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Tonight was the first session with our doula, beyond the initial interview. Lots of good information, but also lots of overwhelming feelings right now! This post is just to help organize my thoughts.
Pregnancy and childbirth books
I gathered all my books together, both read and unread, to give her an idea of where we are at in preparing and thinking through the type of birth we want. So far I've read The Thinking Women's Guide to a Better Birth and The Official Lamaze Guide. Both of these were not so much about birthing methods, but all the choices you face for medical interventions and the impact of each. Obviously they are going to be biased, but I found them helpful. In the unread stack, we have Birthing from Within, Husband Coached Childbirth, Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way, plus I have Ina May's book and Pushed on hold at the library. She thought these were all great choices and pointed out illustrations in the Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way for baby position and what is happening to mother and baby. She also said the relaxation technique in there is something hubby and I should be practicing at least once a week.
Medications during birth
She did an overview of various medications that can be used in the various stages of birth. Some was familiar from my reading, but it was helpful to hear that and to have hubby hear it. Notes I made were:
Pitocin–I didn't take notes about using it during childbirth, since it isn't something I want to do and she said the docs at my clinic are extremely reluctant to use to induce labor. It was interesting to hear that they do give a shot after delivering the placenta to help the uterus contract. We have the option to wait to see if uterus will contract on its own.
Unisom, benadryl, Rx sleep aids–these may be taken during early labor to help rest during contractions.
Nubane or epidural are choices for pain of contractions.
Nubane–this is used during active labor and can be difficult on baby if it is administered close to the time when delivery occurs. They may have to administer more drugs to baby to counteract the effects of the meds. Women have reported that it goes straight to their head in a drunk feeling, but in a way that makes you feel like you've gone too far. She talked more about the impact to the moms, all very unsavory for someone like me who is impacted really heavily by meds. We all agreed it probably wasn't a good option given my track record, so I didn't jot down everything.
Epidural–first is the numbing shot and then the large gauge needle into the back, which then has the epidural catheter strung through it. Once you have an epidural, you can no longer get out of bed and will need some sort of catheter to empty the bladder. The baby can be lethargic and it can impact the sucking reflex for quite some time after birth. There will also be constant monitoring of my blood pressure and it can impact baby's heartrate as well.
Sterile water injection–this is only for back labor, but is four injections right below the skin in the back. It disrupts the signals for pain from back labor only, but not contractions.
Labor stages and going to hospital
Early labor is from 1-4 cm and the contractions can be inconsistent in strength and timing. This can go on for days or weeks.
Active labor is from 4-7 cm. Signs that you are transitioning to active labor include contractions every 2-3 mins, can't talk through contractions, may be shaking, emotional and/or vomiting. They want to see 1 cm every hour or so to show it is progressing.
Transition is from 7-10 cm. With each stage, the key is to get over the step up to the next level and then settle into the contractions.
I am thinking we'd wait until active labor to go to the hospital and she did give us some tips on that. One is that once we get to the hospital, they will check baby's heartrate and determine if we need constant monitoring or not. To ensure a good reading, I'll need to eat something and have a cold beverage with sugar and caffeine before going to the hospital. Depending on if the water breaks before hand, I'll need to check it to determine how soon we should go to the hospital. If it is clear, we can labor at home. Once you call the doc, they will say to come to the hospital and may not allow you to leave. If there is meconium, with a neon yellow/green tint and some feces, it is important to get to the hospital, but we have time to pack the car and get organized. If it is like pea soup, drop everything, call hospital, then call her on the way.
Things to eat and drink at home (and possibly at hospital) are smart water or vitamin water for the electrolytes (she even recommended drinking 1 per day throughout summer), tea and emergen-c (this can even be sprinkled on ice chips.) Snacks are somewhat up to personal preference, but seemed to be a combo of protein for long lasting energy and sugar that you can quickly metabolize. It reminded me of what I used during the marathons, so that was cool. It will remind me of doing those and times where I've been challenged and successful.
We talked about exercise and I told her I do a combo of prenatal yoga, walking, elliptical, biking and weight lifting. She recommended again being in the pool at least 2x a week, floating on my belly. Other things to do….
Sitting position–sit straight with hips wide, feet touching each other. Or sit with feet on floor, hips wide, elbows on knees and stretch back.
Standing–stand with hips wide and sway from side to side or in circles.
Pelvic tilts–on all fours, with a flat back, do pelvic tilts. By 37 weeks, she wanted to see me doing 100x a day! Do last set before sleeping.
Sleeping position–if on the right side, just kinda be in fetal position with knees bent and stacked. Use as many pillows as I want along right side. On left side, this is tricky to describe. Kinda have left arm and leg straight and behind you. Then right knee and arm can be bent in front of you. The idea is that you are tilting towards your left. I can't really describe it better than that.
All of these things are to get baby in the ideal birth position. Our next steps are to work on the birth plan (complete mid-July) and meet again in early July. Overall, I'm really happy we have made the decision to use a doula. There is so much to think about and I love that we have someone to guide us along this path.


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The ongoing effort to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana to adults in Oregon appeared to gain fresh momentum Thursday with the Obama administration�s announcement that it would let stand voter-approved initiatives in Washington and Colorado.
The Department of Justice said it would not challenge the initiatives so long as those states address federal concerns and develop and adequately fund a strict regulatory system to oversee production, distribution and sales.
The Justice Department maintained that marijuana remains an illegal drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Federal prosecutors would aggressively prosecute individuals and challenge state regulations if, for example, pot or revenue generated from its sale were to fall into the hands of minors, criminals or residents of states where marijuana remains illegal, it said.
The decision comes as two political action groups in Oregon are seeking to qualify ballot measures for the November 2014 election that would legalize marijuana, and as state lawmakers weigh whether to refer their own proposal to the same ballot. One group said it would begin gathering petition signatures soon.
�I�m very excited about it,� said Anthony Johnson, executive director of Portland-based New Approach Oregon, which has pushed for an end to the prohibition on pot. �If it holds true, it�s a historic step for the federal government and the cannabis law reform movement.�
Paul Stanford, executive director of the other pro-legalization group, Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp, said the federal government�s action bolsters its efforts. The campaign has already submitted separate ballot titles to qualify measures that would change the state Constitution to legalize marijuana and change state law to establish a system to regulate pot growers and retailers while also decriminalizing pot.
It�s unclear at this point what would happen if both pro-legalization groups qualified measures for the ballot. Johnson said the specifics of his group�s measure are still being worked out.
Johnson said uncertainty about how the federal government would come down on the marijuana initiatives in Washington and Colorado was a �roadblock for many (Oregon) legislators� to support legalization. Earlier this year, state lawmakers did authorize dispensaries to sell marijuana used for medical purposes under certain conditions.
�Whether the politicians take the lead or the advocates take the lead, the time has come to end cannabis prohibition,� Johnson said.
Stanford said the ballot measures proposed by the hemp campaign would address some of the areas of concern that emerged during the campaign for and against Measure 80, a marijuana legalization proposal that Oregon voters rejected last fall with 53 percent opposed.
One of the proposed ballot measures filed with the state by Stanford authorizes the governor to appoint all seven members of a commission that would regulate marijuana, he said; under Measure 80, five of the seven commission members would have been appointed by pot advocates.
It also would place limits on the amount of pot that could be possessed and cultivated, something Measure 80 didn�t address.
An appeals period for the proposed ballot titles ends Wednesday, and then supporters need to get approval for their cover and signature sheets, said Tony Green, a spokesman for the Oregon Secretary of State�s office.
Backers would need 116,284 valid voter signatures to qualify the constitutional amendment, and 87,213 valid signatures for the measure changing state law. The signature deadline is July 3 for the November 2014 ballot.
Stanford said the federal Justice Department�s announcement is a �step in the right direction,� but he raised concerns that even with the policy change, the federal agency still reserves the right to investigate and prosecute anyone in instances where such action �serves an important federal interest,� according to a memo the Justice Department distributed to U.S. attorneys in the 50 states.
�That was already the stance, so it�s encouraging that the federal government has at least (now said it�s) not going to enjoin those state initiatives.�
Meanwhile, state Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, said the federal government�s decision will aid his request to leaders in Salem to convene a work group, once a shortened legislative session starts Feb. 3, to draft a referendum to send to voters in November 2014.
Prozanski, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said a referendum would have a leg up on a citizen initiative.
�We can put more forethought through it and dispel a lot of the uncertainty in what the legislation would have, instead of having a citizen initiative pass that would more than likely have to be reworked,� he said.
Stanford did leave the door open to ending a signature drive if lawmakers present voters with a satisfactory referendum.
Gov. John Kitzhaber�s office on Thursday declined comment on the federal government�s announcement.
The top federal prosecutor in Oregon said Thursday that new guidance on marijuana won�t require any changes in the state. U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall told The Associated Press that her staff reviewed marijuana prosecutions over the past two years and said all of the cases would have gone forward under the new federal rules.
Following the votes in Colorado and Washington last year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder launched a review of marijuana enforcement policy that included an examination of the two states. The issue was whether they should be blocked from operating marijuana markets on the grounds that actively regulating an illegal substance conflicts with federal drug law that bans it.
Some were critical of the policy shift by the Obama administration.
Peter Bensinger, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, said the conflict between federal and state law is clear and can�t be reconciled. Federal law is paramount, and Holder is �not only abandoning the law, he�s breaking the law. He�s not only shirking his duty, he�s not living up to his oath of office,� Bensinger said.
Americans for Safe Access, a Washington, D.C.-based organization lobbying for the safe and legal access to cannabis for medical use and research, cited similar assurances of a hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement in medical marijuana states even as the Justice Department has spent more than $300 million to aggressively undermine the enactment of those laws.
�While we�re hopeful that the Justice Department will adhere to these policies, our experience with the Obama Administration so far has been lots of double-talk,� said Steph Sherer, the organization�s executive director, in a news release. �In order to gain the trust of Americans, Obama�s U.S. Attorneys must stop their aggressive and unnecessary enforcement campaigns in medical marijuana states.�
Last December, President Obama said it doesn�t make sense for the federal government to go after recreational drug users in a state that has legalized marijuana. Last week, the White House said that prosecution of drug traffickers remains an important priority.
A Pew Research Center poll in March found that 60 percent of Americans think the federal government shouldn�t enforce federal anti-marijuana laws in states where its use has been approved. Younger people, who tend to vote more Democratic, are especially prone to that view. But opponents are worried these moves will lead to more use by young people.
� The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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On Friday, June 28, 2013 2:49:21 AM UTC-5, Marko Petkov=C5=A1ek wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I wish to compute the first syzygy module of a finitely generated module over a polynomial ring over a field. Is there a Mathematica package available that does this? I am aware of Singular.m which is an interface to Singular, but I am looking for a standalone Mathematica package. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > --Marko Marko, There is code to find the conversion matrix in the thread found by the below URL. It is set up to work on polynomial ideals by embedding in a module, so one would need to do a bit more work to enlarge that with a separate set of generators. http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2011/Mar/msg00362.html It also will give the syzygy matrix. Just use the rows for which the first column entry is zero (if I remember correctly how I set it up). Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research


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Anyways, life is short to be frustrated and I'm not the types who easily quits. I just want to rest today and enjoy the rest of my December 7.
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Labels help get your shipment to get to where it's going — and provides the handling information it requires along the way. Using the wrong label or a damaged one could result your package being delayed. Find out how to label both a standard package and an awkwardly shaped item like a tube or bucket.
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As your groups have begun drafting essays for our final product, some of you have asked me how to figure out how to recompose the permalink to a Texas ad using the information in the ad's txt filename. Here's a quick tutorial.
First, open your plain text editor (TextWrangler, Notepad, etc.) and paste this into your window:
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Next, delete everything in that line from the last underscore to the beginning of the line, so you are left with this:
Now, use your "find and replace" function to replace all the hyphens ('-') with a forward slash ('/'), so you get this:
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Friday 03 January, 2014
Latent Semantic Indexing Makes Internet Search Smarter
Search engines have come a long way during the internet's short history. Today, Google and other search engines use a smarter way to search. It's called latent semantic indexing (LSI) and it has changed how we create content.
The Basics of LSI
LSI offers a more natural way for search engines to interpret and rank webpages. The search engines used to rank websites based on the frequency of certain keywords. If you stuffed a website with a certain keyword, the search engines would find the site for that particular keyword.
The problem is that internet marketers figured this out and started making junk webpages that were stuffed with keywords. They knew how to game the system. LSI makes it much harder to do this because it works in a fundamentally different way.
We're not going to get into the specific mathematics of LSI, but here's essentially how it works. LSI looks not just at keywords but at relationships between keywords and terms. It takes into account the 'distance' between two words, or how they're related. It also looks at relationships between webpages and not just words and phrases on the pages. It takes a much more complex approach and is thus much harder to manipulate.
This in turn gives you better search results. The unnatural, keyword stuffed pages are gone from the top of the search results and thank goodness for that.
What LSI Means for Content Creators
For content creators, this means no longer targeting a single keyword and using it relentlessly in your content. Rather, you should choose a group of related keywords and use each only when it's natural. Stuffing was out years ago. Today, it's better to use alternative words.
For example, if you're writing about ecommerce, you may use alternates like 'selling online,' 'online business,' 'internet shopping,' and other related keywords. It's better to mix up these alternates than to use one word or phrase repeatedly.
The only place where you should concern yourself with keywords is in titles, headers and descriptions. They still count a great deal in those places. But in the actual text of your copy, you can write more naturally.
The Growing Importance of Offline SEO
This is also why today off-page SEO is so important. It's not only the content on your page that will get it indexed, but how your page is connected to other pages. It's more important to get backlinks from relevant sites than to worry about your keywords so much.
Search engines use LSI because it allows the best, most relevant content to rise to the top. That has always been the aim of Google – to bring the best search results possible. This is why it has become the most popular search engine and will probably continue to be so.


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In the minds of most Americans, opiates are pain medications that go by the names codeine, Lortab, Vicodin, oxycodone, methadone, meperidine, Percocet, OxyContin and fentanyl. To doctors and scientists, opiates are pharmaceuticals derived from the opium plant. Chemical engineers and research pharmacists have been extracting a variety of active substances out of opium, for medical purposes, for many years. These ingredients occur in the sap of the opium poppy. Natural derivatives of the poppy plant are called opiates. Opiates can be manipulated further synthetically. Such man-made drugs are called opioids.
Opiates Intended Uses
Opiate pain medications are prescribed mainly to treat moderate to severe pain. In most cases, opiates are prescribed following a surgery or procedure of some kind. These substances are highly addictive, so they pose the threat of opiate or opioid addiction to patients who take the drug for a prolonged period of time. The street drug heroin is also an opiate. It has a pharmaceutical-grade equivalent, diamorphine, which is not available for legal sale or distribution in the United States.
History asserts that the first opium poppies were cultivated in lower Mesopotamia in about 3400 B.C. The Sumerians dubbed it the joy plant. Opium killed pain and helped people sleep, so it was easy to popularize in some of their sister nations in close proximity. Eventually, the drug's popularity spread beyond the Middle East and Asia Minor. And yes, even thousands of years ago users craved its euphoria.
For as long as the poppy seed-based medication has been in production, users took advantage of its medicinal benefits as well as the pleasure. Now, in modern society, some people misuse legally dispensed pharmaceuticals they purchase to capture bliss. Others abuse the medications they attain from friends or family. There are also networks of pill pushers who hatch schemes to deceive doctors into prescribing opioids that dealers can sell. A portion of the pure, sterile opiates—manufactured in FDA-approved factories—end up feeding the addictions of more than two million Americans each year.
An alarming number of people suffering from opiate abuse disorder end up faltering into addiction. Too often, patients develop a dependency after they fill a legitimate prescription from their physician to address an injury, illness or other genuine health condition. Those at highest risk are people who suffer from chronic illnesses. According to the Centers for Disease Control, up to 12 percent of patients who require ongoing opiate prescriptions end up battling opioid abuse disorder. Moreover, opiate misusers make the leap to using illicit heroin. So many of these are people who need relief from the purgatories of pain such as cancer, shingles, back injuries, burns, and surgical procedures. They used a drug for all the right reasons and found out there was a side-effect—addiction.
Opiates account for more overdoses in the United States than any other stimulants, psychoactive substances or other classes of abusable drugs. But not everyone who overdoses dies. Many survive their overdose and continue to live, delving deeper each day into the pit of opioid depression. Opiate use disorder is a disease. The lives opiate abuse has destroyed and families it has left in tatters now number in the millions. Currently, the best treatment is detox and rehab, which frequently leads patient to a triumphant return to a sober life. It is true that millions have broken the bonds of heroin addiction. Nevertheless, because heroin is so potent, it often re-entices people who have gone through detox and been in recovery for years.
Opiate Addiction Rehab
After just a few days of opiate use, the human body develops a tolerance for the drug. This is not only true with illicit street drugs like heroin. Prescription painkillers such as morphine, codeine, Fentanyl and oxycodone can trigger tolerance in people who take them under the expert care of a physician. Even patients who aren't addicted to opiates will probably feel some withdrawal symptoms when they cease to use them.
Tolerance brings about structural changes in the brains of narcotics users. During detoxification, the mind must again rewire itself, but this time to function in the absence of the opiate. It's a hard adjustment. Each person has a different experience. Nevertheless, it often helps patients to break down opiate detox into a project with three stages. Three smaller victories are more accessible than one large one.
Opiate Detoxification
When a patient arrives at a drug rehabilitation center, they've had their last heroin or narcotics dose. After a few hours, the symptoms of withdrawal commence. The sweating, achy joints and anxiety are joined by a whole host of other symptoms. Perhaps the strongest manifestation is an overwhelming craving for the narcotic or narcotics the patient had been using.
This is the patient's mammoth private warfare. Their body is purging itself and coping with the drastic adjustment. Of all the organs, perhaps the brain is battling the hardest. For people who have lived with heroin addiction, the symptoms are particularly acute. Physicians may prescribe a partial opioid agonist such as Suboxone—a mixture of the two drugs buprenorphine and naloxone—to curtail some of these side effects.
A Word About Fentanyl and Carfentanil
All over America, there are numerous motivated, resourceful, astute, and rogue fentanyl chemists cooking up batches of this uber-potent morphine derivative. But perhaps calling fentanyl a morphine derivative is like calling a forest fire a campfire derivative. Fentanyl is just that much more potent than heroin. And, carfentanil is many times more powerful than fentanyl. Therefore, recovering from fentanyl and carfentanil addictions is possible. But, it's a brutal battle, with a rough multi-step detox as well as extensive post-detox therapy.
Comparison of Common Opioids
Morphine is a 160-plus-year-old pain medication, derived from the poppy seed plant.
Meperidine is an 80-year-old synthetic near-clone of morphine.
Oxycodone is a semi-synthetic opioid developed in Germany more than 100 years ago.
Hydrocodone, available in the United States since 1978, is the opioid doctors prescribe the most in the United States. It's semi-synthetic and quite similar to codeine.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate. It is commonly prescribed as a transdermal patch and known for being very effective and addictive.
Carfentanil is a synthetic opiate 40 to 100 times more potent than fentanyl.


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In the music industry, it's fairly common knowledge that most of the big money is in live events. So, it should come as no surprise that corporations will use concerts as leverage to exploit artists and take as much money from fans as they can. Still, many were surprised today when tickets for The Black Keys concert at Roseland Ballroom sold out 2 hours before they were scheduled to go on sale. It's difficult to know exactly why this happened and who was responsible, but it's left many fans disappointed and frustrated with the ticketing system. As one of those fans, I decided to investigate. Here's what I found...
The Backstory:
Three weeks ago, The Black Keys announced that they would play a one-off show at Roseland Ballroom in New York City on the evening of Friday January 31st. Ticket sales were to be done exclusively through Citibank's Private Pass program. That means that anyone who wanted to buy tickets would need a Citi credit or debit card. At the time of the announcement, tickets were set to go on sale at 10 AM. This is pretty standard for music events these days. No big deal.
This particular event is notable because it is during the weekend of the Super Bowl, which is being hosted by New York City & New Jersey. There are lots of other concerts taking place this week, serving as entertainment for tourists with money to spend. A guaranteed sold out show in midtown Manhattan, like this Black Keys show, was a scalper's wet dream... and scalpers have certainly seized the moment. At the time I'm writing this, there are hundreds of tickets available through ticket reseller websites (who will remain nameless, because I won't give them free advertising) for sale starting at well over two times face value of the tickets, which was $66.50 including taxes and fees.
The Deception:
This morning, I checked the Citi page and found that the ticket sale had changed from 10 AM to 11 AM. This was strange, but I guess things like this happen sometimes. At 10:55 AM, I went to the Citi Private Pass page, and found that the time had changed again. Now it said that tickets would go on sale at 2 PM. This was more than a mild annoyance, since this had already interfered with my morning schedule and now it would interfere with my afternoon schedule as well. I've been really looking forward to seeing The Black Keys, so I scheduled a reminder for 1:55 PM so that I could get everything ready to buy my tickets.
At 12:30 PM, someone tweeted at Zumic that tickets had gone on sale at Noon and already sold out:
@Zumic @ACG_NYC @Ticketmaster Actually changed to 2:00 then back to 12:00 - tickets now sold out. Thanks @Ticketmaster @natemodi
— Phillip Eubanks (@PhillipEubanks) January 28, 2014
@Zumic @ACG_NYC @Ticketmaster @natemodi Now adding insult to injury - tickets on secondary sites for 2.2x original price
— Phillip Eubanks (@PhillipEubanks) January 28, 2014
This was a shocker. The Black Keys had indeed sent this tweet at Noon, officially announcing the sale:
Don't miss The Black Keys with special guest @alberthammondjr in NYC on 1/31. Tix available now via @Citiprivatepass: http://t.co/v2PYX8O9wv
— The Black Keys (@theblackkeys) January 28, 2014
I went onto Ticketmaster, put in the Citicard digits I needed to access the ticket sales, and found that tickets were sold out. What a bummer!
The Investigation:
I started calling around, trying to figure out two things:
1) Would more tickets become available at some point soon?
2) Why were the ticketing details changed 3 times on the day of sales?
As for the first point, I wasn't able to find out anything about more tickets being released. Right now, the concert is completely sold out. This left me trying to understand how fans could have been given completely bogus information, and then had the rug pulled out from under their feet.
My first call was to the Citi Private Pass phone number originally listed on their event web page. A phone representative from Citi told me that Ticketmaster had directed to Citi when tickets would go on sale. She said that her department had no control over it. She also told me that Roseland Ballroom is "a very small venue, with capacity of 3000" and that "tickets sold out in 30 seconds." At the end of the call, she gave me the phone number for Ticketmaster so that I could ask them the same questions I asked her.
I called Ticketmaster and learned a few more interesting details. As far as the time that tickets went on sale, that was up to the concert promoter. Unfortunately, the person on the phone would not disclose who the concert promoter was, saying that was private information.
After talking with Ticketmaster, I called Citi back and asked them about this concert promoter element of the equation. I was told that Citi was indeed the concert promoter, but that Ticketmaster was making all the calls on handling ticket sales and controlled the web page at citiprivatepass.com with information on when tickets went on sale because of a change in the arrangement that happened "in the eleventh hour."
Basically, Citi was blaming Ticketmaster and Ticketmaster was blaming Citi. I was getting conflicting information from the two companies about who was responsible for changing the time around. This made me think that maybe Live Nation was pulling the strings here, because they own Ticketmaster and they also manage the Roseland Ballroom (which is set to close in just a few months). Consumer advocacy groups have long complained about Ticketmaster and Live Nation independently. The merger between the two companies has created a beast of a monopoly in the ticketing industry that has made a science out of ripping off fans. By the way, the "Event Insurance" option they give you when you buy tickets is a complete rip-off too.
I called Live Nation and basically got the same information I got from Ticketmaster. They told me that I could call the Roseland Ballroom box office. A call to Roseland Ballroom revealed that the venue was rented out for the evening by an outside company who is handling everything on their own. This is private information, so I wasn't able to find out whether this was Citi or another company working with Citi.
At this point, it seemed more likely that someone at Citi was telling Ticketmaster to change the sales time without telling other people at Citi what was going on. This would be the perfect way to deceive fans and open the flood gates for scalpers to buy tickets with inside information before regular consumers knew what was going on. It's possible that this was the result of something less sinister, like common miscommunication of lack of communication. Either way, this momentary confusion allowed professional ticket resellers to buy out the tickets, leaving fans like myself completely shut out.
It should also be said that some fans signed up for a Citibank credit card or debit card just so that they could participate in this exclusive ticket sale, and inevitably they were unable to buy tickets because the concert sold out so quickly. This seems like truly fraudulent dealing by the bank, in a classic bait and switch move where instead of getting an opportunity to buy tickets, the new cardholders actually got nothing!
After many phone calls trying to figure out who was responsible for giving incorrect information for ticket sales, I gave up. This isn't the first time something like this has happened, and it won't be the last. Here at Zumic, we've had fans connecting with us through our website and social media, voicing their own frustration over not even having an opportunity to buy tickets. That's why I have decided to do this research and write this article to make a case for fair ticketing.
How to fix the problem of ticket scalpers:
It seemed like this concert actually had a couple of safeguards against ticket scalpers. There was a maximum order of 2 tickets per customer, and tickets will not be delivered until just one day before the show. However, it's obvious that these precautions were not enough. Here are 3 proposals that would make the concert industry much more fair and fan friendly:
1) Concert tickets should be sold for fair market value.
When The Black Keys played at Madison Square Garden two years ago, floor tickets cost about $100. The general admission tickets for this Roseland Ballroom concert were supposed to go on sale for just $66.50. This is obviously undervalued. If tickets were sold for a fair value, scalpers would make less profit on reselling tickets and they wouldn't have the incentive to dominate the market like they do now.
While bands maintain their sense of inclusiveness and some fans might have gotten a good value, it's extremely unfair to the many more fans who took time and energy out of their day to buy tickets and were left with nothing. I can say from personal experience that the same thing is true of Phish concerts in the New York City area.
2) Regulate websites that resell tickets.
If a performer and/or concert promoter set their concert tickets at a certain price, they should retain control over that price - even on the resale market. It's understandable if someone wants to resell their ticket because something came up and their schedule changed, but it isn't fair that professional ticket resellers buy up tickets and charge an absurd commission just because they weaseled their way to the front of the digital line. Ticket resellers create no value whatsoever, and the nature of their business opens up more possibilities and incentive for corruption and fraud from the original ticket vendors. I propose that ticket resellers should be allowed to sell tickets for no more than 150% of original face value.
3) Experiment with different ways of selling tickets.
Some events like music festivals do rounds of ticketing, where "early bird" tickets are cheaper than later rounds. This is a way of rewarding the most passionate fans, while also gauging interest before all tickets go on sale. Perhaps this should be a standard for regular concert ticketing, as well. Another system that might be more fair is a lottery type of system. Another system might be an auction system. Ticket vendors like Ticketmaster should be looking into these other methods, because it will be a better experience for fans and it could also mean better profit margins for themselves.
The ticket resale market as it exists now is blatant abuse of the system, and it must be changed one way or another.
Editor's note: The original article said that Live Nation owns the Roseland Ballroom. In fact, they do not own the venue but they do manage it. We apologize for our mistake.


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Is the Windows 10 Upgrade Notification Malware?
Is the Windows 10 Upgrade Notification Malware?
If you're running Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1 you have most likely started to see a strange icon in your system tray. It looks like a little white Windows flag as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Get Windows 10.
The hover text says Get Windows 10. When you right-click it you get the context menu shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Is this malware?
The options on the context menu include:
- Get Windows 10
- Reserve your free upgrade
- Go to Windows Update
- Get to know Windows 10
If you primary-click on the icon you see a screen like Figure 3 that explains how the free upgrade works.
So is this malware?
Nope, this isn't malware. This is Microsoft announcing that Windows 10 is available beginning July 29th and that they want you to upgrade to Windows 10. It's a real Microsoft announcement, not an adware application or some type of malware.
How can I be sure? The executable that launches both the tray icon and the windowed application is GWXUX.exe. That file was installed in a recent Windows Update for Windows Vista and later and is digitally signed by Microsoft Corporation. So it's authentic, it comes from Redmond, and is not doing anything else to your system.
Mike Danseglio -CISSP / MCSE / CEH
Interface Technical Training – Technical Director and Instructor
For more Windows 10 articles, see the following posts from Interface Technical Training:
- Windows 10 DVD Player Released by Rick Trader
- Where did my Windows Media Center go and what's new in Windows 10? by Rick Trader
- Performing a Windows 10 Clean Installation using Windows 10 Upgrade Media by Rick Trader
- How to create Windows 10 Alternate Upgrade Media by Rick Trader
- Is the Windows 10 Upgrade Notification Malware? By Mike Danseglio
- Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals – Free eBook from Microsoft
- Windows 10 – Exploring Security by Steve Fullmer
- Windows 10 – "Recommended" Update enables Get Win 10 capabilities by Steve Fullmer
- How to Install the Latest Windows Update Agent by Steve Fullmer
- Windows 10 – First Look by Steve Fullmer
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Google brought something wonderful to the world of Android smartphones when it introduced Google Now and the accompanying list of "OK Google" voice commands one could use for any number of various tasks on their device. This wasn't the only option for users at the time nor is it now, but it certainly has the best track record for working properly and for what it can do for the user. Microsoft had recently launched the Cortana feature on their Windows based smartphones earlier this year, and now they're bringing an alternative to Google Now and the OK Google command to users on Android powered smartphones with an app called Torque.
Torque was first launched as an app for Android based smartwatches, but Microsoft has now launched a 2.0 version of the application that makes it open to Android smartphones, bringing with it the possibility to look up restaurant searches, get up to date sports scores for your favorite teams, and even find out the US stock prices for many of the different publicly traded companies. While it might seem a bit redundant to have two applications/features on your device that do exactly the same thing, it never hurts to have options and who knows, you might find that Torque performs better with certain tasks. While Google Now is a little easier to operate being fully voice activated with the OK Google command on most devices, Torque's use of the shake movement to activate it is kind of cool and still doesn't require you to wake up your screen.
Torque is of course powered by Bing, something that probably isn't a surprise to anyone, which despite the jokes is a pretty decent and powerful search engine that can provide users with a wealth of information. It will be interesting to see how the application evolves over time and how it contrasts to the likes of Google Now and the OK Google command. Would you use this over Google Now? Would you at least give it a try and see if you like what it offers? Or are you loyal to the already baked in Google Now functionality that came with your device out of the box?


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As you'll know if you read my last post, I've been getting into the whole crypto thing quite a bit recently.
I was introduced to it by a couple of mates who are slightly less risk averse, and slightly more accustomed to non-sporting speculative punts, than me.
And I'm glad I was. When I wrote that last blog, 9th September 2017, bitcoin was about £3,000. Now, bang on four months later, it's four times that price. Likewise, Bitcoin Cash. Others have increased in the interim by more significant multiples than even those.
Of course, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and in the new frontiers of cryptocurrency investment that makes most people dangerous to listen to. Including me. Perhaps especially me.
For what it's worth then, here's what I know:
– Digital payment is not new. Many of us transact daily without using hard (i.e. physical) currency. I'm friendly with the boss of my local coffee shop, and when he started four years ago he took cash payments only. He told me this week that 75% of his business is now cashless. Seventy-five percent.
– Alternatives to sterling are not new. Anyone who has bought more than a handful of items online will probably have paid in at least US dollars for something. There is a conversion charge associated with that, which is normally expensive. Someone in the middle is getting some.
– Alternatives to fiat (i.e. government/bank-issued) currency are not new. People have been putting their cash into gold, wine, art, oil, orange juice and pork bellies for as long as anyone wanted to avoid the economic policy whims of one nation or the global macro-economy.
– One cannot spend a bar of gold or a bottle of wine or an oil painting or a barrel of crude of a pig's carcass any more easily than one can spend a bitcoin. And nobody has a problem with liquidating those commodities.
So there is nothing new in the world of cryptocurrency, per se.
But are the crypto markets over-hyped? Is there value to be had? Any halfway decent racing punter will be able to articulate the crucial relationship between price and value. As will any halfway decent market trader, or stock or currency or commodities trader.
The principles are precisely the same; the subject matter the only differentiator.
What is difficult, in any of these arenas, is accurately identifying value.
To use the sports betting analogy, bookies used to be the only option, tote aside. So, when Betfair came along, with their very-tight-to-100% markets, the wagering world swooned. And coughed the 5% commission. Because they were still generally betting around 106% on a race where the bookmakers were maybe 115%.
Bookmakers had to get more competitive, and they did. Concessions, the price economies afforded by operating remotely (i.e. no high street shops or cashiers), and managing liability against the exchanges have pretty much evaporated the value chasm.
That nominal 9% difference is now almost non-existent, with punters who can get on with bookmakers generally electing to do that. Best Odds Guaranteed, rick-laden early markets, and a glut of competition have made it easier than ever for the unrestricted punter to get close to breaking even, at least.
But most punters who apply these opportunities get restricted, their stakes – even when minimal to begin with – are limited to pennies. Thus, the exchange becomes the last vestige of the volume bettor. And here, 'volume' could be twenty quid, or even a tenner.
The exchanges are marketplaces. They are a liquidity game, swiping their 5%, or 2% or somewhere in between, from all matched transactions. Their job is to keep the wheels turning and to keep the liquidity rolling. To keep turning over the turnover.
For providing the marketplace they charge a commission.
That's also what currency exchanges do. And share trading platforms. And crypto platforms.
But the margins are getting smaller.
Meanwhile, demand for crypto is higher than ever. A very frothy market in which direction nobody knows it is going. Is it over-heated? Probably. Will it continue to rise in the short term? Very likely.
The market is made up of bitcoin, and the rest. Bitcoin is, for me, a commodity, like gold. It has value because people say it has value.
More than that, it has demonstrable value because people will exchange chunks of fiat currency (pounds, dollars, euros, rupees) for slices of bitcoin.
The cost of transactions on the bitcoin blockchain – again, see this post for a few words on blockchain technology – are very high. Like, unfeasibly high for small 'coffee shop' transactions. And they take ages to get settled.
But plenty of wealthy, and not so wealthy, people are 'buying and holding' bitcoin as an asset. As a commodity. Like gold.
There is plenty of demand, for now at least, and a limited supply ongoing.
But what of 'the rest'? Every other cryptocurrency has been 'minted' with utility in mind.
(Sidebar: Bitcoin also had that aforethought at the outset, but outgrew its utility because of technical constraints. It also didn't need to evolve directly because of its 'new asset class' status. Bitcoin Cash spawned from the code base to serve the original utility of bitcoin: payments).
The other crypto's are tokens which can be used to affect some utility or other. In plain English, they can be used to buy a service and/or, ultimately, physical goods.
We're in the very early days of blockchain technology. The likelihood is that, as with the early dotcom years, there will be many more losers than winners, but the winners will go on to become behemoths of their sector.
Think FriendsReunited and facebook; mom-and-pop-eshop and Amazon.
Thus getting involved away from the top handful – Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple (?!), and Bitcoin Cash – is a very risky business. It also offers the potential for greater reward.
I have the vast majority of my (smallish) portfolio in Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, and Zcash. But I also have a few 'penny share punts': speculative plays that possibly won't pay off but which were interesting to me at the time of investment and enhance my 'skin in the game' engagement.
I have small holdings in such as espers, ATBcoin, and siacoin. They are interesting to follow, and if any of them 'break out' the return will pay for the losers and some.
And that's the main reason for this post: I'm getting involved with a new ICO (initial coin offering) next week. It was recommended to me by a friend who has been both lucky and good with his non-sporting speculations, and who likes the setup here.
The tokens from this ICO will be used to trade bitcoin futures – the most 'now' of now trading propositions. But here's the kicker: this platform will enable traders to operate commission-free.
They will buy their tokens, trade in their tokens, and sell their tokens, all without commission. How is this achieved? By the platform operator minting some of the tokens for themselves of course – more like a share offering where the management team retain equity.
And, like an IPO, the management team have a vested interest in the ongoing success of the platform because it directly impacts the value of their own investment.
This platform aims to be the bitcoin futures trading equivalent of Betfair, but with two major differences:
- Betfair charges between two and five percent per transaction; Digitex will charge zero percent. Zero.
- Betting exchange trading volumes are quite small (in the millions per day); bitcoin trading volume in the last 24 hours was $17,704,000,000
(£13 BILLION). In a day. Every day.
Demand for tokens – the only unit of currency acceptable on this commission-free bitcoin futures platform – is expected to be high, which could push the value of each token upwards.
Now obviously, at this point, please do take time to perform your own due diligence and get your head around the general context (i.e. crypto investing) and this particular ICO.
There are other commission-free trading platforms emerging, in the same way that there are multiple betting operators and online retailers and banks and, well, everything really… some will survive and others will fail.
Things I am drawn to in terms of taking a punt on Digitex Futures are:
It's being built by a team led by the UK-based developer behind Bet Trader, exchange trading software; and supported by established Ethereum/ blockchain developers. This already gives the project a leg up on plenty of ICO's out there.
Most ICO's are in some way incentivised and this one is no different. For those investing in the first week of the offering – which begins on Monday 15th January – there is a 20% bonus.
So, for every five tokens you buy, you'll get a sixth as a bonus. Of course, six times nothing is worth exactly the same as five times nothing, and that could be the outcome here. Caveat emptor. Natch.
The ICO will provide for further development of the project and some of the initial liquidity on the trading platform. You can read more about it here.
Trading on the exchange is projected to begin in the middle of this year, though my own expectation is that towards the end of the year is more likely (just based on how development almost always takes longer than planned). So, while any investment is not tied up for that long necessarily, the action in terms of token price will align to the action in terms of exchange trading. That is what will drive demand for the tokens. Or not.
Before then, Digitex has to complete its build, run rigorous testing, get the tokens listed on crypto exchanges (which again drives demand), and then start marketing the platform to build 'real' liquidity (as opposed to the planned-for seeded markets, to keep spreads tight).
Here's a video demo of the platform. The interface will look somewhat familiar to Betfair traders.
I would say there's an 80% chance (number plucked out of my, erm, back pocket, but ballpark sufficiency) of this project going tits up, and any investment in it going to zero.
But 4/1 is a price I play every day when I think the upside is notably higher. Bitcoin futures trading is going to be a big thing. It's more accessible than actually buying/holding bitcoin, and appeals to the gambler in everyone from stocks and commodities traders to hedge fund investors to the man or woman in the street.
Commission-free trading, or negligible commission trading, will eventually establish itself as the norm, because that's how efficient markets work.
Whether this platform will be a/the winner, I don't know. Whether it has to be an outright winner when the market is this big, I don't know either. It probably doesn't need to be the 800lb gorilla to yield a hefty return.
So, for me, there is a large amount of upside potential which mitigates the 'shit or bust' risk that almost all such ICO's bring with them.
And thus, come Monday, I'll be in for a few quid. Enough for me to be upset if it goes to zero, but not so much that any other portfolio plate has to stop spinning. A sensible sum in the context of the offering.
You can read more about it here, including how to register your interest.
p.s. If you decide to register your interest in this offering, I will get some tokens for referring you. I obviously wouldn't be writing this if I didn't think there was merit in the ICO. Nor would I be putting my own cash in the pot.
I know you know that, but I want to be absolutely up front and above board about it. If you'd rather I didn't get a 'ta muchly' from Digitex if you decide to sign up, that's absolutely fine. Here's a 'naked link'. Go take a look.
p.p.s. If you think it's fair enough, then here's my special link 🙂
p.p.p.s. I'm going to be using this blog much more in 2018 to share my own thoughts on the wider world, and stuff in it. I appreciate that won't be for everyone, and I'm more than happy to try to respond to any questions where they're a) reasonable and b) can't easily be answered by a three word google search (!)


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Lane Closures on US 69 in Beaumont
Traffic along US 69 southbound at West Port Arthur Road in Beaumont will be down to one lane daily through this Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., TxDOT PIO Sarah Dupre reported Jan. 9.
Dupre also said to expect alternating lane closures along US 69 between Highland Ave. and M.L.K. Pkwy, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. nightly throughout the month.
All closures are weather permitting.
Road conditions and traffic updates available on http://www.facebook.com/txdot and http://www.twitter.com/TxDOTBeaumont.
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I have nothing against wind power and think it will be an important part of our future energy mix. However, I think The Pickens Plan is misleading and will not lead to the advertised reduction in oil imports.
The Pickens Plan
- The goal of the plan is to replace 1/3 of our oil imports in 10 years.
- We would first replace existing natural gas fired power plants (20% of our generating capacity) with wind turbine power. According to Pickens, this will cost about $1-trillion for the wind turbines and another $200-billion for additional grid/transmission infrastructure.
- We would then take the natural gas displaced from power generation and use it to fuel compressed natural gas [CNG] cars and trucks instead of using gas and diesel fuel.
All this sounds simple enough, but as usual the devil is in the details. I see three main fallacies.
Fallacy One – A variable and uncontrollable power supply like wind cannot replace a flexible, on-demand power source like natural gas. The following is from the DOE's July 2008 report titled "20% Wind Energy by 2030":
"There are two separate and distinct power system challenges to obtaining 20% of U.S. electric energy from wind. One challenge lies in the need to reliably balance electrical generation and load over time when a large portion of energy is coming from a variable power source such as wind, which, unlike many traditional power sources, cannot be accessed on demand or is "nondispatchable.
Transmission system operators must ensure that enough generation capacity is operating on the grid at all times, and that supply meets demand, even through the daily and seasonal load cycles within the system. To accommodate a nondispatchable variable source such as wind, operators must ensure that sufficient reserves from other power sources are available to keep the system in balance.
However, overall it is the net system load that must be balanced, not an individual load or generation source in isolation. When seen in this more systemic way, wind energy can play a vital role in diversifying the power system's energy portfolio."
Translation: There is a limit to how much of a variable power source like wind can be accommodated by the system and the DOE estimated that limit to be about 20% of the total electrical power generated. In addition, after adding this new wind power, the system will continue to need natural gas fired, on-demand, dispatchable power to achieve a balance between supply and demand.
The bottom line – Few if any gas fired power plants can be displaced by wind power.
Fallacy Two – Utilities are unlikely to decommission any of their gas fired power plants. In 2009, congress will probably enact a Cap & Trade policy for greenhouse gases. Since coal fired power plants emit 2 times more CO2 than gas fired plants, to reduce emission costs, utilities are much more likely to decommission older coal plants as new wind generation capacity comes on line rather than gas plants. It's even more likely that they'll just use the additional capacity to meet growing demand.
The bottom line – Few if any gas fired power plants will be displaced by wind power.
Fallacy Three – In the near future, we will not be able produce enough natural gas to meet current demand let alone meet any new demand for transportation.
U.S. natural gas production peaked in 1973 and we have just managed to maintain production levels at near 1973 levels by extracting "unconventional" gas from tight sand and shale formations, deep water sources in the gulf of Mexico, and by tapping into coal bed methane gas. We are now working almost twice as hard to extract the same amount of gas, and since 1990 the number of active wells has increased from 250,000 to over 450,000. In addition, since 1996 production per thousand feet of well drilled has fallen from 350 MMcf/1,000ft to 60 Mmcf/1,000ft. Based on the current trends, U.S. production may soon fall off a cliff.
As a result, 20% of our needs are now met by imports. Canada provides most of these imports with a much lessor amount coming in the form of liquid natural gas [LNG] from Trinidad and few other sources. Unfortunately, Canadian production is now in decline [~3% per year] and may be unable to supply our import needs as early as 2010.
The arctic pipeline of Sarah Palin fame will be capable of supplying 8% of our current demand, but will not be on line until 2018 at the soonest. Our best near term option is to import and compete for LNG on the global market at more than twice the cost of our existing supply. This will put us at the mercy of Middle Eastern and Russian suppliers which control more than 50% of the global supply. In addition, it is doubtful the the current LNG infrastructure of tankers and de-gasification terminals is adequate to meet U.S. demand.
Bottom Line – Don't run out and purchase that compressed natural gas [CNG] vehicle any time soon


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Gene Rochler's marriage came to an end Wednesday.
Well, one of his marriages did.
Married to baseball coaching — as well as his wife, Nancy — for 40 years, Rochler said his Mattituck High School team's 11-1 loss to Center Moriches in the decisive second game of the Suffolk County Class B finals was his final game as a coach. READ


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By Nate Perry, TTU Sports Information
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech cross country has competed in two meets so far in the 2018 season, and Purity Sanga has now been tabbed as the OVC's Female Runner of the Week after each of them.
Sanga's second consecutive honor comes on the heels of a school-record women's five-kilometer performance at the Vanderbilt Commodore Classic, where she clocked a time of 17-minutes, 20.7-seconds.
That result beat Micayla Rennick's old program mark (17:29.8) from October 29, 2016 by more than nine ticks of the clock, and made Sanga responsible for four of the top 10 times in TTU women's cross country history.
The sophomore's pace was also good enough for second place overall out of 186 runners at the Commodore, the highest finish at a "big meet" in Sanga's career.
Louisville's Dorcas Wasike, a 2017 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association All-American, was the only female athlete faster than Sanga at the meet, finishing in a blistering 17:09.4.
The runner-up finish also established Sanga as a contender for an OVC individual championship, as it was the highest of all runners from the five conference schools in attendance. That group included Eastern Kentucky's Lilian Kiborus, who finished three spots ahead of Sanga at last year's league championships.
Sanga has been Tech's top finisher in all eight career meets, and has now posted top-eight finishes in six of them.
Her record 5K time was also her first under the 17:30 plateau.
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Coral Keen's eventing blog: preparation is key
Although the eventing season has drawn to a close, Coral still finds herself busy, thanks in part to gaining a new qualification
Coral joined H&H's stable of bloggers after we followed her as a first-timer at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. She is a British event rider (DOB 08/07/1987) who is based in Wiltshire. Her top horse is Wellshead Fare Opposition, born 2004, by Fleetwater Opposition.
Although the eventing season has drawn to a close, Coral still finds herself busy, thanks in part to gaining a new qualification
Coral has been riding an emotional rollercoaster and explains the difficulty of how solitary horse sport can be at times
Coral has enjoyed some very exciting results but has suffered a couple of lows too
Coral explains why she has made a promise to herself to talk about not just the good bits in her blog, but the more challenging bits of life too
Coral and her team are full steam ahead for the 2019 eventing season
Coral reflects on her 2018 season and introduces some exciting new faces
Coral has enjoyed a great competition with some of her young horses at the end of the season
Coral has enjoyed a successful and educational week at Blenheim with one of her home-breds
Coral has been forced to deal with a devastating reoccurring injury
Coral explains why she loves producing horses so much, including her selecting of home-breds
Coral has represented Great Britain eventing in Poland, but unfortunately it didn't end the way she imagined it would
Coral rounds up a rather eventful trip to a competition abroad
Coral discusses staff and why she has now found great grooms and also her thoughts on the new international scoring system
Coral talks through how she plans her season and has suffered a blow to her team
Coral, like many other competitors, has been battling the elements. Here she explains why organisers are doing the right thing by making the tough decision to abandon their events
Coral outlines her pre-season training and fitness regime with some helpful tips
Coral takes a look back over the year and is looking forward to the next
Coral has rounded off her 2017 season with some success and is already raring to go next year
Coral prepares for the end of the season but is looking forward to a busy winter with some new faces
Coral updates us on how her season is going and how some of her more experienced campaigners are recovering following injury