2 motorcyclists hurt during group ride on I-70

Two motorcyclists were hurt along Interstate 70 early this evening in a crash on the way back from a memorial ride in Columbus.

Three motorcycles went down in the westbound lanes when one rider apparently lost control when traffic slowed down at mile marker 51 near Old Mill Road, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.

The group of 12 motorcycle riders were all wearing helmets, and two people stopped to help, according to troopers.

Two riders, whose names were not released, were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the highway patrol.

Traffic was temporarily shut down, and at one point was backed up a couple miles to U.S. 68.

The motorcycles involved in the crash were damaged, but not totaled.

2 motorcyclists hurt during group ride on I-70

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FT4 Heart Rate Monitor

The FT4 heart rate monitor helps you exercise smarter with its easy-to-use heart rate based features. Perfect for active exercisers who want to track their intensity and calories burned during any activity. Please refer the User Manual for more information.

Exercise Guidance

Continuously displays your real-time heart rate during exercise. With this information you can gauge your intensity and stay within your target zone to maximize your workout. It’s like a personal trainer on your wrist telling you when to slow down or speed up.

Accurate Calorie Burn

Tracks your intensity and calories burned during any activity, even playing with children and swimming.

Stay Motivated and Reach Your Fitness Goals

Removes the guess work from your workout. After each workout, the FT4 will display a training summary with your average and max heart rate and calories burned. In addition, it keeps track of your last ten workouts so you can see your fitness improvements and stay motivated to reach your goals.

Key Features

• Continuous, accurate heart rate

• Average and maximum heart rate of training

• Automatic age-based target zone – bpm / %

• Smart Calorie feature uses your personal data to provide accurate calories burned

• Includes heart rate chest strap made of soft fabric material that adapts to your body shape. Requires and includes chest strap for accurate heart rate

• 10 training files (with summaries and totals)

• Backlight

• User replaceable battery and water resistant (30m)

• Suitable for swimming

• Connects with compatible gym equipment using GymLink (5kHz coded transmission)

• Time of day (12/24h) with alarm and snooze

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FT4 heart rate monitor

H1 heart rate sensor

FT4 Getting Started Guide

Easy to Use

1) Enter basic settings

2) Thoroughly moisten the H1 heart rate chest strap with water, snap on the transmitter and wrap around your chest

3) Start your workout. * Tip: it is best to stand away from others when starting the heart rate monitor.

4) To extend the battery life of your H1 chest strap transmitter be sure to detach the sensor from the chest strap and rinse after each use

H1 Heart Rate Chest Strap Sensor

Includes the comfortable H1 heart rate chest strap. The chest strap sensor (also called transmitter) streams continuous, accurate heart rate to the FT4 wrist unit.

• Soft fabric materials adapt to your body shape so you forget it’s even on

• Convenient side hook mechanism makes it quick to put on when you want to start training and easy to take off when you’re finished

• Coded heart rate transmission to avoid cross-talk with other heart rate monitors

• Bring it to the gym. Its 5kHz coded transmission will show your heart rate on compatible gym equipment

• Hand washable

• User-replaceable battery

• Strap material: 38% Polyamide, 29% Polyurethane, 20% Elastane, 13% Polyester

*Tip: after each workout, detach H1 transmitter, rinse the strap with water and hang dry.

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Polar invented the world’s first heart rate monitor and pioneered the Smart Coaching training approach that delivers faster progress and better results. Each Polar product includes unique Smart Coaching features that listen to your heart and interpret the data for you so you can train smarter.

 

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When you train, you don’t always have to go faster or harder to get the best results. To reach your goals you just need to listen to your heart rate and train at the right intensity.

During training, there are specific intensity zones, each with a benefit. These zones are based on a percentage of your maximum heart rate- a number calculated by most Polar heart rate monitors. While training you can use your max heart rate to calculate and follow the recommended zones below. Training in the right zone will help you stay on track to reach your goals.

Zone 1 “Very Light” 50-60%: Improves overall health and helps recovery. Recommended for weight management and active recovery.

Zone 2 “Light” 60-70%: Improves basic endurance and fat burning. Recommended for everybody for longer and frequently repeated short exercises.

Zone 3 “Moderate” 70-80%: Improves aerobic fitness. Recommended for everybody for moderately long exercises.

Zone 4 “Hard” 80-90%: Increases maximum performance capacity. Recommended for everybody for shorter exercises.

Zone 5 “Maximum” 90-100%: Develops maximum performance and speed. Recommended for fit people and athletic training.

(Calculate your Maximum Heart Rate: 220 – Your Age= Maximum Heart Rate.)

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	FT4	FT7	FT60
Watch Functionality	Yes	Yes	Yes
Continuous Heart Rate – BPM / %	Yes	Yes	Yes
Water Resistant (will work in the water)	Yes	Yes	Yes
High & Low Target HR Zone w/ Alarm	Yes	Yes	Yes
OwnZone – personal heart rate zone			Yes
EnergyPointer		Yes
Fat Burn %		Yes	Yes
Calories Burned	Yes	Yes	Yes
Training Files	10	99	100
Downloads to polarpersonaltrainer.com		Yes (w/Flowlink) sold separately	Yes (w/Flowlink) sold separately
Fitness Test			Yes
STAR Training Program			Yes

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Please refer to Getting Started Guide prior to first use.

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Ducati Monster 821 Motorcycle

Ducati has added another bike to their Monster line- the Ducati Monster 821.

The new Monster 821 not only looks incredible, it performs incredibly as well. Combine the bike’s light weight, at under 400 pounds, and its 821cc twin-cylinder Testrastretta 11° engine that produces 112 hp and roughly 66 lb-ft of torque, and you get a recipe for one of the most thrilling rides on two wheels.

(See also: The BMW Concept Roadster Motorcycle)

Ducati is offering the new Monster 821 in two versions with three different colors. The first is the standard Monster 821 available in Red and Star White, and the second is the Monster 821 Dark, which is finished in Black with the Dark Stealth livery.

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Have a Motorcycle Vacation

Are you a traveler? Do you have the spirit of a wanderer? If so, then the most popular new trend in trip trip, a motorbike trip, could hit the spot for you. Whatever countryside you enjoy, and whatever bike you ride, a motorcycle vacation guarantees terrific enjoyable and enjoyment.

Imagine a past aficionado that uses a motorbike to discover old Civil War battlefields. Wilson’s Creek in southwest Missouri, Green Ridge in Northwest Arkansas, and the site of the battle of West Port near the Plaza in modern day Kansas City are all effortlessly obtainable by bike. Or, if checking out the west is more your point, take a trek out west, beginning in Sedalia, the scene of the very first documented cattle drive in past. Then on your bike map the other livestocks communities of the old west like Wichita, Parsons and Dodge City in Kansas. Then keep heading west to Colorado the mile high state and visit Estes Park. Go a little south and visit Colorado Springs, park your bike for a day and take a tour of the Air Force Academy and consider the grounds of Cheyenne Hill, residence of Norad.

Still yearning for additional western journey, then you could cycling your bike to New Mexico and browse through Lincoln Region where Billy the Youngster and his Regulatory authorities raised a hubbub in the 1880′s. New Mexico has terrific camping in the mountains near Cloudcroft, so make certain to seize the day to visit and if you feel up to it, rest under the superstars, with your trusty motorcycle near you, like a cowboy’s steed.

While in New Mexico the Apache booking at Riodosa provides a chance to attempt your good luck at fruit machine and the wheel of fortune. Then a check out to a great Mexican restaurant and on to the community of Roswell, website of the 1947 UFO collision that some folks share made past. When you reach Roswell you could either take your bike to a campground, or park it at a wonderful moderately priced motor hotel to make sure that you could invest time in the UFO Museum and Proving ground on Key Road. While there you could go to with some witnesses to the crash and hear some remarkable tales, and take a side trip out to the cattle ranch beyond town where particles was found, and some say tiny alien bodies were recuperated. When you have actually seen all the UFO sites you seem like seeing, you could check out the Robert Goddard Museum beside the Town’s convention center. Goddard is the dad of modern rocket science. He executed many of his experiments in the desert near Roswell and the gallery is wonderful fun. When you get performed in Roswell, then hop on the bike and go to Albuquerque near Holloman Flying force Base, and then on down to White Sands rocket test ground. New Mexico contains intriguing sites. If you head up north, make sure to his Santa Fe and value the Indigenous American arts and crafts on display.

Next quit on your bike trip should be Las Vegas, Nevada. The most amazing town in the world is merely a hop, miss and bike trip away. Here’s a chance to truly wager, or if you don’t like to wager, then just stop in at one of the gambling enterprises to try a quite low priced, tasty buffet. It looks like all the casino sites have great buffets and attempt to outdo each other. You’ll enjoy them all. Keep in mind as well that this is a town created home entertainment. Try one of the shows on the strip, or a comedy club or magic act.

Now, after visiting Las Vegas, it could be time to go on to the one area that no motorbike getaway could be complete without visiting, Sturgis. The community of Sturgis, North Dakota is famous among those which use motorcycles, and the town people know the best ways to make a biker welcome. Drop in for a root draft beer and purchase a T-shirt as a souvenir of your travel. You’ll be glad you did, and you’ll remember your bike vacation for years ahead. Get on your big, be it hog or Honda, and take pleasure in the trip.

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US sales buoyed by pick-ups and SUVs

Last month sales exceeded even the boldest analyst expectations, signaling a wide recovery across the automotive industry, and the boost came from the usual suspects – the light-duty truck and utility vehicles.

Although plagued by the recalls – which so far have reached in the US alone 14 million cars – and the ensuing scandal stemming from the late recall of 2.6 million cars equipped with defective ignition switches – General Motors was among the main beneficiary of the trend – with great sales for its the Cadillac Escalade, GMC Yukon, Chevrolet Silverado and Chevrolet Suburban models.

The same trend followed for the Chrysler Group for example – which lost 27% of its passenger car sales but had massive gains from the Jeep and Ram brands. Also, Ford had great sales of the Ford Explorer and Toyota reported rising deliveries for its new Highlander.

“Explorer continued to gain ground in the midsize utility segment with its best monthly sales performance in nearly 10 years, while Lincoln MKZ saw its best May ever,” said John Felice, Ford vice president, U.S. Marketing, Sales and Service.

General Motors, which reported sales gaining 13% over last year’s May saw most of the increases coming from many of its new introductions in the utility segment – many of them released during the harsh winter.

by Aurel Niculescu (my Google+) – Thursday, June 5th, 2014 – filed under Industry, News, Sales Reports. Image credit: .

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Men's Health Tips: Top 5 Best Ways to Protect Your Package

I’m not a man, so I can’t say for sure, but most men that I polled on this issue said they don’t feel very comfortable talking to their friends (male or female) about the health of their private parts. Many women, on the other hand, do feel comfortable discussing their nether regions with their girlfriends.

It is not a generalization that men put off preventative care more than women. That is a fact, according to numerous studies and research. So since men don’t feel comfortable talking penis health with their friends or their doctors, here’s to guessing that they do turn to the good old Internet for some health advice. I talked to the award-winning Cleveland Clinic for some men’s health tips; they gave us the everyday ways that men can improve their health and reduce their risk of health problems ‘down there’.

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5 Ways to Protect Your Package

1. You should be touching it regularly.

No, not that way. We’re talking about self-exams. If you’re under the age of 35, you’re at high risk for testicular cancer. Do a self-exam at home and make sure you get a yearly checkup from your physician. Look for any lumps, bumps, or any changes in your testicles.

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2. Kick the butt habit.

Yeah, yeah. We know you only smoke when you drink, but smoking cigarettes contributes to the development of kidney and bladder cancers.

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3. Get to know your member well.

I’m sure you already feel close to it, but take a closer look. Any new warts, blisters, or spots could be cancer or an STD. Check regularly and go to your doctor immediately if you see anything unusual.

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4. Communicate with your sexual partners.

HPV, an STD that is the main culprit for cervical cancer in women, could also lead to penile cancer. According to the CDC: “HPV is so common that most sexually-active men and women will get at least one type of HPV at some point in their lives.”

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5. Keep an eye on bathroom habits.

Are you going and going and going? Frequent trips to the bathroom at night could indicate an enlarged prostate or bladder cancer.

If you have a health question, the Cleveland Clinic offers a free live text chat with health educators here, Monday – Friday, from 10AM – 1:30PM EST.

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A new Scandinavian study found that a low calorie diet plus an intense exercise plan can reduce body fat in just four days.

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Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Top 10 Facts about Inflammation and Weight Loss

Chronic inflammation leads to weight gain, disease, and cancer.

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Google's gender gap: Is technology still a man's world?

With the proportion of women getting computer-related degrees falling to its lowest point in almost 40 years – why is it that men vastly outnumber women in the US IT/tech industry?

This week Google revealed that more than four fifths of its tech workforce in America are men – a situation it described as “miles from where it wants to be”.

Yet the gender balance within Google broadly reflects that within the wider IT workforce in the US.

Since 2005 women have consistently occupied just over one quarter of software developers, network administrators, and other computer-oriented roles in the US. During that period, however, the proportion of women carrying out these jobs has fallen very slightly from 27 percent to just over 26 percent, according to figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Current Population Survey (CPS).

Gender split in computer and mathematical occupations in 2013 according to US BLS CPS.

Gender split across various IT-related professions in 2013 according to US BLS CSP.

The small proportion of female workers in IT-focused roles isn’t a reflection of the make-up of the “professional” workforce as a whole, according to the BLS CPS, which showed women accounting for 43 percent of “professional and related” occupations in 2013.

The decreasing share of women in the US IT workforce is mirrored by a decline in the number of women getting Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Sciences and Information Sciences: between 2005 and 2011, numbers of female graduates in those disciplines fell by 9.3 percent to just over 43,000.

The number of women receiving Bachelor’s degrees in these subjects began rising from 2009. But due to a larger increase in the number of male students graduating in the subject the proportion of women receiving the qualifications dropped to its lowest point in almost 40 years in 2011. That year, women accounted for 17.6 percent of graduates.

Figures from US universities gathered by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The question of why so few women pursue an IT-related career relative to other professions has been tackled by many academic studies.

An analysis of these studies by the American Association of University Women suggests that girls are put off pursuing careers in subjects linked to maths and science early in their education.

“Unfortunately, the ancient and erroneous belief that boys are better equipped to tackle scientific and mathematical problems persists in many circles today, despite the tremendous progress that girls have made in science and math in recent decades,” the report says.

“Research shows that negative stereotypes about girls’ suitability for mathematical and scientific work are harmful in measurable ways. Even a subtle reference to gender stereotypes has been shown to adversely affect girls’ math test performance. Stereotypes also influence girls’ self-assessments in math, which influence their interest in pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers.”

Although there are findings of boys outscoring girls in tasks requiring spatial skills, (Linn & Petersen, 1985; Voyer et al., 1995), which the AWWU says may “may deter girls from pursuing math or science courses or careers”, the AWWU analysis points out these skills can be improved through education.

Women that do pursue a career in a science or technology-related field may go on to encounter various forms of bias, research has found. For example a 2007 study Why are women penalized for success at male tasks? The implied communality deficit by Heilman and Okimoto found women may be disliked for being competent in what were perceived to be traditionally male work roles. The AWWU report suggests this may explain why women working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) roles leave at higher rates than their male peers.

There is also anecdotal evidence of sexist behaviour within the tech industry, which may or may not reflect wider practices, but which is unlikely to attract women to enter the industry. Recent reports range from the presentation of an app called Titstare at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last year to the recent #1reasonwhy hashag on Twitter detailing female games developers’ experience of discrimination.

Various initiatives have started up in recent years aimed at encouraging more girls and women to learn about computing, such as Ada Developers Academy and Black Girls Code. For its part, Google says it has given more than $40 million to organizations working to bring computer science education to women and girls.

But Google wants to employ more women, and Laszlo Bock, senior VP of people operations at Google, hopes that transparency on its gender balance will be “a really important part of the solution”.

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Places to Meet Women to Date

Meeting women that you would actually would like to date and, maybe ultimately, bring home to satisfy mother and dad, isn’t really as difficult as it appears. There is, obviously, the songs scene out in the bars and clubs all over town yet I do not suggest that one. It’s not that just bad gals go to bars; it’s that it is difficult to tell the good ones from the bad one.

You satisfy women at the office, as well, however, there once again, I don’t suggest dating them. The trouble with that said is that, if points don’t exercise, you will certainly still have to work together and the scenario can be unpleasant to state the least.

Your pals know ladies that you have not complied with – sisters, cousins, etc. Inquire to introduce you to them. Yet, big brother, do stay clear of blind dates. Those things hardly ever exercise and you could invest a great deal of money for a very uneasy evening.

The very best areas to meet women that you might actually want to day go to clubs and organizations that you belong to. You will currently have something in common with them and will certainly have had the possibility to see them communicate with other individuals and that informs you a great deal about an individual. If you aren’t already entailed with any kind of clubs or companies the, for heaven purposes, join some. Find ones that are all about something you are interested in. There are clubs and organizations that cover almost anything you can think about from astronomy to zoology and single women are involved in all of them.

Church is an excellent location to fulfill women. If there aren’t any single women in the church you visit now, check out other religions until you discover one where there are single women. The church itself will certainly give you with a possibility to obtain to recognize the female prior to you ask her for a date. You will certainly be a lot much more comfortable and so will certainly she.

Get included in civic organizations. Females enjoy guys which are civic minded. They admire men who are willing to “give back”. And just what concerning political campaigns? You will fulfill a great deal of young women who are passionate regarding politics.

If all else falls short, sign up with a good online dating service. You will certainly meet a bunch of qualified women. You could review their profiles and view pictures of them. After you learn more about one well enough to raise her for an in person meeting, be sure that you plan the meeting throughout daytime hrs and in a public location.

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More Chemo Helps Prostate Patients Live Longer

Adding a cheap, older chemotherapy drug to the treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer can help them live longer without making them significantly sicker, researchers reported on Sunday.

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New research shows adding chemotherapy to hormone-based treatment in men with advanced prostate cancer can help them live longer.

It’s a surprising reversal of the latest common wisdom, which is that less treatment is often better for cancer patients.

The extra upfront treatment improved survival by 39 percent in the men in the study, whose prostate cancer had spread to their bones or elsewhere – patients who often have little hope.

“This is one of the biggest improvements in survival we have seen in patients with adult solid metastatic tumors,” said Dr. Christopher Sweeney of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, who helped lead the study.

A common treatment for men whose prostate cancer has spread is called androgen suppression or chemical castration – drugs are used to cut production of testosterone, which feeds the tumor. Sometimes the cancer keeps growing, anyway, and the question has been when to add more chemotherapy.

Doctors are reluctant to do too much too soon, because chemo can be toxic. “Do you throw everything at the patient in the beginning or do you wait?” asked Dr. Clifford Hudis, president of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, which highlighted the findings at its annual meeting.

Sweeney’s government-funded team studied 790 men who got either chemical castration alone or with the drug docetaxel, sold under the brand name Taxotere but also available as a cheaper generic version.

After two and a half years, 136 men who got hormone treatment alone had died, compared to 101 men who got both drugs.

“This study shows a remarkable and meaningful prolongation in survival for advanced prostate cancer,” Hudis said.

More than 240,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in a year and close to 30,000 die from it.

“This will engender controversy because the chemo drug is not without controversy,” Hudis told NBC News. “They are talking about survival. They are not just talking about disease control.”

One of the men who got docetaxel died because of side effects of the treatment, but for the most part the extra drug did not make the patients sicker. Sweeney pointed out it’s important for doctors to make sure men are healthy enough to stand it.

“Some patients are too frail for chemotherapy,” Sweeney told a news conference. “It is a little difficult for an 80-year-old to get chemotherapy.”

Hudis, who is also an oncologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said the findings were only possible because of government-funded cancer research. “These are often studies that industry is less interested in performing, for example finding a new use for an old drug,” he said.

First published June 1 2014, 4:56 AM

Maggie Fox

Maggie Fox is senior health writer for NBCNews.com and TODAY.com, writing top news on health policy, medical treatments and disease.

She’s a former managing editor for healthcare and technology at National Journal and global health and science editor for Reuters based in Washington, D.C. and London.

She’s reported for news agencies, radio, newspapers, magazines and television from across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe covering news ranging from war to politics and, of course, health and science. Her reporting has taken Maggie to Lebanon, Syria and Libya; to China, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan; to Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia and to Ireland and Northern Ireland and across the rest of Europe.

Maggie has won awards from the Society of Business Editors and Writers, the National Immunization Program, the Overseas Press Club and other organizations. She’s done fellowships at Harvard Medical School, the National Institutes of Health and the University of Maryland.

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