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Intending to travel == Hobo MamaOnce again, our only vacation this year has been to see family. Sam and I have been talking about this recently — we realized that ever since having children, the only traveling we've done has been short jaunts around our home base, or longer trips to visit the grandparents.

Before we had kids, we'd shake things up: a visit to our parents here and there, but interspersed with farther-flung adventures — to Atlanta, to Denver, to Seattle, to New York City, D.C., London, Paris, Berlin.

Contrast that with this year's trip that brought us through the overly familiar states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. I mean, no offense, Midwest, but…yeah.

Now, I totally get it. Having kids has brought with it consequences: Less money to blow with an unfortunately correlated increase in travel costs, distant relatives who want to connect with our offspring, and a whole mess of more inconvenience in traveling. This has made our trips a lot less frequent, and a lot more focused on seeing family to the exclusion of traveling for fun.

But the problem is — I'm boooored.

When we were growing up, both Sam and I lived far from extended family. That didn't stop our parents from taking trips elsewhere, though. With my family in particular, I can remember traveling to pretty much every state and a variety of countries. (Being a military family helped get us part of the way to our destinations.) Sometimes one or the other set of grandparents tagged along or met up with us along the way. Much of the time it was just our immediate family, and I didn't see our parents expressing any guilt over that. Sam and I have started wondering what memories our kids will have of traveling with us, and what memories we want to instill.

We've been keeping an ever-growing list of places we want to go with the kids — someday. It includes a road trip through the American West and Southwest that would include the Grand Canyon, as well as an East Coast trip that would include Washington, D.C., and New York City. We also want to go back with the kids to one of our favorite vacation destinations: London. We miss it. {Sniff.}

But it's been so daunting to think of traveling with kids so far or for so long. We keep thinking, We'll save it till they're older and will appreciate it more.

But now: We're tired of waiting. We're tired of shuffling dutifully between the family homes and never cutting loose on our own.

We're afraid we'll wait so long before we start traveling with the kids that we'll lose our opportunity.

We've realized there's no right time to travel with kids. That, even if they don't appreciate it or remember it, or if only one or two of them at any given time are the exact right age to enjoy the trip, that Sam and I will enjoy it — that we don't want to give up decades of our lives when we could still be enjoying travel.

So we've started planning out what we can do. Since our parents fly out to see us every year or so, anyway, we figure we can get away with visiting them every third year. We don't want to waste the years our children have with their grandparents, but we think we can combine our two desires by possibly having our parents meet us at a scenic place near them.

For instance, when Sam was growing up, every other year his family would go to the same cottage on the coast of Maine. We could pick a place like that for our family to hang out and relax and for our parents or any other interested relatives to meet us there.

In the other years, we're figuring out how and when we can fit in some of our dreamed-of vacations. I realize money and time and family obligations will all have a huge effect on what we'll be able to fit in. Finances and unforeseen scheduling snafus will dictate some of what we manage, but I have hope and excitement now that we're planning to start traveling again — with kids.

Did you travel before having kids? Do you travel with kids, or do you wish you did?

Intending to travel == Hobo Mama
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Momma in Progress said...

At first we did the only "vacationing" to visit family thing, too. Then we got military orders overseas. We had a 3 year old, a 1 year old, and I was 6 weeks pregnant. We pretty much were going to travel with them or not see anything. It worked out well, and now we tend to take more "real" vacations whenever we can. Also, totally with you on the London thing. Even my 7 year old tells me she would MOVE there given the opportunity.

Claire T said...

We have travelled internationally since my daughter was four months old. I am a New Zealander, hubby is Japanese and we live in Singapore so it is a necessary evil. We mix it up travelling to NZ and Japan (10 hrs and 7 hrs) and shorter hops around Asia. We are blessed that Miss Three and a half likes to fly, loves new faces and places and is a very adventurous eater. We find any flight of more than 4 hours should be at night as our daughter tends to get a bit ratty on long day flights.
We tend to stay in apartments rather than hotels - not for the kitchen as in Asia especially it is easier and cheaper to eat out- but for the ability to remain up after our daughter goes to sleep.
We find Asia is awesome with young children. Most cultures treat young children indulgently and there is no issue if your toddler wants to wander round the restaurant etc. it is a very different vibe from the European children should be seen and not heard model.
We are looking forward to travelling more extensively as our daughter gets older. It isn't all rainbows and skittles but the benefits have far outweighed the odd bad flight. We get a lot of uninterrupted family time and my husband and I are loving sharing places we love with our daughter.
Sorry for the novel but I love seeing other parents sharing the world with their children.

Jacqueline said...

We're in the same boat! Declaring our intention to travel in conjunction with a decision to homeschool. We're staying in the states this year, but hope to venture international by next year. My take on the whole "they won't remember it" thing is that regardless whether they remember or appreciate it, the experience will shape them. It will shape me and my husband, our perspective of the world will shift and therefore our life at home will be impacted. Roscoe doesn't remember his trip to Disney World 3 years ago (he's 5 now) but he DOES absolutely remember the goats that he met and it catapulted his interests into all things goat for the entire year that followed. I too have had an itch to get out and see and do, and I realized that there's no time like NOW! We are choosing extended stays in guesthomes, houses, apartments, etc. that way we can settle in, explore at our leisure, and really experience the culture/life of the areas we pick. Good luck! I'll enjoy following along.

Richard Cole said...

Traveling with our infant son, Ewan, has deeply enriched our travelling experiences. He is a focal point for local people, who are more friendly and welcoming because of him. He breaks the ice and attracts attention with his beaming smile, blond hair and blue eyes, but in general this attention is to our benefit, as we have often experienced an enhanced level of service because of having a small child in tow, often in areas where few foreign babies are seen. This was especially the case in our trip to Bali where we were treated with great affection and warmth, Ewan always the centre of attention, doted on by everyone, even teenage boys, who thought nothing of picking him up to show him something exciting or comfort him. Staying at an ashram we were treated like members of an extended family, Ewan adored by our hosts who delighted in his every smile. We couldn’t help but stand out with our white skin and Western appearance, but instead of being stared at or ripped off, we were welcomed with open arms.

stoneageparent said...

Becoming a family has not stopped us pursuing our hobbies or exploring in any way. Ewan has fitted into our lifestyles as much as we have into his. Travelling with our children has also deeply enriched our travelling experiences. Becoming a mum has inspired us to travel even more, in order to broaden our children’s experiences, open their eyes to other ways of living, introducing him to our beautiful world in an exciting, adventurous and gentle way.

We have had a mix of trips some involving flying and some involving adventures nearer home. Not many under fours think wild camping in the woods in the rain, awaking at dawn to sunrise at 3000 metres after calmly sleeping for hours in the sling, trekking through tropical rice-fields or eating a camp-cooked meal metres away from puffins, are ‘normal’ experiences. They have taken these experiences in their stride, happy as long as his parents are close by.

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Speed Trappings
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Dear Editor:

In the early 1900’s, speed-car races under 75mph were held on public roads until fears for spectator safety sparked the creation of use-specific closed-circuit tracks.

Yet today, with the arrogance bordering on criminal lunacy, plans are afoot to hold yearly Formula One car-speed races (at 150-plus mph) on the Weehawken/West New York stretch of the Blvd. East–a winding, two-lane residential road designed for vehicles traveling 25 mph!

Given that, consider this. Not long ago there was a horrific speed-car crash on a regulation closed-circuit track. The determined cause? The track wasn’t designed for the atypical event being run, nor for the type of cars being driven.

The Movers behind such fiascos are usually the-anything-for-a-buck PTB (powers that be) with considerably more money and clout than the rest of us and, it wood seem, significantly less common sense or conscience. In our case, that means the Formula One race people, our local town officials, and any numbers of investors, promoters, and so on (most of whom don’t even live in New Jersey.)

Clearly, their plan is bad on so many levels it’s hard to know where to start—especially when most of its vital details are being kept from us. Two items they released are 1): On race day (initially slated for mid-July, 2013), and on day(s?) just before and after it, hoards of international fans are expected to inflate our tiny towns’ already-packed populations to bursting point. And 2): During this invasion, streets accessing the race road will be closed to vehicular traffic!!

The chief concern is how quickly ambulance, fire trucks, and police cars can respond to emergencies—especially during the race itself. Say a spectator has a stroke. Or a race car crashes. If reaching victims necessitates it, how do you halt speeding cars mid-race? (Frankly, I don’t see lollipop ladies with stop signs meeting the case here.)

Also, where will they re-park the hundreds of residents’ cars normally lining Blvd. East? Or, interestingly, position porta-johns so as not to spoil TV footage of the event whose locale was deliberately chosen for its NYC-skyline backdrop? (Believe it. That coveted view is a prime engine behind the inherently-dangerous chaos the PTB intend loosing upon us.)

Finally, lets talk money: For the upgrading of the roads to meet Formula One requirements. For extra police security. For barriers effective enough to protect spectators and property. Etc., etc., etc. Who pays and who profits—the PTB or the taxpayers?

(Need we ask!?)

Well, actually, we do need. Voicing our questions, concerns, or protests in this column won’t change what is most surely a done deal. But at least it’s the first small step toward challenging the PTB and returning to an America where we get a vote on what happens to our town.

Ima Rebel

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Dear Editor:

I am writing this letter anonymously because I am a tenant and if the effort to abolish rent control in November is successful, I don’t want to be vulnerable to reprisals by my landlord, who is part of MSTA, the group funded mostly by developers and real estate speculators who are targeting rent control and may yet be able to destroy it even though they lost their election last November.

The bottom line of the struggle over rent control is that there are fortunes to be made, huge amounts of money that make people’s eyes spin like slot machines, the kind of money that will motivate all kinds of behavior, some not so savory. You don’t have to be a math whiz to understand that removing the limits on what landlords can charge for rents will cause prices to skyrocket and create millions of dollars profit for some owners of multiple buildings. Every unit that can be taken out of rent control represents a substantial amount of potential income every month to landlords. The giant landlords who own many buildings have the most to gain by removing the restraints. That’s why there is so much money available to fund this fight for MSTA. It is an investment that if it succeeds will pay off many times over for a small handful of people.

If it succeeds Hoboken will be turned into a speculative playground for developers and big wheeler dealers. It will be a gold rush, and if you have read the histories of gold rush cities, you may understand why you don’t necessarily want the city you live in to become one.

MSTA ran two-page ads expressing indignation that anyone could accuse any landlord of harassing tenants to get them to move out so they can raise the rent. But their behavior in driving for the repeal of rent stabilization regulation shows that they will stop at nothing to achieve their objectives. They have succeeded to the extent that they have because they have virtually unlimited funding and are not restrained by principles of fairness or moderation. They want to win at all costs.

And big money can go a long way to achieve objectives. MSTA has filed an incessant series of lawsuits against the city to tear down rent control. In their most recent lawsuits they managed to overturn last year’s election on rent control based on a list of 114 voters who they claimed were disenfranchised by Sandy. Some were duplicates. The largest number did not live in Hoboken anymore and were not entitled to vote. In the end there were only 36 on the list whose legitimacy as voters was not discredited, not enough to overturn the election. But MSTA does not care that its case had no merit. It achieved its objective, to nullify an election. Now Hoboken has to vote again on rent control. Anyone who is a tenant had better pay attention. There is a target on your back.

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First Ward Proposals
Jan 22, 2014 | 1387 views | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend | print
To the Editor:

As the weeks pass by and campaign season draws closer I have noticed the amount of campaign rhetoric has grown thicker. The latest mumbling I have read is about the erosion of community in Bayonne; the strength of the community is something I believe in and is a subject which I agree needs to be addresses, so when a candidate raises this issue it immediately catches my attention. In reading these pieces several good points are raised but no solid solutions are presented, which to me makes it all campaign rhetoric.

The community of Bayonne is one that is very diverse, consisting of both young and old, and many different ethnicities and religious faiths. When a natural disaster strikes or a death in the community happens I have noticed the majority of the community tends to put aside their differences for the better of the community during trying times. My view of the community of Bayonne is that while it is not perfect it is not as far bad off as people claim it to be. You can complain all you want, and offer no solution in the meantime, but in this day and age of technological advances there will never be the sense of community there once was. However, I do have an idea that if elected to be your First Ward Council representative I would like to make a reality. The youth of our city is a group I would like to engage and get more involved in the city’s doings. Bayonne is approaching a time where our future is in the hands of the upcoming generation. As First Ward Councilman I would like to meet individuals from every single district in the First Ward. Upon meeting these individuals I would like to pick one or two from each district and designate them as district leaders. These district leaders would meet with me at least once a month and would serve as liasons between myself and their respective districts. What I would like these district leaders to do is to relay any problems residents of that district may have to me. Other things I would like these district leaders to do are to organize park/street cleanups and other similar projects that would help have a positive impact on the community of the First Ward.

In conclusion I would like to respectfully address Tracy Sanders. Towards the end of her letter she stated that all municipal workers do have to live in the Bayonne. Upon initial glance one might think this is true, but when taking a further look it is found that uniformed personnel are required to live in the municipality at the time of taking the test but after the initial probation period are allowed to move out of Bayonne; teachers are not required to live in Bayonne. One of the biggest issues of voters in Bayonne is the cost of property taxes and the quality of life that does not equate to what the taxpayers pay. Municipal workers are paid by our city taxes. When that money leaves our municipality our already subpar quality of life is further negatively affected and cannot be improved.

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Why It's Impossible to be "In Control"

07/04/2012 04:24 EDT | Updated 09/03/2012 05:12 EDT

The other day, one of my patients described herself as a "control freak," and an unhappy one at that. Certainly, she's not the first person I've worked with who's been frustrated in their attempts to be "in control," but it always saddens me to see someone wasting her time on something that's neither possible nor necessary.

As a rule, people who crave control are reacting to their past; to a childhood or adolescence in which they felt that they had little or no control. They're attempting to compensate for this uncomfortable experience by being overly-controlling in their adult lives.

The problem with control is that it's an unattainable goal. No matter how hard a person might try, nothing can be controlled; not the weather, politics, world financial markets, one's own body and certainly not other people. People are under an illusion when they believe in control, and they risk being deeply disillusioned if they keep on trying to achieve it.

I've noticed that "control freaks" come in two versions: the benign and the malignant. The former are more focused on self-control. They repress their emotions, restrict their food intake and drive themselves toward impossible standards of perfection in their career, hobbies and self-improvement.

The latter group are invested in controlling others. They might choose such ostensibly helpful professions such as psychotherapists, doctors, police or military officers. Alternatively, they might be bullies at their school or workplace, or hyper-controlling in their intimate relationships. Their goal is to have power over the people they're associated with, either personally or professionally.

Whether benign or malignant, all these individuals eventually come up against the painful reality that it's futile to try and be in control. Those who want to control themselves suffer terribly as they become locked in a life-long inner conflict between the part of the psyche that seeks utter control (the super-ego, or internalized parent) and the part that wants to be free (the id, or child within).

Those who seek to control others eventually see that no matter how much they manipulate, coerce, threaten or implore, they can never have absolute control over another person, because even if they imprison the other person's body, they can never imprison their spirit. Also, it should be pointed out that the person being controlled cannot be in control of their responses toward the controller.

Those who are subject to bullying or coercion, even if ordinarily meek and non-confrontational, will eventually tire of being pushed around and will find a way to rebel, whether this is done consciously and directly, by protesting, or indirectly, by being passive-resistant or even passive-aggressive.

Even someone in an abusive relationship who knows that she'll be verbally or physically assaulted if she stands up to her partner will still find it hard to resist acting out against her controller. It's not that they want to be abused, but eventually they become so indignant toward the abuser and so unhappy with their situation that they won't be able to resist the urge to be spiteful. The angry id will out.

The whole problem with control is that it denies the existence of the unconscious. It assumes that we're all solely rational beings, capable of using the power of our minds to guide every aspect of our existence. The idea of "mind over matter" is erroneous, seeing as how the compulsion to be in control isn't a conscious, rational choice, but one based on deep-seated, unresolved emotional wounds and needs.

Those who attempt to control themselves often end up with two types of reactive behaviors: what I call backlash and leakage. Both of these reactions are driven by the child within, who becomes so frustrated and disgusted by the whole exercise that she sabotages it to the best of her abilities.

An example of backlash is when a person who's been on a strict diet begins to binge uncontrollably, regaining any weight that he's lost, plus a few extra pounds. An example of leakage is when a person who prides himself on his impeccable social graces suddenly begins to blurt inappropriately. The "inner boor" has leaked out, replacing the former, more appropriate persona.

Within the psyche of every person, there's a constant battle between the forces of chaos (id) and the forces of control (super-ego). Those of us with a well-developed adult identity can usually manage to maintain a reasonable balance within our personality, being neither overly impulsive nor excessively repressed.

Those who are overly-invested in self-control, however, find themselves swinging between the extremes of rigidity and explosiveness, as the inner conflict ends up being played out in their public behavior. The more the internal forces of control try to make the person buckle under, the more the forces of chaos resist and act out in fury.

For those who try to control other people, chronic unsuccessful attempts to bend others to their will can only have one result: intense frustration which will cause them to intensify their attempts at control and will likely result in increased resistance on the part of those being controlled. The controllers may or not succeed in getting others to tow the line, but they'll certainly create a lot of drama and suffering for all parties.

Those who attempt to control themselves will spend their lives see-sawing back and forth between extremes of perfectionism and inappropriate acting out. Their lives will be miserable, both for what they must give up in their attempts to achieve "perfection" and in the personal and social consequences of their backlash and leakage.

Control is impossible, and the past can never be compensated for by present-day actions. It must be faced, grieved, healed and released. Those enamored with the idea of control would do better to see that instead of trying to be "in control," they can make conscious, empowered choices about their lives right now.

Making such choices will bring the best possible outcome in all endeavors and relationships, and will demonstrate not only the futility but the irrelevance of trying to be "in control."


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Making A Murderer's Brendan Dassey Release Blocked By Court

Dassey's murder conviction was overturned in August.

18/11/2016 11:30 | Updated 18 November 2016

Making A Murderer subject Brendan Dassey has been denied release from prison following an appeal over the decision to overturn his conviction for murder.

The 27-year-old’s release appeared imminent on Thursday, with TV crews and reporters poised at his prison in Portage.

“We are disappointed more than words can say,” Dassey’s attorneys, Steve Drizin and Laura Nirider, said in a statement posted online shortly after the ruling was released. “The fight goes on.”

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Brendan Dassey was due to be released on Thursday

Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in the death of photographer Teresa Halbach two years earlier.

He confessed to detectives that he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach in the Avery family’s salvage yard in Manitowoc County. Avery was sentenced to life in prison in a separate proceeding.

Avery and Dassey contend they were framed by police angry with Avery for filing a lawsuit against the county over his wrongful imprisonment for a sexual assault he didn’t commit. He’s pursuing his own appeal in state court.

Their cases gained national attention last year after Netflix aired “Making a Murderer,” a multi-part documentary examining Halbach’s death. The series spawned widespread conjecture about the pair’s innocence. Authorities who worked on the cases said the documentary was biased but the series generated calls from the public to free both men.

Dassey’s uncle, Steven Avery was convicted of Teresa Halbach’s murder in 2007

US Magistrate Judge William Duffin ruled in August that investigators coerced Dassey, who was 16-years-old at the time and suffered from cognitive problems, into confessing and overturned his conviction. Duffin said in the decision that if state attorneys appealed the ruling Dassey would remain in prison pending a resolution.

The state Justice Department filed an appeal that is still working its way through the 7th Circuit. But this week Duffin ordered Dassey released from prison by 8pm on Friday.

The DOJ filed an emergency motion with the 7th Circuit on Wednesday seeking to block the release, arguing Duffin’s release order contradicts his original ruling in which he said Dassey would remain in prison pending the appeal’s resolution, Dassey’s interrogators used techniques that courts around the country have repeatedly approved and Dassey presents a danger to society.

Drizin and Nirider countered with a filing that argued Dassey has behaved in prison and the state hasn’t identified any harm that might come from his release.

The 7th Circuit judges - Frank Easterbrook, Kenneth Ripple and David Hamilton - issued a two-page ruling Thursday saying only that the state’s emergency motion was granted and Dassey will remain behind bars pending the outcome of the appeal. It’s unclear when that might come. Briefs in the case aren’t due to the 7th Circuit until late December. A decision likely won’t come down for weeks or even months later.

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Here’s How A 22 Year Old Is Planning To Clean Up Our Oceans

A revolutionary green project...

21/11/2016 12:32 | Updated 05 December 2016

According to Boyan Slat, the Dutch wunderkind who founded The Ocean Cleanup, we are living in the “Plastic Age.”

With around 300 million tonnes of plastic produced annually, lots and lots and lots of plastic (over 8 million tonnes, to be precise) ends up in our rivers, lakes and oceans.

A report at the January 2016 World Economic Forum warned that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish (by weight). This is terrifying stuff.

22-year-old Slat is on a mission to change the world: he dropped his aerospace engineering degree in 2013 to start The Ocean Cleanup Project, which focuses on developing advanced technologies to tackle the problem of plastic in the world’s oceans.

“There are multiple reasons why current plastic pollution researchers believe we should focus on prevention, for example through education, rather than attempting a cleanup operation, because we would need to deal with five colossal areas, each moving around, plastic sizes ranging from these massive ghost nets to molecules - bycatches and emissions,” Slat explained in his October 2012 Tedx Talk.

Since trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches - the largest one is between Hawaii and California - cleanup using nets and vessels would take thousands of years.

Thankfully for the planet, Slat came up with an ambitious plan to solve the problem in far less time than that.

The Big Idea

Once Slat starting thinking about the problem of plastics in oceans, he couldn’t stop, so he headed to Greece with an ultra-fine manta trawl net in tow instead of clothes (he only had so much baggage space) and soon discovered that there are 40 times more of the tiny particles of plastic in the water than there are larger ones.

He then set about figuring out how to get rid of the tiny plastic particles without removing essential plankton from the oceans. They can be separated out with centrifugal forces - easy enough.

Since Slat subscribes to the mantra that he doesn’t “believe you can’t clean up something you don’t know the size of,” he used the expertise of Dutch university professors to determine exactly how much plastic there really was in the top layers of the gyres.

The result was scary: 7.25 million tonnes of extractable plastic in 2020 - equivalent to the weight of 1,000 Eiffel Towers.

Slat had a plan: orchestrate a mass-scale cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And not to be overzealous or anything, but he determined to do it all in just a decade, at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods using nets.

The North Sea Prototype

After an extensive 528-page feasibility study in 2014, a 30-vessel research expedition in 2015 to produce a hi-res map of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and scale model testing, The Ocean Cleanup Project was ready to start testing.

After securing €1.5 million in funding from the Government of the Netherlands and marine contractor Boskalis, as well as an anonymous philanthropist, on 22nd June, 2016, the organisation unveiled the first prototype of its North Sea ocean cleanup system.

A large, passive, floating barrier structure that’s 100 metres long was situated 23 km off the Dutch coast, to act as an artificial coastline and passively catch ocean debris.

Entirely powered by the ocean’s natural currents and the wind, floating bits of plastic are pushed into screens which extend from the barriers.

The solid screens allow sea life to pass underneath but catch the floating plastic - anything between 35 to 100 millimetres in size.

The v-shape of the array pushes the plastic towards the central part of the structure to be collected and processed, after which it will be shipped to land and sold as recycled material so the entire operation becomes self-sustainable.

The prototype will test the survivability of the design, in preparation for a pilot installation in 2017 and the planned cleanup of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, launching in 2020.

What’s Next?

In August 2016, after two months of enduring strong waves and gales, the barrier in the North Sea suffered some damage and is currently being fixed and optimised, so that all tweaks (like fixing the falling shackles that connect the barrier to the permanent mooring system) are cleared up in the design of the prototype.

Next up for the organisation is an aerial expedition- the first of its kind - in September and October 2016 of low-speed, low-altitude flights across the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a C-130 Hercules aircraft, so that researchers and state-of-the-art sensors can accurately measure the biggest pieces of debris in the ocean in order to help determine future design, logistics and cost.

To date, Slat has received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including becoming the youngest-ever recipient of the UN’s Champion of the World environmental accolade.

This ambitious project is sure to be making waves for the next decade and more as Slat continues his pursuit of plastic-free waters. As he so aptly puts it:

“When talking about environmental issues in general, a common response is, ‘Well, that’s a long way off, that’s for our children to worry about.’ Hello, here I am.”

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The Art of Technical Analysis (Part 1)

13/12/2012 13:38 | Updated 11 February 2013

What is technical analysis?

Technical analysis is a rather posh name for a very simple concept in trading. It is basically the study of charts on a computer to determine the best areas to invest in a tradable financial instrument, whether it be stocks (e.g. Google, Facebook or Apple), the Forex or currency market (e.g. USD, EUR or GBP) or commodities (e.g. gold, silver or oil). The charts are made up of price movements which comes through as a live data feed over the internet. Traders can see both what has happened in the past and also what is happening in real time, and can choose to see the data on the time frame suited to their trading style. A scalper may use, say, a 1-minute or a 5-minute chart, a day trader may use a 1-hour chart, and a long-term trader would use the daily and the weekly chart.

The history of technical analysis

Going back hundreds of years, technical analysis is the oldest method designed to take on and beat the market. Early signs of technical analysis can be traced as far back as the 17th century. However, following the seminal articles written by the father of modern technical analysis, Charles H. Dow in the Wall Street Journal between 1900 and 1902 and also books, such as those written by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee in 1948 when the basic concepts of technical analysis really became popular. Since then, a complete jargon of pictures and phrases have been developed which traders base their buying and selling decisions on. From its roots, we can see that technical analysis was used to analyse charts on paper but in recent times it has been transferred to the computer.

The fundamental building block of technical analysis

The most common chart used is the candlestick chart. Imagine an ordinary candle but with a wick coming out at both ends. Now imagine hundreds of candlesticks across the screen of your computer all of different wick length (but equal width) and all with different sized bodies and you will get an idea of what a trading chart looks like (see below).

If we are looking at the daily chart, then each candlestick represents price action per day. The opening and closing price are represented by the high and low of the body (the wax) of the candle. The range of price action for the whole day is represented by the high and low of the candle wick. If the bar is coloured green, it was a day controlled by the buyers with the closing price being above the opening price.If the bar is red, the reverse is true: the day was controlled by the sellers, with the closing price being below the opening price (see right). 2012-12-11-candlesticks.jpg The closing price of the previous day is the opening price for the next day. The size of the bar represents the amount of trading done on that day; the bigger the bar the more volume or trading on that given day. These variables hold true for each candle on any time frame whether it be candles produced on a 1-minute chart or a monthly chart. For example, a candle produced every minute on a 1-minute chart has a body with an opening and closing price and a wick that represents the range of price action for that moment. And there you have it, the candlestick, the basic building block of technical analysis.

How are these candles produced?

Ask any novice trader what moves the market and they would give the answer based on what the media pumps out at us; wars, natural disasters, banks misbehaving, political issues etc. In reality it is the reaction to this news that moves the market, the human emotions of millions maybe billions of traders trying to predict whether the value of a particular financial instrument is going to go up or down. The shorter the time frame, the more volatile the movement, and the more aggressive and non-sensical the formation of the candles look. This random nature of movement , say on a 1-minute chart, is where most traders look to trade and get rich quick but where 95%, called the Dumb Money, fail and walk away empty-handed.

Is price the only variable involved in technical analysis?

For the Smart Money, price is the main variable, or "indicator" in trading jargon. These candlesticks group together over the long term to make patterns. The long-term pattern of choice for a top trader is called a trend. This is when the market is moving up and a trader buys, or when the market is moving down and a trader sells. A market is considered in a range when it is moving sideways, and this is where a trader should stand aside and refrain from trading. A top trader knows that standing aside is also a position, as knowing when not to risk your money is a key element to trading. 2012-12-11-doubletop.jpgChart patterns such as "double tops," where candlesticks have formed an "M" shape (see left), and "flags" where price has moved in one direction with several big bars and then moved in the opposite direction for a few small bars, looking just like a flag, are typical patterns that a trader looks to enter the market based purely on price. Support lines, areas where price has repeatedly bounced up from, or resistance lines, where price has repeatedly rebounded down from, are another good price-based indicator. In addition, there are a handful of other secondary indicators that can be used to add weight to your decision of entry. To elaborate, I have found an area to open a trade which I consider a high-probability setup based purely on price set-up. I can then use secondary indicators such as Moving Averages, MACD, Fibonacci, to name a few, to add confirmation to my decision and give me that little bit more confidence that I am entering the market in the correct area. The use of different combinations of these variables to open a trade is called a strategy. A top trader has several simple yet highly-effective strategies to use in varying market conditions.

The mistake that novice traders make is to forget that price action should always be the main indicator; instead they become fixated on all the other indicators. They clutter their charts with all that is available to them, turning what should be a simple chart into chaos on a computer screen. In reality, a top trader is able to make decisions purely based on price action without the need for any secondary indicators.

Part 2 on the advantages of technical analysis and how to make it work for you will be published in the coming days.


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Like the 808 bass of a West Coast rap song, Richmond rapper HugoMonster comes stomping down your street and into your living room, shattering windows and egos.

Biography - "Making a Monsta"

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, HugoMonster grew up focused on the success of school, work, and love only to discover a life’s worth of obstacles boxing him in. Instead of becoming a maladjusted, cold-hearted creature, a persona began to form inside of Hugo, eventually taking a life on its own as rap tyrant HugoMonster. With a light-hearted yet curt voice, the Monster’s words have found their place penetrating through tweeters and into music venues—revitalizing audiences.

Born in impoverished Central America, HugoMonster moved to the United States in his early childhood, assimilating and immersing himself in the pop culture of American youth. Engrossed by the liveliness and sincerity of contemporary rapper Tupac Shakur, the innocent teenager predating HugoMonster began writing poetry and lyrics in the late 90’s. Soon after teaming up with long time friend Tito Rockahorra, the two began writing, producing, and recording material. Hugo’s dissatisfaction with mainstream music at the time, as well as his admiration for battle rap expert Canibus, sprouted into a plethora of works which he would compile and distribute under the alias MC Huey in the early millennium. With his career and education beginning to consume his life, the six-foot tall monster of a rapper reluctantly put his talent on the backburner and prepared for his future.

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A few years later Hugo went on to pique the interest of fellow friends and artists, BreakaDawn Juan and Charlie Giant, as they began to purse music ventures in addition to promoting themselves in the East Baycommunity. Around the same time, Hugo was dubbed HugoMonster after his dominant physique, brusque rap style, and a facial operation that permanently altered the artist’s face and voice. Fixing a tight grasp on his newfound style, HugoMonster began recording his debut album Unleashed in 2006 with production by Tito Rockahorra and Charlie Giant. After graduating from college and winning the hearts of locals with his ‘Boogie Hugie’ style, Hugo spent his time studying the realistic issues of his favorite comic book heroes and expanding on his musical niche. He has since taken his first steps to success acting as the hype man for BreakaDawn Juan’s sets as well as performing guest verses.

Now, plowing the stage with energy and presence, HugoMonster looks to stun audiences with an incisive voice and dangerously spontaneous dance moves. Teamed with BreakaDawn Juan as the formidably funky duo, Check One, they look to bring in the new decade with a bang on their first collaborative


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Summer Session & the 2011 Solo Artist Exhibition

June 30, 2011June’s launch of the Hui’s summer session introduced 32 new classes & workshops with a cumulative attendance of 325 students and studio users of all ages, welcoming 5 visiting artists to the Hui roster from New York (Sheila Kriemelman), neighbor Hawaiian islands (Scott Groeniger, Roger Whitlock, John “PRIME” Hina and Scott Semple). We celebrated the highly anticipated 2011 Solo Artist Exhibition, featuring Honolulu-based artist Scott Groeniger’s “Welcome to the New Lifestyle,” a new collection of large-scale, site-specific archival pigment prints composed of layered photographs and digital collages examining China’s rapid industrialization and collaborating Maui artists Sidney Yee and Kevin Omuro’s “I Turned to the Turnip,” featuring Yee’s textured acrylic paintings on wood panels and Omuro’s porcelain sculptures, saggar-fired in natural earth elements—both influenced by a minimalist Asian aesthetic and the artists’ roots in Chinese culture. Generously supported by the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, this annual exhibition provides the unique opportunity for artists to be personally involved in all facets of exhibition planning and installation of artwork. Down in the children’s studio, our summer Camp Kaluanui keiki collaborated on a 20-foot mural themed "One Flew Over the Nene Nest: Exploring Hawaiian Habitats" as part of the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife’s FOCUS project. We were one of 16 arts organizations across the state of Hawai‘i to create a mural representing our various connections to Hawai‘i’s unique natural and cultural resources, which went on to be displayed at the Hawaii Conservation Conference in August, and the Society of American Foresters Conference in November.

More info: HuiBlog Solo Artist Exhibition posts: About, Opening, "Turnips and Technology," "Unexpected Harmony" from On Maui! Magazine [hr top]


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Wildlife Disservice

The USDA Wildlife Services’ inefficient and inhumane wildlife damage management program

The USDA's Wildlife Services program killed more than 800,000 coyotes over 10 years. Photo by Steve Shinn

Wildlife Services, a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has waged war on our nation’s wildlife for more than a century. From 2004 to 2013 (the most recent year for which data is available), Wildlife Services killed nearly 34 million bears, bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, wolves and many other wild animals in the name of protecting crops, farm animals, private property and even other species such as rare birds and prey species favored by hunters. Unintended targets—even endangered species and pets—are also killed

Inhumane lethal control

Wildlife Services’ killing methods include shooting from helicopters and airplanes, trapping and snaring, poisoning and denning (killing pups in or at their dens). M-44s are spring-loaded devices that propel sodium cyanide pellets into an animal’s mouth when she tugs the baited device. When the pellet mixes with moisture, it turns into deadly hydrogen cyanide gas that causes asphyxiation, usually within two minutes.

Coyotes ingest another lethal poison, Compound 1080, from special collars placed on sheep and goats. Death lasts five to 14 hours. Victims suffer convulsions and ultimately die from cardiac failure or respiratory arrest.

Lethal control should be a last resort, such as in cases where specific problem animals have been identified and cannot be deterred from killing farm animals. But Wildlife Services traditionally has shown a preference for killing even in situations where prevention and nonlethal measures could be effectively used. These include domestic guard animals, increased human husbandry, birthing in sheds or barns rather than outside and preventing animals from accessing sites of concern.

Click the image to enlarge. See a full accounting of animals killed by Wildlife Services from 2004 to 2013.

Ask the USDA to reform Wildlife Services »

Inappropriate subsidies for private interests

Wildlife Services spent more than $1 billion from 2004 to 2013, much of it from federal tax dollars. (The president’s proposed fiscal 2016 budget cut over $9 million from the program, a step in the right direction.) The remainder came from state and local taxes and fees from private customers.

While it relies upon tax revenues, the program’s services often benefit only a small number of special interests including public lands grazers, concentrated animal feeding operations, industrial timber operators and commercial fish farmers.

Lack of transparency and accountability

In the communities where it works, Wildlife Services often fails to share locations of traps and poisons, resulting in numerous dangerous incidents involving people, their companion animals or hunting dogs—even on federal public lands. Media reports have also uncovered brutal and indiscriminate activities, fiscal irresponsibility, environmental harm and employee misconduct.

A proposal for reforming Wildlife Services

Wildlife Services must undergo a major transformation. The HSUS recommends the following reforms (read the recommendations in full):

1. End the use of inhumane management techniques. Wildlife Services should immediately stop using sodium cyanide and Compound 1080 and phase out all other poisons and toxicants. It should immediately end preemptive indiscriminate aerial gunning—where animals are systematically slaughtered to “sterilize” the landscape—and phase out most cruel traps and snares.

2. Transfer Wildlife Services to the Department of Interior. Only about a third of the program’s budget funds agricultural programs. With its significant impact on wildlife, the program should be integrated with other federal wildlife programs in the Department of Interior.

  • Wildlife Services should account for the animal welfare consequences of its decisions, such as the orphaning of dependent young. Photo by Alamy

3. Formally incorporate animal welfare into decision making. The program should replace its simplistic decision-making model with one that explicitly incorporates animal welfare, such as a decision matrix that accounts for the welfare consequences of devices and techniques.

4. Update the program’s environmental impact statement. Wildlife Service’s environmental impact statement, which describes the program’s environmental effects and lists alternatives, hasn’t been revised in almost 20 years.

5. Adopt a conservation mandate. The health and integrity of ecological communities should become a priority, with accountability for effects on apex predators, keystone species, and threatened and endangered species.

6. Overhaul its decision-making process. Under a documented, formal process, stakeholders would be ensured that activities are justified, realistic, effective, targeted and humane, with long-term benefits.

7. Remove the financial incentive to kill. Wildlife Services should stop collecting fees for its services and end activities that don’t provide broad public benefits.

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Representing Claims of Kidney Damage from Gentamicin

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Gentamicin sulfate is a powerful antibiotic delivered intravenously to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and home healthcare settings to combat severe infections. Gentamicin is an effective treatment, but only when properly administered and monitored by a medical professional. Extended use, high dosages or improper prescription of other drugs in combination with gentamicin can result in serious and permanent personal injury.

For gentamicin to be used safely, health care professionals must carefully monitor the patient’s kidney function during gentamicin therapy and check for symptoms of nephrotoxicity (the poisonous effect of a medication on the kidneys), or ototoxicity (damage to the ear, including the auditory or vestibular system, by a toxin). Prior to placing a patient on gentamicin, the attending physician must determine the patient’s baseline renal function through laboratory testing, including measuring the patient’s serum creatinine and creatinine clearance.

An elevated blood creatinine level is a sign of damage to the cells of the kidney. A physician should not prescribe gentamicin to a patient with elevated blood creatinine levels—that patient is a great risk of further kidney damage and kidney failure due to gentamicin.

Once the patient is receiving gentamicin therapy, the attending and consulting physicians must closely monitor concentrations of the gentamicin in the patients' blood to prevent the development of excess gentamicin blood levels. Close monitoring—at least every 48 hours during gentamicin therapy--can detect subtle rises in gentamicin levels and decreased renal function, which indicate excessive gentamicin buildup and developing kidney damage.

As the cells of the kidney become exposed to gentamicin, renal cell damage can occur, with loss of renal function. Because gentamicin is not metabolized, but is excreted in the urine, even a slight loss of renal function during a course of gentamicin therapy, without a decrease in the dose or discontinuation of the gentamicin, will lead to some increase in the average daily serum gentamicin concentration. Increasing serum gentamicin levels promote further nephrotoxicity, or kidney damage, and a vicious circle of increasing serum gentamicin levels and increasing nephrotoxicity results. In the event that signs of nephrotoxicity or ototoxicity appear in a patient undergoing gentamicin therapy, the patient’s physicians must immediately discontinue all gentamicin therapy to avoid permanent injury to the patient.

Damage caused by gentamicin poisoning can be catastrophic and permanent. For example, kidney damage caused by gentamicin poisoning may require a person to undergo kidney dialysis for life, which can cost millions of dollars. A person with permanent kidney damage due to gentamicin poisoning may also need one or more kidney transplants over a lifetime.

If you or a loved one has suffered serious side effects caused by gentamicin, you may be eligible to seek compensation for past and future medical expenses, pain and suffering, permanent disability, lost income, and more. At Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P.C., we have substantial experience filing suits against negligent physicians, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes and home health care agencies on behalf of many individuals permanent injured by gentamicin poisoning. It is important to bear in mind that gentamicin lawsuits are subject to a statute of limitations, which restricts the time you have to pursue a claim. For this reason, it is important to seek the early advice of a qualified Chicago, IL medical malpractice lawyer who can help protect your legal interests.

If you or a loved one has been adversely affected by gentamicin side effects, contact Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P.C. immediately. We provide a FREE, NO OBLIGATION consultation, allowing you to learn more about your legal rights and options. Pursuing your gentamicin claim will cost you nothing until we successfully resolve your case.

Read more about HM&M’s experience representing individuals injured due to gentamicin poisoning below.

HM&M and Gentamicin Cases—An Example

Christopher T. Hurley and Mark R. McKenna successfully obtained $6.8 million verdict for a woman who suffered permanent kidney damage as a result of an improper prescription of gentamicin at a Chicago-area hospital and a nursing home. The jury heard testimony that HM&M’s client entered the hospital for treatment of an infected right knee replacement. An infectious disease specialist at the hospital prescribed a short course of gentamicin to treat the infection. The physician testified that he did not want the patient to get more than two days of gentamicin because the antibiotic medication is nephrotoxic, or toxic to the kidneys. The physician also testified that he did not want the patient discharged from the hospital on gentamicin because of the drug’s potentially toxic effects on the kidneys.

HM&M’s client was 81 years old and scheduled to undergo rehabilitation at a nursing home after her discharge from the hospital. The written discharge plan in the chart specifically stated that the patient was to only receive the intravenous antibiotic Vancomycin and the oral antibiotic Rifampin after discharge—the plan did not include the antibiotic gentamicin. However, a hospital nurse erroneously drafted a Patient Transfer Form that accompanied the patient from the hospital to the nursing home. The purpose of the transfer form is to inform the receiving facility–the nursing home–of the medications the patient is to receive after transfer. Regarding gentamicin, the nurse made a devastating error—she listed on the Patient Transfer Form: “gentamicin 120 milligrams, IV piggyback every 12 hours,” contrary to the physician’s discharge plan.

Based on the incorrect Patient Transfer Form, the staff at the receiving nursing home gave the patient a long course of gentamicin—ultimately over a week’s worth of the drug. The prolonged and unnecessary gentamicin therapy caused the patient to develop kidney failure and need lifetime dialysis.

HM&M’s client suffered a severe, life-altering injury. Her medical expenses were in excess of $1 Million. Hurley and McKenna determined that the case should be filed against three defendants: the hospital that discharged their client with an improper medication order, the nursing home that gave the prolonged course of gentamicin, and the physicians who were supposed to monitor the client’s condition during the gentamicin therapy.

At trial, HM&M elicited testimony from a top expert in nursing home and hospital administration that the defendant hospital’s nurse deviated from the standard of care by listing gentamicin on the plaintiff’s transfer form to the nursing home. This expert also testified that the nursing standard of care required a registered nurse to accurately convey information to a physician, and to properly transcribe medication information in a patient’s records.

HM&M presented testimony at trial which established that each dose of gentamicin had a toxic effect on the patient’s kidneys. Each unintended dose of gentamicin the plaintiff received after her transfer from the defendant hospital to the nursing home caused additional—and ultimately permanent—damage to the plaintiff’s kidneys. The plaintiff was forced to undergo kidney dialysis three days per week for the rest of her life.

HM&M assisted the jury’s understanding of the medical issues in the case by making substantial use of courtroom technology. For example, Chris Hurley “impeached” -- or showed the falsity of – a hospital nurse’s testimony at trial by playing to the jury, on a 50 inch plasma screen television operated with specialized litigation software, the videotaped discovery deposition testimony of the same nurse recorded several years before trial. With this technology, the jury at trial was able to see for itself that the nurse had changed her testimony for trial, and that her body language and demeanor indicated that she was not being truthful to the jury. At the trial, HM&M also used an interactive touch screen SMART Board, which provided the trial lawyers with instantaneous access to every exhibit, trial graphic and video impeachment clip.

At the close of the evidence, Chicago, IL medical malpractice lawyer Chris Hurley gave his closing argument on behalf of the plaintiff to the jury. His plea was straightforward—the jury must fairly compensate the plaintiff when a plainly preventable recordkeeping error had cost the plaintiff the use of her kidneys for the rest of her life.

The jury awarded the plaintiff $3,200,000, itemized as follows: $1,900,000 for past and future pain and suffering; $1,000,000 for loss of a normal life; and $300,000 for disfigurement. The trial court had refused to permit the jury to award the plaintiff damages for the plaintiff’s past and future medical expenses.

Both the plaintiff and defendant hospital appealed. The plaintiff sought a new trial solely on the issue of the plaintiff’s medical past and future medical expenses. The defendant hospital argued that there was no proximate cause between the hospital’s negligence and the plaintiff’s kidney injuries.

Ultimately the Illinois Appellate Court issued its opinion in this case. The appellate court affirmed the jury’s verdict in favor of the injured plaintiff. The appellate court also reversed the trial court’s ruling which barred the testimony of plaintiff’s expert regarding the plaintiff’s past and future medical expenses, and ordered the trial court to hold a new trial regarding plaintiff’s past and future medical expenses only.

The defendant hospital, after a trial and an appeal, finally offered to resolve the plaintiff’s case through settlement. After a settlement mediation conference, the defendant hospital ultimately paid approximately $6,800,000 to resolve the plaintiff’s case. This case was an example of Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P.C.’s use of highly qualified medical experts, the latest courtroom technology, skill and determination to obtain a fair recovery for an individual whose life was permanently altered because of preventable Gentamicin poisoning.

To read the Illinois Appellate Court opinion on this case, click here.

A Sample of Our Successes

  • $6,800,000 - Verdict plus settlement on behalf of an 81 year old woman who suffered loss of her kidney function and needed permanent dialysis due to improper use of gentamicin at a nursing home. Our successful appeal after the verdict increased the amount recovered for the plaintiff from $3,200,000 to $6,800,000. Affirmed by Illinois Appellate Court.

For a free consultation, contact Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P.C. today at 312-553-4900 or fill out our online form to have a lawyer contact you.

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Postseason Teams Fill Big Ten Home Slate
Jordan Hooper and the Huskers will face a new rotation of Big Ten teams in 2013-14.
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Lincoln - The Nebraska women's basketball team will welcome a loaded Big Ten Conference schedule, including six games against 2013 postseason qualifiers for its first season at the Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Nebraska announced its Big Ten home and road opponents on Wednesday, May 15, after the conference announced the new one-year grouping of single and double plays within Big Ten women's basketball.

Husker fans will get the chance to see 2013 NCAA Tournament qualifiers Purdue, Penn State, Michigan and Michigan State, along with 2013 WNIT qualifiers Illinois and Minnesota in the first Big Ten home season at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Northwestern and Indiana also will visit the Huskers on their new home court in 2013-14.

Nebraska, which faced a schedule that was ranked No. 12 nationally in 2012-13, will play a total of nine home games against 2013 postseason teams, including six home games against foes that advanced to the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Fans can choose their seats right now for Season One at Pinnacle Bank Arena by visiting or calling 1-800-8-BIG-RED.

The Huskers will face Big Ten tournament champion Purdue twice within conference play in 2013-14, along with home-and-road matchups with 2013 NCAA Tournament qualifiers Michigan and Michigan State. All three teams advanced to the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. The 2013-14 season will mark the first time the Huskers have faced those three schools twice during regular-season league play, although Nebraska has played Purdue twice in each of its first two seasons in the Big Ten.

Three of the first four meetings in history between Nebraska and Purdue have gone to overtime, covering six total overtimes in four games. The Huskers also have squared off against the Boilermakers in each of their first two Big Ten Tournament appearances, including a double-overtime battle in the 2012 Big Ten Tournament championship game.

In addition to the home games against Purdue, Michigan State and Michigan, the Huskers will face 2013 Big Ten regular-season champion Penn State for the third consecutive season on the Huskers' home court. Nebraska played its final game at the Bob Devaney Sports Center against the Lady Lions on March 3. NU faced Penn State twice in each of the past two seasons, but will take on PSU just once in 2013-14. Penn State also advanced to the second round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, following an NCAA Sweet 16 bid and another Big Ten regular-season crown in 2012.

Two more 2013 postseason qualifiers, Illinois and Minnesota, will visit Pinnacle Bank Arena. The Huskers swept a pair of games from Minnesota in 2012-13, before the Golden Gophers advanced to the Postseason WNIT. The Fighting Illini visited the Devaney Center on Jan. 17, 2013, before the Huskers ran off 10 consecutive Big Ten wins. Illinois, which advanced to the quarterfinals of the Postseason WNIT, will take on the Huskers twice in 2013-14.

Northwestern will round out Nebraska's list of home-and-road opponents in 2013-14, while Indiana will complete the Huskers' home Big Ten schedule. It marks the third straight season that the Huskers will face the Hoosiers just once in conference action.

In Nebraska's first two Big Ten campaigns, the Huskers faced Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Penn State at home and on the road each season.

After facing Iowa six times and going a perfect 6-0 against the Hawkeyes in its first two Big Ten seasons, Nebraska is scheduled to face Iowa only once in 2013-14. The meeting will occur in Iowa City. The Huskers went 4-0 against Wisconsin in their first two Big Ten seasons, but will take on the Badgers just once in Madison. NU went 4-1 against Ohio State through its first two conference campaigns, but will see the Buckeyes only in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013-14.

Nebraska, which has produced a 22-10 Big Ten regular-season record in its first two conference campaigns, is coming off back-to-back NCAA Tournament bids, including a trip to the 2013 NCAA Sweet 16. The Huskers, who have advanced to at least the Big Ten Tournament semifinals in each of the past two seasons, are also 4-2 in conference tournament action.

The Huskers return four starters, including two-time All-American Jordan Hooper, from the 2012-13 squad that finished with a 25-9 overall record. Two-year starting forwards Emily Cady and Hailie Sample also return, along with starting guard Rachel Theriot. The 2012-13 Huskers finished No. 16 nationally in the RPI, No. 18 in the final USA Today/Coaches Top 25.

Nebraska has been ranked preseason No. 9 in an early, unofficial ranking by's Charlie Creme.

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