No Wonder There Are So Many Metro Sexuals In The Cities

City life destroys a man's ability to conceive: Noisy suburban streets significantly reduce fertility by lowering sperm count and testosterone levels

• Night-time noise disturbs sleep, which is thought to cause male infertility
• Previous research demonstrates a lack of sleep affects sperms' count and shape
• Not getting enough shut eye also has an impact on men's testosterone levels 
• Infertility problems affect around one in six couples globally at some point 

By Alexandra Thompson Health Reporter For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 10:07 EDT, 29 June 2017 | UPDATED: 10:23 EDT, 29 June 2017

 
 
 
 
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Noisy suburban streets significantly reduce men's fertility, new research reveals.

Researchers believe night-time noise disturbs sleep, leading to male infertility.

Previous research revealed getting less than six hours of sleep a night reduces a man's chance of getting a woman pregnant by 43 percent.

This is thought to be due to a lack of shut eye being associated with a lowered sperm count, altered sperm shape and reduced testosterone levels.

Infertility problems affect around one in six couples globally at least once in their lifetime, either temporarily or permanently.

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Noisy suburban streets significantly reduce men's fertility, new research reveals

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COULD POPPY SEEDS BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO IVF? 

Women could increase their chances of getting pregnant by using a 100-year-old fertility technique, according to research released last month.

The procedure, which involves flushing a woman's Fallopian tubes with poppy seed oil, was first used in 1917 and has significant fertility benefits, the study found.

Results revealed almost 40 percent of previously infertile women conceived within six months of trying the unconventional procedure.

It could offer couples the opportunity to have a successful pregnancy without relying on costly IVF, according to global researchers led by the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute. 

How the study was carried out  

Researchers from Seoul National University analyzed 206,492 men aged between 20 and 59 from 2006 to 2013. 

They calculated noise levels using information from the National Noise Information System combined with the study's participant's postcodes.

Of the participants, 3,293 were diagnosed with infertility during the study.

Key findings

Results, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, revealed that night-time exposure to a noise level of 55 dB - the equivalent of a suburban street - significantly increases a man's likelihood of being diagnosed with infertility. 

The researchers speculate that night-time noise may disturb sleep, leading to male infertility.   

Past research 

Research from Boston University released in October last year revealed that getting less than six hours of sleep a night reduces a man's chances of getting a woman pregnant by 43 percent.

Dr Lauren Wise, author of the Boston University study, said: 'Sleep problems specifically have been associated with lower sperm concentrations, total sperm count and per cent of normal sperm morphology (shape), as well as decreased testosterone levels'.

Additional past research revealed that every extra 10 decibels of traffic noise increases a woman's chances of taking more than six months to get pregnant by eight percent.

This is thought to be due to noise pollution affecting women's ovulation cycle.  

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4650486/The-noise-suburban-streets-reduces-men-s-fertility.html#ixzz4lPen6MCp
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Americans Are Wimps When It Comes To Muslims. If Things Don't Change America Will Be A Muslim Country In Less Than 50 Years

Boston University Caves to Islamic Supremacist Demands

MOSQUEING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL MOSQUEING THE PUBLIC SQUARE 

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Check out how Boston University officials turn themselves inside out to accommodate Muslim demands. Muslim supremacists said that taking down the US from within would be easy – they were right. Remember this is Boston, as in the Boston Marathon bombing — Anne works at Boston University (thanks to Inba):

I work at a university library in Boston, Mass., and books are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal System, not by title or “importance”. Muslim students (most of them from abroad) told administrators that they were offended because the Koran wasn’t given a place of honor on a top shelf, as dictated by Islamic law and custom.

Library staff were then ordered to shift entire sections of books in the stacks so that the Koran could be “honored” appropriately.

This is absurd; we do not live in a Muslim country, nor is ours a religious school. We treat the Koran, the Bible, Hindu texts, Buddhist texts, etc. with the same respect we show to all our books, yet Muslim students miss the point. Non-Muslims are expected to follow local custom when visiting Muslim countries, which is fine, yet many Muslims insist that their ways be followed in non-Muslim countries too.

Why is it that Muslims in Western countries wail and complain about everything ….. except Islamic terrorism?

- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/02/boston-university-caves-islamic-supremacist-demands.html/#sthash.ig3qWUku.dpuf

Does The "Common Sense Tax" Make Sense?

3. 'Common Sense Tax' Could Boost the Economy

A new tax proposal that two economists call "simple, transparent, and fair" could spark new investment and job creation in the United States, they say.

Our current tax system is "unfair, distortionary, wasteful, and a user's nightmare," according to John Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University. "Most important, it's limiting our country's economic potential.

"But can we have a far simpler tax system that generates at least as much revenue and is more progressive? Yes, it's called the Common Sense Tax (CST). It's designed to be revenue-neutral and to kick-start the economy."

The plan includes just two taxes. One is a payroll tax at a flat 13 percent rate.

Today's FICA tax is highly regressive, since it levies a 15.3 percent tax on wages up to $113,700, half payable by the employee and half by the employer.

To assure that middle- and low-wage workers benefit immediately, the CST levies the payroll tax only on employers.

The second tax is a personal income tax with a 25 percent rate on income over $100,000 for married households and $50,000 for individuals. That would immediately end income taxation for two-thirds of American households.

The CST is revenue-neutral because it taxes all income above the thresholds and eliminates all deductions and tax breaks except the charitable deduction, Child Tax Credit, and Earned Income Tax Credit, Goodman and Kotlikoff maintain in an article for The Fiscal Times.

Another provision of the CST would tax corporate income at the personal rather than the business level — corporate shareholders above the threshold would pay taxes on income earned on their behalf by the corporation as it is accrued.

The United States currently has the world's highest statutory corporate tax rate. But with the CST, there would be no explicit corporate tax, which "would make the United States the world's most business-friendly country," the authors assert.

They conclude: "This would stimulate substantial new investment and job creation in the U.S., leading to higher wages for U.S. workers.

"In addition to being simple, transparent, and fair, the Common Sense Tax would improve incentives to work and save, eliminate an entire army of corporate and personal tax accountants and lawyers, and make April 15 just another day for most Americans. Most important, it would help grow the economy."

The Fiscal Times calls the CST a "tax reform plan that both parties can like."