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Even CEOs are caught napping on the job.
In yet another sign Americans are trying to catch 40 winks whenever they can, Yahoo Inc.
Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was late for a meeting with clients at the Cannes advertising festival after she reportedly fell asleep. Last Tuesday, Interpublic Group
Workplace performance deteriorates when sleep is restricted to six hours per night for a week and does not improve after two nights of recovery sleep, according to a paper presented to the 2013 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies by Alexandros Vgontzas, professor of psychiatry and endowed chair in sleep disorders medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine. Despite Mayer's recent mishap, that paper found that women may actually be less affected than men by this workweek pattern of sleep loss.
Sleeplessness is a big business. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has over 2,500 sleep centers; their number has doubled since 2007 and increased fivefold over the past decade. It's worth over $32 billion, it's an even bigger economic problem — costing nearly twice that in lost productivity. The problem: some 28% of Americans are getting less than 6 hours sleep a night, even though the recommended number is 7 to 9 hours, according to a report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lack of sleep is a "public health epidemic" in the U.S., according to the CDC report. "Unintentionally falling asleep, nodding off while driving, and having difficulty performing daily tasks because of sleepiness all may contribute to these hazardous outcomes, the report says. Those experiencing a prolonged lack of sleep are also more likely to suffer from chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, and obesity, and cancer, increased mortality, and reduced quality of life and productivity, it adds.
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The economic costs now run into billions of dollars a year. Nearly a quarter of all workers are affected by sleeplessness, according to a 2011 study by Harvard Medical School. And insomnia costs an average of $2,280 per worker in reduced productivity every year — a total cost of $63.2 billion to the economy, the study says. That equates to 11 working days lost annually for each worker, says Ronald C. Kessler, lead author of the study and McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
So why are Americans losing sleep? Since the 2008 recession, more people are lying awake at night worrying about their financial situation and job security, says Nathaniel F. Watson, president of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. (In fact, one-third of Americans lose sleep over the economy, according to one 2009 poll by the National Sleep Foundation.) The rise in U.S. obesity rates is another major factor, Watson says. But others are less certain. "There are lots of pop-psychology theories," Kessler says. "One thing we do know — it's pervasive through all sections of society."
Whatever the causes, consumers are spending billions of dollars to get some shut-eye. The "sleep market" industry is currently worth over $32 billion, up from nearly $24 billion four years ago, according to John LaRosa, research director at MarketData Enterprises, a market research company in Tampa. Some 70 million Americans suffer from sleeplessness. Desperate for the perfect night's sleep, they're buying sleeping pills, premium mattresses, white noise machines, sleeping masks, mobile phone apps and other sleep-related paraphernalia.
But people need help staying awake too, which is compounding the problem. "There's an enormous amount of self-medication for sleeplessness in America," Kessler says. "That's one reason why the sales of super-caffeinated energy drinks are skyrocketing." Sales of energy drinks have surged by 60% between from 2008 and 2012, and are expected to hit $21 billion by 2017, up from $12.5 billion in 2012, according to data from Packaged Facts, an industry publication. There are better ways of dealing with insomnia, Kessler says, like cutting down on caffeine and not playing on your smartphone or watching TV in bed late at night.
(This story has been updated.)
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Charlottesville dating: Not an oxymoron
We've got rolling hills, mountain views, and history galore. But if you ask the average Charlottesvillian about the local dating scene, you're likely to get a blank stare. After all, we were named one of the top 100 communities by Where to Retire magazine last year.
The flip side is that for many modern-day dater seekers, chest-thumping music halls aren't the only venues likely to produce results. The new meet markets include such unlikely locales as Lowe's, coffee bars, natural food stores... and yes, maybe even your grandmother's perennial suggestion, church.
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We've now created a vicious cycle, do you see it? Bigger government spending money they don't have becomes a bankrupt government... yet, they take from the people to give to the central bankers. Then those who fall by the wayside turn to crime to make ends meet, not to mention that they now have lawless role models. More crime means more government spending on police, prisons, and "national defense." That again leads to more government debt and the cycle has begun…
Survey: Retail theft skyrockets
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Twenty-two major retailers lost more than $6 billion to shoplifters and dishonest employees in 2008, according to a new survey.
On the upside, a record 904,226 thieves were apprehended, up 7.26 percent from 2007. Of them, 832,106 were shoplifters and 72,120 were dishonest employees, according to the 21st Annual Retail Theft Survey conducted by Jack L. Hayes International, a loss prevention and inventory shrinkage control consulting firm based in Wesley Chapel, Fla.
That breaks down to one in every 30 employees being apprehended for theft from their employer in 2008, based on more than 2.1 million employees.
The survey found more than $182 million was recovered, up 21.64 percent from the previous year. More than $113 million was recovered from shoplifters, while $69.8 million was recovered from employees.
"With the downturn in the economy, we have seen an increase in theft, which is having a detrimental impact on retailers' bottom-line profits," said Mark R. Doyle, president of Jack L. Hayes International, in a news release. "These theft losses drive consumer prices higher and can force unprofitable stores to close."
The average theft in 2008 was $202.28, up from $178.37 a year earlier.
The 22 retail companies participating in the survey had 19,151 stores and more than $570 billion in retail sales as of 2008.
Oh yeah, the "upside" is that more thieves were apprehended, and I presume, more were jailed (except in the states like California where they are being forced to release prisoners because they can't afford to keep them jailed anymore).
The amount of recovered money was up nearly 22%, that's quite a jump. We are slowly (quickly?) degenerating into the wild west again. No rule of law, end of empire sky high conviction rates by the government, it's a one way circle of decaying morals, more debt, decaying morals, and still more debt. The circle will go unbroken until the rule of law at the top is restored.


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Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has refused to say if he had personally read all official documents before classifying them as secret.
Voluntarily appearing before a Senate committee on Friday dominated by Labor and the Greens, Mr Morrison clashed with senators who demanded to know why he had refused a request to produce background documents.
Senators asked how he had assessed border protection documents before deciding they were unsuitable for release to the Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee. He declined to answer definitively.
Labor senator Kim Carr accused the minister of making a blanket ruling over the documents. Senators also probed an apparent discrepancy over the definition of asylum seekers as ''illegal maritime arrivals'' or ''IMAs'' after Mr Morrison said there had been ''zero arrivals since December 19''.
An arrival, Mr Morrison said, constituted an asylum seeker being ''transferred into immigration authorities''. But asked how many boats had entered Australian waters during the period of ''zero arrivals'', Mr Morrison refused to respond. To do so, he maintained, would be against the public interest.
Earlier, Mr Morrison had boasted that the government's policies had delivered the first IMA-free calendar month in 58 weeks, and the first January of zero boats since 2006.
An argument ensued as Labor and Greens senators attempted to establish if the zero-IMA claim was sustainable only because the definition of an arrival excluded people aboard vessels turned around on the high seas, even where they had clearly entered Australian territorial waters.
In his evidence to the committee, the military commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, Lieutenant-General Angus Campbell, also suggested the release of the documents represented a potential problem in Australia's relationship with Indonesia.
''The documents requested relate to operational matters that I believe should not be disclosed,'' he said.
He used his opening statement to offer the strongest operational justification so far for the high level of secrecy.
He said that because Indonesian people-smugglers operated in direct competition, they did not share what fragments of intelligence they were able to obtain about Australia's border security measures.
This meant that information about the deployment of Australian ships was incomplete, making the task of getting asylum seeker boats through the net, much harder.
Meanwhile, for the first time in almost six weeks an asylum seeker coming to Australia by boat has been taken onto Christmas Island.
In a statement on Friday afternoon, Mr Morrison revealed only that the asylum seeker was suffering from a ''heart condition''.


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Beltran welcomed warmly in former home at ASG
Cards outfielder reflects on past and present, notches first hit for NL
NEW YORK -- Long before the three would wear the same uniform, Adam Wainwright, Yadier Molina and Carlos Beltran found themselves forever connected through the events of one October night in New York.
Molina hit the tie-breaking home run. Wainwright threw the curve. Beltran left the bat on his shoulder.
Seven years later, all three returned to Queens as All-Stars, their careers, to varying degrees, defined by the outcome of that 2006 National League Championship Series elimination game. Clearly, time had not healed the hearts of Mets fans, either.
Upon being introduced as All-Stars, both Wainwright and Molina took boos from many in the Citi Field sellout crowd. Beltran, whose successful stint as a Met was clouded by that one at-bat in which he froze, was greeted much more warmly. He received a louder applause than any other non-Mets player on the NL squad.
"I was surprised, honestly," Beltran said after the NL's 3-0 loss to the American League. "Wearing a St. Louis uniform in New York where a lot of people don't see St. Louis, here, with good eyes based on what happened in 2006. But it was fun. I really appreciated it. I really enjoyed my time when I played with the Mets, but like everything in life, you have to move on. It's been three years since I've been a part of the Mets. I understand also that they have moved on. I'm glad that I got the reception that I got. I'm just happy that it happened that way."
When the Cardinals visited New York last month, Beltran was greeted with a much more mixed chorus of cheers and boos. During his seven-year stint with the Mets, Beltran hit .280 with 149 homers, 559 RBIs and 100 stolen bases in 839 games.
The eight-time All-Star batted second and started in right field at his former home on Tuesday. After grounding out in his first-inning at-bat against AL starter Max Scherzer, Beltran tallied the NL's first hit with a fourth-inning single off Seattle's Felix Hernandez.
"When I got my first at-bat, I was thinking, 'Who am I going to get next?'" Beltran later joked. "I got a pitch to hit and was able to stay inside and get a little hit there. These are All-Stars. It's not going to be a piece of cake out there."
It was one of only three hits the NL would have in its shutout loss. Beltran's homecoming ended with the single, too, as NL manager Bruce Bochy promptly replaced him with pinch-runner Andrew McCutchen.
Beltran, whose All-Star start was the sixth of his career, is now 7-for-17 in the Midsummer Classic.
"It was a great atmosphere, had great life," Beltran said at evening's end. "It was beautiful to see, honestly. Fans were really excited. An All-Star Game, fans have to be excited to watch all the best players in the world together playing in a game in a city like New York, where this is a lot of passion about the game of baseball."


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KLEMTU, B.C. - A coalition of 10 First Nations on B.C.'s north and central coast says years of urging the government to ban trophy bear hunting in its territory hasn't worked so now it has declared its own moratorium.
But the provincial government showed no indication Wednesday that it was willing to go along with a ban that contributes millions to the B.C. economy.
First Nations coalition spokesman William Housty admitted that enforcing the ban won't be easy without the province making trophy hunting illegal.
"That's an issue that we're facing — how we're going to be able to deal with that without the province supporting us," said Housty of the Heiltsuk First Nation.
He said the First Nations don't have the authority to impose a ban, and that hunters and poachers who leave bear carcasses lying around have ignored signs urging them to stop the practice.
"That's really a problem. We can't walk up to these hunters and say, `You can't hunt here.' We can't write a ticket."
Housty said trophy hunting threatens the First Nations' lucrative ecotourism opportunities, but the province has ignored such concerns.
"Because we have not ceded any of this land to anybody, we feel that we have a voice and should have a voice in how these lands are managed and this includes the bear hunt."
But Steve Thomson, minister of forests, lands and natural resource operations, said he was disappointed by the announcement, saying the government has always been open to talks with First Nations.
"We also know that as the hunt gets under way at this time of the year, this is when many of the concerns about the hunt come forward," he said. "Disappointed but not totally surprised in a sense."
Thomson said hunting industry contributes about $350 million to the province annually and is an important part of the economy and the B.C.'s heritage.
More than 58 per cent of the traditional territory of the coastal First Nations is closed to grizzly bear hunting he added, noting the government has also put in place eco-system based management.
"We believe that the current hunt is sustainable and is managed based on sound science."
When asked if the provincial government sees a difference between trophy hunting and hunting for food purposes, Thomson said, "that's part of what we need to engage First Nations on."
Housty said coastal First Nations are working on marine- and land-use plans to manage resources in their territory and are also considering the salmon run and how it affects birds, bears and the evolving ecosystem.
"It goes against our cultural beliefs and values of management of our territories and bears in particular, and because we have an increasing presence on our land with research projects, with our people reconnecting to the land, it doesn't make sense to have hunters in the same area."
Guides are making money selling hunting tags, and pressure from them may be one reason why successive governments have failed to take the First Nations' concerns seriously, Housty said.
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Earth Day got me thinking about my every day cooking and my impact upon our earth. Each day I prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner for a growing family- and within a day or two I am almost always throwing out leftovers, fruits that I bought too much of, vegetables that I decided not to make…. How is all this waste impacting the environment? Here a few facts just to give you an idea of the food being wasted in America:
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), just over a quarter of the country's food — about 25.9 million tons — gets thrown in the garbage can every year. It then costs the government 1 Billion dollars to dispose of all of this waste.
So tomorrow morning instead of throwing out my challah from Saturday Shabbat lunch, I will be making baked challah french toast!
1 loaf cinnamon raisin challah bread (Plain challah bread works great with this recipe as well)
3 eggs
2 cups whole milk (Sometimes I do one cup skim and one cup whole)
3 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 cup sugar mixed with 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Slice Challah bread in 2 inch thick slices and place in pyrex that has been sprayed with pam.
Combine eggs, milk, and vanilla extract in a bowl and pour over bread. Let the bread soak up the mixture. Flip slices of bread and let it continue to soak up the mixture- this should only take a few minutes.
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Three flood warnings remain in place in Wiltshire along the River Avon.
The Environment Agency has stressed that the threat of flooding still remains in Bradford on Avon, Malmesbury and Melksham while a number of warnings have been removed in other locations.
In Staverton, the B3105 remains closed following flooding with the fire service reminding motorists not to ignore road closure notices.
Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service went to a flooded house in Beanacre, a crew from Melksham pumping water from the property.
A crew from Trowbridge went out to a house in Ham Green, near Holt, which suffered a power cut.
The residents have their own pump system and the crew provided assistance until power was restored.
No disruption is being reported to the region's rail and bus services.
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FACULTY HONOR: Mann recognized by National Education Ministry of France
Feb. 17, 2014 9:45 a.m.
Professor of Anthropology Alan Mann has been awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the National Education Ministry of France for his anthropological research and mentoring of French students. The award is presented for significant contributions to furthering French intellectual, scientific and artistic achievements in the world. The award will be presented in the village of Marillac-le-Franc in the Charente Department, where Mann was co-director of an excavation of a prehistoric site with French and Princeton undergraduate students.


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Marlins meet with inspiring young journalist
JUPITER, Fla. -- By midmorning on Friday, a handful of players had lined up for sit-down interviews with a guest journalist at camp.
Malcolm Harris-Gowdie, 24, from nearby Port St. Lucie, has autism and cerebral palsy. He is an aspiring sports television broadcaster who was in town to raise autism awareness.
Steve Cishek, Jeff Baker, Mike Dunn and Giancarlo Stanton were among those who sat for interviews, which aired on CBS 12 in West Palm Beach.
One of the messages Harris-Gowdie delivers is that anyone can live their dreams.
"No limits, whatsoever," Harris-Gowdie said. "I want to be a sportscaster. This has been my passion ever since I was a kid, to be in front of the microphone. I know every single statistic in sports."
The questions the players were asked were light and fun.
"I want to ask the players: What advice would you give kids if they wanted to play in the Majors?" he said. "If they weren't playing baseball, what sport would they play? What was your 'welcome' moment to the Majors? Who was your favorite baseball player growing up and why? And your favorite team?"


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It is so easy to become a statistic from smoking, just follow the usage instructions on the cigarette package, and this product can kill you. If you got that kind of warning about almost any other product you would never touch it. Why do so many intelligent people continue to smoke when they know what the risks are, or do they only know some of them?
Envisage a product that every year wiped out just fewer than 50 % of the inhabitants of Rhode Island. Smoking tobacco is a causal agent in the deaths of over 400,000 males and female adults annually, or almost half of that state's dwellers! To look into the matterstill deeper, that indicates that 20% of all deaths in the U.S.A. Could be assigned to smoking. A sobering reality regarding smoking is that smoking is the individual most preventable reason for early demise in the U.S.A..
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Emphysema is a respiratory disorder characterized by problems in breathing. The disorder is caused by the enlargement of air sacs in the lungs, and this makes it difficult for the oxygen to get transported to the bloodstream. Emphysema is the most common cause of death from respiratory disease in the United States. It is generally caused by heavy cigarette smoking. Obviously with a reduction in the circulation of oxygen throughout the body it will deteriorate at an increased rate. Emphysema sufferers have the constant feeling of slowly suffocating, because they can't breathe in enough oxygen to feel comfortable.
Treatment of mild to moderate types includes, taking anti-histamine medications and avoiding allergens that can stimulate the allergy. It may also be treated with antihistamine medications to reduce the allergic reaction. Consulting your doctor is also important. They usually conduct an examination or skin test where in allergens are inserted beneath the skin that will identify specific allergens that cause allergic
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Numerous women are understandably substantially worried regarding breast cancer and respond to this concern with yearly tests, the findings of which are that they play a waiting game with their health. Even so, between 1960 and 1990, deaths amongst adult females induced by lung cancer have expanded by greater than 400%, outnumbering mid-1980s deaths induced by breast cancer.
In addition to this damage to the air sacs in the lungs, other tissues in the airways can become inflamed from cigarette smoke causing chronic bronchitis. Chronic
is a major cause of disability and death in the United States. The American Lung Association estimates that about 14 million Americans suffer from the disease. Chronic bronchitis is caused by inhaling bronchial irritants, especially cigarette smoke.
Allergic asthma also known as allergic bronchitis is different from non-allergic
, which is often linked to a severe cold or flu. This condition is triggered when the overly active immune system identifies harmless substances as dangerous and then releases antibodies to attack them as they enter the body. Most allergic bronchitis is mainly caused by an exposure to allergens, while there are conditions that can be considered as a non-allergic bronchitis which is caused by a virus or bacteria.
There are some cases that a person can be so sensitive to allergens that blocked airways caused by severe swelling of the tissue in the airway can cause hospitalization or death and this is considered as a dangerous situation that needs immediate medical assistance. But fortunately in most cases allergic bronchitis is considered as a mild to moderate condition. Awareness of this particular condition is important.
In the mid 18th Century a Polish health official Felix Botchkowski, noticed that the workers of salt mines did not get ill with lung diseases. He wrote a book about the effects of salt dust in 1843. His successor M. Poljakowski founded a Salt Spa in Velicko near Krakow, which is still in operation. During the Second World War salt mines were often used as bombproof shelters. After spending time there many people who suffered from asthma felt that their health had gotten better! Today there are many salt sanatoriums in Europe (Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia ').
Until recently the group of diseases that are thought to be primarily caused by smoking were all more prevalent in men than in women, however as the number of women smokers has increased, more women are being diagnosed with these diseases
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However there is some good news, some of the damage you have done to your body begins to repair itself very quickly. These repairs begin as soon as 20 minutes after you have your last cigarette, and continue over time. Added heart damage after 15 years of not smoking could be that of a non-smoker.
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Day-after-day it appears that there is an updated report or a new branch of research being finished to warn people about the dreadful truth regarding smoking. With every new piece of analytic thinking or research, on that subject there appears to represent a common denominator - the aftermath of smoking tobacco products is atrocious!
Allergic bronchitis is a type of asthma, which causes the obstruction of the airways when the bronchi or the air passages of the lungs become filled up with mucous during an asthma attack. Respiratory illnesses have significant effects on the lives of millions of people. It can be acute, when it is a short term illness and easily treatable. In allergic bronchitis, both asthma symptoms and allergies are present which can cause hay fever and allergic rhinitis. By far, the majority of cases of bronchitis stem from viral infections.
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The effectiveness of speleotherapy is not acknowledged in all countries of the world, but in countries like Romania (Praid, Tg.Ocna, Seiged, Sovata, Slanic, Ocna), Poland (Wieliczka), Germany (Teufelsh'hle), Austria (Hallen, Solzbad-Salzeman), Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Nakhichevan mines in Azerbaijan, the salt aerosol plays an important role in the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases, working well with or without medical treatment and without any known side effects. Because of these, pregnant women with asthma or other respiratory diseases could use this therapy without any harm to the child. Very well known and appreciated in these middle-eastern European countries, this therapy is covered by the public health care system. In Romania there are also many salt lakes - Sovata with 7 salt lakes, Ocna Sibiului with 52 salt lakes in S-W of Transilvania, very well known in the treatment of infertility, metabolic diseases, skin diseases. These salt lakes were usually formed by collapsing of salt caves ceilings. All these salt lakes have different salinity, increasing with deepness ' from 9g/l to 320g/l.
Illnesses that relate to breathing such as emphysema and
are caused or made worse by smoking. Do you want to finish your life dragging an oxygen bottle around with you, if you think so, ask someone who does drag one around, just to survive.
Speleotherapy also makes a great demand on patients' time. The mines are not conveniently located for most people and the total cost is fairly significant.
Symptoms of it may include runny nose, shortness of breath, red or swollen eyes, rashes, hyperventilation, tickling in throat, constant sneezing, tight chest, headache, nausea, coughing, and other allergy symptoms. This type of
is often worse at night. Chronic bronchitis is characterized by a persistent dry cough without other symptoms.
When the combination of these two illnesses strike a person it can be an extremely unpleasant situation where the shortage of breath becomes increasingly difficult and ultimately results in early death. Smoking also increases the problem of hypertension (high blood pressure) and along with that smokers are at more risk of having a heart attack than those people who don't smoke.
Respiratory diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Most drug therapies of respiratory diseases have only palliative effects, and many have significant side effects, especially those with corticoids or steroids. So, a physical therapy like Halotherapy is greatly needed.
Quitting smoking is hard to do, however thousands of people do it every day. What is required is that you make a plan to quit, and you start. Today would not be too soon.
Consider the following, before your light up your next cigarette; Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the US and is the biggest cause of disease and death in most western countries. And the deaths from these diseases are not easy deaths, they can involve multiple organs or body systems, and there will usually be considerable pain and suffering. It is the leading cause of many forms of cancer and also heart disease and stroke. Many people are not aware of the added risks of heart disease and stroke, probably helped along by the elevated blood pressure that smoking also causes. Virtually every organ in the body is harmed by smoking and this is due to the thousands of chemicals (yes that is thousands) that are present in tobacco smoke. Medical professionals are not even sure of everything that smoking can damage. Many of those chemicals have been shown to cause cancer and many other health problems are caused or made worse due to smoking.
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The inventor thought this device as an air salinizer that uses forced ionization of the indoor air by salt sublimation creating a micro climate of dry aerosol salt therapy in your living space. He used a natural process of salt crystallization to obtain salt micro crystals under 5'm in diameter, invisible to human eyes, being able to penetrate deep into the lung. The device uses only natural salt from within the mountain of salt, untreated or touched by the human processing technology.
is manageable, however if you have this illness you must also be aware that it can be dangerous at times. It is important that you know how to deal with it whenever you are exposed to unexpected allergen, like taking medications with you at all times in case of emergency.
The salt therapy is a natural method of therapy and does not involve any risk and is finally adapted to the living space. However, this is NOT a substitute for medical treatment and should only be used as an adjuvant helping to improve the quality of patients' life, reducing the antibiotics and corticoids or steroids intake, reducing the rate of annual hospitalizations and decrease the frequency of respiratory diseases attacks.
The Halotherapy belongs to the category of the physical therapies non-drug and non invasive treatments of diseases. In the former Soviet Union, medical researchers engaged in a concerted effort to develop physical therapies in order to avoid the costs and side effects of drug therapy as well as microbial and tumour resistance. Russia has become the world leader in developing and testing new and increasingly effective physical therapies. Many of the clinical trials have focused on Halotherapy as a treatment of asthma and chronic bronchitis and also very effective as a main or adjuvant therapy across the entire range of upper and lower respiratory tract diseases.
The deterioration of the ability to breathe freely stops smokers from participating in sports at higher levels and ultimately this reduction in the ability to exercise results in poor health and for many people the sedentary life that they will tend to lead causes many more related health problems.
The benefits of salt therapy (also called Halotherapy) or speleotherapy are well known and documented in Europe. Halotherapy uses dry aerosol micro particles of salt and minerals to treat respiratory diseases and seeks to replicate the conditions of speleotherapy (from Greek speleos=cave), a treatment that has been practiced in old salt mines of Eastern Europe since the early 19th century.
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The original land grant in 1705 to Trinity Church by Queen Anne was 215 acres. I think the northern boundary was what is now Christopher St, far outside the then city limits.
Today they own about 14 acres of prime real estate.
That looks like something Trump would have built back in 1984.
The original land grant in 1705 to Trinity Church by Queen Anne was 215 acres. I think the northern boundary was what is now Christopher St, far outside the then city limits.
Today they own about 14 acres of prime real estate.
Absolutely - they are fantastically rich because of those properties. And from what I've been told in private equity circles, there is a Dutch religious organization that still maintains real estate holdings throughout Manhattan that dwarf trinity church
****ing disgusting.
Cooper has been the rector of Trinity since 2004. His tenure has been contentious among the governing body. Some former members have said that the church has lost its way.
Village Voice article from 2012: http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-12-...-james-cooper/
This "spiritual leader" obviously forgot what Jesus said about money (i.e., render unto Caesar what is Caesar's).
And unto Trinity Church what is Trinity Church's.
1. I'm appalled at the destruction of a truly beautiful, classic New York building - the type we'll never see any more of.
2. I'm appalled at the wretched, uninspired profit-maximizing crap these criminals plan to build. This is something you'd expect of a Solow or Macklowe doing anything to squeeze out a few bucks - not a "non-profit."
3. I'm appalled this "church" is allowed to register as a non-profit organization with tax exemption.
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If we can't change (1) or (2), can we at least finally address the farce that is (3)?
Heartbreaking. The most unfortunate decision for NYC architecture in the last year (last 5 years?) moves forward.
Appalling what regard Trinity "Church" seems to have for this city and one of the most beautiful parts of it - a Gothic, brooding, and freakishly gorgeous and well-preserved tout ensemble of 19th- and early 20th-century gems. ... Until now.
Jesus came to Earth to destroy "religion." Only the word of the Lord as expressed through the Holy Bible (not what is said in the "church") is the true path to the Christ.
This is one Church which is in touch with its inner-Mammon.
I recently ran across an interesting historical tidbit about Trinity Church. They were the owners of the private St. John's Park surrounded by townhouses which I'm told was an equal to Gramercy Park in design and social standing. They sold out to a railroad who flatened the park and built a huge train depot that crushed land values and basically destroyed the whole neighborhood. In later years the land was sold to the State.
And so yes, Trinity Church is effectively responsible for what is now the Holland Tunnel traffic circle. Yuck
There's actually still a St. John's "Park" in the middle of the circle, which is officially closed to the public "no trespassing". It's a simple guardrail jump to get to though, you don't even have to cross the road


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To prepare the list of the province's highest paid executives, The Vancouver Sun looked at all companies whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange that list British Columbia as their headquarters. Then it topped up that list with the largest companies — measured by market capitalization (number of shares outstanding multiplied by share price) — headquartered in B.C. but listed on other exchanges. In most cases those companies were listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, but it also caught companies listed on exchanges outside Canada such as the New York Stock Exchange.
In all, almost 300 companies were on the list, and most had filed their management information circulars — the document that in most cases sets out executive compensation — by The Sun's June 1 cut-off. All executives who had pay packages worth more than $800,000 — there's more than 180 of them — were included in a list that is available at www.vancouversun.com. Only the top 100 are on the list that appears in The Sun's print edition.
Under rules issued by the Canadian Securities Administrators, companies are required to disclose the compensation for their chief executive officer, chief financial officer and the three most highly paid executives excluding the CEO and CFO, provided they earn more than $150,000.
The rules define executive to include the chair, president, a vice-president in charge of a principal business unit or anyone in a policy-making role, said Andrew Richardson, deputy director of corporate finance at the B.C. Securities Commission.
"So, for example, a highly paid salesperson is not going to be reported," Richardson said.
Earnings of highly paid executives who aren't among the top three of their company, and aren't the CFO or CEO, aren't disclosed either. That may explain, in part, the absence of women from the list.
For example, Telus Corp., B.C.'s largest private-sector employer, has three women in its 10-person executive suite, spokesman Shawn Hall said. But since they don't fall within the definition of CEO, CFO or the three other highest paid executives, their pay packages don't have to be disclosed.
New rules introduced two years ago have changed how compensation is measured. In the past, the number of options and share units granted merely had to be disclosed. Now they have to be given a value. Companies also have to include changes in pension value and a detailed description of what criteria are used to determine the appropriate level of compensation, including targets that have to be met to earn bonuses.
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In Testimony, Arne Duncan Continues to Distance Himself From Common Core
In a hearing before a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan defended the competitive grants built into his fiscal 2015 budget request, gave no substantive details about a proposed Race to the Top for equity contest, and continued to distance himself from the Common Core State Standards.
"I'm just a big proponent of high standards. Whether they're common or not is secondary," he told members of the House appropriations subcommittee that works on health, education, and other related issues.
Duncan also maintained that there are "zero" federal grants tied to the common core, after being pressed by members, including Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., who has filed legislation to prohibit the federal government from trying to encourage states via grants or waivers to adopt certain standards. (Note I clarified Roby's position, as she's not explictly anti-common-core, just against the federal government getting involved in such things.) Duncan pointed out that in instances where U.S. Department of Education programs such as No Child Left Behind Act waivers are tied to common standards, they include a back-up option for non-common-core states: getting universities to approve the standards as college-ready. (Virginia has a waiver, but has not adopted the common core.)
But when it comes to competitive grants, the answer is more complicated than "zero." The administration's original $4 billion Race to the Top program awarded 40 points to states for developing and adopting common standards. All 12 of those winners have adopted the standards, and have not backed off. What's more, a separate, $360 million Race to the Top contest to fund common tests was based on the premise that states needed help developing such assessments based on the common standards. But technically, aligning to the common core wasn't required (you just probably weren't going to win without it).
Duncan's testimony, which didn't contain such nuances, illustrates the fine line the department continues to walk between supporting states as they implement the common core, and not giving critics ammunition to cry "federal overreach."
Duncan appeared before the House panel Tuesday to answer questions about the Obama administration's $68.6 billion budget request for the Education Department, which would be about a $1.3 billion increase over fiscal year 2014.
That request includes a new $300 million Race to the Top contest that would offer grants to help states and districts create data systems that track things such as teacher and principal experience and effectiveness, academic achievement, and student coursework.
When pressed by lawmakers, however, he gave few, if any, new details about the contest—other than to imply that rural schools would not be overlooked in any new competitions.
Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., wondered "how a competitive program actually addresses equity? ... [It] creates winners and losers in public education." Duncan, however, stressed throughout the hearing that carving out small chunks of money to push states to become models for others is a very fruitful use of federal tax dollars.
And members pushed back in general on the administration's continued focus on competitive-grant programs. This is a years-old complaint.


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Bill would let natural gas-based ethanol qualify as renewable
WASHINGTON — To the federal government, ethanol only counts as a conventional biofuel if it is produced from switchgrass, corn starch or other easily replenished materials.
U.S. Rep. Pete Olson wants to change that.
The Sugar Land Republican is sponsoring legislation that would allow ethanol produced from natural gas to compete with corn-based ethanol under the federal renewable fuels standard, an 8-year-old mandate that requires refiners to blend increasing amounts of alternatives into petroleum-based fuels.
Technically, the measure would create a new "domestic alternative fuel" category in the renewable fuel standard, under which the natural-gas-based product would qualify.
Olson's bill responds to commercial interest in producing ethanol from natural gas, amid questions about the ability efficiently and cost effectively to transform plant material into ethanol that can be blended into fuel.
A number of companies have honed techniques to convert natural gas into ethanol, including Dallas-based Celanese Corp., Warrenville, Ill.-based Coskata Inc. and Hillsborough, N.J.-based Primus Green.
Olson said his idea makes sense, since one of the major aims of the renewable fuel standard was to reduce the United States' need for imported oil. The ethanol made from natural gas is chemically identical to corn-based ethanol, has the same low emissions when it is burned in automobiles and would be produced from domestic supplies.
Olson said the renewable fuel standard's "singular focus on corn ethanol has translated into higher feed costs for livestock producers and higher food costs for working families."
Like many Republican colleagues, Olson supports a full repeal of the renewable fuel standard, but said that in the meantime, the government should "provide greater participation and competition under the program."
He argues that including natural-gas-based ethanol as a renewable fuel for the purposes of the federal standard would guarantee a market and spur investment.
"Expanding the sources for ethanol will only benefit all Americans," Olson said in a statement.
But critics say that giving natural-gas-based ethanol an advantage short-circuits the original intent of the renewable fuel standard: to support renewable, nonfossil fuel alternatives. Natural gas is a fossil fuel and — booming production notwithstanding — it is technically of finite supply.
The Renewable Fuels Association has insisted that any bid to add fossil fuels to the standard is misguided. Fossil fuels, the trade group insists, have no place in a renewable mandate.
And some critics charge that making natural gas into ethanol could produce similar greenhouse gas emissions as fuels refined from crude oil.
Celanese says it can create natural-gas-based ethanol at a cost of about $1.50 per gallon, by putting hydrocarbons through a thermochemical process that yields ethanol.
Coskata, meanwhile, has decided to concentrate on natural-gas-based ethanol instead of its original plan to focus on cellulosic ethanol made from wood chips, plant materials and other sources.
For Celanese, Coskata and Primus, a big advantage is the current relatively low price of natural gas.
Olson's bill is cosponsored by Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., and the pair have lined up more than a dozen other co-sponsors, including Texas Republicans Ted Poe of Humble, Ralph Hall of Rockwall, Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi, Bill Flores of Bryan and Joe Barton of Ennis, and Democrats Henry Cuellar of Laredo, Gene Green of Houston and Filemon Vela of Brownsville.


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Archive of 2011
The week in politics: A year in review
Disorder breaks out across the world, but we remain snide and dismissive.
A softer side to the Iron Lady?
Newly-released government documents have provided a somewhat softer view of Margaret Thatcher than previously accepted.
The losers of 2011
politics.co.uk's guide to the worst losers of the year in politics.
Top ten political gaffes of 2011
Here's our pick of the worst blunders of the last 12 months.
Miliband: Labour will reinvent its vision in 2012
Labour leader Ed Miliband offers a gloomy outlook in his new year's message:
Comment: Miliband must up his game in 2012
How long can Miliband snatch defeat from the jaw of victory before the party turns against him?
The danger of political predictions
Why do we keep on trusting pundits when they constantly get it wrong?
The winners of 2011
politics.co.uk's guide to the biggest winners of the year in politics.
The perils of portraying political figures
Films like the brilliantly-acted The Iron Lady can be crucial to a politician's legacy.
Clegg: Lib Dem course is not easy, but right
Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister Nick Clegg delivers his new year's message in a video recording to party members:
Clegg braces Lib Dems for another tough year
The coalition's economic rescue mission is not over yet, the deputy prime minister has told Liberal Democrat party members in his new year's message.
Comment: It's not just the EU that needs rethinking
If the events of 2011 have demonstrated anything, it's the ineffectiveness of our transnational institutions.
The Week in Politics: 2011 dribbles to an end
MPs at Nazi parties, newspaper editors in memory-lapse shock and Lib Dems getting bolshy - it's the week in politics.
Burt: Companies mustn't dodge move against surcharges
Liberal Democrat MP Lorely Burt comments on the announcement that excessive surcharges on debit and credit card transactions will be banned:
Treasury: Surcharge move will help consumers
Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban explains the government's thinking on the Today programme after its announcement that excessive surcharges on debit and credit card transactions will be banned:
OFT: Regulator must deal with surcharges, too
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) sums up its recommendations to the government in its report from June 2011 on surcharges:
The Political Week on Twitter
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2011 in review: The year politics reached out
During the good times, politics happens on TV. This year, politics happened on the streets.
Top ten political scandals of 2011
The history books will only remember one scandal this year.
MPs: Clumsy ministers have undermined solar investment
Tim Yeo, chair of the environmental audit committee, gives his judgement on the government's cuts to solar energy tariffs:
Labour: More measured solar proposals needed from ministers
Shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint responds to the high court's ruling that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed:
Friends of the Earth: Damaging solar changes should be stopped
Friends of the Earth executive director Andy Atkins comments after the government's high court defeat on solar feed-in tariffs:
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We are protecting the people of the Falklands from a foreign government whose claim to the territory is at the intellectual level of a five-year-old child.
Reynolds: Clear changes needed
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Clarke: We want a simpler system
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Last Friday evening, a hacker got into Mat Honan's Apple account, remotely erased the data on his iPhone, iPad and MacBook, deleted his Google account, commandeered his Twitter account, and then posted a string of nasty stuff under Honan's name. Until recently, Honan, who's a writer at Wired and one of my favorite tech journalists, worked at Gizmodo, and his Twitter account was still linked to the tech blog's main Twitter page — so for about 15 minutes, the hacker was able to post a bunch of foul-mouthed, racist stuff there, too.
I was on a cross-country flight when I read Honan's first post about the hack. When the jet captain turned on the Wi-Fi, I got down to doing what I always do when I hear about an attack that could have happened to me: I changed my passwords. This made me feel better, but it turns out it certainly wasn't sufficient. Honan spent the weekend on the phone with Apple tech support and — curiously — in conversation with the hacker. By Monday morning, he'd found out exactly how his online identities had been compromised. The upshot: Creating better passwords wouldn't have helped him.
In a lengthy Wired piece, Honan explains that the hacker got into his account not by guessing his passwords but by asking for them. On Friday, the hacker called Apple's tech support line and, pretending to be Honan, claimed he'd been locked out of his Apple account. Apple's support guy asked the hacker to answer the security questions on Honan's account, but the hacker apparently said that he'd forgotten the answers.
No problem, because the hacker knew something most of us don't: If you can't answer your security questions, Apple will issue you a new password if you can prove that you're who you say you are using another form of identification. What identification does Apple ask to reset your password? A billing address and the last four digits of your credit card number.
Billing addresses are easy to find online, and credit card numbers are only slightly more difficult to come by. The hacker had both bits of data on Honan. He'd found the billing address by looking up the registration of Honan's personal website, and he'd gotten the credit card number by calling the support line of another tech behemoth, Amazon. The hacker had asked Amazon to place his — the hacker's — email address on Honan's account, which Amazon happily did. Then the hacker issued a forgotten password request on Amazon's website — this sent a link to the hacker's email, allowing him to change Honan's password and get full access to his Amazon account, including the ability to see the last four digits of his credit card.
Bingo! Now the hacker could get into Honan's Apple account, which allowed him to delete everything connected to Honan's iCloud profile (his iPad, iPhone and Mac). Because Honan had set his Apple account as his Google account's alternate address, the hacker only had to issue another forgotten-password request for Honan's Gmail to fall, too.
This is a sorry tale. There were lots of lapses here — relatively small ones by Honan (he hadn't backed up his data), and huge, glaring, scary ones by Apple and Amazon. But if you examine this epic hack, you'll find a few simple lessons.
Here are the four things users and companies could do immediately to reduce these kinds of attacks:
1) Everyone should turn on two-factor authentication now.
To get into most online accounts, you only need to dig up a single piece of data — a password. (The username on many services — including email accounts, Twitter, and Facebook — is your public handle, available to everyone.)
There was a time when passwords were enough (and you should follow my advice on how to create very strong, easy to remember passwords: http://slate.me/NPHd3h). But now we've all got so many online accounts protecting so much valuable information that we need something in addition to passwords.
Fortunately, that something exists. Unfortunately, very few people use it. It's called "two-factor authentication" — a security system that requires two credentials to let you into an account. The first is something you know — your password. The second is something you have with you: a biometric marker (say, your fingerprint), an electronic key tag, or — easiest of all — a cellphone that can generate a unique code.
Last year, Google turned on two-factor authentication for its accounts. The system works pretty well: After you turn it on, install the "authenticator" app on your smartphone. Now, when you log in, you type in your password and the code generated by your phone (it works even if your phone is offline). If you don't have a smartphone, you can also have the code texted to you. Facebook also added two-factor authentication last year.
The problem with two-factor authentication is that it's a bit of a hassle. You can set your Google account to only ask you for the code every two weeks on registered devices, but for some lazy people that's too much trouble. Worse, because some programs that connect to your Gmail account don't use two-factor authentication — programs like your smartphone's mail app — you need to jump through some extra hoops to configure them to work with the system. All this requires a little bit of tech savvy, and the whole thing is not quite user-friendly enough for the majority of computer users just yet.
I'd guess that's why Apple hasn't added two-factor authentication to its services. But I hope Apple is working on some way to make this level of protection easy enough for the masses. (One option: built-in fingerprint readers in all its devices.) If such a system were in place, the attack on Honan's Apple devices wouldn't have happened. The hacker might have gotten his password, but he wouldn't have had the second factor — fingerprint, code, something — to get into his accounts.
Honan also didn't have two-factor authentication enabled on his Google account. If he had, the hacker would not have been able to get into his Gmail after compromising his Apple account. The hacker would have still been able to issue the forgotten password request to Gmail, but he'd have lacked the authentication code generated by Honan's smartphone.
2) Seriously, sign up to a backup service. Do it now. What are you waiting for?
This one is easy: You should be backing everything up. There's a good chance you're not. Maybe you think doing so is difficult or expensive. Maybe you think nothing will happen to you. Maybe you're just putting it off until your next free weekend.
But the perfect time to do it is now. Despite what you've heard, backing up is easy and cheap. Years ago, after testing out a few cloud backup services, I recommended that people use Mozy. Since then, I've switched to a service called CrashPlan — the cheapest, easiest way to back up all your data.
Here's how to do it. Go to CrashPlan. Download the software. Choose the stuff on your computer you want to back up — your documents, photos, videos, music, etc. Then, let the program run. Over the next few days, depending on how much data you have and the speed of your broadband line, your data will first be encrypted and then sent over to CrashPlan's servers, where it will be secured far better than you can secure it.
For all this, CrashPlan's rates (after your 30-day free trial) are really great: You'll pay as little as $1.50 a month for storing 10 GB of data from one computer, $3 a month for unlimited data from one computer, and $6 a month for unlimited data from up to 10 computers (in other words, for protecting all the devices in your house).
Whenever I recommend cloud backup services, people chime in with worries about storing stuff in the cloud — what if CrashPlan's servers get destroyed or hacked? I think these worries are baseless (if CrashPlan gets hacked, your data there is encrypted anyway), but when it comes to backups, you can never be too safe. So if you want to supplement your cloud backup with a local backup on your own external drive, please do so. You can even use CrashPlan's software to do that.
Does this read like an advertisement for CrashPlan? The company hasn't paid me a dime to write this, but I'm not kidding when I say that CrashPlan is the most important, valuable add-on service that you can buy for yourself.
Indeed, if I were king of the Internet, I would turn on backups by default. Every device you buy should come with a backup system, and it should store your data online automatically unless you tell it not to. The first company to realize this will make a killing. If Apple really wants to do right by its users, it would buy CrashPlan, build its service into all its devices, and offer unlimited backups to everyone for free. Apple has enough money to do this, and the firm must understand how well built-in backups would work in a marketing campaign: "Never lose anything again." How's that for a slogan?
3) Remote wiping is unnecessary. Turn off "Find My Mac." Instead, encrypt your data.
Being able to find your lost devices sounds great. You paid a lot for that tablet, phone and laptop. Why wouldn't you want to locate it if it's gone? And if someone else has it, wouldn't you want to delete your stuff remotely so that they can't monkey with your data?
In theory, sure. But the way that Apple implements its "Find My" system isn't very secure. If a hacker gets into your iCloud account, he doesn't need any other credentials to find your devices and delete all your data. That's what happened to Honan, and it could happen to you, too.
Until Apple figures out a better way to protect against others wiping your data (perhaps by requiring a second form of authentication for remote wipes), you should turn off Find My Mac.
But what happens if someone gets your computer — how will your prevent unauthorized access to your data if your computer gets into the wrong hands?
It turns out there's a better security system than remote delete: It's called whole-disk encryption, and it's built into the Mac and some versions of Windows. You just have to turn it on. (Here's how to do so in Mac OS Lion, [http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/13/] and here's how to do so in the Ultimate or Enterprise versions of Windows 7 [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/bitlocker].)
Whole-disk encryption works by scrambling all of the bits on your entire hard drive; the only way to gain access to the data is by entering a password. (Here, too, of course, it would be better if two forms of authentication were required.) Turning encryption on slows down your computer by a tiny bit, but it's not that big of a deal. And when your computer is gone, you can be sure that your data is safe — unless the hacker knows your password, your data will remain hidden to him.
4) Password recovery is a menace. Make sure your accounts aren't daisy-chained together.
Lastly, you should examine how your various online accounts are linked through forgotten password request services. In particular, look up your various important email accounts, financial accounts, social networks and other services. Each of these accounts will ask you for an email address where your password requests should be sent.
If they're all pointing to one another, a single hack could let an attacker get into everything else. For instance, if Gmail is set to send password resets to your Apple account, and your bank is sending requests to Gmail, then all the hacker needs to do to wreak havoc on your finances is steal your iTunes password (which is probably not very strong, because you hate typing out a tough password on a touchscreen to download apps). With your iTunes password, he can get into Gmail through a password request, and once inside Gmail, another password request will let him into your bank. This is exactly what happened to Honan.
What should you do about this? I would create a single, secret, ultra-secure email address that you designate as the one place to send all password resets. What do I mean by ultra-secure? I mean a new Gmail account — something like firstname.lastname@example.com — with a very strong password and two-factor authentication turned on. Now go to all your other accounts and have them send password requests to this secret address. It's important that you don't use this address for anything else — don't send mail from it, don't use it to sign up for newsletters, don't let anyone know that it has anything to do with you. As long as it remains secret, any password resets that are sent its way should be safe.
Nothing online is perfectly secure — determined hackers can get into anything if they really put their minds to it. But the guy who attacked Honan wasn't some mastermind. He was a kid who just wanted to wreak havoc, and he happened to know about a few key vulnerabilities at Apple, Amazon and in the systems that govern our online lives. But a few simple steps would have made his attack much more difficult. The stuff I'm suggesting isn't hard to do. You should do it now.
Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist.