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Say it aint so, LeBron!
I mean that literally, not figuratively.
Say it isnt so that you will be heading back to Cleveland in the summer of 2014, or we can start the clock now on about 16 months of ever-increasing rumors and speculation gradually morphing into assumption.
Say it isnt so or Miami and Heat fans might as well commence The Long Goodbye, because that is what this already has begun to feel a little like.
LeBron wont say it isnt so, though. He could, but he doesnt want to lie.
The Heat happened to play host to Cleveland on Sunday, and I think it will be fair to wonder whose uniform LeBron will be wearing closest to his heart. Which uniform will feel most like home to him.
Be afraid of the answer, Miami.
Hey, I didnt start this fire, folks although I guess I need to plead guilty to spraying a bit of gas on it here.
James himself opened the door to this topic one year ago while back in Cleveland for a game, when asked about possibly returning to the Cavaliers some day. He said, I think it would be great. It would be fun to play in front of these fans again. I dont know what the future holds, but I dont want to take that [option] out.
A day later he offered an addendum, the last three words of which had to imbed themselves under Heat fans skin like a painful sliver: The fans of Miami shouldnt be worried about anything at this point.
Well, we are now a year closer to the point at which worry might be justified.
In the interim James has helped Miami win an NBA championship, which can only ease his possibly leaving. See, no matter what happens this season or next, the title makes his Miami years a success to at least some degree, and another ring this season or next would erase any arguing that.
Also in the past year, Cleveland drafted point guard Kyrie Irving, a superstar in the making, and James during the recent All-Star Weekend in Houston gushed about Irving in a way that only reintroduced the return-to-Cleveland speculation.
It was awesome to play with Kyrie, James said. Hes going to be unbelievable.
James could elect to play with Irving full-time by opting out of his Heat contract after next season, and although LeBron now deflects questions about his future many within the NBA believe that is his intention or at least his leaning. It would be a closure/full-circle thing for the Akron, Ohio, native and mean reconciliation after the ugliness of his ham-handed departure in the summer of 2010.
At the time he might opt out James would be approaching his 30th birthday and 12th NBA season. It would be a time he might be pondering where as much as when his career should end. It might be a time when he valued proving you can go home again.
Miamis only advantage is it could offer him a five-year deal to re-sign here, while other teams like Cleveland could offer only four years. Thats a $20-million-plus inside track for the Heat. But would that be enough? I doubt it. I would sooner bet James would see Irving as the teammate necessary to finally deliver an NBA championship to Clevelanders, which he did not do in his earlier seven-year run there. Accomplishing that would complete his career by erasing its one aching failure.
For me the most intriguing questions to be answered would be whether Cleveland would welcome James back, and how Heat fans would regard him in terms of his legacy here if he left at his earliest opportunity.


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Representatives from every government in the world just concluded two weeks of discussions in Warsaw, Poland on how to collectively address climate change at the 19th annual meeting of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 19).
Most years, the host city's largest convention center houses the meeting's 10,000+ participants. This year, however, Poland's National Stadium was the venue for the dialogue, raising the question of how similar, and how different, the political exchanges are to a sports match.
COP 19 Goalposts
There were several major issues to "score" on in Warsaw. While also addressing some smaller issues, governments were expected to find ways to advance negotiations on:
- REDD+ guidelines for international implementation and coordination. REDD+, a system that provides financial incentives for developing countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by preventing the destruction of their forests, has been successfully implemented in many pilot projects, but requires additional guidelines and coordination to function effectively at the national and international levels.
- Addressing loss and damage. It was decided at the 2012 COP that this year countries would agree on a mechanism to address "loss and damage," or what to do when adaptation is not enough to address climate change impacts, such as if an island disappears due to sea level rise.
- Provision of climate finance. Almost every issue under the UNFCCC hinges on finance — how much money is needed, who should provide it and to whom it should be given. Although some progress has been made in the past, there is no clear roadmap for scaling up the private and public sector resources needed.
- Creation of a new climate agreement by 2015. At the 2011 COP, countries decided to negotiate a new climate agreement by 2015 that would go into effect in 2020. With little time left before 2015, governments needed to define a roadmap for negotiations and lay the foundation for these discussions in Warsaw.
The first half of the conference saw action largely as expected. There was some back and forth on the issues, and while there were no excessive delays as we had seen earlier this year in Bonn, it was clear countries knew they had the second half for their big push. However, we were pleased to see some concrete gains made, including the decision to strengthen information sharing on ecosystem-based adaptation.
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A judge Friday ordered a 16-year-old convicted of burglarizing a half dozen Hutchinson churches to make personal apologies to members of each church.Joshua D. Hickey appeared before Reno County District Judge Tim Chambers for sentencing in the case after previously entering guilty pleas to 38 criminal counts in connection with 14 separate break-ins. Prosecutors charged Hickey as an adult in the case.
Chambers sentenced Hickey to 16 months on each burglary count, and ordered them to run consecutively, though the maximum time he could serve by law is 32 months, or double the controlling sentence. Chambers then granted Hickey 24 months probation under Community Corrections supervision, as called for in state sentencing guidelines.
Chambers, noting it would benefit both the victims and Hickey himself, ordered the teen to go before the congregation of each church he burglarized to make a personal apology. No timeframe for making the apologies was set.
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The state initially charged Hickey in juvenile court with 13 burglaries after his Aug. 6 arrest. The complaint was amended to include 15 counts of burglary, 15 counts of criminal damage to property and eight counts of theft, all occurring between April 1 and Aug. 3.
His victims included Trinity United Methodist Church and Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, each burglarized twice, Grace Episcopal Church, Eastwood Church of Christ, Crossroads Christian Church, First Congregational Church and First Baptist Church. Non-religious victims included the Pic-Quik at 800 S. Main St., burglarized three times, Hutchinson High School and the Main Street Dillons.
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First the Navy Yard rampage that left 12 dead. Then yesterday Islamist terrorists indiscriminately murdered at least 59 at an upscale mall in Nairobi (with about 30 hostages still inside). Now this in Peshawar, Pakistan:
A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a 130-year-old church in Pakistan after Sunday Mass, killing at least 56 people in the deadliest attack on Christians in the predominantly Muslim South Asian country. . . .
The attackers struck the historic white-stone All Saints Church in the north-western city of Peshawar just as hundreds of parishioners streamed out of the building.
"I heard two explosions. People started to run. Human remains were strewn all over the church," said one parishioner, who only gave her first name, Margrette. . . .
The Taliban-linked militant group TTP Jundullah claimed responsibility for the attack.
"They are the enemies of Islam, therefore we target them," said the group's spokesman, Ahmed Marwat. "We will continue our attacks on non-Muslims on Pakistani land."
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September 20, 2013 | 9:39 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
How do conservatie Catholics feel about the recently elected Pope Francis? Well, this bit of satire from The New Yorker's Andy Borowitz should give you a hint:
Justice Scalia said he had "no other alternative" but to pick a new Pope himself after reading what he called a "disturbing" interview with Pope Francis today: "The Pope said he doesn't want to speak out against abortion and gay marriage. Well, sorry, my friend, but that's the entire job description. You should have thought of that before you let them blow that white smoke in Rome."
I repeat: This is not real news. It's satire. But it's sure to be passed around Twitter as if real, and I'm sure I'll see a few Facebook posts (including from journalist friends) stunned by the news. But it's not news.
Still, Borowitz touches on what is becoming a concern for conservative Catholics. In July, Pope Francis told reporters he was in no place to judge the hearts of the Vatican's so-called gay lobby. Then today he criticized the Church's emphasis on homosexuality and abortion.
"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules," Francis said. "The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you. And the ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all."
Such statements mark a radical deparature from the pontiff's predecessor (though Pope Benedict indeed softened once elevated to the papacy). But they are not entirely unexpected for Pope Francis.
Journalists have been writing for months about how liberal the new pope is; Slate today used the link-bait headline "Pope Francis is a Flaming Liberal."
Though saying Francis is the most-liberal pope ever suggests a poor understanding of papal history and certainly the popes of the middle ages, he is the most liberal in recent memory.
And it's kind of difficult to say whether rightly or wrongly because, you know, the pope is never wrong.
September 13, 2013 | 7:59 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Sure, a Jew who observes the Sabbath could get a Shabbos Goy to pick up his illegal drugs (other questions about observance and obeying the law aside). But what does everyone else do when the drug dealers are the observant Jews?
NYPD claim that, at least like the markets in my neighborhood, a group of Sheepshead Bay dealers texted their regulars to let them know they'd be closed for Shabbat. From the Daily News:
"We are closing 7:30 on the dot and we will reopen saturday 8:15 so if u need anything you have 45mins to get what you want," an April 12 message to over 50 recipients read.
Five men were charged in operation "Only After Sundown," following an April 20 police raid.
But make no mistake, the indictment alleges these dealers were moving much heavier stuff than marijuana (which isn't really that taboo in many parts of the Jewish community, especially if for medicine use). Heroin, oxycodone and cocaine on the other hand ...
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September 7, 2013 | 6:58 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
A precept of American law is that, absent a special relationship, an individual is under no legal duty to act to help another in need. That means that a passerby is under no obligation to help people escape from a burning car. Even if the act would be of minimal effort and no potential harm, an individual generally has no duty to act unless he or she created the other's peril.
But what about refusing to have your children vaccinated? Jed Lipinski recently argued in Slate that parents who don't vaccinate their kids should be sued for damages--or criminally charged. That's going a bit far, and there are a lot of moving parts in American jurisprudence that would make such a regime challenging, to say the least. But the consequences of refusing vaccines are real.
Just ask the folks at Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Neward, Texas. There the AP reported that a recent measles outbreak at the church of televangelist Kenneth Copeland revealed that many church members had not been vaccinated:
Although church officials were quick to act after the outbreak — including hosting clinics in August where 220 people received immunization shots — and have denied they are against medical care or vaccinations, people familiar with the ministry say there is a pervasive culture that believers should rely on God, not modern medicine, to keep them well.
"To get a vaccine would have been viewed by me and my friends and my peers as an act of fear — that you doubted God would keep you safe, you doubted God would keep you healthy. We simply didn't do it," former church member Amy Arden told The Associated Press.
Health officials say 21 people were sickened with the measles after a person who contracted the virus overseas visited the 1,500-member Eagle Mountain International Church located on the vast grounds of Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Newark, about 20 miles north of Fort Worth.
Of the 21 people who contracted measles linked to the church, 16 were unvaccinated. The others may have had at least one vaccination, but had no documentation.
As the parent of a young child and as a Christian, I find this news horrifying. And I blame "The View." OK, I don't. But I find the anti-vaccine crowd to be among American society's more troubling social problems. Seriously. Vaccines are the classic public good--and they only work best, in particular by protecting from infection those who are too young to be vaccinated, if everyone buys in.
I also don't see how Christians can think that taking health precautions means not trusting God. Do the same people not wash their hands after using the bathroom?
This 2007 story from Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network--"Are Vaccines Safe for Your Kids?"--feeds into the anti-vaccine pathology. It's only slightly less crazy than when Robertson said this or this or this or this.
On the other hand, Rachel Marie Stone's 2012 article for Christianity Today explains how if you love your neighbor, you'll get your kids vaccinated:
Vaccinations work on the theory of "herd immunity": As long as most people in a given population are immune, the risk of susceptible people getting sick is very small. So people who can't be immunized because they are too young (newborn babies), too old, too sick (people with immune system problems), and people for whom immunizations simply didn't "take," are protected by the immunity of the "herd," namely, those of us who got our shots.
What concerns me about the anti-vaccination movement is not merely the fact that people are so easily persuaded by falsified claims about vaccine risks, nor the tragedy of people losing their lives to diseases that were (thanks to vaccines) nearly eradicated. Rather, I'm concerned that so many people seem willing to let others carry the supposed burden of vaccination so that they don't have to. To me, that's a failure of the commandment to love our neighbors: our infant neighbors, our elderly neighbors, and our immune-compromised neighbors. That's a disease of the soul for which the only treatment is love—best shown in the God who became man to bear our infirmities in his own body.
So what should Christians do? First, they should be educated about the real risks of vaccines--the really, really small risks. Second, they shouldn't pretend that God eschews good medicine. And then they should stop endangering the lives of others because, you know, that's not a very Christian thing to do.
August 28, 2013 | 8:24 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
The Big Story this morning from the AP:
Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen "terrorism enterprise investigations" into mosques, according to interviews and confidential police documents. The TEI, as it is known, is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells and the like.
Many TEIs stretch for years, allowing surveillance to continue even though the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization with operating as a terrorism enterprise.
The documents show in detail how, in its hunt for terrorists, the NYPD investigated countless innocent New York Muslims and put information about them in secret police files. As a tactic, opening an enterprise investigation on a mosque is so potentially invasive that while the NYPD conducted at least a dozen, the FBI never did one, according to interviews with federal law enforcement officials.
These revelations are part of a new book by AP reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman on NYPD spying.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly quickly responded on "Morning Joe" by attacking the reporters' credibility--"they're hyping a book" that "will be a fair amount of fiction"-- but not directly disputing that mosques were investigated as terrorist organizations.
August 26, 2013 | 5:57 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Nope. Nothing Ken Ham says will convince me that dinosaurs piled onto Noah's Ark.
Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum, where lightning struck last week and injured a staffer, is used to fighting an uphill battle against science. Unlike many Christians who actually have scientific expertise, Ham and his organization argue that evolution doesn't explain the origins of life and that the sun and the Earth are only about 6,000 years old.
But his recent statement in the spot "What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs," which can be heard in the above video, doesn't just challenge scientific understandings. It defies logic.
Via HuffPost:
"Evolution has claimed dinosaurs evolved over 200 million years ago, that nobody ever lived with them," Ham says in the ad. "But the Bible gives a different history. God tells us that he created all land animals the same day he created man, about 6,000 years ago. What's more, there are even dinosaurs on Noah's Ark because God told Noah to take pairs of every land animal."
Let's start with the fact that the Bible makes no mention of dinosaurs. Anywhere. Not just in the account of Noah's Ark. That, though, could be said of zebras and ferrets and koala bears.
But logically how are we going to reconcile anything, and certainly two of it, the size of a dinosaur being on the Ark?
The Ark was massive--300 cubits (or about 137 meters) by 50 cubits by 30 cubits. But a brontosaurus along is 23 meters long; the longest dinosaur was almost triple that length. A few dinosaurs alone would fill the whole thing.
And Ham should know that: A full-size replica of the Ark is planned for the Creation Museum.
Turns out, also, this isn't a new statement from Ham, just a new radio ad. In fact, it was mentioned in news reports when Answers in Genesis announced the creation of the Creation Museum. And it then generated responses like this:
"Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break," said Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley and president of National Center for Science Education, an Oakland group that supports teaching evolution. "For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
Christians could reasonably disagree on what Genesis really says about creation (e.g., six days or six eras, all at once or evolving over time). But it's difficult for me to imagine many of my co-religionists believing that Noah piled a couple tyrannosauruses and friends on the Ark and riding it out with them for 150 days.
August 22, 2013 | 1:04 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
In a long anticipated decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled today that a photographer has not First Amendment protection against a state law that forbids her from refusing service to a potential client on the basis of sexuality. The case is Elane Photography v. Willock, and it's been kicking around since 2006, first with a complaint to the New Mexico Human Rights Commission and then up and down the state courts. And the opinion is going to be seen by conservatives as the next stone on the path to anti-religious tyranny.
You can read the full opinion here. The relevant portion, though, for religious folks is the First Amendment free speech discussion.
There the court focuses on the fact that the law permits a photographer to publicly speak out against same-sex unions and homosexuality -- for example, in a banner headline on their website -- and finds therefore that the law does not compel or restrict protected speech. As I said on Twitter, there are two major problems with this rationale.
The first is that it minimizes the speech component of conduct. It's cliche, but actions do speak louder than words. And First Amendment jurisprudence recognizes this. But the New Mexico Supreme Court overlooks it.
The second is a point that Eugene Volokh, my First Amendment professor, made in an amicus brief: "wedding photographers (and other speakers) have a First Amendment right to choose what expression they create, including by choosing not to photograph same-sex commitment ceremonies." Photographers are expressive -- indeed, they automatically receive copyright protection, which is much narrower in the speech it covers than the First Amendment -- and a photographer's decisions regarding what goes into each photo matter. Not only the arrangement and the lighting, but the subject of each photo. In other words, creating civil liability for a photographer who refuses to shoot a gay ceremony actually does create a speech compulsion.
Ken White at Popehat has a thoughtful post analyzing the opinion. Of particular interest is his discussion of Justice Bosson's concurring opinion, in which the justice says that, despite the pain this result will cause the owners of Elane Photography, "compromise is part of the glue that holds us together as a nation, the tolerance that lubricates the varied moving parts of us as a people." To that, White responds:
Whether or not you agree with Justice Bosson's conclusion, I think it's important that he is explicitly recognizing that these laws -- like so many others -- involve some sort of intrusion into personal liberty of which we should be aware. You may believe that the intrusion is justified, or you may not, but our discussion of the subject is incomplete and even dishonest without that recognition.
The religion angle here should be obvious.
This is unlike court rulings that have taken prayer out of school, limited the teaching of creation and required interfaith surroundings of a municipal nativity scene. It also unlike courts ruling that a state must recognize same-sex marriage or the U.S. Supreme Court striking down DOMA. (All of which I think reach the right result.) The former opinions protected against the governmental promotion of religion and the latter extended equal protection of the laws to gay and lesbian couples.
But this opinion goes much further. It's about private, not public, actors. And it will be remembered by some as telling people who believe homosexuality is a sin that they need to do more than tolerate other beliefs and actions; they need to actually celebrate them.
"It is," as Justice Bossom wrote, "the price of citizenship."
August 17, 2013 | 6:44 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, caused a bit of a stir yesterday after he was reported to say that hearing western Christians claim to be persecuted makes him "very uneasy" and suggested that these Christians "grow up."
Williams' general point was that being made fun of for, say, believing in creation in the United States is not remotely comparable to being murdered for following Jesus. As The Telegraph reported Williams saying:
"Persecution is not being made to feel mildly uncomfortable.
"I am always very uneasy when people sometimes in this country or the United States talk about persecution of Christians or rather believers.
"I think we are made to feel uncomfortable at times. We're made to feel as if we're idiots - perish the thought!
"But that kind of level of not being taken very seriously or being made fun of; I mean for goodness sake, grow up.
"You have to earn respect if you want to be taken seriously in society.
"But don't confuse it with the systematic brutality and often murderous hostility which means that every morning you get up wondering if you and your children are going to make it through the day.
"That is different, it's real. It's not quite what we're facing in Western society."
But was his general premise correct?
Let's start with the War on Christmas. It never happened.
The ending of school prayer and limitations on teaching creation over evolution? Those are very real, but they only apply in the public school setting, as our Constitution long has required (even if courts did not recognize this until relatively recently in the nation's history). Even then state legislatures likely have some flexibility to teach both evolution and creation if the primary purpose of teaching both is not to promote religion.
And violence against believers? There is some in the United States, but in recent history the well-documented incidents haven't been against Christians. Probably the most notable of these involve assaults of Muslims after 9/11 and attacks on Jews and other religious minorities by skinheads.
However, the FBI statistics show that Christians are not immune from anti-religious crimes. For example, of the 1,480 victims of anti-religious hate crimes in 2011, roughly 9 percent were Catholic or Protestant. That's a lot fewer than for anti-Jewish crimes (63.2 percent) and anti-Muslim crimes (12.5 percent), but it's not negligible.
In other words, Rowan Williams is both right and wrong. Persecution of western Christians is nothing like it is in other parts of the world -- neither in pervasiveness nor consequences. But it also is not nonexistent; it can be much worse than just being made to feel an idiot. Perish the thought.
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My mom taught me to celebrate the little things. That anything could be made into a party. Especially Christmas decorating and even cleaning wood floors. She taught me affection and love. She would scratch my arm while I fell asleep and always let me into her bed at night when I needed her. She taught me to make sweet family traditions like Friday night family movies, with a bag of skittles and popcorn and make your own sundaes on New Years Eve. She taught me that friends would come and go but my sisters would always be there. She taught me to serve the Lord and the power of prayer. She held my hand and celebrated with me each time I held one of my babies for the first time. She held my hand and cried with me each time that I had to say goodbye too. She taught me loyalty and truth. And to always walk in faith, confidence and joy that God's got a good plan. Best of all she prayed for me. And never stopped. She prayed for my future husband and the very first night I met Brandon she knew he was the one I would marry. She never told me that until the night he proposed. She trusted me to make my own decisions because she knew that I would.
That is one of the biggest lessons I learned from her as a mom. To pray, guide, nurture and then trust your children to make the right choices. She gave her very best for her family and still does. She is sentimental and soft hearted and cries when reading birthday cards. She is the very best mom I could have ever hoped for.
And Brandon. He is my greatest supporter, encourager and my very best friend. He loves me in big and small, loud and quiet ways. Ways that could easily get missed and he would be ok with that. He does, just because. And I love that about him. He has taught me selflessness like no other person I have met. He loves our children, he shares the load of parenthood and he never complains when he stays up really late with me packaging orders or making party favors. He's my biggest fan and makes me smile on a daily basis. He will go to the store at 11 at night if I needed him to. He makes me feel beautiful when I'm dressed up cute or when I'm just out of the shower with wet hair and old pajama pants on. He knows the importance of giving me my time alone, of making sure my "pink waters" are always stocked and being quiet when I say things I shouldn't because I'm irritated with something else. His silence in those times has taught me more than he realizes. He makes me a better person. A good mom. And a happy wife.
We sat in the backyard of my parents house today. Watching the kids jump in and out of the pool. Mia was on my lap, as usual. Sticking close to mom, and Brandon was beside me. I just had this overwhelming feeling of gratitude as I looked at each of my kids. Sometimes it hits me really hard that I am the mother of 3. When I look at them and how perfect and beautiful and healthy they are, I don't ever take it for granted. We have 4 more waiting for us in heaven. I can't wait to be mama to them one day, But right now....here and now, my heart is content and full and grateful. The here and now is beautiful and noteworthy and reason to celebrate. Always.
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The Warsaw Police Department reports that it has investigated more than two dozen thefts from parked vehicles in the past two weeks.
The items taken include purses, wallets, laptop computers and other electronic devices.
One person has been arrested on a criminal trespassing charge. Police said Gene M. Poe, 28, of South Washington Street, was arrested Friday after one of the victims reported seeing him in his vehicle, the police said in a written statement issued Monday.
It said Poe had items in his pockets that implicate him in several other thefts and that additional charges are expected. Others might also be charged, police said.
Most of the thefts occurred to unlocked vehicles at or near the owner's residence, the police statement said. It said some vehicles were broken into to gain access when the article was visible.
"The best practice is to not leave purses, wallets, or electronics of any kind in vehicles when unattended," the statement said.
Anyone with information about the thefts is asked to call the Warsaw Police Department Investigations Division at 574-372-9538.
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Always Welcome - Lake Lure in Lake Lure
- bedrooms 5
- baths 3½
- sleeps 14
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type House
- community Rumbling Bald Resort
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/ night
$ 2,135 - $ 3,850 / week
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This lovely 5 bedroom home is nestled on over 1/2 acre offering picturesque views of Bald Mountain, Lake Lure, Bald Mountain Golf Course and Lake. From the outside it looks like a small "Cape Cod" style property but open the doors and you will find a sprawling great room with large windows providing for lovely views of the outdoors. There is a large open deck off the great room as well as an enclosed porch with pitched ceilings and it is screened in for year round enjoyment. The large eat in kitchen is well equipped for the most discriminating "renter". Plenty of places to dine in this house. Formal dining room features a table for 8-10 guests as well as the kitchen dining table that can also accomodate up to 10 guests. The master bedroom is on the main level and it features volume ceilings, warm paint colors, 2 walk in closets and a large master bath with his/her sinks and full shower. There are new hardwood floors throughout the main living areas. Take a walk downstairs to find 4 oversized bedrooms; 2 that offer 1 queen and 1 twin bed, 1 that offers a queen bed and 1 that offers 2 sets of bunk beds. There is also a large second family room that has air hockey, desk area and a TV for your enjoyment. There is a second open deck located off the lower level with Adirondack chairs to sit and reminise about the lovely days spent in the mountains. Lake Lure is a piece of paradise - unspoiled and an escape that you will certainly enjoy. Always Welcome is a lovely home and the owners do not rent it out on a regular basis so it is well kept and in excellent condition. Take a look and contact me with any questions that you have!
property availability
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Kyle Crotty 561-351-6013
house rental amenities
Air Hockey - TV's/DVD's - Outdoor decks - Covered Porch - over 3800/sf of living space! 2 Family Rooms and a location that is just perfect!
activities and attractions in Lake Lure Blue Ridge Mountains
Lake Lure Beach
Rumbling Bald Resort Activities - Beach, Vollyball, Putt Putt, Fitness Center, 3 Pools (one indoor), 2 On-site Golf Courses, Tennis, Basketball, Croquet, Chess, 3 On-site Restaurants, Wedding Areas, Beach Cabana with Boat Rentals - Kayaks - Paddle Boats and VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS!!!
vacation rental rates
Rates vary and are based on number in party and time of rental. Holidays are typically a premium.
Kyle Crotty 561-351-6013
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Prior to paying a reservation deposit, always verify payment instructions by calling the phone number displayed on this listing page. By contacting the owner directly and paying by an approved method - credit card, paypal, check or bank transfer - your reservation payment will be protected up to $1,000.
Learn more in our Security CenterTop things to do in Lake Lure
- Relax
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Top things to do on a budget
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- Climb Chimney Rock
- Tour Asheville and surrounding areas
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- Pontoon Rentals
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "A blend of barrels taken by Nicolas Tari. A total of 46 barrels produced. This sample taken before any racking has taken place although there will probably be one in May (instead since the 2004 vintage, the wine rests upon its lees with batonnage dependent upon each barrel.) A more Semillon based..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Tasted as part of a vertical held at the chateau. The 2009 Guiraud has a complex, precocious bouquet with honeysuckle and jasmine notes, hints of dried honey and white peach. It is tightly wound but very precise. The palate is pure and tense in the mouth – great precision here once again with..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Enticing aromas of toffee, cream, dried apricot and caramel, Full-bodied, very sweet and thick, with honey and caramel flavors. Long and rich, oozing with sweet ripe fruit, this s like liquid candy."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Very tight green flavors, herbaceous, with lively fresh fruits, but restrained into a taut, mineral jacket."
Cellar/Tasting Notes "Light to medium gold with a greenish hue, this wine exhibits wonderfully pure notes of wood spice such as vanillin, honeyed citrus, a hint of under-ripe peach, and touches of creme brulee and marmalade. With great acidity and finesse, this is a medium-bodied, impressively endowed, but generally..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The Sigalas-Rabaud has a well defined nose: grapefruit, nectarine, honey and lime, much more primal than some of the other 2009s. The palate is very well balanced with excellent acidity: apricot, honeysuckle, a touch of orange zest and then vibrant white peach bursting across the finish with lime..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "This is initially very muted on the nose, but it unfurls seductively with subtle, perfumed aromas of lime leaf, white peach, fresh apricot and touches of white flowers: very pretty and well defined. The palate is beautifully balanced, so pure and succinct with wonderful precision towards the..
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desktop environments are our link with the internal processes that are happening on your computer. We could say that are like our limbs, usefully controllable, unlike our internal organs that are always there working. It would be difficult to imagine the days when computers were not something everyday, when necessary to know to use them and do something useful. Of course, innovations are we covering the memories of the old story computational things more and more colorful and more intuitive to use. keys, then mice and now to the tips of our fingers .
The story could go back to Xerox Alto but we desviaríamos the approach in question. Once popularized personal computers, once written and once made Linux operating system, had to be improved appearance . In the first instance, wanting to achieve a unified suite of applications that the user experience, there Kool Desktop Manager in 1996, better known as KDE.
Almost instantlyhis eternal competition arises, GNOME, in 1997. However, this latter arose due to the dependence of the first with Qt, a library at that time was not yet free. Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of GNOME, said to have thought of writing a free replacement for Qt following the refusal to include KDE Red Hat. This would have required much work and not getting the expected results. Then came the idea of GNOME desktop environment and component of the GNU project.
After a couple of years of work environments, in 1998, appeared KDE 1.0 and a year later, GNOME 1.0. This time, KDE had already begun to address the Qt licensing issues would be solved finally in 2000 to release the code and adhere to the GPL. Thus we enter the new millennium, and GNOME with KDE version 1.2 and 2.0 develop. Both continued an important development path that led them to produce their large version : GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.5 in 2004 in 2005.
So begins a story of two great free software which, at some point, the user must decide for one or the other. For every new version release, an endless series of reviews published. Or KDE 4 or GNOME 3. Again, sometime you have to decide on one , but not generate an absurd confrontation but by its nature so different and sometimes incompatible.
dispute extends even within each environment: some people prefer the line of GNOME 2 or KDE 3.5 compared to current versions. Then it is inevitable to ask, why insist on change rather than adapt to change and remain stable for longer? Well, it's understandable ambition of the developers. While the program is much more related to mathematics and logic to art, no denying that the person behind the developer consider an alternative art work .
course could be criticized the way in which change occurs . I remember when I came out KDE 4, the new output distributions Fedora 17, continues to attract me.
Well, I did not say much (although it would be interesting to follow the subject in the comments), but to round I could say that the effort both environments are doing is great version to version . Whether we like it or not, have come to put the face of a system, which used to be seen as a completely unsightly container terminals, and take it to levels comparable graphical quality with any other commercial product. Although most magnificent I think these projects were born of young minds that might show how far you can push a project community.
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A number of Seqwater sites have designated swimming areas. Please remember to use your common sense and don't swim after drinking alcohol. While your safety is important to us, it is your responsibility. From time to time it may be necessary to close Seqwater's dams, especially if there has been heavy rainfall or algae outbreaks. Notices about these closures will be published on the Public Notices and Safety page. For an organised event involving on-water aquatic activities, an application for an Aquatic Event Permit must be submitted to Maritime Safety Queensland www.msq.qld.gov.au.
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There are accessible tracks for hiking at most of our lakes. There are a limited number of multi-purpose tracks that also permit biking.
All activities are not necessarily permitted at every site. Signs at each track will clarify which activities are permitted. If you are unsure if a particular activity is permitted at a site, please contact Seqwater at email@example.com or talk to one of the on-site Rangers.
Please be aware that you are in a water supply catchment so stay on the designated paths and help protect the valuable landscape.
Domestic animals are usually not permitted on Seqwater land (with the exception of seeing-eye dogs). Read Seqwater's policy on domestic pets and other animals in recreation areas and catchments.
Dams are part of the natural environment and visitors are reminded to be careful with local fauna. Visitors are encouraged to carry a first aid kit as mobile phone reception is limited in many areas.
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PITTSBURGH — Despite a tightly managed national formulary, the use of high-cost drugs to treat diabetes shows "substantial" variation across the VA healthcare system, according to a new research letter.
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It was only fitting that David Bobb, who is one of UMBC's most decorated athletes to ever don the Retriever black and gold, take over as head track and field coach following his stellar career as a Retriever athlete. Now entering his 15th season with the women and 12th at the helm of the men's squad, Bobb continues to raise the bar for his athletes as he leads them into their tenth season in the America East Conference.
In the first year, UMBC's men's team placed sixth at the outdoor conference championship meet while the women took eighth. A year later, Bobb moved the men's team to third place while the women moved up a spot to seventh, while nearly doubling their team score. During the 2005-06 campaign, the men placed second at the indoor conference championship and fourth in outdoor, while the women placed fifth and fourth, respectively. In 2006-07, the Retrievers hosted their first meet since 2003 with the America East Championships, and Bobb led the men to a third-place and the women to a seventh-place finish. In 2007-08, the Retriever men and women finished fifth and fourth at the outdoor meet, respectively, and in 2008-09, the men finished fourth in both indoor and outdoor competitions.
During the 2009-10 season, the Retriever men placed third during the indoor season and fourth outdoors, while the women finished fifth in both seasons. The 2009-10 season was highlighted by Dominic Devaud, who was named to the CoSida/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Third Team and won the heptathlon at the America East and IC4A Indoor Championships.
In 2011-12, the Retriever women impressed both indoors and outdoors, taking third and fourth, respectively, at the America East Championships with freshman sensation Mercedes Jackson earning Most Outstanding Rookie at both meets. In addition, thrower Amanda Deller was named the indoor meet's Most Outstanding Field Performer.
The men also had a successful season, placing fifth and sixth at the conference meets. Indoors, hurdler Trae Proctor won the 60m hurdles for the second straight year and outdoors Brandon McGee won the steeplechase in school record breaking time (9:01.73).
This past season, the Retrievers posted successful campaigns both individually and as a team as both the men and women finished in the top-half of the America East standings at both the indoor and outdoor championships. Following the Retriever men's team's second-place finish at the outdoor meet, Bobb and his staff were named the America East Coaching Staff of the Year. In all, Retriever athletes won 26 conference titles during the year.
UMBC's success did not end there, however, as Mercedes Jackson qualified for the NCAA Championships in the indoor 60m dash, becoming just the fourth Retriever to ever reach the national meet. In the spring, she qualified again for the NCAAs, this time in the 100m dash, and Vincent Rentzsch joined her, marking the first time the Black and Gold have sent multiple athletes to the same national championship meet.
Since Bobb's first season with the Retrievers, his squads have produced four NCAA Championship competitors with Cleopatra Borel and Huguens Jean qualifying in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Borel won UMBC's first NCAA Championship in the shot put in 2002. Both became All-Americans and won multiple individual conference titles.
Prior to Bobb's rise into the coaching profession, he was a five-time Division I All-American as a student-athlete at UMBC and was inducted into UMBC's Athletics Hall of Fame in February 2003, along with legendary coach Jim Pfrogner, his mentor.
Bobb became UMBC's first Division I All-American in track and field with third-place finishes in both the 55m and 200m dashes at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis, during his junior season. His performance alone catapulted UMBC to an 18th-place finish in the nation.
Bobb capped off his career with a second-place result in the 100m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Bloomington, Ind., where he was the top American finisher in the country and earned All-American honors for the fourth time. He also qualified for the 200m finals, becoming an All-American for the fifth time, but a slight muscle pull forced him to drop out of the race.
Bobb, who was featured on the ESPN show "NCAA Today," graduated from UMBC with a degree in information systems in 1997. He and his wife, Dawnnette, have two daughters, Caitlyn Cassandra and Madisyn Alexandra.


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Location: | CSIA, Mezzanine Level, Terminal 2 opposite boarding Gate 11 |
Opening Hours: | 4 hours before departure |
Location: | CSIA, Mezzanine Level, Terminal 2 between Gates 10 and 14 |
Opening Hours: | 2.5 hours before departure |
Kiosk for ticket printing/purchase available outside the airport at the entrance between Gates A & B
For further information, visit the website of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
All transit passengers must remain onboard.
Indian Airlines domestic flights operate from Domestic Terminal 1A and all other Domestic Airlines operate from Terminal 1B.
Baggage will be cleared at first point of entry into India
Please note that for passengers arriving India, customs and immigration clearance must be done at Mumbai. Contact our India offices for further details.
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Taxi: INR 350 (INR 10 per item of luggage)
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User Development Fee: INR 600
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Tobacco Products: 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 250g tobacco
Alcoholic Beverages: 2 litres of spirits
Others: 2ozs perfume and 0.25 litres of eau-de-toilette. Goods up to the value of INR 12,000 for Indian tourists and non-residents; INR 4,000 for tourists.
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