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I didn't get a thing!
As you can see from the photos, there was an abundance of creativity going on!
Wow! It looks like it was a blast! I love the covered wagon top and those old books (Bibles, you say?)! I would have snatched those up for sure! Definitely magnetic attraction there!
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Everything looks sooo gorgeous!!! Wish I loved closer, so I could go too!! Love all of it - thanks for sharing!
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Reminds me of all the goodness of the Country Living Fair which my Mimsie and I love to attend every year. Thanks for posting these inspiring pictures!ReplyDelete
This market looks amazing. So many things I want to reach out and touch.
What a fun market to go to! I can't believe you didn't get anything! You know I can't wait for the big reveal (I think I say it every time!)
Looks like you had a great day!
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...my goal is to get there!...I am @ another sale in sept that Birch & Bird is putting on again and I love your pictures for inspiration!...Thanks!ReplyDelete
I hate that I live so far away from all this fun! What a great time you must've had.ReplyDelete
I saw the photo's on Amanda's blog!
What a great place!!
I wish I could go!!
Hi Denise!
It was so fun to meet you and your sweet family! Your pictures turned out fabulous too and I love how you captured things I totally missed! Just goes to show how much there was to see that day and how different perspectives can pick up on completely different views! I am really looking forward to your kitchen reveal! And I'm excited for you with your big show coming up next month! Can't wait to see what you come up with for your display!
Best Wishes and Blessings,
I've just stumbled upon your lovely blog. I look forward to popping by again for some more inspiration! I'm just new into blogging this year & have put together a daily blog on design, fashion, food, travel and anything pretty.
http://scrapbook-melissah.blogspot.com/ and one on everything coastal
I had a lot of fun putting them together maybe you would like to check it out if you have a spare minute.
Thanks so much for sharing your great photos! Someday I'll make it there...ReplyDelete
Lovely photos and captions, thank you for sharing, enjoyed it very mcuh, CarolReplyDelete
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – A trio of Cobras scored in double figures in Coker's 82-72 loss to Anderson University on Saturday (Feb. 22) in South Atlantic Conference men's basketball action. The loss drops Coker to 13-10 overall and 10-10 in the SAC.
Julian Nelson led all Cobra scorers with 19 points, while Trey Marshall added 14 points and six assists. Larry Felder also scored 14 points and Eren Moses chipped in seven points with nine rebounds.
After falling behind early in the game, the Cobras battled back to take a 39-36 lead in to the locker room at halftime. The Trojans turned up the offense in the second half as they out scored the Cobras 46-33, earning the 82-72 victory.
As a team the Cobras turned nine Trojan turnovers in 16 points, they scored 40 points off the bench and they pulled down 32 rebounds.
Tonight marked the final basketball game that will be played in Coker's Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium. Built in 1963, Timberlake-Lawton has been the home the Cobra basketball and volleyball teams for more than 50 years. Next year, the Cobras will play in the DeLoach Center, which will be completed in April 2014.
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Turkey vows to keep border open as Syrians seek refuge
GUVECCI, Turkey — The Turkish government moved Wednesday to take control of a rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis along its border with Syria, cutting off unofficial supply routes, holding crisis talks with a Syrian envoy and dispatching Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to visit frontier villages where more than 8,000 Syrian refugees — about half of them children — are housed in makeshift camps.
With the Syrian military poised to continue its crackdown, even more refugees are expected to stream across the border in coming days, sparking worry about how Turkey will absorb a large and likely permanent population of Syrian dissidents.
Syrian refugees said that nothing short of regime change could persuade them to return.
"No, we won't go back. Anyone they catch, they'll execute," said Um Ahmed, a 34-year-old widow and mother of seven who'd crossed into Turkey four days ago. She used a pseudonym for fear of government retaliation against relatives still in Syria.
Um Ahmed said she knew better than to trust Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent pledge of amnesty for all opposition factions. She hails from a family of dissidents in the battered Syrian town of Jisr al Shughour, and her father and late husband were forced into exile in Iraq after participating in a doomed uprising in the 1980s, when Assad's notoriously iron-fisted father, Hafez Assad, was in power.
After Bashar Assad succeeded his father in an uncontested referendum in 2000, he offered amnesty to exiles such as Um Ahmed's clan, she said. Her husband moved the family back to Syria, where he was promptly arrested and imprisoned for four years. The family was stripped of citizenship, she said, and, without government-issued identification, couldn't work or enroll the children in school.
Her father remains exiled in the Iraqi city of Mosul and her husband died of a heart attack after his release from prison, said Um Ahmed, who's taken shelter with distant relatives in the Turkish border village of Guvecci.
Holding tight to her young son, Um Ahmed's eyes grew watery as she spoke of her family's suffering over three generations. Several teenage relatives who'd escaped with her also were present, silent and sullen about their uncertain futures.
Um Ahmed said that all of them would be killed or imprisoned if they attempted to return. She dismissed reports that some Syrians were fighting back with heavy weapons, a development that, if true, could lead to civil warfare like the uprisings in Libya and Yemen. She said she believed that only soldiers who'd defected were firing on the encroaching tanks.
"Everybody is scared, terrified for their families. Do you think people, families inside their houses, can face an army?" Um Ahmed said. "Everybody's trying to escape."
The surge of refugees leaves Turkey in a bind. Newly re-elected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on good terms with Assad. He's warned Assad repeatedly to choose reforms over violence, but hasn't advocated Assad's ouster. Turkish media reported that Erdogan was meeting late Wednesday with Assad's special envoy to find a resolution to the crisis.
After visiting the camps in southern villages, Davutoglu, the foreign minister, told journalists that Turkey won't shut its borders to the fleeing Syrians, saying the countries share a common destiny. However, he told the Anatolia news agency, "when this turns into a big wave, it also has the potential to become a regional and an international matter."
At least 8,142 Syrians already are in Turkey, according to official figures released Wednesday, and thousands more are massed along the border, reluctant to leave their livestock and other possessions to join the crowded camps, where the wait for a bathroom can last an hour or more.
Government aid workers have opened three camps and are building a fourth to accommodate the influx, which is made up primarily of women and children, though at least 1,921 men also have crossed the border. A relatively small number of refugees — 60, the government said — have been hospitalized, either for illness or gunshot wounds. The government refused to provide a more detailed breakdown of the reason for hospitalizations.
The Turkish government has barred journalists from entering the camps to speak to refugees, though some Syrians inside slip notes to reporters or give rushed interviews through the covered fences of the compound.
"They killed people, they killed animals, they destroyed houses and three mosques in the town!" Juma Mohamed Ali, a Syrian refugee, yelled through the bars of the Yayladagi camp's fence. He was referring to the Syrian military's siege last week on Jisr al Shughour, his hometown.
Dozens of children rallied in the Yayladagi camp Wednesday, chanting slogans against Assad's regime and yelling out "Erdogan!" in support of the Turkish premier. Authorities quickly dispersed the rally and shooed away journalists.
Turkish aid workers said refugees in the camps had round-the-clock hot water, three meals a day and access to medical and psychological help. But rumors of the crowded, prison-like conditions have made other families reluctant to cross into Turkey.
For the past week, sympathetic residents of Turkish border villages had used smuggling routes through hilly, wooded terrain to deliver food, water and medicine to the displaced families just yards away on the Syrian side.
But on Wednesday the Turkish military stepped up its presence in the area Wednesday, possibly in connection with the foreign minister's visit, and prevented residents from using the unofficial supply lines. Syrians who haven't yet crossed the border said they now faced a grim choice: starvation or open-ended exile in Turkey.
"We received food and supplies yesterday, but it's all gone now. We have nothing," a displaced Syrian who gave his name only as Mohamed said by telephone from his spot in the woods. He spoke quickly because his cell phone was dying and there was no electricity to recharge the battery.
(McClatchy special correspondent Ipek Yezdani contributed to this article from Yayladagi, Turkey.)
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I was looking for a good end of summer desert to make and since we were having friends over for pork bbq I wanted something big enough to feed all of us. I had a couple of rum cakes in mind, but I decided to flip through my book Sky High -- Irresistible Triple Layer Cakes since I had not used it before even though I have owned it for several months now. The Pina Colada Cake struck me as perfect. Pineapple, coconut, and rum all in triple layer cake form.
There were a lot of steps to making this cake, but it wasn't difficult at all. The cakes themselves are a simple brown sugar cake recipe, although with one of the strangest mixing methods I have seen. The filling is a pineapple jam that you make using sugar, lime juice, canned pineapple and vanilla bean. It takes a while to cook down to the right consistency, but the process is easy enough. The original recipe called for a cooked buttercream frosting using coconut milk and coconut extract but I didn't want to deal with a finicky frosting, so I made a regular buttercream using butter, powdered sugar, a couple tablespoons of coconut milk, and a tsp of coconut extract. The trick to getting a butter/powdered sugar buttercream frosting silky and smooth is to sift the powdered sugar and add it to the butter slowly -- a tablespoon at a time. It's time consuming, but worth it.
Brown Sugar Cake:
3 3/4 cups cake flour
1 3/4 tsps baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/4 cups light brown sugar
2 sticks unsalted butter at room temp
1 3/4 cup buttermilk
5 eggs
2 tsps vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray 3 9-inch round cake pans with baking spray (or butter and sprinkle with flour).
Put the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in the bowl of a large mixer. Mix on low and then add the brown sugar, butter, and 1 1/2 cups of the buttermilk. Mix on low until everything is incorporated, then increase the speed to medium and mix until light and fluffy -- about 2 or 3 minutes.
Whisk the eggs with the remaining 1/4 cup buttermilk and the vanilla and add to the flour butter mixture in three additions, allowing the eggs to fully incorporate before adding the next addition. Divide the batter between the three pans.
Bake 25-28 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in the pans and then turn our to cool completely. You may have to trim the tops of the cakes to level them off some.
Pineapple Filling
20 oz crushed pineapple in juice (no sugar added)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1 one-inch vanilla bean, split in half
Combine the crushed pineapple, sugar, and lime juice in a large nonreactive skillet. With the top of a small knife scrape the vanilla seeds from the bean and add them and the bean itself to the pot. Warm over medium-low heat stirring to dissolve the sugar.
Raise the heat to medium and simmer, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching, until the juices have almost completely evaporated and the pineapple has a jam-like consistency Remove from heat and discard the vanilla pod. Let the filling cool completely before using.
Coconut Buttercream
2 sticks butter at room temp
3 1/2 -4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
2 tablespoons coconut milk (or heavy cream if you don't want to use coconut milk)
1/2 tsp coconut extract (you might use more extract if you don't use coconut milk -- basically just add 1/2 tsp and add more if you want a more assertive coconut flavor)
Put the butter in a large mixing bowl and beat on medium speed until the butter is smooth. Add the powdered sugar one spoonful at a time and let each spoonful fully incorporate before adding the next. It will take a long while to get through this process, but the resulting texture is worth it. Once all the sugar is mixed in add the coconut milk and coconut extract and mix completely. If the frosting looks runny at all add more powdered sugar slowly until you get a soft, silky frosting.
2/3 cup rum (dark, amber, light -- whatever you like best)
coconut flakes
To assemble the cake place one layer flat side up on a cake stand or serving platter. Brush the cake with 3 generous tablespoons of rum. Spread half the pineapple filling over the layer, leaving a 1/4 inch margin around the edge. Add the second layer, sprinkle with more rum and then the remaining pineapple jam. Top with the third layer, flat side up and sprinkle with the remaining rum. Frost the top and the sides of the cake with the coconut buttercream. Decorate the cake by pressing coconut flakes to the side. You can also toast the coconut for a more dramatic finish -- just spread the coconut on a baking sheet and put in a 350 degree oven. Watch it carefully because the coconut burns quickly. When some of it is brown it's ready.


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Steve Horn | November 18, 2014
By Steve Horn • Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 19:10
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, but incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) already promised it will get another vote when the GOP-dominated Senate begins its new session in 2015.
Though the bill failed, one of the key narratives that arose during the congressional debate was the topic of whether or not the tar sands product that may flow through it will ultimately be exported to the global market. President Barack Obama, when queried by the press about the latest Keystone congressional action, suggested tar sands exports are the KXL line's raison d'etre.
Obama's comments struck a nerve. Bill sponsor U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and supporter U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) both stood on the Senate floor and said Keystone XL is not an export pipeline in the minutes leading up to the bill's failure.
"Contrary to the ranting of some people that this is for export…Keystone is not for export," said Landrieu, with Hoeven making similar remarks.
But a DeSmog probe into a recent merger of two major oil and gas industry logistics and marketing companies, Oiltanking Partners and Enterprise Products Partners, has demonstrated key pieces of the puzzle are already being put together by Big Oil to make tar sands exports a reality.
And both Keystone XL and Enbridge's "Keystone XL Clone" serve as key thoroughfares for making it happen.


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Designing Video Games
A video game is more than the sum of its pieces; a game has a synergy that, after the game is complete, makes it something unique. Creating this synergy takes a lot of technical know-how, as well as a sense of design and art. Basically, you need to be a Leonardo da Vinci and an Albert Einstein all in one.
The basic sequence of game design is as follows:
- Come up with an idea for a game.
- Create storyboards and rough sketches of your game world, the main characters, and the action.
- List the details of your game and take into consideration everything about the game "universe."
- Finally, put these concepts all together into a design document, something like a movie script that contains everything about your game.
Developing an idea
Before you write a game, you need an idea — a story, something to start with. Brainstorm and come up with an idea for a game; the idea should be loosely based on something that has at least a fleeting resemblance to a story. Then you need to come up with the goals of the game. Ask yourself questions such as "What will the player do?" and "How will the player do it?"
Maybe you're wondering, "Where do I get ideas for games?" Well, you can't tap into any magical formulas, but you can look in a few places:
- Other games: Don't copy another game, of course, but improving and taking a new perspective within the game is fine.
- Movies and videos: Watch as many sci-fi movies as possible and see if you can come up with a game based on some of their ideas and content. Of course, you need to get permission from the filmmaker if you use any characters or story lines from those movies.
- Real-life games: You can take a game such as hockey and make a computer version of it, or make a futuristic version of it.
- Dreams and nightmares: This technique is a gold mine; in your mind, you can try anything out. Go to sleep thinking about games, demons, monsters, or whatever, and hopefully, you will have a killer dream that gives you an idea for a game.
After you have your game ideas, then you need to outline the story.
One of the best ways to see a game is to storyboard it — to create a sequence of drawings that show the levels of the game or the different scenes and goals. Each storyboard should include a paragraph or two to describe what is going on. Figure 1 depicts a basic storyboard for an imaginary shoot-'em-up game.
As you can see, the storyboard has six frames; each frame represents a different level of the game, and the final frame is the goal. Notice that the storyboards are sketched and messy. Storyboard sketches are used only for brainstorming and for getting down on paper the general flow of the game.
Considering the details
After you create storyboards, you write the details of the game design. This stage is where the process gets complex. You have to think of every possible detail and write something about it — because when you make your game, you are a god — well, at least a demigod. If you don't program a specific detail, it's not going to happen.
You need to figure out all the rules and the structure of the game. For example, here's a list of questions to consider:
- What can the game character do? Can he or she fly, swim, and teleport?
- How many different enemies will the hero fight?
- What kind(s) of weapons are available?
- How does the player get rejuvenated?
- Can more than one player play at once? If so, what are the ramifications of this?
- Will the game's perspective be a side view, top view, or first-person and full 3-D view?
- What kind of sound track? Rock, rap, techno?
- What is the personality of the main character?
These examples are just some of the details you need to think about. The key here is to create the characters, rules, laws, and goals of your game universe in as much detail as possible. That's necessary because you're going to generate the artificial universe they all exist in. The more detail you include, the better the game will be.
Constructing a design document
After you have all the storyboards and details of the game written down, create a design document. The goal of the document is to record all your ideas in a format that resembles a movie script. Creating the document is a housekeeping step, but it gives you another chance to change your mind, see if some rule or event is totally stupid, or add another game element.
The result of developing the design document is that your imaginary world becomes more vivid in your mind. When you start talking to yourself about the stuff that is happening in your game, when your imaginary world is so thick with texture and so alive with detail that you can see it, then writing a game around it is much easier, because you aren't making things up as you go. Having a clear picture of a game's world is one of the most important issues in game design.
The universe you create must be coherent; it must be well thought out enough to hang together about as well as the universe we live in (or better). If your game universe is coherent, the players will lose themselves in it; they will experience a suspension of disbelief and really have fun. On the other hand, if you come up with a half-baked idea and then wing it as you go, your game ends up looking thrown together, which doesn't invite belief. Without thought or planning, you won't pull the players into your world, and they won't play your game!
After you have a design document in hand, you're in a far better position to create a solid game. As you work on the game, you won't be tempted to impulsively add elements that are inappropriate or out of place in your game's world.
Don't misunderstand. Changing and adding to your design is acceptable, but make sure all the elements work well together. If players aren't distracted by inconsistencies in your game's universe, they can be fully involved with the characters and situations.


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The 41st BMW MOA International Rally will be held on July 18-21, 2013, at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem. The grounds cover 140 acres with air-conditioned buildings for registration, Country Store, commercial vendors, seminars and vintage display. The camping options are flat areas with or without trees. Evening entertainment is in the open air amphitheater with afternoon music on a small stage by the food vendors. The multimedia closing ceremony is in the pavilion.
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RAMS: The First Feature Documentary About Dieter Rams
The Film
Hello, friends, Gary Hustwit here. I'm the director of the documentaries Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized. I've had the pleasure of having conversations with some of the most creative designers in the world for these films.
In 2008, I had the honor of interviewing Dieter Rams for my documentary Objectified, but I was only able to share a small piece of his story.
Dieter, who is now 84, is a very private person; however, I have been granted unprecedented and exclusive access to Dieter for the first feature-length documentary about his life and work.
The documentary is simply titled Rams.
We've recently filmed Dieter for several weeks in his home and studio, but we still have a ton of filming left to go, which is why we are turning to Kickstarter.
The documentary will include in-depth conversations with Dieter, and detail the process behind some of his most iconic designs. We want to get past the legend of Dieter, and get into his philosophy, process, inspirations, and even his regrets.
This Kickstarter campaign will not only support the making of this documentary but also help efforts to preserve his design archive––a majority of which the public has never seen.
Rams' Influence
For over fifty years Dieter has left an indelible mark on the field of product design and the world at large with his iconic work at Braun and Vitsoe.
The objects Dieter has designed have touched the lives of millions of people––so many of us have had a Braun coffeemaker, shaver, stereo, calculator, speakers, or alarm clock. Or an Oral-B toothbrush. Or a Vitsoe 606 shelving system. Or any of the hundreds of other products Dieter has designed or overseen the design of.
Dieter's influence also extends to his "Ten Principles of Good Design." Sometimes referred to as the Ten Commandments, this "veritable scripture" champions simplicity, honesty, and restraint, and still applies to design theory and practice today.
The Archive
This Kickstarter campaign will fund the film and also help to preserve Dieter's incredible design archive for the future. There's a trove of drawings, photographs, and other material spanning Dieter's fifty plus years of work, and it needs to be properly conserved.
To that end, we're working with the Dieter and Ingeborg Rams Foundation to help them catalog, digitize, and save these documents. The public has never seen most of this material, and we intend to share some of these discoveries with our backers during the process of making the film.
"Documentarian Gary Hustwit is just the person to make [Rams]." - Wired
"Dieter Rams Is Finally Getting The Feature Film He Deserves" - Fast Co. Design
"Designer Dieter Rams to Take Center Stage in New Gary Hustwit Documentary"- Curbed
"So far the director says he has seen two sides to Rams' character – sensitivity combined with sheer bloody-mindedness. 'It's that combination that makes him so interesting,' says Hustwit." - design week
"As one of the most influential designers of our time, Dieter Rams has never been subject of a dedicated documentary." - It's Nice That
"Hustwit and his crew have been given unprecedented access to the notoriously private 84-year-old German." - Hypebeast
"'There's a trove of drawings, photographs, and other material spanning Dieter's fifty plus years of work, and it needs to be properly conserved,' Hustwit says." - Creative Review
"filmmaker gary hustwit, known for his design trilogy 'helvetica', 'urbanized' and 'objectified', plans to create a full-feature documentary about the legendary german designer dieter rams." - designboom
Where We Are with the Project
We've spent many weeks filming Dieter in his home and studio outside Frankfurt, and working alongside Mark Adams at Vitsoe in London. At 84, Dieter is as brilliant, playful, and focused as he's ever been. He's energized by the idea of passing down his knowledge to future generations of designers through this film.
One of the most interesting parts of Dieter's story is that he now looks back on his career with some regret. "If I had to do it over again, I would not want to be a designer," he told me in Objectified. He has also long been an advocate for the ideas of environmental consciousness, sustainability, and long-lasting products. "There are too many unnecessary products in this world." We hope to dig deeper into Dieter's untold story––to try and understand a man of contradictions by design.
I want to let Dieter tell his own story, but I'll also be interviewing other people to give that story more context and plan to announce the list of the other interview subjects later this year.
If this Kickstarter is successful I can jump straight back into shooting, finish production of the film, and cover archival preservation costs.
The Rewards
We are offering some incredible, exclusive rewards through this campaign, including posters and limited edition prints designed by our good friend (and massive Rams fan) Michael C. Place of Build, books signed by Dieter himself, a tour of the Vitsoe factory, new and vintage objects from Vitsoe and Braun, and much more.
We'll also be hosting private screenings and receptions for the film in San Francisco, New York, and London.
We are so excited to work with you to make this campaign as successful as possible. So, please join me.
Celebrate a designer whose work continues to impact our lives. Preserve an important piece of design history for future generations.
Music in our Kickstarter video by ARP.
Special thanks for all their help with this project:
Britte Siepenkothen
Mark Adams
Erik Spiekermann
Julia Schulz
Sophie Lovell
Klaus Klemp
Luke Geissbühler
Dr. Peter Kapos
Alex Daly
Alexis Georgopoulos
Michael C. Place
And of course to Dieter, for allowing me to tell his story.
Risks and challenges
Kickstarter asks that all reward tiers include the latest delivery of the listed rewards. The film poster, Dieter's jazz mix, and the digital copy of the film are all estimated to be delivered by September 2017. All the other rewards will be shipped by October 2016, or sooner.
There are minimal risks here––our team has produced 12 feature-length documentaries so we know the process pretty well!Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Funding period
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Max Baucus to retire
Montana Sen. Max Baucus will not seek reelection in 2014, becoming the latest senior red-state Democrat to bail out of a potentially difficult reelection campaign.
Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a political institution in Montana, had nearly $5 million in the bank at the end of the first quarter but was expected to face a tough fight in his GOP-leaning home state.
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Democratic strategists say that former Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a populist two-term statewide official, is leaning toward running for the open seat.
( PHOTOS: Senators up for election in 2014)
EMILY's List president Stephanie Schriock, a top messenger for Democrats in 2012 with roots in Montana, is also viewed as a potential, but less likely, candidate.
In a statement, Baucus said he is not "turning out to pasture," but had decided another campaign would be one too many.
"Our country and our state face enormous challenges – rising debt, a dysfunctional tax code, threats to our outdoor heritage, and the need for more good-paying jobs," Baucus said. "Deciding not to run for re-election was an extremely difficult decision. After thinking long and hard, I decided I want to focus the next year and a half on serving Montana unconstrained by the demands of a campaign."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama notes Baucus retirement)
The retirement was first reported by The Washington Post.
Baucus joins colleagues Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Carl Levin of Michigan and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey in exiting the 2014 race.
His Montana seat is likely to be one of the toughest on that list for Democrats to defend.
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, expressed confidence that his party will be able to hold the seat, pointing to the Democrats' Senate victory in Montana last year.
"We just won Montana with Jon Tester in 2012. We built a very strong ground apparatus there. We expect to compete and win and hold the seat," Bennet told POLITICO as he left a Finance hearing Tuesday.
The White House gave Baucus a warm sendoff, issuing a statement from President Barack Obama that lauded the long-serving senator for "nearly 35 years of service to the people of Montana."
"Max has made small businesses a top priority, often taking 'Work Days' to visit local businesses across Montana and spend a day working alongside his constituents to gain perspective and help bolster the local economy. As Finance Committee Chairman and a senior member of both the Agriculture and the Environment and Public Works Committees, Max has been a leader on a broad range of issues that touch the lives of Americans across the country," the president said.
Democrats familiar with Baucus's thinking say the decision came down to personal considerations: at 71, running for reelection would have put Baucus near his 73rd birthday on Election Day 2014 and near the 80-year mark at the end of another term.
"At 73, you can still have a life. He can hike in Montana. At 80, it's a different story," said one knowledgeable Democrat.


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