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Emma Watson Shows Off Her Legs Pics
Well this is not surprising, enchantress Emma Watson is at it again. This time she is trying to corrupt the souls of men by showing off her smooth milky white legs.
Emma Watson needs to realize that her black magic has no effect on devout Muslims like myself. She can show all the leg, breast, or vag she wants but I will not give my soul over to her lord and master Satan.
No Emma Watson you have failed once again. For the legs of Allah are the only ones I'm interested in running my hand up… until I get to the edge of his skirt… and then I slide my hand under… hold on give me a minute.
Back! So yeah, here are the pics of Emma Watson practicing the dark art of seduction by showing off a good deal of her legs.
Your just posting these pics today? These are old, old, old.
This website is fuckin shit
this webshite is crap
fred couples
u muslims make me sick you blast the girl for wearing a dress thats not short at all (oh by the way poohammed is a false prophet) but you justify rape of women and sex with animals among other sins, to sum it all up you fools will be the ones visiting satan for it is you who worship allah the false god
Jabbar ibn Husayn al-Mutrah
Rape and sex with animals should both be met with death. Just like showing off your legs. We should stone the kafir! Global Jihad!
A sick person with a sick mind,needs some therapy to understand how to get respected.My sympathies for him
"you justify rape of women and sex with animals"??
who the hell ever stated us Muslims justified such acts? did you actually ask real Muslims or did you use that brain of yours to come up with such justification?
can´t you see this is all fake?? This website really is shite -.-… And all the muslim abuse isn´t funny. really.
Ah the Muslums. Why do they prefer goats over women? Why don't they have teeth?
Why do they smell so bad? Questions that have baffled scholars for centuries. They belong in
a zoo. Please don't feed the Muslums.
Allen King
This website is awesome. It's just jokes and not meant to be taken seriously, so haters should calm the fuck down and quit their bitching. Some of the pics on this site are really nice and appreciated. The girls who are featured are also fucking HOT!
I got my hand up Allah smooth shitty brown leg once… all the way to his pussy. Smells like tuna.
Eu comia!
die muslin fags. I heard allah likes to dress male pigs in lace underwear and have sex with them.
M. Ali
hey what do mean by legs of Allah
you pieace of shits.
how you dare to think like this.
Allah was there befor any other religion was made.
you dont know for what you sayjng this.
you think abusing Allah is joke
oh you people are so wrong & in bad topic.
those who do bombing cannot be a Muslim because Muslim is not allowed to harm any one. those people who do bombing are some illiterate & crazy people think that they are true Muslim, but they are not Muslim.
saying thinks to all Muslim by watching some terrorist is not good. abusing Islam for that only you know. GO first read what is Islam.
the things those terrorist is doing is not JIHAD.
if you dont know about it
dont talk about it.
go and search about JIHAD then you will know.
i know Muslims is not all perfect but there is bad peoples everywhere even in Jews and Christians.
you just saying what you have read in news and you are makin ideas about it.
what is your idea about those u.s.a soldiers who do rapes of innocent Muslim girls in iraq. you dont see that you dont read about that becaus your media dont tell you.
you just saying about the half truth you know
dont you have your own mind to think about these thing. where is your own brain to thinks these matters
Abdullah The Butcher
M. Ali
You are a fraud and will suffer the eternal fires of hell for your evil comments against the great Islamic jihadists.
It is you who isn't a true Muslim.
All Muslims hate the western infidel and the degenerate, obnoxious infidel way of life; and let's not forget the land grabbing jews….all true Muslims hate them with a passion second to none.
If you are Muslim and I doubt it…you need to head straight to your Mosque and ask for a "Jihad Intervention." You need to get in touch with your "inner Jihadist."
But make no mistake….if you don't change your ways….you will face Sharia Law.
M. Ali
brother Abdullah killing innocent person is not jihad.
jihad is for evils like jews.
therefore you are right . yes i hate jews i have even read there book "protocols of elder of zion".
and everything these jews doing, its in that book.
they are following.
Do you mean, you guys hate everything? Not just westerns. Anyone not living their life as in the stone age you hate. Jihad is a joke, I can't wait til we finish off the rest of the middle east.. Only thing good from there is the hot ass women, i love baning the hell out of middle eastern girls visiting the states. Death to Jihad and MA HA MED hahahah
muslim poopheads
Scary. What the freak is this shithead talking about?
M. Ali
i have observe there is no point in arguing with you. therefore we all know whats going to be happen in the world. finishing middle east hahahah you cant even touch it .
good jo dreaming is a good habit. but this type of dreams dont come true.
so stop dreaming and watch the real world.
Some Canadian
Man such angry people. Ok in all seriousness, everyone in this world needs to chill the fuck out. There is an infinite number of religions in this god forsaken world and each religion hates the next. What happened to just living life and enjoying what you have? Being at home with your family or whatever it is you have, working and paying your bills then getting a wife and doing whatever it is that makes you a complete person. Live your life for yourself, enjoy it and be happy. Stop fucking complaining about worthless jews, or anyone else for that matter. Yea they got an upper hand and screwed people over, but honestly think about it. Who hasn't done it at least once in their life.
Abdullah The Butcher
some dumbass canadian
It is you who needs to shut the fuck up.
There is one God; Allah and one religion; Islam.
All other religions are false and not worth one brown camel turd.
We live our lives for Islam and Jihad….and that means soon the world will be under our control.
Suck on that you seal clubbing mofo
no religion just eternal torture in the vrests off hell
muslim poopheads
Religions make you do this and that. Who cares about freaking religions? Geez. Religions make the world a mess.
durka durka
There's no true or fake in religious, but to respect the religious as long as it's giving peaceful. Dear Abdullah, i disagreed with the only ONE. Religious came in / introduce because the country is out of their mind (killing, etc.) Religious introduce is to create peacefullness. Nabi unable to go around around the world as that time there's no airplane. Allah = God. God not only have 1 son right?
All of us belong to God's child. In order to spread peacefull of the world, that's why there's other religious depending on the culture to ensure the world is peace. Morover, major problem is the language, right?
War and bombing is all creation of greed with the name of religious.
So this article, no doubt Emma is pretty, but DURKA DURKA, if your mind and heart is well controlled, you are. Seems that u are very confuse. At the mean time, you love Allah, but then u cant resist the beauty of the girl.
We shall keep our heart peace instead of blaming others who make us bad. Not fair the woman around the world right?
The 'BEAUTY' is GOD creation as well. Accept it and don't think about sex all the time.
Abdullah The Butcher
Stop using drugs; they have caused you to become crazy.
Open your eyes (once you become sober) and look at the truth. The infidels have messed up the world and the time has come to give them the boot.
You are ignorant of the true faith of islam and you need to watch your mouth. We don't like critical nut jobs who think they can tell a Muslim anything.
When Islam takes over, we shall talk
muslim poopheads
Islam taking over is like hell breaking loose
emma suks
this site is stoopid
muslim poopheads
this website is full of shit. now this freaking idiot has got issues. saying:
"No Emma Watson you have failed once again. For the legs of Allah are the only ones I'm interested in running my hand up… until I get to the edge of his skirt… and then I slide my hand under… hold on give me a minute."
what the hell? your allah wears a skirt? hahaha. what a fuckhead
Guess all you morons can't read. This is a TROLL site… like that zilladude mentioned, what does a white boy know about allah? Nothing, …
im Muslims myself. but what he ( the writer of this post) is saying is just bullshit.
he is so dogmatic. persons like he always make these kinds of attitudes to Muslims.
i regret myself that these people have the same religious of me…
please. stop thinking like these about Muslims, and do not contribute what these men say to all of us.
any contact :
[email protected]
Abdullah The Butcher
sad shit
This is not eharmony you immoral swine;this is celebjihad.
Us Muslims don't want to contact you like the degenerate westerners do when seeking out prostitutes for sex.
If you want to get a man, do it the Muslim way. Have your father or brother contact a fine Muslim and the two of them will settle on a purchase price for you to be sold to him.
Hopefully you are not too slutty and have been defiled. If that is the case you will end up digging wells and tending animals instead of raising children.
fuck you stupid terrorists you are making people think we are bad btw allah shouldn't be wrote in english it's called GOD. yes people GOD= allah in arabic and sorry for those stupid stoning guys not all of us are like that retarded and sick minded.(to the terrorists) just leave them be they do what they want and you do what you want or are you too stupid to get it? Americans, Canadians,Europeans,Africans,Asians or ANY HUMAN should do what he wants after all god is the one who is gonna judge at the end
dont worry m8 any sane human knows abby and head chick are not real
most are just stating against abby and chick not muslim
we dont care bout herratige (or how ever it is written)or religion
these guys are not even real muslims
Abdullah The Butcher
bullshit for brains
I know you don't care about your heritage; what bastard does?
I'll tell you…none!
Also, stop sucking up to the other dumbass mofos who make stupid posts. This isn't a homoqueer dating site and you trying to pick up other homooqueers here is an insult to Islam.
Eat shit and die mofo
Allahu Akbar
Abdullah The Butcher
not a Muslim
Shut the fuck up imposter.
Assholes like you give us real Muslims a bad rep.
you see you idiot terrorists they think we are evil all because of you i swear it these arabs are so shitty they make sick at heart.muslims shouldn't bash into people now they think we are crazy and stupid all because of you and before saying emma wears short or should be stoned go see your kids they are mind controlled by sex and porn. sorry non-muslims i am really sorry but i just request 1 thing please don't insult god nor our prophet or our religion. the real difference between islam and christianty and juddism is very small we believ in all your messengers but we have slight diffenrence in their histories and please have this in mind al qaeda is not considered islamic at all they kill innocent people and suicide that is not normal and is forbidden but i believe they are satanic.
"Whoever killed a non-Muslim living in the land of Islam shall not smell the fragrance of paradise; verily its fragrance is smelled from a distance of a 40-year travel." – Prophet Muhammed (Peace be upon him)
"Let there be no compulsion in religion" Quran 2:256
"Say you have your religion and I have mine" Quran 109:6
"Whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all humankind. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely." Quran 5:32
Jihad in Islam:
"Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you, but do not do aggression, for Allah loves not the aggressors. Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors. And …slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrongdoers." Quran 2:190-194
Have a nice day.
Abdullah The Butcher
loulou from heehaw
Ignorant fat hog. You have some nerve in posting out of context passages from the Holy Qur'an.
You had best hope you die from a heart attack before Islam takes over because your fat ass is in a load of trouble.
I leave you with the true words of the Prophet (PBUH)
Q 9:029 Fight those who do not believe in Allah…nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
[2.190] And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. [2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
There is no doubt that Allah commands us to kill the infidel.
Anyone who says differently will be stoned or worse.
<3 islam
Abdullah The Butcher
Unless you have a male escort, you need to get off this site or face Sharia.
What are you talking about?
Religion is not about killing people or hatred, but about love and peace.
We can all chose what we believe and therefor we live in a free country.
Those who believe in Jihad or a sacred war are fools. Im not a muslim, but i know for a fact
that it can't be allah's will to just kill anyone who doesn't do what he likes.
And if you do believe in that, you are either dumb, retarted or just trolling.
Sorry butcher but when i read your posts i don't know if i should laugh or cry.
Either way i feel sad for you.
Religions don't condone killings or hurting someone whatever the reason.
Even killing a dictator: It is not your call if someone should live or die. By doing that you are claiming that you are god. And allah won't be too happy with that will he?
So i made a comment. I spoke my mind, which i am allowed to because i live in a free country. What are you going to do about it. Stone me? Ooh i'm scared.
Abdullah The Butcher
truthless infidel
I don't care if you're scared or not asshole.
It wont change your verdict in Shariah Court.
You know what? Fuck it.
I Tried to be nice. But i don't care anymore.
You are a dumb ignorant extremist.
So go fuck your sheep and go slap your wife.
I don't care anymore. I swear i have never in my
whole entire life seen anyone so dumb as you.
Abdullah The Butcher
truth the asshole
I don't give a damn if you throw a hissy fit.
And when Islam takes over…I'll slap you and then fuck your wife, girlfriend or sister….while you watch.
And if they are too ugly to fuck, Shariah Law demands they be stoned.
Suck on that mofo
Nice truth
Don't be so nice. If you want us to slap your sheep and fuck your wife then that we can do. Unless she is uglier than your sheep then its only a maybe. If you want to see the dumbest fucker in your entire life then I suggest
Look in the mirror asshole………
So i failed. I cannot bring reason to simple sheep fuckers.
I do look forward to more comments. Laughing at ignorant people amuses mee;-)
Fuck you donkey loving, scraggly looking, insane, racist, extremist assholes. Last night I fucked Allah up the ass and he was begging for more. I put him in a pink tutu and he danced the chicken dance whilst deep throating a big fat sheep dick. Which I hear is some of the extremist Muslims favorite pastimes. You idiots aren't worth the gunpowder to blow yourselves up with. All you people have gone insane from the desert heat and the nasty food you eat. Not to mention the fact that you would rather fuck farm animals than your hairy, ugly, whorish women. Fuck your God, your genocidal ideals and anyone else who wishes death on other people. I hope if there is a hell you will be damned there to eternally pass upside down pineapples like kidney stones. Actually, never mind. You would probably enjoy that.
CelebJihad is not the place to work out your gay fantasies. Do you kiss your homoqueer boyfriend with that filthy mouth?
BTW, how did you find these pics? And then condemn them. You people are the shit scum of the world
Abdullah The Butcher
dick cheese eater
Us Muslims aren't running a "homo confessional" site.
Take your filthy fantasies and perverted morals and go someplace else….preferably hell (you're going there anyway)
Aah, I now i get it.
You're just joking.
Still laughing


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I've been having a great time at this year's GFA convention in Denver, CO. Many great concerts, vendor's fair, meeting up with old friends and new, talking about soundboard and Lilypond to everyone who will listen!!
Author: ecormier
The Charke/Cormier Duo Play Contemporary
The Charke/Cormier Duo will perform a concert of contemporary works at The Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance on June 4, 2016 at 8:00PM.
The programme is as follows:
Toward the Sea (1981) – Toru Takemitsu
I. The Night
II. Moby Dick
III. Cape Cod
Wired & Released (2013) – Derek Charke
II. And
Musiques Populaires Brésiliennes (1988) – Celso Machado
I. Paçoca (Choro)
II. Quebra Queixo (Choro)
III. Piazza Vittorio (Choro Maxixe)
IV. Algodão Doce (Samba)
V. Sambossa (Bossa Nova)
VI. Pé de Moleque (Samba Choro)
~ ~ Intermission ~ ~
The Engine Continuum (2013) – Derek Charke
Ex Tempore (2016) – Derek Charke
World Premiere
Histoire du Tango (1986) – Astor Piazzolla
I. Bordell – 1900
II. Café – 1930
III. Nightclub – 1960
IV. Concert d'aujourd'hui
Ticket Price: $26.10+tax
Latest concert now on youtube
Mine & Derek's latest concert is now up, in its entirety on youtube. Watch it here:
The Soundboard Has Landed
My copy of the latest Soundboard (GFA magazine) has finally arrived. It is a thrill to see how good the scores look inside. My typesetting efforts really jazz the magazine up!
Guitar/Flute Concert Imminent
Derek and I will be performing a guitar/flute duo concert on Wednesday, Dec 9 2015 in the Manning Memorial Chapel on the Acadia campus. We will be performing a varied recital including hits from: Piazzolla, Handel, Jacques Ibert, Villa-Lobos, and a world premiere from Derek Charke himself! An event not to be missing in a gorgeous concert hall setting (Manning Memorial Chapel).
And (2nd mvt. from Wired and Released) Derek Charke
Entr' Acte Jacques Ibert
Distribuçào De Flôres Heitor Villa-Lobos
Sonata in A minor Georg Friedric Handel
1. Larghetto
2. Allegro
3. Adagio
4. Allegro
The Engine Continuum (world premiere) Derek Charke
Histoire Du Tango Astor Piazzolla
1. Bordel 1900
2. Café 1930
3. NIghtclub 1960
4. Concert d'aujourd'hui
Soundboard & Soundboard Scholar
I've been holding off making this announcement, but I'm going to go ahead and post it: I am now the musical engraver for the magazines "Soundboard" & "Soundboard Scholar"!
A few years back I became a member of the Guitar Foundation of America and from that time forward I was thinking about how I could contribute to the GFA. My answer came as a combination of my specific talents and knowledge. Who better to typeset music and musical excerpts than a guy who's taught rudiments and music technology? Combine that with a deep love of the guitar, aesthetics of scoring, and a complete computer nerd and you've got me in a nutshell.
I've submitted all the scores for the next issue of Soundboard and am now just doing some work on Soundboard Scholar. How am I doing this typesetting? Open source of course… I'm using Lilypond as the vehicle to typeset. Unlike other notation programs like Finale/Sibelius it is rules based and it creates the layouts itself (everything right down to the arch of a slur and how far the end points are from noteheads). I've spent the last 6 months working on my own 'house rules' and creating a cheat sheet for classical guitar. I believe the result to be something truly special.
All this has happened while I quietly launched a new link in this site's menu called 'Stella Pulvis' (Ok so I'm not only a computer/guitar geek, but also a space guy…. the name is Latin meaning 'space dust', from a famous Carl Sagan quote). 'Stella' is my freelance typesetting service. I've already been very busy with 10+ scores this summer. Since Lilypond is open source software and free, I will donate part of any income I make from this endeavor back to the developers of the software as my little thank you to them.
I'll be posting examples of the notation here soon under the 'Stella' link, and I encourage you to take a look when they appear and if you like my work and have something you'd like notated, get in touch!
2X5 – Reich
I totally forgot about this video, but here's me and Jeff Hennessey, Nic D'Amato, Mark Adam and Jeff Torbert playing the 3rd movt. of 2X5
Steve Reich 2 x 5: 3rd Movement "Fast" from Zoe D'Amato on Vimeo.
Guitar Foundation 2014 on PBS Socal
There is a video on PBS (Socal) website that features the 2014 Guitar Foundation of America Competition/Convention. I'm on the video because I took part in the GFA Guitarkestra 🙂
I'm very much looking forward to this summer in Oklahoma!!
Histoire Du Tango ~ Astor Piazzolla
From my recent concert with Derek Charke on Dec 11
Musiques Populaires Brésiliennes ~ Celso Machado
From my recent concert with Derek Charke on Dec. 11
I've always been very serious about data safety. I've lost data more than once, and so when I moved into the linux world I searched high and low for a backup system that would suit me. At the time, not many options existed, but one that stood out was the rsync + cp with hard links.
To sum up the idea, you make a copy of all the files on your hard drive to a backup system (another computer with a large attached hard drive), then when you want to update the backup, you copy the backup using hard links and then backup only the files that have changed since the previous backup (think snapshots). Let me explain hardlinks.
In linux there are symbolic links and hardlinks. Symbolic links are like most other OSes links… If you have a file and make a symbolic link, if you delete the link the file still exists, if you delete the original file, the link no longer works (its target is missing).
Hardlinks is a way for two (or more) files to 'point' to the same data. If I have a file and make a hard link, if I delete the link the file remains, if I delete the file the link still works… the actual file will exist as long as one hardlink points to it, when the last hardlink is removed, the space is regained and the data is released.
Using nothing more than a couple of command line utilities, one can have the most sophisticated incremental backups (like Apple's time machine, just around for 15-20 years before time machine ever existed): rsync (makes copies of files that have changed), ssh (allows this to work over a network or the internet) and 'cp -l' (which makes hardlink copies of files).
I wanted a way to make this a little more automated, idiot proof if you wish, so I wrote a python program called pysshbackup. I've been using this program on my systems for some years and it works really well. It is command line only, it has a light menu system (similar to fdisk), and settings are stored in a xml file.
I recently uploaded the code to my github account in case anyone thinks this may be up their alley as well.
As always, because I am part of the open source software community who has given me all the tools I used to create the script, this is open source as well, GPL version2.
The program can be found here: https://github.com/eugenecormier/pysshbackup
I'm not sure if this is useful to anyone, but in the spirit of openness: have at it!
The original information I was using can be found here (last updated 2004!, still relevent): http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
New Lilypond Beginners Guide
I've finally updated my Lilypond Beginners Guide. It now contains not only updated commands for the most recent stable Lilypond (version 2.18), but also a number of added commands that the first one lacked.
You can download the guide here:
Lilypond Beginners Guide
Classical Guitar News
I'm quite busy practicing these days and I have a couple of exciting projects to share with you:
1. I've been working with our school's composition/flute prof, Derek Charke, putting together a concert of Classical Guitar and Flute music. So far we've chosen to perform a set of pieces by Celso Machado, Histoire du Tango by Piazzolla, and I'm working on my continuo chops on Bach's Flute Sonata (BWV 1034). Should be a really great concert! (I'm always amazed at the guitar writing of Piazzolla, for a non guitarist he sure knew how to toe the line of unplayable without going over!!)
2. I'm preparing two pieces of Shawn Bell, Currents I & II, for recording. I performed Currents II many years ago and loved the piece so it's nice to revisit it with a bit more wisdom. It's my first time working on Currents I and I have to say that this is another of Shawn's gems! It shares similar rhytmic pulses and harmony with Currents II, but has a very different feel overall. You can now purchase Shawn's pieces from D'Oz for the first time here:
These are really great guitar works, and I'm so happy that Shawn has finally published them officially!
My initiation to programming: Rudi
Exciting news: I've created a new program which randomly generates music theory/rudiments worksheets and corresponding answer keys. I've been working on this a few months and I've got most of the bugs worked out.
To use the program itself you need to download the source and you have to have Python3 and lilypond installed on linux.
The code can be found here:
If you don't want to do it the 'hard' way, a former guitar student of mine is creating a web interface, you just go to the website, click the options you want and poof! you get two pdfs to print off and use.
Justin's website can be found here:
Of course all the code is free to use, change… basically do whatever you want with… I wrote this to help my life out at university, now I give it away freely to whoever else wants it (my thanks to the open source community, Python, and of course Lilypond)
GFA 2014 – California
I'm just getting ready for my next trip, the GFA in California…. very excited to see many old friends! Then after that, I'll be spending a month on the beach in Newfoundland looking through new guitar rep and living large.
Montreal Guitar Competition 2014
I am very excited to be part of the MGC again with Patrick Kearney, Jeff McFadden & Adam Holzman.
More info can be found here: The 2014 Montreal Guitar Competition
Linux DVD conversion to h264 aac mp4
So I get a week off, and what really needs to be done?!? I've been noticing the deterioration of my massive, 200+, DVD collection which contains ALL my former concerts, ensembles, studio recitals, grad recitals etc…
This of course is very precious to me and maintaining my data/media is always a balance of: newest and greatest way, good compression, high quality audio and video, longevity, and last but not least convenience.
For a long time now, the best option for me has been a transfer to the DVD format, and I have well over 200+ DVD vids of our concerts. I've been watching video codecs with hope, and finally with h264 and aac I have to say it really is incredible quality at a highly compressed bitrate.
So with the h264 (x264 in linux) codec (the video/size ratio is very good) and my dying DVDs, I decided to get this done, and I've learnt a few key commands that I'd like to share with whoever will listen. I'll break it into steps:
1) Getting the info off the disc
Since these are all personal discs, a conversation about libdvdcss as it's not needed. There are two good ways of doing this (the former is quicker, while the latter is far better at regaining lost data
ddrescue works really well if there are no/few problems with the disc (free from scratches):
dd_rescue -n -b 2048 /dev/cdrom dvd.iso
dd can be brutally slow, but gets everything:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso conv=noerror,sync
2) joining VOBs
There are two ways to do this too. I'll give the most logical and easiest first although I notice no difference at all between the two.
use cat:
cat VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB > combined.vob
use ffmpeg (you need 1.1 or newer for concat):
ffmpeg -i concat:VTS_01_1.VOB\|VTS_01_2.VOB\|VTS_01_3.VOB -c copy combined.vob
One neat thing about the ffmpeg command is you can include everything else and come up with a finished product like:
ffmpeg -i concat:VTS_01_1.VOB\|VTS_01_2.VOB\|VTS_01_3.VOB -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a libfaac -ac 2 -ab 192k finished-video.mp4
3) Encoding video
I use ffmpeg for this:
ffmpeg -i combined.vob -c:v libx264 -crf 23 -c:a libfaac -ac 2 -ab 192k test.mp4
to break this last example down:
-i combined.vob -> is the concatted vob file
-c:v libx264 -> this is the codec (x264)
-crf 23 -> this is how you set the constant quality, a lower number means higher quality, bigger file
-c:a libfaac -> audio codec (faac)
-ac 2 -> stereo sound (channels = 2)
-ab 192k -> the audio bitrate, higher is better/bigger
and that's pretty much it. For a 1 hour concert at 720p I'm getting about a 500-600mb file which is really good, and I'm using all open source software. I'm plowing through these videos, getting them backed up and safe. As soon as I complete this, the next stage is to run out to pick up a new 2TB HD, copy the files to that and move them offsite (just in case the house burns down…. you can NEVER be too safe with your data!
I like the quote:
"There are two types of people in this world, those who have lost data, and those who are going to lose data"


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NILES - Niles resident and local community activist John Williams vows he is not stopping his fight against the oil and gas industry.
Arrested for trespassing during a Nov. 24 protest at a new injection well being drilled in Weathersfield Township, Williams now is focusing on the May election.
With the help of the Committee to Keep Niles Safe, Williams hopes to get the 620 signatures needed for a "community bill of rights" initiative included on the Niles ballot.
"We don't have all the signatures yet, but we're confident that we'll get there," Williams said.
The proposal, which appeared on the Youngstown ballot in November, would ban hydraulic fracturing inside Niles city limits.
The group has until Jan. 6 to acquire the needed signatures.
Representatives in the oil and gas industry call the attempts to limit or stop drilling in Niles out of touch.
Shawn Bennett, field director for industry outreach group Energy in Depth, said the bill of rights would not affect the oil and gas industry's ability to conduct business in the city, but it would send a distinct message.
"It would basically mean putting a 'closed for business' sign on the city of Niles," Bennett said. "It would tell all of the companies in the industry that they aren't wanted there."
Oil and gas development in the state is regulated by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. According to Bennett, even if the proposal were passed by voters, it would not affect ODNR's ability to permit hydraulic fracturing and injection wells in the city.
A new injection well along state Route 169 in Weathersfield, just outside of Niles, is a sign of things to come, according to Williams.
He fears that the proximity of the well to downtown Niles presents an unsafe environment for residents and they should fight back.
The Class II Saltwater Injection well used for permanent disposal of oil field brine and waste thousands of feet underground. It is being drilled by Howland-based American Water Management Services.
"The problem with the injection wells are the earthquakes," Williams said. "ODNR erred by putting this well about seven miles from the Northstar 1 injection well in Youngstown, a mile from downtown Niles and three miles from downtown Warren."
During court proceedings on Friday, Williams was issued a $50 fine and court costs by Niles Municipal Court after setting up a blockade outside the injection well.


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Find layers of holiday cheer in my Chocolate-Peppermint Stick Ice Cream Sundae Mini Cake dessert. Ice cream, chocolate, cake and confection. Snuggle by a warm fire while you cozy up to this elegant spin-on-a-classic dessert. The cool peppermint flavor is the perfect refreshing taste to finish off a rich holiday meal. Turn your favorite fudge sundae upside-down into a dish that is a little fancy, a little messy, very silky sweet and definitely holiday-approved!..
The layers. Silky chocolate sauce and festive crushed candy cane candies meet creamy vanilla ice cream and a circle slice of fluffy cinnamon cake. Crushed peanuts complete this sundae feast. Add whipped topping and a cherry if you are a sundae purist. Extra chocolate sauce optional. This dessert treat reminds me of my favorite holiday flavor of ice cream: peppermint stick – with a bold accent of chocolate and cinnamon blended in.
Vegan Treat. I used all vegan ingredients for my sundae, but you can use whatever you keep in your pantry.
Chocolate-Peppermint Stick Ice Cream Sundae Mini Cake
vegan, makes one
1 round of cinnamon vanilla pound cake
*I used this basic recipe – with added cinnamon sugar accent (see below for instructions)
(about 1 big scoop) – 3/4 cup vanilla rice milk ice cream (or sub your favorite vanilla ice cream – coconut is fabulous too)
2 Tbsp crushed candy canes or similar
1 Tbsp crushed peanuts
2 Tbsp vegan chocolate sauce
1. First bake your cakes a few hours ahead of serving time. I used this recipe with a few pinches of added sugar and a dash of added cinnamon.
2. Bake in 4″ ramekins for about 6-8 minutes at 350 degrees – or until golden brown. Allow to chill completely before adding ice cream. This may take a while. You can speed up chilling by placing cooled ramekins in fridge.
3. Assemble by adding a tsp of chocolate sauce over top the cake. Roll the sides of your scoop of ice cream in the peanuts. Then add your ice cream over top. Then add another hefty drizzle of chocolate. Allowing it to gush into the side crevices of the ramekin. Top with plentiful peppermint candies. More chocolate optional.
4. Place the ramekin in the freezer to chill for at least a half hour. Then remove from freezer 10 minutes before serving. Serve in ramekin of carefully transfer to a serving dish like I did. Enjoy!
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Again, I went unperfumed. And I went to the dentist.
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I went two days ago. I had a few perfume on my skin from the previous day which now I can't remember which one was. Did it hurt? not me..
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Author Affiliations: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Dr van Wijk is now with the Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Phearmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Many patients who initiate statin (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor) therapy discontinue treatment within 1 year. We sought to estimate the rate at which patients reinitiate treatment after long periods of nonadherence and to determine whether reinitiation of treatment is linked to potentially modifiable factors such as physician visits, cholesterol testing, or other encounters with the health care system.
We studied new users of statins in British Columbia, Canada, who initiated treatment between January 1, 1997, and June 30, 2004, and who had an extended period of nonadherence, defined as at least 90 days after the completion of 1 prescription in which no refill for any statin medication was obtained. Survival analysis was used to estimate the rate of reinitiation of statin therapy. Case-crossover analysis was used to evaluate the predictors of reinitiation.
We identified 239 911 new users of statins, of whom 129 167 (53.8%) had a period of nonadherence that lasted for at least 90 days. Of these patients, an estimated 48% restarted treatment within 1 year and 60% restarted treatment within 2 years. Case-crossover analysis revealed events that were associated with a return to adherence, including visits with the physician who initiated the statin regimen (odds ratio [OR], 6.1; 95% confidence interval [CI], 5.9-6.3), a visit with another physician (OR, 2.9; 95% CI, 2.8-3.0), and a cholesterol test (OR, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.4-1.5). Incident myocardial infarction (OR, 12.2; 95% CI, 8.9-16.9) and other cardiovascular disease–related hospitalizations (OR, 3.6; 95% CI, 3.1-4.3) were also strong predictors of reinitiation of treatment.
Physicians should be aware that statin use is dynamic and that many patients have long periods of nonadherence. A follow-up visit with the physician who wrote the initial statin prescription and having a cholesterol test predicted reinitiation of statin therapy. Our results suggest that continuity of care combined with increased follow-up and cholesterol testing could promote long-term adherence by shortening or eliminating long gaps in statin use. This hypothesis should be confirmed in a randomized experiment.
In patients with clinically evident coronary artery disease, statin (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor) therapy substantially reduces the risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and all-cause mortality.1- 4 However, despite the safety and effectiveness of statins for secondary prevention, an important body of research has found that patient adherence to long-term statin therapy is poor, with many patients becoming nonadherent by 1 year.5- 10
Given the public health and clinical consequences of widespread underuse of statins and other effective long-term medications, there has been increasing interest in the development of strategies to improve patient adherence to prescribed therapies.11,12 Improving adherence has been challenging, however, and only multifaceted, patient-centered interventions have been consistently found effective.13,14 A greater understanding of the determinants of adherence to statin therapy is necessary to develop simple and cost-effective interventions.
Most previous studies of medication use have been designed to reveal correlates of poor adherence and identify groups of people at risk of discontinuing treatment.5- 9,15- 19 While these studies have led to important characterizations of the problem of nonadherence to statin therapy, their designs do not readily permit the identification of modifiable determinants of adherence. To better understand patterns of statin use and factors that could be modified to improve adherence, we propose a new approach to studying medication use that uses a case-crossover method to identify time-varying predictors of medication refills. The case-crossover method is based on within-person comparisons and, therefore, is not confounded by subject characteristics that are constant in time.20- 22 Such studies can get closer to the causal process than cross-sectional analytic approaches. We applied this method in a study of adherence to statins in a large, new-user cohort in British Columbia, Canada. Using the case-crossover design, we explored how cholesterol testing, physician visits, and various types of hospitalizations are related to refilling a statin prescription by patients after an extended period of nonadherence.
We studied subjects who initiated statin therapy between January 1, 1997, and June 30, 2004. Initiation was defined as filling a statin prescription without having filled one in the past 12 months. All patients were identified in the linked health care utilization databases of the publicly funded health care system of British Columbia. Regardless of payer, pharmacists enter medication name, dosage, and quantity for all dispensed prescription drugs into a single database via a provincewide network.23 All medications for all residents, regardless of age or payer, are listed in this database. In addition, the Ministry of Health maintains linkable data for all physician services and hospitalizations. Up to 16 diagnoses for hospital discharges and 1 diagnosis for each medical service are recorded.24 Patients were followed up until they died, disenrolled from the provincial health plan (emigrated from British Columbia), or reached the administrative end of follow-up, which was June 30, 2004.
To identify statin therapy discontinuation dates, we created a drug coverage data file for each patient. Consecutive statin prescriptions were linked together using dispensing dates and the "days supply" field. When a prescription was filled before the previous prescription should have been finished, use of the new prescription was assumed to begin the day after the end of the previous prescription. Discontinuation was defined as failing to fill a new prescription for a statin within 90 days of finishing a previous prescription. This definition was extended to 180 days in a sensitivity analysis.
The study investigators have Data Use Agreements with the Ministry of Health of British Columbia. The Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board approved this research. All personally identifiable data were removed from the files before analysis to protect patient confidentiality.
We used the Kaplan-Meier method to estimate the distribution of the time until a patient refilled a statin prescription.25 We then performed a case-crossover analysis to determine whether particular events occurring during follow-up triggered reinitiation of statin therapy. The case-crossover approach stratifies the analysis across individuals; thus, each patient serves as his or her own control (Figure 1), removing the confounding effects of patient-level variables that are constant in time. The events considered were the occurrence of a visit with the physician who initiated the statin prescription, a visit with any other physician, a cholesterol test, a hospitalization because of MI, a non–MI-related cardiovascular hospitalization, or any noncardiovascular hospitalization. An MI hospitalization was identified based on the presence of an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9) diagnosis code of 410.xx. A non–MI-related cardiovascular hospitalization did not contain an ICD-9 diagnosis code of 410.xx but did carry one of the following ICD-9 codes: 401.xx-403.xx (hypertension), 411.xx-413.xx (ischemic heart disease), 415.xx (pulmonary embolism), 426.xx-427.xx (conductive defects and arrhythmias), 428.xx (congestive heart failure), 390.xx -394.xx or 398.xx (valvular heart disease), 440.xx-441.xx (arteriosclerosis and aneurysms), or 429.xx, 459.xx, or 479.xx (other diseases of heart and circulatory system).
Schematic of case-crossover design. Rx indicates prescription.
The case-crossover analysis was implemented by comparing the frequency of events in the 14 days immediately before reinitiating statin therapy (hazard period; Figure 1) with the frequency of events in the 14 days immediately before the hazard period (control period; Figure 1). We also conducted a secondary analysis in which the hazard and control periods were lengthened to 30 days; that is, the hazard period was the 30 days immediately before reinitiation of statin therapy and the control period was the 30 days immediately before the hazard period.
To explore whether discontinuation was caused by adverse events, in the 90 days before statin therapy discontinuation, we assessed the frequency of hospitalization or outpatient visits because of rhabdomyolysis and muscle weakness (ICD-9 codes 728.81, 728.9, 729.1, 728.87, and 728.88) or hepatic dysfunction (ICD-9 codes 570, 573.3). All statistical analyses were performed with SAS software (version 9.1; SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC).
We identified a study cohort of 253 951 patients who initiated statin therapy from 1997 through 2004. We excluded 14 017 subjects who initiated cerivastatin therapy,which was withdrawn from the market in 2001, and 23 subjects who had prescriptions for multiple statins on the same day, leaving a population of 239 911. Of these new users, 129 167 (53.8%) had a period of nonadherence that lasted for at least 90 days. The characteristics of this sample are given in Table 1. These patients had a mean ± SD age of 59.6 ± 12.2 years, were predominantly men, and had a mean ± SD of 0.8 ± 1.2 comorbid condition. In the year before initiation of statin therapy, approximately 12.4% had an emergency department visit, 6.8% had a history of MI, and 16.4% had an acute care hospitalization. Among these patients, 73 291 (56.7%) ultimately restarted treatment, 3196 (2.5%) were censored by death, 3393 (2.6%) were censored by disenrollment from the provincial health plan, and 49 287 (38.1%) reached the end of follow-up without returning to regular use. Figure 2 shows Kaplan-Meier estimates of the survival function for time to restart therapy. An estimated 48% of 129 167 patients restarted treatment within 1 year, and 60% within 2 years.
Kaplan-Meier estimate of the cumulative probability of returning to treatment. Solid line indicates the probability of restarting statin therapy in a cohort in which stopping therapy is defined as a period of at least 90 days after the completion of 1 prescription in which no refill for any statin medication was obtained. In this cohort, the index date is 90 days after the completion of the last prescription; dotted line, the probability of restarting statin therapy in a cohort in which the definition of stopping is extended to a period of at least 180 days after the completion of the last prescription.
Table 2 gives the frequency of events in both the hazard and control periods. All events studied were more frequent in the 14 days before restarting statin therapy than in the 2 weeks before that. Almost half the patients who restarted statin therapy had a visit with the index physician in the 2 weeks before refilling the prescription. Almost 80% of patients had a visit with some physician during that time.
Table 3 gives the results of the case-crossover analysis. The event most strongly associated with a return to adherence was an incident MI (odds ratio [OR], 12.2; 95% confidence interval [CI], 8.9-16.9). Visits with the physician who initiated the statin regimen (OR, 6.1; 95% CI, 5.9-6.3), a visit with another physician (OR, 2.9; 95% CI, 2.8-3.0), a cholesterol test (OR, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.4-1.5), and other cardiovascular disease–related hospitalization (OR, 3.6; 95% CI, 3.1-4.3) were also strongly associated with a return to adherence. Noncardiovascular hospitalizations (OR, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.5-1.9) were moderately associated with restarting statin therapy. In a secondary analysis, we assessed whether the analysis was sensitive to increasing the duration of the hazard and control periods to 30 days. The results were qualitatively similar (Table 3, column 2); however, all effects were slightly attenuated with the exception of cholesterol testing, which increased in strength (OR, 2.4; 95% CI, 2.4-2.5). Increasing the definition of discontinuation to 180 days without any available statin therapy slightly increased the effect of a visit with the index physician (OR, 6.5; 95% CI, 6.2-6.8) and the effect of other cardiovascular disease-related hospitalization (OR, 4.3; 95% CI, 3.5-5.4) but had little effect on other parameter estimates. This change decreased the number of people who were estimated to return to treatment to 51% by 2 years from 60% (Figure 2). To assess whether treatment interruptions were owing to medication switching, we made a cross-tabulation of drugs used before and after an observed interruption in treatment (Table 4). Although there was a trend toward switching to atorvastatin, 65% of patients returned to using the same statin. Of those patients who returned to using the same statin, 80% continued using the same dose, 15% used a higher dose, and 5% used a lower dose.
Adverse events may have accounted for a few of the observed treatment discontinuations. A total of 87 patients (0.07%) had a diagnosis of hepatic toxicity in the 90 days before discontinuing statin therapy and 256 (0.2%) had a diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis or muscle weakness. Both events were negatively associated with restarting statin therapy after discontinuation (P <.05).
In a population of new users of statins, we found that most patients had at least 1 extended period of nonadherence during the study period. Of patients who became nonadherent, most returned to regular use, revealing that statin adherence is dynamic, similar to other health-related behaviors.26,27 Many previous studies have reported that patient adherence with statin regimens is poor, but, to our knowledge, this is one of the few articles indicating that many patients refill prescriptions for statins after long periods of nonuse. Given this observation, it is natural to wonder what can be done to help patients avoid interruptions in their statin regimen.
We found that the process of restarting statin therapy is strongly linked with a physician visit, particularly a visit with the (index) physician who initiated the statin regimen. This suggests that both increased physician follow-up and continuity of care could improve adherence to statin therapy by shortening or eliminating the frequent gaps in treatment. Although we expected that physician visits would lead to reinitiation of therapy in some patients, the magnitude of this effect is impressive. Indeed, most of the observed restarting of treatment occurs immediately after a physician visit. The particularly strong association between a visit with the physician who initiated the statin regimen and reinitiation of therapy is also surprising, with almost half of patients restarting treatment less than 2 weeks after a visit with that physician. The physician who initiated the statin regimen should be aware of the patient's statin prescription and is likely to inquire about adherence and stress the need for reinitiation of statin therapy if the patient has discontinued treatment. Cholesterol testing combined with a physician visit seems to have a synergistic effect, further increasing the likelihood of reinitiation of statin therapy. It is possible that the results of the cholesterol test or just the process of testing reminds a patient of his or her disease risk and the need for treatment.28 It is also possible that physicians who order cholesterol tests are more likely to discuss with the patient the importance of continued statin therapy.29
Our finding that physician visits and cholesterol testing are associated with reinitiation of statin therapy is in agreement with previous research that found that patients who had a cholesterol test or a physician visit during the 3 months after initiating a statin regimen were more likely to remain adherent during the subsequent follow-up,30 as well as studies of other medications in which it was found that the scheduling of a follow-up appointment was associated with better medication adherence.31,32 The present study strengthens the validity of these important findings through the use of a case-crossover design that uses each patient as his or her own control and, thus, eliminates confounding caused by unmeasured patient characteristics that do not change in time (eg, general health-seeking tendencies). In the contrasting population-level study designs, it cannot be determined whether physician visits cause improved adherence or whether patients who are more likely to visit their physician, ask for cholesterol tests, and schedule follow-up appointments are more likely to remain adherent. The case-crossover design mitigates the potential for such confounding. By focusing only on patients who return to refill a prescription after a prolonged period of nonadherence, the case-crossover approach addresses the question, Why do these patients return to refill a prescription now?
Despite its strengths, the case-crossover design may be confounded by unmeasured time-varying patient characteristics, such as a patient's perception of disease risk or the benefit of statin therapy. One explanation for our results is that information obtained during a visit with a physician changes a patient's opinion of the importance of statin therapy, leading the patient to reinitiate treatment. Another plausible explanation is that something outside of the health care system alters a patient's perception of the importance of statin therapy and that precipitates a physician visit, cholesterol test, and subsequent reinitiation of statin therapy. Because a patient's perceptions of the risks of disease and the benefits of treatment with statins are unmeasured and time-varying characteristics, the case-crossover study cannot remove confounding by these factors and, therefore, cannot help us select between these 2 competing explanations of our results.
We believe that it is more likely that patients are reinitiating statin therapy at the direction of their physician. The case-crossover analysis focused on patients who had not used a statin for at least 3 months. If these patients became concerned about their cardiovascular risk, they could return to the pharmacy for a refill or, if they needed to renew their prescription, request a refill by telephone. Regardless of the causal mechanism, the findings of our study reveal that it is relatively uncommon for patients to reinitiate treatment without a physician visit. Efforts to increase the frequency of physician follow-up can only increase the likelihood of restarting medications and, thus, should improve adherence outcomes by shortening or eliminating long gaps in statin use.
We found that hospitalizations because of MI and other cardiovascular diseases were strong predictors of a new prescription refill, although these events were uncommon and preceded few reinitiations of treatment. The occurrence of these events certainly reminds a patient of his or her disease risk and presents a compelling reason to reinitiate treatment. This finding suggests that education about the real risks associated with statin nonadherence might be effective in promoting adherence. The occurrence of a hospitalization also puts the patient in contact with physicians who have the opportunity to reassess and adjust the patient's medication regimen.
Our findings must be interpreted in light of several important limitations. First, our study may have limited generalizability. We studied a heterogeneous population in British Columbia that includes patients with a wide variety of prescription drug coverage plans, from total coverage of all prescription drugs to coinsurance with a high deductible. The results could be different in a US population that may have different economic and social barriers to adherence.
Second, our study is based on administrative data. Recorded hospital discharge and outpatient diagnoses are not perfect measures of clinical conditions, and it is possible that there could be some misclassification of test or procedure codes. However, measurement error of these exposures of interest would be not be differential (ie, they would be equally likely in the hazard and control periods) and, therefore, should only attenuate effect estimates. Similarly, the pharmacy data capture what medications were filled at the pharmacy, but we do not know how a patient is using the medication. Patients who seem to have stopped refilling their statin prescription may still be taking the medication continuously but infrequently. Nevertheless, the strong association between events such as a physician visit and a prescription refill strongly suggests that adherence behavior can change abruptly. For some patients, however, the behavior change may be from underuse to regular use rather than from nonuse to use.
Third, we are unable to assess the reasons why patients start or stop taking a medication. Thus, some of the gaps in treatment that we observed could be physician-directed. For example, the interruption could represent a pause in therapy because of an adverse event or concern about one. Given the relative safety of statins and the low recorded incidence of diagnoses of hepatic toxicity, rhabdomyolysis, and muscle weakness in patients in the study, this is not a likely explanation for many of the treatment gaps we observed.
Physicians should be aware that long periods of nonadherence are common among users of statins. Our study shows, however, that patients often restart statin therapy after long periods of nonuse. The process of patients reinitiating treatment seems to be strongly related to factors that are, in part, under the control of individual physicians. While the exact mechanism remains unclear, our results suggest that physicians have an integral role in promoting long-term patient adherence through continuity of patient care, frequent follow-up, and regular cholesterol testing. Additional experimental research focused on determining the optimal frequency of follow-up and cholesterol testing could lead to improvements in evidence-based guidelines for the treatment of patients with elevated cholesterol levels.
Correspondence: M. Alan Brookhart, PhD, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1620 Tremont St, Suite 3030, Boston, MA 02120 (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: December 20, 2006.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Brookhart, Patrick, van Wijk, and Solomon. Acquisition of data: Schneeweiss and Avorn. Analysis and interpretation of data: Brookhart, Patrick, Avorn, Dormuth, van Wijk, and Cadarette. Drafting of the manuscript: Brookhart and Patrick. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Brookhart, Schneeweiss, Avorn, Dormuth, Shrank, van Wijk, Cadarette, and Solomon. Statistical analysis: Brookhart, Schneeweiss, van Wijk, and Solomon. Obtained funding: Brookhart, Schneeweiss, Avorn, and Solomon. Administrative, technical, and material support: Brookhart, Patrick, and Avorn. Study supervision: Brookhart, Schneeweiss, Avorn, and Solomon.
Financial Disclosure: Dr Brookhart receives salary support from research grants from Amgen for unrelated work and Drs Solomon and Schneeweiss have received salary support from research grants from Merck Co Inc and Pfizer Inc for unrelated work. There was no pharmaceutical industry support for this study.
Funding/Support: This study was supported by career development grant AG-027400 from the National Institute on Aging (Dr Brookhart); grant RO1-AG021950 from the National Institute on Aging (Dr Schneeweiss); a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Dr Cadarette); grants AR-48616, DK-02759, and AR-47782 from the National Institutes of Health (Dr Solomon), and the Arthritis Foundation and the Engalitcheff Arthritis Outcomes Initiative.
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I got my first SMILEY face today!!! YAY! I was beginning to worry as I am at CD18 today of a 'normally' 29 day cycle... I am sooooo glad I didn't miss it!! Today was the last day DH and I would have to DTD as our schedules are complete opposites during the week.
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Fledgling 24/7 cable net Fox Reality has bought rerun rights from the Bravo channel to the unscripted miniseries "Long Way Round," which follows Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on a 20,000-mile motorcycle trip.
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Voter ID showdown expected Tuesday at Dallas County commissioners court
Updated at 12:08 p.m.: After more than an hour, the discussion on voter ID wraps up.
As we said earlier, the commissioners won't vote on the $165,000 allocation until at least next week. But based on the conversation on Tuesday, it appears that Jenkins, Daniel, Garcia and Price will support the measure.
Cantrell, the court's lone Republican, has made clear that he will oppose spending more money on sending additional letters to those with name discrepancies.
Updated at 12:00 p.m.: SusyDelle Gosslee with the League of Women Voters comes before the commissioners court to explain her organization's support for additional voter outreach.
"More needs to be done to ensure that every citizen may vote – and that there aren't delays in the voting process," Gosslee said.
She commends the court on its unanimous vote in October to spend up to $145,000 on voter outreach. She reiterates that the League of Women Voters supports "continued efforts" to address complications from the voter ID law.
Updated at 11:54 a.m.: County Commissioner Elba Garcia lends her support to mailing out additional letters.
"With any kind of advertisement, … you need to touch your target area more than once," she said.
But Garcia also tells Pippins-Poole that the initial letter was "a little long" and that it "was hard to swallow for a lot of people"
"This is an opportunity to be better at being brief — and hopefully more effective," she said.
Updated at 11:50 a.m.: Cantrell asks about the origin of $165,000 figure.
Jenkins said he's asking to give Pippins-Poole $165,000 to "explore effective communications strategies."
Cantrell responded, "Where did that number come from? Did you pull that out of the air?"
Jenkins answered, "Toni gave it as an estimate."
And then Cantrell and Jenkins spar again about whether Jenkins should've submitted the briefing.
Updated at 11:32 a.m.: Cantrell, Daniel and Jenkins are now going round and round on the merits of sending out another batch of letters to those with name discrepancies.
Cantrell: "What you're talking about is double-spending on the first part."
Daniel: "There was going to be more than one mailing. It does take more than one mailing."
Jenkins: "It is our intention to reach out to people who still have a mismatched name."
Cantrell: "Wouldn't it be better to do it 10 times, rather than two times? When do you stop?"
And on and on.
Updated at 11:21 a.m.: County Commissioner Mike Cantrell, a Republican, starts by questioning why the briefing item was submitted by Jenkins and Daniel, rather than through the elections department.
Cantrell asked Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole if he should start doing other briefings for her.
"What are we paying department heads for?" Cantrell said.
Cantrell went on to express his concerns about spending more money to resend notices to the same people. He said that Pippins-Poole had never said anything about resending those notices. He then asked Pippins-Poole if that's what she wanted to do.
Pippins-Poole said yes, because the elections department learned a key lesson from the initial mailing.
"We received such calls from voters: 'Where's the postage paid? Where's the envelope?'" she said.
Updated at 11:16 a.m.: County Commissioner Theresa Daniel, a Democrat, said that "part of why we were elected to these positions is a responsibility to do what's right for Dallas County residents."
Daniel, who joined Jenkins in submitting the briefing, said that responsibility extends to ensuring that elections are conducted in "an efficient, effective way." And she said it became apparent that the name discrepancies are a "barrier to some people being allowed to vote."
That's why she said she supports spending money on additional outreach to voters.
Updated at 11:08 a.m.: Jenkins just ran through the background on the voter ID law, which into effect last summer. He focused on the much-discussed name discrepancies that many voters have encountered.
Jenkins said that thousands of voters having to deal with name issues at the polls could lead to "untenably long lines." And that could deny "voters with time commitments — i.e. normal people — the chance to vote," he said.
So far around 18,000 voters have responded to the January mailing and updated their name in the county's voter registration database. That means more than 90 percent haven't responded to the letters.
"Perhaps we should do another mailing," Jenkins said, saying more attention to the topic was "sound public policy."
Updated at 10:44 a.m.: The discussion on voter ID should begin shortly. Stay tuned.
Updated at 9:24 a.m.: County Judge Clay Jenkins just arrived at commissioners court.
Jenkins submitted the briefing item on voter ID, so it would seem that the discussion will go ahead as planned. Commissioners still have some other items to get through first, but we'll update when the voter ID discussion begins.
Updated at 9:12 a.m.: The showdown might not materialize, after all.
County Judge Clay Jenkins is apparently sick. And County Commissioner John Wiley Price said it remains to be seen if Jenkins will be able to make it in.
"Most of us are hoping that he does not join," Price said to laughter, before making clear that he just wanted Jenkins to get better. "That has nothing to do with what's on the docket."
Original post: A showdown over Texas' new voter ID law is expected Tuesday morning at Dallas County commissioners court.
As we reported on Sunday, county commissioners will look at a proposal to spend up to an additional $165,000 to alert voters to potential identification problems resulting from the law. Tuesday will feature just a briefing, with no formal vote expected for at least another week.
The money would come on top of up to $145,000 commissioners approved in October for such voter outreach.
That first infusion resulted in the mailing on Jan. 24 of notices to 195,000 voters about the ID law's provision that a voter's name on a valid photo ID must exactly match the name listed in the voter registration database.
No voters have been turned away because of a minor name discrepancy, as there's an easy way to resolve the issue at the ballot box. But the idea was for officials to clear up lingering complications ahead of the March primary, reducing the chance of long lines at the polls.
It's expected that more details will be provided on Tuesday about how the extra money would be used. Ideas include ramping up staffing at the elections department to handle responses and sending more mail — with postage-paid return forms — to voters with problems.
Generally, voter ID splits along partisan lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats opposed. The discussion on Tuesday is expected to pit Republican Commissioner Mike Cantrell against his Democratic colleagues — and County Judge Clay Jenkins, in particular.
We'll update the post as the meeting progresses. To read more about the voter ID issues in Dallas County, click here and here to read The News' recent stories.


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Krista Mosley wanted to finish high school, even if it meant a long trip to school and back each day.
Mosley grew up in rural New Jersey and would ride a city bus into town, then jump on a school bus to get to the high school.
But Mosley was forced to leave after a teacher notified her principal that she lived outside of the district.
"I was really on my own," Mosley said. "Somebody had to enroll me in school, and that person was not available, so I just didn't go to school. I started working."
Now, the mother of five has earned her General Educational Development certificate through a program at San Jacinto Elementary School that guides parents to pass the high school diploma equivalency exam.
"It's really not as hard as some people might think when you apply yourself," Mosley said. "… I would just tell people to do it, to get in and get your goals done. It's never too late."
Part of the Amarillo Independent School District's No Limits / No Excuses education initiative, the program allows parents to take GED classes at San Jacinto, South Lawn Elementary School and Travis Middle School. Parents also have access to help with forms, career counseling and other resources.
Tonya Anaya dropped out of high school after having her first child, but the mother of five decided several years ago it was time to take a first step toward going to college.
"For one, my kids, just wanting to be a good role model for them and to show them that no matter how old you are or what you've gone through, you can always go back and fix some of the things that you can fix," she said.
Anaya enrolled in the program at San Jacinto, and after two years of juggling a job, caring for her family and studying, she earned her GED certificate in November.
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"Of course we want all high school students to finish their high school diploma, but for those folks who are adults and don't have a high school diploma, we want to do everything we can to get them on the path toward a living-wage job, and a GED (diploma) is one step to getting some kind of certificate or on a college track that will lead to future success," said Anette Carlisle, director of education non-profit Panhandle Twenty / 20.
A high school or GED diploma impacts a person's earning potential. Those who haven't completed high school earn about $7,000 less per year than those with a high school diploma or a GED certificate, according to a National Center for Education Statistics study. The income gap grows more stark when it comes to higher education, with associate's program graduates earning about $14,000 more and bachelor's program graduates earning about $22,000 more than those without a GED or high school diploma, according to the study.
Most of the parents who have finished the 3-year-old GED program are in college now, said Kim Zimmer, San Jacinto's No Limits / No Excuses coach.
"Really, what a GED (certificate) does for you is it lets you enter the race, so now these ladies can go even farther, because they can go to college," she said. "They are more employable because they have their GED (certificate).
"It sets them and their children on the path toward even greater success, where they'll go to college, … and then their kids see that mom went to college, and (say), 'I can, too.' It just has that ripple effect, where they've taken the first steps, and that success grows and grows."
After earning her GED diploma, Mosley is taking a college prep class, with plans to eventually become a respiratory therapist.
"I'm really excited about all of it: going to school, getting a bookbag," she said. "It's been a long time."
Anaya is in the process of enrolling in college, where she hopes to study criminal justice. She's not forgetting the progress she's made so far.
"When you've got your friends and family behind you, it makes a big difference," she said. "Not only you're proud of yourself, but everyone else is proud of you, as well."


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Twelve injured in Greyhound bus crash on I-90
Travelers heading to New York on a Greyhound bus ended up in the hospital and in a Catholic church social hall Thursday morning after the bus crashed into the back of a flatbed truck on Interstate 90 in McKean Township.
Twelve people, including the bus driver, were taken to UPMC Hamot with minor injuries after the accident in the eastbound lanes of I-90, about two miles west of the Interstate 79 interchange shortly after 7 a.m.
The driver, Mark Harris, 48, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, was later cited for careless driving, police said. Harris was treated and released at UPMC Hamot, a nursing supervisor said.
Police said a 1991 International Harvester, owned by an Ohio firm and hauling wall-building materials, was traveling east at about 50 mph when the bus, which was traveling about 65 mph, struck the back of the truck in the right-hand eastbound lane of the interstate.
The bus went off the south side of the highway and came to rest in a small ditch next to a hill. The flatbed truck continued in an easterly direction for a short distance before coming to rest in the south berm.
Harris was pinned in his seat by the front of the bus, which was caved in. Members of the West Ridge Fire Department and McKean Hose Co. spent nearly and hour and a half working to free Harris from the bus, McKean Hose Fire Chief Jim Pyle said.
"They had to basically cut everything apart and pull it out," Pyle said.
Eleven others on the bus were taken to UPMC Hamot for treatment. Their injuries were believed to be minor, according to hospital and other officials.
Passengers on the bus who were not injured boarded an Erie County Hazardous Materials Response Team vehicle and were taken to St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in McKean to wait for a Greyhound bus from Cleveland to pick them up, according to an emergency dispatcher.
A Greyhound spokeswoman said the bus involved in the crash left Cleveland at 5 a.m. with 26 passengers on board and was heading to New York. The bus made one stop before the accident, the spokeswoman said.
The driver of the flatbed truck, Jason M. Miller, 24, of Baltic, Ohio, was not injured.
I-90's right-hand eastbound lane was closed for most of the morning east of the Sterrettania Road exit while fire crews and ambulances from Fairview, McKean, West Ridge, Central County Paramedic Association, West County Paramedic Association, Millcreek Paramedic Association and EmergyCare were at the scene.
The last units cleared the scene at about 10:45 a.m., and the lane reopened at about 11 a.m., authorities said.
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A Saturday earthquake shook residents near the town of Spencer about 8:34 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.
The 2.1-magnitude earthquake's epicenter was three miles west-northwest of Spencer, six miles northeast of Oklahoma City, six miles north of Del City, six miles north-northwest of Midwest City and seven miles south-southeast of Edmond.
There are no reports of injuries or damage.
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