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North Carolina Builder Magazine Summer 2011
The official magazine of the North Carolina Home Builders Association
The official magazine of the North Carolina Home Builders Association Vol. 41, No.3 Summer 2011 Members lobby legislators in Raleigh NCBI Students Earn Designations Golf Tournament Recap STARS Awards Entries Due 21st Century Building Expo & Conference Conference: September 14-16, 2011 Exhibits: September 15-16, 2011 Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC Door Prizes Grand Prize Golf Tournament STARS Awards Gala making every minute Information and Registration: www.21BuildingExpo.com 1.800.662.7129 count Presented by the North Carolina Home Builders Association SOLARBORD RADIANT BARRIER SHEATHING Send radiant heat back where it came from As temperatures and cooling costs soar, the new frontier in house construction is increasing energy efficiency. Solarbord uses heat-reflecting foil laminated to OSB to stop 97% of the sun's radiant energy. That can mean attics are up to 30�F cooler, which translates into cooler houses, lower energy costs and happier homeowners. 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(800)662-7129�http://www.nchba.com Mike Carpenter ExecutiveVicePresident andGeneralCounsel lisa Martin DirectorofGovernmentAffairs firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com robert Privott DirectorofCodesandConstruction firstname.lastname@example.com Jessica hayes DirectorofPoliticalAffairs firstname.lastname@example.com Enter your projects in the STARS Awards Golf tournament raises $13,200 for scholarships NCHBA Legislative Conference recap 21CBEC offers builders and associates strategies for surviving and thriving Four earn NCBI designations 6 8 10 14 15 Kathryn atkinson DirectorofMembershipServices firstname.lastname@example.com deborah alford DirectorofExhibitions andEducation tracie Garrett DirectorofExhibitorServices Kep Paylor VocationalEducation Mike elledge Controller email@example.com email@example.com email@example.com email@example.com email@example.com erin Jones Managerof PoliticalOperations heather Crews DirectorofCommunications andManagingEditor email@example.com Brittany Carter Weathersbee AssistantEducationCoordinator firstname.lastname@example.com Beth Gray Receptionist email@example.com Contents 4. President's Message 9. NCHBA News 15. NC BUILD-PAC on the cover: Left: A group from the Greensboro BA pose with Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R� Rockingham). Pictured (l-r) Marlene Sanford, Taylor Collins, Cheryl Collins, Sen. Berger, Gary Hill and Phil Warrick. Right: Speaker of the House Rep. Thom Tillis (fourth from right) meets with constituents in the House chambers after the House recesses for break. 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Builderispublishedsixtimesperyear.Sincethe mailinglistusedbyNorthCarolinaBuilderiscompiledaccording tomembershiprecords,addresscorrectionsshouldbedirectedto yourlocalassociation.DuespaidtoNCHBAarenotdeductibleas charitable contributions for income tax purposes. However, they maybedeductibleasordinaryandnecessarybusinessexpenses subjecttorestrictionsimposedasaresultofassociationlobbying activities.NCHBAestimatesthatthenondeductibleportionofyour 2011dues--theportionthatisallocabletolobbying--is31percent. NCHBA Calendar 2011 Schedule of Events oCtoBer 20 NCDOLCarpentryContest Raleigh,NC oCtoBer 27-28 NCHBAExecutivePlanningRetreat Raleigh,NC SePteMBer 7-10 NAHBFallBoardMeeting Milwaukee,WI SePteMBer 14-17 21stCenturyBuildingExpo&Conference, STARSAwardsGalaand3rdQuarter BoardMeeting Charlotte,NC Summer2011 North CaroliNa Builder3 President's Message e're now in the summer months with half the year already behind us. By now, most of us thought the markets would have been improving and be more on their way to recovery. Reality is that they continue to wax and wane, near or at the bottom, with no clear signs of change for the better. NCHBA is hard at work to bring relief from costly and unnecessary regulations and programs to help with the recovery of the home building industry. by Bill Daleure, 2011 NCHBA President W Hope for the future Membership drive We held a very successful membership drive in May, which you can read more about on page 9. To further assist our local HBAs, NCHBA is providing monetary assistance to the vast majority of our local HBAs who elect to enroll members in NAHB's Touch program.This membership retention program sends very professional pieces of correspondence, membership Daleure certificates, brochures and emails--17 "touches" in all--at a cost that is less than the postage required to send them. Many HBAs have enrolled in the program and have customized the information that regulatory Victories will be sent to their members. New members plus higher retention of in the General assembly members results in a more successful HBA. Please ask your local board From a regulatory process we have a few quick victories. HB 92 to to enroll if they have not yet done so. Repeal the Land Transfer Tax option has been enacted into law, ending NC Build-PaC drive the local governments' ability to push for this unjust tax on property We recently completed the May is NC BUILD-PAC Month contest. transfers. SB 731 limits governments' ability to enact residential design Thank you to all who participated. The legislative accomplishments guidelines which dictate the aesthetics, location of windows and doors discussed above would not be possible if not for NC BUILD-PAC including garage doors, construction materials and color of homes. contributions to help leaders, supportive of our industry, get elected. We This bill passed the Senate and is eligible for consideration in the 2012 are asking that everyone contribute at least $10 this year. It seems simple session. HB 806 revises the zoning statute of limitations for rezoning enough, but has always fallen short in years past.To that end, your NCHBA lawsuits to allow one year from the time a plaintiff has standing. It Executive committee achieved 100% participation in NC BUILD-PAC in was ratified and is awaiting the Governor's signature. SB 22 has been March, and I have asked that each HBA Board of Directors do the same enacted and places a moratorium on new state rules causing more before they challenge their membership to likewise participate. I am now than $500,000 in additional cost per year on any persons or group asking you to not only contribute, but be an advocate for your board to until July 2012. achieve 100% participation, and then your membership.We will report these We are also supporting and working to enact around 20 other accomplishments as they happen. Don't be left out. bills that provide a variety of good measures for our industry. These include tort reform, general contractor licensing law, strengthening Supporting Members law that disallows building moratoriums for planning purposes, Finally, I have hope for the future. Dr. David Crowe, NAHB's Chief reducing buffers in the Neuse and Tar-Pam river basins, and improving Economist, stated during our May Board meeting in Washington D.C., turnover of BMP's to neighborhood HOA's, just mention a few. We "There is an ever growing pent up demand for household formations expect a very important bill to come from the report of the Joint that is being restricted by this economy." We all know this to be true. Legislative Regulatory Reform Committee, which met in six different When the recovery begins in earnest, these new households will cities around the state to take comment about what regulations are require an additional 2 to 3 million homes above the normal housing being misused, are unnecessary and costly, or that inhibit economic demand. NCHBA's focus is to support our members, make us all development and the creation of new jobs. We are hopeful that this strong, and remove regulatory obstacles that impede our business, so will address many of those regulations that are the most burdensome we are positioned to participate in the coming housing boom. to our industry. 2011 NCHBA Leadership Bill Daleure, President Erik Anderson, President-Elect J. Gary Hill, First Vice President Lyle Gardner, Immediate Past President & NAHB Executive Committee State Rep. Buddy Hughes, NAHB Executive Committee Mike Carpenter, Executive Vice President Patrick Mann,Vice President, Region I Glenn Morrison,Vice President, Region II Chad D. Collins,Vice President, Region III Ralph Doggett,Vice President, Region IV Densel Williams,Vice President, Region V 4North CaroliNa Builder Brian Pace,Vice President, Region VI Marty Needham,Vice President, Region VII Brian Robinett,Vice President, Region VIII Kevin Annas,Vice President, Region IX Sean Sullivan,Vice President, Region X Barry Tutor, Secretary/Treasurer Elliot Mann, Presidential Appointee Mike Gerber, Presidential Appointee Jeff Stokley, Presidential Appointee Paulette Frantz, Associate Members Chair Natalie Fryer, Executive Officers Chair Emilee Collins, NCPWB Chair Summer2011 STRONGER OUR SYNTHETIC IS 10X THAN 30# FELT. TOO BAD IT DOESN'T COST THE SAME. OH WAIT, YES IT DOES. Surround� SR synthetic underlayment is 10X stronger and lighter than 30# felt. It doesn't absorb water, which means it's less likely to rip and gives you more installation flexibility. Oh yeah, and it's priced comparably to 30# felt. Better performance. Same price. What else do you need to know? 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The STARS Awards program honors the achievements of builders, associates, realtors, media and advertising professionals, and many others who make major contributions to the residential home building industry. Local home builders associations are also honored for their outstanding achievements.With 48 categories to choose from, there is something for everyone. Do you have a great project that deserves recognition? Do you need a creative way to make your product and company stand out above the competition? If so, enter the STARS Awards! To be eligible for consideration in the 2011 awards program, you must be a member of the National Association of Home Builders. Projects must have been completed between January 1, 2010 and July 20, 2011. Entrants can choose between two entry deadlines this year: � EarlyBirddeadline:All entries (fee and entry materials) must be received no later than July 14, 2011 | Fee: $100 � Regulardeadline: All entries (fee and entry materials) must be received no later than July 21, 2011 | Fee: $150 The official 2011 Call for Entries with complete entry and event information can be accessed at www.21buildingexpo.com or by contacting Kathryn Atkinson at (919) 676-9090 or email@example.com. R StarS awards Categories include: � Marketing & Advertising � Brochures � Direct Mail � Logos � Advertisements � Websites � Billboard � Internet projects � Sales/Information Center � Landscape Design � Interior Merchandising � Architecture/Floor Plan � Remodeling/Renovation *NEW* � Local HBA Awards � Special Projects � Community of the Year � Distinguished Builder Member of the Year � Distinguished Associate Member of the Year 6North CaroliNa Builder Summer2011 the marketing benefit of reaching for the StarS Ever wonder why your company should enter the STARS Awards? Are you curious as to what companies do with such an award? The answer goes beyond the trophy and immediate recognition to include the role that a STARS Award can play in the big picture of a company's overall marketing and sales strategy. Marketing programs in general are all aimed at convincing people to try out or to keep using particular products or services. Professional recognition such as the STARS Awards can be a great addition to your marketing tool belt! Sponsor Club Members The North Carolina Home Builders Association would like to recognize these companies for their generous support in 2011. 2011 What advertising your StarS award(s) can do for your business? � Highlight the quality and benefits of your product or service to current and potential customers, � Establish and maintain your distinct identity as a company and professional, � Enhance your professional reputation, � Give you an edge over the competition, � Encourage existing customers to buy more of what you sell, and � Promote your business. Don'tbeleftoutofthe2011STARSAwards!Entertoday! THANK YOU ! thank You 2011 Sponsors Media Presentation TruOptions Financial Services LLC Member of the TruOptions Family of Companies C. Bruce Matthews, CWM, CTEP, Founder Mega Star SILVER Duke Energy ElectriCities of North Carolina Progress Energy North Carolina Housing Finance Agency Stuart Law Firm, PLLC Shining Star Aegis Administrative Services Bonded Builders Warranty Group PSNC Energy Shooting Star Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP Lewis & Roberts PLLC RT Marketing inc. WeMarketBuilders.com Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, LLP Lewis & Roberts, PLLC Summer2011 North CaroliNa Builder7 Golfers raise $13,200 for scholarships G s First-placehonorsattheBuildersClassicwenttotheteamofLarryFerguson, HughGill,MikeGill,andConnieJohnsonwithascoreof58. olfers teed off under a beautiful sunny sky April 29 at Bryan Park Golf Club to raise money for the North Carolina Home Builders Educational & Charitable Foundation Inc., which provides scholarships for students entering the building industry. The Builders Classic Golf Tournament, sponsored by Builders Mutual Insurance Co., turned out to be another big success this year as 86 golfers helped raise over $13,200 for the foundation. Taking home first place honors was the Pegram-West team of Larry Ferguson, Hugh Gill, Mike Gill and Connie Johnson. Second place honors went to the Brad D. Cummings Construction Co. team of Brad Cummings, Tony Fish, Michael Rhodes and Keith Thomas. Marty Needham, NCHBA Regional Vice President and Surry Co. HBA Local President, was the winner of the President's Cup, a competition among former and current local, state or national HBA presidents. His team members were Grant Chilton, Kevin McCallister and Dwayne Shelton. The foundation would like to thank the many companies that helped support this event through contributions of door prizes, gift bag items and hole sponsorships. First- and second-place teams won gift certificates to the pro-shop at Bryan Park. The festivities began Thursday evening with a BBQ "Pig-nic" Cook-off sponsored by Builders Mutual Insurance Co. Robert Privott, Larry Airey and Danny Brafford squared off to earn the prize of top chef. Attendees cast monetary "votes" for the best BBQ, which raised an additional $280 for the scholarship program. Larry Airey was voted the winner and took home the metal flying pig trophy. Thank You ... s LarryAireyandhiswife,Dixie,acceptthemetalflyingpigafterwinningtheBBQ PignicCookoffonThursdayevening. The North Carolina Home Builders Association would like to thank Builders Mutual Insurance Co. for sponsoring the Builder Classic Golf Tournament. Proceeds benefit the North Carolina Home Builders Educational and Charitable Foundation Inc. It was through the insurance company's generous support that this worthwhile event was made possible. Piedmont Natural Gas Professional Warranty Services Corp. Stuart Law Firm Phantom Screens Piedmont Natural Gas Tradition Homes Dominion NC Power Integrity Builders Perma `R' Products Pro-Build Schluter Systems Wade Jurney Homes door prizes were donated by: Dominion Power Log Homes of America Moen, Inc. Pella Carolina Bonded Builders Home Warranty Builders Mutual Insurance Co. s TheteamofBradCummings,TonyFish,MichaelRhodesandKeithThomas cameinaclosesecondplacefinishwithascoreof59. Gift bag items were donated by: hole sponsors were: ABC Supply Co. BB&T Bonded Builders Warranty Group Builders Mutual Insurance Co. Dan Ryan Builders Piedmont Natural Gas registration desk Sponsor: 8North CaroliNa Builder Summer2011 NCHBA News Second NCHBA Membership Drive Nets 366 New Members Member Elected to NAHB Leadership Position in North Carolina Kevin Kelly, a Delaware builder and developer with more than 30 years of experience in the building industry, was elected as the 2011 Third Vice Chairman of the Board during the 2011 International Builders' Show. Kelly, president of Leon N. Weiner & Associates Inc., is also a long-standing member of the HBA of Raleigh Wake Co. Kelly joins fellow NCHBA member Rick Judson as a senior officer of NAHB. Congratulations Kevin! Local HBAs in North Carolina called in 366 new member pledges on National Membership Day May 24. NAHB reports that 3,432 new member pledges were called in overall during the campaign. Across all membership categories North Carolina represented just over 10 percent of the national total. In terms of just builder and associate members, North Carolina represented 9.59 percent of the national total, finishing only behind Texas for the highest percentage. The membership breakdown is as follows: 289 builders and associates, 56 affiliates, 16 Sales and Marketing Council, and five Remodelers Council members. Thank you again to everyone who worked hard to make this incredibly important day so successful for our association and our industry. Summer2011 Bo oth #3 02 North CaroliNa Builder9 Capitol Insider Annual Legislative Conference s (l-r) NCHBA Executive Vice President Mike Carpenter, NC Court of Appeals Judge Sam Irvin IV, Rep. Harold Brubaker (R�Randolph), Rep. Phil Frye (R�Mitchell) and Rep. Dan Ingle (R�Alamance). s NCHBAExecutiveVicePresidentMikeCarpenter(left)andhiswifeJuliapose withRep.KellyHastings(R-Gaston).Rep.HastingswasaprimarysponsorofHB 648,ImproveEnforcement/GeneralContractorLaws. s Rep.WilliamBrawley(R�Mecklenburg)holdsthepenusedtosignHB92 RepealLandTransferTax,akeypieceoflegislationforNCHBA.PicturedwithRick Shields,amemberoftheLakeNormanHBA. s PresidentNCHBABillDaleure(l)speakswithSen.DanClodfelter(D� Mecklenburg)aboutthehousingindustry.Alsopicturedl-r,TomPearson,Mark Baldwin,RickJudsonandNicoleGoolsby. 10North CaroliNa Builder s Salisbury-RowanHBAExecutiveVicePresidentMacButner(l)picturedwith Rep.HarryWarren. Summer2011 s Picturedlefttoright,CharlotteHBAExecutiveOfficerMarkBaldwin,Rep.RicKillian(R�Mecklenburg), NCHBADirectorofPoliticalAffairsJessiHayesandBradTrahan,aninterninRep.Killian'soffice.. s MembersoftheCabarrusCo.BIA,LakeNormanHBAandIredellCo.HBAarepicturedherewithRep.Jeff Barnhart(R�Cabarrus),fifthfromrightandRep.FredSteen(R-Rowan),secondfromleft. by Lisa Martin, Director of Government Affairs embers of the North Carolina Home Builders Association visited with the N.C. General Assembly June 7-8 as part of NCHBA's annual Legislative Conference in Raleigh. It was an extremely busy time down at the General Assembly, as the meeting was held just days before the "crossover deadline." Generally, any non-appropriations bills that have not passed at least one chamber of the General Assembly by the crossover deadline cannot be considered again until the start of the next legislative long session in 2013. Luckily, our members were able to schedule meetings with their legislators during the morning of June 8 amidst the flurry of activity in the Legislative Building. The previous evening, we had a well-attended reception in honor of legislators at the North Carolina Museum of History. Among the NCHBA legislative priorities that members discussed: � Reforming general contractor licensing law to end abuse of homeowner exemption � Ending development moratoria abuse � Limiting zoning design and aesthetic controls by local governments � Workers' compensation reform � Tort reform � Regulatory reform At the time of this writing, the 2011 "long session" is close to adjournment. Look for a recap of the 2011 Legislative Session in an upcoming issue of North Carolina Builder magazine. The following pages show a "snapshot" of our NCHBA Legislative Conference. Thanks to everyone who participated and we hope to see you next year! M (See Annual Legislative Conference on page 12) s Rep.JamesBolesJr.(R�Moore)visitswithagroupfromtheMooreCountyHBA. s (l-r)NCHBAFirstVicePresidentGaryHill,NCHBAPresidentBillDaleure,Sen.DavidRouzer(R�Johnston) andNCHBAExecutiveVicePresidentMikeCarpenterpauseforaphotoattheLegislativeReception. Summer2011 s Rep.MikeHager(R-Rutherford)talkswith NCHBAExecutiveVicePresidentMikeCarpenter. Rep.HagerwasaprimarysponsorofHB648, ImproveEnforcement/GeneralContractorLaws. North CaroliNa Builder11 annual legislative Conference (continued from page 11) SpeakerProTemporeRep.DaleFolwell(R� Forsyth),picturedsecondfromright,meetswitha groupofconstituentsfromtheWinston-Salemarea. Folwellchampionedthehistoricallegislationon workers'compensationreformduringthe2011session. s Sen.Eric Mansfield(D� Cumberland) meetswithalarge groupfromthe FayettevilleHBA attheLegislative Building. s s N.C.CourtofAppealsjudgesSanfordSteelman Jr.(left)andDougMcCullough(right)stopbythe LegislativeReception.AlsopicturedNCHBAEVP MikeCarpenter. s AgroupfromtheAlamance-CaswellHBAposeswithRep.DanIngle(R� Alamance)attheLegislativeReception. s Rep.EdgarStarnes(R�Caldwell),right,poseswith(l-r)KenWalend,retiredRep. TrudiWalendandRickJudson. s (l-r)NCHBAPresidentBillDaleure,LindaDaleureandMarkBaldwin(right)greet Rep.RuthSamuelson(R�Mecklenburg)asshestopsbytheLegislativeReception. 12North CaroliNa Builder s Rep.SusiHamilton(D�NewHanover)poseswithDaveThomasand JeffStokley,bothmembersoftheWilmingtonCapeFearHBA. Summer2011 Reach Your Target Market Jumpstart your business by advertising in North Carolina Builder! 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For the past few years, NCHBA members have struggled to hang on to their businesses and make a living building homes for the citizens of our state. Thankfully, North Carolina's home building industry has fared much better than other parts of the country and many economists believe the worst is behind us. Have you positioned your company so that it is ready to take advantage when the market improves? In September, the North Carolina Home Builders Association will host the 21st Century Building Expo & Conference Sept. 14-16 at the Charlotte Convention Center.This event is one of the most important benefits we offer our members. You will have the opportunity to gather with other industry professionals from across the southeast for education and networking. The 21CBEC provides builders and associates with critical knowledge about the current marketplace and how best to position your companies in a way that will significantly increase your prospects for success. There are a variety of ways to participate in the Expo, including options for every budget. goods and services to serve the residential construction industry. Pick up new ideas and new technologies to better run your business. Examine new products and services that may help you deliver higher value to your customers and set you apart from your competition. For just $10, you can visit the Expo Floor September 15-16. For a small investment of your time and resources, you have the opportunity to obtain a significant return. The Exhibit Hall will be open on a new schedule this year. For several years, our educational conference attendees have been disappointed not to have more time on the Expo Floor. We're remedying that situation this year, in addition to giving those of you who can't leave work during normal work hours another opportunity to visit the floor. On Thursday, Sept. 15, the Expo Floor will be open from 11a.m.�7p.m. From 5 p.m.-7 p.m. beers and snacks will be served while you visit with exhibitors. On Friday,Sept.16, the Expo Floor will be open from 9a.m.-3p.m. Networking opportunities Often times, it is the casual conversation that you have with your fellow builder or associate member that can give you an idea for your business. The 21CBEC has many networking opportunities, both casual and more formal. � STARSAwardsGala� Wednesday, September 14 (see page 6 for more information) � 21CBECGolfTournament � Wednesday, September 14. Relax on the links before the Exhibit Hall opens with a round of golf at the Charlotte Golf Links course. � NASCAROvertheWallTour� Wednesday, September 14. New this year! Take a full tour of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and experience the speed and curves of the track. � BuildersBeerGarden� Thursday, September 15. Enjoy a beer and snacks from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. on the Expo Floor. No additional charge! For eight years, many NCHBA members have taken advantage of the convenient location for a conference that rivals the quality of the much larger International Builder Show. If you have attended the 21CBEC, you know the benefits and we hope to see you again this year. If you have never attended the 21CBEC, we hope that you make the commitment and small investment this year. It's a decision we know you won't regret. To register or to get more information, visit www.21buildingexpo. com or call NCHBA at 1-800-662-7129. educational Conference The 21CBEC offers the best educational conference in the Southeastern United States with more than 50 courses and seminars being offered over three days. These cutting-edge NCBI, NAHB, and general session courses will be taught by experts who will provide information that will be useful in helping you survive. Many of these instructors have presented these same courses at the International Builders Show and at other events across the country. A few highlights of the educational conference include: � Green Building for Building Professionals and Basics of Building will be offered for those of you interested in earning your Certified Green Professional designation. With over 500 builders in North Carolina holding the designation, it is one of the most popular and useful designations available. These are the only courses required for the designation. � Two courses for the increasingly popular Certified Aging-inPlace Specialist designation will also be offered: Marketing and Communication Strategies for Aging and Accessibility (CAPS1) and Design/Build Solutions for Aging and Accessibility (CAPS2). � The Full Delegate registration for just $85 allows you to take any of our more than 25 general session seminars. Topics include energy efficiency, marketing strategies, social media, remodeling and more. SPeCial diSCouNt For NChBa MeMBerS When you register online, enter special promo code NCBM and take $10 off your registration fees. This code will make the Expo Floor FREE or take $10 off your conference registration fees. Summer2011 exhibit hall Courses are not the only way to acquire knowledge to improve your business. Over 200 exhibitors will be displaying the latest in 14North CaroliNa Builder Four earn NCBI designation accredited Master Builder Graduate ChadCollins,CGP CollinsDesign-Build Durham,N.C. A licensed general contractor since 1997, as well as a licensed home inspector, Chad Collins has been transforming clients' dreams into elegant, fashionable, timeless homes while building a reputation for skilled craftsmanship, superior quality, and incomparable client service. 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Saturday, December 20, 2014
In Memoriam: Helen Piett
I won't romanticize it. No doubt it was a difficult place to be an outsider. And when I was young, the stability of the place was already eroding: the culture of divorce and dislocation would eat away at a more ancient fabric. But the village and surrounding rural township forged an identity in two primary nodes: the hockey arena and our rural school.
I am just old enough to remember the original arena: a green ramshackle driveshed of a building on Argyle Street--basically corrugated metal and a roof over what would otherwise be an outdoor rink. It was here that I would take my first steps on the ice, though within a few years a new arena would be built on the other side of town, the local temple of Canadian religion. For a significant swath of the community, life revolved around the arena.
But even more of us were bound together by the school. All of us were bussed from miles around to a country school north of Embro: Zorra Highland Park, whose name signaled the Scottish heritage of the township ("Embro" is said to be a garbled form of the "Edinburgh"). My first teacher there in kindergarten also happened to be my great aunt, Helen Piett (née Smith). I was terribly sad to learn that Aunt Helen died a few weeks ago, on November 22, 2014. I feel like I owe her memory and legacy a word of thanks.
My first-hand memories of Aunt Helen are memories of "Mrs. Piett," my teacher. Because it was a country school, we went to kindergarten all day, every other day, so I remember her getting us settled down for nap time in the afternoons. "Get your mats, children"--cushy, ugly, brown naugahyde mats for sleeping on the floor. I remember her comforting me and putting a band-aid on my hair after Darryl Fraser hip-checked me into one of the cubby-holes, sending me off with the principal to get stitches in Tavistock. I remember how every year, for generations, she created silhouettes of each student's young profile by tracing the outline of our heads projected by the stark light of the filmstrip projector. She would cut these out of black construction paper, mount them on stark white backdrops, label the name and date in her meticulous cursive hand, and then present them to the parents. Often when I visited friends in their homes, these shadows of their younger selves adorned the walls like memories.
For reasons that are painful to discuss, I never really got to know Mrs. Piett as "Aunt Helen." Those corrosive forces that fractured families hit my own, leaving estrangement and dysfunction in their wake. The entire "Smith side" of my life disappeared behind the walls erected by divorce--walls that are invisible and yet also block our way.
And she didn't ever again. Faithfully, every year, she would send our family a Christmas card with one of her lovely letters of reflection and gratitude. And we would reciprocate, partly in gratitude, but mostly because she was the only set of arms reaching out to us from this lost side of my life. In Children of Divorce, Andrew Root argues that divorce is traumatic because its effects are ontological: it rends our very being. Aunt Helen was someone who was trying to keep me stitched together.
This week we received a letter from Aunt Helen's daughter, Marlene Matheson. Its first line both pierced my heart and cheered my soul:
It is with sadness that I write this last 'Christmas' letter for Mom. Mom will be spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.
I am grateful for the quiet, steady witness of saints like Aunt Helen. Thank you, Aunt Helen, for the gift you gave our family: the gift of a history, a story, but also the model of one who longed for the Lord of history. Enjoy your well-deserved rest in the country you've been looking for your whole life. I can't wait to see you there.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Responding to a Common Critique of "Who's Afraid of Relativism?"
Eduardo Echeverria has published an article-length critical review of my book, Who's Afraid of Relativism?, in the latest issue of the Calvin Theological Journal and the editors gave me an opportunity to respond. I took them up on it, in part because Echeverria's serious engagement deserved a reply, but also because his critique reflects a common mis-reading of my project (of the sort you might see, for instance, in Philosophia Christi).
I've uploaded my response, "Echeverria's Protestant Epistemology: A Catholic Response," at Scrib and embedded it below.
One contextual note about a joke embedded in the title: Echeverria is a former Neocalvinist who converted to Roman Catholicism; I, on the other hand, am a Reformed Protestant. Get it?
I've uploaded my response, "Echeverria's Protestant Epistemology: A Catholic Response," at Scrib and embedded it below.
One contextual note about a joke embedded in the title: Echeverria is a former Neocalvinist who converted to Roman Catholicism; I, on the other hand, am a Reformed Protestant. Get it?
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Friday, August 29, 2014
Labor Day Lament: A Poem
This "last Friday" of summer has a feel of Fall about it: we'll head to the first high school football game tonight with sweatshirts to guard against evening chill. As I'm watching the kids on our street squeeze out the last dregs of summer, I'm reminded of how I approached Labor Day weekend as a child--which then reminded me of a poem I wrote several years ago. It's probably not worth the light of day, but it might capture how some of us feel about the twilight of summer:
Labor Day Lament
When did Labor Day lose
its apocalyptic tenor?
its doomsday connotation?
its autumnal terror?
For a boy of twelve
Labor Day comes like a thief in the night,
with the sound of a dreaded trump
announcing the end of
catching crayfish and walnut fights—
as if the first day of school
was a recurring Armageddon.
For a boy of sixteen
Labor Day is the Day of Judgment,
the parousia that quashes
a summer of paramours—
when teasing bikinis and spaghetti straps
become draped in the wool of
Catholic school uniforms whose
scratchy discomfort enacts
a tartan penance.
For the young man at twenty-seven
Labor Day is lost in the blur
of cubicled time,
barely a blip in the whir of ambition
and the tribulation of his toil.
But at twilight
in the yard—
in the cemetery of his play—
in the gloaming of summer,
the smell of that adolescent dread
briefly hangs on the unkempt lawn
like neglected manna,
a tenuous revenant lurking
between tricycle and sandbox.
Its haunting no longer spooks
his responsible adult disenchanted soul.
Tuesday will be no Second Coming.
Apocalyptic is kids' stuff.
We're too busy slouching toward success.
We're too busy slouching toward success.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Sending our Daughter Off to College: A Guest Post by Deanna
Today we moved our daughter, our third child, into her dorm room at Calvin College. It was everything we could have hoped for, and everything we've been trying to pretend wouldn't happen all summer. Our baby girl has been launched into the next season of her adventure with Christ.
My wife, Deanna, sent a note to our closest family to share an update. I found her little note so lovely, so fitting, so poignant, I asked if I could share it here, and she agreed.
I just got home from taking Maddie to Calvin. The day we have been both looking forward to and dreading all at once. We like her so much.
All the cliches are true. It goes by so fast. It seems like just yesterday...Where does the time go? Of course, there were so many days that led to this one. 6649 to be exact. So many of them ordinary, trying, never ending. And then there were the magical ones. All of the "firsts." All of the moments that have added up and been tucked away and made us into the people we are today.
We are so very thankful. Profoundly grateful for our Maddie and her brothers. We look forward to watching her grow over the next 4 years and are trusting in God's amazing love for her.
One of my favourite pictures of her from when she was little is this one I have included. She was pretending to be a bird. Arms open wide, face to the sun, looking ahead, soaring. It perfectly encapsulates who she is. She is ready to fly.
Friday, August 22, 2014
We Need More Than Liturgy: AGREED
I say "intriguing," but what I really mean is frustrating, disappointing, and puzzling--especially when such a "critique" is not some random musing hastily posted to a blog but an article that appears in a major evangelical publication that (one assumes) has been vetted by editors who (again, one would think) exercise some critical quality control. (I say this as someone who also edits a magazine and has had to reject articles--even articles I've commissioned--when authors weren't willing to correct caricatures.)
This was my experience upon reading Kirsten Guidero's puzzling, somewhat meandering article, "We Need More Than Liturgy," published by Christianity Today.
The problem isn't critique. Critique is how knowledge advances and how authors continue to learn. And I've appreciated some well-founded critiques of both Desiring the Kingdom (DTK) and Imagining the Kingdom (ITK). Indeed, as I note in the Preface to ITK, insightful criticisms of DTK shaped how I approached volume 2 of the Cultural Liturgies Project. I've also engaged the helpful criticisms of my project from "the Westmont Four" that appeared in Books & Culture (here and here).
Lots of other criticisms are simply mistaken and uninteresting and usually exhibit the critic's inability to understand an argument (or that the critic has already decided before reading that book X is "wrong" because it is written by Y and Y is associated with Z, etc.). Most of these sorts of "critiques" appear on blogs and I happily ignore.
Guidero's is this sort of "critique," but it appears with the imprimatur of Christianity Today and, one has to conclude, its editors. It's frustrating to feel compelled to write a response to such a piece since it's required only because an author and editors failed to actually read what I've already written. And if my response seems tedious, it's precisely because I find it tedious to have to restate what Guidero should have already read (supposedly "has read"). My response, then, is as much an indictment of the editors of Christianity Today as it is of Guidero.
Without further adieu, a few notes:
Liturgical Evangelicalism?
Guidero's attributes to me a "defense of liturgical evangelicalism." I dare anyone to find any instance in which I have either used this term let alone "defended" it. I have no idea what it would mean to be "a champion of the evangelical liturgy cause." To the contrary I have been persistently skeptical about what "evangelicalism" means. Instead, ever since the final chapter of Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (2006), I have argued for catholic faith. "Evangelicalism" is not my term nor my identity. I'm a Reformed Catholic.
Only Bodies?
Guidero mistakenly thinks I argue for some kind of reductionistic materialism, as if we were only bodies--that I set up liturgical formation "against" cognitive processes and am engaged in "a continued zero-sum game pitting mind against body." Instead, she argues for the "enduring interrelation of our bodies, brains, and identities."
Here's the problem: that's also what I argue for. Both sides of her claim are so baffling to me I don't even know where to begin, but I think it must stem from Guidero's inability (or refusal?) to really grasp what I argue in chapter 1 of ITK (an admittedly challenging chapter, focused on Merleau-Ponty).
Following Merleau-Ponty, I emphasise the "hybridity" of our being--that we are mind and body (ITK, 43). This "betweenness" and inter-relatedness of mind and body is almost the entire burden of the first chapter of ITK (see especially pp. 69-72 about the "wholeness" of our experience).
[Also relevant is a footnote on ITK, p. 55, drawing on Alasdair MacIntyre: "The term animal (as in "liturgical animal" or "imaginative animal") is just a philosophical way of naming our embodiment, of saying that we are not essentially souls or only minds but embodied thinkers that Aristotle called "rational animals." We aren't angels. Merleau-Ponty and Johnson press us to situate the rationality in our animality, in our embodiment. Alasdair MacIntyre makes the same point: "our whole initial bodily comportment towards the world is originally an animal comportment" (Dependent Rational Animals, 49).]
I'm not arguing that we are only bodies; I'm arguing that we are not less than bodies. She takes my argument for irreducibility as if it were a reductionism. But I don't know how many more ways I could protest that in the book. Guidero is working with a dichotomy that I explicitly refuse. For example, I conclude ITK by emphasizing "that this attention to our unconscious habituation and embodied 'feel' for the world is not meant to denigrate or neglect the role of reflection and intellectual analysis. I am not setting up a dichotomy: either practice or reflection. To the contrary, my hope is to foster intentional reflection on practice in order to encourage reflective immersion in practice" (p. 186). The entire Preface of ITK makes this same point: if my argument is anti-intellectual, both of my books sure ask people to do some really hard thinking about worship! In that sense, I only wish Guidero would have thought a little more carefully about all of this.
Furthermore, I explicitly agree with her claim about how we ought to be engaged in worship: as I emphasize at the conclusion of ITK, "worship requires full, active, conscious participation even if it is also forming us in ways that elude our conscious awareness. If our immersion in the practices of Christian worship is always and only a matter of 'going through the motions,' then we are not really practitioners" (p. 187).
If some of Guidero's evangelical friends have latched onto "liturgy" as some kind of magical antidote, that's not my fault.
According to Guidero, I argue, in DTK, that "Christian education must be entirely redirected in order to better foster such liturgical emphasis on the emotions." (Guidero has a habit of simply putting a title in brackets in a mode of vague reference--though this might have been a result of editorial trimming.)
Really? I'm baffled. I've searched high and low throughout Desiring to see where I even talk about emotions. All I could find was a critique of emotionalism on p. 79 and then a more substantial discussion on p. 224 where, again, I critique emotivism. In the context of a discussion about campus worship, I push back on dichotomous models that emphasize either the intellect or emotions. "[B]oth sides," I point out, "tend to either reduce Christianity to a belief system or an emotivist experience." In contrast, I argue that "if we begin from the assumption that humans are liturgical animals, and that the Christian social imaginary is carried in the practices of Christian worship, then...the role of the chapel is not to stir our emotions or merely fuel our 'spiritual' needs..."
Guidero doesn't seem to appreciate the nuances of the philosophical account of the emotions that is unpacked in ITK drawing on scholars like Merleau-Ponty, Mark Johnson, Iain McGilchrist, Bob Roberts and relevant work in neuroscience. (One can find further exploration of a nuanced account of emotion in my earlier book, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy). She also seems to confuse my (Burkean) sense of the "sentimental" (also per David Brooks) as if this was some kind of Oprah-fied Hallmarkism and the stuff of Nicholas Sparks' movies--when, in fact, this is precisely what I criticize.
That I could be guilty of extoling "emotion-driven Christian liturgy" is almost laughable: you should come to my church!
No Guarantees
In what she takes to be opposition to my project, Guidero emphasizes that "liturgical formation does not guarantee virtue formation."
But where do I ever make claims about such a "guarantee?" I reject any sort of liturgical determinism (just as Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu also reject determinism, as I note in ITK). And already in DTK, I noted the limits of liturgical formation. Consider, for example, an important footnote on p. 208:
I suggest that my account of secular liturgies might be able to provide a framework for explaining why the practices of Christian worship don't seem to transform those who participate in them. For instance, I can think of a congregation gathering week in and week out for historic, intentional Christian worship that includes all the elements discussed here; and yet, from the perspective of shalom, some of its parishioners are unapologetic and public participants in some of the most egregious systemic injustices. Does that falsify my claims here? I don't think so, at least not necessarily. Rather, we will need a more nuanced account of how some liturgies trump others; in this case, we could suggest that though these parishioners participate in Christian worship, their participation in other secular liturgies effectively trumps the practices of Christian worship. Such a line of investigation might also require that we attend to empirical realities, drawing on a theologically informed psychology, sociology, and ethnography.Furthermore, I conclude ITK with an entire section emphasizing the importance of reflection and liturgical catechesis, inviting worshipers to think about what they're doing when they worship (pp. 187-189). There, drawing on the wisdom of my friend John Witvliet, I explicitly name and reject the kind of liturgical superstition that Guidero attributes to me.
Liturgies from Heaven?
I'm not quite sure what to make of Guidero's section, "Who Decides?," but she seems to attribute to me some kind of traditionalism as if I think there is "one, true" Christian liturgy that was handed down from heaven to...who? Cranmer? Calvin? Bob Webber? I'm not sure because, simply, I don't hold this view.
If some people are prone to liturgical positivism and traditionalism, what does that have to do with me? I explicitly reject this kind of static, "deposit" model of Christian liturgy, even though I do argue for a core, catholic liturgical inheritance that is the accrued wisdom of the body of Christ, led by the Spirit over the course of history (see esp. ITK, pp. 169-171). But I also explicitly note that this does not preclude innovation in liturgical forms (p. 174n.61):
This is not to say that there is no room for innovation or improvisation in Christian worship or that affirming the formative wisdom of historic Christian worship requires merely repeating status quo forms. The point is rather that improvisations and innovations of worship form need to be attentive to the narrative arc of the form and the unique "incarnate significance" of worship practices. Innovations that are "faithful" will preserve the plot of that narrative arc and deepen the imaginative impact of worship. Unfaithful and unhelpful innovations will be developments that are detrimental to the imaginative coherence of worship.Was there some other way I could have said that so Guidero could hear it?
These notes still don't quite capture the gulf between the positions she ascribes to me and those I actually argue for in DTK and ITK. To do so would be to rewrite those books. The best I can do is invite you to read the books carefully (even if Guidero didn't) and assess for yourself.
Do we need more than liturgy? Absolutely. In fact, I wrote a book called Desiring the Kingdom that concluded with the same point. And that we need nothing less.
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"What my mother said will finally come true!"
He never imagined he would be betrayed.
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(From the CD El corrido de Enrique Moreno, by Margarito Rodriguez; translated from the Spanish.)
Along the border, people about whom folk ballads called corridos are written generally meet two requirements: (1) their lives are in some way legendary, and (2) they are dead. corridos are written about heroes like Pancho Villa. The fact that a plaintiffs lawyer named Enrique Moreno—who is quite alive and working in downtown El Paso—is the subject of his own corrido, complete with misty-eyed poetizing about betrayal and liberation, is a measure of just how distressed El Pasoans have become over his rejection as President Clinton's nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The corrido, which is now circulating in El Paso, is part of the paroxysm of civic anger and wounded racial pride that was touched off in May when Senators Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison formally blocked Moreno's appointment. What appalled the community—from ponytailed, folk-singing, grassroots activists like attorney Margarito Rodriguez to Republican judges like Jose Troche and business leaders like Wells Fargo bank chairman Jim R. Phillips—was the notion, expressed in a letter from Gramm and Hutchison to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, that Moreno was somehow unqualified for the position. The letter, dated May 5, stated, "Mr. Moreno simply had not achieved the level of experience necessary to be fully engaged and effective on a court one notch below the United States Supreme Court."
It was a remarkable and even startling assertion, given the background of the 44-year-old lawyer. He was, by all usual standards of measurement, impeccably qualified. He had received the American Bar Association's highest endorsement. He was supported by El Paso congressman Silvestre Reyes and endorsed by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the El Paso Bar Association, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the local district and county attorneys, and the sheriff and the chief of police. Though Moreno had never worked as a judge, neither had seven of the fourteen members currently on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. And four of the nine judges appointed by Republicans had fewer years of legal experience than Moreno when they were appointed. Moreno had received support from practically the entire community in El Paso, Republicans and Democrats, Anglos and Latinos alike. And on top of that, Moreno, who had emigrated from Mexico as a child and attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School, was as pure an example of the American dream as you are likely to find in the raw, dun-colored borderlands of West Texas.
The letter from Gramm and Hutchison was, politically speaking, a bizarre and even unnecessary move. While freezing out another party's judicial nominations in a presidential election year is a hallowed political tradition that dates back to Thomas Jefferson's administration, it is usually done passively. Presidential nominees are left to twist slowly in the wind while the senators dither and temporize and purport to be making up their minds while in fact waiting for the election. Because of a long-standing Senate practice, a senator from the nominee's state can block his nomination by withholding a "blue slip" of approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Gramm and Hutchison could have done precisely that—that is, nothing at all—a tactic they employed with the previous Hispanic Texan nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court, Jorge Rangel, who finally withdrew his name in disgust two years ago after fifteen months of waiting. But in this case they deliberately chose the more personal—and politically risky—course. They had based their rejection on the recommendations of a private panel of lawyers called the Federal Judicial Advisory Group ( FJAG) that Gramm has been using since 1985 to help him screen judicial nominees. In their letter Gramm and Hutchison said that the FJAG had voted 10-5 against Moreno, which suggested to some that a minority candidate had been defeated by secret ballot. In El Paso, which has long been convinced that the rest of the world is plotting to ignore it, give it less money than it deserves, or deny it the respect to which it is entitled, the reaction to the letter was swift and visceral. More than 150 people gathered in protest on the federal courthouse steps to hear state senator Eliot Shapleigh speak, while others took part in a cyber-protest, sending e-mails to Gramm and Hutchison. Congressman Reyes blasted his legislative colleagues in the stark language of someone who has had his feelings hurt, saying, "I cannot express enough disappointment and the degree to which I am shocked and personally outraged." The mayor and the city council of El Paso adopted a resolution urging the senators to reconsider their position. A group led by county attorney José Rodríguez chanted protests during a visit by Kay Bailey Hutchison. Moreno, meanwhile, held his tongue. After announcing, "I have been blessed with the support and encouragement of many people," Moreno has kept his silence and declined to comment for this story.
The controversy quickly spread beyond West Texas. National Hispanic organizations like the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the League of United Latin American Citizens were soon in full cry, denouncing Gramm and Hutchison's letter and what they saw as "the continuing efforts by some in Congress to stonewall Latino nominees." By summer's end newspapers all across Texas had condemned the letter in their editorial pages. Most of the out-of-state critics were, predictably, Democrats, liberals, or from somewhere in the Hispanic community. There were not a lot of Republicans in Illinois losing sleep over this. But in El Paso it was different. As phones rang across the city, the frequent reaction was: "Can


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Three-minute stars: Karaoke brings out the best and worst in local vocals
Some tasks are better left to professionals. Brain surgery, commercial aviation, and maintaining tropical fish tanks spring to mind.But singing? We are all born with the ability to vocalize, and often, the desire or even the need to share our vocalizations with others. Sometimes, singing in the shower just won't suffice.
Hence, karaoke.
Karaoke began in Japan in the 1970s and slowly spread all over the world.
In Naples, and throughout Southwest Florida, there are plenty of people with "Saturday night fever" — or Friday, or Thursday or Wednesday night fever. Karaoke is usually on the menu every night of the week.
These regulars, or karaoke junkies, return to their favorite karaoke bar time after time to put their name on the list, wait their turn, cue up their song of choice and have a few minutes of fame. Some performers are talented singers who love the chance to show off their vocal skills. Some are not.
The popularity of the form has endured despite the incontrovertible truth that karaoke encourages many people who should never get up in public and sing to do just that. It's no coincidence the venue for karaoke is almost invariably a bar, an establishment that earns its keep by selling alcohol.
Along with the run-of-the-bar singers who regularly butcher the classic rock oeuvre, though, some karaoke regulars stand out, performing renditions of standards that would not be out of place on an actual bandstand. Many of these are the karaoke DJs, who loved the activity enough to earn part or all of their living from it.
Whether they run the board for their fellow singers, or simply can be counted on to show up, each accomplished karaoke singer has his or her own secrets, tricks and ideas for how to put on a memorable performance; how to "sell" a song.
"Singing is an emotional release. Once someone figures that out, they become an addict," said DJ Hollie Brooks of Showtime Karaoke, running the show at the Captain's Cabin on Airport-Pulling Road on a recent Friday night. Asked to sing herself, she demurred, instead calling bartender Ashleigh Bryant to the stage.Singing is an emotional release. Once someone figures that out, they become an addict"
Bryant gave a heartfelt rendition of Taylor Swift's "White Horse," and then sang a duet with Pat Holland on Kid Rock's and Sheryl Crow's "Picture." Bryant has one piece of the karaoke puzzle figured out — bring your friends. As the bartender, she definitely can count on having the crowd on her side.
There must be something to the "addiction" analogy for karaoke, at least according to Lucy Harris of Cape Coral. She is making a film on the subject, "The Secret Lives of Karaoke Junkies." With footage shot but editing yet to be completed, she called her project a "mockumentary," in the style of "The Office" or Christopher Guest films such as "This is Spinal Tap."
Too shy to sing? Not Harris.
"I like to think of myself as the queen of karaoke," she said. For years, she said, she and her crew would go out at least a couple of times a week to sing.
Choice of material is key, she said.
"You have to find a song people will have fun with. Something they've heard before — people like what they already know," she said. Personal favorites include "Cabaret" from the show of the same name, and songs by Janis Joplin such as "Piece of My Heart."
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Karaoke is not her only forum for singing in front of people. The committed amateur actress has performed in "a lot of musicals," so Harris knows how to put a song over to an audience.
On a balmy and comfortable Saturday night, the poolside tiki bar at the Quality Inn in Golden Gate is jumping. Karaoke shares the stage — and the screens — with football.
When his turn comes to sing, Victor Forrester shows he is a confident veteran.
"Turn it up, honey, and give me a little reverb," he tells the DJ. Forrester launches into a note-perfect rendition of AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds," and shows the difference between someone who is singing on a dare and someone who takes over the stage.
Forrester gestures, points to the audience, and — most important — knows his material. Unlike the vast majority of karaoke singers, he doesn't have to constantly watch the screen, where the words pop up and change color when it comes time to sing them.
"Karaoke is definitely an addiction," he said. "When I realized I could really do this, I went crazy." Now, Forrester said, he has 50 songs, and is hoping to find a band to sing with, and take his art to the next level.
Chip Greenwood, manager of the Buffalo Chips in Bonita Springs, spent years emceeing karaoke, and still takes a turn, along with his wife, Debbie.
"A good karaoke performance keeps everyone engaged, gets them clapping," he said. He shies away from karaoke contests, he said, wanting to make everyone feel like a winner.
Slow numbers have their place in the repertoire, too. At the Captain's Cabin, Jill Tyner turned in a soulful version of "Crazy," and at the Quality Inn, Seth Pearce filled the floor with couples slowly swaying in time to his rendition of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight."
While most karaoke careers begin and end at the amateur bar level, you never know. Casey Weston, who toured the country after her success on "The Voice," and is living in Nashville, working on making it in the music biz, got her start on karaoke nights, way before she was old enough to touch alcohol.
"You know she said that's where she first got encouraged that she could sing professionally?" said Showtime Karaoke's Hollie Brooks. "That was me."
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A medical network that began to help small clinics band together and cut costs has grown a unique computerised database capable of tracking everything from the ailments affecting a company's workforce to spotting crooked doctors.
Singapore-grown Make Health Connect, better known as MHC, handles 1.5 million medical claims a year from doctors in Singapore alone. It found that the information it gathered provided valuable insights into practices and trends on the ground.
MHC founder Low Lee Yong told The Sunday Times: "Medical claims processing is a very expensive and tedious game. The idea was to link everyone up, simplify procedures and make things paperless.
"But in the process, the network started collecting information which was captured at the point of consultation such as why doctors gave sick leave, and what medication they prescribed for what sort of pain."
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"Who are the staff jumping from clinic to clinic getting medical certificates just to take advantage of the 14 days of medical leave they get each year? And who are those who still come to work despite getting MCs? Such information can help us manage our staff better."
MS MAUREEN TAN, HR director at UTC Aerospace Systems, which has used MHC's data to better manage the health of its employees
One patient, 101 visits to same clinic in a year
Something did not look right, when the Make Health Connect (MHC) database picked out a patient who appeared to have visited the same clinic 101 times over a single year.
Investigations revealed that a nurse at the clinic had forged the patient's signature so that the clinic could claim more consultation fees from the patient's employer.
MHC alerted its client, the patient's employer, and a police report was made.
In the last six months alone, data collected by the MHC network of clinics has helped insurance companies and employers recoup more than $300,000 in fraudulent claims by errant clinics.
In one case, a doctor landed in hot water after MHC founder Low Lee Yong noticed he made numerous prescriptions for an expensive painkiller. The doctor, it turned out, was making false claims.
"We helped our client, an insurance company, recoup more than $80,000 from the doctor," said Dr Low.
MHC also found a doctor prescribing medication he did not even stock, and another who apparently prescribed a lotion for head lice to patients with coughs, rashes and colds.
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In all the cases mentioned, the doctors blamed human error for their wrong claims and made full restitution. But they were all expelled from the MHC network.
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In cases of suspected unethical practices by doctors, MHC works with its clients to decide on the course of action. Some doctors have been expelled from the network; others have been reported to the police.
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Frank Lampard has admitted his pride at being in the same bracket as Bobby Tambling as the midfielder stands on the brink of becoming Chelsea's record goalscorer. England international Lampard's first-half substitution proved a spark for Chelsea as they beat Swansea City 2-0 on Sunday afternoon. The midfielder scored a penalty after coming on to move a step closer to becoming his club's all-time top scorer and he is now just one short of Tambling's record of 202 goals. Tambling was a guest of honour at Stamford Bridge on Sunday and Lampard told Sky Sports after the match: "He is a gentleman. "I saw him before the game and I saw him afterwards. You would not meet a nicer guy in football. "He has been in some bad health recently but it is great to see him come across for the game and I am very proud to be up and mentioned alongside a name like his in football terms but also as a bloke." Lampard also says he has the full backing of Tambling as he approaches the record goalscoring...
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CORVALLIS, Ore. -- At a forest research site in the Coast Range, Beverly Law is studying the breathing patterns of a fast-growing Douglas fir stand.
A tower shooting up from the forest floor is rigged to measure the carbon dioxide concentration of the air 20 times per second.
The water vapor being released from the trees, the sap moving through their trunks, and the growth and decomposition of their roots are being carefully measured.
"This forest is wired," said Law, stepping over a bundle of cords tethered to the ground.
A forest science professor at Oregon State University, Law is the director of the AmeriFlux Network, which is measuring the carbon intake and output of 90 forests across the continent.
Measuring how much carbon forests can store will be key to determining their value in carbon offset markets as governments move toward policies to combat global climate change.
The trees in Law's Coast Range research site are around 40 years old -- close to their maximum growth rate. But she is finding that the trees won't stop taking up and storing carbon later.
"When we figured out that older trees store more carbon, the question became how can you make more?" she said.
By taking up carbon dioxide and releasing water vapor, trees offset some of the greenhouse gas emissions and provide a much-needed carbon sink for the planet.
Through the Western Climate Initiative, Oregon is looking at launching a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gases. Forest management that increases carbon storage could have a cash value on a carbon offset market.
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Law's studies show it can take up to 20 years after a harvest for a forest to return to "carbon sink" status -- absorbing more carbon than it releases.
Studies have shown the amount of carbon retained in wood products is only 30 percent of the total storage capacity. The rest is lost through the logging and milling processes, or it ends up in a landfill.
"When you cut an old stand, you're automatically saying you're going to release about 70 percent of that carbon back into the atmosphere," said Law.
Some conservation groups argue carbon offset credits should only be given to forestland owners for leaving forests intact, but timber companies and small woodlands owners want to sell credits for turning trees into wood products, converting woody debris into biofuels and for using wood to replace energy-intensive building materials like concrete and steel.
The Western Climate Initiative includes the Carbon Forest Working Group, which is looking at all the possibilities and debating their virtues.
Greg Miller, public affairs manager for Weyerhaeuser Co., has been taking part and says he hopes the new market will include credits for a variety of carbon storage and emissions reduction efforts.
Making wood products doesn't store as much carbon as leaving trees in the forest, he said, but the right system could reward both actions appropriately.
Traditional forestry wisdom suggests after 150 years forests become "carbon neutral," giving off as much carbon dioxide through decay as they take up.
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Her analysis shows old forests will serve as carbon sinks if they are left alone.
"Young, fast growing trees don't capture more carbon than older ones," she said. "Older forests store huge quantities, and they continue to absorb through age 80."
Even as the absorption of carbon in older trees peaks, she said, "the trees continue to form a bank of stored carbon that cannot be equaled by a newly sprouted stand."
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"There's more to the story than growing trees and aboveground production," she said. There's soil respiration, foliage, underground root systems..."
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She found 70 percent of respired carbon dioxide in the forest comes from the soil surface.
Law found Oregon's forests absorbed 50 percent of the state's fossil fuel emissions in 2000. In 2003, a record fire year, the number was still 30 percent.
One way to increase that percentage, she said, would be to leave more trees on the ground longer to increase carbon uptake and storage -- at least until renewable energy sources are developed.
Even though forests may be replanted after clear-cuts, she said, the microbes in the soil continue to emit more carbon than the young trees for years.
"Microbes in soil dominate the carbon balance after logging - not trees," she said.
On the Coast Range, where the Douglas fir and hemlock thrive in the temperate rainforest, the carbon storage rate is about twice the global average.
Law looked at what would happen if the trees were allowed to grow for another 50 years without harvest. For the Coast Range, she found the amount of carbon storage on the ground could increase by 15 percent.
Mike Cloughesy, forestry director for the Oregon Forest Resources Institute and a member of the Carbon Forest Working Group, said there are two schools of thought: One believes the best way to store carbon is to grow trees as long as possible and store the maximum amount of carbon in the forest. Another argues forest management can maximize the increase in carbon storage by growing trees for 50 or 60 years, turn them into wood products and repeat that process.
On one hand, not cutting trees poses the risk of fire and creates the possibility that timber and wood products will have to come from a place with fewer environmental regulations. On the other, offering rewards to companies cutting trees for wood products risks a diminishing return of net carbon storage in the forests.
"My view, shared by a lot of people in forestry, is there's kind of room for both," Cloughesy said. "Both can work, but they have to be done carefully, with measuring and monitoring so you can show how much carbon we're storing."


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