an amazing graphic card! Well. The folks at HardwareZone had recently spotted a Gigabyte GeForce GTX TITAN that features Gigabyte's own custom WINDFORCE 3X GPU cooling solution!


Win 1 of 5 Los Cripis 'Los Cripis Long Play' CDs
'Los Cripis are a band outside time and place. Fragile and melancholy, wonky and sweet' - Rough Trade.
Buenos Aires para-garage punks, Los Cripis are set toplay a London show at the Total Refreshment Studios in Dalston on the the 4th of July to coincide with the release of their new album 'Los Cripis Long Play' on Unwork Records.
Produced and mixed by Tim Garratt (Telegram / Charles Hayward / Skinny Girl Diet) at the Moriaki Skyway Studios in Cable Street London, the album is the first vinyl release from Unwork Records. An outgrowth of East London DIY shows Unwork / ****-up Force this release sees the labelditch their anti-natalist instincts and carry on adding trash to the pile. Watch the new video to 'All My Friends Are Dead', just one of the many stand out tracks from the new long player.
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The recent Launch Bay opening perfectly reflected the lifestyle Launch Bay inspires. Hundreds of people came along to see what Launch Bay was all about and view the current offerings. After having fun at Launch Bay, people finished their visit to Hobsonville Point with a short stroll along the boardwalk to Catalina Bay to enjoy one of the wonderful eateries and mooch around the farmers market.
The Oval House show suite attracted plenty of attention as it proudly sat elevated from the activities on the oval. With great feedback from those that visited, favourite features included: the spacious and quality kitchen that flowed out onto the dining, living and outdoor area, the enticing view from the balcony upstairs, the overall design of the homes and the spacious feel of the entire development.
The history associated with the former air force base has been core to the masterplan of the development. The orderly formation of the Oval Houses almost mirroring that of the Officers’ Houses, and the enhancement of the grass oval to cement its significance in the community for many years to come. The heritage and prestige of the married officers’ homes was frequently discussed by visitors on launch day, with varied thoughts on whether to retain the existing character of the internal layout and décor. Albeit many are drawn to the consented renovation plans to open the layout up to encourage the kiwi indoor/outdoor flow.
The show suite is open Wednesday to Sunday 11am – 2pm on the corner of Hudson Bay Road and Marlborough Crescent.
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- GBP / JPY broke key levels and fell, hitting lows below 152.00.
- The short-term outlook points to a deeper correction.
The GBP/JPY it is declining sharply from the highest levels since 2018. After approaching 153.80, the pound rebounded lower. It broke below 152.80 (21 SMA on four-hour charts and horizontal support) and fell to 151.89, hitting the lowest level in six days.
The pound is experiencing the second drop in nine days against the yen and the worst day since mid-March. The decline deteriorates the short-term technical outlook, while the long-term trend remains bullish (losing momentum).
If GBP / JPY holds at current levels, further losses seem likely. The next strong support is at 151.50 / 60. Then an extension to 151.00 seems possible. A recovery above 152.30 would ease the negative pressure that suggests some consolidation before the next downside.
If the pound recovers 153.00, it could retest 153.50. A daily close above would indicate that GBP / JPY is ready for more gains.
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I was watching one of the minors being pulled up yesterday, and then Fox cut away to a press conference from What's His Face On it. Why is this idiot having a press conference? Who cares what he has to say? He had no involvement in it and it was in Chile? I muted it so I don't know if blamed Bush for it or not.