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You've probably seen dozens of nutrition facts labels like the one in the opening image. The labels show the nutrients that foods contain. Many people read nutrition facts labels to see how much fat there is in particular foods. That's because eating too much fat, especially saturated fat, can be unhealthy and contribute to weight gain. Fats are a type of biochemical compound called lipids.
What Are Lipids?
Lipids are one of four classes of biochemical compounds, which are compounds that make up living things and carry out life processes. (The other three classes of biochemical compounds are carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids.) Living things use lipids to store energy. Lipids are also the major components of cell membranes in living things. Types of lipids include fats and oils.
- Fats are solid lipids that animals use to store energy.
- Oils are liquid lipids that plants use to store energy.
Q: Can you name some lipids that are fats? What are some lipids that are oils?
A: Lipids that are fats include butter and the fats in meats. Lipids that are oils include olive oil and vegetable oil. Examples of both types of lipids are pictured in the Figure below.
(A) The white bands on these lamb chops are fat. (B) The yellow liquid in this bottle is olive oil.
Fatty Acids
Lipids consist only or mainly of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Both fats and oils are made up of long chains of carbon atoms that are bonded together. These chains are called fatty acids. Fatty acids may be saturated or unsaturated. In the Figure below you can see structural formulas for two small fatty acids, one saturated and one unsaturated.
- Saturated fatty acids have only single bonds between carbon atoms. As a result, the carbon atoms are bonded to as many hydrogen atoms as possible. In other words, the carbon atoms are saturated with hydrogens. Saturated fatty acids are found in fats.
- Unsaturated fatty acids have at least one double bond between carbon atoms. As a result, some carbon atoms are not bonded to as many hydrogen atoms as possible. They are unsaturated with hydrogens. Unsaturated fatty acids are found in oils.
Q: Both of these fatty acid molecules have six carbon atoms and two oxygen atoms. How many hydrogen atoms does each fatty acid molecule contain? What else is different about the two molecules?
A: The saturated fatty acid molecule has 12 hydrogen atoms. This is as many hydrogen atoms as can possibly be bonded to carbon atoms in this molecule. The unsaturated fatty acid molecule has 10 hydrogen atoms, or two less than the maximum possible number. The saturated fatty acid has only single bonds between its carbon atoms. The unsaturated fatty acid has a double bond between two of its carbon atoms.
Some lipids contain the element phosphorus as well as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. These lipids are called phospholipids. Two layers of phospholipid molecules make up the cell membranes of living things. In the Figure below, you can see how phospholipid molecules are arranged in a cell membrane.
- One end of each phospholipid molecule is polar, so it has a partial electric charge. Water is also polar and has electrically charged ends, so it is attracted to the oppositely charged end of a phospholipid molecule. This end of the phospholipid molecule is described as hydrophilic, which means "water loving."
- The other end of each phospholipid molecule is nonpolar and has no electric charge. This end of the phospholipid molecule repels polar water and is described as hydrophobic, or "water hating."
In the Figure above, the hydrophilic ends of the phospholipid molecules are on the outsides of the cell membrane, and the hydrophobic ends are on the inside of the cell membrane. This arrangement of phospholipids allows some substances to pass through the cell membrane while keeping other substances out.
- Lipids are a class of biochemical compounds that living things use to store energy. Types of lipids include fats and oils.
- Both fats and oils consist of long chains called fatty acids, which may be saturated or unsaturated.
- Some lipids, called phospholipids, contain phosphorus as well as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Two layers of phospholipid molecules make up the cell membranes of living things.
- What are lipids? Name two types of lipids.
- Describe fatty acids.
- Relate the structure of phospholipids to their function in cell membranes.
Explore More
Watch the animation about lipid structure and function. Then answer the questions below.
- Give an example of a saturated fatty acid and an example of an unsaturated fatty acid.
- Contrast the shapes of saturated and unsaturated fatty acid molecules.
- Relate the shape of saturated and unsaturated fatty acid molecules to their melting point and state at room temperature.


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GUI Builder Panel
Pyjamas Equivalent of Glade goes recursive…
well, i decided that just having a dynamic GUI-instatiator based on a text file wasn't enough, but that what was needed was both a widget (single dynamic instance instantiator) and a panel (subclass of that but then with an "add" method that can take the name of the widget-group to be created).
so, the UI text file contains a widget-group with a panel type in it (e.g. a Grid) called "builderpanel", and it also contains a widget-group with a… something - a row, for example, named "builderrow" in the UI text file. also in the widget-group with the panel is a button, named "add".
then, the button has the name of a callback in the UI text file, called "onAddClicked", and this function has to occur in the app, and is linked to the button. surprise-surprise, the action associated with this button is to create an instance of builderrow and to add it to the panel:
def onAddClicked(self, sender): grid = self.app.bp.getPanel() row = grid.getRowCount() + 1 grid.resize(row, 1) self.app.bp.add("builderrow", row, 0)
the weird thing is that at no time, in any code written, do you actually get to see what "the panel" is, because its layout is specified in the UI text file. also, nor do you see, in "python code", any of the widgets that are added as a row: there could be 50 widgets in that "row" being added, but you don't manually create them.
i think that's just wicked, and although i was originally deeply unimpressed with the idea of writing widget layouts using an application editor, i'm now completely converted to the dark side and will pretty much be doing nothing _but_ writing pyjamas applications with this method from now on.

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Epoxy crawdad
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Back when I used to keep trout I always was amazed by the number of crayfish in their bellys. I've tried a number of patterns over the years and always felt that something was lacking. Most patterns just don't blend in to the background as well as the natural. It struck me when I saw Striblue tie the epoxy flounder that Juro inspired at SSully's tying clave that I could chuck aside many of the habitat matching problems if I switched to neutral & translucent materials. This is my first experiment in that vein. It is a simple fly with few materials. I haven't fished it yet.
Hook: Daichi 1750 # 8
Thread: Monofilament
Weight: small dumbell
claws & tail: Slinky fiber
legs: Sillicone fibers
Bind the dumbell down on the top of the hook at the point of the hook. Make a ball of thread to the rear of the dumbell. Cut a small amount of slinky fiber ~ 4" long. Lay it along one side of the hook with ~ a shank length sticking beyond the bend, and tie it down using the thread ball to force it to stand up &angle out. Wrap to the front of the hook then loop the slinky fiber aound to the other side of the hook with a similiar amount sticking off the rear of the hook wrap to the rear then tie off the thread. Cut the tail & claws to shape
Then form the body with 5 minute epoxy on a sheet of waxed paper or plastic. After it has gelled cut the epoxy to shape then super glue the legs in place & cover them with 5 minute epoxy.
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And from below.
John - That's pretty neat. I wonder what sort of effect you'd get by coating the hook with sparkle body, then coating that with epoxy?
Looks easy to make and very fishy. Have you thought about coloring the epoxy to be darker?
Chris, I hadn't thought about that I'm going to have to do more experimenting.
Pete, Thats a possibility, I was also planning on experimenting with olive & brown Slinky fiber as well.
The other thing that has crossed my mind was to leave off one or both claws, based on Berkleys study show bass bit plastic crayfish more if there were no claws.
John...nice shape on that... If you get a chance try one with Small hackle tips for legs, imbedded in the epoxy....or take a regular hackle feather and take your fingers and ,going from the tip ,and "open" the feathers by slipping your finger down the stock.... then take some scissors and cut the hackles ends right close to the feather stock or shaft to create a thin "hairy" leg. Another way is to take some Turkey biots strips and epoxy them in for legs...like some tyers do with stone flie patterns.
JD- nice adaptation- Keep up the good work!
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"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." President Ronald Reagan, 6/12/87
"Homina, homina, homina" President Obama, throughout his presidency
In four plus years, this presidency has done more to ruin our standing in the world, set back race relations, shat can employment and investment opportunities while fouling up the best health care delivery system in world than all the progress that has been made in the past 25 years. I never thought that one man could wreck so much havoc in so little time. It's a shame really and we are all to blame.
Ralph Kramden regards,


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ANYA SCHMEMANN (director, CFR Task Force Program): Hi. I'm Anya Schmemann. I'm director of CFR's Task Force Program. Thanks for joining us today. Sorry to keep you waiting, but we've had a busy day.
I'm here with our co-chairs, Secretary Albright, Stephen Hadley -- I think -- (inaudible) -- introductions, but I believe you do have their bio information -- and my colleague Steven Cook, who is a senior fellow at CFR and the (project ?) director -- (inaudible) -- this report. The report -- (inaudible) -- partnership.
A few quick words about CFR task forces. CFR task forces are independent. The Council on Foreign Relations takes no position on issues. Task Force members are asked to endorse the consensus, saying that they endorse the overall thrust of the report findings and recommendations, though not necessarily every finding or recommendation.
The list of task force members is on the back. It was a consensus document, meaning that they all did agree (on this ?) report. This report, this project has been -- this report is the product of a year-long study. We actually began, I think, last May.
MR. : May 19th.
SCHMEMANN: And we also had the opportunity to visit, assemble in Ankara during the process. And I think you all have the press release, as well, which summarizes some of the main recommendations.
I think some of you were at the meeting we just held with CFR members and others, and some of you haven't. So don't worry about repeating yourself because it'll be new for -- (inaudible).
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: OK, that's never been a problem. (Laughter.)
SCHMEMANN: I'd like to ask -- actually my colleagues -- (inaudible) -- just a few words -- (inaudible) -- the report, and then we'll just go right to questions.
STEVEN COOK: Great. Well, thank you very much, Anya.
And thank you to all for coming and your interest in the report, and thanks to the co-chairs for a great forum and intellectual experience.
I think there is a number of points that we felt was extraordinarily important in bringing out the report. One, that this is a new Turkey. This is a very different country from the country that AKP -- when AKP won the election in November 2002. It is, if not a democracy, clearly democratizing, more representative, economically successful and a country that is more engaged in the region around it than ever before.
The -- I think the second point that we wanted to bring forward is that there is tremendous opportunity for the United States to work with this new Turkey, that there is a confluence of interest in important regions of the world in which the United States has assets that can brought to bear, that Turkey can bring assets to bear and that we can work together to achieve both of our interests. I think it's -- the third point is that in order to develop this envisioned strategic relationship, this new partnership between the two countries -- and I'd turn to the five points that we make at the -- at the very beginning, if I can find them -- apologies -- about -- they're actually on the press release -- pardon me, Steve --
MS. : (Off mic.)
COOK: -- (inaudible) -- I have a (little ?) aversion of -- the points about equality and mutual respect -- (inaudible) -- interests, confidentiality and trust, close and intensive consultations, avoidance of foreign policy surprises, and recognition and management of inevitable differences between Washington and Ankara.
And then finally -- and I'm sure the chairs will have other items to add to the importance of the report, but from my perspective, I think that the report adds badly needed context to what's been happening in Turkey over the course of the last decade.
The debate in Washington, to the extent that it has existed over the course of the last decade, has boiled down to: Is Turkey is leaving the West? And we wanted to make the point that not only is Turkey not leaving the West, it never had any intention of leaving the West, that it's well-integrated in the West. But that does not mean that Turkey is not going to explore its interests in other parts of the world, and that the rise of the Justice and Development Party, which is a party of Islamist roots, but does not mean -- is not inconsistent, I should say, with democracy and economic development and good strategic relations with the United States.
SCHMEMANN: OK. Well thank you for that overview. I think we'll just go right to questions. If you could just let us know --
STEPHEN HADLEY: I'd like to add one thing which I think is important to supplement to these points.
SCHMEMANN: Please.
HADLEY: A fourth point we make very clearly in the report is we're very clear-eyed and unsparing about the criticisms and concerns people have about press freedom, about rule of law and apparent politicization a little bit of -- and perhaps criminalization, as the report says, of political differences. The concerns that have been raised -- and we offer some suggestions as friends of Turkey of how these concerns that the international community has and that many Turks have can be addressed by the government, using, for example, the opportunity to prepare a new constitution.
So we're both bullish on the new Turkey, encouraging of a new relationship with Turkey, the United States, but we're also clear that this not yet a deep democracy, not yet a mature democracy. Democracy is a journey, not an end state, and there are things that Turkey needs to address. And we encourage the government to address these concerns and -- (inaudible) -- suggestions as to how they might do that.
(Cross talk.)
ALBRIGHT: (Inaudible) -- I think -- happy to answer questions.
So if you could just let us know who you are and who you represent, that would be helpful. And you know, just again, a reminder, our topic today is Turkey, so I do hope that we can stay on topic.
Yes, please.
QUESTIONER: I'm Kathleen Foster from Fox News. I see that your report touches on Fethullah Gulen. And I'm wondering, what kind of influence does he have now? How much of a concern is he? And is there -- is there any reason for concern about the charter school that he runs here in the United States?
MS. : (Off mic.)
COOK: Well, sure, I'm happy to answer that question. I also -- afterwards, feel free to talk to my research associate Alexander Brock, who is responsible for writing the section of the report on Fethullah Gulen under my supervision.
This is -- one of the reasons why we felt strongly about including an appendix on Gulen is that there is a lot of debate about who he is and what he represents. We wanted to lay out that debate in a clear and concise way. Obviously, you can write books about this issue.
I think that when we come down to it, there are people in Turkey who obviously believe that he's -- you know, he has goals that are antithetical to their own vision for Turkey. But the school -- we would be less concerned about the schools that he runs if there wasn't, to some extent, a certain kind of -- I don't want to use the word "conspiratorial," but a secretive nature about the organization, about himself.
But overall, I think the concern about Gulen in Turkey is based on one or two quotes from TV interviews that he gave over a decade ago that opponents of the Justice and Development Party have sought to use against the AKP and tie Fethullah Gulen to the government.
I think that there is -- a lot of people have a lot of opinions about Gulen but not a lot of information. And I would encourage you, if you haven't already done so, to take a look at that appendix that tries in a brief way to provide a little bit of historical context about who he is and what he's up to.
But again, there is -- there is a question. I'm not going to whitewash it. There is a question, because there is a certain secretiveness about the organization. But the -- to some Turks, he's the most dangerous man in the world, who is seeking to undermine the country. I think that there is -- there isn't evidence of that.
QUESTIONER: And there's no concern about the schools that he's running here, things that are being --
COOK: Well, the subject of our report is Turkey. I think that, you know, there was an education task force that was chaired by Joe (sic; Joel) Klein and Condoleezza Rice. Maybe they touched on the Gulen schools here in the United States, but that was not our focus.
SCHMEMANN: All right. Any questions? Yeah.
QUESTIONER: I'm with the Turkish -- (inaudible). So thank you very much. I just want to ask you some point -- that there was tension between Turkey and U.S. in the past -- this was also mentioned during your conversation here when the Turkish parliament didn't want Turkey to enter -- sorry -- didn't want U.S. to enter Iraq. And afterwards, during the years, there was tension about Iranians' nuclear program, and also this came to the U.N. Security Council. Turkey has given -- has vetoed the sanctions. And also there was this flotilla incident with Israel, which I think made relations between two countries a little bit difficult.
So do you think that this report has a name in -- I mean, now, when you look at the context, relations -- the crisis in Syria seems to bring two allies together more because they are -- their interests seem to be in parallel. Do you think this report -- (inaudible) -- in a way, to bring these two allies together now? Because this report is being released now, but not two years ago, not three years ago, when the issues were kind of more difficult.
ALBRIGHT: Well, first of all, I think that, as we all said -- is that there are always interesting and complicated relationships between allies. I mean, we both can speak to that. Even, you know, with our best friends the British or whatever, there are always some issues that kind of you don't agree on everything. Every country has its national interest.
I think that there is no question that there have been ups and downs in the relationship. But our sense is that this is a relationship which is not as asymmetrical as it has been in the past, that there are many, many areas where Turkey and the United States think alike or have similar approaches and that the kind of discussion that now goes on not only at various levels, but between Prime Minister Erdogan and President Obama, are ones of two leaders and two countries that begin to try to look at how to solve problems together.
That does not mean that there will not be various areas where we don't agree. And I think one of the things that I think might have led to the creation of this task force was exactly trying to figure out what the issues were a couple of years ago and also begin to look at how different Turkey is now than it was. And so one of the areas that we specifically wanted to have in this report -- and we moved it up, frankly, in the writing of it -- is what are the areas of confluence between Turkish and American relationships and where are the areas that we can work together.
And I do think in some respects, the Turks have changed their minds on issues. I think they did in some ways on -- because they saw the evolution of the issue in Syria, or they have seen different relationships in Iran. And so we are both vibrant countries, and I think we both have recognized that there are areas where cooperation of our two countries is a solution or a movement in the right direction of problems.
HADLEY: Yeah, we've come from almost a decade of difficult relations with Turkey. You know, the Iraq was difficult. The post-Iraq situation did increase some of the risk to Turkey because of the PKK. I think that issue was addressed when Prime Minister Erdogan and President Bush got together in 2007, I think it was. I think there's been a lot of progress under the Obama administration. I think President Obama and Prime Minister Erdogan have really shepherded that relationship.
I think some of the problems we got into with respect to Iran was in part because sort of the relationship got out ahead of our understanding of the relationship. And I think one of the reasons we have those principles that Steven read at the beginning was I think if the two countries had respected those principles with respect to each other, we would have avoided the problem that came up in the U.N. over Iran. And that's why we think it is so important for people to step back, understand that it's a new relationship, understand that the rules have to change a little bit, and then, as the secretary said, the enormous potential for cooperation.
And Syria, I think, is front and center. I think that is a real opportunity for Turkey and the United States to get it right in terms of their relationship together as they approach that difficult issue.
COOK: Let me just add very quickly that the origin of this task force comes out of that difficult summer of 2010, when suddenly in Turkey -- when with regard to Turkey, if you went to meeting in Washington, you had to reveal what your convictions were one way or the other. There was a debate about Turkey that wasn't real to what was going on in Turkey. And we felt that it was important to bring together a group of experts on Turkey and related fields to -- experienced -- (inaudible) -- people and make a statement about the future of this relationship.
SCHMEMANN (?): Yes -- (inaudible).
QUESTIONER: (Inaudible) -- Italian Newspaper -- (inaudible). The report is about the U.S.-Turkey relation, but of course the relationship with Europe is also very instrumental, or the relationship with the Western (bloc ?). Do you regret the state of the dialogue between European Union and Turkey? Do you think it still makes sense to reopen the dialogue for the entrance of Turkey in the European Union or it's over then, kind of a --
ALBRIGHT: Well, things have moved. I personally regret it. I mean, I had said earlier that as secretary of state I had made clear that I thought it was a good idea for the EU and Turkey to have -- to develop a relationship and I was told to mind my own business. But the bottom line is that I think that the accession -- there is a process that is slow. There have been various times that members of the European Union have made clear that the -- some who didn't want it, some who think it's too slow.
I think that in many ways the process does go on, but Turkey has kind of begin -- begun to see itself in a much larger context. And we operate with it as partners, either through NATO or generally, and that we see them as -- we believe they should have and that Europe should have a relationship with them, but is no longer the kind of central aspect of many parts of the relationship.
But I personally would hope that the talks in some ways -- that the accession process would continue. But it's now -- I guess you don't call it accession; it's a slower process and opening up various chapters. But I think the EU is going to have to look at a number of different issues to do with their process.
HADLEY: And one of the things we recommend in the report is that, while the United States does now for several administrations and should continue to support Turkey's entrance into the EU, our advice to our friends at the EU and it's theirs (sic) decisions to make, that they don't let that -- the difficulties in the accession process freeze across the board the relationship between the EU and Turkey. But there are a lot of opportunities for collaboration between the EU and Turkey, particularly for example in the Middle East, dealing with the Arab Awakening and Europe really makes a mistake not trying to develop its relationships with Turkey diplomatically, economically and every other way, notwithstanding that the accession process is kind of on life support for the moment. And that's, again, our recommendation that we make to our EU colleagues.
QUESTIONER: Hi, I'm Katie MacFarlane with Fox News. When you look at the U.S. -- the objective of the United States to develop a better relationship with Turkey, did you also look at Turkey's relationship -- bilateral relationships with, say, Russia and China, and whether those interfere with any improvement of relations with the United States?
ALBRIGHT: Well, we didn't look at it that particular way. We saw --
QUESTIONER: What did you look at? Yeah.
ALBRIGHT: Well, what we did was to -- this is about U.S.-Turkish relations and trying to figure out what the best approach was, some of it processwise, some on issues specifically. So then as we looked at issues, we did look at various areas where we could act together. We did not talk about China particularly. I mean, we -- generally, but we did have a general discussion about Russia and -- in connection some to the Syria issue.
But we -- what we were looking at was basically how this country that is dynamic both economically and politically, geographically located in a unique place, and what role it can play not only in the immediate neighborhood, but generally what their larger footprint is. So that was the way we looked at it.
HADLEY: And I would just say, you know, as Steven said in the earlier session, you know, you don't want to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. There were ups and downs with U.S.-Turkish relations for 40 years, notwithstanding the closeness of the relationship of being in NATO. But we have been long-standing allies for 40 years in common institutions.
And I don't think -- and again, we didn't address it, but I think the secretary would agree -- I don't see China or Russia as a barrier to U.S.-Turkish relations. I don't believe the Turks view it that way. I think -- in fact, my guess is -- my guess is that a strong U.S.-Turkish relationship in some sense will make it easier for Turkey to have relations with China and Russia.
But in any event, a strong relationship, we think, is in the interests of both countries. And there is a robust agenda where Turkey and the United States can work together, with other parties as well, in ways that advance the interests of both countries.
COOK: Katie, let me point you to a part of the report that I think is -- while it doesn't make for a great press release or a story but I think it's extraordinarily important, and that is we spent some time on some process-related recommendations about how to deepen the relationship at the institutional, at the working level, because clearly the relationship between President Obama and Prime Minister Erdogan is a good one. They spoke 13 times last year. Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Davutoglu spoke many more times than that.
The idea is to take where we are now, remove the personalities and institutionalize that relationship, so that moving forward, when these people ultimately leave office, whenever that may be, we can continue on with a new partnership and a new relationship, so that -- and that will help us in those five critical principles that we think should be upheld in the conduct of the relationship. But I think it will benefit all of us. And as Mr. Hadley just said, it'll almost make it easier for the Turks to have good relations with some of these other countries.
QUESTIONER: Yes. So in other words, get beyond -- that we have friends, that we have interests there.
ALBRIGHT: Yes.
MR. : Exactly.
QUESTIONER: Can I follow on that?
SCHMEMANN: Please.
QUESTIONER: (Inaudible) -- from Fox News. I'm sorry there's so many of us here today. (Cross talk, laughter.)
QUESTIONER: Wow!
QUESTIONER: Yeah. Actualy, we're encircling the operation. This is a takeover.
QUESTIONER: We all have our own interests, and I'm here as (a son ?), as a Turkish-American who once covered Turkey quite a bit.
Can you speak to any concerns you might have about the AKP and its consolidation of power, particularly in the way it's handled the media? Quite frankly, why should we trust it?
HADLEY: Well, we do talk about that very explicitly in the report. And one of the things we say -- very explicit in the report -- as friends of Turkey, not trying to be lecturing Turkey, that the AK Party would do itself a big favor if it would release these journalists and if it would deal expeditiously and move through the system these cases that have been brought against the -- under the so-called Ergenekon conspiracy; that that is in the way. To the extent Turkey is proud of what it's accomplished and in terms of democratization, economic progress and its great -- greater role in the world, that is -- that record is blemished by what has happened with respect to those representatives of the media and in terms of Ergenekon, and we really urge them to revise it.
Secondly -- and along the lines we described. Secondly, we point out that the revision of the constitution is an opportunity to build in checks and balances and protections for exactly those kinds of contingencies. So we're very -- we think we're very clear about it, that it is a problem, that it needs to be addressed, and we make some concrete suggestions as to how it should be addressed.
QUESTIONER: If I may follow, do you see any signs that there is any movement? Because it -- a lot of people argue it's actually going the other way.
HADLEY: Well, the report is just out today. And I'm sure after Turkish authorities read the report, it will cause them to -- look, this is a work in progress. And I have to say, so far, we have not seen the kind of progress we would hope for. And that's one of the reasons we thought it was very important, in a report that is very positive about what Turkey's accomplished, we also be very clear that there is an unfinished agenda.
And part of the problem is, you know, it is a problem with the AKP Party -- and we've said this -- been in power 10 years, you know, and power has temptation. And that is why it's very important that there be a system of checks and balances. And it is also why in every democracy there needs to be vigorous opposition parties to place a check on central authority, particularly in a case where, as the AKP Party, it has been so enormously successful in terms of maintaining power for 10 years.
So, again, our emphasis is also on the institutions of Turkish democracy, checks and balances, and the desire to get a healthy strong opposition, which every democracy needs and we address that in our report -- (inaudible).
SCHMEMANN (?): The report takes some time to explore -- (inaudible, audio interference) -- a few words about the role of AKP and how to think about it.
COOK: Well, I don't need to lecture Turkish Americans on how to think about the AKP. I think the -- I'd make two points. One, on this question of press freedom, we -- as Mr. Hadley pointed out, we spent some time dealing with this issue, and we spent some time dealing with issues related to backsliding on the reforms that AKP has promised or has undertaken. And we were very clear that the press freedom issue is one of those big issues that needs to be tackled head on.
In terms of -- in terms of the Justice and Development Party, I think that -- you know, your question is, can we trust it? You know -- and Secretary Albright said in the general meeting earlier that, you know, some people think that the AKP had some sort of, you know, secret agenda. Well, they've now been in power for 10 years. I think by now we would know what that secret agenda might be; I think they've been pretty faithful to what their agenda is.
I think the problem is, is that there are some leaders, some figures within the AKP that have illiberal tendencies, and that's why it's important to institutionalize democratic gains through a new constitution with proper checks and balances to hold the Turks accountable, to hold the AKP accountable on its own rhetoric --
MR.: Right.
COOK: -- about building a more democratic -- (inaudible) -- order in Turkey.
ALBRIGHT: I think what is interesting is to look at how and why the AKP government -- and I have spent a lot of time on Turkey, both in office and out -- and basically they were providing constituency services --
MR.: Right.
ALBRIGHT: -- at a time when the other parties were not. They have broadened their base from Istanbul -- (inaudible) -- Anatolia and the countryside, and the truth is that the elections in Turkey actually were free and fair. And so their -- I think they -- from their perspective, they can be proud of what they've done. And so I do think that all the things that both Stephen Hadley and Steven Cook said are very important in terms of kind of warning signs, and we made a point of saying that. But I think also one has to remember what happened here in terms of the lack of action of the opposition parties; a certain sense of, you know, entitlement without really looking at the changing face of Turkey. So there are a lot aspects to this, but it is something that we will continue to state, that is very much a part of this report.
And then talking generally about what makes democracies, one is freedom of the press and rule of law. So those are -- .
SCHMEMANN (?): (Off mic.)
QUESTIONER: Thank you. (Inaudible) -- from Novosti. (Inaudible) -- my question. A good partner in business and social life, (international ?) relations, is not always a good friend. So the United States and Turkey relationship, partnership, its importance is to grow to -- upgrade it to the friendship level, or in the international relations, the friendship, the true friendship between the countries are not so important?
ALBRIGHT: Well, I think they both are, frankly. But I think that basically -- I do not speak for the administration, but I do know that one of the things that the administration cares about and President Obama has talked about is the importance of partnerships with other countries; that it is -- in order to deal with whatever the international agenda is, that the United States, no matter how strong we are, need to have partners that we work with, and Turkey is right in the forefront of that because our interests are very similar. And I think that we are talking about how to evolve that relationship.
I do think also it is good if the countries are friends. What I find very interesting is the number of Americans that are now going to Turkey. There are an awful lot. It is, believe it or not, a vacation place of choice. I think people go to Istanbul as much as any place. I think there are an awful lot of business ties. And Prime Minister Erdogan, whenever he's come to the United States, makes it a point that he wants to have Americans involved in business in Turkey.
And so I think it is -- there is a friendship, and a fascination -- I think that may be a fair way to put it -- and there are a lot of Turkish-Americans. So I do think it's a -- .
HADLEY: Our report, though, tries to take an interest analysis and says -- and concludes that there is an overlap of interest between the United States and Turkey and it is in the interest of both countries to work in those areas to achieve mutually acceptable results.
Look, there's a lot of suspicion of the United States in the Turkish public. Truth is there's a lot of suspicion of Turkey in the American public. And our belief is that if these two countries will work together successfully to address areas of common interest, that will address and in some sense alleviate the suspicion in both countries of the other.
But I do think -- the original point that Steven made earlier -- we are building on a foundation of having been together for 40, almost 50 years in some very rough talks and having stood with one another through some difficult times, and that helps.
QUESTIONER: As you said -- I'm sorry, my name is -- (inaudible). I work for -- (inaudible) -- newspaper. You said it's a new Turkey, it's not like 10 years ago. (Inaudible) -- thinking inside Turkey for the democratization. In that point, in that time, European Union played very important role, but U.S. -- I mean United States stay all the time quiet to the Ergenekon issue. I'm wondering why United States stays very quiet in that very critical time.
SCHMEMANN (?): Would you like to try that?
COOK: Sure. Which critical time?
QUESTIONER: About the Ergenekon issue.
COOK: On the Ergenekon issue. Well, I think, quite frankly, the United States regards this as an internal matter, and I think that the -- let's be frank, the Ergenekon conspiracy is very hard to understand. It's a conspiracy within a conspiracy within a conspiracy; that it's been hard for even those of us who spend a lot of time watching Turkey understanding exactly what's happening in Ergenekon. And I think that given the fact that there is a certain amount of mistrust on the part of the United States and what its intentions are, after quite a difficult decade, that it was likely that the administration decided that this was not an area that it understood enough about in order to make a statement one way or another about Ergenekon.
It has become clear, however, that Ergenekon has become a vehicle for illiberal elements to go after their political opponents. There was something to the idea, going back to 2007, that there were people plotting against the government. Since that time, this investigation has mushroomed into this extraordinary conspiracy in which it has often been used merely to go after opponents of the government, who have done nothing other than speak out against the government. And that is how many of these journalists have actually ended up in jail, not because they were actually plotting but because they were speaking out.
But at least initially -- at least initially I think there were two impulses on the part on the United States. One, if Ergenekon was going to do what people thought it was going to do, which was uproot the Turkish national security state, well, then that would be good for Turkish democracy -- to uproot the deep state. As it has progressed, however, it has become extraordinarily difficult to figure out what is real and what is manufactured in that -- in that investigation.
HADLEY: And remember, in the early times -- 2007, 2008 -- it had to been seen through the lens of what was attempted in 2007 in terms of discrediting and maybe rendering illegal the AK Party.
MR. : That's right.
HADLEY: So in those early days, it was very difficult to figure out what was going on, because it wasn't as if there hadn't been a threat to the AKP party through the -- (inaudible) -- at that time.
SCHMEMANN (?): Jared and then Evelyn. Go ahead.
QUESTIONER: Yeah. Jared Anderson with AOL Energy. You know, the report talks about the new great game with regard to energy geopolitics in the Caspian basin. And I was just wondering, with all the gas that's been discovered in the east Med -- and what role the U.S. should play, perhaps, in this new phase of this great game of energy geopolitics?
COOK: I'll just say one thing, but then I'm going to defer to the secretary, who actually was a participant in the early days of that great game. But one of the things that's in this report that I think is important is the principle ought to be diversification of supply, diversification of routes, no choke points, no monopolies, so that there is a free and adequate flow of energy. And Turkey has an important role, as a link in that chain between oil and gas sources (in/and ?) Europe, to try to push in that direction. And the report talks about some things that have occurred recently that are encouraging in that regard.
But at the secretary's suggestion, there's a sentence in there that says the United States also has a role to continue to do it in the way that the secretary did actually when she was --
ALBRIGHT: I mean, what we had done when we were in office was do the Baku-Ceyhan line and a way of making clear that there would a freedom of passage, that it would not be blocked. And also, if you look at the geography of this, I mean, Turkey location-wise is crucial. I've gone to many meetings that kind of describe all the different spaghetti bowl of pipelines.
But also just recently, at a -- at a meeting that talked about the lines, the Black Sea and generally the combination of what the possibilities are -- and that the U.S. in many ways, you know, is not going to stand aside from this. It's not totally our story. But I think that the way that we began this, in terms of trying to make sure that there would be free passage and that Turkey could play a positive role in it.
COOK: Let me just add one quick thing here, because you mentioned the recent gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean. And of course, there was some concern a number of months ago about these gas finds and -- off the southern coast of Cyprus and the state of Israeli-Turkish ties and how that might factor into all of this. I think that, you know, initially everybody was quite concerned about what might happen and that this would require an American response in order to -- you know, now we would have to have even more of a naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean trying to deconflict these forces and so and so forth.
And I think that that is still a real possibility, and that Turks are now prospecting themselves for gas off the northern coast, but there is an opportunity here. And if these finds are as big as people make them out to be -- everybody needs energy. The Israelis need energy, the Cypriots need energy, the Turks need energy, Kurds need energy, every -- Europeans, everybody needs energy. And my understanding is if these things are as big as they are, rather than conflict, everybody's going to want to share in the windfall.
So there may in fact be -- or the revenue, whatever it is that results. Whatever it is, there might be an impetus here to actually share some of these, certainly on the -- on the island of Cyprus, that could perhaps, over a medium or a longer term, lead a pathway towards -- if not reconciliation, but change in the status of the relationship. And -- (inaudible).
QUESTIONER: Thank you.
SCHMEMANN: I think we're reaching the end of our time. But I have one other question for your, and -- (inaudible).
QUESTIONER: Yes, Evelyn Mabel (sp). I've followed the Security Council very carefully, and I'm curious of -- we more or less humiliated Turkey. First of all, they wanted a meeting on terrorism, and the United States said, absolutely not; we're going to have it. And then their gesture toward Iran, which wasn't the smartest with Brazil -- we put down the resolution right in the middle of it and sort of said, get out of my way and, you know, you have nothing to do with this. It's not what we did -- we had the right policy -- it's how we did it.
And secondly, you haven't mentioned the Turkish treatment of the Kurds. And I'm just curious -- I'm sure it's somewhere in here, but --
ALBRIGHT: Well, I think that in looking at some of the issues that you've raised, they are -- make you ask exactly the question that you do: What exactly happened? And I don't know the answer to it. I have a sense that there were -- this does happen, misunderstandings about timing, and a variety of different ways that these things come about.
I do not believe that the United States is deliberately trying to humiliate Turkey. From everything that we know, there is -- and Steven (sp) mentioned this earlier -- the number of meetings that Prime Minister Erdogan and President Obama have, the number of phone calls that go back and forth, in a sense, a greater and greater recognition of Turkey's role. So I would put those down to misunderstandings.
On the Kurdish issue, we did in fact talk about the importance of getting a better treatment, generally understanding that some of the steps forward have been useful, but also problems in terms of the PKK. And so we raise it as an issue that is a -- one of the very serious problems generally in the way that Turkey handles its issues.
SCHMEMANN: All right.
Yes, last question.
QUESTIONER: Yeah, I'm Rozi Kanakil (ph), Turkish Hurriyet newspaper. There's a new debate now in Turkey whether the U.S. had pressures Erbakan government -- (inaudible) -- Erdogan, very active now. How do you call those days? Because U.S. had concerns toward Western (participation ?) with Iran, and it cut off the oil routes. How do you recall this -- I mean, because there's a really big debate now whether the U.S. has pressures Turkish army to force Erbakan government to resign.
SCHMEMANN: So looking back a little bit, let's also look forward as we just wrap up the session.
COOK: Can I answer that first?
SCHMEMANN: Yeah, go ahead.
COOK: I was not the secretary of state -- (laughter) -- when -- during the 28th of February process. But I don't think that the Turkish military needed the United States to tell them to undermine the Erbakan government. The Turkish military had its own very well-developed reason for why it wanted to see the Welfare Party fail. My recollection of the period was that the United States wanted to see Turkey develop in a democratic way. That has been a consistent policy of the United States, and it had been advocating, as Secretary Albright pointed out, for Turkey to join the European Union.
I think that the Turkish military actually didn't really need to engage in the 28th of February process because it was pretty clear that the Welfare government was incompetent and probably would have been turned from office. But the military's concern was that they were packing the bureaucracy with their own supporters, and that's why they (moved out ?). I don't think that there was any connection between Washington and the 28th of February process. And in order to support democracy, the United States has supported democracy, not authoritarianism. It doesn't make sense that the United States would do that.
QUESTIONER: And (was there any ?) concerns in the U.S. government of this?
ALBRIGHT: This -- which government?
QUESTIONER: I mean your -- or --
ALBRIGHT: No, I mean, let me just say I think that is an accurate version of it. It was not the easiest thing to deal with Erbakan. I remember having some meetings that were kind of like that. So -- but definitely, that is different from saying that the U.S. put pressure on --
HADLEY: And one of the things in the appendix at the back that Steven did talks about the rise of the AKP, one of the things that's very clear is the AK Party learned from the mistakes of the Erbakan government in terms of its domestic policy, but also in terms of its foreign policy and how to approach the United States. And they've been very smart about it. They learned -- (inaudible).
SCHMEMANN: So, with that, thank you very much.
ALBRIGHT: Thank you.
MR. : Thank you very much.
SCHMEMANN: (Inaudible) -- on the website. And if you have an additional question, you can be touch with my colleagues. (Inaudible.)
MS. : Thank you.
MR. : Thank you all very much.


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A pituitary tumor is an abnormal growth of cells in the pituitary gland. The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly one out of five people in the United States will develop a pituitary tumor within his or her lifetime.
The pituitary gland is a pea-sized endocrine gland located in the center of the brain, just behind the nose and close to the optic nerves. Connected to the hypothalamus, the gland provides an important link between brain activity and the endocrine system, which is involved in producing and releasing hormones.
Doctors often refer to the pituitary gland as the "master gland" because it controls the release of hormones from other endocrine glands, such as the thyroid and adrenal glands. It regulates a number of important functions in the body such as our temperature, thyroid activity, growth during childhood, urine production, male testosterone production, and female ovulation, estrogen production, and lactation.
While most pituitary tumors do not cause symptoms, some do cause health issues. The tumor can be functional or nonfunctional, depending on whether it produces hormones. Some functional pituitary tumors produce excessive amounts of certain hormones such as growth hormone or adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which leads to the release of cortisol, a stress hormone that maintains blood pressure and glucose levels.
Types of Pituitary Tumors
With the exception of nonfunctional tumors, pituitary gland tumors are classified by the type of hormone they secrete.
ACTH-Producing Tumors
These pituitary tumors make a hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). When the body makes too much ACTH, it causes a disorder known as Cushing's disease.
Growth Hormone–Secreting Tumors
These pituitary tumors make growth hormone, which can cause a disorder known as acromegaly in adults. In children, the condition is known as gigantism.
These pituitary tumors make prolactin, a hormone that stimulates a woman's breasts to make milk during and after pregnancy, and that can lead to loss of libido and low testosterone in men.
TSH-Producing & Gonadotropin-Secreting Tumors
These pituitary tumors produce excess thyroid-stimulating hormone, causing the thyroid gland to become overactive. Tumors in the pituitary gland that secrete reproductive hormones such as follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), called gonadotropin-secreting tumors, are treated similarly.
Nonfunctional Pituitary Tumors
Although these pituitary tumors do not produce hormones, they can affect the secretion of reproductive hormones.
Non-Pituitary Tumors of the Sella
A part of the brain called the sella, as well as its surrounding space, can be the site of pituitary tumors as well as other types of tumors, including meningiomas, gliomas, metastatic tumors, and germinomas. In many cases our physicians can use the same surgical approaches commonly used for pituitary tumors (transnasal surgery, endoscopic surgery, intraoperative MRI) as well as radiation or chemotherapy, if needed.
Pituitary Tumor Risk Factors
Certain genetic conditions increase the chance that a pituitary tumor will develop. These conditions include multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) types 1 or 4, which often present with multiple tumor types; McCune Albright syndrome, which is associated with bone disorders; and Carney complex, a rare disorder that causes skin spots and tumors of the skin, nervous system, and heart.
Isolated cases of familial acromegaly (in which there is too much growth hormone) have also been reported as a risk factor for pituitary tumors.
Pituitary Tumor Symptoms
Symptoms of a pituitary tumor vary based on the type of tumor as well as its size and location. Most people with pituitary tumors do not experience any symptoms, and are unaware that the tumor is present unless it is found by chance upon examination for an unrelated issue.
If symptoms do develop, they are often related to the disruption of the endocrine glands responsible for secreting various hormones that regulate bodily functions. Visual symptoms arise when the tumor is large enough to compress the optic chiasm (the part of the brain where the optic nerves cross), leading to loss of peripheral vision or a limiting of the visual field.


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Transient tic disorder is a temporary condition in which a person makes one or many brief, repeated, movements or noises (tics). These movements or noises are involuntary (not on purpose).
Tic - transient tic disorder
Transient tic disorder is common in children.
The cause of transient tic disorder can be physical or mental (psychological). It may be a mild form of Tourette syndrome.
The child may have facial tics or tics involving movement of the arms, legs, or other areas.
Tics may involve:
The tics often look like nervous behavior. Tics appear to get worse with stress. They do not occur during sleep.
Sounds may also occur, such as:
The health care provider will consider physical causes of transient tic disorder before making a diagnosis.
In order to be diagnosed with transient tic disorder, the child must have had tics almost every day for at least 4 weeks, but less than a year.
Other disorders such as
Doctors recommend that family members do not call attention to the tics at first. This is because unwanted attention may make the tics worse. If the tics are severe enough to cause problems at school or work, behavioral techniques and medications may help.
Simple childhood tics usually disappear over a period of months.
There are usually no complications. A chronic motor or vocal tic disorder can develop.
Talk to your health care provider if you are concerned about a transient tic disorder, especially if it continues or disrupts your child's life. If you are not sure whether the movements are a tic or a seizure, call your health care provider right away.
Jankovic J, Lang AE. Movement disorders. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 21.
Ryan CA, Gosselin GJ, DeMaso DR. Habit and tic disorders. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, et al., eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 22.
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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 197, June 9, 2000
CUG ReportThe following excerpts are from the trip reports of two ARSC staff members, Liam Forbes and Kurt Carlson, who attended the recent Holland CUG. They're intended to give the flavor of the CUG and share some information relevant to readers of this newsletter. This is extracted from hand-written notes taken during talks... if you want definitive info, visit http://www.cray.com/ and see numerous white papers and other documents.
General Impressions
Kurt Carlson:
The format was different from previous CUGs. Monday and Tuesday was reserved for Cray exclusively. Thursday and Friday was reserved for SGI exclusively. Wednesday was a mixed day. Two days with Cray was not enough. In my opinion Wednesday was a bust. Cray was not very talkative with SGI present. Considering the conference agenda was set before the divorce of Cray from SGI the format was better than one could reasonably expect, but some restructuring of the conference is warranted. I would personally prefer to see CUG return to "Cray Users Group". While there is certainly considerable value in vendor time with SGI, that should be an SGI user's group. CUG needs to retain some visualization, hopefully that can be from member presentations.
The "CUG Night Out" was a Canal Cruise on the 'Prins van Oranje' (built 1908). From Leiderdorp, we toured Dutch countryside... drawbridges, windmills, houses, flowers. Food was provided, of course, and a good opportunity to chat with others. Interesting feature to note: the water level in the canal was frequently above the surrounding land. An observation on Dutch housing (from cruise and walking about): many had large picture windows without blinds, one could see through the house from the streets... considering the art objects on many sills it seemed intentionally "open".Liam Forbes:
The Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin was very nice. To see a view of the beach outside the hotel, you can go to a camera operated by Oregon State University, at: "http://cil-www.oce.orst.edu:8080/". The tulips were not in bloom though, but there were cows & cyclists everywhere (draw your own connections). My biggest impression from this year's CUG is that the SGI/Cray split is causing FUD [fear, unease, dissention] which will be difficult to overcome. The Board has quite a challenge in front of it to guide CUG in the new "multiple vendor" world. I don't think that CUG will be dropping either vendor. Whether that is a good thing or bad thing is yet to be seen.Notes:
Cray Inc. Corporate Direction
- mission: Provide the world's most powerful supercomputers to help solve our customer's most challenging problems.
- 600 systems at 200 sites
- Cray SV1, Cray T3E, Cray MTA, Cray SV2 (future)
Game Plan
- Partner closely w/ customers
- Deliver Cray T3E, Cray SV1 enhancements (2H00, 1H01 respectively)
- Commercialize Cray MTA (no intention to merge w/ T3E,T90 architectures)
- Aggressively meet Cray SV2 availability schedule
- Become highly visible and vocal again
- Become profitable & sustain it
- Work to capture/recapture every high-end customer
Product Plans
- Cray & CUG Would like to have non-disclosure type meetings within the context of the SUMMITs to be able to candidly discuss product development & design.
Cray & SGI
- $36million note due by end of this year
- as service agreements come up for renewal SGI & Cray will convert contracts to Cray Inc. In the meantime, SGI is handling contract invoicing for Cray.
technology agreement covering intellectual property rights, patents, etc...
- some intellectual property is transferred to Cray;
- some is licensed to Cray w/out restrictions;
- some is licensed to Cray w/ restrictions (ex: what Cray can do to develop the T3E).
- transitional operations agreement for facilities, invoicing, contracts, etc...
- MTA ==uniform shared memory multiprocessor w/ latency tolerance using fine-grain multithreading; no data caches or other hierarchy; no memory bandwidth bottleneck, absent hot-spots
- every 64-bit memory word also has a full/empty bit; load & store can act as receive & send respectively; also implement locks & atomic updates
- 16 protection domains (address spaces) one is used by the operating system; rest can be used to multiprogram the processor; limit the number of "big" jobs per processor
- multithreaded w/ 3 operations per 64-bit instruction
- 31 general purpose 64-bit registers per stream
- paged program address space
- segmented data address space
- data addressability to byte level
- explicit dependence lookahead
- multiple orthogonally generated condition codes
- explicit branch target registers
- speculative loads
- unprivileged traps
- hashed to logical addresses;
- then interleaved among physical memory unit numbers and offsets;
- number of memory units can be a power of 2 times any factor of 315;
- 1, 2, 4GB of memory per processor;
- supports over 1 memory reference per cycle per CPU.
Manufacturing Status:
- 600 MHz;
- R6 chip: 25% faster interconnect;
- rev 4 PCB
- 64 mbit DRAMS at 256MB & 512MB per PE;
Engineering Status:
improvements in newly manufactured PEs
- 675 MHz - T3E 2500F;
- LC136 beta complete - ran OS on full margins;
- new PCB;
GigaRing Enhancements:
higher density FC disk "DD330"
- 36GBytes;
- same form factor;
- higher densities as devices become available;
- there is a project on the SV1 team looking at GigE for GigaRing;
- probably via bridges, not nodes;
- support for IBM 3840escon, STK9840 drives
- higher density FC disk "DD330"
- Software Status:
- improvements in newly manufactured PEs
resiliency improvements
- checkpoint/restart (2.0.2)
utilization improvements
psched enhancements (2.0.4)
- gang scheduling & prime job
- load balancer
- migrate on swap (2.0.4)
scheduler performance improvements (2.0.5)
- mini-launch
automatically compress dumps on completion & read compressed dumps
- w/ crashmk
- MPI 2 being implemented piece by piece based on customer requests; no plans to be fully compliant just to be compliant
Parallel Programming Language R&D
- Co-arrays syntax - explicitly expresses replication of data images; will see on SV2.
SV2 architecture combines T3E scalability w/ sustained, high bandwidth vector performance
- psched enhancements (2.0.4)
CUG Members meeting to discuss some proposed modifications
moving vendor name from bylaws into handbook -
since '95/'96 vendor has changed named frequently which continually made the bylaws out of date weren't able to make bylaws changes fast enough to keep up w/ industry changes put "vendor = SGI & Cray Inc." in handbook and put "vendor as defined in handbook" in bylawsCray Hardware Overview
- 3 efforts: SV1, SV2, MTA
- Reviewed management structure
- Targets: absolute bandwidth 10x microprocessor based architecture with 100x stride bandwidth
- T3E expertise available to SV2
- SV3 will be SV2 compatible
- MTA-2 (working name PEAHI) in 2H2001
- Not merging MTA/SV2, are leveraging (e.g., IOS)
SGI had end-of-lifed T3E, Cray has revived:
600mhz to 675mhz and enabling adaptive routing
- Reviewed timing of SV1E, SV1EX, and SV2
- Reviewed SV2 speeds
- SV2 (Unicos/sv) is being simulated now (on Origin)
- SV2 will be 20x T90 price/performance
- Performance enhancements on SV1 & T3E
- language compatibility across all platforms including legacy
- key features of standards (note: NOT standards conformance)
- interfaces on SV1 & T3E to move toward SV2
- MPT (Message Passing Toolkit) 1.4 6/2000
- PE 3.4: F90 potential for 20% performance improvement w/recompile
- SV2 cross compilation on IOS, modules environment
- PVM dead, HPF Fortran likely dead (not CRAY sponsored)
- Debugger already client/server model
- Perf tools to follow c/s model There will be an SV1 workshop 23-25 October 2000 in Minnesota.
MPI_SM_POOL Variable and "Remote Protocol Queue"There are a number of environment variables which you can set to control resources available to your MPI jobs. They're documented in "man mpi" on the T3E.
An ARSC user recently received this error message:
-MPI- FATAL: Remote protocol queue fullThis is the Cray discussion in a problem report on the subject:
The "Remote protocol queue full" error means the shared memory queue area used for buffering messages has filled up. This typically occurs when a PE(s) is sending messages to another PE faster than that PE can receive them. The solution is to use environment variable MPI_SM_POOL to increase the size of the shared memory pool. The default size for MPI_SM_POOL is 8192 bytres. See section 2.7 of "Message Passing Toolkit: MPI Programmer's Manual" for additional information. MPI will be changed in a future release so that send operations will block when a "queue full" condition occurs.
Quick-Tip Q & A
We got five answers from four readers in Minnesota, Mississippi, and Alaska:
- Always take someone along who runs slower than you do....
- A well balanced stock portfolio
- The Green Bay Packers front four!
- A really big gun.
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Close Encounters: What To Do If you see a bear, avoid it if you can. Give the bear every opportunity to avoid you. If you do encounter a bear at close distance, remain calm. Attacks are rare. Chances are, you are not in danger. Most bears are interested only in protecting food, cubs or their "personal space." Once the threat is removed, they will move on. Remember the following:
Identify Yourself: Let the bear know you are human. Talk to the bear in a normal voice. Wave your arms. [...] You may try to back away slowly diagonally, but if the bear follows, stop and hold your ground.
Don't Run: You can't outrun bear. They have been clocked at speeds up to 35 mph, and like dogs, they will chase fleeing animals. Bears often make bluff charges, sometimes to within 10 feet of their adversary, without making contact. Continue waving your arms and talking to the bear. If the bear gets too close, raise your voice and be more aggressive. Bang pots and pans. Use noisemakers. Never imitate bear sounds or make a high-pitched squeal.
If Attacked: If a bear actually makes contact, surrender! Fall to the ground and play dead. Lie flat on your stomach, or curl up in a ball with your hands behind your neck. Typically, a bear will break off its attack once it feels the threat has been eliminated. [...] In rare instances, particularly with black bears, an attacking bear may perceive a person as food. If the bear continues biting you long after you assume a defensive posture, it likely is a predatory attack. Fight back vigorously.
Protection Firearms should never be used as an alternative to common-sense approaches to bear encounters. If you are inexperienced with a firearm in emergency situations, you are more likely to be injured by a gun than a bear. It is illegal to carry firearms in some of Alaska's national parks, so check before you go.
A .300-Magnum rifle or a 12-gauge shotgun with rifled slugs are appropriate weapons if you have to shoot a bear. Heavy handguns such as a .44-Magnum may be inadequate in emergency situations, especially in untrained hands.
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The first command in the script is a "cd" right back to the directory from which I submit the script (the "cd" is required because NQS always starts the job in my home directory).
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Most of you know the long story with my 11 month old female, and her fracture to her leg that put her out of commision for 4 months.
With that said she missed some important months in her development in her training and marking ability.
I have ran into a little issue that I have been trying to correct, but am seeing very slow improvment!
We have been running T and Pile work now for a few weeks, and have been giving her marks daily, mixing in birds , and flyers a couple times a week.
The problem seems to be on her marking ! She seems to mark solid at the line, and I always let her sit and stare for a few before sending her so she can get a good look at the mark, and landscape, but she runs a great line to the mark but will break down and start hunting around 45 or 50 yards out.
I have access to a great place to train her on marks, my grandfather owns a golf driving range, that is flat and about 15 acres of very short mowed grass that I can see a mark myself laying out there forever and at any distance because of the flat very low terrain !
I have been working her here and trying to extend her marking, and have worked up to 100 to 125 yards, I know she sees the mark, and will take a straight line to it, but will always break down and lose momentum around 50 yards. (I can see her slow down and start looking around) She will pick up the mark without any trouble, but will always break down at that distance ! I can't remeber the last time she "stepped" on a mark !
I train by myself 99% of the time, and do use a remote winger to launch marks! She will remote sit in place, and have tryed walking marks with her to extend distance slowly, just not seeing much improvement!
Need some drills I can setup bymyself to get her past that 50 yard breakdown!
I know what has caused it (Still used to the short marks before her injury at 3 months) BUT I have been trying to extend her marking since we were released back in July, and still getting the breakdown! I know she's seeing the 100 yard throws! She's locked in and focused from the time it's released, just never makes the full distance before establishing a hunt.


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Stanford's Dwight Powell fulfilling promises made to late mother
MEMPHIS -- After years of losses and mediocre seasons and NIT appearances, Stanford squeaked into this NCAA tournament and recorded two upsets in the first week. Here was Cinderella reimagined -- in glasses, with pocket protectors, revenge of the, well, you know.
No one exemplified Stanford's run and potential more than Dwight Powell, a Canadian drawn to soccer and track before he discovered basketball, a post prospect who actually stayed in school four years, a scholar who delayed potential NBA riches to return for a final season and complete both a promise and a degree.
Neither Stanford nor Powell fit the usual Cinderella mold, not like Dayton, their opponent here on Thursday night at FedEx Forum, not like Florida Gulf Coast last year, or so many tournament darlings before that. Stanford plays in the Pac-12, a power conference. Its athletes rank among the league's best students, like Powell, the conference's men's basketball scholar-athlete of the year. Stanford trains in California, for God's sake, its campus replete with sunshine and future Olympians and world leaders.
So it's not exactly a surprise that Stanford ended up here, opposite Dayton, one win from a trip to the Elite 8. What's surprising, to Powell and his teammates, is that it took nearly all of four years for the Cardinal to put together this type of run. In so many ways, it feels like a culmination, and yet in one way, in perhaps the most important way, it feels incomplete.
"I've thought about her often here," Powell said Wednesday, in a quiet moment inside Stanford's temporary locker room. "She would definitely be out here screaming."
She is Jacqueline Weir, Powell's mother, the woman who pushed him into academics, who dropped him at the IMG Academy, who helped him choose Stanford over other options like Harvard and Georgia Tech. This is what she wanted: the degree, the tournament run, all of it.
Powell had no idea how sick his mother was. He knew she had breast cancer, but she reassured him that all would be OK. He left the summer of 2012 for training camp with the Canadian national team, and when he returned to her home, outside of Boston, he learned that the cancer had spread into her liver. She died that September. She was 53.
When Powell explains how Stanford ended a five-year NCAA tournament drought this season, how it toppled New Mexico and Kansas last week, he starts with cohesion. He never felt that more than when his mother died and Stanford's coaches and several players traveled to Toronto for the funeral.
Stanford petitioned the NCAA to pay for the trip, and it did, but teammates said they planned to attend regardless. Like Josh Huestis, a forward and fellow senior. His family hosted the Powells one Thanksgiving. He considered Weir part of his own family.
"It was something we all had to do," Huestis said. "He was our brother. I loved his mom."
Huestis met Powell at an All-Star game in Los Angeles. They were roommates before they became teammates. Huestis would learn Powell was funnier than expected -- "the best word I can use to describe Dwight is goofy," he said -- that he performed spot-on impressions of celebrities and conducted entire conversations in a British accent.
Powell arrived at Stanford after a stint with the IMG Academy in Florida. His mother accompanied him on the visit there. She asked a lot of questions. She wanted to know about classes and tutors, the academic end of things.
The program was basically full-time: up at 7 a.m., breakfast, lift weights, practice, shower, lunch, school. There were nutrition sessions, mental conditioning sessions and team-building sessions. Powell blossomed from a 6-foot-6 beanpole into a top-50 national recruit.
That development continued at Stanford, the NIT champions in 2012 -- the best sushi in Iowa, or the college basketball equivalent. Where other universities like Kentucky and Kansas stocked and restocked their rosters with elite freshmen on stopover before they jumped early to the NBA, the Cardinal had no such luxury. They would develop players, or they would look for work.
Last summer, Powell considered entering the NBA draft. The league issued Stanford its usual evaluation, detailing of Powell's prospects, his strengths and weaknesses and where he might be drafted.
Powell declined to look at it. He had promised his mother he would obtain a degree in Science, Technology and Society (he is currently on track). He would overcome the knocks on his game (soft inside, injury prone). He would lead Stanford to the NCAA tournament for the first time under Coach Johnny Dawkins, whose office chair felt more like an oven in recent months.
"This is what Dwight's mother wanted," said Dan Barto, the head skills trainer for IMG's basketball program. "Everything that has happened is their plan. He's executing it."
Powell averages 13.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game and shoots 45.7 percent from the field. He made the all-Pac-12 first team for the second time. He stands 6-feet, 10-inches and yet leads Stanford in assists (110) and steals (45).
What Stanford needed most from Powell was assertiveness, and to that end, in this tournament, he has delivered. "He's incredibly conscientious," Stanford assistant Tim O'Toole said. "He's cerebral. He's an unbelievable team player -- and sometimes to a fault. I always tell NBA scouts: There's not a lot of big guys who can guard Kevin Durant on the perimeter. He can. That's how he's built."
Built Mom Tough. That's Powell, Cinderella reimagined, not exactly an underdog but a surprise NCAA tournament contender nonetheless. If it took four years to arrive here, he noted in that impeccable Stanford logic, at least it did not take five. Mom would be so proud.


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Economic gains in America's cities slowed this year as political maneuvering in Washington waylaid businesses and consumers, according to a new report by the nation's mayors.
Growth is forecast to pick up in 2014, though many city officials are tempering expectations.
"As a whole I think we are still… not overly optimistic," said Scott Smith, president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which represents top elected officials from 1,398 U.S. cities. "We don't have a lot of confidence in Washington's ability to fully comprehend and understand just how badly they are screwing things up."
The report, prepared for the Conference of Mayors by the consulting firm IHS Global Insight, forecasts gross metropolitan product, the broadest measure of metro area economic output, will grow a little less than 1.6% this year, down from 2.5% in 2012. That's a little slower than the overall U.S. economy, which IHS expects to grow 1.7% this year.
The nation's 363 metropolitan areas–often a city and its suburbs– host about 84% of the U.S. population and the bulk of its job creation. But higher federal taxes at the start of the year, mandatory government-spending cuts known as the sequester and last month's 16-day partial government shutdown all have weighed on local economies, said Mr. Smith, who is also mayor of Meza, Ariz., a city of about 452,000 that is part of the Phoenix metro area.
The spending cuts and shutdown were especially pernicious, Mr. Smith said. Big companies with government contracts planned for the disruptions by squeezing second- and third-tier suppliers, effects that are difficult to track or measure.
"That's sort of the hidden evil of the sequester," he said.
Most metro area economies will expand this year, according to the report, with the strongest gains fueled by the energy industry. Texas cities Odessa and Midland and North Dakota's Fargo and Bismarck are among the fastest-growing economies.
About one-third of metro-area economies will be stagnant or shrink, a deterioration from 2012 when only 73 metros didn't grow or declined, the report said.
Mr. Smith said prospects would brighten if Washington policy makers set a clearer course for the country, rather than devolving into another round of finger-pointing and fighting.
"When cities have thrived it's in spite of what happens in Washington," he said.
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