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Rapid to hospital selayang from Subang

rock4f3lla — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:22:11 +0800

ayam got kursus at H slyg, any idea how to get there using LRT/rapid bus service?

didi naik, tp pancur sikit

rock4f3lla — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:12:52 +0800

Sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years – study
Reasons for the ‘shocking’ drop are unclear, say researchers, and represent a huge and neglected area of public health

Sperm counts among men have more than halved in the last 40 years, research suggests, although the drivers behind the decline remain unclear.

The latest findings reveal that between 1973 and 2011, the concentration of sperm in the ejaculate of men in western countries has fallen by an average of 1.4% a year, leading to an overall drop of just over 52%.

“The results are quite shocking,” said Hagai Levine, an epidemiologist and lead author of the study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

While infertility treatments such as IVF can offer solutions to potential ramifications of the decline on one level, little has been done to address the root of the issue, said Levine, pointing out low sperm counts might also be an indicator of poorer health among men more generally.

“This is a classic under the radar huge public health problem that is really neglected,” he said.

It is not the first time researchers have highlighted concerns about sperm counts, but previous studies have been criticised, with some saying the decline could be down to changing laboratory methods, or studies failing to take into account whether participants were selected on the basis of infertility problems.

But the authors of the latest study say they have addressed such concerns, analysing only studies that used the same sperm count method, were of a reasonable size and involved men not known to have infertility problems or disease, among other measures.

The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update by an international team of researchers, drew on 185 studies conducted between 1973 and 2011, involving almost 43,000 men. The team split the data based on whether the men were from western countries – including Australia and New Zealand as well as countries in North America and Europe – or from elsewhere.

After accounting for factors including age and how long men had gone without ejaculation, the team found that sperm concentration fell from 99 million per ml in 1973 to 47.1 million per ml in 2011 – a decline of 52.4% – among western men unaware of their fertility.

For the same group, total sperm count – the number of sperm in a semen sample – fell by just under 60%.

In addition, a less dramatic decline in sperm concentration since the 1970s was seen for western men who were known to have conceived with a partner, but there was no clear trend for total sperm count in this group.

By contrast, no such trends were seen for men in other countries – although the authors caution that far fewer studies have been carried out among such populations.

Richard Sharpe, an expert in male reproductive health and professor at the University of Edinburgh, welcomed the study, saying the research has tackled many of the problems of previous analyses, adding that it “is about as close as we are going to get” to being sure of the decline.

But he stressed it still unclear what is behind the drop, meaning that it is difficult to address. “That is primarily because we have seriously under-invested in male reproductive research,” he said.

Tina Kold Jensen of Syddansk University in Denmark, who was not involved in the current research, said she was surprised by the new findings. “I thought it would probably have stopped,” she said of the decline, pointing out that she had been involved in a 15-year Danish study focusing on young men recruited for military service which found no drop in sperm counts. But, she noted, that might be because many of the men had poor sperm counts anyway.

Levine agreed that research into potential causes was needed. Numerous possibilities have been mooted, with research suggesting links to body weight, a lack of physical activity, smoking, and exposure of pregnant women to chemicals found in myriad household products, known as endocrine disruptors.

But controversy remains. While Allan Pacey, professor of andrology at the University of Sheffield, said the latest study is the best he’d ever read on the decline, he said the jury is still out on whether the trend is real.

“You need to go out to answer that question. For example you take a random sample of every 18-year-old in the UK and you test 10,000 18-year-olds every year prospectively over the course of 20-25 years,” he said, emphasising that Jensen’s study using such an approach had found no decline.

“We have got very little epidemiological evidence to say what might be causing it, so we are still scratching our heads a little bit in my view,” said Pacey.

But he agreed there is cause for concern around male reproductive function, pointing out that rates of testicular cancer are on the rise, and stressed that men who are concerned about their sperm count and who wish to have children should not delay.

“If you are a guy with a low sperm count and you try for a baby when you are 21, you are probably not going to notice you’ve got a problem,” Pacey said. “But if you are trying with your partner when she is 35 then that’s when the heartache comes, because by then you have got low sperm count, you’ve got an older partner and you haven’t got a lot of time to try and fix it medically.”

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rock4f3lla — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 02:12:39 +0800

ayam gip 5/7 coz no piap scene

storyline slow gak la, tp cakap x banyak. plane dogfight scene berry realistic, i like the little detail like the vibrations in the plane while flying and other shit.

the ICB scene mcm bodo tho.

score from kham simmer very cun liao

recommended if you can tahan slow place , sikit2 action full of susspender. if not, go watch velarian, got the bapok looking model, cera delevine (would still becom gay for her tho kekekeke)

gua dgr cite kan, abe jibby nk step daun

rock4f3lla — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:28:38 +0800

cybertroopers lai lai bincangkan

teka teki tekuk, kalo ada beran, masuk

rock4f3lla — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:00:17 +0800

let me start it of.

i have 3 heads, 4 hands, and 5 legs.. who am i?

msian student murdered in indonesia

rock4f3lla — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:33:47 +0800

today, at around 7pm (indonesian time), a malaysian student by the name of adrian was murdered by a robber who was trying to steal his bike.

http://www.nst.com.my/articles/Malaysianst...onesia/Article/

http://news.okezone.com/read/2011/11/07/34...a-tewas-dibunuh

http://www.hmetro.com.my/articles/Penuntut...urabaya/Article

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y...ni&pg=bt_05.htm

why malaysian women's badminton so mediocre

rock4f3lla — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:02:28 +0800

we din make it to the sudirman cup quater final couz women pair and single so low ya wan.

whats even sadden is my maids snarky remark. "ga usah pake pemain, pake pembantu rumah aja kalo lawan msia"

i Damn butthurt now!!

colorware like service for bb

rock4f3lla — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:01:31 +0800

i would like to know if there is a colorware like service in malaysia

how to use ram disk as swap file and temporary

rock4f3lla — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:40:34 +0800

i read at toms hardware that you can take advantage of more than 3gb of ram in a 32bit OS
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-me...ade,2778-4.html

they explain the concept but did not explain how to specifically do it. ive been googling and found this page
http://www.jensscheffler.de/using-gavotte-...sk-in-windows-7

but i still dont know how to make 2 ramdisk, one for file swap and the other for temporary file storage??
i used the gavotte 1.04

my system is

windows 7 32-bit (not using 64bit coz i cant get my usb modem to work there, tried everything already)
intel i5-750
8gb ram ddr3

ur help is very much appretiated

slow boot time using ssd on windows 7

rock4f3lla — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:02:49 +0800

i recently purchased a new ssd to get fast boot times. but still end up taking 47 seconds from pressing the power button.
is there anyway i can speed up the boot time like stopping windows services (i dont know how or which one)?
and is there anyway that i can speed up the bios boot time. damn slow dey (sick of lookin at the MSI logo all the time)...

my system
MSI P55 GD80
i5 750
ddr3 ram
corsair f60 60gb ssd

Very Low Fps on xfx GTX285

rock4f3lla — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:06:13 +0800

this is my set up

Msi p55 GD80
Intel i5 750
4gb DDR3
Xfx Gtx285
Samsung 24"
Silverstone strider 560w
running windows 7 64-bit
directx 11

so, ive been playing left for dead and world of warcraft and i keep getting 13'ish fps at max setting on 1920x1080. help?
im using the latest drivers from nvidia 190.62

GC damn hot (not megan fox kind of hot)

rock4f3lla — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:46:56 +0800

i open the catalyst centre and the temp is 77 degrees celcius on idle. i'm like,waddaf. it's just the graphic card on the mother board.

[WTAFH] sorting torrent on Router

rock4f3lla — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:56:28 +0800

Personal equipment
Modem: Articonet ACN 110 R
Router: dlink DIR 615
Firewall used: i dont know

so i read somewhere 'And really, router-level QoS is the only way to deal with your roommate's crazy torrent habits', so what i want to know is how exactly do i do this?

my configuration is

Articonet ACN 110 R modem - prolink switch - dlink DIR 615 router

they are 4 people using. 2 on wireless 2 on cable. and as to why the switch is still there, is because, my house mates (on cable) complain of slow speed when we use the router on. i dont know why, but that is how it is.

so, back to the question, above

so i read somewhere 'And really, router-level QoS is the only way to deal with your roommate's crazy torrent habits', so what i want to know is how exactly do i do this? how do i sort the torrent connections on the router, so it doesn't messes with surfing speed, or gaming speed. i'm on a 1MB connection. thanks alot guys!

how to access corrupted drive

rock4f3lla — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:58:03 +0800

so, my fren dwld some warez which ended up corupted the his C: drive, OS partition, and i don't know why he left a lot of precious file there and not save it on the other partition d:, so now, he needs to recover the file, and the vista recovery thingy can open the c: drive even in the command prompt. so help!!!!

neways, vista sucks period!! XD

razer piranha vs speedlink madusa

rock4f3lla — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:06:09 +0800

Speedlink Medusa
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Razer Piranha
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so people. pros and cons ?

3 routers and a whole lot of problem

rock4f3lla — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:31:43 +0800

i need help setting up the routers! wat to do, what to do....

here's the setup, billion(modem) connected to dlink connected to Linksys. now connection at linksys sharing one line. and all 3 connection at dlink having all the fun maxing at 34 KBps each. we're on the other hand, having to split the 34 KBps amongst three ppl. so.. how to get the 34KBps like the one on Dlink.