Cigarettes Top Mayor Bloomberg's List of Dislikes

First he wanted to hide cigarette cartons in bins or closets behind store counters. Now, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to raise the age to legally buy cigarettes to 21 from 18.

The proposal, announced Monday by city Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley and city council Speaker Christine Quinn, is the latest in a string of attacks on Americans' vices, from salt to soda.

Check out the full list of things Mayor Mike doesn't like:

Young Smokers, Colorful Cigarette Cartons

Bloomberg's new proposal to raise the age to legally buy cigarettes would give New York the toughest tobacco rules of any major city. The mayor has also proposed legislation that would require stores to keep cigarettes out of sight, hidden behind counters or in bins or closets so that children and former smokers would not be tempted to buy them.

"Such displays suggest that smoking is a normal activity, and they invite young people to experiment with tobacco," Bloomberg said.

Mayor Bloomberg's soda ban, which would have outlawed the sale of sodas larger than 16 ounces, was struck down by the New York Supreme Court. The court ruled that the ban was "arbitrary and capricious," but Bloomberg vowed to continue the fight.

Bloomberg touted his health policies after the law was struck down, saying they "helped New Yorkers live longer, healthier lives."

"Life expectancy in our city is now three years longer than it was in 2001 and more than two years longer than the national average," he said.

Cannoli and Cheesecake (Made With Trans-Fats)

Cannoli are a bedrock of New York food culture, but their flaky crusts came under scrutiny in 2008, when the city's health-conscious mayor banned trans-fats from any foods prepared and sold in the city. Famous bakeries including Ferrara's and Junior's adjusted their recipes, along with fast-food giants like McDonald's and Burger King.

Mayor Bloomberg has long touted New York's subway system as the best way to get around the city. He even rides the subway to work at City Hall. In 2007, the mayor proposed a "congestion charge" in which drivers would have to pay $8 to drive their cars into Manhattan. The plan was nixed by state legislators.

When Bloomberg opts for wheels instead of the subway, he is chauffeured around the city in his trademark black SUV, and prefers that the vehicle be kept cool. Rather than run the car's air conditioning system, however, which would require the engine to be on, Bloomberg aides turn the car off and attach a home air conditioner to the car's front window.

"This is an experiment to be used on extremely hot days like the types we saw last week," spokesman Stu Loeser told the New York Post, which first spotted the strange cooling method. "Even with the vehicles parked in the shade, the temperatures inside can quickly rise to more than 100 degrees."

Rather than banning his beloved salty snacks from New York City (the mayor is an admitted Cheez-Its fan), the Bloomberg administration introduced a voluntary salt-reduction plan in 2010 to encourage food producers to cut down on sodium. Campbell's, Heinz, Starbucks, and dozens of other companies have voluntarily complied with the guidelines.

During his 2013 State of the City address in February, Mayor Bloomberg said the next item he would like banned from the city is polystyrene foam, used in take-out containers and to-go cups in businesses throughout the city.

It is "something that we know is environmentally destructive," and "is something we can do without," he said during the speech. "We will work to adopt a law banning Styrofoam food packaging from our stores and restaurants."

New Yorkers can no longer ignorantly indulge in the city's fast-food offerings. In 2008, Mayor Bloomberg helped usher in a new law requiring all chain restaurants to post calorie counts showing how many calories are in Big Macs, Subway sandwiches and Dunkin' Donuts' Munchkins, for example.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cigarettes-top-nyc-mayor-mike-bloombergs-list-dislikes/story?id=19021915

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Fashion Face-Off: Kim Kardashian vs. Kris Jenner!

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Robert Redford: We need more Woodwards & Bernsteins

Top Line

It?s been more than 40 years since Watergate, but the old story?and its characters?made news once again with the Washington premiere of Robert Redford?s new documentary about the scandal. And Top Line snagged red carpet interviews with the big stars of the night: Robert Redford, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein.

Redford?s new documentary All the President?s Men Revisited takes a historical look at the scandal?and the investigative reporting by Woodward and Bernstein?that ultimately led to President Richard Nixon?s resignation.

Redford, who says ?we need a lot of people like Woodward and Bernstein? today, hopes the documentary is a good resource for young aspiring reporters who come to journalism in the age of the Internet.

?The Internet changed everything,? says Redford. ?There's so many voices claiming the truth, it's harder and harder to get to it.?

While Redford says it?s up to the audience to decide whether modern technology has altered journalism for the better or worse, Woodward and Bernstein agree that the fast pace set by technology sometimes sacrifices thoroughness and accuracy.

When asked how the Watergate story might have been covered differently in the modern day, Woodward replies: ?It might be on Twitter, but you can't get what Watergate was about in 140 characters. 40 years ago, we could work two weeks on a story before it had to be published; now it looks like if you have an advance on the story can we get it on the website in 10 minutes.?

They also agree that thorough investigative reporting is still achievable.

?I think there would be some great reporting and emphasis on same techniques that we used, visiting people at night, and then I think there'd also be an awful lot of people who rush out, come to a conclusion without much information,? says Bernstein.

To hear more about the documentary, which will air on the Discovery Channel on May 4^th at 10 AM/EST, and to hear how Woodward says he disappointed many dates in the 70?s by not being Robert Redford, check out this episode of Top Line.

ABC's Eric Wray, Alexandra Dukakis, John Bullard, and Mark Rabin contributed to this episode.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/robert-redford-more-woodwards-bernsteins-112849975.html

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Full planes help boost US Airways 1Q results

Full planes were good to US Airways.

The nation's fifth-largest airline posted a bigger adjusted first-quarter profit as it carried more passengers, and collected more from them.

US Airways Group Inc. earned $44 million, or 26 cents per share. Its adjusted profit was 31 cents per share, topping the expectations of analysts polled by FactSet.

Revenue rose 3.5 percent to $3.38 billion.

The airline earned 28 cents per share in the year-ago quarter, but that was inflated by a swap with Delta for landing rights in Washington.

Occupancy rose 2.4 percentage points to 81.7 percent.

US Airways plans to merge with American Airlines. The combined airline would be the biggest in the world. US Airways says it still expects the deal to close by the end of September.

Associated Press

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

The tech industry has a certain narrative on how startups are created. Given the immense wealth generated in a short period of time, entrepreneurial lessons are often lost in the measure of dollars and growth. My take away from Mark Zuckerberg & Steve Jobs are their maniacal passion for building a great product. Startup founders are always looking to apply lessons. If you look closely in the real world around you much can be learned. Even from a Vietnam refugee selling, well, hot sauce

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Muscle repair after injury helped by fat-forming cells

Monday, April 22, 2013

UC San Francisco scientists have discovered that muscle repair requires the action of two types of cells better known for causing inflammation and forming fat.

The finding in mice, published in the April 11 issue of Cell, showed that a well-known immune cell called the eosinophil [ee-oh-SIN-oh-fil] carries out the beneficial role in two ways ? by clearing out cellular debris from damaged tissue and teaming up with a type of cell that can make fat to instead trigger muscle regrowth.

The study, led by Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute, showed that after eosinophils move to the site of injury, they collaborate with a kind of progenitor cell ? immature cells similar to stem cells ? to drive the formation of new muscle fibers. The progenitors, called the fibro/adipogenic cells (FAP), do not spin off muscle cells directly.

"Without eosinophils you cannot regenerate muscle," Chawla said.

FAP cells have been known for their role in making fat, which occurs as the body ages or experiences prolonged immobility. They also have been known to make cells that form connective tissue. But the UCSF study showed that FAP cells also team up with eosinophils to make injured muscles get stronger rather than fatter, at least in mice.

In a kind of cellular chain reaction, Chawla's team found that when eosinophils at the site of muscle injury secrete a molecule called IL-4, FAP cells respond by expanding their numbers. And instead of becoming fat cells, they act on the true muscle stem cells to trigger the regrowth of muscle fibers.

"They wake up the cells in muscle that divide and form muscle fibers," he said.

Eosinophils help fight bacteria and parasites, as do other immune cells, but eosinophils are more often thought of for their maladaptive roles in allergies and other inflammatory reactions. Eosinophils comprise only a few percent of immune cells.

Chawla's team found that, even before active muscle repair, the chain reaction initiated by eosinophils performs another necessary task ? taking out the garbage.

"Eosinophils, acting via FAPs, are needed for the rapid clearance of necrotic debris, a process that is necessary for timely and complete regeneration of tissues," Chawla said.

Bigger and more abundant immune cells called macrophages ? with large appetites and a propensity to gobble up debris in other destructive scenarios ? had often, but erroneously, been credited with cleaning up messes within distressed muscle tissue.

"Bites from venomous animals, many toxicants, and parasitic worms all trigger somewhat similar immune responses that cause injury," Chawla said. "We want to know if eosinophils and FAPs are universally employed in these situations as a way to get rid of debris without triggering severe reactions such as anaphylactic shock."

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Earth's current warmth not seen in the last 1,400 years or more, says study

Apr. 21, 2013 ? Fueled by industrial greenhouse gas emissions, Earth's climate warmed more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other three-decade interval in the last 1,400 years, according to new regional temperature reconstructions covering all seven continents. This period of humanmade global warming, which continues today, reversed a natural cooling trend that lasted several hundred years, according to results published in the journal Nature Geoscience by more than 80 scientists from 24 nations analyzing climate data from tree rings, pollen, cave formations, ice cores, lake and ocean sediments, and historical records from around the world.

"This paper tells us what we already knew, except in a better, more comprehensive fashion," said study co-author Edward Cook, a tree-ring scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who led the Asia reconstruction.

The study also found that Europe's 2003 heat wave and drought, which killed an estimated 70,000 people, happened during Europe's hottest summer of the last 2,000 years. "Summer temperatures were intense that year and accompanied by a lack of rain and very dry soil conditions over much of Europe," said study co-author Jason Smerdon, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty and one of the lead contributors to the Europe reconstruction. Though summer 2003 set a record for Europe, global warming was only one of the factors that contributed to the temperature conditions that summer, he said.

The study is the latest to show that the Medieval Warm Period, from about 950 to 1250, may not have been global, and may not have happened at the same time in places that did grow warmer. While parts of Europe and North America were fairly warm between 950 and 1250, South America stayed relatively cold, the study says. Some people have argued that the natural warming that occurred during the medieval ages is happening today, and that humans are not responsible for modern day global warming. Scientists are nearly unanimous in their disagreement "If we went into another Medieval Warm Period again that extra warmth would be added on top of warming from greenhouse gases," said Cook.

Temperatures varied less between continents in the same hemisphere than between hemispheres. "Distinctive periods, such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age stand out, but do not show a globally uniform pattern," said co-author Heinz Wanner, a scientist at the University of Bern. By 1500, temperatures dropped below the long-term average everywhere, though colder temperatures emerged several decades earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia.

The most consistent trend across all regions in the last 2,000 years was a long-term cooling, likely caused by a rise in volcanic activity, decrease in solar irradiance, changes in land-surface vegetation, and slow variations in Earth's orbit. With the exception of Antarctica, cooling tapered off at the end of the 19th century, with the onset of industrialization. Cooler 30-year periods between 830 and 1910 were particularly pronounced during weak solar activity and strong tropical volcanic eruptions. Both phenomena often occurred simultaneously and led to a drop in the average temperature during five distinct 30- to 90-year intervals between 1251 and 1820. Warming in the 20th century was on average twice as large in the northern continents as it was in the Southern Hemisphere. During the past 2000 years, some regions experienced warmer 30-year intervals than during the late 20th century. For example, in Europe the years between 21 and 80 AD were likely warmer than the period 1971-2000.

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