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Netflix split leaves subscribers in virtual cold

As a once satisfied Netflix customer, the company’s recent decision to nearly double the cost of its monthly subscription plan hit hard. For 10 bucks a month, I could watch as many DVDs or Blu-Rays as I wanted, albeit one at a time, along with an unlimited number of movies and television shows streaming from the comfort of my laptop or PlayStation 3. Sure, the streaming movies weren’t the newest and the wait for the best and newest movies always seemed to stretch on for weeks, but I didn’t mind. The warm feeling I felt when the bright red envelope arrived in the mail made it all worth it.

However, there is a reason my satisfaction is a thing of the past. Once the calendar struck September, Netflix separated the DVD and streaming services into two separate plans. Rather than paying $10 a month for both, they now wanted customers to pay $8 per plan. 16 bucks to watch my movies? Suddenly the poor streaming selection and long waits began to annoy me more than ever.

Apparently I am not the only customer to agree. Netflix is reporting that by the end of this month, the company will have 600,000 fewer U.S customers than it had in June. Similarly, since Netflix announced the price hikes this summer, Netflix’s stock price has plummeted more than 40 percent.

In addition to this move, Netflix recently announced that the company was rebranding its DVD business: “Quikster”. While the Internet streaming component will still be known as Netflix. Again, I believe Netflix swung and missed with this move. By relegating the DVD section of the business to a new, practically unknown name, they are dooming it to failure.

One may argue that leaving the DVD section of the business behind and choosing to focus on the Internet streaming instead may be a good idea, in order to take advantage of new technology. However, whoever says that clearly hasn’t used Netflix’s Internet streaming feature, like I have. Instead of new releases and blockbusters, the list is filled with small indie movies, TV series and a surprising number of Steven Seagal action movies. Now don’t get me wrong, all three of these types of film certainly have their place, but in its current state, it poses little competition to the DVD section of the business.

The only way Netflix, or Quikster, or whatever it decides to call itself next, can survive, is if it makes tremendous strides and a severe increase in the selection of streaming. If new releases find their way to the online queue in a reasonable amount of time, this model can work. I’ll be the first one to admit that Internet streaming is the future, but only if it can rival the speed and selection available on DVD.

Netflix seems to have dug its own grave, but it’s still holding on tight. Now that the characteristic red Netflix envelope will no longer find its way into our mailboxes, or at least one that actually says Netflix, the future looks grim. Maybe they can surprise, maybe Netflix will turn its Internet streaming into first-class entertainment. But if they don’t, it very well may head in the same direction as Blockbuster.

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  1. If anything, Netflix may want to be leery of Blockbuster since DISH Network has revamped the company. Since I work for DISH I know that on October 1st they launched the Blockbuster Movie Pass which offers much more than Netflix ever did before it broke down to Qwickster/Netflix. Access to 100,000 DVD/Blu-ray movies, TV shows and games by mail, plus streaming and 20 premium entertainment channels is an appealing offer that I’m sure many will flock to.

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Friday, November 9, 2012

happy friday everyone!
here is a little glimpse into our life {via instagram} lately.

nap time standoff : "guess what, mom? i can cross my arms too..." ;)
ohhhh, the many joys of raising a MINI-ME.
| please excuse the toplessness...
a shirt is hard to come by these days with B. total struggle. |
great white shark sighting!! snack time has come with some challenges lately.
namely, a greedy jack russell stalking his prey ;)

how to melt a momma's heart 101.

B's new learning station...
easiest DIY ever. old frame, a little spray paint, sheet metal, chalkboard paint. voila!
just add magnets! | tutorial we used |

daylight savings + toddler = nap struggles.

toddler experimentation at its finest... ;)
i just love how she always finds a way to make me giggle.
sleepy faces are the best... i could stare at her for hours.

it seems all of my wishing for daddy's good looks wasn't completely in vain ;)
SEE: eyebrows; eyelashes; lips; ears.

exciting stuff in the works!! :) can't wait to share...
{please excuse my lack of comments and emails. we've been very busy lately.}

thanks for stopping by!
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Kristen said...

Lol oh the sass! And I love the magnet board you used!

Following you now on Instagram! I'm @joyfulone86 :)

Joeylee said...

Keira does that arm crossing as well and then says "I'm mad". Love that second to last pictures, so adorable

Natalie said...

Oh my that photo of your hubby and sweet!

Nicole said...

Cute! Stopping by from Weekend Blog Walk.

Lisa said...

Ahhh! The photo of them sleeping together is precious!

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RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees
Guide No. 8:

Why U Can't Find Your Ancestors
 Misspeld Knames  A Commun Probblum for Reeserchors

Ellis Island:  It's a myth about name changes there

Names were rarely changed intentionally at Ellis Island. The majority of passengers were detailed on the ship's manifest before the vessel left the port of departure. The purser or ship's officer was familiar with the name and ethnicity of the many passengers who typically used the port, and the ship visited the port several times each year. The captain and the medical officer swore affidavits to the accuracy of each group of lists, with 1 to 30 people in a group. On arrival in the port of New York, the U. S. inspectors boarded each vessel and examined the manifest and tickets of all classes of passengers. For those passengers taken to Ellis Island, immigration officials reviewed the questions and answers with each person. The inspectors developed systems to prevent the misspelling of names. To handle difficult names, interpreters were on hand who could understand more than 30 languages from Albanian to Yiddish . . . A few immigrants requested a name change, as a new beginning. However, historical records and individual testimonies indicate that most name changes occurred during the naturalization process, not at Ellis Island. ~ from Ellis Island and the Making of America, by Jayare Roberts, A.G., M.L.S., Genealogical Journal, Volume 23, Numbers 2 and 3, 1995, pp. 79-80.

American Names/Declaring Independence

The Great Hang-up: Spelling of Names

If you have been unable to find your ancestors in census and other compiled indexes, the problem may be misreading of the surnames rather than omissions.

Leap over the name spelling hang-up. Your ancestors may have always spelled or signed their name a certain way, but you can bet that those who actually recorded their names ~ census takers, county clerks and tax collectors ~ spelled it in various ways. How often have you had your own surname misspelled? Think about it. To insist your name has always been spelled a particular way is to set yourself up for defeat in genealogical research.

According to William Thorndale, in The Source, "An enormous amount of genealogical research fails because people do not take simple precautions in searching for spelling variants."

As a professional researcher, Thorndale emphasizes to his clients how important spelling variants are. "I practically plead for these researchers to always check all forms of the first vowel when searching census indexes," he said. But many of us ignore this wise advice. Thorndale also warns about such spelling problems as:
Calligraphic look-alikes: Daniel and David
Phonetic equivalents: Sincere for St. Cyr
Translation equivalents: Carpenter for Zimmerman
Truncates: Fitzjurrell for Fitzgerald
Other spelling irregularities such as Cowper pronounced as Cooper
Some spelling variations include a different initial letter or the first vowel, or can be hidden by an "h" as the second letter. If I only looked at "Go" in indices, I would miss all the "Gho" spellings of Gormley. These quirks of spelling can throw surnames into unexpected places in the indices. Occasionally, the problem is due to a computer's placement of names due to spacing. That is, you often will find MacDonald and Mac Donald listed as different surnames. And, don't forget to look for McDonald.

Surnames beginning with a vowel or an "H" should be sought under ALL vowels plus "H," at least until one becomes familiar with spelling variants that frequently occur of a particular surname. Example: Autry, Awtrey, Autery, Hawtrey, and Ottery.

The "H" slips in and out of words in disconcerting fashion. Your Allard ancestor may appear in an index (or a record) as Alhurd, so be especially alert about spellings that put an "h" after plausible initial letters. The letter "R" is a semi-vowel within words and occasionally appears in unexpected places with no particular pattern.

Many a researcher has missed their ancestor in records due to spelling oversights. Watch for letter transpositions. These are common in computerized indices and compilations prepared from typed records. When checking indexes in books, pay attention to how the book was compiled. Many genealogical books contain several indexes in a single volume, often arranged by the time period of the particular records involved. If you only check the index at the back of a book, you may miss your ancestors.

Many of us have surnames that differ somewhat from the ones our immigrant ancestors brought to America. In many cases, it is just a slight spelling variation of the original name ~ not a name change. In others, the name we use may be an anglicized version, and in still others, descendants have wound up with a completely different surname. Most North American researchers discover their surname has variant spellings or has been changed in some way. This could have occurred for such reasons as:

Necessity. Most typewriters and typesetting equipment used by North Americans could not cope with the diacritical markings used above or below certain letters found in several European languages, or the logographs seen in Chinese. Similarly, names written originally in Hebrew, Cyrillic, Arabic and a number of other alphabets had to be transliterated into the ones used in this the U.S. or Canada, for example.

Inability to spell or carelessness. Many immigrants could not spell (in English) her or his name. So when they gave their name to county clerks, enumerators, etc., that person wrote the name as it sounded to him.

Difficulty in pronouncing or spelling a name. Some names, particularly Polish, are difficult for most Americans and Canadians to spell or pronounce. A Polish immigrant named Dzeckaeiar may have simplified the name to Decker.

Desire to break with the past. North America, Australia and other localities were a new beginning for many of our ancestors, and some had no desire to retain anything, including their name, that reminded them of an unhappy past in the old country.

Disagreement with relatives. Some family members changed their names completely, or the spelling slightly, to avoid being associated with a disliked relative or neighbor with the same name. Many family traditions claim such instances to explain how the particular spelling of their surname came in existence. However, such stories are not always accurate.

Dislike of the original name. Many Jewish people, in particular, disliked the names that may have been forced on them in the old country.

Fear of bad treatment. Some of our immigrant ancestors had fled from countries where they were mistreated, and thought a change of name might avert further problems in the new country. During World War I, many German-Americans changed or altered their names because they feared discrimination and maltreatment.

Getting rid of a semantic objection. Some names, such as Lipschitz or Gelbfisch, seemed humorous to Americans, and such names were often changed.

Desire for material success. Second- or third-generation Americans sometimes changed their names because they felt a "wrong" name might prevent them from becoming successful or getting a particular job.

Whatever the reasons for a name change, the genealogist must learn to look for all possible spellings and transliterations.

Basically, most Western surnames come from one of four types:

Patronymics ~ The father's given name with "son" or an "s" added to it.
Place Names ~ Words that identified where a person lived or came from.
Occupational Names ~ What a person did for a living. Many of these are based upon medieval occupations.
Nicknames ~ Names based on a person's characteristics, either personality or appearance. A small percentage of us have names derived from nicknames of ancestors who lived many centuries ago.

Under what other spellings might your ancestors be hiding in the records?

Asian names generally do not follow the standard Western patterns. For example, Chinese names are almost always one-syllable words that may be taken after the name of an old ruling family. In Japan, names were created more recently out of two unrelated, but often poetic words. Jewish names sometimes are made up acronyms ~ abbreviations that combine a number of words.

Beware of the fallacy of a practice common in many families ~ that of assuming that if the name is not spelled in a certain way it cannot belong to the same family. Don't pass over important genealogical records because the name happens to be spelled with an a rather than an e, with an ie rather than a y, or with one n rather than with two.

Be extremely careful in use of indexes. Consider every possible spelling of the name sought. Local dialects and foreign accents often make a significant difference. Even the pronunciation, and hence the spelling, of an English-derived name may be quite different in Massachusetts than it is in Alabama, Quebec, Sydney, or Liverpool.

Not Mine~It's Not Spelled Rite

A professional genealogist relates the story of how she worked on a line for a client for more than 20 hours and found the client's father as a child in the 1920 census, and then located the grandparents in the passenger lists. Additionally, the researcher was able to extend the pedigree back another four generations to the middle 1800s in Italy.

Excited to have such good news to share, the professional genealogist quickly typed up the report and mailed it to the client. Days went by and then the phone rang. It was the client who told the researcher:

"You've got the wrong family."

And what was the client's reason for thinking this? Two of the children in the 1920 census were recorded with nicknames instead of with their given names.

This is a common scenario in the genealogical world. Verbal arguments sometimes erupt over the spelling of a surname. People will insist that their surname has always been spelled a particular way ~ even when the records indicate otherwise. They foolishly will refuse to accept a lineage with a different spelling and will overlook their ancestors in records because of this surname spelling hang-up.

Toss out everything Miss Jones taught you in elementary school about surname spelling. It doesn't matter in genealogy. In addition to the fact that earlier generations, prior to the late 19th century, really didn't worry as much about spelling, transcribers did not always read a record accurately. Whenever you are working with indexes, it is important to look up any possible variant spelling that you can think of. You might even want to get wacky with a pen. Take a piece of paper and start writing the surname in script. See how messy or different you can make it and then see what letters it brings to mind. Chances are you are likely to find a few of those "variants" in indexes.

Finally, to give you an idea of how little spelling counts, a land deed for one ancestor has his name spelled three different ways. In his will, the man's name is spelled four ways. One surname has been found spelled 24 different ways in the same locality, and listed under three different letters of the alphabet ~ A, E and I. Would you think to look for a Shoemaker family under "J"? That's how some wound up in the 1900 Soundex, the S being read as "Jh."

Surname Spellings and Legalities

Idem Sonans.**
This means that in order to establish legal proof of relationship from documentary evidence it is not necessary for the name to be spelled absolutely accurately if, as spelled, it conveys to the ear, when pronounced in the accepted ways, a sound practically identical to the correctly spelled name as properly pronounced.

** Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy (2nd edition). Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. p. 32.

Ellis Island
On arrival in the port of New York
American Names/Declaring Independence
The Source
Genealogical Publishing Co.
Do You Ear What I Ear?
Michael John Neill
Changing Immigrant Names
The Name Game
Naming Patterns: Tips for Finding Your Ancestors
Irish Place Names and Family Names
Dutch Names: Helpful Hints Regarding Surnames: Place Identifiers as Surnames
Swedish Naming Patterns
In the Very Beginning
Surname Origin List: More than 2,000 surnames
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Persecution of the Persian Church under the Sassanids

Source: John Stewart, Nestorian Missionary Enterprise
(Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1928), 17-35

The first “firman” of persecution [under the Persian Shah Shapur II] ordered all Christians to pay double tax as a contribution to the cost of the war [between Persia and Rome], and the Catholicos or Patriarch [of the Persian Church], as representing the church, was ordered to collect the amount. This Mar Shimun, the Catholicos [like the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church], refused to do so, on the grounds that his people were too poor to pay and that he was not a tax-collector. His arrest and the destruction of all Christian churches was immediately ordered. He was arrested at Seleucia-Ctesiphon [the Sassanid capital] and taken to Karka d’Ledan where the king was. His farewell blessing to his flock has been handed down to us: “May the cross of our Lord,” he says, “be the protection of the people of Jesus. May the peace of God be with the servants of God and stablish your hearts in the faith of Christ, in tribulation and in ease, in life and in death, now and forevermore.”

He was offered freedom, not only for himself, but for his “melet” or people, if he would worship the sun only once. “The sun went into mourning when its creator died,” said Shimun. The king begged him by the memory of their personal friendship to yield, but the Catholicos remained firm, and on the morning of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, in the year AD 339, along with five bishops and a hundred minor clergy, he sealed his testimony with his blood. Mar Shimun, the last of the company to suffer martyrdom, died for two of the noblest causes for which it is possible for man to suffer: his faith in God and his duty to his people.

When the martyrdom of Mar Shimun and his companions was taking place, one of those under condemnation, named Hananiah, seemed to waver. At the sight of the sword which was about to fall he trembled and appeared as if about to yield At this moment a high official in the palace, a prefect by the name of Pusak, called out from the midst of the crowd of onlookers, “Do not be afraid, Hananiah. Shut your eyes a little that you may open them on the light of Christ.” Hardly had he said these words when Pusak was seized by the guards and dragged to the palace before the king. Shapur, annoyed by the intervention of this nobleman and afraid perhaps of finding himself surrounded by officers won over to this new doctrine and who might avenge the death of their co-religionists on his own person, angrily asked Pusak, “Have I not given you work to do? Why then do you ignore my orders and stay to look at the punishment of these good-for-nothings?”

Pusak replied, “Would to God that my work might increase through their idleness and that my life might be changed by their death. As for the work you have given me to do, I esteem it not because it is full of cares, and I value the punishment to which you have condemned them because it is full of joy.” Incensed, the king replied: “You ask death in place of work? You wish to be treated like them?” The happy man answered, “I am a Christian; I believe in their God. That is why I envy their punishment and despise your dignity.” The king, greatly angered by this, cried out, “May he not die like the others, but because he has despised my majesty, and has spoken with me as an equal, seize his tongue and tear it out by the roots through his throat so that those who are living may fear me because of him.” The orders of the king were immediately carried out, and Pusak was put to death most cruelly.

Three martyrs named Hormizdas, Suenas and Benjamin are specially mentioned. The first two were of noble birth. The king [Bahram V] divested Hormizdas of all his dignitaries and made him an ordinary army-camel driver. Some days later he ordered him to be brought before him and had him clothed in linen garments. Then, thinking he would be softened not only by the troubles which he had endured but by the kind treatment now being shown to him, the king addressed him as follows “Do not be so obstinate. Deny the son of the carpenter.” Hormizdas, fired with zeal, tore the linen robe from his body in the presence of the king and said “If you think that I will abandon piety for such a gift, keep your present with your impiety.” Seeing this, the king drove him from the palace, quite naked. Suenas was robbed of all his wealth, which was very considerable, and obliged to obey the most wicked of his slaves. He even had to abandon his wife, but notwithstanding remained firm and immovable.

Even more interesting from the historical point of view is the case of James the notary. Originally from the town of Karka d’Ersa, at twenty years of age he and fifteen fellow-servants of the king were cast into prison They were threatened with confiscation of goods unless they apostatized and when they refused to do so, they were condemned to look after elephants the whole winter. After Easter, when, according to custom, the king moved to his summer quarters, they were set to repair and look after the roads on the royal route, including cutting down trees and breaking stones. From time to time, the king chastized them for their stupidity, but they replied, “Everything that comes to us from your majesty is an honour except apostasy.”

The summer being over, Bahram began his return journey to Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Mihrsabur [the chief of the Magi, the Zoroastrian priests] informed the king that the constancy of the Christian captives encouraged the other Christians and prevented their denying their faith. “What more can I do to them?” said the king. “Their goods have been confiscated, their houses have been sealed up and they themselves have been tortured.” “Would that your majesty would command me, without blows and without murder, to make them apostatize,” answered the wicked Mihrsabur. The king delivered them up to his discretion, forbidding, however, to put them to death. Mihrsabur stripped them naked, bound their hands behind their backs and ordered them to be taken each night to a desert place in the mountains where they were laid on their backs and given only a little bread and water. After they had undergone these tortures for a whole week, Mihrsabur called the guards and asked where the “miserable Nazarenes” were. “They are very near death, “replied the guard. “Go and tell them,” he said, “that the king orders them to obey his wish and to worship the sun. If not, I shall put cords on their feet and will have them dragged all through the mountains until their flesh shall separate from their bones so that their bodies will remain among the stones and only the tendons attached to the skin will be left.”

The guards carried out the instructions. Some were unconscious; others, overcome by pain, weakened. The governor loosed them without compelling them to worship the sun or the fire and led them back to Seleucia-Ctesiphon. When they had recovered from their wounds, they fasted, wept and prayed for their apparent defection. James, being of Roman extraction, had remained strong in the faith. He returned to his duties and reported to the bishops what was said in the palace and what Bahram meditated against the Christians and their churches, at the same time encouraging and comforting them. When he learned that in the court he was considered as having apostatized with his fellow servants, he returned to the town, clothed himself with sackcloth, and covering himself with ashes, gave himself to exercises of penitence. One of the servants betrayed him. He had seen him reading the book of the gospels. Mihrsabur assembled the sixteen confessors. Questioning the first fifteen, he asked if they had not recanted and carried out his wishes. They replied, “We have lost the life which you asked of us once. Do you ask us to apostatize a second time?” He released them and sent them to their homes. Then addressing James, he said, “As for you, have you not denied the faith of the Christians?” “I have not denied the faith of the Christians,” said James, “nor do I intend to do so. It is the faith of my fathers.” Bahram, irritated by this, condemned James to the punishment of “the nine deaths” and thus he died.

The person who took the most active part in the persecution [at Kirkuk] was Tamasgerd, an officer of the king, who was said to be so moved by the endurance of those who were put to death and so convinced that the faith which gave them strength to endure was from God, that he joined himself to them and received the crown of martyrdom with them. The place of martyrdom and the memorial chapel are both still called, not by the name of any of the bishops who perished there, but by the name of this convert from the ranks of the persecutors who was baptized in his own blood.

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In fact these moderate quit rates are substantially higher than health care interventions (Salize et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2009).

Psychological interventions such as support groups, counseling sessions, and guided quit plans have been proven most effective when coupled with pharmacological interventions (Huang, 2005). Cessation programs need to be interactive and engage the participant in the treatment process as well as identifying individual characteristics that have led to the smoking behavior and tailoring interventions to meet these needs (Rovina et al., 2009). Those programs that emphasized lectures, consultations, and group discussions were found to have a 40% quit rate with the majority of participants failing to reduce their daily cigarette consumption (Huang, 2005). Smoking cessation programs also exist in the workplace and focus on self-efficacy and social support achieved a 19% participant quit rate (Huang, 2005). Programs that utilized pharmacological interventions alone such as the transdermal nicotine patch have achieved smoking cessation rates of 30% at the one year marker (Huang, 2005).

Given the individual successes of these programs, researchers have begun to explore the efficacy of combining psychological and behavioral interventions with pharmacological treatments. Informal interventions have also shown increase the likelihood of smoking cessation. Increasing technological advances have also led to the use of interventions such as telephone and email counseling to support smoking cessation efforts (Polosa et al., 2009). Polosa et al. (2009) utilized an unrestricted e-mail counseling approach to provide smokers with assistance in cessation efforts. This method was found to be particularly useful in its ability to provide smokers with prompt assistance that prevents relapse and has been shown to increase the level of participant communication and interaction in the treatment process (Polosa et al., 2009). These technological advances have allowed for an increase in cost effective and individualized service delivery (Polusa et al., 2009).

Future research into the efficacy of smoking cessation programs should emphasize long-term programs for preventing relapse as well as the evaluation of permanent cessation effects on participants. Increased awareness of the smoking cessation process and how individuals experience it will be helpful for healthcare professionals who have found themselves frustrated with the lack of progress and success of smoking cessation programs. The ability to design programs that incorporate pharmacology with other interpersonal based interventions will continue to be important as smoking cessation endeavors progress. Further, there is significant literature to support short-term health benefits of smoking cessation and it would be important to have an equal understanding of the long-term health implications.

Apelber, B.J., Onicescu, G., Avila-Tang, E., & Samet, J.M. (2010). Estimating the Risks and Benefits of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 100(2), 341-348.

Barnett, P.G., Wong, W., & Hall, S. (2008). The cost-effectiveness of a smoking cessation program for out-patients in treatment for depression. Addiction, 103(5), 834-840.

Caponnetto, P. & Polosa, R. (2008). Common predictors of smoking cessation in clinical practice. Respiratory Medicine, 102, 1182-1192.

Carlens, C., Hergens, M., Grunewald, J., Ekbom, A., Eklund, A. Hoglund, C., & Askling, J. (2010). Use of Moist Snuff, and Risk of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 181(11), 1217-22. Retrieved July 23, 2010, from ProQuest Health and Medical Complete.

Carrozzi, L., Pistelli, F., & Viegi, G. (2008). Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2(5), 201-317.

De Leeuw, R.N., Scholte, R.H., Sargent, J.D., Engels, R.C. (2010). Do interactions between personality and social-environmental factors explain smoking development in adolescence? Journal of Family Psychology, 24(1), 68-77.

Huang, C.L., (2005). Evaluating the program of a smoking cessation support group for adult smokers: A longitudinal pilot study. Journal of Nursing Research, 13(3), 197-205.

Hudmon, K.S., Corelli, R.L., and Prokhorov, V. (2010). Current approaches to pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 4(1), 35-47.

Kendzor, D.E., Businelle, M.S., Costello, T.J., Castro, Y., Reitzel, L.R., Cofta-Woerpel, L.M., Li, Y., Mazas, C.A., Vidrine, J.I., Cinciripini, P.M., Greisinger, A.J., & Wetter, D.W. (2010).Financial strain and smoking cessation among racially/ethnically diverse smokers. American Journal of Public Health, 100(4), 702-706.

Mclvor, A., Kayser, J., Assaad, J., Brosky, G., Demarest, P., Desmarais, P., Hampson, C., Khara, M., Pathammavong, R., & Weinberg, R. (2009). Best practices for smoking cessation interventions in primary care. Canadian Respiratory Journal 16(4), 129-134.

O'Donovan, G. (2009). Smoking prevalence among qualified nurses in the Republic of Ireland and their role in smoking cessation. International Nursing Review, 56(2), 230-236.

Polosa, R., Russo, C., Di Maria, A., Arcidiacono, G., Morjaria, J.B., & Piccillo, G.A. (2009). Feasibility of using e-mail counseling as part of a smoking-cessation program. Respiratory Care, 54(8), 1033-1039.

Quist-Paulsen, P. (2008). Cessation in the use of tobacco-pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic routines in patients. The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2(1), 4-10.

Raherison, C., Marjay, A., Valpromy, B., Prevot, S., Fossoux, H. & Taytard, A. (2005). Evaluation of smoking cessation success in adults. Respiratory Medicine, 99, 1303-1310.

Rovina, N., Nikoloutsou, I., Katsani, G., Dima, E. Fransis, K., Roussos, C., & Gratziou, C. (2009). Effectiveness of pharmacotherapy and behavioral interventions for smoking cessation in actual clinical practice. Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 3(6), 279-287.

Salize, H.J., Merkle, S., Reinhard, I., Twardella, D., Mann, K., & Brenner, H. (2009). Cost-effective primary care -- based strategies to improve smoking cessation: More value for money. Archives of Internal Medicine, 169(3):230-235.

Smith, R. (2009). Giving up is the hardest thing. The Journal for Respiratory Care Practitioners, 22(11), 24-28.

Thy, T., Boker, T., Gallefoss, F., & Bakke, P.S. (2007). Hospital doctors' attitudes toward giving their patients smoking cessation help. Clinical Respiratory Journal, 1(1), 30-36.

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  • TonyInBatavia

    I’ve always been a fan of Steve Allen’s Ten New Commandments. They are:

    1. Honor love as the greatest of virtures for it brings both immediate and distant blessings, and turn your face against hatred for it produces much of the evil in the world.

    2. Strive always to be honest, not only in deed but in word.

    3. Be generous in all ways, for as you are grateful for the generosity of others bestowed upon you, so you must share your blessings with others, and not only in a material sense.

    4. If there is an all-loving God, a person would be a heartless child who would not love such a Father. In the day of his coming, if it occurs, the loving heart will know how to respond. In the meantime, be compassionate to that concerning which there can be certain knowledge: the world and its inhabitants.

    5. Educate your children and yourself till the day of your death, for knowledge brings power to improve the world, whereas ignorance leads to confusion and misery.

    6. Value freedom by being philosophically tolerant, for, though all intellectual camps are certainly not of equal value or virtue, there is as yet no court of universal appeal. If you would have freedom to live by the light of your own conscience, you must grant the same to others, so long as they do not transgress reasonable legal codes.

    7. Respect the property of others, as you wish the world to respect your own. You have the right only to what is freely given to you, what has fallen into your hands through generosity of nature, or what you have worked to obtain in an honest manner.

    8. The vows of mutual love, exchanged in marriage, are legally and morally binding. Do not hasten into marriage, for by that act you renounce your freedom to engage in romantic or sexual conduct with others. This commandment, too, is largely an expression of the Golden Rule.

    9. Because you would not want to be physically abused yourself, therefore do not abuse others.

    10. You have heard it said that children must respect their parents. There is great wisdom in this instruction, but only insofar as parents respect their children.

    Not as short-and-sweet … but surely as universal.

  • Adam Hall

    Here is one.

    11. If you are an adult and you still need commandments to instruct you on how to be moral, don’t bother reading.

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    Thou shalt not be led by any other than your intellect.

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    Thou shalt not coerce another to follow you or your cause.

  • James Koran

    I like explaining to Christians and others that I feel the “Golden rule” is axiomatically flawed from the get go, especially if your suicidal. As (Yip) Harberg (1896-1981) wrote: Love thy neighbor as thy self, keep that motto on the shelf, let it lie there, keep it idle, especially if you’re suicidal. I especially like the “Platinum Rule” that Atheist Michael Scott Earl advocated in his Bible Stories Your Parent Never Taught You. Do unto others as they would have done unto themselves. This is the general rule that I think about when doing things for others. Axiomatically it just makes more sense to me.

  • Mriana

    Why not make it short and sweet: Do onto others (including nature) as you would have them/it do onto you and seek knowledge in all things with love, compassion, and reason? Yes, it could be construde as religious, but I think it would apply to everyone, as well as everything, and it certainly shortens the list quite a bit.

  • Adrian

    If these “rules” were valuable and made sense (I think they do) and the audience are thinking adults then they shouldn’t be Commandments.

    The only time you need Commandments are when the rules are a grab bag of nonsense or when you’re dealing with moral juveniles who can’t reason through moral decisions on their own and only respond to orders. I guess this list was compiled as a joke or a demonstration that the 10 Commandments of the bible (or is it 20 or 30, how do you count?) are not such a great example of moral clarity, but it still treats us as children.

  • Vincent

    This list is just as impossible to obey as the original.

    And didn’t the Buddhists have a version of the Golden Rule that made more sense? “Don’t do unto others what you would not have done to you.”

    I like George Carlin’s shortening of the original 10.
    Something like: 1.- be honest. 2. – try not to hurt anyone.

  • Mriana

    Hear! Hear! Vincent. :) Similar to what I said, only even shorter than what I said. 😆

  • http://thatatheistguysblog.blogspot.com NYCatheist

    Interesting lists. I like Peter Singer’s ideas of extending our compassion to creatures beyond our own species. I love humanist ideals, but the one flaw I find is the central focus on “human”. (I am assuming the “others” in the lists above is intended to mean “other humans”.) If you are an atheistic naturalist then you should understand there is no clear border between humans and other animals, so why shouldn’t the golden rule and these new ethical “commandments” be extended to them?

    Yes I am a hypocritical meat eater, but I might not always be. I’m still mulling things over.

    Can anyone think of a name for a positive ethical philosophy along the lines of Humanism, but with a broader scope to include all sentient creatures with the capacity to suffer?

  • James Koran

    Humanimalism. I don’t know it just rolled off my tongue.

  • http://joshuamcharles.com/blog/ Josh Charles

    Really, you’re asking us to apply commandment 9 to the commandments themselves.

    It reminds me of someone trying to apply the principle of parsimony to the principle of parsimony. I think he’s still rather confused about all that.

  • Claire

    This is list is exhausting. Seriously, if a person were to really try to live up to it, they wouldn’t get to work until after noon and lunch would be crowding bedtime. 4,7, and 9 alone would make it impossible for me to accomplish anything in a single day.

    Plus, they are just plain preachy, too many to remember, and some repeat themselves.

    So, let me propose something simpler still.

    1) Be nice.
    2) Use your brain.

    What little the first one doesn’t cover, the second one should. Then I thought about how we live on a planet with only so many resources, and how we are only on it for so many years, so I added a third one.

    3) Realize that there are limits.

    I can’t think of many situations that those three don’t cover.

  • Mike Higginbottom

    You only need one commandment:

    1) Act to maximise the universe’s happiness.

    The only tricky part is working out where to focus your efforts. Usually we need to push that focus futher away from ourselves.

  • Richard Wade

    Add: Question all commandments, starting with this one.

  • Kenneth Rapp

    of even more practical value than the above:

    – never get involved in a land war in Asia

    – never go in against a Cicilian when death is on the line.


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New York, N.Y. is filled with Penn grads. It is also not uncommon to find former Penn students living and working in Boston, Mass. — this top-paying city is a popular destination with a median salary of $155K. Penn grads love their alma mater so much that many stick around in Philadelphia despite the median salary there ranking lowest among popular cities ($54K). Seattle, Wash. and Baltimore, Md. are also desirable cities.

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Don't buy that $199 Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet just yet, bargain hunters. At least one retailer will sell the 7-inch 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook at the same dirt cheap price of $199 on Black Friday. So far only Staples has confirmed it will offer the PlayBook for $199 -- a price drop of $300 from the current list price -- as a doorbuster on Friday, November 25. The office supply chain will have a minimum of two tablets per store available at the lower price point and each doorbuster deal is limited to one per customer.

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