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- 1939(1)
- 1939(2)
Feb. 3, 1939 - A Small Start
Thomas Neilan establishes Reliance Steel Products Company, a distributor of steel reinforcing bar, on February 3, 1939, in Los Angeles, California.
Reliance subleases 6,600 square feet of warehouse space from Allied Supply Company on 37th Street in the city of Vernon, just outside Downtown Los Angeles.
- 1944
- 1947
- 1948
1940s - Growth: A Family Affair
In 1944, the company name is changed to Reliance Steel Co.
In 1947, Thomas Neilan offers to fund his nephew's graduate studies at Harvard if he will work at Reliance for a year. William Gimbel accepts and joins Reliance as Warehouseman. Little does he know he will never go back to school. Reliance records $1.2M in revenue.
Reliance's product offering in 1948 expands to include aluminum. The following year, Reliance becomes the nation's first distributor of magnesium.
- 1952(1)
- 1952(2)
- 1956
- 1957
1950s - Industry Boom & The First Acquisition
Reliance makes its first acquisition in 1952: Carthage Steel Strip, in South Gate, California. The addition of precision cutting equipment, at the time a very new technology, greatly expands business capabilities.
By 1952, sales have reached $4M and 7 acres have been purchased on 26th Street in Vernon, CA, to accommodate the company's growth during the postwar manufacturing boom. Building begins on what will become Reliance's flagship warehouse and company headquarters.
In 1956, the company is renamed for a second time to reflect its expanding product lines, assuming the name it holds today: Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.
After moving from Warehouseman to Manager to Vice President, William Gimbel succeeds as President upon the death of his uncle, Reliance founder Thomas Neilan, in 1957.
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- 1963
- 1966
1960s - Establishing Deeper Roots & Expanding
In 1962, Bill Gimbel commissions the manufacture and installation of a semi-automatic rack storage system to house metal sheet and coil in unused vertical warehouse space. These "pigeon holes" vastly improve storage and operations, and establish Reliance as an innovator in metals handling.
Following Effron Steel Co. in 1960 and Westates Steel Co. in 1962, Drake Steel is acquired in 1963. Drake's Fresno Sales Manager, Joe Crider, begins a long and successful career with the company. Reliance now boasts five locations: Los Angeles, Phoenix, Santa Clara, San Diego, and Fresno.
In 1966, Reliance and some of our vendors hold "Metal-Rama" to give shareholders and customers a behind-the-scenes look at its state-of-the-art steel processing facility. It is a hugely successful event.
- 1975
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- 1977
- 1979
1970s - A Unique Strategic Growth Plan
Joe Crider is made Executive Vice President in 1975. During the next 12 years, Bill Gimbel and Joe Crider are called "perhaps the best known management team in the service center industry" by Metal Center News.
Reliance makes a first step towards entering the specialty metals market establishing Tube Service Co. in 1975-6. Its success leads to a second location opening in Milpitas, California, three years later.
Bralco Metals in Pico Rivera, California is acquired in 1977. Bralco is a major west coast distributor of aluminum, brass and copper sheet, bar and rod products.
In another move towards specialty metals service centers, Reliance MetalCenter, Inc. (now MetalCenter) is established in 1980, housing all nonferrous operations in Southern California.
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1980s - Growth in a Time of Transition
In 1981, David Hannah is recruited by William Gimbel to join Reliance as its first Chief Financial Officer. The Gimbel-Crider-Hannah trio continues to expand Reliance's scope and increase capacity with additional strategic acquisitions, venturing further into the specialty metals markets including copper, brass, and titanium.
When Valex is added to the family roster in 1986, Reliance gains entry to the semiconductor industry.
In 1987, William Gimbel becomes Chairman (in addition to Chief Executive Officer); Joe Crider is promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer.
By 1989, Reliance's 50th anniversary, sales top $350M, and the company remains poised for continued growth.
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1990s - Going Public
After turning around the faltering Santa Clara division, Gregg Mollins joins the corporate management team as Vice President in 1992. In 1995, Dave Hannah is promoted to President and Gregg to Chief Operating Officer.
On September 16, 1994, Reliance issues 3.5 million new shares in its IPO, raising $45.9M and making Reliance a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "RS."
William Gimbel, pictured here with his wife, Georgina and Joe Crider, at the New York Stock Exchange when Reliance completes its IPO. Gimbel retires later in 1994 but remains Chairman of the Board until 1997 (and Chair Emeritus until his passing in 1998).
In 1996 Reliance acquires Siskin Steel & Supply Co., headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is one of the oldest companies in the industry and an "integral part of our strategy to become a national company with operations extending beyond the Western half of the United States," according to David Hannah.
With the additions of AMI Metals, Inc. and Service Steel Aerospace Corp. in 1997, Reliance enters the aerospace industry. With sales at $654M, Reliance logs its 6th consecutive year of record sales.
In 1999, Joe Crider retires as Chief Executive Officer, succeeded by Dave Hannah, who also remains President until Gregg Mollins becomes President & Chief Operating Officer in 2001. Also in 1999, Karla Lewis (then McDowell) is appointed Chief Financial Officer.
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2000s - Acquirer of Choice
In 2001, Reliance corporate headquarters moves from industrial Vernon to downtown Los Angeles' Bunker Hill financial district.
Reliance is named to Forbes magazines' "Platinum 400" list of America's Best Big Companies for the first time in 2001. Three years later, Reliance is named to Fortune magazine's list of "America's Most Admired Companies" list.
Reliance expands into toll processing through the acquisition of Precision Strip, Inc. and, its subsidiary, Precision Strip Transport, Inc. in 2003.
In 2005, Reliance is named "Acquirer of Choice" by MSCI's Forward magazine. In 2007, Reliance is named to Fortune magazine's list of top 500 companies for the first time.
In 2006, Reliance acquires its longtime and well respected competitor, Earle M. Jorgensen Company. The addition of EMJ's numerous facilities expands Reliance's presence across the United States and Canada. The deal marks Reliance's first acquisition of a public company and is partially funded using Reliance stock.
In August 2008, Reliance acquires the PNA Group of 23 service centers and seven joint ventures. This acquisition adds Delta Steel, LP, Feralloy Corporation, Infra-Metals Co., Metals Supply Company, Ltd., Precision Flamecutting and Steel, LP and Sugar Steel to Reliance's family of companies.
Reliance executive officers ring the closing bell at the NYSE in 2009 to mark the 15th anniversary of the company's IPO.
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2010 and Beyond - Looking Ahead and Beyond
With the acquisition of Diamond Manufacturing in 2010, Reliance gains entry into the perforated metals market.
The addition of Continental Alloys & Services, Inc. in 2011 gives Reliance greater exposure to the energy sector and expands its international presence into new areas.
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co.'s Family of Companies now spans more than 290 locations in 39 states and ten countries outside the United States.
Throughout the past several years Reliance has expanded its Corporate management team to support the significant growth we have experienced. Jim Hoffman and Steve Koch joined Bill Sales as Senior Vice Presidents, Operations and Sheldon Tenenbaum was promoted to Senior Vice President, Supplier Development. With these additions and the expertise of our management teams in the field, we have built a deep bench of experience and knowledge.
In April 2013, Reliance acquires Metals USA Holding, Inc. adding 48 service center facilities in the U.S. and Canada. Our largest acquisition to date, MUSA brings sales of approximately $2B and complements our diverse geography and product offerings.
In 2014 Reliance celebrates two important milestones: our 75th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of our IPO. We continue to keep abreast of current events that affect our business and seek to evolve our business to incorporate best practices, technological advancements, and the changing conditions of the industries we serve. At the same time, Reliance remembers, honors, and stays true to the core values that have brought us this far – keeping things simple, doing what's right, and knowing that we can always do better – which will continue to guide our success and leadership as the leading metals service center company in North America.


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Yes, this is the man you can vote for.
He bites.
That isn't the middle finger he is pointing at you but that is what he will impale you with if you don't vote for him.
Kishido didn't vote for him...
That could be you next.
He opens wine bottles with his bare hands.
He is a serious candidate who does not mess around.
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Gotta go with the old man here.
Go Croc! Vote for the man who almost took over Alabasta!
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*waits for poll* Croc gave us an awesome tie two rounds ago! Vote for awesome!
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Hell, I don't know to vote for here.
I may have to resort to the coin flip later.
Complicating things since 2009.
for some reason. I think ol' whitebeard should get a good chance in this one, after beating Usopp and all
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I have refrained from addressing the issue of former Los Angeles Fire Department fireman, Tennie Pierce and his racial discrimination lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles after having been fed dog food from fellow firemen a few years back. Last month, the Pierce fiasco was all over local talk radio and television news, even making national news to a smaller degree. Why have I not posted anything concerning Tennie and his two scoops of dog food ingestion? I have no idea. Normally, this story would be something I would have enjoyed discussing, but for some reason I simply didn't get around to posting a single entry about the whole mess. There's no time like the present I suppose, and since the drama simply refuses to subside, I reason the time has come nigh for my input concerning the matter of Tennie Pierce vs. Los Angeles.
Basically, Tennie Pierce is an idiot.
It is truly inconceivable to me that an actual legitimate lawyer (hmm… is there really such a thing?), backed by an actual law firm would choose to represent a man such as Pierce for an incident as innocuous as what transpired two years ago–the dog food incident.
Anyway, who is Tennie Pierce? If you aren't already familiar with the man, Pierce is a black ex-Los Angeles fireman, having served in that capacity for nearly 20 years. At one point in 2004, Pierce was subjected to a prank wherein his fellow firemen mixed dog food into a plate of spaghetti, presented it to Pierce who then proceeded to partake of the dish, swallowing two bites of the affected pasta before he realized his peers had pulled some sort of frivolity upon him, not because he could taste the dog food in the spaghetti, but simply because the other firemen were laughing hysterically at their frat house-style deception.
Pierce claimed he was subjected to racial discrimination due to the prank. He secured the services of lawyer Genie Harrison (who is also currently representing several LAFD firewomen on discrimination charges–cases that appear to hold much more weight than the Pierce case) and marched forward in a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles. Upon the horribly misguided advice of LA city attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Tennie Pierce was eventually awarded $2.7 million of LA taxpayer money by the city council in an overwhelming 11 to 1 ruling, with councilman Dennis Zine the only dissenting (and obviously sane) voice. I don't blame Zine for now requesting an outside legal team defend against the Pierce case–Delgadillo proved nothing but impotent.
Cue John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the Los Angeles based talk radio station KFI640. Championing the taxpayers of Los Angeles, these two radio hosts, through various means, managed to bring to the fore telling evidence in the form of old photographs featuring Tennie Pierce engaging in various pranks upon other firemen that are flagrantly racist and shamelessly degrading. However, in light of the new photos, the city council continued their hard-headed, out-of-touch-with-reality ways and protracted their original judgment awarding nearly three million dollars to a man who ate two spoonfuls of dog food. With strengthened fury, John and Ken continued their rant against Pierce and the LA city council. Publicity of the case became top evening news.
Pressure on the city council grew to titanic proportions until the intervention of Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa grew inescapable. He could no longer ignore the cries of outrage from the public. Late last month, Villaraigosa vetoed the city council's original adjudication. I've never been a fan of Villaraigosa, but I will give credit where credit is due: This was a rare, smart decision.
Of course, Genie Harrison swore the repercussions of this choice would cost the city far more if the Pierce case were to go to trial.
Here are the basic no-brainers apropos to this case.
1. Tennie Pierce had a nickname–"The Big Dog."
2. Pierce was fed the dog food as a prank from fellow firefighters who were annoyed by his chest-thumping arrogance during a department volleyball match in which Pierce was heard by many to shout, "feed the big dog" repeatedly throughout the game every time he scored a point, spiked the ball, or did anything worthy of celebration on his part.
3. In firehouses throughout Los Angeles and the nation, frat house shenanigans play a modest part in relieving stress, rites of initiation, promotion, retirement, etc. This is nothing new or shocking. Personally, if acting like children helps maintain the sanity of firefighters around the country, who am I question their Neanderthal-like rites of passage. As long as they put out fires, I'm happy.
4. Under the circumstances, feeding dog food to Tennie Pierce was not racially motivated, nor was there any intent of racial discrimination on the part of the firemen who fed Pierce the dog food. While not an innocent prank (because in all actuality, there's no such thing), deeming it racist is idiocy.
5. The surfacing of various photographs clearly depicting Pierce actively perpetrating and participating in numerous pranks against other firefighters are incontrovertibly racist and homophobic. These photos are the central argument for the Villaraigosa veto. Here are only a few of the photos…
Prank: "Oy vey! I'm Gay!" What the fuck? And Pierce felt he had a right to bring a racial discrimination lawsuit against the city? Of course, these photos came out after the lawsuit, but I'm sure he was hoping they would never surface. Too bad for him.
In these pictures, Pierce can be seen assisting in holding a man down, grasping his genitals, and preparing to shave his naughty bits. Ultimately, the prankee came out unscathed because it was just a PRANK!.
Also, the last picture depicts Pierce pouring water into another fireman's mouth via a garden hose. This looks to go beyond pranking. It's simply brutal water-boarding torture.
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Now however, it appears that Pierce lawyer, Genie Harrison is looking not to take the case to court as she so angrily threatened after the veto last month. Instead, it looks as if she and Pierce realize that any meaningful award will not come from the court system. With the above pictures, I can't imagine a sensible jury anywhere bestowing any sort of meaningful reward in favor of Tennie Pierce.
Of course, there have been boneheaded verdicts in the past that have squarely followed race lines. This I believe is not the case to champion. Tennie Pierce deserves every ounce of ridicule, humiliation, and disdain he's received from the public as a result of his case against the city of Los Angeles. I do not want one penny of my tax money going to shady and despicable man looking for a quick and easy dollar by pulling the race card in a situation that was clearly not racially motivated.
Shame on Tennie Pierce and shame on Genie Harrison (may you never win another case throughout the remainder of your career.)
On a side note, and in reference to the bleeding-heart story further down the page courtesy of the LA Times, Tennie Pierce's claims of time as a member of the Denver Broncos NFL team are quite spurious. No one from the Broncos of years past remembers Pierce. No records of him exist. No one knows who the hell he is, and they deny he was ever signed to the team, let alone he ever played a pre-season game.
Settlement talks reopen in bias case
L.A. officials are trying to strike a deal to close the debate over hazing of a firefighter whose lawsuit has prompted so much controversy.
Los Angeles officials have reopened talks with the lawyer for former firefighter Tennie Pierce as the two sides seek to settle a racial discrimination case that has upended city politics in recent weeks.
Although officials would not discuss the matter on the record, one person close to the talks said they are trying to strike a deal that would end Pierce's case against the city and close debate over his attempt to secure a $2.7-million payout.
Pierce, a nearly 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department, sued the city after colleagues in his station house fed him dog food mixed with spaghetti sauce and then allegedly taunted him for months after the incident.
Details of the new proposed settlement were being closely guarded, but sources familiar with the talks said both sides were attempting to craft an agreement that would structure any payment in a way that would make clear that much of the money to Pierce was to compensate for lost salary and pension benefits — and that his payout would cover his legal bills as well. One official said the deal also might involve setting aside a portion of the money for Fire Department reforms.
In settlement talks earlier this year, the city and Pierce's attorneys discussed providing at least $1.3 million to buy out his pension plan at a rate as if Pierce was a 30-year employee, according to a transcript of a City Council closed session on the case from June 21. Pierce, at that time, was six months shy of serving 20 years.
Pierce, a tall and broad-shouldered African American, was fed dog food after a 2004 volleyball game in which he proclaimed himself the "Big Dog."
In pursuing his lawsuit against the city, Pierce has argued that the incident and its aftermath were humiliating and made it impossible for him to stay with the department. Critics of the deal have cited Pierce's "Big Dog" remark as evidence that the incident was intended as an innocent joke and not racially motivated, and have noted that Pierce himself admits to having engaged in pranks as a firefighter.
Nevertheless, in the weeks since the council first overwhelmingly approved the deal, it has sparked outrage on both sides, often with a clear racial subtext. In interviews, many African Americans have tended to side with Pierce, while many whites have been markedly less sympathetic.
Last month, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vetoed the original settlement amid a wave of public criticism and radio talk show jibes. The council then reversed itself and upheld Villaraigosa's veto.
That could propel the Pierce case to trial, but the city's interest in settling grows out of the sense, shared by many city officials, that a jury verdict could end up costing taxpayers more than a deal.
That conviction is based in part on a broader view of the case than the mere act of Pierce eating dog food. Last summer, professional mediator Joel Grossman considered the case and sanctioned the $2.7-million proposed settlement. According to a source familiar with that mediation, Grossman reached that conclusion in part because he believed that Pierce suffered long after the dog food incident.
That source said news of the prank quickly spread throughout the Fire Department, and firefighters across the city would tease Pierce wherever he went. Some called his home and left messages with barking sounds. Others would ask which he preferred, Alpo or Purina. Fire Department officials knew of the teasing but allowed it to continue, thus arguably making them complicit in a workplace environment that Pierce found increasingly hostile.
In a deposition, one top official in the Fire Department — whom the source described as a high-ranking African American — conceded that the harassment of Pierce appeared to him to be racially motivated. If the case goes to trial, that deposition could be used against the city and could incline a jury to punish the department and city with a large award. The mediator indicated to the lawyers in the case that that deposition weighed heavily on him in recommending the $2.7-million deal, the source said.
Although the source did not name that fire official, Millage Peaks, a battalion chief who is African American, was deposed in July. On Monday, Peaks declined to comment about his deposition, but he has in the past spoken out publicly about racism and harassment in the Fire Department.
Advocates of settling the case also stressed that the amount includes legal fees. If the case goes to trial and Pierce wins, he probably would be entitled to legal fees on top of whatever a jury might award him in damages. And since the case already has a long history — that would only grow more extensive given a trial — some estimate that Pierce's legal bill could top $1 million.
At the same time, there are incentives for Pierce's lawyers to negotiate. Pierce admitted to engaging in pranks himself, which could weaken his case in the eyes of a jury. And some jurors might not sympathize with giving a large sum over what the city could argue was a relatively trivial act of harassment.
Reached Monday, Grossman confirmed that he had mediated the deal, but declined to discuss it, saying he needed permission from the lawyers on both sides. The city attorney's press office declined to comment on negotiations because the case was still being litigated.
Still, any proposed deal is likely to stir controversy again, and some council members are wary of supporting a large payout.
"The overwhelming majority of the public is clearly against the settlement," said Councilman Dennis Zine. "At least in my office, all the calls and e-mails that we received said, 'Councilman, you have the courage to stand up and do what's right.' "
Zine also said that he would be leery of any large settlement offer. "A million dollars is too much," he said.
Councilwoman Jan Perry, by contrast, voted to settle the case for $2.7 million and then voted later to override the mayor's veto of that agreement.
On Monday, she said she did not have any firsthand knowledge of further talks in the case, although she said she had heard buzz around City Hall that negotiations were continuing.
She stressed that she would be open to any deal that "drives the city into stopping such patterns and practices of the city allowing and letting stand a hostile work environment."
Perry said that if talks were ongoing, she wouldn't expect to see another settlement in the neighborhood of $2.7 million. She said "it would be surprising if it was in the same ballpark" because objections by the mayor and some other council members were based on the amount.
(Here is a shameful, sob-story look at Pierce post-veto. Leave it to the perpetually subscriber-sliding LA Times to write such abhorent drivel.)
For firefighter, sense of brotherhood shattered
Before he was Big Dog in the fire station, he was Big Fella because of his giant frame and Bigfoot because of his size 15 boots. Before there was the dog food in his spaghetti, there was the noose draped over his station locker and the white flour sprinkled in his bed.
And before Tennie Pierce became the Los Angeles Fire Department's $2.7-million man — a symbol of racial discrimination to some and political correctness gone wrong to others — he was an ordinary firefighter, who had spent 17 years pledging allegiance to the department's notion of brotherhood.
That allegiance began unraveling two years ago, when a firefighter at Pierce's Westchester station mixed dog food into his dinner — a practical joke intended to "humble" him, the department's investigative report said, for "declaring himself Big Dog" in a volleyball game.
Pierce sued the city for racial harassment last year, after enduring what he describes as months of taunts and retaliation. The City Council voted to settle his case for $2.7 million last month, but, after a public uproar, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vetoed the settlement.
Pierce's claim and its repercussions — a respected fire department unmasked; a popular fire chief dispatched; a racially divided populace at odds — unhinged the city and unmoored the man.
"I didn't expect it to go the way it went," said Pierce, whose public claim and private life — from his work habits to the state of his marriage — provided weeks of fodder for talk radio programs. Hosts such as John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou on KFI-AM (640) fielded dozens of calls from disgruntled white firefighters, who castigated Pierce for "playing the race card" and produced photos of him joining in the hazing of others.
The storm took Pierce by surprise. "I always felt I was part of a great brotherhood," he said. "I know I have always been upright and fair. When I see how the masses turned on me…." He shrugs his giant shoulders and stares at the floor.
For some, he's become a caricature — a big, strong, black man brought down by a couple of bites of dog food. But to his friends and family, the reality is considerably more complicated.
"The Fire Department was Tennie's life," said L.A. firefighter and friend Johnny Green. "He would much rather be at work than going through this foolishness."
Pierce knows those photos of him standing over firefighters smeared with condiments and shaving cream made him a lightning rod for criticism. But the pranks weren't done to hurt anyone, he said. "Basically, it's a celebration of love. It's your birthday, your last day at the station…. I've never heard a guy say, 'Stop. Don't do this to me.' "
But Green said Pierce was one of relatively few black firefighters who participated in hazing rituals. "He assimilated with those guys" at his station, Green said. He went on ski trips with them, helped work on their houses, spent his days off with them riding Harleys.
"That's why the betrayal he feels is so strong," Green said. "He's the O.J. of the Fire Department."
Recognized by strangers
Pierce is 6 feet 5 and weighs more than 250 pounds, so it's hard for him to hide. Strangers recognize him at the gym, at his daughter's school. People he doesn't know feel free to scold him.
"There are all those people out there casting stones," he said. "Reporters standing on my porch, [confronting] my daughter coming home from school."
His lawsuit has not only angered many whites but has also divided black firefighters and made Pierce a pariah among men who were his friends.
The black firefighters organization the Stentorians has refused to back his lawsuit. "Right case, wrong guy," one black captain said. Because Pierce participated in hazing rituals, supporting Pierce would undercut the group's official stance that "no member be subjected to any form of unprofessional behavior or practices in the workplace."
The rift is hard for Pierce to bear, Green said. "He's a teddy bear. Did he have fun and play games? Yeah. Hazing, condiments … that was all good-natured fun. Tennie did that real well."
The dog food was another matter. There are three rules that every firefighter knows, Green and others say. "You don't mess with people's family, you don't mess with their safety equipment, you don't mess with their food," Green said. "What they did to him crossed the line."
Pierce has been off work now — relying on a combination of sick leave, disability, vacation and administrative leave — for more than a year, collecting a portion of his salary while he spends his days working out, visiting doctors and therapists, and helping out at his daughter's track practices.
The enforced idleness has been hard on their marriage, his wife says. Pierce is often irritable and unable to sleep, ashamed that he must rely on his wife's salary to support the family.
His case is headed for trial next year, though city officials could offer another settlement. But his career as a firefighter is over, he said.
Pierce denied rumors that he has been visiting other cities to look for a firefighting job. "I'm 51. My body is beat up," he said. He wants to go back to college "and start my life over again."
Football career envisioned
Born and raised in South Los Angeles, Pierce left Cal State Northridge five credits shy of graduation, he said, envisioning a pro football career. He said he was signed by the Denver Broncos but was injured during a preseason game in 1980 and never played during a regular season.
He married and had two children, then divorced and wound up with custody of his infant daughter and toddler son. He was working as a pipe fitter when a friend told him that the Los Angeles Fire Department — then under a consent decree mandating the hiring of minorities — had openings. He joined the department in 1987.
A year later, his daughter, then 5, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. His older sister moved in with him to help care for the child, who was bedridden, had a tracheotomy tube in her throat and needed twice-daily trips from Inglewood to UCLA for treatment. She died in 1989, just after her sixth birthday. His son is now 26.
The next year, Pierce remarried, and the couple later adopted a 3-year-old girl. His wife watched him throw himself into his work; the demands of his new job seemed to help ease his grief, she said.
"It meant learning a new language and a new way of thinking, a whole different culture," Pierce said.
Pranks and hazing were a part of that culture. In his first station assignment in the San Fernando Valley, Pierce got a taste, and made a choice.
"We were practicing knots," he recalled, "and somebody laid a noose right in front of my locker." He threw it in the trash without telling anybody.
"You want the job so bad, you don't want to stir the pot," Pierce said. "You go up there and tell the captain, then the captain calls everybody into the kitchen and now I've created a hostile work environment for myself."
Nor did he complain later, when a buddy sprinkled flour in his bed, leaving his dark skin dusted white. "It wasn't mean," he said. "It was like that old saying, 'Boys will be boys.' "
"People criticize him [now] for complaining," said his lawyer, Genie Harrison. "But Tennie's got 17 years of doing nothing but laughing about the jokes that were played on him."
Pierce said he was so shocked and ashamed when his station mates confessed that they had tricked him into eating dog food that he didn't even tell his wife when he went home.
Then the calls from other black firefighters "started coming through on my home phone…. 'Hey, Pierce, I heard what happened…. I'm glad it was you and not me, because if it happened to me, there'd be people in the hospital.' That's how my wife found out."
The news traveled quickly through the department, he said. Firefighters began teasing him, calling him 'dog food boy,' barking like a dog when he walked by.
Pierce decided to sue, he said, only when the environment became unbearable. "I've been on this department for a long time. I've done everything they've ever asked me to do," he said.
"All I asked for was three things: transfer me, do a thorough investigation, let me have some kind of psychological help to deal with this."
He received got counseling and was transferred, but was later ordered back to the Westchester station.
And although the Fire Department's records show that the battalion chief overseeing the Westchester station did, indeed, call for a full investigation, Deputy Chief Andrew Fox, who heads the department's disciplinary division, rejected that recommendation. Instead, he relied on firefighters' written statements to administer three suspensions ranging from six days to one month off without pay.
The fallout is still reverberating through the city's fire stations. "There are 3,600 firefighters that love the Los Angeles Fire Department and want it to have a sterling reputation," said Pat McOsker, former president of the firefighters union. "They are heartbroken that a handful of incidents are dragging us through the mud.
"The natural tendency is to be mad at those responsible: 'Why couldn't you just suffer this silently?' " he said. "I'm not saying that's right, but that's what happens."
Green said Pierce is heartbroken too. "He really was the Big Dog … the biggest, blackest man in that station, with more seniority than any of them," he said. "When they gave him that dog food, they were sending him a message: He would never be one of them.
"I'm sad for Tennie, that's he's got to go through this, change his phone numbers, move his kid's school," Green said. "But this case needs to go to court so people will see what it's like for African Americans."


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Spain, 2010 World Cup Champions – Possible Championship Posters To Come
They were the favorites from the start, but in a single elimination tournament where anything can happen, and normally does, nothing is for sure. Many teams were in the running to become World Champions; Brazil, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Uruguay and Ghana to name a few. But after 7 games and only 1 loss, Spain is on the top of the world, they are World Champions.
This was a complete team effort, with a few names really standing out. The goal scores are always a big part with Carles Puyol scoring to beat the Germans, David Villa nets 4 goals to lead the team and the one who scored when it mattered, Andres Iniesta, with the tournament winning goal. While all these goals definitely helped bring Spain to the top, it never would have happened without one man, Iker Casillas. Not only did he help lead them to their first World Championship, but he was also named the Goal Keeper of the tournament, which is no small feat.
Congratulations to the 2010 World Cup Champions, La Roja, The Spanish National Football Team. Continue to check in for updates on Spanish Championship Posters.Explore posts in the same categories: Uncategorized
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in the next world cup, i would try to be so energetic and i would cheer all day for my favorite team `.*
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VANCOUVER -- Defenceman Marc-Andre Gragnani played 14 regular-season games for the Vancouver Canucks after being acquired at the trade deadline in large part because the team did not want him to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
Now it appears the Canucks are letting that happen anyway.
As a restricted free agent, Gragnani did not receive a qualifying offer by Monday's deadline and becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Those 14 games Gragnani played after coming to Vancouver along with winger Zack Kassian in the trade that sent centre Cody Hodgson and defenceman Alexander Sulzer to the Buffalo Sabres gave Gragnani a total of 80 career NHL regular-season and playoff games.
That was the exact number that prevented him from becoming a Group 6 unrestricted free agent (players 25 or older with three years of pro experience who have played fewer than 80 NHL games).
But the Canucks obviously did not like what they saw in those 14 games. Gragnani did not play in the playoffs and now the Canucks, after unsuccessfully trying to trade him at this past weekend's draft in Pittsburgh, are setting him free.
It is something of a surprise move, considering the praise that was heaped on Gragnani when he was acquired by Vancouver. While he wasn't exactly expected to be the second coming of Bobby Orr, the Canucks trumpeted his offensive skill and his ability to quarterback the power play.
"With Marc-Andre we have got a puck-moving defenceman who can play on the power play," general manager Mike Gillis said the day he traded for him. "He has got really good offensive skills, we feel like we have another power-play defenceman."
But Gragnani, who played two seasons of junior hockey under Canucks coach Alain Vigneault, only showed very occasional flashes of that offensive skill and was clearly a liability at the defensive end. He had one goal, two assists and was minus-four in his 14 games with the Canucks.
The Canucks also did not extend qualifying offers to restricted free agent forwards Victor Oreskovich and Mike Duco or defenceman Ryan Parent.
Oreskovich had clearly fallen out of favour with Vigneault. He played 16 games with the team in 2010-11, but logged only one game in 2011-12 before being sent back to the Chicago Wolves.
The Canucks loved his size -- 6-foot-3, 215 pounds -- but felt he was reluctant to use that size to his advantage.
Parent, a former first-round draft pick by Nashville, came to the Canucks two years ago in the trade that sent Shane O'Brien to the Predators. He played only four games with the Canucks, all in the 2010-11 season.
Duco was acquired last summer by the Canucks from the Florida Panthers in exchange for the rights to Russian winger Sergei Shirokov, who is now playing in the KHL. Duco played six games with the Canucks last season and had two assists.
Meanwhile, it appears the Canucks will cut ties with veteran defenceman Aaron Rome.
Rome's Vancouver-based agent, Kevin Epp of Titan Sports Management, said Monday he has had little contact with the Canucks and does not expect his client to be back with the team.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A resolution was approved Friday during EMBARK's August boarding meeting awarding the construction bid for a new public parking garage to Manhattan Construction Company.
A nationally-ranked firm with offices in Oklahoma City, Manhattan submitted proposals alongside three other companies for the project, with the awarded bid set at $23,581,030.89. Early estimates for the project had been previously projected at $28,800,000.
Manhattan will work with The Architecture Partnership (TAP) for construction of the six-level, 1,100 space garage, which could eventually be expanded to up to 1,400 spaces as demand grows. The facility will be located at 15 SW 4th St., in a developing area of the urban core south of the soon-to-open Scissortail Park. The garage will eventually service the future Omni Convention Center Hotel and MAPS3 Convention Center, Boulevard Place (a mixed-use project in development), Chesapeake Arena, and more, as well as providing office space for parking operations.
With multiple projects in progress in the works spanning from Scissortail Park to the shores of the Oklahoma River, the approved construction bid marks an important milestone in the development of the new Park Union district in downtown Oklahoma City.
Construction is projected to take 12 months to complete, with the opening closely linked to the openings of the Omni Hotel and the MAPS3 Convention Center.
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Yesterday was one of those days when love, or should I say Love, glowed around me all day. It is a lovely feeling.
In the late afternoon, the leader of the prayer shawl group I knit with, Val, called me to invite me to her house to plan for our group's July meeting, when I will lead a workshop. We had planned this meeting last week, and we've been discussing our options by e-mail for a couple of weeks, trying to figure out the best subject for the workshop.
I went to her house armed with half a dozen books filled with stitch patterns, and we poured over a lot of them, but in the end, we decided on a subject that our fellow members had suggested: I will show them how to repair their mistakes. It should be a lively time. I will have to give everybody some homework: be sure to knit something with a mistake in it that we can repair together.
Our discussions about knitting led to a long heart to heart talk, followed by dinner with Val's two teenage daughters, as Val's husband was at a meeting. Each part of the meeting was filled with such love that the whole experience was pure joy. I finally had to leave to come home and feed my pets and walk the dog. But in all honesty, I stayed at Val's several more hours than I expected to because I felt so welcome and at home there.
I am looking forward to the workshop in 4 weeks or so. The skills that my fellow group members want to learn are not difficult to master, once you can imagine or conceptualize them. For some, it will mean thinking about knitting in new ways. As we get older, it is sometimes difficult to do this, but that is part of the fun of learning and staying young. And it will be a wonderful opportunity for me to see each of my sister knitters as God-expressed, as the very manifestation of Life in action.
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Following a year of meetings with concerned students, faculty and staff of MNSU, President Richard Rush appointed a Commission on the Status of Women during academic year 1994-95 to assess the campus climate and formulate an agenda for enhancing the status of women at all levels of the University. In October 1995, the Commission submitted its Commission on the Status of Women Report to the President. Based on recommendations of this report, a standing President's Commission on the Status of Women was established. President Rush charged the Commission with:
- Identifying and defining both current and emerging issues and formulating recommendations to the University for addressing these issues;
- Reviewing progress on recommendations to improve the status of women within this community;
- Providing guidance and advice as the University implements new policies and procedures to improve the status of women at the University.
The President named one of Vice Presidents as his official liaison to the Commission. Commission membership was determined by the President's liaison as follows:
- Each bargaining unit would be represented
- Two students and three ex-officio standing members would be appointed, i.e. the Director of the Women's Center, the Equal Opportunity & Title IX Officer, and the Chairperson of the Women's Studies Department
- Terms of office were not designated at that time
- Commission members were duly elected and appointed an academic Dean as his liaison and co-chair of the Commission.
- The other co-chair was elected from the membership of the Commission.
The work of the Commission began in April 2000 after a thorough review of the 1995 Report to the President. A budget was developed and modest resources allocated for the work of the Commission.
Since 2000, the Commission has sponsored and co-sponsored along with the Women and Gender Studies department and the Women's Center several annual events.
- A spring research colloquium
- A fall reception for new women employees
- A reception for the recognition of extraordinary contributions of women at MNSU
The Commission has also provided professional grant opportunities for faculty, staff, and students.
The major work of the Commission has been:
- Ongoing research into issues concerning gender equity
- Campus policies and procedures for reporting and dealing with sexual harassment violations
- Personnel issues
- Family and work issues for women students, faculty, staff, and administrators
- Interlocking issues of concern around gender, class, race, sexuality, and age
In the fall of 2002 President Richard Davenport reiterated the original charge to the Commission. He appointed a new administrative liaison to the Commission, and he approved the Commission's recommendation to conduct a formal climate scan of the University. A consultant, Bernice Sandler, met for an all-day workshop with the Commission in December 2002, in preparation for constructing the upcoming Report to the President 2003.


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To power off, pull up the Medical ID or make an emergency call with the iPhone X, you will need to hold the side button and either of the volume buttons at the same time. And then slide to power the device off, pull up the Medical ID or make an emergency call.
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Tech Terms: CDN
CDN is short for content delivery network. A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver pages and other Web content to a user, based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and the content delivery server.
This service is effective in speeding the delivery of content of websites with high traffic and websites that have global reach. The closer the CDN server is to the user geographically, the faster the content will be delivered to the user. CDNs also provide protection from large surges in traffic.
How CDNs Work
Servers nearest to the website visitor respond to the request. The content delivery network copies the pages of a website to a network of servers that are dispersed at geographically different locations, caching the contents of the page. When a user requests a webpage that is part of a content delivery network, the CDN will redirect the request from the originating site's server to a server in the CDN that is closest to the user and deliver the cached content. CDNs will also communicate with the originating server to deliver any content that has not been previously cached.
The process of bouncing through CDNs is nearly transparent to the user. The only way a user would know if a CDN has been accessed is if the delivered URL is different than the URL that has been requested.
Many Businesses Use CDNs
When delivering large scale websites to a global audience, CDNs can reduce latency, accelerate site load times, reduce bandwidth consumption secure applications and even block data scrappers and other forms of spammers hitting your server.
Content delivery networks are used for B2B interactions and in serving content to consumers. Today, as more aspects of daily life move online, organizations use content delivery network to accelerate static content, dynamic content, mobile content, e-commerce transactions, video, voice, games and so on.
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When you swipe down from the "right ear" (the area to the right of the notch) at the top of the iPhone X, it will show the Control Center. You can also customize the Control Center under the Settings app > Control Center > Customize Controls. Note: This is how you can see the battery life that is left on your iPhone X as well.
Tech Terms: Booter Services
A service offered by cyber criminals that provides paying customers with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack capabilities on demand. According to this article on eWeek, Booter services, or Booters, are "Web-based services that do DDoS for hire at very low prices and are very hard to take down."
Booters typically present potential customers with a Web front end that enables the end user to specify a Web site that they want the Booter service to target. Detecting and tracing Booters is complicated by the fact that the Internet service provider (ISP) that the Booter service appears to be hosted from is frequently not where the Booter is really located.
Booter services are frequently used by script kiddies and are responsible for many of the recent DDoS attacks that have received mainstream attention in the news.
Tips & Tricks: iPhone X Swipe From The "Left Ear" For Cover Sheet
When you swipe down from the "left ear" (the area to the left of the notch) at the top of the iPhone X, it will show the "Cover Sheet." The Cover Sheet used to be known as the Notification Center.
Tech Terms: DDoS Attack
DDoS is short for Distributed Denial of Service. DDoS is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often infected with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Victims of a DDoS attack consist of both the end targeted system and all systems maliciously used and controlled by the hacker in the distributed attack.
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In a DDoS attack, the incoming traffic flooding the victim originates from many different sources – potentially hundreds of thousands or more. This effectively makes it impossible to stop the attack simply by blocking a single IP address; plus, it is very difficult to distinguish legitimate user traffic from attack traffic when spread across so many points of origin.
The Difference Between DoS and DDos Attacks
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is different from a DDoS attack. The DoS attack typically uses one computer and one Internet connection to flood a targeted system or resource. The DDoS attack uses multiple computers and Internet connections to flood the targeted resource. DDoS attacks are often global attacks, distributed via botnets.
Types of DDoS Attacks
There are many types of DDoS attacks. Common attacks include the following:
- Traffic attacks: Traffic flooding attacks send a huge volume of TCP, UDP and ICPM packets to the target. Legitimate requests get lost and these attacks may be accompanied by malware exploitation.
- Bandwidth attacks: This DDos attack overloads the target with massive amounts of junk data. This results in a loss of network bandwidth and equipment resources and can lead to a complete denial of service.
- Application attacks: Application-layer data messages can deplete resources in the application layer, leaving the target's system services unavailable.
Tips & Tricks: iPhone X Swipe Left Or Right To Switch Between Recent Apps
One of the easiest ways to switch between recently opened apps is to swipe left or right on the Home indicator line.
Tech Terms: IT Degree
An information technology (IT) degree is a degree offered at the associate, bachelor, master and PhD level. The degree focuses on the branch of engineering that pertains to the use of computers to collect, store, and share and protect information.
At the associate's degree level, typical courses include project-based information systems, Website database implementation, introduction to DHTML and Java Script, as well a mathematics based curriculum. The master's level of education in Information Technology typically spans two years and offers a more focused and advanced field study. Courses at this level range from principles of software engineering to advanced algorithms and program language. The PhD in IT is the highest degree level offered, and is often focused on research.
An Information technology degree differs from computer science in that one is expected to understand and explore management and information theory.
Tips & Tricks: iPhone X Swipe the Bottom Edge to Return Home
The Home indicator line is also used for going back to the home screen when you have an app open. And swiping from the bottom edge while on the Home screen will take you back to page one — which comes in handy if you have multiple app icon pages.
Tech Terms: Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K is the latest iteration of the Apple TV digital media receiver device that can play movies from sources like Netflix, TV shows, YouTube and other videos, live sports, and more on a widescreen TV.
Apple TV 4K improves upon earlier Apple TV releases that offered a max of 1920×1080 pixels of detail (high definition) by supporting the ultra-high-definition 3840×2160 picture format. Apple TV 4K adds high dynamic range (4K HDR) support as well as the premium quality Dolby Vision format.
Apple TV 4K is powered by Apple's tvOS, an operating system originally developed for the Apple TV 4th generation (not to be confused with the Apple TV 4K) and announced on September 9, 2015. tvOS includes support for Siri, which can be accessed by a button on the Siri Remote that comes with the Apple TV 4K to help users quickly and easily find content from a variety of multimedia sources.
Pricing and Competition for the Apple TV 4K
The higher quality and other improvements offered by AppleTV 4K do come at an increased cost. While the original Apple TV device retailed for $99 and the 32GB fourth generation Apple TV remains available for $149, the AppleTV 4K costs $179 with 32GB of storage and $199 with 64GB of storage.
Apple TV 4K is priced considerably higher than competing models like the Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast Ultra and Roku Streaming Stick+, all of which offer 4K HDR support and do so for at least $100 less than the Apple TV 4K.


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Branding From the Inside Out
Branding From the Inside Out
By Peter Weddle
There have been lots of good ideas offered about how to hone an employment brand for those on the outside of an organization. But, what about its inward facing side? Recent surveys reveal that internal mobility is now one of the most important sourcing methods, yet very little attention has been paid to employment branding on the inside.
Of course, in these times of reduced resources, it's appropriate to ask whether it's even worth the effort. What will an internal brand accomplish? After all, once a person is employed by an organization, they're committed, right? Wrong. Recent surveys also show that management actions taken during the recession have stimulated considerable restlessness among employees, especially those who are good enough to have options. Hence, there's no guarantee that the top internal performers you want to recruit for your openings will be around to listen … unless you convince them they should.
What Does an Internal Brand Do?
For those who are unfamiliar with an organization, its employment brand defines the nature of the working experience it offers to employees. It differentiates the organization from its competitors in the labor market and, if well constructed, acts as a magnet for the best talent. But those who are employed by the organization don't need that information. They already know what it's like to work there, so why bother investing the time and effort to tell them?
The answer to that question is what sets an internal employment brand apart from an external one. An employment brand designed to influence candidates must do two things effectively: it must inform and sell. It must feature the key attributes of the working experience in a way that convinces even the most passive person to do the one thing we humans most hate to do: change. A good external employment brand can compel top talent to move from the devil they know—their current employer, boss and commute—to the devil they don't know—your employer, a new boss and a different commute.
An internal employment brand, on the other hand, has a very different role. Its purpose is not, as one might expect, to retain talented employees—although that is an obvious byproduct. Rather, an internal brand should help you accomplish your recruiting effort. It must promote and sell the best and brightest among your coworkers on the opportunities your organization offers for their continued growth and advancement. If it succeeds at doing that, they will resist the offers they will inevitably receive from external sources and be more susceptible to the internal offer you make. In effect, a well constructed internal employment brand will compel the "A" level performers who already work for your organization to "throw their lot" in with it—to invest their future with the devil they know.
What Are the Attributes of a Good Internal Brand?
A well honed internal employment brand reminds employees of what's best about their employer. It generates pride in what the organization—and thus they—do and how they do it. In other words, an internal brand focuses on those organizational attributes that stimulate esprit de corps, an emotional connection that individuals feel with the employer's mission, culture, products and/or services.
That connection is a far more durable set of "handcuffs" for top talent than bonuses or benefits. Equally as important, it activates a strong desire for more significant participation. It compels them to up their game any way they can. As a result, they are predisposed to accept internal mobility opportunities IF they are presented correctly—as a way for them to contribute more effectively to that which makes them proud.
Branding on the inside is, therefore, a talent accelerator. It ups the performance of employees on-the-job and enables you to redeploy their talent to other jobs that will optimize their impact. Think of it as a strategic two-fer. There's no better justification for investing as much (or more) time, priority and money in branding to your coworkers as you do in selling your organization to complete strangers.
Thanks for reading,
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P.S. My new book, The Career Activist Republic, is due out in June of this year. Look for it on Amazon.com, at Weddles.com or in your local bookstore.
Peter Weddle is the author of over two dozen employment-related books, including Recognizing Richard Rabbit, a fable of self-discovery for working adults, and Work Strong, Your Personal Career Fitness System.
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Mazda has just taken the wraps off of its new concept sedan, the Takeri, at its display stand here at the Tokyo Big Sight expo hall (honest, that's what it's called). The C/D-sized concept sedan furthers Mazda's Kodo 'Soul of Motion' design language while hinting at the next Mazda6.
Predictably, the Takeri (derived from the Japanese word for "Male") is equipped with a full slate of Skyactiv features, including Mazda's new Skyactiv-D clean diesel – a version of which we recently fell in love with in the CX-5 crossover – and a new i-ELOOP regenerative braking system.
In person, The Takeri offers a very attractive shape, with traditional Mazda cues including a prominent hexagonal grille (we particularly like the subtle matte metal element that links the grille to the headlamps) and short overhangs. More importantly, the showcar appears to be a production-friendly shape if you discount items like the showcar mirrors, slightly oversized 20-inch wheels and raise the roofline by an inch or two. Given the Mazda6′s slow sales pace, a successor can't get here soon enough.
For more details, check out our high-res image gallery or click on the jump to read the official press release.
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