
source: KPRC
A deaf couple have decided to move out of their apartment in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia after neighbours complained they were just too loud. Mike Dumröse, 34, und Natascha Neitzel, 25, have lived together in the city of Hagen for about six months now. Deaf from birth, they communicate through sign language. They also enjoy music by turning songs up full blast in order to feel the vibrations in the walls and floor. But all the noise has annoyed neighbours, according to the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). “They’re too loud. The other renters have constantly complained,” their landlord Achim Hengesbach told the WAZ. When the couple found out about the complaints, they were so upset that they decided to leave their apartment and set up a tent at a local park. City officials who found them there felt bad about their situation and moved them to a hotel while the couple searched for, and eventually found, a new place to live, the WAZ reported. Now there are a few nights to go at their old apartment. They’re spending it watching TV and sleeping on an old mattress in a bare room. But they’re not turning up the music in celebration. And though a bit embarrassed, they don’t seem to bear any ill will toward others for all they’ve been through. “Love. Luck,” wrote Neitzel when asked by the WAZ what they hope to achieve in their new accommodation, without saying whether they’ll be playing music there.
source: The Local
Evidence of DNA damage was also found in the tests undertaken by the team from the Nascentis Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Cordoba, Argentina and and the Eastern Virginia Medical School. In comparison, sperm that was stored at the same temperature but away from a laptop showed a smaller drop in mobility and a significant reduction in DNA damage. Meanwhile, semen placed under the computer without the wi-fi connected did not experience significant levels of sperm damage. “Our data suggest that the use of a laptop computer wirelessly connected to the internet and positioned near the male reproductive organs may decrease human sperm quality,” said Dr Conrado Avendano, who led the study. "At present we do not know whether this effect is induced by all laptop computers connected by Wi-Fi to the internet or what use conditions heighten this effect." The findings differ from previous studies because fears over links between infertility and laptops have focused on heat emitted by the devices. In the latest study, researchers took sperm specimens from 29 healthy men, aged 26 to 45. Each donor sample was separated out into two pots and either placed under a laptop using wireless technology or away from the computer. Scientists then used the laptop to download information from the internet for four hours. They found that 25 per cent of the sperm under the laptop had stopped moving and nine per cent showed DNA damage. By comparison, just 14 per cent of samples kept away from the wi-fi stopped moving while just three per cent suffered DNA damage. Dr Avendano stressed the results did not necessarily mean the same would occur in a real-life setting, adding that men should not unduly worry.So, the moral of this story: If you must use a computer, use a desktop, but, if you know what's good for you, do so while standing up.
source: The Telegraph
After years of debate on the issue, a new proposed law on animal welfare suggests the outlawing of sexual encounters with animals in Sweden, a practice previously decriminalized in 1944. ”We know that there is a great risk of the animals being used this way are harmed by it,” said Eva Eriksson, County Governor of Värmland, who has been working on the new animal welfare law since 2009, at a press conference. According to Eriksson, the topic has been up for discussion over a longer period of time and she feels that "major societal changes" warrant a clear prohibition against sex with animals.”Today it is very easy, on the internet and other places, to encounter animals for sexual intercourse and there are also many more reports of this happening,” said Eriksson. She also clarified that this should not be confused with cruelty to animals, where people mutilate the sexual organs of livestock and to counter which there is already legislation in place. The new law, Eriksson underlined, would solely encompass the sexual abuse of animals for the perpetrator's own pleasure. ”This is about people who enter stables and perform sexual actions on horses or cows, which is not natural behaviour for the animal and isn't ethically justifiable,” Eriksson said. However, Eriksson added that the sexual stimulation of animals in the context of breeding or as part of veterinary medicine procedures is exempt from the law. A new animal welfare law has long been on the cards in Sweden, with the old legislation dating back to 1988. The ambition with the new proposal is to safeguard society's respect for animals and that the animal welfare law should counteract animal welfare problems, Eriksson said in her presentation.Hmm, ya think!
source: The Local
A Bronx groom hurled himself into the Harlem River over the weekend — just hours after exchanging marriage vows with his longtime love. Fernando Brazier, 28, took the fatal leap after leaving a suicide note for his bride, Trudian Hay, at the front desk of the Radisson Hotel in New Rochelle, where the couple and family members spent the night after celebrating their wedding. “He said [in the note] he couldn’t take it anymore, and to take care of the kids,” Brazier’s sister, Shawna Weeks, told The Post. “He left his ring in the envelope.” Police sources said Brazier’s note told Hay that he could be found at the bottom of the river, not far from a Pathmark supermarket and Dyckman Street on the Manhattan side. Witnesses said the just-married groom walked out of the Radisson and into a cab sometime before 9 a.m. Sunday. He made his way to 55 Richman Plaza about 15 minutes away in The Bronx, where he jumped either from a building or the promenade behind it, police sources said. An FDNY Marine unit found Brazier’s body in the waters near Roberto Clemente State Park, slightly upstream from where he’s believed to have jumped, around 3 p.m., the sources added.If you're having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255.
source: NY Post
Pressil does not describe how the woman got his sperm without his consent or knowledge, but apparently does not contest that it was indeed his sperm. "Plaintiff, Joe Pressil ('Pressil'), suffered mental and economic injuries when defendants obtained his sperm without his consent or knowledge and in vitro fertilized a woman purporting to be his wife when she, in fact, was not," the complaint states. Pressil says that in February 2011 he found a receipt from Omni-Med for the cryopreservation of a sperm sample. The complaint does not state where he found the 3-to-4-year-old receipt. "Pressil was listed as the 'patient' on the receipt even though he had never been to Omni-Med nor ever sought treatment for male infertility," the complaint states. "Pressil immediately called Omni-Med and was referred to Advanced Fertility, the clinic who ordered the cryopreservation. Likewise, Pressil had never been a patient at Advanced Fertility."... "Advanced Fertility told Pressil they obtained his sperm sample from a woman purporting to be his wife, even though Pressil was not married, and in 2007 performed in vitro fertilization which resulted in the birth of twins. Advanced Fertility impregnated the woman with Pressil's sperm without his knowledge, much less his consent. Advanced Fertility's website 'strongly encourages' both partners to take part in an initial consultation, though Pressil was never consulted. Pressil first discovered his children were born through in vitro fertilization in February of 2011."Joe is suing the fertility clinic -- which shockingly continues to keep his "cyropreservered sperm sample" without his consent -- for negligence, conversion (of his sperm), conspiracy and violations of the Texas Theft Liability Act. He also wants the clinic to recompense him for "loss of opportunity", all of the monies he's paid in child support in the past and is expected to pay in the future and all costs associated with raising two children. Sidebar: We have a feeling he knew this woman and that's how he found out he fathered her children and she, like a chicken head does, had the audacity to then go after him for child support. Spiteful and disgraceful, indeed! But the bigger question is, however, why isn't he suing the woman, who presumably stole his sperm from a condom after they did they do? Maybe that will be an argument Advanced Fertility Center and Omni-Med Laboratories will bring up in their defense or, perhaps, Joe is planning to sue her down the line. Who knows. There's just so many facts that are unknown.
source: Courthouse News