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'Vision + Patience' NFPA's Certified Fire Inspector training helps Dow Corning earn high safety marks from its insurer
NFPA Journal®, March/April 2011
By Alan Earls
How good is good enough? That was one of the questions Mike Snyder faced in 1990 when he first arrived at Dow Corning Corporation in Midland, Michigan, the company's flagship facility and its largest manufacturing plant. Dow Corning is an equally owned joint venture of Dow Chemical and Corning.
SIDEBAR How, and How Often? Fire pumps are a critical component of built-in fire protection systems, and to ensure reliability, they must be tested periodically.
NFPA's Certified Fire Inspector Program The NFPA Fire Inspector I and II certification programs were developed in response to requests to develop certifications founded on the NFPA professional qualification standards and other applicable NFPA codes and standards.
At the time, Dow Corning's safety and loss prevention program was good but, in Snyder's view, could have been better. One element that concerned him was his staff. "It was obvious to me that we had the resources, but we weren't stretching them and using them to our best advantage," says Snyder, currently the company's global director of corporate safety, industrial hygiene, and loss prevention. He's also an NFPA member who sits on the Standards Council.
Snyder wanted to redefine the mission for what his personnel did, and he wanted to enhance their skills and bring a new professionalism to how they did their jobs. "Security officers" became "loss prevention officers" (LPOs), and Snyder initiated new training designed to expand their responsibilities, including physical site security and managing risks involving fire, hazardous materials safety, and emergency medicine.
A key element of this transition, especially in recent years, has been the NFPA Certified Fire Inspector (CFI) program, which Snyder's LPOs began taking in the early 2000s. To date, more than 20 LPOs — most of Snyder's team — at the Midland plant and nearby facilities have obtained CFI designation, which was particularly useful in providing personnel with knowledge of NFPA 1, Fire Code; NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems; NFPA 25, Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems; NFPA 72®, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code; and NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®.
Three additional members, including Snyder himself, have obtained Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS) designation, which Snyder says has generally been reserved for senior technical loss prevention professionals or engineers who have extensive field experience. "Right now, all of our CFPS certificate holders, myself included, are either engineers or senior technical staff in the Safety and Loss Prevention Department," he says. "We find a similar value in the third-party credentialing through CFPS for our senior technical staff as we have found for CFI."
The extra attention to safety, including fixed fire protection, is paying off, starting with high marks from Dow Corning's insurer, FM Global. Paul W. Higgins, assistant vice-president/senior account engineer for FM Global Chemical Operations, explains that his company uses an assessment method that divides risks into a handful of categories, including facilities hazards, equipment hazards, natural hazards, general occupancy issues, and a category designated "human element." According to Higgins, Dow Corning has implemented risk improvements in all five categories over the past five years, with particular attention to its human element programs, which focus on the processes, procedures, and capabilities that employees bring to bear on safety and loss prevention issues.
"Dow Corning's scores have been improving by an average of about 10 percent per year," says Higgins. "These improvements have been especially challenging, since Dow Corning is part of the chemical industry, which is generally acknowledged as having significantly greater hazards than industry in general. Dow Corning management understands that human-element programs are core to ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of all other risk-control measures, including physical protection systems like automatic sprinklers."
The challenge of infrastructure diversity Snyder says there were several reasons to make the change. Dow Corning had embraced a series of safety and loss prevention improvements under the framework of the Responsible Care® Program, a global voluntary initiative launched by the chemical industry whereby companies, through their national associations, work together to improve their health, safety, and environmental performance. "It started to make sense to invest in broadening the skills of our loss prevention staff to support our improvements at the grassroots of our organization," says Snyder.
In addition, the regulatory environment in the early 1990s included OSHA HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard 1910.120), which provided more specific professional requirements for Snyder's team to grow into. Finally, he says, the LPO program provided staff with many more avenues for professional growth and motivation, and new hires were expected to meet higher standards than in the past. The operating philosophy became "up or out," Snyder says, and it wasn't without its casualties. "Most of the team was willing to take on more training and responsibility, but a few just couldn't make the change," he says.
Snyder's new team of trained LPOs set about monitoring physical protection systems such as sprinklers and alarms, work that included testing and maintaining the facility's myriad protection systems and networks. They also began assisting with the preparation for any hot work, says Snyder, and as a result, fires due to hot work, a common problem in the chemical industry, are extremely rare at Dow Corning, he says. "We even have a former LPO who sits on the technical committee for NFPA 51B, Fire Prevention During Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work," Snyder says.
It's the work on the physical protection systems that has proven most challenging, however, as well as most rewarding. Midland is a vast and complex maze of equipment and functions focused on all aspects of silicon and silicone chemistry. The facility covers more than 500 acres (202 hectares) and employs approximately 1,200 people who produce some 7,000 different products and services for global markets. About 10 percent of the buildings at Midland date back to the 1940s, Snyder says, and include mostly offices, workshops, and storage areas. A substantial number of buildings date from the 1950s through the 1970s. At the same time, he says, there has been significant investment recently in new structures and manufacturing equipment.
For Snyder and his loss-prevention team, this diversity in the plant's infrastructure presents special challenges, including the need to maintain technical knowledge of the operating characteristics of equipment, including fire protection systems, that is older than many of the employees. "As part of our continuous process of manufacturing-process hazard reviews, we identify situations where original fire protection designs may need to be enhanced to meet the results of more modern fire protection research or the content of updated codes and standards," says Snyder. As systems age, the codes and standards require additional and more frequent testing protocols. When a sprinkler system reaches 50 years of age, for example, NFPA 25, Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, requires that sprinklers be replaced or a specific sampling and test regimen be used to ensure that the sprinklers are still operational, Snyder says.
Snyder and his teams appear to be mastering these special challenges. According to Higgins, Dow Corning's overall score in the general chemical category is notably higher than the overall average for FM Global clients in this category. In the high-hazard group, Dow Corning's score is also notably higher than the average score for the company's other clients in this group. Despite the fact that the Midland facility is Dow Corning's largest and oldest site, it boasts an overall score in the top quartile among similarly evaluated FM Global clients, which Snyder says has been a long-term goal of the company.
Dow Corning is being recognized by others, too. Last year, EHS Today, a magazine focusing on the management of risk in the workplace and environment, added Dow Corning to its list of America's safest companies. The company also participates in the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care Program and has achieved a global environmental ISO14001 certification.
Engaging the LPOs One of the people making all this happen is Doug Behmlander, a Dow Corning LPO and a graduate of NFPA's CFI Program. Behmlander, 53, a 20-year veteran of the company, has held LPO positions at the company's Midland plant and elsewhere. At first, he says, taking on the extra work involved in certification wasn't something he was thrilled about. "I was at the Auburn (Michigan) site when the fire inspection program began, and, to be honest, I thought it was a pain," he admits. But the training program "opened my eyes," he says. Now he's hooked, to the point where he's become something of a code junkie. "It sounds geeky, but on slow days I'll often sit down and just read through the codes," he says. "And then, days or maybe weeks later, I'll spot something in a system that doesn't match up with what the codes require." Behmlander says he then enters a work order into the system to make the needed changes or repairs.
Another LPO, Rick DeCaire, already had experience as a firefighter when he began the certification program. He says certification strengthened his skills, both on the job and as a volunteer firefighter in the community. It also opened professional doors. Today, DeCaire works as an environmental specialist at Dow Corning, which combines LPO training with the knowledge learned from becoming a fire inspector. The training also encouraged him to launch the Central Michigan Fire Inspectors, a professional association that provides continuing education opportunities for fire professionals. "What I learned as a CFI helped me develop as a volunteer firefighter in Auburn, where I've taken on a role in reviewing plans for proposed construction," he says.
Snyder has found that getting LPOs engaged and motivated pays off in many different ways. John McLaughlin, a senior LPO at Midland who has been with the company and working at the site since 1988, used his NFPA CFI training to initiate important changes in inspection practices. "When I started here, we all thought our inspection procedures were pretty good," he recalls. "For instance, every week we would go out and visit our riser locations — we called it our OS&Y valve route, as in 'outside screw and yoke.' " Inspections included checking water pressure and air pressure and making sure there was no evidence of tampering. "For a long time, no one challenged the value of the data or really stopped to think about our priorities related to those valves," he admits.
But exposure to NFPA training programs provided a new perspective. Armed with a broader definition of what to inspect, a four-member team organized by McLaughlin, three of whom were CFI-trained, went on what he calls a "search-and-destroy" mission to find anything that could interrupt the flow of water into or through the sprinkler system. "If we found a valve, we would identify why it was there, and if there was no good reason for why it was there we removed it," he says. The team discovered valves they had not been aware of, categorized them, and checked the codes for information on the required frequency of inspection. All the information was captured using computer software to ensure that proper testing and maintenance would occur regularly in the future.
Now, each valve is bar-coded, and inspections are conducted using a question set based on guidelines in NFPA 25. When alarm systems are involved, guidelines based on NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, are also referenced. The enhanced testing has helped identify a number of valves, affecting 30 of the facility's 70 deluge sprinkler systems that are 20 years old or older, that had begun to fail and could not be repaired due to lack of spare parts. "We were able to get support from management for capital funding to replace those outdated units," adds McLaughlin.
These days, Snyder has his sights set on a new goal: achieving "highly protected risk" (HPR) status. Snyder explains that HPR is a designation awarded by insurers indicating that an operation has a much lower than normal probability of loss by virtue of well-managed hazards, superior construction, special fire protection equipment and procedures, and management committed to loss prevention. "We think HPR designation is achievable by the end of this year," Snyder says.
For Snyder, the bottom line is if you don't have accidents, you'll be a more successful business. He notes Dow Corning's continuing growth, including a $1.5 billion expansion of its facility in Hemlock, Michigan, and another $1 billion expansion in Clarksville, Tennessee. "We don't necessarily have a single magic bullet — our business success is based in part on a foundation of safety and loss control," says Snyder. "What I've tried to bring to our programs is vision and patience."
SIDEBAR How, and How Often? Dow Corning joins Research Foundation fire pump initiative
Fire pumps are a critical component of built-in fire protection systems, and to ensure reliability, they must be tested periodically. But how often to test the pumps and how to test them have remained topics of discussion. The dialogue continues more than a century after NFPA issued the first edition of NFPA 20, Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection, due in part to the fact that field data have never been collected in a comprehensive manner that could support statistical analysis and thereby clarify the value of a particular method, frequency, and observation of testing.
Now, a new project of the Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF), supported in part by Dow Corning, aims to gather credible and statistically valid fire pump performance data. Casey Grant, FPRF program director, says the project intends to collect existing fire pump performance data and examine previously questioned unforeseen failure sources. Eventually, he says, this could lead to the development of a standardized and statistically valid data collection framework for fire pumps and, in the future, other fire protection equipment.
Mike Snyder, director of corporate safety, industrial hygiene, and loss prevention at Dow Corning, notes that the frequency of fire pump testing is being actively debated and that Dow Corning wants to be part of the discussion. "Since our U.S.-based operations have dozens of fire pumps with numerous years of operating and maintenance history, we're willing to share our experience and information to help reach the best guidance for future versions of the fire pump testing and maintenance documents," he says.
FPRF's Grant says the project is scheduled to be completed by January 2012 and that a report would be available at that time. For updates, visit nfpa.org/foundation.
SIDEBAR NFPA's Certified Fire Inspector Program
The NFPA Fire Inspector I and II certification programs were developed in response to requests by fire inspectors, plan reviewers, state agencies, and national organizations to develop certifications founded on the NFPA professional qualification standards and other applicable NFPA codes and standards.
Laurent R. McDonald, manager of NFPA's Certification Program, says that the purpose of the Certified Fire Inspector (CFI) Program is to prepare fire inspectors and others responsible for fire safety inspections or surveys for certification based on job performance requirements found in the 2009 edition of NFPA 1031, Professional Qualifications for Fire Inspector and Plan Examiner. The program offers courses through NFPA's Professional Development Department and NFPA affiliates. The examinations ensure that participants have achieved minimum competencies around skills such as applying fire-related codes and standards, the duties of the authority having jurisdiction and the fire inspector, and the importance of code enforcement.
Bill Galloway, assistant state fire marshal for South Carolina, says his state adopted CFI as the recommended training program for all state, county, and municipal fire inspectors. In particular, he notes, CFI has a practicum requirement that other certification programs lack. "Candidates must complete seven supervised inspections within six months of completing the written exam," he says.
Mike Snyder, global director of corporate safety, industrial hygiene and loss prevention at Dow Corning, says adopting CFI for his loss prevention officers (LPOs) provides third-party verification of specific work experience and demonstrated knowledge and capability. As a result, Snyder says his team can resolve more technical issues in these areas at the LPO level than ever before, meaning more rapid and focused turnaround for fixing problems. "In addition, our enhanced skill set is identifying more improvement opportunities earlier, which allows the problems to be addressed before they become issues," Snyder says.
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Today I am spending my last full day with friends. We are going to Cape Point, which is a national forest and a peninsula that is the farthest south on the continent of Africa and then to boulder beach, where we will see penguins swimming. Hopefully I will get the chance this afternoon to go to green market square one last time to finish getting gifts and then we end tonight with a braai, that is basically just grilling out, with all the important people we have met along the way.
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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance." – Clifford Geertz, anthropologist and author of Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology and Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, among other fine works.
Dear Prospective WGS Major:
You probably have questions: "What is Women's and Gender Studies? What can it offer me intellectually and personally? What kind of jobs can I get with a WGS degree?"
The short answer to all of those questions is this: not understanding how gender shapes your world is like stumbling around in a dark, unfamiliar room, tripping over the furniture someone else has arranged. Understanding gender gets you to the light switch. It can then give you the ability to arrange the furniture the way you want.
The intellectual mission of WGS grows out of the recognition that gender—cultural ideas about what it means to be masculine or feminine or other—profoundly impacts our lives. Our WGS courses engage students in work that illuminates the history and effects of gender and, importantly, how it intersects other identity categories such as race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality. These are the categories that define who has social privilege and who doesn't. They underwrite both opportunities and obstacles.
WGS as a light switch: WGS is an interdisciplinary program. This means that, as a Major, you will be able to draw upon faculty expertise and courses from across the Humanities and Social Sciences, from Anthropology to International Studies to Philosophy and Religion. The applied nature of many of our courses amplifies this interdisciplinary approach. WGS courses routinely involve service learning where students organize campus events, develop their leadership skills, and apply their academic interests to local, regional, and global issues—like food "deserts" in Wake County, domestic violence prevention, or how international sex trafficking operates right here in N.C.
Our required internship, WGS 310, also offers a semester-long experience working within a community or campus agency that focuses on issues of gender and/or social justice.
Finally, our close relationship with the NC State Women's Center can give you another venue for learning and applying leadership and social justice strategies.
However, the influence of WGS is not restricted to the Humanities or Social Sciences. WGS faculty are at the center of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) initiative at NC State. One of our required courses, WGS 210 – Women and Gender in Science and Technology, grew out of WISE work. Like WGS 200 -- Introduction to Women's Studies, it draws students from across the campus. This incredibly varied population gives our Majors and Minors the opportunity to collaborate with those from the sciences and technological fields. Such student-level interaction, we believe, matters as much as course content in building the intellectual bridges that define true interdisciplinary learning.
Like all university curricula, we also provide our students with the tools for critical thinking. But that doesn't mean that we just hand out theories about how the world is or how it "really works." It is true that students will be introduced to a wide range of perspectives and methodologies inspired by feminist and womanist scholarship. For example, "Men and Masculinities," being offered for the first time in Spring 2013, poses the same kinds of questions about "what it means to be a man" that gender studies have been asking about female identity for decades. Courses like these routinely provoke questions about facets of our lives that we have often accepted as "just the way thing are," especially in terms of gender, race, sexuality, and class.
However, an essential component of critical thinking is recognizing the limits of any theory proposing to explain how and why the world is like it is. WGS encourages its students to test those theories against "real life" (one's own and others'), to assess whether and how they illuminate those experiences or not. The point of critical thinking in WGS is to identify tools that extend the reach of social justice, not to convert students to some narrowly pre-conceived version of feminism. Indeed, you will find radically differing viewpoints among the many theories you will encounter, along with perspectives that challenge gender-specific frames as a helpful approach at all.
How does this interdisciplinary, socially engaged, and personally relevant curriculum prepare you for the job market? National data, as well as our graduates' career paths, show that a WGS Major prepares students for productive work in the following fields:
- The Non-Profit Sector (administration, policy development, communication)
- Public Policy (domestic and international)
- International Health Policy and Research
- Family Law
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- Communication and Media
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- Social Work
- Secondary and Post-Secondary Education (administration, teaching, research)
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For example, here are some of the positions that WGS graduates currently occupy:
- Cary Pope, Senior Associate, Advocacy Communications, Ipas; Former Executive Director of NARAL for Wake County. ('99)
- Ashley Simons-Rudolph, Director, NC State Women's Center ('99)
- Jenna Wadsworth continues to serve as the youngest elected official in NC, as Supervisor of the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District ('11)
- Keryn Murphy, Research Associate, Research Triangle Institute ('12)
- Samone Ashley, Law and MBA student, Wake Forest University ('11)
Gender has always mattered, and now, with the increasingly global character of our lives, it matters more than ever. Understanding gender and how it intersects with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality can help us make sense of this new configuration of conflicts and opportunities. We believe that a WGS Major is one of the best ways you can prepare yourself to live, work, and lead in this new, diverse, transnational world. Our Major can prepare you to shape that world in intelligent and ethical ways.
Check out the light switch. Come talk with me or one of our WGS faculty.
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Today on Boing Boing tv we continue a series of transmissions from Tokyo by our monster-hunting comrade Sean Bonner, who vanished mysteriously while seeking a legendary shrine devoted to the Kappa, a water-dwelling, ninja-turtle-like, child-sized creature who is fond of cucumbers and human colon meat, which it may access by grabbing up your butt.
In yesterday's installment, Sean hooked up with Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, authors of the previosly-boinged book Yokai Attack: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide, and the quest began. But the team vanished mysteriously, and we haven't been able to reach Sean for a week.
Today, he reappears, with proof that he has touched the mummified hand of the cucumber-loving amphibious prankster. He also brings us irrefutable proof that some of Japan's greatest manga artists found a source of inspiration in Kappa art. Also on the streets of Tokyo, just outside the shrine, BBtv's yokai squad discovered MONSTER KITTEH.
Link to Boing Boing tv post with instructions on how to subscribe to our daily video podcast. Here's the direct MP4 link in case you can't deal with Flash video. Here are some photos from Sean.
Previously: Hunting for the Kappa Monster in Tokyo, part 1
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twobeeshawn says:
Oh dear, my daughter just started attending a Japanese immersion elementary school and the Kappa is their mascot! I can never tell her about this, she'll never use the bathroom there again!
OM says:
…You know, they'd have an easier time going in search of the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka.
Darren Garrison says:
There was a recent (animated) movie in Japan about a
Kappa titled "Kappa no Coo Natsuyasumi" ("Summer Days With Coo" in English.Youtube trailer:
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Even features the severed Kappa hand shown in the Boingboing story. I haven't been able to find any mention of it coming out on DVD in region 1 with English subs or dubs any time, though.
Don't know if I'll be allowed to mention that there is a torrent for it (with English subs) at The Bay of Pirates (moderator: if I can't mention it, please just edit this part out and leave the first part):
Bartholomew says:
I've a got a kappa pic here, from a fertility shrine in the south of Tokyo.
Sandy from Monkey was one, too.
ZippySpincycle says:
I have no doubt that the kappa lost its hand because some moron was swinging it around for a YouTube video.
indigofan says:
i just realised that i've got a picture of a cute kappa monster shrine in jozankei, hokkaido.
the creature in front is my wife, not a kappa.
you use the ladle to pour onsen water into the kappa's heads, and it pours out of their mouth… we washed our hands with the water coming out of the mouth. not sure if that was the correct procedure, but we didn't get attacked.
makeinu says:
There is a sake mill in Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, that has the most prolific collection of kappa goods I've ever seen, including an allegedly authentic kappa mummy! It is (or was) famous throughout Japan, famous enough to have it's kappa mummy made into a collectible toy for a series of Japanese monsters. I have some pictures from a tour my wife and I took there, but I haven't gotten them online yet, sadly.
Kieran O'Neill says:
Oh squee! It's the self-same shrine as CaseyD visited.
Mackenzie says:
Actually, the kappa lost it's hand because he was walking down the street eating angel hair lo mein with drum sticks.


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9pm-late, $40. Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. www.mighty119.com
The classic soulful ladies' party is back, as El Rio celebrates a queer New Year. "Hot hip-hop and spicy Latin beats" from Olga T, Marcella, and more (plus yummy gumbo and burgers!) and an even hotter and spicier crowd.
8pm-2am, $15. El Rio, 3158 Mission, SF. www.tinyurl.com/mangonye2014
The leather-jacketed, pompadoured pretty boy's own music has an exquisite dark techno sound descended from Depeche Mode — when he DJs, as he will here, he expands that with an incredibly deep knowledge of house and techno (he's from Detroit, duh). This Honey Soundsystem + Sunset + Public Works collaboration will bring out an amazing crowd of party freaks.
9pm-4am, $20–$40. Public Works, 131 Erie, SF. www.publicsf.com
The annual Streets of SF party is visually stunning and draws great headliners (although the crowd is a little broad). This year, everyone's favorite vegan techno-punk Moby graces us with his exacting presence on the turntables.
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Motown on Mondays, one of SF's best things, is teaming up with supercute global-funk trumpeter Will Magid and his crew (including vocalist Aima the Dreamer) for a very night of worldly sounds and classy cheer.
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If you add classic '90s electronic act Crystal Method to the Kink Armory (transformed from giant porn studio into a "kaleidoscopic wonderland" for the occasion), and pour on the high-flyin' Vau de Vire Society troupe and Opel rave crew — you will definitely get a party, a new Bohemia, even.
9pm-4am, $50 and up. Kink Armory, 1800 Mission, SF. www.newbohemianye.com
Don your gay fetish apparel — oh wait, that was the last holiday. OK, hit the reset and don your gay fetish apparel again, as Casey Spooner and Ministat host (and DJ DAMnation DJs) this kinky-boots ring-in, the Eagle's first.
9pm-2am, $15 in gear, $20 without. SF Eagle, 398 12th St, SF. www.sf-eagle.com
"Let love bloom" is the theme of this massive EDM-fest at Oracle Arena. Headiners include Nero, New World Punx, and Bingo Players.
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PORTLAND, November 28, 2011 – The State Board of Higher Education (the "Board") met today in a special meeting and voted unanimously to terminate without cause the contract of University of Oregon (UO) president Richard Lariviere. Dr. Lariviere will remain as UO president through December 28, 2011 based on provisions of his current contract.
Board president Matthew Donegan said, "Today's vote regarding Dr. Lariviere's contract has been preceded by many efforts by the Board and the Chancellor to avoid having to take the path of contract termination. This is a personnel action and has nothing to do with policy positions or conflicting visions for the future of the University of Oregon. On the contrary, the Board encourages bold ideas and innovation, particularly those consonant with Governor Kitzhaber's educational reform agenda and the state's ambitious 40-40-20 educational attainment goals. This was an issue of lack of communication and eroded trust."
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LOGANVILLE - A Loganville man allegedly shot at a house and kicked in the front door Sunday evening after he discovered his ex-girlfriend was watching television with his friend, according to a Gwinnett County police report. A man who lives in the Fire Thorn subdivision in Loganville told police he was sitting on the couch with his new girlfriend when his friend knocked on the door. When his friend saw the woman who had dumped him three days earlier, he turned around and started walking away - and then pulled a gun out of his waistband and aimed it at the woman's new boyfriend, according to a police report. The man told police he ran back inside, locked the door and ran upstairs with the woman. The two reported that heard someone fire a gun twice and kick the front door three or four times. When the two came downstairs, they saw a maroon car driving away, the police report states. Man slashed with razor blade NORCROSS - An Atlanta woman slashed her friend with a razor blade outside of a nightclub on Jimmy Carter Boulevard after he told her not to drive under the influence, according to a police report. The man told police the woman had been snorting powder cocaine and drinking alcohol. When he told her not to drive them home, she slashed at him, cutting his face and hand. The two drove away, with the woman at the wheel, but the man was able to flag down Roswell police, the report states. That agency then called Gwinnett County police to investigate the assault. Snellville mom receiving harassing calls SNELLVILLE - A Snellville woman on Monday told Gwinnett County police she has been receiving harassing phone calls and text messages from her son's ex-girlfriend. The woman said her son asked his ex to stop calling because he didn't want to talk to her anymore. Instead of complying with his wishes, the woman said her son's ex began sending her insulting messages, such as "You are fat and ugly" and "You won't let him go," according to a police report. Police advised the woman to take out a temporary protective order or change her telephone number. Firefighters rescue dog from fire DULUTH - A man was treated for smoke inhalation Wednesday morning after he tried to go back into his burning house to rescue his dog, Gwinnett County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Thomas Rutledge said. Firefighters rescued the lab mix, Carla, from a kennel on the main level of the house, Rutledge said. The man was treated at the scene, and his wife and two children were uninjured in the blaze. Rutledge said the fire appears to have started accidentally in the garage and extended to the second floor and attic of the two-story wood frame house on the 2300 block of Ingram Road in Duluth. The blaze caused heavy damage to the home, and the Red Cross was called to assist the family.More like this story
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Webcast Scheduled for 8:30 AM ET on Thursday, April 25, 2013
BERWYN, Pa., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) will issue its first quarter 2013 earnings release before the market opens on Thursday, April 25, 2013.
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Bobcats Planet name: Dav7z
Real name (first only): Doug
Age: 56
Current City: Belmont NC
Hometown: Charlotte NC
Occupation: retired
1) How did you choose your screen name? My sons name is Dav, His baseball and basketball number was #7 from age five through college ball, I kinda just added the z
2) Could you tell us a little about where you grew up and about your family? Im a local kid born and raized in the area.
3) Did you play in any sports or where you involved with any High School clubs and such? I played high school football, basketball, Ran track. Wasn't the best in any but had a lot of good times.
4) What is your fondest memory of your teenage years? Trying to pick up girls it seems back in those days thats all thet was on our minds. lol
5) What was your first job? Fast food of all things. Had to quit school and help out.
6) What lead to your dedicated following of the Bobcat's? The love me and my boy had toghter for all sports. He was Duke and i was Carolina it went to the Hornets from there to the Bobcats now. Even though hes 26 now we still try to go together.
7) Could you tell us one of your favorite memories of the Bobcat's? I love Laker games we seem to step up and pull out wins. The last two Laker wins was my favorite of all.
8 ) How did you find the Bobcats Planet and what keeps you active on the site? Ziggy posted it on the Bobcats site for some reason over two years ago. I read it and got hooked . I've seen a lot come and go over the years . Ive still got a shirt i won on hear thet says in big letters.
Felton>>>Paul That sounds kinda stupid now bet most of us belived it then.
9) What other sports teams do you follow? Panthers and the Braves but for some reason the Bobcats are number #1
10) When youre not on Bobcats Planet what could you likely be found doing with your spare time? My son is a coach and when im able ill go watch a game or two hes coaching. Even though it's just 18 year old kids.
11) If you could have one moment being part of the Bobcats organization, what would it be? Let me be GM it would be rumors and moves all off season . Expections and talk fill the seats. Thats where the organization has made many mistakes. They don't try to get the public talking. Even thair web page sucks and we find more news than the offical site does. [example] D Browns summer league stats. That could have been posted.
12) How many trips have you made to the Time Warner Cable Arena? About 20 last year. Ive got 43 games this year and hope to make 20 again
13) What is your worst fear? Health? Not being able to walk or get around any more. Walking is hard. Its odd how we take easy things for granted til we start to lose them.
14) What type of hobbies do you enjoy? Palying around on the net, Watching sports, Hunting for Bobcats news
15) Whats your favorite food? It use to be fast food. Im diabetic now so it's a lot of fish and Chicken.
16) Where are some of the places youve been, and where are some of your favorites. Marco Island, Jekyll Island, LA is nice.
17) What is one thing you've always wanted to do, but haven't done yet in your lifetime? Thats what we trying to do now is things we never had a chance or time to do when we was young. We try to go as much as health lets me go.
18) If you could live anywhere where would it be? This is nice hear close to the beach and the mountains, It don't get to hot or to cold. The green trees and land most people don't even notice. Carolina is a great place.
19) Name your favorite 3 Bobcats all time and explain the reason for one or more of them.
1st Felton Hes the toughest player we have. I love the way he sucks it up and plays through pain.
2nd Wallace Fearless leaves it all on the court. Win or lose he still leaves it all on the court.
3rd Diaw Great addition effortless talent, He has no idea how good he could really be. Im looking for Brown to bring some of that out this season.
20) Up to this date, what is one of your favorite Bobcats Planet memories? Some of the May threads. I loved the one we compared him to RERUN. To this day i still think they look alike.
21) Anything else you'd like to add? Thanks to all you guys for your support over the years . With the things you over look like my spelling and gramer. No other site would be understanding. This is the Bobcats number#1 site thanks to all you guys . And a special thanks to Ziggy for such a great creation.
Who would you like to nominate to be interviewed next? I would love to hear from ZIGGY. His insight should be special


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Horror After 9/11, University of Texas Press (Fall 2011). Critical anthology, co-edited by myself and the amazing Aviva Briefel. Reviewed in The New Republic, with a review forthcoming in Film Quarterly, and featured in New York Magazine's Approval Matrix as "brilliant/lowbrow"!!
"Boy on the Rocks," forthcoming in Lightspeed.
"Alloy Point," forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
"Kenneth: A User's Manual," forthcoming in Strange Horizons.
"Allosaurus Burgers," forthcoming in Shimmer.
"57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides," in Nightmare Magazine. Also published in the ebook version of Lightspeed, and on FearNet, and released in an audio version recorded by an actual actor who, among other things, has played Nazis on two separate Star Trek series. Accompanied by an interview with me, in which I somehow come across remotely not an idiot. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"The Beasts We Want To Be," in Electric Velocipede Issue #27. Soviet human experimentation, brotherly love, bloody revenge, and a maybe-magical painting. Reviewed in Locus Magazine, who named it a "Recommended" story!! "…The heart of it is this: How can ordinary people be brought to do acts of routine brutality? Or that there is something human in the worst of us?…" Later also cited in their year-end best short fiction post. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Sabi, Wabi, Aware, Yugen," in Daily Science Fiction. December 6, 2013. Nanotech bad-assery, Westerners trying to adopt Zen aesthetics as a template for corporate dystopian survival. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"The Luke Letters" in Upstreet #8. Cited in Best American Essays 2013 as an "Other Notable Essay." And lest I feel inclined to pity myself for not making it into the winners' circle, I have only to look around and see that my fellow runners-up include Jhumpa Lahiri, David Sedaris, Jeff Vandermeer, Andre Dubus III, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Donald Hall, Nick Hornby, Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, and tons more great and/or famous writers.
"The Country of Dead Voices," in Icarus, Spring 2013. Here's a great summary that came along with a really nice review from 365shortstories.livejournal.com! "It revolves around a simple phone call to a phone sex line, and in the process of a conversation lays bear the narrator's troubled past and feelings of guilt associated with former lovers. Is the voice on the other end of the call a ghost from his past or something quite different and equally as disturbing? I won't spoil the outcome. I'll just say that Miller's narrator's voice felt real and personal and the sense of unease that permeates the story is pitch perfect."
"Who Killed Thomas M. Disch?," in Strange Horizons. Sept. 22 2008. Essay about the suicide of one of my science fiction heroes, including interviews with his friends and colleagues. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Black as the Sea," in Arts & Letters Issue #25. Told by a little Jewish boy during the Odessa Pogrom of 1905, a sort of meta-Isaak-Babel piece, if Babel was writing with a full knowledge of all the horrors that the Soviet 30s and 40s would bring.
"Black Babe," in Slice Magazine Issue #7 - Fall 2010. Noir-style short story set in 1948, about a sex worker who has evidence that Babe Ruth was Black, and the conspiracy of gangsters out to silence her before she can spread the word….
"Sex, Death, Facebook," in The Rumpus. September 2009. Creative nonfiction about how sex and social networking sites help us process grief. "Fucking and dying—these two things everyone has in common, that no one wants to talk about." AVAILABLE ONLINE
"The Last Sleepover," in Gargoyle Magazine, Issue 56. 2010.
"Operation Skunk," in The Minnesota Review, Issue #70 - Summer 2008. The editors subsequently nominated this story for The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXXIV. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Haunting Your House," in Fiction International, Issue #41. Fall 2008. A gentrification ghost story. Subsequently republished in Best Gay Stories 2009 and in Cool Thing: Best New Gay Fiction from Young American Writers, edited by Blair Mastbaum and Will Fabro. "In Alan's bed I was a market to be manipulated, a trust fund to be plundered. High school Economics had gone right over my head, but suddenly I understood everything. That money boiled down to violence, that the world is set up for men with money to do what they want."
"Burning Down Wal-Mart," in Washington Square Issue #25. Fiction is a space to safely act out your deepest but most destructive desires. Like burning down Wal-Mart. I'm in there alongside THREE of my favorite poets ever - Osip Mandelstam, Charles Simic, and C.K. Williams! "I picture tomorrow morning's newspaper photos, the burned-down husk of it, like a bombed-out aircraft hangar, like Hiroshima, like Wal-Mart came to the wrong town and fucked with the wrong boy."
"Men Kill Things," in The L Magazine. Summer 2010. "What were we thinking, four years ago, when we signed a mortgage full of words we had never seen before?" AVAILABLE ONLINE
"How it Started," in Monkeybicycle. October 2008. Short-short story about the beginning of the end of the world. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Empty Bed Blues," essay about Bessie Smith in the book My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Michael Montlack, from the University of Wisconsin Press…. including work by Mark Doty, David Trinidad, Wayne Koestenbaum, Timothy Liu, and lots of other phenomenal writers.
"The Poetry Vaccine," in Permafrost, Issue #30 - Summer 2008. Soviet science fiction story. And here is a review of the issue, and my story in particular. "Chukotkin's lab smelled like blood when I arrived for work. To my great horror, I started salivating."
"The Heart of the Female Warrior: An Interview with Mary McDonnell," in the Galactica Sitrep. "Artists really grapple, in general, with a sense of purpose and a sense of responsibility… my talent seems to spring to life more readily when it's being asked to serve a story that tries to honestly reflect what we really are as humankind, and what we might be, and tries to take responsibility for some of the past, and stand squarely in it."
"Mad Meg," in Fourteen Hills, vol. 14.2; Spring 2008. Reviewed here: "In this story the telling is straightforward; it's the subject matter that's fresh."
"Midnight Psychology," in Flashquake, vol. 8 issue 3. Short short about heterosexual male intimacy. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Battlestar Galactica vs. Star Trek." Published by mental_floss; featured on the front page of Digg; received 834 diggs and 298 comments in three days! This short article compares the Star Trek franchise (which I love) with the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (which I think is the greatest thing television has ever produced) and looks at some of the things that make BSG so relevant and so successful to us today. "It boils down to this: Star Trek is about who we want to be, and Battlestar Galactica is about who we are." AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Monkey Heaven." Originally published in Atomjack, Issue #10. May 2008. Science fiction short story, narrated by a rebellious helper monkey. "Monkey Heaven" was named one of the Best Short Stories Published Online in 2008, by the judges of the Million Writers Award. Judge Erica Naone wrote in her blog, "I waded through a lot of genre stories that lacked a transcendent quality, and a lot of stories that tried to be literary, but ultimately forgot to be stories. "Monkey Heaven" had the best of both worlds: plenty of action, literary value, and serious philosophical chops." AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Little Fingers," published in the Spring 2008 issue of Barrelhouse online. Short short short. "What it smells like: blood and milk and alcohol gone rancid. Last night's ramen. Hunger and loneliness." AVAILABLE ONLINE
"How Straight People Fuck," in Other magazine. Issue #13, December 2007.
"Jerking Off to Agnostic Front." Short story that explores the things I love, and the things I hate, about punk rock. Originally published in Verbicide, issue #17. Summer 2006. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Auschwitz Blowjob," originally published by Velvet Mafia. Queer short fiction that's not nearly as controversial as the name would lead you to hope; nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing. The wonderful Rachel Kramer Bussel said in her blog that this story "with its Sylvia Plath reference, with its questions, with its in your face title, with its unabashed demand that sex not be cleaned up, that what we desire sometimes makes us feel dirty, and not in the hot way, is vital if we're to talk about sex honestly. If we're to admit that we don't always understand our desires, or our lovers', that "complicated" is the biggest understatement of all." AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Paper Bomb," published by Pindeldyboz in their January 2008 issue. Semi-speculative short fiction. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Depression Halved Production Costs," SMUT! Issue #5. Fall/Winter 2005. Reprinted in Best Gay Erotica 2006, Cleis Press. (Dennis Cooper, who I would rank among the best writers writing today, had a story in the same anthology, and when I left a comment on his blog he said: "I actually really loved your story in that Best Erotica anthology, so your visit here is even more of a treat. Your site looks really good. I've bookmarked it so I can examine it thoroughly. In fact, everybody else reading this, go look at Sam J.'s site if you know what's good for you"). AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Where the Readers Are," published in The Quarterly Conversation. An essay critiquing the doom-and-gloom rhetoric around the supposed death of the short story and the decline of fiction readers (starting with Stephen King's histrionic essay "What Ails the Short Story?"). Includes interviews with awesome folks like the editors at The Kenyon Review, One Story, and Velvet Mafia. Benjamin Percy, who for my money is the most exciting thing happening in short stories today, said: "You present an articulate and sure-footed retort to those naysayers and doomsdayers. I loved it — and even passed it along to my creative writing classes as required reading." AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Smash Me Up," forthcoming in Issue #3 of Swill Magazine and available as an issue teaser on their website. AVAILABLE ONLINE
Skin on Fire, published in the first issue of Urban Molecule. They also ran an interview with me. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Sexless in Montreal," originally published in Karamu, Spring 2007. Short story about sex, LSD, Madonna, and the agony of approaching the end of adolescence with no idea what you want to do with your life. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Haunting Our Homes: Nightmares of Gentrification," in Perforations. Essay about how the modern haunted house film is really about the anxieties caused by gentrification. Subsequently reprinted at PopPolitics.com and AlterNet.org AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Fall Out Boy's Biggest Faggot Fan," a creative nonfiction piece about my love-hate affair with the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy… and the broader phenomenon of mainstream artists pandering to queer audiences. Published by PopPolitics.com… AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Short Sad Sordid Sexual Encounters," in Velvet Mafia. Reprinted in Best Gay Erotica 2008, Cleis Press… AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Homeless Revolution," an article about the Housing Campaign I've spent the last several years working on. Published in Shelterforce. Issue #151, Fall 2007… AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Sleeping is a Crime," an article about a civil disobedience action where I was arrested for sleeping in Central Park along with members of Picture the Homeless, to protest the NYPD's policies of arresting homeless people for engaging in life-sustaining activity (like sleep!) that is not against the law. While this article was published in the late lamented Clamor Magazine in December 2004, it is no longer available on their website. So I have posted it here, in a longer version that was co-written with two homeless members of PTH who helped organize the action. AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Like A Virus," in Sex by the Book: Gay Men's Tales of Lust and Lit. Edited by Kevin Bentley. Green Candy Press. Fall 2007.
"Social Animals," Herbivore, issue 13. Spring 2007.
"Turn Up The Volume," in The Christian Citizen. Volume 1, 2006. Co-written with William S. Burnett.
"My Evil Twin," in Where The Boys Are. Edited by Richard Labonte. Cleis Press. Fall 2007.


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In Morocco, briwats can be stuffed with sweet or savory fillings. This is a savory filling that is somewhat modern in origin. This recipe is an adaptation of both my Moroccan mother-in-law's version (though she adds garlic) and a recipe found in the book "Cooking at the Kasbah" by Kitty Norse. Some people also add soy sauce to the mixture (a sure sign of the recipe's modernity; soy sauce, as you can imagine, is not "native" to Morocco!) :) These are yummy snacks and surprisingly light, despite being fried. Do try to find the lumpia wrappers--briwats should not be doughy, but instead light and crispy, and the lumpia wrappers do the job nicely.
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