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28 December 2009
Back in Alabama
photos by Tom b.
- Fletcher for Lyell silk blouse
- H&M tweed shorts
- AA tights
- H&M coat
- vintage wool beret
- UO boots
Hiya! I feel like I've been gone for ages but it's only been a few days. It was a welcomed break but I'm so glad to be back. On Christmas Eve morning Tom and I packed up the car super early and headed south. Nothing says Happy Holidays like a fourteen hour car ride, right? But really, as soon as that blanket of snow gave way to a blanket of kudzu vines (you southerners know what I'm talkin' about) I finally started to feel the Christmas spirit. And it was so nice to leave the single digit temperatures behind for just a few days. By the time we reached South Carolina it was in the 50s and Tom and I had the windows in the car rolled down!
We spent a wonderful weekend at my parent's cabin holed up with lots of family and amazing food. My parents have a new kitten that kept us entertained all weekend long. The poor little thing is probably completely worn out from all the lovin'. Tom and I did a little exploring of a couple abandoned places - one an old cabin, the other an old train station. The little cabin is what you see here. The last time we visited we salvaged a bunch of 50s-60s soda bottles in a crate that are now sitting in the corner of our dining room. This time I salvaged an old metal basket (maybe an egg crate?) that I'm going to use for storing scarves in.
25 comments:
- Violet Folklore said...
Wowww, so beautiful! I remember how lovely the photos you took last time you were home were. Oh to think of the folks who lived their lives in that little space. (I would love to see the rest of that jacket you're wearing!).
- December 28, 2009
- Karen Beth said...
I adore cabins like that... what a wonderful place to have to go and stay. Makes beautiful photos too. :)
I have to know what boots you are wearing...? They are amazing!
- December 28, 2009
- Katherine said...
I just got that blouse in turquoise! The cream looks wonderful though, you take such lovely photos!!
- December 28, 2009
- corrie said...
aw i love that blouse. when i tried it on it looked a little off, but on you... perfect!
- December 28, 2009
- Coco said...
Wow these photo are amazing and beautiful in everyway!
-Coco from Our Paper Moon
- December 28, 2009
- Fabiola "Fab" said...
I would go to a place like yours!!! Amazing place for photos and I'm sure pretty relaxing as well!!! And youe outfit is perfect!!!
- December 28, 2009
- Q's Daydream said...
aww, so so pretty! happy to hear you had a nice christmas :o)
- December 28, 2009
- Anonymous said...
I always love your photos from AL!
- December 28, 2009
- Sidewalk Chic said...
These photos are beautiful and I love your hat! Sounds like you had a wonderful holiday :) - JoAnn, Sidewalk Chalk
- December 28, 2009
- Amanda said...
I adore old cabins! My great-grandfather lived in one in the early 1900s, but now it's in the middle of a state park in Virginia so we can't get to it anymore. I wonder the treasures I would find inside though...
- December 28, 2009
- anon said...
i wish there were places like that here! all i can do is live vicariously through your photos.
- December 28, 2009
- Annie, Time Enough for Drums said...
Your photos are amazing. A.
- December 28, 2009
- Diane @ Haute Flashion said...
Deck the halls with boughs of kudzu...
I didn't know that you were a Southern girl! I love these pictures. I see little cabins like this occasionally, but never had the courage to go inside. I will have to check one out. Thanks for the inspiration!
- December 28, 2009
- Anonymous said...
that abandoned cabin looks like a set for a photo shoot. rustic and lovely in its own right.
very pretty outfit. love your hat.
- December 28, 2009
- Christina said...
Your weekend sounds perfect! I need a vacation like that right now. I'm currently swamped in schoolwork... :(
You selected the best Fletcher pieces! I couldn't find much I liked, which was probably better for my wallet anyway.
- December 29, 2009
- Elizabeth, Delightfully Tacky said...
I'm loving those shorts! Such a pretty location too.
- December 29, 2009
- Meetmewd said...
LOevely photos! where is it??
How can you upload photos of that size? mine are always kinda small?
- December 29, 2009
- Ashley said...
Amazing photos! What a lovely little house and your shorts are cute!
- December 29, 2009
- silk scarves said...
The chair is unique. Love it.
- December 29, 2009
- Kennedy said...
oh that lyell blouse on you is insanely awesome, plus your shoes...i would just die. they are perfect and exactly what ive been looking for!
- December 30, 2009
- Love_Again said...
wow wow wow! these photos are lovely. the cabin is amazing, as is you outfit!
- December 30, 2009
- Mens casual jacket said...
Love your look here!!
- December 30, 2009
- Floddertje said...
These shoots are so great, as usual...would you mind if I post them on my blog?
- January 02, 2010
- Ana said...
Both your photos and you outfits are amazing! I am in love with your blog!
My blog is new and I've just started compiling outfits, I can only hope my blog is half as beautiful as yours one day!
- January 02, 2010
- Sally Jane Vintage said...
Floddertje: Thanks! I don't mind if you repost the photos. Just please link back to them. Thanks!
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'Transformers 4,' 'Jupiter Ascending' to film in Chicago
Attention: Mark Wahlberg (Dirk Diggler of Boogie Nights) and Channing Tatum (the titular male stripper of Magic Mike) are coming to Chicago this summer.
Wahlberg will be in town for Transformers 4, along with Irish newcomer Jack Reynor and everybody's favorite love-to-hate director, Michael Bay.
Tatum is set to arrive around the same time as Wahlberg for Jupiter Ascending, a sci-fi action fantasy from the creative team of Andy and Lana Wachowski (the Matrix trilogy, Cloud Atlas)
After filming many of the outdoor action sequences for Transformers 3 on the Magnificent Mile in 2010, Bay will return to Chicago for his fourth installment. Production crews for Transformers 4 are scheduled to arrive in June for a shoot lasting July-October.
Meanwhile, the Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending will shoot for 4-5 weeks in Chicago, beginning principal photography on June 24.
In addition to Tatum, Jupiter Ascending will star Sean Bean (Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones), Eddie Redmayne (the cute ginger in Les Miserables) and Mila Kunis as "a Snow White-esque Ukranian immigrant" who is unaware that her perfect genetic structure "poses a threat to higher evolved beings."
So, expect lots of A-list actors to be showing their pretty faces at Paris Club in the next few months.
But for now, Chicago cinephiles can ogle at yet another futuristic film shooting on our city streets: the sci-fi thriller Divergent.
Based on the novel by Veronica Roth and starring Kate Winslet, Shailene Woodley and Aaron Eckhart, Divergent begins production this week under the working title "Catbird."
The Divergent shoot will last 60 days in Chicago, based at Cinespace Studios on the Near West Side. Other possible filming locations include Willis Tower, Millenium Park and the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel.
Here's hoping that the films shooting downtown this summer will be able to match the near-perfection of these Chicago classics (although, I wouldn't get your hopes up for Transformers 4...)
10. The Untouchables (1987)
9. The Fugitive (1993)
8. Public Enemies (2009)
7. Risky Business (1983)
6. Sixteen Candles (1984) Uncle Buck (1989) and Home Alone (1990): a three-way tie of John Hughes movies filmed in the North suburbs--they still count.
5. The Blues Brothers (1980)
4. High Fidelity (2000)
3. North by Northwest (1959)
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
Are you excited about the blockbuster films shooting in Chicago this year? Any other time-honored favorites that you'd like to add to my list? Leave a comment below, send me a tweet @leahkpickett or join the conversation on Facebook.
Correction: A previous version of this story included a photo from the set of The Dark Knight that was not taken in Chicago.


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A while back I was approached by a couple of characters from my past and told about this new iphone app coming out where you get to virtually engage in the real sport of Kings, Tall Bike Jousting. I mean besides such useful information as what are the cleanest toilets in NYC like Sit or Squat, iphone apps have mildly impressed me. Somewhere I read that the iphones graphic capacity far out weighs that PSP gaming system, which always struck me as kind of a strange statement because isn't a playstation designed for games? And why the hell are most of the games for the iphone kind of basic looking such, crayon physics …which is a pretty sweet game, btw?
Well I was kind of skeptical when Keith was telling me about this game but also rather honored that he was thinking of me for some what of an exclusive promotion. Besides, tall bikes seem to bring out strange controversies, remember the window etching incident, of Brooklyn Industries? There was a good chance that someone from the gutter punk DIY community might take offense with their world being fucked with and who knows, attack the apple store for desecrating an off limits culture who adheres to living in a society that is against the mainstream, wasteful consumerism and corporate mono culture. Turns out that artist and the world tall bike jousting champion Doyle, was down with this project and whole heatedly allowed himself to be motion captured for the game, so we can argue punk politics and the tactics of property destruction for political gains another time. For now, I think the intention was to make a fun game based on a bizarre and insane underground bike sport and somehow pay tribute to bike clubs and fringe DIY bike culture that even Freegans might have a laugh at.
So it took a while to work the bugs out on the game and the actual release date got pushed back a few weeks. Then Keith who was promoting the game went off and got married, and the producer of the game Fredric King went off to Sundance, selfish bastards. They left me here in the dark and cold to tell the world:
Here is a little video of the game play.
Fredric of fountainhead pictures and a gaming division of curious pictures got together and formed bikeclubgames as the site to promote a pretty damn fun tribute to fringe bike culture.
I haven't fully had a chance to check out too much of the game but for $2.99, basically you pick your jouster male or female, that's right the Ladies joust too.
and the go on a world tour of Jousting in all the key cities related to the sport: Brooklyn, Reno, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, New Orleans and of course…Minneapolis…the home of Black Label.
The game play is great, you pedal the your tall bike with a Doom style POV using controls on the right and left. Then you use the iphone to aim your lance, line up your target and press the button when you think you've got your opponent in the zone, which is indicated with multi-colored circle.
The jousting gets progressively harder as you work your way through the different cities. Along the way your shit will get broken and there is an elaborate system for getting back into top shape, which is also a nice tribute to some of the politics of bike clubs, such as recycling and reusing bikes and being less wasteful.
So if you missed bike kill this year and were upset you didn't get to try out a tallbike and get impaled at top speed and wind up on someones flickr account, I suggest go out and dumpster dive yourself an Iphone and start practicing.
This game is a hoot and has a great soundtrack too with artists like Japanther and Matt & Kim who have always been down with fringe bikers.
Here are a few write ups on the game:
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President Barack Obama's latest proposal in the "Fiscal Cliff" talks includes an offer to permanently cap the Alternative Minimum Tax, the dreaded levy that snares more middle-income Americans every year.
The proposal doesn't offer specifics on what income levels would be capped, and the Republicans have yet to respond. But the proposal has raised some hopes that millions of Americans could avoid the tax that was first implemented in 1969 to make sure wealthy Americans paid their share of income taxes.
Right now, some 29 million more Americans—in addition to the current 4 million—could be subject to the AMT in their 2012 returns if no agreement is reached on the fiscal cliff. That would include individuals making as little as $33,750 a year and joint filers making $45,000. (Read More: Congress Puts Millions at Risk of 'AMT Shock')
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President Obama's proposal for a permanent patch "is certainly good news if it's done right," said Constance Stone, a certified financial planner in Shagrin Falls, Ohio. "By that I mean it would be something that's inflation adjusted for year to year. The fact that the AMT has not been adjusted for inflation has meant more people have to pay it each year."
More than half of AMT revenue in 2010 came from households with incomes over $200,000, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But more upper-middle-income households are being hit than high-end incomes. (Read more: The Rich and Taxes)
"Most people caught up in the AMT fall between the $150,000 to $750,000 salary range, " said Michael Amato, president of Independent Tax Planners in Holland, PA. "Anything above that $700,000 range and you likely owe more in regular tax and pay that instead of the AMT."
And all this talk over patches and fiscal cliff proposals has left taxpayers confused on what to do, said Eleanor Blayney, consumer advocate for the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards.
"It's just not clear what the patch proposal means and who it would keep out of the AMT," said Blayney. "It's like people have to do several tax returns, with the AMT, without it, and then do their regular taxes as well." (Read more: Estate Tax Also on Hold)
The alarm bells over the patch — or lack of one — have reached the point where the acting commissioner of the IRS sent a letter to Congress last month saying the tax collection agency would need to tell some 60 million taxpayers that they may not file their 2012 tax returns or receive a refund until the IRS makes changes to its system (a patch) and that "they might not be able to file returns until late March of 2013."
The AMT is basically a parallel tax that excludes certain deductions — like state and local income taxes — for people making a certain income level each year. That means taxpayers in AMT brackets have to figure out which tax is more, the AMT or regular taxes — and then pay the higher amount.
AMT rates currently range from 26 percent for singles to 28 percent for married.
The original AMT collected just $122 million — about $700 million in today's dollars — which was just over one-tenth of one percent of all individual income tax revenue. Fast forward to the last tax year of record, 2010, and some $102 billion was collected. (Read more: Super Rich: 'Tax Us When We're Dead')
That's part of the problem when thinking of a patch, permanent or not, said Eleanor Blayney.
"Something has to replace it in terms of helping close the deficit," Blayney said. "It's tough figuring out what can take it's place."
So far, Congressional Republicans have called for ending the AMT completely. While before this most recent fiscal cliff proposal, President Obama said on the campaign trail this past year, that he'd let the AMT go and replace it with the so-called Buffett Tax, a higher tax rate on the very upper income levels.
Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee released a proposal on taxes this past August, calling for an increase in the AMT exemption amounts for 2012 to $50,600 (individuals) and $78,750 (married). The proposal would also increase the exemption amounts for 2013 to $51,150 (individuals) and $79,850 (married). But so far, it remains just a proposal.
What planners and taxpayers want in the end is simple, said Constance Stone.
"My clients don't want to pay it. One person called it the alternative maximum tax," said Stone who handles some 60 high and middle income clients.
"What I want is simplicity and consistency. I don't want to have to figure this out for my clients year after year."
--by CNBC.com senior editor Mark Koba
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Jeneba Tarmoh withdraws from 100 Olympic team; Allyson Felix gets spot
Update 5:43 p.m. | Adds Jeneba Tarmoh's interview with NBC, Nick Symmonds' tweet.
The much-hyped race for the third spot on the women's 100 meter Olympic team is no more.
Jeneba Tarmoh, the sprinter who was first told she had finished third and made the Olympic team in the 100 at the U.S. Olympic Trials, only later to learn from reporters that the race had been called a dead heat between her and training partner Allyson Felix, has decided she no longer wants the spot. Only the top three sprinters with the Olympic A standard can compete in London.
"I … have decided to decline my 3rd place position in the 100 meter dash to Allyson Felix," Tarmoh said in a written statement provided from Tarmoh's agent to USATF, track and field's governing body. "I understand that with this decision I am no longer running the 100 meter dash in the Olympic Games and will be an alternate for the event. As an alternate I understand that I will be asked to run if another 100 meter runner decides not to for personal reasons, and/or on the 4×100 meter relay."


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Errata Editions Books on Books #5-8
I've had some trouble finding the time to write lately because it is crunch time for the next titles in the Errata Editions Books on Books series. I am trying to keep all of our contributors on the deadline for printing in October and, well, it is a bit like herding cats. Make that, herding cats that are really good photographers and writers.
The response to the first four titles in the series has been great even with the severe downturn in the economy, so much so we are ready to publish the next four books. People have understood our project and approach and we thank everyone for the feedback and support. Especially thank you to the artists who are turning out to be the biggest supporters of all. Out of over a dozen that we have approached in just the last few months, only one decided not to participate (and even they did so throwing high compliments towards our books and mission). That, and our being named 'Publishing House of the Year' at PhotoEspana assures us that we are on the right track.
The next four, Books on Books #5-8, share the connection with a photographer working a specific place at a specific time but each with very different results. And they are...
Books on Books #5: William Klein's Life is Good & Good for You in New York - Trance Witness Revels is regarded as one of the most influential and groundbreaking photo books created in the last half-century. Published in 1956, its visual energy captured the rough and tumble streets of New York like no artbook had before or has done since. Books on Books 5 reproduces in its entirety Klein's brilliantly photographed and designed magnum opus. The American Art historian, Max Kozloff, contributes an essay called William Klein and the Radioactive Fifties. ISBN: 978-1-935004-08-0, Hardcover, 160 pages, 9.5 x 7, $39.95. Release date Trade Edition: February 2010
Books on Books #6: Yutaka Takanashi's Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke. Published in 1974 and considered the most luxurious of all of the Provoke era publications, its brooding, pessimistic tone describes the state of contemporary life in an unnamed city in Japan undergoing economic and industrial change. Books on Books 6 reproduces all one hundred sixteen black and white photographs that make up the two volumes. Photographer, writer and book historian Gerry Badger, contributes an essay called Image of the City - Yutaka Takanashi's Toshi-e. ISBN: 978-1-935004-10-3, Hardcover, 176 pages, 9.5 x 7, $39.95. Release date Trade Edition: February
Where the first two in this set address politics and class with a more metaphoric approach, the next two do so in more overt ways.
Books on Books #7: David Goldblatt's In Boksburg stands as one of the most important observations of a middle-class white community in South Africa during the apartheid years. Published in 1980, it presents an accumulation of everyday details from the community of Boksburg through which a larger portrait is revealed of white societal values within a racially divided state. Books on Books 7 reproduces all seventy-one black and white photographs as well as Goldblatt's eloquent introduction to the work. The noted writer and editor, Joanna Lehan, contributes a contemporary essay written for this volume. ISBN: 978-1-935004-12-7, Hardcover, 112 pages, 9.5 x 7, $39.95. Release date Trade Edition: February
Books on Books #8: Koen Wessing's Chili, September 1973 is a shocking document from a socially concerned and politically engaged Dutch photojournalist. Published in 1973, just months after the fall of Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet's coup d'etat, it describes the tense days of the military attempt to root out public opposition in the streets of Santiago. Books on Books 8 reproduces every page spread from Wessing's gritty documentation of Chile's darkest historical moment. The art historian and film theorist, Pauline Tereehorst, contributes a contemporary essay called The Man in the Grey Suit. ISBN: 978-1-935004-14-1, Hardcover, 64 pages, 9.5 x 7, $39.95. Release date Trade Edition: February
As before each of our studies also includes Book Production notes, Biographies and Bibliographies of each artist. As the start of any series is really an experiment, we have made some improvements based on the feedback from the first four titles. We have increased the page lengths so as to allow larger illustrations and many more double page spreads. We are continuing to approach a variety of writers and matching them with books so there we can offer a chance to hear many voices in the series.
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Drinking and getting behind the wheel of a vehicle is a dangerous, yet relatively common crime. But what about drinking and getting out from behind the wheel of a vehicle?
A woman in Billings, Mont. was recently charged with felony drunken driving after police say she called 911 and said she was too drunk to get out of her vehicle, reports The Associated Press.
Carol Frances Omeara, 55, called dispatchers, stating that she could not get out of her vehicle. When the dispatcher asked if she was having medical or mechanical issues, she said that she was too drunk.
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- Displaying a list of images as thumbnails
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- Some basic house cleaning (code cleanup)
- Preloading image data
- Clicking an image preview
- Displaying the selected image
- Code cleanup: a collection view and item view
- Routers: navigating between add and view image
- Visually tracking the selected image
- Navigating with the left and right arrows
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- Adding a new image (data persistence)
- Editing an image (data persistence)
- Updating the image list after editing an image
- Canceling edits
- Deleting an image
- Handling navigation errors
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In a bizarro universe where satanists were real, here's where they hung out.
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Ranch Potato Casserole
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 40 min.
Makes8 servings
- 6 to 8 medium red potatoes (about 2 to 2-1/2 pounds), peeled and quarterered
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup prepared ranch-style dressing
- 1/4 cup bacon bits or crumbled cooked bacon
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 cups coarsely crushed cornflakes
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- Place potatoes in a large saucepan; add water to cover. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook, uncovered, until tender, 10-20 minutes. Drain.
- Combine the sour cream, dressing, bacon, parsley and 1 cup cheese. Place potatoes in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Pour sour cream mixture over potatoes and gently toss. Top with 1/2 cup of cheese. Combine cornflakes and butter; sprinkle over top. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes.
Nutrition Facts3/4 cup: 329 calories, 23g fat (11g saturated fat), 53mg cholesterol, 481mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (2g sugars, 2g fiber), 9g protein.
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Feb 20, 2015
Sounds great! Wouldn't chopped chicken be great in it, too? A meal in one.
Feb 20, 2015
This is delicious! I had left over baked potatoes and used them in place of the reds and added a chopped medium onion. I also doubled the ranch dressing and sour cream for a creamer casserole.
Aug 3, 2014
This was pretty good. I think I'll try the topping next time with Ritz crackers, or maybe crushed potato chips for added potato/salty taste. I'll make this again.
Jun 29, 2014
We have a real winner here! My husband and I both just loved it. Next time I'll make extra and take to my daughter. The bacon is a great addition and my entire family are ranch addicts, so what's not to like?
Jun 16, 2014
A delicious change of pace from my usual potato casserole. My family doesn't like a topping on potato casseroles so I left off the corn flakes and butter.
May 22, 2014
I've made this for several cook outs and parties and everybody just loved this! I think I always add a little extra Ranch dressing to this than what's called for but hey...It's Ranch dressing for petes sakes and who doesn't like Ranch dressing? Try it for your next gathering or simply for your evening meal at home. Your family will be glad you did!
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This was very tasty and easy to prepare! I would prepare this again as a side dish - with the addition of a meat it could be a main dish. I made two substitutions to accommodate what I had on hand: in place of sour cream I used a little more ranch and some milk; in place of the corn flakes I used crushed tortilla chips. Good recipe!
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Every liked this recipe. I used large potatoes instead of medium, so decided to double the other ingredients to make more sauce, which made the dish a little more creamy than pictured. Also very good a few days later as leftovers.
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John B. Brungardt was born July 10, 1958 in Salina, Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. in Science Education from Kansas State University, and a Master of Science degree in Physics with teacher certification from Iowa State University. From 1993-1998 he studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical College Josephinum Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.
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Hollins helps Minnesota beat Penn State 81-63
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The pressure on Minnesota will ratchet up in a few days. This afternoon was for reflection -- and some fun.
Austin Hollins had 14 points and three steals in his last scheduled home game, a fitting senior spark for the Golden Gophers in an 81-63 victory over Penn State on Sunday to set up a rematch between these teams in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
"It's bittersweet. That's the best word I can use to describe it," Hollins said. "It felt great going out there and getting a win, seeing the guys that I came in with go out having a good game ... but it'll be sad I'm leaving and not being able to play in 'The Barn' again."
DeAndre Mathieu led the Gophers (19-12, 8-10) with 16 points and six assists, Mo Walker scored 16 points on a career-best 8-for-10 free-throw shooting performance, and Minnesota locked up seventh place in coach Richard Pitino's first season.
"It was good to get one at home, the last one at home for the seniors," Walker said. "We all played hard. We knew what we were playing for. So good to get it."
D.J. Newbill had 15 of his 24 points in the second half for the Nittany Lions (15-16, 6-12), who tied for 10th in the conference standings with Northwestern and drew the higher seed because they beat the Wildcats earlier this week.
Minnesota and Penn State will play on Thursday in Indianapolis, with the winner advancing to the quarterfinals to face Wisconsin.
"One of the hardest things to do in sports is beat a team three times, so we've got to understand that," Pitino said.
The Gophers also beat the Nittany Lions in Pennsylvania 68-65 on Jan. 8.
"We'll worry about Minnesota on Wednesday," coach Patrick Chambers said. "We've just got to pick up the pieces, regain our confidence."
The Gophers badly needed to win this to keep their NCAA tournament bid viable, and even another victory over the Nittany Lions four days later might not be enough to get in. Seven losses in the 10-game stretch prior to this, including defeats to the Big Ten's last two finishers, Northwestern and Purdue, and a 2-7 conference road record hurt.
But whatever happens next weekend when the brackets are filled out, the Gophers finished on a high note in honor of Hollins and the three other players who won't return next season.
Hollins had 57 points over his last three games, the most in such a stretch of his career. He scored first on a short flip shot from the lane, and the Gophers surged to a 23-3 advantage that looked like it belonged on the football scoreboard across the street. That was their biggest lead of the entire Big Ten season.
Fellow senior Maverick Ahanmisi, whose playing time dwindled with the arrival of three newcomers in the backcourt that Pitino brought in, matched his career high with 13 points. He went 3 for 6 from 3-point range.
Ahanmisi played only 47 minutes total over the first 17 conference games and scored just two points. But he said afterward all that mattered to him was winning, while acknowledging he held back tears.
"I've got a lot of regrets this year with decisions I've made -- I think that happens -- but I need to find him more minutes somehow someway," Pitino said, "and hopefully we'll be playing a little bit longer."
Even Oto Osenieks, who will skip his last season because of a persistent knee injury, joined the celebration by throwing an inbound pass and promptly returning to the bench in the final minute with a wave to the crowd.
The other senior, Malik Smith, went scoreless. In his last six games, he totaled eight points on 1-for-23 shooting, including a 1-for-20 mark from 3-point range.
The Gophers led by as much as 51-26 in the second half, until Newbill helped bring the Lions back to within 55-46 before the Gophers pulled away again. They had their fast break in full gear most of the game, thanks to 21 defensive rebounds and 10 steals that propelled it.
Tim Frazier added 14 points, going 10 for 12 from the foul line, for the Lions.
They've had some triumphs this season, with two wins over Ohio State and a victory at Indiana in one of the Big Ten's most daunting arenas for visiting teams, but they're still they're still 12-42 in Big Ten play since Chambers was hired.
"We fought our way back to single digits, but I think we ran out of gas," Chambers said. "In this league you just can't do it."
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Bellamy, Carol - Executive Director, UNICEF
Betanzos, Amalia - President/CEO, Wildcat Service Corp
Biggins, Veronica - Vice President, C&S Bank Corp
Chavez-Thompson, Linda - Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
d'Harnoncourt, Annie - Director, CEO, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Diaz Dennis, Patricia - VP, Gov't Affairs, Sprint, Former FCC Comm
Dole, Elizabeth - Former President, American Red Cross
Falk, Susan - President, Express (clothing retailer)
Fernandez, Lillian - Former Director, Int'l Affairs, Pfizer, Inc
Fields, Debbi - Mrs. Fields Cookies Founder
Heifer, Ricki Tigert - Former Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Juliber, Lois - President, Colgate Palmolive
Katen, Karen - Vice President, Pfizer
Marram, Ellen - Former President, Tropicana
Newkerk, Deborah - President, CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi
Roddick, Anita - Founder of The Body Shop
Yardis, Pam - President, Nat'l Organization of Mgmt. Consultants
Arnold, Sarah Louise - Dean of Simmons College
Ellis Alexander, Marianne - ED, Public Leadership Education Network
Fox, Muriel - Chair, NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund
Futrell, Mary Hatwood - Former President, National Education Association
Hatwood Guttrell, Mary - Former Director, National Education Association
Jones, Elaine - Head of NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund
McAuliffe, Christa - Teacher and Astronaut
McGuire, Patricia - President, Trinity College
Murphy MacGregor, Molly - ED, National Women's History Project
Bush, Laura - Former First Lady from 2001 to 2009
Carter, Rosalyn- Former First Lady from 1977 to 1981
Clinton, Chelsea - Daughter of Bill Clinton (42nd President)
Gore, Tipper - Wife of former VP, Al Gore
Hoover, Lou Henry - Former First Lady from 1929 to 1933
Johnson Robb, Lynda, - Daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson (36th President)
Johnson Turpin, Luci, - Daughter of Lyndon B. Johnson (36th President)
Kennedy, Ethel - Wife of Robert Kennedy (Presidential Candidate) Ethel Kennedy was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014
Mondale, Joan - Wife of former VP, Walter Mondale
Nixon, Pat - Former First Lady from 1969 to 1974
Nixon Cox, Tricia - Daughter of Richard Nixon (37th President)
Nixon Eisenhower, Julie - Daughter of Richard Nixon (37th President)
Obama, Michelle - Former First Lady from 2009 to 2017
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Quayle, Marilyn - Wife of Former VP, Dan Quayle
Reagan, Nancy - Former First Lady from 1981 to 1989
Wilson, Edith - Former First Lady from 1913 to 1921
Albright, Madeleine - Former US Secretary of State
Babbitt, Hattie - Former US Ambassador, Organization of American States
Barshefsky, Charlene - US Trade Representative
Boggs, Corrinne C. - US Ambassador to the Vatican
Browner, Carol - Former Administrator-Environmental Protection Agency
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Coone, Jane - Former US Ambassador to Bangladesh
Fenwick, Millicent - Former US Representative to UN Food & Agriculture Org
Ferraro, Geraldine - Former House Representative for New York and VP candidate
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Herman, Alexis M. - former US Secretary of Labor
Hills, Carla - US Trade Representative
Kassenbaum, Nancy - Senator from Kansas
Kirkpatrick, Jeanne - Former US Ambassador to the United Nations
Klimova, Rita - US Ambassador, Czech & Slovah Federal Republic
Mink, Patsy - US House Representative from Hawaii
Mosley-Braun, Carol - Former Senator for Illinois
Mikulski, Barbara - US Senator, Maryland
Ray, Dixie Lee - Former Governor of Washington, Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission
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I am finally almost finished with my next quilt, and I have to tell you, I'm pretty excited about it. It's made entirely out of solid cotton fabrics in four different shades of pink, and I'm hoping to bind it today and get some good pics of it this weekend, weather permitting.
{ Thank you, Mother Nature, for the fresh dusting of snow this morning...where in the world is spring???}
I came up with this pattern a couple of months ago and decided to use it as my entry for the Modern Quilt Guild's Project Modern: Challenge 2. I've never made a monochromatic quilt before so it's been a fun challenge for me...although I may not be able to look at pink for a while.


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In the wake of last year's disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the world is once again dealing with contamination from a nuclear catastrophe. Now researchers have repurposed mining technology into a capsule that could make radiation tainted water drinkable.
Dr Allen Apblett's research with Oklahoma State University in Stillwater has been presented at this Spring's ACS meeting, and it could be adapted to every scale, from individual to industrial. It's an adaptation of mining technology designed to draw valuable uranium out of sea-water, but it can work for other materials, too.
The technique uses metal oxide nanoparticles which bond to a number of chemicals, removing them from the liquid. They've been shown to absorb all of the radioactive actinides: actinium, thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and lawrencium; as well as strontium, lead, arsenic, and radioactive and non-radioactive elements.
In its simplest form, this would just be a capsule that would be dropped in container of water, juice, or milk, stirred, and then extracted, taking the dangerous elements along with it. What's not exactly clear at this point is how many times a single capsule would be able to be reused, or if there is a way to empty it once full. Even so, it would be something small and easy enough to be used by just about anyone. The technology could also theoretically be scaled up to an industrial level, allowing for large scale removing of contaminated foodstuffs.
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Snow White grew very beautiful and one day a Prince riding by, saw her at work and fell in love with her.
The queen was beautiful too, and every day she asked her Magic Mirror, "Who is the fairest in the land?" and the mirror always answered, "You are the fairest one of all".
But one day the mirror answered Snow White was the fairest in the land, and in a rage the queen gave orders to one of her Huntsmen to take Snow White into the woods and kill her.
The Huntsman had a kind heart and couldn't do the deed so told her to run away. She fled into the woods where Seven little dwarfs lived. Their house was small and strange.
Snow White entered the little house and finding it very untidy, started to clean up. Upstairs she found seven little beds. She was very tired and stretching out on one of the beds, was soon asleep.
When the Dwarfs came home they were surprised to find Snow White and after some argument, decided to let her stay. She promised to cook and look after them.
The Queen discovered where Snow White was living and disguising herself as a witch, took a poisoned apple and set out for the Dwarfs cottage. She gave Snow White the poisoned apple to eat and as soon as she bit the apple, she sank into unconsciousness.
Thinking she was dead, the Dwarfs built a glass coffin and put her in it. For days she lay in the forest in her glass coffin. One day, the Prince was riding through the forest looking for Snow White and found her. He leaned over and kissed her. She opened her eyes and sat up with a smile. Everyone was happy. The Prince took Snow White to his palace where they were married and lived happily ever after.


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There's not a whole lot to glean from this video, but here it is anyway. It looks like a black man is either in cuffs or on his way to being in cuffs, and could possibly be struggling. TMZ helpfully directs your attention to this black man and labels him as Adrian Peterson. the woman recording the incident (or someone off-screen) clearly says"Adrian's my friend" and you can see someone wearing a "Live!" shirt, which is the club where Peterson was arrested and charged with resisting arrest only.
You'll recall Mike Florio noted multiple witnesses recorded the incident. If you've got anything better than this, drop us a line.


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RootsTech.org is a genealogy conference that combines two of my passions: Genealogy (Roots) and Technology (Tech). Stanczyk went to last year's conference and was impressed!
It is a Family Search International conference and is based in Salt Lake City at the Salt Palace Convention Center, not far from the Family History Library. It is a 3-day conference with a wide variety of topics covered. The dates for 2013 are: 21-March-2013 – 23-March-2013 (THU, FRI, SAT).
This jester thinks that last year was a better year, judging by the sessions that are planned for 2013 as compared to what sessions were done in 2012. However, the 2013 exhibitors seems to shaping up to be much better (they say 40% more).
The smartphone Apps were released: 25-Feb-2013. So for those mobile genealogists, gear up by clicking on the following links:
Its a universal app (meaning it works on both iPhone and iPad).
- Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps (click on the link). The actual URL(link) is so long I just posted the the text to take you to the Android Apps, but the link will take you to the actual app.
The conference hall is wonderful and the people putting on the conference have conferences down pat. The logistics of this genealogy conference are well thought out.


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Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Dzogchen Practice in Everyday Life
by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The everyday practice of dzogchen is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance, an openness to all situations without limit.
We should realise openness as the playground of our emotions and relate to people without artificiality, manipulation or strategy.
We should experience everything totally, never withdrawing into ourselves as a marmot hides in its hole. This practice releases tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of maintaining fixed reference points. Referentiality is the process by which we retreat from the direct experience of everyday life.
Being present in the moment may initially trigger fear. But by welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness, we cut through the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns.
When we engage in the practice of discovering space, we should develop the feeling of opening ourselves out completely to the entire universe. We should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and nakedness of mind. This is the powerful and ordinary practice of dropping the mask of self-protection.
We shouldn't make a division in our meditation between perception and field of perception. We shouldn't become like a cat watching a mouse. We should realise that the purpose of meditation is not to go "deeply into ourselves" or withdraw from the world. Practice should be free and non-conceptual, unconstrained by introspection and concentration.
Vast unoriginated self-luminous wisdom space is the ground of being - the beginning and the end of confusion. The presence of awareness in the primordial state has no bias toward enlightenment or non-enlightenment. This ground of being which is known as pure or original mind is the source from which all phenomena arise. It is known as the great mother, as the womb of potentiality in which all things arise and dissolve in natural self-perfectedness and absolute spontaneity.
All aspects of phenomena are completely clear and lucid. The whole universe is open and unobstructed - everything is mutually interpenetrating.
Seeing all things as naked, clear and free from obscurations, there is nothing to attain or realise. The nature of phenomena appears naturally and is naturally present in time-transcending awareness. Everything is naturally perfect just as it is. All phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern. These patterns are vibrant with meaning and significance at every moment; yet there is no significance to attach to such meanings beyond the moment in which they present themselves.


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Kakiemon, the famed Japanese originator of the style that bears this name, was the first to bring enamel to the fabric of porcelain in 17th-century Japan. Kakiemon decoration was of very high quality, known for its delicate and asymmetric—yet well balanced—designs.
The Chantilly Porcelain Factory was one of the first of its kind in France. It was founded under the auspices of Louis XV in 1730, who established a patent for Asian style porcelain but with a soft paste. This soft-paste porcelain, fragile and delicate, was a challenge to fire without chipping or breaking. It was, however, an excellent base for the finest decoration. The Kakiemon decorative style dominated Chantilly for 10 years.
Eighteenth-century France was a time of elegance that inspired the decorative arts as well as gastronomy. The court introduced sumptuous haute cuisine, and there was a need for a domestic factory to create new, refined wares to enhance the dining experience. The Museum's graceful and charming Sauce Tureen with Cover and Tray was made by the Chantilly Porcelain Factory in about 1735. Styled in the Kakiemon tradition, the set is fabricated of soft-paste porcelain with a palette of strong, bright colors in polychrome over a pure milky-white base.
I view these wares with awe, and find each to be a work of design perfection. The delicate renditions of flowery branches and insects, strategically placed on a magnificently conceived four-lobed tray, serve to heighten the purity of the white background. The tureen is decorated with floral and vine motifs clustered at intervals. The cover, notched for a ladle, is complete with a handle of three petunia-like flowers. This porcelain is, to my mind, unsurpassed in sheer elegance and classic beauty. For its decorative arts, its porcelain, and its culinary arts, 18th-century France reigns supreme.


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GPG errors
- Messsage: public key not available
- Problem: you do not have a correct key installed
- Solution: click Start menu > MX Tools > Check Apt GPG.
NOTE: see also BADSIG below
Package authentication
- Message: Packages could not be authenticated
- Explanation: Many repositories, including all of Debian's repositories & MX repositories, use a GPG key to verify that you are connected to the real repository instead of having been rerouted by a highjacked DNS or a man-in-the-middle attack to a fake site. This is a very slight possibility, but for production machines the extra security is worth the check. The MEPIS Community Repositories don't use such a key at this time, although new CR packages are gpg-signed by the packagers.
- Solution: If this error occurs when installing packages from the Community Repository it is safely ignored. If it occurs with packages from the Debian repositories, do not continue the installation and report the error.
No header, problem with merge list
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- Problem: Files have been corrupted for some reason.
- Solution: There are two main variants of this problem.
Variant 1. If the error message includes a reference to /var/lib/dpkg/status, open a terminal and type:
su -c "cp var/lib/dpkg/status-old var/lib/dpkg/status" su -c "apt-get update"
Variant 2. If the error message references a file in /var/lib/apt/lists, open a terminal and type:
su -c "find /var/lib/apt/lists/* -type f | xargs rm -f" su -c "apt-get update"
Other files than these may be referenced in the error message. They can be fixed by editing the file which is producing errors manually. Open the file as root and look for these entries (there should be 3):
None None None
If you remove those the MergeList file should be correct again.
Broken package
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- Problem: you tried to install a package that had unmet dependencies
- Solution: click on Status in the lower left corner of the Synaptic screen, then on the entry "Broken package." Click on the package and remove it. Reload the repos.
Cache limit exceeded
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Problem: Cache-Limit is too small to handle new package cache
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Change line from
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- Message: similar to "GPG error: <url and name of mirror> The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG E6AD81A8B9FBE3CE <name of maintainer and contact info>"
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Hired by farmers as a private security guard, Brooks Rucker patrols thousands of acres of Georgia farmland on the lookout for thieves toting 5-gallon buckets.
He rarely comes up empty handed. Since the fall harvest began Oct. 1, Rucker says, he and two other guards have caught more than 160 culprits in the act. Some they let go. Others get handed over to police. Either way, he's recovered thousands of dollars' worth of stolen goods: mounds of pecans snatched from his employers' trees.
"It's an all-day hassle trying to keep these folks out," said Rucker. "You'll pull into a pecan grove and they'll have a 10-foot extension ladder trying to shake the pecans loose with poles. It's bad."
At a time when farmers should be giving thanks for pecans selling at record prices, they're instead cracking down on thieves. One sheriff in pecan-growing country says his department gets several calls a week reporting pecan snatchers, while the prosecutor in the area anticipates prosecuting dozens of pecan-theft cases.
It's not just pecan pies and other nutty goodies driving demand so close to the holidays. Prices have soared as China has developed an insatiable appetite for pecans, while withering drought in the southern U.S. has limited supplies.
In Georgia, the nation's top pecan producer, farmers and authorities say criminals can earn a tidy profit by stealing the nuts — worth $1.50 or more per pound in smaller quantities. Pecan grower Bucky Geer estimates a single 5-gallon bucketful is worth about $38.
"Some of these pecans are approaching a nickel in value apiece," said Geer, whose neighbor set up surveillance cameras after a theft. "It makes them too tempting to steal."
Geer and six other farmers in southwest Georgia's Mitchell County hired Rucker and his friends to watch their combined 7,500 acres of pecan groves during the fall harvest, which runs through December. The farmers pay the men, all of them volunteer firefighters, about $2,100 a week total.
Under Georgia law, it's a felony to steal more than $500 worth of a crop from a farmer's land. Joe Mulholland, district attorney for the five-county judicial circuit that includes Mitchell County, anticipates that he'll prosecute dozens of pecan theft cases after the harvest.
"A significant number of them will be felonies," he said.
Duke Lane, chairman of the Georgia Pecan Growers Association, said the precautions are worth it. Pecan groves can cover hundreds, even thousands, of rural acres where there often aren't people around to spot thieves. And stolen nuts are easy to offload.
Roadside stands are buying them to sell to passing motorists, Lane said. Owners of rural businesses from gas stations to hardware stores act as middlemen, buying smaller amounts until they accumulate enough to sell to food processors.
"We're losing a lot of money," said Lane, who notes that pecan thieves have been a problem before, but seem more aggressive than ever this year. "You could easily steal $1,000 worth of nuts in one night."


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My Favorite Quilt Pattern
A beautiful stash-buster!
This will surely become your favorite quilt. Cut strips in 2" lengths, and you can use scraps as small as 2" x 2". You will be amazed at how many quilts you can make once you get started. It is so much fun to see how the fabrics come to life. If you like, use Jelly Roll strips; your blocks will be just a bit bigger and your quilt a little larger.
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Barbara P
February 25, 2018
February 25, 2018
I got this pattern several years ago as a young quilter, (young as in not quilting very long, lol) I love it! Its easy to follow and turns out really lovely. Good pattern.
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Kathleen G
April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015
Love this pattern. Made it in green for a new nephew. It was quite a hit.
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August 27, 2014
August 27, 2014
Made the crib version of this pattern as a baby shower gift. It went together quick and was well received. I would highly recommend this pattern.
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Like the five fingers which aren't equal so is life, don't expect it to be smooth; without problems all your life. Frankly speaking, life is very tough and those that understand the aspects of it are those that normally survive in this difficult world.
Life sometimes becomes more difficult if those that you trust and love turn against you. The more disturbing part is when trying hard to succeed in life but others pray for your failure and often set invincible traps for you to fall into it.
How do you handle this situation if you find yourself trapped in families or friends of deceitful enemies? Your own brother or brothers are against you or your own sisters wouldn't like to see you over issues that aren't important.
Jealousy drives people to commit horrible crimes they don't realize how serious it is until finding themselves at the place they don't belong to. If you don't love your partner any longer and he/she leaves don't be jealous if he/she finds happiness somewhere.
Before you pray for his/her failure, remember that you don't love her anymore the reason she left, so don't be jealous and plan her downfall. Your jealousy will draw you behind and place you in psychological turmoil.
We are all human beings and no one is perfect. Always try to remember the good things family, friends, colleagues and people you don't know did for you. It is better than dwelling on the mistakes they did. That will make you unhappy and unhealthy.
Hate, jealousy, hypocrisy and anger destroy your health and promote your health towards psychological torture. Always be ready to apologize if you are wrong and put away pride because it will never make you humble but arrogant.