• Some time in the second half of 2003: Jobs undergoes some sort of scan which finds an incidentaloma, which actually later that evening, it was biopsied and found out to be a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, a slow growing kind of pancreatic cancer.
• The next nine months: Jobs tries a special diet hoping to kill or slow the cancer’s growth. Either it doesn’t work and the cancer grows or the doctors convince Steve that there’s more evidence for a Western medicine intervention than a special diet.
• July 31, 2004: Jobs undergoes surgery to remove the tumor.
• June 2009: Jobs undergoes a liver transplant. It’s unclear why.
• August 24, 2011. Jobs steps down as Apple’s CEO because he is unfit for his duties.

‘Favela painting’ affects the aesthetic order of how favelas are perceived from within and outside its natural embryonic growth. Colour brings hope. It brings a different understanding of space and its people, inviting others to co-create and co-represent much more constructively and positively life here. It appeals to our senses in a way that we do not reject but embrace these places and the potential for better life. It articulates a different discourse of social change; of engagement, contributing to improve life for favela dwellers.

"I watched everything closely for the first few days, but the novelty of active monitoring wore off quickly. It took less than a week to recognize the rhythm and patterns of our everyday life...while I’m more aware of my use, the 5000 hasn’t done much to change it."

Between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills. One patient had three hundred and twenty-four admissions in five years. The most expensive patient cost insurers $3.5 million.

But, out in the world, Frank's life was simply another hospitalization waiting to happen. By then, however, Brenner had figured out a few things he could do to help. Some of it was simple doctor stuff. He made sure he followed Hendricks closely enough to recognize when serious problems were emerging. He double-checked that the plans and prescriptions the specialists had made for Hendricks’s many problems actually fit together—and, when they didn’t, he got on the phone to sort things out. He teamed up with a nurse practitioner who could make home visits to check blood-sugar levels and blood pressure, teach Hendricks about what he could do to stay healthy, and make sure he was getting his medications. A lot of what Brenner had to do, though, went beyond the usual doctor stuff. Brenner got a social worker to help Hendricks apply for disability insurance, so that he could leave the chaos of welfare motels, and have access to a consistent set of physicians. The team also pushed him to find sources of stability and value in his life. They got him to return to Alcoholics Anonymous, and, when Brenner found out that he was a devout Christian, he urged him to return to church. He told Hendricks that he needed to cook his own food once in a while, so he could get back in the habit of doing it. The main thing he was up against was Hendricks’s hopelessness. He’d given up. “Can you imagine being in the hospital that long, what that does to you?” Brenner asked.