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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Sun Life Malaysia recently announced its collaborative partnership with BookDoc to create a more health-conscious society through its wellness reward mobile application — SunActiv.
Mr Raymond Lew, CEO & President / Country Head of Sun Life Malaysia (right) working hand-in-hand with Datoa�� Chevy Beh, Founder of BookDoc, to help Malaysians #LiveHealthierLives with SunActiv.
SunActiv is a program developed by BookDoc that offers great rewards for active users where all they need to do is to just walk and stay active. Introduced under its Live Healthier Lives strategy, Sun Life Malaysia aims to empower its Clients to embrace an active and healthy lifestyle for a brighter life.
To officially signify the collaboration, a symbolic event was held on 21 April 2018 during Sun Life Malaysia’s Brighter Lives Roadshow at The Curve Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya. Present at the event were Raymond Lew, CEO & President / Country Head of Sun Life Malaysia, Dato’ Chevy Beh, Founder of BookDoc, and over 50 management members and representatives of both organisations.
Raymond Lew said, "Sun Life Malaysia is very pleased to partner with BookDoc to enhance our Client value proposition through SunActiv. We are a caring and responsible insurer that not only takes care of our Clients protection and financial needs, but also their health and wellbeing. Designed for simplicity and ease of use, SunActiv will encourage our Clients to stay active and live healthy because every step they take will count towards redeeming great lifestyle rewards."
"Besides Clients, we have also made SunActiv available to our employees. We hope it will help both our Clients and employees improve their overall quality of life and prevent diseases like diabetes because according to the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2015, almost one in five Malaysian adults has diabetes, and one of the contributing factors is the sedentary lifestyle," he added.
Dato’ Chevy said, "BookDoc is pleased to partner with Sun Life Malaysia to help gamify people’s behavior to take of their health. A lot of people understand that prevention is better than cure but people unfortunately do not take a proactive actions to live a healthy life until something happens to their love ones or themselves only they start changing which sometimes is too late. We hope will this partnership with Sun Life Malaysia we can help drive positive changes in people’s life."
During the event, Sun Life Malaysia also introduced its Live Healthier Lives Ambassador, Abdul Rahman Lee, who is the Malaysia’s SEA Games 2017 Discus Bronze Medallist.
"We chose Abdul Rahman Lee to be our health ambassador because being a sportsman, he lives an active and healthy lifestyle and he is in the position to inspire others to do the same. Our aim is to provide avenues for our Clients especially and Malaysians in general to proactively take ownership of their health," said Raymond.
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SunActiv is currently available for download on Google Play Store and Apple App Store by invitation only.
Sun Life Malaysia (Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad and Sun Life Malaysia Takaful Berhad) is a joint venture by Sun Life Financial Inc. and Avicennia Capital Sdn. Bhd., a fully owned Khazanah Nasional Berhad investment holding company, specialising in Insurance and Takaful.
Sun Life Malaysia offers a comprehensive range of life insurance and Takaful products and services to Malaysians across the country and is focused on helping Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Sun Life Malaysia distributes its products through a range of distribution channels including bancassurance, direct marketing, telemarketing, agency, telcoassurance and government and corporate business.
Sun Life Financial is a leading international financial services organisation providing insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individual and corporate Clients. Sun Life Financial has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of 31 December 2017, Sun Life Financial had total assets under management (AUM) of CAD$975 billion.
For more information, please visit www.sunlifemalaysia.com.
BookDoc, with presence in 5 Countries and 20 cities (Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia), is an online platform that operates across the healthcare continuum connecting patients to healthcare professionals anytime and anywhere, while incentivising all to stay active.
BookDoc has established an integrated online ecosystem for local and overseas health travellers. The ecosystem allows users to search and book healthcare professionals anytime and anywhere, and integrates seamlessly with navigation (Google Map, Waze), transport (Grab, Uber, AirAsia), accommodation (Agoda and Airbnb) and recommended restaurants & attractions (TripAdvisor) for a hassle-free and enjoyable experience to healthcare appointments. In addition, through BookDoc Activ, it rewards users for maintaining high level of activity by partnering major retailers and service providers that offer users discounts for achieving reward tiers based on activity level. Among the reward partners are Zalora, Fave (Groupon), Guardian, Secret Recipe, Oldtown White Coffee, Coffee Bean and many more.
Destiny, or just current conditions, sometimes push us to change and transform what no longer suits us on the one hand by giving us the means to start again from scratch or, on the other, by forcing us to start again on our own on better foundations. Life's movements push us further forward, so, if we want to avoid a breakdown, it would be good to welcome these cycles of change as chances to thrive! Each sign of the zodiac has its own way of challenging themselves.
Aries: Accept your faults One way to challenge yourself is to come face to face with your failures or blunders. If you can be shown that you are wrong, that you have made a grave error, you will then have something you can work with. But there is no use in criticizing you for your tactlessness - it's in your genes. You'd like to take it on the chin, but changing yourself fundamentally is not an option.
Gemini: Juggle your many lives Challenging yourself is what you do every day, in that you are a jack-of-all-trades, a curious person who jumps from one thing to another, from one world to another, and one personality to another. If you start to feel like you're losing control in this mixed-up world of yours, your mind could start playing tricks on you and, after a while, make you lose your cool. You will get to start all over, from the start, and juggle your various masks and personalities more calmly by taking a short, well-earned break to reflect and process.
Leo: Get rid of your sensitivity Your ego is what is most important to you, and the slightest crisis can arise and knock your whole world off balance. If so, what is left? Self-questioning? Sure, but as long as it pushes you to the front of the stage where you can shine a little brighter for all to see and express your childhood self. You need to express your feelings to keep your confidence in the future up while you question yourself.
Virgo: Examine and reason Your diagnostic abilities and capability to be right in the middle of a crisis is what will keep you strong and safe. You're not afraid to do a little soul-searching if you can keep your mind clear and head on your shoulders and overhaul everything so that you can come up with concepts to build your life on. Therapy, a manual, or a diagram will have a positive influence on you, in that they will give you a more positive and reasonable idea for how to be daring and undergo this transformation.
Scorpio: Change without end Soul-searching forms the foundation of your very being and sets the tone for your life. Of course, you do still have letting go of your certainty or certain old-fashioned ideas, but, in the end, you leap the hurdle you know you need to. Since life never stops, but is instead a constant evolution that moves you forward, you will always make a little room for these crucial metamorphoses of yours.
Capricorn: Admit you are changing It is hard for you to let go when you feel off balance, but a crisis just might help you grow profoundly. You will question yourself once you've set your limits and accepted constraints. If you do withdraw into yourself, this inner solitude will help you dredge up from deep within an extraordinary strength that will, in turn, help you more easily transform your certainties and eliminate pointless relationships, like dead branches cut off a tree.
Aquarius: Transform and glow You hold deep convictions and are anchored in your certainty. Questioning yourself could lead to you changing your behavior or how you react. It can even cause you to change up your look, to impose yourself differently with your philosophic outlook or, for example, by accepting a form of wisdom that will make your life more open, more effective. And eve if you have to go through a little chaos, it just might be necessary. As the French philosopher Henri Bergson said, "Disorder is simply an order we did not seek". Taurus: Unleash your doubts To change by your own will, circumstances will have hit a sensitive area for you: your material security. , If it starts to get rocky in this domain, you will want to change your outlook on your lifestyle. If you change your habits, it will be because life has struck you a hard blow in your way of thinking, which may turn out to have been maladapted to the current situation. By making a little effort, you will move through this phase of transformation skillfully and successfully.
Cancer: Put down roots everywhere Anything that has to do with your family might just be the thing you need to challenge yourself. Any overly complex situation that impacts your bond with your loved ones is not acceptable and will awaken your hypersensitivity. Family is sacred to you as it reflects your roots and feelings of security. You have to accept to live differently at times, especially when it comes to your relationships and being less independent on others. By adopting this point of view, you will get to build your future based on more mature principles.
Libra: Get a measure of your own value Romance is a source of soul-searching for you, though you might feel a bit lost still. To come to grips with any problem, you will have to be honest and clear with yourself and stop being vague on purpose. Your renowned indecision in weighing the pro's and cons can prevent you from moving forward psychologically and cause you, at the same time, to miss out on your own romantic life. The first idea you have to adopt to expand your horizons is that you are person with great value, even if you don't have a partner.
Give birth to a dancing star Let's be clear: you hate to have your ideas or opinions contradicted, since the only thing that counts is your own vision, and you are right, too, up to a certain point. You are, after all, the master of your own destiny, as baroque as it may be at times. But, if you eventually realize that a certain form of personal transformation does indeed make sense, you will go full-bore, since, paradoxically, the great the chaos, the more comfortable you feel.
Pisces: Turn to your imagination You tend to flee instead of trying to update and change the parts of your personality that are causing a problem. You are an enigma to others as well as for yourself, and you feel vulnerable when trial arrive. The best thing is to find a calm, quiet place where you can meditate and listen to a little music. The solution to the crisis might just reveal itself on its own. A melody, a form, a color might lead to you seeing things more broadly and with greater perspective and allow you to find a way to change all on your own.
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Timbuk2 is a San Francisco original brand. Founded in a San Francisco garage in 1989 by a bike messenger named Rob Honeycutt, Timbuk2 have manufactured in the city’s Mission District ever since. Rob made products that served his needs as a messenger. They needed to be quick to access, comfortable for all day wear, super robust and obviously have the San Francisco flair. Rob had a huge drive, a knack for branding, and an obsession with just-in-time manufacturing.
Timbuk2 brought customisation to the masses. Selling custom messengers to bike shops across the USA in the 90s and launching the first online customiser in 1999. This technology will be landing on the UK shores in 2013. The Timbuk2 product range has grown to include luggage, laptop bags and accessories but the made in San Francisco custom messenger bag remains at the heart and soul of the company.
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Spain’s Sultry Island of Ibiza boasts sun-drenched days and spectacular nights.
My plane began descending at the same moment the sun slowly started its ascent from where it was hiding beneath the horizon, the pink hues and deep shades of red saturating my face with their warm colors. If I had known then that the sunrise I was experiencing at that moment would be the last one I would witness while on the Island of Ibiza, I would surely have soaked in the moment more deeply. Instead I squinted past the colors to gaze out on what lay before me on the ground, immediately falling under the Island’s spell as we made our descent over the Balearic Sea.
Located just over a hundred miles off the mainland of Spain in the mediterranean sea, Ibiza is the third largest of the Balearic Islands and part of Spain’s comunidad autonoma (autonomous community). Although the Island’s extraordinary landscape changes throughout the year from fields of flowering almond trees to orchards ripe with fruitful citrus fruits, the island’s unspoiled beauty, pine-clad hills and sandy coves can be seen all year round.
It’s been said that there is a special energy on Ibiza—the Spanish Island that has best become known as the playground for the world’s most fashionable crowd of celebrities and dJs looking to experience its infamous nightlife and ethereal offerings—and already I could see that the rumors were true. I would quickly learn that life moves at a different pace on the island, with mornings lazily beginning well past noon and evenings speeding by at a rapid pace until wrapping up just minutes before sunrise.
Ibiza offers something few other destinations could ever dream of offering, with its nonchalant romance dripping from sun-drenched shores and its fervent Spanish passion igniting the island anew each day. Ibiza itself is not as much a holiday destination as it is a lifestyle that is meant to be encountered, discovered and indulged upon.
Over the years, the island’s once “college boy” persona has grown up and developed a taste for luxury, where bar menus featuring Jager shots have transformed into ones with handcrafted cocktails prepared with interesting ingredients and premium spirits, and multi-course tasting dinners are now paired alongside exquisite wine lists and sultry live entertainment. Ibiza’s new blend of refined offerings has unmistakably transformed the island into something that is luxuriously attractive for stylish visitors seeking to soak in its signature bohemian vibe.
Accommodations on Ibiza range from a-list villa rentals like the Can Verru Villa (canverruibiza.com) that kate moss regularly rents out when she is on the island to luxury boutique hotels like the hotel Cas Gasi (casgasi.com) that’s constantly being named as Ibiza’s best-kept secret. Theme Ibiza (melia.com) is the top choice for yachters and vip guests due to its discreet location and direct access for yachts. This boho-chic hotel offers 179 guestrooms and 26 deluxe suites with their own personality and ambiance, and many of them overlook the stunning nikki beach (nikkibeach.com) or the sea.
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For more than 15 years, Sa Capella has continually ranked as one of the best restaurants on the island. Housed in a former 16th-century church, the restaurant is notorious for its local dishes prepared with fresh ingredients in a romantic setting. For a more exclusive experience, pastis (pastisibiza.com) is an authentic french bistro with only 10 tables and an extensive wine menu curated by the parisian owner herself. Healthy diners rave about the raw and vegan dishes at wild beets (wildbeets. com) while anyone looking to see-and-be-seen can be found at celebrity hotspot lio (lioibiza.com) a location that is equal parts upscale restaurant and sultry cabaret.
Shopping on Ibiza isn’t limited to souvenir shops or beachfront duds, and the island is actually renowned for its distinctive fashion scene, better known as adlib fashion. The trend was born in the early 1970s and is characterized by intricately embellished white garments made from fresh cotton fabrics. Some of the best stores for shopping this trend are found in the port of Ibiza, but the island is also home to one of the best vintage stores in Europe, vintage icons and echoes. This eclectic shop is tucked away behind the main tourist hub of Santa Eulalia, and features retro artifacts and designer gear, like endof-the-line Prada shoes, nightgowns from the 1920s and Vivienne Westwood labels.
Ibiza town and Sant Antoni are the bases for the bulk of the major european nightclubs, like pacha ibiza (pachaibiza. com) where David Guetta spends his summers performing with his never-ending lineup of celebrity guests that have included snoop dogg, usher, ludacris, robin schulz, will.i.am, kelis and kelly rowland. Other hot nightspots include privelege (privilegeibiza.com), currently the guinness world record holder as the “world’s largest nightclub,” and dc-10, an unassumingly chic club housed in a former airplane hangar oﬀthe edge of the Ibizan airport runway.
Ibiza oﬀers tons of other opportunities to explore and play, like the trolling the modern-art oﬀerings at the parra & romero gallery (parra-romero.com), lounging on the expansive white sandy beaches, and heading under the stars for to see one of the most beautiful and atmospheric open air cinemas in the world at Amante beach club’s (amanteibiza.com) weekly movie night.
At Woodview Oral Surgery we make every effort to provide you with the finest care and the most convenient financial options. To accomplish this we work hand-in-hand with you to maximize your insurance coverage for treatment. We participate with most major dental and medical plans.
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LLC, S, or C? If it all sounds hopelessly obscure, you may well benefit from a quickie course on the current set of business-entity options available to business owners. Limited-liability companies, a new corporate option in many states, have been gaining popularity, but there are still tax benefits and other financial advantages to S and C corporate structures as well.
Choosing a Business Entity in the 1990s, a free guide published by accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand, offers a valuable discussion of when and why each type of corporate structure makes sense. The 71-page paperback is an oasis of clarity in a publishing field that is often a wasteland of legal and tax jargon.
Coopers & Lybrand's analysis of the factors to consider when choosing a business form is blessedly short but wise enough to deserve a place in an M.B.A. class. Also useful: charts that detail each entity's advantages and disadvantages with regard to other corporate options. To request a copy write Coopers & Lybrand, "Choice of Entity," National Tax Services, 1800 M St. NW, Washington DC 20077-5984.
October is one of the most beautiful months to travel our scenic Sonoma Coast, so what better excuse than to make a day of it and join us at Fort Ross State Historic Park for our annual Harvest Festival?!
Pack a picnic and bring your family and friends for a day spent in our historic orchard picking heirloom apples, singing and dancing with the incredible Bay Area ensembles Kitka and Russian House Kedry, and drinking award-winning Sonoma County wines!
Harvest is the time to enjoy autumn’s fresh air with friends and family, acknowledging all that the seasons provide us. Harvest Festival starts out with a morning of gentle apple picking in the historic orchard, where we’ll harvest fruit while enjoying the Eastern European music and Kedry. The celebration then moves to the historic Fort Ross compound where we’ll enjoy the old-world charm of the 19th century Russian settlement.
For a detailed description and schedule of events, check out our Events Page. See you there!
This wonderful event is made possible by Fort Ross Conservancy and California State Parks.
Happy Saturday! It's the first weekend of November and this Mom is thinking that it's time to start prepping for the upcoming holidays.
I've already started the shopping, but today it's time to focus on the cleaning and decorating. I don't have too much in the way of fall/Thanksgiving decorations, but I would like to figure out where we are putting our Christmas tree (and actually put it up) before the week before Christmas. We struggle with tree placement each year because our living room is on the small side. We would just put the tree in the same place every year, but with our small living room, we move the furniture around often in an attempt to "make the most" of our living space and the spaces we have used in the past are just not readily available to use this year.
I really wish I could hire an interior decorator and someone to help me organize. I sincerely need the help! In the meantime, if you have suggestions, please feel free to leave them in the comments.
The report is the second in a two-part assessment of the coalition’s record on the NHS, the first part of which looked at the government’s reforms, concluding that the upheaval caused by the Health and Social Care Act was damaging and distracting. This new report assesses NHS performance under the coalition, finding that it held up well for the first three years of the parliament but has now deteriorated, with waiting times at their highest levels for a number of years and several key targets missed.
the number of health-care acquired infections has fallen, with cases of MRSA and C difficile at historically low levels (3).
there are signs that NHS staff are under significant pressure and morale is an increasing cause for concern (6).
The report also finds that the NHS has made some progress in improving efficiency, but that it cannot continue to rely on limiting staff salary increases, reducing the prices paid to hospitals for treatment and cutting management costs to deliver savings. Looking ahead, it signals that, while further efficiencies can be found, additional funding of £8 billion a year by 2020 is the minimum requirement for the NHS to continue to meet patient needs and maintain standards of care.
John Appleby, Chief Economist at The King’s Fund and the lead author of the report, said: ‘The next government will inherit a health service that has run out of money and is operating at the very edge of its limits. While the NHS has performed well in the face of huge challenges, there is now a real risk that patient care will deteriorate as service and financial pressures become overwhelming.
The NHS under the coalition government - Part two: NHS performance is published by The King’s Fund on 26 March 2015. For further information or to request an interview, please contact the Press and Public Affairs team on 020 7307 2585 (if calling out of hours, please ring 07584 146035).
(1) Between September 2009 and September 2014, the number of nurses increased by 2.5 per cent (8,108 FTE), the number of consultants by 16.7 per cent (5,789 FTE), and the number of GPs by 2.3 per cent (835 FTE). At the same time the number of management staff reduced by 17.3 per cent (7,345 FTE).
(2) A number of patient surveys show that patient experience remains high and is improving across many services. Public satisfaction with the NHS increased to 65 per cent in 2014, its second highest level ever, having fallen from 70 per cent in 2010 to 58 per cent in 2011.
(3) Cases of MRSA and C difficile had decreased significantly before the coalition took office and have continued to fall to 34 and 445 respectively in January 2015. This compares to 59 and 1,019 in May 2010.
(4) In the third quarter of 2014/15, 7.4 per cent of patients spent longer than four hours in A&E. This is up from 2 per cent in the final quarter before the coalition came into office and is the poorest performance since 2003.
11.3 per cent of inpatients and 5 per cent of outpatients waited longer than 18 weeks for treatment in January 2015. This compares to 7.1 per cent and 1.8 per cent respectively in May 2010. The targets for both have been breached in recent months for the first time since 2008.
The target that 85 per cent of patients with suspected cancer should be treated within 62 days has been missed for four consecutive quarters, having never previously been missed since it was introduced at the end of 2008/9.
(5) Occupancy rates for general and acute beds in hospitals increased to 89.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2014/15, up from 87.7 per cent in the same quarter in 2010/11, with one in six trusts reporting occupancy levels above 95 per cent. Occupancy rates above 85 per cent are generally considered likely to lead to bed shortages and expose patients to risks.
(6) 38 per cent of staff reported that they had felt unwell due to work-related stress according to the 2014 NHS Staff Survey. Staff morale has topped the list of concerns raised by trust finance directors in the regular survey undertaken for our last two quarterly monitoring reports.
How has the NHS performed under the coalition government?
Our infographic explores some key facts and figures.
The last data on NHS performance measures before the election, released this week, shows us what the incoming government will be inheriting. So what does it tell us?
Honey Lemon Blossom has a light color and an intense aroma of lemons from Sicily. Can be used as a sweetener to replace sugar. Has anti anemic and sedative properties, is an excellent emollient, and is useful for fatigue and convalescence.
Man versus Nature is one of five original narrative conflicts, and over the years stories and novels about the interaction between humans and the wild have been piling up. Ben Percy’s aim in his debut novel, The Wilding (Graywolf Press), is to establish himself among the great nature writers, as is made clear by an opening page of epigraphs that reference William Kittredge, Wallace Stegner, and Deliverance author James Dickey.
Percy’s success at blazing his own trail in the game of nature writing varies. The Wilding contains three distinct, though interlocking, narratives. Each portrays the role that nature or the wild can play in human life, but each one is not equal.
The meatiest arc belongs to a group of hunters who seek out nature by wandering out into Echo Canyon: a Native American reserve that will soon be torn down. The hunting party includes Justin Caves, the central character–a seemingly nice enough English teacher whose interest in nature seem perfunctory; his father, Paul, who is the real outdoorsman and the leader of the trip; and lastly, there is Graham, Justin’s son, who is given a camera by his mother and a gun by his grandfather. The goal is for Graham to shoot a buck and become a man, but Justin’s personal goal is to treat Graham in a caring way that will show his father the proper way to nurture a child. Clearly, Justin has some issues—in fact he still has nightmares about a deer that his father made him kill many years ago.
Now, fathers and sons going out to the woods to hunt is apparently a rite of passage, but writing a story about that rite of passage also seems to be a rite of passage for a lot of Midwestern and Western writers. Percy’s contribution to this trope comes off, structurally, a little dull. The characters seem so obviously at odds with each other that it’s confusing why they thought the trip was a good idea. The other problematic issue lies in the Echo Canyon question. Much of the first half of the book is dedicated to understanding why the land is important. Percy even brings in a Native American named Tom Bear Claws to speak on behalf on the land and its native inhabitants. (This scene is unfortunately reminiscent of the movie Ernest Goes to Camp.) And even though this set-up turns out to be a ruse, there are a lot of pages wasted not doing what Percy does best.

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