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Guizhou, Wade-Giles romanization Kuei-chou, conventional Kweichow, sheng (province) of southwestern China. It is bounded to the north by Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality, to the east by Hunan province, to the south by the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, and to the west by Yunnan province. Guizhou measures more than 350 miles (560 km) from east to west and about 320 miles (515 km) from north to south. The provincial capital is centrally located at Guiyang.
Guizhou has the frontier character of other southwestern plateau lands: rough topography, difficult communication and consequent isolation, and many ethnic minority groups. It was long considered one of China's poorest and most disadvantaged provinces, as characterized by the folk poem: "The sky is not clear three days; the land is not level for three li (2,115 feet, or 645 metres); the people don't have three cents." Area 67,200 square miles (174,000 square km). Pop. (2010) 34,746,468.
Guizhou is part of an old eroded plateau, variously known as the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau or Yungui Plateau, which connects with plateau areas in Yunnan. Situated between the Plateau of Tibet and the hilly regions of Hunan and Guangxi, the plateau forms part of a continuously ascending profile of the southwest, its altitude increasing from about 2,300 feet (700 metres) in eastern Guizhou to about 6,600 feet (2,000 metres) in the west. The Sichuan Basin to the north and the Guangxi Basin to the south are both the results of faulting. The entire terrain of Guizhou thus slopes at a steep angle from the centre toward the north, east, and south. In areas adjacent to Sichuan and Hunan in the north and east, the elevation is about 2,300 feet, while the province's southern slopes descend some 1,600 to 2,000 feet (500 to 600 metres) into Guangxi. Accordingly, rivers in the province flow in three directions, north, east, and south.
The plateau, which is composed mostly of limestone and basalt, has undergone complicated and extensive folding, faulting, and stream erosion and consequently has abrupt relief, an example of which is the famous Huangguoshu Waterfall near Anshun in the southwest. Incised valleys, steep gorges, and cliffs are common. In the limestone areas the characteristic landscape consists of karst formations (i.e., precipitous slopes, abrupt, protuberant mountains, caverns, and subterranean streams). Only the upfolded and downfolded stratified rock layers of the plateau in central Guizhou are broad and relatively flat.
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Most of the rivers in Guizhou are the upper streams of large rivers, such as the Yangtze and the Xi. Much of the province is drained by streams of the Wu River system. The abrupt change of gradient, the great fluctuation in the flow volumes, and the many rapids and reefs make them unsuitable for navigation, though they have enormous hydroelectric power potential.
Because of the high humidity, a yellow soil with a yellowish brown subsoil originated from sandstone, shale, and clay constitutes the largest area in the province. In the limestone area in the south there are broad areas of red soil. In the west the red soils are originated from basalt and sandstone and developed under a relatively drier climate.
Guizhou enjoys a mild climate with warm summers and mild winters. Guiyang has a mean July temperature of about 76 °F (24 °C), lower than that of all other cities to the east on the same latitude. This is due to its high altitude and the cloudiness of the summer months. In winter, cold air from Siberia cannot easily reach Guizhou because of the barrier effect of the Qin (Tsinling) Mountains to the north of the Sichuan Basin. In spite of its high elevation, Guizhou thus has few snowy days and even fewer freezing days. The mean January temperature at Guiyang is about 41 °F (5 °C).
Rainfall is fairly uniform and plentiful, with an annual average of 35 to 60 inches (900 to 1,500 mm), decreasing toward the north and west. The southern and eastern parts of Guizhou are open to the influence of the moist maritime air mass in summer. For the same reason, there is a summer maximum in rainfall, averaging nearly half of the annual total. About one-fourth falls in spring and the remainder in autumn. Typically, the province has high relative humidity, lengthy cloudy and rainy days, and little sunshine. The capital, Guiyang, has more than 260 rainy and cloudy days in an average year. Most of the precipitation results from atmospheric frontal activity, though some is a result of convection or condensation.
Plant and animal life
Because of the steep gradient and the exposure of limestone, wasteland accounts for nearly half of the total area. Yet part of the province's natural wealth lies in its forests. The plateau surface is mostly dry and barren, but the peripheral valleys have rich and valuable woodlands. About one-tenth of the land area is under natural forest. There are four main forested areas: the drainage basins of the Qingshui River in the east, the Duliu River in the southeast, the Nanpan and Beipan rivers in the southwest, and the Dalou Mountains in the north.
Guizhou has more than 3,860 species of wild plants, among which are several that are highly valued herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. Notable are the tubers of Gastrodia elata, the bark of the elmlike Eucommia ulmoides, the roots of Coptis chinensis (Chinese goldthread) and Astragalus membranaceus (milk vetch), and the fruit of Evodia rutaecarpa (Evodia fruit). Collectively, these are known as the five famous herbs of Chinese medicine.
The forests of the northern valleys, still among the most important in China, consist chiefly of conifers and other trees, such as the tung tree, lacquer tree, camellia, birch, maple, pine, and fir. Forests in the southeast produce camphor, banyan tree, and other broad-leaved varieties. Trees of the southern subtropical valleys typically include willow, cedar, bamboo, and various species of pine and fir. Oak, Yunnan pine, Huashan pine, and camphor are grown in the west near Yunnan. Cedar, cypress, poplar, and palm trees are also found in the province.
In addition to domesticated animals, such as buffalo, horses, donkeys, asses, and pigs, the province has more than 1,000 species of wild animals, some three dozen of which are rare or endangered. Notable mammals include leopards, otters, foxes, badgers, tigers, and squirrels. In most of the larger rivers carp and other fish are abundant.
Population composition
About three-fifths of the province's population is Han (Chinese). Members of the more than 40 non-Han ethnic minority groups account for the remainder. Among the most important minority groups are the Hmong (known in China as the Miao), the Buyi, the Yi (also known as the Lolo), the Dong, the Shui, the Mien (known as the Yao in China), and the Zhuang. All of the minority groups intermingle with Han people. Only at the low xiang, or village, level can one find any exclusive ethnic grouping. Generally, few minority people live in northern Guizhou, particularly in areas north of the Wu River. The Miao are mainly found in southeastern Guizhou, especially in the drainage area of Qingshui River and in the Miao Mountains. Most of the Buyi live in south-central and southwestern Guizhou in the Pan River drainage area, including the suburbs of Guiyang. The Dong are found mainly in the southeastern areas adjacent to Hunan and the Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi. The Shui are concentrated in southern Guizhou, around Sandu and Libo, while the Yi, who once were rulers of this frontier region, are scattered in western Guizhou. The Hui (Chinese Muslims) in Guizhou migrated there from Yunnan in the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) after the defeat of a local rebellion. They are found chiefly in towns and cities along the main lines of communication in western and southern Guizhou, especially in Weining.
Chinese is the common language of the Han and the Hui in Guizhou, Mandarin being spoken almost exclusively by the former group. Among the minority groups, the languages of the Buyi, Shui, Dong, and Zhuang are Tai languages. Those of the Miao and the Yao belong to the Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) family, and that of the Yi to the Tibeto-Burman group.
Settlement patterns
Most of the population is rural, and agriculture is the chief occupation. Rice cultivators dominate the peripheral valleys of the plateau. On the plateau itself, the Miao practice subsistence agriculture, growing upland crops. Most of the Buyi live on level lands in the valleys and cultivate rice. While the Dong are experienced lowland rice cultivators, they are also skillful in forestry and in growing upland crops. The Shui, living together in large families and tribes, are rice cultivators as well. In addition to growing upland crops, the Yi undertake animal husbandry.
There are few cities in Guizhou. Guiyang is the most important, although larger and more populous is Liupanshui, a municipality created by combining the Liuzhi, Panxian, and Shuicheng special districts in Guizhou's coal-rich western area. Most of the other cities are the seats of government and are the economic and communications centres for the various regions of the province.
Most of the cultivated area of Guizhou is under grain crops, the most important of which is rice. Corn (maize) is grown chiefly in eastern Guizhou. Other food crops include wheat, barley, sweet potatoes, potatoes, oats, and broad beans. Increasingly more of the cultivated area is under industrial crops, of which the most important is rapeseed, followed by tobacco, peanuts (groundnuts), sugarcane, jute, tea, sugar beets, hemp, and sesame. Guizhou is also known for its production of maotai liquor, made from wheat and kaoliang (a variety of grain sorghum).
Timber and other forestry products are plentiful. Guizhou ranks among the leading provinces in the production of raw lacquer and tung oil. Other important forestry products include camellia oil, cypress oil, gallnut extract, lichens, and various medicinal herbs.
Resources and power
Guizhou has rich mineral resources. Its most widespread metallic mineral is mercury, reserves of which are large; there are also small deposits of manganese, zinc, lead, antimony, aluminum, copper, iron, and gold. Nonmetallic minerals include coal, oil shale, phosphate, gypsum, arsenic, limestone, and fluorite. Extractive industries are consequently very important in Guizhou.
Electric-power generation is a major component of Guizhou's economy. Although most is generated at coal-fired thermal plants, the province's abundant water resources have been used to develop a number of hydroelectric facilities. Much of the power output is exported to Guangdong province.
In general, Guizhou has established an industrial system with coal, metallurgical, chemical, machinery, and power industries as the main body in the heavy industry sector and winemaking, tobacco, textile, leather, and silk production as the main body in the light industry sector.
With a sufficient local supply of raw material and fuel and an expanding market in southwestern China, iron and steel and aluminum industries have been developed in Guizhou. Machinery manufacturing is also important, primarily for the production of mining machinery, agricultural and irrigation equipment, steel-rolling machines, and steel-smelting and other smelting equipment. The local supply of phosphate and other raw materials has given rise to a chemical industry that produces chemical fertilizers, soda acid, and other chemicals; petrochemicals are also made.
Among light manufactures, textiles are important, as are beverage production and tobacco and leather processing. Based on good timber resources, paper mills are found in several cities. Well-known handicrafts include flutes from Yuping, black-ink slabs from Sizhou, local styles of lace embroidery, wax printing (notably from Anshun), and lacquerware.
Guiyang is the most important industrial centre of the province, producing a wide variety of heavy and light industrial goods. Other major centres include Zunyi, which has a considerable amount of heavy industry and is also the focus of silk textile production, and the municipality of Liupanshui, with its coal-based extractive and other heavy industries.
River transportation is of little importance in Guizhou because of the presence of reefs and rapids, although the Wu River is a prosperous waterway. Several of the province's other rivers are partially navigable. Guizhou's highways are relatively well-developed. Since 1958 all counties have been connected by roads, the majority of which have all-weather surfaces. Prior to the completion of the railway from Guizhou to Guangxi in 1959, the Guizhou-Guangxi highway was the principal freight and passenger route to Guangdong and Guangxi and to central and eastern China. Since then, railway lines have been extended to Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hunan. Guiyang is the centre of the region's communication network. Express highways have extended from Guiyang southwest to Huangguoshu, north to Zunyi, northwest to Bijie, and southeast to Duyun. Guiyang also provides air services to major cities in China.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
Administratively, Guizhou is divided into four prefecture-level municipalities (dijishi), two prefectures (diqu), and three autonomous prefectures (zizhizhou). These are further divided into districts under the municipality (shixiaqu), counties (xian), autonomous counties (zizhixian), and county-level municipalities (xianjishi).
Guizhou was in turmoil during the most violent phase (1967–69) of the Cultural Revolution. Although Revolutionary Committees were established in most major cities, local military units maintained order and stability. In May 1971 the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee was reestablished, and in 1980–81 the Revolutionary Committees were abolished and replaced with People's Governments and People's Congresses.
Health and welfare
Since 1949 great strides have been made in public health, although Guizhou lags behind most of the rest of China in such areas as life expectancy and the eradication of endemic diseases. Early efforts focused on establishing hundreds of health stations, mother-and-child-care centres, and maternity centres. In addition, numerous health-work teams were created, and larger numbers of medical personnel have been trained and organized. All major cities and towns in the province now have enough hospitals and trained personnel to meet public needs.
Guizhou has one of the highest rates of illiteracy in China, especially among its many minority peoples. Nonetheless, there are a number of institutions of higher learning in the province, including Guizhou University (founded 1958), Guiyang Medical University (1938), Guizhou Normal University (1941), Guizhou University for Nationalities (1951; for training members of ethnic minority groups), and Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The province also has some 200 natural science institutes.
Cultural life
The minority peoples in Guizhou are among the most artistic and musical in China. The Han also have a long and mixed cultural background. Various types of folk dramas with varying degrees of elaboration, some of which are combined with folk dances, are popular among different nationalities in different areas. Some of the Han folk dramas, huadeng ("flower lantern") in northern Guizhou and dixi ("floor plays") in southern Guizhou, are also popular among the minority groups. Buffalo fighting is part of the festival activity over the New Year, especially among the Miao, Yao, and Zhuang peoples. The Miao often sing of their revolutionary history and heroes, and both the Miao and the Dong folk songs are well-known. Embroidery and paper cutting are both important forms of folk art among all minority peoples. The Buyi and Gelao are particularly known for their batik, the Miao and Buyi for their intricate, coloured cross-stitch work, and the Miao for their heavy silver ornaments.
Guizhou boasts numerous tourist attractions, and tourism is growing in importance. Noted nationally recognized scenic spots include Huangguoshu Falls, the largest waterfall in China; Zhijin ("Gold Weave") Cave, China's largest limestone cave complex; Wuyang River Gorge, with its karst landscape; Longgong ("Dragon Palace") Cave, the caverns of which have been formed in the shape of a string of beads; and the site of a 1935 conference at Zunyi, where Mao Zedong established his dominance in the Chinese Communist Party. All attract large numbers of visitors every year.
Although the area has been known to the Chinese since ancient times, Guizhou came under large-scale Chinese influence only relatively recently, particularly during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when it was made a province. The colonization policy of the Ming and Qing dynasties encouraged a large number of Chinese immigrants from Hunan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan to move into the eastern, northern, and central parts of Guizhou.
During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12), when the government decided to replace local chiefs with officials appointed by the central government, minority groups (particularly the Miao) rebelled. Rebellions and suppressions were so common there that there was a saying, "a riot every 30 years and a major rebellion every 60 years." In 1726 at the Battle of Mount Leigong, more than 10,000 Miao were beheaded and more than 400,000 starved to death. The Banjiang Riot of 1797 was said to have been started by the Buyi people, and thousands of them were either burned to death or beheaded. The most important popular revolt against the central government was one led by Zhang Xiumei, a Miao, in 1855. He and his followers united with the Taiping revolutionaries, and the joint army with a centralized command that was organized soon controlled eastern and southern Guizhou and won numerous victories under the Miao leaders Yan Dawu and Bao Dadu. When the Miao were eventually defeated in 1872, however, countless numbers of them were massacred. The most recent revolt, known as the Qian Dong (Eastern Guizhou) Incident, occurred between 1942 and 1943 as a result of exploitation and suppression by the warlord Wu Tingzhang. Bitter struggles between the Miao and Wu's armies went on until 1944.
Guizhou experienced some economic development as a result of the Japanese occupation of regions of China to the east during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). This included establishing some industry and commercial activities and setting up the first of its higher-education facilities. However, much of the investment returned to the east after the war. Limited industrialization resumed following the communist takeover of the country in 1949 and expanded considerably from the 1960s. During the 1960s and '70s tens of thousands of workers migrated to Guizhou from other parts of China.Chi-Keung Leung Robert Lee Suettinger The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...systems level innovation is exactly what it is going to take to tackle the really important issues of our time including health care, education, and climate change.
But to get systems level innovation we need theory. Steven Johnson points out
...what we don't have is a convincing theory about the system that connects all these local innovations, that causes them to self-organize into something so momentous..
I think the theory is there, in the science of self-organizing systems and complexity. But virtually all of that literature describes everything but human social self-organizing systems: ecosystems, immune systems, termite colonies, etc.
Somehow we've created a culture and social system where the self-organizing capacity that termites illustrate so effectively has been damped way down. Our only path back to this birthright is to become highly self-aware of our natural capacity to self-organize.
We have to learn to see the self-organizing that exists in our lives before this broader theory can become social theory. As Steven Johnson points out in his excellent video, self-organizing is local, and we need to practice self-organizing in a way that enables us to build our self-organizing capacities: we need to gain new skills in listening and in working together and learn to reach out to those who are different from us in every way possible. As we do this, I think we will be shocked at the depth of creativity that is unleashed.
But as Johnson queries, how does all this little stuff become the stuff of transformation? I believe the magic of emergence can be assisted through networking structures (whether coffee houses or social media) that enable us to share deeply, and through processes that enable innovations to be woven together, to scale and make a difference.


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I've been working in my company for almost 6 years, I don't apply for any other position. Lately my employer has given me some form to fill, I understand from insurance company. I believed all of us employees are insured already and only I got those papers now. HR claims that is just something insurance company wants me to do, it nothing changes, it's not because of my sickdays (I was off because of stress and depression)but I HAVE TO fill it and give it to my HR. My questions are: can they just like that force me to fill that papers? What if I don't want that insurance? Can I say 'No, thank you' or I have to fill it? May be that just an excuse to make a drug test to me, for example? Is the drug test the next step if I gave back this form? I'm nervously waiting for your answer. Thank you.
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You need to know what the form is for. Why do you "HAVE TO" fill it out? Why do they want it? If it is a health questionnaire, there must be a reason for it, and there could be some repercussions from completing it.
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text: Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Nah, > > I guess he's referring to sometimes it's using single precision > floating point > to get something done instead of double precision, and it tends to keep > sometimes stuff in registers. > > That isn't a problem necessarily, but if i remember well floating > point state > could get wiped out when switching to SSE2. > > Sometimes you lose your FPU registerset in that case. > > Main problem is that there is so many dangerous optimizations possible, > to speedup testsets, because in itself floating point is real slow to > do at hardware, > from hardware viewpoint seen. > > Yet in general last generations of intel compilers that has improved > really a lot. Well, running the same code here is the result discrepancy I got: FLOPS: my code has to do: 7,975,847,125,000 (~8Tflops) ...takes 15minutes on 8*2core Opeteron with 32 Gigs-o-RAM (thank you OpenMP ;) The running times (ran it a _few_ times...but not the statistical minimum of 30): ICC -> runtime == 689.249 ; summed error == 1651.78 GCC -> runtime == 1134.404 ; summed error == 0.883501 Compiler Flags: icc -xW -openmp -O3 vqOpenMP.c -o vqOpenMP gcc -lm -fopenmp -O3 -march=native vqOpenMP.c -o vqOpenMP_GCC No trickery, no smoky mirrors ;) Just a _huge_ kick ASS k-Means parallelized with OpenMP (thank gawd, otherwise it takes hours to run) and a rather big database of 1.4 Gigs ... So this is what I meant by floating point errors. Yes, the runtime was almost halved by ICC (and this is on an *opteron* based system, Tyan VX50). The running time wasn't what I was actually looking for rather than precision skew and that's where I fell off my chair. For the ones itching for a little more specs: eric at einstein ~ $ icc -V Intel(R) C Compiler for applications running on Intel(R) 64, Version 10.1 Build 20080602 Copyright (C) 1985-2008 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY eric at einstein ~ $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /dev/shm/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.3.1-r1/work/gcc-4.3.1/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.1 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.1/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.1 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.1/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.1/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.1/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-cld --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,treelang,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.3.1-r1 p1.1' Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.1 (Gentoo 4.3.1-r1 p1.1) > > Vincent > > On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:43:36PM -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote: >> >>> Also, note that I've had issues with icc >>> generating really fast but inaccurate code (fp model is not IEEE *by >>> default*, I am sure _everyone_ knows this and I am stating the obvious >>> here). >> >> All modern, high-performance compilers default that way. It's certainly >> the case that sometimes it goes more horribly wrong than necessary, but >> I wouldn't ding icc for this default. Compare results with IEEE mode. >> >> -- greg >>


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FARMERS KORNER – Anticipating a tougher match today against Fort Collins than Friday night against Chaparral, Summit High sent its younger squad onto the field to shut out Chaparral, 69-0.
In the first half, upperclassmen Katy Peoples, Vollya Sergeeva, Hailey Wyatt and Maddy Hunt-Snyder put in some time alongside the younger players. These four will see time on the turf today, while Diane Mastin played Friday night with McKay Manis (flyhalf) to give Angie Ramos a chance to play halfback alongside Kellie Cochran.
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How many times have you seen a billboard with the message that older adults may be at risk for HIV? How many times have you heard of an HIV testing campaign targeting your grandmother? How many programs do you know of that teach your father how to practice his condom skills? From the amount of attention it gets, you'd never think that older adults are at risk for HIV or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Many people don't want to imagine their parents and grandparents, uncles and aunts engaging in any behavior that might place them at risk for HIV.
Even service providers with patients who might look like their older relatives have difficulty asking questions related to sexual or substance use history, or to offer an HIV test, much less any HIV risk education. Doctors are not immune to the ageist stereotypes of our society, and this can be a problem both in prevention and diagnosis of HIV in seniors. The doctor who does not see past the silver hair may not ask older patients about their sexual activity or drug use and may not give the prevention information that is routine for younger patients. Age is not a barrier to HIV -- we are all at risk.
Risk Factors
The risk factors for infection are the same regardless of age: unprotected sex or sharing needles. We tend not to think of older people as being sexually active or using drugs, but a Columbia University study showed that 45% of people over 50 reported risk factors, including multiple partners, STDs, and alcohol or drug use.
HIV has become a significant national problem among older adults. The rates of infection in this group continue to increase, with 28% of people with HIV in 2006 being over 45, compared with 22% in 2001. According to the CDC, in 2009 this group accounted for 29% of all new HIV diagnoses. The CDC estimates that by 2015, half of all people with HIV in the U.S. will be over 50, and that more than a third will be women. The longer survival of people diagnosed earlier in life also accounts for much of the increasing number of older adults with HIV.
Contrary to stereotypical beliefs, older adults long for active, satisfying sex lives. The fact that sexual contact is the most common HIV transmission route among older adults confirms the presence of both sexual activity and sexual risk behaviors among this population. Results from national surveys examining the sexual activity among persons over the age of 60 indicate that more than 92% consider sex an important part of life and that 75% of those between 65 and 74 considered themselves sexually active. Although little is known about the sexual behaviors of older adults with HIV, new data suggest that sexually active older adults are engaging in risky sexual behaviors.
Taking Action
Although risk-reduction interventions tailored for the needs of people with HIV have begun to demonstrate promising results, only a few have focused on HIV-positive older adults. They include:
Although the CDC funds HIV interventions that use its Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) program, none of the funded organizations target older adults. Perhaps there is a belief that HIV prevention is the same for everyone. There has long been a need to tailor approaches to target specific groups. Why hasn't the CDC made any attempt to fund a program that creates an HIV intervention for older adults?
Old and Young
Research has found differences between older adults and their younger counterparts in terms of sexual knowledge, risk behaviors, and biological factors, showing the need for age-appropriate interventions. Older age has been linked with having incorrect information about prevention, including the need to protect oneself during high-risk behaviors. In contrast with younger people, many older adults do not consider unprotected sex a high-risk behavior because many are no longer concerned about birth control, making them less likely to use condoms. Studies suggest that older adults' knowledge of the seriousness of HIV may not affect their perceived threat of AIDS or their use of condoms.
Multiple health problems and age-related physical changes may make older adults particularly vulnerable to HIV. For example, postmenopausal women are at greater risk for HIV because of the fragility of the vaginal mucosa, due to decreased levels of estrogen. In addition, older patients may progress more quickly from HIV to AIDS. Furthermore, there is often a delay in diagnosis due to clinicians underestimating the risk for HIV among older adults and common HIV symptoms being mistaken for signs of aging. More importantly, older adults may not seek testing because they do not believe themselves to be at risk. Thus, cultural, biological, and behavioral vulnerabilities may make efforts to target high-risk sexual behaviors even more critical in the older population.
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We must take into account the special needs of older adults and involve a variety of groups who have not traditionally been associated with HIV prevention efforts. Strategies for extending successful interventions to the entire over-50 population need development and evaluation.
Luis Scaccabarrozzi is Director of the HIV Health Literacy Program at ACRIA.
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The Integrated Maritime Policy gains momentum
Ministerial meeting on EU Integrated Maritime Policy/Limassol
7 October 2012
Ministers, ladies and gentlemen,
It is a great honour for me to be in Nicosia right when Cyprus is holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU. I am delighted to see so many European Ministers here: it means that maritime affairs are high on everybody's agenda, and I want to thank Minister Florentzou and his Ministry for giving them even more momentum with this landmark event.
The Integrated Maritime Policy is only five years old but it has highlighted the benefits of working together – with different ministries, with the public and private sector, with regions and with other countries. Thanks to the IMP, we have laid down objectives for the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Baltic and other sea-basins and set up a process to achieve them. We have succeeded in finding ways to ensure that investment and research priorities are identified and financed by the future Horizon 2020 programme. And we are working hard to anchor maritime growth in all Community funding instruments for 2014-2020.
At the same time, we have been addressing the structural problems of specific industries. The reform of the Common Fisheries Policy that we are now discussing will give healthier fish stocks and better jobs soon – not just for fishermen, but also in the processing factories, in the supermarkets and in the restaurants.
Let's face it: five years ago, integration was just a promising idea; now we wonder how we managed without it and we are ready to build further.
We can do it, because now we can do things we couldn't do before. We have the technology to work further offshore, even under severe weather conditions. We have materials that withstand the corrosion of salty water. We have remotely controlled submarines which can explore the ocean depths.
But we also must do it because we are convinced that maritime sectors will make a stronger contribution to European growth and help Europe out of the economic crisis.
So far we have focussed on removing the hurdles to the blue economy as a whole:
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But how can we boost even more the Maritime economy ?
The marine and maritime economic sectors already employ well over 5 million people and account for a gross value added (GVA) of €500 billion. According to a recent study, these figures are expected to grow to €600 billion and 7 million employed people in 2020.
There is room for growth and jobs !
To trace the way forward, the Commission has launched last month the Blue Growth initiative which will look more closely at five particular industries to see what incentives can be put in place and what bottlenecks can be removed.
The first of them is blue energy.
Offshore wind power is rapidly expanding in Europe, and projections are even more promising. With it come the technologies, grid connections and port facilities that will also enable electricity from waves, currents and tides to enter the marketplace and reduce our carbon emissions. This is important because, if the output of wind energy fluctuates, wave and tidal energy complement it nicely with a more predictable supply.
Many coastal areas have the right conditions for this technology and we need to go ahead not only for its potential to contribute to energy security and low-carbon emissions, but also for its export potential. We will propose next year what could be the most appropriate way for the EU to act.
The second industry is aquaculture.
The problem here is that global production is on the rise, but European production isn't. Given the increasing demand for quality seafood products everywhere, there is ample opportunity for growth here. There is competition for space between aquaculture and other sectors. I know how much time and effort a license to build or expand can take. I am convinced we need to improve the overall governance of space allocation to allow aquaculture farms to make a claim on some space.
Early next year, the Commission will propose Strategic Guidelines on Aquaculture. This should provide orientation both for public funding and facilitating growth in this area.
And we come to the third domain, which is blue biotechnology.
This has real potential. The ocean hosts some of the most diverse life forms on the planet; organisms which can withstand extreme pressures, extreme temperatures; and which can live without light. Will our increasing ability to explore the deep and to analyse genetic structure deliver new products for the food, health, cosmetics, industrial chemicals, bio-materials and biofuel industries? Will we find new drugs to help us beat cancer? By 2014, we aim to deliver a Communication outlining how the EU can help this emerging industry.
The fourth sector is seabed mining.
With commodity prices remaining high, we can't ignore the rich mineral deposits on the seabed. Europe has the technology. If there is going to be an expansion of the sector, we want to be part of it. And we need to make sure that it does not hurt the delicate deep-sea ecosystems. We have already proposed measures to protect these habitats from deep-sea fishing and must do the same for emerging activities. We want deep-sea mining, as long as it is sustainable.
Last but not least, maritime, coastal and cruise tourism.
In terms of employment it is the EU's largest maritime activity: over 2 million jobs that are the economic lifeline of coastal communities across Europe. Tourism also bears on coastal and marine ecosystems, and this means we need sustainable policies that ensure constant growth for the sector on one hand and protect our marine eco-systems and their rich biodiversity on the other. There is strong interest in this policy area because of its high growth potential: coastal and maritime tourism is expected to grow by 2 to 3 percent by 2020.
Last week, during European Tourism Day, I presented the results of the public consultation we held in view of a new communication next year. Our agenda will include new diversification strategies for SMEs, new strategies to improve the competitiveness of our coasts as against non-European destinations, and issue like transport connectivity and seasonality.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Making this happen requires the input of us all. We can use maritime policy as a vehicle to convey our individual efforts toward a common objective: embracing blue growth and creating new opportunities for prosperity. President Barroso will be here tomorrow to underline the importance that the Commission attaches to this.
Five years ago we started from scratch. We laid the foundations. Tomorrow we are signing the "Limassol Declaration" that gives new impetus to our prosperity project and renews our commitment to move on to the next phase of an effective maritime policy.
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Thousands of roses, gerberas and irises have yet to go on Glendale's Tournament of Roses Parade float, but for several weeks, hundreds of volunteers have been carefully applying dry materials such as spices, seeds and bark on the 35-foot-long craft.
The flowers won't go on until a few days before the annual parade in Pasadena, but before then there's still much to do, said Councilman Dave Weaver, who also organizes the float's decoration.
"There's a whole kit and caboodle that will have to go on," he said, adding that hundreds of students — from Glendale to Alhambra — have helped on the project so far.
Glendale's floats have had a tough run in recent years. Last year, the city didn't have enough money to pay the discounted $89,000 tab, and threatened to pull the float if private donors didn't pick up the slack. But after a $25,000 challenge grant from Rick Caruso, Americana at Brand developer, the money flowed in.
This year, Caruso and Glendale Adventist Medical Center put up most of the money for the roughly $100,000 float, which features the Americana at Brand trolley, the Alex Theatre and Glendale Adventist workers. In addition, film reels symbolizing Glendale's animation industry, which includes heavyweights such as Disney and DreamWorks. The float's theme is "Living the Good Life."
So far, volunteers have used blenders to chop up the dry materials and sifted them through window screens to get a fine powder to decorate the face of a doctor delivering a baby and the animation reels.
Several students selected by the city and the Americana at Brand are set to ride the float on New Year's Day. Councilman Ara Najarian had suggested the city invite Kim Kardashian to ride the float, but changed his mind after he discovered the reality TV star was set to appear at a Las Vegas nightclub on New Year's Eve.
Kardashian caused quite a stir this year when she mentioned on her sister's TV show, "Khloe and Lamar," that she wanted to run for mayor of Glendale in five years because it was "Armenian town." However, in Glendale, the mayor is not elected. Rather, a council member is appointed by colleagues to the mostly ceremonial post.
Weaver, who has the head of an eagle used on a float years ago in his backyard, said he thought this year's design was top-notch, but was unsure if it would win an award. He thought last year's circus elephant float was worthy, but it didn't get any honors.
That might have been caused by the controversy surrounding the float, Weaver said. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other animal advocates rallied against the float because they said it symbolized an industry historically known to mistreat animals.
If no awards are won this year, the city will shoot for one next year: its centennial, Weaver said.
"It's one of the few traditions we have left in this city," said Weaver.
Volunteers can still help decorate the float. For more information, visit glendalerosefloat2013.ivolunteer.com.
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An HIV/AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough? On CNN, Community Leaders Offer Perspective
By Kellee Terrell
July 12, 2010
Off the cusp of the exciting news that scientists have discovered two potent antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of HIV strains, CNN anchor Don Lemon interviewed Phill Wilson, CEO and founder of the Black AIDS Institute, and Sherri Lewis, HIV/AIDS activist and TheBody.com blogger, to discuss what this development means in terms of a possible HIV/AIDS vaccine.
Lewis, holding Dab the AIDS Bear in her lap, said that while this is great news, she was only cautiously optimistic: "I have been hearing this for a long time, so I was skeptical at first. But I did some of the reading that's been online and the fact that this is going across the board for 91 percent of the strains, which has been the real hurdle in finding an effective vaccine. It is very, very promising." She added: "I've always been every conservative about medicines and treatments, but 25 years later, I am glad that I have been cautious."
Wilson agreed with Lewis and told CNN anchor Don Lemon that this was fantastic news. But he admitted that there is much more work to do in terms of creating an actual, working vaccine: "This is the beginning. We are a long way away, but this is very exciting news as we move forward. Clearly, a vaccine is our next hope to ending the AIDS epidemic, and this gives us hope that we'll get there."
During the segment, Lemon brought up an interesting point: Given the stigma around HIV/AIDS, when a working vaccine is developed, will people actually want to get vaccinated? That question makes a lot of sense. There is a lot of stigma and silence around HIV in the U.S. in general. But then add the tumultuous relationship that communities of color (especially African Americans) have had with the medical community, and there could be a potential backlash against a vaccine.
Wilson responded by saying education and community involvement in clinical trials and research is crucial: "Certainly we need to do a lot of education, but one of the take home messages is that research is important, and we need to be involved in that research." He added: "The person who they first found this antibody is a black gay man, so that is further evidence of why we should be engaged. I think that is going to help the stigma."
The data from the study will be presented next week at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. TheBody.com's team will be on the ground in Vienna covering this and other major developments from the conference.
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Fermat's Little Theorem: If $p$ is a prime and $\gcd(a,p)=1$ then $a^{p-1} \equiv1\pmod p$.
Over the years, Fermat's Little Theorem have been generalized in several ways. I am aware of four different generalizations as given below.
1. Euler: If $\gcd(a,n)=1$ then $a^{\phi(n)} \equiv1 \pmod n$.
2. Ramachandra: $\sum_{d|n}\mu(d)a^{n/d} \equiv 0\pmod n$. (Fermat's Little Theorem follows when $n=p$ is a prime and has only two divisors 1 and $p$.
3. Let $d$ be a divisor of $\phi(n)$. There are exactly $d$ distinct positive integers $r_k, (k=1,2, \ldots d)$ such if $\gcd(x,n)=1$ then $x^{\phi(n)/d} \equiv r_k \pmod n$ for some $(k=1,2, \ldots d)$ (Euler's generalization itself is a special case of this result when $d=1$.)
4. Florentin Smarandache: $a^{\phi(n_s)+s} \equiv a^s \pmod n$ where $s$ and $n_s$ are defined in Smarandache's paper
I would like to know if there is any other generalization of Fermat's Little Theorem.


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George Bryan's college career might have ended with N.C. State's win against Louisville at the Belk Bowl last month, but that doesn't mean he's finished representing the Wolfpack on the football field. The All-ACC tight end will get one last opportunity to wear his State helmet when he plays in the East-West Shrine Game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Jan. 21. Bryan confirmed his selection to the game to the Star-News on Friday. … Read More »


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