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In some sentences, it is possible to replace a word with its opposite while keeping the meaning of the sentence the same, or almost the same. Here are some examples:
He slowed up./He slowed down.
The aircraft landed down in a valley./The aircraft landed up in a valley.
Our team was well beaten./Our team was badly beaten.
Our team was bested./Our team was worsted.
My boss spoke to me sharply./My boss spoke to me bluntly.
In the 1920s, jazz was hot./In the 1920s, jazz was cool.
He lost his temper./He lost his calmness.
The enemy is before us./The enemy is after us.
It's a paradise of an island./It's a hell of an island.
Can anyone think of other examples?
Substitution of opposites
Miscellaneous Other Topics.
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I once read a detective story that started with the hero talking about how he collected verbs that could mean their opposite. I don't remember any of them, but I do recall the one I came up with to add to the list:
Dust - dusting furniture v. dusting crops.
I don't remember the title of the book, either. It wasn't very good. "D'Estang's City," or something like that.
Dust - dusting furniture v. dusting crops.
I don't remember the title of the book, either. It wasn't very good. "D'Estang's City," or something like that.
It's something I looked up a long time ago, but here's what dictionary.com has to say:saparris wrote:Where on earth did you come across that! (ha)
1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point.
2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic.
3. Chiefly Law. not actual; theoretical; hypothetical.
–verb (used with object)
4. to present or introduce (any point, subject, project, etc.) for discussion.
5. to reduce or remove the practical significance of; make purely theoretical or academic.
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Xeon E5-2600 V2 Price List: Server Ivy Bridge-EPby Ian Cutress on 8/9/2013 5:10 PM EST
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dac7nco - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkJesus Christ. I wonder what the 4XXX v2 are going to run. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkGood question; OTOH the $3k 12core chip is powerful enough to replace a lot of 4 way servers with 2 way designs. It could just be Intel letting customers whose loads are dominated by CPU use not memory bandwidth step down to a significantly cooler 2 way server while protecting their profit margins. Reply
KurtToni - Monday, August 12, 2013 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $82h… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online. (Home more information)
http://goo.gl/0kfo2t Reply
f0d - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkhopefully they will release that 12 core cpu as some kind of desktop part eventually, i would love to have a 12 core to replace my 4 core 3820 - it would help me a lot with encoding movies on handbrake Reply
Zink - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkTechnically your motherboard will probably be updated to support most of these CPUs, but with no competition the prices will always be through the roof. Reply
Kevin G - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkThey won't. The 12 core chip is a different die than the 6 core version. That 12 core chip is just too large to sell at consumer prices and be profitable at levels Intel is comfortable with. At consumer level clocks ( >3.2 ghz ) it'll likely consume too much power too.
The only time Intel released a true server grade chip in the consumer space, the Gallatin based Pentium 4 Extreme editions was due to heavy competition from AMD with the Athlon 64. Intel still kept prices at $1000 USD. Reply
ZeDestructor - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkIf I had the money, I'd happily pay the 3k/CPU for a bunch of the 12-core part and use it to virtualize all my desktop crap... Hell, right now I'm starting to tinker with virtualization again (last time I did we were still at VMWare 5 or 6) thanks to Xilinx ISE flat out not working on Win8, and beyond my patince on linux... Reply
josmala - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkWell high end desktops use same socket as these Xeons, also there ECC supporting xeon workstation boards for these also. So in principle you could build an a desktop around these CPU models if you have the cash. But more likely you should get an 6 or 8 core single socket version. As for these having too low clock speed for desktop use I'd say its good enough, and turbo speeds should fix remaining clockspeed problems. Reply
ShieTar - Sunday, August 18, 2013 - linkTo my knowledge there are no 8 core single socket CPUs. The biggest one available not is the E5-1660, with the Ivy Bridge "v2" version being announced but unreleased.
But yeah, I don't think that a 12-core running at 2.7 GHz can even beat a same-generation 6-core overclocked around 4.6GHz to 4.8GHz when it comes to raw performance. The only point of this high-core-count CPUs is energy-efficiency with software which is known to scale well. Reply
sundevil260 - Monday, August 12, 2013 - linkMac Pro due for release in Q4 this year comes with 12 Core Xeon Processor. It supports hyper-threading and should give you 24 logical-cores/threads to play with. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkI am still waiting on the 8 core Intel promised 5 or 6 years ago for desktop. Reply
jameskatt - Friday, August 16, 2013 - linkI will get my Xeon E5-2697 V2 12-core Desktop soon. It will be called the MacPro 2013.
With Apple's ability to sell mass quantities, Apple will be able to get a huge discount on these processors. So I expect the price - including 7,000 worth of AMD GPU - to be less than 5,000. Reply
ImSpartacus - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkDat cache...
/chrisbrownface Reply
brshoemak - Friday, August 09, 2013 - link/richboyface not /chrisbrownface Regardless I LOL'd. Reply
nandnandnand - Friday, August 09, 2013 - link"hopefully they will release that 12 core cpu as some kind of desktop part eventually"
I think there is a cheaper 6-core Sandy Bridge-E coming, but nothing higher than that till 2014, and 8 cores at most. Reply
JDG1980 - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI'm wondering if there will be a successor to the E5-1650. That processor is basically an i7-3930k with the Xeon featureset (including ECC support) and even though it comes only in OEM tray form, it's available at around $580 - not much more than the consumer variant. A tempting choice for a pro-grade workstation if one CPU is enough (it doesn't support multi-processor configurations). Reply
madmilk - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkDo you happen to know if the E5-16xx series is unlocked/has BCLK straps? I wouldn't mind a slight overclock (setting all 6 cores to the maximum single core turbo frequency should be stable as long as heat is kept under control), but ECC is nice to have. Reply
Devilboy1313 - Friday, August 09, 2013 - link"vague rumours of a 15 core chip" 15? I would have expected it to be 16. Why X^2 -1? Reply
DanNeely - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkI'd guess the rumor was coupled with the 16 core die having too many yield problems to make a 16core version viable; forcing Intel to copy a tactic commonly used in the GPU industry and only sell parts with at least on module disabled. A 16core IVB would probably be close to the size of a GK110 die. Reply
MrSpadge - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkThey could push the 12-core chip up to 150 W and probably gain another ~200 MHz (2.9 GHz). At 15 cores they'd need to go down to 2.3 GHz without voltage scaling to stay within 150 W TDP, so let's assume the chip could run at 2.5 GHz with lowered voltage. That makes it at best (100% multicore scaling) ~8% faster than the maxed-out 12 core chip (2.5*15 / (2.9*12)). That's not enough to create a new huge die. Reply
Kevin G - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkThe 15 core chip is Ivy Bridge EX which will go into a different socket. The internal arrangement of cores is expected to be 5 x 3 which makes it native 15 core. Reply
iwod - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkI understand AMD isn't competitive. But why are they not releasing something that at least try to complete? At these price there are lot of margin to understand Intel even if it means AMD will earn relatively little. So earning a consumer desktop CPU margin on a Server grade product seems doable.
I wonder if OpenPOWER will disrupt Intel in server market. Reply
bobbozzo - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkAMD has had 16-core Opterons for quite awhile; I bought 2 for a 2-socket server (upgrading from 1 8-core Opteron, using the same server) recently, which will be running ESXi aka VSphere with 48GB of RAM (the server can go to at least 128GB).
Intel has nothing to compete with a 32-core 2-socket server.
Intel's IPC is higher, and in some cases power efficiency, but their prices are much higher too.
Opterons make great database servers too, and in some cases are great for HPC. Reply
Gondalf - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkThis was partially true with the 32nm line. Now we have 50% more cores and 50% more L3 at the same power consumption. Unfortunately in this situation Amd is not competitive in ALL kinds of server workloads, even in HPC and some (not all) database applications.
It's pretty certain Amd will lose its little residual market share in server...but this is not an Intel fault, it was an Amd choice to abandon this segment of cpu business, yes because it is !! Amd has chosen to do a game Soc instead of a 2014 refresh in 28nm of the Opetron line.
Frankly speaking i do not understand Amd execs, x86 cpus server market wlll grow up to 20B in 2016 from actual around 12B , this move has not a common sense. Selling cheap Socs for consoles do not gives much revenue and it is not a long term solution to consolidate a robust success in upcoming ten years.
As usual ...good for Intel........it will eat all the apple. Reply
duploxxx - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkwhile partially correct, it is the IT world itself which is killing AMD, if you would see how many tenders I work for demand Intel brand (mainly US and UAE regions) on top of that many older aging management IT who believe Intel is always the only possible brand for desktop - workstation-server. As if AMD is unstable, not performing etc... know your HW and it will work fine we used 1000s of AMD server since the opteron 1200 series. (the only issue at that time was the flaky Nvidia chipset) long gone those days.
The margins of pushing server opteron get real low for AMD with a share around 10%. On top of that Intel is still demanding to the OEM what to do and what to do not, no longer like the old days but they demand how they can use there platforms and give additional money to the OEM for "designing" additional Intel platforms.... so AMD needs to do the same with way less budget. So we end up in a IT world where the CPu provider is demanding what can be done and what not (even on consumers, ultrabook is a good example)
but don't worry for those who think Intel only is a good deal. look at the 2680 and 2690 series v2 now and you know what will come, way to high prices and they will never go down again, own fault. We will suffer in general. Consumer is the looser.
Today I am still happy to say that I can sell servers with 12-16core AMD cpu as a medio budget server for hypervisor. Even without calculating reductions on cpu which is way higher on an AMD then an Intel the AMD6380 will end up against
Xeon E5-2640 v2 8 2 GHz 20 MB 95 Watt $1013.54
i will pass for those HT cores on a hypervisor.... Reply
FwFred - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkHahaha... you're too funny. Want to check the 2-socket server market share? Think it's going to get better with Ivy? Reply
Tom Womack - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkAMD would like you to buy a four-socket AMD server if you want to compare with a two-socket Intel server; and it seems that the current $6000 Intel systems are no better in pure computrons than the AMD four-socket box I paid $6000 for two and a half years ago. Reply
Tom Womack - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkA four-socket 64-thread Magny Cours machine is still quite competitive with these machines, and not ludicrously expensive; the Opteron 6376 16-core 2.3GHz chip is $800 or so, so you can get four for the price of one 12-core Ivy Bridge, and the chassis with a four-socket motherboard is only about $500 more than the chassis with a two-socket Ivy Bridge board. Reply
Eidigean - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkHow much is the Mac Pro likely to cost if the 12-core processor alone costs $2675 ?
I wonder what kind of discount Intel is giving Apple... Reply
Kevin G - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkThere is likely going to be an E5-16xx v2 line too. That should be a bit cheaper. There is the chance that To get the right core/clock count that Apple will have to use an E5-26xx line chip. Reply
Hung_Low - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkI don't think Apple ever sells Mac Pros with high end Xeon chips. Pros in the past have all been low end "E" version equivalent Xeons. In this wave of Mac Pros, I'm guessing they will be shipping with Ivy Bridge-E equivalent Xeons. Reply
madmilk - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkApple is advertising 12 cores, and there's no way they have a dual socket setup in that trash can. Reply
madmilk - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkAlso, Mac Pros in the past had hex-core Westmere-EP chips, which were as high end as things got with Westmere, excluding the ridiculously expensive Nehalem/Westmere-EX series. Reply
Umbongo - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkApple sold the top chips in their 2006, 2007 and 2008 models. The new one has benchmarks in the wild using the E5-2697 V2. Reply
eanazag - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkI'm really disappointed in the pricing. I expect there to be procs in the $1000 plus range, but the $300 range is pathetic. I'd like to upgrade to something like this but at those prices I can't. I am not buying the featureless products in that range.
I would like to see a comparison with Sandy Bridge E in the low end. I wonder if there is any point in upgrading at all.
No competition sucks. Reply
zepi - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkhttp://ark.intel.com/products/series/61422
This is the current pricing. For me it seems that the new ones will be a better deal almost every time. Effectively Intel is competing with it's old processors. Not with AMD. Reply
Umbongo - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkThese are pre-order prices from some retailer not Intel's pricing. This retailer charges $250 more for the E5-2687W now and $300 for the E5-2690, they also have $3,000+ pricing on HP and Lenovo branded E5-2690s (same CPU). Reply
coder543 - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkHow about actually doing some tests under Linux for a change? This is the server market we're talking about. I don't want Windows anywhere near my servers. Reply
Hung_Low - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkIs there any benefit to using Xeon chips over Extreme version Core chips in non server based applications? I'm just a student that does a lot of gaming and video production.
I do know that Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge E are essentially just Xeon chips with manufacturing imperfection, then having parts of it disabled and marketed as i7. For my needs, does it worth it to dish out extra $100 to get the base model hexacore Xeon? Reply
madmilk - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkWell, you get ECC, which is nice to have for any serious work to prevent data corruption. The Xeon you want is not going to cost $100 more than the equivalent i7 though. These are all dual-socket Xeons and are priced accordingly; it sounds like you should wait for the single-socket versions. Reply
vondur - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkI guess this is what happens when you get a monopoly on CPU's... Reply
shiznit - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkPeople complaining about price need to look at the average cost of a 2p server or blade and then measure the value of the improvements. I am putting off our next UCS expansion until these are available, 12 core model is no-brainer for a vmware farm. Reply
Laststop311 - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkIf i was getting a xeon I would choose the Xeon E5-2687W v2. Since these are not multiplier unlocked the 3.4ghz clock is more important to me than a couple more cores. Out of all the 8,10, and 12 core models the Xeon E5-2687W v2 will have the best single threaded performance and is only 100 mhz slower than the highest clocked 4 and 6 core chips. It seems to be the sweet spot for single and multi threaded workloads.
Best price to performance ratio i would give to Xeon E5-2643 v2 the 3.5ghz hex core with 25MB cache which is the same amount of cache as some 8 and 10 core models. Should be about 1200 dollars and will have the best single threaded performance of all chips. All the cheaper chips take 1 ghz drops or more and 10MB or more hit to the cache with the exception of the 3.5ghz quad core which is almost the same price. And the pricier chips are MUCH MUCH more costly and are clocked a good bit slower but they have more cores, not worth the 1000 dollar premium though. Reply
DG4RiA - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkAre we sure that the E5-2643 v2 is going to be hex-core with 25MB cache ? Shouldn't it be 15MB cache ? I'm not entirely sure about that model info, seems incorrect. If the info is correct and cost around $1200, I'll probably pick two of those for 12 cores @3.5 GHz workstation. But my feeling is that E5-2643 v2 is going to cost somewhere in $1500+ region.
If you look at E5-2687W v2 to its v1 counterpart, you have to pay an extra $500+ for a small 300MHz increase and whatever small percentage of performance improvement going from Sandy to Ivy.
I'll most likely go with dual E5-2630v2. But really like the dual E5-2643v2 .
Anyone know the release date of these chip ? Is the E5-2643v2 releasing at the same time or later date ? Reply
Ytterbium - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkI think the 2643 will be a dual capable version of the i7-4960X basically? Reply
Carl Bicknell - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkActually it's worse than that with the E5-2687W v1 compared to the new v2 version.
The E5-2687W runs at 3.1 GHz but reaches 3.4 GHz on turbo with all cores running under load (I have this CPU and have tested it)
The new E5-2687W v2 CPU runs at 3.4 GHz and reaches 3.6 GHz on all cores under load (I know some people who have early samples)
So I'm afraid going from E5-2687W to the new v2 version only gives an extra 200 MHz
:( Reply
MDenny - Sunday, August 11, 2013 - linkReally disappointed that the 2687W isn't going to be at least 10-core (as it was reported on some other sites). I need all the multithreaded performance I can get out of a 2-socket system, but 6k for 48 threads at 2.7-2.9 ghz just doesn't sound that much better than 4.8K for 32 threads at 3.6 ghz. I wish they just had a ~3.3ghz base clock 10 core. Reply
colonelclaw - Monday, August 12, 2013 - linkMaybe I'm being overly cynical, but Intel seems to be in full "milk the market" mode at the moment, long gone are the days that a generational increase in the number of cores came at the same price point. Prices just keep going up and up. Here's hoping for a miracle that AMD can get back in the fight. Reply
tech.kyle - Monday, August 12, 2013 - linkNice to see I'm not the only person who likes CPU-World. Reply
toyotabedzrock - Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - linkReally what's the point? They are making 22nm chips they should have just accelerated the haswell rollout for xenon. It seems pointless to buy these considering some of haswells tsx features and how much servers might benefit from it. Reply
mganai - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkThe 15 cores will be part of Ivy Bridge-EX, which is due either Q4 of this year or Q1 '14. Reply
NCM - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkPoignant means evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret. This sentence makes no sense:
"...the business aspect of these processors along the Xeon brand is arguably the more poignant and certainly the more profitable aspect of the business." Reply

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Ya just gotta love it. I have been studying Spanish lately and came across this word in a book (English) that I was reading and recalled that conocer is the infinitive in Spanish for "to know, as in to be acquainted with". Naturally, the suspect language of origin is.....ta,ta...Latin, where my dictionary reveals it means "to learn, understand, inquire". Just a guess, but I imagine the root goes way back to PIE and is also responsible for our word "know".
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Re: cognoscenti
Don't forget to toss in the fact that cognoscenti actually comes from Italian.
Another one that most people mispronounce, too. It's -shen-, but most say -cen-, while pronouncing the "g", too.
Another one that most people mispronounce, too. It's -shen-, but most say -cen-, while pronouncing the "g", too.
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Re: cognoscenti
Shipley devotes four pages in "The Origins of English Words" to a PIE root "gn" or perhaps "gen". Amongst Shipley's typical clutter, one might understand "know" and "cognition" to come from the same root as your Spanish word "conocer" and Slava's Itallian offering "cognoscenti".
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LA PORTE, Texas - Police said residents in La Porte helped put a stop to a spike in crime in their neighborhoods.
In the middle of the night, Danielle Green had an uneasy feeling that someone uninvited was outside her Brook Glen home. She says her dogs started barking, but after she took several glances out the window she saw nothing.
"I felt really scared knowing that the time I was looking out the window he was probably sitting in my vehicle," she said. "And I didn't see him because it was so dark outside."
An hour later, a knock at her door from La Porte police confirmed her suspicion. Investigators said Ivory Whitfield broke into Green's car and at least three others that night. Green may not have seen him, but several watchful neighbors did.
"When I saw him with the flashlight he was probably about three houses down the street shining the lights into the cars," said resident Nikki Newman.
Newman said she later called police.
"I did give them a pretty good description, even the color of his clothes," she said. "I could see that because he walked under the street lamp."
Another neighbor, who didn't want to be identified, also called police. Police said a tip from another La Porte resident led officers to Taylor Ellard, who they said had been targeting another subdivision. Officers said Ellard was advertising items he stole in eight Glen Meadows neighborhood car break-ins.
In the Lomax subdivision, police said a resident saw three men, Raul Martinez, Julio Chapa and Julio Martinez, stealing tires off his neighbor's truck. A call to police, and the trio were quickly arrested as they were taking the last tire. Investigators said the group was linked to three other felony thefts.
For many victims, the captures have proven the power of neighbors who dare to keep a watchful eye and speak up.
"I really think that us all sticking together and looking out for each other is awesome," said Green.
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On Wednesday night I cut up a rack of back ribs into 4 sections and gave them a good shot of Weber's seasoned salt before putting the in the fridge to rest overnight.
I decided to try grilling them direct instead of the more common indirect and smoking methods, so I started by searing the meat side for about 5 minutes.
This is what they looked like after about 40 minutes bones-down. I was using up old charcoal and didn't add any smoke wood, although there were a couple of charred apple chunks in the mix.
I glazed 2 sections with Steven's chipotle molasses sauce and 2 with Jack's Carolina Style mustard sauce, and let them go another 10-15 minutes.
The smoke ring really caught me by surprise as I didn't expect to get one. With the sauce the ribs reminded me of the direct-grilled pork chops my dad made years ago, right down to the bits of carbonized sauce.
They were a nice change of pace and took only about 90 minutes from lighting the charcoal to taking the first bite - good time for a Thursday night!


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The Akron Zoo opened a new exhibit Saturday called "Journey to the Reef" featuring a giant Pacific octopus as the headliner.
The Akron Beacon Journal (http://bit.ly/Lv0tzn ) reports that the exhibit offers an undersea type experience, with a darkened area and the illusion of being below the surface.
The exhibit has 17 aquariums filled with reef animals, a live coral display and a pool with stingrays waiting to be touched.
A tank of the "moon" variety of jellyfish has been fitted with buttons that allow visitors to change the colors of the transparent creatures.
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An estimated 31,000 rural homes in Herefordshire and Worcestershire have seen the drop in price with a typical three-bedroom house seeing a five per cent reduction throughout the past three years whereas bills equivalent homes using gas have gone up 14 per cent and those using electricity have gone up 17 per cent.
Malcolm Farrow, from OFTEC, the oil heating trade body, said the figures released by the company shows the prices for this type of fuel were more steady than those of its competitors.
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The price difference between gas, traditionally the cheaper option, and oil has narrowed as now oil is just over 12 per cent more expensive, based on using a condensing boiler, which can reduce running costs.
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They have taken in six white leghorn chickens, which had previously been intensively farmed, to live free range at the school's new farm unit.
The hens will live alongside pigs, polytunnels, ponds, fruit cages, raised beds and an outdoor classroom used for Sixth Form land based studies and science lessons for all ages.
Eggs from the highly productive breed will be used within the academy for baking, cooking and science lessons as well as for specialist link-up activities within local primary schools.
English teacher Matthew Naum, who has been involved in the farm project, said: "The hens previously lived in the cramped confines of a barn to produce eggs on an industrial scale. Now, they have a free range lifestyle.
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The Center for Applied Nutrition helps empower individuals to make healthy food choices so that they can enjoy the highest quality of life. The Center for Applied Nutrition specializes in dietary interventions for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, cancer, obesity, and gastrointestinal diseases. Through studies, individual counseling, or classes, we teach individuals successful ways to make healthy dietary changes into long-term lifestyle changes to prevent and treat chronic diseases and conditions. The Center also has the capacity to conduct nutritional analyses with a cadre of trained dietitian callers. The Center is directed by Ms. Barbara Olendzki.
The Health Statistics and Geography Lab, directed by Dr. Wenjun Li, specializes in analyzing neighborhood environment and public policy impact on health behaviors and outcomes, such as smoking, obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, fruit and vegetable consumption, accidental falls and traumatic injuries. This Lab develops instruments for objectively assessing community walking and nutrition environment; provides methodological support to multiple local and national projects; and is contracted with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to assist the design, implementation and evaluation of large statewide public health intervention projects.
Our Research Center for Behavior and Community Health Solutions is interdisciplinary and includes health psychologists, epidemiologists, dietitians, health educators, biostatisticians and physicians. We conduct clinical trials of behavioral interventions and observational research in the areas of community health and health disparities, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Our interventions seek to enhance change and long-term adherence in the areas of healthy eating, physical activity, smoking cessation, cancer screening, and physical and mental health care utilization, among other. We develop novel approaches for translating evidence-based behavioral interventions in ways that are culturally, literacy and linguistically appropriate. To this end, we have developed narrative-based tools (i.e., stories, novellas with guided group discussions), picture-based materials, and hands-on skill building methods that facilitate and promote adherence to health behavior change. Our work builds from participatory collaborations with community partners, including community health centers throughout Massachusetts, local and State Departments of Public Health, and a variety of community-based organizations. Our research portfolio is largely federally funded and our clinical trials assess the impact of our interventions in "real world" settings. The center's director, Dr. Milagros C. Rosal, and other faculty serve as consultants to local stakeholders and to local, national and international initiatives.
UMass Center for mHealth and Social Media is a cross-campus initiative funded by the UMass President's Office and devoted to mHealth research and development. Co-founded by Dr. Sherry Pagoto, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Medical School, and Dr. Deepak Ganesan, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Center represents experts in mobile technology, biosensing, health informatics, behavioral science, public health, and medicine. The mission of the Center is to develop mHealth solutions that help to prevent and treat chronic disease, to establish an evidence base for mHealth interventions, and to facilitate the uptake of mHealth technologies in the healthcare setting.
UMass Center for Health Equity Intervention Research is a partnership between UMass Worcester and UMass Boston. The goal is to develop innovative solutions to eliminate health disparities and equip the next generation of researchers to better serve vulnerable populations. Central to CHEIR's work is the use of storytelling as a tool to build research literacy and promote racial and ethnic health equity. They seek to develop culturally-responsive and literacy sensitive interventions in partnership with the populations affected by the disparities and the community-based organizations that serve them.


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Ross ecstatic D-backs came calling for deal
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cody Ross was heading to dinner with the Rangers' brass in Dallas in December when his wife showed him a text message from his agent.
The message said the D-backs were very interested in him and wanted to make an offer.
For Ross, who lives not far from the team's Spring Training complex in Scottsdale, it was welcome news indeed.
"My smile was ear to ear," Ross said. "It was crazy how it all unfolded and how quickly it happened. It couldn't have happened any better."
Ross played for the Red Sox last year and had a slash line of .267/.326/.481.
"I was always a big Cody Ross fan," Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said. "To be honest, I would say, at one point we were joking in a meeting in baseball that I should wear a Cody Ross jersey to the next meeting because I was so eager to see us reach out to him. And I do have a great fondness for him and a lot of respect for him. I'm not surprised that an old general manager that I worked with, Kevin Towers, talked him into playing out there."
Ross is expected to start for the D-backs in right field, but manager Kirk Gibson maintains that the battle for playing time in the outfield is wide open at this point.


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Physical Activity for Children and Teens
How Exercise Helps Children and Teens
Children benefit from exercise and fitness as much as adults do. Experts recommend that teens and children (starting at age 6) do moderate to vigorous activity at least 1 hour every day.1 And 3 or more days a week, what they choose to do should:
It's okay for them to be active in smaller blocks of time that add up to 1 hour or more each day.
Three Types of Fitness for Children
It's important for children and teens to take part in all three types of fitness: flexibility, aerobic fitness, and muscle strengthening.
1. Flexibility
Show your children how to stretch their muscles. Let them do stretching exercises along with you. Gently correct their form when needed so that they learn good habits and understand that there is a way to do stretches that makes them most effective.
2. Aerobic exercise
Children often get aerobic activity without realizing it. Playing tag, having a squirt-gun fight, or playing catch with friends all provide aerobic exercise. Going for hikes and walking to the store also provide aerobic activity. Many schools and communities have programs for soccer, T-ball, and other activities. These are great ways for your children to get aerobic exercise and meet new friends.
3. Muscle strengthening
Bicycling, swimming, climbing, and helping in the yard or garden are just a few examples of activities that strengthen muscles.
Many children show an interest in weights. When properly supervised, weight training for children is safe and can be helpful in preparing them for sports and starting good lifetime fitness habits. Talk to your child's doctor before your child starts a weight-training program.2 This type of exercise is not right for every child.
When children work with weights:
For more information, see the topic Fitness: Getting and Staying Active.
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The fight to scrap the carbon tax drags on, with a number of amendments by key crossbench senators threatening to delay an outcome even further.
The Abbott government is determined for the repeal legislation to pass the Senate as quickly as possible, but the debate on Tuesday ended without a vote.
A day after being sworn in, Palmer United Palmer senators Glenn Lazarus and Jacqui Lambie used their first speeches in the upper house to back the repeal of Labor's climate tax scheme.
Both argued it was an impost on households and businesses, and repealing it would help struggling families with their day-to-day costs.
The three PUP senators and the Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party's Ricky Muir will deliver the government four of the six crucial votes it needs for the repeal package to clear the Senate.
Family First's Bob Day and Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm - also newly sworn-in senators - will round out the numbers the government needs.
But Senator Muir has thrown the government a curve ball by seeking to amend the repeal package to block a provision that cuts $435 million from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
The agency has been flagged for abolition by the government, but Senator Muir would only require the support of three PUP senators to save it from the chopping block.
Labor and the Australian Greens also oppose scrapping ARENA, with the latter moving a virtually identical amendment to that of Senator Muir.
PUP will also move amendments as expected to ensure carbon tax savings are passed on, and that an emissions trading scheme is ready to go should Australia's trading partners adopt similar action.
The government was able to bring forward debate on the repeal package a week early with the support of PUP senators, but there is still some way to go.
Debate will continue on Wednesday, and a vote to repeal the carbon tax is expected this week.