Overlooked ugly cholesterol causes heart disease, study suggests

Jan. 21, 2013 ? The risk of ischemic heart disease -- the leading cause of death worldwide -- is three times higher in persons with high levels of the so-called 'ugly' cholesterol. This is the finding of a new study of 73,000 Danes, which is shedding light on a long debate on this topic. The results have just been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Most individuals are aware that high cholesterol is life-threatening. But very few know which type of cholesterol is the most frequent killer. Cholesterol is divided into 'the good' HDL cholesterol, 'the bad' LDL cholesterol and 'the ugly' cholesterol. It is the so-called 'ugly cholesterol' -- also called 'remnant cholesterol' -- that is a really bad guy.

"LDL cholesterol or 'the bad' cholesterol' is of course bad, but our new study reveals that the ugly cholesterol likewise is the direct cause of atherosclerosis resulting in ischemic heart disease and early death. By examining 73,000 persons, we found that an increase in the ugly cholesterol triples the risk of ischemic heart disease, which is caused by lack of oxygen to the heart muscle due to narrowing or blocking of the coronary arteries," says Professor B?rge Nordestgaard, Chief Physician at Copenhagen University Hospital and Clinical Professor at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at University of Copenhagen.

"I hope that this new knowledge will lead to better preventive treatment including lifestyle changes, as more than one in five individuals in affluent countries suffers from high ugly cholesterol. We also hope that the pharmaceutical industry will develop new drugs targeted specifically at raised ugly cholesterol levels," he emphasises.

Widespread disease worldwide

In Denmark alonhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/cms/e, 20,000 persons are diagnosed with ischemic heart disease every year, and some 150,000 Danes are currently affected by the disease. According to World Health Organization estimates, 17 million people die yearly from cardiovascular disease -- the most frequent cause of death in the world. Ischemic heart disease is the most common cardiovascular disease.

"High ugly cholesterol is the result of high blood levels of normal fat (triglycerides). The most important cause of high ugly cholesterol is overweight and obesity. Persons with high ugly cholesterol should therefore be advised to lose weight, but drugs such as statins and fibrates may also lower levels of ugly cholesterol in the blood," says B?rge Nordestgaard.

Samples from 73,000 Danes with mutations

Anette Varbo, physician and PhD student at Copenhagen University Hospital, has been part of the research team behind the new findings. She says that the findings shed light on a long-standing debate among researchers on the so-called triglycerides, atherosclerosis and cholesterol.

"To be able to examine the relationship between ugly cholesterol and heart disease, we have used blood samples from persons having a mutation which means that they suffer from high ugly cholesterol their entire life. The research findings do therefore not depend on their lifestyle patterns in general. Unhealthy lifestyle factors such as smoking, fatty foods and overweight all increase the risk of heart disease, and the blood samples from persons having these mutations thus give the most accurate results," says Anette Varbo.

The scientific article is based on the following three population studies: the Copenhagen General Population Study, the Copenhagen City Heart Study and the Copenhagen Ischemic Heart Disease Study.

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1. Anette Varbo, Marianne Benn, Anne Tybj?rg-Hansen, Anders B. J?rgensen, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, B?rge G. Nordestgaard. Remnant Cholesterol as a Causal Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2012; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.08.1026

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Mobile Phone Photo Recovery on Windows OS Computer - Data ...

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Sometimes you delete photos which you think useless from your mobile phone but you do really need them in the near future. What will you do on such an awkward occasion?

First, you should stop putting more files into your mobile phone or phone memory card, to avoid data overwriting. Then you need to connect your phone or phone card to the computer and download photo recovery software.

I suggest one mobile phone photo recovery tool which can recover photos, pictures, images from your hard drive, external hard drive, memory card, SD card with simple steps.

uFlysoft Photo Recovery Software is a handy Mac utility to undelete media files lost or formatted from a mobile phone. The program is fully compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7.

Reason of Mobile Phone Photo Loss

Before we start to use uFlysoft Photo Recovery for Win to recover the lost photos, let?s learn some reasons of mobile phone photo loss first.

1. Physical Damage

?Suddenly shut down when you are using your mobile phone to take photos/videos. (Low battery)

?Drop on the floor and crash

?Mobile phone memory card damage

2. If you are sure that your problem doesn?t appear above, check the reasons listed as follows.

?Carelessly deleted the photos or formatted your mobile phone

?Connect to the computer which is infected by the virus

?The wrong operation on your mobile phone (Pull out the memory card without shutting down the phone)

If you just meet the second reason, then we uFlyosft Photo Recovery for Win is a good choice for you to recover lost photo from mobile phone.

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With uFlysoft Photo Recovery for Win, there is no need to learn more skill to use it, all you need to do is to follow the easy ?3-step? operation below and do some clicks. Let?s check it out.

1. Install the application on your computer. (Worry about the fee? No need to do so. uFlysoft photo recovery software is free download/free scan application.)

2. Start scanning where the lost photo files were stored before after launching the program.

3. After scanning is finished, click ?Recover? and choose the path where you want to store the lost photos.

See? Only this easy ?3-step? operation you need, and then you can get back your lost photo in a short time.

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US Attorney defends Aaron Swartz prosecution

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Suzanne Choney , NBC News

The U.S. attorney who directed the prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who took his life last Friday, made her first public comments?about the case, saying her office's "conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling" the charges.

"As a parent and a sister, I can only imagine the pain felt by the family and friends of Aaron Swartz, and I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy to everyone who knew and loved this young man," said Carmen M. Ortiz, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, in a statement.?

"I know that there is little I can say to abate the anger felt by those who believe that this office's prosecution of Mr. Swartz was unwarranted and somehow led to the tragic result of him taking his own life."

The U.S. Attorney's office, and?Ortiz, specifically, are under fire for bringing?the case against Swartz, including an online petition effort to oust her.?

Swartz, 26,?was a passionate advocate for making public documents?and?as much information as possible available on the Web.?He?was?indicted in 2011?by the federal government on charges of wire fraud and computer fraud.?In an attempt to provide free access to JSTOR, a subscription service for science and literacy journals on MIT's network, Swartz downloaded nearly the entire library of 4.8 million articles and documents to make it publicly accessible.

"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach,"?Swartz's family and partner said?in?a?statement?last?weekend.

Ortiz said that is not the case. "The career prosecutors handling this matter took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had?taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably,"?she?said?in?the?statement.?

"The prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence?against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his acts for personal financial gain, and they recognized?that his conduct????while a violation of the law????did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by?Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases."

Ortiz?said?discussions?were?ongoing?about?a?sentence?that?would?have?been?"six?months?in?a?low?security?setting,"?and?that?"At?no time did this office ever seek???or ever tell Mr. Swartz's attorneys that it intended to seek???maximum penalties under the law,"?which?could??have?been?several?years?in?prison.

In?the?meantime,?California?congresswoman?Zoe?Lofgren,?a?Democrat?whose?district includes Silicon Valley, is?proposing?a?bill,?dubbed?"Aaron's?Law,"?that?would?change the Computer?Fraud?and?Abuse?Act?that?Swartz?was?charged?under,?to?exclude?terms-of-service?violations.

"It looks like the government used the vague wording of those laws to claim that violating an online service?s user agreement or terms of service is a violation of the CFAA and the wire fraud statute," Lofgren said on?Reddit, where she floated the proposal.?"Using the law in this way could criminalize many everyday activities and allow for outlandishly severe penalties."

Lofgren?said?the?law?should?be?changed?to "prevent what happened to Aaron from happening to other Internet users."

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/prosecutor-defends-actions-aaron-swartz-case-1B8016963

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Michigan State University Professor Charles Ballard told an audience at the Detr...

Michigan State University Professor Charles Ballard told an audience at the Detroit Economic Club recently that per-capita earnings in right-to-work states are about $5,000 less than in non-right-to-work states.

What he didn't say was that Michigan's per-capita earnings as a non-right-to-work state were below right-to-work states in 2011.

Those saying that right-to-work per-capita income is higher than non-right-to-work states often don't take into consideration the trends when compared to forced unionization states. Those poorer states were earning less even before right-to-work became an option. In recent decades, right-to-work states have grown faster in population, jobs and income when compared to forced unionization states.

The first states to give workers the freedom to choose whether they want to pay to be in a union as a condition of employment did so in 1947.

States that adopted right-to-work laws didn't become poor because of the law. Most were struggling already. For example, Texas' per capita income was on average $540 from 1929 to 1946, which at that time put it 36 percent below the average per capita income of the states that became non-right-to-work states. In 2011, Texas? per capita income was $40,147 and was just 8 percent below the per capita income of non-right-to-work states.

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City lights create sexual early birds

Male blackbirds exposed to nocturnal illumination ready to mate sooner in spring

By Susan Milius

Web edition: January 8, 2013

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EARLY BIRD

Male European blackbirds exposed to urban night light levels molted sooner and their sexual development advanced up to a month faster than birds living with dark nights.

Credit: Malene Thyssen/Wikimedia

SAN FRANCISCO ? City lights can deliver male birds into reproductive readiness weeks ahead of schedule.

Male European blackbirds monitored in a lab under simulated city lighting started secreting increased levels of testosterone and growing their sexual organs up to a month earlier in the spring than birds kept in country-style darkness, Davide Dominoni of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany, reported January 6 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Dominoni?s colleagues have found that, outside the lab, male blackbirds flying around Munich undergo this growth surge about three weeks earlier than counterparts in a forest just 40 kilometers out of town.

Beginning in December 2010, the researchers exposed captive blackbirds to night light levels typical of urban settings. They estimated those levels by outfitting free-flying blackbirds with light-sensitive devices and averaging the urban light exposure. A winter of lab night light sped up the males? molting and boosted testosterone levels as well as organ development in spring. Continuing the night light treatment through the next winter left the males reproductively shut down in the spring of 2012.

The lab night lights probably kept the birds? seasonal reproductive clocks from resetting at the end of the first breeding season, Dominoni says. That second-year suppression may not be common in the real world, where birds fly around and experience more variety in night lighting, he says. But he sees the lab breeding shutdown as a sign of how big of an impact artificial light might have.

?There?s no shortage of starlings and other birds in cities,? said Jamie Cornelius of the University of California, Davis: Urban birds can reproduce despite artificial lights, and Cornelius says she?d love to know what lets them manage when the lab birds couldn?t.

Maybe the results hold a nugget of inspiration for some kind of light-driven control for nuisance birds, mused Ned Place of Cornell University. Perhaps blasts of illumination in certain urban places on a certain series of nights could discourage overpopulation by less-beloved avian residents.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347417/title/City_lights_create_sexual_early_birds

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Gov't spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the last fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report on the government's enforcement efforts from a Washington think tank.

The report on Monday from the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan group focused on global immigration issues, said in the 2012 budget year that ended in September the government spent about $18 billion on immigration enforcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol. Immigration enforcement topped the combined budgets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion dollars, the report's authors said.

Since then-President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986 ? which legalized more than 3 million illegal immigrants and overhauled immigration laws ? the government has spent more than $187 billion on immigration enforcement. According to the report, "Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery," federal immigration-related criminal prosecutions also outnumber cases generated by the Justice Department.

The 182-page report concludes that the Obama administration has made immigration its highest law enforcement priority. Critics are likely to bristle over its findings, especially those who have accused the administration of being soft on immigration violators.

"Today, immigration enforcement can be seen as the federal government's highest criminal law enforcement priority, judged on the basis of budget allocations, enforcement actions and case volumes," MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner, a co-author of the report, said in a statement released with the report Monday.

The report by MPI's Meissner, Muzaffar Chishti, Donald Kerwin and Clair Bergeron, comes amid renewed interest in immigration reform from Congress and the White House.

In the immediate aftermath of the November election, congressional Republicans suggested the time was right to begin reform talks anew. President Barack Obama, who won a record share of Hispanic voters, renewed a previous pledge to make immigration reform a priority.

In the lead up to the election, Obama made several administrative changes to the immigration system, including launching a program to allow some young illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and work legally in the country for up to two years. His administration also refocused enforcement efforts to target criminal immigrants and those who posed a security threat. And just last week, the administration announced a rule change to allow some illegal immigrant spouses and children of U.S. citizens to stay in the country while they ask the government to waive 3- or 10-year bans on returning to the United States. Immigrants who win the waiver will still need to leave the country to complete visa paperwork, but will be able to leave without fear of being barred from returning to their families for up to a decade. The rule, first proposed last year, goes into effect in March.

Republican lawmakers have widely criticized the policy changes, routinely describing them as "backdoor amnesty." Many of those same lawmakers have said the border needs to be secured before reform can be taken up.

According to the MPI report and Border Patrol statistics, in 2011 agents arrested about 327,000 people at the southern border, the fewest in nearly 40 years. The Homeland Security Department also removed a record 396,906 immigrants that year. In 2012, nearly 410,000 people were removed from the United States.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/govt-spent-18-billion-immigration-155940516.html

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Properties to be sold in 312 private colonies soon

New Delhi-?The revenue Department of Delhi is all geared up to initiate the sale and purchase of the 312 colonies which are constructed on the private?land. This proposal was recently approved by the?Lieutenant Governor?s office and will be notified by the coming week.

The?revenue?department?had sought permission to allow the sale and purchase of the land based on the khasra number on colonies situated on the private land as per the?proposed revenue.

This decision to do the land transactions will be quite beneficial to the colony residents as they were earlier not allowed to do any sort of land transaction here due to the?issuance?of provisional regularization certificates in 2008.

This step will not just ?help the residents buy and sell their?properties in Delhi but will also result in increased property prices. As per sources, the properties will be registered as per the valid general power of attorney which is registered before October 2011 Supreme Court order.

The private colonies are divided into four categories as per the?revenue department?s proposal. They are divided into colonies which were established on entire private land, the colonies on the private land procured by the government with no actions against the residents and the colonies established on private land procured through paper and an absence of?compensation to farmers by the government and lastly colonies with lands under the gram sabha.

However, only the first three categories are cleared for the sale and purchase followed by a revised plan for lands under the gram sabha.

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Source: http://www.commonfloor.com/news/properties-to-be-sold-in-312-private-colonies-soon-39330

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