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Private Exchanges and Pet Insurance
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On this morning's program, the hosts will be discussing private health insurance exchanges, pet insurance and more with special guests from Accenture and Hartville Pet Insurance Group.
For the first segment on today's program, Scott Brown, Private Exchange Offering Lead at Accenture, will be joining the program to discuss the firm's latest private exchange research. Accenture estimates enrollment in private health insurance exchanges doubled to six million individuals for the 2015 plan year. The company projects hypergrowth will continue through 2018, as a number of factors inhibiting early growth will dissipate, while several accelerators will spur further adoption. These factors, combined with the employer's desire to meet consumers' demand for choice and flexibility in a retail-like shopping experience, will lead to 40 million members on private exchanges by 2018.
The second guest on this week's program will be JoAnne Novak, AVP Business Development at Hartville Pet Insurance Group, providers of ASPCA Pet Health Insurance. As one of the oldest and largest pet insurance providers in the U.S., Hartville has committed itself to helping more pet parents have access to reliable and affordable pet insurance plans. According to the American Pet Products Association, roughly 68 percent of U.S. households have a pet, and last year, over $15 billion was spent on veterinary care. In this segment, JoAnne will discuss what's driving the increasing demand for pet health insurance as a voluntary benefit as well as what makes pet insurance relevant for the workforce in connection with health care consumerism and private exchanges.
Health Insurance Countdown - Get Yours Now!
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Join Partners in Health and Biz talk show host Gail Dixon this Saturday, January 31, 2015 and learn what you can do now to get affordable health coverage before the February 15, 2015 deadline and avoid a tax penalty this April. Call into the studio with your questions and/or comments: 347-945-7433.
If figuring out your 2015 health insurance is still on your "To Do" list, here are the three things you need to know:
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Open Enrollment for 2015 coverage runs through February 15, 2015. During this time you can sign up for new coverage, change plans, or find out if you can get help paying for your coverage.
Health Care Payments, Life Insurance and Health Incentives
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On this week's edition of HealthCare Consumerism Radio, the hosts welcome two special guests to the program for a discussion on health care payments, health engagement, life insurance, health incentives and more.
The first guest on the program will be Vineet Gulati, chief executive officer of HealthExpense. Similar to the shift from pension plans to individual retirement accounts years ago, employers are switching from defined benefit to a defined contribution that their employees control. Therefore, the employee-consumer today has to make more health insurance and health care purchasing decisions. This shift has been rapid, and consumers need to learn very quickly how to use vehicles like HSAs, FSAs and HRAs to cope with this expense-shift. In this interview, Vineet and the hosts will discuss what problems this shift is causing across the health care ecosystem and the innovations that are emerging to deal with these changes.
For the second segment on the show, the hosts will talk with Tal Gilbert, senior vice president of marketing and innovation for The Vitality Group. Tal and the hosts will be discussing an innovative new solution that brings together life insurance and wellness incentives. John Hancock Insurance recently launched a new approach to life insurance in the U.S. that rewards people for healthy living. Developed through an exclusive, first-ever life insurance partnership with The Vitality Group, the new solution integrates life insurance with a comprehensive healthy living program.
Introduction to Health Insurance (Blog 6)
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Welcome to class 6 of Introduction to Health Insurance. This class completed the course of the introduction to health insurance and will be followed by Health care billing and coding procedures. Your final exam will be sent to you this weekend.
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Welcome to class five of Introduction to health insurance. To be successful in this class please be sure to listen to the entire class. You should also have your required text books. Be sure to send your Instructor the attendance flag word at the end of the class.
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Welcome to Introduction to health Insurance. To be best in this class be sure to have the required materials and textbook. At the completion of this class, you must send your Instructor the attendance flag word to receive attendance credits. Enjoy your learning experience!
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Welcome to Introduction to Health Insurance class 4. Be sure to have note taking materials, your required text book and your lesson plan or syllabus for the class. At the end of the class you are required to send your Instructor the attendance flag word to recieve proper attendance credits.
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Introduction to Health Insurance (Blog One)
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Welcome to SMB Tech Schools Introduction to Health Insurance class. When working in any business, to be able to sustain the operation of the business there is usually a fee for service. In the healthcare professional it is the same. Patients can elect to be private pay or pay with cash or patients often have a health insurance policy to assure that when they are ill or need an annual check up the policy will generally cover the cost of the healthcare professionals providing the patient service.
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Health Insurance is a big deal! Let's talk insurance!
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Tom Kucan returns to Anna's Journey to discuss health insurance.
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Pet Radio Show-Canine Seizures and Pet Insurance
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Dr. Michael Wong is one of fewer than 200 board-certified veterinary neurologists in North America. He was one of the first veterinary neurologists to complete the Advanced Neurosurgical Course.
Dr. Wong has lectured at the local, state and national level, and has instructed veterinary students at the University of Florida. He has published articles on magnetic resonance imaging, new treatments for encephalitis, treatment of brain tumors and neurosurgery. He enjoys all aspects of neurology, neurosurgery, and MRI, but his passions include spinal surgery, seizure management, management of encephalitis, and MRI in the diagnosis of neurological disease.
Have you been considering pet insurance but confused as to what it covers, or what type of policy to get, what to look for when shopping for insurance, and what the best fit is for your pets? Chris Middleton from Pets Best Insurance will explain everything you need to know to get the right coverage for your pets
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Just like so many pet owners, Susan Thixton learned the 'truth' about pet foods the hard way. Her four legged best friend, Sam, died from bone cancer. From that day forward, Susan studied the pet food industry. TruthaboutPetFood.com began in 2004; today pet owners from all over the world visit TruthaboutPetFood learning about pet food regulations, ingredients, and recall alerts. TruthaboutPetFood.com provides a free newsletter and hosts a subscription based pet product review publication Petsumer Report. Susan is also the author of Buyer Beware and co-author of Dinner PAWsible.
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A chemical method of producing organic switching and memory units for electronic computer elements which comprises the self-assembly of said elements from polyamino acids exclusive of flavin and pterin pigments and mono-amino-dicarboxylic acids, and membranous planar, spherical and tubular structures produced thereby.
1. A method of directed chemical self-assembly of electronic switching and memory elements from polyamino acids exclusive of flavin and pterin pigments and mono amino dicarboxylic acids consisting of:
the process of amino acid polymerization by a hybrid sequential synthesis and thermal condensation,
mixing the polymer with lipids and dyes,
dissolving said compounds in a solvent containing ions,
evaporation of the excess of external solvent and formation of planar, spherical and tubular membraneous structures.
2. Membraneous planar, spherical and tubular structures, assembled from components containing essentially polyamino acids, lipids and chromophores and electrolyte environment and sustaining electrical polarization of their membranes, which can be changed by electrical, chemical and photic stimuli.
3. Structures according to claim 2, combined together by tubular bridges.
4. Structures according to claim 2, combined together by external parts of their membranes in a hexagonal package.
5. Structures according to claim 2, with branching processes from them.
6. Structures according to claim 2, characterized by the negative dynamic resistance of their membranes.
7. Structures according to claim 2, characterized by hysteresis of the current-voltage response of their membranes to electrical, chemical and optical stimulation.
This application is related to the Disclosure Document, filed at the U.S. Patent Office in Feb. 11, 1987.
The background of the present invention is preceded by description of the field of invention and the state of the art.
The invention is related to electronic computer elements and methods of their assembly. In the Specification a chemical method of producing organic switching and memory units, assembled from polyamino acids, is described. Described elements change their electrical polarization due to electrical, chemical and light stimulation.
Contemporary mechanical assembly of electronic devices has almost reached the limit of possibilities. The Josephson junction may be a good example here: submicron size and switching below femtoseconds has been already achieved. This is an indication that a desire for further miniaturization and three-dimensional package of electronic devices will be fulfilled sooner than we anticipated. Semiconductor technology, after two or three more times doubling in circuit density, will reach the fundamental limits imposed by the laws of physics. New concepts, such as quantum wells and neural circuit architecture in electronic technology, are already being explored (G. M. Borsuk: in Molecular Electronic Devices. Eds. F. L. Carter, R. E. Siatkowski, H. Wohltjen, Elesvier Science Publishers B. V., North Holland, 1988; M. A. Reed: ibidem).
Beyond the recent methods in the technology of computer elements, also theoretical perspectives for the near future technology and some practical assembly attempts of the molecular electronic devices are considered (e.g. Molecular Electronic Devices, Ed. F. L. Carter, M. Dekker, New York, 1982; International Symposium on Molecular Electronics--Biosensors and Biocomputers, Santa Clara, July 19-24, 1988).
However, described and even patented molecular computer elements are rather conceptual only (W. M. M. Biernat: U.S. Pat. No. 3,119,099; A. Aviram, and P. E. Seiden: U.S. Pat. No. 3,833,894). As yet, only some of the fundamental problems relevant to the molecular construction of, for instance NAND and NOR gates (F. L. Carter: in Computer Applications in Chemistry. Eds. S. R. Heller, and R. Potenzone, Elsevier Science Publishers) have been solved (S. W. Staley, J. S. Lindsey, and R. R. Birge: 3rd Internat. Symp. Molecular Electronic Devices, Arlington, VA, Oct. 6-8, 1986).
An emphasis on miniaturization is subject to critical evaluation in that the utilization of individual molecules as functional elements remains elusive (J. B. Tucker: High Technology, Feb., 36, 1984; R. C. Haddon, and A. A. Lammola: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 82, 1874, 1985) despite that macroscopic neuronal impulses and chemical signals in the information processing are based on molecular events.
The prospect of making computer circuits with smaller elements which can even assemble themselves is now in view. Self-assembly seems to be the most challenging aspect involved in designing of molecular electronic devices. The contemporary physical assembly of the electronic elements is going to be replaced by directed chemical assembly. After an implementation of the neuronal network computer architecture, although, as yet, based on conventional semiconductor technology, also consideration of the constituent computing elements, assembled chemically, become an issue. Such practical elements can be achieved through biotechnological approach. Biotechnological research and development toward chemical assembly of computer elements comprise:
a. an use of the ultracytochemistry technique to deposit very thin metal layers in a protein matrix, and
b. an orientation of the protein monolayer to a subassembly of macromolecules that form electronic circuits.
The growing importance of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (P. Burggraaf: Semiconductor Internat., Nov., 60, 1986; L. J. Mawst, M. A. Emanuel, M. E. Givens, C. A. Zmudzinski, and J. J. Coleman, Semiconductor Internat., Nov. 60, 1986), already in production practice, is a reflection of an intermediary stage between inorganic and organic technology of computer elements.
The self-assembly aspect of molecular electronic devices, based on controlled organic molecular processes, but not reduced to single molecules, is already a realistic approach (Y. Ishima, A. T. Przybylski, and S. W. Fox: BioSystems, 13, 243, 1981; A. T. Przybylski, W. P. Stratten, R. M. Syren, and S. W. Fox, Naturwissenschaften, 69, 561, 1982; A. T. Przybylski: Biosystems, 17, 281, 1985; A. T. Przybylski, and S. W. Fox: in Modern Bioelectrochemistry, Eds. F. Gutman, and H. Keyzer, Plenum Press, New York, 1986.
The protein component is the main functional constituent of the modern biological membranes and also of the lipo-polyamino acid membranes. Lipid membrane by itself is electrically inactive; only a deposition of the protein-like substance results in the emergence of electrical properties of the membrane.
Reported attempts at the assembly of computer elements, based on proteins (J. H. McAlear, and J. M. Wehrung: U.S. Pat. No. 4,103,064; J. S. Hanker, and B. L. Giammara: in Molecular Electronic Devices, Ed. F. L. Carter, M. Dekker, New York, 1982; K. M. Ulmer: ibidem), can be considered as a first successful practical step. We know that intramolecular electron transfer processes take place in protein molecules (M. A. Ratner: Internat. J. Quantum Chem., 14, 675, 1978) and that such transfer processes result in a significant electrical potential between adjacent proteins (G. R. Moore, and R. J. P. Williams: Coordin. Chem. Revs., 18, 125, 1976). This potential is especially high across the membrane (P. C. Hinkle: Fed. Proc. 32, 1988, 1973. As a potential (gradient of various modality energy or substance concentration) is applied across the lipo-protein membrane, the voltage appearing across the effective membrane is equal for charging
V(t)=Vo [1-exp-(t/RC)]
and for discharging
V(t)=Vo [exp-(t/RC)],
Vo --maximum potential across the membrane,
R--membrane resistance,
C--membrane capacitance.
It is known that in neurons and nerves there are practically no nucleic acids, and the membrane of depleted protoplasm from the axon is able to generate and conduct electrical impulses during a long time. That means that nucleic acids are not necessary consituents of the structure responsible for the impulse generation. An appearance of the charge transfer and electrical potential across pigmented membranes has been well documented both theoretically and experimentally (F. T. Hong: Photochem. Photobiol., 24, 155, 1976). As there is some evidence that proteins have semiconductor properties (F. Gutman: in Modern Bioelectrochemistry, Eds. F. Gutman, and H. Keyzer, Plenum Press, New York, 1986), there is a reason to assume that light may be used to switch the molecular state and the transmembrane potential in the case of the lipo-protein membranes. The optical computing is, therefore a realistic approach when the computer elements consist of proteinaceous material containing chromophores.
It has been suggested, and we have some data, that assembled polypeptides would provide a basis for an active molecular electronic devices. Proteins are the most plausible compounds for the computer-like material. The kinase-phosphatase system displaying storage and switching features (J. E. Lisman: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 82, 3055, 1985) and the enzymatic transistor (B. Danielsson, K. Mosbach, I. Lundstrom, and L. Stilbert: Enzyme Engineering, 5, 123, 1980) are embodiments which indicate for practical possibility for finding a chemical basis for these phenomena. Directed self-assembly of designed functional compounds with expected properties has the best change of success on peptide or protein materials.
Electrical switching has been observed in melanin (J. McGinnes, P. Corry, and P. Proctor: Science, 183, 835, 1974).
Directed chemical self-assembly of the switching and memory elements, based on polyamino acids, is an objective of the invention.
The invention concerns chemical preparation of such polyamino acids containing lipids and dyes as well as assembly of membraneous planar, spherical and tubular structures. Synthesis of said polyamino acids comprises thermal condensation and sequential synthesis of amino acids and formation of intrinsic chromophores or addition of dyes to the polymers.
Assembly of the switching and memory structures comprises dissolving of the obtained polymer material, addition of ions and evaporation of the solvent. Assembled structures hold electrical trans-membrane potential, which can be switched by electrical, chemical or photic impulses.
The material of the polymers of amino acids has been obtained by thermal condensation and by a hybrid sequential-thermal synthesis. The hybrid method of thermal copolymerization and sequential coupling of amino acids and fragments of amino acid monomers results in polymers having side chains and strict sequence of amino acid residues. The described method of hybrid sequential-thermal synthesis of polyamino acids [A. Pol: U.S. Patent pending] provides combinations of all amino acid residues in the polymers under the condition that:
a. tri-functional amino acids are present during the stage of thermal polymerization, and
b. various method of protection of the active amino acid groups are applied.
If the sequential synthesis results in linear chain of amino acid residues, the thermal polymerization determines higher dimensional order of the polymer.
Prepared polymers have a general formula
poly [(Asp)m -(H)n -(Res)p ]x,
where H denotes a hydrophobic amino acid, Res--other amino acid residues and m, n, p, x--numbers, contingent upon the polymerization conditions, can vary from 10 to 1000.
The presence of tri-functional amino acids during their copolymerization prevents formation of diketopiperazines and results in predominantly alpha-peptide bonding of the polymers having total molecular weight up to 10,000.
In all polyamino acids, produced thermally, aspartic and glutamic acids are necessary components.
The polymers and their aggregation products contain flavin and pterin chromophoric groups (J. Hartman, M. C. Brandt, and K. Dose; BioSystems, 13, 141, 1981), produced intrinsically during polymerization and partial thermolysis of constituent amino acids. They posses also anisotropic properties (B. Heinz, and W. Ried: 7th Internat. Conf. Origin of Life, Mainz, July 10-15, 1983). As a result, the polymers, as well as planar and spherical membranes, made from them, are photosensitive (S. W. Fox, and A. T. Przybylski: U.S. Pat. No. 4,514,584) revealing considerable size of photovoltaic potential (up to 1 volt) and low current (up to 100 nA/cm2): FIG. 1.
Understanding of the described embodiments of the disclosed switching and memory structures will be better explained by use of the following drawings.
FIG. 1. Photovoltaic response of the proline-rich polyamino acid--eosine system during illumination by a quartz lamp of 200 lux intensity (horizontal bar). Calibrations: 1 nA and 10 mV; 1 min.
FIG. 2. Switching of the transmembrane electrical polarizaition of the spherical structure made from the polyamino acid--phospholipid compounds during electrical stimulation by positive 2 V impuls. No effect by the same polarity impuls of the lower voltage of 1.0 and 1.5 V, as well as to negative impulse of 2 V.
FIG. 3. Dependence of the initial level of the trans-membrane electrical polarization of the structure, composed of polyamino acid-dye system, upon the direction of the switching effect by light stimulus (arrow).
FIG. 4. Influence of the chemical stimulus on the electrical potential of the membrane of the systems consisting of polyamino acid and dye. Effect of the change of pH of the system on the photovoltaic switching effect before and after subsequent optical stimuli (arrows).
The preferred embodiments of the invention are presented on two Examples: one describing synthesis of the polymers, and the second one describing the self-assembly of the membraneous structures of the switching and memory elements.
Synthesis of the polymers may be illustrated on the following example.
The polymer containing aspartic acid and tryptophan residues is synthesized according to the following procedure.
1. Initial thermal condensation of aspartic acid with tryptophan. Thermal copoly(Asp-Trp) monomer is obtained during thermal condensation of Asp and Trp with unprotected active groups ##STR1## which is condensed further in order to couple obtained monomers.
Practical process of thermal condensation is very simple. Equimolar mixtures of L-aspartic acid and L-tryptophan are heated under nitrogen atmosphere at 200� C. 6 hours, or at 60� C. during several days. Obtained product is dialyzed through the 3,000 molecular weight cut-filter and further lyophilized. After its HPLC purification and analysis the final product is subject to the further process in the hybride synthesis.
If required, the process of copolymerization can be preceded by thermal homopolycondensation in the initial stage of the synthesis. In this case poly(Asp) sub-monomers are synthesized ##STR2## Then, further copolymerization results in the following copolymers
{(Asp)a -(Asp)b }c -(Trp)d ]e,
where a, b, c, d and e--are integers contingent upon conditions of the polymerization.
The same steps of polymerization, but with protecting of the active amino acid groups result in polymers of different structure.
2. Protection of the desired active amino acid groups of aspartic acid and tryptophan and sequential synthesis through the remaining active groups, followed by deprotection of the protected groups, and subsequent thermal copolycondensation of aspartic acid and tryptophan.
Protection of the active amino acid groups (aspartic acid and tryptophan) are realized through the following reactions: blocking of the side chain carboxyl groups of aspartic acid in two steps:
a) through L-aspartic acid -beta-benzyl ester (beta-benzyl)-L-aspartate) and
b) through benzyloxycarbonyl-L-aspartic acid-beta-benzyl ester (beta-benzyl benzyloxycarbonyl-L-aspartate).
The process of the hybrid synthesis is accomplished by the:
a/ combination of the sequential synthesis and thermal condensation of the amino acids in the described process and is determined by the amino acid composition of the mixture and their molar ratio,
b/ sequence of the steps of the process of the synthesis, and
c/ protection of the active groups of the constituent amino acids.
Assembly of the switching and memory structural elements is performed during the following steps:
The product of thermal copolymerization of amino acids, dissolved in pure water, electrolytes containing such ions as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate and their combination as well as in water containing other compounds and solvents produces bilayer or multilayer membraneous planar and spherical structures.
Evaporation take place during the heating or sonication procedure, followed by a passive evaporation during deposition of the polymer material on the flat surface.
The vesicles are round, of several micrometers in size. Also tubules, of a diameter of several micrometers are produced. The form of the structures is dependent upon amino acid composition within the polymers and content of the lipid component. The lipid component is a modifying component, and its presence in the membrane is not a sine qua non requirement of the membrane components. It can be added initially to the mixture of the ingredients before their dissolving and heating. Depending on amino acid composition of the constituent polymer, its ionic environment and the presence of phospholipids, the size of vesicles varies. As a rule, the presence of lecithin results in enlargement of diameter of the vesicles. Multilayer membranes are formed in the presence of added lipids to the polymers in various ratio. Several layer membranes are formed when the polymer-lipid ratio is around 10:1.
Self-assembly of spherical structures having double membrane and and considerable trans-membrane electric potential around 45 mV, is illustrated below.
A suspension of 60 mg of the polymer and 60 mg of lecithin are dissolved in 3 ml of potassium phosphate solution with aqueous glycerol is heated to boiling. The aqueous electrolyte contains the following amounts of ions: K--80, H--130, Na--0.2, K--0.05, Mg--0.1, Ca--0.5, Cl--0.25, PO4 --70, NO3 -1.0 and SO4 --0.1 mM.
An electron donor or electron acceptor type of dyes can be added to the polyamino acid before dissolving of the mixture and its heating. Also ultraacoustic sonication can be applied instead of heating the mixture.
Single vesicles are arranged into:
a/ chains by making a common bridging communication channels between individual entities through their membranes;
b/ outgrowing processes from individual vesicles;
c/ two-dimensional hexagonal packaging and physical contact through the external parts of their membranes.
Single vesicles can be arranged into chains. They touch each other only membrane to membrane, make a common communication within the inside, or they form branched processes. Tubular structures are formed in the case of the presence of hydrophobic amino acids within the polymers. Structures with outgrowing processes are formed when the polyamino acids contain tryptophan.
Hexagonal packaging of vesicles is accomplished in such a mode that all membraneous elements are in a mutual contact being attached to each other through their surfaces on 1/6 parts of their 2- or 3-dimensional entities.
The intrinsic zwitterionic properties of the constituent amino acids within the polymer determine the dipole and charge-orientation of the resultant microstructures. Beyond protein bond, the presence of flavin and pterin chromophoric groups in the polymer directly response to the electromagnetic stimulation of the membrane and change of its electrical polarization.
Subject of the present disclosure differs significantly from already published data by the same author. The previous data were obtained using only polyamino acids, obtained exclusively by thermal condensation, and the assembled structures (both planar and spherical), although displayed some membrane potential and some resemblance to neuronal electrical discharges, were far from the clear and controllable switching and memory effects.
The described hybrid technique of sequential synthesis and thermal condensation of amino acids enable this kind of polyamino acids and their assembly into such elements.
In contradistinction to the material of the previous papers, where all polymers of thermal condensation are considered to be random of only their amino acid composition known, in the present Specification, not only a desirable composition of the resultant polymers but also the amino acid composition and arrangement of the functional chemical groups is accomplished by the described method of the hybrid sequential-condensation process of amino acids. This is a crucial difference both in the applied methods and resulting products. Such hybrid process of polymerization of amino acids but not been described as yet.
The described findings on electrical phenomena in the previous publications (Ishima et al., 1981) and Przybylski (1985) were obtained on such non-directed (or random) polymers and were far from being a subject of engineered features associated with such polymers.
The difference between the subject material, described in the present Specification as compared to the material in the previous papers is the following. In the first paper the only the uncontrolled flip-flop phenomena and spontaneous oscillations across the protein-like material with lecithin were described. In the second one, some phenomena such as negative dynamic resistance and hysteresis resembling both some technical semiconductive devices and natural neurons were found. The data of the last paper provided a ground for further theoretical and experimental approach toward chemical assembly of the organic controllable switching spherical and planar membranes. The controllable switching phenomena, described in the Specification, were obtained only in structures assembled from the polymers, obtained in the hybrid process of sequential synthesis and thermal condensation of amino acids.
Additionally, an ion concentration gradient across the membrane, a membrane polarization contribute to the size of the trans-membrane electrical potential and its change during applied electrical, chemical or photic stimuli. The electrical potential across the membrane is directly proportional to the intra-vesicle content of potassium ions. The subthreshold gradual change of the trans-membrane potential result into a dynamic depolarization potential of equal amplitude. Electrically induced potentials are produced when gradually increased injection current reaches the threshold value. There is asymmetry of the response.
The polyamino acid vesicles behave quite linearly and reveal regular alternating switching phenomena when stimulated electrically. The switching is obtained only due to one polarity of applied stimuli. Stimuli of an opposite polarity do not reverse the trans-membrane potential (FIG. 2). The photovoltaic switching of the membrane potential during illumination by visible and UV light is produced. The degree of the effect and its prolongation are proportional to the intensity and duration of the illumination. Depending on the initial level of polarization of the polymer-dye interface positive or negative photovoltaic shifts are measured: the negative shift is a result of light stimulation on the positive polarity background, and vice versa (FIG. 3). Descending or ascending potential shift is also pH-dependent (FIG. 4). This is correlated with opposite band splitting of poly-methyl-L-glutamate (M. Goodman, S. A. Verdini, S. Nam, and Y. Masuda: in Topics in Stereochemistry. Eds. E. E. Eliel, and N. L. Allinger, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1970). The long-lasting relaxation of the induced photovoltaic effect at the polymer-dye interface, especially in the case of the prolinerich polymers, is due to the transformation of poly-L-proline I into its II form (J. Engel: Biopolymers, 4, 945, 1966).
Conformational changes of the protein-like macromolecules associated with ionic permeability across the polymer membrane is the main cause of the described electrical phenomena. The current-voltage characteristics of the membrane, the negative dynamic resistance of the hysteresis are functionally crucial properties of the membraneous structures, assembled from polyamino acids.
There are certain important similarities between in the described structures and natural excitable cells: RC-time constants, depolarization and repolarization, trans-membrane potential and the potassium concentration dependence.
Although the invention has been shown and described on examples of the preferred embodiments, various forms of the content of these embodiments can be realized by one skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention, which can be determined by the following claims.
The subject matter of the Specification is restricted to polyamino acids, excluding monoaminoacids, as regard the Claims of the present application versus these of the U.S. Pat. No. 4,514,584, the following negative limitation is made: exclusive of flavin and pterin pigments and mono amino dicarboxylic acids.
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40 Beautiful Harry Potter Art and Illustration Tributes
All good thing must come to an end. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is finally in theaters, and is the last film we will ever see. J.K. Rowling's fantasy series has played a huge role in peoples lives. Adulthood of childhood, Harry appealed to the masses. With a great story line and a never ending action, this phenomenon will be strongly missed. In order to tribute the series we have collected some incredible fan based artworks.
Most of the following pieces were collected from Gallery Nucleus. For the last 2 years, the works were collected from fan submission on their Harry Potter blog. Here's what the blog's intro states: "Although the movies have done a tremendous job in the manner of visual depiction, many artists and readers alike, have had their own vision of the Harry Potter world. This Blog hopes to be a platform for those visions as well as new concepts that further builds upon that world while paying homage through illustration to the epic tale that has touched the imaginations of so many readers." The fan base Harry Potter has attributed is massive, and is apparently very creative. Check out the following fantastic fan art!
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Technical mastery, musical expression and a piece one rarely has an opportunity to hear came together on Friday evening in a stunning performance by pianist Christopher Taylor.
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Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies had unusual moves in China trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses as of 3 p.m. close.
The Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the bigger of China's stock exchanges, rose 21.87 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,415.05. The CSI 300 Index gained 1 percent to 2,637.88.
Construction materials: Anhui Conch Cement Co. (600585 CH), China's biggest cement maker, rose 1.7 percent to 18.42 yuan. Gansu Qilianshan Cement Group Co. (600720 CH) advanced 1.7 percent to 12.48 yuan.
China will expand trials for giving subsidies to rural households for using cement and energy-saving construction material while building homes, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said in a statement on its website.
Beiqi Foton Motor Co. (600166 CH), China's biggest commercial-vehicle maker, climbed 6.2 percent to 7.94 yuan. Daimler AG said its joint venture with Foton Motor to build trucks in China received approval by Chinese authorities.
Gemdale Corp. (600383 CH), the Shenzhen-based developer, lost 1 percent to 5.05 yuan. Gemdale cut prices for an apartment project in Shanghai by 15 percent, the Shanghai Securities News reported, without saying where it got the information.
Ping An Insurance Group Co. (601318 CH), China's second-biggest insurance company, gained 1.8 percent to 35 yuan. Ping An said its main shareholders haven't reduced their stakes and have no plans to do so, according to the company's Shenzhen-based spokesman Sheng Ruisheng.
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Gangster Abu Salem on Tuesday moved the special TADA [Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act] court seeking closure of his trial after the Portugal Supreme Court rejected the Indian government's appeal challenging violation of extradition conditions.
Abu Salem, who has been undergoing trial here for various offences including involvement in the 1993 bomb blasts, was extradited to India along with his female friend Monica Bedi in 2005.
He had earlier approached the Court of Appeals in Portugal alleging the breach of the Principle of Speciality by the Government of India. The court had then ruled in favour of Salem. The Portugal Supreme Court upheld its lower court's order that the extradition treaty with India was violated in Salem's case, as new charges attracting death penalty were slapped on him.
"The accused states that in view of the termination of the extradition, the accused above named cannot be now tried in India. The further trial of the accused in the above case would be illegal and without jurisdiction," the application submitted before the special TADA court stated.
He said that the trial should be immediately stayed.
"The Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to file a reply on it. The case will come up for hearing on Wednesday," Rashid Ansari, Salem's lawyer, told The Hindu.
Salem had earlier moved a similar application when the Portugal Court of Appeals, on September 14, 2011, concluded in its order that "the ongoing trial of the accused in India for new crimes is illegal and in violation of the principle of speciality" and ruled the termination of extradition authorisation granted to India.
The TADA court had rejected the previous application and said in its order then: "This [halting the trial at that stage] would be criminal waste of time of the court. If trial is proceeded further till the proceedings attain finality in the Honourable Supreme Court of Justice, Portugal, no prejudice would be caused to the accused."
On Tuesday, Salem said in the application that the trial should not proceed further as it had "commenced on the basis of authorisation granted by the Republic of Portugal whereby the accused was extradited to India. The said order has been annulled by the Court of Appeals, Lisbon, and now stands confirmed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of Justice, Portugal. The trial of the accused cannot now proceed any further."
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Helen F. Abbott, 82
MOULTONBOROUGH — Helen Faye (Johnson) Abbott, 82, of Moultonborough, NH and formerly of Sutton, Massachusetts, passed away peacefully on May 15th. She was surrounded by her cherished family and passed into eternal peace in her home, which she dearly loved.
Mrs. Abbott graduated from Grafton High School in 1949 and attended the University of Connecticut for nursing. After marrying her high school sweetheart on September 3, 1951, they settled in Ithaca, NY while her husband completed his veterinary medicine degree. They came back to New England and eventually settled in Sutton to raise their family of four, then moved to Moultonborough, NH in 1980.
Helen's generous and giving heart reached into every community she lived in. She was a dedicated member of the Moultonborough Visiting Nurse Services Board of Directors, and served as their secretary since 1982. Whether she was volunteering in the pediatrics ward, being a Camp Fire Girl leader, driving for the "Care Giver" program or helping a neighbor, her understated passion and presence was always felt. She was an extraordinary cook and loved to entertain. However, her greatest pride, joy and pleasure were sharing moments with her family. She was a lady blessed with inner beauty, grace and dignity. She possessed a warm affinity for everyone she met. Her loving ways will be missed by all who knew her. "To live in the hearts of those who love us is never to die."
For nearly 63 years, Helen was the beloved wife of Dr. Richard Abbott. She was an amazing Mom to Deborah Holmgren and her husband Henry of Worcester, MA, Scott Abbott of Morrisville, VT, and Lynne Francolini of Millbury, MA., and an adored grandmother to Jonathan Maynard, Christopher Maynard and Renee Francolini. She is also survived by brothers Paul Johnson and his partner, David Johnson and his wife, Donna Theriault and her husband, three nieces that she thought of as daughters, Coleen Sorensen, Maureen Chumsae, and Kathy Harris, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Evelyn (Faulkner) Johnson Day, Allan Johnson; her sister, Nancy Renaud; and her son, Richard J. Abbott, Jr. She also leaves her much loved furry friends, Josh, Millie and Roxie.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, May 22 at 3:00PM at the Moultonborough United Methodist Church; Rte. 25, Moultonborough. Burial will be private in Holland Hill Cemetery, Moultonborough.
The family wishes to express their gratitude to the Central NH hospice staff for their compassion, kindness and attention given to Helen during her final days.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Helen's memory to Central NH VNA & Hospice; 780 N. Main Street in Laconia, NH 03246.
The Mayhew Funeral Home and Crematorium, of Meredith and Plymouth, is in charge of the arrangements. To sign Helen's Book of Memories, please go to www.mayhewfuneralhomes.com
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Raymond F. May, Jr., 80
ASHLAND — Raymond Francis May, Jr., 80, of Ashland died at home on May 16, 2014 surrounded by his family following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born in Ashland on November 23, 1933, the son of Raymond F. and Helen (Woodward) May, Sr.
Ray was a lifelong resident of Ashland. He attended Ashland Schools and was a 1951 graduate of Ashland High School. He served his country in the US Air Force from 1953 to 1957, having been stationed in NY, WY, CA, Okinawa and Texas. Ray married his wife, Helen, in Texas in 1957 and shortly after received an honorable discharge as a staff sergeant before returning to Ashland. After several years of private industry work in accounting and production planning, Ray went on to work for the US Army Corps of Engineers as a civilian at the Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, NH in the Logistics Management Office. He received the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award for display of unusual courage and competence in the rescue of a fellow employee who was injured during an explosion in 1970. This award is the second highest honorary award presented by the Department of the Army to a civilian. Ray retired as Chief of Contracting and Logistics after more than 29 years of service and received the Commanders Award for Civilian Service.
Ray was a member of the Ashland Fire Department, Deputy Forest Fire Warden, and an elected Fire Ward. He was a lifetime member of National Association of Retired Federal Employees. He enjoyed spending time with his family, fishing, hunting, traveling and puttering.
He was predeceased by his parents, his brothers Rick May and Edward Cass, a sister Evelyn Lutz and a son-in-law Kevin Crowley. He is survived by his loving wife Helen R. (Nussman) May of Ashland, three daughters, Stephanie Crowley of Ashland, Kimberly Gammons and husband Phil of Holderness, Julie Dion and husband Glenn of Ashland, grandchildren Liam and Erin Crowley, Laura, Andra, and Garrett Dion of Ashland, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 11:00 am at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Hill Avenue in Ashland. Burial to follow in the Green Grove Cemetery in Ashland. Donations may be made to the Ashland Firemen's Association, PO Box 856, Ashland, NH 03217 or Pemi-Baker Home Health and Hospice, 101 Boulder Point Drive, Plymouth, NH 03264. Dupuis Funeral Home in Ashland is handling arrangements; for more info go to dupuisfuneralhome.com.
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Rita A. Pelchat (SERVICE NOTICE)
LACONIA — A Graveside Service for Rita A. Pelchat will be held on Wednesday, May 21 at 10 a.m. at the family lot in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Garfield St., Laconia, N.H.
Rita, formerly of 20 Dell Avenue, Lakeport died at the Laconia Rehabilitation Center on Thursday, January 9, 2014.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.
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Richard F. Browning, 95
SOUTHLAKE — Richard Francis Browning, 95, Southlake, TX, formerly of Grapevine, TX; Tilton, NH; and Marlborough, MA, died Sunday, May 11, 2014. He and Mary A. Owens were married for 54 years.
Born February 14, 1919 in Marlborough, MA, he was the son of the late Henry and Josephine Browning. He graduated from Marlborough High School and Capital Radio Institute Washington, D.C. Richard joined the Army Air Force and became a pilot; and as a 1st Lieutenant, flew the B-25 Mitchell Bomber in the South Pacific during WWII (125 missions). Upon his return, he and his brother Weston founded Browning Brothers Builders in Northborough, MA. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Marlborough and served in many areas of the church (Sunday school teacher, Superintendent, Deacon and Chairman of Deacons).
He and his wife cared for foster children from 1962-1968; two of which remain with them. They adopted three children.
In 1970 the family moved to Tilton, NH. He was a member of Central Baptist Church and attended Calvary Independent Baptist Church. He was actively involved in his children's sports and activities as well as coaching the Tilton-Northfield Lassie League. Additionally, the family received several Exchange Students from around the world.
In 2000, he and his wife moved to Grapevine, Texas where they became members of First Baptist Church Grapevine.
He is survived by his wife, Mary, and children: Karen Parks, Canton, MA; Darryl Browning, Rosehill, KS; Julie Browning, Santiago, Chile; Janet Bomboy, Southlake, TX; grandchildren: Jason Parks, Angela Howard, Cherish Taylor, Joshua Motles, Briana Motles, Evan Bomboy, Daniel Motles, Hailey Browning, Carver Bomboy, Richard Browning, Genevieve Browning and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Church Grapevine on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 10:30 AM. Burial will follow at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Winnisquam Regional Babe Ruth Softball League; PO Box 432, Tilton, NH 03276.
Richard's kindness will be lovingly remembered by all who had the privilege of knowing him. Arrangements by J.E. Foust & Son Funeral Home, Grapevine, TX.
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David Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. During the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman). Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Duke University, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, Vice-Chairman of the Boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution, and is President of the Economic Club of Washington. Mr. Rubenstein is on the Board of Directors or Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study and the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Rubenstein is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Business Council, Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors, the Woodrow Wilson School Advisory Council at Princeton, the Board of Trustees of the Young Global Leaders Foundation, Advisory Board of School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. Mr. Rubenstein resides in Washington, DC.
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Market players attribute tougher regulatory requirements and weak economic environment for this dismal performance of India's IPO market. Read More »
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Market players attribute tougher regulatory requirements and weak economic environment for this dismal performance of India's IPO market. Read More »
Stock mutual funds are more popular than they have been in six year as individual investors are once again turning to equities as an investment option. Read More »
India's benchmark stock index has lost about 5% of its value so far this year, but the pain has been much worse for smaller Indian companies. Read More »
A day after India celebrated Holi, the festival of colors, stock investors also seemed to be in a colorful mood.
Friday, the benchmark 30-share Sensitive Index rose 357.72 points, or 2%, to close at 17,503.24.
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. stock got a booster Monday after the company said it has agreed to license out development and commercialization rights of a biologic treatment to France's Sanofi-Aventis S.A.
Shares in the company zoomed up almost 20% to 327.80 rupees ($7.31) – the highest price in a month – before paring some of the gains. In afternoon trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange, Glenmark was up 12% at 306.60 rupees, while the benchmark Sensex was down 0.7%. Read More »
The much anticipated federal budget is done and dusted. The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark 30-stock Sensex approved, at least briefly, rising as much as 3.4% intraday before relinquishing much of its gains to close at 17823.40, up a more sober 0.7%.
The budget's immediate impact on the Sensex is probably already behind us, but some of the steps Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee put in motion today will have a long-lasting effect.
"Overall it's quite positive. A few issues that were weighing on the markets in the form of the management of the fiscal deficit and the current account deficit have been singled out for attention," said Deven Choksey, managing director of Mumbai-based K.R. Choksey Shares & Securities. Read More »
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After the Bombay Stock Exchange's 30-share benchmark Sensex ended at its lifetime closing high last week, Monday has been rather quiet.
Investors needed a breather, after a week of strong gains culminating in a weekend which saw the country celebrate the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali.
The Sensex, which opened higher, slipped into the red and about two and a half hours before close, was trading down 0.6% at 20,892.56. Read More »
Idea Cellular's quarterly earnings reported Monday showed why it's still a risky proposition to be invested in telecom stocks.
Consolidated net profit for the three months ended Sept. 30. dropped 18% from a year earlier despite the company's adding 5.3 million subscribers in the quarter. Average revenue per user on a standalone basis, a key measure of telecom company revenue, fell to 167 rupees from 182 rupees in the April to June quarter and 209 rupees a year earlier. Read More »
Cement's traditional season of gloom is over. The monsoon rains, which lash across the country from June to September, are beating a retreat and investors are getting back into cement stocks.
It's no coincidence that two of the most-used industrial raw materials are seeing a bounce in prices at the same time. Both steelmakers and cement companies have raised prices this month, as they expect the frenzy of building highways and flyovers, airports and housing projects to resume from October. Read More »
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Sticky Fingers: Great atmosphere, good food & wines
It is very conveniently located, near the CBD. Oxford Terrace is lined by numerous cafes & restaurants - a good choice of different styles. The atmosphere is great with the river flowing in front, and the restaurant is open till late (unlike some in Cathedral Square). Good selection of wines - we had decided to taste different Kiwi wines during our stay and were not disappointed (very comparable to the great Aussie wines). With both indoor & outdoor sitting, you can take you pick according to the weather. However, beware - nights on South Island can get a bit chilly even during summer and it might be worth carrying a light jacket. The inside decor is interesting - lots of wooden hands (& fingers) holding the lights - check out picture at Sticky Fingers
Sticky Fingers: A really big meal
Bar/pub/restaurant. Friday night, so a lot people, loud and noisy, hard to make a conversation. We were sitting in an outdoor tent, heated by gas lanters that did not work (kept going on and off), so our feet were freezing cold, and the upper body so-so. Anyway, we enjoyed ourselves. I guess it was just not the right season to be sitting outside. Inside would have been too crowded. Good food, so if you're coming for the food, try during the day, not at night, and not on a Friday night.
Favorite Dish: Rib steak. A 450 gram (1 pound) steak on the bone, served on roasted potates with salad. A very simple dish, but tasty and filling. I asked for rare and it was perfectly rare, just right. NZ$ 29.50. Judging from what else I had tried in Chch this seemed a bit overpriced. Looking at what the other people in party had, which cost about the same, and which was deliciously prepared and served, the price was right. It's just that I chose the simple dish with no thrills.
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Old Italian styled restaurant and bar, great atmosphere. Enjoy the delicious blend of flavours from manuka wood-fired oven. Extensive menu including seafood and the best pizzas in town
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Sticky Fingers: Melt in your Mouth Roast Lamb
I read of Sticky Fingers from several popular reviews such as in Frommers but did not see it reviewed by any VT members.
Some said the name of the restaurant could be tied to a Rolling Stone album....but well...you sure get your fingers sticky in this bar - restaurant.
The first thing that caught my eye was the door handle - which is shaped like a golden spread out palm (our hand ok) and also the lamp shades than hangs on the dining boothtype seats. And very funny - I saw the same lights at the Art Centre in the Artisan section and I went back another day to the Art Centre - and he said he was commissioned to do that for the restaurant.
Otherwise the interior was very ordinary.
Favorite Dish: My favourite dish would be my main course - the roast rackof lamb with roasted garlic and potato and baby beetroot was really yummy. The sauce was also very delicious. My husband's salmon was not flash. We also shared an entree - a platter of seafood which had two of each - seared scallop, freshly shucked oyster and boiled scampi. to finish off we had a tiramisu,...very yummy.
with fruit juice the bill came up to NZ100 - pretty much as we expected.
the service was commandable. we asked for directions to the casino and the waitress was so kind to draw it out on the map and re-assured us it was safe to walk through the park.
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Welcome to our personal get-a-way home on Hawaii island. Our recently built, finely furnished home is centrally located on the windward side of Hawaii Island. Fly into Hilo airport and enjoy visiting beautiful tropical forests, the volcano, and black sand beaches. You might even be able to see glowing lava at night a short drive from the house.
Hale Lau Hala is in a quiet area flanked by forests and with other single family homes across and down the street. You will live like a local, close to shopping and services, but away from it all.
From the house it is a short jog to the ocean past lush greenery and sweeping views of the ocean down rocky embankments.
Our home is outfitted with all you need to enjoy your stay, including a washer / dryer, internet and flat screen TV. The kitchen has all the conveniences of home; microwave, coffee maker, toaster oven, rice cooker, cookware, dishes, flatware, etc.
Hale Lau Hala has real beds for six. A queen in the master, king in the second room, and two twin size beds in the third room. There is also a pack and play baby bed and a queen sized air mattress.
Come enjoy the fresh air, star-filled night sky, and lush greenery at Hale Lau Hala. It has been one year since we started opening our island style vacation home to guests from far away places such as Japan, Germany, New Zealand, as well as visitors from California to New York. It has been fun hosting guests as they enjoy a refreshing visit to 'The Big Island.'
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There's nothing like political disaster to turn soft porn into art. What would Hiroshima, Mon Amour be without Hiroshima? A film about a one-night-stand between a sullen actress and a slightly obsessive businessman. What would The Night Porter be without Nazi death camps as a backdrop? An S&M movie suitable for late-night video outlets. And what would Claire Tristram's new novel After be without September 11?
Touted as an "international sensation" and soon to appear in Italy, France, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Australia and England, the book tells the tale of an illicit affair--an affair with sadomasochistic overtones, an affair in a California motel. It resembles, in both its virtues and vices, the stories Tristram has been publishing for many years in Best American Erotica as well as on the Internet. There is her spare and suggestive prose style as well as her obsession with all things repulsive; there is acute attention to detail as well as an abundance of menstrual blood; there are "slack-jawed" lovers, sour endings, ritual cleansings and--always--a mismatched couple. What is different is that Tristram's first novel invokes the greatest political trauma of America's recent history, and weaves it self-consciously into its plot. It is this that lends her mildly titillating fiction the veneer of importance. It is the appropriation of national tragedy that has thrust this slender pornographic exercise between the covers of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Opportunism has knocked--and Claire Tristram has answered.
She has answered with a story we recognize--that of the widow of Daniel Pearl, murdered by Islamic extremists because he was a Jew--and she has improvised upon it. The heroine of After is American, not French (as is Pearl's wife); she is also sexually ravenous. "Day by day," we learn,
her grief had subtly changed its shape, until what was left was not quite grief at all, but something she could only describe as desire. She ate with her fingers. She slept naked. Grocery boys aroused her.
It is the staccato narration of such gritty detail that is Tristram's forte, and the reason we move through the first chapter with interest. It is only as the heroine announces her intention to take a Muslim lover and the novel starts to spiral into gratuitous sensationalism and pseudo-profound banality that we lose heart.
If we learn little of our heroine's reasons for seeking to bed a Muslim (forgiveness, revenge, curiosity, perversity?), we learn no more about how she perceives him once he is in her arms. "I didn't expect that you would be circumcised," she says in one of her more meditative moments. He enlightens her on that account--but on few others. Indeed, it is she who instructs him of his identity: "You are my first...Muslim," she declares. When he objects that he is secular, not even Arab but Persian, and asks that they treat one another as individuals rather than members of a "particular category," she rebukes him in terms as harsh as they are pietistic:
When those men asked my husband if he was a Jew, he said, "Yes I am a Jew." He didn't say "No, I'm an individual."... Individuals are all the same, you know. Cut off from what they are. They are nothing at all.... My husband...gave up everything to acknowledge who he was. You are a Muslim. I am the widow of a Jew. That is who I am.... I wonder, could you do that? Give up everything, your family, your life, just for once to be completely what you are?
It is hard not to think that Tristram actually believes this inanity; she gives it all the authority of a widow's pain, all the axiomatic eloquence of a sage. Later in the novel she has the widow's lover docilely repeat "I am a Muslim," as though finally admitting his deepest identity. All of this essentialism might be disturbing were Tristram not simply passing the time between sex scenes.
Sex is the point of this tale--not philosophy or politics--and sex is what we get. "Extreme" sex, as in Tristram's previous work: wire hangers used as handcuffs, anal penetration, full-body shaves, blindfolds, drawn blood, sex role reversals, the ever-smoldering threat of violence. But even in the wake of Abu Ghraib, the strenuous transgressiveness in this book seems oddly...idle. From moment to moment, the heroine does not know what she will do next--and neither, we sense, does the author. Should she make the Persian man phone his wife, or should she whip him with the coat hanger; should she slip out of the hotel room and abandon him, dress up in his pant suits, shave his body like an Islamic martyr, slit his throat or ask him to marry her? Tragically intense as she is intended to appear, the widow in fact resembles a bored channel surfer. Shall she turn on the bloody murder mystery, she wonders, or the quiz show; a Merce Cunningham ballet, that scene with the hijackers or My Big Fat Greek Wedding? In the end she just toys with the remote. And Tristram toys with us.
But if After says little about the world after September 11, less about being a Muslim or Jew, and nothing whatever of pressing policy issues, it just might suggest something about eros. Together with other nominally political erotica like Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (both of which it insistently echoes), as well as Bernhard Schlink's recent novel The Reader and Bertolucci's latest film The Dreamers--it suggests that we are viscerally drawn to our antagonist. None of these tales are about politics nearly so much as about our attraction to the Forbidden, the Other, the Unfamiliar, even the Adversary. In fact, it barely matters whether the lovers portrayed in these fictions are divided by politics, class, age or religion--whether they consist of a French girl and an enemy German soldier in Hiroshima, a shady American and a pampered Parisienne in Last Tango, a 15-year-old whiz kid and a 30-year-old tram conductor who turns out to be a Nazi in The Reader, or a Muslim and the victim of Muslims in After--what matters is that the lovers are divided; that they are remote from each other, prohibited to each other, alien.
We are accustomed to viewing this sort of attraction--the forbidden-fruit brand--as negative, shallow, feckless and even dangerous: It makes people have affairs with other folks' husbands; it makes presidents succumb to interns, and students romance their professors. But perhaps there is another way to view it, especially in the context evoked by After, Hiroshima, Mon Amour and The Reader.
Perhaps we can view this attraction as nature, for once, overcoming the competitions and hatreds and fears foisted upon us by society, and bringing warring, pouting, fearing, or simply irreconcilably "diverse" persons together. Perhaps nature is more--rather than less--moral than culture in this instance. Culture drives us to pursue our self-interest, to befriend those people most like ourselves and best able to aid, echo and promote us; nature nudges us to embrace the impractical, the strange, indeed, sometimes the hostile. It urges us to reach across boundaries, to "sleep with the enemy."
Half the reason, it is tempting to think, for the near-universal incest taboo is the fact that in love--unlike in friendship, work or regional politics--we dread someone like ourselves; we dread our "twin," our "cousin." We want the sister of the chieftain next door, not our own! It is the exotic, not the familiar, we crave. If, in sunlit social life, we choose co-workers, lunch guests, neighbors and even (as has often been remarked) house pets that resemble us, in the darkened corners of erotic fantasy, we very often choose the Other. Is this, then, such an ungenerous instinct?
Even the heroine of After, ill-developed as she is, feels closer to a sizable part of humanity after her encounter with the man she elects to view as Muslim. It is hard to think that a few illicit love affairs between Israelis and Palestinians, Iraqis and Americans, would not do more for the strained relations between these peoples than another speech by Ariel Sharon or President Bush. The point here is not: Make love not war. Or maybe it is--but in this case "make love" must be seized in its widest sense--not as the silly acrobatics performed by the characters in Tristram's novel but as the engagement with difference, the fascination with opposition that we all feel and only need to cultivate and translate into wider languages. If reading Tristram's book could prompt such impulses--and only then--it would be well worth the hype.


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