Your Long Runs Could Be Killing Your s*x Drive

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Before you kill yourself trying to break a marathon record, consider the latest research published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. There appears to be a (somewhat) inversely proportional relationship between length and intensity of endurance exercise and male libido. That means your longest, hardest training sessions may leave you too depleted for s*x. Bummer, right?

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Research by our group and others has shown that men engaged in chronic endurance training are more likely to induce low levels of testosterone, a hormone associated with libido, says Dr. Anthony Hackney, the study"s lead researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. According to the survey results compiled and analyzed by Hackneys research team, men who racked up more than 10 hours of training per week, and those whose training intensities were self-reported as greater than 70 percent of their VO2 max, were most likely to be categorized as having a low s*x drive.

But before you swear off exercise completely (because, who could blame you, really?), the good news is that low to moderate levels of endurance exercise dont appear to negatively impact sexual health at least to a noticeable degree. And if youre more of a strength-focused athlete, you could be completely in the clear. Strength-trained athletes work very hard, but the nature of their training doesnt usually result in as large a volume of training dosage, Hackney says.

In other words, training for a 5k or hitting a CrossFit workout probably wont put a dent in your desire, but if you spend year after year logging hours of training for marathons, Ironmans, and other extreme endurance races, you may have the s*x drive of a much older man. The combination of regular, exhaustive exercise and reduced testosterone levels dont add up to extreme acrobatics in the sack.

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Of course, Dr. Hackney and his team didnt set out to fix any one mans personal sexual performance deficits. Rather, the team aimed to link high levels of chronic male endurance training to possible fertility problems and low s*x drive is, in fact, a fertility problem. Sorry guys.

While its fairly common knowledge that highly trained female athletes, particularly those with low body fat percentages, can experience problems with fertility, this is the first study of its kind that indicates highly trained male athletes may also experience similar problems a fact couples and doctors need to be aware of.

We hope clinicians will recognize the need to ask questions about what a man is doing with his exercise when they counsel couples who are seeking help with infertility issues, Hackney says. Exercise is wonderful. I truly believe that exercise is medicine, but if someone exercises, they need to recognize this doesnt prevent them from experiencing some negative health consequences.

Source: http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/articles/your-long-runs-could-be-killing-your-s*x-drive-w469332

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Hardy And Big Jim Hopping Aboard Patriots "Drive For 5" Luxury Bus To Super Bowl LI

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BOSTON (CBS) TheDrive For 5 continues for the Patriots, as they are heading to Houston for Super Bowl LI.

Going along for the ride will be 98.5 The Sports Hubs Big Jim Murray and Rob Hardy Poole, who will be riding down to Houston in style on board a custom-designed luxury bus through 16 states.

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The bus will depart Gillette Stadium on Wednesday, Jan. 25, and after making a number of carefully planned stops along the way, it will arrive in Houston on Sunday, Jan. 29.

Both Hardy and Big Jim will be providing commentary throughout the journey, both on Patriots.com, through the Patriots social media accounts, and of course, by calling in to 98.5 The Sports Hub throughout the week. Hardy and Big Jim will be checking in twice every showfor the duration of the trip, beginning with Zolak & Bertrand on Wednesday.

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The beauty of it is, we dont really know whats going to happen, Hardy said on the eve of his voyage. Weve got some planned stops, weve got some fun things that were going to do, but something tells me the best things are the ones we havent and cant even plan for.

Its going to be a wild ride that you wont want to miss, and you can use #drivefor5bus to hop aboard and be a part of this Super Bowl experience yourself.

Source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/01/24/hardy-and-big-jim-hopping-aboard-patriots-drive-for-5-luxury-bus-to-super-bowl-li/

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Toyota to Use Super Bowl to Drive Cool Factor of Lexus Brand

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Jan. 23, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET

Toyota Motor Corp. is adding its name to a long list of automotive companies expected to join the advertising parade on Super Bowl Sunday.

The auto maker said it intends to air a 30-second spot during the big game that will promote Lexus new LC 500 coupe and its LS 500 luxury sedan. Lexus won"t only be seeking to bolster overall Lexus sales after vehicle sales for the brand fell 3.9% in 2016, but it will also be trying to do something broader: bring some cool factor to a brand that some see as boring.

Lexus is looking to bring a bigger sense of modernity to the brand, said Brian Bolain, general manager of Lexus marketing. The company introduced the LC 500 in an effort to give the overall brand a halo affect and help improve how consumers view the entire lineup of Lexus cars. The LC 500 starts at $92,000.

We are still known for customer service, safety and quality, but at the same time we are becoming known for performance, appearance and fun to drive, mr. Bolain added.

To help drive up the cool factor, Lexus has enlisted jookin dancing phenomenon Charles Lil Buck Riley to appear in its big game spot. He will be shown dancing and flexing his body to match the curves and the design of the cars, as music from recording artist Sia plays in the background. Actress Minnie Driver has been tapped to do the voice-over in the ad.

Toyota is releasing a 60-second version of the ad today but will air a 30-second cut down of the spot, called Man and Machine, during the second quarter of Super Bowl. The ad was crafted by Team One, an agency owed by Publicis Groupe.

Fox is still selling ad time for the Super Bowl broadcast and has been asking advertisers to fork over roughly $5 million for 30 seconds worth of time, ad buyer said.

Lexus points out that enlisting well-known celebrities and performers is critical when it comes to Super Bowl commercials because viewers expect ads in the game to be entertaining.

Moreover, the title game typically has more automobile traffic than the 405 freeway in California during rush hour.

Car companies have dominated the ad load during the big game for almost a decade.

Automakers have had the largest footprint each year since 2010, a stretch that coincides with increasing sales of new vehicles and a steady stream of marketing launches for new or redesigned models, according to ad tracker Kantar Media.

Last year, nine auto manufacturers were part of the game, accounting for 23% of all ad spending in the broadcast. Combined, the companies shelled out $89.4 million on Super Bowl ad time in 2016, Kantar estimates. That figure only includes the airtime and not the millions each auto company pours into creating each commercial.

Lexus will have plenty of competition this year. A long list of car brands including Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Buick, Honda and Kia are set to peddle their products during the game.

Its definitely a challenge and we dont take it on without a lot of thought, added Mr. Bolain.

Write to Suzanne Vranica at suzanne.vranica@wsj.com

Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-to-use-super-bowl-to-drive-cool-factor-of-lexus-brand-1485172809

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Here"s what will drive the markets most as Trump"s term begins

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The biggest market driver in the first weeks of the Trump administration will be just how efficiently it implements its plans, some strategists say.

The markets vacillated Friday around President Donald Trump"s inauguration. Major U.S. equity markets opened and closed in the green but endured choppy trading throughout the session, falling during the inauguration speech. Trump struck an isolationist tone, declaring "America first" and saying "protection will lead to great prosperity and strength."

At approximately 20 minutes past noon, in the middle of Trump"s speech, an investor appeared to sell 55,000 S&P 500 E-mini futures contracts (about $6 billion). Stocks neared lows of the trading session. The price of gold edged higher, at one point piercing the $1,214 level. And it appeared the rally U.S. equities had seen since Election Day the "Trump rally" was on shaky ground.

Over the next few weeks, the markets" performance will hinge on the Trump administration"s success in carrying out promises like tax cuts and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, according to Gina Sanchez, CEO of Chantico Global.

"After having a pretty strong rally, they"ve started to move sideways and are questioning what"s going to happen, and so at this point we have to see Trump come in and start to execute on his plan," she said Friday on CNBC"s "Trading Nation." "Now whether or not that"s a good plan or not; I"m setting that aside. The point is that anything short of perfect execution is likely going to be a disappointment to the markets."

She added: "I think the first part of this year is going to be entirely emotionally driven and determined on execution whether that execution is done quickly." Sanchez said the market has more room for downside because investors have priced in "a lot of expectation."

Much of investors" optimism surrounding Trump grew from his call for infrastructure spending, a notion Citigroup"s head of North America economics William Lee in December largely dismissed as "fairy dust," suggesting the rally had gone too far, too fast. Trump on Friday did in fact promise infrastructure spending again. The S&P 500 materials sector closed the day as the best-performing sector.

The markets" expectations are high, said Larry McDonald, head of global macro strategy at ACG Analytics and editor of the Bear Traps Report financial newsletter.

"There"s disconnect between [Fed Chair] Janet Yellen and the Fed and Trump. This past week we saw something very interesting. Yellen was talking the dollar up and Trump was talking the dollar down. That"s highly unusual, so the market"s going to be looking if there"s a continuation of that disconnect," McDonald told "Trading Nation."

The U.S. dollar was weaker Friday against a basket of foreign currencies as investors took in Trump"s remarks. The move was quite different than the dollar"s rally after the election, rising nearly 4 percent in the month following Election Day.

McDonald believes there is also disagreement between Trump and congressional leadership on the timing of the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the implementation of a new tax policy. He said the market will be looking for "cracks" in Trump"s agenda over the next 60 days.

That could pose a problem for the markets, he said, "but most of all I think the market"s just been moving toward expectation of information on trade, on health-care reform, and so far, we haven"t had a disappointment."

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/23/heres-what-will-drive-the-markets-most-as-trumps-term-begins.html

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Britain launches interventionist drive for post-Brexit industrial revival

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LONDON Britain"s government on Monday unveiled a new interventionist approach to rebalance its heavily services-based economy for the post-Brexit era, in a break with traditional Conservative laissez-faire economic policy.

Prime Minister Theresa May"s "Modern Industrial Strategy"demands closer collaboration in key industries in exchange for government support, aiming to increase productivity, reinvigorate industrial production and stimulate investment in technology and R&D.

The focus on industry and the shift to a governmental hands-on approach challenges the laissez-faire ideology championed by former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

"Underpinning this strategy is a new approach to government, not just stepping back and leaving business to get on with the job, but stepping up to a new, active role that backs business," May wrote in a consultation document on the policy.

May asked businesses to work together to tackle industry-specific challenges, citing examples of successful collaboration that have helped attract overseas investment from the likes of carmaker Nissan (7201.T), and enabled aerospace firms such as BAE Systems (BAES.L) to develop a competitive edge.

In return she pledged to reciprocate with "Sector Deals" that address regulatory barriers, look at how trade and investment deals can be used to increase exports, and support the creation of new institutions to provide leadership, drive innovation or boost skills.

The government said early work had been done on deals for a number of industries: life sciences, ultra-low emission vehicles, nuclear and creative industries. But it said it would work with any sector that could "organize behind strong leadership to address shared challenges and opportunities".

PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLE

The plan aspires to distribute wealth more evenly, following decades of industrial decay in parts of Britain. The economy"s narrow base has been blamed for a mood of disenfranchisement that drove many voters to back Brexit.

It aims to boost Britain"s productivity, which has long lagged European rivals Germany and France. It cited the success of targeted government intervention in countries including the United States and South Korea.

The outline of was set out in a "Green Paper" inviting views from industry on the government"s objectives.

The government listed 10 strategic pillars behind its strategy such as skills development and improved procurement.

The publication drew positive responses from businesses looking to push their industries to the top of the government"s agenda, ranging from waste management firms to builders of new nuclear plants.

But not all sectors felt they would benefit.

A consumer goods industry executive, who declined to be named, said consumer goods were very far down the priority list.

"The high-skilled and high-paid, thats what drives economic spending and growth. Pharmaceuticals, heavy industry, IT all those sectors are always going to be the ones that are more favored," the executive said.

BACK IN FASHION

Since coming to office weeks after Britain"s vote to leave the EU last year, May has pushed the once-unfashionable concept of industrial strategy to the top of her agenda, creating a new government department to lead the project, and chairing a top-level cabinet committee on the subject.

Britain"s impending exit from the EU threatens to undermine the financial services sector, with several banks planning to shift thousands of jobs abroad because they fear they will lose access to the EU market.

May said last week that Britain would be withdrawing from the single market, and seeking a free trade agreement with the EU instead - a path critics have described as a "Hard Brexit" that would undermine the industrial strategy.

"Its like the manager tying their teams bootlaces together while telling them they have a plan to win the match," said Don Foster, business spokesman for the rival and pro-EU Liberal Democrat party.

May presented the full proposals, including plans to boost the teaching of technical skills and mathematics, and a 556-million pound boost for infrastructure projects, at a specially convened cabinet meeting in northwest England.

(Additional reporting by Costas Pitas, Sarah Young, Martinne Geller, Lina Saigol and Karolin Schaps; Editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-industry-idUSKBN1560HU

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GM: Trump won"t drive us out of Mexico

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General Motors chief executive has no plans to change where the auto giant produces small cars because of criticism from President-elect Donald Trump.

CEO Mary Barra said Sunday night the auto business has long lead times for where it produces vehicles, with decisions made two to four years ahead.

Last week, Trump threatened on Twitter to slap a border tax on GM for importing the compact Chevrolet Cruze to the U.S. from Mexico.

As it turns out, GM imports only a small number of Cruze hatchbacks from Mexico, and Barra said it makes all of the sedans at a factory in Lordstown, Ohio, near Cleveland.

Asked whether she was worried about a possible tariff, Barra said it was too early to speculate. GMs strategy, she said, has much more in common with Trumps goals for trade and jobs than differences.

I very much look forward to being part of the solution that allows the country to be strengthened along with business, along with our manufacturing capability, she said at an event in Detroit unveiling the new GMC Terrain small sport-utility vehicle.

Production of the Terrain will move to Mexico from a plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, for the new model year. The Ingersoll plant will still make the Equinox, GMs best-selling small SUV.

The president-elect is badgering the auto industry to get companies to stop making cars in Mexico and shipping them back to the United States in an effort to preserve jobs.

He has also criticized Ford and Toyota. Last week, Ford canceled plans to build a small car factory south of the border, but it announced 700 new jobs in Michigan.

The company, however, still plans to shift production of the compact Ford Focus to an existing Mexican plant. Jobs at the Detroit-area factory that now makes the Focus will be preserved because the plant will get a new SUV and small pickup truck.

Barra is part of a group of CEOs that will advise Trump on economic issues.

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source: http://nypost.com/2017/01/09/gm-trump-wont-drive-us-out-of-mexico/

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Backblaze, the cloud backup service, will now loan you a hard drive full of your data

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Backblaze, my preferred cloud backup service for a few years now, is today making it a bit easier and cheaper to restore all of your data if your computer should ever crash or get lost / stolen. The company has always let subscribers ($5 per month) pay $189 to receive an external hard drive with a full copy of their backup. But maybe you don"t need yet another external drive that"ll just end up sitting around collecting dust. So now Backblaze is giving customers another option: send it back within 30 days for a full refund.

You"ve got to cover shipping costs for the drive"s return trip, unfortunately, but this still makes for a pretty convenient way of getting your stuff back in a jam. Of course, this being a cloud service, Backblaze always gives you the ability to download your files directly from the company"s website at no charge, but that can be a bit slow and frustrating depending on your broadband connection. Having a drive shipped to your door avoids Comcast yelling at you for downloading gigabytes upon gigabytes of data. And if you actually want to keep the drive to use for a local backup, perhaps (which you should always have) you can just eat the $189 charge and hang onto it.

Backblaze claims this service is unique among its competition, with Crashplan recently having phased out the option for "Home" subscribers to restore via mailed hard drive. Backblaze has backed up over 200 petabytes of customer data through its unique storage pod system, and says it"s made over 10 billion data restorations. Having used it for some time now, I can vouch that it"s pretty great. Once the initial backup is finished, you"ll barely ever notice that it"s open, quietly keeping your files safe in the background.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/26/10832728/backblaze-restore-refund-program-announced

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Porsche Design"s New Desktop Drive Shares Power With Your 12-inch MacBook

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Apple is so massive that even a design flaw on one of its productslike the single USB-C port on the 12-inch MacBookcan spawn hundreds of devices dedicated to solving the problem. Even LaCies new Porsche Design Desktop Drive promises to keep your port-challenged MacBook charging while its connected.

A giant external drive sitting on your desk used to be the exclusive domain of video editors. But vast collections of high-def movies and thousands of digital photos demand a lot of storage, far more than the tiny SSDs used in ultra-thin laptops can hold. An external drive is now a must-have, so why not opt for something with a little style?

LaCies new Porsche Design Desktop Drive comes wrapped in a sand-blasted all-aluminum enclosure, and 4TB, 5TB, or 8TB capacities starting at $210 when available come March.

It does require power, so say goodbye to yet another outlet on the already crowded power strip under your desk. But that also means the drive can share power with a 12-inch MacBook when its connected to the tiny laptops single USB-C port. An additional USB port on the new drive would have been useful for accommodating other accessories, but its hard to point the finger at LaCie when the company is already trying to solve Apples mistake.

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Source: http://gizmodo.com/porsche-designs-new-desktop-drive-shares-power-with-you-1749158431

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Two men wounded in Pilsen drive-by

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A Pilsen neighborhood drive-by shootingMonday nightleft one man dead and another wounded, police said.

The victims, ages 33 and 36, were standing outside in the 1700 block of South Leavitt about 7:30 p.m. when someone in a passing vehicle shot them, according to Chicago Police.

Both were taken to Stroger Hospital. The younger man was shot int he chest and buttocks, and was later pronounced dead, police said.

The older man was shot in the buttocks and his condition had stabilized.

Source: http://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/7/71/1226462/two-men-wounded-pilsen-drive

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When to image a hard drive, and when to clone it

Robert Spann asked how best to copy everything on his internal drive. Should he image the drive, or clone it?

Cloning copies the complete contents of one drivethe files, the partition tables and the master boot recordto another: a simple, direct duplicate. Imaging copies all of that to a single, very large file on another drive. You can then restore the image back onto the existing drive or onto a new one.

Typically, people use these techniques to back up the drive, or when upgrading to a larger or faster drive. Both techniques will work for each of these chores. But imaging usually makes more sense for a backup, while cloning is the easiest choice for drive upgrades.

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Why not just drag and drop? Thats fine for an unbootable drive. But you cant just drag and drop an operating system. If its the drive you boot from, only cloning or imaging can reliably make a working copy.

If youre moving to a new drive, cloning is the easier solution. Its one step. You plug in the new driveeither in a spare bay, or through a USB/SATA adapterlaunch the cloning software, and do the job.

Imaging, on the other hand, requires you to do all of that twice. You plug a third, spare drive into the PC and create the image file on it. Then you swap the old drive for the new one, and restore the image to the new drive.I suppose you might choose imaging if you dont have either an extra bay or a USB/SATA adapter, but you do have an external drive with sufficient free space.

Imaging makes more sense for backup, because you can put multiple image backups onto one sufficiently large external hard drive. You can only put one clone on a drive. In fact, several backup programs, including my current favorite for imaging and cloning, EaseUS ToDo Backup Free, allow you to make small incremental image backups, recording how the contents of the drive change day to day.

There is one advantage to cloning for backups. Should your main drive crash, you can swap in a cloned drive and be back in action almost immediately. With an image, youd have to buy a new internal drive and restore the backup to it.

But if you really need to be up and running that fast, and youre willing to dedicate an entire drive for that purpose, youd be better off putting the two drives together into a RAID 2. That way, the spare drive will be completely up to date.

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2847308/when-to-image-a-drive-and-when-to-clone-it.html

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